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The pessimist always bites the spot '
n the apple first !
What has become of all the people
who used to yearu to discover the
north pole?
The value of a man's principles de
pend on what It costs biin to cash
them In practice.
It's a good deal easier to sit up
straight In church than It U to walk
upright In the world.
A man's clothes are less apt to
make hlui thau his wife's dressmaker's
bills are to break Mux
The palm for neat and complete
modern naval victories will remain In
the possession of the American ad
tnlrals. Abdul Ilamid declares that he re
gards the United States In the light of
the "most favored nation," but it Is
suspected that he does not really
think so.
The stork which brought the Czare
vitch also brought along a nicely up
holstered seat to be placed In the rear
for the occupancy of Grand Duke
Michael.
The Czarevitch 1b reported to be
taking his nourishment naturally and
sleeping regularly. He has not got
far enough along to fear poison and
dynamite.
A colored man who dropped a water
melon In order to rescue a child from
being run over by a street car has
been mentioned as deserving a slice
of the Carnegie hero fund.
It Is understood that the New York
sports are now arranging to have some
good bishop dedicate a model gambling
den, where the poor man can listen to
the doxology while blowing In bis
week's wages.
Wllhelm's epigram, reported by
Miss Anthony, that woman should con
'cern herself only with the three K's
kinder, kueche nnd klrche Is a re
markable concession on the part of
his imperial self. It has been sup
posed that there was only one K In
Germany.
The season's drowning accidents re
vive the old question whether persons
who know how to swim are really
safer than those who are without that
accomplishment The answer is sim
ple. With an equal amount of pru
dence the swimmer is far more secure,
and learning to swim should not re
sult in unlearning any of the older
precepts of caution.
The English Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals recently
felicitated itself and the country on
the universal advance which the cause
Is making, and one of the evidences
cited of this humane spirit was the
fact that sympathizers in a Spanish
town were so enthusiastic that they
organized a bull fight in aid of the
local Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
We hear much of the insanity plea,
but in a large number of cases the plea
Is brought forward after the prisoner
has been convicted. The public sym
pathy gained for it is largely attributa
ble to a shrinking from capital pun
ishment and the desire to keep a moot
ed point open to decision on develop
ments, whereas hanging shuts out alL
The best interests of the community
aside from any ponsequences to the
criminal, in his favor or against, re
quire the most scrupulous avoidance of
all appearance even of injustice or pas
sion or haste in the Infliction of pen
alties. An English-speaking nation has
grown up on the west side of the At
lantic which has done and is doing
more than the parent country to give
the tongue a world vogue. Two-thirds
of the people who speak English live
In the United States. The industrial
and commercial conquests which this
country is gaining tell in favor of Its
people's tongue. A century ago
French, Spanish and German were far
ahead of English in the number of per
sons who used them as a vehicle of
speech. But in the lapse of time Eng
lish has passed all of them and is
spoken by more people to-day than is
any other civilized tongue.
The piteous appeal of the dispatch
which says that 40,000 domestic serv
ants are immediately needed in New
York touches a sympathetic chord in
the heart of every housewife. Never
xln New York's history has there been
such a demand and such a failure of
supply. More women than men arrive
every week from Great Britain, Ger
many, Norway, Sweden, Holland and
Belgium, and still there are fifty ap
plications for help for every servant
' that is to be had. It Is a serious sit
uation more serious than appears on
the surface. It is a threat against do
mestic happiness, portentous of the
destruction of family life, indicative
of a social evolution.
One by one the most cherished tra
ditions of mankind, or perhaps in this
case we should say of womankind, are
torn asunder and tossed upon the scrap
heaps where lie the forgotten cen
turies. Through all the ages up to a
few days ago woman has had what
cbe considered a refuge when thunder
crashed and lightning flashed. She
has believed herself to be safe from
the forked tongues of me emitted by
the clouds as long as she could roll up
In the Intricacies of a feather bed. To
be able to crawl under a feather bed
was supposed to afford Immunity from
the ravages of lightning. But at Kan
sas City the other day a thunderstorm
which swept In from the sunflower
plains proceeded to knock the feather
bed theory Into something that was of
much less account than a cocked hat
At the home of Nathan Hoffman a bolt
of lightning butted Its way through
a window and, having found Miss
Becky and Miss Anna, the daughters
of Nathan, huddled together upon a
feather bed. ripped It from under them
and scattered the feathers all over the
house. The young ladles were so bad
ly shocked that for several hours they
couldn't have told the difference be
tween a feather bed and an elegy, but
they have now fortunately recovered,
and In future will make no effort to es
cape the wrath of heaven by reposing
on or hiding under feathers. What re
mained of the feather bed to which
they had flown for safety convluced
them that as a lightning arrester the
feather bed Is wholly unworthy of con
fidence. While It Is unfortunate that
woman may not hereafter flee with
confidence to the feather bed wheu a
thunderstorm arrives in town and
opens up for business, It may be a
good thing after all that the theory
concerning the protective quality of
feathers has at last been exploded. If
the feather bed will not Insure people
against the ravages of lightning there
can be no further excuse for its ex
istence, and It should be abolished.
With Its passing will disappear a most
fertile breeding place for '.erms, and
there will be one thing less In the
world to distress the blameless victim
of hay fever.
It Is the steady-going sort of worker
er who gets the most done In the end,
It is with men as It Is with watches
the most reliable and serviceable are
the ones that are steadily at work,
There Is a Pennsylvania engineer who
has retired on a pension after forty
eight years of service. "I have car
ried one watch for more than twenty
aix years," he says, "and It always
kept the right time." Needless to say
he has been a sober, orderly man. For
forty years he has not touched a drop
of liquor. He never even smoked or
chewed. His health has always been
good. The fact that this man has
been able to carry one watch so many
years is not surprising, although Its
"life" has been much longer than the
average timepiece. All watchmakers
say that a watch partakes of the traits
of the one who carries It If the owner
is steady, even-tempered and reliable
and never files off the handle, his
watch behaves itself in the most prop
er manner. If the owner Is a genius,
with an erratic, excitable, uncertain
temperament the watch cuts up all
sorts of pranks and Is too fast or too
slow, or else will not run at all Watch
repairers look with considerable sus
picion on men whose watches always
need regulating. The man whose watch
la always right, "Just to the tick," is
sure to be one who keeps regular hours,
does not eat or drink to excess, con
ducts everything in a methodical man
ner, and consequently enjoys good
health. Men who partake of wine sup
pers, eat Welsh rarebits and stand off
their tailors are always complaining
that their watches do not keep good
time. The vacant house decays soon
est The watch, or the man, that Is
kept running regularly lasts the long
est and is of best service while it
lasts. The stingy old miser who stops
his clock every night so it won't be
wearing out while he is asleep gains
nothing for his trouble. This old en
gineer's watch has kept good time for
twenty-six years for the reason that
the man himself has kept his habits
correct all the time. Had he ever
gone out Just once, on a high pld time
and wound up by pawning bis watch
the next morning, we never should
have heard of his wonderful timepiece,
for no watch was ever known to keep
good time after being subjected to
such humiliation. The retired engi
neer Is old In years, but young In spir
its. He has kept himself as he kept
his watch. He enjoys the admiration
and gratitude of all the ofliclals over
him, for the reason that whatever the
run assigned to him, he made It on
time and had no worries left over. The
watch that works only by fits and
starts Is never to be trusted. Nor is
the man who does his work only in the
same way ever capable of the highest
moral achievement possible to his sta
tion. ANOTHER KIND OF HEARING.
Mrs. Rooney Shure, Bridget, and
where was Patrick goln' this marnln'
wid his head all tied oop?
Mrs. Casey Begorra, an' the bless
ed man was goln' to ther city hall to
get his hearln'.
Mrs. Rooney Is that so? Shure, an'
if s mesllf that niver knowed that he
was deef.
Too many people waste their time
sitting on the political fence waiting
for the band wagon to come along.
V"7 ff JkithT-l-iU
"I've heard a good many definitions
of life," observed the anxious house
wife, "Some people call It 'a bubble'
and others a 'vale of tears' and 'an
empty dream.' It's uot like an empty
dream to me.
"Up at 0 o'clock and breakfast to
get. I fill up a nice, clean coffee pot
with water and coffee, put a well
eooured gridiron on the fire and defile
It with beef steak. I grease up a bright
frying P-'in with butter and potato
and fill a saucepan with a sticky nics
of oatmeal. Then I go Into the dining
room with clean plates and arrange
them on a spotless white - tablecloth.
Then wo sit down to breakfast
"Half an hour later I am ltack In
the kitchen, and before me Is a clean
dlshpan full of dirty dishes. I take
a couple of clean dish towels from a
drawer and go to work. The dishes
are washed, the pans and saucepans
scraped and scoured, tho dlshpan
washed and perhaps In the course of
an hour everything Is as It was bo
fore, with the exception of the table
cloth. That has to go Into the wash.
"Then there are the beds to make.
Soiled sheets must be taken off and
replaced with fresh ones. The dust
of the day before Is swept out of the
A new seed potato, called the Pearl.
Is being sold In ngland at the rate
of $39,440 a ton.
Guffyd Jones, the "reptile king." liv
ing at Ana k mink, Ta., has received an
order from Europe for 10,000 snake
skins. Sir Norman Lockyer has been elect
ed president of a new society for the
popularizing of science called the Brit
ish Science Guild.
Sir George Lydenham Clarke, secre
tary of the British defense commit
tee, has been Governor of Victoria and
filled many foreign offices.
Otto Wlcke, a prominent New York
politician, whose check Is worth at
$123,000, at one time lived on 5 cents
a day and slept in the City Hall Park.
Counterfeit Victoria crosses are nu
merous in English curiosity shops. A
real cross is worth about $300 as a
curio, though its intrinsic value is not
30 cents.
The Austrian government has de
cided to levy an import duty of 0 cents
a pound from September 1 on all news
papers and periodicals containing more
than 15 per cent of printed matter in
the form of advertisements.
Ln consequence of inquiries made in
Parliament the British government will
proceed to ascertain some facts about
the old and unfit horses exported from
England to Germany, and "whether
their flesh Is made Into condiments of
various kinds, returned to this coun
try and sold as articles of food."
In 1903 there were 4,350,483 miles of
single telephone wire in the United
States and 2,315,297 telephone instru
ments. In 1902, 5.070,000,000 mes
sages were spoken over the wires, in
cluding 120,000,000 long-distance calls.
The gross revenue was $80,800,000, the
expense nearly $02,000,000, and the net
Income more than $22,000,000.
The Danes have a new field gun
which can fire 200 rounds a minute,
weighs less than fifteen pounds, and
has great range. Every Danish caval
ry regiment has a gun detachment
now. One man carries the gun ln a
leather case attached to his saddle, an
other carries ammunition, and a horse
is loaded with a reserve supply.
What Is declared to be the largest
boom of cedar logs ever moved on
Puget sound was towed Into Ballard
recently by - the tug TUlieum, Cnpt
Charles Worth. It contained thirty
eight sections of from sixty to one hun
dred cedar logs each, or the equivalent
of 1,330,000 feet, according to the esti
mate of those on the tug. Seattle Post-
Intelllgencer.
In ten years Maryland has jumped
from fifth to third place in the wlllow
ware industry of the United States,
ranking now next to New York and
Pennsylvania. Baltimore Is one of the
three willow-ware centers which only
have shown any actual growth ln the
business. In Maryland the center of
the willow district lies in Howard
County. In the neighborhood of Elk-
ridge alone the output of willow ex
ceeds $5,000 per annum, while Anne
Arundel County contributes $2,500.
According to the committee of pub
lic accounts, wholesale "grafting" pre
vailed on the British side during the
Boer war. For example, out of a total
sum of $6,250,000 Issued to the impe
rial yeomanry committee, $2,230,000
cannot be accounted for. Of 999 mules
shipped to Beira, on the South Af
riean coast, 158 died at sea and the
remaining 841 "cannot be traced fur
ther than Beira." As f6r remounts,
out of 617,000 horses and 155,000 mules
supposed to have been sent to Africa,
34,468 horses and 5,802 mules cannot
be accounted for.
It Is not yet half a century since Col.
Drake discovered petroleum on the wa
ters of Oil creek, near Titusvllle, Pa.
The total production of crude petro
rooms, the litter picked up In the li
brary and disarranged books and pa
pers straightened out
"Hy that time It Is nearly 11 o'clock
and I go Into the kitchen and create
more disorder. 1 strew flour over my
bread board, mix things In half a doa
en dishes, take the saucepan upon
which I have lately spent so much
time and compound a stew In It
Plates go out again to the dining room
and again they are returned to tho
dlshpan; same old performance.
"Then I dress to go down town.
Fresh shirt waist out of the box and
a white- skirt. Shoes blacked and pol
ished and all the rest of It. I come
back and my shoe aren't flt to bo
seen, and you know It's out of tho
question to wear a white skirt dowu
town twice. Shirt waist about the
same. Dinner then and dishes. After
dinner proceed to litter up the rooms
until we are all tired enough to go
up stairs and tumble up the nice,
smooth, symmetrical beds. That's
life. The principle doeau't only apply
to household affairs, either, If you
stop to think of It
"Life Is eternally making a mess
and clearing It up again." Chicago
Dally News.
leum from 1850 to 1902 orty-three
years has been no lees than 1,165,.
280,727 barrels. Of this output Penn
sylvania and New York contributed
53.9 per cent; Ohio, 24.3 per cent; West
Virginia. 11.3 per cent; Indiana, 30 per
cent; California, 8.6 per cent; Texas
2.1 per cent leaving .9 per cent to be
supplied by Kansas. Colorado, Loulsl
ana, Illinois, Missouri. Indian Terr!
tory. Wyoming, Michigan and Okla
bonis.
The Parsee, or Zoroastrlan, com
raunlty of Bombay, who number under
95.000 in all. are threatened with dis
integration by Western and Christian
rences. Their wealthy young men
visit and reside In Iiondon. Paris and
other European cities, where they fre
quently take to themselves European
wives. Three cases have Just occurred
of Parsers tlms marrying white worn-
en, one marrying a Jewess and one
a French woman. There are great dis
sensions among the parsees ln India as
to whether the non-Parsoe wives
should be received as proselytes. Lon
don Globe.
80UTH AMERICAN NAVIES.
Brazil Takes Btepa to Increase Number
of Warahlpa.
Brazil appears to have caught the
naval development fever, Judging from
the fact that a bill has been presented
to the Brlzlllan congrms providing for
the construction of twenty-eight war
ships, says the Boston Tribune. Three
of theso are to be battleships and three
armored cruisers. Should this building
program be carried into effect, Brazil
will have, so far as tho number of
ships Is concerned, naval preponder
ance ln South America. Brazil's pres
ent navy, worth reckoning, consists of
seven vessels, of which four may be
put down as second-class bartlfwhlps.
and two of those are twenty years old.
The Argentine navy Is stronger and
besides eight or ten small battleships
or armored cruisers, Includes a num
ber of vary swift ships, having only
deck protection. Tlw Argentlno Re
public built up Its fleet in anticipation
of trouble with Chill. The latter, too,
started a large building program, but
abandoned It on the amicable settle
ment of her differences with Argen
tina. Chill has sold two battleships on
the ways to England, and Argentina
found a customer ln Japan for her
naval surplusage. The Chilian Is the
only one of South America's navy that
has manifested any marked efficiency,
but the country cannot have much sys
pathy with it, for no sooner can she
get her fleet modernized than she puts
the beat of her vessels on the bargain
counter, an excellent way for damping
the spirit of any service. The genius
of the South American nations Is not
maritime. Their navies are merely col
lections of ships. They are without
the Informing spirit that makes navies.
In this respect they do not differ ma
terially from the parent Latin stock.
Latin peopled are brave at sea, but
they are not adept at sea. They are
brave men out of their true element.
Ancient Egyptian Plants.
The oldest herbarium in the world Is
ln the Egyptologist museum at Cairo,
and consists of an inconspicuous col
lection of dried portions of plants.
These portions of plants and flowers
were taken from wreaths and garlands
ln the coffins with mummies, where
they were placed by the ancient
Egyptians as death offerings, and from
edible plants which were set in earthen
vessels on the floor of the sepulchre as
the furniture of the last resting place
of their beloved ones.
Many of these floral remains are so
well preserved that, after being treat
ed with warm water, they can be han
dled like modern herbarium specimens.
The colors, too, are preserved ln a re
markable way. The most Important
matter ln connection with these plants
Is their age.
Card playing should be confined to
either the drawing room or the ante
room. When a man gets too forward he la
apt to be given a setback.
I'll . 'V 'Vfl
"A Christian."
Sims Reeves says. In his "Fttty
Years of Artistic Life." that the most
perfect singer he ever beard, and also
one of the best women he ever met,
was Jenny I.lml ntul there are very
few persons who board her who do
not concur nt least ln his oplulou of
her vocal merits.
She had a strong sense of duty, was
kind hearted and deeply religious.
When she was singing at Norwich ln
"Elijah," she sang In an Inspired man
ner the beautiful passage, "Holy, holy,
holy Is God the I-ord."
The Bishop of Norwich Stanley,
the father of Dean Stanley was sit
ting by Mrs. Reeves, and said to her,
as Jenny Und finished the phrase, "A
string of pearls.aud all of the same
Blze."
"I wonder of what religion she Is?"
said Mrs. Reeves, more Impressed by
the singer's devotional feeling than
een by the perfection of her stylo.
"She Is a Christian," replied the
Bishop.
Mr. Reeves says that she never, un
der any circumstances, omitted to say
"grace" before eating a meal, and
uced the simplest English form.
The Lord'a Appointment
I say It over and over, ami yet again
to-day;
It rests my heart as lively as it did
yeatenliir;
"It la the Ixird's appointment!"
Whatever my work may be,
I am sure, In my heart of hearts.
He has offered It for ma.
I must my It over and over, and agnlii
to-day,
For my work Is somewhat different from
yesterday:
"It Is the Lord's appointment!"
It quiets my restltaa will,
Llks voice of a tendur mother,
And my hesrt and will are still.
I will say It over and over, this aud
every day,
Whatsoever the Master orders, come
what msy:
"It Is the Lord's appointment!"
For only Ilia love can see
What Is wisest, bent aud right,
What Is truly good for uie.
Life's llludranrea.
Every life has Its hludruuces. Each
one of us Is tempted to think his own
the greatest, and to him, of courso,
they are. But there Is no life freo
from them. There are weaknesses
within, kuown and unknown. Soma
times we discover we have dono un
wise things when we had no Intention
of doing them. Some unprecelved de
fect ln us just found vent for Itself,
and we were never aware of It until
we met the consequences. Even tho
richest and easiest life has Its hin
drances. Its wealth aud Its ease are
probably among the greatest of them.
It Is enough for us to know thut hin
drances are essential to life. Only
death Is untroubled by them, and they
are a sign that life Is active and is
encountering Its limitations. They are
among the best and most necessary dis
ciplines of life. We grow by overcom
ing hindrances. Our best Joy Is vic
tory over them.
Where Aretha Nine?
now pathetic this question of tho
Master's. He who gave to all who
came healing for mind and body, ask
ingg nothing but love ln return, seeks
In vain for our expression of grati
tude. How many weary hearts aro
there to-dny asking the pitiful ques
tion, "Where are the nine?" Mothers
whose hearts aro yearning over the
children for whose sake they entered
Into the valley of the shadow; fathers,
whose forms are bending low with the
weight of burdens borne these many
years for children who have outgrown
the home nest and out ln tho world
have forgotten to send homeward mes
sages of love yes, these, and many
more, feel the heartache the Master
felt thnt day when he asked for tho
silent nine.
Nothing Hid from God.
A rich landlord once cruelly op
pressed a poor widow. Her son, a
little boy of 8 years, saw It. He after
ward became a painter, and painted
a life-likeness of the dark scene. Years
afterwurd he placed It where the man
saw it. He turned pale, trembled in
every Joint, and offered a large sum
to purchase It, that he might put It out
of Bight. Thus, there Is an invisible
painter drawing on the canvas of the
soul a life-likeness reflecting correct
ly all the passions and actions of our
spiritual history on earth. Eternity will
reveal them to every man. We must
all meet our earth-life again, whether
it has been good or evil.
Fnllnese of Life.
Christ came into the world that we
might have life and have it abundant
ly. The cramped, starved, half-developed
lives that so many are leading
are not in accordance with God's plans.
The plant that grows ln the shade,
straggling and pale, Its blossoms blight
ing befvre they unfold, Is the type of
many a one to whom God la ready to
give life In Its fullness. IH not be
satisfied with mere existence. lU-ach
dowu for the deep things of eiperl
enoe, and up for those which are high.
Fee that your life Is full, free and good,
as Uod meant It to be.
Tha Hafeguard Against Temptation.
Tho safeguard against temptation la
not seclusion, but self culture. As It
Is not disinfectants which will most
certainly secure one against Infection,
but a sound constitution, so It Is not
rules of life which will strengthen ono
against temptation, but a strung soul.
One must build up his moral constitu
tion by the habit of mors I deeds ami
high thinking, by fellowship with
puro women and honorable men. The
chief aids In this regimen are litera
ture and friendship. tan Maclareu.
In tha World.
A true Christian living In the world
Is like a ship sailing on the ocean. It
Is not the ship being 111 the water thnt
will sink It, but the water getting Into
the ship. So, In like miinucr, the Chris
tian Is not ruined by being In tho world,
which ho must needs be while he re
mains In the body, but by tho world
being tu him. J. Mitchell.
"JIM CHOW" LAW COMEDIES.
Funny Thing that Occur Kluve Mary
laud I'aased tMattite.
Tho "Jtiu Crow" law that went Into
effect lu Maryland this summer has
been more amusing than serious.
Whllo souio of the colored folks took
exception to tho new law and de
nounced It vigorously, there were oth
ers who found they bad more room
and comfort In the sections of tha
coach or steamer allotted to their use
exclusively. ludecd, on soma of tho
big excursion steamers of the Chesa
peake Hay It Is a common sight to see
one or two colored men enjoying a
roomy section of the deck, while be
yond the "Jim Crow" boundary tha
white excursionists art parked togeth
er llko the proverbial sardines. "Ah
blebe de white fo'kes stepped on deb
own toes when dey passed dls hoah
'Jim Crow bill," chuckled a colored
minister, as he rested bis feet on tho
steamer's guard rail. "We've got mo
room den we want, aud dey ain't got
euuf."
"Hat's right, pshson,'" asserted a
memtwr of his fold, "but Ah bud u
powahful queer dream last night Au
drnmpt Ah went to Paradise en St.
Poter met tue a. de gate."
"vthat did de good saint say, brud
dab?" "He sed. 'Wan did yo' cum fum?' Ah
soil, 'Mnrylan'.' He sed, 'Praise de Jus-
pah walls! Did you cum on a "Jlu
Crow" cah?'"
The laughter that followed Impress
ed tho hearer that the new law wus a
Joke.
'Otllcer," she said, looming out of the
shadows, "what kind ob a cyah am dut
cummin' arouu' de curve?" Tho olllcer
peered at the headlight approucblug
through the darkness.
"Why, auntie," he responded pleas
antly, "that's an 'owl' car."
The old woman held up her hands.
"Illess de Iaiwd! Ah thought It wan
a 'crow' car. Dese here bird cara hen
got me all mixed up. Is deh eny 'spar
row' cyahs en 'hawk' cyahs?"
An amusing Incident occurred on tho
water front In the Maryland metrop
olis. A rather foppish young steam
boat clerk was In the habit of having
his shoes shlned In one of the many
Italian bootblack parlors. Ono even
ing the parlors were closed, and tho
clerk decided to patronize a colored
bootblack for convenience. This hum
ble knight of the box and brush did
not relish such patronage, so he de
cided on a novel plan to get even. The
clerk walked up to the rickety chair
and was about to sit down, when the
bootblack shouted:
"Hold on, boss! Dat's a 'Jim Crow
choir."
"'Jim Crow?' echoed the astonished
dude.
"Yeas, sab. Ah've only got one chair,
en one-half Is reserved for white peo
ple en'de other half foh cullud fo'kes.
If yo' sit down please Jos' sit on one
cor im h en "
But tho prospective patron left with
out his shine. Then the sable boot
black turned to the clam seller with a
grin.
"Is yo' got eny 'Jim Crow' clams?"
"Sho," retorted the clam man, "do
shells am foh seen as you', en do Juicy
heart am foh white fo'kes." New
York Times.
Defending HU Hens.
It was commonly Bald of Silas Hogg
that after he had talked on any subject
for a while he "got so wound up ho
didn't know what way he wus facing."
"Do those three old Plymouth Rocks
o' yours do much besides scratching up
the neighbors' gardens?" demanded un
irate citizen of Canterbury one day.
Mr. Boggs looked at hhn with mild
reproach.
"Them three hens?" ho said, quickly.
"Why, they don't scratch, not to
amount to anything; they like to walk
round here and there and kind o' feel
the ground, but I don't believe they've
ever hurt a flower seed, no, sir, or any
way not excepting where there was so
many planted they . actu'lly noede'd
thinning out And as for laying eggs,
why, there ain't hen hereabouts I'll
wagor that can beat 'em on size. Why,
that biggest one, Blr, she'll lay eggs
as big as as big as hailstones, right
along. You can believe me or not.
Jest as you choose!" '
Perpetual
"She's one of these gushing women;
isn't she?"
"Yes. A case of perpetual emotion."
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