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CHAPTER XXVIIL i br mj eongratulatlone, after which I
It was tht old position and jet with said rood mornlnr"
a grave difference. It waa the old Una "Wall J" aaid Sarah, almoat aharpljr
of argument eropplnf op afresh In Sarah now.
Eaatball'a mind, with no Reuben Culwlek "Well, an hour or two afterward aha
at hand to laugh down her logic with turned np at the railway atatlon, and In
Reuben Culwlck'a power to laugh it , common politeneaa I could but offer her
down, perhapa, wonderfully dimluiahed. my eacort back to town. She waa tery
John had told of Reuben going to And anxloua to aee you, aha aald."
Mary Holland at Worceeter. Lucq had I "Ah! aha aald ao." anawered hla iee
predicted evil would coma of It, and ond-cousln. There waa no further argu
Marith waa wretched. ment after the Introduction of Mary Hoi-
She mnat give him np aha must not land's name Into the conversation. The
remain that weight upon hla life, that harmony of their laat eTening together
clog npon hit Induatry, which aha had waa effectually aettled after that. Bet
alwaya thought aha waa, when her love ter to hare ended all In a etorra of worda
waa not bewildering her too much. Uen- and teara than In the grace and unnat
ben loved her, ahe hoped atlll alio did nral alienee which followed. Sarah bad
not put faith In those atranga suspicions no Idea that ahe waa a Jealoua woman
of Lucy Jennlnge but Lucy waa right until then, for Lucy had not made her
In one thing; that ihe, Sarah Kastbell, Jealoua laat night only rouaed in ber a
could not add to the happlneaa of Ueu- feeling of Intenae Indignation at the ana
ben Culwlck'a life. She could only add piciona which ahe had aown broadcast
to the expenses! she could only keep But for Reuben Culwlek to apeak of
him poor. If ahe atood apart now, per- j Mary Holland lu thla off-hand way waa
bapa be would marry Mary noiiana, aim ,
be maater of hla father"! bona again, Jiwt
eat he father had wlahed from the Brnt.
f he had no light to bind him to hla
long engagement, to ehackle hia energies,
to keep him from "bettering" hlinaelf
now that the felt herself aa poor mor
ally, if not legally aa poor aa when he
cam In aearch of her to Potter's Court
It waa a very quiet morning at one of
those atrunge Sunday services; thoaa who
came to pray were not diaturbed by thoaa
who cama to acoff; but the evening waa
Boisterous and atormy, and made op for
...
Lucy Jennings rend the eigne of It in
the nnisf crowd about the door, and com
preaaed her lipa and held her breath at
the atroug language which echoed from
the atreet aa alia and Sarah approached,
under the eacort of two policemen, who
war waiting for them. .
"You are trembling you are afraid,"
aid Lucy Jennings to her companion;
"will you turn back nowT
"Whyr
'There will be but little religion there
to-night," aald Lucy, "and you ara not
trong woman."
"I waa not thinking of tha crowd or
the aervlce," anawered Sarah.
"Of what thenr waa the aharp In
quiry. - "Of all I shall any to Reuben present
1 ly. It'a very wrong, I know, Lucy, but
yon mint not blame me for thinking of
Llm ao much. I can't help It," aba laid
plaintively.
They passed nnder tha arch, whare
tha aervlce commenced, and waa Inter
ruptedwhere the old uproar went on,
and tha police were tolerably bus for
an hour and a half. The aervlce came
to an end; the atormy elementa subsid
ed; men, women and children went their
various waya, and Lucy Jenninga and
Sarah Eaatbell came out together, and
confronted Reuben Culwlek, who waa
waiting for them.
"Ton have coma back then!" cried
Sarah In her flrat delight at aeelng him,
In her new forgetfulneaa of all that aha
had reaolved upon,
"Yea It waa no oae atopplng longer In
Worceater, Sarah. Well, Lucy!"
"Well," anawered Lucy In her old
ahort tonea.
"I congratulate you on your sermon,
but I wlah tha surroundings had been
mora orthodox, and tha congregation leaa
quarrelsome; for aoma of theae duvt "
Lucy waa gone. She had auddeuly
"doubled," and disappeared down ona of
the dark turning!, and Sarah and Reu
ben were left looking at each other.
Sarnh Eaatbell took hla arm and elgh
d. Thla might be for tha laat time that
they would ever walk together thus, who
could tell? She bad made up her mind
now, and tha aooner tha truth waa told
him tha better, lie gave her the oppor
tunity to speak at once, and ber Impul
siveness leaped toward It, indiscreetly,
desperately.
"1 aaw Mls Holland thla morning; I
gar her tha will and you ara aa poor
aa old Job, girl I" ha aald.
"Yea, Reuben; I have been watting for
this poverty to tell you that you must not
ahara It with me."
"Indeed!" waa his quiet answer.
"That you and I are not fit for each
. i . r- t i i i , ... . .
einer. v... ueuoeu, an. criea, am ..Kimtri p,,, , exclaim
quite certain of It now!" ed Sarah Ka.tbell. ,
"Because Lucy Jenninge-c harming gh, w lurpri,e,,n, h.rdIy kB(,w
Lucyl-has been at her old work, reck-1 wh but ,, iorry for hli death
onlng af ter her old atyle, fashioning out bai vUttei ,KMnit brTu wouU, hav.
, " killed her ratner tnan let Her escape
way. choosing for others a path ahead wlthmlt , Mn,om-but ahe did not be
that no human being out of Bedlam could grud, hlm hli ,., And ,t lfft M
follow, doing everything for the beat and . f0ang .nd ,,rett- wlllow t0o-but what
Ia. nn.'a mnnA hut ina.tavlna nil,, inn ...... . . . .....
for one's good, but scattering dust and
ashea right and left like violent Vesu
vius, Come, Is not Lucy Jennings at
tha bottom of the resolution?"
"I have been thinking of this for
weeks. I have been seeing the neces
sity for It "
"Ay, through Lucy's apectaeles."
"You would lose money by coming to
me," aaid Sarah mournfully.
"Nonsenso! I have beguu to aava
money again."
"Ah, Reuben, let us understand each
ether at last; don't ask me to say any
thing, do anything, but and thla unnat
ural position between us. I am uuhap-
py-
"Became of this rngagemoMf'
"es."
"You are afraid of poverty w'th meT"
"I am afruld of making you poorer
than you are of keeping you loot all
your life," aaid Sarah.
"If thia la to be our last meeting, or
our laat parting, Sarah," lie said t,ulck
ly, "let It be marred by no hnrah remi
niscence. We are going to any guod-hy.
We have discovered that houaekeeplng
expenaea will shipwreck ua; that 1 ahull
grow lu tlme a big brute, to whom no
eecond-conain'a devotion will bring com
fort. But we need nut quarrel ovur the
iiscovery. We can part friends T" ,
"Yea." anaweerd Surah, "the best of
friends."
(There waa something In hla manner
that she hardly fnthomed. She had been
more prepared for an angry outburst
than for this easy going style of acqui
escence. "It la hardly Justice," he continued,
"for you. who would hove married a poor
man. will not let me marry a poor wom
an in my turn. Yon want all the eel
snrrlllce ou one side, Sarah: and even my
good luck with my pen ia turned into a
weapon against me. But," he atlUed.
"we will not quarrel. Never an angry
word between theae two blundering rela
tives, who do not know their own minds
We will spare each other between this
and the York rond. We will wait till
Miss Holland gives us her opluloa ou the
matier."
"Miss Holland!" vried Sarah Eaatbell.
"What do you mean'r"
"Miss Holland Is in the York Road
apartments. She came from Worcester
with ma thla afternoon."
"With you! You went to eacort har
thenT"
"So. I went to aee her, to tell her
tha a ewe of her prosperity, and to offer
very umercui m.utr, aim wr nnn
tank like atone and refused to stir any
mora with hope or pleaaure, or even sur
prise. When they were In the York road Reu
ben aald:
"She ia not In good spirits, but I hope
Tota has been companion for her while
we bave been away."
"Ia the child with herr
"To be aura," aald Reuben; "Is not
Tota but there, Mary will explain for
herself."
"Mary!" echoed Sarah Eaatbell.
They went npatalra Into the front room
on tha first Boor, where aat by tha fire
side tha young woman whom wa have
known by tha name of Mary Hollnnd.
Tota waa In her lap, with her child'a
arma round her neck, and ber little head
soothed upon a niother'a bosom for tha
first time In her chlldiah recollections.
"It la her child thou!" aald Sarah In a
low whisper.
"Yea, to be aura," answered Reuben
carelessly.
"I am In dream," murmured Sarah.
"But yon ara very do to tha wak
ing," added her cousin Reuben.
CHAPTER XXIX.
There waa another Inmate of tha room
which Reuben and bis coualn had enter
ed. Lucy Jennings waa atandlng on tha
hearth rug with her handa clasped to
gether, and her grave white face turned
toward mother and child. She had reach
ed home before them, having a better
knowledge of the ahorteat cut to York
Road than Reuben had.
' Mary looked round as tha conslna came
lu together, and a sad smile flickered on
a faoa grown careworn with anxiety. She
did not raise her head from that of her
child aa Reuben and Sarah advanced,
and Reuben aald;
"Mrs. Peterson, 1 have brought an old
friend to shake handa with you to ex
press her regrets for al that paat dlatrust
which aha baa had, aa well aa I."
Sarah had only heard tha Drat two
worda.
"Mrs. Pettreonl" aha ' exclaimed.
"Then you you "
"I waa Edward Peterson's wife," aba
added wearily and sadly "yes."
"But not in tha plot against yon,
Sarah," aaid Reuben; "fighting for yi I
In tha first instance writing to ma to
coma to tha rescue kept forever In
doubt concerning you held down at last
to alienee by tha awful threat of her
child'a death believing tn your safety
through It all, and atriving once mora for
you and againat her husband when she
feared hla treachery had deceived her,"
"And he waa true to hla word," Mury
added with a algh, "for tha first time In
hla life. It la a long atory; spare me
for few daya tha history of a school
girl's secret marriage, bitter repentance,
a husband a desertion, a long up hill fight
to forget a past that had become terri
ble and full of humiliation. I did uot
know then that Bessie lived, and waa one
link of love that held me to my old life.
I have come to London for a few words
of explanation, Sarah; they are made nt
a aad time," Mary said, "but 1 could
not rest, after Reuben's visit to menot
even for an hour after my husband's
death."
Dad that to ao with It I
"Ha died within an hour of your cous
in's visit thia morning," aaid Mary.
"And you are here," replied 8arah
wonderingly.
"Ah! you cannot understand that,"
said Mary, "you who will love your hus
band all your life. But my love was
crushed out quickly, and only my duty
took me to hie bedside my regret for
the laat mistake which brought about his
death, and his last act of vengeance."
"Ilia lust act of vengeance!" repeat
ed Sarnh.
"Half an hour after Mr. Culwlek had
left me, my husband changed suddenly;
he wholly realised, and for the first time,
that there was no hope for him In hls
world, and what did be do?" she added
with a shudder.
"He should have ssked pardon of you
for blighting your life' aaid Sarah.
"He should have sought pardon of his
God," added Lucy Jenninga.
"He tore the last will of Sumon Cul
wlek into a hundred pieces, lest I should
claim my right to riches by It." anawer
ed Mary; "he cursed me, and left me
poor."
"But "
"But I have all the fragments," add
ed Mary, opening a purse heaped to the
clnap with small pieces of paper; "see
there they are."
Sarah glanced at them, but" did not
apeak.
"X would be a specimen of patchwork
that the law would hardly acknowledge,"
said the widow, "bit you would not dis
pute the will, Sarah, if I, by patient
study and great rare, render thia testa
ment complete again?"
"No," answered Sarah Eaatbell.
"In my husband's lifetime I dared not
make him rich; and now, in memory of
m'li h kindness, of old trust of new con
fidence, may I say? I have th courage
to remain poor."
She held Ihe open purse over the fire,
and the fragments fell from it Into the
red coals. Reuben and Sarah at a r ted for
ward to arrest her hand, but it too
late.
"You hould not have dona thia,
Mary," cried Reuben.
"It waa not a Just will," answered tha
widow; "1 told your father ao when ha
placed it in my hands, although I did not
tell him that never In all my Ufa ahould
I avail myself of his muuf&cnee."
"Ha had wronged your father In aoma
manner which wa canuot even gueea at
but which he owned himself. You told
toe that," aald Reuben..
"Ha waa atranga that day. It might
' have been tha raving of a madman."
1 "Aa that," aaid Lucy, pointing to tha
' fire, "waa tha act of madwoman."
1 "I think not," answered Mary confi
dently; "It ia an act of justice to tha man
entitled to hia fatber'a money, and who
i will marry thla brave young lady In pos
session.
"She has given ma np," aaid Renboa
dryly; but Mary turned from ona to an
other and read no donbt or distress on
cither face. Hera ware two lives in tha
sunshine at last.
"I believe It waa alwaya Simon Cul
wlck'a wlah that Reuben abould have
thla money," continued Mary; "be did
not know of my marriage, and I dared
not tall him for my home's aake, and ao
we went on from one complication to an
other. There were only two wills; tha
first left all to hia aister, tha aecond to
me and the aecond I could not, and did
not care to prove. Tha anewer to tha
riddle cama round In tha way I thought
it might do. If I were watchful and re
servedfor I knew in what high esti
mation Sarah East bell held her cousin,
and how ahe had made up ber mind to
give an obstinate man bie rights. She
and I together planned more ways than
one aha very artless, l very artiui per
hapsbut the beat and simplest and hap
piest way has come without our plotting.'"
"But your' aald Sarah and Ueuben
almoat together.
"You two are not likely to forget me,
or my little daughter here to ahut me
from your friendship to help me In tha
world, ahould I want help."
"Help!" echoed Reuben. "why, It ia all
yours."
"You can't prove that," aald Mary em
phatically, "and I would prefer to be de
pendent on your bounty. I will not be too
proud to ask for a pension, when my lit
tle girl growa up and tires of her moth
er."
"Tha future, for you and Tots, yon
will leave to Sarah and me," aaid Reu
ben; "you will trust in those whom you
have trusted ao much already."
"Aa they will trust in me now," said
the unselfish woman, holding out ber
handa to them.
e e e e a a
It la a fair picture on which the cur
tain la rung down on perfect confidence,
and true affection and prosperity on
life opening out before these three with
no ahadowa on the sconce beyond, lien
ben and Sarah will live happily forever
afterward aa young couples always
should in books and Mary and her
daughter will be their faithful friends
sud loving companions to tha end of life.
In tha red glow of the sunset of our
story, stands poor Lucy Jennings grave
and atony as the Libyan sphinx com
menting but little upon the happiness
about her, and yet feeling that It reaches
to her heart, and makea her mora lika;
other women.
Reuben'a brother-in-law, ona Thomae
Eaatbell, will not visit Worcestershire
again, and Reuben'a wife will not learn
for j ears of his disappearance In the
Australian buah where "Wa can afford
to let the last of our villains hide him
self. e a a a e
In tha bright early morning, gazing
from tha window of her room at the fair
landscape beyond, with the allvery laugh
ter of little children ringing upward from
the lawn, and with her husband's arm
linked within her own, Becond-conaln
Sarah will talk no longer of Sedge Hill
being an unlucky house.
(Tha end.)
PLAYING WITH THE "BONE&
Dlraralon of the Boys of a Generation
Aro Ia Now Almost Foraottea.
Few boya of tha present day can
"piny the bones" ai skillfully aa did
the youth of thirty or forty yean ago,
The diversion la confined almoat ex
clusively to the end men In the minstrel
ahowa. "There waa a fellow who had
a great knack of playing the bones,"
aald an old-tlmor the other day. "Ha
waa tha first bona soloist I've heard In
a good many years. Even the minstrel
shows don't pay much attention to the
bones nowadaya and I guess that' the
next generation will look npon us folk
as savagea for ever having listened to
the music of the bones. The things
that thla soloist played with the other
night weren't, I Imagine, aura enough
bones; they were probably fashioned of
some ) i ud of wood.
"I can remember when every small
boy In the country had a mad passion
to become an artist with the bones.
That was more than a quarter of a cen
tury ago, when minstrelsy was a big
thing and all the youngsters In the
land ached and longed way down deep
In them to become famous mlnatrel
men, The ambitions of most of the
kids of my day centered on the bones'
end and we used to practice wltji the
bones for hours nt a stretch. I used
to wait for my mother to get a rib
roast and the good woman would hard
ly have the moat off those ribs before
I'd have 'em out In tho back yard saw
ing and hammering away at 'em and
tinkering them Into shape to be us.d
for bones. I'd devote hours to scrap
ing them when I had sawed them Into
shape and then I'd plaer them where
the- summer sun would hit them for
about a week to thoroughly dry them.
"Then they'd be ready for use and
I'd proceed, along with all the rest
of the kids In the neighborhood pro
vided with bones, to drfve the older
folks crazy with the horrible noise.
There's a whole lot of science In manip
ulating the bones properly. I used to
practice about half a day at a stretch
with the right-hnud bones and then I'd
round out the rest of the day getting
the hang of the left-hand bones and
I've seen strong men be compelled to
take to their beds from nervous col
lapse after spending a week In the
neighborhood infested by a bunch of
small boys getting the hang of the
bones. Things are not like they used
to be. I'll bet there are thousands of
young fellows who are of age right
In this town who never scraped a set f
bones when they were youngsters and
whe never Indulged In the exalted
dream of one dny becoming celebrated
minstrel men."
Kiyedltlnna.
She When I rang you up at the club
to-day It didn't take any time for the
one who attends the telephone to get
you. .
He Well, you told him you were my
wife, didn't you?
She No, I told him I was not your
wife. New York Herald.
Advantage of Steel Building.
With the modern steel framing a
building can with safety be carried to
seven and a half tlmea the diameter of
Its base. Chus an ordinary kusinesa
building could be arerjtod to a .eight
of ci,W3 t-L
BUVWNI TY'S DEBT TO THE UNITED STATES.
By John W. Potter, gi-Secrefarr of Stat.
By Its steady championship of a
freer commerce and of moat elevated
principles of conduct tn war, tha United
States baa brought about an almost
complete change in the practice of na
tions. There still remain to be Incor
porated Into International law one of
the principles announced by the found
Vers of our government and steadily d-
fa
'M Tocated up to thia
from seizure of private property on tlie
aea in time of war.
John w. 1-oaTtB, As Our country from Its earliest his
tory led the nations of the earth In creating a more ele
vated system of International law, so also It bas been
the most active in adjusting International controversies and
preserving peace by means of treaties of arbitration. The
Crst treaty negotiated after the organization of our govern
ment nnder the constitution the Jay treaty of 1794 with
Great Britain marked a distinct advance in the practice
of nations and sought to ameliorate the harshness of war
and to establish more clearly neutral rights.
The only Instance in our history where fraud and cor
ruption have been established against an arbitration tri
bunal was that with Venezuela under the treaty of 1S00.
Soon after the adjournment of the commission charges of
Irregularity and fraud ou the part of Its members were
made at Waahlngton by the Venezuelan Government, and
an Investigation established to the satisfaction of Congress
the fact that a corrupt arrangement had been made be
tween the American commission, the umpire (a Venezue
la, the United States minister In Venezuela and bis rela
tive, the leading attorney before the commission, by which
a Inrge part of each claim represented by the attorney and
allowed by the commission was to be divided between the
persons named. After considerable delay In aecurlng legis
lation a new commission waa organized, which reviewed
the work of its predecessor. Of the. twenty-four cases al
lowed by the first commission only nine were passed on
favorably, and three old cases rejected were allowed by
the new commission, representing more than half of the
total awards.
INTERESTING TACTS ABOUT "DRY BONES."
Bf Dr. Antnw WUmbm.
With bone la usually associated the Idea of
dryness not merely In a physical aense, but In
an intellectual sense as well. The medical stu
dent who has to acquire a knowledge of the bony
framework has been said to travel In the "valley
of dry bones," and as the osseous belongings we
may see In our museums are certainly of the des
iccated order of things, the familiar epithet
seems justifiable enough. Yet bone, which may
appear uninteresting to the casual observer, presents us
with a alngularly Interesting history, not merely in respect
of its structure but likewise In conectlon with Its growth
and development
Bone la not all phosphate. This la Its mineral side,
giving is a strength and solidity which la -more than equal
to that of good solid oak. The other side of Its composi
tion wo find to be represented by gelatine. This last is
the animal basis of bone. When the cook bolls bones it is
for the sake of obtaining the gelatine, and we know that
the boiled bone has a whitened aspect different from ' that
of the natural structure, because its mineral constituents
alone are left If we wished to reverse the process and to
remove the mineral matter of our bone, leaving the gela
tine, we ahould place it In a solution of some weak acid.
This last would eat away and dissolve the living material,
T8I AN A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
For Forty Years the Rating Spirit of
Chinee Empire.
The reported death of the Empress
Regent Tsl An, at the age of TO, di
rected attention to the extraordinary
career of a woman who for more than
forty years has been the ruling spirit
of the Chinese Empire, although for
more than 4,000 years the native preju
dice against the exercise of authority
by the fair sex had been but twice
overcome. Had abe been a descendant
of Confucius, or the Ming dynasty,
which preceded the present reigning
family, or a high-born Manchu, ber
rise to autocratic power would have
been more Intelligible. Aa a matter of
fact abe began life under grave dis
abilities, being of humble origin,
though her parents are aald to have
been Manchus. Adopted by a Manchu
family of considerable meana, ahe waa
trained in the accomplishments which
the Chinese prize In women, but her
Intellect owed nothing to the Influence
of an Invigorative education. She got
ber opportunity when she became a
member of the houaehold of the Empe
ror Hlen Fung, who reigned from 1850
to 1861. She bad no son by him, but
strange to say, she commended herself
so strongly to the Empress Dowager,
the mother of Tung Che, the next sov
eregln, that during his long minority
the two women ruled conjointly, as
Empresses of the East and of the
West On Tung Che's death, they
raised to the throne his infant cousin,
who still ostensibly reigns under the
name of Kwang Su. Since the death
of her feminine co-regent in 1881, Tsl
An has bean the real mistress of
China, except during a brief Interval,
when Kwang Su, having attained his
majority, was permitted temporarily to
rule, and showed an Inclination to re
organise the Chinese system. of educa
tion on Western principles. The Inno
vation waa quickly stopped by a palace
revolution, and .during the laat few
years Kwang Su baa been merely a
figurehead, the Empress Tat An having
been recognized not only by all Chi
nese officials, but also hjr all the treaty
powers, as regent Harper'a Weekly.
GRAIN AS A PATIENT.
The Il Mated Cereal I Sent to a Hos
pital for Treatment.
Most of us are familiar with hospi
tals and retreats where life and health
may be restored to human beings and
anlmala, but a
new and Interest
ing phase Is a
sanitarium for
grain.
Plants and
flowers , are sub
ject to disease,
and aa the loaa of
crops throughout
the United States
wheat Kvnas,
alone has been
estimated at some
eighteen million dollars. It becomes Im
perative that an effort ahould be made
to save the dlsessed grain, Very
often farmers lose the whole crop be
cause of being compelled to harvest In
wet weather.
To the new hospital, which la locat
ed at Port Arthur, Ontario, tha farm
era may aend their grata to be treated
and carefully nrrsed. After passing
ut of the care of thS experts tht
day the exemption
THE COUNTRY VERSUS' THE CITY BOY..
Br Jma at. ftoar, a Hw frit.
ma
about the
JAPAN'S RELATION
The visitor called the little 4-year-old
girl to bla knee and In hla most
wtnnlng tones asked her name. She
put ber linger In her mouth and aald
nothing.
"Tell the gentleman, darling," aald
the fond father.
The little one, without removing the
finger, aald something that sounded
like a quotation In Sanskrit
"What?" ejaculated the visitor.
"She saya Its Mary Jane Edith Bar
ker Maud Jael Jackson," Interpreted
the father.
"Great Peter!" exclaimed the visit
or. "What on earth possessed you to
put all that on the child r
"Well," said the father, "It wasn't
altogether my fault but It waa the
first one, you know, and there waa no
end of fuss naming it Of course, my
wlfe'a mother wanted it named for her
and I naturally didn't want to alight
my own mother. And Aunt Jael Simp
son took a great notion to the kid and
grain la aaid to be cleaner and more
wholesome than wheat which haa not
been subjected to this process. Con
valescent wheat haa been atored away
and kept In perfect health for aeveral
years.
When the wheat 111 unto death ar
rivea, a nun placea it In a bath of
pure water, where It ia brushed and
scoured in machines made for the
purpose until the grains are highly
polished and In good shape for the
mill. It la then placed upon a bed
made of screening and subjected to a
Jamming process, first of hot and then
of cold water, until it Is perfectly dry.
Again the grain Is subjected to an
other cleaning process, after which it
Is ready "to be returned to the owner,
with the guarantee that It Ia thorough
ly cured. Strange to say, when it la
weighed it seems to have lost noth-'
Ing, and being all rrain and no chaff
It weighs three or four pounds heavier
to the bushel
Russia's Railway Softools.
The railway schools of Russia are
among the most Interesting of all na
tions. When the great Siberian Rail
way la completed it will form a prac
tical weatward continuation of the
American trunk llnea, connected by In
ternational ferries In the form of gi
gantic ateamahlp line. It waa the
construction of the wonderful Siberian
railway which largely liberalized all
Ruaala and turned lta attention to the
education of children. At the latest
report Ruaala waa teaching 8,000 chil
dren of railway men all branches of
modern railway coiutructlon and oper
ation. Ruaala recently sect two em
inent ministers of affairs to thla coun
try to examine the working of the
rauway branches of tha Young Men's
Christian Association for tha immedi
but would leave the gelatine untouched. Then we should
meet the Interesting spectacle of seeing tha formerly bard,
dense bone becoming as elastic as possible, ao flexible In
deed that we might tie If la a knot It 1 when poor little
children, badly fed for the most part, do not receive a
sufficient supply of phosphates that they develop bona
deformities that are plteoua to behold. An argument thla,
of powerful kind, that all mothers should be Instructed In
the principles of physiology. In so far, at least aa the
proper feeding of their children ia concerned.
If wa could lift all the living matter out of a layer of
bone it would praaent ua with the appearance of an ani
mated spider's web. A bone lives in all its parte, aad
la neither the deed nor the dry thing which popular notions
credit It to be. But bones grow old as does every bodily
possession of ours. They lose their elasticity, aa It were.
In old age. The gelatine dlmlniahea, and with thla chance
the bonea become-more trittle In nature, rendering fracture
a more likely accident in the old person than In hla young
er neighbor. Strong and denae aa bone may ba. It ia atlll
subject to the universal law which decrees that lift and
living things hare each their "little day."
Tha chances of the city born boy are greater
than those of the country born. If yon knew
life of the country boy, how be baa to
sleep in an nnheated room In winter with the
temperature degrees below aero and in the sum
mer time work In the fields in the sun front tea
to fourteen hours a day, you' would probably see
that the city boy baa an Immense advantage.
They tell you that the bard work of the coun
try boy makes him a splendid man physically. Of the coun
try boya I knew full one-half are nnder the sod they
plowed or are old men In the Tillage streets at the age of
40. I believe that the beet man la developed through asso
ciation and struggle, and not In the country solitude.
The farmer's boy la caught In the endless circle where
he raises corn In an endless chain of anxiety, but the city
boy of New York has the history of the world, aa a lea
son, and tha voices of tha greatest men within the reach
of his ears rather than the cricket and tha country night
sounds. There are dirty streets and dark rooms Jn the
city, but tbey are Illuminated by ambition, and even these
dirty streets are aa dear in after years as tha country la to
the successful farmer'a boys. American Boy.
TO THE PHILIPPINES.
By taraa Caawte. mt Jmfm,
Japan la a small country with a large popula
tion, and If we can manufacture for sale there
and In China tha things necessary for Oriental
life we will become an exceedingly prosperous
nation, for our land has reached tha limit of
agricultural production. The question with us la.
Can the Philippine Islanda produce a sufficient
quantity of those raw materials to warrant ua
not only in Increasing the capacity of our mills
and In building new onee, but In making aoma reciprocal
arrangementa with the United States which would give a
preference to the products of the Philippines over those of
Java, BoYneo, Sumatra and other Oriental countries. The
Philippine Islands have only been scratched, so to speak,
and out of the 08,000,000 acres of agricultural lands the
Philippine commission atatea that only about 6,000,000
acrea have been Indifferently farmed, while from my own
observatlona In the Islands I should say that not more than
one-third of tha land occupied by f arma are now being
cultivated.
we thought ahe might do aomethlng
for her If we gave it ber name. Edith
Thompson was my wife's dearest
friend on earth and ahe Insisted on be
ing its god-mother the baby'a, I mean.
Uncle Barker waa dead aet on Its be
ing a boy and called Heaeklah. We
were thankful It wasn't but we called
it Barker by way of a compromise."
"I hope they were all pleaaad."
"Well, no, they were not" aald the
fond parent "Aunt Jael was miffed
because ber name was strung on laat
and all the rest of them didn't like It
because their names were mixed up
with the others. Uncle Barker thought
'Hezzie' would have been a neat and
appropriate diminutive. There waa a
good deal of nnpleaaantneaa about it
to tell the truth."
"What's the other little toddler
called r asked the guest after a few
momenta' thoughtful alienee.
"Sarah," replied the father, prompt
ly. Chicago Dally News.
ate introduction of the service at di
vision points of the railways of all
Russia. Harper's Weekly.
A Persia Foot's Wit,
The following amusing atory la told
regarding the Shah'a relations with hla
poet laureate. On one eccaalon the
Shah read to him one of his own
poem and asked for his opinion:
"Even If I deserve your majesty'a
anger," aald the candid poet "I muat
aay that It la anything but poetry."
The Shah, feeling insulted, cried out
to those who waited on him:
"Take thla ass to the stable."
After a little while, becoming calm
er, be tried the poet once more, thia
time with a fresh set of verses. When
he had finished reading the poet start
ed to go away.
"Where are yon going?" asked tha
Shah.
"To the stable, your majesty," waa
the reply of the poet
Thla time the Shah enjoyed the jokw
and the poet waa forgiven.
Frmlr-Eatiag.
Hygieniata all agree In telling aa
that, we do not eat nearly enough fruit
which la Infinitely more productive of
health and beauty than sweetmeats
and pastry. Rip aprflea are especially
healthy, and children may eat them
without danger. Rome doctors aay
that an appl at bedtime produce
sleep. Pears are more taaty than ap
plea, but not ao healthy nnleea cooked.
Prune have medicinal qualltiea which
cannot b deeded. They ar better
cooked, however. Aprtcota ar ala
more healthy cooked than raw. Peach,
ea ar vary good, but the moat heaJtxt
givlng oPail fruit are grape.
The way of soms traQgrasseca
aeema to be pretty smooth,
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GEO. P. GROVELL,
rtluceewor to B. L- Bmlth,
Oldest iiubllahd Uoum lu the) TLUy.
DEALER IN
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes,
Hardware, . ,
Flour and Feed, etc.
This old-established house will con
tinue to pay cash lor all its goods; it
pays no rent; it employs a clerk, but
does not bave to divide with a partner.
All dividenda are made with customers
in the way of reasonable pricea.
Lumber
Wood,
Posts, Etc.
Davenport Bros.
Lumber Co.
Have opened an office in Hood River.
Call and get prices and leave orders,
which will be promptly filled. :
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KLIQHTFCL ROUTE
AYUUHT VLWS
IZZY CRAGS
KfiP CANONS
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Bee Nature In all ber glorloua beauty,
and then the acme of man's handiwork.
Tha tlrat ia found along ihe line of the
Denver A Rio (.rancid Railroad, the lat
ter at ihe 8t. Louis fair, lour trip will
be one of pleaaure make the moat of
It. For Information aud Illustrated lit
erature write
W, C McBRIDE, Gen. Agt., Fortland. Orcroa
ON TON BARBER SHOP
L. C. HAYNES, Paor.
The place to get an eaay shave, an up-to-date
hair cut, and to enjoy the luxury of a porcalaln
bath tub.
J E. WELCH,
THE VETERINARY SURGEON.
Bas returned to Rood River and la prepared
to do any work tn tht veterinary line. He can
be found by calling at or phoning to Clarke's
drug store.
JHE NEW FEED 8TORE,
On the Mount Hood road, south of town,
keeps constantly on hand the beat quality of
Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feed at lowaat
price.
P. F. LAMAR, Proprietor.
UREKA MEAT MARKET,
McGUIRE BROS., Props.
Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats, Lard,
Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables.
FREE DELIVERY.
PHONE 36
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