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Gruesome Experience of a
Silk Boiler.
Alone, in Great Vat of Boil-
* Water.
Mall V110 18 now at the head of
one of the largest establiettinente fer
dyeing silks in this country tells a
dory of a etrange and thrilling ad -
Venture that he passed through when
lee War still only the superintendent
Of the "boiling roma"
"Silk,"' he says in telling tne etelle
"has been the means ei Ms living, and
Once it saved my life. Haye you ever
been ht a room where they boil; the
raw sIW it's a hot, steaming place,
'with greet bubbling vete that are sunk
to 4 lead with the ,floor. The raw
silk, iti.baics, all fluffy and sticky,
comes ire on rolling trucks and is
dumped into the vats. The mass has
to be dined about a. good deal before
it gets eoakee through and goes un-
der.
"Just .before the neon hour one day
a truck came in with two bales on it.
" 'Denim them into No, 6 vat,' 1
told. the.men. 'I'll Stir them if you
fellowsetant to go to dinner.'
"When, they had .gone I began to
klok arMinl for the atirring fork. I
couldn't find it anywhere. 'Confound
13111!' 1 eeald to Myself. .411e loses
everything?
"I hitt:hardly got the words out of
my =Oh when my,foot went off the
edge ot elm vat. I lett tnyeelf Wine,
and 1 Ira S seized with the full convic-
tion of ileath,
"I hadetime to think ever just how
terribly,hot the boiling water would
feel and to wonder how much of me
would hedeft when the men came back
from cleaner. Then I felt myself land
flat on .bier back on the mass of float-
ing silks::
"To thie day I can see the very look
of the eld smoky root as I lay on the
island ot,Silk with the boiling water on
all sideS., It was horibly hot there,
The peisPiration started, out ell over
me, andl felt that I no,uet mov,e.
"Firete however, I shouted ,00oudlY
as I cored. When no one atitewered I
cautionelY tried to turn on MY side.
The bale of fiber began slowly to roll
over. Nearly paralyzed with terror, I
threw out one arm. It was just
enough Change in balance. I felt the,
rolling ,Motion gtop. I lay on my
back, payed on the middle of the bale,
and Wafted for help. , After a minute
or two risagan to realize that the silk
was sleWly,nking into the vat,
"You ceurd,h1e01Yieptice the motion.
At first 1 could look out of the corner
of my eye auriee'the-edae at'vat No.
8. A littlelater, when 1 looked 'again,
it wap tont Otemy iiife 01 vision. 1
couldn'temovesessitheastaating the bale
roll oyer, and if I renutined still I
would go down inch by 1,nen into the
scalding, water, below.
"I can remember that I became a
little ,hysterical. It's funny what
tricks', the mind plays,
" "phis is dyeing with a vengeance,'
said aloud, and even laughed as I
said it.
"It Was growing hotter. Steen' had
began to percolate through the ilk.
and I Was wet thamegn with the stifling
clouds that rose from the surface of
the evetnr. I hadc:iieeidea of time. By
and by, however, some one answered
my shoats. The deer Opened and two
men tame rotating aereee the room.
" 'Get a pole!' shouted one.
"I knew that would be fatal; the
slightest push ane I would roll over
into the steaming stew.
" ti3oys,' cried I, "don't touch me or
it will be all over! One of you turn
off the feed pipe. ,
• "I could hear the ehug, chug of the
seam being cut off frora the vat. A
moment later I could set the'evet rim
teat broadened round the edges, and I
"That may be," Observed the other
woman bttterly; "but he's a tool on
WhOile folly Keith's life depende."
' "Not a bit of it," said Caprice, cheer-
fully; "we'll findesome way to save
,him yet, The only evidenee against
WM is that knife, and I don't believe
it was in his poseeesion at the Bon
-
Don Theatre,"
"Why not?"
"Because no one could have taken
It out 01 1116 OvercOat pocket there. I
took the coat downstairs by mistake,
but For eure I never abstracted the
knife. Ezra Lazarus took it back, and
I'll swear, 'in spite of Mr. Naball, ho
didn't take it. Hes not likely Morti-
mer would go fiddling in another
man's pockets, so I believe the knife
was taken from the coat poeket, with-
out his knowledge, at the club."
"But who took it, and how?"' asked
Eugenie, with'great intereet.
"My dear," replied Kitty, with a
shrug, "boss do I know. Perhaps, after
receiving back the knife from Fenton,
and puttipg it in his pocket, he hung
his coat up again; in that case, any-
one who ss,w him put the knife away
could have stolen it."
"But who would do (so?"
"That's whet our clever Naball
ought to find out," said Caprice, with
dieclainful smile, only he's such an
idiot. I tell you whom I suspect—
Mind you, it's only suspicion—
and yet appearances are quite as black
against him as any one else."
"Who is it?"
"Melton."
"Mahon!" repeated Eugenie, dart-
ing up.
"None other," said Kitty coolly.
"He was at the club, and I know was
hard up for money. His wife came to
me one day, and told me he had em-
bezzled a lot of money at his office.
Then, after the crime, she came to, me,
audethanked me for paying it, 1 never
die, so. Fenton said he did, but' I
doubt it, as there isn't much of the
philanthropist about him, so the only
one who could have replaced the mon-
ey was Melton himeelfe How? Well,
easily enough. He Was at the club —
saw Keithea knife, and, knowing he
Waa Lazarue' clerk, the idea flashed
acrosi his mind of murdering the old
man with the knife, and dropping it
about, so as to throw suspicion on
Stewart. Se, by eome means, I don't
knew how, he obtains the knife be-
fore Stewart leaves the club, commits
the crime, gets the moneY, circulates
notes, and when taxed with the pos-
session of a marked one,- says he got
it from Ezra Lazarus—very weak, my
dear, very weak indeed. Ezra says he
paid him some money, so naturally
doesn't knoW each individual note;
see Such a thing favors Mr. Melton's
little plan. So there you are, my dear.
-
I've made up a complete case against
IVialton, and quite as feasible as any
of Naball's theories Upon my word,'''
said Kitty gaily, ''ought to have
been a detective."
Eugenie was walking to and fro
hurriedly.
"If this is so, he ought to be ar-
meted," she said quickly.
"Then go and tell Naball, my dear,"
said Kitty in a ameleixag voice.
arrest any one on suspicion. I won-
der half the populatioie of Melbourne
aren't in jail,-•charged with the mur-
• der. -Oh, Naball's a brilliant man! He
says the man whip committed the
nurder stole my diamonels—pish!"
And you say Keith stole them,"
said Eugenie reproachfully, "there-
fore—"
"Therefore the lesser crime includes
the ,greater," finished Kitty, coolly.
my dear, I don't believe he is a
murderer; but as to the diamonds;
what ate I to think after what Meg
told me?"
„Meg! Meg!" eaid that young per -
dancing into the room, holding
"No; he- got out, and tumbled. • 1
laughea when he tumbled," finished
Meg triumphantly; "then I Bleeped
again, right eft,"
Eugenie put the girl down off her
knee, and turned to kitty,
"I believe Ie.-eith did put the child
to bed," she said duletlY, "but I think
she must have slept for some them,
and that the man she saw getting out
of the window was some one else;
of course, being awakened by the
noise, she would only think she had
slept a minute."
"A minute, a xainute," eepeated
Meg, Who had climbed back on to the
bed, and was jumping the doll up
and doWn.
"But who could the second man have
been?" asked Kitty, perplexed.
"You know Naball's theory that the
mare'who stole the diamonds commit-
ted the murder," said Eugenie, "You
think Melton is guilty of the inured.,
ishe not of the robberY aIso? He was
Present at the supper -party, and knew
where the jewels were kept,"
Kitty dreW her brows together and
Was about to speak, when Meg held
up her doll for inspection.
"Look at the hicket," she said tri-
umphantly, "it's like Bligging's locket
—all geed."
Kitty .,smiled, and touched the so-
called looket, which was in reality
part of a gold sleeve -link, and was
tied round the neck of the doll with
a bit of cotton.
"Who gave you this?" she said,
"Bliggings?"
"No; Meg found it herself, here,
after the man had got out of the win-
dow."
Eugenie gave a cry, and started up,
but Kitty in emoment had seized the
doll, and wrenched off the gold link
which Meg called the locket,
"When did you find this, Meg?" she
asked the child in a tone of suppressed
excitement.
"After the man went out Of the.
dow," said Meg proudly.
"In the dark?" asked her mother.
"No, when Meg was dressed, and
the sun was shining," said Meg, try -
Dag to get back the locket.
"Wait a moment, dear," said Kitty,
pushing the child away.
"Mies Rainsfeird, do you know what
this link means?"
"I half guess," faltered Eugenie,
clasping her hands.
"Then you guess right," eried Kit-
ty, raising herself on her elbow, "It
means that the man who stole the
jewels dropped this link, and I know
who he is, because I gave it to him
Myself."
"Keith?" said Eugenie faintly,
"Keith!" repeated Caprice in A tone
of scoria "No; not Keith, whom I
have suspected wrongfully all these
months, but my very good friend,
Hiram J. Fenton."
'Fenton!" echoed Eugenie in sue--
prise.
"Yee; he must have committed the
crime," said Kitty in anger, grinding
her teeth. "The coward, he knew I
suspected Keith, and let another man
hear the stigma, of his eritne. I spar-
ed Keith when I thought him guirty,
because he saved my child'a life; but
I'll not spare Fenton now I know he
is a thief."
"What will you do?" asked Eu-
genie quickly.
"What wil I do!" cried Caprice,
with a devilish light shining in her
beautiful eyes. "I'll put him in pris-
on—ring the bell for pen, ink, and
paper—I'll write him to come down
here to -night to eee me; and when he
comes, I'll have Naball waiting to ar-
rest him."
h
"But Keit?" faltered Eugenie.
his life happy?" she eald haree111
with a firmer. "Ho cares no More for
me than he doea for the child. If I
were to allow his dearest friend to
betray nie, I don't believe he weuhd
care a fig about it."
'While she was thug talking, the
door opened, and her husband came
into the room, with a sullen look on
his face, He was, as she saw, in a
• temper, alad read)" for a domestie bat-
tle; but, determined not to gilit him
a chance, she at in her chair in 'Sil-
ent disdain.
"Well," he said, throwing himself
on the sofa, "haven't Yott got a, word
to say tor yourself?"
"What can I say?" she replied, list -
"Anything! Don't eit there like a
=reed sphynx, How do you expect
a man to come home When he finds
things so tlisagreable?"
She looked at him scornfully.
"You find things disagreable," she
said, slowly, "You, who hale ne-
glected inc ever since our marriage;
who have passed your time with act-
resses and betting men; you, W110—"
"Go to the devil," said Mallon,
sulkily, cutting short, her catalogue of
his vices "I don't want you to preach.
11111e,g,,o where I like, and do what I
"Yes you deny me the right to do
the same."
"What do yon- raean?'!,
"Mean!" she cried, .rising to her
feet; "mean that I'm tired of this sor-
did way of living, Inn tired of 330-
hg you at he beck and call of every
woman except year wife I have tried
to do my duty by you and the child,
Yet You neglect me for others. You
squander your honestly earned money,
and then embezzle thousands of
pounds. I tell yota I'm sick of this
lifiu,EVan Melton; and if you don't take
care, I'll make a ch,ange."
He 'listened in amazement to this
Aired° coming from his raeek wife,
then, with a course laugh, flung him-
self hack on the setae,
l'You'll, make ft change!" he said,
'With a sneer. "You—I suppose that
means bolting with another man—
you do, my dear, and I'll hill you and
your lever as well."
"My lover, as you call' hira, could
hreals your neck easilye'e she said
contemptuously.
"Then you have a lover!" he cried,
starting to his feet in a transport of
fury, "You tell me that—ersou a wife
and a mother—in the presence of our
Without a word, she) touched the bell,
and a maid-sertant appeared. Mrs.
Melton pointed to the child.
"Take her away, d she said coldly,
and when the door closed again, she
turned once more to her husband.
"Now that the child is away," she
said calmly„ "I do tell you I have a
would-be elover. Stay," she cried,
holding up her hand, "I said a would-
be lover. Had I been as careless of
your 'honor as you have been of mine, I
would not now be living with you."
• Evan Melton listened in dogged sit-
ence, and then bierst out into a tor-
rent of words.
"Ah! I knew it would be so—curhe
You! What woman was ever satisfied
with a husband?"
"Yes, and such a husband as You
have been," she said sarcastically.
He stepped forward, with an oath,
to strike her, then restraining hiraselt
by an effort, said in a harsh voice—
"Tell me his name." .
Mrs. "Melton walked over to a writ-
ing -desk, unlocked it, and taleing from
them a bundle of letters, flung them -on
the fode before him.
"You'll find all about him there"
Mahon bent cetiwn, picked up the let-
ters, and staggered back, with a cry as
he recognized the asiting.
"My God! Fenton!" he cried.
"Exactly," she said coolly. "Your
dear friend Fenton, who carne to me
with words of love on his lips, and Nes
in his`heart, to get me to elope with
'him -e -in the last leteer, you see, he
asked me to go with hien to Valpa-
reiso."
' N0h, did he?" neutered Mahon vin-
dictively; "and ;you were going, I
stu:'.'nflifogshIet7.111ad been going," she ° replied,
with grave scorn, "I would not now
be here, for he laves for Valparaiso
"To -night!"
knevs the weter was, falling .11 too
clisreputanle doll in her arms,
half an hoar to empty o. .
awhile the tare men ran round like ex-
cited June bugs. Then they got a rope
• and sat on the edge of the vat watch-
ing me with great staring eye.
"As the water ran out the silk sank
now on one Side, now on the other.
Once it started to ron., Both the men
, grunted and eat up very straight. Sud-
denly one ot them cried out: -
" 'There's the bottom!'
"I felt the mass of•silk settle against
something. I heard thp lad water
gulp as it ran out. Then I fainted
away."—Youth's Companion.
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SCIENCE NOTES,1
The tortoiseehell, when heated, be.
conies very pliable, and can be twisted,
to any Shape required; end it is when
the shell is In a heatexl state that the
Pearl or inetal pieces are inlaid,
"mumsey want Meg.
"Yes," said Kitty, as Meg came to
the bedside. "Come up here, dear
and tell mumsey how you are."
"Meg' is quite well, and BO is Meg's
daughter," holding out the doll for
Kitty to kiss; "but mamsey, why is
the lady so sad?"
Eugenie, who held remained silent
ince Kitty's speech, noW came forward
and kissed the child.
"I'm hot sad, dear," she said quickly,
taking her seat by the bed, "only I
want Meg to tell me something."
Meg nodded.
"A fairy tale?" she asked sedately.
Kitty laughed, though she looked
anxious.
"No, my dear, not a fairy tale," she
said, smoothing the child's hair;
"murasey wants you to tell the story
of the man who got out ot the win-
dow."
"My Mr. Keith," said Meg at once.
Kitty glanced at Eugenie, who sat
with bowed head, gazing steadfastly
at her hands.
"You see," -she observed with a
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"All can be reicognized by their
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"Hawks vary in size from the gigane,
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4 • •
, Darkness Over the Sky.
CHAPTER XkVIII. •
Evan elalton had a house in Carl-
ton, nob a, very fashionable locality,
certainly, but the residedce of the as-
sistant, manager was a comfortable
one. His Wife and child were tnvaea
iably to be found at home, but Mahan
himself was always away—either at
his club ,the theatre, Or at some
dance. He was one of those weak men
who can deny themselves nothing, and
kept his wife and child stinted for
money, while he spent his income on
himself. But with such tastes as he
possessed his income did not go very
far, so in a moment of weakness he
embezzled money in order to gratify
his desires..
When he told his wife what he bad
done, the news came like a thunder-
clap on her. She knew her husband
was week, pleasure -loving and idle,
but she never dreamt he mild be a
crtmiriel. With the deeire of a
woman to find excuses for the
conduct of a Man she loved, Mrs.
Melton thought that his crime veae due
to the evil influence of Kitty Mar-
churst; hence her vidt and appeal to
the actress. It seemed to bave been
that Fenton stole the diamonds, but
was too cowardly to commit a mur-
der. No; he did not do it himself,
but he got some one elee to dp it."
"And that some one?" Cried Eu-
genie.
"Is Evan Melton," Said 'Caprice
SOlemnIy.
successful, for the money had been re-
pladed, though Kitty denied having
paid it, and Mrs. •Malton breathed
freely.
Her husband loved her in a kind of
a way; he did not mind being unfaith-
ful himself, but he would have been
bitterly angered had he found her
following his example, This type cf
linsbariti is not uncommon; he likes
to be a butterfly abroad, to lead a
man -of -the -World existence, neglect-
ing his home; yet he alWays expecte
on his retUrn to find a hearty 'wel-
come and a loving wife. 4
Of course, as Mrs. Melton Was a
handsonle woman, with a neglectful
husband the ineeltable evett happen-
ed, mid Fenton, the bosom friend of
the husband, fell in hive with the soli-
tary Wife. She repelled his advances
proudly, as she really loved her hus-
band; but the effect of long months of
negleet were beginning to tell on ha,
and she asked herself bitterly if 11
was worth while for her to remain
faithful to a husband who neglected
her.
On the Sunday following the inter-
view Walton had with Naball, she at
dewn in her drawing -room, idly wat-
• ching the eland 'playing at her feet.
Melton hadt‘come home in a fearful
temper the night before, and had been
In bed all Sunday. Dinner had boon
early, and title had haft him iri the
dinitag-room, with a scowling face,
evidently drinking more than' watt
good for hint
The reindeer haS beentnown, to pull sigh, "the and sa,ys it was
200 pounds at ten Miles an hour for Keith."
twelve Insure. iVils,s Rainsford re-echoed the sigh,
Of 1,000 speciae of flowers, 284 are
white, 228 Yellow, 223 red, 144 blue, 72
violet, 36 green, 12 orange, 4 brown and
black.
The Canadian annual prOdUCtiOn of
tobetto is about 10.000,000 pounds.
It takes A powerful loeonnitive draw-
ing a train of 10 passenger carriages a
distance of five miles to reach a speed
of 60 miles an hour on a straight and
level track. The brakes Will atop
the same train in 700 feet
The projectile of the gun with which
the GernianS have been allotting Paris
from a distance of seventy-fivo Miles
must rise in its trajectory to a height
of twenty-four miles above the earth.
The Scientific American says it Is prob..'
able that at that height there la so
little air that the sky loses its blue ap-
pearance, because there is hardly enough
of it to produce the refraction of light
Which gives it Its famlnosity.
"If we could accompany this shell on
its course,' continuea the Scientific Am-
erican, "we should probably find the
sky growing darker and darker, until
It becomes nearly black, In the black
Blcy the sun would show as a ball of
fire, while the stars which were not ob-
literated by the sun's light would alao
be Below us we should have
the reflection of sunlight from the earth
and from the denser strata of the at-
mosphere."
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,•'then looked at Meg.
The earned crockery design:, made "Meg, dear," she said in her soft per-
tise of in England were secured from suasive Voice, "come here, deer, and
the Chinese. , sit on my knee."
• Meg, nothing loth, scranibled down
The oraage was originally a pear- off the bed, and soon establieDed her -
shaped frait, not mach larger that a t self on Eugenie's laps where she eat
cherrYs and it is said Mid its evolution•shaking her auburn curls, Kitty
*1....1..,.. ' little face, and picked up hei uoli,
ti<n.
is due to twelve centitries c5e cultivae 1 gla,nced affectiohately at the serine
TWO or the most important cotton which was lying on the counterpane.
products take the,ir names froin Asa- „NoW Meg," she said gaily, "you
atic towns—muslin front Mosul and : tell Mis's Hainford the story of the
, canto from Calleut. 1 man and the windoW. I'll play with
I this," •
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•
In
WELL SATISHED WITH
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Scientific Brevities.
We are told by historians that the
Persians under Cyrus had mail ser-
vice in the sixth centlry before Christ.
A good green dye for woolen mat-
erials can be made from the juice of
tlae stalls and leaves cif nettles.
ase
'Most species are inconspicuously'
marked with brown and grey, but
come, have (suite striking patterns of
blue and reddieh brown. With' some
species, like the marsh hawk, the
male and female are different, but
usually the adults are colored alike
and the immature are diffeeent. The
adults tend to become very gray
above and barred below, while the
immatures are brownien above and.
streaked rather than barred on the
breast.
"The color patterns of many species
are so similar that it is much easier to
distinguish them by their size or their
(shape than by their colors. Thus the
re,de tailed, red -shouldered, broad -
winged and rough -legged hawks all
have very large, rounded wings and
broad, fan-like tails; the gos-hawks,
Cooper's, and sharp -skinned *hawks
have short, rounded wings and narrow
tails; the mareh hawk and the fish
hawk have long, narrow wings, and
the falcons have very pointed wings.
"Each type is adapted for a particu-
lar feeding habit; the large winged
species circle high overhead on waten
el their prey, and their wings and
tails are therefore adapted or scar-
ing; the short -winged hawke lie in
wait for their prey in the shelter of
the foliage, and their wings are
adapted to sudden burste of speed
from a stationary position; the long
All the treee and shrubs which Pro- "Meg14 daughter," observed Meg re-
duce ribber grow in a belt aroune the Pr(thiltb''
World within, liVe degrees of the equas I "Yee, Meg'e daughter, repeated
If
••••••••••••••••
Mrs, Emile • Malette, Montpelier,
Que., writes: -4"I have used Baby's
Own Tablets for some tinie and am
well satisfied with them. They are
surely the best medicine I know of
for little ones." What Mrs. Malette
says thousands of other mothers say.
Once they have used the Tablets for
their children they would use noth-
ing else. The Tablets are a mild but
thorough laxative; are absolutely
free from opiates, n,arcotics or other
harmful drugs and may be given to
the youngest baby with perfect eafety
• and good results. They are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Willianne.
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
The age of a fish may be determined
by counting the lines in the scales.
which are said to be of annual growth.
If exabained under a glass a thread
of a piece of khaki will be found to
consist of a mixture of tine hales, of
bronze, light olive green, lavender
and brown.
The armor of the motor cars used
in the present War range three -six-
teenths to a quarter of an inch in
thickness and are impervious to rifle
and machine gun fire.
The gas meters of the houses in
New York city are now recorded by
camera, which yields a permanent re-
.
cord of each of the regular readings.
"Yes. I presume hes followed your
.example and embezzled money. At
all events, I refused his offer, and left
him as I now leave you, Evan Melton,
with the hope that ehis divenetery may
teneh you a lesson."
"Where are you going?" he cried,
hoarsetr, as she Moved towards the
door.
She turned with a cold smile.
"I am going to our child; and
"And I," he said, vindictively, "I'm
going to Hira-et Fenton's houee, to give
him back those letters. Hc01 go to
Valpa,raiso, will he? No, he won't. To-
night the police slsall know all."
"All what?" his wife cried, in sud-
den terror.
. "All about the diamoral robbery and
the Russell street murder."
She shrank back "from with a
cry; but he ,came straight to the door,
and taking her by the arm, flung -tier
brutally teethe floor.
"You lie there," he hissed out. "I'll
deal with him first, and afterwards
with yoU."
Sheheard the door close, and knew
that he had.left the hontie; then, gath-
ering herself up slowly and painfullY,
ehe went to the chamber of her child,
and sank on her knees beside the cot.
(To be continued.)
IW IrRIAL NEEDED.
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tor. Ititty -With a smile.
"Cotne Meg," said Eugenie, smooth-
.
Great as 'the nitrate industry of ing the lilld's hair, "tell •We all about
Chile is, the ore beds the els es are the man."
seldom of vailt size, though they epread began Meg, resting her cheek against
"It Was my Mr. Keith, you know,"
over large, areas, Oceasionally the ore
Eugenie's breast. "He it ok mo
is found found within a foot or two of the stairs—Italie° 1 Was so sleepy—an' he
stirfa1.0, andiat other times it is twenty
Mit Me to. bed, an' then 1 sbeeped right
foot deep.
It it said that eoprer workers are
generally immune from tlphold fever.
liath tubs are now mad° colicret:7..
The most powerful animals are
vegetarians.
Moropeo has, tnitentin a very tnedern
aspect during the present war. A
way is a reeent addition to the Moor.
loth landstave.
Imitators are bit a servile 'kind of
cattle« rays the poet.—Dryderi.
off.
"And how long did you sleep, dear?"
make& tugenie.
* "Oh, a minute," said Meg, "juet a
Minute; then t didn't feel sleepy, and
opened by eyes wide—quite wide—as
wide as this," lifting up her face in
ConfirtriatiOn, "and, Mr. Keith, he was
getting out of the window."
Ittow do YOU know it Was Mr.
Keith?" asked Eugenia quickly.
" 'Cause he put me In bed," said t‘Itg
'wisely, "arid he was there all the
tinia "
"He didn't tweak to you when ha was
A0042 window"
Fish Eggs.
The cod is estimated to yield 45,000,-
000 eggs each season. As many as
8,000,000 to 9,000,000 and ven 9,500,000
eggs have been found dn the roe gf
single cod. An eel was caught in Shet-
land Borne years ago which contained
upWetrd ot 10,000,000 eggs. This, how-
ever, would appear t have bee,n an
exceptional find, and it is generally
admitted that the cod is more prolific
than any 'other fish. Though not
equalling the cod, many kinds of fish
are ectedingly prolific. More than
36,000 t,ggs have been counted in a,
herring, 38,000 in a smelt, 1,000,000
in a sole, 1420,000, in a roa.ch,
3,000,00 in a sturgeon, 342,00 in a
carp, 383,000 In a tench, 546,000 in
a mackerel, 992,000 ia a perch, and
1,357,000 in a flounder. The oyster
is also very prolific. It has been
aecertained by recent observation that
in the liquor of their shells small
oysters can be seen by aid of the
microscope -120 in the space of an
inch, covered with shells, and swim. -
Ming actively about. A herring weigh-
ing six or seven ounces is provided
with about 30,000 eggs. It has been
estimated that in three years a singlA
pair of herrings weuld produce 154,-
000,000. Button calculated that if a
pair of herrings could be left to breed
and multiply undisturbed for period
of twenty years they would yield au
amount of fish equal in bulk to the
globe.—London Tit -Bits.
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Some Tropical Products.
•
A rich deposit of asphalt has been
discovered in the Philippines located
so near the water edge that no inland
transportation whatever is necessary.
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Down in the South Pacific, the Mar-
shall island group smiles up at a
cloudless sky. The blue waters break
in creamy foam on the cepa reefs, the
cocoa palms raise their feather -duster
heads over a tropic garden of peace
and plenty. There are scores of tiny
islands in the group, ranging from
mere specks Of sandy reef up to eight
or ten acres.
On one such island. until recently,
a man was living quite alone. His ex-
istence must have been a Crusoe-like
idyll. The sea is alive with fish, the
land yields its fruits to anyone ener-
getic enough to pick them. The cli-
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preventive and cure for DISTE,.
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dorsed by the best horsemen and live -stock men in America. name implies that the story of these
Buy it of your druggist,
, branches has a tendency to humanize
man, to cultivate particularly those
be the same man, for your Man is about
the most efficient officer / Maze ever
known." Mr. Roosevelt sm.ang to -his,
feet, walked acroas the 'Tont, Qg tending
his hand to his olA time enemy, aaying
"Put it there; it's all i.right 'hereattOr."
They shook hands heartily, and from
ithtaNtvadsaYRoio. e sme ds way.t hebest of .friends.
A Safe Pill for Sufferers—There
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Parinalee's Vegetable. Pills qtre'
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—Do you know them ?
—_What—'what is it, think you?
—No, not a kind of oil for machinery.
—"Cogollo" Is a fibre grown in South
A.merica.
—Hats (very like the Panama variety)
are made with It.
—Then there's "copaiba," whose name
is not suggestive.
—13alsam of copaiba Ls a valuable medi-
cine, the sap of a tree which grows
wild 10 South America.
—"Dividivi" is another foreign -sound-
ing terms, which, however, has a differ-
ent Meaning entirely from "fifty-fifty.::
—Some folks call "dividivi" "libidibi;
and it is tho curved pods of the ca,sal-
pinta, a useful tropical tree.
--;Elvidivl is used for tanning purposeS,
and was once largely experted from tro-
pical .A.Merlea, being one of the most
astringent substances known. Now they
aro planning to build factories in South
America. to extract the tannin on the
spot where (lividly' is oroduced.
The Humanities.'
The humanities are thoee branches
of education or etudy which are in-
cluded in what are called elegant
learniug, as languages, grammar, phi -
h and oetry, including the an -
Whale Strains His Flood..i
All whales develop rud Men ars
teeth before birth. If the teeth cone
Untie to grow, the whale is put In
the toothed class; if the teeth are
displaced by a large number of flat-
tened plates of bone of baleen, fring-
ed at the edges, the whale la put
the whalebone class. Baleen forms
a sieve through, which the Whale
stains all food colleated from the
water.--ePopular Science' Monthly.
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Had Sized Up New Playmate.
SPORN MEDICAL CO., Goshen, Ind. U. S. A.
faculties which distinguish him as. a,
narrow -winged hawks beat back and mate is a soft symphony in a, minor moral; that is, which make e.ctually took place, having seen the man
forth over the, meadow or the water 1, key. But even here a ripple of the truly cultured man. wile took the bayonets from the. body
and are on the wing foriong periods I world -war came sweeping, Ore the • - - ---4-4-1*--. which was fastened against a door.
This brother has shoWn the most ex.
of time, and their ,vings are adapted lone philosopher from his placid pin-
}, tr'king fled into a prison 5,000 miles away.
man in a11is relations, social and
Dorothy had been next door to play
with a little new girl, who proved to
be a strenuous playmate. Returning
home, ehe crept wearily into her
mother's lap, and, closing her eyes,
said, by way of explanation, "I bet
.Alierie is a boy, and her mother just
doesn't know it."
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper
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AVENGED BROTHER. 1:
tequel to Famous Story of Ger.
man Brutality. •
The sergeant of the Canadians whose
reportbd crucifixion after the second bat-
tle of Ypres in 1915 aroused such 10-
terost, has been amply avenged. His
brother joined the Newfoundland regi-
ment where he Is now se:'gertfit-inajor.
He received ,what he considers ,aanpl•
fi.• ation of the crucifixion, which
It es needless for French juriets to
ponder on the possible conviction of
William II. of Wait crimes and misde-
meanors. Ho is not amenable to any
existing Court. To organize a Court
to convict him. to product evideace
against him when the verdict is assur-
ed in advettee, to proceed aceording to
the rules of the criminal law against
a xnan who is the embodiment of a
nation. would only look vindititiVe; it
would give the accused the appearance
of being a, victiln or a. martyr; it
wotild Make sylaipathy for him.
The case lias got to be treated in a
Muth breeder way, and higher prin-
ciples have got to be inveked that
thoee whiola provide punishment for
the individual wrong -doer. What
William II. did he did, not in his in-
dividual capacity of German Emperor.
It is an ancient legal maxim that the
Xing ean do no Wrolig; that 18, the
severeign le tot amenable to the leave
of his own country. Is he amenable
to the laws of some OthOr country?
During the war William Wag beevdr
Within British jutiegliction, and vvIlien
he was within tho boundaries of Del-
giUra and Frazee the native admin-
stration had already_ ceased exist.
The re9.4011 come men do not twe-
eted la beano their wishbone la
wllQrS their backbone ought to be.—
for selling and eong-continued flights. nacle, mid cast him amazed -and ruf- HOW'S TU IS ?
The falcons pursue
It in full flight, and therefore, have •
pointed wings adapted for full speed.
"All hawks are carnivorous, but the ,
diet of Isom.° species consists largely I
of insects, snails, frees, sna.kess, lizards
or fish, and some are scavengers and
feed upon decaying animal matter.
Their value in controlling small
be ovee-estimated.
"The eyes -sight of hawks is extre y
keen, and their power of focal adjust-
ment ie wonderful. From hundreds of
feet overhead they scan the ground,
and are able to see the tiniest mouse
or lizard. In the instant, required for
The Marshall islands are, or were,
a German grotp. To the south lie the
Gilbert islands, en English group.
There is no way for the casual of the
sea to distinguish between a Marshall
island and a Gilbert island. An arbi-
trary line, drawn due south-west from
'Keats Bank, through blue water, di-
vided Germany from England in those
rodents can scarcely
'latitudes before the Wer.
The maia who chese to live alone en
lilts island eves an Englishman. Many
;years ago, he selected his future home
1with a nice eyo for security against
'tornadoes, advantages in the way of
iharborage and palm and water.
them tO drop from that he g
efortimately, he got on the wrong side
pounce upon their victims, their eYes
lof the ilileginary line drawn. frbm
change from long focus to short focus,
1,1<eats Bank. lie located on a German
and the adjustment is so instantaneous
!eland instead of an Englieh one.
that they fellow their prey with clear
Vision. The eyea of hawks are smaller
lean the odd German possessions, they
than those of the owls, for all the 1
1Y found. this modern Crusee on his Ger-
When the allies set out to sweep up
species diurnal,arfeaaieonaean. ablteholuiegahrd Sol:ea 1
species like the rough legged, are most .
that in securing his hOlding, he had
man island. Investigation developed,
alacutigvheintgow••rd dusk, and the tropical
after dark. Hawks eyes vary in color 1.gorie through processes Of law which
from yellow to red, sotto being gray resulted in his being regarded as a
and others brown. Young birds usual- German subject. It was proposed to
ly have different colored eyes from i remove him, but he escaped in disguise
the adults, those of the Cooper's liewke, 1 to the United States, After a brief
dodtioief ttrvaairintinlitity, ttillielelact7snttrryepeoirit-
14ormexea-enlIPolwe' tcohabtriggillbt rweAt.la maturity pteerrel
'The voices of hawks, for the Most from the Wanderer witheut a ternary
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A ROOSEVELT STORY.
Told by Predident Harrison's
Secretary.
up to the German lines, bombing an
he went out night a ,
sniping. During the Somme fighting he .
received hte D.C.M. and Croix do fluerre
for his conspicoaa gallantry and re-
"Otinre0°.ctober, 1916, near Guedecourt, when
reaching. the enemy's no-^-s.t, Ito saw a
hostile Machine gun coining Into ',action
and threw a bomb which killed three of
the crew. Then he jumped upon the ma-
chine gun crew, bayoneting .the xemaining -
sbc despite serious Wounds, and .fin-
ally bayoneting one giant German before
be himself, blinded and almost helpless
from loss of blood, fell to the ground.
Ile received thirteen wounds befere the
flghtillg 'Vhcnefvhenrshieide .
Sees Germans he sees
red. The vision of his eg,ucified brother
oisfrlee'veero.rin his mind," *aid one of his
Elijah W. Hatford in the Christian
A very promAintlevn°t°aItte'
epublican Con-
gressman was in my room one ,day after
he had made a bitter attack' in the House
upon civil 8er1pe reform, repeating many
of the cheap current charges and critis-
isms upon the work of the commission,
and particularly singing out Mr. Reese -
was talking with" tne Commisaioner
veiltefoinr. saTrciaiesytiedicm
aonmotolsdp.V
ea:tIollieoahool
other, and I was tactless enough to
introduce them; when almost linmedi-
ately the fireworks began, and in a min-
ute or two the lie pa.ssed. I got between
the two, and the Congressman at once
left the room. Mr. Roosevelt apologiz-
ed to me, and said he realized that any
man who struck another in the Pre-
glienItletPee, lard"lie"hualdti dtle°tteririn:dillifhlbsloawl);
were exchanged at one° to write out his
re'lingtlittt
sequelT9to this story, as related,
ii,sanitchartoosittuper4eidegt aiftteeirtwinairody, aitnd ttheho
Cortgressman were having a friendly
chat. Mr. Roosevelt entered and seeing
who was 'present at down' in a corner
chair, awaiting 104 departure. The Con-
gressman had observed who oame In.
Without apparent einuige itt manner, but
in a voice distinetly heard he said: "Me-
Xinley, you retnember b, follow named
Roosevelt, who was IIiairorlawcatfatio
s llosr-t
V100 f on the
impraticable aim ever. I notice you lave
pia Assistant sorstary of the Navy a
*tooth With the sons ne.r116, bUt it Can't
Men, Men! -
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Simple Way to Get "Pep," to
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Thee° symptoms invariably indicate
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asy feeling as Dr. Ilareirton's
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