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The Wingham Advance, 1908-05-28, Page 3et•••+-0-+-leaselellse sese-feetesseea Seisa-tatekeekees a+++ lee++ Her Dream ofFame. +-e-see-e-o-•-•-•-•-•-e-a-seaeas4-4-elesee-as-• Miriene her arm full of flowere, etep- pea. through the little door leading from the etage to the auditorium. Her eyes still sparkled with the excitement of te 4 evening, and, the dear akin f;), .ed brightly pink 04 the little grouses, still lingo mg in the hall, hureied forimed to compliment the leading lady, Ty John Temple, lingering in the backs groand, it seemed as if Miriam had never looked 80 lovely, and he pressea forwerd to take leis place ia the little crow& "Take the flowers, please, Jack," sbe said ae he caught her eye. "Everyone has been so kind to me. I feel that 1 do not deserve it all. You should have heard what Mr. Stanley said, Ile events to epeak to Mr. Belasco about me, "He ie sure that he can place me with his company after a little technical instrue- tiox0 Temple dutifully took the flowers and :dewed into the beekground. He hated these private theatricals at which his wife shone so brilliantly. Still more he. hated Stanley; the profeseionia coach, who pleyea the lover. Of course, the love was all a pretenee, a ahem of the stage, but just the same he did not like to see his wife in another's arms, For half an hour Mrs. Temple held her little court while the janitor waited impatiently to close the hall. Then Stanley joined the group and Ars, Tem- ple moved toward the entrance. "I have asked Mr, Stanley to have a bite of supper with us," she explained over her shoulder to her husband, and it was Stanley who helped her into the carriage and took his seat beside her, leaving the front seat to Temple and his lead of floWers. It was over the table that Stanley sprang his mine. For an hour he ar- gued in favor of Miriam's deter- mination to go upon the professional stage, and in the end he prevailed, Temple, worn and exhausted with the struggJe, pushed his chair back and. rose from the table. '‘It may be as you say," he said, wearily. "If Mrs. Temple is destined to become an Ornament to the Amer- ican stage, I suppose I am selfish in withholding my consent." "My dear fellow," cried Stanley with offensive familiarity, "I tell you Mrs. Temple can't help being one of the stare of next season. It's in her, and it's bound to come out." Temple made no reply as he moved away from the table and crossed to the library. for a eiger. This was what he had feared from the time Miriam had scored her first success. Perhaps it was as well to have it over with. A week later Mrs. Temple was estab- lished in New York with her mother, and dealer she worked at het lessons in the dingy cavern of an unlighted stage, taking delight in the fact that she was treading the boards that nightly served as the pedestal of one of the foremost actors of his day. Stanley was a eaech of no mean skill and he worked with a will to earn the large fees that were paid him. By spring he was ale to place Miriam in a small e,prt in a 13roadway •produetion. The cost of the costumes was double that of the salary to be paid for the entire engagement, and the manager was glad to get some amateur who would dress the part artistically, while at th.e same time he was shrewd enough to real- ize the advertishig possibilities of the wife of a millionaire almost nationally famous. Encouraged by her success, Miriam gave up her summer to study at the euggestion of Stanley, who was glad to move to the Temple's country home and drive the Temple horses when les- sons were net in progress, He had obtained an offer of the same part for the coming sea.son, but Miriam was not content to continue in a miner role, and Stanley seeing that the end was near, suggested en invitation per- formance. "Mrs. Temple can play small parts bo the end of her daya," he pronounced ponderously. 'What we want to do is to force the issue• to show people weat she is really eapalle of. We'll hire a theatre, get a good cast, and put On -- say `Romeo and Juliet.' That will make the managers sit up and take notice. "Very well," said. Temple, quietly. "Get the best company you can and do the right thing." Miriam, to whom Stanley had al- ready broached the proposition, stared at her husband. Temple was a multi- milliottaire, but the ten or twelve thou- sand dollars that Stanley had de- clared the experhnent would cost was a large sum to venture on a single matinee. Impulsively she sprang from her seat and ran to kiss him, Temple smiled gently. It was the first voluntaxy kiss Miriam had given him since her greeting at the station. She did not realize, en her absorption in her work, how little attention she paid to ' him, Once assured of the success of las scheme, Stanley went up to town leav- Ing Miriam with her husband 'for a week. He wanted to be free to make arrangements for the theatre, and Mir- iam, in her intervals of study, found it very pleasant to sit in the cool even- ings with her husband and 'watch the boats glide on the river far below, Not until Stanley had left had she noticed how pleasant it Was to be freed from Ms exuberant presence. She was Sorry when her tutor ,wired. her to teturn to towe, For six weeks she was drilled in her new part. Every line was gone over carefully, and the met accent studied. Sho began to loathe the lines, From the companies playing in tcewn 8,180. from those players not nutter engagement, Stanley had made up an exeellent cast. Ire had intended engaging cheaper peo- ple that his own share of the money might, be greater, but for the first time John Temple took an interest in his wife's career and gave, personal super- vieion to the inforrehtion of the sup. porting company, Some few papers made ealf-con- temptuons advance mention of the pee- forma.nee, and the eritics gleefully sharpened their pencils, but hibiam, uneonseiens ef everything but the play, did not even tee the half -jesting alba glom ef the new star. 4-e-eese-e+4-+-e-e-e-eees•-•••••••esee-sese Then came the nestinee, Stanley had seen to it that a Whims was present, but in spite of the uproarious applause Miriam felt the insincerity of it all, and this added to the depression al- ready induced. by her knowledge of how poorly she appeared beside thews well. trained playere. At beaus,. among friends and Milse tours whore she outshone, the Icnowl- edge of superiority., buoyed her up. Now the veil was reuely tora from her eyes, and she beheld her limitations with the clearness of en outside ob- server. To complete her lesson she overheard a conversetieu between two of the lesser inembere of the east. "Stanley 'stands to clean up five thou- sand off this show alone, beside what be made of his coaching lessons,'" said the filet. The other laughed. "I never saw a man with such luck in catching suckers," he said. "I wish I had, the trick. They tell me lie's inade-" Mirianes call came, and she lost the rest, She lay upon Juliet's bier with the words ringieg in her ears, In a fleet' she saw it all. Stanley, playing upon. her love for the stage, had en- couraged her in the belief that she could make a great actress solely for the sake of the money she would pay him for his services as a coach and Jack -her Jeck-had been callecl--a sucker. The odious word bit into her brain and it was with difficulty that she took up her lines when her cue, came. The tomb scene was mercifully sbort. She bowed and smiled to the perfunctory applause as the curtain rose agran. Most of the audience, was heading for the entrance; the clique alone remain- ed faithful. Stanley as the curtain fell turned to offer his congratalations, but she rough- ly pushed him aside. Temple had come on to the stage, and the went straight to him. 'Stack," she sobbed, "teke me away froin here. Take me home. I don't want to act; I want just you, dear," And Temple, writing a final cheque for Stanley, laughed softly to himself. His investment in fame had yielded ripe ee- turn, as he had foreseen. -Philadelphia Bulletin. FOR LITTLE BABIES AND BIG CHILDRkN Baby's Own Tablets are good for all children, from the feeblest baby, whose life seems to hang by a thread to the sturdy boy who occasionally gets las digestive organs out of or- der. Baby's Own Tablets promptly cure all stomach and bowel troubles and make sickly or ailing children well and strong. And •this medicine is absolutely safe - the mother has the guarantee of a government analyst that this is true. Mrs. Alfred Suddard, Haldimand, Que., says: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets for constipation, stomach troubles and restlessness and find them a splendid medicine. They have made my little one a healthy, fat and rosy child, I always keep a box of tablets in my home." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • • • • IN A TIGHT PLACE. Conduct In an Emergency of a Man Who Thought Himself a Coward. "All yOu've go to^ do to make Jeff Davis. juircp into the Arkansas River is to •pomt a corncob pipe at him." Recently some men on a train 'were fanning over his remark, made not long ago by a personal and political adversary of the Senator from Arkan- sas. The travellers agebed that they'd hate to have anybody say anything like that about them. "Well I don't know how true this remark may be as applied to thd Davis person," observed a -Texan in the group, '"-but it is my opinion that such a remark could be truthfully ap- plied. to very few men, Most men are courageous in tight pinches, even the men who imagine deep clown in their consciousness that they are in- stinctively and inherently cowl •d I y. "Take, for example, the case of Judge Freeman of Texas. Freeman imagmed himself to be a coward, He had never -fortunately, he said -been put to a test, but he we dead cer- ta,in that he would crawfish in a tight place and show himself to the world as a coward. "This was before he ever ran for office in Texas. When he first ' ran for office in a Texas toe e n, peculiar- ly vitriolic editor of a paper pnblish- ed in the Texas town began tee attack Freeman in a manner that could only mean blood. "Judge Freeman's friends got around him and told him that he'd have to kill or at any rate wing the editor or get out of Texas. "Freeman came to me . in' his trouble. " 'I feel like I'm going to show the white feather in this business ' he said to me. 'You know what' I've often told you. I'm a natosal born coward. I've got a yellow streak. just now the yellow streak is working this; way: I'm more afraid of killing that fellow than I am of getting killed my- self. I hate the business and I hate to think that if it comes to a show- down I'll crawl.' "Two days after that the editor pub- lished another vile broadside and then we all knew it would happen. "The editor left his office for home that afternoon. He hadn't taken a dozen steps .when he caught sight of Judge Freeman emerging from the post office, about sixty yards 'down the street. Somebody' standing in a door- way ealled out to judge Freeman at the saane instant and the judge eaw the editor advancing upon him. "Both men drew 'and fired at the same instent. But they were poor shots, both of them, and- their bullets went wide. They continued to fire as they advanced upon each other. "there was nary a sign of weak - roes in loreetnan. On the contrary, he looked perfectly cool. Ho Wail riat, Moira LP Only Ono aromo Quinine" mat is Laxative Brame aisdnine *Sett Mt WiMiLib oVER to MIRE A DOW ONE a" (3, Always remember the full tante. Look tor tbit signatare on °Very hoz. MSC 41,101001,0 urally a handsome men and his face looked transfigured and fine in that intense moment, 'Mere were only four cartridgee in the editor's gnu ,and he fired till of them without making a hit. When he had fired. all four shots. he threw his gun on the ground to indicate to his opponent that he was through with firing. and that editor looked to Me liko man. ready to run. "Judge Freeman 'still had two carts ridges left in his gun. But when he saw his enemy throw his pistol away, the big heart of the man appeared. He lowered his gun and stood In the middle of the sidewalk, ettlinly wait- ing. "The editor advaneed upon him, seemingly for tho purpose of. thank- ing the judge for hie generosity in not continuing the firing, and of mak, ing up. The judge, seeing this, fol. lowed his enemyhi example and throw away his gun. in which the two carte ridges remained. So there he stood, entirely unarmed, "As soon as Freemen cast away hie gam the editor, who had advanced close to him, suddenly whipped out a bowie from beneath the collar of his coat and began to slash at ,Iudge Free, man. It was a cur's trick, and that editor "toyer was allowed to hold up his head in Texas again. "Now here, if not before, was the spot of Judge Freeman to show his yellow streak, le he had one. The editor was chopping away at him, and Freeman didn't have so much as a pocket knife on him, But the man who foolishly itnaginecl himself to be a coward was not only equal to the occasion -he rose nobly above it, He reached out and grabbed the editor around the waist, arid, being a powerful man, he threw the editor to the ground, Then he plantad a foot upon. the forearm of the hand that held the .knife and wrenched the big blade frozn the proatrate editor's hend, Grasping the 'bowie, the Judge bent over his bitter enemy and put the blade to the man's throat, " 'Are you through?' he asked the man. who was down. "I am if you are,' restlied the eds itor. "'Judge Freeman stood up and threw the bowie over the top of a store. 'All right; get up,' he said to the man whose life he could nave taken as easily as slitting the throet of a possum. "The editor got up and elonched away. " 'You're the great old coward, I suppose,' I. „paid to Judge Freeman an hour or so after the encounter, "His reply was curious. " '1 recken I am -just as much a coward. now as ever I was,' he told nl?; 'How do you make that out?' I asked him, " 'Why this way,' he replied. 'T wasn't myself when I had the min in with that fellow, I was semehdcly else. Otherwise, I- never could have gone through with those proeeedings, I hardly remember anything that hap- pened, because, you see the courageous chap went out of me after the thing was all ever. I'm quitter and a runaway all right, ' "But I only laughed. at him, es he deserved to be laughed at. His case, and a great many other cages that I know about, proves that there is many a. merely timid men walking up and down. the world who imagines himself to be a. coward merely be- cause of his natural timidity, but wile, as a matter of feet, hasn't got a cowardly drop of blood. in his body. SLEEPING IN FACE OF ENEMY. Uncontrolable gosh.° in Situations of Great Tension. • It is not an unknown thing for a edl- dier to fall asleep when esteusibly taking an active part in an actions A case in point is supplied. by an intereeting com- munication from te London surgeon who served in South Africa,. He writes; Anyoue who lute seen men in :awe, tions of great tensien knows three some of them -in fact, a sanall minority of them -may be overcome by an iuicon- trollable desire to eleep. It affects &Mae men more than others: At Hounirig Spruit, June, 1900; the writer happened to be the only surgeon on the spot when Col. Bullock (now Glen. Bullock), was attacked for nine hours by a 13oer force double his own in numbers) better arms ed and assisted by artillery. We WeYe without this invaluable aseistane,e, The Boers failed to take the post, During the ettnek the writer visited a trend). in which one man was badly hit and another was lying apparently 'dead, except that he had not the color of a man killed in ection. The waiter turned lain over to get a. better look at him and founa the man had been sound asleep; end this was not the only ease of sleeping that day. Col, Bulloele's force were called upon to repel ah ettack,et aebout 7 m. empty stomachs, were obliged to lie face downward in .shallow trerushas and eu- dnre the shell and rifle fire from all but invisible foes, in the sun, alter a sleep- less night of travel in railway tracks, a few of them went to sleep. The main ea,use, the writer believes Was the ten- sion of the .situation Ian absence of active physical exertion. The wetter felt the same desire for sleep, but active employment kept him awake, The wounded, exe,ept the most severely wounded, soon suceumbed. to the beautiful action of this eatural an- ttesthetie.-From the British Medi* Journal, " TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXA.TIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to Cure. a W. GRoVle'S eignature is on each box, Ski. poctors' Fees in nglande All engaged in the medical professloe aro supposed, to be equal in point. of skill tend therefore eetitled to pharge elike, the tariff depending chiefly on the residenee of the doctor or patient. Path ants are cherged according to their supposed incomes, the income being dicated, by the rental of the houste Width they reside, and the following scale 'of fees is then giveni Ordinary visit, rental 410 £25, 2s Oa to 5s; rentail gar; 450, 3s ea te 7s; rental iCtiO to £100, 58 to les 0a. Night visit, doable an ordinary visit, Mileage beyoed two miles from home, rental £10 to teal% Is 0a; rental te25 to 460, 2e; rental 450 to MOO, 2s 64, Detention per half houre, rental 410 to 425, 28 aa to es; tental zegs to Rae, 38 Ott to 7s; rental 450 to 4100, 5s to 10e Od, Attetatance on servants, rental 416 to 425, 2s ild; rental 425 to 450, oi oat team icaa 0 two, 28 na to Os. Midwifery, rental 410 to ;e25, rental 425 to 450, 2Is to Gas; rentel 450 to 4100, 08s' to 103s. Administering thloroforni, rental t1.0 to z225, 10s (id; rental 425 to 450, 21s; rental 450 to 4100, 428, 444 - In the British ttrmy there are note 173)240 Englishmen. against 8,688 Welehmen, 18,129 Seotentert, 22,880 To, ishmen, 1%014 Colonials arid 25 alio% A TONIC FOR THE STOMACH Womierful Success of the MOdero. Method of Treatment Even.Obsti, Hate Cases of Indigestion. The oltl-fashioned methods of treat- ing stomach disettece are being die - carded. The trouble with the old: fashioned methods wits that when the treatment wee stopped the trouble returned in an aggraavtea form. The modern method of treating indi- gestion, catarrh of the stomach or chronic gastritis, is to tone up the stoutaeli and glanda to do their norniel 'work, Every step towara reeovery is a step gained, not to be lost again. The recovery of the appetite, the dleappear- Alice of pain, tile absenee of gas -all are steps on the reed to health that those who have triea the touic treatment re- member Oistinctly, Dr, 1171141We Pink Pills am a tonic every constituent of which is helpful in buildiug up the digestive organs and therefore aro the very best remedy for eltronric cases of stomach trouble. The success of the treatment is shown by hundreds of cures like theefollowingt Mrs. William E. Dena, Prince Dale, N, S., says; "For upwards • of seven years I was an almost continuous suffer - or from stomach trouble, which was am gravatee by obstinate constipation. Food was not only distaeteful, but every, mouthful I ate "%vas painful. The trou- ble so affected ley heart that et times I thought I could not live. I was coestant- ly doctoring, but did eot get the best relief, Indeed I was growing worse, and in the summer of 1907 had got so bad that I weet to the City of Boston, 'where I spent some time under the care of a specialist. I returned home, however, no better than when I went away. The pains I endured were almost intolerable, and would sometimes cause me to drop. ,kept psalms weaker and weaker and had precticalry given up hope of even being well again when my mitber urged me to try Dr. Williams; Pink Pills. How thankful I now am that I took her ad- vice, My case was a severe one and (lid not yield readily, but once an improve- xnent was moticed the cure progressea steadily and satisfactorily, Line after the use of ten boxes of the Pills was again a well woman. Every symptom of the trouble disappeared, and it is years since I enjoyed as good health as 1 am doing now. eAll who knew me look upon my cure as almost a miracle, and I strongly urge all suffering from stom- ach trouble.to give this medicine a fair trial." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all medicine dealers or you can get them by Mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine 0o., Brockville, Ont. Railroads Built Up ihe South. The Southern railways, more -than brotherhood, knitted the North anti the South together after the war. The rail- ways gave prosperity to the South by encouraging immigration and bringing in people to help do the upbuilding. Memphis twenty yeers ago had a ppm lation of 04,000. To -day it has lft2,000. The railways did it. A. few years ago hundreds of places in LOuisiana, like Crowley, for example, were only prairie lana, The Southern Pacific built a sta- tion at Crowley, and to -day that place boasts 7,000 persons. Other railroads did the eame thing for a hundred other thriving places in the Southerp Stetes, The Southern Railway weot into the waste places of the South end caused ,towns to spring up, The Seaboard Air Line went into a country of blasted hopes, and built up new industries and with them new courage. To a region of penury the Atlantic, Coast Line brought plenty -by putting cash into circulation where no eash had been before, The Southern Railway gave the exact service necessary for the healthy development of the States through which it runs. It not only created new industries, but it- self became. the chief 'customer for the Products of the new mills, The South needed $200,000,000 foe further immediate development, Tee Southern railways were securing that vast Investment of Northern ca.pital along their lines -when the unreasoning agitation against all railorads set in and, temporarily, at least, halted the Southward movement of money. One. hundred. and six new railway enterprises were under way in the South when the politicians began using the Southern railways as footballs. Those new roads wero to be for the development of. tim- ber and eating regions and to handle "long hauls" in Texas and. Oklahoma, The promoters of the enterprires hese, for the moment, been frightened. away, They will get back on the job as soon as a certain breed of politician is relegated to oblivioe. It was the principal roads of the South -namely, the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line; and the Atlantic Coest Line -that set to work in practical •way to encourage the growth of. building associatione in the South, that helped develop the savings -bank idea, that gave practical aid in the con- struction of better holes for working- men, that led the work of beautifying towne and cities, thet allowed the way to munieipal advancement in sanitatioe, These three great railroaas, in fact, brought to the South new energy, new vim, new wealth, The story of the New South is the story of the Southere rata roads. It was the railroads hula by Plagler and the lete Mr. Plant that mede a health' resort for the whole nrie tlen,-Gilson Willets in Istsllele Weekly, * s„, Some Business Metheds. Toronto. Saturday Night: New York brokers at the present time aro very keen efter buainess, and they tire offer- ing inaueeinente whieh. would not imem been thought of a few years' ago. Tho mason is that the general commissiou bueineee is slow, 'Estee what are usually termed. big houses ere accepting orders fer 50 down to Itashare lots, and on a inergie of $2 per share and upwarda. Of ecairse, awl" art order on the small margin must be ,aeeorimatied with a stoidose order at 2 pot cent. less than the price pale for the steels. Such 4e, and Is on * par with. the aleged buoketedune epeeuletions ligaSe.6 41,01110 Mick bushlthia AA A rule have little naemeettud are nut a poeitioa to. hold securittem fur their cutstomers. The se - utilities are hypothecated with. banks or loan compute*. A commission broker who 'holds no etoeles peritape in A bet- ter pwation tO give better eavice to a than Another house who is en- dowed with emple meal's to pay for ail seeuritiee teey buy for customers, The interest meant is a more .profitable one to a broker them the prudts made terough commiesions. A home! with a good number of 'hear" clieats usually pile's up profits very fast. For inetamas. a broker may have ,on his hooka $00.ae 000 of certain security, and at tha same time some cuetomer May he "short" :000,000 ei a similar issue. in this ease the broker woulSi practically .114.ve no. steqr,„ to carry, it would ka °fleet by the 'beer" client, for whom it was BOW. Hut" nevertheless,. the client holding $500,000 of seeurity su this muse cluirg- ed, say, 0 per cent. Sur holding securitiee which bad been sold by the broker, la the course of tt year there would be a. net profit of $45,000 te the counniseion hemee on this traneaction, FOREST CREEPING BACK. Old Virginia Plantation and Ancient lsandmarks are Disappearing. Foreats are creeping back over abandoned Milne many parts of the East, When wornout fichfs can no longer produee ttgri- Calttiral crops nature takes them back and clothes Rana with trees again to give them Shade and rest aild slowly rewire fortuity to the sell. This is more la evideoce is the first settled parts et Virgins. perhaps than anrwherp else in the ountry, for the reason that a longer tiMe has passed since' the origi- nal toreste were °learn' away ana the aecona terueewitalindl.ses bed better opportunity te talta In eemes City county, Virgiala, the first permanent English colony In the Paged States was established 100 ienr4 Etna In that old country the whole cycle of/defore- station and refbrestation may be studied. Agriouiture for a long period pushed the forests back aud plantations covered the country; then the forests Mlle again and crowded agrioulture out. A 'hundred years before the Revolution tobacco Mantetions oc- cupied the best parts of tidewater Virginia and had polled lip the rivers into the Islee- meat region, emulate:ma bodies ef cleared land eillbrahed thou.sands ef acres, Nearly every large Plantation bail a river frontage and a wharf, and ships carried tee tobacco deadly to Eurepe and 'brought aterchandise baos. Wenid be difficult,' perhaps impossible, to de- termine with approximate accuracy the Pro - Portion of clear land to the forests in tide- water Virginia fifty years before the Revo- lution, but there can be no doubt that there was more cleared land then 'than now. • Many great Virginia plantations of colonial times have contracted under the pressure of surrounding forests, giVing up field atter field to the pine seedlings until &man 9Pell- Inas now mark the sites of 'former estates and all esle is woods—second grewth or third growth. The early settlers feund a soli of great fertility. They drew goon it as though it would last forever. zt rieided tobacco and corn for generations and Matle fortunes for the Planters. But the resnit NVIle inevitable. The soil wore out, A. few patches of land are pplated qut in ,Itunes CitY county and Nee in nearby districts which have been µunder Continuous cultivation for aearly or quite 300 yeara. Jamestown Islaad, the site ot the very earliest settlement, still Plaetations have partly qr wholly gone baok Pthroldourceeast. orn, ItaY mut •peanuts. But such places are few. The ropority et the oldest In traveling through that region now It Is frequently possible to note the successiVe stages of the forest's advance into the °leered lima. qtie place a 'body of timber may consist of trees a foot in diameter and prob- ably seventy feet high. Their even tons and uniforrn size show that they occupy the site of a fortner field where seedlings took possession after the plow left off its annual Adjoining such a wood lot another may often be seen with smaller arid younger trees, suggesting that they oocupY the site of a field abandoned at a later date. Near by may be seen a still younger stand. In some localities thp even tops of one wood lot are seea beyond another, descending like stair stops and marking the sites of one abandoned field beyond another, each suc- ceeding one a little later and the trees a little smaller. The descending series fre- quently ends with a field where young trees aro Just starting from- seeds 'blown from neighboring woods. It may mark the site of tho lot remnant of a former plantation which was allowed to relapse into woods be- cause the soil was worn out. Pew if any of the prhneval forests remain in tidewater Virginia, but largo trees of soond growth exist. A sycamore more than 200 years old, and known to he of second growth, was out this year on the site of A building burned during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, and many other treo as large are growing where tobacco wa.s cultivated two centuries ago. The forest in its hunger to occupy again is no res.peeter of historical Placea. It Is slowly taking the intrench- ments at Yorktown, where the British made their last stand, and the tablet marking the very spot where O'Hara surrendered would soo be invisible if' tbe axe were not frequently called into use te clear away the encroaching woeds. • *Air • WAY OUT AT SEA, There the Sailor Gets the Hardest Work of All. The •life of a seaman is not lived entirely in port. When cruising out on the broad ecean we steer clear from the traples laid for the mail ships, osing a pathless waste where there is unintertipted target range. I should lilts to write of thirty-seven days out oS sight of land, just cruising,and drill- ing as a long cruise, but when I hear saitormen telling tales of more than a yeer afloat on an old wind -jammer I am ashamed to mention it, althongh I 'cannot '<ewe off wondering, where all the blue comes from, Has the ocean drunk from the heavens until they have grown pale, or is the sky merely a Mirror of the ocean's sap- phireP In the calmest veeather there are always great blue swells far out at see., so blue, so free from whitecap that one requires but slight imagines tion, by looking through half-olosed lids., to see great rolling meadows of gentians. This is where all the pretty little formalities of port life are laid aside -the moment the anchor is on deck, the ship's flag and the 'Union Jack are folded away, and their staffs taken down, while sinniltarieously wish their lowering an ensign mounts to the gaff and the admiraVe flag sluinks on ,the main truok, — L is at sea we get in our hard work, and there is so mull of it that half of the crew (200 men) elai always on duty. It for the cruise you are chosen as a helmsman, you are exempt trona Sea ‘Vittch, deck work, eta, It isn't a bit jolly to stand a. triek at the wheel; it is two lours ort and four hours off, day and night, Not a word dare you speak and the presence of an oeficer nearlay makes a stolen amok° hnpossible, Were a choke of- fered, I would eay give me watch aloft in a storm ire preference, for there, when the night is old W. th rugh it is not so weittert in the regulations) a peculiar jerking at a signal halyard tells you that a earl of het' coffee is on the way, and when it comes up, you bless it from the full. liege of your heart. --Prom "Three Yet TO llehind the Guns" in April St, Xicholas. Wanted to Bat It Back Again, Carson -I hear that, no sooner did she win her breach of promise suit than he married lier, Gebliart-Ile not turpristid. The eourt awarded lier $50,0001----Younght Maga,. If every num bas his price lots of thent or'ilftne4h.t. to be an the bargain counter. ANNNA"LIN CePYright 1900, by Ttio seamier" 006 MAN -A-1111 Is An Excellent Remedy for Constipation. dirTeleltelr; deapreotomenatnyttpaginlmceonnts. stipation, such as biliousness, discolored and pim.pled skin, inactive liver, dyspeitia, over- worked kidneys and headache. Remove constipation and all of these ailments dis- appear, MAN -A -LIN can be relied upon to produce a gentle action of the bowels, making pills and ndreacestsiscarcyaiitihaerties entirely un - A dose or two of Man -a -lin Is advisable in slight febrile attacks, ia grippe. colds and Influenza. THE MAN -A -LIN CO, COLUMBUS, 01110, U. S. A. P,owgR OF THE PHANTOM- M. S It Bring's Fame to the Author and the Actress. "You must meet Mr. Willow Weeps," said the hostess. "He's there in the corner with the teacup in Jzis hand. With the long hair, yes, lie's the young poet who wrote that play for Mme. Knockemova. Very talented,. everybody says." This little note, critical and explan- atory as to the personality of Mr. Willow Weeps, travels about the room all the afternoon. Every woman hears it as she enters the room. Mr, Weeps is easily the lion of that gathering, "Do introduce me to him," muranur- ed one woman, "I want to talk to him about Mme. Knookemova." Interesting as he is to the guests, his glory is reflected from the more brilliant personality of the Bohemian act! ass who happens to have New York's attention just at the time. Everywhere the young author goes he is introduced as the person responsible for the nese play. That turns conver- sation at once to the subject of the. interesting foreigner who has accept- ed the drama, "Never saw her," said bluntly one woman. "Knockensove,? What a name. Don't believe I ever heard of her." "Well, you're very much behind the times." tame from her companion. "She's perfectly splendid. She's the greatest Ibsen actress I ever saw. She's inuoh better in other ways, though, where she has a chance to dress up more." "I'll go tic.see her then," comes the answer. 'I'll try to go to -night if she's so wonderful as all that." Thus rolls the • ball that makes for *the greater glory, of Mme. Knock- emova. Of course she has no right to complain of any process by which she is made better known to the pub. lie. The young literary fellow who le being dragged around from one eager hostese to another is so far famous only for this play. It is not at all probable it will be acted. IL may never have been eompleted. But that does not interfere with the success of the scheme by which the shrewd ac - trees and in a less degree the author may benefit by judicious dissemin- talon of the news that a play written oy the one is to be acted by the other. "I have known one of these so-call- ed phantom manuscripts' to be hanity-spanlcied through a whole sea- son," said a cold-blooded theatre manager, "and then successfully car- ried over into a second year, "The scheme is much more valuable to a strange celebrity than a native. It makes her talked about among peeple who otherwise inight not hear of her except in the eonventional way all aetresses are written up, But to meet a man who has written a play for a remote, interesting personality, and thus had the opportunity to be- come aequainted with her, is better and more direet advertising than col- umns in a newspaper. "So this little game of the author and the actress never fails to be play. ed with more or less success every year,- There is another phase of it that bears still better fruit, but it le more difficult and. the actress has some work .to do. That is, persuading het to mime to tea. In this game it is again the author who is tbe object, of the 'attack, "Be. bolite to that young WilloW Weeps," says the knowing hostess, "and he niay be able to get Kneels- emova to eorde to your house. He knows her very well:, writes all her plays or something of that kind, and took her once to the Bughunters' to tea. If you're nioe.to him he may bring her to your house." Being niee includes inviting him to dinner, Of course there are prac. tidally no other subjeets of discus.' don than the pla3r and the actress and the young mares acquaintance with her. This awakens in the lienrts of those who have not seen her the desire to toltold this wonderful person. The chanees are that all the guests will buy tiekets and go soon to the (Amite°. When the actress learns that there is a hostess longing to meet her and iriSritsi a few friends in to nutke her ttequaintanee---a few real society swells of the kind that aro .corttun to be of advantage to her -she nuty go to this house for half an hour some afternotm. The arangement is cot - Min 0) be el advantage to all parties. The hostees gets a LIM into her clutchee for a day, the actress Melee the acquaintance of persone sides aro likely to take more interest in her for that reason, and the author's fame spreads and ripplee further 'over tho little pond in which he figures. $11 have known Cases in which the manuscript was passed ont to another actress," seta the Sallee. Manager ta The Sun reporter, " and for a second season brought fa..ie to the author and advertising to the new woman. This game has. certain complieations, however, and is for that re.ason more difficult to play, "The author stands in the fore- ground. The year before, hp had figured as the young writer who had succeeded in writing a play for an ac- tress already famous. The second year he is the author who refused to allow his play to be acted and took it away from the. woman who petted the year before as a protectress of young genius. "If she bed a successful season in New York the year before, the chances are nine out of ten that she had gone on the road the next year. SQ the author will be perfectly safe in allow- ing it to be understood that he and Mine, Konekemove. could not agree as to her conception of the heroines' character; that she would not listen to his directions, and that rather than have his play changed to suit the stItiarrn's itidees he compelled her to re. "Now he has eoneented to let the other actress have it because she was So anxious to play the leading part oilers she hacl read the drama. Then he may ellow it to be inferred that of that iwo actresses the Second is better suited to his heroine. "She corresponds much more to his ideal. He is perfectly safe in prais- ing her to the disadvantage of IVIrne. Knockemova, That lady has got all •she wanted out of the play and its author, and has probably been tell- ing everybody she never really meant to act the piece. "Tlie second seagon, hoWever, ends the author unless he makes good. The play has to be acted whether it sue- ceeds or not, or there will be rebellion in the camp of his admirers. "Sometimes he can ward off their indifference by getting .a new star and declaring that she is going to eppear in an entirely different drama by him -oh, no, not at alisthat same one, something quite different; juet fin- ished it last week. New star delight- ed so soon es she heard the scenario and made him promise to let nobody but her ever see the manuscript. s -"Putting it on strong like this may secure for the author and a new nc. tress some of the advertising pretty sure to attain dnring the first winter. The second and third years take hard work, however, and it is my opinion that the phantom manuscript can nRio n U it- jaa_see.es_e_enidro,its Isvheearuetifutihe Braz i I, Cap ita.l. ed States fleet is spending ten days, is one of the most beautiful world. As the fleet steamed into the bay of Rio those aboard the ships beheld scenery and natural surroundings of un- rivaled charzn. This remarkable harbor is entered between mountainous promon. aeries, and then it opens out into a rare expanse of deep water which would permit all the navies of the world to float safely at anchor. It is dotted here and there with islands of varying size, On the left tower the lofty peaks of the Organ Mountains, while on the right the land.. slopes away gracefully to distant hills. Upon graceful crescents of the bag' at the foot of the mountains and creeping up on their sides lies the city itself, with an appearance of solidity and strength worthy of the _powerful republic of which it is the capital. Within the limits of Rio daneiro are nearly 900,000 pecyle, and it is growing so rapidly that- the million mark will be passed before this decade is ended; No city in the United States, with the exception of New York and Chicago, la increasing its population more rapidly. Its most striking features are the fam- °lid Avenida Central, its prineipal street; the boulevard system along the water front and the elegant public buildings and churches. The Avenida Central was conatructed recently at a cost of $35,000,000, and would put to shame anything corre- sponding to it in Washington New York or Chicago. It is more tha'n one him- dred feet wide in the clear. Peeing the Avenida. are handsome buildings of har- monious design. Ilere are many of the clubs, newspaper offices, the National Library, the home of the most important commercial bodies. and large departmen- tal stores., 'At the north end is a pier for passengers who are coming and going frow steamers'. At the south is the Na- tional Opcia House, with the Monroe Palate. in whieh was held the third in- ternational American conference, and which is intended for public meetings of great importance. And So They Were Married. Minister (a married man) -Do you wish to marry this woman? Man -I do. Minister -Do you wish te. marry this man? Wciman-I do. Minister -Do you like the city as a place of residence? Man -No; I prefer the suburbs. Minister -Do you like the suburbs? Woman -No, indeed; I prefer the city. Minister- Are you a vegetarian in diet? Man -No, I hate vegetables; I live on beef, Woman -I can't bear meat. I am a ve etarian. inieter-Do you like a sleeping room well ventilated? Mane -Yes; waut the window open summer and winter, Alinister-Do you like so much fresh air? Woman -No; it would kill me. Want all the wiedows elosed. Mittister-Do you like light in the room? .. Man -No; ean't sleep with n light; want the room darts, Minister -Are you amid in the clerk? 'Wonian-Indeed, I ant, I 'have always had a bright light in my room, hlittister-Do you like many bed- clothes? Man -All I can pile on. Minister -Do you? Woman -No; 0' sy suffoettte me. Minister -t hereey pronounce you man and wife, and may every bleesing end happinees hi life be yours."--Tit-tita. New Zeppelin Airship. Conet Zeppelin's new airship, model No. 4, is now approaching completion at aLnildk OhnCa 0 onvs tearnseiei t e yi sft rld4se de; italrndestelio,nag inueli larger etructure than his earlier experiments, Alotig the gangway be- tween the tWo "gondola's" is working and sleeping accommodation for Count Zeppelin, besides itfl arrangement of litunteoeke for the orew, There is to be praetically new disposition of the heft mental steering gear, The first 'map to Vrankfort will be attempted toward the end of May. Disappointed. "Mrs. Wraxali, how do you like your new flat?" "Don't say enything ebout it, Mrs. Hugo, but all out of patience with its" "What is the trouble?" fal'Ilit'hewriethigt a slit* thing van fied His Usual Dowse, "Whet yoa do?" asked the feir bridge player, whispering to a man eit- tine' behind her, "when you have a, huh( that?" "I generally sweaty' he anewered. . A Reasonable Request, , "Yes," maid the :steamship agent, "that's our best rate for a "newel table passege to Liverpool." "Ilea" aelsea the prospective touriat, Nora you inake eny rebate?" "For what?". "Well, siay for nine meals, I'm aliveye sick the first three dasse out." -Philadel- phia Press. Net gmbarrassed. "Have your elaeliei withs.the opuses embarraesed you ?" . 'Not at ala" answered Mr. Duetin Stax. "Every time ami awl de.. not pay I feel that I have added pat 'that much to my earnings." ----Washing- ton Star. Mischt Have Saved Her. "Have you ever regretted haring yonr gift of mecomi eight?" we askel the medium. "No," she replied, "but I have often regretted not having esed it wheu I fell la love CU my first sight, with the inau who became my basband."-Brooklyn Life. Tasted Like More. The minieter, anowing how fond Pat was of wine, offered him a small wine- glassinl, and said: "Pat, that wine is 100 years old." "Faith, it's small for its 'tee then " Q 1 3 said Pat.-Judgehi Library. THE USUAL CAM. Meeker -My wife and I never quarrel. She does as she pleases and I do, too. Illeeker-I see—as elle pleases. Meeker -Of course. I'm not looking for trouble. 41t4aeNDgo CaT Her Consideration. Mistress -Bridget, I hope you're ndt thinking at nil of leaving me, I shauld be eery lonesome without you. Maid -Faith, and it's not lonely ye'll be, Mostlike, I'll go whin there's ft house- ful o' company for luncheon or dinner.- Lippineottes. So Stupid. "The French are awfully stupid." "'Why, I always heard they were very clever people." "Well, they aren't. I was the best French scholar in our -class, and yet when I went to Paris they couldn't un- derstand a word I said." A Hollow Ring, Son -Pa, why doee Mr. Ring say las .head ae clear an a.bell? Pa-lieettuse there iS nailing in it blIt tongue. -.New York 'tribune. A WARM MZMBER. Mr. Popper -Yes, I was the mustard out Mr. Punnybone-Gee, but he's hot stem kiPlleadt Crushed leossibilities. ?Reporter -Why was my story Editor-Ae act of mercy. You fell down on it first. -Baltimore American. Her Wey. "I wouldn't cry like that if were you," said a lady to little Alice. "Well," said Alice, "you can ery any way you like but this is my waye-The United Preshyterian. He Was Prospering. City Nephew -Well, uncle, did you have. a good year? Farmer -Did I? Gosh, yes, I had 'four cosies and three hogs killed by railroad trains an' two hogs and nine chickens hy auterthobiles I cleared near thousane B eiernian. How He Made Good. "Do you remember Bluffwoosl, the chap who boasted that it would not be long hefere he would be scorclang in a big mechine? Welt, he made eeod." "Ah, iedeed! Then, I suppose he is racing around the country in a big French car?" "Not guile, but he's a scorching in a. big machine every day. Got a job run- ning a patent ironer in a steam leundry." Newe, Mild Punishment. Stranger -In your town they close the front doors of the saloon. on Stiedity, and open the side donee, do they? Isn't that whipping the devil around the stump? Native -Yes, and the whipping doesn't hurt him a bit, either, A Punishable Offence. Captain -if I see your face in my house again lf shall slap it. Noble Foreigner-Ahl but it ees punieliable offence. Captain— Of renew it is. That is why t want to slap it.-Ohicago journal. Merely a Sample. "What is the 'matter, little boy?" ask- ed the profeesor. Have you the meas• les?" "Nope," anewered the boy. "I've got the meaele I here's may on of 'ern!" "That's singolarl" mused the profes- sor, Behind the Curtain. New Page (to the 'housemaid et a poet) - tell me why he is alwaye etandieg before the" mirror. Irottetenttiti ditudel Ite is thihking how he wilt look when they raise a statue to him.- bliegende inaetter. TANG To Mil Dehei-arow aliz you llise the new minister. 'Moue- etsud-He mole se indelible Impreesion en leo Itellel-Irow so? mane -Tie empties:I a nap et tea on to my 11ANV While tilk dress. - Trying lt On Hubby. °Jolla, dear, I wisb yan tvored tast., thi4 milk Rita Nee 1111 i‘t perfeetly sweet," "Vc'hat for?" 9leermse if it's the Tea,4t bit qznir T don't want in give env of it to lido. It isn't good for bim.""