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DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY. cuaptick xviu. (Continued.) He did nut loo), up nt 1 lie house ns lie wei.-t lv, nml n missed tlic sii.iit of llepzihali, who stool moiiriifuily pressing tin' tip of licr ii(isi against n pane in the window of the dark front room, star ing o.it upon tlic street. She saw liim. Iiowcvcr. iiinl was struck by a something 1ie.irt!ess hi his Knit mill the attitude of bis Hkhio. Hi" wan strolling In the di rection ..f the Miners' Best. nu-1 IIepp7.i luili know what her own tears were. Sln paused in the n:irrow hall to snatch a wrap of some unit from n hooU. and limn slipped niter him into the street, lte wax going so slowly that she had no dilll culty in overtaking him. but when she find romp within a yard or two her heart failed her, and she found no courage to peak to him. Hut he In a little while becoming vaguely conscious that a hur rying step tiehiml him had suddenly ne roinmobited itself to din own. turned found mid recognized her. "Been out for a walk. Mister Ed ward'.'"' she asked in ax cheerful and cas ual a lone as she could secure. "Yes." he answered her indifferently, and walked on again. "Ned." she Raid with an effort, hardly knowing how she found heart of grace to speak at nil, "It'd do yon a world o' ood if you'd tell a hody what it is as is on your mind Instead o' carry In" it on 4ill by yourself." He went dogged again, nnil she, catch ing sight of his face lu the lamplight, ar the futility of her own words, anil jet having begun to speak could not re press tli enl. "I wonder at yon, Ned, yon as used to toe so bright and brnve, to throw your self away i' this fashion. What can't be cured must be endured, my dnrliu". Do be a man, and wake up a bit." "Good night, Hepzibah." he answered, -without so unieli as looking at her. The touy voice and manner quelled her, and he dropped behind and suffered him to walk away without further molestation. Seeing that he did not turn, she dared to follow him, and having seen liim enter the open door of the Miners' Best, she tood for awhile In the street as strickeu Jy and sadly as be himself had done a little while before, and then walked ftome crying. Hlane sat down In a comer of the place, after having distributed a cold nod here and there, and obscured himself behind a newspaper which he did not read. Ilia arrive cast a chill upon the company for a minute or so, but the broken conversation was resumed, though not without some meaning glances in his direction. The old landlady served him tinwillingluy, and was evidently desirous that her unwillingness should be seen. JIo took this with a stony unconcern, as je accepted everything. He was going to the bad, and he knew it. He walked forward with his eyes open, and he would toot so much as try to turn back. In fine, he was bent on going to the dogs with nil possible expedition, a condition of mind which is only possible for men of originally good quality. ' CHAPTER XIX. Tdr. Will Hackett was not the man to uffer very severely from the qualms of conscience. He had left his wife base ly, and in his heart he knew just as well as anybody could have told him that he had acted like a cur. Of course, that of Itself was a disagreeable thing to know, .and equally of course it was easy to be sure that uo barm would befall her, and to promise that in due time he would go back to her with his pocket full of dol lars and more than make up for ev erything. And, side by side with this excellent intent which he knew admira bly well he never intended to carry out was the natural sentiment of ill-usage, And a sort of forgiving resentment. Good wives make good husbands; and if Mary fend known how to keep him, there was the making in him of he knew not what of amiability and good fellowship. So, on the whole, he went away with a light .heart. His first appearance lu New York was fairly successful. He took something like first place in the second rank of singers known to the American public, and his name came to be a safe draw wherever lie was announced to sing. But if the manager could sea that the chief tenor of his concert troupe sang only at his bidding, there were things much more important to the tenor's pros perity and his own to which he could not Attend. He could not insure that Will should be early to bed aud early to rise, or that he should go to bed sober and rise with bis throat unparched. He could not insure even that this imprac ticable tenor should not dine heavily an hour before a concert, aud sing rather badly and wildly after it. "You're making a dreadful idiot of yourself," he would say at times, for familiarity with many men had taught him candor, "and you'll regret it a lot .core than ever I shall. I dare say you'll last my time out, even as you re going. I'm beastly disappointed in you, of course, and it's no use pretending that I'm not. But I'm speaking for your own good now, though I'm not likely to do you much. You'll be about as pretty o listen to as a raven in a year or two. JVow if you'd only live straight and work bit you've got a lifelong future. Go as you're going aud I'll give you three rears to ruin yourself in." To this harangue Will listened often, generally lu sullen acorn, though some times, if it came early in the morning and his head was aching, not without brief inward reproaches. Meantime he lived in clover, of the growth he cared for, and his salary being paid weekly he generally had plenty of money in his pocket. He became very gorgeous in raimeut, aud bad rather more of the music hall than the concert platform air about him. Picking up gold and silver, he of course forgot to send any of his gains to his wife. Old Howarth was well to do, ud could take capital care of her. There waa no doubt about it, and he never per mitted himself to doubt that the care was taken. At any rate he refrained from making Inquiries, and so escaped any burden waich might have been laid upon his conscience. Meantime the money cam In gyl, and for a man who bad aa tittle of forethought aa he bad it seemed Inevitable that it should continue to come in always. As time went on be and bis manager came over and over again to open quar rel, and each grew heartily weary of the other. Haekett's constant cry waa that the man who had found him out and opened the wa to fortune for him was Cat Using oa hia work. The manager's t n n azetr s raero 3 rr IS3 t-v retort was that the work was always Indifferently dono and often 111 done. Each grew anxious to escape from the contract, mid after many days the man ager found his chance. The popular tenor had dined unwisely as his habit was, but on this occasion he was pro hibited from appearing on the platform, and an apology was presented to the public iu his behalf. Next morning a formal letter reached Hackelt to the ef fect that the contract was dissolved, and that if he felt himself aggrieved he might seek legal remedy. He felt himself ag grieved, and ho sought his legal remedy. The case went against him. The public found the details amusing, ami Hackett found himself out of employment and nearly penniless. He RhutHed along some how, sartorial glories growing dimmer, and engagement growing rarer and more poorly paid, as he showed himself less and less trustworthy in hia work. The glorious voice began to go. It even rraeked iu public on that noble high A of which ho had been so proud, and which had indeed been wont to ring out like a clarion. He turned into a restau rant after that night's concert, and sat alone in a sort of sick-hearted stupor. He had been hissed for the first time in 'his life, and he resolved that it should be the Inst. It was time to end it all, time to rinir down the curtain on the poor triigi-comcdy his life hail been all alone. The deserted wife came back to him in memory, lie recalled her as she had been w hen he had first known her, and a faint remorse touched him. She had been right, alter all, and had had a reason for her reproaches. While In this mood he sat absently tap ping with the tip of his knife upon a newspaper which lay on the table before him. The journal was creased and crumpled, and had evidently been left there by some recent guest. Haekett's eyes fell upon It, and he looked at it with no interest until he awoke to the fact that it was a newspaper from home, md began to glance at its columns here and there. A Hroeton newspaper! The thought touched him oddly, and he went hi glancing here and there without no ticing greatly what he read. And mean time the knife went on tapping, tapping mechanically at the same spot of the jr.nrual. The fancy came into his mind sudden ly, what if there were something there where he was tapping which might in terest him, which might be of good or bad augury to him! He thought of this for a minute or two, fancifully aud vaguely, and then glanced at the spot. The tip of the knife blade fell upon the name of John Howarth. The name of John Howarth was iu the register of deaths, and the name that followed it was the name of Fanny, his wife. CHAPTER XX. There is hardly a vice or a virtue in the world which has not more or less the habit of reproducing itself. When a mau begins to lie he finds himself often enough compelled to go on, and one false hood breeds many. He that has stolen may find himself so placed that he must steal again. But the actual compulsive force of vice to vice is hardly found anywhere so strongly as iu intemperance. The habit catches, not merely on the mau who himself is abandoned to drink, but on people who surround him, and who are grieved and wounded by his folly. Ned Blane must needs take to drink ing neenuse Will tiacKelt uecnneu to keep himself sober; aud now, for the sal vation of a life or two, as the fate which guides the destinies of men would have it for the nonce, another must needs en ter the demon's circle, nnd go whirling toward the gulf for a while, only to be arrested nt last by the force which set him in motion. ! Mary Hackett was on terms of some familiarity with tho Bard, and in her happy days had been wont to laugh with some heartiness over his effusions. Mary had, on one occasion, when at a school room tea Shadrach had read a set of verses more or less pertinent to the oc casion, so far relied upon her power over her own risible muscles us to congratu late him upon his production, and from that hour he was her willing slave. It was a matter of absolute necessity that Mary should put her hand to some kind of work, aud after much casting to and fro in her mind as to the best way of earning enough to hold body and soul together Bhe decided on starting an in fant school. News of this enterprise no sooner came to the Bard's ears than he set to work to hunt out pupils for her, and brought her half a dozen of the poorer sort. When the Bard happened to be engaged on night work at the Old Blazer he would brightcq himself up on an afternoon, aud hie, in his tall hat, to the place which Mary had hired for her school and there humbly presenting him self would listen with a beaming satis faction to the infant lessons. The Bard was allowed to go to the school, and he became a familiar figure there; but little .by little the beaming complacence faded out of him, and days came when lie would sit giuin ami silent, and when even the scholastic successes of a niece of Hepzibah s. who was six years of age, and had mastered many wordu of one syllabic, failed to delight him. Then later he began to have little oddi ties of manner and motion which the schoolmistress was slow to understand. By and by these little oddities so grew and multiplied that she was forced to battle with herself lest she might uu derstand them. And then at last, in spite of herself, she was compelled to understand ami to beg the falling Shad rach to cease his visits. The doing of this cost her bitter tears nnd many a new heartache. But half her little world seemed now floating on that hideous drink whirlpool, and swirl ing towards its depths. Her husband she had found out long ago. Theu her most faithful suitor, who had passed as a model of what a man should be, fol lowed on tho same road. The smart, bright, genial lad was cU.u spoiled. He had growu bagvard and unkempt nnd surly, aud his old friends had begun to give him the cold shoulder, and to puss him with averted iiiireeoguizing glance in the ktreet. All this, as she kuew full well, was'in part the fruit of her unhap py marriage. It weighed upon her con science to think that she was in auy measure responsible for it. And now that the haniiU-ss, gentle hearted Bard had joiued the ranka ahe saw her own work In the matter still. Ned Blane'a misery and bis falling off were breaking Hepsibah'i heart, tad Hepribnh'c tinh?ipinpH had suited ' Shadrach down hill. This dreadful new departure could not long remain hidden from Ilcpzihah's eyes, and when she beheld it the ataiiuch creature's heart scomej like to break at once. "Shailracli," she said, "yon can go home. You'd better. Hut. oh! to think that a man wi' gifts like youru should demean I iinself to this, which is a thing as the brutes that perish would not do." The wretched Kltadrach swayed, and benined tipou tierwith a fatuous smile. "Whet's the giihil talkin'!" said Shad rach. "I lues man's heart good." "I do' know what it does for a man's heart," cried Hepzibah with sudden tears. "1 knows it breaks a woman's. And F.dw.ird. too! Then you, that was thought to be the soberest I' the town! (io away. Shadrach, do; and heavenvfor give yon!" "That's a little too much." Shadrach protested, moved vaguely and stupidly by her tears. "Tell you what it Is, Hep zihah. It's Ned. That's what It is. Breaks vour heart see a fine young chap like that." "Oh. you fool!" said Hepzibah bitter ly. "What's poor Ned's fault to you aa yon should go an' copy it? Go away, and never let mo see you any more!" "All rignr," responded Shadrach. "I shall go to the Best and ask for Mister Ned. Said he wanted roe to pay for drink, because he saved my life didn't lie? So I will.". 'D'ye think he'd be seen drinking with the likes of tlieeV" demanded Hepzibah, driven nigh to her wits' end. "Go home, an' be a laughing stock along the road." Aud therewith her tears became a pas sion not to be resisted, and she hid her face in her apron after the manner of her class, and cried as if her heart were fairlv broken. Shadrach . took himself away, and left her to her grief, ashamed enough to be glad of absence from her, too bland and mild to be wrathful with her or with himself, and easily restored to a condition of vacuous self-satisfaction. It was early evening still, and when, an hour later, Ned Blane reached home, he glanced askance at Ilepzibnh's red eyes, and guessed himself the cause of her grief. The unspoken reproach of her face, its hungry pity and affection, stung him. It angered him to be pitied and wept over. He and Hepzibah were alone in the kitchen. She busied herself in preparing a meal for him, but she had not so far mastered the hysterics of her weeping that she could control herself completely, and an occasional sob escaped her. He, lounging against the upright of the man tel shelf, with crossed feet and arms, looked angrily at her for a time as she went to and fro about her duties, and nt last broke out fiercely. "What's the matter now? What sort of a house is this to come home to?" "Who made it the sort of house It is? Hepzibah almost shrieked, turning upon him. "Eh?" he said, advancing a step and staring wildly at her. "Eh? What'i that'" "You." returned nepzibah. "Ay, you may tut me, ir you line, mister iea. mo as nursed you when yon was a child, nnd loved you better than if cveu you d been my own." (To be continued.) WORDS WITHOUT RHYME. Some Difficulties ttie Poets Cannot Overcome. In a well known musical comedy the kingly poet of a mythical state makes a frantic demand on his subjects for a rhyme with sarsnpnrllla. The question calls to mind the surprisingly few words there are In the comparatively harsh English tongue, with Its plethora of consonants, for which there are no rhyming equivalents. Suisaparllla aa u manufactured name Is hardly a fair example, but there are said to be only three familiar - words of every-day speech which loom up ferociously be fore the student of metrical possibili ties. They are silver, month and car pet. Of these silver alone remains ab solutely unassaihihle, for Swinburne has In one of his poems u word of Greek derivation which mny be said nt a pinch to rhyme with month, und W. S. Gilbert of "Pinafore" nnd "Mi kado" fnifle has in the "Bab Ballads" ingeniously conquered carpet ns fol lows: One day that Turk he sickened sore, Which threw him straight into a sharp pot. He threw himself upon the floor, And rolled about his carpet. The same author has also establish ed a record In "Patience" for rhyming unfamiliar words that look extremely formidable to the novice. The versa runs: When from the poet's plinth, The amorous, calocyuth, etc., which, nlthough it be very beautiful, is hardly intelllKible. But silver is still obstinate, and the young Musacn who ends his first line with that fatal word hnd better stick to blank verse. Philadelphia Kecord. Needed a Slope. Among the stories treasured by the older liilmbitai'" of a Massachusetts town Is one that relates to a none too scrupulous shopkeeper who flourished1 over HO years uj.:o, nnd a variety of po tatoes for which ho lifted as sponsor. They were known as "Dover's Seed lings," nml were favorites with the people who succeeded In making them trow. Unfortunately, Eben Khodes was not one of the few, und he lamented his failure In public, upon which the si opkeepor remonstrated. '"Ve here, Ebon," ho said, firmly, "you've got no rij,iit to go spoiling hiiii s: Where (lid you plant those seed- lillgKV in as good soil as ever a potato coilitl desire," fciiid Mr. Ilhodes, with dignity. "On level ground?" nsked the shop keeper. "Level r.nd line," said Eben. For a u.oiiient the shopkeeper wns silent. Then be clumped his baud to his forehead. "(,'oine to think of it," he cried, "I believe those you bought were side hill Dover's, Ebeu!" Just Had to Get Well. "Your husband has quite recoered from his Illness," said gne woniafc. "Yes," ai.swered the other. "The doctor's mtdlclne must hare done hi iu god." "I dui.no s it was the medicine. Tie got to figuring up what the bill would be an' concluded he had been sick aa long as he could afford It. So he went back to work." Washington Star. A woman will forgive a man almost anything except his failure to ask u be turglven. f ARMtR THE BAlANCt YYKltl 0E PR0SPIRI1Y. Br James Hiion. SecrtCrv of Agriculture. To one familiar tvlih tho situation It must appear that there will bo uo panic lu this country now, so long aa the fanner of the United States Is able to product1 grxid and salable? crops. The American fanner sustains the country and feeds a great portion of the world, lie Is virtually Independent of any other cluss. lA't nie premise by giving a few fig ures. From 1S80 to 1H!H) the average of IECRETARY wii-soN. exports of farm products was more than f703.00O.0O0. In 1001 they were SU.VJ.ooo.OoO. In 1003 the surplus, which we did not need In this lbroad, amounted to $878,O0.OOO. It waa tho farmer who held the balanH of trade with the United States. Excluding the product of the farm, there waa during the period from l.sttt) to 1002 an annual adverse balance of trade amounting to $il'J,000,000. Includ ing the farm products, this balance is wiped, out, and we have left 1275,000.000 to the credit of this country. During 1003 there was an unfavorable balance of trade In exports and Imports other than those of the farm, which amounted to $36,000,000, but when the farmer's part in the Interna tional commerce Is Included the balance In our favor Is Just about f307.OOO.OOO. Here you have the tremendous reserve-sustaining power of the farmers of tills country. They are the people who pay the foreign bondholders. I will tell you that the farmers are Independent of the banks, the money lenders or anybody else. They are pros perous. In the East anybody enn see It for himself. They are getting good prices for their grain, hay, milk, butter, cheese, fruits and other produce. Think of the prices for eggs and poultry t Then they have the advantage over their Western brethren lu not having the long haul and heavy freight rates. The farmers of the West were never in such easy cir cumstances. Their crops have been good, and the demand from abroad has been such ns to keep the prices at a com fortable figure. This is true of everything the farmer raises to sell hogs, cattle, wool. etc. On the raciflc coast the story is the same. There the trade Is opening with the Orient, and there the farmers have the advantage of a soli which will raise almost every thing, including fruits which outsell the tropical fruits nnd which can be sent across the countiy and shipped to En rope at a profit. They are doing splendidly. ' In the South the farmer who raises even a small crop of cotton has provided for himself. Tobacco was never In greater demand. The South is rapidly tocomlng ns pros perous as those other sections of the country which escaped the devastations of Civil War JAPAN STRONG IN ITS SIMPLICITY. Br T. Japan is a topsy-turvy country. Its popula tion, small In stature, its houses that seem mostly made up of paper, its whole view of life, has In It something that constantly gives one the idea that you are dwelling among a nation of scarcely grown up children. They are formidable chil dren, these Japanese, as the Chinese have discov ered, and perhaps a more powerful nation may soon find out also; but all the same there Is something In their whole being that strikes the Western as not grown up. They have no bread, no beds, no fires, no boots and ihoes, no trousers for the men, no petticoats for the worn- i en; both sexes wear Instead several 1 over the other. In their houses they doors, no walls, no ceilings, no chests of drawers, not even a washing stand, and the wardrobe is only a lot of boxes piled one on top of another. In the kitchen they have no range, no pots, no pans, no flour bins, no kitchen tables. But then they have no tables or chairs in the drawing room, ina in tne real native house the drawing THE COTTON KING" 8 FALL. Bully Meets the Fate of Others Who Tried to Corner Oreat Staples. Cotton King Daniel J. Sully baa falleu. He whose effort to coin untold millions at the expense of manufac turers nnd thousands of mill opera tives is now a bankrupt He forced the price of cotton to such figures as to close hundreds of mills lu England und In this country, with the result that armies of humble but honest peo ple were reduced to wunt. Delicate women and sickly children perished before their time through the fact j that their natural defenders were reu- dered helpless by Idleness. Great mills were closed mid the hum of ma chinery wns hushed that the specu lator might make millions and still moro millions. But he has met the almost universal fate of those who have tried to rorner the market for great staples. Sully, under the firm name of Dan iel J. Sully & Co., undertook to comer the cotton market. His efforts result ed In sending the prlco of raw cotton up to figures which have not been ap proached since the Civil War. Sully purchased thousands of bales nnd nt several periods could have gotten out with handsome profits. He bought much of the cotton at low prices, but every time he undertook to unload there came a slump lu prices nnd he wns forced to buy to preserve the mar ket. Tho result was that he bought DANIEL J. SULLY. much cotton at prices In excess of lta Intrinsic value. He borrowed money aud kept on buying. But he llnally reached the limit of his 1J lowlnir cu. pneity and could buy no Aiore, When be uudeitook to sell, there were no buyers. No onu wanted cotton at such prices. But he was forced to realize on his holdings and threw his cotton on the market. There was a slump, Prices dropped and Sully wus forced to the wall. The failure of the cotton king caused a scene of pandemonium on the market In New York and lu New Orleans. There was no panic. In the sense vf many resulting failures. Bath '&c VS? K-r ALU. .35) -THE a lot of bedrooms with their walls taken down. There Is no reason why you should find anything In a Japanese house except mats nnd a charcoal Move, for warming your fingers and the tespot. These, and a cushion or two, and a quilt to sleep on, with an elaborate conventional polite ness, constitute the furniture of a Japanese house, except the guest chamler. And tho articles In the guest chamber consist of a screen, ft kakemono, nnd a flower vase. The Japanese have no forks, or spoons, or table cloths; they have no sheets, no wine glasses, no tumblers. If a woman belongs to an aristocratic family, and especially to one which has adopted some European meth ods and Ideas, she Is treated w ith something of the rever ence given to woman In Europe; she not only dressea like a European woman but she Is allowed to walk by her hus band's side, and even she Is allowed to pass through a door before blin. Among working women, the woman has great freedom, for she is able to cam her own living. A Japanese girl of even wealthy parents does not get a dowry, and when she is divorced Is not protected by settle ments. She has her chance only In families where there are no sons. In this case, again, the freedom of the woman has far wider range; her husband Is obliged to take her name, and she enn get a divorce with facility. 'You see that tue position of woman Is as much a matter of econo mics as of sentiment in Japan as In other parts of the world. country and was sold NEW MYSTERIES 0T The Ei Prom the first It was plain tin emitted light In the dark and wJ photographic plate through cc fj lipases of different substances. In their pockets. Later It was announced that radium caused the atmosphere to become a conductor of electricity and that It emitted continuously such a quantity of heat as to raise the envelope containing it to a temperature of some two degrees above that of other things in lta neighborhood. Only last month It was shown that radium held near closed eyes will causo their possessor to have a sense of light from the fluorescence that It excites in the substance of the eye itself. But of all the properties of this marvelous metal none Is likely to have more wide reaching conse quences than the discovery that In addition to the three different sorts of rays which It emits, radium, when heated, will give off a gas which Is also ray producing, and when scaled up In a tu!o and loft alone for two days, presents all the characteristics of the rare gas "helium," which is known to be present In tho sun, iu a few minerals, and lu certain natural waters. This takes us back to some pretty old history. The alchemists always declared that it was possible to trans mute or change one metal Into another. ' Their central idea was that the constituents of all known substances were Iu fact but different modifications of on primordial sub stance. Now, the chemical elements, which are every year increasing iu number, are seen on examination to be a series of groups or families, of which the different mem bers have a strong family likeness. The rare metals, polo nium, actinium, and thorium are extremely radio-active; while to come down to more every day substances, barium nnd bismuth present the most extraordinary likeness to uranium and polonium. As for lead, there Is a particular sulphide of it extracted from several complex minerals like pitchblende (the source of radium), clevelte, mica, and tho like, which Is nearly as radio-active as radium Itself. Dr. Gustave le Bon asserted a year ago that all metals, when clean and pure, were radio-active, and that the same qual ity Is shared by all gases and many other substances, auch ns those which compose the human bodyr Aa many physi cists are coming to this conclusion thero is fair reason to guess that If the aecret of their combination were once learned the composition of metals would be a mere matter of calculation. P. O'Connor. M. P. dressing gowns, one have no windows, no room Itself la only er there waa rejoicing on the part of the beam who had been fighting him all along. So Jubniint were these op ponents of his that they fairly toro the clothes from each other's backs In their excitement FROG PARTIES. Training the Little Reptiles the Latest Hocletjr Fad In London. The latest craze In society Is to make a pet of the small green French frog, numbers of which are being sent over from Paris for frog parties, says the London Mf.il. These strnnfo pcta are not much i TIIAININQ THE FltOU, bigger than a sixpence, and the aver age cost varies 8s. to 1 Is., at which price tho vender uo doubt aecures for himself a substantial profit. One would scarcely credit the frog with the possession of u vast amount of Intelligence, but ladies who have kept them are of the opinion that the frog Is far from n stupid niiluuil, for by tho exercise of patience they can be taught many clever tricks. It Is a most miiuslng sight to seo the quaint little reptile jumping through a row of rings. The frogs, after their edu cation has been perfected, are placed on a tabic, and In front of each fro;; Is placed a small ring, not much larger than n wedding ring, mid then, with out the slightest prompting, the frogs coiiunenco to Jump through the rlu;;s and continue tliclr performance as long as there remain a ring to juinii through. A frog race with, say, clht rings to negotiate forms an auiusin,' spectacle for a children's party. Many of lliese little reptiles live in the lap of luxury, und tliclr appetite are tempted with the delicacies of the sib urn such as slugs, caterpillars, and earwigs. They are usually kept lu a large bottle with iv little water at the bottom, and the ladies sometimes linvo special stands built on which tliclr pets' residences stand. HOME INSTINCT IN HORSES. Animal Always blurted for Old Pas ture When Turned Loom.-. I have i cud with some interest in some of the recent Issues of Forest und Streuiu of the "back-trucking in stinct" iu hoi s und inn reminded of u trait possessed by a large buy mare owned by my father when I wus a small boy, living on the old far m In the Ozark Mountains iu ui-hlugton County, Arkansas, says a writer in forest aud (stream. -H, I T. I I RADIUM. By Joan A. Montana". mysteries of radium are unfolding apace. that the new metal would Influence a considerable thick- Then It heenmn Hr evldeut that radium had a destructive effect on Jl living tissue, which allowed It to be used with success In the treatment of cancer and mnde It JCJ dangerous for experimenters to carry a Bait of It My father was a Confederate sol dier, belonging In a cavalry company, nnd when he with his command sur rendered ho was allowed to keep his mount He had purchased the mare from a party from Missouri, who had taken ber from some point In Mis souri to the Red Klver country in south Arkansas at the beginning of the Civil War. She wns about 5 yenrs old when the war ended nnd we kept her ten years, and to my certain knowledge never at any time did she gnln ber freedom but that she started north In tho direction of Missouri aud traveled until overtaken and brought back. We tried all kinds of expedients to Induce her to remain, but nothing but con finement kept her In Arkansas. In those days the grass was fine in tho mountains nnd all kinds of stock grew and fattened on it, with no cost but a little salt occasionally. But eveu after three or four of her colts were grown up nnd In tho herd und with a colt In the pasture she would occasionally gain ber liberty nnd start north on a fast trot nnd hnd to bo caught und brought back. And finally when sho hud become old and of small valuo one spring day my father ordered me to take her out nnd turn her on the range nnd let her go. This I did, nnd within ten minutes she began to feed out north nnd I took one look at her, went home nnd never saw her ngaln. Surveying- tlto He Bottom. From a balloon, shallow places In the ocenn, nnd rocks rising near to tho surface, can bo seen much more clearly than from tho shore or from shipboard. For this reason tho French naval en gineer, I(e;iaud, suggests that a captive balloon would bo a most useful ucces- ' sory to it marine surveying ship. With such a balloon dangerous waters hav ing shallow areas and bottoms Inter sected with narrow and tortuous chan nels could bo rapidly charted both by eye observations nnd by the aid of photograph taken from the balloon. Of course soundings would i-tlll be nec essary to ascertain the exact depth of water, but these would be greatly fa cilitated by the know ledge pre I ninly galled through the uld of the bullooa Largo HuHsiun Families, The statistical committee of the province of Voronezh. Uu.nsla, u fulrly representative dLslrlct, shows that the average farmer's family consists of eight persons; that their gross annual revenue is (105 in money and (107 In farm products. They spend for taxes and rent, (I.H.HO; for clothing, (S. I.S; for ten and sugar, (l.lsi; for furniture, (l.HJ; for salt, (l.'.'O; for kerosene, SN cents; for soap, 3U cents; for "article of personal comfort," 4 cents. Left. Only tho llic. Miss Armstrong (who has fooaled tho bull ix limes with various clubs) And which of the sticks am I to uso now 1 Weary Cuddle Gle it a olt knock wi' the b:ig. I.oadou Punch t a FT Pei -ntsge Not Laru rant Fear of Imp.' 1 1 . . . uerinnn migration to nd especially to some ov States of Brazil, Is period of comment and concern U think they see therein scheme of Imperial conquest DCNX or three strong reasons sucft-; seem to us to lie not well fo One such reason Is that the nu of Germans In Brazil Is not, after ominously large. The total populnt of Braxll, according to the census o' i.-vsi, was i,.t.i,i.iii.. ao inter census returns are available, but careful esti mates now place the total at mora than 17.000.000, of which number less than 3,000,000 are Indians and negroes, leaving certainly more than 14.000,000 whites. Of these, in 15)01. only 2,700,000 were Immigrants, and of the latter number only 300.000 were Germans. The latest and highest estimate of the number of Germans In Brazil Is only 450,000, or a little over 3 per cent of tho whole. Really, we cannot re gard that as a dangerous percentage. Nor does It represent the largest for eign element by any means. ' Portu guese Immigrants Into Brazil are twice as numerous, and Italians three times) as numerous, as the Germans. Nor yet are these Germans so massed In certain States as to form a majority of their population, as some have Im agined. Germans are most numerous In Itlo Grande do Sul, where there are ax),000 of them, but the whole popula tion of that State Is 000,000, so that the Germans are less than one-fourth. In Santa Cathnrlna the Germans are 100,000 In a total of 300.000, or one third, the largest proportion in any State. Iu Parana they are 47,000 In 280,000, aud In Sao Paulo 30,000 In 1,430,000. It is pointed out ns ominous thai these Germans continue to use their, own language, to publish newspapers In German and to demand the official! use of that language In courts and schools. Well, the amo mny be said! of the Germans In New York, and In. Milwaukee, and In many other part of the United States. s The conquest which Germany hopes for in Brazil la not political, but com mercial. The profit ahe looks for In this migration of her subjects is to bo found in Increased commerce. In that Germany reckons shrewdly. EVery shipload of Germans landed In Brazil! creates a demand for many shiploads 'of German manufactured goods. Ev ery so-called German colony in Brazil means a market for German trade. Upon this feature of the case too much tress cannot easily be laid. Novf York Tribune. , American sewing machines find largo sale In British India, all other parts of Asia and In the Islands of the Pacific, -, At the government pawnshop lif Parts about 350,000 watches and Blxtyj thousand wedding rings are deposited! every year. ( Japan has the largest Interest lnf Manchuria. In 1002 that country bad) 177 ships, with a tonnage of 403.000J enter Nluchang alone. Marble can be cleaned by rubbing" with a rather soft paste made of whip lng or prepared chalk and water to -which a little ammonia has been add-j ed. Rinse afterward with clean water,; A rub with pumice store and water will restore the polish. Aluminum becomes granular and brittle when heated to about 600 de grees C; at a slightly Increased tern,-' perature It becomes so soft that it can easily be cut with a knife. Henca all that Is needed in order to pulverlz? It Is to heat it to the above-mentioned. temperature1 aud then pound It In a jnortar. With zinc, a similar treat inent will give the same result That a bird has memory is not doubted. It Is a marvelous feat of memory to go to the tropics for the winter and return in the spring to the very spot to tho exact tree. It Is. also a fact that birds have the power to recall as well ns to remember. Mem ory depends on the association of ideas, and it is evident by the conduct of caged birds that they . have the power to rememlsjr and forget ths same as we do. lie Went All the Mews. Knowing the aversion of her hus band to letter writing, the wife of a Chlcagoau thus ndtuolslied him lu bis departure on a recent eastern trip: "Now, John, ns neither I nor the children can uccompuny you, you must lie eyes und cars 'for us, and drop us un occasional postal card, telling us anything of interest you ir.ny see and hear. Don't forget will you?" The husband promised and took bis departure, Tho next morning but one his wife received a postal card con taining the following message: "Dear wife; I reached Pittsburg all right Yours uff." ' Though disappointed, she excused the brevity of tho communication ou the ground that her husband waa doubtless pressed for time. Two days later, however, another card arrived, bearing tho sturtling announcement: "Here I nm in New York. Yours ever." Still luter came another: "1 uiu indeed Iu New York. Yours " . The wife swallowed her disappoint ment and, being good ut retaliation, seized her pen nnd wrote: "Dear hus band, the children and I are in Chi cago. Yours" A few days later she wrote nguin: "Wo nie still in Chicago." in her next communication she grew a little more enthusiastic. Sjie wrote: "Dear husband: Here we are In Chi cago. I repeat It, sir. We ure in Chicago. "Pi 8. We are, Indeed." In due time John reached home, and fearing perhaps that bis pn r wife was nttllcted with some sort of dementia, hastened to ask the meaning of her strange messages. For answer she slipped Into bis hund bis own three postal cards. Chicago Tribune. When a young man visits a Strang town, he always walks In a aUlttd. unnatural, company way. nnrr MINI