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i vkk v IS if w a- r I erst THE HIDDEN MEANING nigh lovc the crowded strwt Countless wires both cross ml meetj Piths ro they lor fslrjr feet jjjj Shod with tlnhtnln from the sky Unseen messenRm tilde lyj Wlut they bear nono my descry Often when the wind Is strong s We cm liesr their walling song Bome those slender threads slon 1 tint In Ustnlnfr who can Mjr As the rncssairo rIIiIm sway Whether It be sad or gay t Bo In crery human breast irs pome mystery unexprctnea Een to those ono loves the best Only wo oursclTcs may know As our hurryin life beats ko i v i v t nwr Whether It bo Joy or woe Uolso Hush in New Orleans ACCORDING TO LAW By A Quad Copyright 1001 by O U Lowla I wasnt a tramp but I had to be come next thing to ono In n sense With my having been 111 and out of work for months with my being penni less and seedy and dlBcourngcd with my asking for a meal here and a bed there as I tratnped the highways be tween London and Liverpool no ono could be blamed for sizing me up as n professional and treating mo accord ingly I nmde no complaint of that What I complain of la the vlndlctlve ness of the English law Its readiness to do up a man simply because he may be poor and unknown Once let the law lay hands on you and It Is almost a crime to declare your Innocence of the offense charged A thousand men will declare your guilt where one will dare to doubt It Ono night In the county of Warwick t came upon a farmer who had neither wife nor children but was living alone on his small holding Ills name was Holborne and though gruff at flrst ho finally gave me a hearty supper and the privilege of passing the night In his barn When supper was finished and he had heard my story ho offered me a pipe and we sat at his door and smok ed and chatted for an hour It was agreed that I should turn to next morn- HIS DEAD BODV LAY ON THE GRASS Ing and work with him In his fields for half a month While we were chatting a neighboring fanner named Saunders came up and halted for five minutes and two others passed on the highway and saluted Holborne with a good evening It was 10 oclock before I went to the barn and being tired and sleepy I was soon In dreamland How long I had slept when I was awakened by the sound of voices In anger I could not say but I heard what seemed to bo a quarrel between Holborne and anoth er man The voice of the other was high pitched and had a catch In It It was not a stammer but a sort of gasp as If catching his breath I was not fully aroused nor did the quarrel con tinue long It was Just sunrise next morning when I woke up and turned out The house was only about five rods away and after looking about to sec If Hol borne were In sight I moved along to the house His dead body lay on the grass before the open door He had been struck on the head with a club and killed by a single blow I was upset by the discovery as you may believe After touching his face and finding It cold I started off on the run for the nearest farmhouse half a mile away The farmer was milking his cow and his wife preparing breakfast but they returned with me at once and other neighbors were called and a boy was sent off to the nearest police sta tion I told my story to the people and all believed It as why should they not when Saunders was among them And yet when the police came their very first move was to arrest mo as tho murderer A tramp had pass ed the night In the barn Of courso the tramp had murdered the farmer If you agree that tho police wero asses you will agree that the others wero fools No Booner was I charged with the murder than all turned against me Saunders suddenly re membered that our conversation waa heated as he came up The two who passed by thought they heard me use threatening language A farmer whom I had not seen at all the evening before claimed to have come near enough to the house to have heard mo ask Hol borne for the loon of 2 I was an gered but not frightened I asked tho police to Investigate my bed on the straw and they found It still warm I asked them to look through the house and they found nothing dis turbed I asked them to note that the body was cold and the doctor who waa summoned said that life had been extinct for seven or eight hours Was It to bo believed that I had killed Hol borne at 10 or 11 oclock and then In stead of plundering the house and unking olT gone to bed slept nil night ttiul been the tlrst to raise mi alnrtn In the morning And yot I was marched off to Jiiliniul within three days thoro wasnt a person In tho county who doubted tny guilt I wns examined by a magistrate who nnld I would no doubt get my Just de serts nnd tho police made no move whatever to find any other party Even tho Jailer and turnkeys chuckled ovor the hanging thnt must result I told of having heard the quarrel but they nnld I lied I told of tho arrange ments made to go to work for llolbomo In the morning but they smiled In do rlslou I wan nltnost rendy for tho assizes nnd the hanging when a person whoso Identity I do not know to this day and who must havo been moved by a Hplrlt of fairness sent me a lawyer nnd gave that lawyer money to work with Pres to change Why a born fool could hnvo picked up tho threads of tho case and cleared me Within six hours aft er I had told the lawyer of tho quarrel and the man with the catch In his voice they had the murderer Bpotted ITIa name was Jamison and tho quarrel waa over the lease of tho farm nnd tho club with which he hnd delivered tho blow having lost hta temper but not meaning to kill was found In his house More thnn that he broke down nnd made a full confession and when the assizes camo on ho stood In tho dock In my place Nevertheless In set ting me at liberty the Judge did It grudgingly and with a warning thnt my crimes must sooner or later find mo out and I was scarcely clear of the courtroom when tho humiliated nnd chagrined police overhauled me and said It Is Just possible that you did not commit this crime but only because somebody else got ahead of you Wo know you had planned to do it and aro a dangerous man to be roaming about and If you are not outside the county by sundown you shall be run In on sus picion Jamison wns hung for the killing nnd a long confession waa left In writ lug over his own hand but there wero scores of people who still believed that the tramp had something to do in some way with that murder Wlntcrbottomn Clever Scheme And now darling It only rcmnins for you to say when But at this moment tho automobile Which had reached the top of tho hill started down tho other side of the hill with frightful velocity The young man hastily applied the brake It failed to work Ho shut off the power It was too late The maddened machine raced down tho steep grade At the foot of the Incline there was a sharp turn to the left Hero the automobilo left the turnpike and ran down the embankment throw ing the young couple out and landing them In a big pile of sand Never mind darling exclaimed the youth who with hat gone collar looso at one end nnd coat ripped up the back was presently engaged In digging sand out of tho hysterical maidens mouth this Is one time that the coirse of true love ran smooth even If it did get a bit of a jolt at the end of the run Cyrus Winterbottom she said half an hour later as they were Journeying toward home In a farmers wagon I believe you did the whole thing on pur pose so you could have the chance of saying something smart Boston Jour nal Dlriln and Their Baths Naturalists tell us that in making their toilets some birds use water only some water and dust while other pre fer dust and no water Birds are not only nice In the choice of bath water but also very particular about the quality of their toilet dust Wild ducks though feeding by salt water prefer to bathe In fresh water pools and will fly long distances In land to running brooks and ponds where they preen and dress their feathers In the early hours of tho morning Sparrows bathe often both la water and In dust They are not so particular about the quality of water as about tho quality of tho dust The city sparrow must take a water bath where ho can get It Road dust tho driest and finest possible suits film best Partridges prefer dry loam They like to scratch out tho soil from under the grass and fill their feathers with cool earth Most birds aro fond of ashes Take a walk some early morning across a field where bonfires havo burned and see tho numbers of winged creatures that rise suddenly from the ash heaps A darting form a small cloud of ashes and the bathers disappear A Dinner For a King Tho father of Queen Victoria the Duko of Kent had no objection to dis senters and In fact cultivated Inti mate relations with a well known Con gregatlonallst minister Dr Stoughton whom he knew both at Windsor and Kensington The doctor lent tho em barrassed duko somo money but re fused many Invitations to dine at Ken sington palace At length Victorias father pressed him for his reason and tho doctor explained that ho would not accept becauso ho could not entertain In return Oh said tho duke you can easily do that I like boiled leg of mutton and trimmings better than nnythlng but I caunot often get It Taking tho hint the doctor had a fine leg of mut ton duly prepared and tho duke thor oughly enjoyed his dinner The warm friendship cemented by the leg of mut ton continued unimpaired until tho dukes death and one of the first acts of tho queen on coming to tho throne waa to repay the doctors loan ex pressing high appreciation of his con siderate kindness MINING CAMP TRICKS One lnatntior Where n Scheme Work ed the WrmiK Way There Is a great deal that Is out of tho ordinary In mining snld Samuel Mott of Boise Olty Ida although I think from personal experience It Is probably more so In the relation thnn In the actual happening In every mining en nip I hnvo known there havo always been charges that those working a vein hnd gono through Into tho next clnlm in taking out tho ore and consequently wero taking out what wasnt theirs Theso claims It waa alwnys dllllcult to substantiate for tho reason that the offender of course would not allow tho offended to enter his workings nnd without a sur vey It would be Impossible to mako out a case Hvcry subterfuge and excuso possible was resorted to to get Into a suspected mine I remember ono case In an apex of a vein suit where tho workings had been temporarily shut down nnd a man called Johnny Gotuo Lately heavily armed was on guard The other side had tried again nnd ngnln to get by Johnny but had always failed when ono man who knew that Johnny wiih an enthusiastic hunter hired an ac quaintance of hla to Htroll by with n gun over his arm and to engage John ny In a conversation about bar It worked to a charm and while ho waa thus engrossed they managed to slip hi and survey the mine Then thero waa tho cnao of tho Last Chance ngalnst the Tyler Iu this case the workings happened to run to gether nnd the Last Chance people were working the same vein from un derneath that the Tyler owners wero working from on top Knowing they would sooner or later break through the Tyler people prepared smudge that la saturated cordwood that would give forth a tremendous smoke whlch they hoped would drive tho Last Chance people out of their mine But when they finally set It off It went tho other way nnd made the Tyler work ings absolutely untenable Indeed threo of the miners were overcome and wero rescued only with great dllllculty New York Trlbuuo WOULDNT INTRODUCE HIM The Vnunic Woninn lint nor Thouifht She Needed the Introduction A young man with a beetling brow aud a nice new necktie entered a law olllce In oue of the big down town of fice buildings and Inquired for a mem ber of the firm a Mr Younger whose name he pronounced with strict regard for the rules of orthoepy Is Mr Young er in he asked of the young woman stenographer with whom he seemed to be acquainted You mean Mr Youn ger she re plied pronouncing the g hard Can it be ho pronounces It that way asked the caller feigning sur prise Of courso Its his privilege to pronounce It as he chooses theres no set rule for pronouncing uames But you know doesnt spell Youn ger but Young er No I didnt know it she answered as ono who doesnt care But here ho comes now Thats him going Into his private olllce Excuse mo but thats not him No Pray who Is It then Its he They stared at each other for ten seconds aud then the young man said Will you Introduce me to Mr Young er No she retorted Since you seem to know so much more nbout him than I do I think youd better Introduce me There was an ominous click In tho rattle of the typewriter as the young man entered the private office nnd pre sented his card Chicago Chronicle Hint Mark Collections The mint mark collection Is the lat est thing In the lino of numismatics It Is tho fad of tho specialist and lias little attraction for the amateur The object is to secure complete sets of per fect specimens of all the coins Issued from the different mints A great many people are scarcely aware that thero Is any way to dis tinguish the coins Issued from the dif ferent mints They may not have no ticed tho small S or CC beneath tho eagle or under tho wreath and showing that tho piece waa coined at San Francisco or Carson City or If it bears an O at New Orleans And they may or may not know that If It has no mint mark It comes from tho mother mint at Philadelphia But tho mint mark collector will seo these little letters In an Instant and Is very apt to know Just how many dimes quarters dollars or half dollars wero turned out nt any of the mints during any year since 1704 Minneapolis Jour nal A Cats LonaT Jump How far can a cat Jump without hurting itself was partly exemplified In Brooklyn the other night A pretty white cat ran up a tree to get away from a dog and at last crawled out on a small branch at least 00 feet above the ground Tho branch was not much more than a twig and tho cat could not turn around Sho sat up there on the swaying limb and meowed At laat the twig broke and down came the cat She alighted on the ground on her feet looked around for a mo ment and then bounded away which Bhows that a 00 foot drop does not hurt a Brooklyn cat whatever It might do to cats of other places Pittsburg Dis patch Stood the Teat Heeler Smith la top of tho heap now He can have anything ho wants In this town If he only doesnt get spoiled Wheeler He Isnt spoiled yet Is he neeler No Hes a good fellow Wheeler Well If ho Isnt spoiled now he never will be He was brought up by his grandparents Philadelphia PreBS -WW hWU THE NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY MAY 17 1001 tnrktwl WlunltiK Nerve When 1 was a niclng llend snld the old telegrapher 1 one day got n tip by wire from mi operator a friend of initio In Philadelphia It read Lil lian 1C sure Jet In with both feet I fancied Lillian K myself so I pawned my watch borrowed nil I could and went to the poolroom The race was due In about half an hour and Lillian K wns up In the entries nil right but there were no odds ugnlnst Iter Ho I says to tho mnn nt the deik Whats the odds on Lillian IC lie looked at me like he was too tender hearted to rob n come on and pitched mo ovor n blnnk ticket null snyH care lessllke Make out your own odds Ill tnke em nuy way you fix It Thnt wns too much of n Jolt for mo and I told him to hold on to the ticket for a minute while I went out to see n mnn I went out aud took a drink and tried to llgure whether tho man wns four Hushing or whether I looked any greener than 1 felt Then I came hack and tried to got my roll out of my pocket but It wouldnt come and final ly 1 sat around and watched the report come In ami put me on the blacklist If Lillian Iv didnt win nt 151H to I nnd the only mnn on It wiih u little hump hacked shoe pirate with his box under Ills arm and a dollar In dimes nickels and coppers Washington Star Irish Trimt nnd Dlatrnat The most trustful people In the world In money mutters aro the Irish A Hlranger can go Into any shop and get a check cashed without the least dllll culty though the proprietor never saw him before and never heard of tho drawer Bank notes are very largely used as almost every bank In the coun try Issues notes worth 1 U 11 T and upward and they are all looked upon as being quite aa good as gold But Bank of Knglund notes even in the largo towns are looked upon with suspicion while In remote places peo ple wont take them at all It Is said that this suspicion of English notes Is hereditary From the time of James II up to 75 years ago the law was such with re gard to currency that If an Irishman wanted to pay 100 In England he had to remit 118 Is 8d while If lie were being paid a debt by an Englishman he received only 85 Naturally lie thought rather badly of English money and In the 110 years during which this state of things continued tho Irish peo ple became so deeply convinced that John Bull was cheating them that they still regard the Bank of England us a corporation of robbers The Jews In Krnnkfnrt George Brandos thus describes the position of the Jews In Frankfurt Ger many at the beginning of the nine teenth century All Jews were forced to live In tho narrow miserable over crowded JudengiiHso Jew street their sole abode since the year 14111 At tho beginning of night all the inhabitants of the ghetto were locked In They were not allowed to use the sidewalk while walking In the street In the day time but had to take the middle of the street They hail to remove their hats before every passerby who would call out Jew make your bowl To prevent too large an increase not more than 11 couples were permitted to marry In any one year On every fes tive occasion they were driven Into tho ghetto On Sunday the gates were locked regularly at 4 oclock and no i one was aiioweu iu pass ny me guani at the gate except when on an errand with a prescription to the drug store or for the purpose of mailing a letter Ono general rule was No Jew allowed on a green spot Nnpoleon abolished this state of affairs In 1810 but it was restored after his downfall A Suapenalon of Sentence For 25 years Squire Qulgg held tho olllce of Justice of tho peace In Doni phan county and In tho early part of his administration he held the idea that a Justice hail as much jurisdiction aa a district court Once a shooting scrnpo occurred in the township and the cul prit waa brought before the squire for preliminary examination After lis tening to the arguments the squire or dered tho prisoner to stand up Ho then said Mr Prisoner It Is tho sen tence of this court that you be hanged by the neck until dead dead dead Turning to the constable tho squire said Take this prisoner outaldo nnd hang him to the tree In the yard Thero is u rope iiuuor in my uuggy The constable made a move for the prisoner and then the squire taking a second thought said Mr Constable I guess you had better not hang the pris oner until wo see whether his victim dies Kansas City Journal Her Proper Place Miss Brooke Hie English actress once gave a couple of seats for the the ater to her landlady who had never seen her on tho stage On the follow ing day the landlady seemed to be sat isfied with the play but she did not give any opinion of Paula So Miss Brooke asked her tho straight question What did you think of mo Then the landlady exclaimed with a bland admiring smile Oh Miss Brooke dear youre far too good for the stage You ought to he In a shop trylu on mantles Iteadf For Ulna Little Willie Say pa was the earth created before man Pa Yes my son Little Willie Why was It Pa It was probably known that It would be tho first thing hed want when he arrived Chicago News India has perhaps a greater variety of plants than any oUier country In tho world having 15000 native species while the flora of Mio entire couUnent of Europe embraces only about 10000 Poverty Is the stone on which mauy wits are whetted Chicago News - IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS A 1opulnr Illrd Thnt la ISxIennlvnlr llreil In Thla Country BcIouHhIh call them Anna domontlcn sinensis Under thla name Professor Duerlngeii speaka of tliein Haying Tho Plngiilu duck native bird of tho entire southeastern part of Asln bred to tint creamy buff Siberian wild duck a bird that changes Its color to punt white in winter are their parents as well an of tho Japanese ducks of to day Tho erect carriage nnd general characteristics of theso now distinct varlotlea Bcein to bo proof of hat gen tlemans statement ami Indicate even to tlni caHiial observer closely related blood Pekln nnd Japnneso ducks oven If tho latter aro brown plumagcd throughout save a ring of pure white around the nook nru virtually sister varletlea Peklna Inherited to a great extent tho white winter plumago of tho Siberian duck now almost extinct nnd tho Japanese duck of today took I to feathers from tho Plnguln at present found only In a semlwlld state In tho back provinces of Ohlnn Further proof of Mio fact that Peklun have a dark A r AIlt OlIMTItUIAL IlCICW DUCIEH pluninged lino of blood can bo had by crossing them back to their ancestral variety the winter white Siberian ami more or less of the dark feathers of tho Plnguln crop out Mr ltlchmoml of Klele has the dis tinction of exporting the first Leklns f i oni China In 1871 the first lot was shipped to England and the Crystal palace show of 1874 brought the first pair of Peklns to public notice In tho show liens This Importation Into Eng land was augmenlid by later purchases In 18711 4 anil 1840 I All of theso blrda came from tho Hock kept by Mr Rich mond In Shanghai where ho experi mented long previously with tho largo sized Peklns gathered from different parts of tho country Mr Palmer of Stonlngton Conn Im ported In 1872 hla first Peklns to tho United States Theso birds are to bo designated as tho parent stock of America aa tho later on appearing duck raisers procured most of their stock from hi in Mr James Itankln of South Easton Mass often rightly named the King of Ducks was one of the first If not tho first to recognize the market value of the then comparatively unknown Pe klns Ills experience In having bred Itouens Aylesburys and otiier varletlea for market both pure and as a cross enabled him to give the Peklns a thor ough trial This trial being eminently satisfactory caused him to discard all other varieties and devotu his whole time and energy to the Peklns ex clusively Public opinion of ducks and the peoples taste for duck meat early In the season were nt that time an un known quantity In tho problem and Mr Itankln hail not only to raise tho birds for market but also to Hnd a market for tho birds In tills ho was very successful When ho raised his tens of thousands on dry land hatching them In Incuba tors with no water to enjoy a bath and found Bostons commission mer chants anxious for his products then at last tho whole of Now England be lieved that Micro was money In ducks and an army of I do llkowlso camo Into existence Hayfleld and cornfield wero neglected and Tom Dick and Harry commenced to stock up with dem whitish birds Thoy started brooding houses bought incubators and kept on raising and selling and en larging their plants as the years rolled by Thomas F Jnger In American Poultry Journal Work Toward the Standard With such a rapid multiplication of breeds ns the last two decades havo witnessed It Is sometimes dllllcult to give tho exact history of a breed or variety Several originators may havo been working at tho same tlmo toward tho sanio end but using different means This has been the case with such breeds us tho newer varieties of Wyandottes ns well as some others Is It nny wonder that thero Is such a wldo variation In the types of theso birds seen at our rhows Is It nny wondor that thoy sport bo often and that dif ferent strains vary so widely Many of them aro composites But If all breeders work faithfully toward Uio Ideal as expressed In tho adopted standard for tho breed approximate uniformity ought to bo attained oven tually Poultry Monthly Cora aa Poultry Food Texas Farm and Ranch says Poul try writers Inveigh too much against corn as a poultry fowl Thero Is no sin gle grain thnt can tnke Its place All corn of courso Is not so good as a varie ty but half corn and half variety Is unobjectionable and the proportion of corn may bo Increased beyond that ra tio without anything resembling disas ter When fattening for market corn Is not only the best but tho cheapest food known Tho universal preferenco of chickens for com wholo or In any possible state of comminution should bo regarded tr ffm nr ij i Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac Anyono snndlnij a skotrli nnd description tuny quickly iiinirtnln our opinion froo whollior no lovnntlnti H nrohnhlr tmtontiihlo Couifmiiilrit lions si rlctlrnmllrioutiiil Iliniilliookoii Immits soot fno lllott fiumity for ncrorloi imUlitn 1iitimts maim ihroiitfii Aiiimi v Co rccolro jirclil notice without clmrno Iu thai Scientific flmcricait A handsomely lllustrnlod weekly JnriMisl rlr dilution 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