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the lost island Of the Seven Cities,
which two brave and adventurous men
from his own city Of Genoa had tried in
vain to discover?
Besides all this, the gulf stream
washed the west coast of Porto Santo,
and there had often been picked mp sea
beans or chestnuts. They arethe fruit
of trees growing in the West Indies.
His brother-in-law, too, had found on
the shores great pieces of wood strange
ly carved. and SO day by day there
grew more strongly within his mind
the idea of reaching Asia by steering
straight into the unknown west.
One of the first settlers of Madeira
was Genoese. named John Esmeraldo.
He came to the island in 1850, and lived
in the city of Funchal.
He built house for himself on the
street which bears his name. Then he
bought an estate twenty-five miles
from Funchal, to which he transferred
his residence, Columbus, who was his
friend, occupying his old house.
The house, which in the end was
used as barn, was torn down in 1877.
A table made from wood taken from
the house at the time was seen at the
Worlds fair.
The house of Gov. Perestrello, at
Porto Santo, in which Columbus also
lived, is still partly standing, overlook
ing the bay. The east wing fell with
in the present century, and was re-
built.
The southwest wing fell ten years
ago, but is being reconstructed. The
center still stands. although one of the
walls has sunk several inches. The
stone stairs leading to the upper floors
are badly worn, and bear mute testi.
mony to the many feet that have trod.
den them for more than four centuries.
Golden DAYS.
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HER6DITARY DISEASE.


A London Physician on Its Remoteness OF
Origin.
We know that features, form. frame,
popularity of constitution, suscepti-
bility to certain agents, not to speak
of character, mental and moral, the
passions and the intellect, are often de-
rived from progenitors many steps up
wagd in the ancestral tree. Individu-
ally we are combinations of many an
cestors. The actual traits of the par
ents may or may not be seen in their
offspring, and it is more common to
find that one or two only are repre-
sented in each child. The remainder
are doubtless derived from some an
cestor long forgotten, whose intel
lectual powers or defects, infirmi-
ties or vigor of body. whose
faults and follies, whose bril-
liant powers or miserable failings may
be reflected in remote descendant, as
he himself has derived them from some
distant ancestor. We are accustomed
to say that govt may skip generation,
and why may it not skip four or five?
Hereditary tendency is probably Of
far more remote origin than is COM
monty supposed, and is reflection of
the tendencies of untold numbers who
have preceded us in the family tree. 1t
is frightful thing thus to look back
on the sins of our forefathers and to
recognize the transmitted punishment,
but it is in accordance with other facts
of moral origin and highest dictation.
T.
people live together, or are intimately
associated, they grow like each other,
and we know that schoolboys are apt
to catch any popularity of habit or
expression of their tutor or school
master. This is undoubtedly the case,
but it is very different thing from
heredity. Physical peculiarities ac-
quired accidentally are not transmitted.
A man loses leg, but his children are
born with their proper complement.
For generations past it has been GUS
tomary to cut off the ears and tails of
certain breeds of dogs, but it has not
resulted in the establishment of a race
of animals unfurnished with these use-
full appendages. On the other hand,
when by curious freak of nature a
man is born with a supernumary finger
or toe he may transmit this popularity
to his children. 1t sometimes happens
that children of one sex exhibit an he
reditary faint, while those of the OPP
posite sex escape it. The boys take
after" the father and the girls after
the mother, and a tendency to disease
may be more or less powerful as the
child resembles one or the other par
emit st. Louis Republic.
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BAokwooDs PiETy.


HOW Country Prsachsr Rose Superior TO
the Iempses'ons o1
she was from the country. out sno
didn.s intend 70 take Dackwaser q
anything on that account 4 sne conio
help 1t. Piety was tho subject o. aus
cusslon, ana sister jane VINO nveo ~
town tnat made some Poyelslons ~
being considered acity, nan peen OK
patiating on the immaculate ragnseous-
ness OF Parson Jenkins
Sister Melinda oidco ner time une,i
ner innings came round anu 'nen ''oA
the moor.
don't MIND aAowin sne saio'
tnat rarson oenhins = powel.u.
nRious man. Dus wnen :. cones
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resls1ln ms wlles % eem P'aslvns' my,
s1anus r,gns uP - 0.l - -
snat our larson ,enu oan -
neat oy no man. ne aon run E sDup
kitcnen Gus we don's nave NO use icl
sion tnings aown our Way an NC aon
go siummm Gus We am go. Nc s'ul s.,
Dus ne Always reaoy TOE sosSio VIII
sne aove,saly. no ma.ees nov many
snn.es ~ p'sisais - $50 - ~ 80
on KNOW, ne Keeps maple grove
onto ms iittie place an ne see
power1ui store Dy en-. wen, = mum -
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au nis spouss ulus - ~ ~ 1880. q -
p. - = 81 na'o 80 81 s -:.l. -
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crop On lnul soay' nor On Iiusy. ~.
on oaturuay; ou' On 0unus sno Pun
snone soue powellM "ai "a, ~ 49,. :.
snlue "ss - ~ $500. -
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. little some one bent card accident
ally. and q new pack was called for.
Dinny brought In the fresh cards still
in their unopened wrapper. Well, the
minute laid eyes on the cards horri-
BILE suspicion seized me-horrible when
you consider that we were all friends
playing together-and, as opportunity
offered, / carefully examined my cards.
"A long time before / had found 1t
necessary, during lawsuit. to study
thoroughly the systems of marking
cards. There are several of these, and
when You have mastered them 1t is an
easy matter to spot marked cards any
where. So knew for dead certainty
that could detect the cheat, If there
was one, and somehow, in spite of re
pugnance to believe it, felt suspicious
of the new pack. So / waited a mo-
ment until got two kings together and
compared them. There was no doubt
of it, the cards were marked!
Naturally was very angry; and my
first impulse was to dash down the
cards and denounce the players. When
/ thought of the situation, we two
young chaps decoyed in there to be
cheated out of the little money we had
by young fellows like ourselves. whom
we met socially and frequently, whom
we had entertained in our own towns
! almost boiled ovcr Such a dastardly
bit of business! am furious vet when
/ think of it.
However, took few minutes to
think over the matter, and presently
beautiful scheme of vengeance
dawncd upon me. set out to find out
the system on which this particular
pack was marked 1t was obviously a
yer y simple one, and knew that the
minute / got on to it l could tell every
card in the pack. The two kings had
each q petal off tn 6 rose In the left
hand corner ON the back. As soon as
got two queen together examined
them and found that each had two
petals off the same rose Then was
dead on to the system and there prom
ised to be some fun ahead l knew
every card In the pack and the Others
were of course ignorant of my knowl-
edge.
Tho situa ton was pregnant. Here
was Bolton, who was gently keeping
out of it, and to whom, therefore. ii
was unnecessary to convey any warn
ing; here were three young rascals de-
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y rAHNSx RDEI1sNN

~ tCopyrfght, 1914, by Madge Robertson.
There had been the usual run of
stories about tho campfire, when the
lawyer spoke. 1t was late fall camp.
Hunters yarns had run riot Inventions
had become exhausted.
II am no sportsman" he observed.
s'but l have had some fun occasionally,
when was younger"
In second he had the usual close at
tention accorded to the quiet man who
unexpectedly becomes talkative. After
moment, some ones pipe went out
and stayed out
ut was back twenty years ago.
was practicing in c.. in northern
Ontario, where clients were scarce and
poor as myself, and where law prac-
tice took one out collecting rents from
farmhouses ten miles apart, by roads
terrifically rough = one wheel up q
bowlder. the other down in rut
"The county towns adjacent are
Owen Sound and Barrie. Several times
year went to both places on circuit
Owen Sound was pretty wild place in
those days; plenty of young English
men spending the quarterly allowance
they got from home the first week 1t
arrived, and plenty of young fellows in
banks and law offices trying to keep up
their end with much less money.
Shrieber Bolton. of Barrie, and myself
usually went every three months or SO
to the Sound together. We knew all
the men about town and always count
ed on fairly good time while court
was in session.
ION one occasion we reached Owen
Sound pretty well played out. We had
had to stage 1t from Meaford, twenty
four miles. So, when the first days
work was over, we refused all invita-
tions and settled down after dinner to
a quiet smoke at our hotel.
However, about nine o'clock some
chaps came along and fairly routed us
out. There were Merrill, teller in one
of the banks, and Arnold. the son of q
wealthy brewer, both well-known
young fellows in the place, and whom
we had met frequently before. They
would not take any refusal. Go to
Dinny Dinoon's we must, before the
night was over; we were only there
once in a three-month, and so On.
Dinny kept a saloon with cardrooms
and billiards in decent enough part
of the town, and we had been at Din
ny's before.
"There were drinks, of course, and
billiards, think. Presently some one
said cards. We tried to get out of the
game. Bolton played very little and
never for money, and / did not care to
play that night even for small stakes
But 1t was no use. and the upshot was
that we soon found ourselves in a
small upstairs room, with a bottle or
two, and the prospects of nights play
before us. A chap named Hooking, a
law student. had Joined US at the bar,
and there were Ave of Us in the game.
Twas hideously sleepy. but when some
one suggested loo, Jumped. As some
of YOU know, unlimited log is the
thieyingest game going, and ! retained
lively rccollections of the wickedness
thereof.
Years before. when line of boats
plaved between c. and Chicago, the
captains found themselves In c. two
or three days out of each week; there
was tall playing, and loo was the
rarne. Well, in those days had played
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NATURES uPHEAvALs.
Mankind Meets Them with the Calm Con.
fidcuce I'm the Future.

ndeuce In the Future.
Many are hah-inclined to accuse
Providence for allowing great loss OF
human life, forgetting that we are AL
under capital sentence, and that the
occurrence of deaths wholesale instead
of in detail can not make much differ
ence in the great scheme, and many
more doubt, If Providence does not
leave the world to go it's own way and
provide for its own needs-a theory
which can not be strengthened by any
individual occurrence. Our reflection
would be different one-the wonder.
full rarity and comparative smallness OF
the cataclysms which affect man. Out
side the effects of huge wars. like the
barbarian invasion Of Rome, or ths
Mohammedan conquests, audible his
tory does not record one, not even the
burning of Rome, which has much At
fected the course of events in the hap
piness of mankind.
Behind history, if Sir H. Howorth il
right, such cataclysms may have oc-
CURED, but within history we know Of
none. The very biggest was probably
the outbreak of the black death, which
in 1851 destroyed third of our own
population, and certainly detected the
course of it's social history. The vol
canic outbursts have usually occurred
in thinly populated districts; among
capitals Lisbon only has been heavily
struck. and it revived. while, though
there have been numberless famines,
no famine has ever destroyed race.
Wild tribes have passed away, there
is reason to believe, under the attack
epidemic-the people of Fiji nearly
persisted in our own time-and locali.
ties have been desolated, but no civil
lied people has died out through dis
ease. Yet there seems no absolute
reason why an epidemic should not
gather strength for months, as 1t
usually does for weeks, until its raw.
ages destroyed q nation; why a
storm wave should not overwhelm q
country like Holland, or why city or
port, or for that matter vast reach
of inhabited territory in harvest time.
should not perish in fire.
Think what masses of inflammable
! material we gather together, and how
few are the great fires! How much
dynamite is there stored in London OF
Liverpool, or, perhaps, unloading al
! this very moment in Cardiff? There
is hardly limit to what a fire or q
food or the cholera might do. and yet
| men live on. full of reasonable 60
curity born in all of long experience.
and strengthened in few by a con-
fidence, not quite SO reasonable, that
Providence will snot suffer huge
calamity. Providence has probably
suffered the humiliation of worlds.
| Every now and then the security Is
broken by an event like the explosion
I, of Krakatoa, which has never been suf-
| ficiently described. and which might
have altered the face of the world
London Spectator.
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DESERTED DIocINos.


Distorted Landscape Features That Mark
q Mining Folly.
The dreariest tract of country through
which I have travelled for hong time,
said travelling man recently, is the
southeastern part of the state of Maine
which was the locus of the mining
craze a few years ago.
There is no railroad in that section,
and in order to GET to my destination.
the town of Machias, had to drive
more than sixty miles from the nearest
point on the railroad which runs to Bar
Harbor.
/ passed through miles of country
which was characterized by deserted
shafts of copper and silver mines, the
ore taken from which did not begin to
reimburse the unlucky spectators for
their outlay.
Every now and then one sees the
Wondering remains of what was at
that time believed to be the neucleus
of future village; the decaying shells
of hotels, bearing such characteristic
names as .Copperopolis Hotel. etc. In
the neig borhood of these are to be seen
the dilapidated homes built by specu.
lators for a population which never
materialized-h ab citations which were
never even dwelt in for day.
The excavations made in some places
by .hhe misguided miners are extensive,
and the huge artificial caverns thus
created viii remain forever, empha.
sizing in their unsightliness folly
which infected the population of the
entire state.
The one small return which nature
gave for all this foolish expenditure OF
time and money exist to-day in the
wells of pure water which were
''strucis" in the course of thesinlting OF
shafts through the solid rock. IN. Y.
Herald.
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HOUSE FURNISHING

Good Taste ahuns Ornate and Snowy IN.
tericrs for Coslness and Warmth.
The tendency of the best taste in
house-furnishing is undoubtedly to-
ward individualism, with theparadox-
ical result that the fashion is to avoid
the fashion. The most distinct evil
dence Of the latest and improved mode
Is the revival of the French styles of
furniture. the periods of the empire, OF
Henri H.. and of the Louises having
received much attention. Louis XIV.
is perhaps the greater favorite, as af-
fording the most scope to the designer
and craftsman, but it Is, perhaps, the
worst style for economical treatment,
its production requires the greatest
skill, and If carried out by inferior ar
lists the result is apt to be vulgar and
disappointing. Chippendale has been
in great demand. so much so that in
fact it is in danger of becoming un-
fashionable, for perhaps the clearest
note that we can strike in fash-
ionable house-furnishing is to
avoid that which the shopkeeper as
sures you proudly .'is selling" Many
Of the Chippendale models are as re-
fined in line as they are durable in use;
others more florid in style are widely
copied and much used with their moan
ingless carvings and applied fretwork.
It is interesting to note, however.
how the English style Of furnishing
imparts the atmosphere of moro re-
fined individuality than the dainty and
rrafef1I French things of vernis- Mar
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liberately laying themselves out and
setting up game to fleece two inno-
cent comrades; and here was /, know
ing the whole trick beforehand, and
fully prepared with the biggest sort of
revenge.
1.-THE point was this: Whenever they
dealt. they knew Of course every card
In my hand and in the missy and SO
did in their hands and in the missy;
but what they did not know was, that
/ knew. So when had the best hand
/ went in, and when one of them could
beat me I simply stayed out There
were always two of them in, of course,
one to dec oy me; SO Istood to win every
time.
"And when dealt took care that
they should see neither my hand nor
the missy Consequently I knew all
their cards and they only knew each
others and the game was entirely in
my own hands / had dead sure
thing. If you had seen those men look
at each otherl / was not to be bluffed
out or lured in unless the cards war
ranted it and won straight along OF
course. / had them hard and fast; they
were helpless and could not understand
1t at all Side-glances Of inquiry be.
came open establishment and length
ened, with their faces, into pure dis
may. They were the most sold men l
ever saw, yet not daring to stop, and
uncertainty fearful of me. Rats in a
| trap were enfranchised citizens COM
pared to them They could do abso-
lutely nothing but play on and lose
their money. II was their suggestion,
YOU see, their cards and their own set
up game. 1t was fun, l tell you.
well, along about midnight, Arnold
was strapped, and borrowed of Hook
ing, and by four in the morning they
were all cleaned out and had Merrill
I o U for forty dollars
Next morning / woke up Bolton
early and told him. He was in bed
and rolled of in helpless paroxysms OF
laughter about the floor. He had seen
the whole thing of course far bet
| ter than had and he simply rushed
back to Barrie to tell the story. He
was capital story teller and for years
afterward my appearance in Barrie was
the signal among certain set for pro-
longed laughter.
ssBolton would not share up and took
only his own money back Merrill
came around the next morning and
paid up the forty dollars left Owen
Sound that night and never saw any OF
the three again
"You don't mean to say you never
told themr' exclaimed the lawyers
daughter. :.
..Not much! far better joke as II
was
s.ohl good graciousr' she calculated
gaspingly. Think of keeping it!'
Her father laughed.
II expect they are like the man who
was killed by lightning, still wonder
| ing what struck Them" he said
The FIRE burned low as one pipe after
another was slipped into the pockets Of
rough serge coats and soon candies
glimmered out OF the tent cracks
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81 ExAMINEp M CARDS. :

q good deal for youngster, but nao'
at the time of whicl speak, forgotten
the game entirely. As for Bolton, a.
he subsequently told me. the only thing
he knew of loo at all was aprovidentiai
bit of advice he got years before from
an old uncle. to the effect that there
was only two ways to play loo. One
was to take the missy THAT is. girls.
the two or three cards left over which
the person next the dealer has the
privilege of substituting for his own
handl every time. and the other was 70
leave It every time. So Bolton left II
alone very time and played along
TRANQUILITY, standing. to be not much
ont or in when the game was over
q saw that low limit was hxsds 2
forty@flvo cont one, and we started !, !.
Altar q bit II ell came back 70 me-: ~
] lost end gained about evenly MR'
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4 POLITE MANS REBUFF.



He Was just Ofxerin' the Lady HIS Seat and
EVERYBODY 0issled'
She entered woodward avenue car
70 ma every seat TAKEN ana Two OF
three men standing up. but as she
reached up Tor strap an oidlsn man.
who was comfortably liked, raised his
hand to attract her attention, and said:
Lemme ofKer You TINS seat, marm-
"Oh, no! mol nor she protested.
! But Ia ike 70. marm' lou seem 20
be real decent person. ana It's TOO
bad TO make you STAND up.
y am all r1gnt' sne answered as
she turned away 70 CUT MN ON.
say, marm, femme oHer you TINS
seat persisted the mao, iou may
De lame fur All ! Know, ana u Iouna
1t out afterward ia feel skunky mean.
II toio you preierre1 20 stanof sne
sharply retorted, wniie ner ears caught
gigRle here ana there among the pas
sengers.
faas, know ye aio' out It's q neap
easier 10 rae sistln oown. mar am
no nog about me: IN anus reauy 20 90
anybody 2 lav0r II sney loos oecent ana
respecsao DC ~ ienio oaAo' ~ 'll's
seas, Mal ,
Don you 80 .nas you are annoying
tne iaoyf wnispe1eo . man across eie
aisle.
No' AN - = les sn m.,y yeu ner
I'm Diameu so..y tur ~ Gnu WIZ OK ner
!urgiveness. MTuoe sic 'nousn. = snv
LOOK 6tne seas :, 81 On ana ASK -,
aDou. nel nsal'n sanu nc. iA'n ~, anu
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-Of one hundred infants born in the
maternity hospital at Edinburgh, the
average weight at birth was I. SO pounds
for males and 1928 pounds for females.
The average height was 1894 inches
and 1898 inches respectively. The
range between the shortest and tallest
male infant was ten inches: between
the shortest and talless female infants,
eight inches
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Vice is the bane Of . republic. and
saps the foundations of liberty. If our
economy, temperance, justice and pub
lie faith are once extinguished by the
opposite vices, our boasted constitu-
ton, which is built on the pillars Of
virtue. must necessarily fall. -Emmons.
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CORONATION.

ocenting garden rare ard sweet
turned amazed it's wealth to meet
With color glory all ablaze,
And soft tints lighting hidden sprays
Whence came this miracle Of grace
Where only barrenness had place?
Who wrought this wonder from the ground,
Whose guerdon iavished II arounda
The gardener is woman frail,
Her arm Is weak. her face Is pale
She spake, uplifting thoughtful eyess
ut brings to me, as you, surprise
''Naught had that was rich or dne,
Only the drudgery was mine,
The weary toiling in tho mold,
In wet and dry. in heat and cold
Heaven sent the rest no work is lost:
through drought or flood, or fire or frost,
In midnight gloom or dreary day
The crown divine shall speed its way"
-Elisabeth A. Blood, In Springfield (Mass.)
Republican.
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The Son of His Father-The World
owes me = living!
The Self-made MAXWELL. why in
the thunder don't you go to work and
collect the bil1?-Truth.
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Little Rudolph falls desperately in
love with Ida, who is in the girls de-
partment of the same school, 80 he
squeezes the following billetrdoux into
her hand at recess:
Dear Ida: love You SO much. Won't
ron marry me-"
Ida's reply was as follows:
MY Dear Rudolph love you, but
I can't marry you. as pa says there are
already too many children in our own
family. v-Texas Siftings.