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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26

covered blood-stain just where my
hand had been on the chair. ] think it
escaped the notice of the detective"
IF it did, it is the first blood stain that
ever escaped him."
"He did not mention it,"
"Ie never mentions anything. He
has been discharged from more than
one case for looking like an idiot, but
that's part of his method. He knows
what he is doing"
There was a short silence then.
WILDLY and Warrenton could see that
the hypnotist was deeply engaged in
thought. Presently he said brusquely:
''I'll have to see you again tomorrow,
or next day, Mr.. WILDLY / can do
nothing now. Will you come with me
to my hotel, colonel? l want to consult
you on point of law before we go any
further. l think it will be necessary,
Mr. WILDLY, for you to get good
nights rest before we do anything.
Where do you sleep?"
Last night l began occupying my
old room just across the hail." replied
WILDLY. 81 was sleeping there when
the crime was committed, and have
had an aversion to it ever since; but |
was glad to find that slept better there
last night than / had upstairs in an
other room"
you naturally would, and you were
wise to move back. If you go to bed
with the idea that you are doing even a
slight thing for self-protection, the
thought will haunt you in your sleep.
1t is one of the psychic laws. Would
you mind showing me the room"
"Not at ALL" The three men rose and
went into Whidby's room.
(Which is the chair you spoke of, and
where was it placed that night?" asked
DR.. Lampkin.
WILDLY drew it from behind a screen
in corner.
"You ought not to have placed it
there" remarked the hypnotist. "The
idea of its being pushed away out OF
sight will remain with your sub-con-
seriousness longer than you dream of
Such things belong TO a wonderful
science that all people ought TO know
Where was the chair standing that
night, as near as you can remember
Exactly there" And WILDLY placed
the chair within few feet of the bed
"Ah, yes" said the hypnotist. u
see where you touched it that night
with your hand. Now, do as l direct
you. Leave it exactly where it is, and
tonight when you go to bed place YOU
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
CUTTING WITH A PIPE STEM.

bracelets and lenses-with the pipe
stem. Any boy can become expert at
it with very little practice. A pane OF
glass may be cut in similar way.
There is another and older method
of cutting bottle in two with string
which may be tried when a pipe stem is
not at hand, Hunters and backwoods-
men often use it with great success,
although it is not as sure and practical
as the pipe-stem method.
Two boys are necessary to do the
work. Take very stout piece of hand.
woven string and give it a single turn
around the bottle. Each boy should
take hold of the string with one hand
and the bottle with the other. See-saw
the string rapidly back and forth, being
careful that it rubs the glass always in
one place. Continue this until the fric-
ton of the string has made the glass
hot where it has rubbed and then
plunge the bottle suddenly into pail
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
fro BE Continued
SHE WANTED A FAMILY TREE
A Necessary Adjunct to Social Adj
yanccment.

necessary ADJUNCT TO SOc1nl Al"
vanccment.
"John," said Mrs. Croesus, thought
fully, everybody in society seems to
think an awful lot of genealogy these
days"
Jennie what?" exclaimed John,
looking up from his evening paper.
"Genealogy," repeated Mrs. Croesus
whats that?"
81 don't exactly know" replied Mrs.
Croesus, but think it's tree of some
kind. At least, heard some ladies'
refer to it as family tree"
well, what of to" he asked.
"Why, it seems to be a sort of fad,
you know, and everyone who is anyone
has to have one"
BUY one, then" he said, irritably.
"Buy the best one in town and have
the bill sent to me; but don't bother
me with the details of the affair. Get
one, and stick it up in the conservatory,
if you want one, and if it isn't too
large"
"But l don't know anything about
them"
Find out; and if it's too big for the
conservatory stick it up on the lawn,
and if that amt big enough I'll buy
the next plot of land in order to make
room. There can't any of them fly
any higher than we can, and, If it comes
to question of trees, I'll buy whole
orchard for you"
Still she hesitated.
''rhe fact is, john" she confessed at
last, 81 don't know just where to go for
anything in that line. Where do they
keep family trees and all such thingsg'
what do you suppose l know about
it?" he exclaimed. YOU'RE running
the fashion end of this establishment
and l don't want to be bothered with
it. If the florist can't tell you anything
about it, hunt up first-class nursery
man and place your order with him"
London Tit-Bits.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
CUTTING GLASS WITH SHEARS.

clay pipe stem or a bit of hot wire.
Having this knowledge, Bert readily
applied it. He started a crack in green
mineral water bottle by heating it in
the blaze of gas jet, and then drop
ping little water on the heated spot.
Sometimes the heating alone will form
the crack. When the cold water touches
the hot glass little star is usually
formed, with many cracks reaching out
from it. This star is formed at some
distance away from the place where
the real cutting is to be done. For
instance, if Bert is making a tumbler
from the bottom of an old bottle he
starts the crack near the shoulder at
the top. Then he pastes strip of pa.
per or snaps a rubber band around the
bottle to show exactly where he wishes
to cut it off. Then he heats the end
of the pipe stem in gas or coal flame
until it is very hot. Carefully he
presses the end against the glass near
one of the cracks, as shown in the pic
ture. At once the crack leaps out and
follows, and Bert leads it around as
much as he wishes. When the stem
cools off he heats it up again.
When the bottle is cut off to tumbler
size the rough edges are smoothed
down with fine file or on grind
stone, and Bert has fine new tum-
bier.
Besides this, bottle may be cut intS
all manner of odd shapes-spirals
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
CUTTING up bottles.
Three Ways in Which Boys Can Make
Glass TumbIers.

Bert Wallace has whole row of col
ored glass tumblers which he had MAIDS
himself. He didn't blow them, nor
mold them, according to the best
known methods of glass makiug-he
simply cut them dow. from old bottles.
and they made very useful and serv-
iceable tumblers, too.
Bert didn't own a diamond glass
point nor a steel glass wheel and so he
cut the bottles with a clay pipe stem.
Seems odd, doesn't it? But any boy
who wants to cut glass-and where is
the boy who doesn't?-can do it with
out the least difficulty.
Bert learned that if piece of glass
or a bottle contains ever so small a
crack, it can be cut into any desired
shape by leading the crack along with
some redhot object, such as heated
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
The Crafty Hawk.

On wash days, when the family
laundry has forenoon out, the hen
hawk will make himself up to look like
a lean pillow which has been slept upon,
and will hang himself by his claws to
a fence cap on the top of stake and
wait for hens all day right under the
eyes of the women folks, who some
times go out and shake him up to learn
if he isn't most dry,
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AN INTELLECTUAL DOG.
He Can Spell Several words and
Knows Many Playing Cards.

CHH 11u
Knows Many Playing Cards.
Bob is a small, well-bred fox ter
rier, who, besides being an excellent
ratter, is distinguished for his intel
lectual accomplishments. He can spell
several words of three letters, includ-
ing his own name. A word is called out
and he picks out the letters as they are
repeated to him; or, if he happens to
be in good form and keen on his les
son, it is only necessary to say the
word, and he puts his foot on each let
ter in it's order. He also docs Lady
Jane Grey. e., has his head cut
off and then dies-makes bow, knows
ace of spades, king of hearts and ten
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
THE THREE SONGS.
poet in the rosy prime
tn {:

4 poet in the rosy prime
EAnd blithe and dewy morn OF time,
GWhen song was natural as breath,
Three songs sent forth TO fight with death.
VT And one he made to please the crowd:
II pleased them and his praise was loud:
r., 1t pleased them greatly for day,
>" And then its music died away.
= And one he made to please the few;
1t lived century or two:
Twas sung within the halls of kings,
Then vanished with forgotten things.
And one he made to please himself,
Without thought of fame or pelf,
But sent 1t forth with doubt and fears,
And 1t outlasted all the years.
No other song has vital breath
Through endless time to fight With death
Than that the singer sings apart
To please his solitary heart.
Sam Walter Foss, in N. Y SUM-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
MiIIic,n Heroism.

Mamma-How did you get your
clothes so badly torn?
Willie-Tryin' t keep a little boy
from being licked.
Mamma-That was a brave deed.
Who was the boy?
Willie-Me. -Cp-to-Date.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26

1t is not safe to bet on what you "fecl
in your bones" unless you bet on rheu-
matism.-Atchison Globe
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-26
LONG BottIed pncteria.

A German professor reports he has
found living bacteria in wine which had
been bottled 25 or 30 yeara
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Bab's Reflections
 On Country LHe>

drink Casually of whisky) for his stom- ach's sake and his inffrmties, but at the expense of the boarder. Then, too, 1t has been borne in upon me that the man who prays the loudest at the Wednesday meeting goes in with the greatest vigor when kissing games are played at the annual picnic.
 The women are different in kind, but all have one great pain and grief, and that is to pluck every feather off the hat of the summer boarder till she looks as if prepared for a fricassee. The average woman envies you your clothes, no matter how simple they are, bor- rows them to cut from and then talks about you to somebody else. She thinks you're immoral because your lingerie is trimmed with lace and ruffles, she sus- poets you if you're too familiar with your own father, and her general opin- ion of everybody is that she could teach them an awful lot but that people are all such fools. Sometimes you come across an exception, and you find her jolly to talk to, good to eat q don't mean I've turned cannibal, but I mean the dishes on her table are palatable) and ready to enjoy herself in any way possible. We've struck one of this kind. and from shooting frogs down to chas-
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with glittering stones and jet, are mixed in with twists and folds of bright hued velvet, and, while black plumes subdue the more obtrusive colorngs, the darker toques are adorned with speckled quills or feather aigrets and choux of bright ribbon or velvet. Hats turned up in Punchinello fashion are "1e dernier cr1' in Paris and Vienna, but here are gain ing ground slowly, although extremely becoming to the American type of face, which does not so well bear hat shad- ing the forehead.
 The newest shade of red Is termed begonia and is very rich and deep and less obtrusive than cherry red or car7 dinal, although resembling both. Aga lea is the happiest of the violet tints and is combined with the palest green, blue or salmon pink. Velvets powdered with small embroidered designs or sim gle jewels on tiny clusters of sequins will be largely used for millinery, and embroidered robes will still find favor for evening wear. 3s
The age-herald., 1898-09-18
Had Two Silver Weddings.

MT. James W. Twaits has enjoyed the unique privilege of having had two sil- yer weddings. He was born at Lynn, Norfolk, England, S2 years ago, but has been living in Saginaw, Mich, since 1856. He married his first wife in Eng land in 1Si3, and they had Il children, five of whom are still living He was connected with the Chartist movement from 1892 till 1S4S and suffered for his opinions.
 He left England in 1851 and landed at New York almost penniless. He obtain- ed employment on Lake Erie, and in 1858 his family joined him when he was working for a lumber firm in Cleve- land. Three weeks later a fire burned out the works, and he lost everything, and in 1856 he went to Saginaw. His first wife died in 1870, their silver we'd ding having occurred in 1888.
 In 1872 he married his second wife, widow, with two children, with whom he has lived for over quarter of a century, their silver wedding occurring in 1897.
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An Interesting American

Lady Randolph Churchill is a most interesting personality. Arriving in England some "A years ego, one of the pioneers of the American feminine in- vasion of the British pesrage, she had many prejudices to overcome. It was not a case of she came. she saw, she conquered. It took some time to do, but it was done thoroughly. She took her place and kept it and, while quite natural and unpretentious, was sslf as- sured and cool. Then she is extremely clever and most amusing, and her brils liance soon attracted that keen appre- ciator of brightness in womanly intel feet, the Prince of Wales.
 There is perhaps no other woman in England who has been so consistently asked to meet the prince as Lady Randolph Churchill. She is also a fa- vorte with the princess. Being eX- tremely musical, she amuses her royal highness by playing to her. while her singing would make her fortune, not so much for voice as for expression and her quick conception of pure fun.
 At one time, too, she earned the last ing good opinion of very august per- sonages by the admirable way in which she choked off the calf love evinced for herself by youthful scion of the blood. Indeed she is a wonderful woman and looks much more like her sons sister than his mother. She was recently betrothed, by report, to well known American millionaire widower. The re- port, however, is an old story, and so far there has been no wedding though the American widow and widower are, all the same, very excellent friends.
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spite of all this they got tired of nearly everything. When they reached New York harbor and anchored off Tomp- l1insyille, cooks were assigned to their ship, and the culinary corps was re- tired from active service, but they found their experiences useful in afford- ing knowledge to criticise the new cooks. Although they feasted by comparison with the old order of things, they were twice as hard to please.
 Most of the men got shore leave now and then Whenever they went out people stared at them and came up and wanted to shake hands. Sometimes wo- men asked them for a hatband or a souvenir of some sort; sometimes the women gave them flowers or candy. The candy they ate, but the flowers they generally chucked into the first garbage barrel, for the men on board guyed them if they brought them back to the ship.
 One day a couple of the crew decided to go to the theater. They sneaked in quietly, knowing their clothes didn't look very well. When the lights were turned up between acts every opera glass in the house was turned upon them, and they simply squirmed in modification. Then the band struck up "rhe Star Spangled Banner" and ey- cry one applauded. Some men near them got up and came over to shake hands. as if they had known them all their lives. One was a well known banker, who asked about his nephew on their ship. Another great man sent mes- sage to their captain, whom he knew quite we'll, and if the play had lasted much longer their heads would have been so big their caps would have never gone on again.
 Ethel is regretting that she broke off her engagement with Charley last Win ter, for it would be so romantic now to have a sailor sweetheart, and then the number of souvenirs those men brought home was something to marvel at. Of course if Ethel were engaged to Charley she could get all the souvenirs away from him. There is nothing slow about Ethel. What makes Ethel especially angry is that Charley's heart seems now to be in first class condition, for he is flirting as desperately as ever with eV- cry girl he meets although he had vow ed to go and get killed on her account. There was not more than one man out of ten who went away with blighted af- factions who failed to come back heart whole and fancy free or mayhap smit- ten with some other girl. The war seems to have worked marvels along many lines MADGE POI.TER.
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A Won1a11's View
 Of Our Jackies,

one man that I remember having thought last winter the most insuffera- ble dandy I ever knew remarked cheer fully:
 'So glad you ladies came today, Miss Knickerbocker, when we all are in apple pie order"
 We were shown all over the ship. It had been a great coastwiSe liner before the naval reserves were put in charge of it, and it was most interesting to note the vessels complete transforma- ton. Some of the men told us how many times they had crossed the ocean, never expecting to be found one day cleaning guns and scrubbing decks where they had once had the proud privilege of chumming with an Eng fish earl or a Russian prince.
 We were asked to sup in their mess, as they call it. Six o'clock was the hour. Each man was provided with tin plate and a tin cup. In the cups they were given soup or something of that sort, which they drank like tea or coffee. There was a big dish of pota- toes, and each man got so many. chunk of bread was beside each plate, and when the word was given each sailor fell to and simply devoured ev- erything in sight. Their table manners
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ing the cows home she aids the boys in having a good time.

ing the cows home she aids the boys in having good time.
 Did you ever chase a cow in the direc- tion it didn't wish to go? It is more mul- ish than mule, crosser than a cat, pos- sessed of more bitterness than a bull dog when he feels that he is not appre- ciated, and the situation is such that you wonder why, if cows were necessa- ry at all, they should have been made with such peculiar tempers. It does one good once in awhile to get acquainted with the people of the country-I mean those people who are not supposed to have souls.
 But how can I look into the eyes of that big mastiff without understanding that he is saying to me- You go on out and have a good time. I'll watch the house for you?"
 How can I pet that beautiful mare, with her little colt beside her, and not have her murmur to me: Pm mother. Did you ever see a prettier baby than mine?"
 Or. when the chickens are running around, the hen lays an egg, and the cock of the walk takes all the credit for it, am I not forced to think, "Oh, MT. My Gentleman, how like unto a man you are?"
 And then at night, when we're glid- ing over the waters and somebody is looking intosomebody else seyes, there's a whole flock of white geese that follow the boat, as much as to say, Make love while the moon shines, for the holi- day times will soon be over, and there will come to you some hours of work of work"
 There's a wonderful life in the coun- try. Get yourself presented to 1t, get
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tCopyright, 1S9S.l

Copyright, 1S98.l
 And I never laughed so much in my life, said the pretty girl, as the day we went down to the ship to visit those boys. There was Charley Van Tassel- never in his life did anything harder than lead a cotillon. As we climbed on board the ship we recognized in dirty, dilapidated sailor, C in tattered togs, the irreproachable ..arley. He was painting the side of the ship, and he looked as fierce as a Spaniard until he spied us. Then he showed red even through the paint and grime that he had managed to get upon his face.
 Suse-you know, Susie has no tact rushed right up to him and said, "So glad to see you, Charley, but you do look dreadful!" She didn't mean his clothes or the paint even, but his gen. eral gauntness. Charley took it the wrong way, however, and would scarce ly speak to her.
 The rest of us had a little more tact. We pretended not to have seen him and were absorbed in shaking hands with Reggie Clinton, who rushed up to us quite unconscious of a patch of black on his cheek where he had left the print of his fingers after polishing up gun. In the meantime Charley sneaked
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had flown. Every man seemed to be possessed of fierce ambition to get all he wanted for himself and let every other man look out for himself. When they had gobbled everything on the ta- ble, all stopped rather respectfully, and our friends again were prepared to mo- tice our existence. They assured us that their appetites were in measure satisfied, although they at all times baff1ed appeasing.
 At first the men had done their own cooking and had great larks over it. Reggie had expected to shine when he 7 tried his chafing dish skill in the ship kitchen. He bragged so much to the other men of how much better the bill of fare would be when he was on cook duty that good many of them who had tried his Welsh rarebits and oysters at home were inclined to have pleasant anticipations. But, alas! the beans were harder and the potatoes soggier than ever when he cooked, and poor Reggie was almost mobbed by the disgusted sailors.
 The most popular man on shipboard was little Irishman, drayman or something of that sort, who had kept bachelors hall for himself before the war broke out and who could cook the potatoes until they were so mealy and nice that they almost melted in the mouth and whose fried bacon, we were assured, was a poem in itself.
 When they were on cook duty, most of the men tried to vary the monotony of the menu as much as possible. They made rice buildings, using prunes in- stead of raisins, and cooked the food in every way which imagination could suggest and skill could execute In
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below and changed his clothes. When he came on deck again, he wore a white duck suit that would ruin the reputa- ton of a laundress, it was so Streaked and yellow from washing. It seems the boys had to do their own washing, and the white ducks had to be washed ev- cry day. Most of the men on the ship were society idlers who had rich fathers to pay their bills, and it was funny to think of them on the ships scrubbing away for dear life to make their clothes look well.
 Men who had been most particular about their appearance at home had re- lapsed into the most abject state of in- difference on shipboard and wore al- most saffron hued ducks. Men who had not bothered so much about, the cut of their ties and the latest dancing step, but had spent their summers camping in the woods instead of at Newport or Bar Harbor, squabbled over their al- lowance of soap and were the envy of the erstwhile society dudes, who had not the muscle or the experience to scrub their garments to the same degree of Whiteness. All the men were growing odd looking boards, and their hair was cut into marvellous angles about the edge where their hand mirrors had fail- ed to give them a good view of the back of the head.
 Manicure their nails? Some of these men used to be proud of their well kept hands, Now their stubby looking nails were trimmed with black, and the skin was red and horny. All of them crowd ed about us, and it was beautiful to see how unconscious they were of their ap- pearance. In fact, fancy they thought they were looking particularly well, for
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yourself thoroughly acquainted with it, and you will have any number of friends.
 The horse will whinny at your ar rival, the great big dog will give bark of welcome, the cows will 'moo' in their pretty fashion, while the ducks and the chickens will chatter and run about, making so much noise that you don't know whether it's welcome or defiance. And they call them dumb an- imals Some of us may be glad that they can't speak, and some of us may regret it. But cuddling up to me is little fox terrier who is getting to be old in years, but as he grows old he grows more loving until nowadays he knows whether the heart is gay or the eyes full of tears-those eyes and that heart which belong to