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How Things Grow in Hawaii.

How great are the possibilities of Ha-
wall as a fruit and vegetable growing
country will be understood when 1t be-
comes known that four crops of pota-
toes have been produced in succession
on the same piece of land within twelve
months. Radishes become edible ten
days after sowing. Strawberry vines
bear fruit all the year. The berries are
of the finest flavor.
Cabbage grows all the year and 1t ap-
parentiy makes no difference whether
it is planted in the spring, summer, au-
tumn or winter. Parsley once sown
grows forever. apparently. Lima beans
continue to grow and bear for over a
year, and they have to be gathered
every week after starting to bear. Gu
cumbers bear the entire year and so
do tomatoes, which, with proper atten-
ton, bear for years. Raspberries bear
for six months.
Piueapples come into bearing when
the plants are four months old and
bear in abundance for years. Lettuce
can be planted at any time, and 1t de.
velopes quickly. The same is true OF
celery.-Fruit Trade Journal and Pro.
duce Record.
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but with a mighty effort she rallies. shs

but with a mighty effort she rallies. She
can now feel the hot steam from the
engine upon her cheek, and then two
short, shrill whistles and she knows her
warning has been seen. But can they
stop in time? Staggering from the
track just as the engine reaches her,
she sinks into a swoon, from which
she was aroused several hours after
ward to find herself in her own room
with the doctor bending over her, and
is tolC the train was saved. For six
weeks she tossed in a delirium, and
when she was again able to be around,
Harry was always to be seenTby her
side
But her services and Harry's were not
forgotten. The company sent her a
check for $4,000, and our hero was
given a position as clerk in the general
offices some three months later, and rap
idly advanced until he is now head
clerk.
The lightning which stunned Harry
struck and instantly killed his enemy,
Jamison.
Over two years have passed since
that eventful night, and the autumn
brings visitor to E. 1t is none 9TH
er than our hero, who has come to
claim his bride.
A few days later and quiet wedding
takes place, and the lives of Harry and
Mary Strand are linked together In
those holy bonds which nothing but
death can part.
With bright future before them we
leave them to battle with life's duties
as they did on that stormy night wher
Handsome Harry" proved himself the
King Of Operators. by his daring.
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Trapping a Professor by Wire.

Among some intensely amusing col
legescrapes told by "a Graduate" in
the Ladies' Home Journal, is the story
of a certain professor, not much liked
by his pupils, who was to be married.
The lady lived in Cleveland. And the
studnts that loved O. him were not, or
course, invited. But they determined
that in some way he should hear from
them. And he did. On the day ap-
pointed the professor took the train at
10 a. M, due to arrive at Cleveland at
1870 D. m. About II o'clock Jim
Townsend rushed to the telegraph Of
fee and sent off this dispatch:
"Chief of Police, Cleveland, Ohio
Man coming on train No. 6, tall, we'll
dressed, frock coat, silk hat, side whis-
kers. Escaped lunatic. Hold! Shrewd,
therefore beware! Strange case. Will
say name Finalli. Mistake. Thinks he
is professor in a college. Delusion. Es-
cort to home of friends at No. - Euclid
| avenue"
This message reached its destination
long before train No. 6 reached Cleve-
land, so that when Prof. Finalli alight-
ed it was to walk straight into the GUS
tody of three detectives. They would
listen to no words of reason, but es-
corted him out to the house on Euclid
avenue, the home of his intended bride.
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Fortunate Findings.

One of the romances of money-mak-
ing Is the story of man who found a
newspaper inside a shark when fishing
in Australia in 1870, and who learned
the news of the FrancO-German war in
this way early enough to make for
tune out of it. The story may be true
or not; everybody in Australia knows
it. Another after the same kind is that
of the Milford Haven trawler. which,
while fishing off Carlingford Lough q
year or two ago. caught up in the net
a packet of papers, tied together with
red tape and carefully sealed. The
skipper of the boat handed the docu-
ments to a lawyer, and it was found
that they provided a missing link
which stood between woman and her
fortune. They proved the right Of a
Miss Macdonald to certain estates In
ireland, which she had claimed ten
years before, but which she had failed
to win because the will could not be
produced. 1t was this will which was
brought up from the sea.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
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roo MANY BRANCH OFFICES
Com munity of Interest Railroad Plan

Com m unity of Interest Railroad Fian
Not Carried Out, Says Critic.
"This community of interest pian'
chartered an old-time railroad man at
the Hotel Manhattan, according to the
New York Times, about which rail-
road managers talk so glibly has not
proved so beneficial to the stockho.o-
ers as was expected.
did you ever consider the enormous
expense, and much of it needless, OF
maintaining the scores of richly ap-
pointed branch offices in expensive
buildings in this city? Why, some OF
them are almost within stones throw
of another operated by the same corpo-
ration. And what is true of New YORK
is equally true. in a lesser degree, In
other large cities.
''All these branch ticket and frelgnI
offices require managers, superintend-
ents and a corps of clerks and DOCK
keepers. Much of this expense Is a
needless waste, and millions could De
annually saved to the stockholders by
economy in this one direction alone
While the railroad business has very
largely increased in recent years, the
growth has not been equal to the
growth of the army of lavishly well
paid employees. There is an excellent
field for economy in the interest of the
stockholders, merchants and the travel
ing public in the abolition of much OF
| this branch office business"
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A MAsTERPIEcE IN THE WAY.
How an English Artist Escaped Win
ming an Unenviable Notoriety.

How an English Artist Escaped Win
ming an Unenviable Notoriety.
. When Irving Montagu, the war art
list. was a very young man, before he
had mastered the elementary princi-
pies Of his art, he narrowly escaped an
adventure that he says would have
brought him a sudden notoriety in the
art world which few would have en-
wed. He was wandering through
Marlborough House. then Vernon Gal
lery, with a party of friends, and as
they were exploring deserted passages.
his companions playfully shut the
door, not knowing that it fastened
with a spring lock, and expecting him
to turn up presently, ran off to continue
their work in the galleries.
Thus "cribbed, cabined and contin-
ed" says Montagu, remained patient
enough at first, hoping it would be but
a short-lived jest; but half an hour hav-
ing elapsed, my patience began to d.
minish and the situation to pail upon
me. In vain did l try to make myself
heard, so l set about to find some
means of exit.
1 commenced by slowly feeling of
the walls around me. Now, strangely
enough, and much to my relief, the
back part of my prison house was as
flexible as if the paper of the adjoining
room were only strained on canvas
across 1t.
An idea struck me. Nothing could
/ 1ln orin fIo 20 +oI FL nd
cut slit sufficiently long for me to
step through into the next apartment.
l was just on the point of carrying
out this idea when | heard footsteps,
and CHEEKY voice without exclaiming;
"Oh, say, old fellow, you there still
We'd forgotten all about you till mo-
ment ago. This is almost too much OF
joke. You might have been there al
night"
Then, seeing the knife in my hand, he
inquired If had contemplated suicide
during my solitude.
Certainly not; only wasn't going tt
be shut up in such a place when
found that 1 could cut through tha
partition"
Partition! What, that canvas at thu
back?
His look of horror startled me.
Eyes, and why not?"
"Good heavens! Why, you We're OF
the point of walking through Child
Harold's Pilgrimage getting through
six thousand pounds at one step, to sa.
the least of it!'
1t was true enough, too, as 1 after
ward discovered. 1t was Turner
masterpiece which stopped the way
and not, as 1 had supposed. a canva
wall. One moment more, and l shoul
have gained a notoriety in the ar
world which few would have envie
me.-Youth's Companion.
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TAKEN FOR INGERSOLL.
Ex-senator Lindsay of Kentucky Has
Same Cherubic Countenance.

Ex-senator Lindsay of Kentucky Has
Same Cherubic Countenance.
"As everybody knows who has seen
former Senator Lindsay of my State,
and now a practicing attorney of New
York city," says a Kentuckian, accord
ing to the Detroit Free Press, Ibis face
has the cherubic rotundity and the
sanity innocence which characterized
that Of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, and
had no little to do with the powerful at
traction he exerted over most people
On one occasion when the Senator was
on a train going home from Washing
ton passenger at some point in Vir-
ginia came into the car and sat down
across the aisle from the Kentucky
statesman. 1t was some time before
| the new arrival had taken his bearings,
| but as soon as he had become accuS-
| toned to his surroundings and had set
tied down to a more careful inspection
of the people about him, he spotted the
| Senator. After that there was no one
else in the car for him, and he stared
at the big, good-looking man across the
aisle as if he had been a pretty girl
| The Senator caught his eye two OF
three times, but a United States Sena.
| tor is used to being looked at, and he
didn't give it a second thought. Not
so with the new arrival. He was ut
terly unable to get his mind off of it
and at last he got up and crossed ovel
| tO tho Konfupkian
"I beg pardon, SIR he said witt
extreme politeness, aren't you Col. In
| gersoll?
"'Do you mean Robert G. Ingersoll
the noted infidel and Republican? ask
ed the Senator with well assumed
amazement and horror.
1.-THE intruder was abashed, but held
his ground.
"Y-y-yes,' he stammered, backing
away bit.
"'No, sir" replied the Senator will
the severest dignity. I am a Presby
terrain minister, SIR
1.-The man apolOgized profusely, bu
was so embarrassed by his mistake
that he went forward into the next car
and the Senator had a chance to laugl
without giving himself away"
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WOmen's Pockets.

A. police magistrate in New York as
serts that "a woman has no more right
to go through her husbands pockets
than a husband has to go through his
wife's pockets"
He must be a bachelor.
The cases are not analogous.
The impossibility Of finding WON
ans pocket is its sure defense.
You need a map and a search war
rant to make a successful raid on Its
contents.
When found there is likely to be moth.
ing in it but recipe for making cur
rant jam.
It Is ridiculous to talk about hus
bands going through their wives peck
ets.-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
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Grow Shorter.

Everybody has noticed that in ex-
IRENE old age people grow rapidly
shorter, so that person formerly of
average height ''grows down" into
quite a diminutive man or woman. A
German contemporary now points out
that this decrease of height begins as
early as the age of 80 years. At 80,
we are told, the human body has
reached its full height, which is re,
tanned for a few years, after which the
growing down" process begins. AT
first, and for many years, the process
is so slow as to be almost imperceptible
but at the age of about 60 it begins to
be noticeable, and after 20, even though
the veteran does not stoop at all, the
fact that he is growing down" be
comes apparent to every one who sees
him.
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The. chief of the Good Roads train,
which made spring tour through the
South, declares that people will flock
to see the actual construction and ope-
ration of a model road who would never
go to convention to hear the subject
discussed by the highest authorities.
Acting on this principle that a dozen
Of observation is worth gross of hear
say, firm of Scotch publishers sent
to the Buffalo Exposition to inspect
American machinery and industrial
methods, and to form in themselves a
nucleus of future progression in their
various trades.
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Inc nealtn bulletin recently issued
by the Census Bureau is the most in
teresting publication of the govern
ment in connection with the census of
1900 Its tables are a useful study
and afford some surprising though sat
isfactory and promising results. The
most important health and mortality
statistics relate to towns and cities of
over 5000 inhabitants. Probably the
conditions of village, rural and farm
life do not vary materially from de-
cade to decade. 1t is in city commune
ties that the great improvement in
public health has occurred, that the
average term of life has been
heightened. The rural death rate is
generally less than the city rate. The
improvement in the public health, the
lower death rate and the extended av-
erage term of human life are pro-
nounced features of city vital statis-
tics. Medical and sanitary science
have shown the most conspicuous
progress in cities. Improved methods
of treatment and new preventives
have caused the partial eradication of
some diseases, once the terror of man.
kind, or have greatly reduced their
fatal effects. The scourges that in
former centuries swept away entire
communities and decimated nations
no longer visit mankind. The pesti-
lence does not walk at MONDAY. The
prevalence of famine and disease in
India last year is the only exception
TO the general rule of ameliOratiOn in
health conditions that has prevailed
throughout the world. In medical
science even the bubOnic plague met
its conqueror. But it is in American
cities that medical and sanitary sci
ence have wrought their greatest ben
efits. The publication of the water
supply and the sanitary disposition of
sewage have caused an immense re-
duction in the extent of sickness and
mortality. The better homes for the
poor, where more comforts are en-
| joyed, are not invaded by diseases
which were formerly the peculiar af-
| Fiction of poverty. The term of hui
man life in the United States has been
prOlOHSeu. len years ago anu preNl-
ously the average age of the people
at the time of death was trifie over
81 years. The phrase "a generation
was understood to mean about &c
years, or the average lifetime of man
kind. The census of 1900 shows that
the average at death in the United
| States was a fraction over 80 years. In
a decade four years had been added to
the general term of life. There is nc
reason why the health of the people
should not continue to improve, nor
why length of life should not continue
to increase. The progress of science in
sanitation keeps progress with the
years. The health boards of cities are
faithful guardians of the public. The
science of medicine is progressive. Nc
doubt the generation now living will
see the end of many diseases. The
longevity of the people will approach
| that Of
the long livers
In the worlds hale and undegenerate
days.
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Smoke and Fire.

"Mr. Waffies," said the landlady, 81
have a word to say to you"
MAKE it dozen, Mrs. Fry" remark
ed the young man.
'Mr. Waffies." said the landlady, "you
have been smoking in the parlor."
Eyes, Mrs. Fry"
"You have smoked in the parlor many
times, Mr.. Waffies. And you have
smoked in your room, and in the IL
brary, and even in the dining-room-
and you owe ME for three weeks board
Mr.. Waffies."
Eyes, Mrs. Fry"
"Where there is so much smoke, Mr.
Waffies, there must be some fire."
So she fired him.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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1t is highly gratifying to be told that
the average age at death in 1900 was
35.2, as against 31.1 in 1890. Everyone
now has the chance to live four and
One-tenth years longer than he had ten
years ago. There can be no doubt that
better food, more abundance of food
and better sanitation are accountable
for the increased length of life Every
improvement in sewering, every sue
cessful quarantine, every benevolent
work, every new medical discovery will
aid in prolonging life.
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EIorida,s Dismal swamp.

There is, perhaps, no part Of the
United States which has been so little
explored as the Great Dismal Swamp.
unless it be the everglades of Florida.
This great body of land, covered with
forests growing in six to ten feet of
water, extends over an area of about
2.4OO square miles, its greatest width
being 40 miles and its greatest length
90 milQQ
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In England the automobile comes into
favor less rapidly than on the Cont
nent. A London writer calls it "a fad,
and an extremely dirty, dusty, uncom-
Portable fad" and a nuisance on the
public ways. He thinks it will be many
years before these crude, impractical
BILE machines" displace in the English
mans affections "a fine trotting- horse
and smart trap" No doubt the horse
is here to stay, and no doubt the auto
mobile is still in its clumsy beginning;
but just wait a little, till the problem
of light and cheap storage-b battery has
been solved.
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Without Assistance.

The sentiment recently expressed by
a good-natured Swede, when interro-
gated by young bride, may be shared
by good many queens of the kitchen.
Now, Ina, can you cook?" asked the
bride, earnestly. "Are you good cook,
Ina?"
"Ya-'as'm, 1 t'ink So" responded the
girl, with perfect innocence, "if you
will not try to help me-"
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NJ. Hipptolyte Charlton, of the Paris
faculty of medicine, says the modern
theory of ruthless warfare against mi
crobes is all wrong, since there are mi
crobes of health as well as of disease,
and we can't destroy one without de-
stroying the other. The best way is 20
let the rival microbes fight it out among
themselves. This is certainly a COM
Portable theory for a lazy man.
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Robbers are able to overawe train
loads and stage-loads of people for two
reasons. One is that the people, rely
ing on the theory that they are travel
ing in a country where life and proper
ty are fully protected, are always taken
unawares. The other is that both by
habit and by social rule the majority of
people are not trained or prepared to
shoot quickly in defense of their prop
erty against outlaws.
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Cat That Earned a Raise in Salary.

Cat That Earned q Raise in Salary.
Some time ago the cat of the ST. Paul
postoffice made record by Staying q
hundred and twenty-five rats and mice
in one month. In recognition Of her
abilities the postmaster wrote to
Washington, asking an increase in her
salary, and she now receives 5000 4
year. Soon after she showed her graft
tude by presenting the Government
with five kittens. each of which enter
ed the United States service as soon
as it was old enough to tackle q rat
Ladies' Home Journal.
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Miss Amelia A. Barr tells the readers
of the Lady's Review of Reviews that
men are much more contemplate and
useless in their celibacy than are wom-
en-. An old maid, she says, can gener-
ally make herself of service to some
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p,rst American Book Printed.

The first book printed in the limits
of the United States was the Bay
Psalms Book" which was issued in
Cambridge, Mass, in 1640. Specimens
of this publication are extremely rare
and command very high prices
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One of worlds Greatest Heiress,

One of Worlds Greatest Heiresses
One of the greatest European heir
esses is Miss Lucienne Premelic Hirsch.
who is shortly to make her debut in
Brussels, where she has been brought
up in strict retirement. Most of the
millions left by the late Baron Hirsch
go to this granddaughter, who had a
somewhat romantic history. Her faith.
er, Lucien Hirsch, when living with his
parents in Paris, fell in love with Mile
Premelic, a governess of the household
and married her.
The child of the marriage was recog.
nized by the baron, and to her he left
his vast fortune, amounting, if we re-
member rightly, to about twenty mil
lions sterling. -Philadelphia Ledger.
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Celtic Has Berths for Bachelors.

The New White Star liner Celtic has
all sorts of staterooms- There are q
number of suites of three rooms. fitted
with berths for four or six persons.
There is large bathroom between the
staterooms, and dainty parlOr at the
end of the suite. A novelty in the line
of staterooms are those which have
only a single berth. They are for the
travelling bachelors. male or female.
and fill a decided want.-New York
Tribune.
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OF Course.

els that Mrs. Brown of Boston?'
ST dunno her name, but she's Boston
bred"
"Then she's brown, Of course. =
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Young man, make note of this: The
Peabody, Kansas, News has discovered
young woman who develops her form
by helping mother with house work
and keeps her hands and arms soft and
white by kneading bread.
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William K. Vanderbilt says that in
herited wealth is a mockery. We would
like to inherit about $4,000 for fifteen
or twenty minutes and go around and
hand out the coal baron and the potato
lord a few mockeries
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1t is announced that King Edward
may appoint the Duchess of Marlbor
ough mistress of the robes. 1t must be
hard lines for the daughter of a Van
derbilt to have to accept job as prop
erty woman.
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Sage Advice.

EFF you wants to git de reputation O.
KNOWN a lot" said Uncle Eben, keep
still an let do yuthuh Teller talk. He's
gwinter go away wifi de idea dat you
couldn't hep bein' purity wise ahter
listenin' so long to him."-Washington
Star.
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A London society of millionaires has
issued a statement or tract in which
the troubles of the rich are pitifully set
forth. These are troubles few of us
know about, but we are willing to learn.
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In London, by recent orders from
their employers, reporters must wear
silk hats and frock coats so as to "look
gentlemen" In this country re-
porters may wear overalls and a hick-
DRY shirt if they want to. The only
order is to ''get the news"
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Five hundred islands in the st. Law
renee River are to be sold by the Cana
dian Government. Anyone in need of
an island would do well to call and ex-
anime the goods before purchasing else
Mrhprn
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ne. AT any rate, she never descends

one. At any rate, she never descends
to such depths of ennui and selfshness
as do the old bachelors, who loll about
on club sofas or who dawdle content
edly at afternoon teas. An old maid
may be troublesome in church business
or particular in household affairs, but it
takes an old bachelor to quarrel with
walters and grumble everyone insane
about the dinner menu. The unmarried
woman is becoming every year more
sef-reliant and more respectable and
respected, and the unmarried man more
feminine and contemplate. What is
here said about the male celibate is
from woman's view point and just a
mite exaggerated, but it contains a
large measure of truth, and the notable
exceptions only accentuate the rule.
One of the first commandments to
Adam and Eve was to multiply and re-
plenish the earth. In lodging this COM
mandment with promise the man seems
to have brought down upon him a dou-
BILE measure of the primeval penalty.
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Chancellor Andrews thinks that
preachers who preach for salary alone
ought to be hanged. He neglected to
say what ought to be done with teach
ers who teach for salary alone.
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A printed request for the name of the
writer of popular ballad is said to
have resulted in the communication of
the names of forty-eight different au-
thors. 1t is growing to be of more and
more Importance that the authors name
be blown, so to say, in the poetical bot
flo
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Greatest Eruption of Yesuxius

The longest continuous eruption OF
Vesuvius lasted from July. 1895. to
September, 1899. A block of rock,
weighing thirty tons, was hurled to a
height of 100 feet during this erup-
ton.