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experimenting it with muriate of pot
ash. and also to use heavy applications
of lime which releases the plant food
in the soil
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water will have easy going and the
farmer will go his way rejoicing in
stead of "cussing" the tile which he
thought was too small.-Fred Ristrim,
in Farm and Home
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1voIAyIILIslunulng Lue asseruon Oh ms
belief by the eminent spokesman for the
hill uhnm I n11nted in my first letter
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community wouTd probabIy have been
the recipients Of his favors, and they
would he raras11r1aad q he rn dr 70 Sho
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ners There shall be left at the end of
he list of candidates for each different
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TINS p1ot,useu--rsaw mas seneInTes m Jnls
Legislature or out of its6who believe that
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'0To the Editor Of the Sentinel:
sVT1Lo total unto nart In tho state ~
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2G259EmNS2

Ser1a5 :, aSoeSn4. At w as
an, mat IN other states sue
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reached the first of the long, 10,

reached the first of the long, low
rooted sheds. There was a COW
sanctioned at one end. Near by
stood a man leaning against post,
while on three-legged stool with a
pail firmly ciasped between her knees.
sat maid milking.
BY the shades of Aeschylus, Aris-
totle and the rest of the Greeks, was
there not something familiar about
the sweeping lines of this dairy
maids figure and the poise of her
superb head? George passed through
the gateway numb and dazed in all
his faculties. At his step the girl
turned her head, rose and came to
meet him with her trimming pail in
her hand and an equally trimming
smile in her face. Il thought you'd
get here Just about this time, George,
and so | let you catch me at my ia
vorite work. | was born here and
have lived here nearly all my life.
Father has a commission Office in the
city, but he's only there occasionally.
Ever since | was II | have been his
partner in the dairy business, though
he made me go to the university to
polish up a little. Here" and she
put her hand into her pocket, "is our
card George took it and read:
William Madison e Daughter,
Dairy Farm Products. Posey County, Ind.
Mich Cows a Specially.
Not much SAVIOR of boulevard
about that, is there. George? You
know now where the tan cheeks came
from. Do you think you can stand
me as I ~"
And George looked at her and
thought he could.-Chicago Record
Herald
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cause she had no more skeletons.
tall. handsome fellow with black, rip
ping hair. She smiled and asked him
to be seated. He sat down, and then
in a businesslike manner told her
that he had come to apply for the
city editorship. She answered him
with start and gasp. Was 1T pos
sible that so fine man had come
to look for death? He smiled at her.
II understand your situation" 10
he, land | am determined to help
yOu. | have had considerable eXpe-
rience in this sort of work. Ny name
is Ralph Hicks"
She seized his hand. He was ~,
one man who could dare to print the
news. And she engaged him.
The people We're astonished to read
that Ralph Hicks had taken the news
end of the Dispatch. He printed a
card in which he said: 1T has long
been my desire to live in this town.
and | hope that | shall be permit
ted TO be one of you. | am not nat
urally bloodthirsty, and | can prove
that ] have never looked for a fight.
Of course there are times when |
feel disposed to shed blood | sup
pose we are all that way, more or
less, but | never bleed a man Just to
observe the crimson tide. And. as !
say. | hope that you will permit me
to live among you in peace, and | am
going to try, but | want it under
stood that | am going to print the
news"
And he did. There were mutterings
and scowlings--and some Of the des~
perate threatened him, but nothing
was done, and within a short time
Ralph had won the hearts of the peo-
pie, and whenever two men thought
it was necessary to fight one would
suggest that it be left to the decision
of Ralph whether or not the fight
ought to take place, and it was
agreed by the authorities that he had
been the cause of many reconcila-
lions in the community. Lelane was
happy in her work, for her paper was
prosperous. But was that all that
made her happy-the prosperity OF
her paper? Was it not the fact
that within the eyes of Ralph she
saw tender glow whenever he
looked at her? One night they were
sitting alone in the editorial room.
Ralph had ceased to write and was
musing, Suddenly he got up, walked
over to Lelane's desk, and without
embarrassing preliminaries said: AZ
love you and beg of you to be my
wife"
"Oh," was ali she answered at that
time, but sweet understanding
came to them, there alone in the
midnight of the 'sanctum."
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The LATER RESI-.

He toiled, forever faithful. In the ways
where Duty led,
When earth seemed like desert, and dark
clouds overhead;
And: "Ain't you feelin' weary?" q.
But still his word would be-
ION the other side of Jordan therell be
rest for me!'
The black storms beat above him. He
saw, with saddeEed heart,
The laborers in the vineyard, one after one,
depart;
"Oh, rest you from the toiling! There is
no light to sect"
"On the other side of Jordan there'll be
light for me!'
"Rest, from the toll and trouble, tired
hands and dropping head;
You do but gather roses for graves that
hide your deadr'
But evermore that answer, clear-ringing,
far and free:
ION the other side of Jordan there'll be
rest for me!'
And so he toiled and toiling, gave earth
a lesson sweet
AS the Love of God that showered Loves
lilies at his feet;
No earthly light could lure him-no dark
his faith could dim:
On the other side of Jordan there was
light for him!
F.. l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
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CRUELTY DEFENDED.
The Custom of Nivisecting Dumb An
imais In the Interests of Science
Approved Of

Several years ago a defense of vivi-
section, entitled "a Statement in Be
half Of Science" was issued to the pub
lie by a committee of eminent surgeons
and professors, says Henry c. Merwin,
in Atlantic. This document,
which was indorsed by President Eliot
and other distinguished persons, ex-
pressly sanctions the practice OF yiyi-
section, without the use Of anaesthet-
les, however painful the operation, in
those cases (and they are numcrous)
where to use an anaesthetic would di-
minist the value Of the experiment.
Further, the statement expressly de-
tends the custom of vivisecting dumb
animals not only for experiment, but
also for mere purposes Of illustration
in the classroom; and il makes no dis
tinction in this respect between pain
ful operations and those in which an
aesthetics are used-whereas in Eng
land vivisecting in the classroom with
out the use of anaesthetics is prohib-
tied by law. The language of the state
ment is in the highest degree decorous
and euphemistic, but when examined
it will be found to cover every form Of
cruelty that can be perpetrated In the
name of science.
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PERISHABLE CURIOSITIES.
Singular Designation of n Carload OF
Trnmps Shipped Out of
Mexican Town.

In Mexico the billing of railroad
freight requires knowledge and pre-
cision which can only be attained by
years of practice. This is due to the
peculiar classification of various ar
ticles and the different rates of GUS
toms duties. A case recently occurred
which severely taxed the ingenuity of
the station agent. although he finally
succeeded in meeting all requirements,
states Youths Companion.
The town was overrun with tramps,
and the council determined that steps
must be taken to rid the city of them.
1t was finally decided to round them up
and ship them out of the country. 1t
would be too expensive to purchase
tickets, so they concluded to hire
stock cars and ship their tramps as
freight.
The cars were procured and by the
aid of the police the tramps were gath
cred; but then the question arose as
to how the shipment should be desig-
mated on the bill of lading.
The term persons" could not be
used, as il would conflict with the state
law relative to proper accommodations
for the travelling public. and it would
also be in violation of the company's
rules governing the rates of passenger
traffic. Marketable commodities"
would not do, as that would subject
tn carload to heavy duty upon cross
ing the tariff zone. Again, they would
have to be classified as "perishable,"
or the dispatcher might order the
cars sidetracked along the line.
But fortunately there is a customs
law which exempts certain kinds of
curiosities from duty, and so, after
much considerati ton, the tramps were
billed and forwarded as so many hum
dredweight of "perishable curiosities
unfit to eat"
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PLAY CHECKERS BY WIRE.
Telegraph Operators in Canada
While Away Their Spare Time
ut the Game,

When the American management as
sumed control of the Grand Trunk rail
way in Canada it set about the aboli-
ton of many easy-going habits the EN-
ployes had drifted into. One unbusi-
nesslike practice to which the tele-
graph operators of the gQad were ad-
dicted was playing checkers Over thA
wires. Each operator kept a numbered
checker board and after arranging the
checkers on the squares when the wires
were not busy they indicated the
moves to be made by telegraphing the
numbers of the squares "A checker was
TO be moved from and to. The obiec-
ton the arrangement had against
checker playing was that the pastime
sometimes occupied the keys against
the transmission Of important dis
patches.
One winters evening shortly after
the new management took over the
Canadian railroad two operators sta
toned along the main line east were
Willing away the time playing check
90 NhNi q NY Nh9 OB'il'N az tllt
Montreal office. The head office of the
Grand Trunk is at Montreal, and the
superintendent's call" requires imme-
date attention and clear wire. The
checker-playing operator nearer Mont
real heard the magic signal and
promptly opened his key. His friend
further west, being without suspicion
and unable to account for the Interrupt
ton in the game, licked out the in
quiry: "Whose next move ?" and on re-
ceiving no answer repeated it, giving
his station call.
Then the Montreal key, operated by
touch that was strange, says the New
York Times, wired the terse reply: 81
guess it will be your next move. am
the new superintendent"
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SONG OF GLADNESS.

Sing away your trouble and soul-disturp-
ing fears:
Smile away your sorrows, your heart
aches, and your tears;
Let the sunshine follow you through all
the coming years.
Sing a song of gladness forever.
Look above the trials that abound on
ev'ry hand;
Keep a stock of courage always at COM
mand;
Some time in the future you will under
stand
Sing a song of gladness forever.
When the day is gloomy, songs will
make it bright;
When the burdens heavy, smiles will
make it light;
Sunshine will follow in the trail of dark
est night
Sing a song of gladness forever.
Just a song of sunshine-let it flood the
heart,
And the bars of sorrow it will rend
apart;
Whisper words that courage in some
soul will start
Sing a song of gladness forever.
Los Angeles Times.
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got up from a shake-down of chills
and fever, and he thought that lit
tie fresh blood was about what ne
needed Hicks asked him if a doctor
had given him that sort of pre-
scription, and the angel lowed that
he had, and then the ground was
stepped off, and Hicks shot the angel
between the eyes, and the coroner
declared that it was a good shot.
This was also printed, and by this
time Hicks was at the threshold of
reputation. Sometimes in society, at
receptions or, at teas, Miss Lelane
was asked if she had heard anything
more of that fellow Hicks. Everyone
was interested in him.
The skeleton would once in awhile
bring in a piece OF news. No one
thought of killing him, yet they made
if announcement. One man hit him
with a mallet and dislocated his hip,
and laid him up for day or two,
and another fellow knocked him
down, Just to hear him rattle, but
otherwise no damage was done. Still
his position was often embarrassing
SO he said that he believed he would
resign. Lelane urged him to remain
day or two longer, till she could
find another skeleton, or some
other physical unfortunate, immuned
against attack. He said that he was
willing to stay till his other hip was
dislocated, but after that she would
have to make other arrangements.
IL went. out and just then came an
other communication regarding Ralph
Hicks. He was on a railway train
when three robbers came in with pis-
tolls and demanded money or life.
Men fell down and the train was at
the mercy of the robbers till Hicks,
who had been taking nap, awoke.
Then the scene changed. He was so
ticlled to find something useful to
do that he broke out into a rude
laughter. But he did not stop at this.
He shot two of the robbers, tied the
other one, threw him upon the wood
box and told the conductor that he
might go ahead whenever he got
ready. This piece of news ticllled the
town and the name of Hicks was
heard in every gathering. Two days
later the skeleton came in, limping,
and said that his other hip had been
dislocated and that it was now time
for him to go. She paid him off and
he went out, and Lelane sighed be-
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In China theft is so common that
nobody notices it, A young China
man once slipped three oranges up his
sleeve at a party. While making his
bow at parting the oranges slipped out
and rolled onto the floor. He account
ed for the awkward event by saying
that his mother was very fond of or
anges. His fault was straightway
overlooked, and he was afterward held
up as an instance Of hlial piety. There
are several proverbs which go to show
that the folk think lightly of steal
ing. One says that when tailors
cease TO pilfer cloth, their children
will have to go without food" and
another declares "When silversmiths
do not steal they will certainly
starve."
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I that she was the eity-bred girl, Belle
Madison. Pupil and instructor met
frequently at such of the gatherings
as the university life afforded. 1t is
perhaps better to go straight at
| things, and so let it be said without
beating around, that the pupil was not
entirely Indifferent to the instructor.
| She was as handsome a girl as one can
| find after weeks hunt She was a
brunette, with little of the blush rose
showing through the tan of her cheeks.
1t was tan sure enough, and this fact
puzzled Instructor Singleton a little,
for it was the one thing which this
girl pupil of his had in common with
the country lasses who dwelt down
his fathers farm way.
Georges love affair prospered. He
wasn't bad fellow, only narrow and
with an unreasonable prejudice
against country girls. 1t didn't take
Belle long to find out the bent of her
teacherlover's mind. She heard him
| say nice things about city girls, to
the disparagement of their rural sis
tiers. She chided him little at times
and said that there were lots of
country girls who were just nice
as George tried to make her out to
| be. He said: you can't find your
| counterpart in ten years search in
any city, and as for the country. a
man would be nothing short of an
| idiot who would undertake a search
that would last a century, and in the
end be unsuccessful"
Things went on smoothly. and
teacher and pupil were engaged.
George had seen Mr.. Madison, the
father, at an Office in a big down
town building. On the Office door
| appeared simply the words, civilian
| Madison, Commissions" Singleton
knew that the mother was dead and
| that Belle had lived nearly all her
life with her father. The spring va
cation came on. Belle told George
county. Ind, and that she was going
| to spend the ten days Easter vaca-
ton with her. George was asked to
follow her in a few days to get ac-
| quainted with the old lady. \ few
days later he left the train at a
dingy little station and inquired of
| the agent the way to Mrs. James
| Madson's residence.
"Oh, the old lady," said the rail
road official. "She lives a mile bacl,
| with her son. He's got about the big.
gest dairy farm in Indiana.
The day was delightful and the
country was beautiful so George
trudged along the road in the direc.
ton indicated He soon came in sight
of a great collection of buildings
while beyond, turned out for their
first spring pasturing, were cattle
| that might have covered a thousand
| hills. 1t was near sunset George
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copyrighted by Daily Story Pub. Coz

A I the time when the Dispatch
~ fell to the ownership of Miss
Ielane Graham the outlook for the
paper was not good. For the paper
well. YES, with all the advertising III
, town of 10000, city printing and
political patronage. But where the
bad outlook came in was with the
city editor, which meant the entire
local staff. Within nine months four
city editors had been killed on the
street, and no wonder that con
temporary said that the paper was
rightly named the Dispatch.
In the part of the country where
the Dispatch was printed silence
could discount truth as virtue, 1t
made no difference what a man might
know-it was what he said that got
him into trouble. But how was it
possible to print the news without
saying something, and was it likely
that one could keep on saying some
thing without treading upon the
corns of an occasional truth? 1t is
a fact that two men were hanged
by law for assassinating local stats
of the Dispatch, but that did not
preserve the life of another local
staff two weeks later. Miss Lelane
was handsome, tender-hearted
young woman, just out of Il famous
school, where she studied botany and
vivisected frogs, but she had not been
taught that it was right to kill men.
So, upon taking charge Of the paper,
she could not help but feel certain
responsibility, not to say anxiety.
She could not herself slop around in
all sorts of weather and get the
news. Of course she could edit the
paper-anyone could do that, as nine
tenths of the politicians in the dis
trict were ready to swear; but any
one would not dare to gather the
news. While sitting at her desk the
first morning after taking active con
troll she heard cough, and, looking
up, saw standing near her a thing
that looked like a yellow ghost She
stared at it, not over frightened hav-
ing taken a whirl at the medical
course at school, and asked what was
wanted. The man--it was a man
bowed and said that he had come to
offer his services as city editor And
the idea that it would be well to EN-
ploy him occurred to her. No one
could have the heart to murder that
skeleton. SO she hired him and told
him to go out and get the truth, for
be it known that a community where
the publication of truth is the most
dangerous, is the place where truth
is most demanded and most appre-
ciated by newspaper readers. The
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LOOKED LIKE A YELLOW GHOST"

LOOhED LIKE A YELLOW GHOST
skeleton went out and Miss Lelane
opened an envelope and took out a
communication. 1t told of desper-
ate fight that had just occurred in
the hills. | young man named Ralph
Hicks had killed, in fair fight, six
ruffians who had provoked a quarrel
with him. The deed was so full of
valor that it was a good thing to
print, and she printed it. A few DAYS
later she received another communi
cation from fellow named Holt
Smith, giving another account of the
valiant Ralph Hicks. This time a des-
perado known as the Swamp Angel
had met him at country store, in n
neighborhood where the angel was
the owner of all he surveyed, and he
was a pretty good surveyor. Hicks
was atfable and inclined to be con.
ciliatory, but the angel said that he
wasn't feeling very well. having lust
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Circulating Love Letters.

In the days when so much is he.
ing wGtten and said about love let.
ters and upon their sanctity and the
question as to whether they should
ever be published, even after the death
of those who wrote and received them,
it is interesting to note a passage in
Mr.. Scudder's life of James Russell
Lowell relating to the poets court
ship of Maria White, whom he after
ward married. Mr.. Scudder relates
that Lowell's love letters to Miss White
were so admired by her that they were
passed about among the acquaintance
OF the pair, and, in fact, regularly sent
from house to house as soon as they
were received. The annals of amatory
literature can probably show no par
allel to the incident, yet 1t is very
like Boston in the early forties.-N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-13

the scaffold. But though young In years. she
was mature in experience. and save for the IN
nocent vivacities OF her earliest childhood she
moves through this volume with a peculiar dig
nifty one of the most impressive as well as one
Of the most charming figures In the history OF
France
AS little girl under the tutelage OF Mime. de
Marsan and Mime. de Mackau, she was. for a
time. disposed to let her naturally high temper
run away with her but she yielded to wise and
friendly management. and the defects which re-
tarded her progress and prevented her from get
ting the advantages of her education gradually
enaced themselves The proud and vio-
New-York tribune., 1902-07-13

The profesSed "stylst'-if we must use
hateful words capable of going to absurd
lengths in the manipulation of language. He
is bad enough when he confines himself to this
amusement. But when he takes to playing, as
only "stylist" can, with ideas, he is, if any
q certain anonymous contributor to THE Lon
don Saturday Review" writing rapturously OF
FlaUbert. That noted author was, he assures
us "a magnificent artist; before everything he
was consummate craftsman" 1t is an old
story. Nobody denies ii. But this devotee
must straghtway make comparison-about as
futile n one as could well be imagined-be-
tween Balzac and Flauhert, finally rising TO
this sublime pronouncemeBt: Think OF the
'Comedie Humalne' and then think OF Flau-
berts poor half 4 dozen nOyelS Yet in the
eyes and the ears of the intelligent reader
Tlaubcrt remains the supreme novelist" At
the risk Of having our eyes and our ears put
in the category of unintclligcnt things, we ven
tUre mildly to remark that Flaubert does not
remain the supreme novelist. In fact, to call
him that, and especially with Balzac In ones
mind, Is TO come very TO the unintelli-
Gcnce for which the anonymous contributor has
so lofty a contempt. We will not protest that
the laurel in this case should go to Balzac. We
simply point out that TO place Flaubert upon
the tOpmOst pinnacle is to make him a figure
OF fun.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-13
MADAME ELISABETH.
THE PORTRAIT OF AN HEROIC WOMAN.

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MADAME Ellis
ABETH DE FRANCE Followed by the Journal
of the Temple. by Clery. and the NarratiXye OF
Marie ThereSe de France, Duchess d'AngouleIne.
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
illustrated with Portraits from the Original
Octave PIP. vii. 39. Boston: Hardy. Pratt & Co.
This volume is miscellaneous in character. 1t
forms a collection of documents rather than a
consecutive narrative homogeneous biog-
raphy. But with her accustomed editorial apt-