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which knew me is so temperate that the
very apples there refuse to be made into
cider and the cows would blush with
shame at the idea of their output being
transformed into milk punch. So there
was nothing left to do except be flendishly
malicious. I literally prayed that the
country might be visited by seventeen
year locusts and potato bugs-by hog
cholera and epizootic-by the San jose
scale and the dry-rot-by droughts and
the blight-by sheep-killing dogs and hen
hawks-by mosquitoes and cockroaches.
sought the newspapers to learn that the
corporations were squeezing the farmers
to a jelly, and I gloated over the an
nouncements that the agriculturists were
bearing all the burdens Of taxation and
all the obligations Of citizenship. It did
me good when read of the difficulties
the residents of rural districts encoun-
tered insecuring labor. and cackled with
delight when I heard that our country
schools were not of the best.
But nothing brought me solace. My
orgy of yindictiveness only accentuated
my agonies and made me rip and snort
and roar the more. The very silence OF
the glorious nights incensed and oppressed
me, and when at eventide the fiery disc
Of the sun stole down in a sea OF crimson
Oeulnut IAc superb OdhS tIdl fringe
the road, I longed to wade knee-deep in
gore-gore as red as that of the clouds
in which Old Sol was wa1lowing.
But why need detail it all? Let me
hasten to my moral. for there is a moral
in all this. Ny story shows how great
Napoleon wouldn't have been had the
neuralgia llit him at a sritical
moment. It shows what an awful
mess George Washington might
have made Of things had he
had the toothache at Yorktown: It shows
that one touch of pain in the jaw of Pat
rick Henry might have robbed the Rich
mond guide books Of their richest fea-
ture. It shows, in short. that some of US
undergo unspeakable agonies to avoid
being great. and get no credit for it.
The world will never know what an ex-
quisite article might have written about
Spotsylyania had not the neuralgia de-
mons interviewed. Truly. am sorry for
posterity. but it wasn't my fault.
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zine verse, sketches, and short stories, her

zine verse, sketches, and short stories, neri
literary career covering a period OF seVe-
raj years.
On November Is, 1899, she became the
wife Of D. Edwin French, {. prominent
attorney Of keystone, w. Va, at Whlch
place she now resides.
MISS PENELoPE's ELoPEMENT, AND
OTHER STORIES. BY Kate u. saw
yer. The Abbey Press Publishers:
New York, Montreal, and London. Price
so cents.
In this little volume Of 1o2 pages, which
will afford the average reader two hours
excellent amusement, the authoress car
ries her characters over considerable
ground and treats Of a diversity Of sub
sjects. Several Of the stories are laid in
Virginia They abound in pathos and
show no little literary ingenuity. There
is nothing offensive or immoral IN Inc
text though some Of the denouments are
striking and unusual
The volume contains the following SIC
ries: Miss Penelope's Elopement; Uncle
Jeff's House; Deputy Sheriff; Bob's Trip
Abroad; The Embodiment of a Thought;
Mrs Brown; Miss Scruggs; Aunt Sallle>s
Psychology.
CLARK's THE GOVERNMENT WHO
IT IS; WHAT IT DOES. BY salter
Storrs Clark, reviser of Young's Gov
eminent Glass Book, author Of Clark.s
pages, with maps and Illustrations.
Price, rs cents American Book Com
rany, New York, Cincinnati, and Chi
cago.
Here is a volume which is actually dif-
ferent from the average cut-and-drled
textbook in civics. It is more like an
able teachers verbal presentation OF the
subject to his class than like anything
else to which we can compare it. The
style is clear-cut, forceful, and full OF
life. The matter is presented suggestive
ly, and the pupil is led to draw differences
Cor himself. Comparisons of our govern
nlent with those of other countries are
frequent. The Illustrations of the actual
workings of the system are detailed and
vivid; and government is shown to be
science, complete system, which has
practical part in our everyday life, Sup
elementary work, giving questions which
will force the pupil to think over what
he has studied, are appended to each
chapter, and a complete index is includ-
ed. The general tread of the book is
reasonably optimistic, though faults in
the workings of our government are fair
ly indicated.
TALES ABOUT TEMPERAMENT BY
JUN OllVer 1ODDeS., New IOIk: -. Ap-
pleton and Company.
These are all bright and original stories.
well worth reading.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. BY Ellen
Glasgow. A new edition with remark
able series Of beautiful photographs BY
Henry Troth. Price, $3.50 net. Double
day, Page & Co., publishers, New York.
=. For sale by The Bell Book and Sta
tionery Company.
Mr.. Troth came to Virginia to- secure
this set of pictures, which illustrate to
remarkable degree the color and local
feeling that are so prominent feature
Of this novel. They include beautiful pho
tographs of places of interest in Williams
burg and Richmond.
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treasures found IN day and gambled
in night; their direct. crude speech;
their generosity and cruelty, their nero
ism and bestiaiity. their religion and pro-
family, their self-sacrifice and obscenity-
a true and fearless setting forth OF pass
ing phase OF history, ur'compromising'
sincere; each group in Its proper ENVIRON
ment the valley, the plain, and the noun
tain; the rancho, the range, and the
mine-all this welded and riven together
in one mighty song, the song OF the
Vest And through the work OF Wnlcn
this Presley of the story dreamed, as IN
the actual book Of Norros's own produc-
ton, there were things without names
thoughts for which no man had invented
words; terrible, formless shapes, vague
figures, colossal, monstrous. distorted
which whirl at gallop through the mag
nation ~
The story is indeed a powerful one IN
all its varying phases and attributes,
and asks large interest in its suces-
eorS
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NOTES.

It is said that Observation-Disclosures
Froom Talfourd. who has just died at
Wandsworth Common, at the age of 81
was the original Tommy Twaddles Of
Dickens's David Copperneld." Colonel
Talfourd, who was at one time shipmate
with Captain Marryat,. went to Canada
in 1882, and for twenty years was IN
charge of Indian affairs at Ottowa, and
was widely known in government cir"
cles; but his fame, after all. rests not
with his own work, but on the genius OF
a friend who has made him unforgetta-
BILE.
James Pott & Co., of New York, are
soon to publish volume OF "Ghetto Sill
houettes,'' by David Warfeld, the come
dian Last winter, in his presentation of
1.-THE Auctioneer," MT. Warfeld added
something to his well known and fun
producing impersonation of the East-Side
Jew, and made Of him a man who. with
all his comcal characteristics, was yet
possessed with many elements of pathos
and of true. dignity. Remembering the
it is easy to believe that the actors book
will be one of unusual interest.
| Gertrude Atherton, who has been max
ing hero of Alexander Hamilton to the
belittlement Of all the other great men
of his day, recently republished this old
bit of doggerel:
ooh, Aaron Burr what have you done?
You've gone and killed great Hamilton.
You stood behino great tall thistle
And shot him with a big boss pistol!
In answer to this, Charles FELTON,
Pidgin, author of "Blennerhassett" and
of .'The Climax, which describes Ito
plan republic as it might have been ruled
by Aaron Burr, sent back to her the fol-
lowing verse:
ooh, Gertrude Atherton. what have you
done?
You've killed our great George Washing
ton!
You did not use a word or gun,
But crushed him meath a Ham-l-ton!'
Harper's Magazine for September gives
some copies of three of Edwin A. ABB
beys series of paintings of the Quest OF
the Holy Grail recently complete by
him for the Boston Public Library. The
copies given are in colors, and furnish
very fair idea of the artists concep-
ton of Sir Galahad in the various ven
lures of his quest; and one cannot but
hope that this magazine will further pop
ularize the pictures by completing the
series so successfully begun.
'Mr. Abbey's Quest of the Holy Grail
has the power and poetry of realized
ideal: it is done in the strong, dramatic.
pictorial spirit Of Piero della francesca
or Ghirlandajo. and it will repay study,
and justify praise quite as well Las tie
work of these old masters"
ANNE PENDLETON.
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American wheat; the second, '"The Pit"
turns on a deal in the Chicago wheat
pit and relates to the distribution of the
product, while the third novel in the
SERIES 1.-The Wolf" tells of the consump-
ton Of wheat, and finishes the story of
the grain as it is turned into breadstuff
and relieves the famine of a starving
village in Western Europe. Up to this
time. however, THE Octopus is the only
one of the triology which has made its
appearance. The author calls the work
"a tale of California;" and founded it's
plot on a little known piece Of history
called the 'Mussel Slough Affair."" in
which the wheat growers of the San Jo-
aquin Valley come into actual conflict
with the railroad, which they believed
was trying to defraud them of their land.
The resulting story is remarkably
strong production, one that thrills you
at times. and. again.. disgusts you; one
that charms. fascinates, repels, yet which
holds You fast to its end, and even then
refuses all thought of Punishment. After
reading it it is easy to recall the fact
that after the appearance of Mr.. Norris's
'.McTeague." a careful critic like Jean
nette L. Glider hailed its author as the
American Balzac. However far such
praise may ever reach the merits of the
writer, this much is true that here in his
latest story he has shown a strong and
minute realism, far-reaching magma
ton, deep sense OF symbolism and al
legory, a poetic appreciation of perfume
color, sense, and sound, and with it all {,
strangely powerful, and domineerin;
style of wording and phrasing hi:
thoughts. Like the interested onlooller OF
his story who forever had a poem of the
life before him seething in his brain
the author has made his work story o.
the West, that worlds frontier of re
nance where a new race, a new people
hardy, brave and passionate-were build
ing an empire: where the tumultous life
ran like fire down to dark. and from
dark to dawn again, primitive, brutal
and without fear. He strove for
the diaphason, the great song that should
embrace in itself a whole epoch, com
plete era, the voice of IAN entire people
wherein all people should be included
they and their legends. their folk lore,
their f1ghtings. their loves, and their
lusts, their blunt grim numor, their stole
ism under stress, their adventures, their
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~ resemblance porss or
Valuable in ruitless efFost lata
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keep discharge sharp
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ckeninp - MUCOUS,
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dwell undyingly in the heart of mankind,
and that it is from within that humans
TVS nature must unfailingly be illumined
1t is the old saying Of st. Crysostom,
made stronger to modern readers by Car
lyle's comments. 1.-THE true Shekina is
man himself. for nowhere else is the Cod
presence SO made manifest" This faith
IS the foundation of all Maeterlincks
philosophy. and because of it his evangel
is one Of optimism. With a clear call Of
hope and OF faith he seeks TO arouse the
angel that abides in every man. By the
clearness Of his own vision he d!scloses
to our. dim sight ''the unerring knowI-
edge" that seems ito spring to life self
created within our souls" Nor does his
faith stop with a belief in the reality
OF the divine nature held fast in the con-
sciousness of us all. but going farther
st becomes hope that expresses itself
with the appreciation of both faith and
love in the sensitiveness and the strength
IF the divinity concealed within u.s.
There needs but so little." he writes.
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r Previous to the trouble OF which I have.
written, had always maintained that.
spotsylvania has only one stain on her.
escutcheon-her chiggers and her seed
5ticks-but pending my indisposition, I
grew bitter against everything for miles
around and hated farmers worse than
stramps hate soap and water. OF course
twas all wrong. but that was the very;
reason did 1t. It delighted my very
sou, or rather he neuralgia. toothachy
side Of my soul % be ainppslyW
u would gladly have taken stoa drink had
liquor been availab but The section
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| THE OCTOPUS. Frank Norris. Cloth;
s1-5o. Doubleday. Page & Co., New
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e by Hunter d Co.
He OCTOPUS is the first num-
Der in trilogy of novels in
which Mr.. Norris proposes to
detail the Epic of the Wheat"
The first novel, 1.-THE Octopus"
deals will, tho ,orod,,ct;op ~
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THE BURIED TEMPLE. Maurice Mae
terlinck. Cloth, s1.4o Dood, Meade G.
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BILLY RURGUNDY's LETTERS. ]. F.
Taylor &, Co.. New York For sale by
the Bell Book and Stationery Company.
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.sicken1ng cancero1s sore beg1hs Us
destructive work.
No ulcer or sore can exist with
out some predisposing internal cause
that has poisoned the blood, and the
open discharging ulcer, or the tester
ing sore on the lip, cheek or other
part Of the body will continue to
spread and eat deeper into the flesh
Cancer germs or morbid matter elm
{. % sc1eanses the blood of ali
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At Druggists.

The Five-cent packet is enough for all ordi-
nary occasion. The family bottle, so cts,
contains supply for year.
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And then. to add to my troubles, there
was another contingent who believed in
local treatm These were the hot stuff
folks-the folks who told me to keep good
and warm, an injunction which couldn't
possibly have disregarded had I wanted
to, being as the thermometer pirouetted
far up in the sos. Furthermore to add
to my misery, they admonished me to
have every tooth in my head yanked.
Some urged me TO rub faces with bottle
of boiling water; others told me that I
should get cheek by jowl with a glowing
%flat-iron. while, still others, knew that e
#hot-bread poultice, fastened on to my face
with a pair Of suspenders. would soothe
me like grease soothes chigger bites. Now
I hate all poultices. They have gela-
stinous, nlushy, tremulous. mashed baby
feeling about them which gives me the
creeps. And as Tor hot-water bottles-ttle
half pint, pistol-pocket kind-why, they
are as disappointing In their effect as
bread without salt. So consorted with
flat-iron. which was garbed in towel.
This laison was exciting, but not nice.
for the moment one gets too familiar with
& a hot fat-iron he is =sternly rebuked. The
hot iron, under such circumstances, seems
to say. Back. sir !: you are no gentle
man And you back.
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] feel the thunder and face the rain,
] lift my head. defiance far fling
My feet are set, face the autumn as
! face the spring.
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In February, 1899, noticed
lump on my lower lip. The loe+as small
tertzed It but another came ana h cau-
out into an open sore. I began =. o.oks
g. s. 8. and after I had taken aa, W. Saxs
ties the place healed entireIy s- n got
signs Of the disease have beer NJ M. no
since. w. z. Brown, Hollands seen es
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Her hands took up the weary round
A colorless and common part.
Her stlllhorn hopes were buried in
The desert of her heart.
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Around me, on the battlefelds of life,
/ see men fight and fail and crouch IL
prayer:
Aloft / stand unfettered. for know
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cLARK's THE GOVERNMENT WHO
IT IS; WHAT IT DOES. BY Salter
Storrs Clark, reviser Of Young's Gov
eminent Glass Book, author Of Clark.s
Commercial Law. Cloth, 12mo, Sol
pages, with maps and Illustrations.
Price, rs cents. American Book Com
rany, New York, Cincinnati, and Chi
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-04-15
rema.e Testers.

Nothing better illustrates the dull.
ness Of society in the middle ages than
the custom used by all high placed and
wealthy persons Of keeping profes.
sional jester, nor was it confined to
Christendom, for we read that Cortes
found an individual of this profession
at the court Of Montezuma. Our mod
ern clowns, though very different from
the licensed testers Of old, owe to them,
of course, their origin; but, SO far as l
know, the female Jester, who was in
vogue before the male. has no present
representative.
We are told by Erasmus that in all
the great inns on the continent there
was in his time a female official of
this description who enlivened the COM
pany as she waited at table by witt
cisms and repartee. 1t should be added,
however, that she was generally young
and pretty. So late as 1853 we read In
Mrs. Hornby's Travels that she
found female jester at Constantine
pie who was exceedingly amusing.
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though 1t just occurs to me that you
can't have pictures of professors here. .
ooh. yes. we have, scores of Them"
he replied. Here's Professor Mar.
shall. who delivered lectures on as
tronomy and robbed postofices the
same night; here's Professor Massarin.
who made study of plant life and
worked the gold brick racket at the
same time; here's Professor Du Bots,
the eminent student of geology, who
went about New Hampshire studying
rocks in the daytime and stealing
horses at night; here also
you needn't go any further" inter
rupted Susie as she turned away. care
you looking for Professor Du Bois?"
I'D give $500 to see him on little
matter of business
Susie said nothing on her return
home. 1t was only when the newspa-
pers containing an account of the ar
rest of the professor arrived by post
that she took Aunt AIilly out into the
orchard and handed them to her to
read and asked:
What are you going to do about it ~
"Why-why," answered the dazed
woman as she let the papers fall from
her hands and looked about her In a
pitiful way, IL ought to faint away.
oughtn't n?
Yes, ! think that would be the prop
er caper."
Then | wfllr'
And she did, and when she returned
to consciousness her romance was
ended.
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a STORY OF LINCOLN.
The Letter That Was Stolen and tn
Rascal Who Stole 1t.

The Letter That Was Stolen and the
Rascal Who Stole 1t.
Benajat G. Jayne during most Of the
civil war was the personal assistant OF
Edwin NJ. Stanton, the famous wal
secretary. One day Lincoln sent fol
Jayne to come to the White House
MY boy said he. there is letter !
would like to have you look at"
Jayne picked up the letter and found
1t was from General Dix. 1t conveyed
the information that several Fedora
prisoners had escaped from Libby pris
on with the aid of Abbie Green. a wo
man famous during the war The let
ter also said that, as the fact of Alb
bie's assistance was well known, she
had been obliged to fee from Rich
mond and even then was on her way
to Washington on the flag Of truce
boat
Nov, my boy" said the president
Il don't know what l should say to
any rascal who would steal that letter
and have a bill passed through con
gress to grant $4,000 to the relief OF
Abbie Green" Mr. Jayne 'stole the
letter." and the next day both branches
Of congress passed the bill to grant
$4,000 to Abbie Green. The following
morning Honest Abe" sent for Jayne
again.
II told you 1 didn't know what /
should say" he said, with a twinkle in
his eye, ito the rascal who would steal
that letter and have congress act on it.
Now, I've made up my mind what to
say. You go down to No. - -
street, get Abbie Green, take her down
to Chase at the treasury, and don't you
let her go until she gets that money
New Orleans Times Democrat.
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The basilisk was the most famous of
the many fabulous monsters of me-
diRval folklore. According to the
popular notion, it was Matched by a
toad from an egg laid by the cock Of
the common barnyard fowl. In the an
Gent picture books it was usually rep
resented as an eight limbed serpent or
dragon, sometimes with and sometimes
without wings. It's name Is derived
from basiliscos, meaning a little king,
and was applied because the creature
was figured with circle Of white
spots on its head which much resem-
bled cr2wn. The cockatrice, species
of basilisk, besides having a crown
possessed a comb which was an exact
counterpart of the cocks.
Pliny assures us that the basilisk had
voice which struck terror to the
hearts of men, beasts and serpents. y
The Bible classes it with the lion, the
serpent and the dragon as one of the
most formidable creatures. Old writer's,
Pliny, Bascho and others, say that its
bite was mortal in every case, that it's
breath was suffocating and that no
plant would grow in the vicinity of its
lair. Its dead body was often used,
suspended in belfries, to prevent swal-
lows from building there.
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his unwieldly sled to the inside of the
road. He gains once more. As he
shoots past the cutter he leans forward
and clutches the reins. The sled darts
from under him. He Is ON his feet
saving on the lines, but with the blood
flowing from cut on his head.
In the twilight Madge Turner sat by
the lounge in her fathers library.
Bronze, with an aching head and q
bruised body, was lying there con-
tentedly watching the dancing flames
In the CRATE.
Would you mind" suggested Madge
In subdued voice, telling me why,
If you were not afraid to take that
awful ride after us, you would not
board the bobsled for fun?'
Because" said Bronze, slight flush
spreading over his pale cheeks-'be-
cause my mother has sacrificed great
deal to send me to college. want to
repay 1t some day, and | have no right
to run unnecessary risks
"Oh!' said Madge, with an eloquence
which only woman can throw into
her voice.
Katherine appeared at the door half
an hour later and remarked:
IF you're going to the church social
with us, Madge, you'd better get dress
ed"
IL guess | won't go. Let Tom go.
live promised Mr.. Bronze to read to
him awhile
Yes assented Tom, his head ap-
pearing above Katherines in the door
way, ''and l think the rest of us had
better go. The more quiet old Charley
is the better
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Nature. Use For the Mole.

When nature wants something done
she is apt TO inveigle an animal into
doing it, The mole is bent only or
catching earthworms. He makes his
long burrow near the surface and then
travelling up and down its length. he
picks up all the worms that stumble
into his way, his slender nose serving
as an effective instrument for with
drawing them from their burrows. |
think. too. he eats the beetles and cut
worms that lie In his path
But while he is intent on his own
work he is at the same time loosening
up the soil and letting the air through
it and mixing up the leaf mold with
the earth. thus enriching the land 1t
is aggravating to see the ridges that
mar the surface of our lawns and gar
dens, but we must put up with that
for the sake Of the good Of the soil.
Besides suspect his claim to the land
is an earlier one than ours. Ladies'
Home Journal.