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TO BE CONTINUED.
The Arch Destroyer.

"He is a mean. sneaking, underhand.
ed element. the moth is." protests
John Kendrick Bangs in The Woman's
Home Companion. Fire has decent
sense Of the proprietles. Moths have
none ut all. When fire attacks you. 1t
smokes and crackles and hisses and
roars and lets you know In clarion
tones that it has come. The moth
steals upon you In the dead Of night
and chcws up your best trousers,
gorgrs himself upon your wife's furs,
ticklrs his palate with your SWEETEST
flannel golf shirt, muuches away upon
your handSomest rug, punches holes
In your best sofa cushions with his
tusks and then silently folds his tent
and steals away without so much as q
thank you for his meal. For unmiti-
gated meanness commend me to the
moth! Alongside Of the moth and his
nefarious work even a book agent
paleS into lnsigniicance and an unpaid
grocer's bill becomes an absolute pleas
ure."
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WHEN BOYS WERE men.
9~ JOHN HABBERToH
Author of 'Helen's Babies" "GeOrge WASH
ingtOn," Etc.

Of all the houses and even from some
Of the roofs. The remaining hay In
camp had been thrown by the stable
orderlies upon the pine brush roofs OF
the stables. The instant stable was
entirely cleared of horses the roof was
lighted and the fire quickly spread.
The spectacle that followed was as
good as fight, so some Of our best
fighting men said. At least GO build
ings were afame. and 900 mounted
men were dashing between and around
them in their effort to reach the road.
Some Of the slower men were obliged
to make a detour Of half mile, for
the heat OF that aggregation Of burn
Ing pine was intense, even to men al.
ready In the road.
Finally. however. when the orderly
sergeants called the rolls, the entire
command was present or accounted
for. The column was formed quickly.
Then the bugles sounded forward"
and the band once more did the ap-
propriate thing. r 1t played "Ain't /
Glad to Get Out Of the Wilderness"
popular air Of the period. But be-
fore half a dozen bars had been played
the music ceased and the column halted
instlnctively. for we heard shot like
that of q field gun.
"Fours about" shouted our captain.
AS we were the rear guard, the men
who had dropped behind in rear guard
manner had already turned their horses
and brought their carbines to the po-
sltion Of advance"
Look sharp said the captain.
"Find the direction from which the
next shot comes"
The instant we heard another report
we saw mass Of shingles 60 skyward
from the roof OF our troops house.
Strange about thatw muttered the
'm"ain. II heard only one report. that
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aetiseellanen,ts 8eading.
A FLOATING POSTOFFICE.
How Mails Are Delivered to and RI
ceiyed From Ships Mt Full Speed.

How Mails Are Delivered to and Re-
ceived From Ships Mt Full Speed.
A small, yacht-like white steamer
dances over the swells Of the Detroit
river to meet and exchange messages
and salutes with every one of the pass
ing ships-a little midget servant to
this enormous commerce. Without this
tiny steamer the lake commerce would
be as helpless as we Of the cities and
towns would be without the postman
and the postoffice.
The tremendous advance in shipping
facilities on the great lakes In recent
wears has been due to tireless American
enterprise, fostered by generous ap-
propriations by the government In aids
to navigation so when the need of this
little messenger presented itself the
Washington authorities were not slow
in making the experiment leading to Its
adoption.
This method of handling United
States mail is the only one of its kind
in existence, and the idea Of a floating
postoffice that successfully delivers and
receives mail to and from ships at full
speed is only another illustration Of
the wonders and far-reaching benefits
of our wide-awake postal system.
The books of the United States treas
ury department in Washington now
contain the names of nearly 1000 ships
that constitute the great lakes marine.
The fresh-water sailors to whom this
fleet is entrusted, would, In NUMBERS
make the population Of large city.
They are, therefore, fairly entitled to
some means of communication with
their homes and families in the states
bordering the lakes, and with friends
far away, and the little white steamer
performs this service as perfectly as
can be desired.
Before the establishment of this de-
livery it was difficult to send letters to
any one aboard ship, although Niaga-
ra's wall confined the movement OF
vessels to the great lakes, and their
voyages back and forth were past the
shores of eight states, with a popula-
ton Of 26,0OOO0O, and their ports OF call
included six cities of over 10000 popula-
tion each. This may seem strange, but
it is easily explained by the fact that
the greater number of lake steamers
run wild''-that is, they depend on
their owners and agents making profit
able charters for them from trip to trip.
st. Nicholas.
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"sixty-cent whtat and fifty-cent corn

"sixty-cent whSht and fifty-cent corn
are making western farmers. where
thirty bushels Of Wheat and sixty BUSH
els of corn is an! average yield, inde-
pendently rich. A hundred acres Of
wheat is an ordinary field, and this
alone Is enough to net a good income
on the investment.
"a bunch Of cattle will pay the ex-
penses, and his other crops are velvet.
The result has been to run up the price
of land.
Tracts that sold for $25 two years
ago bring $40 and s45. and $50 land Of
past years is eaaly marketable at $50
and $50. The life is much easier, the
work is not nearly so hard, nor the
hours so long.
This has had the gooa effect Of maxi
ing the farmers sons more content
with life on the farm, and many Of
them go down to the state agricultural
schools and take a course in scientific
agriculture, retur hing better farmers
and better citizens.
THE rural free mail delivery, with its
facilities for keeping in touch with the
life of the outside world. and the bicy-
Gle as a substitute for the carriage are
also helping in the work Of populariz-
ing agriculture. New York Sun.
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"
of the shell. l didn't suppose field
gun could be fired without being
heard"
By this time the colonel and the
major Of our battalion were beside US
and scanning the surrounding country
with their glasses. Then came deaf
ening report. and blazing logs as well
us shingles flew from the late abode OF
our troop.
That heats me-" said the colonel
bursting shells, but no gun reports.
| d,n't see any balloon from which the
enemy could drop them"
l, too. was mystitied and looked In
auiringly at Brainard. who In turn
looked pale and as If heavy load Of
guilt was on his conscience.
Colonel" said he. saluting, 81 think
l can explain 1t. I-sOme Of the men
brought in unpXploded shells after the
siege us mementos, and they were too
big to carry away and were carelessly
left In the houses. and the fire has
reached them and made them hot,
and
"Thunder~ roared the colonel, turn
ing almost black with anger. "Bugler.
blow 'forward!"
Again the column moved. Brainard
and had been glad we were Of the
rear guard. for we had planned to be
together. If only for a moment. the last
men to leave the post. Now, we almost
wished we might never leave it, for
the coloners anger BODIED no good to
| the men who were to blame for the
false alarm. and it would be easy for
the colonel to learn who the men were.
rn nr CONTTNIIEn
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SHINES IN PORTO RICO.
How an American Bootblack Found
ed a New Industry.

ed a New Industry.
"The American occupation Of Porto
Rico has resulted In the introduction Of
one Anglo-Saxon institution among the
Latin peoples Of the West Indies, that
has already become fast and perma-
nent," said DR.. ]. w. Fewkes, Of the
bureau Of ethnology, who returned last
Saturday from an archaeological tour
Of that island, in the course Of which
he was afforded unusual opportunities
for viewing the life and customs Of the
islanders tempered by American infiu-
ences. Continuing he said:
1.-THE first American troops that land
ed on the island were accompanied by
a colored bootblack; a boy about IL or
IA years Of age, from New York. who
drove a thriving business shining the
shoes of the officers. The Porto Ricans
were strangers to such an institution,
but, being of an initiative turn. were
not long in adopting what to them
seemed worth copying. Following on
the heels Of the army came other Amer
icans so that the little bootblack from
New York soon had more business than
he could attend to. But this, however.
did not last very long. and in less than
two months after his arrival he expert
enced very lively competition from the
Youngsters of San Juan, who. watching
his movements, straightway provided
themselves with boxes, brushes and
blacking, and learning the word Shine,
were ready to black shoes after the
most approved American fashion.
To-day every city and town in Porto
Rico is full OF little bootblacks, for the
natives having noticed that properly
polished shoes constituted part Of the
makeup of well-dressed Americans,
and anxious not to be outdone in the
matter Of style, adopted the custom OF
keeping their shoes shined.
1.-The American occupation and inf1u-
ence is being felt in other ways
throughout the island, and is more es-
pecially noticeable in the schools. The
people are anxious to learn, and educa-
ton is looking up all over the island.
During my sojourn among these people
I visited a country school one day
where the teacher, bright young Por-
to Rican, called one Of his pupils. lit
tie boy of ten years Of age, to the
blackboard and directed him to draw
a map of the state Of Pennsylvania.
The little fellow executed the map as
we'll or better, than I could have done
myself, putting in the rivers and cities,
the names Of which he wrote out IN
Spanish. Another little fellow drew
map of Connecitut, and I am free to
confess that I never in my life saw
brighter class in geography.
Another thing I noticed Is that ev-
erybody on the island is anxious to
learn English, which is coming Into
use more and more every day. 1t is
now being taught in all the schools,
and the generation now growing up
will be able to speak and read the Ian
guage as well as their native Spanish"
|-Washington Post.
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PAY FOR VICTORIES.
Large Amounts Which Have Been
Given 10 English Generals.

Large Amounts Which Have Been
Given 10 English Generals.
The grant of e5O,OOO, which the king
recommends should De voted to Lord
Kitchener, Is substantial reward
enough: and yet there will be many
who will consider that the task per-
formed by Lord Kitchener was at least
as important as that for which LORD
Roberts received double the money, to-
gether with an earldom and the Gar
ter. It is true, however, Lord Kitche-
ner never said the war was over. The
principle upon which military rewards
have been granted by parliament has
never been very clear. For example,
Lord Wolseley received after the rela-
lively unimportant Ashantee campaign
half as much as Lord Kitchener, though
the task set him can scarcely have pre-
sented a twentieth part Of the diff
Guilty
There are, Of course. other little pick
ings, II we may so speak, which fall TO
the lot of the successful general. LORD
Wolseley, for instance, on the occasion
Of his receiving sword of honor from
the city, was presented in addition with
a purse containing 100 guineas. Proba-
bly the best rewarded, as he was the
most deserving Of military leaders, was
the Duke Of Wellington. He was made
viscount, with a pension Of s2,0Oo
wear, after the battle Of Talavera. In
recognition of his glorious exploits IN
the Peninsula he obtained an earldom
with an additional s2,6u0 a year; and
Immediately afterwara he became
marquis, and 100000 was granted to
him for the purchase Of lands to main-
tain the honor of the position.
Napoleon, once safe. as the world be-
lieved, in Elba, Wellington's services
were further recognized by the gift OF
q dukedom and a sum Of s400,O00. The
king could scarcely do more after this
in the way Of titles; but the resources
Of parliament and Of the nation-Were
less limited, and a further grant OF
e2OO 900 was voted to the victor OF Wa
terloo on the final extinction Of the Ma
poleonic meteor. So that, II we capt.
talize the dukes pensions at the rate
OF twenty years purchase, the struggle
against Napoleon was worth to him no
less than s7SO,OOO, or rather more than
a hundred and ten thousand a year,
counting from the date Of Talavera.
Such a nice little addition to his pay Is
probably more than any modern SOL
dier will ever realize again.-London
Daily News.
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ly poles. The trolley car system is ca
pable yet of many Improvements
Charlotte News.
DANGER OF WORRY.
A Disease That Should he Watched
and Controlled.

and Controlled.
Worry, that anarchy Of the mind, de-
ranges the physical no less than the
mental functions. Under the influence Of
worry the disorganized mind and the
disordered body mutually act and re-
act, producing the gravest maladies in
each.
Worry Ia not suspense. Worry Is
not anxiety, nor regret, nor fear, nor
doubt, nor resolve. All these are def
mite mental states. Worry Is that
vague. chaotic condition. that anarchy
of the mind, in which hopes, fears, re-
solves, doubts, anxieties, regrets, antic-
pations. suspicious are admitted
|ravening, destroying horde, under the
attacks Of which thought is precluded.
action ia paralyzed and integrity Of the
mind Itself is endangered, often de-
stroyed.
The striving Of the human mind for
better surroundings, higher develop
ments, more perfect happiness for self
and others-the divine discomfort that
leads to all great achievement"-that Is
not worry. The one Is sign Of men,
tai poise and vigor, the other sign Of
mental unbalance and futility.
Worry is the epidemic Of the day-an
epidemic more widespread, more insid-
ious. more deadly than any pestilence
recorded in the history Of human ca
laInity. Worry is the most farai Of dis
eases, for it predisposes to all disease.
great authority has said: "Funda-
mentally, there is but one disease-de-
bility." Worry produces debility. and
through this debility the patient is rem
dered vulnerable to host Of Ills. Wor-
ry, directly or indirectly, produces ner-
vous irritability, indigestion, insomnia.
anorexia, heart disease, diabetes, neu-
rasthemia, hypochondria, paralysis, in
sanity. Worry Is the cardinal sin Of
the day. Worry is sin, and the wages
Of sin Is death.
Worry is a durable disease, but-he
who would be cured must cure himself
must work out his own salvation. He
must engage in a civil war Of the intel
lect, must reduce anarchy to order. He
must, in other words, achieve self-con-
troll.
The first step is to become convinced
Of the utter futility, the danger, the
sin Of worry. A thousand years Of wor-
ry will not alter one little circumstance.
On the other hand, worry Is ruinous to
the individual. physically, mentally and
morally-a sin against himself and his
maker. Let him who would be cured Of
the disease called worry hold these as
flaming facts before his mental sight.
Let him observe, resolve, act. Then.
calm and resigned, await the results.
For thought, resolution, action-these
belong to man. Results are with God.
Health Culture.
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SLEEPING HEROES.
Mighty Men of the Past Who Are
Expected to Return.

Mighty Men OF the Fast VIM <>
Expected to Return.
Is there any race that has not It's
sleeping hero? A correspondent re-
Gently pointed out that the time for the
fulfillment Of the Of the prophecy that
the tenth avatar of Krishna will restore
to India her independence, is near at
hand, and every nation has some such
savior to whom the people look. West
country rustics still believe that Arthur
did not die, but sleeps in Avalon, and
that in the hour of Britain's need he
will awake, deliver the land and re-
store the golden age. In Germany 1t IS
g. popular belief that Charles V Will
some day wake from his enchanted
sleep to reign over Germany, Spain,
Portugal, Denmark, Belgium and Hol-
land. Thousands Of French peasants
hold that Napoleon is only sleeping and
that at some future time he will reap
pear and rule. And Mr.. Newboldt has
enshrined the Devon legend that Drake
is only listening for the drum.
The Irish peasantry steadfastly re-
fuse to believe that Mr.. Parnell Is real
ly dead. They assert that his death
was a ruse, that he was an interested
spectator of his own funeral, and that
when the time comes he will emerge
from retirement to give Ireland her IN
dependence. Many Irish, indeed, firmly
believe that DeWet Is none other than
Charles Stewart Parnell. Every true
Moslem believes that when Anti-Christ
appears Mohammed Mohadi will awake
and conquer him. A Moorish legend
declares that Boabdil ell Chico sleeps
spellbound near the Alhambra and that
one day he will awake to reestablish
the Moors as rulers Of Granada. The
Servians look to King Lager, slain by
the Turks in 1889, as their final hope,
and should Switzerland be ever again
threatened by tyrants Swiss folklore
declares that the three members Of the
Tell family, who are sleeping at Hutili,
near the Vierwald- -Staten-See, will rise
from their sleep and bring about the
freedom Of the land.-Baltimore Amer
lean.
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GRACE THROUGH WORK.
Carriage of Caribbean Women Due
to Exercise.

Carriage OF CdrIDUcdh "ohASA O~
to Exercise.
There are no more graceful women
in the world than the creoles, or mulat-
toes, of the Caribbean islands. They
carry heavy burdens, toll in the fields
and in the arrowroot and sugar mills,
attend to their household duties and
raise large families, yet through 1t all
are as happy and cheerful as the wo-
men Of any other cline.
One of their employments Is to keep
the military roads and the streets OF
the cities In repair. They may be seen
all along the twenty-five mile govern
ment road from Georgetown to Kings
ton, in St. Vincent, digging out the
bitches, filling the ruts washed out by
the torrents that pour down the steep
hillsides and performing the menial
part Of bridge building and fencing
against floods. Usually they work In
company with men, who, sad to say
devote themselves more assiduously to
bossing than to helping along the work.
In the fields the men plow, but the
women plant and noe. When 1t comes
to harvesting the cane the women WELD
the machetes in as large numbers as
the men. and their reward for their toll
from sunrise to sunset Is from three
pence to sixpence day, the latter only
in rare cases. In the mills the more eX-
perienced operators only receive six
pence a day. When Saturday (market
day. comes these women Of st. Vincent
array themselves in their best and
whitest attire and set out for either
Georgetown or Kingston afoot.
Their lords and masters go with them
but If there is burden to carry, and
there always Is at least an empty tray,
the woman carries it, while the man
steps jauntily along, twirling a bam-
boo stick and looking and acting much
like the typical dude. The women,
whose apparel is scrupulously clean,
her tray poised on her bare head. her
skirt tucked up under the belt or CIR
die on one side Of it, reaching only to
the knee, her feet free from hosiery
and shoes and her shapely arms naked
to halfway above the elbows. Is pic
ture Of graceful movement. Her stride
il long, but not masculine. 1t Is aston
ishing how rapidly she moves with
out seeming to hurry. She keeps pace
with a team of mules without appar-
ent fatigue and talks gaily with Who
ever cares to talk as she glides along.
The old women in all these Islands
are inveterate traders. Their little out
door shops are a feature Of West In
dian life and they besiege ships In their
bumboats, and the traveller even In the
hotels, with all sorts Of fruits, nuts
and fancy work. Some Of their most
beautiful wares are made Of jumping
beans and seeds Of tropical plants and
shrubs. Bread, cakes and fruits are
retailed in nearly all the island cities
by old women with wayside markets.
One at Charlottetown had a place at
the landward end Of the boat landing,
and she held it firmly against all COM
petitors.
Nearly all the girls are good singers.
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CHILDHOOD's JINGLES.
Mystic Rhymes That Never Grow
Out of Date.

Mystic Rhymes Tnat never UfO"
Out of Date.
The New York Sun quotes a half
dozen childrens count out" rhymes
from a collection of these curious pro-
ducts of child life, and they carry one
back to the scenes Of long ago-to big,
white sanded yards, shaded with live
oaks, where the count out" games and
others, with jingles and without, were
played with an enthusiasm wonderful
to recall. Evidently what was the
same original Jingle that takes varying
form in different parts Of the country.
The
'Eeny, meeny, miny mo,
Catch a niger by the toe,
If he hollers let him CO."
quoted by The Sun is practically iden-
tical with the form in which we recol-
lect it, but in other rhymes the varia-
tion is remarkable. For example, In
Indiana, children count out thus:
"One-ery, two-ery, ickery Ann,
"Philoson, pholoson, Nicholas, John;
Stinkum, stankum, buck!"
The final line Of the above evidently
has the same origin as the final line Of
a count-out rhyme among Georgia chill
dren Of the sos, which, If memory be
not at fault, ran thus:
Zone sot, two sot. six sot, Sal,
Bobtail, domenicker, dill, dot, dat,
Haylum, Scoylum, Virgin Mary,
Sinctum, sanctum, buck!"
The final lines in each case indicate
a possible origin in some old Latin
poem Of a serious nature. The first
line of the Indian version suggests an
other count-out rhyme once in high IA
vor with Georgia children, which was
something like this:
"One-a-ma-newry, dickery, seven,
Halibow, crackery, ten or eleven,
Pc, po must be done,
Triggle-twaggle, twenty-one!'
Then there were "William-ma-trib-
ble-to-he's a good fisherman" etc.
Ten, ten, double-ten," etc., "One two,
buckle my shoe," ETC., and a number Of
others. including the following. which
may aptly be termed strenuous, espe-
cially with regard to the last line:
"Quema, quimo. dilmo, day,
Rick, stick, pomiddle, Dido,
Caesar broke the paddle over Pom
pey's head!"
It would be interesting to know
whether these Georgia specifications,
which we quote from memory, are
found in any Of the published collec-
tions The Sun classes the count-out
rhymes of childhood among the most
curious products Of the human mind"
and is Of the opinion that they possess
"in their frequent unintelligibility.
their reformation Of phrases or of
words once having a meaning. and
their strange refrains. the characteris-
tics of ancient and even magical song"
However that may be, the adult can
never forget them or the fascination
they once held for him.-Macon Tele-
rgaph.
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Their voices are boyish in quality, but
there is a wonderful tenderness in the
Of pathetic songs or very de-
vout hymns. A shilling will buy the
entire repertory, with as many encores
as you like. The singer will go on, II
judiciously encouraged, until hoarse-
ness compels a stop.-New York Trib-
une.
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5H' A noble nature can alone attract
the noble. and alone knows how to re-
tain them.
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tn The more insignificant the man,
the louder he boasts Of his ancestry.
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Copyright, 1901, by John Habberton.
CHAPTER XVIII.
AGAIN THE UNEXPECTED.

TER the night riding
at which l failed and
Brainard succeeded we
spent several days In
worrying the enemy
on our front, but when
several cavalry dashes
on a single day proved
to us that the enemy