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left, and looking as if he were going
to stay there all winter, too"
yes, that's like him."
Like him! | should say So was
n REFER on the Dcvonshirc when he
knocked EEtenduere's squadron into
a cooked hat, and I've cruised with
him since he was an old friend of my
fathers before he died, used to stop at
our house when he came to Boston,
while he was on the West India sta
ton. In fact, began my sea service
with him. | never saw such man.
He's as swift as a frigate bird and
when he strikes he hits like a storm.
He never let's 20 either. and such
fighter. He's we'll named Hawke,
think"
"Ay. but very much doubt our
running across him this morning"
exclaimed Hatfield. 1--WE should have
seen frigate surely by this time If
he were there. You see. this wester-
y gale has been blowing for three
days. or maybe longer and he'll find
it difficult TO keep his position with
such a heavy feet on a lee-sh ore Be
sides. the wind keeps the French tight
in the harbor. He may have run
over to Plymouth, or Torbay. ready to
dash out again when the wind shifts"
And perhaps give tho French a
/ chance TO Slip out, too. I'll wager a
pound TO a penny he's been praying
they would try it all summer long"
The frigate, on the quarterback of
which the two men had been speaking,
had been moving rapidly through the
water and they were much nearer the
coast now. Indeed. the blink of the
land-the dim blue haze upon the
horizon which tells of voyages ended
and Ravens near, and sometimes of
wreck and disaster when the storm
gods are out-could be seen now from
the deck, and the stern cliffs of
Ushant were rising higher with every
passing moment
Save for the land before and TO the
north Of them the horizon was clear
/ There was not a single ship in sight.
/ 1t was evident that Sir Edward and
4 his bockading feet had gone away.
"Nhatll you do now?" asked Hat
field
We'll, we'll run in a little farther
/ 1 think continued Grafton, Eve can
at least see if the French are still in
port. Perhaps we can find ont what
they are about TO do. Then We'll bear
up for Torbay. try to overhaul the
feet, and deliver these dispatches and
, The news
And Mademoiselle de Rohan?"
AS to her, later, am afraid"
"You won't try for it now, them
Il think not, must deliver these
dispatches first Of all"
You have not given up the idea
thought"
Il never give up anything. Hatfield, >
answered Grafton resolutely, and ii
as soon give up life as Anne 1t
ROhan."
GRO BE CONTINUED)
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Postal Card Drafts.

And so II remained for an Austrian
to render postal cards of most &C
ceptable service. The new order Of
the minister OF posts and telegraphS
will commend itself 10 all Americans
and cannot be adopted here 100 soon.
Sums under $3.50 can he transmitted
TO any part OF the Austrian empire,
The sender sftlXes stamps to the card
to the required amount plus the ordi-
nary postage and a tribe for commits
sion This card can be changed into
cash at any postodice or II so IN
structed. the postman who delivers Il
will also at tho same time hand over
It's money value
This idea OF using the postal card as
a draft is the essence OF practically. I
have been wondering how 10 send 80
cents IN cash 70 the publisher Of 1T
tie periodical who reeds the money,
By this device ! could stick 80 cents
worth OF stamps on the back OF a card,
with a cent extra for the governments
commission. and have the matter end
ed.-New York Press
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I'm sorry you ask so many questions
that you haven't right to ask, be
cause YOU put yourself i'll the position
Of the 1nqulstive bull pup who started
ont TO smell the third rail on the troll
ley right of way. You're going 10 be
full Of information in minute
In the first place. IL looks as If bust
ness might be pretty good this fall,
and I'm afraid you'll have your hands
so full I'm your place rs assistant man
agcr OF the lard department that you
won't have time to run my job too.
Then ! don't propose to break any
quick promotion records with you Just
because you happened TO be born into
II job with the house. A fond father
and q fool son hitch up into bad
team, and good business makes n
poor family carryall. out of business
hours | like You better than any one
ut the office, but In them there are
about twenty men ahead Of you In my
affections. The way for you to get
iirst place is by racing fair and square
and not by using your old daddy as n
SpringDoard from which to jump over
their heads. \ mans son is entitled to
chance in his business. but not TO n
clnch.
It's been my experience that when
an office begins to look like family
tree you'll ind worms tucked away
snug and cheerful In most OF the ap-
pies. A fellow with an office full of
relatives is like a SOW with n litter Of
pigs apt to get little thin and peak
ed MS the Others fat up. A receiver
Is next of kin to business mans rela-
tives, and after they are all nicely set
tied In the office they re not long in
finding Job for him there too. |
want you TO get this firmly fixed In
your mind, because, while you haven
many relatives to hire, If you ever get
TO be the head OF the house you'u no
doubt marry few with your wife,
After you have found ninety nine
sound reasons for hiring man IT'S
all right 10 let his relationship to you
be the hundrcdth. tn be the only
bad reason in the bunch.
Some men are like oak leaves-they
don't know when they're dead, but still
hang right on, and there are others who
1T go before anything has really touch
ed them. or course may be In the
rst class, but you can be dead sure
hat | don't propose to get into the
.ccond, even though l know lot of
.cOple say I'm an old hog TO keep
ieht along working after I've made
more money than know how TO spend
md more than | could spend II | knew
Ow, They believe that money ought
loaf; | believe It ought to work.
hey believe that money ought to go to
he races and drink champagne; ] be-
owe that ii ought to 90 to the office
nd keep sober
! don't mind owning up to You,
hough, that | don't hang on because
m Indispensable to the business but
"cause business tx Indispensable to
%. | don't take much stock In this
uSpcnsable man idea anyway. I've
YER had one working for me, and ii
lad I'd fire him, because the fellow
nos as smart ms TINT ought to be IN
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business for himself. and II he doesn't
get chance to start n new one he's
naturally going to eat up yours. Any
man can feel reasonably well salts.
fed If he's sure that there's going to
be hole to look at when he's pulled
up by the roots.
l started business in a shanty. and
I've expanded It into half mile OF
factories. / began with ten men work
Ing for me, and I'll quit with 10000.
found the American hog In q mud
puddle, without beauty spot on him
except the curl In his tail, and I'm
having him nicely packed in fancy
cals and cases, with gold medals hung
all over him. hut after I've gone
some other fellow will come along and
add postgraduate course in pork
packing and make what I've done look
like "A country school just after tho
teachers been licked And want you
TO be that fellow. For the present 7
shall report at the Office as usual, be-
cause l don't know any other place
where l can get ten hours' fun a day.
year in and year out
After forty years Of close acquaint-
ance with 1t I've found that work Is
kind to its friends and harsh to its
enemies. 1t pays the fellow who dis
likes 1t his exact wages, and they're
generally pretty small. But II gives
the man who shines up to It all the
money he wants and throws in heap
of fun and satisfaction for good meas
ure.
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FRUITFUL OLD AGE.
Past Masters In Their spheres Who
We're Past seventy.

The tall, handsome, myriad minded
Goethe wrought at his tasks till he
was nearly cightythree years old. He
produced the first Aart of his master
piece, Faust" at ufty-seven, the sec
ond part when eighty years old, and
wrote some of his most beautiful po-
ems at seventy five. Six Of our fore
most American poets, and all but one
in quantity as well as in quality Of
verse Bryant, Whittier. Longfellow,
Lowell, Holmes and Emcrson-lived to
ages varying from seventy five 10
eighty-fve and were productive to the
last. Or. Holmes wrote In his eighty
fifth year that time does not threaten
the old man go often with the scythe
rs with the sandbag," yet he wrote
brilliant verse for special occasions al
most to the end.
Thcodor Mommscn, the historian, a
man OF almost insignificant stature
and enaciated frame, manifested In
his eighty sixth and last year the en-.
crgy of man in middle life The Earl
of Dundonald. though he was always
in hot water and his whole life was
a series of quarrels-though lie per
formed some of the most daredevil
feats recorded In the history Of naval
warfare, winning many brilliant Veto
ries against enormous odds-lived to
eighty-fve and wrote his history of the
liberation OF Peru, Chile and Brazil
and THE Autobiography Of Seaman"
two most vigorous lucid and dashlng
works. under the stress Of intense
physical pain In the last three years OF
his life.
Sir Charles James Napier. the hero
of Scndc was sixty before he held any
great command. He fought and won
great battles. governed successfully
great provinces and achieved great
name long after that period of life had
passed when, according to an antique
morality not quite exploded, 1t be.
hoovcs a man to lay aside the things OF
the present life and to prepare his soul
for the next.-Saturday Evening Post
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Oh mistry In the puipit.

The Rev W Cunlins, B A. OF Brad.
ford preached In Parsley parish church
on the subject OF Miracles" and Illus
trsted his sermon by chemical expert.
ments He analysed quantity Of
common sugar, showing II TO be com.
posed only Of carbon (or CharcoaD and
water, Man. he pointed out could
easily separate the constituents, but
the wisest could not put them together
again He also burned ribbon Of
magnesium. explaining that in combus
ton II absorbed oxygen and formed
magnesium oxide, but the result was
he said, an inexplicable miracle Mr.,
Cunlirs holds n government certificate
for music as we'll as certificates IN
practical and theoretical chemistry. He
passed In the honors stage at Owens
college In chemical science London
Telegraph.
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LOVE IN JAPAN.
1t Is Very Different From That
which Warns the Western Heart.

~
Which Warm. the Western Heart.
The boys and girls. The young men
and young women Of Japan do love
each other, | suppose, but one never
sees the slightest shadow Of evidence
to prove It. The spirit OF love does not
dominate the national life rs it does
in America and the countries OF Eu-
rope, Japan's poets do not Sing OF
love; her story writer's tell no tales w.
love that can thrill an Anglo Saxon
heart, and her artists paint no pictures
Of love that can reach the Anglo Saxon
understanding. Now, considering al
this, how can there be such thing as
"a good old summer time In this land
Of sunrise! And yet there is. and II Is
especially delightful in its way, too,
because the japanese are Il nation OF
feasters and picnickers, OF nature low
ers and world beaut'tiers. and il one
can only lose sight OF the fact that
everywhere one goes the poor little
women toddle meekly along behind the
men, who stalk pompously ahead as
If they owned the earth, one may al
most enjoy oneself
one never sees woman caressed ia
Japan. not even with glance; one
seldom sees baby fondied-in fact,
all human tenderness or expression OF
human tenderness is conspicuous by It's
absence, and | believe that Is the one
inlpassable great gulf that IS fixed be-
tween ny and this people And yet the
people are happy. with a simple, sweet
happiness that is Farming. That is
IT, 1t Is an atmosphere that mildly
charms, but never thrills, the western
heart. All the nations love IL concen-
trated upon the emperor. and the high.
est note OF the national life is sounded
in yamato damashi. Japan spirit, pa
riotism, and even this IL beyond our
comprehension, because it Is empty OF
romance and unsatisfactory to us, who
cannot separate the interests OF fair
women and brave men" even upon the
battlefield. Eleanor Franklin In Les.
lies Weekly.
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BVnina Not Needed.

Sir Conan Doyle once told story of
an English officer who was badly
wounded In South Africa. and the mill.
tary surgeon had to shave OF that por-
ton of his brain which protruded from
his skull. The oflcer got we'll. and
later on in London the surgeon asked
whether he knew that portion Of his
brain wasin glass bottle in n labora.
tory. "Oh. that does not matter now
replied the soldier; 1--WE got n Der.
manent position in the war Office"
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He Knew the Game.

Deacon Heavyweight-An 80 You
are going to leave u.s. parson? Rev
Mr.. Thankful-Yes. | have had a cal
to another parish, where. by the way
the salary IL considerably larger, | an
sorry to leave my flock but | must
obey the call. Deacon Heavyweight
(dryly)-Waal, 1t may be what you cal
call but 1t seems to me good dea
more like raise '.i3
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Malay superstitions.

You can scarcely ever get your mon
sy from Malay on Friday because
Malays believe that II they pay their
creditors on Friday they VIII be
overtaken by penury Malays nevc-
shave or cnt their nails on Saturday or
Tuesday because these are unlucky
days, and II they do part with their
hair or nails on these days they believe
that they will be always in trouble or
wih die quickly.
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I
i've years ago | met her then as a
itlc girl. and rs luck. nav proyi-
renee would nave IT, lcll INTO her
'""uS "sai" Ill canada "hen was
'ound'u ana captured you Know
1t seems 10 me you nave happy
thacN oi lalling INTO the hahds Oh
Net'y ihdles as prisoner.
res haven't /. assented Hraitoh'
mi'l'hs laintly'
WISH some such luck Wouid come
% nc then.
Don't wish II AT all my young
TREND It's dangerous sl'"al'on 10 DC
In.
Rave you lounu 1t So
Yes, m prisoner forever
cad there are worse rates. ius
are you eHsascd TO inc iady' captain
Don't answer me IL ASK an imperu-
hent question ou' Il am 10 neIp Sou'
shouIo Ike 10 Nno" soh'e'hllls'
Wen EMO NOT eNa'uY' IN iacI
nor at an. Hhe IS pe'ro'n'd TO lieut.
Denis Ge wire OF inc rehch navy.
ION, to him. exclaimed Hatfield.
who was familiar with the public his
lory of de Wires exploits in Canada.
Yes
And is she-er--in love with him ?'
"No."
Well is shea
yes, win me
Ana can you get nor 10 oreaN ner
tiS'seHIy NJ
con Know, ! lhInk nOt. nat
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Then think Of the mercies which
have come TO us through the dental
chair. In olden times when man had
4 tOothnche he would 90 TO the village
doctor or to the village blacksmith
The forceps would embrace the aching
tooth. There would be a groan, a yell.
q kicking Of the sufferer. and out would
come the offending molar, What was
the result1 Among our ancestors IL
was no exception TO hnd young man
or a young woman OF thirty-ey years
OF age without = tooth In the Jaw
Think Of the dyspepsia and after din
ner pains which were then caused by
poorly masticated food. Some of us
complain because we have not all the
different kinds Of food upon our tables
We would like to have. But IN oldcn
times they not only complained about
the few kinds OF food they had to eat
but they also complsined about their
sore gums with which they had to mas
ticate that poor food. Many lives Of
our ancestors were shortened because
prematurely. 40 King Solomon express
cd 1t, the grinders ceased. because
they were few"
Then today make hig inventory Of
the blessings OF the modern public
school system OF America. In olden
times 1t was the exception for the son
or a daughter OF n home to have what
10 called liberal education, Yale and
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More Tolerance Now.


There Is more tolerance and human.
ity in the modern church. In ancient
times no mercy was shown by the lead
ers of the church to heretics. When
they heard Of men who differed from
the doctrines OF the church they imme
diately got together their thumbscrews
and instruments OF torture. They start.
ed forth with sword and spear and bat
tleax. They said, III you will not be-
lieve as we believe We will cut out
your tongue and blind your eyes and
cripple your feet and burn your homes
and Stay your sons and daughters"
Read tho history OF the covenanters
Read the story OF the massacre OF St.
Bartholomew at Paris. Read the his
tory OF the dark ages. Look at Charlie
magne trying to convert his kingdom
by having the priests drive the masses
Into the water like herds Of cattle and
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
USEFUL HINTS.

A dish drainer that was thought out
By an invalid whose mind IS much
stronger than her body. 1t was so
cIeverly thought out that II saves at
least one-third Of the work-the great.
great work-of dish-drying. The dishes
are firmly held at their lower edges,
and cannot slip because Of curved re-
-cesses fn the bottom Of the wire basket
They are rinsed on both sides at the
same time. and do not steam. There
IS n central basket. which holds knives,
forks and spoons upright, insuring per-
feet drainage and preventing soaking
and lOosening OF knife handles. No
pretty finger tips arc sCalded in hot rms
ing water.
A steel frame TO deliver tho carver
out Of ali his troubles by holding roasts,
ham or fowl tightly between two steel
Jams which are locked by an arm Of the
same material and the whole mounted
on an enamel base. sure cure for
Rymnastic turkeys and spare ribs az the
dinner table
An automatic cruraber which has come
10 supersede the crumb brush and tray,
as the motor car has superseded the
horse and carriage. II is Lllipuuan
carpet sweeper ana does It's "ork pretu-
~ and thoroughly.
Garbage fncinerator. which stands on
the kitchen range 70 be a scrap basket
for all wet or dry refuse. There is a
sheet iron shell with a cover on top
and a wire basket inside. The basket
Is slant-bottomed and holds the garbage
over burning Goals. When the garbage
has been thoroughly dried the air inlet
tube opens and admits fresh Oxygen
10 help the FIRE in turning the mass Into
ashes When done with It's work the
fncincerator leaves its place on the
range.
A salad dressing warranted 10 keep
better than mayonnaise comes from
England. Stir together in small
saucepan a teaspoonful OF sugar. little
salt and dry mustard, three tablespoon
fuls Of vinegar and three Of cream. sur
well and add two beaten egg yolks- Place
in q double boiler and stir until the mix
turc is like cream.
Here is q new use for sour milk:
Put your silver into the milk when u
Is thick: let Il stand for half an hour;
take the pieces out and wash them
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
NOT As MOTHER DID
DO WE KEEP HOUSE
But Perhaps Some Of Her Daughters Ways
Are Better.
Are Better.

If the housekeeper Of these days
doesn't have more leisure and an easier
time generally than her mother or her
grandmother had before her. It would
seem to be entirely her own fault.
Given the same financial conditions,
the work Of the woman of today who
does her own homework must perforce
be three times as easily performed rs
was the work of her mothers early
housekeeping days.
inventions and food preparations are
banishing the old, tiresome processes
from the kitchen. one by one.
Many an hour did the Woodworking
mother bend her back over the wash
board Now her married daughter. or
one of the boys. turns the crank Of a
wooden box-like machine, and behold,
the clothes come out snowy white.
In mothers" housekeeping days
homemade ice cream was an event not
to be rashly invited. It meant churning
long and laboriously. But in the daugh-
ter's home. in these days. II merely
means getting out the instantaneous
freezer. putting in the ingredients, and
letting the freezer do the rest In
short time It's perfectly safe for
daughters boys to clamor for Ice
cream.
Who does not remember when it took
The Washington times., 1904-08-15

mother a day or two to make fish
cakes2 There was the cod TO be boiled.
then TO be carefully picked free Of bones,
and chopped. None Of that for
mothers" daughter. Instead she buys
a neat little box Of fia.ky, prepared cod
fish, boneless and shredded and need
Ing only 10 be scalded and mixed with
the egg and potatoes TO result in delici-
Gus cakes-all told, the work OF twenty
minutes, maybe.
Around holiday time there used 20 be
the rasin-seeding to be done in prepara-
ton for the festive mincepie. II was a
tedious process, sometimes involving the
whole family, and occupying several
long evenings. Now the seeded and seed
less raisins save all that time, and the
Pics are not a bit worse.
Then there were the immense batch
Of bread that the mother OF a large
family had to make. whereas her daugh-
ter probably has bread sent in every
morning, so much ike the homemade
after which II is named that the differ
enCe is not worth mentioning
In hundred ways Homework Is easier
than IL used to be. Cooking and clea n
ing. its two main bugbears, are getting
wonderfully simplifled. A whole lot less
time Is needed Tor sewing when pretty
little frOcks for children can be bought
ready made for a dollar and even less
and when simple clothing for women
comes ready made for very little money
Surely the gods Of progress intended
the mothers Of this generation TO give
more time TO companionship with their
families and the cultivation OF the finer
side Of life.
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d q OBSERVATIONS Of peggy D. D.

its ashes. Consequently, while the girl
Of today looks well in her grandmother
gowns II she sits or stands still and
does not speak. she appears altogether
out of key when she lives and moves
and acts in her own wav
I dare say this is due 70 the fact that
the girl of today is undergoing a pro-
cess of evolution. she belongs to the
morrow. and her status is not yet fixed.
She has not found herself.
She is standing between the slangy
type. which is one extreme and which
apes Insecurity, and the extreme femi-
nine type of forty or fifty years ago.
She can accept neither as her own ulti-
mately. for her self-respect and refine
ment abhors the one and the changed
conditions which perhaps this extreme
has wrought will not let her return to
the vapory type Of Crawford days.
However. I have infinite faith in wo-
mankind, and am certain the type Of
the Immediate future. when developed.
VIII be the proper type to suit the
age; TO battle with the world and its
weighty problems as women have to do
now more than ever before; TO be equal
iy capable In business and the home,
for any thinking being will admit the
life Of woman Is becoming complex and
her duti.s dual For whereas a man
can have good business head and rest
on that, woman must have a bust
ness head and apply it both at home and
in the outer world.
Therefore she has no precedent to go
by She must forge her own way
ahead and do as she deems best, bOr-
rowing from her grandmother such
traits as may polish and refine her
character: from her grandmother many
times removed, Of the EliZabethan age,
such forcefulness as she may deem
Btting TO help her act we'll her part;
and from her anCeStresses of the Spar
tan age the herOism and courage which
her fight with the world viii necessi-
tate
PEGGY QUINCY.
The Washington times., 1904-08-15
Points,.

An inch Of rain means that 101 tons of
water has fallen upon every acre Of
soil.
Newton Is the most common OF town
names In England. II occurs either alone
or with some uffix no less than twenty
two times.
A full grown whale weighs one hundred
tOns-that Is. as much as eighty ele-
plants OF four hundred bears. Seventy
feet is the utmost length OF a whale.
Altar OF ylang-ylang, which rivals at
from $40 20 $50 more per pound is the
product OF a tree which grows in the
Philippines