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present I fow of small talk, to whitl
his wife shortly replied. !.
The msal ended and. folding pp he
4 serviette. Mr.. Pelgrpve plantS1 he
elbows on the table. Her shusbani
recognized the omen and trembled !
i HAD successful littleAtfip. Mat
n thew?''
Eyes, very--thank you!"
You don't seem up to the mark TO-
night"
"A trifiihg headache. Travelling, you
know, does shake one up q bit. Thai
reminds me. I've left my portmanteau
at the ONCE"
She made no comment. Matthew
played with salt-spoon. He could
not possibly meet her gaze.
eve been dreadfully put out, Mat
thew. discovered on Saturday-0l.,
it's too awful to speak about"
| The blow was coming, and Pelgroye
turned hot all over. Mary was clearly
holding herself in. In a moment the
storm would break in all its violence,
and poor man who had done wrong
and knew it would go down before the
blast.
Il was sitting at this window quiet
ly sewing on Saturday morning, when
an open fly drove by. Mr.. and Mre.
Needham Smith were in it, and the
coachman had pile of luggage beside
him. But what do you think Mrs.
Smith had on her head?"
'I'm sure don't know" replied
Matthew, puzzled, yet relieved. "Some-
thing absurd, suppose. A yachting
cap?"
"No, Matthew; worse than that!
Just think of the horror of it! A hat
the precise image of my new one.
Wasn't it shock for me-"
Pelgrove saw daylight struggling
through.
Really" he exclaimed, excitedly
Where were they going?"
Il didn't know at the time, but the
grocer's man told me afterwards.
They were off to spend a week at
Hastings. Why, Matthew, what is the
matter with you?"
Nothing-nothing. was just think
ing what burning shame about that
hat. Mrs. Needham Smith has copied
it, suppose. Now remember. she
had hair much the same color as
yours, and thought perhaps it might
suit her."
1T doesn't, Matthew. She looks abb
solutely hideous in it. Oh, it's scan
dal! I've not stirred from the house
since; was so upset. l shall never
speak to that woman again. You are
not laughing?"
Rather not! I'm just as put out as
you, Mary. When I've bought you a
nice thing. it's too bad to find it imi-
tated. What pity for you women
there isn't law of copyright in hats!"
He felt like school-boy again. So
It was Mrs. Needham Smith who had
given him the fright at Hastings,
and she and her husband had
been his visitors at the hotel. Now,
relations between their
wives, never cordial ones, would en-
.lTo1y cease.
I'm SO glad you did well by going
o Bradford, Mat. The fact is-well,
must get another hat now
'Of course! You shall have one i'm.
nediately. Go to good Regent street
hop! Mrs. Smith can't very we'll copy
What you get there"
"Oh, Matthew, how good of you!
We mustn't let the Needham Smiths
ut us out. Could you afford to take
ne by-and-by down to Hastings for
ittle?"
She looked at him trifle doubtfully.
ut his response was ready and eager.
We'll go, Mary, in about weeks
ime, directly the Needham Smiths get
ONE. Why, it must be seven or eight
ears since we went to Hastings-to-
Tit Bits.
The progress., 1904-03-12

A curious incident occurred in an
English police court recently where a
man named Travis was sentenced to a
months Imprisonment for obtaining a
postal order by false pretenses. He
pleaded that he was Officially dead"
and his story was that when with the
British army in South Africa he de.
serted, obtained some clothes from the
Kaffirs, made his way TO the coast
and worked his passage home. He
then discovered that he was reported
dead, and though he subsequently
gave himself up as deserter the war
Office gave an official assurance that he
had died at the 'front.'" and would not
arrest him.
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Fastening to the assistance of the man
who had been run over by the auto, we
find him raised up and staring after the
machine.
We'll" he whispers. hoarsely, sinking
back again. take me to the hospital. |
am satisfied"
Would you recognize the villain If you
saw him sgain?" we asked.
Who? The man running it, I don't
know; but that is one Of the newest mod
els. and ii didn't cost q cent less than
5000. Id hate to be killed by a cheap
machine. Cincinnati Times-star.
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MANS TOLERANT STOMACH.
II Puts Up with Many Very Strange
Articles That Find Their
Way Into 1t.

The organs of man are extremely
sensitive, and the smallest foreign body
is often capable OF seriously disturb
ing their functions At the same time,
says Nature, we have cases in which
remarkable tolerance is shown by
the stomach, such, for instance, as the
child five years of age who was pre-
sented to the Academic de Medicine in
1897, after having had piece of money
removed from his esophagus. This ex-
ample Of tolerance is. however. consid-
erably exceeded by the following case,
which We presented to the academic at
a recent meeting:
The patient was a young man. %
years of age. pale, of slight intelli-
gence. and epileptic. who had been
under the care of DR.. Leroux. of the
st. Joseph hospital. for nervous and
intestinal trouble. At the end of sew
eral days several foreign bodies were
observed in the left hypochondrium,
and the patient was sent to our surgi-
cal ward. where the operation of OPEN
ing the stomach was performed. What
was orr surprise when We felt with
the finger through the incision a great
number of metallic substances. With
the aid of long pincers we drew forth
the foreign bodies. First we obtained
two coffee spoons. varying from FIVE
t6 five and one-half inches in length.
The last spoons taken out were the
smallest. and were extensively cor
roded by the acids of the stomach. This.
however. was not the end. for. taking
longer pincer-the stomach being
very large-we found the back of an or
binary fork with three prongs. the
handle of the same fork broken. an
other fork handle. the fourth prong of
the fork above mentioned. a pin six
inches long. a piece of metal seven
inches long with a pointed end, two
nails. one needle. one knife handle and
two knife blades. third fork handle.
one key and some small particles of
oxidized metal; in all 25 pieces, with
a weight OF 230 grams.
The progress., 1904-03-12

To us it seems curious whim ON
the part of our ancestors of the eight
eenth century that in their marriage
announcements they should SO often
choose. and with such seeming COM
placency. to enlighten the world with
regard to the amount of fortune re-
ceived with the brides. Here are two
cases in point: "Mr. James Coutts. o
Jeffry's square, merchant. to Miss Pea
grum. of Knightsbridge, 100000"
Nv. Smith, gentleman, of the Second
troop of horse guards, TO Mrs. Ann
Gardiner. a maiden lady. aged. tits
said, near 20. with a fortune OF 920,-
00Q."-Chambers' Journal.
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. Is 0A6IAOs
The Plaintiff was hcmeiy Maid
~ forty years, or more
a trolley car, It ran her down.
And she, Of course, was sore.
Inc lawyer WAS a cunning chap
Who liked contingent fees;
He naturally advised the Maid
To nurse her injurees.
The damages the Plaintiff claimed
Were modest as could be:
She asked for fifty thousand pounds
Because she hoped for three.
The experts were disint rested.
So six they swore that she
Would die within month or two.
Blk swore the contraree.
The Jurors, honest men and true.
They thought and thought and thought;
And then For Plaintiff fifty thou
sand pounds" the verdict brought.
The Jurors, tender-hearted man,
Before they sought their bed,
Each one, he nobly went and asked
The plaintiff him to we'd.
Alas! Alack! Alack-a-day!
Twas ever thus in life!
They found the Plaintiff-Maid no moro.
She was the lawyers wife!
IN. Y. Sun.
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THE MUsKRAT's SNUG HOME.
Location Cunningly Chosen and the
Structure Is Compact and
Securely Built.

The house the muskrat builds fol
the protection Of himself and his fam.
lily from stress of weather is strictly a
utilltarian structure. The entrance
dug with great and persistent toll from
the very bottom of the bank, for the
better discouragement of the muskrat's s
deadliest enemy, the mink, runs in
ward for nearly two feet, and then up
ward through the natural soil to a
point where the shore is dry land at
the average level of the water. Over
this exit, which is dry az the time of
the building, the muskrat raises his
house.
The house is a seemingly careless,
roughly rounded heap of grass roots,
long water weeds, lily roots and stems
and mud, with few sticks woven into
the foundation. The site is cunningly
chosen, so that the roots and stems of
alders or other trees give 1t secure
anchorage, and the whole structure,
for all of it's apparent looseness, is so
well cOmpacted as to be secure against
the sweep of the spring freshets. About
six feet in diameter at it's base, it rises
about the same distance from the
foundation, a rude, sedge-thatched
dam, of which something more than
three feet may show itself above the
ice.
To the unobservant eye the muskrat
house in the alders might look like
a mass of drift in which the rank wa
ter grass had taken root. But within
the clumsy pit is shapely, warm
chamber, lined with the softest grasses. 4
From one side of this chamber the
burrow slants down to another and
much larger chamber, the floor of
which, at high water, may be partly
flooded. From this chamber lead down
two burrows, one, the main passage,
opening frankly in the channel of the
creek and the other, longer and more
devious, terminating in the narrow and
cunningly concealed exit behind a
submerged root. This passage is very
little used, and is intended chiefly as
way of escape in case OF an extreme
emergency, such as, for example, the
invasion of particularly enterprising
mink, by way of the main water gate.
The musKrat is no match for the
snake-swift bloodthirsty mink, except |
in the one accomplishment of holding
his breath under the water, and a |
mink must be very ravenous or quite
mad with the blood lust to dare the |
deep water gate and the long subaque-
Gus passage of the muskrat's citadel at
seasons of average high water. In |
times of drought, however, when the
entrance is nearly uncovered, and the |
water goes but little way up the |
dark tunnels, the mink will often glide |
in, slaughter the garrison and occupy |
tha uoI1- -hu;1f oifoda1
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Love Powder. sim Potent.

One of the Iowa Indians, according
to an Oklahoma paper. is making a
good living by selling so-called love
powders. Little. peculiar shells found
in the creeks and the root of a Ger
tain kind of morning glories furnish
the sole ingredients Of the love-com-
pelling powder. The shells and roots
are dried and guond to powder: then
after making sort Of paste of the
smears it over his or her face: then
the love powder painted person goes
close TO the one whose affection is to
be captured. 1t is claimed that the
besmeared person is always victorious.
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10000 Plants for 10c.

This is remarkable offer The John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, makes.
They will send you their big plant and
seed catalog, together with enough seed to
grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 delicious Carrots,
1000 blanching, nutty Celery,
1900 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in.
duce you to try their warranted seeds
for when you once. plant them you will
grow no others, and
ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them 20c in postage, they
will add to the above package of the ia.
nous Berliner Cauiaower. TX. IL
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Usually the Case.

"A mans enemies seldom Kick him when
he's down." remarked the .moralizer.
izer. 'They stand aside and give his
friends a chance. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Herx Naturally.

when looked at this painting on
my last visit here. about two months
ago, it seems to me that the antelope
was further up the mountain than 1t
is now"
"Oh. quite likely. The antelope is a
very active animal and rarely remains
in one spot for two months. Kansas
City Journal. -
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Il noticed" remarked Brusuuely,
that you took yozr hat of when you
telephoned just now. and then put 1t
back again. May I ask you why?"
Certainly" replied courtly. Il was
'.slAphoning lady. ."-Boston Globe
The progress., 1904-03-12

Dropsy treated free by DR.. H. II. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. TIE greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver-
tisement in another column of this paper.
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Did the Best They Could.
She--I wonder why they hung that pic.
ture?
He--Perhaps they couldn't catch the
artist.-Stray Stories.
The progress., 1904-03-12
Knowledge from Experience.

Is what we understand when Dr.
Spalding, an eminent Baptist .devine, Of
bottles of Taylor's Cherokee Remedy Of
Sweet Gum and Mullen. 1t is for a
friend suffering from consumption. 1t
is preparation l know from experience
to be good"
At druggists. 25c.. 5oc., and $l.0o
bottle, ..--
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1t may be but small matter even if man
doesn know his own mind.-Chicago Daily
News.
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woman who Strongly s omngltterX.wIf you meet ss,s
family are beautiful. = Baltimore Amer
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Huntsmen's Terms.

In book on British sports, written
in the eighteenth century, Joseph
Strut gives old English terms for
groups Of various beasts as follows:
when beasts went together in COM
panies, there was said to be a pride
of lions; lepe of leopards;. an herd
of harts. or bucks, and of all sorts of
deer; a bevy of roes; sloth of boars;
sownder of wild swine; a drift of
tame swine; route of wolves; har-
ras of horses; a rag of colts; stud of
mares; a pace of asses; barren of
mules: a team of oxen; drove of
kline; flock of sheep; tribe Of goats;
a skulk of foxes; a cete of badgers; a
richness of martins; fesynes of fer
rets; a huske or a down of hares; a
nest of rabbits; ciowder of cats and
a kyndall of young cats: shrewdness
of apes and labor of mcles."
The progress., 1904-03-12

ANY one can dye with Putnam Fadeless
Dye, no experience required.
The progress., 1904-03-12


Three-quarters of the export trade
of Chill are furnished by its great de-
posits of nitrate of soda, which is
used as a fertilizer in nearly all agri-
cultural countries. But these deposits,
like those of coal, are limited, and
once removed cannot be replaced.
Mr.. Vergara, Chilian authority, has
recently estimated the probable fu-
ture life of the nitrate deposits as in
dicated by the increasing demand. and
he predicts that at the end of 20
years exhaustion will be near at hand.
Our national life," he says, ''is based
upon an uncertain foundation, which
weakens with the course Of years, and
which will be permanently destroyed
within a period the duration Of which
is measured by the growth of the ex-
portation of nitrate. e."-Science.
Cheese for Rabbit.
The trouble-making powers Of a
Welsh rabbit are not always limited
to the physical being, as one young
man now realizes. This particular
young man, country bred, recently be-
gan his city life as a grocery clerk.
The very first week woman custom
er hurriedly demanded: Some cheese
for a rabbit, please" The young man
did not stop to think whether rabbits
enjoyed cheese-the customers tone
was too imperative for hes:tation-so
he put up what he supposed her pct
would like. An hour later a crest
fallen clerk listened to the head gro
GERS lecture on the foolishness of
giving a valuable customer a bag full
of cheese rinds and scraps. Now he
knows what sort Of cheese the "rso-
Bit takes.-N. Y. Post
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A mans life is worth what il costs
him.-Ram's Horn.
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of enjoyment at the price he was pay
ing?
The train drew up at Hornsey and
Matthew found himself one of crowd
filtering out of the station. If only at
that moment he might be lost to sight
for evermore! When a married man
did disappear in that way, was not his
wife usually the cause?
He reached his garden-gate and
glanced furtively at the house. Mary
was invisible. He screwed up courage
and mounted the steps. The house
maid opened the door to him.
"Is your mistress in?"
Upstairs in her room, sir. She'll
be down directly"
He placed hat and papers on the hat
stand. Never had he entered his house
with such peculiar feeling before. II
was as though he had no right there.
and the next moment would see him
violently elected into the street.
He passed into the dining-room and
was fishing under the sofa for his slip
pers when his wife entered. H.
screwed up courage to look her in the
face. Its expression confirmed his
worst fears.
YOU'RE hcme," she laconically re-
marked.
Yes. Things all gone we'll, Nary"
Not at all. Are you ready for din
ner?"
when I've found my other slipper"
You're late" continued Mrs. Pei
grove. Dinners been kept back q
quarter of an hour. and you know how
cross il makes cook. have something
serious TO say to you after it,
Personally. Matthew would have
preferred having the matter out before
the meal: ii would act like a night
mare on his digestion. But he sat
obediently up to the table and feigned
interest in the viands. maintaining for
appearance sake when the servant vas
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j. B. Brown puts up the best pumps
and windmills in the wOrldx
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Can You afford to buy trees from infected
districts and pay one-third more than ask ?
Remember for 13 years no trees grown by US
have been condemned, proving "we grow the
best You need not pay us in advance. You
take risk. Write MS before buying from an
agent-a postal card will save you dollars in
first cost Of your trees, and perhaps hundreds
of them in the years to come.
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Goff's Insurance is best by tests
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A IHireIess steam Engine.

A steam locomotive recently complet-
ed III Dusseldorf, Germany, for use III
factories which handle high explosives
in bulk, carries no fire with it. On the
contrary. the steam is generated out
side and the boiler Of the locomotive
charged with it, the operation requiring
about half an hour 1t is then able tc
operate for several hours, after which
the recharging occupies about fifteen
minutes. The operation is 50 simple
that unskilled workmen are placed IL
charge 1t is said to be only about
one-half as expensive in operation al
the ordinary locomotive.
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Consumption or Furnace smoke.

TVMs TIf UE i
4 Hungarian inventor claims TO have
solved the smoke difficulty by employ
ing porous plates or bricks made Of q
composition containing lime and fHeI
Of different degrees Of combustibility
arranged behind or between portions
Of tie fuel in 4 furnace. These serve
as desulphurizing or purifying filters
for the furnace gases. A suitable com
bfnation Of materials is made up o1
sawdust coke or anthracite, coklng
fuel and brown coal and peat mixed to
gether and tempered with an amount
Of water equal to the weight Of the
combustible materials taken together.
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BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country,
Wednesday, July q.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt formally received
and accepted the nomination of the re-
publican party for president of the
United States, the notification committee
having delivered their message to the
president at his country home, Saga
more Hill.
Governor Beckham OF Kentucky mas
ordered state troops to Munfordville to
prevent the release from jail of Custer
Gardner, sentenced to be hanged.
A cloudburt at New Harmony, Utah,
a small settlement in the extreme south
ern part OF the state, destroyed cOnsid-
erable property. An immense volume of
water swept down the canyon, carrying
everything movable in its path.
The packing house managers in Chi
cagO declare that they will make no new
agreements with the striking employees
because these men did not live up to the
one previously made.
The cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
will remain closed until October unless
the striking employees agree to accept
the 12A per cent reduction in wages.
The Chicago packing house firms claim
that they have over 10000 nOn-uniOn
men at work in their plants, which mum
Der is about half of the usual number
employed.
The agricultural department is consid-
ering the advisability of including the
Quinault Indian reservation in the Olym-
pic forest reserve.
Thursday, July %.
An order is about to be issued in Chi,
eagO by the president OF the Freight
Handlers Union that will involve that
organization 10 the stockyards strike.
An order has been promulgated, effect
i've August l, reducing the salaries of all
officers and employees OF the Worlds Fair
Company from to 20 per cent.
William Mccormack Of Lancaster Co.,
Neb., drew the first choice for a home
stead in the Rosebud Indian reservation
ia South Dakota
Sheriff Edward Bell OF Cripple Creek
will not guarantee protection to any
person who has been driven from that
district because Of bis alliance or sym
pathy with the Western Federation Of
Miners.
John j Ryan the race track man who
IS wanted in st. Louis to answer a charge
of grand larceny involving about $780,
900, has been arrested in New York.
A riot occurred at the Fowler packing
plant in Kansas City, when a mob of
500 strikers attacked a gang of non
union men who were leaving the plant
Two strike breakers were injured.
Fear is expressed in Pennsylvania that
the executive board of district No. 1.
United MinewOrkers, in session in Phila-
delphia will order a strike, involving
rs, 900 men in the anthracite region, be
cause of the refusal of the companies to
deduct check weighmen's wages.
FRIDAY ,JuIy 90
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Manager Wanted.

Trustworthy lady or gentleman to
manage business in this country and ad
ioining territory for well and favorably
known house of solid financial standing.
500 straight cash salary and expenses,
naid each Monday by check direct from
headquarters. Expense money advanced.
Position permanent. Address. manager,
$40 Como block, Chicago, Illinoise
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Sunday, July 81.

There have been 591 ,842 paid admis
sions to the worlds fair at st. Louis
during the past week. The admissions
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Saturday, July 80

The highest office building in the
world is to be erected at so Wall street,
New York. The skyscraper will be 252
feet tall.
The second $5OO.OOO installment to
liquidate the $4,6OO,OOO government
loan, is now ready for payment by the
Worlds Fair company.
The conflict between capital and union
ism, which has been going on in the
packing trades industry throughout the
country for nearly three weeks, shows
no signs OF abatement.
Heavy rains in the mountains east OF
Truxton, Ariz, sent down a wall oil
water 80 feet high through the canyon,
carrying everything movable before it.
Immense damage was done.
Rock Island passenger train was
held up at Tucumcari, Texas, the express
car dynamited and robbed and the pas
sengers compelled to deliver all their
valuables. No clue to the robbers has
been obtained.
An explosion of natural gas in the
basement of the Russell Park hotel in
Chicago wrecked the building and injured
a number of persons.
Chas Hayes, a stage driver was
killed and Patrick kimball, a paymaster
was fatally wounded, by masked men
near Portage, Pa. The murderers took
a satchel containing $4,000 intended for
paw day ar the Puritan Coal Company
mines.
Sunday, July 81.
Tboro hova haap 5Q1 $40 maid admis