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Origin of Fruits.

The strawberry, says European au-
thority, comes from cross between the
native strawberry of Virginia ana that
of Chill. The raspberry is native In
temperate Europe and in Asia. The
apricot originated in China. The peach
was originally a Chinese fruit. The
cherry originated round the Caspian
Sea. The plum comes from he eau
casus and Turkey. The pear is Sative
in temperate, Europe and Western Asia.
The ounce comes from Southeastern
Europe, the Caucasus and the Caspian
region. The apple is native all over
Europe, in the Caucasus, round the
Black Sea and in Persia. The almond
comes from trans Caucasia, Mesopot-
anna, Persia. Turkestan and Algeria.
The fig seems to have originated round
the Mediterranean, particularly in
Syria. The grape is native in Southern
Europe. Algeria, Morocco and Western
Asia. The red currant grows wild all
over Europe, In the Caucasus, the Him
alayas, Manchuria, Japan and Arctic
America. The walnut comes rom the
Caucasus, Persia and Northern India.
The sweet orange originated In South
ern China and Cochin China The cit
ron is of Indian origin.
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The Swiss State Council has approved
States.
A Turkish steamship ran down the
steam ferryboat STEAMBOAT outside the har-
Dor at Smyrna. One hundred and forty
persons were drowned.
In consequence of dispute between
the buyers of wool and the selling brok-
ers over terms of payment, the buyers alb
scented themselves from the opening of the
local exchange in Melbourne, Australia
Since his recent arrival at Pekin with
numerous retinue, the dalai lama has
caused much trouble to the reform ele-
ment in the government. He refuses to
discuss Tibetan affairs, and repudiates
the reforms proposed for Tibet
Max Luttbeg defeated Jimmy Potts at
Normanna in two straight falls, getting
the first in 60 minutes and 81 seconds
and the second in % minutes. The first
bout was dandy and the men wrestled
for an hour before Luttbeg finally got the
better of him.
The castaways from the British steam
err Aeron, who spent nearly two months
on Christmas island an almost barren
coral formation in the Pacific ocean, have
arrived at Suva, Fiji islands, on the
steamer Manuka, of the Canadian-Aus-
tralian line, all well and Increased by
one in number. A daughter was born to
the wife of Chaplain L. r. Patrick, T.
S. n. twenty-four hours before the Ma
nuka was sighted, and this event. with
the arrival Of the rescuers, was made the
occasion of much rejoicing.
Seventeen suffragettes who were re
manded the day after the attempt to
storm the British House of Commons.
were tried in a London police court and
ordered to find sureties for good behavior
or to 90 to Jail. Three were sentenced to
thirteen days and thirteen to a month,
all refusing to furnish sureties. Mrs.
Mary Leigh, the Scottish woman who has
already served TWO months for breaking
the windows in Prime Minister Asquith's
house and threatening to use bombs next
time. was sentenced to three months, the
longest sentence yet imposed on a suf-
fragette.
Another phase of the Balkan situation
came to light recently when Italy gave
notice that if the powers tolerated the
annexation of Herzegovina and Bosnia
there was no good reason why Montene-
gro should be denied freedom Of action,
implying its desire TO join Italy.
Provisional Governor Masoon Of Cuba
Is threatened with serious resistance
of his authority by the people OF Glen
fuego<. city on the south shore. in
connection with a S2.OO0OO0 contract
which the provisional government award
ed to Hugh J. Reilly. an American. for
the construction of the city's water
works
Another attack on the British Parlia-
;reut was made BIZ the militant suffrsg-
cites. and for several minutes some of the
women had the satisfaction Of shouting
their desire FIR votes within the sacred
uraeiucts Of the House because they had
% snapped chain locks connecting their
persons 10 the iron grating OF the women's
gallery that it took some tire for the al
teudauts 10 cut out sections of the grating
ard thus to exclude the offending women.
At the SANE time male allies interrupted
the debate in the House, and crowds at
the entrances tried to rake speeches
MANY more arrests were made. Fear Is
now felt that bombs win ne16 Re resorted
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OF appliances leading to literary and professional
managing occupations without any real solicitude about
the vital Industrial foundations Of the nations happiness
and power situation manfestly unjust to the greater
number, unjust those for whom 1t has done the
most, has resulted.
Notwithstanding boasted universally Of educa-
ona opportunity there grown up an absurd hiatus
In the educational system which denies the just rights
OF the earning and grevously the
Industrial efficiency and the material prosperity
country. There should be open chance for every
American child The influences of the schools
lead boys who might become excellent cabnemakers
being noaccount lawyers and girls who might be first
class breadEakars into being fourtclass
The school system has deformed it Is sided
and no. broad enough at the base
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NOT A MYTH
story of .sThe hoy stood on the
Turning Deck" Founded ON Fact.

story of ssThe 10y stood on the
burning Deck" Founded ON Fact.
Few people know that the Boy on
the Burning Deck" is not myth, but
an actual fact. and still fewer know
that the man who gave the order for
the destruction of the vessel, on whose
deck TIE aforesaid boy stood. was born
in Jamaica Plain. and lived there till
his royalist father. who objected siren
uously to the American revolution.
transplansed him 10 England. where he
served under Nelson in the hattie OF
the Nile.
The boy was French. son Of the ad-
miral OF the French ship rOrient- and
that was the vessel that blew up with
the immortal boy standing BY the
mainmast
The boys Unconscious destroyer
Capt. Benjamin Hallowell. was born in
the old Boylston house still standing at
the corner OF Boylston and Center
streets. In Jamaica Plain The house
was built in 1875 by the Boyistons and
aStsrward passed to the raid royaiist
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the other one who lived across the
street, simply couldn't face it,
Harriet is going 10 marry man
whose name is CORTLAND De Lancy
Oswald-think of that on a calling
card! Why. 1t would carry of a last
seasons frock every time, while a mere
Mrs. Smith would have to be gowned
In the style of year after next to be
noticed at ALL
Not that your name should stand
between us If l cared for you as 1
should. l am sure l feel toward you
the affection of a sister. Howard. am
interested in you and all that, but when
| consider the matter I never was in
the least jealous Of you-and II l were
in love with you couldn't help but be.
could :?
"Of course you have been with me so
constantly that l have had no chance
to get jealous, but If l really loved you
I'd have been jealous about something
-sbout the time you talked to that
awful Phillips girl on the street car,
or when you couldn't come over be-
cause you had 10 so 10 the train to
meet your cousin. never wondered
IL It were your cousin or II you were
trying to deceive me. That certainly
is proof that M fondncss for you is
Just ordinary. isn't IL?
Il hope 1t won't make you unhappy.
l don't see why 1t should. for you'll
keep running IN just the same, of
course. and We'll do the new books and
keep up our bridge. and things win be
just the same as ever. l shouldn't
know what to do II they were not.
81 have been sitting here Eve min
utes. Just Huntington horrible
thought sn uclx me- What IL you meet
sogpe other girl you like and grow TO
like her more, and finally marry her?
'You never would do anything so
ridiculous. Howard, Why, no other
girl on earth would understand you es
do and you'd be miserable! 1t would
be nothing but ilfatuation on your
part, anyhow, for you say In your let.
ter-I've Just resd IL over again-that
you'll never in the world care about
any one else but me. So you see II
would not be fair on your part toward
the girl. II would be deceiving her
awfuily and you never could do thing
like that
Besides, II you went and married
some one else. think how dreadful II
would be for me. II isn't that l an
In love with you. or anything Ike that
but I'm so used to having you around
/ can't imagine not having you arocnS.
1t worries me. now I think about 4
for fear you might do something rash
like marrying another girl and rui.iin'
your whole life Just because yo'
thought you had lost me. Somehow,
can't impress 1t upon you as van
20 trst In writing. how perfectly 40
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Robbing the Soil.

Bulletin n. 125 of the Urbana, H.,
Station, recently from the press, con-
tains some of the most remarkable
proofs ever shown in this country that
'rbbbing the landp is ruin by the swift
est route, and that wise conservatism
and replenishments of plant food viii
pay princely dividends. The contents
of that bulletin should be learned by
every farmer, especially by every far
mer who intends to stay in the bust
ness and make it pay a decent return
on the capital invested. Maintenance
is as vital IN farming as it is In rail-
reading, perhaps more imperative.
The theory that the soil contains
plant food ample for an indefinite sue
cession of profitable crop, assuming
only enough rain and some sort Of arbi-
trary rotation was completely dispersed
by the farm bookkeeping" of Prof.
Davenport and the chemical analyses
of Doctor Hopkins.
The bulletin shows that the happy-go-
lucky style of farming once In vogue
has resulted in reducing the average
yield of corn on one field from seventy
bushels per acre average in 1870 to
twenty-seven bushels per acre average
in 1907. BY way of contrast scientific
farming during the same thirty-year
period has increased the average yield
from seventy TO ninety-siX bushels.
These results, striking as they arc on
their face become vastly more slgnlh-
cant when it is added that in one case
the soil has undergone steady Inn
poverishment and progressive reduction
Of earning capacity; whereas In the
other case, notwithstanding steadily In
creasing yields, the soil actually con-
tains more available plant food now
than it did at the beginning Of the test,
and is in all ways a better productive
investment than 1t was thirty years
ago.
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BY the edge Of u sun-baked Indian
wheat field two men are squatting over
the Hindu farmers midday meal OF
rice and buttermilk, alternately sop
ping up bits of gravy with broken
pieces Of bread as they discuss the
weather, the prospects Of the crop and
the homely affairs Of current interest
When they have finished one Of them
rises and walks along the field examln-
ing the heads of wheat and pulling a
stalk here and there, then bids adieu
TO his host and trudges on his way.
He is a crop reporter, and the infor-
nation he gains In his days visits will
be flashed under seas by cable and VIII
be posted tomorrow morning on the
Chicago Board OF Trade and repro
dueed ia newspapers throughout the
grain belt OF the United States.
Similarly. if one could drop into a
village Of the Caucasus he would find
a bearded man, in peasant garb, chat
ting with the farmers as to the prob
able yield Of their fields. Smelling out
the kernels Of wheat and running them
through his fingers. visiting scores Of
villages and hundreds Of farms in his
ouest Far away on the other side Of
the world other men are riding from
one lonely station 10 another In the
great Australian interior, from ranch
10 ranch across the Argentine plains,
and ia dust-covercd buggies along Da-
kota roads.
All these and hundreds OF others ike
them who are making thorough study
OF all the great wheat fields OF the
globe are part OF the vast mechanism
employed in the yearly handling of the
worlds cereal crops. They are the
scouts AID s1irmlshers whose task is
the important ore OF determining the
size Of the crop and its condition FROM
the time when the seed goes into the
ground they are at work Observing
and reporting every factor that In
nuences the yield or the quality Of the
worlds great staple. In this they are
playing are important part IN the great
work oil handling the years crop. for
volume and quantity, regulating price,
determine the flow marketward, both
as to the speed and as to the direction
from which the supply must be drawn.
--Appleton's Magazine.
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SACKS OF GOLD UNDER BED.
\ Miner Wandered About Denver
with $4,000 I'm His Pockets.

Miner Wandered About Denver
with $4,000 in His Pockets.
For q few days last week Denver
thought it was the mining camp of old,
with sacks of gold dust, guns and bron-
chos, executing a wild and noisy fan
fare, says the Denver Times. If one
could only have obliterated the paved
streets and magnificent buildings and
! substituted for while dusty roads of
dirt and tents galore, with here and
there disreputable-looking shanty, the
Illusion would have been complete So
did C. W. Scott of Parnup, New, care
fully treasuring a sack of dust worth
$4,000, think of Denver and sigh for
the old times, when many men and
many sacks made the city a thrilling
place.
Mr.. Scott arrived last Wednesday
with the dust, the result of several
months good work in the gold fields
of Nevada. He registered at the Amer
lean house, and lived as an ordinary
plain American citizen. Every time he
lOOhcQ lIOlu AilC NlIdON ne saw ii DO-
liceman. and the cravings of his adven-
turous soul for excitement were stilled.
The strong arm of the law is stronger
in Denver now than it was forty years
ago. After a restless night spent in
sitting by the window in silent medita-
ton, during which time the sad truth
was forced upon him that he must HE
TO the hills If he wanted to paint the
town, he arose disconsolately, break
tasted, and as soon as the hour Of
o., ,nlng the mint arrived he took from
under the bed that $4,000 worth Of
gold dust and FASTENED up to the gov
eminent building. There he pulled out
bunch of currency that looked to him
like millions.
No one save the mint officials knew
that he had the money All that day
and the next he had $4,000 hidden
about him, and the crooks who passed
him were unaware of it all. Many
bad man is now holding up the wall
some place, weeping at the thought of
the elusive $685. 600 and the glorious OPP
portunity lost. Just a crack on the
back of the head. a speedy search Of
his clothes, and then for the calm and
placid Pacific, and a few years Of Joy.
But it was not TO be. c. w. Scott kept
his secret
Finally. Friday night he had occa-
sion to go somewhere. and thinking that
he was perhaps little incautious with
his money, he resolved to leave enough
to insure safety and relieve his mind.
SO he stepped to the clerks desk.
'Will you keep little money for
me while go out?" he asked
Sure was the reply.
"Here y'are." Thereupon be reached
into his pocket and drew out a roll
amounting to about $4,000.
you can buy this town for that"
muttered the clerk, as he looked on the
Iile enviously.
c. W. Scott Of Parnup, New, left the
hotel with over $4,000 in his pockets,
and returned safe and sound with it IN
touched
Gee. That fellow Scott had nerves
OF steel :" exclaimed the admiring hotel
clerk.
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grimy; he there put in his days
away from there; and let him try hard and
with his best might always and forever he Is in that
jeopardy that the next day may bring him the words
Your services no longer required" His job may be
wanted by the boss for friend. it may be decided
that what he does is not paying right He is at tho
mercy OF any trivial circumstance and he knows It
Does he succeed in holding it down for many years. still
when gray hairs upon him he may get his walking
papers and at last his lifelong fear be realized Such
the part and lot Of the hard-working good husband
whose only is provide for his family long
he lyes and while his wife has II hard she must also
remember that he is bearing his equal share
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TO his congregation, but enables the
clergyman TO give more impressiyeness
to words and passages than could 1e
obtained from the simple spelling of
words on the fingers.
Many young men and women are
helped to positions by their rector.
They become proficient and are well
paid. The late Sir John BlunGsA Maple
made 1t a point to employ as many as
he could and always paid such appren-
tees regular wages from the start In
that way he INDUCED in form Of prae-
teal charity but It was a bit OF phil
anthropy which inflicted no wound upon
the pride of the beneficiary.
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Howard Gets His Answer
~oeN~~%~~N~

Dear Howard she wrote, "of course
your letter was a surprise to me, big
surprise In the first place when
man has been running in TO see you
every other evening for year 1t seems
funny for him to write proposal when
1t would be 30 much easier just to Say
It.
"I don't quite understand what you
meant when you said you wrote instead
of talking to me on the same theory
that 1t was mean trick to telephone
an invitation to dinner, as the tele-
phone had no chance to think up an
excuse, but usually accepted, because
he or she had to say something and
couldn't collect his or her wits suffi-
GENTLY to get out Of 1t If he or she
wanted to!
"0f course / can never marry you.
i expect you'll be surprised at that,
because I've seen so much Of you and
we've had such good times together.
and, as you say, are such good COM
rades. I'm never going to marry any
one.
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Z. W. ELIOT. 5 p II ana
mathematics was broken down by him,
and there is left no institution i'll Amer
lea which has not been affected by the
changes he has made at Harvard. Or.
Eliot has been called the George Wash
ington of Harvard, the Germanizer Of
Harvard and other titles to indicate
the nature of his influence there. But
he succeeded IN making a great educa-
tional institution of the university,
bringing it to ranking position among
American colleges, introduced the elect
i've system of study ON this continent
and changed the old university with its
widely separated colleges and independ-
ent faculties.
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II like you awfully well and 1 should
hate to have you stop coming to see
me, but, of course, you won't do that.
We haven't finished that book we were
reading and then there's the party at
the Crandalls' next week. I'd be lost
without you to go about with. You see
you mean lot to me-but l am quite
sure that l must say no to what you
ask
Anyhow, In spite Of the fact that
you are so tall and good-looking and
attractive, you must admit, Howard,
that your last name Is Smith-and It
would be terrible thing to so through
all the rest of my life as one Of the
Mrs. Smiths Why, Id never be sure
whether I was myself or the Mrs.
Smith in the next house but one, or
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Hence every glow Of esthetc appreciation thrill
aroused by herom pulse of religious aspiration
weakens by just much the potential energy of passion
form of expression 1t Is from this point view that
of German co-laborers have gone so far
advocate carefully Of love stories
bring out the most chivalrc side Of the
tender passion at this age when it Is most plastic and
capable of ideaHZaton; while others have advocated
ergong to selected plays palpitang with life,
ton adventure that emotional tension may be dis
charged not merely harmessy, but in elevatng way
American Magazine.
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AIDS THOUSANDS CO MUTEs.

London Rector Talks to- 200 In His
Church and Gives Needy Help.
London has 1000 deaf and dumb per-
sons who attend st. Savior's Episcopal
Church In Oxford street. the rector Of
which is the Rev. f. w. Gilby. who, al
though not deaf mute. is a son of
parents thus afflicted. His congregation
is mixed, including aristocrats and even
bootblacks. He makes lis signs as pic
turesque as possible. which action not
only quickens the process of speaking"
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faung good citizens who neglect their duty to the COM
munity responsible for graft in public life
ism in States and cities and for practically every
iquty Of American politics. This is fact which is
known every practical politician and to every
who has for public office If they would do
their duty would have clean politics We never will
have clean politics until the right
voting is made compulsory by every person who is
titled to cast ballot
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the Harvard head
in 1869, he has
been credited with
effecting more radi-
cal changes in high
er educational meth
DDS than any other
man who has ever
lived in America.
The old-time colo
NAL college curricu-
lum of Latin, Greek,
a 4
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benjamin Hallowell, after whom the

Benjamin Hallowell, after whom the
captain was named.
The old man lived in Jamaica Plain
long enough to make himself unpopular
when the American revolution broke
out. The son had been early sent to
England for his education, and he be
came one of the seven American-born
men to attain distinction In the British
navy.
In the battle Of the Nile Capt. Halo
well had command of the ship Swift
sure, which ran down the luckless
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Hewitt-who was that fellow who
in a fit OF absent mindedness tried TO
Ugh. MS cigar from the electric light !?
Jeweft-He's joke writer who makes
a speciality OF jokes about countrymen
blowing out the gas-New York Press
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THE SENSATIONS OF YOUTH.
BY @. Stanley Hall.

Young people need to Jingle with sentiments,
and tlse appetite for excitement and sensation
is at Its height in the teens. Here is where
the principle Of vicariousness gives the teach
er one of his chief opportunities and resources.
Excitement the young must have, for feelings
are now their life. If they cannot find it in
the worthy. they are strongly predisposed to
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Although he was
removed from of
fee by the people,
t h ere was N o
charge against him
personally. There
is talk of the gov
eminent pension
ing Palma S fami-
ly. The whole peo-
pie mourn the loss
of a venerable pat
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sick Fowls.

Colds among chickens result from
many causes, usually exposure during
damp weather. and may be indicated 10
different ways, such as by coughing
or sneezing. by swelled faces, watery
eyes and nostrils, and sometimes as
canker In the mouth, In which case
there may be roup A simple cold can
t,e easily managed and cured in few
davs By keeping the fowls warm and
dry. Castor oil. In small doses Of one
tesspoonfnl. is particularly good when
poured down the throat. In cases Of
cankers, which is the WRIST form Of
cold or roup. more care is necessary.
The sick fowls must be Immediately re-
moved from the healthy oneI. and pure
water provided for them In clean dishes.
IN which a few drops Of solution CT
ccpperas may be added occasionally.
Feed no more hard grain, mix the
dough with bot milk, feeding 1t spar