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"I think I like him." s a i d t l t t young woman wh» was n ibb l ing t b a h e m of her handkerchief, "but—"

"I haven't noticed anjr." sa id t n e very dearest friend.

"Any what?** "Any 'but.' " "I w a s going to tell you, but I

won't now. O n , I II fee o f m, y e a — i n a way, but n o t In that way a t a l t . You're s o foolish. I f any man come* to see m e yon a lways Imagine there's someth ing special i n it."

""When any one comes to s e e yon seven nights in t h e week and a s many other times a s he can make any excuse at all, I think: I'm Justi­fied. '"

"That's exactly t h e reason I don't l ike him."

"I thought you s a i d yo»u did." "In a way; but he just tires me."" "Why don't you t e l l hion?" "I can't be rude. I dc*n't l ike t o

hurt anybody's feelings, azayway, but

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dates for the Indian Forestry Service,* *ff* Aledort published In * Itattth the University of Oxford h a s estab-f1 aJe«»<»l Journal Mine itart&ug afe . lished a three-year coarse In forestry. \ d s t » f w h * < * throw * w m h e r *%M two years of which must b e spent *30 Greenland. According t o his «3«* it the University and one year o n ! " a t e a * « * * a r e *»**««* on personal the Continent in practical work. The ; 00s**rvattons in tiie eoantry, and ex* Indian Fores try Service offers, excep- ' lmA**Z o w a considerable period, tloaai opportunit ies for young men. -o°suraption, or tuberculosis of the .nasrauch as t h e appointments are bv ! ! u n S ^ w<>r*s almost incredible havoc t%

competitive civil service examination J;"! « £ j ^ 5 ! ™ *%*.££ J S S © W a i n i waa "bathed to the .glow and the salaries paid range from « oonnlfttinn ««»., ^-Ht^i i™ w« ,« ! » *«* $1,500 to 110.000 a year, and fur­thermore a pension of $2,500 per an-r.-ai may be obtained after twenty-two years of service, regardless of age.

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Slowly th«>" c*«oe ftrWlei avloBif Iowa the »ti?eam. 4 «teM* In ninjt ay in tho stem among score* of jayly colored sofa pillows JaUily ©ye­ns the landscape.

It was, a beautiful feendseape,

fr R a t i o n o^er twenty-five y m r a j ^ « . . . •>* age is affected, and half thel^ajjj ****** M ° ' W W°U **** S t t n k

deaths that occur are from consump­tion alone, which is slowly hat sum* !y working a complete change In the ho hits of t h e people.

In a Day's Hunt. A remarkable hunt which took

place in the northern part of Coahuila i s reported from Monclova, In that State. A party, of which about seventy-five were hunters,

Fortune Tellers fc> Lapland. In Lapland fortune tel lers are f o r ­

tune makers, for in the Polar re­gions magic Is firmly believed In, The air o f mystery which these medicine men affect, a s well a s their

hone-jtly I've tried to discourage him went on a deer bunt through the i £ a 0 ' f leAf o f formulas. s l e i g h t - o f a s much as I could. I woiader some- j mountains, being out eight days . The I *ana an.d hieroglyphic* on t h e rune t i m e s that he comes at a l l , I 'm BO i seventy-five hunters killed 8 0 0 deer, j „ * * ' ^ V e m a P ° l d t l t m o t l**5"-

an average of 100 a day, or more ' l l a r P"^'Qinence among the people, than one deer a man a day.—rMexi- | _ ~ ——————— jan Herald. | Smallest Inhabited House.

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m e a n to him " "Why. you awful g i r l !" | "Well, I Just don't waxit h im. I

wish he'd go away somewhere—to China, or Australia, and s tay there, I let him go wi th we to a fitting tha> o t h e r day a n d — "

"You never did that , Cora!" j "Why, yea; I—oh, of course, I '

Developing Natural Forces. The KJelin electric furnace for the

production of steel Is about to be utilized on a large scale In Sweden, states the London Times. Thi s is to

•don't mean that I l e t hhn go in to J be done in connection with t h e de-Orlshy's with m e . I j u s t m«t h i m »c- i velopment e f the Immense water d d e n t a l l y in State Street a o d he beg- i power of Tralhatta near the exten-f e d to wa lk a block wltht me, and ! sive ore depos i t s in Nordland. sooner t h a n stand on the s treet and ' a r g u e about It I let him. When we i Tuberculosis in London. got t o Orlaby's I said, 'Nov , you mar '

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and went in and left him. I wag >d at h i m for insisting. £ i e is Jutt

t h e most penlstent ." "I didn't think that wis so bad." "Well, you didn't heir all o f It,

W h e n I f o i la i found tbzat I had mistaken my t i m e and I h a d three- cow. <Juarterl o f ah hour t o wait. The girt ( sa id half a n hoar but they keep you ' An Inhabited Crater. wait ing a little longer than they say. A b o u t 5 j O 0 0 O ^ , e „ v e to ^ , But I got into a big leatfcer chair c r a t e r o f a n e x t l n c t T O l c 4 n o l n J t . and opened i box of bontwna that p a n rb6y d w e n c o ntentedly i n thil — t h a t I had a n d found a n inter-1 p U . i j k e t o w n . surrounded by a vertl-ea t lng story In a m a g a i t o e and— I c a l w a l I 60 f e e t h l g n r a r e I y niaking well I believe it must have been a a i a J o u r n e y l n t 0 t h e o l l t e r world, and hour that I waited Then tHe fitting, p r a c t l c | l l l y f o r m l n g a l l t t i 0 commu-took a long while. But I so t it all. m t y by'themselves

house ln.that country-la at Llandya Jul, South Wales. "Built by the owner a bachelor, who occupies It. It has a frontage of 6ft feet, is 6 feet from front to bacit, « feet from the ground to eavea and about 4 feet more to the ridge.

In the British Navy. Notwithstanding some recent good

?un recorda on British warfnjpa the Admiralty still seams to lack confl-lence. The plan to make a targst o t the wrecked and abandoned battia-ibip Montagu* on Lundy Island has jeen abandoned, for fear the gun-iers might deatrey a llghthousa tost a In the neighborhood.

Phillpplae Sagar. Sugar production In the Philip­

pines increased from 5S.000 tons l a 1900 to 135,000 ton* in 190S. This ncreaae la greater than In any other

possesauon of the United States, «*-;spt Porto Rico. Yet prsotieslly all :he, refined sugar used there la Im­ported.

settled at last and—what do you I think? There was that—\£r. Pank-' ey waiting outside for me and It] was beginning to snow, too. He Just j looked as cheerful. I s&lc3, 'Whatl have you beeu doing all tine after-1 noon?" I

'Oh. Just walking up and down I with one eye on the door,' he said.1

"Now. wasn't that absurd? And hs, was nearly frozen. If he wats che>er-l ful His hands -were— It doesn't, please me to have a man act In that Idiotic way. It Just exasperates me."I

"What are you looking at?" ask­ed the very dearest friend.

"I was just looking out of the win-! dow," said the young woman, re-1

turning to her chair. "Woll. I Just night told him he could go home, or about his business If he had any t o attend to.

Collecting Souvenirs. The English Duke of Rutland hail

the walls of one of his castles adorn­ed with thousands o f horseshoes, tha collection having been begun con-turies ago. Among them Is a shoa

Courting in Spain. In front of the apartment houses

In Spanish cities It Is no unusual thing to seo three men standing side by side ln the street, looking up and , . . pouring out impassioned protests-i^1^0 J > y ^ u e e n Eltabeth and tn tlons each to a girl on a different ! o t h e r by Queen Victoria. floor. "" ~~

: March of Progress . In consequence o f the new rai lway

trafnc on Lake Victoria, In A Poor Crowd.

Two hundred sailors of the Bos- 'service, ton, on shore leave ln San FranciBco, JAfrlca, has developed to such a n ex-found the bay too rough to get to tent that a new 1,000 t o n steamier t h e ship ln their boats and could not ,'has been found necessary to aupple-raise $5 among them with which to iment t h e older o n e s o f 500 tons h ire a tug, s o they had to stay ashore 'each.

Exporting Frogskins . Japan's Surdine Commerce. j A lucrative business, It seems, Is

Large sardine canneries have been idone In Japan Is t h e exportation of 'Then h o w did ^ u find o u t about started at N.»gaskl. Japan, with a frogskins for purses. The works con-

hls hands?" view to exporting the fish to Byrxrpe. 'trolled by a Toklo merchant have ex-'What d o you mean? Or*, I s a w ' T h e flavor, however. Is not good, and ported a s many as 130 ,000 sk ins ln

when he took h i s gloves off. H s , t h e P r I c e s a r e , 0 ° h i ? n a8 > e t t o r o m - , l e s 8 t h a n a ) e a r ' teased me to go and have a cup of P e t e w l t h t h e Mediterranean prod-chorolaie No, really and truly, l t ' u c t -dl> g i s t s me What t i m e have" you I believe that clock must be Cast." Bacteria, In Ilc.-r.

"Just right. Well , I should think A German biological you could g e t rid o f him if you want- publ ishes the result of Investigations t ime the glass Is turned til l the sand «>d to." which Indicate that among the bac- :runs out wins the article that la un-

"I d o want to. and I'm go ing to terla found In bottled beer there is ,der the hammer, get rid of him. You Just s « e If I o n e which seems to occur nowhere don't. It's getting worse and. woraele lse . I t has been named Pseudo-all the time. He's been calling roe monas crevlslae.

on the telephone la te ly—about —

Auctions by Sand Glasses. In some parts of England auctions

are held with a minute sand glass, periodical The highest bid made between tho

up nothing." Recovering Stolen Property.

"Cora, what Is it you're looking a t Railroad detect ives at Chic kasha, out of the window? You'v« done searching for lost tools taken by nothing but look out a l l the after-1shopmen, found t h e t one employe noon—ever since l * s e hewn heare:"*i^fha^ 'nalfred ttway a loeotnbtfve Cau you expecting anybody? If y o u a r e , a n d atached It to h i s house for u s e I'm going." ' I as a kitchen.

"No, don't go," said the young' woman. "There i sn' t anyhodj? com- . Alcohol from Sweet Potatoes. ! n g - - a t least, I guess n o t . Mr. P a n - Sweet potatoes are principally Viy said he'd call at 4, b u t It's nearly u g e ( 1 | n t n e Azores to make alcohol. E now and—I wonder w h a t om earth t n e y j e i , j being 10 to 11 per cent . can be keeping h im. But I don't p a e p r e s e n t price i s about 13 cents care If he doesn't come." (United States currency per l i ter

' (1 .0667 quarts ) . H o w the Japanese F\M>led the jFaker.

The street faker who was se l l in cement near the steps o f the court

W h a t a Lock Contains, Because the lock of a Methodist

Church in Hnzlernere, England) wouldn't work it was taken off. The locksmith found 12a. 7>£d. In It, some pious people having mistaken It for a contribution, box,. .,-., - •<&

Agsinst Opium. A n antl-oplum crusade In th«

Malay s ta tes Is meeting with great success. A plant said to possess the properties of curing t h e opium habit has been discovered In Selangor, and this is being distributed wholesale .

balo'W t h e horfeson. A!) around lay tfee calmly flowing rfver. On one side of it great tnouotatni rose grandly w^ward to the: eky. On the other, low fartil© valley's sloped %way as far a s the ey« could reach.

There was aot a hiMMwa being in sight. Now and then the <sfc!rp of the crickets hailing the ssoming night or the jshunking of a bullfrog- f « away in tho distance disturbed the •vninous silence.

The gtrl la the 'fcaaae ^olHoqulned thus, as she held up her tanned Jejft hand and gased at the hare third finger: "I don*t care, it was all his fault—well, I guess perhaps I did flirt with that George Hardlagwout. anyway, ifa time—eh, well (with a little sob), if be deeant want me he needn't have x»e, onlyw-oh! degr."

Wlthont thfmklng she gat# a s«d-den lurch and sat up in the canoe, wlthout a minute's ac-Uee U had tiapalxed. throwing her into the tan-

fles ot «el grmw along the shore, he did not kttow how to f#iin, tjut

when she came to the surface, held fast by the reeds, she grabbed hold of the bottom of the canoe atwt hang on. It seemed to her that she hang on hours and hourt, but la reality It was about ten mlnutei.

finewl* down the path leading to (he river cama a young mtn. Big handi Were eifwpfd b#M«i4 hi»—his fyea war* cast downward, and hla forehead trJA trlhWed jnto |r*«t knots. Qnc« in a while he would give a vicious kick to some small rock which lay In his pith, "OB, d—t" he was saying to himself, "what a blasted root I was to be Jealous of Harding last night. If I didn't know that he was head ower heels in love with her, I don't helle-re that I would be, but when he tells all the fellows that he will win her yet. as «l*a fair in love and war, aad then Ihe seems to enootmge nlm— oh gad—well (giving * terrific •tamp) Doll will never take n>t back, no she'll never take me DMJC,"

Suddenly as fae reached the brow of a low hill he looked down to the river, and there), floating along oil the wide expanse was an overturnsjd canoe with a bit of frail humanity in pink clinging to It. As quick «• a Sash he palled off nls oxfords and then fairly flew over the ground io tho river bank. As he ran his eyes saw and his strength almost failed him, for that tiny sunburned face, thrown back ln a mute appeal to heaven, was none other than his" sweetheart's, ̂ poll.

Down tho bknk he ran, and alottg the edge of the water until he fonn,d a clesr stretch bare of eel grass glar­ing out towards the mlddlo o f the river and towards the canoe. He knew that it wonld be lrapoisible to rT.-h hor through the eel grass, as he bimsPlf might b?come entangled. Qulchly he Jumped Into the water and qulcjter still ho pulled himself along. Stroke after stroke—would he ever reach her? Could he reaqb her before she bec&nie exhausted) and let loose her greap?

At last ba got to her aide and tak-' lug her now Uneoniotpuj forni into his arms quickly swam to tne sjhoreV He carried her to ft little green knoll Close by, and there sat down with her In hla arnje, covering; hejt» mp with kisses. Sipwjy *&e Ojxmeid. her eyes arid gazed into his face.

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which"'was conspicnously displayed the sign: "A box of this cement giv-*n free to anybody who oat break any of these apart."

There were spools, blocks of wood, and other articles that had bee?n ce­mented together and most of them bore marks of having been struggled with by persons with grimy hands ln vain attempts to wrench them apart.

A swarthy little fellow who nad stopped ln front of the faker's stand pointed to a round peg that appear­ed to have been dipped In the cement and driven into a good sized chunk of wood, and asked him what would be the reward for pulling i t out.

"If you can pull that out," said the pedler, "I'll give you a silver- dol­lar."

The peg projected a little' more than a quarter of an inch above the block.

The swarthy little fellow placed his left hand on the olock toehold It down, took the peg between the thumb and forefinger of his x-ight hand, and pulled It out with appar­ent ease, a portion of the wood com­ing away with i t

"Great Scott!" gasped the nun hehlnd the table. "Wnat are yore?"

"Me Japanese dentist," replied the little fellow, pocketing the silver dollar and walking away with a grla

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T o Relieve Decfness . T h e St. Petersburg correspondent,

of the London Mail says that ear drums made of thin leaves of s i lver are being used in t h e Russian mil i­tary hospitals for diseases of the ear to replace defective organs.

Large Cheese Consumption. About 650 tons of Dutch cheese

are consumed annually in Barcelona and the provinces o f Catalonia and Valencia. Every Thursday evening a carload o f about 5,00 cases leaves Amsterdam for Barcelona.

Gigantic Waterspout. With a n estimated height of 150

feet, and a width of about forty feet a gigantic waterspout was witnessed ln t h e Bay of Biscay, from, t h e , d e c k

Wedding Gifts of To-Day. Whereas ten years ago silver was a . ^

hpgse. stooj,_^Jind -> iaJ^eJaj3l8ji8a|tt» lea4*ag-4te«i"a«ao«g««-hride£sjof ^&$idv6; r*a^l^1iMr*^rrman on" ^iM-". ,> . ' _-_-_,_..^.._»_ „ .._.-- gifts, cheap Jewelry of a showy v " *- "-

though quite up to date class Is now given by even the richest >f our re­lations and friends.

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A Strange Gift. During his political missions in

Bhutan and Thibet Mr. Claude White, the British political agent at Slkklro, was presented with a takin, an animal half ox and half antelope.

Before Writing a Book. Mr. Hall Value makes a practice

of visiting every place he intends to describe ln a novel. When engaged on a story he writes on an average, 1,500 words a day.

Destroying Bacteria in Meat. It has been established that ordi­

nary cooking does not kill bacilli, or deprive them of their infective char-

-acteT, if they are situated in the deeper portions of the meat, or in the inner layers of a butcher's "roll."

Bees Shipped by Post. No live creatures except bees will

be carried by post between Great Britain and NIcarauga, according to a parcel post agreement Just con-|^^f; , ,

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Utilizing F u r n a c e Gas. Blast furnace gas Is to"*be 'utilized

In Russia for power purposes. L a Soclete des Acieres de Donetz is s u b ­stituting a number of large gas e n ­gines for s team engines .

Means of Smuggling. With Russian caviare concealed I n

the hollow rims o f the w h e e l s of h i s motor car a smuggler has been de­tected crossing the Russo-Austrlan^ frontier near Cracow.

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The iatt r.-ivg of the setting sun shone down on than), as they plod* ded up the hill towards' home, and is she lifted her hand to* fix a stray lock of hair, the diamond caught the gleam of the slanting rays ln Its own clear depths.

Jackdaw i t andj^lik^ajajhjrj^i.Jsiit t^WTWST hDoi1y, dear, Just to think that the overturning of thit canoe gave you back to tne," and then laughingly, "«a£. Doll, I tell you what well do. "We trill enjoy ouf honeymoon by paddling in this same canoe oh tho lsk&s of CaHrornfa.'' And Doll's eyes looked her consent

Blgnt-H«nd*dn«*fi. According to an official of the *u-

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