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CPOfiCSSIVE KNOWLECCZ. !! n n ,i Men i , i IM IP i Nil lie i ..ii. l t.ihf u i An t ( ', -i (in, I iii,,,!v1. 1 11 .u 1 t .:. a'.M.iit a l,y the ,,,;iri v 1 1 1 ti. v v.hit mti-.l, n;!i-t. out rut To r;i il,f tl. Mm!,. t,lt rhcrrn the rye, lie con;, ,1,..., , ,. H, j hr.i rvi( t Jut huw y,iU- bit.iUi will (in in at;,;!!. I.i ; t;i!i;:!it .!.. r ri h nn.l fur Jo ir u Imiii'k put In' Mould cihiin, A iji-nlivr w.n it l,,t of a.r V. hit h iinylit nr mint not promim r.iia. I'd rather be n l.'ittrrlly To I't n-h with the fiii !v frost AimI loam the In-lib juul love the tl;y Thau to If wi-e ut mu'.i a rust. O 1 o The Talisman. Cy THOMAS COED. i j.; j I' course, its Intrinsic value J t2 U very Mi-lit," I said, as Theodora stood holding I' - tll- llln in lll'l tlilt Il.tlMi, r:::! N' "Is that why you art- of- loring it to inc.' fiio lo mandod, glancing up brightly. "Pi cruise," I explained, "it Is sup posed to lifiiis the uwiicr all ui.'.i:e: of luck." "Then," cried Theodora, "it is a Liiid cf charm!" "A talisman!" t "What Is it supposed to do?" ' "O, well, tho ldea used to ho that it received an Influence from the plan ets " "I wonder which placet?" asked Theodora. "The Mono la preen," I answered, "and green was the color of Verms, you know. Anyhow, it is supposed to protect your house from visitations cf evil spirits " "Your house," she remonstrated. "It is the same thing," I Insisted, and Theodora's face grew rosily red. "Oughtn't a talisman to have some mysterious writing on It V she asked. "Every occult condition is fuUilhd." I assured her. and she carried the ling to the window. Hut after an en deavor to read the words which wore minutely engraved on the inner face of the thin gold hand, she gave it up with a sigh. Taking the ring from Theodora's hand. I held it to a more favorable position. " 'To give and keep:' " slip read, then turned her head with an inquiring ex pression: "Is that right'" she asked. "Quite right," I answered, and I shivered as her hair brushed my check. "Do you feel cold?" she asked, look ing at the fire. "Not in the least." "I will ring for Edwards to put some more coal on,"' she suggested, going towards the hell. "You haven't made out all the words yet," I Insist 3d, and after a momentary hesitation, she returned to my side. "It is extremely ridiculous," she ex claimed, "because how can you give a thing and yet " "It must bo done in order to bring out the full virtue of the charm." "But if you give it away " 'Treeisely what I am endeavoring to do!" "Then how can you keep it?" Theo dora demanded. "Suppose you try to read the remain ing line," I said, but she read it cau tiously to herself before repeating it aloud. I saw her lips moving. " 'To give and keep; v. Nor lose nor weep,' " " she read. "It is supposed," I explained, "to be a translation of an old French couplet, and you perceive that the last line contains the moral." "And the first an impossible- condi tion !" "I assure ycu it is perfectly simple, I insisted. "In the Creek Kalends," said Theo dora, with a smile. "Much sooner, I hope." "When?" she at-ked, turning away her face. "If it is left to me. I should say a ment!'. at the iatest." Turning to face me again, she held out the ring at arm's length. "I shall refuse to have anything to do with it," she fried. "Why?" I asked. "0! I detect things I can't under stand." "You joiTght to try to have more faith," I urged. "In what':" asked Theodora. . "In me. of course. I premise, if you take ii, the ring shall bring good for tune." "I was thinking of yon," she mur mured, "at the moment." 'Then the spoil begins to work:" I exclaimed. "What better luck could it bring than to make ycu think of mo?" "To me or to ycu?" she demands. "To both; at present it Is neither yours nor mine." "It looks rather ancient," she re marked. "You see, it has been a family relie fer generations," I explained. "Then it has always been kept!" "Evhhntly." "And consequently it has never Leon given away!" "At regular intervals," I insisted. "Well." the faltered. "I-I don't v.n ficrsta::'.!." Et I fancied she did. "If jru Muly '!i word carefully," I big:tn, wln-n Mi'1 hitLirupud me with a solemn cpM kvlon. 'Rf-ddi s," hln cried, "evf-i If the condition could be fuiniled " "It could," 1 niiswt -red. "Even then," Mie continued, "haven't n::y of Its owio r either lost or " "They have never lost the Tails man." "Ah!" paid Theodora, "it must be n very wonderful thing if It always keep away tears." "You mustn't judge by Its present ef fect," I urged, and Mie bicauie Mid detily Indignant. "What do you m'-an?" Mie de lnamled. "I fancied there were tears hi joui eyes " "Why should there be?" "Why?" I whispered, drawing closer. "If only the Talisman might do as you say," Mie murmured. "My fathev gave it to my mother," I explained. "Then he didn't keep it!" "The whole Includes the part, you understand. lie gave her the' ring; she gave him back herself." "And and yet he' lest her," mur mured Theodora. "Yes. he lost her." "And I suppose, for all their love, there wore tears now and thou," sh; suggested. "Ah, well "So that your Talisman was of very little effect." said Theodora. "Perhaps," I urged, "the translation was not literal; but anyhow, you need not bo afraid to accept it." "It isn't that I am afraid," she ox- claimed; but still Mie held out her right . hand once more, and the ring was in her fingers. "You are not going to give it back to mo." I cxpo?J ulated. "Why, yes,"-jhe returned, and I felt compelled (Z 5ake it in my hand. For a few moments I stood gazing at it. a little foolishly perhaps, then I looked into her face. "The tears should bo as few as 1 could make them, Theo," I said. "O, I know, I know," she faltered. "Don't y'itt think you can change your mind?" I urged, and she met mj eyes with an expression half perplexed half indignant. In her own there were still traces of tears; some sensitive chord had. perhaps, been touched, of which I had no perception. "Change my mind!" she cried. "Lot me give and keep " "I thought you would like to put it on. said xneooera, ami as l tooi; nor left hand and pushed the ring over her third finger, it seemed that the Talis man began to take effect at once, for her tears dried like April rain, and no sunshine was ever brighter than her smile. But Theodora insists tnat nor Talisman is something different alto gether. Philadelphia Telegraph. Yankee Kiitcrprlso la HoTioluln. No more apposite ustratiou of Y'.an lcee energy can bo afforded than the teh phone system of the city of Hono lulu. The wires run everywhere, even far or.t Into the suburbs. They do not disfigure the view as in American cit ies, but seem a part cf the vines and creepers which leap from wall to tree, from tree to tree, and tree to house. Nearly every house and store is con nected, and the rates are so low that they would make an American stock holder weep with sorrow and disgust. Most notable of all, the company owns small submarine cables, and for a mere pittance will connect a man-of-war or a merchant ship anchored far out in the harbor with the city. Naval and maritime folk are socially impor tant, and this ingenious innovation proved an invaluable boon to the sa lons ashore and the sl'ips afloat. In the stores ycu can hear the cap tains, stewards, pursers and paymast ers emit ring goods over the wires, growling at dilatory messengers, or making inquiries regarding a hundred subjects. On one occasion a frknd ar ranged a dinner party of twelve per sons, including the invitation to two naval officers on their ship, invitations to the other guests, ordering supplies and engaging waiters, in half au hour, without leaving the hall in which her telephone was situated. Washingron Post. An Inproaoe in Vjmper Lunatic?." Steadily for the last ten years the number of certified pauper lunatics in the British isles has been rising. Sim ilarly suicide is increasing all over the country. Turn to the physical form and the tale is the same. Army re cruiis show worse teeth to the examin ing mod h a 1 oiiieers every year. It has just been found necessary to lower the standard of height, weight nnd chest measurement to a degree which is f;uiie indefinite. With all modern athleticism there is still r. definite ten dency to increased insanity and to physical degeneration, in Croat Britain at the present day. T:iStpl Klofjner.ee. "Gentlemen of the jury." said the e-loouent K. C, "I leave the rest tc you. Y'ou are Englishmen. You are of a valorous race. As men you would scorn to insult a woman scorn to ill treat one scorn to say aught that is unmanly cr unbecoming to a member of the weaker sex "And only thh- liioru-ug," interrupted a shrill vciee from the gallery, "that man called nej a meddling old cat." It was th 1 K. C. wife. He JoM his cae.Ti' I-!' . . - . IUKICATl( STRAWBERRIES. A Minima: y of the result cf all the experiments at the lovernment sta tions throughout the country, nbotit to be pubh'.-hed by the 1 lepart incut of Agriculture, teems to Miow that win re ! tin- cot of applying water Is not too great Irrigation if strawberries 1.4 of great value in Insuring a full crop of fruit "ach season. The water should be applied at about fruit time, In the furrows, and allowed to slowly How down th;n, rather than by Hooding. This may seem like a suggestion of lit tle value at this season of the year, when it Is too late to water thU crop of berries. It Is not too early, how ever, to begin to plan for water for the ii"Xt year's crop, as It must he renmin bi rod that water cannot be applied out of ha ml like fertilizer. In most case? even with the wattr easily available ijtiite a little system will have to be de vised .to irrigate the strawberry patch or other garden crops. OKCIIAKI) NOTES BY AN EXPERT. Coud drainage, natural or artificial, is essential to success. Trees are im patient of wet feet. (iood tillage increases the available food supply of the soil, and also con serves its moisture. Tillage should be begun just as soon as the ground is dry enough in the spring, mid should be repeated as often as once in ten days throughout tnc growing season, which extends from spring until duly or AV.gust. Only cultivated crops should bo al lowed in orchards early in the season. Grain and hay should never be grown. Even-hoed en1 cultivated crops may rob the tr.es of moisture and fertility if they are allowed to stand above the tree roots. Watch a sod orchard. It will begin to fail before you know it. Probably nine-tenths cf the apple or chards are in sod, and many of them are meadows. Of course they are fail ing. The remedy of these apple failures is to cut down many of the orchards. For the remainder the treatment is cultiva tion, fertilisation, spraying--the trinity of orthodox apple growing. Professor L. II. Bailey, in The Cultivator. STARTING WATERMELONS. An excellent method for Starting watermelons., cucumbers and other Drops for early market is to plant ':he seed in small boxes or tubes, made of thick paper or cardboard. These are shown in the accompanying-illustration. ?( cure pieces of paper eleven inches long and live inches wide. Roll in the form of a tube and tie a cord about the Lcntre. Such a device is shown in Fig. 2. After several of thope tubes are pre pared place in a wooden box four inches deep, as shown in Fig. I. Fill those tubes with earth and plant the seed. Phti?e in a warm room, where they will sprout anel be ready for trans planting. When the time comes to put them out of doors, simply set the paper tubes with the young plants in holes prepared for this purpose, leaving them in tube. They will start off readily and produce early crops. American Agri culturist. PRUNING TREES. Limbs to h? removed should be cut off as smoothly as possible with a sharp saw and as (dose to the main stem as possible. When a limb enters a shoulder at the trunk, the cut should be as close to the former as possible, yet never through it. There should never be any stump left, because the cambium dies back and when the stump decays there is a hole left which is apt to cause th? trunk of the tree to rot and become hollow. Torn wounds are a source of danger to a tree. If large limbs are to bo removed, which should, never happen in good pruning, there is danger of the- weight of the limb tearing the bark. To avoid this cut from below first and moot this cut with or:0 from above, or. if this can not be done, cut off the limb a foot from the tree and remove the stub. Largv wounds should bp smeared over with tar or thick paint to keep out moisture. It is very important that the healing process should start soon after tiie wound is made, otherwise the cam bium will be kiiied back quit? a dis tance from the expe-s--'d surface and healing will be greatly retarded. For tills reason pruning should be avoided in cold, particularly frosty weather. In spring the cambium is active, and wcrr.ds made at this time start to l;cal at once, and there is little or no dying- back of the cambium. Green's Fruit Grower. tieti Down to Get t p. Th? fellow who gets down to work is the cue who g P up in the world. I" ' ' ':d.hi R,cd AN USK'.Q,'. .' LAND.' I rt.olOU in.r..ii rii..ir. Ul.i. li N. Moilrru 1r Ipr ll.ia I vir l'cv p 1 1 j 1 1 r ipprccla ; th" l.'-' t that to tl.iy, at the ti.su n of the I rut i'-'.h renliiry, trt re arc Mill pails of the nM Itom.Mi Eiopite v,h : no tr.'.ve'.er t modern time h.is bun; ' Pa i iheie at aiifleiit towns whicli n tourist h.:s si-t il, t"iii.ls am! towers that no lover of chi -sic art liltt t lure ban th l.ghi- d in. hisiTititlo:! in ancient Krctk that no savant has as yet declphep-d -whole regions, in fact, full of atithpiities fcr which no B.ndtkcr has b en wiitt n, and which are nd M:ovn upon tbu latest maps. There aif regions- within our tempi-rate '.ni- v. h":v no ini vi iu European foot has lr-M, so far as v.t ci-e able to to'.! region whete the civ ilization of Cic ce : nd Rome oin-e llourisht d, and w here l':n, mi nune-nts of i-l.iv if a;-, and of an unfamiliar art that supplanted the cla-sic. waste iheir bcautle.4 upon the Ignorant sight of half civilized nomads. To realize the truth of this cue imod-: only to cross th.- ranges of mountains that run parallel to the eastern coast r the Mediterranean, and, avoiding ail caravan routes. Journey ludepcudrnily about the barren country that lies be tween these mountains and the Eu phrates. Here is a territory which, though not wholly unexplored, is ft. II of most wonihrful surprises. Here are cities and town long deserted, not so great or so imposing, perhaps, as Pal myra, but far bettor preserved than the city of Z( nobhi, and giving a much truer picture of the life of the iiiiel ent inhabitants than one can draw from those famous ruins. These towns are not buried, like the great cities of the Mesopotamia!! plains, i:e r have their sites been built upon in modern times, as those of the classic cities of Greece have been: they stand out against the sky upon high ridges or lie sheltered in sequestered valleys, presenting to the view of the traveler as he approaches them very much the same aspect that they did in the fourth century cf our era, when inhabited by pri'sperous, cul tivated r.n.l happy peopie, or when de serted by thos" inhabitants some K!M) years ago. Howard Crosby Butier, in the Century. Ghost IV.cpfi Com j'areit. Ghosts differ (jultc as widely in fa cial expression as jn other characteris-ti'.-s. One always lias a long, clean shaven physiognomy, cadaverous and pitiful in expression. Another clean shaven spook rrcars his hair high on his head and has a "generally distin guished and gentle air." One of the percipients of a woman ghost, though frightened by its lirsi appearance, af terward anticipated pleasure in the hope of seeing its kindly disposed face. "Its eyes were green and glistening, but the rest of its face was mudied up." is recorded of another "haunt." A. tall, black ghost frequently seen upon rural roads paralyzed seme children with fright when they looked up and behold the "awful expression" of its countenance. Women who saw its face at other times describe it as thin and deadly pale. The face of a young man's spook haunting a modern city house is pale and 'luminous. His eyes are downcast as though in deep thought. The majority of ghosts ap pear to look sad and deathly rale. A conspicuous number among the mascu line persuasion are clean-shaven; yet many are adorned with the shades of mustaches and beards worn in real life. To those who were near to them in life they usually appear in their nor mal form. Sometimes to those who have not soon them for long intervals they exhibit changes experienced be fore death, but net previously ob served. Washington Star. Attieus's Isolation. Athens, the enly capital in Europe tvhich cannot ho reached by rail, is sep arated by several hundred miles from the European main railway system, of which Briudisi, Salonika and Constan tinople may be regarded as the tare? southern termini. The projected line front Athens to Salonika will bridge the hist gap of the chain. It is to have the standard continental gauge of four feet eight i-ieiies. anel when completed it -will be possible to '-.n through car riages from Calais to Athens, and the Greek capital will be brought within three days of Loudon. At present the quickest transit is live days, via Briu disi and Patras, which involves a sea voyage almost as long as that between Briudisi and Egypt. Ar.eiher anomaly is that Athens is the only European capital to which thcie is not a d-iliy mail from Great Britain, a privilege en joyed by the "European capital" evca of that semi-civilize. 1 country Morocco. The cost of the journey to Athens is greater than that to any other conti nental capita!. It is net surprising, then, to find the country, which, next to Italy, is the richest in historic and artistic interest in ail Europe, is hardly known at ail to the r.vfvage tourist. It is still the preserve e.f the leisured and wealthy traveler, with his entourage e.f couriers and dragon" ns. Lomlo-j Chronicle. A "Watt-rclad" inmli'fhip. The Russians cro experimenting whh it "watereie.d" hat ties. .":. which has an upper deck of cork and a second deck of armor. The space betwe'ii the two can be filled with w.kv; then the ship Coals a feet under the k.:u'.i surfac-?. - H (j) jf) Q jj,' 72 t lj ' jTMe of - "Life, l-A.MKS I.IiADr.P.. t ;, tht a to stru.: !e ve re.!i J nt'iu- Rou id , -r l 'IM-,. doW I! iu-iini v, uh Hit .:..-,! Fm:.rt .c t. THE AUTHORITY. "."h i.-a't a; all vain, although sh lias Konie canst, to In-." "ilnh! Why do you say that?" "lb can . o she told me s j hei.'eif.'f . Mdhithdphia Press. ' NOT Af'OUAlNTED. "Have ycu any poor relatives, Per cy "None that I know, old chap." "I sec, old fellah then you must imve some rich ones!" "Yas. ba Jove! but none that know r.oi" New York Times. REMUNERATIVE. "Van 'Major has made a fortune in the automobile business." "I didn't know he manufactured that Dhtss of vehicles." "lie doesn't; he repairs them." Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. V, PATRIOTIC RESENTMENT. V-' Mr. Kuowsome "Those are copies of the ships In which Columbus sailed from Spain to discover America." Mr. Ilojack "Go on! YcuTI never make me believe that any foreignei discovered our great country." Ch :ago News. s. NOT II1S AFFAIR. "How do you account for the rota tion of the earth on its axis?" asked the professor. "We!!," answered the young man svho is always at a loss, "I suppose the ?arth had to rotate cn something." Washington Star. " " HE DARED. Parke "Peterkin has a ioi: of moral eourage, hasn't he?" Lane5 "How do you know?" Parke "Why, I got half way through I story I was telling him when I asked hi'.n if he had heard it and d he said hi A ha d." Detroit Free Press. ECONOMY'. mm mm 7 MM J X-ih A, i i win -Hii- 'j) "You're going out to wate a lot more ' Toney in shopping, I suppose?" "Oli. no, papa. I'm going to save r.cney to-day. Tins is bargain day, rou know." New York Journal. THE COST OF NEGLECT. "I need a vacation badly, but I can' .Tike it now," said Dr. Price-Price. '.Many of my patients are in such con liticn that I can't afford to leave them. ITiey need constant nursing." "Ah, yes," replied the man who snow, "I guess there are certain pa dents who, if you quit them, get wtil :ho first tidug- you know." Catholic e:. ; ' ..;,! r : 1 T i:.:ee.