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l\ O im - 'Vi & m m & iff*, A ci A 11 1 Drenches on /f-it WHICH JAPS WORKED FOR MONTHS. ■Kid of attacking a fort If high angle Are fails to reduce It. g~£o that they cannot be swept by the enemy's fire. The Irregular trenches The men dig the trenches under ^■PTwn artillery. The parallels are for the protection of the storming parties as they approach A "parallel" is 11 trench, often ninny miles long, which fronts the fortress. Suppos yards from the fortress. During the commencing hombnrdment this is called the "first hey want to move nearer and so they construct the "first parallel," perhaps at a distance of liiiiiiipl^ yhe fortress. But, in order that men and guns may move safely Into tins "parallel," approaches BÊBEÊ^F-tUnt Is. a number of trenches leading from the first artillery position into the "parallel." in zigzags, as, If they were straight, they would be open to the enemy's Are. ^Vay in which the "parallel" Is opened Is Interesting. by sappers, move forward. Here they trace the lines which the parallel will follow. ^Mfnd a measuring tape. The officer stations the first sapper at the end of the trench line, takes the end of his ■H^walks along until the tape Is drawn out. At this point he places a second sapper, takes his tape, and walks Hjfehd of It, and so on. The sappers drive the pickets Into the ground, fasten the tapes to them, and lie down rwalt the working party. Later on the working party, with picks and shovéls, arrives and sets to work with all might. By break pf day each man must have dug a trench 5 feet long, «14 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, except the The earth he piles in front to form a parapet. At But the work is not yet These So soon as It grows dusk a number of officers. Each sapper has front eighteen Inches, which Is only one and one-half feet deep. Myligbt this trench will be occupied by a strong force, called the "guard of the trenches." Rdslied, for the following two nights are also devoted to digging, and when finished the trench is 10 feet wide at the Bottom or more, much wider on top, 4 feet deep, having steps In front, and protected by a parapet of earth in front, which Is about 4% feet high. Behind this "parallel" protected places are formed for the artillery, another big job. seeing that thirty feet of earth, and probably more. Is required to Insure the safety of the guns, parallel is made, and the rush of infantry into the fort takes place. Finally, the last \ QOLDENROD. When the wayside tangles blaze In the low September sun, When the flowers of summer days Droop and wither one by one, Reaching up through bush and brier, Sumptuous brow aud heart of fire, Flaunting high Its wind-rocked plume, Brave with wealth of native bloom— Goldenrod ! . z 1 / In the pasture's rude embrace, All o'errun wiik. tangled vines, Where the thistle claims its place, And the straggling hedge confines, Bearing still the sweet impress Of unfettered loveliness, In the field and by the wall, Blinding, clasping, crowning all— Ooldeurod! Nature lies disheveled, pale. With her feverish lips apart— Day by day the pulses fall, Nearer to her bounding heart; Yet that slackened grasp doth hold Store of pure and genuine gold; Quick thou comest, strong and free, Type of all the wealth to be— Goldenrod! —Kansas City Journal. ROUBLE began for Amaranth Brooke when she decided to buy back the ramshackle old family homestead with the few hundred dol lars that had been left to her by a distant relative. But there were her brother's wife and children to provide a home for, and when Amaranth made up her mind she cared very whether people approved of her plans or not She did care, however, what Sylves ter Smalley would think of the matter, for since she was engaged to him It would be only right to tell him what she meant to do. Amaranth had been looking over her prospective purchase and was on her way home, when he overtook her and at once broached the subject "No use to throw your money away on that old rubblshly place," he told her. "You can't raise a crop there, an' 1 wouldn't take It as a gift. An' your money, with what I've got, would build up a nice, snug house on that forty acres father gave me. an' help to stock the farm beside. Then we could be married and go right to house keeping. Will you, Amaranth?" They were loitering slowly home ward and had paused at the old stile, where a scarlet-towered trumpet-vine showered Its gorgeous trophies at their T llttle feet. "Say yea!" urged Sylvester. Amaranth felt liar determination weakening. \ \ "But—but there's brother Reuben's wife and the children!" she faltered. "They are quite destitute, and have no one to look to but me." Sylvester frowned. "Let Reub's wife look out for her self," he returned gruffly. "1 dare say then's orphan asylums In the city where the young uns would be took care of." Amaranth's eyes flashed scornfully at him as she drew herself up with offended dignity. "Brother Reuben's children shall never go to the asylum while I live !" she declared Indignantly. After a few more words their troth was broken. Sylvester stalked moodily on his way, while Amaranth, with a pang of sore disappointment at her heart, turned toward the gray stone farmhouse, where she earned a small stipend over her board by doing the housework for a family of six. The broken engagement offered fresh food for gossip among the Brooke and Stubblefield kith and kin, but Amaranth was not to be turned from her course by their outspoken censures and criticisms. The old homestead was bought and paid for. To be sure the soil was rocky and sterile, and the dwelling In need of repairs. The orchard trees—what were left of them—were gnarled and bent, and the fences and outbuildings In a sad state of dilapidation. It was really scarcely worth the small sum asked for It, but Amaranth had determined to buy it, and buy It she did. An ancient cow and a half-decrepit pony were Included In the sale. And after the house bad been treat ed to a few repairs and a thorough cleaning, brother Reuben's family were released from their uncongenial quarters In thp city and comfortably installed therein. Mrs. Reuben—a meek little woman, with no more Ideas of supporting her self than a canary bird might have— was yet a good housekeeper, and willingly undertook the management of domestic affairs, while Amaranth gave her attention to the raising of And poultry and garden vegetables, the children grew as round as butter balls, romping under the gnarly old apple trees or playing hide-and-seek among the tall sunflowers and holly hocks that nodded In the dooryard. Later on. Amaranth earned a few dollars each week by the sale of her produce at the little village of Huey vllle Center, which was scarcely a stone's throw from her back pasture bars. But with all her industry and economy she found it a hard matter to provide for herself and the help less ones depending on her, and there were times when aha; really feared the wolf was already at her door. Sylvester Smedley took particular pleasure In driving past the house, with Nancy Maria Stubblefield. to whom he had transferred his atten tions. seated beside him In his spring buggy. But no one offered a helping hand, and Amaranth was beginning to feel a tremor of despair when something happened which no one—certainly not Amaranth—had ever dreamed would com to pass. It was nothing more nor less than the building of a branch railway from the "Ozark lead and zinc" mines to a point on the Mississippi River some twelve miles beyond Plneyville Centre. The nearest route, according to sur vey, lay directly across one side of Amaranth's estate, and she readily ac cepted the offer of $200 from the min ing company for this small portion of lier "worn-out" farm land. But the tide of prosperity did not stop here. Roger Allen, the young surveyor, who had laid out the new railroad, suggested Plneyville Centre as the most convenient point for the smelting works to be erected by the mining company. And so the sleepy little village waked up one fine morning to find it self In the midst of a most unexpected "boom." Amaranth, though offered a high price, refused to part with her prop erty on any terms. By the advice of the young surveyor, however, she was Induced to lay out a portion of her farm, fronting the railroad, in town lota, which were eagerly purchased at a satisfactory valuation, and the "Brooke addition" soon ranked as the most desirable residence portion of Plneyville Centre. And Amaranth found herself. If not wealthy, at least comfortably situated. A stout hired farm hand attended to the farm work now. The worn-out meadows and cornfields were redeem ed from their Impoverished condition. The antiquated cow was supplanted by a small herd of Jerseys. The de crepit horse was "pensioned off" on the fattest of pastures, while a span of "matched bays" drew the new car ryall when Amaranth or Mrs. Reuben and her children took an airing. The discomfited relatives, who had all but boycotted Amaranth in the dark days, now discovered that "blood was thicker than water" and hastened to make friendly overtures. And Sylvester Smalley, who had not yet succeeded in building on the pater nal forty acres, abruptly ceased his at tentions to Nancy Maria, and oast longing eyes toward the thrifty corn fields aud well filled barns of the old homestead. Long sln'-e had he repented of his short-sightedness, and after some skill ful maneuvering he one day succeeded T ln meeting AmnraUh face to fulM the old stile. \ She'd n rose in her hWnnet, and oh! looked sweet As the little pink flower taut the wheat, ,And Sylvester felt that ue must wi^i her at all hazards. He' advanced smiling and with out-' stretched bands. grows "Did you really think I meant to give you up. Amaranth?" he asked, ro proachfully. Rut she drew coldly back. "GtVe me up? Certainly! You »ave me up long ago." she returned. "Rut 1 didn't mean It! '*'1—1 own I was a fool. Amaranth." he stammered, desperately, "but I alius Intended to come back an' marry you. An' 'tain't too late vet. Only name the day, an' I'm yours." But Amaranth smiled as she! glanced beyond him to a tall figure which was rapidly approaching them, "Very much obliged, I'm sure," she replied, demurely, "but I have prom ised to be Roger Alden's wife, and the day Is already named. Here conies Roger now r . Will you stay and be In troduced?" Rut with a disappointed scowl, Syl rester slunk away.—Chicago Journal. WORKMAN WHO CHEATS. Dribble He Represents in a Business la Worse Than a Wide Beak. An employer of thousands of men was asked what thing In all his large operations gave him the most concern. "The man who does a little less than ] is expected of him," was the reply. "He is the dangerous factor in all busi ness. The absolute failure we readi ly discover aud discharge, but the 'almosts' escape detection for months and often for years, and they make our losses as well as our fears," and with a very serious smile he addl'd: "The drip In business is worse than the leak." It is a condition that is as old as human experience. Eighteen and a half centuries ago Seneca put it In these words: "Some portion of our time is taken from us by force; an other portion Is stolen from us: aud another slips away. But the most dis graceful loss is that which arises from our own negligence: and if thou wilt seriously observe, thou shalt perceive that a great part of life flits from those who do evil, a greater from those who do nothing, and the whole from those who do not accomplish the buslness which they think they arc do Thousands of men fancy they are fulfilling their duty to their employ ers and to their tasks by keeping hours and performing Just enough to hold on to their positions. They have an idea that to do more would be to give larger servlce than their compensation ro qulred. They object to what they be lieve would be extra values. "The old man shn'n't get more than he 1s paying Possibly It never strikes these trim niera that in cheating their work they are doing double damage; they are lu Juring their employers much, but they are robbing themselves more; they are In fact losing everything In life that 1s worth while. They fare worse than If they did nothing at all, for time with all Its precious values slips en tlrely from them and leaves no sub Half doing soon brings undoing. It Is the nine-tenths doing or the ninety nine one-hundredths doing that bleeds bsulness and saps day Evening Post. lug" for." is the vernacular. stance or satisfaction. character.—Satur I,adders a Mile Long. Theodore Waters, describing In Ev erybody's Magazine the deepest copper "Under the law It is necessary to maintain ladders In all mines, however deep, so that In case of accident to the hoisting machinery the miners may be able to climb up. mine in the world, writes: "These ladders. In a mine a mile deep, were distinctly awesome. shaft was covered, but the trapdoor was removed so that I could peer down the hole. The The first few rungs quickly succeeded one another Into darkness, but a moving light far below showed that they continued on down below the limit of vision. The light came from a lamp In the hat of a workman probably making repairs, but whether It was 100 or 1,000 feet down was im possible to determine. It was not ex actly a reassuring sight The Idea that the man was climbing a ladder a mile high, aud the possibility of his encoun terlng loose rungs In the darkness, in vlted my perturbed comment. " 'Oh, that Is nothing.' remarked workman. 'It is not one ladder, but a succession of ladders, and there are plenty oflevels to rest upon. Why, the roller boys In the Incline shifts often slide down the cables to save time.' " ,, , I am really and sincerely proud of the common people, said Mr. Pom T am fond of the plain, every day fellow who can never hope to be great. Call It Quixotism, If you wish Plain Everyday Fellow. pons. "Oh, I wouldn't say that." Interrupt ed Peppery. "I'd cull It egotism."_ Philadelphia Press. « V Science aH° vention 4 <>r h etable for table use Is the tta, an umbelliferous plant " TB » e WiWM^'f4| a kale. The sweet roots, "ÎTT oéiÂpd, are eaten by Tartars and for these and the sprouts recommended for cul "▼««00 b >a prominent member of the | ^ Odlslne of Paris, who do . cl8f *P» it ^ tlner In flavor than j a8 P*>*HM* »H jpaullllower, which It 8U Klfest8. The t&i s are boiled in salt wa * e ' aa d season*^. j u butter, a salad , °^ leaves ai>d siv, e8 0 { roots be I iUK Hn * thM dainty luxury. Addiltbl»«! particulars abom the : species of white potato, which «t now cultivated In Prance from plants found in Uruguay, Indicate that Its Import ance as a substitute for the Irish po tato has not been exaggerated. Orig Inally a very bitter tuber, the new veg : etable becomes, after three or four years of cultivation, an admirable food ,C„-ai i 1 new I product. Its yield Is enormous, and it ; 1* exempt from the maladies that at ! tack the ordinary potato. It grow» beet In moist soil, Its native habitat I being the marshy shores of the River Mercedes in Uruguay. Its flowers I have a Jasmine-llke odor, and a dell cate perfume has already been extract ed from them. After one planting the plant perpetUfttes ltself from thc brok . en roots left In the soil. Recent advances in the price of shel lac. dhe partly to Its use In electrical works and in making gramophone rec ords, have led to the collection of facts about Its production. Lae Is an In crustation on the branches of certain trees in India caused by Insects. It l&' found throughout India, but is most abundant In the Central Provinces, Bengal and Assam. It Is collected by natives, who break off the Incrustedl branches. The gatherers and local dealers sell It In the form of "stick lac" • to manufacturers, who turn It Into the shellac, or "button lac," of commerce. Nearly the whole of the shipment takes place from Calcutta, and the chief markets are the United States and Great Britain. In India lac is made Into bracelets, rings, beads and other ornaments. * * 4 Korn - a German Inventor, has succeed ed in transmitting photographs about BOO miles over tclegraph-and-telephone Une 8 depends for Its action upon the changing electric resistance of selenl um under the Influence of light of varying Intensity. A ray of light, caused to pass systematically over the surface of a transparent film contain ^8 a photograph, falls upon a selenium cell whose electric resistance varies wlth 1110 amount of light passing through different parts of the photo graph. These variations are transmlt t0 th® electric wire and at the re celvlng end they vary the Illumination a 8m aII vacuum tube, which passes over a sensitized photographic paper synchronlcally with the ray of light moving over the film at the sending station. Thus a copy of the original photograph Is produced, 1 Although the problem of color pho tography Is still far from solved, prog ress Is being occasionally made. A new German discovery—that of Dr. Koenig—relates to printing from tri color negatives, and depends upon the The apparatus by which Dr. Arthur ' P 4 4 1 l % V use of paper coated with collodion so lutlonsof colorless compounds of green ish blue, cherry-red and yellow dyes that develop the original colors on ex posure to light. The set of three nega lives Is first made under the usual light The printing paper Is first coated with the solution of the dye that is changed by light to greenish blue, and, after drying. It Is exposed about thirty seconds under the filters. B negar tlve taken through the red filter. When the required depth of color Is reached, the unaltered dye compound, per Is then recoated, this time with the / It Is fixed In a solution which removes 1 The pa collodion for the red print, and posed In exact register under the green negative. After this Is fixed the third coating is made, and the yellow image Is developed under the blue negative, ex / ! t I By Wire and Air. An accidental experiment In the ve^ loclty of sound Is recounted by a cor respondent He went to his telephone, and Just as he put the receiver to his ®ar h® heard the click of another tele phone. Another receiver had been ro I moved and the line was open. Then he heard through the phone the shriek of a ' f .f tele locomotive whistle, and a few seconds Inter the ■ A sound came through the open window In the usual way. Looking up, he a locomotive half a mile away, lug the house of a friend. The mystery was solved. The tele phone that was open was that at the - distant house, and the sound of the whistle had come through Its trans formation Into an electric current quicker than It had traveled throngh the air. ■ ' saw pnss A , 1 ? A widow '® r 0411 »tart a mew story or» every day In the week, IS he 1 *