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REPAIRING OLD FENCE POSTS 1 TME QUICKENING 1 Concrete May be Used to Restore Tim ber That Has Rotted Away Under the Ground. It Is often found that a few posts in a fence, that is yet good, have rotted at the bottom, while the top is yet sound; these may be easily repaired er has worked hard all his life, and he's j 0 n n a right old now. Ardea. If I should lau him but I'm not going to. Please send Aunt "Phrony." She consented finally, and as she was leaving him. she said: "I hope your mother Is still asleep. Sho was here with you all night and Mr. Norman and I made her go to bed at dvbreak. If you must go, get out i is more soothing than Cold n n n n :by: Cream ; more healing than any lotion, liniment or salve; more beautifying than any cosmetic. Cures dandruff and slops hair from (ailing cut FRANCIS LYNDE sss -- i"-i-i-m Kii-irw-tnw. HANDY TRUCK FOR ASH CANS H Ccpyrlcht. 1906. by Francis Lyr.ds annnnnnHnnnnnnmMaHnööijnnMnQ of the house as quietly as you can. and I'll have Pete and the buggy waiting for you at the gate.

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CHAPTER XXII (Continued). Later In the day, Tom crossed the pike to the oak-shingled office of the Chiawasse Consolidated. Ilia father was deep In the new wage -scale submitted by the miners' union, but ho sat up and pushed the papers away when his son entered. "Have you seen this morning Tribune ? asked Tom. takln? the paper from his pocket "No; I don't make out to find much time for it before I pet home o nlghta." said Caleb. "Anything doln'?" "Yes; they are having a hot time in Chicago and Pullman. The strike 1 .spreading all over the country on sympathy lines." t "Reckon It'll pet down to us In anyway?" queried the Iron-master. "You can't tell. I'd be a little easy with Ludlow and his outfit on that wage scale. If I were you. We don't want a row on our hands Just now. Farley migrht make capital out of it." Tom took an electric car for the foot of Lebanon on the line connecting with the Inclined railway running up the mountain to Crestcliffe Inn. He had not seen Ardea since the midwinter night of soul-awakenings; and Alecto's finger was still pressing on the wound inflicted by the closed doors of Mountain View avenue and his father's dlsdlrected sympathy. He found Major Dabney on the hotel eranda. and his welcome was not canted here, at least. The moment being auspicious, Tom sounded the master of the Deer Trace coal lands on the reorganization scheme, and found nothing but complaisance. Whatever earrangement .'ommended itself to Tom and his father, and ta Colonel Iuxbury Farley, would be acceptable to the Major. I reckon I can trust you, Tom, and my ve'y good friend, youh fatheh, to watch out for Ardea's little fo'tune,' was the way he put It. "I had planned to give her a little suhprise on her wedding-day: suppose you have the lawyehs make out that block of new stock to Mistress Vincent i'arley instead of to me?" "Of course. Major Dabney, If you say 410. But wouldn't it be more prude.it to make It over In trust for her and her children before she becomes Mrs. Farley?" "Tell me, Tom, have you had youh suspicions in that qua'teh, too? I'm speaking' in confidence to a family friend, suh." "It is just as well to be on the safe side," said Tom, evasively. There was enough of the uplift left to make him reluctant to strike his enemy In the !dark. "No, suh. that Isn't what I mean. You've had youh suspicions aroused. Tell me. suh. what they are." " "Suppose you tell me yours. Major," mlled the younger man. Major Dabney became reflectively

reminiscent. "I don't know, Tom, and that's the plain fact Looking back oveh ouh acquaintance, thah's nothing in that young man for me to put a flngeh on; but. Tom, I tell you In confidence, suh, I'd give five yeahs of my old life, if the good Lord has that many mo' in His book for me. If the blood of the Dabneys didn't have to be uh mingled with that of these heah Yankees. I would, for a fact, suh." "Then you'll let nfe place your third of the new stock in trust for her and J her children?" he said. "That will be j test, on all accounts. By the way, where shall I find 3!ss Ardea?" "She's about the place, somewhahs." was the reply; and Tom passed on to the electric-lighted Jobby to send his card In search of her. Chance saved him the trouble. Some one was playing In the music-room and be recognized her touch and turned aside to stand under the looped portieres. . She waj alone, and again, as many times before. It came on him with the sense of discovery that she was radiantly beautiful that for him she bad no peer among women. There was no greeting, no welcoming light in the slate-blue eyes; and she did not seem to see when he came nearer and offered to shake hands. "I've been talking to your grandfather for an hour or more," he begar.. "and I was Just going to send my card after you. Haven't you. a word of welcome for me. Ardea?" "Do you think you deserve a welcome from any self-respecting woman?" she asked, in low tones. "Why shouldn't I?" he demanded 'What have I done to make every woman I meet look at me as if I were a leper?" Tou know very well what you have done," she said evenly. "If you had a spark of manhood left in you, you would know what a dastardly thing you are doing now in coming here to sea me." "Well. I don't," he returned, doggedly. "And another thing: I'm not to be put off with hard words. I ask you again what has happened? Who has been lying about me this time?" "You were intending to walk down to the valley?" she asked. He nedded. "I will walk with yau to the cliff edge." It was a short hundred yards, and there were many abroad In the graveled walks: lovers in pairs, and groups of young people pensive or chattering, ßo It was not until they stood on the very battlements of the western cliff that they were measurably alone. "Has io one told you what happened last March on the day of the ice storm?" she asked, coldly. "No." "I used to think I knew you," she aid. f'Tt-ring, "but I don't. Why don't you d vjpls hypocrisy and d9uble-d2il-lng as yoT. used to?" "I ; more heartily tfcan ever." "Tom, it Is a terrible thing to say and your punishment will be terrible. But you must marry Nancy!" t He was standing on the brink of the cliff. looking down on Paradise Valley, spread like a silver-etched may far telow In the moonlight The flare and sough of the furnace at the Iron-works came and went with regular lntermittency; and Just beyond the group of Chlawassea stacks a tiny orange spot appeared and disappeared like a wlll-o'-the-wlsp. He was staring down at the curious spot when he said: "If I say that I have no duty toward Nan, you will believe It Is a lie as you did once before. Have you ever reflected that It Is possible to trample on love until it dies even such love a? I benr you?" "It Is a shame for you to speak o; such things to me, Tom. Consider .what I have endured what you have made me endure. People said I was 'standing by you, condoning a sin that üo right-minded young woman should condone. I bore it because I thought. I believed, you were sorry. And at .that very time you were deceiving me deceiving every one. You have dragXd me in the very dust of shame!" "There is no shame save what we make for ourselves," he reported. "One d-.y, according to your creed, we shall 'stand naked before your God, and b ,'fore each other. In that day you will iknow what you hav? done to me tonight. No, don't speak, please; let mn finish The last time we were toeth?

you gave me a strong word, and and you kissed me. For the sake of that word and that kiss I went out Into the world a different man. For ths IWe fragment of your love that you gave inc then, I have lived a different man from that day to this. Now you shall see what I shall be without iL" Before he had finished she had turned from him gasping, choking, strangling in the grip of a mighty passion, new-born and ret not new. With the suddenness of a revealing flash of lightning she understood; knew that she loved him, that she had been lovinghim from childhood, not because, but In spite of everything, as he had once defined love. It was terrible, heartbreaking. soul-destroylns. She called on shame for help, but shame had fled. She was cold with a horrible fear lest he should find out and she should be forever lost in the bottomless pit of humiliation. It was the sight of the little orangecolored spot glowing and growing teyond the Chlawassee chimneys that saved her. "Look!" she cried. "Isn't that a fire down In the valley just across the pike fxom the furnace? It Is a fire!" He made a field-glass of his hands mo looked long and steadily. "Tou are quite right," he said, coolly. "It's my foundry. Can you get back to the hotel alone? If you can. Til take the short cut down through the woods. Good-night, and goodby." And before she could reply, he had lowered himself over the cliffs edge and was crashing through the underbrush on the slopes below.

CHAPTER XXIII. If Thomas Gordon, opening his eyes to consciousness on the mid-week morning, felt the surprise which might naturally grow out of the sight of Ardea sitting in a low rocker at his bedside, he did not evince It, possibly because there were other and more perplexing things for the tired brain to grapple with first. For the moment he did not stir or try to speak. There was a long dream somewhere In the past in which he had been lost In the darkness, stumbling and groping and calling her to come and lead him out to life and light It must have been a dream, he argued, and perhaps this was "only a continuation of It Yes, no; she was there In visible presence, bending over a tiny embroidery frame; and they were alone together. "Ardea!" he said, tremulously. She looked dp. and her eyes were like cooling wellsprlngs to quench the fever fires In his. "You are better." she said, rising. Til go and call your mother." "Yv'alt a minute." he pleaded: than his hand found the bandage on his furefc ead. "What happened to me?" Lion i you rememoerr x wo men tried to rob you last Saturday evening as you were coming home. One of theTj struck you." "Saturday? And this Is This Is Wednesday." ' The cool preclseness of her replloj cut him to the heart He did not nee) to ask her why she had come. It was mere neighborllness, and not for him. but for his mother. He remembered the Saturday evening quite clearly now: Japheth's shout; the two men springing on him; the instant Just pracedlng the crash of the blow when he had recognized one of his assailants and guessed the Identity of the other. "It was no more than right that you should come," he said, bitterly. "It was the least you could do. since your She was moving toward the door, and hla ungrateful outburst had the effect of stopping her. But she did not go back to him. "I owe your mother anything she likes to aski she aftvmed. In the same colorless tone. "And you owe me nothing at all, you would say. I might controvert that. But no matter; we have passed the Saturday and have come to' the Wednesday. Where is Norman? Hasn't he been here?" "He has been with you almost constantly from the first. He was hera less than an hour ago." "Where Is he now?" She hesitated. "There Is urgency of some kind in your business affairs. Your father spent the night In South Tredegar; and a little while ago 'ho telephoned for Mr. Norman from tho Iron-works, I think." She had moved away again, and her hand was on the dcor-knob. "You are In a desperate hurry, aren't you?" he gritted; though tha teeth-grinding was from the pain it cost him to move. "Would you mind handing me that desk telephone before you go?" "If you wish to speak to some one, perhaps I could do it for you," she suggested, quite In the trained nurse tone. "If you could stretch your good-will -.o to my mother that far," he sali "Please call my office number flve-twenty-six-G and ask for Mr. Norman." She complied, but with only a strange young woman stenographer at the other end of the wire, a word of explana tion was necessary. "This Is Miss Dabney. at Woodlawn. Mr. Gordon la better, and he wishes to say what did you want to say?" she asked, turning to him. "Just ask what's going on; If It's Norman you've got he'll know," said Tom, sinking back on the pillows. What the stenographer had to say took some little time, and Ardea's col or came and went In hot flashes and her eyes grew large and thoughtful as she listened. When she put the earpiece down and spoke to the sick man. her tone was kinder. "There is an important business meeting going on over at the furnace ofilce, and Mr. Norman Is there with your father," she said. "The stenog rapher wants me to ask you about some papers Mr. Norman thinks you mav have, and " She stopped in deference to the yel low pallor that was creeping like a cu rlous mask over the face of the man In the bed. Through all the strain of the last twenty hours she had held her self well in hand, doing for him only vhat she might have done for a sick and suffering stranger. Cut there wero limits beyond which love refused to be driven. "Tom!" she gasped, rising quickly to go to him. "Walt." he muttered; "let me pull myself together. I I'm weaker than a girl," ha whispered. "VInce I mean the thug, hit me a lot harder than he needed to. What was I saying? oh, yes; the papers. Will you will you go over there In the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard? You will Gnd a piece of it sawed so It will come out In the wall behind it there ought to be a package." She found it readily a thick packet securely tied with heavy twine and a little charred at the corners. "That's it," he said, weakly. "Now one more last favor; please send Aunt 'Phrony up you go down. Tell her I want my clothes." "You are not going to rat up?" sh?

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Will nrlnjr About Aew Tendency in Trans-Atlantic Service. One of the most striking features In connection with the North Atlantic shipping trade during the last ten or twelve years has been the great increase in the cost of fast steamship?, says the London Times. In 1899 the Augusta Victoria cost about 200,000. The Deutschland of the HamburgAmerican Company cost 550,000 and the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria nearly 700.000. The Mauretania and Lusitania cannot haye cost much less than 1,400.000 each, and the two new giant vessels which are being built for the White Star Line service be tween Southampton and New York will probably cost nearly as much. It Is somewhat curious In connection with this point that the HamburgAmerican company should be able to obtain consistently better results than the Norddeutscher Lloyd, and perhaps one explanation of this Is to be found In the fact that the fleet of tho Ham burg-American company consists main ly of the Intermediate type, whereas the fleet of the North German Lloyd, like that of the Cunard company, con tains a high percentage of vessels of the express type. The theory used to be held that the larger the steamer the greater the profit, but there ap pears to be a limitation to the application of this theory In the case of the large fast vessels which have been recently Introduced. It Is not inconceivable that the general tendency of the trade will In future lie In the direction of improving the accomodation offered the steerage passengers, who, after all, are the backbone of the business. A Dojr and a Sonar. During one of the last birthday cele brations of the poet Whlttler he was visited by a celebrated oratorio singer. The lady was asked to sing, and, seat ing herself at tho piano, she began the beautiful ballad "Robin Adair." She had hardly begun before Mr. Whlttler's pet dog came Into the room and, seating himself by her side, watched her as if fascinated, listening with a delight unusual in an animal. When she finished he' came and put his paw very gravely Into her hand and licked her cheek. "Robin takes that as a trib ute to himself." said Mr. Whlttler. "He also is Robin Adair." The dog, hearing his own name, evidently considered that he was the hero of the song. From that moment during the lady's visit he was her devoted attend ant. He kept by her side when she was indoors and accompanied her when she went to walk. When she went away he carried her satchel in hli mouth to the gate and watched her departure with every evidence of distress. Jlmton Jnlce. The chemist who will extract the bleaching principle from the common jimson weed and place It within reach of family and laundry use has a for tune in store. It Is a well known fact that there 13 no better way of bleach ing the family linen during washing than by putting a few leaves of Jlmson In the boiler; but there Is an ob jection to this practice, as a very un pleasant odor Is the result.- This can be removed, however, by placing tha clothes In cold water and boiling them, or . by repeated rinsings, but all this Is troublesome, and therefore many who know the va!ue of the leaves do not use them. Eternal Progress. , Decimals and Duodecimals. Herbert f pencer offered a characteristically original system of reckoning. He clung to the duodecimal system, mainly because twelve can be divided by three and four as ten cannot. But he suggested that all the advanatages of both systems might be combined by making twelve the basis of calculation, Inventing two new digits to take the places of ten and eleven and making twelve times twelve tho hundred. Spencer scornfully remarked that the decimal system rests solely on the fact that man has ten fingers and ten toes. If he had had twelve "there never would have been any difficulty." A Quaint ICpltapn. Here i3 an epitaph which may be read in an English churchyard attached to Leamington church: "Here lies the body of Lady O'Looney, grandnlece of Burke, commonly called the sublime. She wa3 Eland, Passionate and Deeply Religious; also she painted In water colors and sent several pictures to the exhibition. Shs was the Intimate friend of Lady Jones. And of such is the kingdom of Heaven." III View on Suffrage. When a femalo canvasser asked an old farmer to sign a petition In favor of a woman's movement he eyed the document for awhile with suspicion. "No; I'm agin it, sure," was the reply, with the emphasis of a man who ha-: had some domestic infelicity. "A woman who's alius a-movin la alius a-gettin In trouble. If you've got anything to keep her quiet I'll sign it" Ladies Home Journal. Good Filling;. "Strange how some fellows look at things." "How now?" "Well, there's young Gately, waiting for dead men's Bhc3; he never can fill them in the world." "But he expects they will be stuffed out with gilt-edged bonds." Boston Herald. What Kept Her from If. "Have you over thought of going on the stage?" "Yes, frequently." "What has kept you from doing sor "The managers, the mean things! " Chicago Record-Herald. Unuaual. Bacon What: in the world Is that rooster crowing so about? Eghert Why, he's Just discovered an egg that's never been In cold storage. Yonkers Statesman. IVatur' Own Process. He 1)0 you use pasteurized milk? She I suppose so. It comes from a pasturellzed cow, anyway. Bo3toa Evening Transcript.

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u EE v fr fr" "., !VS n 3 it ,ti, i ir -r.i i NE of the saddest things in life, perhaps, is the sight of ai American tourist In Westminster abbey. Unconventional as he may be in a thousand things, tho American' is the most conventional of mortals In hl3 attitude toward the historic show places of Europe. There 13 but one proper way to view a monument, ono proper opinion to express in regard to it. This is determined by tradition and, In the case of the abbey the Washington Irving tradllton is the one that must be regarded. A hundred years ago Irving established a residence within the wall of the old minster and proceeded to write soma very charming, ßlbcit a little florid, prose regarding Its architecture and its memorials. His expressed feeling toward it was one of reverence and awe and melanpholy, of admiration and respect. Now, this was both correct and natural In Irvlng's time, but that was before the day when visitors crowded the sisles like cattle at tho herding, when the walls were placarded with Instructions and warnings, even as the motor busses that pass the door are placarded with advertisements, and before youthful vergers lined up the curious In companies and collected a sixpence apiece for personally conducting them through the royal chapels. The atmosphere today, indeed, Is not conducive to meditation and reverential ecstasy ; the abbey Is as much a show place as the Albert Memorial or Karl's Court, and the sad sight referred to above Is that of the hurried, bustling tourists of the twentieth century trying to adapt themselves to the traditional posa of reverence and awe created by Irving trying and not succeeding. Women In the Minister. The sugestlon that Florence Nightingale be accorded the highest honor known to an Englishman, that of burial In the abbey, caused me to resurrect from the scrap pile an old guide to the building, written In a tone that Irving himself would have approved. I wanted to find what women have heretofore been granted this distinction, or that of a tablet or monument in this national place of sepulture, and tho reasons therefor. I discovered that their name was legion, but that the honor given them, except in two or three cases was for no special merit of their own. Their bodies rested there or the monument was raised to them because they were the wives or daughters of this dignitary or that, one taking tho room for no more valid reason than that she was the spouse of an estimable gentleman who was for a time organist of the church. Two exceptions there were. Indeed the on?, Jenny Llnd, the other Sarah Siddons. But their tablets are of small comparative size and value, while to this or that lady of the court has been erected an imposing and colossal monument. One all visitors to the abbey will remember be cause of the hideous skeleton that forms part of its composition, erected, as It happens, to the lady as well as the lord of the same name as the heroic Santa Filoment, who has just passed away. Was an Age of Stilted Periods. The epitaphs quoted in the guidebook have a distinctive flavor, as if they were some special brand manufactured for the abbey. The old kings in the splendid old tombs need n,o Inscription, and have none, but as the architectural merit of the tombs decreases so does the verbal decoration increase, and with the monstrous sculpture of tho eighteenth century comes the florid and overwrought peioos of the eDltaDh writers. You C Their Judgments. A West Philadelphia man and his wife were quarreling a bit the other evening, tho excuse being that the husband had been out rather late the night before. One thing led to another, and the wife found fault with her husband's Judgment. "You think everything you do is all right and that you can't make a mistake. You think I haven't any Judgment at all and that I always ought to ask you v;hat you think about thlnss. Your judgment isn't iafal-

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almost tell the date of any individual specimen by tho literary style. History records, I believe, that the mor als of the eighteenth century were anything but above reproach in Eng land," but if Westminster is to be taken as the test tbat was an age of heroic saints and saintly heroes. Yet that these quaint old hypocrites were not self-deceived is suggested by the closing sentence of one of the epitaphs of a priod following that of the most stilted specimen. "Reader," 11 says, "if on perusing this tribute to a private Individual thou should be disposed to suspect it as partial of censure it as diffuse, know that It is not panegyric, but history." True Sentiment Not Wanting. Upon the monument of Grace Scott, wife of Colonel Scott, a member of the honorable house of commons, 1S44, are engraved these words: "He that will give my Grace but what is hers Must say that death has not Made only her dear Scott, But virtue, worth and sweetness, widowers." . Punning, indeed, was highly esteemed by the ancient eulogists, as Instanced in the epitaph to Sir James Fullerton: "He died fuller of faith than of fear; fuller of consolation thrn of pains; fuller of honor than of days." Yet there are not wanting specimens of true and Ingenious sentiment, as that In the case of Mrs. Mary Kendall, whose friendship for Lady Catherine Jones was such that "she desired that even their ashes after death height not be divided an.l therefore ordered herself here to be Interred where she knew that excellent lady designed one day to rest near the grave of her beloved and religious mother," and also the Uttlo marble cradle over the grave of the daughter of James I., who died at the age of three days, with verses by Susan Coolidge, which do not wholly lose their pathos in spite of the fact that they are placarded on the walls with the "Keep Order" and other signs. When Abbey Becomes Impressive. And, moreover, there are times when the abbey does regain some of the majesty and awe that ' the early writers tell of of a late afternoon, perhaps, when the sight-seeing mob has gone and the light has grown dim and a faint but Impressive radiance falls from the big rose wlrdow in the south transept. Then, having climbed to the little gallery wherein the effigies are displayed not to'see those abominations but to gala therefrom charming and varied vistas of nave and pillar, of arches so slender that they seem to sway and vaulting traced with delicate designs having got above the noise of shufHing feet and the clotter of light-bean ed tourists, you hear In the dimness and silence the Impressive strains of the Largo from the fingers of a belated organist and find a rare and appropriate harmony in the mu3ic, the light and the spirit of the place. And you walk out reverently, thinking that the abbey is, after all, "still worth while. Rough on the Doctor. To have themselves called publicly out of a crowded place of entertainment On the pretense that they are urgently wanted by importunate patients 13 stated to be one of the stock methods of advertising resorted to by young doctors, who wish to build up a practise. A budding physician tried this device. He Instructed his boy to go to the doorkeeper of the theater and say that a patient of his was in urgent need of attention. '"Right you are, sir!" Faid the servant, with a solemn wlnlc. "You leave It to me. I'll manage it all right." But apparently the honest retainer exceeded instructions in his zeal, for at the end of the second act the manager appeared before the curtain and made this announcement: "If Dr. Blank is In the audience, I am requested to tell him that ho is wanted at once, as the poor fellow ho gave some physic to this afternoon has been having fits ever since!" Friendly Question. "Pack from your vacation, I see." "Yes." "Well, are you glad you have got it over with or do you wish, you stli had It to take?" üble." rattled the Irate wife. . "Of course not, my dear; of course not Our choice of life partners shows that my good Judgement isn't to be compared with yours," retorted the husband. Philadelphia Times. Hard Luck. "What did you tell that bill collector?" "That you wero out," replied the office boy. "And what did he say?" "He said he was sorry, as he had given up his old Job and had come around to pay a bill that his new boss owed you."

Device Enables Householder to Move Receptacle About Without Fear of Soiling Hands. Many house holders employ a man by the Week to carry out the ashes solely because the Job soils his own hands or clothing. A New York man has come to the rescue by inventing a truck on which the ash barrel or can can be wheeled out to the curb with ease and freedom. The truck resembles an ordinary baggage truck, except that the side bars converge at the top into a single handle, and in a slot near the top of these bars Is a sliding hook which engages the tops of barrels or cans. There are two claws on the hook, thus giving it more latitude. Heretofore the operation of rolling out the ash barrel meant to envelop oneself in a cloud of dust, and It was a job that could not safely be trusted to a woman servnat hence the chore man. With this truck, how-

Truck For Ash Cans. ever, even a child can do the work. The apparatus Is wheeled up to the barrel and the projecting metal bar thrust under the bottom, which Is tilted to permit this. The sliding hook is then moved to a point where one of the claws will grip the top of the barrel and the latter is drawn clear of the floor and rolled away. GAS FIXTURE EASILY MOVED Constructed In Such Manner That Burners May Be Slid to Any Point Where Light Is Wanted. A convenient form of gas fixture has been invented by an Indiana man. It is so constructed that the burners may be slid to any point along the wall of a room where the light Is most needed and will do away with the Movable Gas Fixture. shadows, so annoying to a man who is shaving or a woman who is arranging her hair. The construction is similar to that of a slide trombone. The pipe containing the light slides over the supply pipe" a sufficient distance to permit of a wide range of positions. FABRICS FROM NETTLE FIBER Merits Half-Way Between Cotton and Linen and Is Very Much Cheaper . Than Either. Consul Augustus E. Ingram of Bradford quotes from a Yorkshire paper an interesting statement that a Vienna firm had apparently succeeded In obtaining from nettles a snow-white, pliant bulk of fiber, with merits halfway between those of cotton and linen, with the further great merit that it should be cheaper than either because of the limitless quantity of nettles that can be grown, with slight encouragement, in many regions. Fabric made of nettle fiber Is nothing new indeed it is stated that formerly housewives made their bed sheets out f it but hitherto no way has been ;nd of separating the valuable fiber iium the accompanying gums and waste on a , commercial , scale. It is said that the Austrian government is undertaking the supervision of investigations and experiments on a decisive scale. Paper Teeth. Paper is entering into important arts of Europe. The most novel use of it is in the manufacture of false teeth by the Germans, who say of the product that it is keeping its color well and is decidedly stronger than llio porcelain imitation.' When the na makers of Greece found the lumr too costly with which to make ne casks the manufacturers substituted paper pulp and have found it satisfactory. Ant Is Put to Work. The industry of the ant is applied to (he use of man In the Orient, where it is made to clean sandalwood. The r.veot and soft external covering of : o wood is worthless, but the logs on he ground quickly attract an army of :.is which remove the waste layer. - valuable hard portion Is then y to send aawy. Use of Uranium. Uranium has not as yet been put to ninny practical uses. It Is said to be p rl in steel making in Germany. Tranium salts are used in Iridescent plass and in pottery glazes, and uranium compounds are employed in chemistry and. in medicine. Tocl for Painters. A new tool for painters consists of a reservoir for paint, which is fed out upon an embossed roller to stripe flat 6urfac nr to apply ornamental designs

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Concrete Mold. In the manner shown In Illustration, says Homestead. A hole Is excavated around the post to the depth of the decay and all rotten wood removed, a form of tin or wood is placed around the post and concrete filled in and beveled off at the top so that It comes well up beyond the decayed part or the post or above the surface of the ground. Posts repaired in this manner are In every way as good as an entire new post and will give as many years' service. TURBINE'ENGINE IS DEFINED Likened to Paper Windmills Pinned to End of Stick and Played With by Children. There are probably ftw people outside the ranks of engineers who know what a turbine is. "The best idea I can give of it," said an engineer, "Is to liken it to those paper windmills which spin on the end of a stick, and which are sold to children In the streets. A turbine, in fact, is like a series of these revolving wheels fixed one behind the other, only Instead of being turned by the wind, it Is revolved by Jets of steam. The turbine wheels turn on a shaft inside a cylinder, In the Interior of which are fixed a number of stationary blades which project Into the spaces between each wheel. The purpose of these blades is to catch the steam and direct it on to the wheels' at an angle where It will exert the most force. As the steam , enters the cylinder It is caught by the stationary blades and deflected on to the blades of the first wheel, which are set turning. The steam then passes to the next, until all the wheels are set whirling and the ship Is driven through the water." SCREW PROPELLER IN CASING Mr. Yasuzo Wadagakl Makes Suggestion to Increase Efficiency of Ma1 rine Turbine Engine. With a.view to enabling marine turbine engine propellers to work at higher efficiency, Mr. Yasuzo Wadagakl, in a paper before the iNortheast Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, proposes to use a metal11c casing surrounding the screw propeller, the forward and aft ends of which are flared into bell-mouth shape, with a cross-sectional aron gradually contracting from the two ends toward the screw propeller, says Scientific American. By this arrangement the forward velocity of the water, which is imparted by the frictlonal pull of the ship's side, is accelerated, until at the most contracted part of the channel, where the water Is acted upon by the screw propeller, the velocity rises to a maximum, the propeller operating "In water having a relative velocity much higher than the forward speed of the vessel." By, this device Mr. Wadagakl believes the slip will be reduced and the screw propeller efficiency proportionately Increased. INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL NOTES. The automobile industry Is responsible for a scarcity of leather. As flax pulled from the ground yields a longer fiber than that reaped in the usual way a Canadian clergyman has Invented a pulling attachment for standard binders. A large railroad in Brazil will send four mechanics to tho United States each six months to serve In the factory of the concern from which the road buys its locomotives. Despite the great demand for it at home, the United States annually exports more than 16,000,000 gallons of turpentine, more than all the rest of the world combined produces. Experts who have examined the recently discovered deposit of lithographic stone In Greece declare that at least 35,000,000 cubic feet of the choicest quality flags are in sight. Special prizes of much value will be awarded exhlbiters from the United States at southern Russia's industrial and agricultural exposition at Ekaterlnoslav from July to October. American saws of vanadium steel are claimed to cut 400 steel axles without attention, while the best Imported saws need grinding after cutting eighty axles. Aluminium, combined with other materials, is appearing as a textile, neckties, shawls, hats, and lacings for shoes being among the newest productions. Artificial or imitation rubber is made by methods which resemble the process of vulcanizing natural India rubber; for example, by treating linseed oil with sulphur or sulphur chloride. A metal seat, hinged and suspended by chains from a window casing, has been patented by an Ohio man for window cleaners as well as for use as a shelf cn which food may be placed to cool. Banana oil applied with a soft brush to any metal surface after polishing, is n good preventive of rust As a means to reduce the smoke evil the municipal authorities of Glasgow will hold an exhibition of gas heating, lighting, and cooking appliances and Appliances for the use of various sorts c.f smokeless fuel. The rapid growth of mahogany is Snown In southearn Nigeria, where the site of a town destroyed slxt years ago has been covered with & forest containing mahogany trees, some of which are more than ten feet In dlanv ' ter.

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IGNORANT OF ART. The Kid Mister, Johnnie says that purple thing in iront of the picture's a windmill an I say It's a tree; which Is right? The Impressionist That's a cow. His First Lesson In Economy. "When I was a very small boy and a dime looked pretty big to me, I met John H. Farley who had always been my good friend on the street on June day," says Frank Harris. "Frank., he said, 'the Fourth of July Is coming soon. You'll want some change then. Let me be your banker until then and you'll have some money for firecrackers, torpedoes, lemonade and peanuts.' "I emptied my pockets into his hand and every day thereafter until the Fourth I turned over to him my small earnings. When the day of days came around I had a fund that enabled me to celebrate In "proper style, while many of my platmates were fia broke. It was my first lesson In thrift and It was a good one. Hundreds of Cleveland people would be glad today to testify to the fact that when John II. Farley was a friend of a man or a boy he was a friend indeed." Cleveland Leader. Fair Play. One of the hardest things to wash Is a mechanic's shirt It accumulates dust and grime and grease, naturally, and the effort to get that dust and grime and grease out with ordinary soap Is something tremendous. "asy Task Soap," however, does half the work for you and makes the other half easier. Its duty is to get after the dirt and take it out You dont have to rub and scrub over the tub. Tell your grocer you want iL Five cents a cake same price as poor soaps. Good Advice, but ' A traveler entered a railway carriage at a wayside station. The sole occupants of the compartment consisted of an old lady and her son. about twelve years old. Nothing ot note occurred until the train steamed into the station at which tickets were collected. The woman, not having a ticket for the boy, requested him ta f'corrie doon." : The traveler Intervened and suggested putting him under the seat "Man," said the excited woman. "It's as shair as death; but there's twa under the salt a'ready!" A Question. Vera (eight years old) What does transatlantic mean, mother? Mother Across the Atlantic, of course; but you mustn't bother me. Vera Does "trans,, always meant across? Mother I suppose It does. Now, If you don't stop bothering me with your questions I shall send you right to bed. Vera (after a few minutes silence) Then does transparent mean a cross parent? Ideas. Latest Mine Horror. The Doctor Of course, if the operators in the anthracite and bituminous fields form a coalition The Proiessor Then there will be nothing for the consumers to do but coalesce. (Slow curtain.) x A FOOD DRINK. Which Brings Dally Enjoyment A lady doctor writes : "Though busy hourly with my own affairs, I will not deny myself the pleasure of taking a few minutes to tell of my enjoyment dally obtained from my morning cup of Postuifu It is a food beverage, not a poison Ilka coffee. "I began to use Postum eißht years ago, not because I wanted to, but because coffee, which I dearly loved. made my nights long weary periods to be dreaded and unfitting me for business during the day. "On the advice of a friend, I first tried Postum, making t carefully as directed on the package. As I had always used 'cream and no sugar I mixed ray Postum so. It looked good. was clear and fragrant, and it was pleasure to see the cream color it as my Kentucky friend always wanted her coffee to look 'like a new saddle. "Then I tasted it critically, for I had tried many 'substitutes' for coffee. I was pleased, yes, satisfied, with my Postum In taste and effect and am yet, being a constant user of It all these years. "I continually assure my friends and acquaintances that they will like It In place 6l coffee, and receive benefit from its use. I have gained weight. can sleep Bound and am net nervous. "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville" in pkga. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest. Hvtr read (lie above letter? A ww one appears frm Uiue to tün. . Tkey are fruine, true, Md Tail Hi iatcrcsu