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WALTER i BL'OOMFIELD
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CHAPTER V.
Continual.
"Ob, Annlo is a few months younger
thou 1. When she was about fourteen
her father apprenticed her In ono of
the big drapery establishments In the
West land of London, but wo don’t
know which. Sho didn’t go to NOW
Zealand with her father. Further than
that we know nothing about her.’
•Then I am not youryoungeat aunt!"
’’I don’t know, X am sure,” was my
reply.
"I *n> twenty-six,” confected aunt
Gertrude.
"Then, if Annie Is living, I have an
nunt nearly seven years younger.
X said, she Is younger than I by a few
months,”
Aunt Gertrude sighed, turned some
what abruptly from tho picture, and
walked through tho open window on
to tho verandah.
The view from our Verandah Is prob
ably as good as froni nny point In Buf-
folk distant from the coast. Accept
ing ns truth a popular fallacy somo
wilt think this Is faint praise, hut
thoHo acqOMntad with the county will
hardly so regard It No part of Eng
land la less esteemed by English peoi t
pla than the eastern counties, hut this, 1
/Ito many other of our national preju-’
dices, does not admit of any explana
tion. The absurd fact remains,
rolling country, highly cultivated hers
and there, Interspersed with abnnd-
nnee of wild open spaces and woods
.which shelter immonso quantities of
Kamo, with a rainfall tho most moder
ate In Britain, would, It might well bo
supposed, attract many visitors—espe
cially from London, l-ut It Is not so,
nnd East Anglia Is left very much to
East Angllans, particularly In that
part of It called Suffolk.
Tho weather was delightful, tho clear
blue sky being streaked hero and thcro
with slowly moving white clouds, the
temperature mild nnd refreshing, tho
sCUshlno brilliant—a spring morning
fraught with every condition to pro
mote health nnd buoyancy of spirit.
Aunt Gertrude shaded her eyes with
her hand nnd looked out toward tho
old abbey town. Bury St. Edmund’s,
eight miles distant, could bo faintly
discerned, separated from us by a lino
stretch of undulating country.
“How delightfully green everything
is lu England!” exclaimed my aunt
enthusiastically.
'‘Particularly tho people,” observed
o. volco at our baok.
Tho volco belonged to undo Sam
Turning round wo saw that gentleman
just within tho room, standing In a
Jaunty attitude, Ills hands la his pock
ets, chewing tho end of nn unllghtcd
cigar. My father was with him and
ha-1 a pair of field-glasses In his hand.
This unexpected Interruption ap
peared to annoy my aunt “You aro
not very complimentary to yOur own
people,” sbq said, slightly tossing her
dsllcntdy poised head.
Her husband perceived her mood.
“All right, my dear,” ho said, In his
most ntfablo manner, as ho stepped on
to tho verandah, "I forgot for tho mo
ment that some Americans aro moro
Englishman tho English themselves.
Just let mo look at tho boundary lino
of this placo and X am gone." Bo say
lng bo took tho flold-glassos from my
father, who remained within, nnd sur
veyed tho prospect for a couplo of min
utes, Having completed his observa
tion ho mado no further remark, but
re-entered tho room and disappeared
'with Ms brother.
It was not long before my nunt nnd
I followed. Wo went through n mini
ber of rooms, somo of them named af
ter distinguished guests who had oc
cupied thorn long ngo-Camden, Swift,
Addison, Butler, rurcoll and others of
loss note—tho lady evincing greater In
terest In tho quaint furniture than in
tho historical associations to which I
Endeavored to direct her attention.
In this way did I amuse my aunt for
thr.-o boon, conducting her at last
through tho clean, dry atone crypt,
which formed tho basement of tho
house. This crypt was very ancient,
being tho only. unaltered portion of
th« old abbey which anpplicd tho alto,
' nnd In part tho material, for Holden-
hurst Hall. Tho atonowork of tho spa
cious arches scorned qulto uninjured
by time; and, though they contained
much lumber, there still remained om-
ple room for a procession of monks to
pass through thorn. Aunt Gertrudo
was much Interested, and constantly
piled mo with questions about the hab
its of th« original ecclesiastical occu
pants as X preceded her through this
Strangs place, lantern In hand.
MM“Why Is thst last arch bricked up?"
be inquired.
I looked at the object of her inquiry.
' haven't tho remotest Idea, I never
It before. It Is rarely anybody
es down here,” I said,
was now time to prepare for lunch-
and we ascended tho steps
led into the house. In the hall
aha met my father and uncle.
uncle Bam, address-
what do yon think of
Indeed. I hare
t Immensely.”
I to hear It,” said my fath-
• very tired. Luncb-
■ i a few minutes.
.Mr.Fuller." .
“Tbo devil you haver’ exclaimed
unci* Bam. “Is he a good fellow!”
"The rector of Holdenbarst Major
has been my friend for ten years,”
"I hate parsons,” Mid Uncle Bam,
CHAPTER VI.
tnrona eiu im in bit. suss runnxn
My father's Intimation that he hod
Invited the Ret. Silas Fuller to lunch
eon disturbed me. I knew Mr. Fuller
Very well, and I was beginning to
know my uncle n little. Two men
differing more widely In habit and
opinion It would bo dlfllchlt to find,
and I feared that-a convereatlou be
tween them might afford my father
and me more cmbarraeiment than en
tertainment,
Tbo RectoT hi Boldenhurst Major
Wat d thin. Spare man, a little on the
Wrong side of fifty, short of stature,
neat In appearance, formal and pre
cise In manner and speech. The' def-
crenco which for many years had Been
paid to this reverend gentleman by
the most tractable but ignorant peas
antry-In England, Bad bred In Mm
somewhat dogmatic style. Like most
of bla class, he bad married early In
life, chooelng for hie wife a portion
less lady about three time* hi* •own
size, Who, in lieu of dowry, had pre
sented. her lord with seven daughters
and torn sons In the most rapid suc
cession permitted by the laws of Na
ture. The living of Holdenbnrat Major
wae worth 1220 a year In money, with
a tolerable house, and five acres of
land all told. Snch were the means at
the disposal of this clergyman of tho
Church of England, and with them bo
had to support himself, bis wife, his
eleven children, two servants, ono
pony, ono dog, and onhat. as well as
iterlal Interest In tt
toko a material Interact In tbo well
being of tho poor of tbo pirleb—that
Is to say, of the entire population) for
my father and the RectoT Were by
very much the richest persons In tho
place, I remember also a canary, said
to have been tho pot of the eldest
daughter, that was once a member of
tbta clerical honeehold; but It died—
whether from the draught through the
window, of Inanition, or as prey to
the hungry cat, I could never correctly
ascertain.
I felt that my worse fears were
shortly to bo realised wben-lntroduc-
tlona over, setts taken,-soil grace said
—my'undo opened the conversation
hy Inquiring of Mr. Fuller bow bust-
ness was looking,'hastily correcting
hie sentence, snd eobitltatlng “church
matters" for
“I thank yon, Mr, Truman,” replied
tho Rector, with great deliberation, at
he slowly smoothed the pneken in hit
waistcoat with his left hand, while
his right grasped the wine-glass which
he had been about to ratio to hit lips
when addressed; "I thank you, Mr.
It is
Truman, for your kind Inquiry,
very conelderete of yon to ask inch
a question. Too little Interest Is taken
In the Church by persons not imme
diately connected with the Church-
far too little Interest Bora In the
Church, If I may to express myself
(for both my father and grandfather
held coracle* at SpUthmlre-on-Orwell),
and myeelf, I trust, a conscientious,
hard-working minister of tho Cbnrch,
fully appreciate the comprehensive
ness and Importance of the question
with which you have been to good as
to favor me. It !■ only on tbo occa
sion of my visits to the Hall that I
find myself In a situation to bo eo In
telligently Interrogated. I fear my an
swer must be eomewhat different from
that which doubtless your position In
life and your proper opinion! Induce
you tp desire. The Church, alael bat
many enemlee; and among her ene
mies are tome who ehould bo her
friends; though I rejoice to Inform you
that we of this district are rather ex
ceptionally free ftpm inch adverse In
fluence*. The unprecedented depres
sion In agriculture, however, and the
uncertain, though certainly nnchrie-
tlon, procedure of one whom I think,
without the remotest exhibition of par
tisanship, I may stigmatise as the ova
genius of England, Mr. Glad—’’
Mr. Fuller had only proceeded thue
far with his answer—the bare prelim
inary to a fifteen mlnntes' discourse—
when uncle Barn’s Impatience, of
which I had been watching the growth
with alarm, reached an unbearable
point and ho cried ont:
“Wat that your pony I saw coming
up the path about half-an-hour ago!"
Tt was,” replied the Rector, much
surprised at tuch an extraordinary In
terruption.
“The animal Mem* In * very bad
condition,” observed unde Sam.
'Madcap la rather old," talff the
Rev. Mr. Fuller, looking very uncom
fortable; “wo have had him a good
many yean.”
I think tt matt have occurred to my
uncle that the subject of conversation
which bo had ao Unwittingly started
could not bo effectually dismissed In
this unceremonious wty, for after a
brief pause, he himself reopened It.
'I suppose there are not many prises
the Church of England, and that
the few which exist are wellpre-
eerted by the clique# with a present
^ them. For a professor of
If he has brains. I think,
" Mte&V ;
after all, Nonconformity offers the
best field; but for a slow man, with a
taste for a largo family and a dull
life, doubtless the Church Is best'
These words plunged my father and
me into great confusion of midd
le true they were spoken by one who
knew little bt nothing of the drcum>
Stances of tho Rev. Mr. Fuller—who
Indeed had never so much as heard of
that gentleman until an hour before—
but their effect was non* th* lest dlfc
astroUS, Hjr father houghed, I choked,
and .aunt Gertrude asked me to oblige
her by pasting the water.
“I suppose'tbe collections In a place
like this are very trifling,” said unde
“Wo collected £8 last Harvest
Thanksgiving,” answered the .Rector,
"What became of the money F’ asked
hoy uncle,
“All our collections are given away
In charity, The £8 of which I spoke—
the Iergeet collection of the year—was
paid over to tbo Royal Agricultural
Benevolent Sodoty.”
"Ob, I see,” said unde Sam. “Now
this matter of collections In churches
Is one of the many things which we
manage better on tho other tide
the Atlantic.' I am not thinking of
Holdenhurst, for of course there Is
no money her* to collect anyway; I
am thinking of New York and London.
Why, I remember when I wae a boy
In England In tome churches the col-
lectlpg boxes were fixtures at each
tide of the door! Gould anything have
been more absurd? Any effect which
the eloquent begging of the preacher
had produced died away like the’mem
ory of a dream at oat walked along
the aisles, snd the poets supporting
the money-boxes were passed as heed
lastly as the lamp-posts In the street,
After that, It I remember rightly, the
plan waa to place a plateholder at
each side of the door. This was better;
but the plan had two glaring defects:
nothing was easier than for the people
in the middle of the stream of pass-
ers-ont to affect not to see the plate*,
neither wae there any check oh the
doings of the plate holders. The next
plan to bo adopted, which I recollect,
wae the patting of a bag In front of
eadh person present In church. This
plan, though ah Improvement, was not
without a serious defect A penny,
•killfully dropped Infb the bag, chinked
as londly is balf-a-crown or a sov
ereign, and produced as good an effect
upon the other occupant* of a pew
at would have been produced by out
or other of the more valuable coins.
After a while, plates were substituted
for bags, only partly removing this
objection; and tble, I think, le as far
as yon have got In England.”
“How are collections taken In Amer
ican churches?” Inquired Mr. Fnller,
with evident Interest
“By tho envelope system. Two dea
con* pass ronnd the church, the first
carrying a trey full of envelopes and
a pencil; the second an empty tray.
Each contributor places hit -contribu
tion in an envelope, seals It and writes
hie name on the outside. Deacon num
ber two collects the filled envelopes,
and at the next eerflce the name of
each contributor, and the amount of
hie contribution It publicly announced,
tho giver o( the largest amount first;
and so on. -When there are several
persons who give a like amount, their
names are announatd in alphabetical
order. It li a perfect plan, and I have
unqualified admiration for tho man
who conceived It—he read human na
ture well. It meet* all requirements,
and nothing In It can bo objected to.
Tho man who wants to advertise him
self le Invited, as It were, to assist the
Church equally with the simple-mind
ed giver—for I assume that the motive
for giving signifies nothing eo long as
the dollars are (cooped. Freud le
checkmated, and It le Impossible to
exaggerate the Importance, of that;
for eurely/no ono will eo abuse hie
Intelligence as to deny that In every
congregation Ananias snd Baiabbis
find more Imitators' than any other.
Biblical characters.”
‘There It certainly a great deal of
villainy In the world," confuted Mr.
Fuller sadly.
"You would say ao with greater em
phasis U you were a member of the
Stock Exchange,” laid ancle 8am.
At this stage my father made a com
mendable but not very successful ef
fort to change the subject of conver
sation. Aunt Gertrude eat silent and
neglected, and everyChdy In tho room
except uncle Bam appeared 111 at ease.
As for myeelf, I wit desperately un
comfortable, and desired nothing ao
much at the termination of this mem
orable meal. My uncle, I knew,
would not prolong It hy one minute—
that was not on* of hla tanlta-but
the Rev. Mr. Fuller, who was a mira
cle of slowness, bad to be reckoned*
with: and that gentleman ate ae leis
urely as hs talked, which Is saying a
great deal. After tome ekllfnl fenc
ing my father at laet diverted hit'
brother’s remarks from church affaire
to decimal coinage, otwhlch monetary
system ancle 8am wae a redoubtable
champion; and from that moment un
til he rote from the table the gone of
his eloquence played mercilessly upon
what bo wae pleased to cell the ab-
•Old English ebao* of fours, twelve*
and twenties.
' To be continued.
Wax Mstehss Front England.
The beet wax matches used In this
country are Imported, and come from
England. No other manufacturer In
tho world. It Is asserted, bat mastered
the art of making a wax match that
will remain stiff In the warmest cli
mates. Moreover, the Englleb wax
match has an Ivory finish which others
have never bean able successfully to
Imitate.
The Way to Harness
By tho Rev. Thomas B, Gregory
LL human being* are’ trying to bo happy. From the beggar to
the millionaire every one of us knows tho meaning of the
poet’* line;
“O, happiness! our being’s end and aim.”
But what it happiness! Thera are various answer* to the
question, bat when put to the final feet but ont of them la abrt
to stand, and here it to-happlness la peace" with one’* own Belt
You taSy bC at wav with your neighbors and still be happy,
but happy you Cannot Be If yon are at war with youraelt
Peace—peace with yourself—la the only retd happiness.
And bow la this great thing to bo reached! Wishing to bo happy, bow
are we to mike the wish a reality?
Mt it an Important queetlon, the moat important In the world—and, because
this la 10, It hat been studied from many angles and answered in many ways.
Some hare tried to find happiness along the waf ot ambition. In power,
dominion and glory these would be supremely blest Caesar tried that way,
and, In the pride of his manhood, tan np against an assassin's digger. Han-
iilbai tried It, and wound up by committing suicide. Napoleon tried it, and
died broken hearted and miserable on i lonely rock in the see. .
And there Is the way of Beauty-* way that Was tried by Cleopatra and
Nell GWynne, by Alclblndes and Abelard, as well as a host of othsr* of less
fame, but history tells us that to all of them It was In the end the way of
bitter disappointment .
A very noble way would seem to he that of seif-culture—the development
of the Instinct, the acquisition ot knowledge, the gratification of the art sense,
and yet the most Illustrious individual of ill those who have tried thl* way—
the great Goethe-declared, near the close of hla long Ufe. that during all hla
eighty odd years, he had not had “sir weeks” of happiness.
Then there 1* the way of wealth-the broad, straight way. which from tho
earliest time* has been crowded. But from old King Croesus down to Andrew
Carnegie the verdict is the tame, “Wealth doe* not satisfy."
CtoCttat' millions could not save him from a troubled life and a miserable
death; and the Iron master's wealth seem* to bt pressing down on him a
terrible weight, and be 1* unloading himself Of it a* fast at ho can.
Fame, beauty, knowledge, ricb'esl They dll fall ui. Sooner or later we
learn that the happiness we seek is not to be found in them, Wa grasp the
imagined prise snd it turn* to tehee in our grasp.
Fame? The more you have of it the greater become* your looaUnats.
Beauty? It le a “rainbow'* form, vanishing-amid tho storm.” Knotvledgt?
“Behold, wo know not anything.” Wealth? Go set the pampered favorite*
in their splendid unrest
Where, then, shall happiness be found? There le but one answer; In the
eternal iacriflce of self, y
Tbit does not mean that one tboold deliberately go about It to make him
self mlseraBle. It doel not mean that one la bound to Imitate the authorities
of old and dedicate himself to tba Idea eo well set forth In Byron's conplet:
“Deep In yob Card Honorius tong did dwell,
And hoped to merit Heaven by making earth a hell.”
Honorius arts foolish. Self-sacrifice la not self-torture. Belf-sacriflce doe*
not mean that we shall take onreelvet away from tho world and be wretched,
but that we shall stay with the world and try to make It happy.
To stay In the world—a man among men—and to work for the world’s bet
terment, regardless of the consequences to one’s private Interests, to fling all
thought of self, like a rock, into tho deep sea of forgetfulness, to be willing
-Uke the soldier in the battle line, like Father Damien among the lepers,
like Paul at Borne, like the Nasarene on the cross—to die for others, this la the
true self-sacrifice and the true happiness.
The happiest man In the world to-day Is the man who has the most of
this spirit, who to the tallest extent of bis power it .joyfully giving himself,
body, mind, soul, to the cause of humanity—to mother, father, wife, cUldren,
neighbors, everybody; wbo thinks of self last. If at til, and wbo finds his
happiness in the happiness be it able to make for those around him.
m Giri Who^Thinks
Every Man Loves Her
By ffixola Greeley Smith
HE girl wbo think* every man Is In lor* with her It apt to b*
very young. For after twenty-five even the moat self-satisfied
and successful coquette baa learned that there are some men
in the world to whom her serious arts and smiling blandish;
ments make vain appeal.
But when the average girl la about eighteen and hat just
looked from schoolroom atmosphere toward a horizon bounded
by matrimony, sho la very much Inclined to believe th»t If a
man asks if be may call on ber be is only prevented by a par
donable timidity from' proposing tbo very first time he takes advantage of the
permission.
When be invites her to go to the theatre the accepts It with all the blutl
and significant hesitation that might accompany a reply to a proposal, and
nnlett a school friend with whom she can talk her trousseau over with drops
In, she spends the afternoon debating whether ber wedding gown will be ,of
satin, chiffon and crepe de Chine, wondering just what ber engagement ring
will be Uke, and deciding that under no circumstances will abe allow her mother
to live with them.
’Yea,” the confide* to any one wUllng to listen to her, "Charley Jones was In
last night and asked me to go to tho theatre with him. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t
have hesitated a minute, but there was something so significant about the way
be asked me—Oh, not You don’t mean ltl I wish you wouldn’t be so Idiotic!
If I thought for a moment that there was anything but th* merest friendship
In bla feeling for me It would have to stop right here. I don’t bellevt in enconr-
aglng men, just to throw them down. Mother says It Isn't right”
Later she goes with the unconscious Charley to the theatre, and while be le
wondering whether tho pleasure of going with a pretty girl and allowing other
people to tramp on your toes between the acta outweighs that of going by your-
•elf or with another man and tramping on their toes, the remains on the keen
edge of expectancy all the evening and later account* to her mirror for hie
commonplace and utterly unsentimental utterances by saying that tt Is a pity
the poor boy le to shy.
And eo the days run on-end Charley does not proper;. And the girl who
think* every man le In love with her wonders what she can have done to blight
what was undoubtedly a budding Infatuation.
But she does not remember—though surely. If sbe has any knowledge ot
her sex she should—that Mabel Johnson told Mtnd Thomas that Ethel jtia
Charley Jones was jnst crazy about ber, and that Maud Thomas told Charley's
■later, wbo related the very much varnished facta to him with tbo remark
that he ought not to allow himself to be made such a fool of.
She doe* not know anything except that Charley does not call any more.
And that does not prevent ber from thinking that the next Charley Is just as
much and as suddenly smitten, nor from confiding bis Infatuation to her girl
friends with the tame disastrous results.-New York World.
Cka Neuwortbjr Feata or ■ Postal
»nd a PUno Player.
The newspaper* an telling of the re
markable feat of a postal «•»*
In* civil service examination, did
make a single error In properly sorting
42,000 test postal cards, each represent,
toga postofflee In a certain teroltory
assigned. This was done at tbo rate
of thirty-three and a half card* a mto»
ate. Far more noteworthy «» toe “>*“•
orr of an expert piano -player who win
nun an entire eeason’e concerts withe
Solution of the Indian Problem
0
By Mat EeteUo Reel. Superintendent of the Indian Schools
HERB it no sort of donbt ot the good progress the young gen
eration of Indians to making toward a higher civilisation.
Not long since I was out in South Dakota, Inspecting tho day
schools on the Rosebud snd Pine Ridge reservations, and was
gratified to see how well the young 81oux are doing. The boys
are getting not only a fair degree of book learning, lmt they
are being taught In a practical way that oldest of occupations
-agriculture. There to a garden connected with each school,
and they are shown how to plant and cultivate potatoes, beans,
cabbage* and various other vegetables. Wherever Irrigation to feasible they
are shown its application.
The young girls are Instructed to all the branches of housekeeping, cook*
lng, sewing, mending and the Uke. They take to these arts readily, snd are
much cleverer with their fingers than white children. The tewing of some ot
the girls to really beautiful. While excellent In manual dexterity, the Indian
children are slow to comprehend abstract Ideas. They can be taught to cipher
very well, but mental arithmetic pntxles them sadly. This, in my opinion, to
additional reason for emphasizing their need of training along practical lines.
It to far better to teach the rising generation how to-make a crop and keep
the house decently than to employ them In parting sentences or studying his
tory. They take Interest only In the tangible and the concrete, something tbey
can perceive with the eye, and to which they have in a way been used from
Infancy.
There to no longer any opposition to the children attending the Government
schools on the part of the parent*. In fact, the old folk* now gladly bring tbeir
offspring to the tchoolhonses and are proud ot their oekolaatle attainments.
The solution of the Indian problem may not be easy, but In time It will be ac-
compltohed. The two chief factors to that end to this Industrial education and
Muggins—“Before tbey were men- after that the dispersion ot the Indians among tho whits people throughout
rled sho used to sit all over Mm.” every part of th* United Btates.-Washtogton Post —
Baggios—"Won by a top, eh!”
out a note of printed marie before Dtot,
says American Medicine. Hla memory,
to to perfect that bondreds of thons-
ends of note* must be at tbe drderly
and instant disposal of toe wllL Ami
tbit to combined with a muttjpMrity of
synchronous recollections of timbrel
tempo. expretflOD, etc. The myttery
to at present past th* hunting of any.
explanation, and this fact to e» beaotl-
ful as It to appalling. 14 * 1 ! 0 ”
fir we are from any real science of
psychology. Physician, note the strange
thrusting of fttoeste among the toech
antomt of memory, toe morbid effect*
of some neoplasm or injury to psfts or
tbe convolution* of toe brain, Whereby
some memories are lost temporarily or
permanently. In part or completely*
while others are unaffected. Bwthto
leaves us In amssement at the inscrut
able complexity and method, of toe
cellular maebine. But through these
morbid injuries we catch tantaltoinr
glimpses which ’aome day, properly
studied and followed up. may bring
some psychological physician to an un
raveling of toe mystery.
WISE WORDS.
The method of enterprise to to plait
with audacity and execute with vigor;
to sketch out a map of possibilities
and then to treat them as probabUl-
tle*. r Boyce.
True statemanship to the art of
-changing a nation from what It i»
into what it ought to be.—W. It. Alger.
A good word to an easy obligation;
bnt not to speak ill requires only our
■Hence, which costa us nothlng.-TO-
lotion, ' i
The generality of men spend toe ear
ly part of their lives In contributing to
render toe totter part miserable.—
Brnyere.
When once t man to determined to
believe, toe very absurdity of toe doc
trine doe* bnt confirm him In hla
faith.—Jnnlus,
What sad facts one always eee* Its
tbe asylums for orphans! It' Is more
fatal to neglect toe heart' than toe
head.—Theodore Parker.
When real nobleness accompanies
toe Imaginary one of birth, the im
aginary seems to mix with too real
and become real, too.—Greville.
Posthumous charities are tbo very,
essence ot atldsbness, when be
queathed by those who, when alive,
would part with notoIng.-rOolton.
Brevity to writing to whstcharltjf
to to all other virtues; righteousness
to nothing without toe one, nor author
ship without toe other.—Sydney
Smith.
Ignorance to a mere privation, by
which nothing can be produced; It is a
vacuity. In which tbe soul bits mo
tionless and torpid for want of at
traction.—Johnson.
Discovery of an Adhesive.
How many valuable inventions have
been tbe Jesuit of pure accident, while,
lh other cates, men have puttied their
brains with study for a lifetime and
brought forth nothing. ' v
It'happened one night that a big
starch factory on tbe banks of the
Llffey, near Dublin, took fire and great
puddles of starch and water were left
outride.
Some calico printers, wbo had been
ont all night and were quite tipsy,
came along toward morning and one
of them tumbled Into ono of toe
puddles. He found It so sticky tost
all his clothes stuck to him to fast
that be bad to stay in bed next morrf-
tog till hit wife soaked them out.
The man knew, from his trade, that
the starch snd water had formed a
very powerful and valuable gum. Ho
went back to toe place of the fire and
investigated, and tbe result was tbe
discovery of the adhesive gum now
used in sticking postage stamp* and
which has nude many rich.—Boston
Globe.
Wksa Win Cool Giro Oat?
It appears that there to cejd in the
United Kingdom to * depth’ of 4000
feet, sufficient, at about to* present
rata of output, to suffice for 371 years,
but that this period will be consider
ably extended, seeing that there to ev
ery probability that mining can be
carried on to a depth of 7000 feet,
though at this depth there will not bo
anything like toe area of coal that
there to at tbe former limit.' And It
further seems probable to expect that
this period of supply may be still
further extended by toe more eco
nomical use ot fuel, dne to.tbe estab
lishment of Central electrical supply
stations, and tba utilization of Mond
and other gas-producing processes, and
of gas-driven engines as well as other
means of obtaining a higher percentage
of the beat value ot toe fuel.—Engi
neering Msgirine. >
Th* Dsacer mt Fox Heating. l
Crowds “go hunting." hot few ride to
bounds, so statistics are absolutely use
less. ot tbe thrusters—the ones who
come to grief least—are the sportsmen
who keep their eye on the leading
hound and try to land on hta tall every,
time.
The golden rale to: Throw your heart
over first, and then yon and yonr hone
and tbe leading dog and the fox are
certain to he In the same field. It la
level money which of you get toll
first—London Dally Mato
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