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A LOVE LYRIC FROM THE CREEK.
Tha Flrat Kiss.
(After Strato.)
VB the hour the long day ends, when our
friends we bid good-night,
Moerls kissed me, if, ah! me, it was she
and not her sprite.
For most clearly all the rest thrills my
breast through and through.
All she told me and besought, when I
thought she kissed me, too.
Itut when, golden link on link. I would
think remembrance out,
TCow I'm sure she kissed me then, now
again I’m sore in doubt—
ttince If into Paradise in such wise I
e'er wds borne.
How is this that here below still I go
with steps forlorn?
—Ldndon Spectator.
The Interference of Miss
Nancy.
BY SARAH LINDSAY COLEMAN.
.Copyright, 1901: by Dally Story Pub. Cos.)
Miss Cairns sat in a big rocking
chair on the broad porch. Her pretty
brow was puckered thoughtfully. Her
eyes followed the figure, a tall and
angular one, that slowly climbed the
hill.
“I don’t care.” She dashed the an
gry tears from her eyes, and laughed
.a little at the ridiculousness of it all.
"She said”—the dimples stole into
her cheeks —“that I was getting old
I am 28—and that I might never have
another opportunity. I told her there
was nothing but comradeship and
friendship between us, but she
believe a word.”
Like a troop of ghosts, long dead
and forgotten, those old lovers that
Miss Nancy had brought so forcibly
to her mind, presented themselves.
Her very iirst, a handsome college
youth—the rides they had had, the
drives, the walks, and that last moon
lit night when the strains of ‘‘Aunt
Dinah’s Quilting Party” floated
through the quiet village street. He
had gone back to college, and there
had been a good deal of pressure upon
her before the gifts went back, but
in the end she returned them —the poor
little tokens. He had written only
this:
"X do not blame you that you did not
keep the troth you plighted ere your
heart you knew.
Better the parting now than wake to
weep w r hen time lias robbed Love's
roses of their dew.
Another face shall help you to forget,
another love shall in your heart be
shrined.
But I—l shall go down ray darkened way
alone, forever seeking what 1 ne'er
can find.”
Miss Cairns’ quiet laughter rang on
the soft air. And she had suffered so.
She didn’t know then that “men have
died and worms have eaten them, but
not for love.”
The next she met him in the city,
and the roses on the table, his gift, the
satiny La Frances, turned up their
pink noses in perfumed scorn when he
declared his love and offered her for
tune, position, everything that his
kind, middle-aged heart could think
of; everything that a woman's heart
needed—save love.
One by one the procession passed on.
There were a good many of them,
lovers of polish and culture, and lovers
without, for Miss Cairns was the bon
niest lass in the countryside. The last
one filed from sight, and with a grow
ing sense of irritation she thought of
the neighbors in general, and of Miss
Nancy in particular. What right had
they to interfere? What right to be
lieve that every man in the neighbor
hood that was civil, had, to quote Miss
Nancy, fallen a victim to her fading
charms? It waa preposterous. She
hoped the young fellow to whom Miss
Nancy would marry her in spite of her
self didn’t know how the neighbors
talked.
Two' years before he had come from
his far-away home and thrown in his
lot with theirs. He was a machinist,
and her father found him invaluable
to the mill. He boarded with them,
uk
J li3s Cairns, • • will you marry
me?"
* nc | People had got into the way of
inviting them out, and associating
: helr names together.
Miss Cairns got up and walked into
house. It was dark when the
° u ng Scotchman came in from the
Milage. He went straight to Miss
aims' father. They talked at length,
,i nd at some low-voiced request the
J Mi man .answered heartily: “Aye,
aye, lad.”
The you n g Scotchman ate his supper
a silence and smoked thoughtfully
A-terward. Something has evidently
d;)set Miss Cairns watched him
She liked the determined
M -of his chin. It indicated charac
ter.
aen the girl who moved about the
°m and had taken out the tea things,
e crossed to the other side of the iire
r.oce where Miss Caines w.u busy with
*°tne needle work.
-Miss Cairns,” he stood before her,
his back to the fire, “will you marry
me?"
"No," promptly.
‘‘Will you state your objections?” be
asked, courteously.
"Too young.” Miss Cairns spoke la
conically. Like Lillian Bell, she pre
ferred men at least thirty-five.
W hat else?” he questioned.
Too slim. Not tall enough.”
_ do you admire in a man?”
h earlessness and gentleness.” The
answer came without hesitation.
Won't you grant me these?” He
stood over her with laughing eyes.
Remember the calves I’ve weaned,
and the sitting hens I’ve conquered.”
Ihe idea of marrying you! Why,
we have dug up the violet beds, strung
beans, shelled peas together. Good
ness, man! I want some romance in
my marriage. What put such a thought
in your head?” She looked at him
scrutinizingly. “I thought as much.
*°u nie t Miss Nancy, and she told you
that positively you were my last
iAij ) >
“I’ll never forgive you! • * never!”
hope. She played on your sympathies,
and bade you come to the rescue. I’m
awfully much obliged, but—but I de
cline with thanks.” She sprang to
her feet and made him a low, mocking
bow.
“If you dislike me ”
“I don’t! But you are not in love
with me. She turned to him sudden
ly: “Love comes —love comes ”
she faltered, and the color mounted to
her brow.
"How?” he asked, eagerly.
“With music,” she said, slowly, “and
light, and perfume. Oh, you know how
love comes.”
“Ha3 it come like that to you?”
“No,” she said, reflectively, “it hasn’t
come at all.”
“Love’s a tender little fellow; closed
doors and icy manners frighten him
away, Jeanie.” He took both her
hands. “He comes to so few of us like
that. It’s the daily association, the
gradual dependence upon each other.
It’s propinquity. You’ve said a dozen
times you would not be an old maid.
Prove it! You’ve said the villagers
shouldn’t know a breath of your mar
riage. Prove it! I’m going to Scot
land tomorrow." He laughed at her
speechless astonishment. “You said
you would give them something to
talk about some day. Now is your
opportunity.”
“I’ve no clothes,” said she, laughing
ly.
“No woman ever had; but the new
gray, slik-lined tailor suit looks bridey
enough. And there’s New York if you
want more.”
“Father,” she called to the man who
came down the hall. “Why. father," she
faltered, as he paused in the door
way.
“It’s what ye threatened, lass. Jim’s
a good lad.”
“You would be willing?” There was
a tone of entreaty in her voice.
“Aye, aye, lass.” He crossed the
room, kissed her and went out.
“You are so valuable to him,” the
tears stood in her eyes, “that he is
willing to lose me.”
“Might he not gain a son?” MacDon
ald’s manner became suddenly busi
ness-like. Shall it be at 6in the morn
ing? I will attend to everything, and
have the license and the minister
here.”
She threw back her-head defiantly.
“The train leaves at 8. Mary will
help you with your trunk. And shall
we leave our best wishes to the dear
people who have simplified things for
us, and to Miss Nancy an extra share?”
“Oh, how I hate you!” She stamped
her foot; her face was aflame, her
dark eyes flashed, and then —her slight
form swayed toward him.
Mrs. James MacDonald’s husband re
gretted that the hour prevented the
villagers from attending the ceremony,
but at the station the couple were
literally showered with rice and old
shoes.
Mrs. MacDonald’s pretty, smiling
face looked back from the frame of the
car window.
“I’ll never forgive you!” her best girl
friend called, “never!”
The morning mists were lifting from
the familiar hills and the birds sang
as If they would split their throats.
“Miss Nancy,” the bride’s best friend
went up to the middle-aged woman on
the platform, “last night you circulat
ed a report that spread like fire. I
didn’t believe it, but It’s true! Even
the trip abroad is true! Were you in
the secret?” *
A close observer would have noticed
that Miss Nancy was absolutely dazed,
but she smiled and kept her counsel
—and so did the groom.
Kailway Capital and Wacr*.
The capitalization of the railways of
the United States is $11,000,000,000.
Those railways employ more than 875,-
000 men, and for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1898, they paid to their
| employes as compensation for services
more than $195,000,000.
THE WEEKLY NEWS. OARTERSVJLLE. GA.
THE TINTS OF COIN. a
Reasous for Variation* In the Gold oJ
French Mintage.
Some time ago a Frenchman placed
together a number of gold coins of
French mintage of the beginning, mid
dle and end of the last century. He
was much surprised to see that they
differed in color. He set about finding
out the reasons for this difference and
the results of his investigations have
been published in La Nature. There
is a paleness about the yellow of tho
10 and 20 franc pieces, which bear th-i
effigies of Napoleon I. and Louis
XVIII. that is not observed in tho gold
pieces of later mintage. One admire!
of these coins speaks of their coloi
as a “beautiful paleness” and ex
presses regret that it is lacking in
later coins. The explanation of it L
very simple. The alloy that entered
into the French gold coins of thos.3
days contained as much silver as cop
per and it was the silver that gave th
coins their interesting paleness. Th
coins of the era of Napoleon 111. wer
more golden in hue. The silver had
been taken out of the alloy. The gold
coins of today have a still warmer and
deeper tinge of yellow. This is be
cause the Paris mint, as well as that
in London, melts the gold and copper
alloy in hermetically sealed boxes,
which prevents the copper from being
somewhat bleached, as it always is
when it is attacked by hot air, so the
present coins have the full warmnes?
of tint that a copper alloy can give. If
the coins of today are not so handsome
in the opinion of amateur collectors,
as those issued by the first Napoleon,
they are superior to those of either of
the Napoleons in the fact that it costa
less to make them. The double opera
tion of the oxidation of the copper and
cleaning it off the surface of the coin
with acids is no longer employed, and
the large elimination of copper from
the surface of the coins, formerly prac
ticed, made them less resistant under
wear and tear than are the coins now
fb circulation.
Frightened by Sensitive Plants.
In his “On the Frontier” Mr. Cam
pion says that while he was cross
ing the Isthmus of Panama some years
ago the conductor obligingly stopped
the train for him to gather some beau
tiful crimson flowers on the roadside.
“I refused offers of assistance and
went alone to pluck the flowers. After
gathering a handful I noticed a large
bed of plants, knee high, and of deli
cate form and of beautiful green shade.
I walked to them, broke off a fine
spray and placed it with the flowers.
To my amazement I saw that I had
gathered a withered, shriveled, brown
ish weed. I threw it away, carefully
selected a large, bright green plant
and plucked it. Again I had in my
hand a bunch of withered leaves. It
flashed through my mind that a sud
den attack of Panama fever, which
was very prevalent and much talked
of, had struck me delirious. I went
‘off my head’ from fright. In a panic
I threw the flowers down, and was
about to run to the train. I looked
around; nothing seemed strange. I
felt my pulse—all right. I was in a
perspiration, but the heat would have
made a lizard perspire. Then I no
ticed that the plants where I stood
seemed shrunken and wilted. Care
fully I put my finger on the fresh
branch. Instantly the leaves shrunk
and began to change color. I had been
frightened by sensitive plants.”
School Bell King* by Electricity.
Near Roanoke, 111., near the center
of the state, there is a school teacher
whose ingenuity might not please all
of his pupils—that is, the indolent
ones. E. N. Wheelwright teaches a
district school, and in a district school,
you know—or perhaps some city chil
dren do not know—the teacher has to
ring the bell and build the fire and
sweep the floor, unless he pays some
ambitious boy to do it for him. But
this teacher does not have to hire a
hoy to ring the bell, nor does he ring
it himself, yet, no matter what he may
he doing at 9 o’clock in the morning,
the bell sets up a clatter that no boy
or girl can escape. Mr. Wheelwright
has arranged a clock which at the
proper hour sets in motion an electric
apparatus that puts the bell to ringing.
■ he boys of that district have no longer
any hope that the teacher will bo so
engrosed in some task that he will for
get to call school. The bell rings also
at 10:45 a. m., 1 p. m ., 2:30 p. m. and
at 4 o'clock.
Infant Fending.
Avery important thing is the way
the milk goes into the child’s stomach.
The bottles are so constructed that the
milk goes down too fast. Every child
who sucks at the breast has to work
for what It gets. One of the great
troubles in artificial feeding is, the
milk is cascaded into the stomach and 1
immediately cascaded back again. The i
most of the sick babies are made so by ,
some prepared stuff being cascaded
into their stomachs in enormous quan
tities. Quantity is a great element in
these disorders, and I have known too
much food to make babies sick, even
where the food was fresh milk. I gen
erally tell the mothers to put a piece
of pure, clean sponge into the nipple,
so that the child must work with its
gums and lips to draw the milk, thus
obviate the too rapid flow.
Star Discovered by Anderson.
The sudden blazing into view of a
star previously Invisible ranks among
the very rarest of astronomical events.
Only fourteen times since men first,
began to write down records of the
skies has such an occurrence been
chronicle^; and but once before have
astronomers founr a “temporary” star
rivaling in splendor Anderson’s re
cent discovery in the constellation Per- ,
sens.
IS RICH IN TIMBER.
VAST FORESTS HAVE YET
SCARCELY BEEN TOUCHED.
A ( orroipomlout’s Impressions of the
South and South west—Land Values In
These Keglons Are Rising—Northern
Lumbermen In the Field,
A correspondent of an eastern manu
facturers’ journal who has spent a
month of travel and observation in the
south and southwest finds everywhere
in that part of the country a feeling
of prosperity with merchants and man
ufacturers, railroad men and planters,
farmers and men who work for days’
wages. The impression prevails that
the good times now prevailing will not
end until there has been a develop
ment of the south’s resources approach
ing the advance made in other parts
of the country. In analyzing the situ
ation the correspondent gives due cred
it to 10-cent cotton, accompanied by a
diversification of crops. Of the needs
of the south the correspondent says:
In railroad building the south and
southwest now show a great degree of
activity, but railroad building down
here is by no means complete. There
are several north and south trunk lines
of great importance, and which prob
ably will meet all requirements for
many years to come, but large acreas
are wholly devoid of transportation fa
cilities. In many of those sections
there are vast forests of the finest tim
ber, minerals of great variety and com
mercial value, and land which, when
cleared, will make as good farms as lie
outdoors. Already there are numer
ous undertakings on foot in the way
of building small branch lines to open
up tracts of the etiaracter named, and
it is evident that here will be a rich
field for development work by both
railroad constructors and real estate
operators. Take Mississippi as an il
lustration. Off the line of the rail
roads there are thousands and thou
sand?. of acres of timber, which will
cut from 10,000 to 20,000 feet to the
acre, and when cleared they will pro
duce a minimum of a bale of cotton to
the acre as well as other crops. These
Europe Wants
Our Coal
The prospects, as seen by impartial
observers after several months have
elapsed, indicate that American coal,
both anthracite and bituminous, is in a
fair way to win a permanent demand.
Our consuls in Europe report, that the
London gas companies are pleased with
their experiments with our gas coal.
Fifty per cent more gas has been
yielded per ton by some samples. Not
withstanding a considerable margin in
favor of British coal in the matter of
prime cost, the demand for samples is
growing, and our anthracite coal,which
has been heretofore unknown in Eu
rope, is found superior to any mined in
Great Britain. There is, however, a
disposition to insist on 70 to 80 per
cent of carbon, as European coal of
lower percentage than that is simply
inexhaustible.
France produces 32,000,000 tons and
consumes 42,000,000 annually. Hereto
fore she has imported from Great
Britain, Belgium and Germany. Car
diff coal does not break up into as
small lumps as American coal does;
but Pocahontas coal gives almost equal
results for steaming purposes. In both
A Great Lover
of Children
“Gov. Marmaduke was a single
man,” said Uncle Jose Fuller, an old
time resident of Jefferson City, who
was telling the other day of some of
the characteristics of Missouri’s gov
ernors. “He was a graduate of West>
Point, stood six feet three, and had a
fine Confederate record a3 a soldier.
Gov. Marmaduke didn’t mix none in
society to speak of, and there were
mighty few shindigs for grown-up
folks at the mansion during his time,
but it was lively around there just the
same. The governor was simply crazy
about children. He loved ’em all until
they got into long dresses and trous
ers, and the children had the run of
the house while he was in office. On
festival occasions like Jackson’s birth
day, which is always celebrated in Miz
zoura, the governor gave a children’s
party, at which he was the only adult
present. The children about ruined
the billiard table and the carpets in
MARY’S LAMB.
Incident* Connected with the Writing
of Well-Known Verse*.
The poem entitled “Mary Had a Lit
.le Lamb” is founded on facts. The in
cidents which suggested the verses
are as follows: When Mary E. Saw*
yer, the heroine of the poem, was a
little girl in Stirling, near Worcester,
Mass., where she was born, she found
a new-born lamb almost dead with
cold. She nursed it to life, and it be
came very much attached to her. It
was her constant playmate, and one
day her brother suggested taking it to
school. Arriving before the opening,
it was put under the seat, where it lay
contentedly. Mary being called to a
recitation, the lamb ran down the aisle
after her, to the great surprise of the
teacher. It was put out of doors,
but waited until Mary cam® out of
school, on her way home. A young
lands may be bought for from $6 to
510 per acre. The soil is an alluvial
deposit, and like the famous black
lands of Texas, which now bring from
530 to 550 per acre, these lands can be
worked for years without using any
fertilizers. The idle timber lands of
this section alone offer opportunities
for almost illimitable profitable opera
tions. The distance between the devel
opment of any of these southwestern
states and the conditions which pre
vail in Massachusetts, for instance, re
veals the reason why the south is to
day pointed out as the section above
all others where the young men seek
ing a location will find more opportu
nities than in any other part of the
nation. There is so much to do down
here and the rewards are so certain and
so rich that there is a disposition to
wonder why any ambitious young man
will remain in the overcrowded east
and north, where conditions are fixed
and opportunities for original individ
ual effort grow less every year, while
in many parts of this country almost
primitive conditions prevail, and a de
velopment work remains to be done
which it will take generations to ac
complish. In timber lands an aston-'
ishing change has occurred within the
last five years. Five years ago timber
lands were almost a drug in the real
estate market and any amount of good
lands could be bought for somewhere
around $2 an acre. Now one has to
hunt for ‘bargains’ at anything less
than 55 an acre. Lumbermen from
Michigan and Wisconsin have come in
and bought up tracts by the tens of
thousands of acres; good yellow pine
lands are being but infrequently of
fered and prices have jumped up to at
least 100 per cent all round. Five
years ago the red cypress men, who
were then feeling blue over the dull
condition of trade, agreed with a pro
moter to sell out their holdings, plants
and all, for 57,000,000. Today these
same people, who compose about 80
per cent of those engaged in the red
cypress industry and own at least that
proportion of the available, merchant
able red cypress timber standing,
would hardly sell for 525,000,000, and
red cypress timber lands which could
be bought for 50 or less then are
snapped up now at 512 per acre.”
RECOGNIZED AS A SUPER
IOR ARTICLE BY MANY
Nations.
Wales and France the labor demand is
gradually raising the price of coal, so,
even with occasional strikes in our
coal regions, we are not obliged to in
sert in a parenthesis “other things be
ing equal,” in calculating on the for
eign market for American coal. The
great trouble is not in the quality of
our coal or in the danger of strikes
here, but in the ocean freight rates and
the thoughtlessness of American coal
men, who fail to study European cus
toms as to size of coal and the metri
cal system of measurement and analy
sis.
Even in Russia American coal equal
to the best Welsh coal is selling for a
slightly lower figure. Prices In Austria
are excessively high, and Italy, too, is
feeling the scarcity severely, having no
native deposits. American coal is just
invading Spain and Algiers, and in
both the consumers find it equal in
quality to what they have been using.
Honesty and common sense in push-'
ing the American product are certain
to result in a great European market
for both anthracite and soft ooal for
gas and steam purposes.
Was Gen, Marmaduke, {or
Four Years Governor of
Missouri,
some of the rooms, and played hob
with the furniture, but they were the
governor’s friends, and that settled it.
“I remember once meeting Gov. Mar
maduke on his return from a trip to
New York. He told me he had bought
a magnificent picture to hang in the
mansion; said the place needed a little
artistic toning up. Then he showed me
the picture, and what do you think it
was? Gen. Washington? No. JubaJ
Early? No. Col. Moeby? I reckon not
by a jugful! It was a copy of that
familiar painting of a couple of little
children wearing paper soldier hats,
one playing a trumpet and the other
beating a drum. The governor thought
it was one of the finest scene* ever de
picted by an artist. It went right to
his great big heart to see those chil
dren playing at being soldiers, all in
nocent of the horrors of battle, such aa
he had witnessed during his stormy
career in the civil war.”
man named John Roulstone happened
to visit the school that day; the inci
dent set him to thinking, and he com
posed the first three verses of the
poem and gave them to Mary. A Mrs.
Townsend added the others. The lamb
became a sheep, and from the wool
Mary’s mother knitted two pairs of
stockings for her; these Mary kept
until she was 80 years old. When the
ladies of Boston undertook to raise
money for the Old South Church sev
eral years ago, Mary contributed a pair
of these stockings, the yarn of which
was unraveled and wound on cards in
scribed with her autograph and sold.
Mary E. Sawyer became the wife of
Columbus Tyler, and died in Decem
ber, 1889 —New York Weekly.
Do not talk about the lantern that
holds the lamp, but make haste, uncov
er the light, and let it shine.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The Caspian sea is literally a great
depression in the surface of the eafth.
it is 84 feet below the regular aea
level. Besides this its waters have
very little salt in them, being almost
fresh.
Dr. Jarre of Paris has announced his
discovery of a remedy for the foot and
mouth disease to the Acadmie de Med
ecine. It consists of a 33 percent solu
tion of chemically pure chromic acid
applied as a caustic. The cure is rapid
and there is no inflammation.
Pa; ta, Peril, about five degrees south
of the equator, has the reputation of
being the driest spot on the globe. On
on average a shower of rain occurs at
Payta only once in two years. But
the intervals between showers is often
much longer. Yet in that arid climate
seven species of animal plants manage
to exist, and the natives earn a liveli
hood by growing a species of cotton,
whose long roots find moisture in the
bed of a dried-up river. This cotton
is readily marketed.
Some birds and animals put on ex
tra foot coverings for winter use in
walking on snow and ice and boring
into it for food. Among these are
the ruffed grouse, the ptarmigan and
western rabbit. The latter is some
times known as the “snowshoe rabbit,”
because of the long and stiff hair
which appears on its feet in cold
weather. The ptarmigan has broad,
stiff feathers on its feet, and the ruffed
grouse a sharp-pointed fringe. These
drop off in the spring of the year.
Protective coloration is one of the
well-known provisions of nature for the
safety of animal life, but it is usually
seen in the natural habitat of the afii
mal. Here is a case, however, in which
the animal deliberately abandoned its
l>ld habitat and adopted anew one be
cause its safety would thereby be bet
ter assured. The gardens in Hamburg
have, within the last ten years, been
planted with white-leaf maples, and
the white butterfly has chosen them for
its settling places. When concealed
among the white leaves the butterfly
is safe from its enemies.
According to Professor Bigelow,
meteorologist of the national weather
bureau, the highest of all clouds were
discovered to be those delicate, white,
fibrous detached masses of frozen va
por seen high against the blue sky.
Sometimes they arrange themselves in
belts across the heavens. Often they
appear to the groups of motionless
Islands far up in ihe blue, atmospheric
sea. The topmost point of the highest
of these measured was ten miles above
,the earth. These highest clouds —
named cirrus—were found to confine
themselves to an atmospheric stratum
or belt, extending from the ten-mile
height to within three and a half miles
of our heads.
Captain J. C. Bernier's plan of at
tempting to each the North Pole by
drifting with the ice, as was tried by
the Jeanette expedition, has not yet
ben decided upon. He has submitted
also to the Quehec Geographical socie
ty a second plan, namely, to start from
Franz Josef Land wth a large number
of dogs and reindeer, and travel dur
ing the summer to the Pole by sleighs,
taking with him concentrated provi
sions, and killing his reindeers day by
day for food. Traveling at an average
rate of six miles per day he should
reach his destination in 150 days. He
will, however, allow himself 180 days.
Elaborate calculations have been made
as to the number of dogs and reindeer
required for the purpose.
A Muinmoth Peach Tree.
A giant peach tree in Kent Cos., Md.,
says the American Agriculturist, is
about the size of an ordinary kerosene
barrel, measuring 78 inches at the
base, or nearly 26 inches through. One
foot from the ground it is 58 inches,
and at two feet is 56 inches. The
The crotch is 56 inches, while the four
primary limbs are 32 inches, 29 inches.
28 inches, and 25 inches, respectively.
There is also one secondary limb as
large as a 10-year-old tree. The tree
is a Crawford type and 28 years old.
It has never missed a crop, and fre
quently overbears, breaking badly, as
the wood is very brittle. It is on the
farm of Allen A. Harris, on Eastern
Neck island, Kent Cos., Md., at the
mouth of the Chester river, along the
Chesapeake hay. The big tree is one
of the survivors of a large orchard
planted at the same time, some trees
of which are four or five feet in cir
cumference. This is claimed to be
the largest peach tree In the Unite®
States, if not in the world.
rh*li>(rtph> on Mil.
Frenchmen have been making great
strides in color photography toward
artistic directions and devoting them
selves to the invention of new' pro
cesses. The latest idea is a process of
taking colored photographs upon silk.
No one can deny their exquisite beau
ty, the soft mellow tones obtained,
and wherever laces or transparent fab
rics come into the picture the effect is
delicately fine. Beside portraits old
and modern paintings are reproduced
upon silken stuffs for sofa cushions,
screens and for every purpose relative
to interior decorations, while copies
of engravings, etchings and photogra
vures are equally well rendered. A full
length portrait in large cabinet size
may be ordered for SBO, while smaller
portraits call for a proper diminution
of price.
Grasp!!’* Plan.
“Graspit hopes to become a million
aire.”
“How?”
“By wedding a millionairess.”—
Ohio State Journal.