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Itt he Mushroom LUDLUM arm. By J. LEE. Copyright, 1SE, by P. C. Eastment. eaterwwwwwwwwwella The girls were holding an' indignation meeting. Clara Carruthers was curled up on the window ledge, Myrtle Reed had stretched herself comfortably on the lounge, Mary Sands was perched on the .side of a table swinging her feet, while two or three other girls were comfortably seated in armchairs. • Myrtle Reed was reading the Goshen Leader, tee !principal local paper. "Girls, it ougkt to be stopped. I she is advertising for n wan to fi_. the roof of that old stable. Yesterday she wanted a man to fix the furugce, and the day before it was a boy she want- ed to water the mushroom beds. Her family are poor enough without en- couraging Florence Reiss in any more of her foolish fads. Why doesn't she marry, as the rest of us have done?" "That's what I asked Jack the other night," chimed in Mary Sands. "But she says she hates the men and wants to raise mushrooms and make a for- tune of her own: !ler grandmother left her $200, you know, and that( what she Invested In the mushroom fad." "Let's go down in a body and apply for the job," suggested Clara. "It is a glorious day, and the walk will do/us good." In the meantime I•'loreuce Reiss was unlocking the door of the old stable. Dressed in a short walking skirt and scarlet sweater, with an old tam-o'- shanter ou her golden hair, she made a picture most unfarmer-like. her blue eyes sparkled with anticipation as she entered the cellar of the stable to view her precious mushrooms. Florence had ideas and ideals. and she meant to live up to hoth. If the family expected her to marry just to replete their purse they would be sadly disappointed. ,'o- men were born for nobler things, she argued, and :ha..—evould go forth and make won'•ith her own hands and brains and not tie herself to any man. Sheknelt down by the side of one of the beds and wtth a spoon cut off a tiny mushroom sprung up overnight. . She examined the spawn in anoth bed, felt the temperature of a thi and then went to the door to call Mala- chi, the boy whoa, she employed to do chores. "Malachi. Malachi:" she called out, but. Malachi did not appear, so she went out to look for him. Behind the stable on the side hill she found On covered with tar and beating a tire. "Malachi. what is all this?" she de- manded. "Yes, ma'am—you see`-' ma'am—O Lord. miss, I've set tir•e„to, the tar," he One Wax to Get Food. wailed. "You see. miss, 1 was gettin' Four young fe tows left Kimberley ready for the man to tix the roof, an' I to try their luck at diamond digging opened the barrel of tar, an' it near Christiana, South Africa, but wouldn't ran, so 1 thought, you see, were very unfortunate. All but their ma'am, I thought I'd melt It—yes, last shilling having been spent in buy- ing mealie meal, ways and means had "';jell, Malachi, you're an idiot, that's to be found to replenish the larder. what you are. and I never want to see After considerable discussion and won - your face again. Fo❑'tc welted It ail dor au to •n -here thcli next rood was right. aul I'll have to buy more tar at coming from, a bright idea struck one SS a barrel." of them, wito, stalking out of the tent. Malachi was discharged, and the said, "All right, mates, leave it to me." eau who applied to put on a new roof Proceeding to the camp store, he asked was installed in his place. for a small bottle of diamond acid, in Clean up the place." said Florence which the digger cleans his diamonds when asked what he should do until of Impurities before selling them. more tar arrived for the roof. "Yes," said the owner, 'but surely Florence started for town and so you want some stores?" missed the call that the girls paid. "Well, I do," said the starving one, She was back the next morning, how- "but I Intended sending you an order ever, to see her new man started on perhaps tomorrow." his work. "Never put off till tomorrow what "Get some of that fertilizer, Joseph, you can do today," was the shopkeep- and bring it to me. This bed Is in very er's response. "Make your order out poor cond'.tion and will never yield and pay when you come up to sell anything unless we work on it." your diamonds." Joseph stared in blank amazement. The miner acqulesced, and there was "Fertilizer, ma'am," he said. "Is it great rejoicings in those poor beggars' that pile of rotten stuff that was !yin' tent when .the wagon delivered that out yonder what you're speakin' of?" order. It is evident that the store - "Yes, yes!" answered Florence. keeper thought the party had found "Right there at the side door." some diamonds, or what use could "Yell. I'm after dumpin' it iu the have been the acid! After this luck brook, ma'am," he announced. "You changed, and the account was paid, the told me to cle;tn up the place, and 1 storekeeper joining heartily in the done It, ma'am, to the best of my abil- laugh at how he had been done for the ity." And he straightened up bis some- time being.—London Scraps. what hent shoulders as If to emphasize his brilliant stroke of work. The New Footman, It was too much addedo the loss of Fun seems all the funnier when Com - the barrel of tar, and Florence sat !ng from the Quakers, because it is un - down on the damp cellar floor and looked for and in contrast with their cried,, but not for long. She soon dried usual sobriety. For instance, what the tears on her old apron and vented could bg funnier than the method used her bitter anger on the head of Joseph. by Nicholas Waln, a gifted minister of He stood for a moment listening, then the Friends who lived in Pbiladeiphia turned and went out, muttering: during the eighteenth century, to mor - "I thought it was a lady, but I tify the carnal pride of his wife? The might of knowed diggin' in the dirt story is as follows: never made a lady yet." And Joseph The wife of Nicholas Wain"wasan was a thing of the past. only daughter, and for those days pos- Florence sat upon the stone wall to sessed a very large inheritance. She think it over. Eight dollars for the tar thought it would be @citable to her of yesterday, $12 for the fertilizer of wealth and station to 'lib+e?a footman today. Ideas were not always prac- behind her carriage. This wish being tical, and ideals did not materialize as frequently expressed, her husband at they might. Fight as she would against last promised to comply with it. Ae- them, the tears would come again. cordingly the next time the carriage The sound of wheels on the road near was ordered for the purpose of making at hand roused Florence. S.4e turned a stylish call she was gratified to see to see the express wagon from the gen- a footman mounted. When she ar- eral store about to deliver the barrel , rived at her place of designation the of tar. She jumped down from the dooi of the carriage was opened and fence and hurried to the gate which the steps letdown In a very obsequious led to the old stable. manner by the new footman, and great "Why, Mr. Rivers, what are you do- was her surprise and confusion to rec- ing? Driving the express wagon?" she ogaize In him her own husband, exclaimed as she recognized -,in the ; Could We Live on Mars? driver one of Goshen's leading young The physical conditions on Mars are men. In many ways intermediate between ee' "Hello, Flo!" he cried as he tied the those found upon the earth and the old horse to the gatepost. "It's me, moon, and it seems plausible that the all right. Just loafing around fora life existing upon it should similarly few days finishing up a business trip. be of a higher type than that found on Dad said you ordered this tar from the the moon and of a lower type than store, and I said I'd deliver it and kill that found at present on de surface of two birds with one throw. I was com- the earth. Even if the physical condi- Ing un to see the .wonderful mush- lions, as we understand them, were rooms anyway before, -i left. Call your equally favorable with those on the man to help me unload the barrel wilt earth, civilization would by no means you?" be a necessary consequence. Had it "Oh, Dick—Mr. Rivers, I mean. 1 not been settled by Europeans the haven't any man, nor any boy, nor any United States would still be a wllder- mushrooms. Yes, I've been crying," nese. How much less should we hasten she added, as he glanced sharply at to accord civilization to a planet Of the somewhat wet cheeks. "you see," which we know little, except that it she went on, "I've had bad luck with we were transported there ourselves my farming." we should instantly die.—Professor W. They wandered instinctively toward 1 R. Pickering in Harper's Magazine, the !Wall. Dick took out his pipe and began to light it. "Didn't your idea work outr' he said, with fine impersonal interest, "Not very well,” she admitted. "The idea Is all right, but skilied labor is hard to get, and after all I'm' only woman." "What about the !deals?'' suggested Dick as he puffed away. "Seems t me you told me that you had ideals as well as ideas." "Ob, I still have them—in my mind, of course, but they are eo hard to find in real life." Dick crossed his legs and hugged the uppermost knee. He- was not looking at Florence, but straight ahead, across the fields which lay before them. It was one of those beautiful winter days 'which apparently had nothing but wartilth of sun and breadth of blue sky to offer. "It's just n year ago today," he mus- ed aloud, yet as if talking to himself. "A year ilgo today. A man In love and n girl with !deals. Couldn't make it go. Such a team couldn't pull to- gether In harness. Twelve months finds the wan still In love and the girl clinging to her ideals. hopeless case, eh, don't you think?" "Oh, I don't know!" sighed Flo. "Not so hopeless ns raising mushrooms, for instance." Dick's knee slipped through his grip. and he stood beside the girl. "What do you mean, Flo?" he de- mnuded. "Can you forego the ideal take me after all?" and he stretch. ed fo ' both hands. "Will .0 take me, Dick?" she said as her two hands met his. "Take you, darling!" and he drew r close within his arms. "But yon id 'No.'" "ButV didn't mean it," she whisper- ed as she nestled close to his neck. "Didn't mean it!" he cried, looking down at the radiant face. "Well, but you said it, and how was I to know? You told Inc you had ideas of your own and an _.ileal besides, so I got out to give the other- felr n decent chance." "Men are suck stupid creatures," she.,, assured hlm. "I didn't think you'd take 'no' for an answer, and my ideas were to be happy in n home with you, and you, Dick—oh, you old dear—you are my ideal:" The strains of the, wedding march sung in several different keys by un- trained voices reached them, and they were confronted with the girls, who, having failed in their mission the day before, had returned to meet with bet ter results. O the wedding day among the pres- ents n barrel of tar labeled "Stick to it." Dick suspected his pater- nal parent, while Florence has always attributed it to Malachi. It stands in the yard of "Mushroom Farm," thy• title of their country place, so celled because Dick asserts that his hopes sprang up in a night. AN EXPA SION TUBE. I ORIGINAL COAL ENERGY. Device to Proven ,Conductor Pipe. Small Proportion Can Be Turned Into Fro uniting. I Mechanical Power. The' bursting t conductoe pipes by The standard of heat energy is the. the freezing of the water them is thermal unit, and it L the amount of not au uncommon occurrence. Schemes beat necessary to raise one pound of have from time to time been developed water a degree in temperature. The for securing a form of pipe that would mechanical equivalent of the thermal allow for the expansion of the water unit is 778.8 foot pound.. With this in changing to ice. but these have statement of definitions the following failed in the long run, says the Metal percentages hold. Worker. I A pound of best bituminous coal The cut shows a leader tube draining gives up in burning 14.500 thermal the valley back of a cornice. The eras. unit. Of these 2.000 are lost In the ticity of the tube, allowlg it to ex• flue gases, 1,400 are lost by radiation, wind when needed and yet to take its and the remaining 10.150 are 'ntWzed I original form when possible, is effected in the boiler. .If the engine or steam by giving the sheet metal a re-entrant turbine is of large sine with high pree- angular senor. the construction being sure. It will transform about 2.000 to iudlcate'd In the sketch. The expansion 2,500 of these heat units Into mechan- ical energy, or about 15 per cent of the original energy of the coal. If with this percentage of efficiency in the !steam engine we undertake to trans- form the energyto light by means of the incandescent�lght we find that between 2 and 5 per cent ot thls.ener- gy can be put Into an electric light, or about one-half of .1 per cent of the original energy of the pound of coal. To recapitulate, about 05 per cent of the beat energy of a pound of coal can be put into a boiler, and about 15 per cent of it can be turned into mechan. teal power, and of this 15 per cent from 2 to 5 per cent, or about one-half of 1 per cent of the original energy In the coal, is turned into light.—Railway and Locomotive Engineering. • Invest Your Money In Farm Land. The Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & 8t. Paul Railway opens to•the settler thousands of aures of good farming land iu Butte County„S D , and i n Adams, Hettinger, and Bowman Counties, N. D. • • The soil is a dark loam, with a clay sub -soil; good water is found at a depth of from twenty to fifty feet; rainfall is amply sufficient to raise the erotid, The who!, country ie underlaid with lignite coal that outcrops along the streams, and in most cases ran he had for the digging. The climate le healthful, the air dry, 'and invigorating, and the percen- tage of days cif eunshine high. Ouuduor work can be done aitat►dt every day in the year. Regular mall service has been established, the roads are gtwdl, and telephone lines traverse the country. The deeded landi there sells fmm $10 u, CO per acre. There were many instances in the past year where the crop equaled in value the enet of the land. In Butte County, 8. D., there is considerable government land open for homestead entry. Government land ot&xs are maintained at Lemtnon, Hettinger, and Bowman, where filings and final proofs may be made. All of these towns are on the new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Pau Railway. AUTOMATIC ELEVATOR. Picks Up Packages and Discharges Them et Any Height. A machtne which picks up barrels and other ackages from the ground or floor and automatically elevates and discharges them at any desired height has been Inlented by a Florida man. Such a machine should prove almost indispensable for storing or stacking barrels and similar receptacles. The machine is mounted on a frame- work provided with wheels, whereby it can be readily moved about. On the framework is an Incline, up which the barrels are pushed, the incline ex- tending from the ground to a landing on which the barrels are discharged. The barrels are pushed up the incline Ext'ANSION LEADER TUBE. ring is also arranged outside ofthe plpe, where it is found to be'ltlUally efficient, with the additional valuable feattire that It affords a means for the fastening to the building. In other words, when the spring is on the out- side of the pipe it is suitable for use as a regular conductor plpe, and when it is within the pipe the pipe can be passed through a circular hole in a cor- nice, as illustrated in the cut. It is In this part of the root drainage system that most of the leakage troubles oc- cur, the successive freezing and thaw- ing usually bursting the tube at about the point shown by the arrow. The lenders are made of copper and of galvanized Iron or tin and where for architectural reasons it Is desired can also be rectangular in section, the e pansion spring being provided In the same way. THE DIVINING ROD. French Scientist Says Magnetism Causes its Action, Louis Probst, a French s4ntist sta- tioned at Oloron Ste. Marie, in the Pyrenees ,utl:s there is something in the divining rod. His theory is that it does not point to water or a precious metal, but that its action Is controlled by any change In the density of the earth's crust over which it Is carried. Thus he believes it would make the usual response if it were carried across the lice of a subterranean watercourse which had run dry just the same as if water were flowing In It, and It would respond to deposits of oil or natural gas just as readily as to water, ore of precious metal or coal. IIe thinks that an important change in the earth's density such as is caused by a sub- terranean river may be detected In passing over It In a carriage or even a railway train. If a subterranean wa- tercourse crosses the line of a superfi- cial one. he thinks the line of the hid- den one may be traced with the rod by a person operating It in a boat on the surface stream. In Montana the new railroad traverses good farming land. It has been demonstrated that big er?ipa of grain may be raised there. Along the Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers the yields of alfalfa, auger beets, and grain last year were remarkable In the Judith Basin, near Lewistown, Mont , ie one of the m'st remarkable aections to be found along the new line. Under mourn! rainfall the famous bent•h lends produced last year an average of ti►irty.five Inteltele`4 hard whist to the dere. The basin contains about le`n thousand square miles and in ap\areele settic{td Some government land still rnt°nina open for settle- ment. Government land offices are maintained at Lewistown and Tort• Mont. i The. Big :Br'nel Counts' of Washington presents splendid opportunities in fermi] ¢and (reit raking Bight new towns along this new line have reeentpr been opened iii Idaho and tl'nshington. F. A. t 1ILLER, General Passenger Agent, CHICAGO, GEO. B. HAYNFS, Immigration Agent, egs Adams St., CHICAGO. RA.RREL ELEVATOR. by pairs of arms which are connected to corres.ponding gears and shafts op- erated by an electric motor. The arms are arranged to successively bear against the barrel to push it up the incline. The lowest arm engnges the barrel as it rests on the ground and pushes it up the beginning of the in- cline. The next arm in turn take* up the task and pushes the barrel farther up the incline. The number of arms is limited only by the height of the in- cline. He considers that the phenomenon Chicago's Water to Be Purer. is one of magnetism. The earth at- A menace to Chicago'redrinking wa- ter supply is removed by a decision of tracts the rod differently according to the hidden features of Its strueture. If the Indiana Harbor council to spend the operator wears rubber shoes or if g500.000 on a new sewer system tor he grasps the rod with rubber or silk East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. The or other nonconducting gloves, nothing sewage of the two cities, heretofore will happen. A magnetized rod. on the dumped into Lake Michigan, will be other hand, will give far more positive reversed. and the new system will results than a plain one. He has, he empty into the Grand Calumet river. says, authenticated this by giving the near Hammond. After that Whitin two alternately to a blindfolded opera- will be the only northern Indiana citz• tor. Though he never knew which rod sending its sewage to the lake where he had, the magnetized one always northerly currents run toward Chi - showed far greater activity. cago. The new sewer system will be Really, however, it is indifferent the first of its kind in Indiana. It wUl what material is used. Operators usu. be of re -enforced concrete on the model ally jzfer a hazel twig. but M. Probst of the recently completed system of thlAa whalebone or malacca better, Grand- Rapids, Mich. It will drain six but best of all n thin rod of steel about square miles.—What to Eat. an eighth of nu inch in thickness with the ends wrapped in fine copper wire. Economy In Fuel on Ocean Liners. Wonderful advances have been made Artificial Gems. In marine engines during the past few Aristide Charette bas discovered a years. not only lu construction. but In method of producing very beautiful eeonomy of fuel as well. An 8,000 ton diamonds by passing a powerful elee. ship built for the Hamburg -American hic current through a liquid sulphate line in 1890 burns nearly twi aa of black carbon. Another French ea. much wet aa a 17.000 ton ship ullt vent now claims to have discovered a for them In 1900. The White 8 r means of converting the common min. liner Baltic. 24.000 tons. burns I eral corundum. which is only wortb fuel than the MILO tou Bretagne, built about 2 franca per carat' Into rubies in 1886. At the beginning of oceen and sapphires of a marked value equal steam navigiitIon it to ,k :410 eons of to 30 francs per carat by a simple coal to drive n 2,000 ton vessel across process. A month's exposure to the the Atlantic at a speed of ulue miles action of radluM turned yellow corun- an hour. Today a 20.000 ton vessel dum into "a flne clear ruby," while the can be driven iteroes at a speed of red varieties became amethyst, the twenty-three nines an hour on a con - violet sapphire and the blue topaz. sumptiou 0:- 3.000 toes coal.—Popti- Cloth Finishiog 'Machine. - -- A uew finishing machine for woolen and worsted goods. in which the ciotb In his • to determine is drawn over rolls covered witb finely whether It e. es. the odor of ground glass, is described in the Tex- ifinaatowctrss views a000thienT the World Record. Bays this maga' gist. bethought him of trying a mirror. zine:• 'The pressure is applied by a pneumatic device which enables the aHnedssettutegd opt! a seterdl k tn gnectool or: energy of the machine to be regulated very closely. The millions of small an excellent glass in which the reflec- manner that cannot be Otherwise du- toPtrtlifee.kreaAl single one approached the reflection in smooth, p,ished surface with a very thick nap." Joining the Great. . Reputation and Cheracter. An Oxford undergraduate was recit- ing a memorized oratiou lu one of the Lawyer (examining jurp—Do you classes in public speaking. After the understand the difference between first two sentences bus tuetnory failed, character and reputation? Juror—Rep- and a look of blank despair mime over utation is the name your neighbors his face. He began as follows: give you; character Is the one they ,'Ladies and Geotlemen—Pitt is dead. take from you.—Judge. Fox is dead. Gladstoue is dead"— Old men's eyes are like old men's Then forgetting, he hesitated for a memories; they are strongest for moment and continued. "Aad—I—I-1 am beginning to reel pretty 'sick' my - A Sou Ridden Town. A Rejection Slip.. • A well known tourist of the world "Sir," said the shivering beggar. has stated as his opinion thrtt Lucerne stopping the prosperous magazine ed- it) the most bell ridden town iu Europe. Itor on the street. "i have a long. sed He had assuredly never been to story"— Schwyz. To begin w . the countless "Sorry," briskly replied the maga- the small hours o he morning on cattle that pass th gid the streets In alae editor, passing on, "but aye are only open for short, funny otos now; their way to or from the upland pee- full of the other kind."—Success Maga- tures wear bells as big ss buckets. --__ And there are church hells too. A line peal they are, no doubt. but the noble No Thanks. art of bell ringing either never existed "1 broke a record today. Had the or has beeu lost here. The bells are last word with a woman." rung by being smitten or banged to- "Didn't think it possible. How'd it tether by two small boys, whose legs bappenr are plainly visible—an aliurtttl!�,mark "Why. 1 said to a woman in the car, for an air gun—through the open 'Madam, have my seat' "—Philadei- louvres of the church tower, the 'tide Ledger. - sounds produced being about as edify- ing as the music of a donkey engine Good Trade. In full play. The performance begins "Oh, my business is good." said the at 4:30 a. m, and continues until early trombone player, "In fact, I am al - service at 5, and if there Is a funeral— ways blowing about it," which Is every other day or so—there "Well, I'm Booted with mine. too." will be another sustained burst of mel- said the chimney sweep. ody from 6 to 7. During the remainder "And mine is out of sight." said the of the day the ringing 1s varied and diver, persistent, but it lacks the irritating power of the early morning exercises. Do One thing at a time and the big Sooner or later public opinion will be things Bret—Lincoln. aroused. Those boys will be dragged from literally, and peace and quiet will reign Cure Your Kidneyr perch, figuratively if not s in the eponymous capital of the con- federacy.—Blackwood'e Magazine, Wolves of the Sea. Of all the inhabitants of the ocean few are more destructive than the sea molt', a kind of dolphin which attains when full grown a length of foUrteen ...f_ftt and a weight of 8,000 pounds. A", swift swimmer, it Is quick in its mivements, cunning as a fox and hu insaUable appetite. It feeds on the young of seal, whale and walrus and also on the tongue of the adult whale. When a mother walrus perceives a sea wolf, she endeavors to throw her cub on fito an iceberg if one is near. Failing this, she gets it on top of her head and swims with it above water. But this is vain. Diving far below, the fish of prey comes up with tremendous force, striking the frantic mother a terrific blow and Jolting the cub off her head intoithe water. Here it falls an easy victim to the assailant and is soon devoured. In its work of destruction the sea wolf Is frequently aided by the thrash- er, a fish Which can deliver a terrible blow with its tail. Got Something For Nothing. !Mark Twain told how be got some- thing for nothing one day in the early sixties when he needed the money. He walked into a hotel and was petting a strange dog. General Nelson A. Miles, who chanced to be proem:it offered him $10 for the canine. "To be frank," said the humorist to General Miles, "I haven't really- got any right to sell you this animal, but If you'll given* $8 you may take the pup away when rm not looking, and I'll not tell who took it" The bargain was closed, and General Miles took the dog to his room. A mo- ment later the dog's owner inquired tor his pet. and Mark Twain offered to find the animal for $8. The humorist then went to General Miles' room and explained All. had the dog returned to him, gave the armgeolficer back his money and returned the canine to its original owner, thereby making $3. Helping the PostoffIce. In a history of the great advance in pastel methods accomplished by 81r Rowland Hill is given this anecdote: To the postoffice of at that time tiny A.mbleside came one day a well to do man to buy a stamp to put ea the let- ter he was about to post "Is this new reform going to last?" he asked the postmaster. "Certainly." was the re- ply. "It is quite established." 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Thousands of homesteads of 160 acres each are thus now easily atonable in these great grain - growing, stock -raising and mixed farming sec- tions. There you will and healthful ma ood neighbors, churches for family worship. se Is for your cblldren, good lawst splendid and railroads convenient to market. Entry fee Watch case is $IOAO. Por pamphlet, "Last Best West," particulars as to rates, routes, beat time to go and where to locate. appy +v E. T. HOLMES SIS Jackson Street, St. Paul, Mite. Canadian Government Aged ESTA'I'E OF DECEDENT. Suite of Minnesota, county of Dakota.--sa. In probate oourt. la the matter of the estate of IsaaO Man- chester, decedent Letters teatementary this day heving bees granted to Almira Menchester. 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