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FORGIVE AND FORGET. Forjlr* and forgrt. -U l» better To fllag all U1 leellag eelda

Than allow tha^eep 'aakeriof fetter or reveege la jo or bfeait to abide)

For your sup o'er life’s path will be lighter,

Wbeo the load from your bosom Is east, And the glorious sky will seem brighter, Whet, the oloud of dlsplaasore hat passed.

t o gur i.eca lajusuoe again.

Sink the thought of oblivion's ocean, For remembrance Increases the pain.

K. A. SCULL, - MBslir iri Pr^rlitor. c W w . h /.M,7i ,, 22ii^ w -

■ 1 1 — Or seek to eucouhter tomorrow. ‘

The blast that o'ertwept ns today?

Entered at the poet office at Cape Hay, It. J., aa second-class matter, March

frith, 1901.

The value of the coal mined In Japan is almost equal to that of all other mineral*'lommned. it vartes from the hardest anthracite to peat, but the ■ gpality Is usually infarior to that of American coal. Modern machinery and method* have been Introduced ln,the operation of many mines.

O'er life's atream It a varying nver, And though It ma> placidly glide, I Whet the sunbeams or Joy o'er It quiver. It must foam when the storm meets Us tide. Then stir not Its current to madnsse. For Its wrath thou wlit aver regret; ’ Though the morning beams break os ttr Ere the sunset forgive and forget. —Robert Gray, In Sucoaaa.

4N ACCOMPLICE. .

By CECII, HATTER.

Eric, might

The ulster was Invented by Donizet-

ti, the operatic composer. One day-he ! "I say. Uncle Tommy," said ergs being measured for an overcoat: j looking very woebegone, "you -To the knee, sit* asked the tailor I ^ . „

I shook my bead. It a against all my

“Lower, lower " answered the com- principles to muddle mj-aelf up in othposer. Half way down the log. the er people's concerns. U is a thankless taflor paused again. "Lower, lower,'-, task at best, and Induces indigestion, continued Donizetti. When the end of ' "H* v e a cigarette," said I. "You'll ., . . . „ 1 Cnd whisky and soda on the table over

hi. tape rested Sli'rtm-WfcWnh* tailor ^ lQ thp <X)rn „.-

aaid: “Sir. you will not be able to j “You might Just as well help me." rewalk." “W^lk. walk! who wants to ; peated Eric, after pouring himself out walk? I never walk. I soar." a drink. “Yob know the 'Ogre' thinks

! a deuce of a lot of ytra."

The total number of persons of for- J T* 1 ® "Ogre,” 1 should explain. Is

•Icn blrm or lorcl*, p.troo.so in CM-

, ^ . hla maternal uncle, Sir Richard Allot«g° la 1.3M.433. The number of rot- , wh0 ^ p rp , umab , p he ,„ be u . slr ers in Chicago In 1900 was 511.WS, ol ! Richard being & widower without chii-

whom 23T.68S were native born and ; dren.

T73J60 of foreign birth. Of the native “ You 8ee - U ' R thls »'*?•" he con- *“*•'«»>««< —»' [ z

VIRTUES OF VOLCANOES.

«elf, threw It up, and married some

parson fellow. ' “Wbat was her name." asked Betty. ( rbsy FaraUh Mswkisd with ftsm* or lu “Her name, eh? Never mind hei j inportout »rd». name," gn ntcd Sir Richard. The crops of the country round VesuBut 1 saw his fare twitch with pain; j vlui were i polled last spring by rain It was hts life's secret that was being i charged with hydrochloric acid. But It touched ui»on. J Is the first time such a thing ha* hap“Waa It Violet Delatnalne?” said pemed lor more than thlry yean, and

Betti

Richard Jumped at If he had been

shot.

"Eh? What? Why. bless my soul! How did you guess that?" "She was my mother," said Betty. Sir Richard looked at her steadily and nodded his head. "That's It," he murmured—"thafe

pont

this very acid, in tne small amount* which the volcano usually gives off has been largely responsible for the enormous crops which this district usually yields. The slopes of Mount Vesuvius produce, in fact, nearly treble the crops which other neighboring pans of Italy can lie made to yield, and this Is only

it! I thought I seemed to know your one of a hundred such districts which

f deal

face. You're very like her. My dear, owe their fertility to the soil being your mother was the best and most ! composed of crumbled lava, beautiful woman In the world. Wt j Even the dust which volcanoes eject must be friends, you and I. You won't £ Is often extremely valuable to the farmind being bored with an old fool mere upon whose Iqpf It falls. In 1812 like me now and again wiu you, my a violent empilon ofLa Souffriere. the dear? Only, you see. your mother and great St. Vincent volcano which has I—” He,Btopped hastily, and choked a ; recently given-so much trouble covlittle. "But how." said he, "do you ' ered :he whole of Barbados with some come by the name of Caselet? Yout | two inches of ashes. At the Umc Barmother married a man called Stopford nados was suffering from a fearful a parson In Lancashire." 1 plague of red ants, which rendered “Yea." said Betty; "but a few year* ; some parts of the island a'most Inhabibefore his death he changed It to Case | table. The dust absolutely destroyed let. In order to Inherit a small legacy | these pests, and nol only that, but doufrom a relative.—It was one of the ‘ bled the crop of sugar cane the next conditions. i year. The fertilizing effects of that "And what about this man. this un- ; dust were visible up to the year 1830. cle fellow, who Is making you unhap- | Not even the great rivers of the

o and aee him. | world can compare In fertilizing pow-

ers with, volcanic outburats. Tombora,

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| Ogre threatens to cut me off with the ' proverb!*! shilling, or even without It. If I marry. I can't even induce him to tee Betty, or listen to anything about

| her."

“As far ae I can make out." said I judiciously, "the case stands something like this: You are In love with

Among the recent patent offic* ! Miss Betty Caselet. She Is In love with grants Is a patent for a combination | her profession, and Incidentally with tent and garment for soldiers' use. It i Your uncle hates her Is designed for service in the tropics o, , for , r ~*°“ of hU own - K thinks you, for similar reasons, an wherever they may experience the adjectlved Idiot, as you so nicely put it, downpours of a rainy season, and a j and bids you choose between marrl-cape-llke shield is made for each sol- ' and a comfortable income." «« by tb, loMln, ot h.K » tint. T»o j ,b ' °* U: " 5ro “- ol thw plm. pot toittbir noUte « .. W ,J th „ whWl a , JO „ , Bttnd „ comfortable shelter of sufficient size tc 1 choose, love or lucre?" accommodate two men. Another fea j "Don't be absurd” retorted Eric tore of this combination is that each | 'There Is no question 0/ choice. b„ . poo,., ^; ^o^r^ouLIn£ « small amount of rain water, which j what ln the worId we arp , 0 mariT on _ can be used for. drinking purposec. That's why I've come to you to see If j you can't coax the Ogre Into a more ^Jhe origin of the parliament of Eng- i rationed and human frame of mind." land has been traced to the Saxon great j I happened to know Betty Caselet; CTPPbil. of the nation, oallrt “Wit™- i *“ »“ » P»Mc»ljy »!<«,! ol nln.. ... , ’ , 1 She was a lady of birth, and. being gemote, or meeting of wise men. Tb. ; po,*^ of , BtT0Bg drainat , c maUnct. Scottish parliament was never, like Inherited from her mother, and next the English, divided into two houses; j door to no money, she was studying all sat In one hall. In 1707 the Scot- ! elocution, with a view to making her

1 the stage. She was a pluck’

'brook that

tlah parliament was merged Into that ^

of Great Britain, and by the act ol onion with Ireland In 1800 the Irish parliament was also united,with that of Great" Britain as the parliament ol the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelands The parliament of Ireland had been originally formed on tb. model of that of England about the close of the 13th century, but It war ■ merely the very small portion of Ireland occupied by the .English settlers that was represented. It was only for ,

“*■ a” »<" a* fbai 1 „TS"»

e was a plucky i into the bar-

gah); -also

All this he knew too. bnt what he did not know was the reason why hla crusty but kind-hearted old uncle was such a woman-hater, and so dead set against marriage. I did. It was an old story, and had been played to a finish while Eric was still in the region of the nursery. And this fact conjured memories of bygone days, when Sir Richard was a young man still, and set

me thinking.

“I will see what I can do." said I

r four days later

. - . , , I asked -Blr Richard to come and have the Irish parliament was a supreme 1 a tlt of dln „ er wlth mc at ^ Carlton,

■ legislature; the English parliament and he assented,

having, down to 1783. had power to j 'By the way." said L "I hope you legislate for Ireland. won,t ob J® ct - hKt I’ve got a young

; friend of mine coming, too. a very pret-

i ty girl, in whom I take an interrat—

X,. Hcnrr H.rrl, of 0.. d.p^Uo.n, | , M1 „ c,,.,,, a,, aoco-, ,,, of labor- In Washington has laM; j amusement, poor little thing, and I made a report on the Insurance of thought It might ch^pr her up ’

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The chief causes which operate against the workingman are accident, sickness. . and lack of employment. The first two can be Insured against in ordinary companies, and attempts have lately been made to Insure against the third and tfans to remove the “laborer from the field of charity. The first essay , was made by the city of Berne. Switzar land, in 1893. by establishing a mu- - alcipar office/ for voluntary Insurance against uneriploymp-nt. The member* are ebargejj/about 10 cents per month, aa dues and when they lose employment (ip'by no fault of their own) during the wtn{er months they are paid about 30 cents per day for a period not ex ceding M days. Other funds of the

Betty was a good quarter of un hour late—girls always are/It is their privi-

lege.

However, when she did come she looked so pretty I found myself envying Eric In secret, ami wishing I was some twenty years youngt-i. She made herself so pleasant and agreeable and was so witty and apt in her remarks, that before we had finished the-entire even Richard himself was i t;ayed into a series of approving grunts. Sir Richard plied her with more questions as to how she lived and where., all of which Betty answer*! truthfully enough. Finally. b» wormed' out of her the etory of her eoRajcoment to Eric and the obstacle of the hardhearted uncle—names carefully suppressed; lor Betty, forewarned tv me.

The membership varies from 160 to 1200 persons

the aituatU

aroused her

py? You must let me go and aee him. | world can coi

my dear. I would like to do what I

can for you. 1 may have some Influence, j at Its lest great eruption. emitted "Oh!" said Betty. “I don't think heUl enough dust to have covered the whole be horrid any more, now." of Germany two feet deep, and the "He'd better not." growled Sir Rich- dust greatly improved the land It fell

ard. “Hang the old curmudgeon! Who upon.

Is he? What's his name?" But others besides farmers owe much Betty pointed a finger and laughed to the action of volcanoes. Does It oc“The old curmudgeon." said she— i cur to you that warfare and sport as "I'm only quoting, you know—Is one practiced during the past three or four Sir Richard Allotson!" J centuries would have been Impossible Sir Richard glared for a minute, and j but for volcanoes? Gunpowder's most then tne situation -suddenly dawned ! important ingredient is sulphur, and upon him. and he laughed till I thought sulphur is purely a volcanic prcduct. he would have a fit. , Another ^nost lndlep< usable product “Smoked, by gad!" said he. “Sc | of volcanic action is gypsum, better you're Eric's ybung woman, are you known as plaster of parls. Sculptor*. Bless my soul—to think of It! Well cast makers and surgeons alike wnqld

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you’re twenty times too good for him." era, too. make great

"And the curmudgeon." said Betty which owe their hardness to having archly. been brought up molten from the "He's an old idiot," replied fair Rich- depths of the earth by volcanoes. The ard. "Don't pay any more attenUon to •'tuff" of which Naples Is built is an him. HI undertake to bring him to his old lava of Vesuvius. Basalt Is an-

senses. Come alofig, let's go and find other volcanic atone,

that undutiful nephew of mine.”—New • AH those beautiful veined or semiYork News. transparent stones known as cnalced-

—a • cny. porphyry and Jasper have been

TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS MANT^foraed by heat and thrown up into

— oqrVsfclt. by volcanoes. Clay has been

Why Th*y nidn'i Lbi tb« Crvat ciant i found tSrncd into Jasper simply by

Bath* in Bmaii Ro<itM af Water. the heat of a lava stream which has

"The greatest of all giants." sal*’ passed over it. Felspar and homtbe old circus man," was a great feller ylende ore other well-known and val-

for goin’ in bathing; he never neg- i oabje volcanic products,

lected a chance for that. The domestic use of pumice stone la "But at the same time )tc had to use too well known to need description, tome sort of gumpUon, or we had to i Pumice Is also employed in many of use It for hto, about where he went ; the arta and crafts, for Instance, by in, on account of the danger there painters to remove old paint' from jimwas from overflows caused by his dls ter. Hundreds of people gain a livelif lacemcnt of the water. I well re- hood digging pumice from the volcanic member how we first came to realize district of Middle Italy. Mention must this. j also be made of rock crystal, ao valua"About twenty rods or so below the j hie for fine lenses. This Is a sort of by show’s winter quarters there was a : product of the great volcano factories,

little pond formed by damming a Mr. Rhodes would probably

ffl. @. Beng^e^t § Sons, - - ^lumlors - - ©as and (§team "Fitters.

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pond.- turned by one of those old.fashioned overshot water whecla. "The giant walked down to this little pond one warm-spring day Just be-

never

have been a millionaire bnt for volcanoes. The great Jjcd of blue clay at Kimberley, from which poetically the whole of the world's supply of dlaffiondu Is nojv procured, is nothing but of an ancient* worn-out

fore wc took the road that year, never I volcano. A diamond Is only a bit of thinking for a minute of whet must ; carbon which has been crysfelized by lianrwn If ho film no,I Into o small almost UnimaZl POblP heat fct.il TITP*-

happon If he jumped Into a small body of water like that suddenly, and

plunged in.

"Snake and alligators! The pond | overflowed all round, and started the ! grist mill off Its-foundation, and carried away the old wheel—it waa like a ' flood., yen know, of ccnrse v dovnvJ there at that end—and dene about $750 damages. •'Well! That opened our eyes, you j

almost unimaginable heat ^d pressure. The volcano has done easily what all the art of man can hardly succeed in imitating.—Pearson's Week-

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The way the pitched into the selfishness, narow-rnindiJuew, and general perversity of that uacle was delirious; and when old Blr Ulchard agreed with her (In.all Innocence) that such conduct was scandalous, 1 thought 1 should have succumbed to the pains of re-

>me 13.0*6 1 ca,. karw a woman who could have uaempioy- j acted Racb*l « head off or “ ' “

j either, only she a

H A philanthropic lady visited the asylum at Kingston, Canada, not long ago and displayed great Interest in the inmates. One old man parti-

cularly gained her compaaslon.

"And how long have you been here

mv man?" she Inquired.

'“Twelve yearn," was the answer.

"Do they treat you well?"

"Yea.”

■'Do they feed you well?'’ ^

“Yes."

After addressing a few more questions to him. me visitor passed on F ic noticed a broad and broadening t nlle' on the face of her attendant. J>d on asking the cause heard with Dnsternatlon that the old man was none other than Dr. Clark, tho superintendent. , She hurled back to make apologies How successful she was may be gath ered from .these worts: "I am very sorry. Dr. Clark. I wll never be gor-

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Cottonwood ranchnan. la exhibiting the largest sped men of a grasshopper evar ess* at Wheat load. Wyo. U Is Ursa aac length sad aa tack

death purloining a hag. made three frantic lunges at tl er, but Goff's saffron muff let

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Bnffy's steaming grosser to right meadow Incinerated Gaffs fingers. Doyle dunked safely to larboard, but Brown's swift return of the globule contributed to Huggins' demise at the plate—Kansas City Independent.

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