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IIKENSIBE BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES MM "Dan ft-aw," "The Bnflloh OrpVan HomM'd tbe Hlll'e." "Uai RlTen," " McaMwferauk," " tmpttt and Suohnt," "Cousli Maude," etc. CHAPTER XIV. (Continued.) It was a sore trial for Maddy to write ti Lucy Atherstono, but she offered no rcinonst ranee, and so accompanying the I'ieture was a little note, filled mostly with praises of Mr. Guy, and which would be very gratifying to tho uusus liecting Lucy. Now that it fully decided for Jessie to go with Maddy, her lessons were suspend ed, and Aikenside for the time beU g was turned into a vast dressmaking establish ment. With his usual ceuerositj Guy had giveu Agues permission to dral upon his purse for whatever was feeder. pit her for herself or Jessie, with the del nite understanding that Maddy shoull have an equal share of dress and atten' tion. "It will not be necessary," he siiii, "for you to enlighten the citizens of New York with regard to Maddy's position. She goes there as Jessie's equal, and her wardrobe must be suitable." No one could live long with Maddy Clyde without becoming interested in her. and in spite of herself Agnes' dislike was wearing away, particularly as of late she had seen no signs of social attention on the doctor's part.. He had gotten over his weakness, she thought, and so was very gracious toward Maddy, who, nat urally forgiving, began to like her better than she had ever dreamed it possible for Ler to like so proud and haughty a wom an. Down at the cottage in llonedale there were many consultations held and many fears expressed by the aged couple as to what would be the result of all Guy as doing for their child. A few days before Maddy's departure, grandpa went up to see "the madam ;" anxious to know something more than hearsay about a person to whose care his child was to be partially intrusted. Agnes was in her room when told who wanted to see her. Starting quickly, she turned ao deadly white that Maddy, who brought the message, flew to her side, asking in much alarm what was the matter. "Only a little faint. It will soon pass off," Agnes said, and then, dismissing Maddy, she tried to compose herself suffi ciently to pass the ordeal she so much dreaded, and from which there was no possible escape. Thirteen years ! Had they changed her past recognition? She hoped, she believed so, and yet, never in her life had Agnes Remington's heart beaten with so much terror and apprehension as when she en tered the reception roocs -where Guy sat talking with tho infirm old man she e membered so well. His 'snowy hair was parted just the same as ever, but the mild blue eye was dimmer, and it rested on her with no suspicious glance, as, par tially reassured, she glided across the threshold, and bowed civilly when Guy presented her. A little anxious as to how her grand father would acquit himself, Maddy sat by, wondering why Agnes appeared so ill at ease, and why her grandsire started sometimes at the sound of her voice, and looked earnestly at her. "We've never met before to my knowl edge, young woman," he said once to Ag nes, "but you are mighty like somebody, and your voice, when you talk low, keeps makia' me jump as if I'd heard it sum'ers or other." After that Agnes spoke in elevated tones, as if she thought him deaf, and the mystified look of wonder did not re turn to hia face. Numerous were the charges he gave to Agues concerning Maddy, bidding her be watchful of his child; then, as he arose to go, he laid bis trembling hand on her head and said solemnly: "You are young yet, lady, and there may be a long life before you. God bless you, then, and prosper you in pro portion as you are kind to Maddy. I've nothing to give you nor Mr. Guy for your goodness only my prayers, and them you have every - day. We all pray for you, lady, Joseph and all, though I doubt me be knows much the meaning of what he says. "Who, sir? What did you say?" and Agnes' face was scarlet, as grandpa re plied: "Joseph, our unfortunate boy; Maddy must have told you, the one who's taken such a shine to Jessie. From the corner where he sits so much I can hear him whispering by the hour, sometimes of folks he used to know, and then of you, who we call madam. He says far ten minutes on the stretch : 'God bless the madam the madam the madam !' You're sick, lady; talkin' about him makes you faint," grandpa added, hastily, as Agnes turned white as the dress she wore. "No oh, no, I'm better now," Agnes gasped, bowing him to the door with a feeling that she could breathe no longer In bis presence. He did not hear her faint cry of bitter, bitter remorse, as he walked through n.e kali, nor know she watched him as he went slowly down the walk, stopping often to admire the fair blossoms which Vladdy did not feel at liberty to pick. "He loved flowers," Agnes whispered, as her better nature prevailed over every other feeling, and, starting eagerly for ward, she ran after the old man, who, eurprised at her evident haste, waited a little anxiously for her to speak. It was rather difficult to do so with Maddy's in quiring eyes upon her, but Agnes man aged at last to say : "Does that man like flowers the one iwho prays for the madam?" "Ypr, he used to years ago," grandpa replied ; and, bending down, Agnes began to pick and arrange into a most tasteful bouquet the blossoms and buds of May, growing so profusely within the borders. "Take them to bim, will you 7" and her hand shook as she passed to Grandpa Markliam the gift which would thrill joor Jos'ph with a strange delight, mak ing him hold converse a while with the unswn presence which he called 'ehe," ar. l tliea whisper blexsings on the mad am's h H'l. Three iiys after this, a party of four leJt Aik''nide, which presented a most fur.orn a.iJ cheerless appearand to the pas T-by, who were glad almost tbe eervaats when, at ths expiration of a vec. Guy cam back and took ua ti& old en life of solitude and loneliness, with nothing in particular to interest him, ex cept his books and the letters he wrota to Lucy ; unless, indeed, it were those he was going to write to Maddy, who, with Jessie, had promised to become his cor respondent. Nothing but these and the picture the doctor's picture the one de signed expressly for hiui, and which trou bled him greatly. Believing that ha had fully Intended it for the doctor, Guy felt as if it were, in a measure, stolen prop erty, and this made him prize it all the more. Now that Maddy was away Guy miss ed her terribly, wondering how he had ever lived without her, and sometimes working himself into a violent passion against the meddlesome neighbors who would not let her remain with him in peace, ana who, now that she was gone, did not stop their talking one whit. Of this last, however, he was ignorant, as there was no one to tell him how peo ple marveled more than ever, feeling con fident that he was educating his own wife, and making sundry hateful remarks as to what he intended doing with her re lations. Guy only knew that he was very lonely, that Lucy's letters seemed insipid, that even the doctor failed to interest him as of old, and that his greatest com fort w-as in looking at the bright young face which seemed to smile so truthfully upon him from the tiny casing just as Maddy had smiled upon him when he bade her good-by. CHAPTER XV. The summer vacation had been spent by the Remingtons and Maddy at the seaside, the latter coming to the cottage for a week before returning to her school in New York, and as the doctor was then absent from home, she did not meet him at all. Consequently, he had not seen her since she left Aikenside for New Y'ork. But she was at home now for the Christmas holidays was down at the cot tage, too ; and unusually nervous for him, the doctor stood before the little square glass in his back office, trying to make himself look as well as possible, for he was going that very afternoon to call up on Miss Clyde. The doctor was seriously in love. He acknowledged that uow to himself, con fessing, too, that with his love was mingled a spice of jealousy, lest Guy Remington should be expending more thought on Maddy Clyde than was consis tent with the promised husband of Lucy Atherstoue. He wished so much to talk with Guy about her, and yet dreaded it ; for If the talk should confirm his suspi cions there would be no hope for him. No girl in her right mind would prefer him to Guy Remington, and with a little sigh the doctor was turning away from the glass, when Guy himself drove up in a most dashing equipage. Guy was in the best of spipits. For an entire half-day he had tried to devise some means for getting Maddy up to Aikenside. There was to be a party at Aikenside the very first since Guy was its master. The neighbors had said he was too proud to invite them, but they should say so no more. The house was to be thrown open in honor of Guy's twenty-sixth birthday, and all who were at all desirable as guests were to be bid den to the festival. First ou the list was the doctor. Guy was all engaged in the matter, and after telling who were to be invited, added rather indifferently: "I'm going now down to llonedale after Mad dy : It's better for her to be with us a day or two before. You've seen her, of course." No, the doctor had not ; he was just going there, he said, in a tone so full of sad disappointment that Guy detected it at once. ''I have not seen - Maddy since last spring, you know. Is she very much im proved?" asked the the doctor. "Yes,, very much. There is no more stylish-looking girl to be seen on Broad way than Maddy Clyde. I took her to the opera once, last month, and the many admiring glances cast at our box proved pretty positively that Maddy's beauty was not of the ordinary kind." "The opera !" the doctor exclaimed ; "Maddy Clyde at the opera! What would her grandfarher say? lie is very puritan ical, you know.' "Yes. I know! and so is Maddy, too. She wrote and obtained his consent be fore she'd go with me." Here an interval of silence ensued, and then the doctor began again. "Guy. you told me once you were edu cating Maddy Clyde for me, and I tried to make you tlnnK 1 rlnln t care; nut I did, oh, so much! Guy, laugh at me, if you please. I cannot blame you if you do; but the fact is, I believe I've loved Maddy Clyde ever since that time she was so sick. At all events, I love her now, and I was going down there this very afternoon to tell her so. She's obi enough. She was sixteen last October, the the " "Tenth day," Guy responded, thus showing that he, too, was keeping Maddy's age. "Yes, the tenth day," resumed the doc tor. "There's 'most eleven years' dif ference between us, but if she feels at all as I do, she will not care, Guy," and the doctor began to talk earnestly : "I'll be candid with you, and say that you have sometimes made my heart ache a little." "Ma!" and Guy's face was crimson, while the doctor continued : "Tea, and I beg your pardon for It ; but let me aak yon one question, and upon its answer will depend my future course with regard to Maddy : You are true to Lucy?" Guy felt the blood trickling at the roots of his hair, but he answered truthfully a be believed : "Yes, true aa atee!," while the generous thought came over him that he would further the doctor's plans all be possibly could. "Then I am satisfied," the doctor re joined "and aa you hava rather assumed tbe position of her guardian or brother, I I aak oar Jrmiaaion to offer bar the We which, whether she accepts It or not, In hers." Guy had never felt a sharper pang than that which now thrilled through every nerve, out he would not prove false to the friend confiding in him, and he an swered calmly : "You have my consent; but, doc, better put it off till you see her at Aikenside There's no chance at tue cottage, with those three old people. I wonder she don't go wild. I'm sura I should.' "nd you'll manage It for me, Guy? You know; how. I don't. You'll contrive for me to see her alone, and maybe say a word beforehand in my favor." "Yes, yes. I'll manage It. I'll fix it right. Don't forget, da yafter to-mor row night. The Cutlers will be there, and, by the way, Marcla has got to be a splendid girl. She fancied you once, you know. Old Cutler ia worth half a mill ion." And Guy tore himself away from the doctor, who, now that the ice was broken, would like to have talked of Maddy forever, But Guy was not thus inclined, and in a mood not extremely amiable, he went dashing down toward llonedale. For some unaccountable reason he was not now one bit interested in the party, and, were it not that a few of the Invitations were Issued, he would have been tempted to give it up. Guy did not know what ailed him. He only felt as if somebody had been meddling with his plans. He contented himself with driving like a sec ond Jehu until he reached llonedale, where a pair of soft, brown eyes smiled up into his face, and a little, warm hand was clasped in his, as Maddy came even to the gate to meet him. She was very glad to see him. The cottage with its humble adornings did seem lonely, almost dreary, after the life and bustle of New York, and Maddy had cried more than once to think how hard and wicked she must be growing when her home had ceased to be the dear old home she once loved so well. She had been there five days now, and notwith standing the efforts of her grandparents to entertain her, each day had seemed a week in its duration. Neither the doctor nor Guy had been near her, and capri cious little Maddy had made herself be lieve that the former -was sadly remiss in his duty, inasmuch aa he had not aeen her for ao long. Maddy was getting to be a woman, with womanly freaks, as the reader will read ily see. At Guy she was not particularly piqued. She did not take his attentions as a matter of course; still she thought more of him, If possible, than of the doc - tor, during those five days, saying to herself each morning : "He'll surely come to-day, and to herself each night : 'He will be here to-morrow." She had some thing to show him at last a letter from T.nev Atherstone. who hnd prflHimllv rnmm to be her recular corresDondenr. and whom Maddv had learned to love with ll the intensity of her girlhood. To her rdent Imagination Lucy Atherstone was but a little lower than the angels, and the pure, sweet thoughts contained m ev- ery letter were uoing almost as mucn towards molding her character as Grand pa Markh'am's prayers and constant teach ings, aiaddy did not know it, but It was these letters from Lucy which kept her from loving Guy Remington. She could not for a moment associate him with her self when she so constantly thought of im as the husband of another, and that other Lucy Atherstone. Not for worlds would Maddy have wronged the gentle creature who wrote to her so confidingly of Guy, envying her in that she could so often see his face and' hear his voice. while his betrothed was 'separated from him by many thousand miles. Little by little it had come out that Lucy's mother was averse to the match, that she had in her mind the case of an English lord, who would make her daughter "Mv Lady"; and this was the secret of her deferring so long her daughter's marriage, In her last letter to Maddy, however, Lucy had written with more than her usual spirit that she would come in pos- session of her property on her twenty-fifth birthday. She should then feel at liberty to act for herself, and she launched out into joyful anticipations o' the time when she should come to Aikeiside and meet her dear Maddy Clyde. Guy began to talk with Maddy, asking how she had spent her tim;, and so forth, This reminded Maddy of the doctor, who. she said, had not been to iee her at all. "He was coming this norning," Guy rejoined, "but I persuaded him to defer his call until you were 1 1 Aikenside. I have come to take you bek with me, as we are to have a party dfc after to-morrow evening, and I wish jou to be pres ent." (To be continued., The Auto In Xew York Slate. New Y'ork State lias now one auto mobile for every 200 of its Inhaoitaius. Over 40,000 automobiles are now regis-! II. M. Cottrell, after years of expe tered In New York State, which had, Hence and observation, says that cow according to the ceiisu of 190."), a pop- pea hay Is nearly equal to alfalfa In ulaticn a little over 8,000,000, --vhich feeding value, and contains nearly one Indicates approximately the percentage half more flesh and milk making ma estimated above. At the beginning of terlal than clover hay. It Is rich in the ti.o .-nrrent vear there were ?X? au- mineral matter that is needed In forin- toinol.ilcs registered in New York, and on May 1, :.SC,1, showing that 4,213 automobiles were registered during the past four nioiiths, as against ;i,0.'!( dur- ing the same period of l!HM-a gain of 1.212. During l!t05 the Secretary of State registered S.C23 automobiles; In 190G, 11,733, and he estimates that this year over 1S.0O0 automobiles will be registered at Albany. Approximately, tlie aUtoinODllOB SOU in .eV 10rit Will . total ln value $5,000,000. Wlndoru of Experience. Newjiop (wearily) It must be time - n r. ''-' "i ' Mrs. Newpop IMd you near nig clock strike six? Newpop No; but the baby has fal len asleep. Paid For. Stella Do you believe that Miss Oldun came by her complexion hon estly? Mabel I know she did. I saw thf receipted bill for It Same aa th other. ITotner I thought I had at least oca unselfish friend In Grlggsby. Mrs Homer Well, haven't you? Homer No. Only this morning wan tad to borrow $10. Portable Cot for Hoar. Following Is the description given by the Wisconsin Agricultural Station of a valuable portable hog cot which will be found of use on the farm. The cot Is six feet wide, eight feet long, six feet two lnchea high In front and three feet fe?gh In the reur. Th floor li built first, with 2x4s as stringers, and the frnme Is hold on the floor by blocks at each corner. The large sized house Is provided with two doors In front and a temporary mov able partition and a temporary mov able partition In the middle so that the cot can easily be adjusted to accom modate two lots of swine at the .same time. On n level with the glass, win dows, there Is also a drop window, preferably hung on hinges, fastened at the top for ventilation and sunlight. The lumber required for the house Is as follows; Twelve pieces, two Inches by four Inches, sixteen feet long, for frame. Four pieces, one inch by twelve Inches, sixteen feet long (rough), for floor. Thirteen pieces, one Inch by twelve Inches, sixteen feet long, for roof and ends, len O. G. SMALL SIZE HOO COT. battens, sixteen feet long, for sealing cracks between boards. The total cost of material to build the cot with floor, door, and windo i complete amounts to about $12.50. For ! neatness, economy, durability, and comfort to animals, this type of cot is excellent. 'Where it is desirable to , keeD a number of hotrs in one lot the large size Is preferable. The cot will accommodate from three to five mature "' i OCTe" to nlne- Although the Wisconsin sta "on na3 a 'arge hoghouse with feed room, scales, etc., the cots have been found a convenient means of enlarg- ing the faculties of the piggery, To Feed the Horse, A common way of feeding dray horses nnd other street teams In the clty l8 1Uu8trated here. A sack is made out of good strong ducking of a circumference that will allow of Its being pulled over horse's nose and leaving sufficient room for him to work his Jaws eas ily. This sack Is anywhere from a foot to fourteen The bottom Is made ft'g bL""k nose bao. lnche9 ln ,enSth of ood stiff piece of harness leather cut out and sewed firmly into the hem of the ducking. A leather strap Is riveted into one side of the mouth of the sack, and a buckle is riveted on the other, so that the whole may be strapped on to the horse's head, as shown. In order to feed a horse must be unchecked, and he soon learns to place the sack on the ground, where he can push his nose to the bottom of it to ilean out the last of the food. For the farmer who takes a day to go to town these sacks will be found vory handy, as a horse can be fed with thenl without any waste of grain pro- vi(ling he ,3 UIM.heoklKj. A little cau. t. B,,,,, ,m ,, , tho. Dni, on a horse not accustomed to It, as it may cause him to Jerk back. How ever, after he has once eaten a meal from It he can be considered well brokenMn. Iowa Homestead. Coirpea Hay i"g bone, blood, flesh and milk. These qualities make it especially valuable for feeding growing cattle and pigs, dairy cows and fattening steers and hJf?s. The cowpea enriches tbe land on which It grows, the same as alfalfa, clover and soy beans. It makes hard "" mellow and aids In holding loose together, and stands dry weather Te1' Breeding- Tin for Em. The Maine experiment station has discovered a hen that laid 250 eggs In one year. In fact, she laid 251 eggs In & year, counting from Thanksgiving .1 x mi 1 I -I., Tl.l. , came from a selected family of 200- , . . , ,, . egg layers as the original foundation. In the same family there were a num ber of bens that laid over 240 eggs in a year. Condiment for Hoa-a. The most valuable "condiments" for nogs are ashes, salt and copperaJL A big breeder says he once a week rakes up tho cobs In the feeding yard and burns them, thus giving the swine soma charcoal ; occasionally he hauls In a load of coal ashes, and salt and cop- 'peraa are mixed with wood ashes and kept a trough where tha hogs can at tfeem at any tim a. A VI I 3 & For lrv it Mock, Dip or wash the animals with a 1 or 2 per cent wuter solution of n tar dls Infectnnt, such, as kreso. A convenient way to apply the remedy in the larger animals Is with a spray pump, and in sheep or hogs by dipping. Whatever method Is lined, tho coat and skin must Street railways with cars operated be thoroughly wet with the solution, by manual power are In use at Mom After treating the' ho", the stables, basa, In East Africa. The light, nar sheds or sleeping quarters should be row-gauge tracks are laid through the sprayed with about a 1 per cent water street, and the cars are for hire, like solution of the disinfectant, or white- cabs, or ar the private property of wash may be used instead. This Is officials and wealthy residents. They necessary In order to prevent reinfect- are little four-wheel cars with one A lng the herd from the surroundings, two cross-seats, and each Is propelled If there Is much litter around the yards by two natives. Spur tracks are run It Is advisable to nio the herd to into private grounds, so that persons other corals. Tar dlsi jtectants In 1 an take the cars to their doors. or 2 fsr cent solutions do not destroy the efts or nits, hence it is necessary to treat the animal again In ten days or two weeks. Stockmen sometime ask If the feeding of sulphur to lousy animals will not drive away or de- stroy the lice. The feeding of small doses of sulphur will do no harm, nor will It help In getting rid of the lice, and It cannot be considered a remedy for this class of disorders when used In this way. Sulphur Is effective, how- ever, when used externally, and the addition of four ounces to every gallon of tar disinfectant solution used great ly Increases the effectiveness of the remedy. Field nnd Farm. Foxtail and Pivvreed. Both these weeds are annuals; that Is. they grow from seeds each year or season and the plants die aft- ripen- ing seeds. Th way to keep them down is to prevent the plants from ripening seed and making sure that are no seeds In the grain sown upon the farm. Fox- tell Is troublesome, because it springs up ln cultivated fields after the crops are laid by, and then it conies up ln stubble and In meadows nnd pastures, Late cultivation of corn fields, and mowing the stubble, meadows and pas- tures to keen seeds from formlne Is the way to attack this weed. Judging from the way these weeds spring up, whenever conditions are favorable, there must be great stores of thera In cultivated fields showing the seeds are facture of telegraph poles of glass. The long-lived. Pigweed quickly springs up required strength Is secured by a re in corn or potato fields, after culti- iiforcemeut of strong wire threads, vation has ceased. These seeds ripen One of the principal advantages of from August 13 to November 1, so it these poles would be their use In tropl wlll take vigorous measures to get rid cal countries, where wooden poles are of them. In fact, the only way to get soon destroyed by the ravages of In rid of these weeds Is to cut them down sects and where climntlcal influences before seeds mature. If a crop of are ruinous to wood. The price of the them Is left to mature ln corn fields, poles Is $0 for a pole of the length of and then the seeds plowed under the about 23 feet. The Imperial Post De- comlng season, you have stored away enough seeds to bother you for the next ten years. Farm Management. Economy Is wealth. Extra and un necessary expense is a millstone around f the neck of many who otherwise would succeed, iscnarge me unproniame employe. Stop every leak of unneces- sary expense. Money saved Is money made. Money Invested ln improved machinery Is economy. Money Invested In the best seeds and appliances Is economy. Time wasted, labor wasted, is extravagance. A successful farmer says he does not have to Inspect a farm to see whether it pays or not. "Just give me a chance to look into the barn. The con dition things are kept In is all the go by I want." The barn is a telltale on the careless or wasteful farmer. In fact, economy in farming begins at the j barn In the proper handling of food, t caring for the manure, care of tools and harness and the care given to the live stock stabled there. There Is al ways a best way to do things, and tho best way is generally the paying one. Money ln Peanut Halnlng;. Texas farmers are getting 90 cents a bushel for peanuts, and with a yield of from fifty to sixty bushels to the acre are calling It "big money." The acreage in peanuts for another year will be large, as this price will i .. : iw.n . ,.4- in . . I U....K u.ie umu Ul. iruia p M ine tanners oi minimi! nave recog' nized the commercial value of the pea nut, and have this year Increased the area planted to 78,743 from 37,110 acres last year, and It Is reported that a much larger area will be planted to this tuber next season. Thus far most of the peanut planting is done ln the provinces of Magwe and Mylngyan. Barn Door Prop. I have a few large barn doors that are hung on hinges, and when I open them I have always had to get a stick OPEM CONVENIENT BABN DOOB PROP. or something to keep them open ; so I thought of this little thing. I took f 2x4 scantling and put a hinge on th end as shown In the cut. Then It If always with the door. Exchange. gawrfnut and Soli. ! Prof. W. S. Masey says sawdust from I resinous pine decays slowly In the soil, and will sour the land when decayed. Even hen used for bedding In stables the uaonure Is not worth half as much as tiat with ordinary bedding. Look about the remains of sawdust accumu- lated about abandoned mill sites that are cmmon In the piney woods, and you vill see that It takes a long tlms for ajy vegetation to start where saw dustM Ven scattered. ! The administration of the Prussian railroads has recently experimented with wireless telegraphic signals on the line between Berlin and Beelitz, empioylnB a traln of four cnrs carry, ,ng antonnje nn(i receivlng apparatus, the tranBmlttIng opparatus being In- 8talo(1 between Berlln an(1 Sangerhau- Ben TnJ transmlttlng wire was sn ded telegraphic poles for a dis- tance of 2(J0 feet nbout a foot bNieatn th. nr(nnrv t(wrnnh-wlreB. within a distance of about seven and a half miles, on each side of the transmitting station, the signals were clearly and distinctly received on the moving train. Birthmarks, which have always been aah a -rrwl n aa I r i iA I Kl a fi tA T1AUT alfl H ... on the autnolty ot two Paris physl- clans. to y'el(1 t0 tne nctlon of llum. Tne new method, says the Scientific American, has proved equally success, ful 1,1 tho 0a8(s of nJuUs and children, The mark9 ore effaml by the slmPle application of a plane covered with tarnish containing radium. The actiou 18 regulated by the length and fre- luency of tne applications. The appll- cations are said to be painless. The treatment may be applied to an Infant 'luring sleep. The doctors add that the birthmarks most easily cured are those which are most highly colored. A factory has been established at Grossalmerode, a small city In Ger many, near Frankfort, for the manu- partment, which has control of the tele graph and telephone lines In Germany, has ordered the use of these glass polra tn one of Its circuits. Dr. Marage recently presented before the Academy of Medicine at Paris the results of an Investigation of tha Bmount 0f work performed by oratort an(1 Binfjers. It appears from his ar, perimpnt8 tnat a bnsa vo,cp ln ortW to produce the same impression npw the ears of hearers ln a hall, requls the performance of Jrom 17 to 18 times more work than Is required for a bari tone or tenor voice. The bass vole Is always at a disadvantage with regard to the amount of work It demands. Thus Dr. Marage finds that whereas men are always more fatigued than women end children by an equal ef fort of the voice, men with bass voices suffer the most fatigue. Mixed IlejrKixru. Mrs. Annie Besnnt, the famous the osophlst, was being Interviewed by a reporter during the Theosophical So ciety's convention In Chicago. Mrs. Besant smiled broadly at one of the reporter's questions. "So far as theosopby goes," she sald "you are a very Igxorant young mav This Ignorance puts you at a dlsaA vantage, doesn't It? I fail to see how you can write a theosophical article of the slightest value." frowned at the confused youth. "What yoii write will be ridiculous," - h( ,,,.. rdnil0Ufl as the plight of the two beggars. These beggars knew no more of reading and writing than you know of thcosophy, and when they got their placards mixed they were not aware of It. The public was a good deal amused to see on the placard of the first beggar, a blind man, the words, 'Result of a Fall from a Fifth Story Window,' and on the placard of the second beggar, who had lost both legs 'A Jealous Woman's Ke venge.' " Tbe SIlTer Lining. "Your nephew, that's studyln' to be a factor ?" "Well, now, he ain't by any means as useless as you'd naturally think," philosophically said honest Fanner Hornbeak. "When he conies home on a mention I make him not only kill tihe chickenB, as occasion anises, but dress 'em, into the bargain ; and what little knowledge he lias already got of Bur gery enables him to do a more artistic Job than any of the reM of us can do, In eplte of all the practice we have had In an unscientific way. A college edu cation, Enoch, has Its bright side, even IX It does cost considerable." Puck. Caruao Happy. ( Caruso has been telling the people In Berlin of his great success In the Unlt- ed States, where, he savs nhm n- ilV mininnirp n.mi kuk to Bing two BonR9 he Kot cherk for ,3000 and Rot 6SOfK) frora a phnn(m graph flrm for fonr wnlch of ft percentage on the sale have alrefldy brought him $4,000 additional n one year- j '- . About the best luck that happens to any town Is that all of those who look I n antumn scent and wish, the 'could paint It, can't