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The (Chauffeur and the Jewels C.prri?ht. lortft, ty J. B. Lipfutcott Comfaicy. Al' rights rrstrved. CHAPTEU VII. It wns on t ho fifth day out that a fog driftii'j in from t ho Croat Hanks struck tip vi:!i the Majestic, bringing tho groat ship i!ovn to half spooil. For forty-eight hours she steamed slowly nh proa:, glutinous, lonely oeonn ad over a walled in by shrouds of mist, nor fog drearily and inoossantly. horn sounding It was not a tiopoiu! prospect, and yet "I believe the foe is changing Its oourso," predicted the l'rinco del Pino, late on the second day of darkness. "I would lay a wager that within twenty four hours wo sight your Sandy Hook." lie and Annette Hancroft were sitting amidships, about eight be'.ls of the after i! noon, in a cosy angle of the deck, well screened from the steady drip, drip, drip of the mist, which nevertheless lay heavy on everything, touching the blond hair of the girl with chill fingers and lining her steamer cap with little shining drops. "Your Highness doesn't speak with much enthusiasm," she now commented, in answer to her companion's speech. "From your tone," she hesitated slightly, "one wouldn't suppose that you were es pecially anxious to have your prophecy fulfilled." "Perhaps I am not," agreed the man beside her. He was sitting a little for ward in his chair, elbows on knees, gaz ing fixedly into the blankness. "Perhaps I am not in such a desperate hurry to roach New York." lie smiled, an intro spective, half smile. "Perhaps I enjoy this drifting existence we are leading, shut up in this fog-eounfry. Who knows?" Narrowing his eyes he stared in front of him. "What a mysterious thing it is. this brume 1 Nothng to be seen before us or behind. Somewhat the way it is in this life. Miss Hancroft, and yet" he lifted his eyebrows with a faint shrug of the shoulders "when a man loses his what you call bearings in the exceeding mistiness and swerves from the straight course, he is called hard names and cast into prison. It appears a trifle unjust, dons it not?" "Y-e-s," a creed Annette. She was also loaning forward, her hands clasped, watching him with a puzzled, wondering gaze. "Yes," she repeated slowly, "it does sound cruel, unjust, and yet" she hesi tated "so much depends doesn't it? on how far your mariner has strayed or on what your man has done. Of course, you're not referring to actual crime." Her voice dropped impressively. Putting up his monocle, Ludovie Sarto Scrutinized the little gray-coated figure eo near him. It was an unusual state of things that had thrown those two together; as a rule, during the past five days the Prince del Pino had fallen to Mrs. Warfcig's share. "Crime?'' he repeated; "criminal? peste ! What horrible words !" This with a twist of the thin lips, concealing a half smile. "What do you know, indeed, about crime, Miss Hancroft? Can a jeune demoiselle like yourself comprehend the swirling currents" his tones deepened end roughened "the irresistible impulses that may turn an honest man at any mo ment into a criminal a thief, for in stance?" Hchind his monocle his eyes glittered expressively. How inevitably, all against his will, his thoughts harked back to the one subject on his mind 1 Fortunately, Annette found nothing suspicious in the conversation's drift. "A thief!" she repeated. absently. "That reminds trio of Sarto. Ho you know" she spoke with a certain wist fulties "I've so often thought that that poor f.'llo-.v had srreat possibilities, with his iKi and and attractions jai -u'ated the man beside not ti'iish her sentence, out a clear, he lit it very speaking between wri;Ts. -Ah :" US she dii 1 'iilling iiberatelv. her. de "!t is atonishins to me that you should have found out ail that. Creatures of Sarto's class" his mouth curved cynically "are not. as a rule, supposed to possess any personality individuality even, to say nothing of attractions." For a moment Annette stared at him, wondering, as she had a hundred times during the past five days, what manner of man this extraordinary prince really was. "Ah! Your Highness doesn't really mean that," she said impulsively; "I'm sure you found out. during those two years he was with you. that Sarto wasn't cn ordinary chauffeur. Isn't it incredible to you that any one of his education, his refinement! si. have had thp instincts of a ibleV" "Ye. er. "t Vre... n i H- thief? Isn't it uuacount- I Ml pp-' ." agreed the if v"i hd the t,i:m arid and a little." oth ever his IIjoU- ' .1,, Ull Its : with th .TK-eah-d. Fo- ;),.- nt the I'rinee de! Pin.. ;:s ..: h: guard. i ia I" evhi:::.ed Annexe HnriTf ft. She Wit s i-,,!.::,g forward mi l looking at h.'m i:h a i . rT . t in -ag-rti-ss. "You are i like him!" she cried invol untarily, "so astoij;iiinsr!y like Lira at tim.-s !" Wi-h fin ers t:!t twitehed PVOT SO flight', tli.- i:.:i:i btiie her replaced his J e-giaSS. "Who?" he aki-d ijui'-tly, knowing full Veil born she meant. Atiti'-te was vividly crimson. "I oughtn't to have mentioned if." she apologized hesitatingly, biting her lip with i:::io aii'-e. "'I I. ere i a certain r-sem-l.lat.O'-vo'o' all Iioti'-ed it between Your Ilighn and that chauffeur just a iri-k of -.pr-s;n, I suppose. Of ci'! i .' you know it !" (lii! ji-s. I am quite aware of the J'kei.--." s.iid I.udovic S.irfo. "In fact, we ha " ben taken for each other niore than "!!.' He got np with a resorute shake of the rhoulders and f.tMd frowning ahead of tuiu; tltn. without looking tt her, I Edith Morgan Witlctt wonder if you have ever hoard anything ' of Sarto's parentage, Miss Hancroft?" he j asked, with some hesitation. "It might explain him more or loss." j Ami, before she could answer, lie went on, in an odd, constrained tone, leaving his English mechanically for the easier French. "His mother was a French girl of good family, his father a gondolier it was a Venetian romance, you see. She ran off, married him, and of course was never forgiven. Well, you can imagine the sequence the misery for her. I.udo vic w-as their only child his mother " He stopped short. Annette looked up quickly. "I see," she said, also in French. "That's where the education and refinement came in." "Yes, he had every advantage," said the man, looking over the rail; "she did what she could, and then she died poor woman! Curious, was it not?" he spoke a little huskily "that, in spite of her training, the vagabond streak in the fel low was so strong." Annette followed his thought. "Yes," she said slowly, "I think I understand. It was the son of the gondolier who stole those jewels." There was a moment's silence while they both stared ahead of them, and then the girl rose abruptly. "I think I'll go in now," she said ; "won't Your Highness pilot me back to the cabin door? I really can't see my hand before my face in this fog." Rut. looking down at the small figure beside him, Sarto saw, with an inexplica ble thrill, that it was not the fog alone that was blinding Annette's eyes. When he had helped her in, he found his way out again on deck and dropped into the nearest chair with a gesture of weariness. The telling of that story had been a necessity a momentary relief to his feelings, but the after effects were undoubtedly depressing. Viewed from his present standpoint, Ludovie Sarto's career made a pretty poor showing, and the man had merged him self so completely in his new role that he was able to view the chauffeur and his shortcomings with the detached, tempo rarily impersonal feeling that a contem plative snake might experience towards his discarded winter skin ! In his bor rowed identity Sarto was at his best, with all the attractive qualities, hidden in the chauffeur, turned brilliantly to the light, a far more agreeable personage, the mock Prince del Pino, than the saturnine, dys peptic invalid, who might be at that in stant dying in a Liverpool hospital. Per haps he was already dead ! A sudden light leaped into the chauf feur's eyes and then went out. What possible difference could it make to him whether Roderigo del Pino lived or died? Whatever happened, when the Majestic touched its pier Ludovic Sarto must return to his own again, with the events of the last five days only an epi sode. His mind went back slowly, reviewing that sea life with an odd mixture of en joyment, pride, bitterness and jealousy. Y'es, jealousy! At times the chauffeur, who had always had the world to fight, the odds against him, was conscious of an acute, unreasoning jealousy of his own present triumphs. They were so easily won, so palpably unjust ! All doors were open to him naturally now. Everything possible, his opinions received with defer ence, his wit with appreciation, his at tentions Here he smiled a tight, eurrously co vert smile. Mrs. Waring had been very charming to the Prince del Pino, hpr most brilliant, seductive self. SMI! with the same tense Mnile the man. whom she had once humil iated to the dust, reviewed a dozen most agreeable tete-a-tetes, word for word, his eyps gleaming somberly in the dark, his lean cheek burnt to a dull red. Ah ! Hut there were moments indeed when the chauffeur enjoyed the prince's triumphs. Through thp dimness of the fog lumin ous spots gleamed now, intensifying the gloom. The steamer was lighting up. From far away came the first brazen notes of the band. Listening absently, Sarto lost sight for the moment of Gussie's metoric charms. In the dark expanse of his mind a faint licht now became visible, a small, fixed star. Yes, Annette Hancroft had not chang ed. With a strange warmth at his heart that was more than gratitude, he saw her again, standing at the cabin door, her lips trembling, her eyes misty with pity for the chauffeur who had played so false; and to his sensitive, envious nature, the ! tears she had shed for I.udovic Sarto out- j weeu a h.ir,.P-i-i o n i,i Hie siWi,s lav- ished on the Pnu-e n,. I'mo. i , , ,, , . ., After all, fin- go clamors insistentlv in every one of us. In spite f his lapses, j tir.s man had an unquenchable loyaity to- wards Li mse if the snake a fondness for its own s,;:n. For some minutes the t'nie slipped by. punctuated by nn occasional ringing of bells, and lost to the present, the chauf feur sat steer, ed jn memories introspec tive. whil the fog drew its curtain shel teringly about him and the even plashing of the screw chimed in with his mood. The sound of voices aroused him from his brown study. It had grown very dark, the fog hiding the el.Hjtric bulbs a few feet off. And at first, his "uses smothered by the noise of the waves, Sarto was only dimly aware that a man and a woman were talking not six feet away from him. their tones coming through the wall of fog that ren dered them uncannily invisible. The next instant be leaned forward in sudl'-n eagerness, his breath half-caught, for he had discovered who they were, those two, almost at his elbow, leaning over the rail. "No, I'm not going in yet," a familiar voice clipped the darkness; "let's stand here and bxdc out a moment. This fog fascinates me. It's like being up in the clouds, or under Niagara Falls, or In one's own cool little grave, Isn't it'," Her companion grunted. "Is it?" he asked, in matter-of-fact tones; "I'm sure 1 don't know. Seems to me beastly wet ; thats about all. Look here, Gussie, I want to ask you something." "Io you?" Gussie's voice was not pro cisely encouraging. "Well, what do you want to know? what's the matter?" Huist cleared his throat portentously There was an instant's sil only by the subdued tram surf, and an almost inaudible t-.s some one not eight foot away leaned back against the cabin wall, with ears alert, as he composed himself shamelessly to listen. "It would be a great relief" the Eng lishman spoke at last with a certain pon derous formality "I should be very much obliged if you would kindly let me know just where you and I staud at this present moment?" "Certainly. At this present moment" 'Gussie was most obligingly prompt "let me see ou the deck of the Majestic. I should say, facing due norm 1 don know exactly what the latitude and longi- tude are, but I can easily find out if you want to know." A loud, exasperated sigh came out of the fog. "Would von mind being serious for one. moment?" 'inquired a resolutely patient voice. "This is the first five minutes I have had alone with you in as many days. Perhaps you can spare me an in- from Del Pino's society." He paused, waiting for her to contra diet him, for some time; however, there was silence, emphasized by the impatient tapping of a small boot. "I knew it," came pettishly at length. "Now you're going to be a horrid, cross man and spoil the whole evening. Y'ou're in one of your impossible moods.' Oh. dear, and I thought we were going to have such a nice time together out here in this fog by ourselves." There was a wonderfully natural catch in the voice, calculated to soothe the aver age masculine wrath, but Gerald's was bevond such sedatives. "Yes, you can always be nice enough when you want to," he growled ; "but there are limits to a man's endurance, don't you know? I've stood this sort of treatment long enough. Gar ! you must think I. am a duffer not to see through your game all this time. How long has It been going on?" He gave an express ive snort. "First of all, there was that rotten sport on the Riviera. I was play ed against him pretty successfully for two weeks not quite as blind as a bat, let me tell you ! Then that donkey of a Swede down at Monte Carlo I thought he was the limit, but you didn't stop there " His tone sombered. "I've stood a lo", Gussie; but when you started to make a fool of your own chauffeur ! Pah ! The fellow's head was completely turned be fore you were through with him. Well," he gave a cumbrous sigh, "I thought there'd be a little peace when he was shipped, but no ! You must needs take up with this precious prince !" "V11!" Gussie's voice slid Imperturb nbly from the darkness. "What about him, I'd like to know? I own I've had rather hopeless material to manage from time to time" her tones were suspicious ly dry "but surely you can't object to the prince ; he's been a most agreeable addition to our party." "Has he? Yes, I thought so! That settles it." Gerald seemed to be talking to him self. ' "Just a minute, Gnssle," he asked, with ominous quietness. "IVyou remember what you said to me just before we left Havre, five days ago?" "Five days ago is it only five days ago?" Mrs. Waring wondered irrelevant ly. "It seems a great deal longer." "D'you remember what you promisee; that day?" Iiuist's tone was a trifie louder. "Promised !' Gussie repeated the word blankly. "My dear boy, did I really prom- ise anything? Surely you wouldn't con- sider a few vague witrds binding. I'm sure I don't remember what I said." "Pity I didn't take it down in black and white. One would think a person's word amounted to something. Good lieav ens " And Huist stopped short, politeness and chivalry towards the weaker vessel forbid ding the utterance of his sentiments at that moment. (To be continued.) pling of the , OltMolcte ( urea. t.'ncle Sam's Slim Land Itenerve. It was formerly believed that epl- The time when a man might move lepsy could be cured by wearing a westward and take up virgin soil at his silver ring made from a coffin nail, pleasure has passed, and, ln general. Seven drojw of blood from the tall of it may be said that the son of the a cat and blood from a recently exe- farmer of to-day must look for bis sole cuted criminal were said to lie valuable heritage ln the land his father holds, remedies for epilepsy. To cure a It Is now a barren boast that "Uncle felon or run-nround, hold the finger in Sam has a farm for every one of us." a cat's ear for half nn hour. For tooth- In V.H we had less than OO.OOO.twiO ache, trim your linger nails on Friday ot unoccupied habitable land, or eat bread that a mouse has nibbled. What a slim reserve that Is may bo or carry in vour junket a tooth from realized from the fact that one-fourth a soldier killed in battle. For ramila ! ,,f !t was disposed of in the following of the tongue, spit on a frog. For al- .vwir- Wt ""' 'd to our ngri eoholism. drown tin eel in bra.alv and ,,",,,irnI i,r(as l's,H'I,t l "lgntlnn and (lnmk.,r,, .iritik the hrandv. . . " I" euro warts, rub tho wart with a t'to and feed tl.o potato to a pig. ! j i m S-'Iiik His I nee. Patience As I came by Mrs. lied door I ovcrbenrd her say to her hus band. "Oh. darling, I'm so glad to see voir face again!" Has be been away long: Patrice No; they both have been out in their automobile, and I suppose he bad Just taken off his unto mask! Yonkers Statesman. 'I lie Tent, "There's none o blind ns those tvIio won't see," mused the gentle philoso pher. "II m." replied his friend, "and there's none so doubting .us those who won't believe," smearing his fingers through the fresh paint to make sure that the sign told the truth. Detroit Free Press. Precisely Spenklntr. "I understand he has entered ihe state of matrimony." "Why. yes. He Is traveling In Utah.' The Bohemian. once, broken flora -Ma JlY3 tfeWrvm i Btfarcffl:. movement VHV3 '"3S WS v-Sr. 'I'S ! jaw' - l Wire lnce Tightener, t Every fanner knows how hard It Is to keep wlre fen((es ln g00ll condition ; thnn np np twn nt n tlm Cuttle are bound to rub up ngalnst j them, ioople will sag the wires in get- tine; over the fence, and even the t weight of snow hits been known to j break them. A wire fence looks nil ! right as long as the wires nre taut, j but as soon ns the strands begin to WIRE-FEXCE TIGHTENER. ag and loop It Is no longer attractive, nor is It a sure menus of keeping stock within bounds. Many devices have been suggested and even patented for stretching wire, but here Is a simple little contrivance that anyone can make in a few minutes that will do the work quickly and well. For short spans It can be made of wood, although for heavy wires or for long stretches it would be better to make it out of Iron. This little contrivance Is about two feet long, with two pins alxnit three inches apart at oiw end. Place the wire between these pins and turn the stretcher around until the wire Is drawn tight. By engaging the pin at the other end of the stretcher the tension can be maintained whle the wire Is being nailed fast. With an arrangement of this sort one man can do rapid work alone and fix up a 'agglug fence In short order. To Make a Good Cistern. An absolutely water-tight cistern may be made as follows : In digging, the sides should be made smooth and true perpendicularly. For the bottom use five parts of clean, coarse, sharp sand (plasterers call It fine gravel) to one part of cement. It nly requires to be damp enough to work well. It should be thoroughly mixed, all at one time, and be lowered Into the cistern quickly and spread more rapidly with a shovel or hoe, and should be beat down hard and smooth. Upon this bottom foundation the cistern should be walled up with brick or stone In cement to at least 0 Inches above the top of the ground, which will keep all surface water out. For finish ing the bottom use one part cement to 'one part sand; this is thoroughly mix- ! ed while dry, and then water should be 1 added until it is like plastering mortar. Dump It on the bottom about 3 inches thick and smooth with a trowel, It will h ion be bard ns stone. For the sides of the cistern, which should bo done before finisliinp; the bottom, uso equal parts of sand and cement and apply '!"'okly !1S """ would plaster a wall. It Is not safe to use anything but the best Portland cement, which "osts about S3 a barrel. drainage, but we may, by intelligent selection of crops, by scientific, cultiva- tbm and by careful treatment of hind, make it produce three or four times as much ns it does at present. And this is the direction In which our de- i veloplnent simuiil proceed, ior we iiiumi find room within the next 3 years for a doubled imputation according to our undiscernlng ideas. Tho American farmer of the future must be a man of Sroad mind arid technical knowledge. I'ut H il mil ii In the Soli. If your soil needs humus, plow under all the coarse manure you can get this fall. Every farmer realizes the neces sity of having more manure, and one way to secure It Is by providing an abundant supply of absorbing material. Even If there apjiears to Is; a large pro portion of this material in the manure, making It strawy and coarse. It can be plowed under and will answer an ex cellent purimse. Every effort should 1 made to secure nil the manure that Is made on the farm, so that nothing shall be lost This manure, properly ap plied on the meadows, should be worth $1 per twovhorse load In the extra amount of hay that will thus be secur ed from Us use. JP1 w Clover and Timothy The Missouri station has conducted very careful experiments in steer feed ing, using different kinds of roughage. These exiierltnents show that, as an average result, a bushel of corn with timothy hay produced 4.03 pounds of grain, while the same amount of corn with clover hay produced (5.58 pounds. Hating the gain at the low price of live cents per pound, the feeder gets some thing more than eight cents per bushel for his corn when he feeds it with clover than when he feeds it with timothy. Put the hay away having In mind to feed the clover to the steers and to all growing and all milch ani mals, and to sell the timothy. Good- real good clover hay Is as good for work horses as timothy. If you don't believe it, try it out. Hut the clover must be cut early enough when tbe heads have Just become real red and handled without much rain or dew, and not be overcured that means the use of the best haying machinery. In cidentally, the use of the best haying machinery means hay at less cost for the making. Weekly Witness. To Advance A if rlcult lire. With the $15,000,000 the United States Department of Agruculture has available for this year's use conslder- ible progress should be made In agri cultural advancement While all lines of work are to be carried out as usual, most attention will be given the for estry service. Forestry Is one of the more Iniiwtunt problems now before the American people and It Is but proper that It should receive first at tention. The Department of Agri culture Is doing a good work. There are those who belittle Its efforts and claim the money given initially for Its support is wasted, but much of the standing agriculture enjoys to-day Is due to this division of the government. Let the good work go on. Exchange. Dear Mentn In Enicland. The London Meat Trades Journal In an editorial says the retail prices of meats have made a substantial advance In that country. It Is pointed out that the supply of nntlve-bred stock has for some time past been short ln numbers and deficient in weight and quality, und In the United States and Canada the supplies of live cattle, sheep and refrigerated beef were on a steady diminishing scale. Under such circum stances, says this authority, It is but natural to expect that prices all around should advance materially, but more particularly for the choicer grades. From these rejxirts It seems that the United States Is not alone In the mat ter of high-priced meats. Argentina Anlmnl Slatlntlcn. Consul General Alban G. Snyder sends from Huenos Ayres a tabulated list from a n-jKirt Just Issued by the minister of agriculture showing the ..limners oi ine stocK in Argentina. They total 114,8-12,140. divided as fol-'; stut. been without a living ex-P.vsi- lows: Cattle. 2.-..S14.NIO; sheep, 77.-1 1(Mir. -go Washington died in 17o:, 581,100; horses. 5.4t 12. 1 7 ; mules and .,. j,,,,,, A(lmilf,, tho Sl.,.ml Presi donkeys, 515.S70; goats, 2,5t;ii,S0O; pigs, 1(1)ti wns ln m,0. Alllll,,w .T,1Msmli -8"11',UO' at the time the only surviving ex-Chief 'I'ho tii'iiviiinn fif P.notiou Avfoa r . ' " tains one-half of the live stock of tin 7.oo i.ooo cattle and Kntre Hios province .innr.iieo MM'l'j l. 'vis ;i.i:ot;..';n) animals. 'orrientes 7.1)11, :oo, and Cordoba and Santa Fe each nearly T.ooo.noo. I. i nen For Tlireo Horse. In using three horses try this way of arranging the lines: Take a pair of r,l,1 ctn.rlo tin rtu.cu Hiuiu ttwl mnl-n t,t.. ! cross lines a little longer than the reg- TlinPE-nORSE LINKS. ular ones. Fasten them to the inside bit rings of the outside horses. Let j tins run oxer uie nacK oi tne uin i horse and buckle into the regular j buckle. It works fine and gives one full control of bis team. Hun to Cool Milk. republic. Having i.ooo.ixmi cattle and...,:....., lif.. Practical experiments seem to prove j lor ttie purpose u advising the station that many, If not all, of the benefits of , signalman when a train has passed bis aerating milk were due more to cooling down or up advanced starting signal, a than to any other cause. Cooling to the j rail contact is placed about .".(mi yards same degree will accomplish substan- j ihead of the respect ive advanced start tlally the same results, but without an lug signals, and on the engine reaching aerator It may be diflhailt to reduce the the rail contact a bell is rung In the temperature as rapidly, hence the nera- tor may be considered an advantage un less a patent cooler Is used I'raenieal Poultry Work. To stop bens from eating eggs put a little vinegar or something sour In their food. I op a piece of alum In the drinking water every two or three weeks; it will prevent throat and lung disease. For all cuts, wounds and ulcers use llsterlne. Nothing Is better for a comb Injured In fighting or for any raw sur face. If you have not already done so, cull out all surplus stock. Do not waste feed on birds that are of no value ta you. ! SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY Tho llaymarket riot In Chicago oc urred on .May 4, ISNii. Helen Hunt Jackson Is burled ir. (evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs. It is expected that the Australian old ige pensions project will cost 1,800,000 early. Twenty-live high school principals in Kansas are women. They are said to do heir work so well that no one has ever suggested putting nieu ln their places. Tbere is never a part of the year Alien Pike's Peak Is entirely without mow. In the hottest July and August .veather snow Is to be found even at n onsiderable distance from the top of :ho mountain. Twenty-live men Interested ln the lavlgation of the air, have formed the ero Club of California at Los Ange es. The purpose of the club Is to ob- :aln suitable grounds for experimental iscents and maintain repair and con struction shops. A resilience of at least live years Is required to qualify an alien for nut ut ilization. No matter how long a man may have been In the United States, two years must elapse between the date tt his declaration of intention and his idniittance to full citizenship. To meet the deiiclt in the budget the French Minister of Finance suggests the doubling of the licensing fees of enders of absinthe. This taxing of the "green peril" will. It is thought, be popular ; the minister anticipates that It will bring him In $L,ooo,0(o. Adeline Gonoe Is a Danish girl, who made her debut as a dancer tit Copen hagen when she was 17 years of age. She then went to P.erlin to dance at the Grand Opera House, and after ward to Munich. She Is considered to be one of the most graceful and accom plished dancers in the world. In the manufacture of alcohol from peat, a Danish company, with one ex perimental plant in Denmark and one In France, has found the cost to be about one-fourth of that made from po tatoes. In the process of manufacture, the cellulose or fiber of the ixuit is con verted by sulphuric acid Into a soluble carbohydrate and this is fermented by a special yeast. ' In ltio" Philadelphia's export and Import trade Increased ?25,0K),(KiO In value over the figures for the previous year. The total value of the city' ex ternal trade for that year was over ?150,HX),000. These figures account ln part for the opening of the new steam ship service between Genoa, Italy and the City of Hrorherly Love. The Ital ians want some of the business. India's government has recently au thorized the employment of women telegraph operators. The candidates must be between 18 and 30 years of age, and they must be unmarried or widows. They must undergo a training f twelve months in the telegraph train ing classes, (luting which time they will receive a month, the same til low- men that is drawn by male learners. In connection with the death of Grover Cleveland, It is interesting to note that only twice before in the bls- trv of the nation has the Unlt-vl ; I'.xecutlve, passed away in S,.i. two veurs before General Grant retired to The Dutch government has granted a oncessii n to the Amsterdam find North Holland Electric Tramway Company to build and operate .an electric railway system in Holland. The route u-i!l be nearly fifty kiloms, running from Am sterdam north through ..aaiidam to Kroinemltde, from Zaandyk to Wvk- nan-Zee, and Worniorvoor to Purmer pnd. The Holland Development Com pany of Amsterdam will build the en tire system. The "Arabian Nights" Is an extensivo rolIiM-tion of tales forming part of the Arabic literature, and the exact title )f which Is "The Hook of .the Thousand and One Nights." They were first made known to Europe by Antoine Galland, lietwecn 170-1 and 1717. He was a French Orientalist, who succeeded, lfler much effort. In obtaining a manu script, which he supplemented by gath ering tales from professional story-tellers, whom he met during his travels In , j, East. As an instance of the Great Eastern Hallway's elaborate pte.-aut ions for the safety of travelers on its system, the Uailw.iy News says that at I'.roxbourne, signal box, and this bell continues ring- ing until the signal Is replaced to dan ger. According to a report In the Neuo Freie Presse, Vienna. J. Pierpont Mor gan was n busy sightseer in that city n his recent visit. With Mrs. Douglas snd her daughter he visited all the great nrt collections "and on Sunday railed at Kreutzenstein castle, where he was received by the Countess Kin sky. He was deeply Interested in w hat he saw ln the restored castle and lis tened with devotion when his hostess played on the ebaiK-1 organ." The re Hirt also speaks. of Mr. Morgan's visit to the La Inzer Zoo, where he showed the greatest Interest In the boars, "a ho bad never before seen one.