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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1909)
The Lady from the Sea CYRUS TOWNSEM) ERADT- Ak l " BWk. Am O w4 Lm'i AUU.- 'tm A SVl," Caprrtffht. IMS, by I. B. Li?meen Compact. I HE LADY woo owns a privateer, ana tne scene is laid during the War of the Rebellion. Ellen is a typical southern girl proud, . self-reliant and daring. Thomas Beekman Smith is a naval officer of the Government, and captures a blockade runner. They learn through a letter found aboard the ship, the location of the privateer, and also capture that craft, with Ellen aboard. Some very entertaining and interesting chapters are devoted to life on the ocean and love-making later. Ellen appears to have betrayed Smith to the Confederates, and he barely escapes death as a spy. Later still, her father is made a prisoner on board a ship of the enemy. The hot-headed southerner disowns his daughter, when she acknowledges her love for Smith, is set at liberty and the discarded Ellen becomes the wife of the man she loves. This story is intense in its war flavor and original in its treatment of plot and incident. The naval adventures are thrilling and well depicted, and the serial will be recog nized as a very superior war story. CHAPTER I. Romano, in book a, ia associated al ways with the beautiful, generally with Dhe best We go backward into the past for a theme, since " 'tie dinaues It nda enchantment to the view." We fancy that the heart beata more warmly certainly more gracefully beneath satin and lace than beneath calico and fustian ; that the lore that quotes poetry is purer and more admirable than that which through hard necessity expresses itself ungrammatical ly: that diamond-buckled shoes, capering nimbly upon a carpet to the "pleasing of a lute," carry a man whose ideals must inevitably transcend those of his lowly brother who is upborne by the sabot or the brogan. It is a dictum that there is no romance among the common people. The hero and the heroine, in the novel, must be disso ciated from real life by unusual qualities and characteristics, else no one will care for their story so, at least, it is imag ined. Yet as the saddest tragedies are those of the commonplace, so the finest romances are those of the common people. To pick up at random any of the cur rent stories of the day ia to find one evi dence of a concession to the supposed popular yearning for the beautiful and the unusual in the descriptions and, eke, the names of the puppets who give title to the story and strut through their brief hours upon the written stage. With rare exceptions the heroines are beautiful In person, cultivated in mind, ancient in family Lady Clara Vere de Veres, in short ; while the hero ia no longer beau tiful, but be is strong, tall, brave, noble, generous; and if dissipated, will ultimate ly reform. The names, as I have suggest ed almve, of these godlike persons corre spond, so far as names may and they may to a great degree, notwithstanding Shakspeare to these attributes. They fall trippingly from the tongue and linger musically in the memory. Invention which might better be devoted to the story is wasted on a name that, like Wordsworth's famous light, "never was on sea or land." 1 have invented several myself, therefore ' know! The heroine of the ensuing story la named Jones, the hero. Smith. These names have been selected deliberately. That sets this romance at once apart from all other stories that have ever been writ ten. That it may live up to its nniquity is the prayer of the writer. There must of necessity be thousands of romances in tiie Smith and Jones families, there are so many of them and they are not dying, but. on the contrary, are increasing at a rapid rate ! Cannot a Smith love aa well aa a Montmorenci? Ia not the blood of a Jones filled with the same passionate icbor as Chat of a Howard? Miss Jones her first and only other name was Ellen was a young woman of no particular ancestry which need be dwelt upon. While it must be frankly ad mitted that she was not strikingly beauti ful, it may be affirmed with equal troth that neither was she painfully homely. She was Just a tall, well-formed, healthy American girl, such as yon meet with in plenty in any community in the land. Her hair was brown, her eyes were blue, ber cheeks were red, and her teeth were white these are the usual colors, I believe. Her temper was quick, her disposition cheerful, her soul honest nor are these qualities at all uncommon. She had been reasonably well educated for the period in which she lived, and in addition to what she had learned at the "Female Academy" she could sing a song, make a drese or cook a dinner happily, ability of thia sort is not rare. There was noth ing extraordinary about her from any point of view. Thousands of women like that Smiths, Joneses, Browns, etc are being loved, wooed and married every day; and the future of the country de pends upon the steady continuance of a supply adequate to meet the demand. As for Smith, the hero of thia vera cious tale, his first name was Thomas, intimately abbreviated to Tom. IX ha An rirhta FROM THE SRA U th. graphically appropriate title of this most fascinating and interesting serial The story is from the pen of Cyrus Townsend Brady, author of a number of works of fiction that have received attention in the best literary circles. Ellen Smith, the heroine of the story, is the daughter of a Confederate officer could have won Ellen Jones for his wife, he would have been supremely happy aa well as very fortunate. If Miss Jones had no family to apeak of, Mr. Smith had ab solutely none at all. He had been raised I use the word advisedly, it was more like raising then rearing in an eleemosy nary institution to wit, a public orphan asylum. The superintendent of "the in stitution, not being gifted with imagina tion, had named him Smith. He had a regular list of names for the foundlings which be bestowed upon his charges in unvarying succession, and Smith fell to the lot of this unfortunate. One of the women attendants had further called him "Tommy" after her sweetheart To iden tify the little waif from the New York streets snd to differentiate him from other "Tom" Smiths, of whom there were not a few, the authorities had inserted a mid dle name. He had been picked up in Beekman street, and in the records his full name, therefore, ran this way, Thomas rseexman smith. He waa an unusually bright boy and aa Homely aa they make them freckled, red headed, and, for all his name, evidently of Irish parentage. He was a jolly, cheerful, willing, bard-working little rat, however, who dearly loved a joke, yet who was aa ambitioua as a ward politician. The superintendent of the orphan asylum hap pened to have a brother who was a cap tain in the United States navy, one of the old-time, "1812, sailing-frigate captains The superintendent s interest had been excited by young Smith. He had com municated some of thia interest to his brother, and in short, at the age of eleven the boy went to sea as a captain's servant. By and by old Commodore Bainboro, observing there was good stuff in the lad, had him warranted a "reefer." Smith went through the usual course of the young aspirant In those days. He served creditably as a midshipman in the Mexi can war, and thereafter, being still young enough, sought and received permission to go through the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in the class of '52. Behold him in the fall of 1861 a full fledged lieutenant in the United States navy, still freckled-faced, still red-headed, still homely, still fond of a jest, still happy, and still ambitious also in love. He was one of those rare mortals who can be happy, ambitious and in love at one and the same time. The war between the .States had Just begun. Opportunities for distinction would be many. That some of them should fall to his lot and be embraced according ly was the determination of Smith. He owed" everything to the United States, and was resolute to discharge some of the obligations. Things did not look very promising at first, however. Being with' out influence for old Commodore Bain boro was long sine dead the best as signment he could get for duty at the outbreak of the war waa the old-fashioned sailing frigate St. Lawrence. Smith had promptly applied for an appointment to one of the new steam sloops-of-war, but his application had been passed over and he had been relegated to his uaelesa relic of the past. The commander of the St. Lawrence was Commodore Hiram Paulding, who had been a midshipman in the War of 1812 and commended for his gallant con duct while executive officer of the Ticon- deroga at the battle of Lake Champlain, The veteran also chafed at his relegation to the St. Lawrence, but there was no present help for it. In modern times he would have been retired long since, so he might perhaps consider himself lucky at being given any command at all. As I have said, the war had just begun Blockade-running was hi Its infancy. Pri vateering in behalf of the Confederates was, however, beginning vigorously. Had it not been nipped in the bud by the prompt efforts of the Federal cruisers It might have done enough damage to have rendered unnecessary the appearance of the VKm. uter on. Tbe United States had proclaimed a blockade of the son then coast, but aa yet it waa laxly maintained, owing to paucity of force, and the Con fderate privateers came and went pretty much as they pleased. The St. Lawrence, attached to the North Atlantic blockading squadron, had been out two months and had not made a single capture. Officers and men were disgusted. Why they should have expect ed to capture anything in a sailing vessel when the Confederates usually employed the swiftest steamers for privateers and blockade-runners is a question. One af- moon in lat July the St. Lawrence under easy sail was swinging along to the southward of Cape Hatteras. A week before she had been spoken by a dispatch boat, which had transmitted a general order from the flag officer commanding the sqnadi.m to the effect that a certain Con federate privateer called the Petrel was fitting out in Pamlico sound for a dash to ' i, and that all the chips of the squad ron were cautioned to look out for her. i "Nice notice to send us." remarked ! Smith, who was the executive officer of the frigate, to the second lieutenant of the ship. "We couldn't catch her with this old hooker if she were anchored. Oh, why don't they lay up this tub aa a" guarco or store ship somewhere and give us a chance in a steamer? something that has heels as well aa guns?" Thia was a poser for the second lieu tenant He did not attempt to answer it but left Smith, who waa enjoying a leis ure hour, standing on the lee side of the quarter deck staring over the rail at the empty sea and vacant sky to starboard. fcmpty sea and vacant sky? WelL not quite. When there was nothing else to j command his attention Smith could al ways see Ellen Jones in the ambient on ! the horizon. He was looking straight west Beneath the sky line some fifty miles away rose flie low sands of the chain of islands that separated Pamlico and Abemarle sounds from the ocean. On one of the broad estuaries of Pamlico sound sto-vd the home of old Major Jones, tllena father. For aught Smith knew the object of hia dreams was there. At any rate, he did not know that she was anywhere else, and he embodied her there without hesitation. Major Jones was of somewhat humble English birth. Aa a child he had come to the United Statea with his elder broth er, a man of much shrewdness and mer cantile ability. The elder Jones, who had settled in North Carolina, had amass ed a considerable fortune. With an Eng lishman s love for position, he had suc ceeded in getting a commission in the army for Ellen's father. While Smith had been stationed at the Brooklyn Navv Yard and Ellen's father at Governor's Island, the young people had met Smith had loved madly, Ellen had been deeply I interested, tier father had been abso lutely opposed to Smith's wooing. He had sent him about his business ; his brother's influence had been exerted, and the young man bad been ordered away on a three yeara' cruise in Asiatic waters, whence he had just returned at the outbreak of the war. The year before that Major Jones' brother had died, leaving him all his prop erty in North Carolina. The Major had resigned his command and gone down to live on his brother's plantation, taking with him his daughter, his only child. Ellen, save for her inclination towards SraitJh, was still heart-whole and fancy free. It is falsely urged that the absent are always wrong. . Someone has said that a proverb is a lie or a platitude. In this case the wise saw quoted above waa both. If she bad been allowed free and unre stricted intercourse with the homely Mr. Thomas Beekman Smith. Ellen Jones might have found it Impossible to have made him the object of her romance which is going contrary to all the theories stated in the introduction ! However that may be, severed from him by the stern edict of a practical parent the Interest engendered by the ardent wooing to which she bad been subjected ripened into a deeper feeling. She grew to love the ab sent sailor almost as the absent sailor loved ber. For hia sake she had refused many offers of marriage which she had rceived both from the army and from the surrounding people of her North Carolina home. It is not only the superlative wom en who have men at their feet, be it re membered. The social position of the Jones family in proud, aristocratic tide water North Carolina was only fair. Yet Major Jones had money, his daughter waa distinctly likable, and of young visitors the plantation bad not a few. Smith bad come back from hia Aaiatic cruise with a determination, fruit of three years of absence and repression, to seek Ellen and take her, willy nilly, for his own. The war bad interrupted all that. When he might see her now was a ques tion. (To be continued.) Horse's Sens of Dan-er. That a horse has the instincts . of impending danger was demonstrated the other afternoon when an animal be longing to M. D. Swisher, county road overseer, refused to act on the bit, ran up the mountainside and saved its rider from death in a cloudburst, says the Cripple Creek correspondent of the Denver News. Swisher was riding along Box can yon, a narrow gulch, when the horse turned from the road, and paying no attention to the rider ran up the moun tain side and stopped on a ledge twenty feet above. Swisher was mystified un- til he saw water about eight feet deep rushing down ' the canyon tearing up bushes and. upending everything mo? able. The water was from a cloudburst about half a mile farther tip the gulch and the horse bad heard the noise of the rushing water before the rider. Half a mile of the Box canyon road leading to Florissant was washed out and bridges carried away. Swisher re mained on the mountain side for an hour before be considered It safe to re enter the canyon. CoKpanloaahla Barred. "TUstus," said tbe man who gives advice, "If you want to prosper in this world you must go to bed with the chickens.'' "Yasslr," answered Mr. Plnkley. Ts wlllln' to go to bed wlf 'em. But de folks dat owns chickens tin' sufficient- 1 trustfuL" Washington. 8 tax. DENAIlirED ALCOHOL. Oregon Agrlcul ural College Gives li formaticn n This Subject. Br C B. Bndki. ( ram Arricuttural CoUegv f orvailia. On June 7, 1936, congress passed a law removing tbe internal revenue tax of $2.07 per g Ion on grain alcohol which had been properly denatured or rendered unfit tor drinking purposes by the addition of certain materials, such as wood alcohol, benzine or py ridine. It was hoped that by the re moval of this tax alcohol could be ob tained . cheaply enough to compete with petroleum for light and fueL The emand for such alcohol can be read ily seen when we note that approxi mately 3,000,000 gallons of gasoline are consumed daily in the country and that the increased demand for it, due to the development of the modern ex plosion motor, has doubled its price in the last ten years. Indiana and Ohio oils contain only about 5 per cent of gasoline and the per cent ol the lighter distillate in California and Texas crude oil is very low. The supply of gasoline therefore seems to be limited, but the demand increasing. Alcohol, it has been demonstrated, can meet this demand. Furthermore, the annual consumption of kerosene in the United States approximates 1. 000,000,000 gallons, three-fourths o' which are probably used by the far mers. Since one gallon of alcohol i equivalent to two gallons of kerosene for lighting purposes, 373,000,000 gal lons of alcohol could be used on the farms of this country each year. This would require for its production 140, 000,000 bushels of corn, or 5,000,000 acres, an increase of S per cent over that now grown. If made from pota toes, this 375,000,000 gallons of alcohol would require 450,000,000 bushels, or 5,000,000 acres, an increase of 60 per cent over that now produced. The present consumption of alcohol amounts to but 16,000,-000 gallons per year. Ethyl or grain alcohol is a natural product, formed by the fermentation of various kinds of sugar through the agency of yeast organisms. Since starch is readily convertible into su gar by either natural or artificial means, materials which contain nota ble quantities of either starch or su gar may be utilized for making alco hol. The more important sources of alcohol are the cereals, potatoes, mo lasses and fruits. In France alcohol is chiefly made from the sugar beet, in Germany from the potato, and in America from corn. A bushel of corn will yield approximately 21 gallons ol 95 per -cent alcohol; a bushel of pota toes three-fourths of a gallon and a bushel of apples one-third of a gallon In the large -distilleries it costs about 17 cents tf manufacture anr place on the marktt one gallon of al cohol. a.-l the cost of the raw material used brings this o'dinarily to approx imately 30 cents. Allowing for thr necessary profit, aRohol will reach the consumer at about 40 cents per gallon. but alcohol at 40 cents can compete with kerosene at f rents for lighting purposes, since alcohol has twice the illuminating value of kerosene, and in competition kerosene can never de mand more than one-half the market price of alcohol. For making cheap alcohol a cheap concentrated raw product and a well equipped plant are necessary. The plant should have a capacity of at least 100 gallons per day, the ccst of such a plant being in the neighbor hood of $10,000. No such plant can operate successfully on waste pro ducts alone, especially if such are to be obtained for only a brief part ol the year, as, (or example, waste fruits. There must be some more stapl: pro duct as a basis, with the waste ma terials handled as a side issue. For a staple in the Northwest we mutt look to potatoes or sugar beets, and dam aged grain when it can be secured, on which materials, together with farioui waste products, a plant could be op erated throughout the year. Because of the persistent ir.quiries relative to the merits and d:m:rits oi the wheat known locally as "Alaska,' the Idaho experiment stition has given the wheat a milling t':st and subjected the flour so obtained ttf chemical examination and baking tests. The results of these tests, to gether with such other information concerning the wheat as could be gathered from reliable sources, have just been published in bulletin form. The wheat is apparently of the same variety that is known in southern Eu rope as Poulard, or Egyptian. It i used there for making macaroni and other pastes, and the flour made from it is said to he in demand by certain French markets. Under field conditions the wheat has not made any phenomenal yields, averaging this year perhaps no .better than ordinary winter wheat The ker nels are large and plump and compare favorably in appearance with much cf the wheat that is raised in northern Idaho; because of their size and shape they are easily broken, however, and care must be exercised in threshing to prevent this. The results of the milling tests show that no particular difficulty is met with in grinding the wheat. The flour secured is described as sharp and granular, and is capable of mak ing an excellent quality of biscuits, muffins, cakes, etc. When made into light bread, color, flavor, texture and size of loaf were noted. In color-the bread was darker than that baked from Turkey red. but decidedly lighter than that baked from little club flour. Flavor and texture were pronounced good. In size the loaves were inferior to those baked from Turkey red, but compared very favor blv in this respect with those baked from little club flour. The bulletin mav be secured by addressing the Ex- pjriment btation, Moscow, When a woman goes into a dry goods store, and Is pleased with every thing shown her, It Is a sign that she hat no Intention of buying. But If he finds fault with everything, ah Intends to buy that day. ! UsafaJ. "She) has a very useful husband." "How do you make that outr" "Ha can always suggest something that ha wants for diniier." Detroit free Press. The autobiography of the late IJ .lung Chang Is in one hundred vol umes. The work bus been published for Cbtnaiuen resident in America, and the purchase tins been made by a monthly Installment system that will extend over a century. Both author awl artist, Itobert Hkh Ins and Jules Guerln, have made pil grimages to the lutul of the I'liaraolia to gather Impressions for the new book, "Egypt ami Its Monuments," which Is to be published shortly In volume uniform with "The Chntenu of Tou ralue." There are a score of colored pictures made from M. Uuerin's paint ings as well as photographs of all thu famous temples and scenes. The "bim11 of Egypt," its mystery and beauty ap peals to Mr. Ilk-bins potently and I reproduced by him with sympathy. "The Holland House Circle" Is a book that will be of peculiar interest to lovers of literature, for broadly con sidered this story of this "circle of talkers" contains the Intellectual his tory of England during half acentury. Scott loved the place mid frequently dined there, though he wub for some time on bad terms with the hosts. It Is to Byron that we owe the descrip tion of the bouse "Where Scotchmen dine and una are kept aloof." It was there that the unhappy Lady Caroline Lamb first met the poet. In later days Macauluy was the chief literary figure, but Dickens, Grote, Washington Irving and others were occasional visitors there. Metterulch, Tu Hey rand, Mme. de Stael and other foreign celebrities were among its visitors. "The Red City," by Dr. Weir Mitchell, which Is now published lu book form is a continuation of the author's still popular novel, "Hugh Wynne," which waa recently sent to press for the nineteenth time. The hero of tbe new book is a young Frenchman of noble birth and shattered fortunes who enters the employ of Hugh Wynne. Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and other great Americans appear In the book. It does not de crease the Interest of the story to re member that the author who la writing so vigorously and apparently with such zest and enjoyment is now lu his seven ty-ninth year, that his life has been crowded full of professional duties as a physician and literary worker, and that the new book is pronounced to be one of the ripest and best of those he has produced. "Recollections and Reflections," by Ellen Terry, Is the record of a distin guished life spent among famous peo ple. Born of a family of actors, put to sleep as a baby in her mother's dressing room at the theater, she passed a happy childhood among people who regarded the stage ns an honorable pro fession and trained their children care fully In its traditions. From ber first appearance at the age of 8 In Charles K can's company she practically lived at the theater. Her marriage at 10 with George Frederick Watts Intro duced her into a goodly compauy where she came Into association with such men as Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone and Disraeli. The unhappy outcome of her marriage, her six years' retire ment, when she whs dramatically dis covered by Charles Reade und induced to return to the stage uguln, form a dramatic story of great Interest. Her Intimate association with Irving, her recollections of Bernhardt, Duse, Whistler, Sargent, Burne-Jones, Joseph Jefferson and Saint Gaudeim ore of great Interest. How Sea Lions Capture Golla. The sea lion displays no little skill and cunning in capturing gulls. When In pursuit the sea Hon dives deeply un tier water and swims some distance from where it disappeared ; then, rising cuutlouHly, It excises' the tip of Its nose along tbe surface, at the samo time giving It a rotary motion.' The unwary bird near by alights to catch the object, while the sea lion at the same moment settles beneath the waves and at one bound, with extend ed jaws, seizes Its screaming prey and Instantly devours It - Spirited Hepartea. In making a sharp turn the rear end of a street cur struck an express wagon laden with Jugs of whisky. Nearly all the Jugs were precipitated to the pave ment, with the natural disastrous re sult. The driver of tbe wagon alighted and, pointing at tbe pile of demolished earthenware, said to a bystander, 'That's hades, ain't Itr The spectator, who happened to be a minister, replied, "Well, my friend, don't know that I would say that, but It's at least tbe abode of departed spir its." Llpplneott s Magazine. A Uelpta Hand, Among the contributors to a mini ter's donation party was a small but very bright boy belonging to one of the families of tbe congregation. After ob taining bis mother's permission to spend his money for anything he pleas ed be went to the village store and re turned home with a neat package. In It was a pair of suspenders,, and at tached to them was a card upon which was written in a scrawling band: "For tbe support of our pastor." When a farmer's wife has finally coaxed ber husband to buy a busgy, he uses It to carry everything to town except calves and pigs. VESSELS BEARING ROYAL NAMES British Men-a'-Was thai Saras Daaatad III lark. One of the strongest and most Inef faceable of all suiKTstltlona in the royal navy superstition almost as strong to day as ever It whs Is that vessels bearing the name of royal iorsonages are doomed to ill luck, and strange as It may seem there- Is ao undeniable his torical basis for this feeling, says Tit Bits. Some of the most terrible disasters ever known In connection with our navy have concerned war vessels with royal names. Two vessels called the Royal James came to disastrous ends. One of them exploded, and some HOO officers and seamen perished ; the other ship so named was actually carried out of the mouth of the Thames by the Dutch under circumstances disgraceful to those In charge of the craft Then there Is the forever uieinorablo disaster of the Royal George, that turned over and sunk in sight of crowds at Splthead, over 1.000 souls. among whom were !UH) women, being -sacrificed. And second only to this hid eous disaster Is that which afterward befell the Royal Charlotte, which was consumed by fire off Leghorn, over 80ft of the very flower of our navy perish ing with her. When in 180.1 the Victoria, a new essel and tho very triumph of modern Invention, was rammed and sunk In sight of the whole fleet there was not a sailor, however matter of fact he might be, who did not remember the dire fate of royalty named cm ft Three years later a schooner named the Roy alist foundered In a gnle oft Holyhead. while In 1801 a British bark, tint Queen, was sunk and her captain and six men drowned. Legal Information Hmimm. The burial of a dog In an adjoining lot is held, in Hertle vs. RIddell (Ky.) 100 8. W. 282, 15 L. R. A. (N. 8). 700. to violate the property rights of a lot owner In a cemetery set apart for the burlnl of the white race, and for cem etery purposes only. Baling of hay by a purchaser agree ing to pay a certain price per ton for hay and do the baling la held, In Drlggft vs. Bush (Mich.) 115 N. W. 085, 15 L, R. A. (N. 8.) 054, to be sufficient part payment to take tho contract out of the statute of frauds. The destruction of a bridge by ex traordinary flood Is held, In Mitchell vs. Weston (Miss.) 45 Bo. 671, 15 I- R. A. (X. 8.) 833, to be within tho obligation of a bond requiring the build er to replace It If removed from any cause, lire excepted, within a certain period. An attempt by a municipal corjiora- tlon to prohibit loitering on the streets. In so fur as applied to persona conduct ing themselves in a peaceable, orderly manner. Is held, in St. Louis vs. Gloner (Mo.) 100 8. W. 80, L. R. A. (X. 8.) 073, to be an Interference with the con stitutional right of personal liberty. Failure to enclose the elevator on which an employe waa injured by tho -falling of a barrel from an adjoining elevator operated In the same enclosed shaft Isheld, In Fowler Packing Co. vs. Enzenpergor (Kan.), 04 Puc. 005, 15 L. R. A. (N. S.) 784, to be prima facie evidence of negligence, within tho meaning of a factory act requiring own ers or operators of manufacturing es tablishments properly and substantially to inclose or secure elevators, etc. , Where an agreement by the owner of land with an adjoining owner not to sell, or permit the sule, HKn the prem-, lses for a period of years, of intoxicat ing liquor, Is not contained In a deed or Indenture In the chain of title, subse quent purchasers and assigns are held. In SJobloiu vs. Mark, 103 Minn. 103, 111 N. W. 740, 15 I R. A. (X. 8.) 1120, not to be bound thereby, unless they have such knowledge or notice thereof as to Imply that the burden was assumed a part of the consideration; and the rec ord of such ah agreement docs not constitute constructive notice. Wonderful America Ilea. The cackle of the American bens ari welling Into a mighty chorus. Sixteen billion times a year these small cltlwis announce the arrival of a "fresh laid," and the sound of their bragging Is wax ing loud in the laud. According to the last census, thero are 233,008,005 chickens of laying agvi In the United States. These are val ued at $70,000,000, and the egga they lay, would, If divided, allow two hun dred and three eggs annually to every person, man, woman and child In the United States. The value of all thu fowls. $85,800,000, would entitle every person in the country to $1.12, If they were sold and the proceeds divided. All the weight of the animal product exported, the pork, beef, tallow, ham, bacon and sausage, weigh 8-1(1,800 tone, while the weight of the eggs laid yearly tips the scales at 070,303 tons. TVU. ileal World Magazine. 'Carl's Aspirations, Little Carl, six years old, bad bee. teased a great deal by his uncle about the vocation- be would choose when ha became a man. One day ho overheard his mother and a caller talking about a certain gentleman being a bachelor. When the caller left, his mother no ticed tbat he was unusually quiet and teemed to tie In a deep study. Finally he said to her, "Mamma, Is a bachelor a good trade?" Delineator. When a man talks about hia prlu clyle, ha usually means bis prejudice. 0