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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1907)
THE GIRL WITH A MILLION By D. C. CHAPTER VI. (Continued.! O'Rourke walked out to the frnt of the hotel and awaited the arrivals. When Ihey came it was plain to his eyes that Maskelyne's depression of two or throe days ago had not altogether loft him, ami. Indeed, ho had vn, In the visits ho hail made to Butler in the interim, si" that thia depression deepened. Hut since Mas krlyno'a depression obviously meant his wn victory, it was not in human nature to 1m greatly grieved by it. The signs of the young American's despondency ssrere not visible to all the world, but O'Ronrke was a keen observer when he chose to watch with extreme closeness. Angela reached out her hand with a frankness altogether encouraging, and O'Hourke accepted it with a finely toned air of deference and respect. All three of the newcomers had alighted and en tered when Farley came downstairs, and the young American saw his ready rival take an immediate place by Angela. "It was I who brought them together," he said to himself. "I have wrecked my own chances. And I never gave him a ssrarning word. O'Rourke isn't the man to Intrude himself between a friend and his Lopes if he had only known." At this moment his late delicacy seem ed overstrained and extravagant. "I am not worthy of her." he said. ""O'Rourke is a better man than I am. lie's not an objectless, good.for-nothing fellow like me. with nothing but dollars to recommend him. A man with a career before him. and a good begiuning bjhind him. A handsome fellow, too; bright, receptive, quick. A man with everything In his favor. Why shouldn't a girl like him?" While O'Rourke talked In his gay and tyropathetic fashion, and Maskelyne look ing out of window indulged these thoughts, there came a tap at the door and the landlady entered. "A telegraphic dispatch for Monsieur O'Rourke," said she, giving the name a queer-sounding foreign twist, at which everybody smiled. O'Rourke took the dis patch, asked to be excused for a moment and opened it. He read it at a glance, crushed it in his hand and stood with an -expression of displeasure and irresolution In his fare. "No ill news, I hope?" said Farley, ap proaching him. "For me," said O'Rourke, looking round at his friend with a sudden bright smile, "the wretchedest ill news in the world. ' A whip" he held the crumpled telegram up before them "a whip of scorpions," be added, with a laugh. "It drives me from your presence." He bowed to Lucy .and1 Angela as he said this, and went on with a sudden seriousness. "Yes, I must Ko. I bad an idea of refusing for a ingle instant but that is a thing I mustn't do. Farley, order a carriage, and pay my bill for me." ' lie thrust a purse into bis friend's hand. ' "I shall miss the local train, I know, but I can catch the mail on the main line. I must go and pack, and I haven't a minute to lose. I am the unluckiest of men. Rack to work again from this paradise of quiet. And to miss the tour of the world." He made his excuses and dashed away to pack with an alacrity and eagerness which had all the vivacity of bustle, and somehow missed its vulgarity and avoided its noise. He was down again in a min ute or two, portmanteau in band. "I leave the heavier things behind." lie. said, gayly. "This will suffice for a day or two. I am sorry to go. but parlia mentary whips dare not be disputed." Then he let his face cloud somewhat, and. walking to a window, began to drum with absent-seeming fingers on the sill. By and by he turned and met Angela's gaze. I am sorry to go," he said, softly, "ery sorry." The carriage Farley had ordered drew op to the door and the departing traveler hook hands all round. There was no chance for a private word with Angela, but he threw into his parting glance and band-shake all be dared to express at such a time. "Five francs if you catch the mail," fee cried to the driver as he mounted. The man cracked his whip and started. O'Rourke waved his hat to the little party gathered about the door, and his last glance was for Angela. "I disappear with an air of some im portance." he said to himself, "and that la something. 1'oor Maskelyne looks a bit too cowed to play up with any spirit for a while, and I shall be back again in three days. That again is something." CHAPTER VII. O'Rourke's departure affected the vari ola members of the party variously. Mas k"Jyne brightened up ever so little to be Rjm with, but seeing that Angela had uddenly grown grave, he himself grew graver than ever and dropped into a ver itable abyss of despair. Angela did' not need to be told more than she learned In that parting glance and pressure, and while O'Rourke rode to ward the railway station in full assurance of faith that he had already conquered, he, In thinking of him, was filled with a cold indignation that be should have dared so to presume upon her innocent freedom with him. "I am a flirt," she told herse!?; "a co quette. He aaw it, and took advantage of it." The novelist, whose atrong point was love-making, and who rejoiced in the dis section of the feminine heart on paper, waa beautifully ignorant of the drama of which one scene waa being enacted under bia nose. Ilia wife, who dissected noth ing, knew all about the case, and would have loved to bring the two young people together, for, like all good women, she waa a match-maker at heart. Aa for the major, be was a match-maker, too, but he knew no more than Noah whether or not the two young people bad the faintest leaning to each other. The dinner passed off fairly well, and then came the mild dissipation of the evening. The large room of the Hotel de Villa waa found to be artificially dark ened, for the evening light still ruled out aide. IUnged about the chamber wars a Murray number of little tables, supporting little boxes, which stood back to back, with a petroleum lamp between each two of them. In front of each box a pair of stereoscopic lenses, and at the side a little handle to turu the views. Scat tered here and there were a few early vis itors already trying their eyea at the lenses, amongst them Mr. Zeno, who :owod with great politeness on the ar rival of the party from the Hotel des Postos. Master Austin went off on stealthy tiptoe to join the delightful for eigner, who took hitu by the hand and called his attention In laboriously chosen single words to various curiosities of the show. "Mountain. Eh? High. Oh. so high. Not? Vite. Snow. Vare fine. Hh? Look. Van usier." After some five minutes of this amuse ment Mr. Z0110 ap;oared to tire of it. and loading the little fellow across the chamber, raised his hat to the mother, surrendered his charge, bowed all around, and left the chamber. It was a very simple entertainment, and yet it entertained, and the visitors went solemnly round from one little Nix to another for the space of half an hour, by which time all had stiff necks and aching eyes. "My dear." said Austin, "I feel as If I had traveled far enough for a single journey. And I. too." returned Lucy. Really," said the major, "they're re markably pretty, but one gets tired." "We must come back for another even ing," said Angela. "The Swiss views are really charming." This was to Maskelyne. who said, "Yes, very, in an absent mauner. Suddenly from the far end of the room arose a cry. Oh, mamma, mamma. mamma ! Look here !" Hush !" said mamma, crossTftg over to him. "Little gentlemen never shout in that way. What is it. darling?" Mr. Zeno," said the boy, clapping his hands and laughing. "Mr. Zeno." Lucy took the seat and looked through the sterescopic lenses, and there was Mr. Zeno, sure enough. Mr. Zeno was talk ing to somebody else, and he and his companion were curiously out of propor tion with the rest of the picture. The photograph represented a court in the Vienna Exhibition, and it seemed proba ble that at the instant of time at which the artist had lifted his little shutter to catch the moving crowd Mr. Zeno and his friend had stepped into the field of view. The expression of both countenances was clearly defined and animated, and the figures were so large that they only came into the picture to the waist. The two were arm in arm, and Zeno had turned with a ( stretched forefinger toward the other, as if to impress him with a sense of importance in what he, was saying. "Yes," said Lucy. "It is Mr. Zeno, certainly, Austin." .she said to her bus band, who had followed half across the room, "this is curious. Here Is an ac tual portrait of Mr. Zeno." "Who is Mr. Zeno?" asked Angela, crossing over, whilst Farley stooped to look at the picture. "Is he a friend of yours?" "No," answered Lucy! "a stranger. Rut he is staying at our hotel. Mr. Farley thought at one time that he was a spy, and he is not a nice person at all. He seems very fond of Austin, though, and it is certainly curious to find his portrait here." "Here's an odd thing, Lucy," said Aus tin. "There's a fictional use in that, if I could only see my way to it." Crash went something close at hand, with a sound of breaking glass. Angela had somehow overturned the box, and had broken the lamp behind it. She waa on her feet, and her fare, dimly seen in the semi-obscurity of the chamber, wore a look of more alarm and amazement than than so simple a disaster seemed to warrant. She lifted the box from the table, and Farley Instantly put out the light of the broken lamp, and extinguish ed with his handkerchief and foot a de tached stream of burning oil which had already begun to trickle from the table to the floor. While this was doing, Angela with the box in both hands, had walked across the room, and at the door had encountered the woman who had charge of the exhi bition. "Madame," she said, rapidly In French, "I have by accident broken a lamp. Let me pay you for it. Have you a private room here? Show me to it, if you please." Her breathing waa so quick and dis turbed that these simple phrases were panted rather than spoken. "Certainly, madame," said the woman, and led the way into a aide room illum inated by a brace of tall candles. Angela set the box she carried upon the table between the candles, and turned it rapid ly this way and that. "How do you open this box, madame?" "So," said the woman, In surprise, pro ducing a small key, and suiting the ac tion to the word. "Take out the photographs, If you please." The woman obeyed, wondering more and more, and Angela, taking them from her hand, selected that which bore the portrait of Mr. Zeno. "I wish to buy this," she said, drawing forth her purse and laying s gold coin upon the table. "Will that pay you for the broken lamp and the photograph?" "Assuredly," the woman answered. The whole thing was rurioua, and she would have been well content to have it ex plained, but ber visitor chose to offer no explanation. Angela thrust the photograph Into her bosom, and, having rearranged her dress, rejoined her friends. "I have paid for the broken lamp," she said to the major. Half an hour later Dutler demanded his carriage, bade his host and hostess adieu, and went away with Angela and Maskelyne. Ths girl was tilent all the way home, but when the chateau waa reached, she found herself aloof with Maskelyne and spoka. "Mr. Maskelyne, may I ask yon t do two a very great fiver?" "1 shall bo delighted." said Maskelyne. "Let me explain," she said, rapidly and eagerly. "You know this face?" She held the photograph before him, and In dicated Zeno with I ho tip of n finger. "Yes," said Maskelyne, "I know the face. The mnn at the Hotel dca Postos - Zeno." "You see he Is In close conversation with some one there?" "Yes." "That ntnn with whom he la walking mid tnlking there, arm In arm. Is Mr. lHbroikl'a bitterest enemy a Polo, Put a spy In the pay of the Russian govern ment." "You know that?" said Maskelyne, looking up at her, "Mr. lKibroskl showed me his photo graph a week ago. I should know the man among a thousand." "It Is not a face about which one could easily bo mistaken," Maskelyne allowed. "What must I do?" "IV you see to what the companion ship of these two men and this man's presence here point?" she asked him. "You won't think me foolish or romantic, Mr. Maskelyne?" "I should be very much Inclined to say." ret timet) Maskelyne, "that It points In the direction of Mr. Farley's fancy, and this fellow Zeno is a spy upon Poh roski. Of course the companionship may be a chance, and Zeuo's being here an accident." "lo yon thluk that very probable, Mr. Maskelyne?" "It may he," said Maskelyne. "Rut we cannot tell. What am I to do. Miss But ler?" "Will you " she began, and broke off there. "Mr. Iohrokl has gone to Itrusscls. He left this afternoon, and gave the people of the Cheval Blanc no address. He Is a known figure every where, and It will bo easy to find him." "Y'ou wish me to find him, and to let him know of this?" "To put it in his hands," answered Angela. "Yes," he said, accepting the proffered photograph and bestowing it in his breast pocket. "I will take the morning mail." CHAPTER VIII. The driver, bearing in mind O'Rourke's promise of five francs in case the station were reached In time for the mail train, put his fat-ribbed, heavy-footed horse to the road at such a pace that O'Rourke had five minutes to wait for the train. He secured a ticket for the first stage of Ms journey, and walked tin to the platform carrying his portmanteau. He had been thinking of Angela and Maskolyue and his own chances all the way ; but now 5-.e suddenly recalled lKbroskl to mind. That venerable conspirator and he would travel to England together, for Dobroskl was on the train. Nothiug occurred to make the journey particularly remarkable, and the two companions were silent for the most part. A brace of early tourists recognized IHb- roski ami O'Rourke at Brussels, am) pointed them out one to another; am) at Dover they were known again, and cre ated a little stir as they walked up and down the platform, side by side, waiting for the train. They arranged where to meet again. and Dobroski bottmk himself to the streets, whilst O'Rourke went upstairs to sleep, giving injunctions to his servant to call him in four hours precisely. Hut after entering the bed chamber and lock ing the disir he stood awhile in thought. and then suddenly reopening the lsr, de scended to his private working room, and there wrote a telegram. The telegram was addressed to George Frost, Esquire, at a house In Pirnlico, and ran thus : "Call at once. Special." It did no tpurport to come from Hector O'Rourke, but from ' one O. Johnson of Acre Buildings. Any way, at 1 o'clock precisely a gentleman with a peaked beard, a furtive eye, a soft hat and an accent blended of the accents of Erin and Columbia, presented himself at the door of the house in which O'Rourke had chambers, and sent in a card which bore the name of Mr. George Frost in flourishing copperplate. He was shown up, and when the door was closed behind him, the occupant of the room rose with a smile of welcome and gripped him heartily by the hand. (To be continued.) Contract Dentistry. "Contract work In dentistry Is entire ly out of date," said the dentist. Scv- eral years ago that wus the comm.m way of doing business. A iK-rson with jioor teeth would ask us to make an c- tlmnte on the cost of putting his mouth In Bhaie. Once a price was fixed he In sisted uion sticking to that figure. Since It was possible to name only an approximate cost of the work, wo fre quently underestimated the value of our time and material. It was In order to secure Justice all around that the rule of paying for work actually performed was established. The old way suited our patrons better, however, because it 1 was uHtinlly more economical for them, and every day we meet (arsons who I ask for a reversal to tho old order of paying a stipulated sum for the entire Job." Making Up the Iefl deney. "Girls," said the manager of u quick- lunch Joint, "I wunt you to look your best to-day. Add on extra "ribbon or ring. Give your cheeks an extra daub of powder." "What's the matter?" asked the fair head waiter. "Butter bad again?" "No," suld the manager; "the beef's on the bum." Plttnburg Disputed, Heard to the Ureen lloom. First Actor Congratulate me, old man. I have been married Just ten years to-day to ono woman. Second Actor That s nothing. I've been married twice to my present wife In five years. Could Prove aa Alibi, Doctor (to his patient, wlw Is 111 with typhoid fever) This Is probably caus ed by some water you have drunk. When did you lust take some Patient About three years ago, I think. Slmpllclsslmus. ' Ox wagon competition makes certain short railroad lines la Souta Africa unprofitable. aatomatle Waaron limit. A wagon brake- which operates au tomatically has been recently pa tented by a Mississippi man. The ordinary ar rangement of attaching n foot lever be neath the driver's scat, coitnoctlng with t ho -brake, la entirely dlspensot) with. The driver U not required to Imtidlo tbo brake In any way, tho simple halt ing of the horses only being necessary. As shown In the Illustration, the brnko Is pivoted s as to come In contact with the rltn of the. rear wheel. On the extreme outer rtul of tho shafts la n vertical pivoted lever, one end of which connects with a rod extending to tho brake. The upper end of this lever Is connected by a strap or chain to the harness on the horse. As shown. Imvr at s)ro trtATt. THROWS A IIHAKE ALTOM ATIOAt.LY. the top of this lever Is normally to advance of the lever end. Obviously a pulling pressure exerted by a back ward movement of tho horses In stop ping will force the brake ngnlnst the rear wheel. Tho driver In stopping his horses In this way automatically throws on tho bniker Kltrrt of Meat-lnapvctlon Law. In an address delivered In-fore the New York State Breeders' Association, nt Syracuse, (. P. McCabe, of the I'll! ted States Department of Agricul ture, discussed the principal provisions of tho 1'iilted Stages meat-Inspection law, the manner In which the provi sions are enforced, and the bearing of tho law uin the production and han dling of meats. "To secure tho best results, the breeders and feeders of every State In the I'ulon should take up vigorously the question of the extension of mar kets ami should back the Department of Agriculture In mi Insistent! demand for an absolutely ofllclent. vigilant, fair and square meat Inspection. If a due regard Is? had for clean lines, decency ami honesty In the pre paration and marketing of our meat products, the United States will eon tlnuu to lend the world In tho live stock, and meat trade." Cot of Haallnar Crops. The bureau of statistics recently sent out a special Inquiry circular to ascer tain the cost of hauling farm crops to shipping points, and ttie complied re sults representing replies from nearly 2,000 counties In different parts of the United States Indicate that the quan tity of farm produce annually hauled amounts to 40.000,000 tons. The cost of hauling the same Is estimated at ap proximately $80,000,000, which Is an average of 8V4 cents per hundred weight In general, the hauling cost Is to a large extent dependent ujsm the value of the articles hauled, the more valu able products taken to market oftener and In smaller loatls, and therefore at a greater cost. Corn, wheat, hay and potatoes are hauled at from 7 to 0 cents per 100 pounds ; tobacco and hogs at 10 cents per 100 pounds; cotton, 10 cents, and wool, 44 cents. Disease In Manor. Manure heaps ore responsible for many diseases that appear on farms. Even the well water may Income rn tamlnated, though the heap may lo somo dlstnnce from It. Typhoid fever and diphtheria have appeared In fam ilies living a mile or more from neigh bors, and where It was apparently Im possible for the families to be Attack ed. A French scientist, who Investigat ed diseases on farms In Franco, found that there was some relation between manure heaps and epidemics of diph theria. Statistics In Scotland and Prus sia show that tho rate of mortality from diphtheria fs higher In rural dis tricts. It Is suggested that all manure should be kept In closed locations, hav ing cement sides and bottoms. Bounty on Insects, In some parts of Germany, where the common European beetle, known as Melolontha yulgarus, or cockchafer, occurs la great numbers, and Is a con siderable pest, especially In the larvae state, the school children are paid a bounty for the collection of these In sects, and enormous quantities of them have been gotten together In some local ities In this manner. It Is now pro posed to find a commercial use for these beetles, such as the manufacture of fertilizer, as a foodstuff, and In the preparation of axle greases, for all of which purposes they hare been used to sums extent In the past for Marking AVI.es I. To stnek wheat before threshing so that It will be dry when that time coined, Is tho ileal ru of every farmer who raises that cereal, Mr. C. T. Prltclmrd, of Randolph, Clny county, Mo., has a system that ho has used for n generation, ami ho never lost a bit f wheat by dampness In the stack. Ho has a great reputation In hi hotim for this class of work, and he spend large part of his time In showing oth ers how to do It. He gives n descrip tion of his method as follow: "To stack wheat or out so stack will not tako water. Commence the stack or rick any way you wish. But when you have the stack live r six feet high. Just reverse the usual way of stacking, 11 ml do It from tho center to tho miter edge, Instead of from the outer rtlgo to the center. When you begin nt the center to stack out. lay two or threw bundles so as to keep the center highest, with a gtsid slant to ward the outer edge. If at any time the outer edge gets too high, stop be fore you get there, and go hack to tho renter mid eoiiimeme again. Be sure to keep tho center highest, with a good slant to tho outside. "This way Is Just about the same as ono shook on top of the other, only more slant to the bundles. There Is no slip or slide. It Is fast auk eaay, ami sure keeps the stack dry. If you are stacking tho usual way. and the stack should begin to slip. Just go to tho center and work out. and see how quickly you stop the slipping. Mix It up a little work rroiu tho center part of tho time. Try It." rrr of the S rrorr Hank. The sparrow hawk almost Invariably catches a flying bird for Its meal, even striking down birds as large as the wood pigeon, though usually going no higher than a black bird. It does not exactly swoon like the larger hawk, yet It must nave conditions of chase of Its own choosing. That Is why the small birds usually moo It with Impu nity when they are numerous enough to bewilder It. One, however, I saw a sparrow hawk that bad been molest ed for somo minutes by a perfect cloud of green finches, dart aiming them ami secure a victim. The other day I had one of these birds pointed out as the one which, a few daya earlier, hail come close to tho house toward dusk and caught a bat on the wing. That, however. Is a very unusual meal. London News. Tha Km and tha Chirk. That Immutable law of physic that matter cannot be annihilated, or, vice versa, created out of nothing, apiiear to have some doubters even In this day of general education. The old query, which weighs tho most, tho egg or tho chicken that Is hatched from the egg, is a very good example of this lack of faith. To settle the matter for the hundredth time, experiments were re cently undertaken at ono of the agri cultural stations engaged In poultry studies. It was found that a fertile egg during the process of Incubation lost a little over "o st.cvnt In weight, while tbo chick hatched from such nil egg weighed .'10 per cent less than the egg before Incubation. A sterile egg receiving rttnr treatment lost not quite 1) per cent In weight. The Carson Apple. The original treo of the Carson applo was obtained from an applo seedling nursery In Ohio, owned by a family named ('arson. Its excellent record for product Iveness, lieuuty and quality In northern Ohio for half a century renders It worthy o f experimental planting through out the lake region and the New En gland States, both ror the home or chard and as a commercial variety. In commending this variety William A. Taylor, bureau of plant Industry, gives the following description: Form oblate, sometimes slightly conical; sl.e large; surface smooth, with occa sional russet knobs and patches; color pale yellow, wash ed splashed and narrowly striped with bright crimson; dots rather large, conspicuous and pro truding; cavity medium, regular, deep, niHseted ; stem of medium length and rather slender; basin very large, deep, abrupt, furrowed and sometimes rus set ed ; calyx segments converging; eye large, closed; skin thin, tough; flesh yellowish, with satiny lustor when fresh cut; texture fine, tender, Juicy; core small, broad, oval, clasping, near ly closed ; seeds few, plump, medium brown; flavor subacid, pleasant; quali ty very gM)d. Season November to March In northern Ohio. Tree vigorous and upright In hoblt, very productive. Tba Cow as a Haehlna. As an Illustration of tho efficiency of a good cow, as a machine for the man ufacture of milk and butter from grain, the record Is given of a Holsteln cow at the age of 3 years, which, during one year produced milk amounting to 18, 573 pounds, or over nine tons of milk containing 020 pounds of butter. The net profit figured In maintaining such a cow Is stated to bo about $130 per annum. z - Peaches and Plnms, The peach will not thrive on low ground, but prefers an elevated situa tion always; plums prefer a stiff, damp ui.it to a light one. Therefore, plum stocks are often used for an orchard of peaches where the latter are to v nUuted In low ground. 1. 11. TKCVIECECLY . Wo are to thank the backward spring for the destruction of the bs'lists, which were shout to hatch out In uncountable numbers. The sumo fnxt that laid lis frigid fingers on the sppls blossoms and tbo lilacs also gave a twesk to tb b" itt eggs. At least this Is what rural per sonages who are pusttsl 011 such things say, But the Its-lists probably wouldn't have hat'-hml out, anyway. There are two things that never happen when poo pie say they will; one U Hot coming of tho end of ti" world ami the other Is tho appearance of Hie locust. We have long given up th id of tho world as practi cally hopoloM and have resigned ourselves to being deprived of that matchless imh tacle whic'i some more favore.l genera tion tuny possibly witness; and we have been so often disappointed In the hs'ust prognostications that we now rank them along with weather bureau Indications. We have hoard stmles by our grnndslre that once tho "17 year" locusts filled the wtsiils with roaring llko the sound of Niagara and that th! bark of the tree was split asunder by the Insects, and that the surface of Ibn earth was madi 10 ioik like a pepper lsi by the hides whence they had issued. And we have waited eiootantly for a reM.tltlor of this won der of nature; but, like the end of the world. It Is always being post poll el. The locusts appenr to b great proerastlnators, or else their human prophets are great prevaricators. It may ls, of course, that the hsnists are ml led up in their calendar and not being able to decide whether tho seven teen years of their "hibernation" has ei plred have decided to reuiBin In seclusion until the matter Is stralghto'icd out, rath er than appear at a time that would ruin their arllhiiKtlcal reputation. It Is peril ous to be premature, to arrive on the scene before the curtain Is up or the audience seated, esjMs'ially when your performance Is so rarely riven th.nt the only thing thnt ranks with It Is tho OWaniinergau passion play which Is presented only once In len years. Ono can understand the deep mortification a seventeen-year locust would feel In appearing st the end of thirteen ye.irs or ten years, or any num ber of years except exactly seventeen, A miscalculation never could Im forgiven. It would be as humiliating as Mark Twain's experience In Swluerlnnd when wrapied In a blanket be sought to wit ness the glorious spectacle of the rising sun and did not routine until ho saw the smiles of promenading Indies ami gentle men in afternoon cost 11 1110 that the sun was setting. Punctuality Is of tho utmost Importance. Every properly reared locust knows this, if the time s-t for the great perlisllcal conclave Is every seventeen years, then lot It be observed to tho In stant. Tardiness Is not to bo extenuated. If they prove falsa to their name and appear any obi year, they should be con signed to the ranks of the locusts which appear annually ami havo no ancient ancestry or trndltlons. COCOA OUSTING TEAAND COFFEE Importations of Two Latter Show lifeline In l.aat Ten Years. According to a reisirt Issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce anil Lalsr, ctstia importations Into the Culled States aro now averaging more than a million dollars a month, against an average of a quarter of a million dollars a month a decade ago. Meantime importations of both coffee ami tea show a tleclina, especially during the last two years. The total quantity of cocoa Imported In the crude state In tho eight months end ing with February, 1!M)7, Is (lt,2Pt,427 pounds, valued at $S,,'!4 1.12(1, against 2.7oO,Oo! pounds, valued at $1,11.10,831, In the corresponding months of 181)7. The total quantity of coffee Imported In the eight months of the fiscal year 1II07 Is (U7,2M).1M pounds, valued at $.')l,8il!M.')2, against 4tHI,WM,.172 pounds, valued at $.'3,:0,G()H, In the eight mouths of 17. 'Hie quantity tea Imported In, the eight months of 1 J M 7 Is 72,475.410, valued at $ll,flHl,0,"iM, against Hl,2'J0,H'.2 pounds, valued at 10.2 17..VHI in the correspond ing months of 18!7. Taking tho value alone there has been an Increase of about $tl,rit)0,ooo In tho Importations of cocoa, a decline of $1, NX,000 In the Importations of coffeo and an increase of $1,333,333 in tea Importa tions. The average valuation of the cocoa Im ported In the eight months ending with February, 1007, Is 13.0 cents per pound, against 0.3 cents In the corresponding period of 18D7, that of tea 1(1 cents, against 12.0 cents a decade ago, while coffee shows a fall averaging 8 cents per pound In the eight months of 11)07, atalnst 11.4 cents In the corresponding months of 1807, Odd and Ends There are 234,000 telephones In New York City. Llght-holred people live longer than dark-haired ones. The largest vineyard In the world la near San Gabriel, Cut. The Baptist women of the world ara supporting 800 missionaries. The government runs tbo pawnshops of Italy, and no Interest Is required on) loans.