Prisoners and Captives
By H. S. MEKRIMAN
CHAPTER VIII. (Continued.)
"Now I remember," interrupted Miss
Winter, with her pleasant laugh; "of
course. Please don't tell me any more,
My stall was number number two hun
dred and sixty "
lour, suirrested Tyars in such a
manner that it was in reality no sugges
tion at all.
"Yes; two Hundred and sixty-four.
There was an empty seat on my right
hand."
"And an old gentleman occupied that
on jour left."
"My father," she explained, simply ;
but In the tone of her pleasant voice
there was something which made T.vars
look gravely at her with a very slight
bow as if in apology. Oswin Grace
glanced at his sister with raised eyebrows,
and she nodded almost imperceptibly. lie
had not heard of old Mr. Winter's death.
In less skilled hands this incident
might have led to an awkward silence;
but Agnes Winter had not spent ten
years of her life in a whirl of society for
nothing. She knew that one's own feel
ings are of a strictly individual value.
"You," she continueti, "took the va
cant seat."
There was something very like a ques
tion in her glance. Oswin Grace did not
look pleased, and his eyes turned from
one face to the other searchingly. Then
6he seemed suddenly to have received an
answer to her query, for she turned to
Helen and launched into narration gayly.
"I will tell you," she said, "why these
details are engraven so indelibly upon
such a poor substance as my memory.
It was rather a grand night; royalty
was present, and the theater was almost
full. In front of me were two men who
'id not appear .to be taking an absorbing
Interest in the play, for one was draw
ing something which I took to be a map
upon his program- "
"It was a map," confessed Tyars, light
ly. ' 'While he whispered earnestly at in
tervals to his companion. I came to the
conclusion that he was trying to persuido
him to go and look for Livingstone, which
suggestion was not well received. At last
he turned round. I thought he was ad- ,
miring, or at least noticing, the new
diamond star in my hair, but subsequent
events proved that he was looking over
my head. I was disappointed," she added
aside to Tyars.
"I both noticed and admired," he ex
claimed in self-defense. "There were
two diamond stars, one much larger than
the other.
All except Oswin laughed at this feat
of memory.
"Well," continued Miss Winter, "at
the first Interval this irreproachable
young man left his seat, came round,
turned back the chair next to me, and
6hook hands with the man in the pit I"
The pith of the story lay in its narra
tion, which was perfect. The lady knew
her audience as an able actor knows
his house. By some subtle trick of voice
the incident was made to redound to
Tyars' credit, while its tone was distinct
ly against hira. The easy, cheery, honest
humor of voice and expression was irre
sistible. Even the Admiral laughed as
much as he ever laughed at a joke not re
lated by himself.
"He was," explained Tyars in his un
satisfactory way, "a friend of mine."
At this moment the door was opened
by Salter, who announced that dinner
was ready. As they were moving toward
the door Oswin suddenly stopped.
"Where is Muggins?" he asked.
"On the mat," replied Tyars. "He
was rather shy, and preferred waiting
for a social invitation. He is not quite
at home on carpets yet."
"I have heard about Muggins," said
Helen to Tyars as they went downstairs
together, "and am quite anxious to make
his acquaintance."
So Muggins was Introduced to his new
friends, standing gravely on the dining
room hearthrug with his sturdy legs set
well apart, his stump of a tail jerking
nervously at times, and his pink-rimmed
eyes upraised appealingly to bis master's
face. He was endeavoring to the best of
bis ability' to understand who all these
well-dressed people were, and why he was
forced Into such sudden prominence.
Moreover, he was desirous of acquitting
himself well ; and that smell of oxtail
soup was somewhat distracting to a sea
farer.
He formed the subject of conversation
while this same soup was being discuss
ed, and Tyars was almost enthusiastic
on the subject, somewhat to the amuse
ment of Miss Agnes Winter, who was not
a great lover of dogs.
The dinner passed off very pleasantly,
and many subjects were discussed with
greater or less edification. Miss Winter
seemed to take the lead, in virtue of her
seniority over the young hostess, touch
ing upon many things with her light and
airy precision, her gay philosophy, her
gentle Irony.
Admiral Grace was the only person who
succeeded in getting a piece of personal
information from Tyars, and this by the
bluntest direct question.
"I once," said the old gentleman, "was
on a committee with a west country baro
net of your name a Sir Wilbert Tyars
is he any relation of yours?"
Yes," Tyars answered, with just suffi
cient interest to prove his utter indiffer
ence. "Yes ; he is my uncle."
"here was a short pause ; some further
remark was evidently expected.
"I have not wen him for many years,"
he addd, closing the incident.
When Mis Winter's carriage was an
nounced at a quarter to eleven Tyars rose
end said good-night with an unemotional
ease which might equally have marked
the beginning of intimacy or the consum
mation of a formal social debt.
When Agnes Winter came downstairs
arrayed in a soft diaphanous arrange
ment of Indian silk b was gone, and
the three young people as they bid each
other good-night in the hall, were con
scious of a feeling of Insufficiency. None
of the three attempted to define this
nensation even to themselves, but it was
not mere curiosity. It is worth noticing
that Claud Tyars' name was not mention
ed again In the house after the front door
bad closed behind him. And yet every
person who - had seen him that evening
was tUtilng of him) ix-oa than t.'l tfes
impress of his singular individuality had
been left.
" 'Ain't wot I'd call a sailor man, eith
er," muttered old Salter, thoughtfully
scratching his stubby, chin with a two
shilling piece which happened to be in
his hand as he returned to the pantry
after closing the front door. "And yet
there's grit in him. Sort o' '.bad weather'
man, l'n thinkin'."
Oswin's reflection as he 'slowly prepar
ed for sleep were of a mixed character,
lie was not quite sure that the visit of
his late shipmate had been an entire suc
cess. His own personal interest in the
man had in no way diminished, but the
light of feminine eyes cast upon their
friendship had brought that difference
which always conies to our male acquaint
ances when we introduce them to our
women folk.
CHAPTER IX.
It was not yet 9 o'clock the following
morning when Claud Tyars left the door
of the quaint, old-fashioned h?el where
he was staying. The usually busy streets
were still comparatively empty. Washed
out housemaids in washed-out cotton
dresses were dusting the front doorsteps
of such old world folks as were content
to continue living on the eastern precincts
of Tottenham -Court road.
As the young fellow . walked briskly
through some quiet streets in his dress
there was this morning a slight sugges
tion of the yachtsman that is to say,
he was clad in blue serge, and his brown
face suggested the breezes of the. ocean.
Beyond that there was nothing to seize
upon, no clew as to what this powerful
young man's calling or profession, tastes
or habits, might be. He stopped occa
sionally to look into the shop windows
with the leisurely Interest of a man who
has an appointment and plenty of time
upon his hands. Any one taking the trou
ble to follow him would have been struck
with the singularity of his choice in the
matter of shop windows. He appeared to
take an interest in such establishments as
a general dealer's warehouse. There was
a large grocer's shop on the left-hand side
and here he stopped for a considerable
time, studying with great attention a
brilliant array of American-tinned pro
duce. A tobacconist's was treated with
slight heed, while the wares of a large
optician appeared to be of absorbing in
terest. The doors of St. Katherine's Pock had
been open only a few minutes when Ty
ars passed through the building into the
London Dock. On the quay, under an
iron-roofed -shed at the head of the dock,
a red-bearded, clumsy man was walking
slowly backward and forward with that
idle patience which soon becomes second
nature in men accustomed to waiting for
weather and tides. When he perceived
Tyars he lurched forward to meet him.
Tyars acknowledged his jerky saluta
tion with a pleasant nod, and they walk
ed away together. This burly son of the
north was the man with whom Tyars
had exchanged a shake of the hand one
evening in a London theater when Miss
Winter was seated close by.
They walked the whole length of the
block, avoiding with an apparent ease
pitfalls in the way ring-bolts, steam
pipes and hawsers. At the lower end of
the basin, moored to a buoy in mid-dock,
lay a strange looking little steamer. Her
chief characteristic was clumsiness
clumsiness of spar and general top-heaviness.
" Her bows were originally very
bluff, and being now heavily incased in
an outer armor of thick timber, the ef
fect was the reverse of pretty. She was
rigged like a brig, and her tall, old-fashioned
funnel, rearing its white form be
tween the masts, suggested an enlarged
galley chimney.
Although she was the strangest looking
craft in the docks, where many quaint
old ships are slowly rotting to this day.
It was said among the dock laborers and
custom officers that the vessel had been
built at Trontheim, In Norway, for a
steam whaler; that she had been bought
by an Englishman, and wa3 now being
leisurely fitted out under the supervision
of the red-haired Scotchman who lived
on board. IJer destination was a pro
found mystery. Some thought that she
was to be a whaler, specially fitted for
the "north water," others boldly stated
that she was destined to open up com
merce with China by the northeast pas
sage. "I think," said Tyars, critically, as he
stood examining the little steamer, "that
you have got on splendidly, Peters. She
looks almost ready for sea."
"Ay," responded the red-faced man,
slowly.
He was no great conversationalist.
With his great head bent forward he
stood beside the tall, straight man, and
in his attitude and demeanor there was
a marked resemblance to a shaggy, good
natured bear.
"You have got the new foremast up, I
see. A good bit of wood?"
"Fine !"
He shook his head sadly from side to
side at the mere thought of that piece of
wood.
"And the standing rigging Is all up?"
"Ay."
"And the running rigging ready?"
"Ay ; them riggers was fools."
Tyars smiled in an amused way and
said nothing.
A boat now put off from the strange
steamer and came toward them. A small
boy standing in the stern of it propelled
it rapidly with half an oar. Presently It
came alongside some slimy steps near to
them, and the two men stepped into it
without speakinp. There was something
hereditary in the awkward manner ia
which the boy Jerked his hand up to bis
forehead by way of salutation. Tbey all
stood up in the boat, the older men sway
ing uncomfortably from side to side at
each frantic effort of the boy with the
half oar.
When they reached the steamer Tiara
clambered op the side first, stepping on
board with the air of a man well ac
quainted with every corner of the ship.
lie looked around nlra with an uncon
scious pride of possession at which a
yachtsman would have laughed, for there
was no great merit in being the owner of
such a ludicrous and strange craft. Pe
ters, the red-faced sailor, followed, and
a minute examination of the Teasel be
gan. Below, on deck and no aloft the
two men overhauled together every foot
of timber, every bolt and seizing. The
taciturn old fellow followed his employ
er without vouchsafing a word of praiso
of his own haiH'iwork. lie did not evou
deign to point Mit what hud been done,
but followed with his head bent forward,
bit knotted fingers clasped behind his
back. As it hni.nened there was no need
I to draw attention to such details, for
here again Tyw.n displayed the nnerriu?
powers of his &iigular memory. No tiny
alteration escnpad him. There seemed to
be in his mind a aiinute inventory of the
ship, for without effort he recalled the
exact state of everything at an earli'-T
period, vaguely designated as "before I
went away."
When the inspection was finished the
two men walked slowly aft, and, stand
ing there beside the high, old-fashioned
wheel, they gazed forward.
"I believe," said Tyars, at length, "that
I have found the man I want my first
mate."
"Aye," said the old fellow, in a non
committal voice.
"A royal navy man."
There was the faintest whistle audible
in the . stillness of the deserted dock.
Tyars looked down at his companion,
whose gaze was steadily riveted on the
foretop-gallant mast. The whistle was
not repeated, but the straightforward
sailor disdained to alter the form of hU
twisted lips.
"I had," continued Tyars, calmly, "an
other very good man cook and steward
but he died of yellow fever."
Peters turned slowly and contemplat
ed his employer's face before answering.
"Ay."
"This fellow was just the sort of chap
I want. Plenty of hard work in him,
and always cheerful. Sorrof man to die
laughing, which, in fact, he did. The
last sound that passed his lips was a
laugh."
As they were standing there, Peters,
the younger, emerged from the small gal
ley amidships, bearing a tin filled with
potato peelings, which he proceeded to
throw overboard. Seeing this, the proud
father eyed his employer keenly, and
moved from one sturdy leg to the other.
He clasped and unclasped his hands. At
last he threw up his head boldly.
"And the lad?" he said, with some
abruptness.
Tyars looked critically at the youth
and made no answer. His face hardened
in some indescribable way, and from the
movement of mustache and beard, it seem
ed as if he were biting his lip.
"There's plenty work in him, an
he's cheerful," almost pleaded the man.
Tyars shook his head firmly. Had
Miss Winter seen his face then, she
would have admitted readily enough that
he was a man with a purpose. ,
"He is too young, Peters."
The carpented shuffled awkwardly, his
lips close pressed.
"Have ye thowt on it?" he inquired.
Tyars nodded.
"I'd give five years o' my life to have
the lad wi' us," he muttered.
"Can't do it, refers."
"Then I winna go without him," said
Peters, suddenly. He thrust his hands
into his trousers pockets and stood look
ing down at his own misshapen boots.
The faintest shadow of a smile flick
ered through Tyars' eyes. He turned and
looked at his companion. Without the
slightest attempt at overbearance, he
said pleasantly :
"Yes, you will, and some day you will
thank God that the boy was left behind."
Peters shrugged his shoulders and
made no answer. For the first time in
his life he had met a will equal to his
own in stubbornness, in purpose. And it
was perhaps easier to give in to it be
cause in method it differed so entirely
from his own. It Is possible that in the
mere matter of strength Peters was a
mental match for his employer, but Ty
ars had the inestimable advantage of ed
ucation. The little boat was urged to the shore
in the usual jerky manner, while the
clumsy, red-faced sailor stood watching
from the deck. He noted how Tyars was
talking to the boy, who laughed at times
in a cheery way.
"Ay," muttered Feters, with a short,
almost bitter laugh, "there's some that
is born to command."
As Tyars passed out of one gate of
the London and St. Katherine's Dock, a
lady entered the premises by another.
They passed each other unconsciously
within a few yards. Had either been a
moment earlier or a moment later they
would have met.
The Imposing gate-keeper touched his
hat respectfully to the lady, who was
Miss Agnes Winter.
(To te continued.
Financially Speaking.
Tom What would you do if you
suddenly came Into possession of $50,
OUO?
Jack I'd take the first boat for Eu
rope and buy a title.
Tom Buy a title?
Jack Sure. Thea I'd come back and
marry a girl with more money than
sense.
Ilia Insignificance.
Miles What's the matter with
Smawley?
Giles Do you refer to the Smawley
that Is president of the Ituralvllle In
surance Company?
Miles Yes.
Giles Oh, he's sore because he Isn't
big enough to be investigated.
Better Still.
He had proposed, but she hesitated
"I will work day and night to make
you happy," he said.
"No," she protested, "that would be
asking too much. Suppose you work
during the day and stay home at
night"
Heredity.
Biggs What a slow-going chap nix
Is.
DIggs Yes ; he evidently takes after
his great-grandfather.
Blggs How's that?
Diggs The old man was a dead on
when Hlx was born.
Modeaty.
Lieutenant I hare a very pretty
compliment for you one of the young
ladies thought I was the author of
your latest poem. Tftles.
Tea was cultivated In China 2,700
years before the Christian era.
A Hoiue-Made Brooder.
The brooders sold by manufacturers
are unsually all that are claimed for
them, but when one desires to economize,
a home-made affair can bo constructed
by anyone with a little ingenuity which
win work nicely. Take two boxes of
convenient size, three feet square by
fifeen or eighteen inches high is a good
size, and set one on top of the other,
cutting a hole through each directly
in the middle. The hole In the bottom
or floor of the upper box Is covered
with an inverted tin pall, or can, which
Is perforated at Intervals of two
Inches, using a wire nail for the work
and punching in. Fit this can snugly
over the hole and place the regular
brooder lamp underneath It, resting on
floor of the lower box. A little door
Is made in the side of the lower box
so that the lamp may be properly at
tended to. The roof of the upper box
is lined with canton flannel, as are also
11 Q 1
HOME-MADE BROODER.
the sides, except the front, which is
left open and across It, three Inches
from the edge, Is nailed a strip (dou
bled) of canton flannel, which Is cut
In strips an Inch wide. A walkway is
built from the ground to this opening
through which the chicks pass. Essen
tial ventilation may be had by boring
a few tiny holes in the upper box at a
point furthest away from the lamp.
Exchange.
Hoed Crops In the Orchard.
The best orchardists are averse to
growing anything in the orchards but
the treqp even when the latter are
young. They argue, and properly, that
the growing trees need all .the virtue
there Is in the soil and that if the ap
ple crops in future years are to be of
eny value tbey must be provided for
during the earlier years of the trees.
Tby-e are fruit growers, on the other
hand who Insist that a hoed crop will
be of vmeflt to the trees, and that this
may be consl reded so under certala
conditions and up to certain limits.
If the soil In the orchard Is kept up
to the highest state of fertility so that
the trees will not suffer the want of
the portion of the fertilizer taken by
the hoed crop, then the latter can do
no harm, Indeed, It will be of value
because the soil will receive a certain
amount of cultivation which, perhaps
would not be given it If it were not
for the hoed crop. Work the hoed
crop in the orchard cautiously, and
watch the effect on the trees.
A Profitable Implement.
On soil that Is Inclined to lump up
some Implement must be used whicn
will level the soil readily, and at th
same time crush the clods. Such an
implement can readily be made at horn
and be quite as effective as those which
must be bought for the purpose, If one
has a leaning toward manufactured ar
ticles. This home-made clod crusher
and soil leveler can me made of a log
of hard wood by splitting it In half.
The log should be about two feet in
diameter to work to the best advan
tage. Lay the two halves of the log
side by side with the rounding part
down and at either end, about a foot
from the end, spike a two-by-four strip,
letting them project out sufficiently far
at one side so that an iron strip or
hoop may be set over the ends,
into which to hook the whiffletree
CLOD-CHCSHEB AITD LEVELEB.
chains. This Implement can be made
at small cost, and unless the logs are
too heavy a good team of horses can
handle It nicely. The illustration
shows the Idea clearly and how very
simple It Is. Indianapolis News.
Preserving- Karara.
If eggs are cheap In the local mar
ket preserve them for use In the fall
and winter. The water-glass way Is
the best Dilute the commercial solu
tion with ten times Its bulk of water.
A gallon will cover seventy-five dozen
eggs. Next winter they will bring only
a few cents a dozen less than fresh
eggs. ireserre oniy rresn eggs. No
process can Improve a stale egg. Pack
In wooden or earthen vessels, putting
the eggs In from day to day with a
wooden spoon to avoid breakage. Keep
them covered with the solution and
keep the vessels covered and In a cool
place.
Carina; for Chirks.
When chicks are removed from the
Incubator to the brooder great care
should be taken that they do not be
come chilled. The floor of the brood
er should be covered with fine, clean
chaff. Fine sand and clean water
should be in the brooder from the be
ginning. All the flue, dry bread
crumbs they will pick up every two
hours should constitute the feed for
several days, gradunlly adding rolled
oats, hardboiled eggs, cracked wheat,
Johnny cake, millet seed, etc. Milk and
water should always be kept In the
fountains. When three weeks old
make mashes of bran, meal, middlings,
beef scraps, table refuse, all salted to
season and mixed together with skim
milk. Alfalfa leaves may also be
thrown Into the brooder In the place
of straw or chaff. The mash In the
morning, wheat at noon and craoked
coin or kaffir corn at night constitute
the main feed to keep the chicks grow
ing. More Oleo Now Delnar Made.
Butter men may well And food for
thought in the figures showing the big
increase iu the oleo output for the last
six months of the past year, says the
American Cultivator. There was an
average gain of more than a million
Iounds a month as compared with the
same period of the preceding year. The
figures Include both colored and un-
colored oleo, and the relative gain in
many dairymen that the product final-
the uncolored product suggests to
Iy reaches the consumer In smue mys
terlous manner, having acquired the
yellow hue without the payment of the
10-cent tax. Nobody seems to be buy
ing or using uncolored oleo In a retail
way, yet the output of the product Is
increasing to an enormous extent The
present high price of butter Is, of
course, a stimulus to the bogus but
ter industry.
Shape of Ideal Dairy Coir,
Whether she be a Holsteln, a Jer
sey or whatever she may be, you will
find the typical dairy cow with bony
head and strong Jaw, long between the
eyes and nose, with broad muzzle. Hhe
should have a bright, protruding eye,
which means stroug nerve force and
action later on. She should have a
thin neck and retreating brisket. The
lines above and Mow must not be
straight, or she will steal from you.
She should be slightly depressed be
hind the shoulders with a sharp chine
not too straight a backbone. She
must have large organs of reproduction
and large heart girth, wide between
fore legs and sharp on shoulders,
which gives large heart action and
strong arterial circulation. And last,
but by no means least, she must have
a good udder, for one-half the value
of a cow Is In her udder, which should
be long from front to rear.
Holder for Hay Rack.
I used a pair of the Jointed braces
to a commonplace top buggy, writes
a correspondent. The Illustration ex
plains the position of braces on rack
when standard Is up and down.
Fasten braces on outside of standard
and on Inside of tied piece. By taking
brace and trying you can soon tell how
far back to fasten It
Plara Do Well on Alfalfa.
When your pigs weigh about fifty
pounds each, turn ubout twenty -five
head In an acre of alfalfa pasture and
they will make a gain of about 100
pounds each during the growing season,
says an Indiana farmer. They will
need no other feed, but can be given a
supplementary feed of grain Lf you
wish the gain to be better. From this
you can figure up a fine return for the
use of an acre of alfalfa 2,500 pounds
of pork, worth at the low figure of $4
per 100 pounds, $100. But prices are
much higher now and you can get
more for your pork. Again your hogs
will almost always be free from any
disease.
Poultry Pointers.
Never refuse a fair price for a bird
that you do not want for breeding pur
poses. At the same time never sell a
good bird that you want yourself.
Do not feed the newly hatched chick
ens too early; wait at least twenty
four hours. There Is sufficient amount
of feed In the shell for the chick this
length of time.
In feeding fowls always keep In view
the fact that the excess of food over
and above that required for warmth of
body and egg production will be con
verted Into fat Journal of Agricul
ture. Cowpaaa for Fertiliser.
In green manure tests made at the
Kansas Agricultural College during
last fall cowpeas were found excellent
to sow both In corn and wheat stubble.
The crop also makes good pasture, and
la a good winter covering. Since cow
peas take their nitrogen largely from
the air by means of the bacteria which
growa on their roots, the soil Is actu
ally made more fertile by the growing
of this crop. It Is a hot-weather row
er, and quite hard
t
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IIOI.DEB FOR THE HAYBACK.
Reinvention
Commenting on Benjamin Franklin's
kite experiment, which proved that
lightning and electricity are the same, a
scientist says : "It was one of the most
brilliant examples of luck yet recorded.
To attempt the extraction of lightning
flashes from a lowering sky was alyiost
suicidal. Even at this late day timid
persons occasionally fly to feather beds,
sit on glass-legged chairs, or find refuge
in rubber boots during thunderstorms.
A repetition of Franklin's experiment
cost his immediate imitator his life."
Etnil Jung, a professor In the Uni
versity of Geneva, says that snails per
ceive the odor of many substances, but
only when not far away. ' In order to
prove this it Is necessary merely to dip
a glass rod in a strongly smelling sub
stance and bring It near the large ten
tacles of a snail in motion. If It Is put
close to these horns, the tentacles are
violently drawn back. As the animal
perceives the odor, It changes Its course.
Snails also smell by means of their
skin. Contact Is not necessary, for the
mere vicinity of a perfutne causes an In
dentation of the skin.
An Englishman 'who Is a lavge em-
ployer of labor has been investigating
tue arguments of those who say that a
rguments or tuose who say
worklngman under modern conditions
becomes at an early age valueless. He
has kept a record of all accidents that
have incapacitated his men for three
days and upward. The people engaged
In his employment are from 15 to 65
years of age, and he asserts that more
accidents occur to men under 30 than
to those over 50. He says: "I would
much rather intrust an exceptionally
dangerous Job to a man over 50 than to
one of 30 years of age."
Amateur entomologists will be Inter
ested In a suggestion by Dr. F. E. Lutz
for the preservation of all kinds of
spiders' webs. The webs should be
sprayed from an atomizer with artists'
shellac, and tnen, If they are of the
ordinary geometric form, pressed care
fully against a glass plate, the support
ing strands being at the same time sev
ered. After the shellac has dried, the
plates carrying the webs can be stored
away In a cabinet Even dome-shaped
webs may be preserved, in their orig
inal form by spraying them with shel
lac and then allowing them to dry be
fore removal from their supports. Many
spiders' webs are very beautiful, and
all are characteristic of the species to
which they belong, so that their perma
nent preservation Is very desirable.
Prof. SUvanus P. Thompson, who re
cently visited the electric plant in Nor
way, where soil fertilizers are made
direct from the atmosphere, deserlues
the apparatus there used as differing
from all others In that the flame of
electric sparks Is caused to move rap
idly through the air Instead of having
the air blown over It The result Is the
production of a much greater quautlty
of nitric oxld in a given time. The
ilame disk," formed between the elec
trodes, swiftly expands and contracts,
being now only half an Inch and now
six feet In diameter. To make nitrogen
burn with oxygen, electric energy must
be pumped In, because, whereas in ordi
nary combustion, such as occurs when
carbon combines with oxygen, heat Is
given out the formation of nitric oxld
Is an endothermlc reaction ; that Is to
say, heat is aoaorneu. rror. inomp
n estimates the nitrogen hanging over
the city of London alone as considera
bly greater In quantity than all that Is
contained In the nitrate beds of Chill.
CHURCH WITH SIXTEEN SIDES.
The curious structure shown In the
cut Is at Richmond, Vt, and It Is one
of the most peculiar church edifices In
America. It Is a sixteen-sided build
ing, planned for union services held by
sixteen denominations. It was built
as long ago as 1813 on the south side
of the Wlnooskl Klver and Is In an ex
cellent state of preservation, having been
constructed of hand-hewed timber. The
building has not been used for public
worship for over thirty years.
Method.
"No matter what opinion Is offered,
you express a contrary view," said the
impatient friend.
"Well," answered Mr. Bllgglns,
"that's a way I have of acquiring
knowledge. A man Is -more likely to
give up all he knows on a subject lf
you get him to warm up with a little
controversial Indignation." Washing
ton Star.
Good Hornlns, Judge I
"Who's dat old guyr
"Dat's me old friend Judge Whelan."
"Yer old friend! I s'pose you an
hlm's vlsltln' acquaintances, eh?
"No, merely speaking acquaintances.
I know him well enough to say 'Good
morn In to him every few weeks."
Cleveland Leader.
There are numerous sure-thing confi
dence games, but matrimony Is the
surest