Heppner gazette., August 30, 1906, Image 6

soners and Captives
By H. S. MERRIMAN
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CHAPTER XXV. I at their backs, stood a rinle. ill-shanen
Matthew Mark Knsioii arrived in Sr. hut, built clumsily and ignorantly of snow.
Us low doorway faced the north, and
Petersburg by train from Lilian, and took
a drosky to tin Hotel de France, for
which he paid seventy copecks. His pass
port was in perfect order. although
smeared most lamentablv bv the clerk of
the Russian consulate who vised it fn
lAndon.
After breakfast he wandered forth,
jruideliook in hand, having refused the
services of a polyglot individual who pro
fessei to be the brother-in-law of the hall
porter. The landlord himself directed
Easton to the Newsk Prospect, which.
liowever. was not considered interesting
until the afternoon. Nevertheless, he
went that way. and finally found himself
on the English quay. He crossed the
Neva, still in the same tourist gait, and
lost himself among the smaller commercial
streets of the Vasili Ostroff. Presently
by the merest accident he found himself
opposite a small warehouse bearing the
name "L. Ogroff" in painted letters above
the blind windows of what had once
been a shop. He pushed open the curtain
ed door and, addressing himself to a
pleasant looking girl who was seated at
a counter adding up the columns of a
ledger, he mentioned the name "Loris
Ogroff."
"Yes." answered the girl, in perfect
Knglish. "he is in. Who are you?"
"Matthew Mark Eastou."
'Ah .' Come iu."
She led the way into an inner room
wnieu was lined with shelves containing
long wooden boxes like miniature coffins.
There were upon the table some rolls of
common cloth.
"Mr. Ogroff is apparently a tailor,"
hazarded Eastou in a conversational
way.
"Yes," she answered, with a short
laugh, "a very cheap one."
"lie is upstairs in the cutting-out
room." she continued, with a twinkle iu
lier childish eyes. "I shall tell him."
Kaston stood looking at the curtained
door after she had closed it. Then he
p'rked up a piece of rough cloth and ex
amined its texture critically.
"I nm half inclined." he reflected
flloud. "to become a nihilist. There are
alleviations even in the lot of a tailor's
Assistant of the establishment Ogroff."
In a few moments the door opened
again, and a stout man entered with a
how. He shook hands without speaking,
find pointed to a chair.
Y his; saw this man in Easton's
rwnis in London. I lis name was not
mentioned then, because there was not
much in a name for him. It was not
Ogroff then. lie was not minutely de
scribed, because a written description is
not always of great value. For instance.
lie was in London a dark, grizzled man
with a beard : in his shop in the Vasili
Ostroff, St. Petersburg, he was a fair
hairless man.
"Well V" he said, asthmatieally, at
length.
"Not a word," replied Easton ; "and
you .'
The man shrugged his heavy shoulders.
"Not a word. I have written to you
all that I heard. I wrote on the fifth of
May : have you destroyed the letter?"
"Yes burned it."
"Well '." ejaculated the Russian, mis
using the word. "I heard." he continued
"never mind how that they all got
away, in good health, at the proper time
that is, in the early summer of the
year before last. They were followed,
hut they destroyed all the horses and
loats as they went, and the pursuit was
necessarily given up."
Mnce tnat, inquired kaston : not
a word':"
"Not a word."
"There has been no semi-official ac
count of the matter vi the newspapers?'
"No: it has been hushed up. The of
ficial report is that certain exiles and
prisoners escaped ; that they were pur
sued by Cossacks, and that the chasi
wis only given up when their death bv
starvation was a moral certainty."
"And," said Easton, "are they struck
out of the list?"
"Yes; they are strmk out."
"I am going to look for them," an
nounceil Easton. after a pause.
The Kussiau raised his flaxen eye
brows. "Ah! I understood that you were con
demned by the doctors."
"No, not condemned ; they merely said.
'If you go, it will kill you.'"
"And still," said the Russian, calmlv,
"you go."
"Some one must. You cannot yon are
too fat. I am going by land," continued
the American. "I leave Petersburg to
morrow morning."
Ogroff rose from his chair.
"You must go now," he said. "You
have been here long enough ; we are
watched, you know. Here in Petersburg
we all watch each other."
The Kussian held out a fat white hand.
"'Jood-by, you brave American," he
(J'by '." returned Easton. 'with a laugh
CHAPTER XXVI.
"Well, at all events, we have fried it
These words were spoken by the mere
remnant of a man to a solitary compan
ion while both looked out peered through
(he twilight on death. lie who sMike
crouched in a singular way on the hard
snow, supporting himself on one fur-clad
arm. He could not stand, for ho had
but one leg. The other had Ix-en cut off
hist above the knee a recent amputation,
rudely tied with rope, was stained a d-p,
suggestive color. His f.ue was a horrid
sight to look ujxn, for here and there
in the pasty yellow flesh were deep in
dentations of half-healed sores, the re
sult of frost bite. One eye was quite
closed by a swelling which deformed the
features and drew tbem all up. He spoke
In a mumbling way, as if his tongue were
swollen or diseased, and the language was
uiot dramatic of all tongues Kussian.
His companion, a short, thick-set man,
stood beside him ; but he stood weakly,
and the terribly sunken lines of his cheeks
told a story only slightly less horrible
than that depicted by the face and form
of the cripple. Both faces alike bore
that strange dry look which tells unerr
ingly of starvation.
Within a few aria of taa two men, j
amid the gloom of its interior there were
discernible a number of heaps, apparently
formed of old and tattered fur clothing.
These were dead men ; the women of
Sergius Pavloski's party had not lived to
see the Arctic Ocean.
The man who stood gave a short heart
rending laugh as he looked out over the
frozen seji.
"Yes," he said, "we have trted It."
There was a pause, and then the crip
ple Sergius Pavloski spoke again :
"Of course," he said, almost unintel
ligibly, "we have failed; but still our
failure may teach others, and we have
kept it secret. Those who want to know
will never know. They will always be
in uncertainty as to whether we have
escaped and are living hidden in America.
in Europe, perhaps in Russia. We shall
be more terrible, doctor, dead than alive."
I hope so.
I, at all events, shall be. for you say
that I could not live a week in a warm
climate. This leg of mine is less oainful
to-day; perhaps it is healing."
No, Pavloski : I have told you a doz
en times it is not healed, it is only frozen
it can never heal. The moment it thaw
you will die."
A sickly smile passed across his un
sightly features, and there was silent'
for a time the deathly expectant silence
of the far North. At length Pavloski
raised his mittened hand and extended i
outward like the needle of a compass.
"I wonder," he mumbled, "if Tyars is
out there.
"I wonder," said the doctor, "why you
intrusted this to an Englishman."
"If I had the whole world to choose
from, I should not have selected another
man, said Pavloski ; "but there was no
choice in the matter."
I suppose," said the doctor, with an
ill-concealed sneer, "that he has turned
bfc-k.
"I will swear by St. Taul that he has
not done that ;
"Then where is he?"
Dead, was the answer. "If Claud
Tyars had been alive, he would have
come. He is not here, therefore he Is
dead ! Ough !"
He stopped and fell back fainting with
pain. In his excitement he had moved.
and allowed some of his weight to rest
upon the raw stump of his leg. In a sec
ond the doctor was kneeling on the snow
beside him, raising his head, touching his
lips with snow. It was a poor restora
tive, but there was nothing else at hand.
One cannot offer to a dying man even the
tenderest piece of an old sealskin mitteu.
Without waiting for consciousness to
return, he attempted to lift the cripple,
intending to carry him within the little
snow hut, but the movement brought back
Pavloski's failing senses, and he shook
his head in token that he wished to be
left where he lay.
"No," he said, after gasping twice for
breath ; "I would rather die out here."
The doctor's bare hand crept within the
tattered sleeve toward the pulse. He said
nothing. There was, nothing to jay.
"I do not want." continued Pavloski
brokenly, "to see their faces. I brought
them here. It is my fauit. I suppose
the good God will know how to revenge
all this. If they the Romanoffs the
Czar had twenty lives, and we could
take them all we might pay the debt;
but they have only one life to taka ;
tnat would be too short a punishment
(rod will know how to do It will He not
doctor .'
les, said the sweet, deep voice of
the doctor, "God will know how to do
it.
"Pray," said the dying man, "pray to
mm to do it wen ;
Then his head fell back and h
Dreamed regularly and softly. Rut this
was not the end. Presently the blacken
lips began to move, and he spoke iu unite
a different voice so different as to startle
his listener. It was soft and ei'pn aa tf
recounting a dream not long dispelled.
it is not yet a year ago," he snid,
"There were seven of us four Russians.
two l-.nglislimen. and an American. Four
Russians, two Englishmen and an Ameri-
in what a strong combination. Th
Russians to go into action on land, the
Englishmen on the sea, and the sharri
wittcii .merican to watch and plot and
scheme. I remember the last time we met
was at Easton's house. Two of us are
lead, and I am nearly dead. Tvars and
Grace where can Uiey lie? They are
out there, doctor, in front of us to the
north. I I shall go and meet them
The lips closed with a sudden snap, and
the doctor leaned eagerly forward. Ser
gius i awosKi was dean. l tie survivor
rose to his feet. It had begun to snow
gently and in large flukes a snow that
would cover the ground to the depth of
twelve inches in half that number of
hours. As it fell it eraduallv covered the
lead man. even to his face and eves.
wlncli were already cold.
Presently the doctor moved a little, and,
turning slowly round, wanned the near
horizon. !! could not see the pack ice
now, for the snow was blowing in from
the north, wreathing and curling as it
came.
Then this lone man moved toward the
snow hut, and entered it on his hands
and knees. H.. took no notice of the
dead one ,, e..ti accustomed to them
but fumbled about among the baggage
piled up in one corner.
In a dull, stupid way he realized the
responsibilities of his position. He drag
ged two of the sledges out of the hut, and
with a hatchet broke them up. Then he
took the two strongest pieces of each
the cross-bars and bound them securely
together, thus forming a rough pole. This
he erected on a little mound where the
snow was thin, building it up with such
debris as he could lay hands upon. It
stood up gauntly, almost the only object
within tight that was not white. It was
mere pole, the thickness of a man's
wrist, and yet It was probably visible ten
miles eff against its gleaming surround
ings.
It would be good." he mumbled, "to
be warm once more Just once."
And he piled up the wood in a little
heap. He crawled into the hut and pres
ent! returned bearing a good slied tin
bottle labeled "Spiritus." He poured th
contents over the wood and struck a match.
In a moment the blue flames leaped up
and the wood crackled. He crouched down
to the leeward side, so close that his
clothes were singed and gave forth a
sharp, acrid smell. He withdrew his
mittens and held his bare, scarred bauds
right into the flames.
"Ah '." he murmured in a gurgling
voice, "that is good !"
But it did not last long. The wood
was light and very dry, and in five min
utes there was nothing left but a few
smoldering ashes.
The doctor rose to his feet and looked
long and steadily out to the north over
the broken ice. His eyes lingered over
each white mound and hillock not loving
ly, for it was horribly dismal, almost too
dismal to be part of this world at all.
Strange to say, his eyes finished their
inspection by looking up to heaven. The
great snow-clouds were rolling south,
bearing in their huge, rounded bosoms the
white pall to cover a continent for many
months to come. But this man seemed
to be looking beyond the clouds, seeking
to penetrate the dim ether. He was not
looking at the sky, but into heaven. At
last he gave a contemptuous little shrug
of the shoulders, full of a tetrible mean
ing. The next moment he sought for
something in the inner pocket of his fur
tunic. There was a gleam of dull, rusted
metal, and he raised his hand toward his
open mouth. At the same instant a sharp
rep"ort broke upon that echoless silence,
and a little puff of white smoke was bor
southward on the breeze.
(To be continued.)
EARTHQUAKES IN
CARIBBEES
bjr
Phenomena Always Attended
Dread Bordering on Terror.
To us the lands and countries about
the Caribbean Sea are of the greatest
interest and importance. Our people
will be locating there with more and
Increasing frequency, ami all the while
the ties of international co-operation
will become stronger, says Francis C.
Nicholas in the . Review of Reviews.
That eruptive and seismic disasters
have afflicted places lu those regions
will not deter us very much, for one
has abundant faith that it Is not going
to hapien to him, and a good many of
our people are locating directly in
range of the volcanoes, happy and pros
pering along with the natives.
The region is not very far away. A
few days on the steamer and one is In
the tropics. That bit of yellow seaweed
picked up at the shore last summer be
cause it was different from the others
was probably brought by the gulf
stream from the Caribbean regions and
carried to our shores by a southerly
wind. Surely it is not a far-away coun
try that we are considering, and it is
very beautiful sunshine and flowers,
green savannas mid towering moun
tains, torrential rivers, clear, splashing
brooks and deep blue seas.
Why should one think of earth
quakes? My own experiences with them
have happily been free from scenes of
death ; yet the coming of an earthquake
is so sudden, so wildly terrible, that the
stoutest hearts must quail. Even wild
animals shrink with fear, and one is
always filled with dread bordering on
terror. It Is all so sudden. A sense
of some unknown fear pervades all na
ture, as if the spirit of the world had
caught its breath and held all life an
instant In suspense, while sounds seem
to beset one's nerves rather than to
assault the ears. Then comes a reel
ing, sickening, staggering motion, and
fear, and human crying out, and then
quivering silence for the space of a
breath, followed perhaps by crushing
destruction, or, it may 1k by a sound
like a great siglung and the earth set
tles hack, that the pulsations of na
ture may begin again in harmony. Then
excited people rind their voices, be
wildered faces gleam with intelligence
and every one is talking, comparing ex
periences, wondering what it was,
where it had tome from and how it
had gone away. Such have been my
experiences with earthquakes in the
Caribbean regions.
Clod Masher, Leveler and Dr.
This clod niasr, leveler and drag
can also be used for mashing down
cornstalks and weeds. Cut off a log
about twelve inches in diameter that
will split straight through the middle
nicely, take off the bark from both
pieces, that will leave one flat side and
one rounding side to each piece; get
some old half-Inch rod Irons, six pieces
about fifteen inches long, have taps on
one end and hook about two Inches
long, bent on the other end ; bore two
auger holes In each piece a foot from
each end ; put the hooks with taps
through holes. Get two pieces of old
log chains, with three links each, which
will fasten the two pieces of timber to
gether. Bore two more holes in one of
the pieces about two feet from each
end, and take one long trace chain and
fasten to doubletree. Letter A shows
shape of the rods. If you want to
GOOD FIEID CONTRIVANCE.
make it heavier, drop a pole on the
chains between the logs. This will
make as fine a drag, clod crusher, land
leveler, stalk and weed knocker as you
would wish to use.
Damterom Corn Pest.
The cornstalk borer has infested va
rious parts of the county for many
yenrs, but has not done great damage
in most parts of the corn belt. It has
begun to appear in Iowa and Kansas In
the last two or three years.
It is a large, white, brown-snotted
caterpillar which bores Into a stalk of
young corn. When fully grown it bur
rows down Into the tap-root, and in
the spring transforms to a pupa, from
which the adult soon emerges and lays
its eggs on the young corn near the ax
ils.
The young larvae hatching from them
bore into the stalk and upward through
the pith. When fully grown they bore
outwards to the surface, making a hole,
from which the moth escapes and trans
forms to pupa In the burrow. This Jn
sect Is two-brooded, the second brood
feeding on the old stalks, generally be
tween the second Joint and the ground,
and becoming full grown about harvest
time, when they go Into winter quar
ters. When corn was seriously Infested
last year and the Btalks left standing
a second infestation may be expected
this year unless the farmer has raked
and burned, a method which we have
always suggested when the cornstalks
were known to harbor any kind of In
sect pests. Com is too good to be with
out is full supply of enemies, which at
tack It from the very time It is planted
in the ground until It Is In the full
ear.
Grnilinjr C'renm.
The establishment of creameries has
done much to put. the dairy business
on a stable and profitable basis, as well
as to provide consumers with a unl
form quality of good butter. The in
troduction of the hand separator, by
enabling the farmer to feed skim-milk
In prime condition and minimizing
transportation expense, has also done
much for the business. This has not
been without a drawback, however, in
that the separated cream Is not always
kept under proper conditions, and that
delivered to the creameries differs
greatly In quality. When all are paid
the same rate for butter fat there Is
no incentive to careful preservation of
the cream. At the exieriinent station,
Manhattan, Kan., a system of grading
cream was adopted about two years
ago, the prices paid varying with the
quality of the cream. This has resulted
In great Improvement in the cream de
livered and enables the butter maker
to do his part better. Bulletin No. 1.1.",
"Grading Cream," treats of this sub
ject, and can he obtained by addressing
the station as above.
Cheap Fuel Alcohol.
Denaturized alcohol will probably be
come another great product of the
southern states. It is claimed that cot
tonseed oil machinery is perfectly
adapted to making industrial alcohol
from the potato. If this Is successfully
proven, the many cottonseed oil mills
of the south, which are idle each sum
mer season for lack of material, will he
able to operate all the time and keep
their employes together. Furthermore,
being already equipped with the ma
chinery, they will, no doubt, be able to
manufacture the alcohol very cheaply.
Farmers would also be benefited by the
Immense demand for potatoes that
would result. In Cuba alcohol Is pro
duced and sold from twelve to fifteen
cents a gallon, and it is said to make
an excellent fuel for running engines.
It produces no soot or disagreeable
odors. When the law recently passed
by congress to denaturlze alcohol in
the United States becomes operative It
is expected greatly to increase the use
of the article both for fuel und other
purposes. '
Arranging Large Kettle.
This Illustration gives a plan to sel
up a kettle In butchering time which 1
much better than the old way wltb
posts and pole. Take one and one-half
It Is a distressing thought that many
of the physical Ills In the world might
have been prevented had the sufferers
only known how. Much of the blind
ness found in asylums is due to a de
structive inflammation of the eyes oc
curring soon after birth, which can al
most always be averted by proper
treatment.
Very many cases of deafness are also
preventable If treatment Is begun early
enough and persisted In long enough.
Sometimes loss of hearing Is due to
disease of the auditory nerves lu the
Inner ear; that Is usually unavoidable
and Irremediable. But In the great ma
jority of cases the trouble is In the mid
dle ear, and Is primarily of a catarrhal
nature. It does not originate lu the ear
ordinarily, but extends to it from the
throat, and so It happens that treat
ment of catarrhal conditions of the
nose and throat Is the best preventive
of deafness.
The most frequent cause of deafness
In children is the presence of adenoinds,
or the throat tonsil. This obstructs the
passage of air from the nose, and so
compels the child to breathe through
the mouth. The mucous membrane of
the throat was never intended to re
ceive the Impact of the unflltered and
unwarmed air, which in health is both
warmed and filtered of much of Its
floating dust during its passage through
the nose. The Irritation caused by
the dust and the cold results In a low
grade of Inflammation with increased
secretions, and that we call catarrh.
This Inflammation Is apt to spread
outward from the center, passing from
one point to another and up through
the connecting air tubes jrcftn the
throat to the middle ear. This exten?
slon of the Inflammation Is often helped
along by the bad habit of blowing the
nose violently when It is stopped up,
for thus a little of the secretion Is
forced Into the tube, and sometimes
even Into the drum cavity of the ear.
From what has been said of tin
cause of catarrhal deafness, the means
of prevention can be readily under
stood. Any child who breathes through
its mouth should have the throat ex
amined, and If adenoids are found they
should be removed. Any chronic ca
tarrhal condition of the throat and
nose should receive proper treatment
and any one with a tendency to tako
cold on small provocation should con
sult his physician, who mny find some
local trouble In the nose which a sim
ple operation may remove, or may Ami
that the sufferer Is not living hyglenl
cally, or that the throat needs some
remedial applications to relieve a state
of irritability Youth's Companion.
Slnlklnur Mild t;eese.
In n number of counties lying on both
sides of the Sacramento River, in the
central portion of California, the farm
ers are greatly harassed every winter
by the depredations of countless flocks
of wild geese, which swarm over the
broad grain fields and destroy the
young, sprouting grain stalks. Indeed,
so serious litis this annual invasion lx
come that nearly all the lanre farms
have employes who regularly patrol the
fields, and do nothing else but keep the
feathered pest on the wing.
One of the most novel blinds or stalk
ers ever used In that section, or any
other, for the pnrixiso of destroying tin
geese, is mat or a ( olusa farmer who
lives on the bank of the Sacramento.
He has a big red steer which he has
trained to stalk geese. The steer walks
round a flock of geese In tin ever de-
Teasing circle, his master, armed with
tl repeating shotgun, walking beside
him. but on the farther side from the
flock.
The geese have become so uod to
seeing animals grazing near that they
ij- no attention to them; so the farm
er is enabled to get within shotgun dis
tance and pour a broadside Into the
flock while it is feeding on the ground.
md two more shots In-fore the birds
ure out of range when they rise.
This dumb hunter is held n great es
teem by its owner and his family, it Is
needless to state, and receives the best
of everything.
The Way to Make Hens Monlt
One of the achievements of modern
poultry keeping is that of forcing a hen
to doff her old coat, and grow a new
one before the time when she would
do so naturally. Many hens shed their
feathers so late In tie season, natural
ly, that cold weather overtakes them
before they get new suits, consequently
they seldom begin laying before spring.
If the moult can be hastened so that
a new coat of feathers Is grown and
the laying can be started before cold
weather, the prospect Is good for a
supply of eggs during fall and winter.
The result Is usually accomplished
by cutting off all meat and mash foods,
putting the hens on short rations of
grain for a week or so to stop the lay
ing, then allow more liberty and feed a
full ration high in protein. This loosens
the old feathers, which drop off quickly
and starts a rapid growth of the new.
A lilieral allowance of beef scrap Is
essential, and linseed meal Is an advan
tage. Sunflower seeds are also good
during the moult
HOW TO SET THE KtTTI.E.
Inch old wagon tire to the blacksmith
shop and get a ring made the size ol
your kettle, with three legs welded tc
It. and you can move your kettle anj
place where wanted, ami nothing is k
your way to go around it
Short.
"I hear some scientists are going to
try to make the north ole with an air
ship. Io they intend to stay long?"
"Oh, no. They're only going to make
a flying trip." Ietroit Free Press.
Trouble Is about the only thing that
you can borrow that la not waited
back.
Tape Worm In Turkey.
The presence of the tapeworm may
be recognized through the Indolent,
drowsy spirits of turkeys Infested by
it; a careful examination of voldings
will rveal Its presence, as tnose in
fested will pass small portions of the
worm. Powdered male fern Is an ef
fective remedy, and may lie adminis
tered In doses of from thirty Trains
to one dram of the iowder; or of the
liquid extract, fifteen to thirty drops.
This should be administered morning
and evening before feeding; the mini
mum dose to the younger. Increasing
the dose as they grow older. Oil of
turpentine Is an excellent remedy
against worms of all kinds which In
habit the digestive organs of poultry.
A common remedy for the removal of
worms from fowls Is one drop of kero
sene oil night and morning. This
should not be administered to the very
voting, but may be used with Impunl-
j t after they are few weeks old,
t'nlllng Arngn Stnlk.
The right way In cutting asparagus
stalks, says an exiert iu answer to a
question, Is to cut everything clean up
to the end of the asparagus season, 01
up to about the time that green peas
are fit to gather. After that we let all
the stalks grow, hut If we were to cut
any, we would remove the little ones
rather than the big ones. This clean
cutting Is also the best remedy for the
asparagus beetle, which gives us some
trouble here. As long as all the stalk
are cut. the insect Is given no chance to
breed, and later on. when we stop cut
ting, we can spray the plants with the
Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead
combination w hich makes nn end to the
beetle attacks for a while, and also
chocks the rust if that gives trouble.
For ridding the stalks of slugs alone,
dusting with freshly slaked lime while
the plants are still wet with dew will
answer.
A Glre-Array.
"With the aid of my mesmeric Influ
ence I put the subject Into a hypnotic
sleep, causing him to remain In a posl
tlon Impossible In the normal subject.
'.,(!. i'-j y-f'-rni"
"Thus I"
Yalne of Dairy Prod aria.
A Pathetic Figure.
Some time when you are walking In
the Rue de RIvolI. says a writer in
The Munsey, pause for a moment and
glance up at the balcony of the Hotel
Continental. You may see a little,
weazened old woman there, dressed In
rusty black, with widow's weeds. Of
her Paris talked mightily once upon a
time; for that old lady Is the Empress
Eugenie. She stands looking out on
the gardens of the Tullerles. where
once her palace was where once she
reigned In greater splendor than any
queen of them all; a dreary, pathetic
figure; a text for a sermon on fallen
greatness.
Peanlralatle.
"Good news!" cried the lawyer, war
ing a paper nhove his bend. "I've se
cured a reprieve for you."
A reprieve?" replied the mnrtett
There were 12,147,."4..W) ttotinds of , .
hi, r,,iT. ' . "I ! murderer. Indifferently.
. J vfu rt-v, you OUgOl
milk
used In l'.4 In the manufacture of
C.M.278,141 pounds ,f buttr. 31.1.0.S.V
'JJK) pounds of cheese and .in,1.4S.'),lS2
pounds of condensed milk. These fig
ures are part of the census of manufac
tures for Una. The total cost of the
materials used in the Industry waa
$142,920,277. while the value of the pro-
to be happy-
"Ah!" replied the prisoner, gloomily,
"that simply means a delay, and I've
lways been taught that delays are dan
gerous." Catholic Standard and Time
Cot la Telephone Rale.
To meet the teleplione competition It
ducts was f 108.1. S2.7S9, an Increase of Is proposed In England to reduce the
the former of 31.3 per cent, and of the (cost of a stx-wnrd telegram. Including
latter of 28.0 per cent The number
of establishments dropped from 9,242
to 8,926. while the capital Increased 30
per cent to f47.2S5.Kitf.
the address, to 6 cents.
A woman can put this and that to-
There were gether and tell everything her husband
3,507 salaried officials and clerks and ' doing. But a woman can fool her
17,557 engaged In the manufacture of husband whenever she wants to. For-
these articles. These received salaries tunately, women do not ortea care to
and wages amounting to S3.7S2.03dL, I fool their husbands.