SSI THE IRON PIRATE A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea By MAX - e ClIAPTEIi I. The train moved slowly over the sandy fnarsh which lies between Calais and Bou logne. Roderick was asleep, and Miry's pretty head had fallen against rhe cushion. As I reclined at greater length on the cushions of the stuffy compartment, 1 thought how strange a company we were I hen being carried over the dull, drear pasture land of France, to the lights, the luusic and the life of the great capi all. lioderick and 1 had lieen at Caius Ool legt. Cambridge, together, friends drawn the closer in affection because our condi tions in kith and kin, in possession and i:i purpose, in ambition and in idleness, were so very like. Roderick was an or l h;in 24 years of ago, young, rich, dcs.r ing to know life, caring for no man, not Vital enough to realize danger, a g'xxl f.diow, a gentleman. His sister was his only c.tre. He gave to her the strength of nn undivided love. For myself, Iwas 2.") when the strange things of which I am about to write hap I eiied u me. My father had left me i."0,iHM, which I drew upon when I was c;f age; but, shame that 1 should write L, I had spent more than 40. (MM) in four years, and my schooner, the Celsis, with some few thousand pounds, alone remain ed to me. Of what was my future to be, 1 knew not. In the senseless purpose of m.v life, 1 said only, "It will come, the tide in my affairs which taken at the C.-tod should lead on to fortune." And in this supreme folly I lived the days, now in the Mediterranean, now cruising round the coast of England, now flying of a sud den to Paris. A journey fraught with folly, the child of folly, to end in folly, fo might it have been said; but who can foretell the supreme moments of our lives, when unknowingly we stand on the threshold of action? And who should ex pect me to foresee that the man who was to touch the spring of my life's action sat before me mocked of me, dubbed the Per fect Fool over whose dead body I was to tread the paths of danger and the intri cate ways of strange adventure? But I would not weary you with more of these facts than are absolutely neces sary for the understanding of this story, surpassing strange. Mary and Roderick slept, while the Perfect Fool and I faced each other, sick to weariness with re (lec tions upon the probability of leing late or arriving before time. At last he spoke, end, speaking, seemed to be the Perfect Fool no longer. "They're both asleep, aren't they?" he asked suddenly. "Would you mind mak ing sure, for I have a favor to ask." He was looking at me with a fitful pleading look unlike anything he had shown previously. I assured him at once that he might speak his mind ; that, even If Roderick should overhear us, 1 would pledge my word for his good faith. "I wanted to sjieak to you some days ego." he said earnestly and quickly, as liis hinds continued to play with a paper. ""It must spem curious in your eyes that 1, who am quite a stranger to you, should Iiave been in your company for some weeks, and should not have told you more than my name. Martin Hall. As the thing stands, you have been kind enough to miike no inquiries: if I am an imiostor, you do not care to know it ; if I am a rascal hunied by the law, you have not teen willing to help the law; you do not know if I have money or no money, a fcorne or no home, people or no people, vet vou have made me shall I say, a friend?" lie asked th question with such a gen tle inflexion of the voice that I felt a (sof.T chord was touched, and ;n resiwnse I shook hands with him. After that he continued to speak. "I am very grateful for all your trust, believe me, for I am a man that ha4 known few friends in life. You have given rue your friendship unasked, and it is the mor prized. What I wanted to Kay is this, if I should die before three days have passed, will you open this packet of papers I have prepared and ealed for you. and carry out what is writ ten there as well as you are able? As for the dangers, they are big enough, but you ere the man to overcome them as I hope to overcome them if I live !" The sun fell over the lifeless scene with out as Martin Hall ceased to speak. I bad thought the man a fool and witless, flighty in purpose and shallow in thought, end yet he seemed to speak of great mys t tries and of death. In one moment the jester's cloak fell from him, and I saw the mail beneath. "Tell me, are you quite certain that you ere not talking nonsense?" I asked. "If you are nit playing the fo'd, 1 1 all. you iuust be more explicit. In the first p!ac, bow did you fret this absurd notion that you are coin? to d.e into your head? sec ondly, what is the nature of the obliza'ion jou wish to put upon me? Why should you, who are going to Paris, as far as I I.ijow. simply as a common sightwer, have i nv reason to fear some mysterious ca L.mitv in a city where you don't know a soul?" "Why am I going to Paris without aim, do you siy? Without aim I. hi have v.ai,'-d years for the work I bdiev that I shall accomplish to-night! I will tell you. I am g tirjg to Paris to meet one who, le fore another year has gone, will be want ed by every government in Europe: who, if I do not put my hand upon his throat in the midst of his foul work, will make prave as thick as pines in the wood there l.eforo you know another month: one who is mad and who is sane, one who, if he Iii:ew my purpose, would crush me as I nusb this pajer: one who has everything that life can give and se-ks more, a !in who has M-t his face against humanity, end who will make war on the nations, who has money and men, who -an com mand and be obeyed in ten cities, against whom the jKil.e might as will liop to fgbt a against the white wall of the Foath Sea ; a man of purpos so deadly that the wisest in crime would not think f It a man, in short, who is the product M culaiiaatiBt vie him I am going to PEMBERTON - meet in this Paris where I go without aim without aim, hu !" "And you mean to run him down?" I asked. "What interest have you in him?" "At the moment none ; but in a month the interest of money. As sure as you and I talk of it now, there will be fifty thousand pounds offered for knowledge of him before December comes upon us !" I looked at him as at one who dreams dreams, but he did not flinch. "To-night I shall be with him ; within three days I win all or lose all ; for his secret will be mine. If I fail, it is for you to follow up the thread which I have unravelled by three years' hard work. Dare you risk coming with me I meet him at eight o'clock?" "Dare I risk ! poor, there can't be much danger." "There is every danger ! but, so, the girl is waking !" It was true; Mary looked up suddenly as we thundered past the fortifications of Paris. lioderick shook himself like a great bear : the Perfect Fool began his banter, and roared for a cab ns the lights of the station twinkled in the semi-darkness. I could scarce believe, ns I watched his antics, that he was the man who had spoken to me of groat mysteries ten min utes before. Still less could I convince myself that he had not many days to live. So are the fateful things of bfe hidden from us. CHAPTER II. The lights of Paris were very bright as we drove down the Boulevard des Ca pucines, and drew up at length at the Hotel Scribe, which is by the opera house. Mary uttered a hundred exclamations of joy as we passed through the city of lights ; and Roderick, who loved Paris, condescended to keep awake ! "I'll tell vou what," he exclaimed, "the beauty of this place is that no one thinks here, except about cooking. Suppose we plan a nice little dinner for four?" For two, my dear fellow, it you please," said Hall, with mock of state he was quite the Perfect Fool again. Mr. Mark Strong condescends to dine with me don't you, Mr. Mark?" "The fact is, Roderick," I explained, "that I made a promise to meet one of Mr. Hall's friends to-night, so you and Mary must dine alone." Hall and I mounted the stairs of the cozy little hotel, whose windows overlook the core of .the great throbbing heart of Paris, and so until we were alone in my room, whither he had followed me. "Quick's the word," he said, as he shut the dxr, and took several articles from his hat box. "One pair of spectacles, one wig, one set of curiosities to sell do I look like a second-hand dealer in odd lots, Mr. Mark Strong?" I had never seen such an utter change in any man made with such little show. The Perfect Fool was no longer before me ; there was in his place a lounging, shady-looking, greed-haunted Hebrew. The haunching of the shoulders was perfect; the stoop, the walk, were triumphs. "It's five minutes from here," he said, "and the clocks are going eight you are right as you are, fur you are a cipher in the affair yet." He passed down the stairs and I fol lowed him. So good was his disguise and make-pretense that the others, who were in the narrow hall drew back to let him go, not recognizing him, and spoke to me, asking what I had done with him. Then I pointed to the new Perfect Fool, and without another word of explanation went on into the street. We walked in silence for some little distance. Finally he turned, crossing a busy thoroughfare and stopped quite sud denly at last in a narrow street. He had something to say to me. "This is the place," he said. You carry this box of metal" he meant the case of curiosities "and don't open your mouth. Keep a hold on your eyes, whatever you s-e or whatever you hear. Do I look all right?" "Perfectly but just a word ; if we are going into some den where we may have a d.fficulty in getting out again, wouldn't it be as well to go armed?" Armed ; pish . and he looked un utterable contempt, treading the passage with long strides, and entering a house at the far end of it. Thither I followed him and found my self at last on the third floor, before a door of thick oak. Our first knocking uKm this had no effect. Then I heard a great rolling voice which seemed to echo on the stairway, and so leapt from flight to flight, almost l.ke the rattle of a can non shot with its many reverberations. For the moment indistinct, I then be came aware that the voie was that of a man singing and walking at the same time. When the noise stopped at last, there was si!m'e, complete and unhroRen. Hall stood uiotioni.ss. After that we heard a gr-!it yell from the same voice, with the words, "Ahoy, Splinters, hift along the g-ar, will you?" A mumbled dis cussion seerm-d to trend on the heels of the hullabaloo, when, apparently having arranged the "gear" to satisfaction, the man s'alked to the door. "Hullo th little Jew and his kick shaws; why, matey, w, early in the morn ing?" The exclamation came as he saw u, putting his head round the door, and showing one arm swathed all up in dirty red flannel. He was no sort of a man to bok at, for his head was a mass of dify yellow hair, and his face d.d not seem to have known an ablution for a we. k. But there was an ugly jocular look alout his rabbit -like eyes, and a great mark "it '-lean iirtij t tie side of his face, which were a fit decoration f ir the red burnt, pitted, and horribly repulsive coun tenance he Ix-traved. I locked at him ! and drew back repelled. Thin he saw, and with a 11 ish and a display of o great stump of a to th which pWruW on bia left lis. he turned on ma. "And who may you be, matey, that you don't go for to shake hands with Roaring John? Dip me in brine, if you was my son I'd dress you down with a two-foot bar. Why don't you teach the little He brew manners, old Josfos; but there," and this he said ns he opened the door wider, "so long as our skipper will have to do with shiners to sell and land barnacles, what can you look for? walk right along here." The man who called himself "Roaring John" entered the apartment before us, bawling at the top of his voice, "Josfos, the Jew, and his1 pardner come aboard!" nnd then I found mvself in the strangest company nnd the strangest place I have As all fanners who kill their own ever set eyes on. So soon as I could hogs know, the old way of butchering see things clearly through the hanging at- s very inconvenient nnd tiresome. The mosphere of tobacco smoke and heavy following arrangement, illustrated In vapor, I made out the forms of six or the QUeenBlnilder umke8 tlle lnbor eight men, not sitting ns men usually da ,mrativel Tfa , , 2 B in a place where they eat, but squatting . ' ' , , , ,f i, ,,r- inches, nnd 12 feet long. The mortices on their haunches by a series of low ntir- ' ' r , row tables, laid round the four sides of fr the supports to fit In nre made five the apartment. Each man lolled back Inches from the ends of piece, and are on his own pile of dirty pillows and one-half inch deep, 21 Inches wide at dirtier blankets; each had before him ft bottom, by 1 Inches at top, thus only great metal drinking cup, a coarse knife, one iJ(it is needed to hold them to long rolls of plug tobacco, nnd a small Keti,er at top. The upright supports red ouiulle, wnieh 1 dount not was u. portable property. Each, too, was dress- -i .1.. - i-:. r.n .,.itj perl fit eiacuv as ms Leuov, iu a i'- , . " , f ,j, hino shirt, seaman s trousers of ample Dlue seree. a belt, and each had some bauble of a bracelet on his arm, and some strange rings upon his lingers, rney were men marked by time ns with long service on the sea ; men scarred, burnt, some with traces of great cuts and slashes received on the open face; men fierce-looking as painted demons, with teeth, with none, with four fingers to the hand, with three; men whose laugh was a horrid growl, whose threats chilled the heart to hear, whose very words seemed to pois m the air, who made the great room like a cage of beasts, ravenous and ill-seeking. Martin Hall put himself at his ease the moment we entered. He made Ms way to the top of the room and stood before one who forced from me individual no tice, so strange-looking was he, and so deep did the respect which all paid him appear to be. He sat at the head of the rude table, but not as the others sat, for ; there was a pile of rich-looking skins i bear, tiger, nnd white wolf beneath him, j and he alone of nil the company wore , black clothes nnd a white shirt. He was a snori man, ojaeK-ueiuueu turn smwiu- skinned, with a big nose, almost an in-i. tellectual forehead, small, white-looking hands, all ablaze with diamonds, about whose fine quality there could not be two opinions ; and, what was even more re markable, there hung as a pendant to his watch chain a great uncut ruby which must have been worth five thousand pounds. One trademark of the sea alone did he possess, in the dark, curly ringlets which fell to his shoulders, matted there as long uncombed, but typical in all of the man. This then was the fellow upon whose every word that company of ruf fians appeared to hang, who obeyed him, as I observed presently, when he did so much as lift his hand the man of whom Martin Hall had painted such a fantastic picture, who was, as I had been told, soon to be wanted by every government in Eu rope. Hall was the first to speak, and it was evident to me that he cloaked his own voice, putting on the nasal twang and the manner of an East-end Jew dealer. "I have come, Mr. Black," he said, "as you was good enough to wish, with a few little things beautiful things which cost me moosh money " "Ho, ho!" sang out Captain Black, "here is a Jew who paid much money for a few little things! Look at him, boys! the Jew with much. money 1 Turn out his pockets, boys ! the Jew with much money! Ho, ho!" His merriment set all the company roaring to his mood. For a moment their play was far from innocent, for one light ed a great sheet of paper nnd burnt it under the nose of my friend. I remem bered Hall's words, and held still, giving banter for banter. In what sort of a company was I, where mere seamen wore diamond rings. Hall gathered up his trin kets and proceeded to lay them out with the well-simulated cuning of the trader. (To be continued.) Puzzled. "I don't know whether to be offend ed at Miss Smy thers or not!" declured Stax, seriously. "What's the matter?" asked bis friend. "About 11 o'chx-k last night when I was caning on ner, lie continued. 'she said In the sweetest kind of way, Mr. Stax, wL.it in the world does that funny word "skidoo" mean?'" Detroit Free Tress, Her Kornet fulnenia. Mrs. Nexdore Your husband seemed to be iu u very good humor tills morn ing when he left the house. Mrs. Nugget Did he? Mrs. Nexdore Yes, I couldn't help wondering what was the cause Mrs. Xagget Jood gracious! I know! I forgot to ask him for any money ! Philadelphia Ledger. An I nilrrhnnd Trick. Creditor So you want an extension of two weeks. What would happen if you were to die before the time elapses? Debtor Sir, I am too much of a gen tleman to do that!" Translated for Tales from Fliegende Blatter. A Vmaii Wny. Jack I apologize for kissing you. Will you forgive me? Jill Never! Jack Was the act so unpardonable? Jill The kiss wasn't, but the apology Is. Cleveland Leader. Too l.ate. "Ah, darling," sighed the romantic youth, "I would gladly lay the world at your feet." "But of course you can't," replied the pra-tical maid, "for It's there already.' Chicago News. MlMaomfm, She What's in a name? lie Not much; I've often seen wom en that just hated each other drinking "m 'r II1C" same loving cup. jMiirou Free Pre?. The Church of England ba an In come of fiS.OUO.OOO a year. "'.tV I Farm Hoar-Killing- Oatat. )re O.Y.2U and seven feet long; eross- . i11-" 114214, nnd at one end this , , j i , , should be bolted on upright p eoes, ' down low enough so that bench will set over It. The lever is 3x2 at staple, DEVICE FOB IIANOIXO THE HOO. nnd shaved down to 1 at end. Sta ples made of five-sixteenths inch rod Iron, and long enough to clinch. Clevis where chain is fastened is made of three-eighths inch iron. The end of the lever is Iron, 0x2 bent, as shown for gambrel stick- to rest on. while lifting pig to the iole hooks, which are made ltjrge enough to slip back and forth eilsnv on unn(sr -v,- R0rts one-half Inch, bent to hold gambrel stick. A not shown In cut made of one- half Inch Iron, attaches to B and pro- vides a fulcrum for the lever A for dipping hog in the barrel nnd raising carcass to the gambrel hooks. Bench, 19x1 inches, 20 inches high, 8 feet long. Barrel to be set in the ground one-quarter its length. No rroflt In Farm Alcohol. The Department of Agriculture, through Dr. II. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, has undertaken to educate the farmers regarding the manufacture of denatured alcohoL Two bulletins on the subject have been is sued. From Dr. Wiley's discussion of the subject the conclusion is reached that the manufacture of alcohol on a very small scale Is not likely to prove prof itable, and because of revenue regula tions it is evident that the farmer must be content with producing the raw ma terials. The bulletin on the subject of sources and manufacture says: "The principal uses of Industrial al cohol are Illumination, heating, motive power and the manufacture of lacquers, varnishes, smokeless powder, medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations, vine gar and ether. When industrial alco hol Is made at a price at which it can compete with petroleum and gasoline. It doubtless will be preferred for the purposes above mentioned, because of Its greater safety and more pleasant odor. Under the present conditions it is not probable that Industrial alcohol can lie offered upon the market at much less than 40 cents a gallon of 05 per cent strength." Dr. Wiley expresses the belief, how ever, that by paying attention to un used sources of raw material and with improved methods of manufacturing and denaturing this price can be di minished. To Rid Animal of I.lce. A bulletin recently Issued by the Ok lahoma experiment station gives the following formula for making kerosene emulsion to rid farm animals of lice. Hard soap, one-half pound; kerosene (cheap grade) two gallons; water, one gallon. Cut the soap in shavings and boll in water until the soup Is dis solved. Remove the soap solution from the fire and add kerosene, and churn or spray back until a thorough emul sion Is made. To set emulsion add seven gallons of water, and u3 this for spraying or dipping. This emul sion may lie applied to any of the farm animals by means of a sponge, brush or spray pump, without any injury whatever, and when thoroughly ap plied It will rid the stock of lice. This emulsion may also le used to free poul try from lice. Place the emulsion In a vessel of convenient size and dip the fowls, Itelng sure to get all tortious of the Itody wet, and hold them in the dip one minute. After treating the fowls the emulsion may lie used to spray the roosts and coops, and in this way rid them of mites and lice. ninarnz; In Mlnnourl. According to the Missouri experiment station bulletin, the cultivation of gin seng for the Chinese market has be come an Important Industry in that State, notwithstanding the fact that it takes five or six years to mature a crop. While the crop !s exceptionally valu able, the cultivation of ginseng has lieen found to tosses disadvantages the same as most other cultivated erop- It appears that several fungus diseases have broken out In the gin seng plantations, some of wh!rli are extremely serious and Infectious, large areas often Iteing destroyed In a sin gle week. However, the particular or ganisms causing the damage have been recognized and methods for keeping the diseases under control have now been worked out Onion Cirnwlnar. The period between killing frost? In Montana is placed at 100 to 120 days, while the time required for onions to mature from seeding is 135 to 150 days, and if onions are not thoroughly ripe their keeping quality Is injured, according to a reitort prepared by H. W. Fisher, of the Montana Station. The experiments are recorded In detail for each year, and yields given by both methods of culture. Generally speaking, the yields from transplanted onions were from 50 to 200 per cent larger than from seed sown in the field, where there was but little or no increase In cost of labor. The transplanting insures an even crop, the maturity of the crop and the keep ! ing quality of the onions. Prize laker gave the largest average yield of the nineteen varieties grown, and was one of the best keepers, though not usually advertised as a winter onion. The seed ling bulbs of this variety, however, kept poorly because the growing sea son was not long enough to properly mature them. The use of well-rotted manure Increased the yield of both field-sown and transplanted onions. Suggestions are Included for making hotbeds. Milk Cons. The Hollanders evidently breed and feed for milk first of all. That they succeed is proved by the large milk yields of their cows. That large milk flow, seemingly regardless of butter-fat percentage, pays them Is proved by their prosperity. The dairyman here thinks it necessary to pay small prices for dairy cows that annually yield from 3,000 to 4,000 itounds of milk. What the financial result to him is, the wretched records show only too plain ly. He is the worst-paid farmer in the land. What could he not do If, instead of breeding, buying, feeding and milk ing cheap cows, he were to breed, feed and milk cows' of the 11,500 to 14,500 pound class? The Frleslanders and other Hollanders, with their gigantic cows, make money on milk produced on soil that costs from $500 to $2,000 an acre or rents at from $50 to $200. The Onlou Magirot. The onion maggot and cabbage mag got can only be distinguished by an expert, as they are very nearly alike. The maggot Is the larva of a small fly. There is no known "sure" remedy that can be applied. Sprinkling powdered , coats were detailed to watch the young sulphur around the plants is a partial ( "ter, while the others were set to work remedy, but It does not always bring straightening out the disordered room. relief. Making a small hole near each onion and pouring into each hole half a teaspoonful of bisulphide of carbon, covering the holes with earth, Is claim ed to be a remedy, hut such method Is expensive and laltorlous. Liquid ma nure applied to the plants Is claimed to be a remedy. The best preventive! is to grow the onions on land that has not before produced a crop, but of course such can not be done until next season. This change of location of the onion patch is the only partial solution of the maggot problem. SaB-Bn8r Fence Support. For fence posts or supports that will not rot off or break off, for picket or nine-wire, take two boards 2x0, cross at the top so as to leave a crotch for top wire. Fasten together with 8-pen- ' 1 SUPPORTS FOB FENCE. .,., , ,,.t hr. I'l l"" " - a good ,post for ticket fence. Nail or wire post to the stake. This makes an excellent post for repairing an old picket fence. Farm Progress. studying; Evaporated Cream. The Massachusetts ttoard or health has been conducting extended investl- gations as to the composition of the so - called evaporated creams offered In the local markets, and has discovered that most of these are misnomers. Numer- ous determinatlons show these prod- ucts to be merely unsweetened con- densed milk, which, while jtossesslng the consistency and appearance of cream, have neither the taste nor phys ical characteristics. Itant Hath la Important. Do not forget the dust bath ; It is a cheap luxury, and will go far toward keeping the fowls free from lice and mites. Any ordinary Itox obtainable at the grocer's will answer the pur-1 lose. It must lie kept dry, filled with '. I secur'ed In dry weather before freezing), to which should be added ..... ,, . ,. from time to time a lilteral allowance ..... .iii of sulphur. Some use wood ashes In of dust Points In l-ruztnc In pruning the trees all stems half an Inch or more In diameter should lie covered with some waterproof sub- stance, like grafting wax or shellac of ny nails. Put a crossplece in the mid-! u" Minnas immung ,n- dle for middle wires to rest on and , 8tltl,tlons In the world." fasten with staple and a crossplece at I Tll Washington State Fish Coinmls Itottom for bottom wires to rest on and s!on reports that fish can lie frozen fasten with staple. Then anchor with s)ll(1 BI'd thawed back to life, if not a small stake on each side to prevent exposed to the sun or allowed to get the consistency of cream. The Uirkr H"- Tw head rounds gracefully to and outer whm1 will thus lie preserved, the neck, which offers a slender sup and the wound will in a season or so 'port to the mass of rock nltove It. The Ik covered with new bark. If this pre- face Is that of an aristocratic Colonial caution lie not taken the end of the lirniirii may occay ironi exposure to 1 wind, rain, beat and cold. ' POLICE SLAVES OF A BABY. Turin the Station I'pnlde Down (or a. I'erlod of Two Weel. The olllcials of the Children's So ciety breathed 11 sigh of relief when they got rid of a 2 ear-oId baby boy who was on their hands the last two weeks. There have been hundreds of 2-year-olds in the society rooms since the organization was founded, but none ever compared with the little unknown wlio ninrto tlilnps so llvelv that there wnsn,t ftn hour.B 1e.ue while he 8tayed , In the place. On the night of Oct. 4 little Samson, as he was quickly called, was found In Corlears Hook park, where ho had been abandoned. He was turned over to a cop, who took lilm to the Delan cey street police station. Thence he was shipped to the Children's society. He was a pretty little oungster, with light hair, big blue eyes and fair com plexion, and he was fairly well dress ed. Although unable to talk, he made It known that he wnjited a drink of water and a couple of cops on reserve made a rush to wait on him When the tot drank his fill he let the dipper fly and caught Policeman Sullivan over the eye. He laughed In gle when ho saw the cop rubbing the ore spot and straightway bawled for all he was worth until the dlprier was handed back to hi in. A second time he let It rip and It crashed through a window of the back room. Seeing that lie had done some de struction, ho appeared to be happy for a wliile, but once his eyes rested upon the checkers and dominoes on the ta ble he slid off the bench and toddled over. The big cops didn't like the in terruption of the game, but there was nothing to do but quit then and there. Samson gathered all the checkers and dominoes together and then let loose a fusillade. Laughing and chuckling, ho threw every one at the cops, who dodged and fled from the room. Left alone, Samson toddled across the room and kicked over every cusjtl dor, overturned benches and chairs and with a mighty effort tipped the heavy table. The sergeant, hearing the rack et, rushed In and just nailed Samson In the act of hurling a brush through a pane of glass. The cops were ac cused of cowardice for not standing their ground and the doorman was threatened with charges. Two blue- i New lork Sun, "It is nine hundred jears since the failure of a bank In China," said a bank examiner. "Ove nine hundred years ago, I11 the reign of Hi Hung, a bank failed. Hi Hunft nad the fail ure investigated .and to his Indigna tion found It had been due to reckl'ss and shady conduct on the part of the director and the president. HI Hung at once Issued an edict that the next time a bank failed the heads of its president and directors were to be cut off. This edict, which has never been 1 t , . , . more man twelve to fourteen degrees below the freezing point. Salmon from the Pacific coast could lie frozen and transitorted to the Atlantic coast and resuscitated to full life under proper conditions. The results of this test will be that live salmon, frozen in blocks of Ice, may be shipiteil to the Atlantic coast market before long. The I test lias not been made, but a com pany at Taku harbor, In Alaska, will jinake the cxierlment. The Geneva correspondent of n Lon don paper thinks the sums done In u Swiss school sufficiently extraordinary - to Olograph some of them to his Jonr- l Tl o .l, ..,.... ... 8, living at Chaur de Fonds, sends to the Impartial the following problems as specimens of the home work the youngster had recently been set to worn oui nr ine cantonal scliool : Mul- , tipiy o,ioi,;ti'o,.T.i,it.t. by ;i,o.:(i.2.,2,01.V j 105. The boy obtained the following 'answer: lS,00!t,r52.15.'i.n75,"7.S.242,0;):, 075. Divide 71.421.2S.V-12,0(Ki.0)0 by 24,5.W. 14,212. After some hours' work the youngster obtained as answer 2,010,555,52.1. The mere rending of those terrible figures should make ev- ery small boy glad he dtcs not live In Switzerland. In Western Beaver County. Oklaho ma, what is known geologically ns the Dakota sandstone rises from Its dip un der the plains, and Isolated fragments of striking contour stand like s'iitliil9 In the silence of the lonely country. Erosion by wind and rain has worn these pyramids of sandstone till they resemble tall chimneys of fantastic de sign, cap lying on cap till It would Bwm t,mt,fl ,"sh WOU,'! '''j ,h''" tn t,,e K"'1- Ma"f tunl '""..ati. alleged to resemble human faces, etc.. , , , , ' require a stretch of Imaglnat on to fill ' ' . . , . ,, . . detail. Six miles east of Ken- jton, however, Is a Dakota standstone (chipped and chiseled by the elements till Its likeness In silhouette to the head of a woman Is perfeect. Every feature, chin, mount, nose nnd brow, ut against the ky In clearest out- dame. Don't bet on your popularity.