SSI
THE IRON PIRATE
A Plain Tale of Strange
Happenings on the Sea
By MAX
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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
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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-
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114214, nnd at one end this
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should be bolted on upright p eoes,
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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-
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SUPPORTS FOB FENCE.
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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
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from time to time a lilteral allowance
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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.