The (Chauffeur
and the Jewels
C.prri?ht. lortft, ty J. B. Lipfutcott Comfaicy.
Al' rights rrstrved.
CHAPTEU VII.
It wns on t ho fifth day out that a fog
driftii'j in from t ho Croat Hanks struck
tip vi:!i the Majestic, bringing tho groat
ship i!ovn to half spooil. For forty-eight
hours she steamed slowly nh
proa:, glutinous, lonely oeonn
ad over a
walled in
by shrouds of mist, nor fog
drearily and inoossantly.
horn sounding
It was not a
tiopoiu! prospect, and yet
"I believe the foe is changing Its
oourso," predicted the l'rinco del Pino,
late on the second day of darkness. "I
would lay a wager that within twenty
four hours wo sight your Sandy Hook."
lie and Annette Hancroft were sitting
amidships, about eight be'.ls of the after
i!
noon, in a cosy angle of the deck, well
screened from the steady drip, drip, drip
of the mist, which nevertheless lay heavy
on everything, touching the blond hair of
the girl with chill fingers and lining her
steamer cap with little shining drops.
"Your Highness doesn't speak with
much enthusiasm," she now commented,
in answer to her companion's speech.
"From your tone," she hesitated slightly,
"one wouldn't suppose that you were es
pecially anxious to have your prophecy
fulfilled."
"Perhaps I am not," agreed the man
beside her. He was sitting a little for
ward in his chair, elbows on knees, gaz
ing fixedly into the blankness. "Perhaps
I am not in such a desperate hurry to
roach New York." lie smiled, an intro
spective, half smile. "Perhaps I enjoy
this drifting existence we are leading, shut
up in this fog-eounfry. Who knows?"
Narrowing his eyes he stared in front
of him. "What a mysterious thing it is.
this brume 1 Nothng to be seen before us
or behind. Somewhat the way it is in
this life. Miss Hancroft, and yet" he
lifted his eyebrows with a faint shrug of
the shoulders "when a man loses his
what you call bearings in the exceeding
mistiness and swerves from the straight
course, he is called hard names and cast
into prison. It appears a trifle unjust,
dons it not?"
"Y-e-s," a creed Annette. She was also
loaning forward, her hands clasped,
watching him with a puzzled, wondering
gaze.
"Yes," she repeated slowly, "it does
sound cruel, unjust, and yet" she hesi
tated "so much depends doesn't it? on
how far your mariner has strayed or on
what your man has done. Of course,
you're not referring to actual crime." Her
voice dropped impressively.
Putting up his monocle, Ludovie Sarto
Scrutinized the little gray-coated figure
eo near him.
It was an unusual state of things that
had thrown those two together; as a rule,
during the past five days the Prince del
Pino had fallen to Mrs. Warfcig's share.
"Crime?'' he repeated; "criminal?
peste ! What horrible words !" This with
a twist of the thin lips, concealing a half
smile. "What do you know, indeed, about
crime, Miss Hancroft? Can a jeune
demoiselle like yourself comprehend the
swirling currents" his tones deepened
end roughened "the irresistible impulses
that may turn an honest man at any mo
ment into a criminal a thief, for in
stance?" Hchind his monocle his eyes glittered
expressively. How inevitably, all against
his will, his thoughts harked back to the
one subject on his mind 1
Fortunately, Annette found nothing
suspicious in the conversation's drift.
"A thief!" she repeated. absently.
"That reminds trio of Sarto. Ho you
know" she spoke with a certain wist
fulties "I've so often thought that that
poor f.'llo-.v had srreat possibilities, with
his
iKi and and attractions
jai -u'ated the man beside
not ti'iish her sentence,
out a clear, he lit it very
speaking between wri;Ts.
-Ah :"
US she dii
1 'iilling
iiberatelv.
her.
de
"!t is atonishins to me that you should have
found out ail that. Creatures of Sarto's
class" his mouth curved cynically "are
not. as a rule, supposed to possess any
personality individuality even, to say
nothing of attractions."
For a moment Annette stared at him,
wondering, as she had a hundred times
during the past five days, what manner
of man this extraordinary prince really
was.
"Ah! Your Highness doesn't really
mean that," she said impulsively; "I'm
sure you found out. during those two
years he was with you. that Sarto wasn't
cn ordinary chauffeur. Isn't it incredible
to you that any one of his education, his
refinement! si.
have had thp instincts
of a
ibleV"
"Ye.
er. "t
Vre... n
i
H-
thief? Isn't it uuacount-
I Ml pp-'
." agreed the
if v"i hd
the t,i:m arid
and a little."
oth
ever his
IIjoU- '
.1,,
Ull Its
: with th
.TK-eah-d.
Fo- ;),.-
nt the I'rinee
de!
Pin..
;:s ..: h: guard.
i ia I" evhi:::.ed Annexe HnriTf ft. She
Wit s i-,,!.::,g forward mi l looking at h.'m
i:h a i . rT . t in -ag-rti-ss.
"You are i like him!" she cried invol
untarily, "so astoij;iiinsr!y like Lira at
tim.-s !"
Wi-h fin
ers t:!t twitehed PVOT
SO
flight', tli.- i:.:i:i btiie her replaced his
J e-giaSS.
"Who?" he aki-d ijui'-tly, knowing full
Veil born she meant.
Atiti'-te was vividly crimson.
"I oughtn't to have mentioned if." she
apologized hesitatingly, biting her lip with
i:::io aii'-e. "'I I. ere i a certain r-sem-l.lat.O'-vo'o'
all Iioti'-ed it between
Your Ilighn and that chauffeur just
a iri-k of -.pr-s;n, I suppose. Of
ci'! i .' you know it !"
(lii! ji-s. I am quite aware of the
J'kei.--." s.iid I.udovic S.irfo. "In fact,
we ha " ben taken for each other niore
than "!!.'
He got np with a resorute shake of the
rhoulders and f.tMd frowning ahead of
tuiu; tltn. without looking tt her, I
Edith Morgan Witlctt
wonder if you have ever hoard anything
' of Sarto's parentage, Miss Hancroft?" he
j asked, with some hesitation. "It might
explain him more or loss."
j Ami, before she could answer, lie went
on, in an odd, constrained tone, leaving
his English mechanically for the easier
French. "His mother was a French girl
of good family, his father a gondolier it
was a Venetian romance, you see. She
ran off, married him, and of course was
never forgiven. Well, you can imagine
the sequence the misery for her. I.udo
vic w-as their only child his mother "
He stopped short.
Annette looked up quickly. "I see,"
she said, also in French. "That's where
the education and refinement came in."
"Yes, he had every advantage," said
the man, looking over the rail; "she did
what she could, and then she died poor
woman! Curious, was it not?" he spoke
a little huskily "that, in spite of her
training, the vagabond streak in the fel
low was so strong."
Annette followed his thought. "Yes,"
she said slowly, "I think I understand.
It was the son of the gondolier who stole
those jewels."
There was a moment's silence while
they both stared ahead of them, and then
the girl rose abruptly.
"I think I'll go in now," she said ;
"won't Your Highness pilot me back to
the cabin door? I really can't see my
hand before my face in this fog."
Rut. looking down at the small figure
beside him, Sarto saw, with an inexplica
ble thrill, that it was not the fog alone
that was blinding Annette's eyes.
When he had helped her in, he found
his way out again on deck and dropped
into the nearest chair with a gesture of
weariness. The telling of that story had
been a necessity a momentary relief to
his feelings, but the after effects were
undoubtedly depressing.
Viewed from his present standpoint,
Ludovie Sarto's career made a pretty poor
showing, and the man had merged him
self so completely in his new role that he
was able to view the chauffeur and his
shortcomings with the detached, tempo
rarily impersonal feeling that a contem
plative snake might experience towards
his discarded winter skin ! In his bor
rowed identity Sarto was at his best, with
all the attractive qualities, hidden in the
chauffeur, turned brilliantly to the light,
a far more agreeable personage, the mock
Prince del Pino, than the saturnine, dys
peptic invalid, who might be at that in
stant dying in a Liverpool hospital. Per
haps he was already dead !
A sudden light leaped into the chauf
feur's eyes and then went out.
What possible difference could it make
to him whether Roderigo del Pino lived
or died? Whatever happened, when the
Majestic touched its pier Ludovic Sarto
must return to his own again, with the
events of the last five days only an epi
sode. His mind went back slowly, reviewing
that sea life with an odd mixture of en
joyment, pride, bitterness and jealousy.
Y'es, jealousy! At times the chauffeur,
who had always had the world to fight,
the odds against him, was conscious of
an acute, unreasoning jealousy of his own
present triumphs. They were so easily
won, so palpably unjust ! All doors were
open to him naturally now. Everything
possible, his opinions received with defer
ence, his wit with appreciation, his at
tentions Here he smiled a tight, eurrously co
vert smile.
Mrs. Waring had been very charming to
the Prince del Pino, hpr most brilliant,
seductive self. SMI! with the same tense
Mnile the man. whom she had once humil
iated to the dust, reviewed a dozen most
agreeable tete-a-tetes, word for word, his
eyps gleaming somberly in the dark, his
lean cheek burnt to a dull red.
Ah ! Hut there were moments indeed
when the chauffeur enjoyed the prince's
triumphs.
Through thp dimness of the fog lumin
ous spots gleamed now, intensifying the
gloom.
The steamer was lighting up. From
far away came the first brazen notes of
the band.
Listening absently, Sarto lost sight for
the moment of Gussie's metoric charms.
In the dark expanse of his mind a faint
licht now became visible, a small, fixed
star.
Yes, Annette Hancroft had not chang
ed. With a strange warmth at his heart
that was more than gratitude, he saw her
again, standing at the cabin door, her lips
trembling, her eyes misty with pity for
the chauffeur who had played so false;
and to his sensitive, envious nature, the !
tears she had shed for I.udovic Sarto out- j
weeu a h.ir,.P-i-i o n i,i Hie siWi,s lav-
ished on the Pnu-e n,. I'mo. i
, , ,, , . .,
After all, fin- go clamors insistentlv
in every one of us. In spite f his lapses, j
tir.s man had an unquenchable loyaity to-
wards Li mse if the snake a fondness for
its own s,;:n.
For some minutes the t'nie slipped by.
punctuated by nn occasional ringing of
bells, and lost to the present, the chauf
feur sat steer, ed jn memories introspec
tive. whil the fog drew its curtain shel
teringly about him and the even plashing
of the screw chimed in with his mood.
The sound of voices aroused him from
his brown study.
It had grown very dark, the fog hiding
the el.Hjtric bulbs a few feet off. And
at first, his "uses smothered by the noise
of the waves, Sarto was only dimly aware
that a man and a woman were talking
not six feet away from him. their tones
coming through the wall of fog that ren
dered them uncannily invisible.
The next instant be leaned forward in
sudl'-n eagerness, his breath half-caught,
for he had discovered who they were,
those two, almost at his elbow, leaning
over the rail.
"No, I'm not going in yet," a familiar
voice clipped the darkness; "let's stand
here and bxdc out a moment. This fog
fascinates me. It's like being up in the
clouds, or under Niagara Falls, or In
one's own cool little grave, Isn't it',"
Her companion grunted. "Is it?" he
asked, in matter-of-fact tones; "I'm sure
1 don't know. Seems to me beastly wet ;
thats about all. Look here, Gussie, I
want to ask you something."
"Io you?" Gussie's voice was not pro
cisely encouraging. "Well, what do you
want to know? what's the matter?"
Huist cleared his throat portentously
There was an instant's sil
only by the subdued tram
surf, and an almost inaudible
t-.s some one not eight foot away leaned
back against the cabin wall, with ears
alert, as he composed himself shamelessly
to listen.
"It would be a great relief" the Eng
lishman spoke at last with a certain pon
derous formality "I should be very
much obliged if you would kindly let me
know just where you and I staud at this
present moment?"
"Certainly. At this present moment"
'Gussie was most obligingly prompt
"let me see ou the deck of the Majestic.
I should say, facing due norm 1 don
know exactly what the latitude and longi-
tude are, but I can easily find out if you
want to know."
A loud, exasperated sigh came out of
the fog.
"Would von mind being serious for one.
moment?" 'inquired a resolutely patient
voice. "This is the first five minutes I
have had alone with you in as many
days. Perhaps you can spare me an in-
from Del Pino's society."
He paused, waiting for her to contra
diet him, for some time; however, there
was silence, emphasized by the impatient
tapping of a small boot.
"I knew it," came pettishly at length.
"Now you're going to be a horrid, cross
man and spoil the whole evening. Y'ou're
in one of your impossible moods.' Oh.
dear, and I thought we were going to
have such a nice time together out here
in this fog by ourselves."
There was a wonderfully natural catch
in the voice, calculated to soothe the aver
age masculine wrath, but Gerald's was
bevond such sedatives.
"Yes, you can always be nice enough
when you want to," he growled ; "but
there are limits to a man's endurance,
don't you know? I've stood this sort of
treatment long enough. Gar ! you must
think I. am a duffer not to see through
your game all this time. How long has
It been going on?" He gave an express
ive snort. "First of all, there was that
rotten sport on the Riviera. I was play
ed against him pretty successfully for
two weeks not quite as blind as a bat, let
me tell you ! Then that donkey of a
Swede down at Monte Carlo I thought
he was the limit, but you didn't stop
there "
His tone sombered. "I've stood a lo",
Gussie; but when you started to make a
fool of your own chauffeur ! Pah ! The
fellow's head was completely turned be
fore you were through with him. Well,"
he gave a cumbrous sigh, "I thought
there'd be a little peace when he was
shipped, but no ! You must needs take
up with this precious prince !"
"V11!" Gussie's voice slid Imperturb
nbly from the darkness. "What about
him, I'd like to know? I own I've had
rather hopeless material to manage from
time to time" her tones were suspicious
ly dry "but surely you can't object to
the prince ; he's been a most agreeable
addition to our party."
"Has he? Yes, I thought so! That
settles it."
Gerald seemed to be talking to him
self. '
"Just a minute, Gnssle," he asked, with
ominous quietness. "IVyou remember what
you said to me just before we left Havre,
five days ago?"
"Five days ago is it only five days
ago?" Mrs. Waring wondered irrelevant
ly. "It seems a great deal longer."
"D'you remember what you promisee;
that day?" Iiuist's tone was a trifie
louder.
"Promised !'
Gussie repeated the word
blankly. "My dear boy, did I really prom-
ise anything? Surely you wouldn't con-
sider a few vague witrds binding. I'm
sure I don't remember what I said."
"Pity I didn't take it down in black
and white. One would think a person's
word amounted to something. Good lieav
ens "
And Huist stopped short, politeness and
chivalry towards the weaker vessel forbid
ding the utterance of his sentiments at
that moment.
(To be continued.)
pling of the ,
OltMolcte ( urea. t.'ncle Sam's Slim Land Itenerve.
It was formerly believed that epl- The time when a man might move
lepsy could be cured by wearing a westward and take up virgin soil at his
silver ring made from a coffin nail, pleasure has passed, and, ln general.
Seven drojw of blood from the tall of it may be said that the son of the
a cat and blood from a recently exe- farmer of to-day must look for bis sole
cuted criminal were said to lie valuable heritage ln the land his father holds,
remedies for epilepsy. To cure a It Is now a barren boast that "Uncle
felon or run-nround, hold the finger in Sam has a farm for every one of us."
a cat's ear for half nn hour. For tooth- In V.H we had less than OO.OOO.twiO
ache, trim your linger nails on Friday ot unoccupied habitable land,
or eat bread that a mouse has nibbled. What a slim reserve that Is may bo
or carry in vour junket a tooth from realized from the fact that one-fourth
a soldier killed in battle. For ramila ! ,,f !t was disposed of in the following
of the tongue, spit on a frog. For al- .vwir- Wt ""' 'd to our ngri
eoholism. drown tin eel in bra.alv and ,,",,,irnI i,r(as l's,H'I,t l "lgntlnn and
(lnmk.,r,, .iritik the hrandv.
. . "
I" euro warts, rub tho wart with a
t'to and feed tl.o potato to a pig.
!
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m
S-'Iiik His I nee.
Patience As I came by Mrs. lied
door I ovcrbenrd her say to her hus
band. "Oh. darling, I'm so glad to see
voir face again!" Has be been away
long:
Patrice No; they both have been
out in their automobile, and I suppose
he bad Just taken off his unto mask!
Yonkers Statesman.
'I lie Tent,
"There's none o blind ns those tvIio
won't see," mused the gentle philoso
pher. "II m." replied his friend, "and
there's none so doubting .us those who
won't believe," smearing his fingers
through the fresh paint to make sure
that the sign told the truth. Detroit
Free Press.
Precisely Spenklntr.
"I understand he has entered ihe
state of matrimony."
"Why. yes. He Is traveling In Utah.'
The Bohemian.
once, broken flora -Ma JlY3 tfeWrvm i Btfarcffl:.
movement VHV3 '"3S WS v-Sr. 'I'S
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Wire lnce Tightener,
t Every fanner knows how hard It Is
to keep wlre fen((es ln g00ll condition
; thnn np np twn nt n tlm
Cuttle are bound to rub up ngalnst
j them, ioople will sag the wires in get-
tine; over the fence, and even the
t weight of snow hits been known to
j break them. A wire fence looks nil
! right as long as the wires nre taut,
j but as soon ns the strands begin to
WIRE-FEXCE TIGHTENER.
ag and loop It Is no longer attractive,
nor is It a sure menus of keeping
stock within bounds. Many devices
have been suggested and even patented
for stretching wire, but here Is a
simple little contrivance that anyone
can make in a few minutes that will
do the work quickly and well. For
short spans It can be made of wood,
although for heavy wires or for long
stretches it would be better to make it
out of Iron. This little contrivance Is
about two feet long, with two pins
alxnit three inches apart at oiw end.
Place the wire between these pins and
turn the stretcher around until the
wire Is drawn tight. By engaging the
pin at the other end of the stretcher
the tension can be maintained whle
the wire Is being nailed fast. With
an arrangement of this sort one man
can do rapid work alone and fix up a
'agglug fence In short order.
To Make a Good Cistern.
An absolutely water-tight cistern
may be made as follows :
In digging, the sides should be made
smooth and true perpendicularly. For
the bottom use five parts of clean,
coarse, sharp sand (plasterers call It
fine gravel) to one part of cement. It
nly requires to be damp enough to
work well. It should be thoroughly
mixed, all at one time, and be lowered
Into the cistern quickly and spread
more rapidly with a shovel or hoe, and
should be beat down hard and smooth.
Upon this bottom foundation the
cistern should be walled up with brick
or stone In cement to at least 0 Inches
above the top of the ground, which will
keep all surface water out. For finish
ing the bottom use one part cement to
'one part sand; this is thoroughly mix-
! ed while dry, and then water should be
1 added until it is like plastering mortar.
Dump It on the bottom about 3 inches
thick and smooth with a trowel, It
will h ion be bard ns stone. For the
sides of the cistern, which should bo
done before finisliinp; the bottom, uso
equal parts of sand and cement and
apply '!"'okly !1S """ would plaster a
wall. It Is not safe to use anything
but the best Portland cement, which
"osts about S3 a barrel.
drainage, but we may, by intelligent
selection of crops, by scientific, cultiva-
tbm and by careful treatment of hind,
make it produce three or four times
as much ns it does at present. And
this is the direction In which our de-
i veloplnent simuiil proceed, ior we iiiumi
find room within the next 3 years for
a doubled imputation according to our
undiscernlng ideas. Tho American
farmer of the future must be a man of
Sroad mind arid technical knowledge.
I'ut H il mil ii In the Soli.
If your soil needs humus, plow under
all the coarse manure you can get this
fall. Every farmer realizes the neces
sity of having more manure, and one
way to secure It Is by providing an
abundant supply of absorbing material.
Even If there apjiears to Is; a large pro
portion of this material in the manure,
making It strawy and coarse. It can be
plowed under and will answer an ex
cellent purimse. Every effort should 1
made to secure nil the manure that Is
made on the farm, so that nothing
shall be lost This manure, properly ap
plied on the meadows, should be worth
$1 per twovhorse load In the extra
amount of hay that will thus be secur
ed from Us use.
JP1 w
Clover and Timothy
The Missouri station has conducted
very careful experiments in steer feed
ing, using different kinds of roughage.
These exiierltnents show that, as an
average result, a bushel of corn with
timothy hay produced 4.03 pounds of
grain, while the same amount of corn
with clover hay produced (5.58 pounds.
Hating the gain at the low price of live
cents per pound, the feeder gets some
thing more than eight cents per bushel
for his corn when he feeds it with
clover than when he feeds it with
timothy. Put the hay away having In
mind to feed the clover to the steers
and to all growing and all milch ani
mals, and to sell the timothy. Good-
real good clover hay Is as good for
work horses as timothy. If you don't
believe it, try it out. Hut the clover
must be cut early enough when tbe
heads have Just become real red and
handled without much rain or dew,
and not be overcured that means the
use of the best haying machinery. In
cidentally, the use of the best haying
machinery means hay at less cost for
the making. Weekly Witness.
To Advance A if rlcult lire.
With the $15,000,000 the United
States Department of Agruculture has
available for this year's use conslder-
ible progress should be made In agri
cultural advancement While all lines
of work are to be carried out as usual,
most attention will be given the for
estry service. Forestry Is one of the
more Iniiwtunt problems now before
the American people and It Is but
proper that It should receive first at
tention. The Department of Agri
culture Is doing a good work. There
are those who belittle Its efforts and
claim the money given initially for Its
support is wasted, but much of the
standing agriculture enjoys to-day Is
due to this division of the government.
Let the good work go on. Exchange.
Dear Mentn In Enicland.
The London Meat Trades Journal In
an editorial says the retail prices of
meats have made a substantial advance
In that country. It Is pointed out that
the supply of nntlve-bred stock has for
some time past been short ln numbers
and deficient in weight and quality,
und In the United States and Canada
the supplies of live cattle, sheep and
refrigerated beef were on a steady
diminishing scale. Under such circum
stances, says this authority, It is but
natural to expect that prices all around
should advance materially, but more
particularly for the choicer grades.
From these rejxirts It seems that the
United States Is not alone In the mat
ter of high-priced meats.
Argentina Anlmnl Slatlntlcn.
Consul General Alban G. Snyder
sends from Huenos Ayres a tabulated
list from a n-jKirt Just Issued by the
minister of agriculture showing the
..limners oi ine stocK in Argentina.
They total 114,8-12,140. divided as fol-'; stut. been without a living ex-P.vsi-
lows: Cattle. 2.-..S14.NIO; sheep, 77.-1 1(Mir. -go Washington died in 17o:,
581,100; horses. 5.4t 12. 1 7 ; mules and .,. j,,,,,, A(lmilf,, tho Sl.,.ml Presi
donkeys, 515.S70; goats, 2,5t;ii,S0O; pigs, 1(1)ti wns ln m,0. Alllll,,w .T,1Msmli
-8"11',UO' at the time the only surviving ex-Chief
'I'ho tii'iiviiinn fif P.notiou Avfoa r .
' "
tains one-half of the live stock of tin
7.oo i.ooo cattle and
Kntre Hios province
.innr.iieo MM'l'j l.
'vis ;i.i:ot;..';n) animals. 'orrientes 7.1)11,
:oo, and Cordoba and Santa Fe each
nearly T.ooo.noo.
I. i nen For Tlireo Horse.
In using three horses try this way of
arranging the lines: Take a pair of
r,l,1 ctn.rlo tin rtu.cu Hiuiu ttwl mnl-n t,t.. !
cross lines a little longer than the reg-
TlinPE-nORSE LINKS.
ular ones. Fasten them to the inside
bit rings of the outside horses. Let j
tins run oxer uie nacK oi tne uin i
horse and buckle into the regular j
buckle. It works fine and gives one
full control of bis team.
Hun to Cool Milk.
republic. Having i.ooo.ixmi cattle and...,:....., lif..
Practical experiments seem to prove j lor ttie purpose u advising the station
that many, If not all, of the benefits of , signalman when a train has passed bis
aerating milk were due more to cooling down or up advanced starting signal, a
than to any other cause. Cooling to the j rail contact is placed about .".(mi yards
same degree will accomplish substan- j ihead of the respect ive advanced start
tlally the same results, but without an lug signals, and on the engine reaching
aerator It may be diflhailt to reduce the the rail contact a bell is rung In the
temperature as rapidly, hence the nera-
tor may be considered an advantage un
less a patent cooler Is used
I'raenieal Poultry Work.
To stop bens from eating eggs put a
little vinegar or something sour In their
food.
I op a piece of alum In the drinking
water every two or three weeks; it
will prevent throat and lung disease.
For all cuts, wounds and ulcers use
llsterlne. Nothing Is better for a comb
Injured In fighting or for any raw sur
face. If you have not already done so, cull
out all surplus stock. Do not waste
feed on birds that are of no value ta
you.
! SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
Tho llaymarket riot In Chicago oc
urred on .May 4, ISNii.
Helen Hunt Jackson Is burled ir.
(evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs.
It is expected that the Australian old
ige pensions project will cost 1,800,000
early.
Twenty-live high school principals in
Kansas are women. They are said to do
heir work so well that no one has ever
suggested putting nieu ln their places.
Tbere is never a part of the year
Alien Pike's Peak Is entirely without
mow. In the hottest July and August
.veather snow Is to be found even at n
onsiderable distance from the top of
:ho mountain.
Twenty-live men Interested ln the
lavlgation of the air, have formed the
ero Club of California at Los Ange
es. The purpose of the club Is to ob-
:aln suitable grounds for experimental
iscents and maintain repair and con
struction shops.
A resilience of at least live years Is
required to qualify an alien for nut ut
ilization. No matter how long a man
may have been In the United States,
two years must elapse between the date
tt his declaration of intention and his
idniittance to full citizenship.
To meet the deiiclt in the budget the
French Minister of Finance suggests
the doubling of the licensing fees of
enders of absinthe. This taxing of
the "green peril" will. It is thought, be
popular ; the minister anticipates that It
will bring him In $L,ooo,0(o.
Adeline Gonoe Is a Danish girl, who
made her debut as a dancer tit Copen
hagen when she was 17 years of age.
She then went to P.erlin to dance at
the Grand Opera House, and after
ward to Munich. She Is considered to
be one of the most graceful and accom
plished dancers in the world.
In the manufacture of alcohol from
peat, a Danish company, with one ex
perimental plant in Denmark and one
In France, has found the cost to be
about one-fourth of that made from po
tatoes. In the process of manufacture,
the cellulose or fiber of the ixuit is con
verted by sulphuric acid Into a soluble
carbohydrate and this is fermented by
a special yeast. '
In ltio" Philadelphia's export and
Import trade Increased ?25,0K),(KiO In
value over the figures for the previous
year. The total value of the city' ex
ternal trade for that year was over
?150,HX),000. These figures account ln
part for the opening of the new steam
ship service between Genoa, Italy and
the City of Hrorherly Love. The Ital
ians want some of the business.
India's government has recently au
thorized the employment of women
telegraph operators. The candidates
must be between 18 and 30 years of
age, and they must be unmarried or
widows. They must undergo a training
f twelve months in the telegraph train
ing classes, (luting which time they will
receive a month, the same til low-
men that is drawn by male learners.
In connection with the death of
Grover Cleveland, It is interesting to
note that only twice before in the bls-
trv of the nation has the Unlt-vl
; I'.xecutlve, passed away in S,.i. two
veurs before General Grant retired to
The Dutch government has granted a
oncessii n to the Amsterdam find North
Holland Electric Tramway Company to
build and operate .an electric railway
system in Holland. The route u-i!l be
nearly fifty kiloms, running from Am
sterdam north through ..aaiidam to
Kroinemltde, from Zaandyk to Wvk-
nan-Zee, and Worniorvoor to Purmer
pnd. The Holland Development Com
pany of Amsterdam will build the en
tire system.
The "Arabian Nights" Is an extensivo
rolIiM-tion of tales forming part of the
Arabic literature, and the exact title
)f which Is "The Hook of .the Thousand
and One Nights." They were first made
known to Europe by Antoine Galland,
lietwecn 170-1 and 1717. He was a
French Orientalist, who succeeded,
lfler much effort. In obtaining a manu
script, which he supplemented by gath
ering tales from professional story-tellers,
whom he met during his travels In
, j,
East.
As an instance of the Great Eastern
Hallway's elaborate pte.-aut ions for the
safety of travelers on its system, the
Uailw.iy News says that at I'.roxbourne,
signal box, and this bell continues ring-
ing until the signal Is replaced to dan
ger.
According to a report In the Neuo
Freie Presse, Vienna. J. Pierpont Mor
gan was n busy sightseer in that city
n his recent visit. With Mrs. Douglas
snd her daughter he visited all the
great nrt collections "and on Sunday
railed at Kreutzenstein castle, where
he was received by the Countess Kin
sky. He was deeply Interested in w hat
he saw ln the restored castle and lis
tened with devotion when his hostess
played on the ebaiK-1 organ." The re
Hirt also speaks. of Mr. Morgan's visit
to the La Inzer Zoo, where he showed
the greatest Interest In the boars, "a
ho bad never before seen one.