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Zelda Dameron By MEREDITH NICHOLSON CoprrUKt. 1S04, by Tk BobU-MatriH Co. CHAPTER IVi The law offices of Knight, Kittredge A Carr were tucked away In the rear of an old building that stood at the apex of a triangle. The firm had been tenants of the same rooms for many years. There was a battered tin sign at the entrance, but Its inscription could be read only by persons who re membered it from bygone days. Knight and Kittredge had been prominent In State politics during and Immediately following the Civil War. They were dead now, but Carr, who had left poll tics to his partners, survived, and he had changed nothing in the offices. In the old days it had been the cus tom of the members of the firm of Knight, Kittredge & Carr to assemble every morning at 8 o'clock In the li brary for a brief discussion of the news of the day, or for a review of the work that lay before them. The young men who were fortunate enough to be tolerated In the offices had al ways enjoyed these discussions Im mensely, for Governor Kittredge and Senator Knight had known men and manners as well as the law; and Mi chael Carr knew Plato and the Greek and Latin poets as he knew the way home. These morning conferences were still continued in Morris Leighton's day, though Knight and Kittredge had long been gone. It might be a topic from the day's news that received attention, or some new book Michael Carr was a persistent novel reader or it might be even a bit of social gossip that was discussed. Mr. Carr was a man of de liberate habits, and when he set apart this half-hour for a talk with his young men, as he called them, It mada no difference that the president of a great railway cooled his heels in the outer office while the Latin poets were discussed In the library, or that other dignified Caucasians waited while ne gro suffrage was debated. Ezra Dameron was waiting for him this morning, for it was the first of October; and on the first of every month Ezra Dameron went to the of fices to discuss his personal affairs. He was of an economical turn, and he made it a point to combine as many Questions as possible in a single con sultation. His relations with the of fices were of long standing and dated back to a day when Knight, Kittredge & Carr were a new firm and Ezra Iameron was a young merchant whom people respected, and whose prospects In life were bright While Ezra Dameron waited for Mi chael Carr, Rodney Merriam was walk ing slowly from his house in Seminary Square down High street to Jefferson, swinging his stick, and gravely return ing the salutations of friends and ac quaintances. He came presently to the offices of Knight. Kittredge & Carr. He Btepped into the reception-room and found it empty. The door into the library was closed but he could hear Carr"s voice; and he knew that the lawyer was holding one of those morn ing talks with his clerks and sftidents that Morris Leighton had often de scribed. He looked about with inter est and then crossed the hall. The doors of three private offices were closed, but he turned the knob of the one marked in small black letters "Mr. Carr," and went in. Ezra Dameron was still looking out of the window when the door was flung open. He supposed Carr had come, and having been gazing out into the sunny court, his sight did not ac commodate itself at once to the dim light of the little room. "Ah, Mr. Carr " he began. "Good-morning, Ezra," said Rodney Merriam, blandly. Dameron knew the voice before he recognized his brother-in-law, and after a second's hesitation he advanced with a great air of cor diality. "Why, Rodney, what brings you into the haunts of the law? I thought you were a man who never got into trou ble. I'm waiting for Mr. Carr. I have a standing appointment with him this same day every month excepting Sundays, of course." "So I have understood. I don't want to see Mr. Carr, however; I want to eee you." Dameron glanced at his brother-in-law anxiously. He had believed Mer rlam's appearance to be purely acci dental, and he was not agreeably dis appointed to find that he had been mistaken. He looked at the little clock on Carr's desk, and was relieved to find that the lawyer would undoubt edly appear in a few minutes. "I should be glad, at any other time, Rodney, but Mr. Carr is very particu lar about his appointments." "I have heard so, Ezra. What I have to say to you will not interfere with your engagement with Mr. Carr. As near as I can remember, it has been ten years since I enjoyed a conversa tion with you." "Letter let the old times go I I am willing to let them go, Rodney." "And on that last occasion, t my memory serve me, I believe I told you that you were an infernal scoundrel." "You were very violent, very unjust; but let it all go, Rodney. I treasure no unkind feelings." "It would be a source of real annoy ance to me to have you think for a moment that I have changed my mind. I want to have a word with you about Zelda. She has chosen to go to live with you " "Very loyal, very noble of her. I'm ure I appreciate it." "I hope you do. She doesn't under stand what a contemptible hound you are, and I don't Intend to tell her. And you may be quite sure that her Aunt Julia will never tell her how you treated her mother how you made her life a curse to her. I don't want you to think that because I have let you alone these ten years I have forgotten or forgiven you. I wouldn't trust you to do anything that demanded the low est cense of honor or manhood." There was no sign of anger or even resentment In Ezra' face. His Inevit SSSSBBBjBtt able smile died away in a sickly grin. but he said nothing. "With this little preface I think you will understand that what I have sought you out for Is not to ask favors but to give orders, In view of Zee's re turn." "But, Rodney, Rodney that matter needs no discussion. I shall hope to make my daughter happy In her fath er's house I am her natural protect- "Tou are, Indeed; but a few Instruc tions from me will be of great assist ance, Ezra. To begin with, I want you to understand that the first time I hear you have mistreated that girl or in any way made her, uncomfortable I shall horsewhip you In front of the postoffice. The second time I shall cow hide you In your own house, and the third offense I shall punish either by shooting you or taking you out and dropping you Into the river, I haven't decided which. I expect you to pro vide generously for her out of the money her mother left her. If you haven't squandered It there ought to be a goodly sum by this time." "I fear she has acquired expensive tastes abroad. Julia always spent money wastefully." "You ugly hypocrite, talking about expensive tastes! I suppose you have let everybody you know imagine that it has been your money that has kept Zee abroad. It's like you, and you're certainly a consistent beast. As I was saying, I mean that you shall treat her well, not according to your own Ideas but mine. I want you to brace up and try to act or look like a white man. You've got to keep enough servants in that old shell of yours to take care of It. You must be Immensely rich by this time. You haven't spent any money for twenty years; and you've undoubtedly profited well in your handling of what Margaret left Zee. That was like Margaret, to make, you trustee of her child s property, after the dog's life you had led her! You may be sure that it wasn't because she had any confidence in you, but because she had borne with you bravely, and It was like her to make an outward show of respect for you from the grave. And I suppose she hoped you might be a man at last for the girl's sake. The girl's her mother over again; she's a thoroughbred. And you I suppose God tolerates you on earth merely to make Heaven more attrac tive." ' Merriam at no time raised his voice; the Merrlams were a low-spoken fani lly: and when Kodney Merriam was quietest he was most dangerous. Voices could be heard now across the hall. The morning conference was at an end; and Michael Carr crossed to his room at twenty-five minutes be fore nine, and opened the door In the full knowledge that Ezra Dameron was waiting for him. Many strange things had happened in the offices of Knight, Kittredge & Carr: but Michael Carr had long ago formed the habit of see ing everything and saying nothing. "Good morning, gentlemen," he said. affably, and shook hands with both men. "I have Just been warning Ezra against overwork,'" said Merriam, com posedly. "At Ezra's age a man ought to check himself; he ought to let other people use the hammer and drive the nails." "Rodney always had his little Joke,' said Dameron, and laughed a dry laugh that showed his teeth in his very unpleasant smile. Merriam wished both gentlemen a satisfactory disposition of their busi ness. It was, of course, a perfectly natural thing for him to drop into a law office on a pleasant October morn ing and, meeting there a connection of his family, hold converse with him on matters of common interest. Michael Carr was not, however, a dull man and he understood perfectly that Rod ney Merriam had decided to resume diplomatic relations with Ezra Darner on; and tie rightly guessed the reason to be the return of Margaret Daraer- on's daughter to her father's house. Merriam found Morris Leighton at work In the library. The young man threw, down his book In surprise as the old. gentleman darkened the door. "The date shall be printed In red Ink on the office wall! I never expected to see you here!" "It may never nappen again, my boy. Is this, all you have to do, read books? I sometimes wish I had been a lawyer. Nothing to do but read and write; it's the easiest business there is." "Mr. Carr would like to see you; I'd be glad to call him except that this Is his morning with Mr. Dameron." "To be sure it is; but don't trouble yourself, i've seen both of them, any how." "Oh!" "I Just happened In and found Mr. Dameron waiting; so I amused him until Mr. Carr appeared. You still have your historic morning round-up here. I suppose. There are two things that you young gentlemen will un doubtedly derive from Mr. Carr good manners and sound literary tastes." CHAPTER V. Zelda's days ran on now m.uch like those of other girls In Mariona. Be tween Mrs. Forrest and Mrs. Carr, she was well launched socially, and her time was fully occupied. She overhauled the house and changed Its furnishings radically while her father blinked at the expenditures. Rodney Merriam, dropping In often to chaff Zelda about her neglect of himself, rejoiced at tha free way in which she contracted bills. The old mahogany from the garret fit ted Into the house charmingly. The din gy walls were brightened with new pa pers; the old carpets were taken up, the floors stained, t save the trouble of putting down hardwood, and rugs bought Ezra Dameron's greatest shock was the Installing of the telephone In his house; but every on else In Mariona, so Zelda assured him, had one; and It would undoubtedly be of service to her In many ways. Her real purpose was to place herself in communication with her aunt and uncle, whose help she outwardly refused but secretly leaned on. zelda did not disturb the Mack wom an In the kitchen, though she employed a house-maid to supplement her ser vices; but she labored patiently to cor rect some of the veteran Polly's dia tressing faults. Polly was a good cook In the haphazard fashion of her kind. She could not read, so, that the cook books which Zelda bought were of no use to her. She shook her head over "book cookln'," but Zelda, who dimly remembered that her mother had spent much time In the kitchen, bought a supply of aprons and gave herself per sistently to culinary practice. Or, she sat and dictated to Polly from one of the recipe books while that amiable soul mixed the Ingredients; and then, after the necessary interval of fear and hope, they opened the oven door and peered in anxiously upon triumph or disaster. A horse was duly purchased at Lex ington, on an excursion planned and managed by Mrs. Carr. They named the little Hambletonian Xanthippe, which Zelda changed to Zan, at her uncle's suggestion. It was better, he said, not to Introduce any more of the remoter letters of the alphabet Into the family nomenclature; and as they already had Z It would be unwise to add X. Moreover, It was fitting that Zee should own Zan! The possession of the pretty brown mare and a runabout greatly Increased Zelda's range of activities. Her uncle kept a saddle horse and he taught her how to ride and drive.- He also, under Ezra Dameron's very eyes, had the old barn reconstructed, to make a proper abiding place for a Kentucky horse of at least decent ancestry, and employed a stable-boy. Zelda became dally more conscious of her father's penurious ways, that were always cropping out In the petty details of the housekeeping. One even ing when he thought himself unob served, she saw him walking down the front stairway, avoiding the carpet on the treads with difficult care. Zelda did not at first know what he was do ing; but she soon found this to be only one of his many whimsical econ omies. He overhauled the pantry now and then, making an Inventory of the amount of flour, sugar and coffee in stock, and he still did a part of the marketing. Zelda had given the black stable-boy orders 'that Zan was to be fed generously; and when she found that her father was giving contrary directions she said nothing, but con nived with the boy in the purchase of hay and corn to make good the defi ciency caused by her indulgence. Late one afternoon she drove to a remote quarter of town in pursuit of a laundress that had failed her. She concluded her arrand and turned Zan homeward, but lost her way In seeking to avoid a railway track on which a line of freight cars blocked her path. She came upon a public school, build ing, which presented a stubborn front to a line of shops and saloons on the opposite side of a narrow street. Two boys were engaged In combat on the sidewalk at the school-house entrance, surrounded by a ring of noisy partl zans. A young woman, a teacher, Zel da took her to be, hurried toward the scene of trouble from the school-house door, and at her approach the ring of spectators dispersed in disorder, leav ing the combatants alone, .vainly spar ring for an advantage before they, too, yielded the field. Zelda unconscious ly drew in her horse to watch the con clusion of matters. The young woman stepped between the antagonists with out parley, catching the grimy fists of one of the boys In her hands, whlla the other took to his heels amid the jeers of the gallery. Zelda heard the teacher's voice raised In sharp rap rimand as she dismissed the lad with a wave of her hand that Implied an authority not to be gainsaid. (To be continued.) Hla Trcawrer Knew. He who goes into politics must re member what he is recorded to" have said, for It is the habit of the sharp nosed public to search out past utter ances and hold the candidate responsi ble for them. John Burns, says Mr. Grubb in his life of that labor leader, once made the slip of remarking that no .man was worth mote than 500 a year. Accordingly, when he became a cabinet member with a salary of 2, 000, he was obviously open to attack. When he first met his constituents at Battersea after he was made presi dent of the local government board a candid friend recalled the statement about a man's worth by calling out in the middle of his speech: Wot abaht that 'ere salary of 2,- 000?" Mr. Burns was equal to the occa sion. That Is the recognized trade union rate for the job," was his apt reply. "If I took less I would be a black leg." Wot yer goln' ter do with the 1,- 500 over?" pursued the inquisitive questioner. For details, answered Mr. Burns, "apply to my treasurer, Mrs. Burns." The Retort (onrlfiiui. A young woman had fallen upon the ice-covered pavement, and a man step ped forward to offer his services. "Allow me he began, but his feet slipped and he fell flat upon his back. Certainly, responded the young woman, gravely. Llppincott's. Ilia Identity Dlacloaed. Judge What do you do during the week? Witness Nothing. Judge And on Sunday. Witness I take a day off. Judge Oh, I see. What salary does the city pay you? Llppincott's. Elevatta. Wiggs The man who loves a wo man can't help being elevated. 'VTagg And the man who loves more than one Is apt to be sent up too. Phila delphia Record. Erer know a 'Jokey" man whs amounted to much TOOGRESS AND INDUSTRY. Old age Insurance Is compulsory In Germany. Musk Importations In 1908 &mounW to over 180,000. The silk of the spider is lighter and stronger than that secured from the silkworm. iavenaer and rose perfumes are credited with the virtue of being ml crobe-ktllers. Four and a half million gross boxes of matches are used in London in a year. Traveling cranes are now equipped with scales, so the load may be weigh ed in transit There are about 3,000 weddings ev ery twenty-four hours, taking the en tiro world into consideration. The natives of Korea carry visiting cards which measure about ' twelve inches square, and when their use is required they are merely shown. The Farthing Gazette, probably tho cheapest daily newspaper in existence has been started In Moscow, and has already a considerable circulation. While two police were set aside "o guard the Bank of England, and two the stock exchange, nine were employ ed to look after the Beckton gas worka. During 1908 the automobile export business of France, United States, Uni ted Kingdom, Italy and Germany, tan five leading countries engaged In thalr manufacture and sale, aggregated more than $45,000,000, against $9,000,- 000 in 1902, a growth of 400 per cent. Automobile exports from the four for eign countries named, taken as a whole, increased from $8,000,000 to $39,000,000, a gain of 385 per cent, while those from the United States in creased from $1,000,000 to $5,500,000, a gain of 450 per cent. FASHION HINTS A very attractive dress for a young pirl il made tunic fashion of dark blue Rajah, with Persian Bands as trimming. -The undersleevei are of deep ecru net, finely tucked. WOULDN'T STAND FOB IT. When It Came to Taking; the Sul tan's Medicine, Jlarem Rebelled. Abdul Hamid, ex-Sultan of Turkey, is certainly a miserable old man. To cap the climax of all his woes It is stated that he has been deserted by his beloved and, up to recently, devoted harem. Wouldn't that make any Turk just a little' bit disgusted with life in general, especially a man who has al ways been famed for the beauty of the ladies who reigned over his heart and home? According to La Turquie, the ex-Sultan was in such fear of being poisoned that all food or drink which he took had previously to be tasted by some member of his entourage. Re cently he decided to make similar reg ulations with regard to the medicine prescribed for him by his medical at tendants. The result was that the women of the harem were called upon to swallow nauseous drugs and potions, a reglmec which soon told upon their health. In order to save themselves further ex periences of the kind they decided to desert the ex-Commander of the Faith ful, which they did at the dead of night, so as to "avoid painful parting scenes with the prisoner." From an incident at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, it would appear that after the dispersal of the ex-Sultan's harem some of the women were fas cinated by the footlights of the vaude ville stage. The chief attraction at a Frankfort music ball has been eight "genuine odalisques from Abdul Ham id's harem," who appeared under the charge of two eunuchs. A member of the audience discovered that one of the women spoke German with a pure Berlin accent. He com plained to the police, who proceeded to the hotel where the party stayed to in vestigate the supposed fraud. The Turkish consul, being called, declared that the passports proved that seven of the members of the troupe were actually women of the harem. The eighth alleged odalisque, who hailed fiom Berlin, fell on her knees and Im plored the consul's protection, declar ing that she bad been kidnaped by the two Turks In charge of the troupe- Kept It Several Weeka. Cynlcus It Is Impossible for a wo man to keep a secret. Henpekke I don't know about that My wife and I were engaged for asv eral weeks before she said anything to me about It Editor I am obliged to decline your poem with thank I am very sorry, but Poet But what? Editor The management Insists upon my declining all poems Uat nay CROPS FOR DRY FARMING. Fall-Sown Grains Generally Best for This Purpose. Wheat is the great money-making crop of a large part of the semi-arid West. It is not particularly a drouth resistant crop, although certain varie ties appear to succeed better than others in the dry districts. The hard Red Turkey or Russian wheat is the type or variety which has proven hard iest and most productive throughout the Western part of the winter wheat belt. In the spring wheat states the standard sorts grown are Fife and Bluestem, which are also hard wheats, The Durum, or Macaroni wheat, is rapidly coming into use in the Noit'i western states, and it appears to be hardier and more productive than the ordinary spring wheats. This wheat was introduced from Russia, where it has long been grown in a climate and under conditions similar to those of the western part of the Northwest states, It is decidedly a "dry land farming" crop, and it is the hope of those inte rested in introducing this wheat that it may prove successful in districts where the rainfall is not sufficient or is too uncertain to grow the common wheat, and thus extend profitable wheat growing still farther west and into the semi-arid lands of the Moun tain states. At present, with the varieties grown, the success of the wheat crop in the West is more largely due to the fact that the crop grows during a part of the year when drouth is least apt to prevail than to the drouth-resistant character of the crop. But wheat is a deep feeder and a rapid grower. The plant draws its food and moisture from a large volume of soil and is able to withstand considerable unfavorable weather conditions; yet the crop is often materially injured and the yield decreased by drouth during almost any period of its growth. By hot winds and unfavorable weather conditions a promising crop may be destroyed in a few days. Wheat cannot stop growing and re main dormant during an unfavorable period of growth, as does kaflr corn or sorghum. The grain must finish its growth and mature in about a certain period, whatever the conditions for growth may be. Spring wheat is not well adapted for growing in Kansas, but with sufficient moisture to start it in the fall, and with the usual spring rains, winter wheat is a profitable crop, even in the western counties of the state, where the annual rain fall does not exceed fifteen to twenty inches. However, the methods of growing the crop are crude. Often the West ern farmer plants so many acres that he is unable to farm the land well, and the result is a poor crop, if the season is at all unfavorable, . Some farmers, however, are adopt ing better methods. Enough good farming has been done to prove that it pays to cultivate and till the land well. Mr. H. W. Campbell reported remark able results from practice of his sys tem of culture on the Pomeroy model farm, in Graham county, Kansas. For sereval years this farm was made to produce twice as much wheat per acre as the average crop in the sur rounding country with on other treat ment of the soil except thorough till age and cultivation. At the Fort Hays Branch experiment station, in Ellis county, enough has been accomplished, in the ten seasons since that station was established, to demonstrate that in the semi-arid West good farming pays as well or even better than it does in the rich farming states of the Mississippi val ley. Emmer. Emmer has proved to be especially hardy and drouth-resistant, and in the Northwestern states this grain has given greater yields per acre than bar ley or oats. However, at the Fort Hays station, in Western Kansas, em rher has not proved as hardy and pro ductive as barley and oats. As a feed emmer will hardly take the place of barley and oats, but it may be ground and fed in combination with these grains or with corn. Wherever barley or oats produce well emmer is not an especially profitable crop to grow, but in those sections of the West in which the grains mentioned cannot be suc cessfully grown, emmer may prove to be a profitable crop. Barley. Barley is successfully grown in Kan sas farther west than any other spring grain. In fact, barley is produced in larger quantities in the western coun ties of Kansas than in the central and eastern counties. The counties pro ducing the largest number of bushels in 1900 were as follows: Pawnee, Barton, Ness, Rush, Thomas, Pratt and Hodgman. Each of these counties produced over 150,000 bushels of bar ley in the year mentioned. Winter Rye, Another crop that grows success fully in western Kansas is winter rye. This crop, however, is not grown as extensively as barley, and is appar ently a less profitable crop to grow than wheat. Dry Farming Bulletin. Train Robbers Confess. Fairfield, Cal. Carl Dunbar Bishop, of Kansas City, Mo., who, under the name of Charles Dunbar, was arrested here as a' suspect in connection with the robbery of the China and Japan fast mail near Benicia last April 17, has not only confessed his complicity in that crime, but has also admittted that he and his partner, Joseph C. Brown, robbed the postofnee at. Arma da, Cal., last June 15. Brown had pre viously confessed the train robbery. PASSION TO SPEND BANKER CRITICISES CONDUCT OP AMERICAN PEOPLE. Sses the Almost Universal Desire for Automobiles as a Text From Which to Preach a 8ermon on Economy. Extravagance has become not only a national vice but is in fact becom ing a national menace in the opin ion of Joseph T. Talbert, vice-president of the National City bank of New York. Mr. Talbert, who spoke before ' the Texas Bankers' association, said that there does not appear any where to exist In the conduct of national, municipal or individual affairs, that appreciation of the eco nomical and prudent use of resources and that adjustment of expenditures to means and Incomes which always have been found necessary to the support of prosperity and to the maintenance of a condition of solvency. The speaker cited the automobile craze as a case in point. we are squandering on pleasure vehicles an nually sums of money running Into hundreds of millions of dollars," he continued. "The Initial cost of auto mobiles to American users amounts to not less than $250,000,000 a year. The up-keep and other necessary ex penditures, as well as Incidentals, which would not otherwise be In curred, amount to at least as much more. This vast sura is equivalent In actual economic waste each year to more than the value of property destroyed in the San Francisco fire perhaps to twice as much. This sum, as large as it Is, does not Include the whole economic loss growing out of this single item of Indulgence. The thousands of young and able-bodied men employed in manufacturing ma chines and In running and caring for cars, are all withdrawn from produc tive usefulness; they become consu mers of our diminishing surplus pro ducts and constitute an added bur den to the producers. The economlo Influence of this withdrawal from the producing and addition to the con suming class. Is bound to be mani fested in a tendency to higher prices. Its effect already must be consider able, and is comparable only to the maintenance of an enormous stand ing army. 'Thousands upon thousands of our people, frenzied by desire for pleas ure and crazed by passion to spend. hare mortgaged their homes, pledged their life Insurance policies, with drawn their hard-earned savings from banks to buy, automobiles; and have thereby converted their modest assets Into expanding and devouring liabilities. The spectacle Is astound lng. In the matter of Individual ex penditures it is the fashion now to be extravagant to the point of wasteful ness, and the fashion Is running riot. Individual thrift Is considered not merely miserly hoarding, but It Is looked upon as a vice and a thing to be despised. It Is said that this Is not a day of small things, and that wealth, as wealth goes now, may no longer be accumulated by the slow process of savings and econ omies. This ir.y be true If we shall measure wealth only by billions or hundreds of millions, but, Just as surely as there ever existed virtue In economy, of contentment and inde pendence in frugality, they are there today, and Just as surely as Individu al and national extravagance ever led to a day of reckoning they are doing so today. Among nations, and among individuals, permanent wealth and material progress are the results not so much of natural resources as they are the products of economy and thrift; not alone economy In the arts of production, but economy of use. "The maintenance of the present high level of prices Is dependent upon the sustained purchasing power of the Individual which in turn depends very largely. If not wholly, upon the expansion of credit. Herein lies one of the chief elements of weakness and danger In the situation. "If the banks may by Increasing loans create credits, which In turn create purchasing power and a sus tained demand for high-priced goods thereby still further advancing prices In the benefits of which all classes share except those who possess fixed Incomes, It may be asked why this Is not good; why not continue to pro mote the general ability to spend; why not continue giving to each In dividual an amount of enjoyment, luxury and pleasure unknown before, particularly when all this may be ac complished by merely Increasing loans? The simple answer Is that it cannot be done because In the long run every act of wastefulness and every Item of extravagance must be paid for to the last farthing; every item consumed must be earned." Mr. Talbert also discussed the dan ger of the country losing its great trade balance and of adding an ad verse trade balance to the other debit Items which run against this country to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Mr. Talbert esti mated these Items at a total of 1900. 000.000, lnelndlng $200,000,000 spent abroad by American travelers. Ths Permanent Fruit. "The fruit crop has failed!" ex claimed the apprehensive person. "Yes," replied the gloomy boarder, "but what's the use of trying to b hopefuL That never applies to prunes." Washington Star.