Beaver State herald., September 25, 1908, Image 6

J with his old fatalistic shrug of the shoul­
ders. “Who knows?” Ill* voice drop-
|*e»l. “I have sinned, and I must do pen­
♦
♦
native. make expiation. There is uiaeh
♦
ahead of mg ”
♦
♦
lie iqtrued the door abruptly and stood
♦
hesitating. “Will you not look at tue
♦
before I go, and pity, forgive, forget?”
♦
♦
For the first time Annette met his
♦
Orrrldrt.
i
**
k
by
J.
B.
L
ippincott
C
ompany
glance. She had been listening to the
♦
♦
AU ri«ht* rr—err«d.
Ldith Morgan Willett
leather-coated chauffeur, shrinking from
the thief: now. raising her head, she saw,
standing in the doorway, a curiously at­
tractive figure, looking at her with wist*
ful eyes. The man, after all, whom she
loved.
“
Two
weeks.
”
she
said,
without
the
chapter xiil
Mtark
Half unconsciously. she leaned toward
“You »hall hear from mt early in the fainteet hint of coquetry or hesitation. him with a desolate little cry.
The accompanying Illustration shows
“
It
was
just
two
weeks
ago
to-night
that
morning.*’ the mock Prine* del Pino had
“Pity, forgive, yea!” she repeated. t cheap device for roverlug a stack
told Mrs. Warins when he left her at her we met on board the Majestic.”
"Yes. Rut forget? Oh. I cannot! I will >f clover hay. where there la no slough
“No!” Sarto shook hia head. ’“You not give you up!”
house; and then. turning his motor in
glass at hand to put oil top.
the direction of his hotel, he fare himself bare known me longer than that. Look
Rising to her fret, «hr ntood. her hands
In making thia rover romiuoti lioarda
up to the business of the moment. making at me!"
claM|w»d tightly, her Hi» |*rted, gating at
He drew nearer, with sudden deter­ him with the sou! itself shining in her may l>e uaed from 12 to 1(1 feet long,
•he moat of the brief time left to him.
It was half ¡mat ten when he stood out­ mination. “Where have you seen me lie- eyes. But Sarto did not move. II* stood a f<s>t or mor.- wide, putting one ou
side of a house in 8 street and consulted fore'? Think! Remember!”
top of the stack first, then slipping one
looking at her standing between her can-
But the girl only gazed at him with as­ dies, the sculpted image of a saint carved ou each side under the top one. nls>ut
his watch.
Half-past ten. Very late for a visit, tonished, half-frightened eyes.
in stone, and a very wistful look »xnw two luchea and fastenlug l>y driving n
and yet—they were awake in the house!
“Before?“ she faltered; “I--don’t un­ into hia fare.
rouinum fsnro staple over a amoolh
Through the bowed shutters and open derstand.”
“There is a lighted shrine in my heart,” win- Just at tlie edge of the upper
window* came the sound of one of Chop­
Sarto moved impatiently. The sus-
he said, «(»raking as if to himself, “and board, ao as to make a sharp bend In
in’s waltsew. played by a girl’s slightly pense was becoming unbearable.
the flame can never go out. The candle the wire over the «Ige. and ao on
amateur fingers on a piano that was not
"Think !” he urged relentlessly. “Of
will be burning there always through ths down ns far aa want«!. Six or eight
of the bewt. But on that night of witch­ whom did you say I reminded you? Have
long, lonely pilgrimage and at the end b<Minis on eseh side will generally be
ery. in the silent lighted streets, the air you forgotten Sarto, the chauffeur?”
“You Sarto?” Annette half whisper­
feared out with a certain graceful state­
sufficient: then fasten a |smt. atone or
“I will be waiting.” said Annette very
ed the word. “Sarto—and the Prince del
tineas.
•oft
ly.
Curbing his impatience. Sarto waited Pino!”
For a long instant their eyes met Hers
Her irrepressible imagination was at
until the last note of the phrase was
were full of tears, but into th* man’s
played, regardless of the flight of time, work again.
and then, mounting the steps, rang the
With a half groan Sarto turned away. there came a faroff. ineffable look as of
"No more fairy tab*«, child!” he mid one who sees visions and dreams <1 reams.
bell.
“Some day the pilgrim will come back
There was a little hesitation before a roughly. “The book is cloned now ! The
light tread came along the hall and the man you have known is not the Prince to you.” he said.
And, with love burning triumphantly
del Pino.” His voice vibrated. “Only
door opened.
“I had almost given up Your High an impostor—a miserable impoator. Lis­ nt the candles of his shrine. Sarto went
ten !” He hesitate«I, standing with his out into the night.
ne-m.” said Annette Bancroft.
At 10 o’cksk the next morning, while
Her visitor ».'ood**, hat in hand, look- back to the window, a silhouette of a
man. looking at the girl between her two Mrs. Waring was sitting up in bed and
‘ng up at her.
“I am all apologies for the lateness of candles as a lost soul might look at an sipping her chocolate, her maid brought
her a flat, square, brwrapped parcel, just
the hour.” he began in a low voice. “But angel in heaven.
I have been dining at Chevy Chas»* and
Then he told his story, from the mo­ arrived by a messenger boy.
Giving a glance at the address, written
was detained longer than I thought. I ment that he looked into Mrs. Waring’s
in a delicate, foreign-looking hand. Gus-
aTA< a rossa.
shall only stay a moment.”
trunk to the present.
• The girl led the way. without speaking,
Perhaps never in the course of his sue tore open the wrappings with excited weight of some kind at the end of the
fingers,
pulled
out
the
orthodox
cotton
­
into the drawing room, w’here two candles checkered career had the chauffeur, past
were burning, revealing the open piano master as he was in the science of the wool so suggestive of a jeweler, and re­ wires and the thing la done. Thia ar
I rangemetit also naves the trouble of
heaped with music. Behind it the win­ tongue, acquitted himself so ill. By a vealed a chamois glove-mar!
Pinned to it was a card on which was ' putting on bangers ns It answers tin-
dow stood open, letting in the light from skillful suppression of a fact here, the
•ngravetl.
“
II
Principe
Rnderigo
del
Pino,
”
name purpose. Two wires to each length
the street.
strengthening of an episode there—in
“Boses!” ejaculated the modi prince. fact, a little judicious light and shade— and underneath, in pencil, "Better known of Is «mln. als>ut two feet from the
as
Ludovic
Sarto,
Mrs.
Waring
’
s
ex-
He daintily sniffed at a bowlful standing the tale might have made a very credit­
ends, and aa many »«-tlonn aa may be
on the center table. “Papa Gon tier.” he able autobiography, in which Iaidovic chauffeur. begs to send her the enclosed I needed for the length of stack, putting
jewels,
as
a
slight
return
for
the
many
murmured, lifting the heavy heads. “lie Rarto. the hero, would have shone forth
J the middle aectlon on last with the
baa good tas.e in flowers—the English­ in an adventurous, seductive—possibly an kind favors wh ch have rendered his mem­
orable Washington sojourn so agreeably i ends la|>pliig over the next one. Is all
man.”
heroic—light.
I the material Hint la ne«l«t. In using
diverting.”
Annette made a faint acquiescence. She
To a lover all things are possible, per­
About a week after Mrs. Wiring’s very the hay a section of thia rover may be
had s»*ated herself on the piano stool, a missible. But for the time being Sarto
sudden departure for England. Town Tit- taken off by drawing out the staples
gboet-like little figure in the half light.
was not a lover.
Bits had the following paragraph:
Turning away from the table, Sarto
and the stuck cut down ao aa to leave
He stood as it were in bis confessional,
“Prince Roderigo del Pino «o the pa­
moved towards the piano.
speaking to a hidden rar. dissecting his pers have it—only arrived in New York the rover on Iho remainder The same
“Ah. I had forgotten that I” he said, conduct with the scrupulous exactness
boards can be used over and over again
speaking sot to-voce. ”M. Buist remains of the penitent. And the pale girl ait* yesterday on the Scotia, and is to givs *-»r a numlier of years
after I am gone. He has the best of it!” ting between the two candles was to him Newport’« summer colony a glinq>«e of his
“After you have gone I” echoed An­ a distant vision in a dim church, silent, titles and millions to-morrow.
<:»< After the rig.
“Can It be possible that there are two
nette.
inspiring, uplifting! Only at the last,
Files are one of the most aggravat­
She stood motionless, staring with part­ the man looked out through the sinner’s Roderigo del Pinos? If not. may we ask
ed lips and widened eyes into the face of eyes, with a faint satisfaction in his own the identity of the mysterious lta!iar\ no­ ing |iesis w« have on the farm. If
the man who bent over the piano, his sin. an irresistible pride in his own per­ bleman. who disported himself in Wash­ ■ we give them a breathing spell the
ington two weeks ago in the train of that ■ poor cows, calves and horses have to
dark, mobile feature« so near hers.
formance.
noted society leader. Mrs. R — ■—d W—ng, | suffer and the supply of milk will run
“Yes,” he said, speaking in very quiet
“
I
must
say
I
played
the
part
well
!
”
whose rumored engagement to the Earl I short. It Is either "fight or lose.” It
tones, to which his curiously expressive
voice lent a certain pathos. “It is to say Sarto boasted. “My acting was success­ of L------ y, we understand, is an undoubt­ 1 Is not sufficient to Just spray the anl-
ful
as
far
as
it
went.
I
dare
say
there
ed fact?”
good-by I am come to-night.
Before
‘mals with a fly-repelling mixture In
(The End.)
morning I will have left Washington. I are a score here who would say a good
the morning and tbeu turn them out to
word for me------ ”
shall never see you again.”
'■nature.
A wail crept into his voice. “Ah, the
The last words rang with an irrepres­
A few hours later, when I go to look
sible melancholy that sent a shiver irony of fate! While they are applaud­ ♦*W***P***»*»**W***t ****
through his listener. Turning, forgetful ing the Prince del Pino out there in the • WOMAN LAWYER'S CHANCE 1 after them In the pasture, they are
of the all-rev«.-iling lights in the street audience, the poor mountebank must 4
♦ ■fteli covered with bloodsucking flies
ignln. so I take a hand sprayer lomln!
below, she looked up into his face, her crawl off to hi le himself and his broken
heart.
But
I
forgot
”
—
with
a
jarring
own white with the shock of his words—
with n liquid of which kerosene forms
lau*rh
—
“
qhauffeurs
—
people
of
a
certain
her eyes wide with the secret of her heart.
If there la any hint of a moral at­ a large portion along and apray thia
class—are not permitted to have hearts!”
“¿pnwte!” cried Ludovic Sarto.
He stood, poor Sarto, very human an.I tached to the New York Sun story be­ rlght upon the flies on each animal.
Love is a rreat mystery I • • • It very much in love, his face working, his
The cows soon learn that spraying
low It 1» that to eatabllah clearly tbelr
taov« throarb the winding pa«ae»s of
heart rebelling at the bitterness of bis legal and Judicial equality women law­ means relief and they will hold still
ear cold, dark hearts so silently that we cup, the injustice that deprived him of
while you spray. The flies quickly let
never siMpeet its presence until suddenly the fruits of his own triumphs—the en­ yers must learn to regard untidiness
as philosophically as do men lawyers. go of their bold nnd fall Io the ground
one day we see it for the first time mir­ joyment of his own happiness.
when the kerosene touches them. Vis
rored in the light of another’s eyes.
And there was silence’ in the little This is the story, ns one of the hun­
At some time—when the chauffenr room, while from the street outside came dred women lawyers In New York City Itlng the nnlmals once <>r twice a day
In thin manner la a great help to them
could not tell—some Midas touch had the smooth roll of wheels and a man’s tells It:
turned the gratitude, the friendship he tenor in the distance singing the air from
In the early days of my legal stu­ during the fly aensou.—L. II. Johnsou.
felt for this girl into the gold of bis Pagliacci, bird-like atoms of sound thread­ dentship I was In n Wisconsin town Illinois.
heart.
ing the roar of the city.
spending my vacation, and Judge X.
llol.la tur 11
saw,.
And in this instant of miracles the
At last Annette spoke. “What have
A very simple niel Inal by which one
man’s whole being, hia double nature, you done with the diamonds?” she asked the great man of the place, an old
friend of my father’s, gave me the man can ninnlpulnt e a drag saw Io
men the dirk side which had achieved its very quietly.
cut down trees has lieeti <levla«l by a
sinister triumph one short hour azo. seem-
The man before her caught his breath. privilege of Ills library.
iched by that same Divine a’<*h*my “Ah. the diamonds!
Wi-stcrn
timber
Like many other private law libra­
I had forgotten
__ the base metal in him transformed and about them.”
man.
In using
ries In small places I have visited, this
purified.
theae saws two
For an instant he stared at the g’rl was unsurpassed In numlier of volumes
There are certain momenta In this dull
men have hereto­
and value by any I have ever known
blankly.
All
this
time
Ludovic
Sarto
had
life of ours when the froth is on the wine
fore been necea
—moments of dazzling, diamond-like bril­ been thinking of himself as the chauffeur. about 111 New York, where space Is so
aary, one nt each
liance—moments as sweet as the first Surely that was low enough! But now. precious that a lawyer must perforce
with a heavy, irretrievable sense of doom, depend on outside help for Ills refer­
end of the saw.
♦aste of a nectarine and as evanescent.
The arrangement
Even as Ludovic Sarto and Annette he saw in her eyes whence he had fallen ences.
of the drag-saw
Bancroft gazed into each other’s eyes, the and how far! From the pedestal on
In a smaller town you must own the
which she had placed the Prince del Pino,
moment passed by. never to return.
guide Is shown In
hooks yourself or go without. The
The next a terrible realization came down to the thief—the robber of Mrs. Judge own«! Ills, and I brows«! with
the
Illustration.
into the man’s heart. “Wait a moment!” Waring’s diamonds. What a descent! wonder and delight about among the ULlllES till haw .
Itestlng
agnlnst
he said hoarsely. “I—I have something And in the fall—love, that brittle, deli­
shelves, which filled three g<Msl-slr.ed the tree la a rod, from which la ana
cate
thing,
lay
shattered,
broken
into
♦o tell you !”
rooms, and I realized for the first time pended a coni. At the end of the
Turning sharply away, he took a few fragments.
Sarto was suddenly face to fare with wlint the law really meant, and how cord la an adjustable clarap. to which
turns up and down the room, grappling
with the ordeal that was suddenly upon a judge, young, austere, implacable, in tremendous an undertaking It was for one end of the naw Is secured. At the
whose clear tones there sounded an echo a young woman like myself to seek to other end of the saw la a handle. In
him.
of some distant Puritan ancestor; in
operating the saw to cut the tree, the
For the girl must be told the truth whose glance he saw himself condemned. make any headway In It.
now! It was inevitable! Alas! the dis­
These, however, were only reflec etid opposite the handle Is support«!
“The diamonds,” he repeated with an
covery of her secret demanded the reveal­ effort, “go to Mrs. Waring to-morrow, tlons. by the way.
My Insistent by the cord In the same position as If
ing of his.
with a note of—of explanation. I shall thought was one of horror at the dirt operatwl by hand. With the employ­
It was a strange psychic fart that to see to it—the first thing in the morning.”
and disorder that reign«! supreme. ment of this guhle the necessity of an
Rarto t
in spite of his slippery, di­
He spoke with the submissive imper
I set to work, and finally, after fin­ extra man to manage one end of the
verse nature, no other course occurred. son a I air of a servant, his eyes on the
saw Is eliminated.
The man who loved Annette Bancroft— ground, and for a moment Annette list­ ishing up the outer rooms. I Invaded
the sanctum, where the old Judge had
and was loved in return—could no longer ened silently.
Farmlhg on Arid Lnnd.
»nask behind the Prince del Pino.
“What are you doing here then?“ ah* gone on day after day without taking
Succesarul farming on arid land with­
Ludovic must come forth and near his asked suddenly. “I>on’t you know that if the slightest notice of me and iny dust­
responsibilities. The law of self-preserva­ Count Souravieff is after you, he may ing. When he did iiocome aware that out art I (Via I watering hna been
tion. which he had only acknowledged so be here at any moment?“ Her voice rose something so unprecedented wna taking brought to the notice of the Agrlcultur
far. had given way to another, diviner. sharply. “You will be caught. Impris­
al Hoclety of Germany, with an expla-
place, he nearly had a stroke.
For the first time In his life the mer­ oned !“
| nation of th» method. In Syria and
To
think
that
I.
an
Insignificant
fl,
curial chauffeur bent his bead to the law
But the chauffeur only smiled, with a on the dictionary of wisdom, had dared Palestine, with practically no rain
of self-sacrifice.
sparkle in his keen eyes which had not
from April to October, the Helds In
Turning suddenly, he looked at the girl been there before. Slight as it was, that to disturb the accumulation of tarred July have a flourishing abundance of
dust!
Even
Ills
old-time
courtesy
was
at the piano.
note of anxiety had not escaped him.
watermelons, cuciiniliers. tomatoes and
Annette was leaning forward, faring Though in fragments, still there was love for a while sadly shaken.
ether products, snd plants continue
him. a faint nervous smile on her lipa, for him in the girl’s heart.
Finally he g>is|sd out a question ns
gr«-n and thriving until autumn. The
her eyes full of a dawning, shy expect­
“Oh, I am safe enough indeed!” he an­ to whether I did not respect the su­
ancy.
swered confidently. “My motor, in which perstitions of the profession I was secret lies In so plowing that the win
Watching her, his wonderfully keen— I led them a chase, is standing in front studying to enter, one of which was the ter rains are absorli«l and retain«! In
almost feminine—perceptions diaaecting of a pharmarie in F street at this mo­ lilde-bound rule that no volume should the subsoil. The plowing Is shallow,
the girl’s soul. Sarto saw, with shudder­ ment. For myself, I left my hotel an have Its place chnng«l or Its face averaging only 4 to fl Inches In depth,
ing. sickening horror and self disgust, all hour ago and took my valise with its con­
nnd after the full harvest It follows
that the girl in her innocent romantic tents to”—he hesitated—“well, never ■ lter«l, though the dust might tie each heavy rain aa soon aa the ground
soul was imagining. A fairy tale no less mind where. When one leads a double Inches deep.
tieglna to dry. the purpose being to keep
I shook my head, and In answer a loose nnd friable surface to take up
—foolirh enough !—with a prince for its life, Miss Bancroft, one finds It conven­
ient sometimes to live in two places. And proudly displayed the completed cata­ the water from the subsoil. In the
hero and for its heroine------
The man who loved her knew, with an then I came on here. Yes, it Is quite logue, where code volumes and common
spring the land Is plowed to a depth of
Inward recoil, that it fell to him to shat­ safe; but it Is well that you remind me law had their respective ¡amitlons.
about fl Inches. The seed Is dropp«l
ter this pretty little castls in the air— that I must go.“
Finally the humor of the situation by the plow upon the moist sutianll and
“What will become of you?“ asked the came to his relief, and he said:
with its occupants.
It Is covered by the closing up of the
Standing before her, he spoke formally. girl, almost in a whisper.
“Well, I have often wanted to know loose soil. Protected by the loose cov­
She still eat, her face turned away,
“Miss Bancroft, tell me, how long have
what
women
were
going
to
do
when
staring fixedly at the opposite wall.
we known each other—you and IP*
ering. the subsoil furnishes sufficient
they Mitered the legal field, and now I moisture for plant growth during the
Harto moved toward the door.
Annette raised her eyes to his, and a
“What will become of me?” he echoed, know. They will dust lbs books”
vivid color tinged her pale cheeks.
entire dry see eon.
X
THEWEEKLY
The Chauífeur
l>e.«re,|aa Weeda.
lu destroying annual weeda one
metlx.l la tu disk the stubble golds,
causing the weed mh . i to germlmite.
after which they can lie killed tiy aub-
-«tuent cultivation or by froai Anoth­
er mathod la tu turn live atuch. rape
dally Sheep into theae al ubbie fields to
eat up the we«le ami ae«l needs The
value of cultivated ernpa, rotations and
aumuier fallows la alno dlacunaed.
The eradication of |>eretiulala in mor.
difficult than In the roae of animala
For theae they trl«l ¿mother ero|as
liare fallow, chemicals hih I tar paper
For amali nrroa of quack grasa, rover
Ing with tar paper waa found effective,
but was tro «mtly for field applica­
tion. As quack grana la almllnr to Iler- I24M Conalmrilon of th« (’athnlral of
Calogna baguB.
muda grasa In Ita Imblt of spreading,
ami It equally pernlatent. this method Hill I soul« XI. of Fran»*« erow nod at
It halms.
may he of Interval to thone who wish
KM5 I’raer conclutlod batwten Rwada®
to kill amali nn-aa of llerumda.
and I ten mark.
A Help I k Krall I’trkiKa.
I07O John Dryden cr*«t*<1 |*oat Inó­
In commercial orcharding It la gen l
rente of England.
erally moat «-onomlcnl to have pick­ 1741 Behring, tii« navigator, discovered
ing and packing work going on roucur-
E««t Cape.
rently. Thia naves putting the apples ITM Fort < tew ego raptured by the
on the ground and having to handle
French under Montcalm.
them again. A twirlable sorting table 17(15 I'ontiar'e war for the extermina­
upon which pickers can empty their
tion of th# English In America came
bags la placed ou low truck wheels and
to an snd.
a single horse can move It to any de- 1775 Lilierty Tree in lioaton run««-
alr«l iHiiiit aa the work proi-enla
It
crated.
should lie made large enough to hold 177(1 Constitution of Maryland adopted
not Iona than two barrels of fruit.
17** Americana defeate«l British and
The rear bolster la higher than that
Torie« at battle of Muagrovs Milla
at the open end, so that the culls can
Hona|<art« Invsated with pawar to
lie rolled out. A long, heavy plank is
nomináis hie sucreaaor aa ruler of
placed ou the ground on each able of
Franco.
this table ou which the liarrvla are set . LSO4 Work begun on the flrst publie
for flllliig The culls are allowed to
road between Georgia and Tenoeo*
roll luto .x pile from the lower end of
see.
the grading table.
1*)7 British army "Invented Copenhagen.
IMI > British Parliament peened the Die
Th* Htiras'a Teeth at Xlaa Year«.
arntera' Marriage Act.
; I83B The flrat I’nlted Rtatea exploring
ex|H-«|it|nn aaile<l undor Commander
Wtttah
: 1M<1 Gen. Kearney took pea<*eable pne-
aeaeilan of Hants Fe. Mexico.
| IRÜO The l‘rin<« of Wales (now King
Edward VII.) arrived at Quebec.
j !NtV4 Cabul recovered by Hhere All.
1SH4 Mine Patti aued for divorce from
Marquis de <’au>.
At nine yean the mark tn the cornet IKKM More than 1(M> live« lost In col­
teeth of the up|ier Jaw la clearly de­
lision of th« German «teamera Thing­
nn«!: the mark la still visible In the
valla and Geiser off Rabi« Island.
middle teeth, but baa almost dlaap UNH Between .’UM» «nd <0l) Ilves lost in
l>ean-d from the nlpfM-ra.
earthquake in Martinique.
1N03 The
Behring Sea
arbitration
award was delivered
1901 Russian and Ja|>anese warship« en­
gaged In battl« off Vladivostok.
A aide view of upper Jaw at nine
yearn. The point l> la the Indentation
usually seen In corner tooth.
freser.lKg Ike Msrssa Horn..
Colonel llattell of Middlebury. Vt..
la entltl«l to the honor of preserving
the Morgan horse from extinction, lie
has enllateil the l’nlt«l States Ih-part-
ment of Agriculture in the work of re­
storing to its obi time standard thia
beautiful horse, and for that purpose
has <l«sle<| to the government Boti serva
of pasture and woodland. The horses
now on the farm ari- headed by a stal­
lion that coat $1,000.
Mote. Al>onl the Perm.
The hens ought to have a little grain
every day all during the summer.
F«-dlng heavily on whole corn hna
a tendency to Induce liens to become
broody.
Try to nrrnnge to give each horse on
the farm n three weeks’ vacation ou
grass.
Keep the stables nnd the yards clean,
ao that flics and Insects hare no breed­
ing places.
Heels or mangel wurzels make tine
food for ponltry. They should be
chopped flue.
See that all the hogs hare plenty of
fresh, clean water to drink, especially
during hot, dry days.
Do not put away the whitewash
brush In the summer time. Keep It
going summer and winter.
I io not fall to provide a shelter un­
der which the young chicks can scurry
In case of sudden storms.
Holl«! eggs should never be fed to
very young chicks nnd should never
lie f«l more than twice a week.
The poor row seems to lie continual­
ly with ua. Get rid of her and thus
reduce the coat of production.
Acidity In milk Is lnclp|<-nt decom­
position. and It 1s the moat delicate
flavor«l oils which suffer first of all
among the fata of which butter Is com­
posed.
Evehy successful breeder has some
hobby, some originality that lends him
to Improve some particular character­
istic of Ills rows and Improvs them In
some one particular point
Never dose a healthy horse. All he
needs In good care and good feed. The
good care Includes, of courae, regular
exercise. It la Just ns bad for a horse
to lie all the time taking medicine aa It
In for a man. I>o not do It.
If the horse flags, and his legs be­
come unsteady, unhitch at once, put
cold water on hie bead and on the back
of hie neck nnd rub with coarse clot lie.
If near a drug atore Inject forty or
move graine of quinine. Sponge bls
mouth with cold watea
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A trial week of disimtching trains by
telephone from the stations of ths Ijick-
awanna system has resulted in th« adop­
tion of the phones.
The line of th* Wisconsin <‘entml road
from Ladysmith to Superior has been
completed a* far as the Northern Pacific
<ros«ing within the Ruperior city limits.
Heteral hundred thousand freight cart
may be standing Idle, aa the railroad
managers tearfully protest, but some Kan­
sas grain dealers coni ¡»la in that they nr«
unablr to get l»ox cam enough.
In the Cirrtilt Court at Chicago Jtidg«
Kohl*nat enjoined the Issuance of trans­
portation by th* Chicago, Indianajiolls
and IxMiisville railway to the publishers
of Munsey's Magazin« in exchange for
advertising, lie held that th« contract
under which thia tran«t»ortation was la-
sued la In violation of the Hepburn rata
law. Th« railroad company gav« notice
of an ap|»eal to th« Cnitrd Htates Ru-
premk Court.
At Helena. Mont., legal representative«
of the government tiegan «uit against th«
Northern Pacific Railway Comtainy, the
Ro<4cy Fork Coal Company and th«
Northwestern Improvement Company to
recover title to valuable coal lands which
It is charged were procured through mis­
representation. The lands In question
contain coal mines from which th« rail­
way obtains great quantities of ma I
through Ita control of th« subsidiary mm-
«janite.
Presumably due to the Industrial de­
pression of th« past year, the death mte
from accident« by rail appears to be on
the decrease. The Accident Bulletin of
th* Interstate (’onimerce Commission for
the first quarter of 1IMIH shows a total
of 125 |>asaengnm and employes killed,
ns compared with 220 such *lenths In the
preceding quarter, nnd with 340 in the
one before that, lite latest record is the
anmlleet since these statistics were first
collected In 1901. During the first quar­
ter of thia year the number of deaths of
passengers and employes from all cause«
was 728, ngnlnat 1002 hi the preceding
quarter. In the same period the numlier
of casiwilties was 15,441, the least within
three years.
The right of ahlppert to combine small
quantities of freight of various ownership,
either by arrangement among themselves
or by a forwarding agency, was confirmed
by the Intarstate Commerce Commission
•n a decision recently rendered.
Th« Interstate Commerce Commission
has published th« final figures of the In­
come of th« railroads for the last fiscal
year The total net earnings amounted
to $840,580,944, which 1s an Increase of
$M.tV)0,390. Th« total numlier of em­
ploye« on the ¡»ay roll on June 30 wag
1.072,074, against 1,521,355 a year ago.