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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1902)
i :VV ,i A. CIIAPTEU XVl.-iContinued., , Tli.it night is still as death it-elf. ami the sparkling brilliance of the slow mov ing water- contrast- with it in tender fashion. Strangely attracted by it. Vera (tes forward, moves down tile stone steps that h a.l to the garden, an.l wi'h eager footstep gains the little pathway, teep ami sti.1-1. u. that leads to the beach. Suddenly she draw in her arms, anil a (hirer runs through her: she turns ht-r he.nl to see lysart. "You are going to marry Lord Shel ton?" he says, bis tone more assertire than quest;., ning. "It is an impertinent question," ears Miss Dysart. calmly. '"Vim are di-iugeiiuons. If he has not jet asked you. you know he only waits the opportunity to ilo so. When he des " lie cheeks himself ' abruptly, knowing he has pone too far. A little tianie leaps into V era's eyes. "Ha- it o.-eurred to you that I am rery forbearing?" she asks, with a curious smiie. "Does it n.t strike you as very remarkable that I do not on my part question you back again? that 1 do not k you whom you are g.;:ig to marry''" He looks as if he was about to make her an angry rejoinder, but she checks him. "No don't be afraid, I nm not poms to put the question," she says, coldly; "and after all. why should IV" "Do you mean." he goes on. "that you know of some. ;ie I want to marry V" "Let there be all end to this hateful hypocrisy," cries she, turning to him with e burst of passionate anger. "You acted jour part for tiri-elda this morning most admirably." "Vera!" cries he, hoarsely. She turn- as if startled by that impas sioned cry, and then, he hardly knows how it is, he hardly dares remember af terward, but somehow she is in his amis, and he is looking down into her frighten ed eyes with a terrible entreaty in his own. "Do you know what you are doing?" he says, his miserable roiee scarcely abore a whisper. ".My darling, my soul, hare pity I" More closely his arms bind her. He bends his face to hers nearer, nearer still, and then, suddenly, a great loathing of himself tills him. He draws back with a sharp shudder, and almost pushes her fr..ru him. "Ho!" he says, ve hemently: and in another moment she has turned the corner of the winding stairs, and is gone. Cione! With a heavy groan he flings himself face downward on the cool sweet, shift ing sands, that moim-smitten lie trem bling, waiting for the dawn. he says, in a . Mad I am. Hut fT I saw cii.u"n:i: xvn. As Mr. Dysart takes his way slowly round the house, the sound of running footsteps coming toward him from a fide walk attracts his attention. It is irunch. wild-eyed, haggard, her thin Cray locks, unbound through her unusual haste, flying at each side of her lean, for bidding face. "More haste, worse speed." says he, sarcastically. "Is the house atire. or my precious nieces dead, that you rush Uou me with such indecorous abandon?" "Hush," says she. sternly. with a plance behind her, "this is no time for words like those. Think only of this. I'ysart." pau-iug and paining for breath, "that I have seen a ghost." The old man laughs. "He silent!" his-,-- the woman savage ly; "cease your gibes. I tell you. The ghost I have seen i is " "My worthy father, for example," sug gests he. with a sneer. "No? Well, conic, who, then?" "Michael Sedley!" The words fall from her as though they burn her lips in pass ing. The sneer dies from Mr. Dysart's lips; dark Hush suffuses his face, turning it almost l.hnk for the moment, to fade presently beneath the ashen hue that makes him look like a corpse a corpse "Kith eyes of tire! He siapgers back gaint a tree, and his hands catch con vulsively at the bark of it. "You are mad, woman!" terrible voice. "Ay. may be. So I say If it was his ghost I saw. Dim in tin- tlesh. how then. Dysart? Why, sane. Well," with growing excitement, "shall it be mad or saneV "Mad. mad. mad!" shrieks he, furious ly. "All my life you have been my bane, tny curse, and now, now .what is this news you would tell me? Sedley! Why, be is dead, woman dead, I tell you! Where have you seen him? Speak, I command you." cries he, seizing her arm and shaking her violently. "On the avenue. I was there watching Miss (iriselda, as you told me to, lest she should go into the woods again, when he came slowly toward uie through the trees, prowling about. He's changed, he's gone to bone a deal; but I'd know him still among a thousand. Ay, and you'll know him. too." It is characteristic of the iron nature sf the man that rose above all petty cringings to a miserly fear that as he enters the presence of the one creature whom on earth he dreads, he does so with a calm visage and one expression less. His step is slow, methodical as usual; his face, gray in its pallor, a very mask. His brilliant eyes alone betray the keen life that still lingers in the gaunt old frame, and they look through and through the unwelcome visitor with an unblinking gaze. "Y'oii!" be says, softly, nay smilingly, extending a graceful baud, with a good deal of languid indifference. "Just that." says Sedley, in a tone so loud and common as to contrast painfully with the polished accent that had gone befote. "Years since we met. mate." "Many." says Mr. Dysart, sinking care fully into a rickety old chair near him. "And yet it seems like yesterday that we parted." "Take it like that! it shows what a downy nest you're been ly in in." says the large, coarse-'.onkiug man. with a distinctly aggrieved air. "There's the in justice of it. You've as miii li right to til'- place as I have, when all's told. And if I can't get my share " " 'Sh !" breathes Mr. Dysart. softly, lifting one hand. "An.l w e'.l. so you have come hack? l'iniug for the old country, eh?" "To look you up," doggedly. "To see whether you were iu the grave or out of it. partner." "Tanner?" repeats Dysart, as if in gentle interrogation. "In crime!" roughly, as if angered by the other's tone. "That's what they'd call it. Dysart. at the Did Kailey. or whatever court it might come before. I'm not particular." "No no." assents Mr. Dysart, with gentle encouragement. "I never blamed you, mind you that. Rut a lawyer's a worriting sort o" var mint. A man should stick to his word, sez I. and when the old gov-ner refused to stick to his. after all his promises to you, why, if you kept him to it, in spite of him, when he had no longer power to kick well, who's to say you were wr.uig. eh?" "You are very pond; very sustaining," says Mr. Dysart, slowly. His tone is, perhaps, a little fainter. "Ay. that's what I am to them ns stands by me. And you and I are in the same boat, Dysart: never lose sight of that. 1 don't. I'll back you up as fresh as though it was only yesterday we'd agreed ou on you know what. 11a, ha, ha!" The old man suddenly stiffens himself, and looks straight at Sedley. "And now what is it you want?" he asks, tersely, his tone ringing cold and clear through the room, though very low. "Now, I like that. I want part o' the swag. Five thousand pounds," says the other, coolly. "Fire thousand pounds! You must be mad." "Not one penny less. My silence is worth that and more. Come, don't Im agine you can impose on nie. I tell you, I would think as little of going into that room out there and telling your nieces of that tirst will, as " "Hush hush!" says Dysart, in a sharp tone, wild with fear. "Not another word, not a breath on that subject here. Walls have ears. You know the old ruin at the end of the far garden? Meet me there to-night, and I shall see if we can come to terms." With a last word or two he succeeded in getting Sedley to the door, and there summons Crunch, who in truth is mar relonsly handy. "Crunch! Will you see to Sedley? lie is as old a friend of yours as of mine. 1 think." says Mr. Dysart, in so genial a tone for him that Crunch involuntarily glances at him. "He is tired, and no doubt hungry. Make him comfortable in every way." "Yes. sir." says Crunch, respectfully. She leads Sedley down the passage, and then, with a muttered word to him that she should get the keys of the cellar, runs back to Dysart. who stands siaring after them with an unfathomable expression in his eyes. "Your will quick!" she says, iu a low tone. "Keep him out of sight. Let no one see him, or guess at his presence iu this house." whispers Dysart, liercely, after which he steps back into his room and slams the door, and locks it behind him iu a frenzied fashion. CH Al'TF.l! XVIIL It is -- ' shroud IVytoi the up to the Sal'i house, await will b. a desi enter in the to squ letter Yoic The si sart. The second voice is strange to him coarse, vulgar aud dictatorial, ami very threatening. The voices grow in wrath; the un known one being loud iu vituperation. And now, ull suddenly us it were, the voices cease; there is a strained silence, as if each man waits with drawn sword for the other's next word, and then a sickening sound. A dull, awful blow, as of oak meeting tlesh and blood, a ghastly groan, ami then silence. Creut heaven! What has happened? Has he killed that old man? 1'eyton springs forward, looks upon the inner room, he stops short, as if shot, to stare aghast upon the scene before him. Upon the earthen lloor lies a huge fig ure, apparently dead, while standing over it is Mr. Dysart, his face alight with a ghastly hope, his wild eyes gleaming. A heavy oaken stick is in his hand. The murderous bludgeon is uplifted to com plete crime already begun to finish his work, to make sure of the helpless vic tim at his feet, when Peyton, uttering a loud cry, rushes from the spot where until now he lay concealed. There is an instant's hush, a strange hush, anil then a convulsive shiver runs through the old man. An asheu grayuess has risen from chin to brow. He flings up his arms, for a second or two, clutches foolishly at the air, aud then falls with a dull thud across the body of his enemy. Peyton runs through the garden, never pausing or drawing breath uutil the hou-e is reached. Knocking impatiently with his knuckles and receiving no an swer, he so far gives way to the agi tation that is consuming him as to smash a pane with a stone. This brings Seaton to the window in a minute or two, uar tially dretsed. "It l I, Dysart Tom Peyton. Cni I out. come out quickly. Your father," j pautiug, "is hurt is very ill!" "My father!" says Seatou. as if not believing. "But when. now?" j "In the garden up there iu the old ruin. Ou. hurry, man, hurry; you can hear all afterward!" Seatou hardly dares to venture a re mark, but. having with trembling lingers clothed himself, follows Peyton ou: through the window in the chill night nir, and soon the two young men are tearing like limited thing through tie gardens to that tatal old ruin at tile cud of tilt-in. Here everything i just as Peyton 1, ft it. The old mau lying dead, with a more peaceful expression on his face than ha I ever been there while he lived tae oth er, the stranger, nluio-t as motionless ,i his enemy, save for a faint quiver of the lips aud nostrils every now and then. Who was he? What had brought him here? Peyton turns to Seatou with these questions on his lips. It is imperative that something about the stranger be dis covered aud at once. Seatou is still holding his father's body in his amis, inexpressible grief upon his countenance. The old man had been stern, hard, begrudging, but he had loved his son well, and the son kuew it. Pey ton touches him lightly on the sh.nil.ler. "House your-elf." he says, in a low, earnest tone. "You know this man?" "No uot at all. I never saw him be fore." "What! you can tell me nothing? Oh, think. Dysart!" says Peyton, with in creasing anxiety. "If you kuow nothing we shall scarcely be able to see how to ac t. Lxert your memory, mau." "It is useless. I swear I never saw him before." He compels himself to look again at Sedley. ami a shiver of disgust shakes him. "1 know ouly this that he has killed my father." "You forget." says Peyton, rery quiet ly. He would have been thankful, glad, to be able to leave his friend in this be lief, but Le knew it would be impossible. "I saw the whole tiling. There was a quarrel, about what I did not hear, but it was your father who knocked that fellow down." "Well, it killed him," says Seaton, ex citedly. "The excitement of that quar rel was too much for him. I still main tain that that man caused his death." He covers his face with his hands. "Nevertheless, we cannot leave him here to die. Come, Seatou. take your courage in your hands. Think if there be no way to avoid the scandal that must necessarily arise out of all this. For for the sake of your poor father's mem ory, bestir yourself." It is a potent argument. Seaton flushes hotly, and the old touch of power returns to his face. Together fhey carry the two bodies into the house, under cover of the silent night. Mr. Dysart to his own room, ami then up the stairs, and through the end less corridors, that other groaning, scarcely living burden; up always until a disused chamber in a remote corner of the old tower is reached, where it is be yond probability that any one in the house save these three who know, will ever seek to penetrate. (To lie continued.) MAKING MAPLE SUGAR. Method of (luthcrliiB the Sup and HolliiiK the Sirup. Maple siigr and sirup are favorite' sweets the country over, and this fact gives a gem-nil Interest to some infor mation about the maple sugar Industry which has practical value also for the -ections where this particular kind of -ngnr-making prevails. An American. Cultivator correspondent supplies the1 follow ing details: The evaporator is the first ami mo; . important consideration. The point to be considered in an evaporator Is the 1 one that can make the best sugar In the ! least possibletlnie with the least amount I of fuel. Lvaporalors are made of gal- vanized Iron or steel, copper or tin. j They are usually supported on Iron ! arches lined with brick, but sometimes the arches are made entirely of brick. ! Storage tanks, draw tanks, sirup tanks. I buckets and pails are of galvanized steel, tin or wood. We consider gal- I vanized steel the superior article be- cause It will not rust. Bucket covers can j be of wood or tin: spouts, steel or tin. Take a sugar place of y.OiHj trees or. ! rather, one that uses "J.tMio buckets.! When the "boss" thinks It Is time to! "sugar," the men are set to tapping the J trees. A three-eighths or one-half Inch bit is used, mid In large trees the hole j is bored about two Inches deep, ill i smaller trees only about one and a half' Inches. Spouts lire driven or screwed j In. buckets hung to each spout and cov-1 ers. if they have them. Some trees are tappepd In two or j three and oftentimes four places, bans- i mrt f lir little ""ft-d of savings, n .l in spite ol all my protests, paid It to a ,-vi.sv woman on Hie outskirts of ISroo'klvi. for a charm This ch irm con sisted ' of a piece of parchment, on which were written me queer character- The whole was tied up in a I" tle bug ami was suspended by a siring :, uie patient's neck. W hell "I"' -1..0NC.1 it to me 1 laughed the thing I" s.-oi-u and tried i hw ber how loolisn -he va to pay hard-earned umney to a miserable quack. I could tun convince her of the lolly, however, and so gave up Hie effort, trusting to time to prove tile right. "The neighbors of the woman with the swollen knee soon Heard of tier gvpsv charm, ami one of them who had 7 ..rimtion of the skin which had Ion; detied the power of medicine to remove . begged for a copy of the charm. The tirst woman was ready to do this favor to her fellow-sufferer, anil as neither could read nor write they used a in year-old son of one of them to make the copy. This boy had been attending a public school, ami his parents were exceedingly proud of his ability to read and write 'American.' Hut the lad could make nothing of the gypsy writing on the parchment. He was equal to the occasion, however, and showed he lir ... the making of a true American, for he would not acknowledge defeat. What he wrote was 'This is know good.' "It was not until some lime nfter ward that 1 heard of this, when the woman with the skin trouble was show ing me the copied charm. When I saw the trick tlie boy had played on both of them I thought my vindication had TOR WINTER AND SUMMER 1st, In many parts of the country tbg, are variations Iu the temperature tmj. dent to produce gootl sleighing or move the snow entirely In a few hootj time. A a consoquence thedriTetk often at a loss to decide whether t( hitch up his sleigh or carriage, a p,.. tial relief from the 'dilemma Is afW eil bv the runners design with hns. slip on the axles In plarJe of the wheA alter uie inner nave( neen remot but then the problem for the win, arises. It being diltieiflt to dlsposfj; them In the wagon. tr-orge Utan of Vivilersburg, I till., seems to hj IIUGOT ON SLEIGH. solved the question very satlsfactotj with his new runner, an Illustrations which Is here presented. As will bi seen, each runner Is provided with fort ed ends, which slip over the rimoftu wheels ami are held lu place by bold When not iu use these ruiinert in easily stored in the carriage, being pet fectly Hat and occupying little pet This device will be found espwUll) advantageous on long Journeys, when the owner of the vehicle Intend to stay away from home for sevni days at seasons where there may be t freeze or thaw, as the driver may (as pen to be sensitive about running i sleigh on bare ground, or a wheelti vehicle when the sleighing Is good SUPERSTITIONS DYING OUT. BOILING THE SYUUP AT THE CAMP KIKE. HATS OF OUR ANCtSTORS. Changes that Have Inkcn Place fn Manufacturing lfeadenr. "Speaking of the hat business." said a veteran of the business lo the local historiau. "most womb rlul cluing, s have taken place since 1n.1ii. In olden times soft felt and derby hats were not known, and it was as 'ate as 1M:1 when silk dress hals were first Introduced in this country, this being a French in vention, and all silk plush us.il for hats in the world was. up to this time, made in France. When Kossuth came to America he introduced the soft felt hats, wearing one himself. It did not take American hatters long to take up the idea, and in less than one year old and young Americans covered their heads with Kossuth hats. They were iu shape nearly the same as tourist hats now, only being trimmed up with a nice, long ostrich plume. Along about I.S.'kS an English tourist came along with the derby hat, and in a very few 'TS they became the geiwral head - in the country, and up to the p:vs lale the demand for soft hats aud v hats is nearly evenly divided. those days all the best class of hals were imported from France, UifT derbies from England. This, ver, has taken a materia! change, uerlcan lints are now sold In all of the globe, and it Is a known hat we produce the most tasty st hats made. Ilefore the arrival ssuth and the English tourist, ver, the Americans did not go bareheaded, but contented themselves with napped otter and napitcd beaver hats, for the more expensive, and the so-oal'.eil scratch-up or brush hals for the cheaper. Hrush or scratch-up de rive their name from the fact that nap was raised on them by means of a stiff brush constructed of whalebones. The first manufacturers who made Ameri can production in those gotwls popular aud world-renowned, and who forced French and English hals out of this market, were Uinaldo M. Waters. John 15. Stetson, J. 1). Hlrd and 15. J. Hrown. "During the early periods of lx-0 and lSoi) a dealer was a hatter In fact, else there would have been no room for him. as all made Uie bats they sold, all handwork, no machines of a'ny kind, aud one who knew how to make a nap ped otter or benver hat was an artist, earning $40 to $I5U per week leiug nothing unusual, many making from 57o to $100." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ing a bucket to each spout, of course. Then, the weather being right, the sap runs, and the teams are started as soon as possible, for the quicker the sap Is made Into sugar the better the sugar is. Men with pulls holding sixteen quarts go to each tree, collect the s.ip ami empty It Into the draw tank, which is being hauled about on a "sugar sled'' !y a pair of horses. These tanks hold inywhere from twenty live to fifty pail- iuls. When a load is secured, the team j driven to the sugar houses, and the; ap. by means of four-inch pipes, is drawn from the draw tank to the stor age tank. I The storage tanks are placed on a laging on the outside of the sugar muse anil connected with the ovap- iruly come. Hut when 1 explained It all to her sue met with the knockdown argument: " 'Well, miss. It cured us both.' "What could 1 say to that?" ffi II1 I ! J TAPI'INO THE MAPLE TItEES. orators by rubber hose or iron pipe, the tlow of sap from storage tank to evap- ! orators being regulated by automatic valves. Thtist he sap enters one end of die evaporator, working back and forth through partitions and corrugations till it reaches the other end of the evap orator, when It Is drawn off as "sirup." The sap is not "handled" any from ' the time the men pour It Into the draw ; tanks uutil It conies out a finished ar ticle. I. e., made sirup at eleven pounds ; to the gallon. This may be put away In sirup tanks , aud allowed to cool and settle, aud then, if the sugar Is wanted, this sirup Is put into the "sugaring off" pan on a separ- ; ate arch and boiled down until the right pitch Is reached, when It Is taken from I the firt. stirred gently and allowed to cool and then put Into tin cans or wood en tubs, and it Is then ready for market in the form of maple sugar. Hardly So. ' In no situation, probably. Is the stam mering infirmity more calamitous than in making a proposition of marriage.; An exchange gives us this dialogue: 1 Mr. Siutterly to Miss tinp-e : "M-m-lii-iss G-G-li-G-G-ti-lirace. I I I I w-w-w-w-w-want you to b-b-b-b-be ni-m-m-m-my " "What did you say. Mr. Stutterlv11" "W-W-W-W-W-W-Won't you b-b-b b- be my wu-wu-wu-wu-wlfe, l-I-I-I-I-l 8-s-s-s-s-said'." "O, Georjte, this Is so iddub!" THE POWER OF SUPERSTITION. The Gypsy Charm and Its Alleged Miraculous Cure, Superstition is a force to be reckoned with and not despised by those who la bor for the good of the poor iu the large cities. A philanthropic woman of New York tells the following experience: "A poor Italian housewife, living In Mulberry street, had a swelling of the knee. She told uie of her trouble and 1 gave her the address of a free dispens ary, where she went for treatment. The treatuieut did not cure ber and she When a .Man Falls Down. Slippery sidewalks tend to bring out emphatically one of the peculiar sides of human nature. No mailer how much the lull injures a man physically, it seems as nothing to the damage to his seli'-esteeiii il perchance his inisl'oriiiiio happens lo be u iincssed by some one else. The lirst thing the linl'oruiiiale iloes afler picking himself up is to look all about hlin witli an idiotic smile ills face, just as if he took the whop. tiling as a joke but anxious to see if any one has seen h s tumble. If there happens lo be some one Hear by who has witnessed the fall the smile vanishes, and I here Is a display of tem per that Is ludicrous, it js his hat thai suffers. It is pounded instead of brush ed, as If that hat was res sible lor the humiliation, or as if he could get square with the hat by a "roughhoiise" sort of brushing, if, however, no one is in sight, and no face is seen at a w in dow, the unfortunate goes his way ar ler a few preliminary limps, as if Uie thing was a mailer of-couise incdieiii, that must be taken good-natiiredlv in common with the other trilling affairs of a lifetime. The result is about Uie same when a sf,. slllshv j,,,,,,.,,, hurled by a small boy. finds its mark on I lie broad back of an otherwise di nified personWashington Siar No. K5 uoil Haunted House Vbrvw Are l-'iidiiiK Awn.v. "Ileal estate men are gradually In getting most of the old-time supers! lions which used to cause us niiti trouble," said a deafer the other day a a reporter. "The number of noma which cannot le rented or sold on if count of being haunted or because som terrible crime was committed on ft premises Is rapidly decreasing. Wenc across only a few people who balk t living in iiouse No. lo. Even elderlj men who have made big fortune" in beginning to believe that there is nott ing iu the old saying that the agedrlci man builds u mansion to die iu It. Net Yorkers are entirely too practical hold to old superstitions; besides, t big apartment houses which we w building all over town ure blotting oi: the old houses, which may have bi; histories." "Tell me something about the baw ed houses which are still standing ii this city," the agent was requested. "Now you are getting on daugprotr ground. In these davs of vcll-den!j libel laws you can't talk about a uim property in a way that will depreciaii lis value without paying well foryot fun. Circulating ghost stories bof particular houses Is not calculated improve their renting value, and ft owners might be able to show that t; had done them real damage. There' one house in West Eleventh street tin is never more than half filled, becans. years ago some one thought the hot was haunted, and the story of territt ghosts that walk about the balls night has been handed down fromtc ant to tenant. There are other bannlt: houses, but we are trying to for?, where they are. hoping that the stow will be forgotten. It Is generally - cult to rent or dispose of houses s which sensational crimes have bet: committed. Long murder trials which the houses figured prominent usually cause them to riiiain vacae. fur a long time." New York Tribune. A I l. .. il.. ...I Slrenetli In t!. r..r.,.. n ani If ken of mental aptitude. One of &j most common signs of want of P breeding is a sort uf uncomfortable sciousuess of the bands, an obvio ignorance of what to do with then):' a painful awkwardness In their adjust nieiit. The hands of a gentleman f1 Perfectlv at home n-IM.i.iO lielnffOCrt pied: they are habituated to elegant pose, or If they spontaneously mort1 is attractively. Some of Queen biw betll's courtiers oi-i.la nlncim? wi'l .... I',".. their siviti-ft lillfa n nA..,nlichmfi; " 'IIH.1 (111 UVI..IUI,.... I ii ml the most etliclent .weapon of j s'paiush coquette Is her fan, mow J ravelling, i The Uriah. r "Hiu.k-ltoard." 'lhere are few persons." savs a sol uier who. ilMls sill,.tl ,.,,.,,,, to clvi. ranks, "who i.o..,.- i. ,, ,. , , "ie name ol buck-board came to be applied , Vl. -.. ;.s way Hack in the- 'ais. when the transportation of goods wares ami merch.-iinbs., ., ' ,. , ,. -s io incipaiiv all by wagons. Dr. in.ck. who lor long jeais after was the military storekeep- "as u"-'u " charge of stores en route to army posts in the South west In east Tennessee ditliculiy was experienced by reason of the ro", roads, and there were frequent n iV haps mostly from the wagons over turning. Dr. Hack overhauled the ou flt. and abandoning the wagon bodie . long boards were set directly vu tl) , axles or hung below, aud the st.,,- were reloaded In such a ma uer , t here were do further delays f ou breakdowns, and the alov,3 l reached their destination. The 2 doubtless was not new. but Dr. Hu t example was followed, especially when oads were rough, and soon much h , ing was done by the use of wheel "I bck har0Uly- Now faslnou ",, . buck-board recalls the 0 ' to some of us."-Washing,0D star' IVrilous. In the higher regions of the Cordi. leras refuge huts i,,.... -ordil- the postmen who have to 'r, cltie8 the matter of telephone M rounds till late In ti. ...... - """ir, bemjlan Instrument tn everv Ulffl thus some of these iuel) ...J. Kve" arsons. In greater New York M winter. If overtaken by a storm la 0Ue to every fortXy-eluht person ecvi.!i uays. Somf Florentine experts i 1TV. tilllliliir 1 . c. . iiiuir uuug oeu ij.vu hands, conceived the Idea of accurate! CM lctl'ltiii(v l. It .,uiH fl y.,,.,n iiuveiinis iv- snails, and, with this end It) vie.' was decided to make a series of or less elaborate experiments. Hal! dozen of the molluscs-were permir to epnn-1 l,n.n.nAn a : .. . tan M , 1 ui;LtCU lVO pOIIlLS fctu - apart. Exact time was kept from f start to the finish, and thus tbe age "pace" was ascertained. Tbe" perlmenters redm-ml ti.oir tle-nres l1 tables Of funt thit " - vsv, uuu 1 11 Lin IU1IUU j would take a snail exactly fourtefj days to travel a mile. TaUl 1 a, .. ;iciiiifiit;n in nan r ranui"-' San Frauclsco leads the AnieriC The nearer a girl approaches the , of di) the more anxious she k ,, " her self-possession. to k' A B'r1'8 lve for nickle. ,1 S . lf sour br ' j Increuscil Yield of Cod. ! As a consequence of nrtilic gauon. the yield of cod in wateru I1..1 . ...... 11. .1 t ... m,,ivl-U .-joiije. uhu . , has In ten .veins Increased 5 ial pfl1 the co1 Jer tier ce e New . 50 drew out from the wivings bank a larg. With her lit-Mi ,.. ring f' miaul llllLl.-lllirii, imagines life for her has Just