The Lady from
the Sea CYRUS TOWNSEM) ERADT-
Ak l " BWk. Am O w4 Lm'i AUU.- 'tm A SVl,"
Caprrtffht. IMS, by I. B. Li?meen Compact.
I HE LADY
woo owns a privateer, ana tne scene is
laid during the War of the Rebellion. Ellen is a typical
southern girl proud, . self-reliant and daring. Thomas
Beekman Smith is a naval officer of the Government, and
captures a blockade runner. They learn through a letter
found aboard the ship, the location of the privateer, and
also capture that craft, with Ellen aboard.
Some very entertaining and interesting chapters are
devoted to life on the ocean and love-making later. Ellen
appears to have betrayed Smith to the Confederates, and
he barely escapes death as a spy. Later still, her father
is made a prisoner on board a ship of the enemy. The
hot-headed southerner disowns his daughter, when she
acknowledges her love for Smith, is set at liberty and the
discarded Ellen becomes the wife of the man she loves.
This story is intense in its war flavor and original in
its treatment of plot and incident. The naval adventures
are thrilling and well depicted, and the serial will be recog
nized as a very superior war story.
CHAPTER I.
Romano, in book a, ia associated al
ways with the beautiful, generally with
Dhe best We go backward into the past
for a theme, since " 'tie dinaues It nda
enchantment to the view." We fancy that
the heart beata more warmly certainly
more gracefully beneath satin and lace
than beneath calico and fustian ; that the
lore that quotes poetry is purer and more
admirable than that which through hard
necessity expresses itself ungrammatical
ly: that diamond-buckled shoes, capering
nimbly upon a carpet to the "pleasing of
a lute," carry a man whose ideals must
inevitably transcend those of his lowly
brother who is upborne by the sabot or
the brogan.
It is a dictum that there is no romance
among the common people. The hero and
the heroine, in the novel, must be disso
ciated from real life by unusual qualities
and characteristics, else no one will care
for their story so, at least, it is imag
ined. Yet as the saddest tragedies are
those of the commonplace, so the finest
romances are those of the common people.
To pick up at random any of the cur
rent stories of the day ia to find one evi
dence of a concession to the supposed
popular yearning for the beautiful and
the unusual in the descriptions and, eke,
the names of the puppets who give title
to the story and strut through their brief
hours upon the written stage. With rare
exceptions the heroines are beautiful In
person, cultivated in mind, ancient in
family Lady Clara Vere de Veres, in
short ; while the hero ia no longer beau
tiful, but be is strong, tall, brave, noble,
generous; and if dissipated, will ultimate
ly reform. The names, as I have suggest
ed almve, of these godlike persons corre
spond, so far as names may and they
may to a great degree, notwithstanding
Shakspeare to these attributes. They
fall trippingly from the tongue and linger
musically in the memory. Invention which
might better be devoted to the story is
wasted on a name that, like Wordsworth's
famous light, "never was on sea or land."
1 have invented several myself, therefore
' know!
The heroine of the ensuing story la
named Jones, the hero. Smith. These
names have been selected deliberately.
That sets this romance at once apart from
all other stories that have ever been writ
ten. That it may live up to its nniquity
is the prayer of the writer. There must
of necessity be thousands of romances in
tiie Smith and Jones families, there are
so many of them and they are not dying,
but. on the contrary, are increasing at a
rapid rate ! Cannot a Smith love aa well
aa a Montmorenci? Ia not the blood of
a Jones filled with the same passionate
icbor as Chat of a Howard?
Miss Jones her first and only other
name was Ellen was a young woman of
no particular ancestry which need be
dwelt upon. While it must be frankly ad
mitted that she was not strikingly beauti
ful, it may be affirmed with equal troth
that neither was she painfully homely.
She was Just a tall, well-formed, healthy
American girl, such as yon meet with in
plenty in any community in the land. Her
hair was brown, her eyes were blue, ber
cheeks were red, and her teeth were white
these are the usual colors, I believe.
Her temper was quick, her disposition
cheerful, her soul honest nor are these
qualities at all uncommon. She had been
reasonably well educated for the period
in which she lived, and in addition to
what she had learned at the "Female
Academy" she could sing a song, make a
drese or cook a dinner happily, ability
of thia sort is not rare. There was noth
ing extraordinary about her from any
point of view. Thousands of women like
that Smiths, Joneses, Browns, etc are
being loved, wooed and married every
day; and the future of the country de
pends upon the steady continuance of a
supply adequate to meet the demand.
As for Smith, the hero of thia vera
cious tale, his first name was Thomas,
intimately abbreviated to Tom. IX ha
An rirhta
FROM THE SRA U th.
graphically appropriate title of this most
fascinating and interesting serial The
story is from the pen of Cyrus Townsend
Brady, author of a number of works of
fiction that have received attention in the
best literary circles.
Ellen Smith, the heroine of the story,
is the daughter of a Confederate officer
could have won Ellen Jones for his wife,
he would have been supremely happy aa
well as very fortunate. If Miss Jones had
no family to apeak of, Mr. Smith had ab
solutely none at all. He had been raised
I use the word advisedly, it was more
like raising then rearing in an eleemosy
nary institution to wit, a public orphan
asylum. The superintendent of "the in
stitution, not being gifted with imagina
tion, had named him Smith. He had a
regular list of names for the foundlings
which be bestowed upon his charges in
unvarying succession, and Smith fell to
the lot of this unfortunate. One of the
women attendants had further called him
"Tommy" after her sweetheart To iden
tify the little waif from the New York
streets snd to differentiate him from other
"Tom" Smiths, of whom there were not
a few, the authorities had inserted a mid
dle name. He had been picked up in
Beekman street, and in the records his full
name, therefore, ran this way, Thomas
rseexman smith.
He waa an unusually bright boy and aa
Homely aa they make them freckled, red
headed, and, for all his name, evidently of
Irish parentage. He was a jolly, cheerful,
willing, bard-working little rat, however,
who dearly loved a joke, yet who was aa
ambitioua as a ward politician. The
superintendent of the orphan asylum hap
pened to have a brother who was a cap
tain in the United States navy, one of the
old-time, "1812, sailing-frigate captains
The superintendent s interest had been
excited by young Smith. He had com
municated some of thia interest to his
brother, and in short, at the age of
eleven the boy went to sea as a captain's
servant.
By and by old Commodore Bainboro,
observing there was good stuff in the lad,
had him warranted a "reefer." Smith
went through the usual course of the
young aspirant In those days. He served
creditably as a midshipman in the Mexi
can war, and thereafter, being still young
enough, sought and received permission
to go through the Naval Academy, from
which he graduated in the class of '52.
Behold him in the fall of 1861 a full
fledged lieutenant in the United States
navy, still freckled-faced, still red-headed,
still homely, still fond of a jest, still
happy, and still ambitious also in love.
He was one of those rare mortals who
can be happy, ambitious and in love at
one and the same time.
The war between the .States had Just
begun. Opportunities for distinction
would be many. That some of them should
fall to his lot and be embraced according
ly was the determination of Smith. He
owed" everything to the United States,
and was resolute to discharge some of the
obligations. Things did not look very
promising at first, however. Being with'
out influence for old Commodore Bain
boro was long sine dead the best as
signment he could get for duty at the
outbreak of the war waa the old-fashioned
sailing frigate St. Lawrence. Smith had
promptly applied for an appointment to
one of the new steam sloops-of-war, but
his application had been passed over and
he had been relegated to his uaelesa relic
of the past.
The commander of the St. Lawrence
was Commodore Hiram Paulding, who
had been a midshipman in the War of
1812 and commended for his gallant con
duct while executive officer of the Ticon-
deroga at the battle of Lake Champlain,
The veteran also chafed at his relegation
to the St. Lawrence, but there was no
present help for it. In modern times he
would have been retired long since, so he
might perhaps consider himself lucky at
being given any command at all.
As I have said, the war had just begun
Blockade-running was hi Its infancy. Pri
vateering in behalf of the Confederates
was, however, beginning vigorously. Had
it not been nipped in the bud by the
prompt efforts of the Federal cruisers It
might have done enough damage to have
rendered unnecessary the appearance of
the VKm. uter on. Tbe United States
had proclaimed a blockade of the son then
coast, but aa yet it waa laxly maintained,
owing to paucity of force, and the Con
fderate privateers came and went pretty
much as they pleased.
The St. Lawrence, attached to the
North Atlantic blockading squadron, had
been out two months and had not made a
single capture. Officers and men were
disgusted. Why they should have expect
ed to capture anything in a sailing vessel
when the Confederates usually employed
the swiftest steamers for privateers and
blockade-runners is a question. One af-
moon in lat July the St. Lawrence
under easy sail was swinging along to
the southward of Cape Hatteras. A week
before she had been spoken by a dispatch
boat, which had transmitted a general
order from the flag officer commanding the
sqnadi.m to the effect that a certain Con
federate privateer called the Petrel was
fitting out in Pamlico sound for a dash to '
i, and that all the chips of the squad
ron were cautioned to look out for her. i
"Nice notice to send us." remarked !
Smith, who was the executive officer of
the frigate, to the second lieutenant of
the ship. "We couldn't catch her with
this old hooker if she were anchored. Oh,
why don't they lay up this tub aa a"
guarco or store ship somewhere and give
us a chance in a steamer? something
that has heels as well aa guns?"
Thia was a poser for the second lieu
tenant He did not attempt to answer it
but left Smith, who waa enjoying a leis
ure hour, standing on the lee side of the
quarter deck staring over the rail at the
empty sea and vacant sky to starboard.
fcmpty sea and vacant sky? WelL not
quite. When there was nothing else to j
command his attention Smith could al
ways see Ellen Jones in the ambient on !
the horizon. He was looking straight
west Beneath the sky line some fifty
miles away rose flie low sands of the
chain of islands that separated Pamlico
and Abemarle sounds from the ocean. On
one of the broad estuaries of Pamlico
sound sto-vd the home of old Major Jones,
tllena father. For aught Smith knew
the object of hia dreams was there. At
any rate, he did not know that she was
anywhere else, and he embodied her there
without hesitation.
Major Jones was of somewhat humble
English birth. Aa a child he had come
to the United Statea with his elder broth
er, a man of much shrewdness and mer
cantile ability. The elder Jones, who
had settled in North Carolina, had amass
ed a considerable fortune. With an Eng
lishman s love for position, he had suc
ceeded in getting a commission in the
army for Ellen's father. While Smith had
been stationed at the Brooklyn Navv
Yard and Ellen's father at Governor's
Island, the young people had met Smith
had loved madly, Ellen had been deeply I
interested, tier father had been abso
lutely opposed to Smith's wooing. He had
sent him about his business ; his brother's
influence had been exerted, and the young
man bad been ordered away on a three
yeara' cruise in Asiatic waters, whence
he had just returned at the outbreak of
the war.
The year before that Major Jones'
brother had died, leaving him all his prop
erty in North Carolina. The Major had
resigned his command and gone down to
live on his brother's plantation, taking
with him his daughter, his only child.
Ellen, save for her inclination towards
SraitJh, was still heart-whole and fancy
free. It is falsely urged that the absent
are always wrong. . Someone has said that
a proverb is a lie or a platitude. In this
case the wise saw quoted above waa both.
If she bad been allowed free and unre
stricted intercourse with the homely Mr.
Thomas Beekman Smith. Ellen Jones
might have found it Impossible to have
made him the object of her romance
which is going contrary to all the theories
stated in the introduction ! However that
may be, severed from him by the stern
edict of a practical parent the Interest
engendered by the ardent wooing to which
she bad been subjected ripened into a
deeper feeling. She grew to love the ab
sent sailor almost as the absent sailor
loved ber. For hia sake she had refused
many offers of marriage which she had
rceived both from the army and from the
surrounding people of her North Carolina
home. It is not only the superlative wom
en who have men at their feet, be it re
membered. The social position of the
Jones family in proud, aristocratic tide
water North Carolina was only fair. Yet
Major Jones had money, his daughter waa
distinctly likable, and of young visitors
the plantation bad not a few.
Smith bad come back from hia Aaiatic
cruise with a determination, fruit of three
years of absence and repression, to seek
Ellen and take her, willy nilly, for his
own. The war bad interrupted all that.
When he might see her now was a ques
tion. (To be continued.)
Horse's Sens of Dan-er.
That a horse has the instincts . of
impending danger was demonstrated
the other afternoon when an animal be
longing to M. D. Swisher, county road
overseer, refused to act on the bit, ran
up the mountainside and saved its rider
from death in a cloudburst, says the
Cripple Creek correspondent of the
Denver News.
Swisher was riding along Box can
yon, a narrow gulch, when the horse
turned from the road, and paying no
attention to the rider ran up the moun
tain side and stopped on a ledge twenty
feet above. Swisher was mystified un-
til he saw water about eight feet deep
rushing down ' the canyon tearing up
bushes and. upending everything mo?
able. The water was from a cloudburst
about half a mile farther tip the gulch
and the horse bad heard the noise of
the rushing water before the rider.
Half a mile of the Box canyon road
leading to Florissant was washed out
and bridges carried away. Swisher re
mained on the mountain side for an
hour before be considered It safe to re
enter the canyon.
CoKpanloaahla Barred.
"TUstus," said tbe man who gives
advice, "If you want to prosper in this
world you must go to bed with the
chickens.''
"Yasslr," answered Mr. Plnkley. Ts
wlllln' to go to bed wlf 'em. But de
folks dat owns chickens tin' sufficient-
1 trustfuL" Washington. 8 tax.
DENAIlirED ALCOHOL.
Oregon Agrlcul ural College Gives li
formaticn n This Subject.
Br C B. Bndki. ( ram Arricuttural CoUegv
f orvailia.
On June 7, 1936, congress passed a
law removing tbe internal revenue tax
of $2.07 per g Ion on grain alcohol
which had been properly denatured or
rendered unfit tor drinking purposes
by the addition of certain materials,
such as wood alcohol, benzine or py
ridine. It was hoped that by the re
moval of this tax alcohol could be ob
tained . cheaply enough to compete
with petroleum for light and fueL The
emand for such alcohol can be read
ily seen when we note that approxi
mately 3,000,000 gallons of gasoline
are consumed daily in the country and
that the increased demand for it, due
to the development of the modern ex
plosion motor, has doubled its price
in the last ten years. Indiana and
Ohio oils contain only about 5 per
cent of gasoline and the per cent ol
the lighter distillate in California and
Texas crude oil is very low. The
supply of gasoline therefore seems to
be limited, but the demand increasing.
Alcohol, it has been demonstrated,
can meet this demand. Furthermore,
the annual consumption of kerosene
in the United States approximates 1.
000,000,000 gallons, three-fourths o'
which are probably used by the far
mers. Since one gallon of alcohol i
equivalent to two gallons of kerosene
for lighting purposes, 373,000,000 gal
lons of alcohol could be used on the
farms of this country each year. This
would require for its production 140,
000,000 bushels of corn, or 5,000,000
acres, an increase of S per cent over
that now grown. If made from pota
toes, this 375,000,000 gallons of alcohol
would require 450,000,000 bushels, or
5,000,000 acres, an increase of 60 per
cent over that now produced. The
present consumption of alcohol
amounts to but 16,000,-000 gallons per
year.
Ethyl or grain alcohol is a natural
product, formed by the fermentation
of various kinds of sugar through the
agency of yeast organisms. Since
starch is readily convertible into su
gar by either natural or artificial
means, materials which contain nota
ble quantities of either starch or su
gar may be utilized for making alco
hol. The more important sources of
alcohol are the cereals, potatoes, mo
lasses and fruits. In France alcohol
is chiefly made from the sugar beet, in
Germany from the potato, and in
America from corn. A bushel of corn
will yield approximately 21 gallons ol
95 per -cent alcohol; a bushel of pota
toes three-fourths of a gallon and a
bushel of apples one-third of a gallon
In the large -distilleries it costs
about 17 cents tf manufacture anr
place on the marktt one gallon of al
cohol. a.-l the cost of the raw material
used brings this o'dinarily to approx
imately 30 cents. Allowing for thr
necessary profit, aRohol will reach the
consumer at about 40 cents per gallon.
but alcohol at 40 cents can compete
with kerosene at f rents for lighting
purposes, since alcohol has twice the
illuminating value of kerosene, and in
competition kerosene can never de
mand more than one-half the market
price of alcohol.
For making cheap alcohol a cheap
concentrated raw product and a well
equipped plant are necessary. The
plant should have a capacity of at
least 100 gallons per day, the ccst of
such a plant being in the neighbor
hood of $10,000. No such plant can
operate successfully on waste pro
ducts alone, especially if such are to
be obtained for only a brief part ol
the year, as, (or example, waste fruits.
There must be some more stapl: pro
duct as a basis, with the waste ma
terials handled as a side issue. For a
staple in the Northwest we mutt look
to potatoes or sugar beets, and dam
aged grain when it can be secured, on
which materials, together with farioui
waste products, a plant could be op
erated throughout the year.
Because of the persistent ir.quiries
relative to the merits and d:m:rits oi
the wheat known locally as "Alaska,'
the Idaho experiment stition has
given the wheat a milling t':st and
subjected the flour so obtained ttf
chemical examination and baking
tests. The results of these tests, to
gether with such other information
concerning the wheat as could be
gathered from reliable sources, have
just been published in bulletin form.
The wheat is apparently of the same
variety that is known in southern Eu
rope as Poulard, or Egyptian. It i
used there for making macaroni and
other pastes, and the flour made from
it is said to he in demand by certain
French markets.
Under field conditions the wheat
has not made any phenomenal yields,
averaging this year perhaps no .better
than ordinary winter wheat The ker
nels are large and plump and compare
favorably in appearance with much cf
the wheat that is raised in northern
Idaho; because of their size and shape
they are easily broken, however, and
care must be exercised in threshing to
prevent this.
The results of the milling tests
show that no particular difficulty is
met with in grinding the wheat. The
flour secured is described as sharp
and granular, and is capable of mak
ing an excellent quality of biscuits,
muffins, cakes, etc. When made into
light bread, color, flavor, texture and
size of loaf were noted. In color-the
bread was darker than that baked
from Turkey red. but decidedly
lighter than that baked from little
club flour. Flavor and texture were
pronounced good. In size the loaves
were inferior to those baked from
Turkey red, but compared very favor
blv in this respect with those baked
from little club flour. The bulletin
mav be secured by addressing the Ex-
pjriment btation, Moscow,
When a woman goes into a dry
goods store, and Is pleased with every
thing shown her, It Is a sign that she
hat no Intention of buying. But If
he finds fault with everything, ah
Intends to buy that day.
! UsafaJ.
"She) has a very useful husband."
"How do you make that outr"
"Ha can always suggest something
that ha wants for diniier." Detroit
free Press.
The autobiography of the late IJ
.lung Chang Is in one hundred vol
umes. The work bus been published
for Cbtnaiuen resident in America, and
the purchase tins been made by a
monthly Installment system that will
extend over a century.
Both author awl artist, Itobert Hkh
Ins and Jules Guerln, have made pil
grimages to the lutul of the I'liaraolia
to gather Impressions for the new book,
"Egypt ami Its Monuments," which Is
to be published shortly In volume
uniform with "The Chntenu of Tou
ralue." There are a score of colored
pictures made from M. Uuerin's paint
ings as well as photographs of all thu
famous temples and scenes. The "bim11
of Egypt," its mystery and beauty ap
peals to Mr. Ilk-bins potently and I
reproduced by him with sympathy.
"The Holland House Circle" Is a
book that will be of peculiar interest
to lovers of literature, for broadly con
sidered this story of this "circle of
talkers" contains the Intellectual his
tory of England during half acentury.
Scott loved the place mid frequently
dined there, though he wub for some
time on bad terms with the hosts. It
Is to Byron that we owe the descrip
tion of the bouse "Where Scotchmen
dine and una are kept aloof." It was
there that the unhappy Lady Caroline
Lamb first met the poet. In later days
Macauluy was the chief literary figure,
but Dickens, Grote, Washington Irving
and others were occasional visitors
there. Metterulch, Tu Hey rand, Mme.
de Stael and other foreign celebrities
were among its visitors.
"The Red City," by Dr. Weir
Mitchell, which Is now published lu
book form is a continuation of the
author's still popular novel, "Hugh
Wynne," which waa recently sent to
press for the nineteenth time. The
hero of tbe new book is a young
Frenchman of noble birth and shattered
fortunes who enters the employ of
Hugh Wynne. Washington, Hamilton,
Jefferson and other great Americans
appear In the book. It does not de
crease the Interest of the story to re
member that the author who la writing
so vigorously and apparently with such
zest and enjoyment is now lu his seven
ty-ninth year, that his life has been
crowded full of professional duties as a
physician and literary worker, and
that the new book is pronounced to be
one of the ripest and best of those he
has produced.
"Recollections and Reflections," by
Ellen Terry, Is the record of a distin
guished life spent among famous peo
ple. Born of a family of actors, put
to sleep as a baby in her mother's
dressing room at the theater, she passed
a happy childhood among people who
regarded the stage ns an honorable pro
fession and trained their children care
fully In its traditions. From ber first
appearance at the age of 8 In Charles
K can's company she practically lived
at the theater. Her marriage at 10
with George Frederick Watts Intro
duced her into a goodly compauy where
she came Into association with such
men as Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone
and Disraeli. The unhappy outcome
of her marriage, her six years' retire
ment, when she whs dramatically dis
covered by Charles Reade und induced
to return to the stage uguln, form a
dramatic story of great Interest. Her
Intimate association with Irving, her
recollections of Bernhardt, Duse,
Whistler, Sargent, Burne-Jones, Joseph
Jefferson and Saint Gaudeim ore of
great Interest.
How Sea Lions Capture Golla.
The sea lion displays no little skill
and cunning in capturing gulls. When
In pursuit the sea Hon dives deeply un
tier water and swims some distance
from where it disappeared ; then, rising
cuutlouHly, It excises' the tip of Its
nose along tbe surface, at the samo
time giving It a rotary motion.' The
unwary bird near by alights to catch
the object, while the sea lion at the
same moment settles beneath the
waves and at one bound, with extend
ed jaws, seizes Its screaming prey and
Instantly devours It -
Spirited Hepartea.
In making a sharp turn the rear end
of a street cur struck an express wagon
laden with Jugs of whisky. Nearly all
the Jugs were precipitated to the pave
ment, with the natural disastrous re
sult. The driver of tbe wagon alighted
and, pointing at tbe pile of demolished
earthenware, said to a bystander,
'That's hades, ain't Itr
The spectator, who happened to be a
minister, replied, "Well, my friend,
don't know that I would say that, but
It's at least tbe abode of departed spir
its." Llpplneott s Magazine.
A Uelpta Hand,
Among the contributors to a mini
ter's donation party was a small but
very bright boy belonging to one of the
families of tbe congregation. After ob
taining bis mother's permission to
spend his money for anything he pleas
ed be went to the village store and re
turned home with a neat package. In
It was a pair of suspenders,, and at
tached to them was a card upon which
was written in a scrawling band:
"For tbe support of our pastor."
When a farmer's wife has finally
coaxed ber husband to buy a busgy,
he uses It to carry everything to town
except calves and pigs.
VESSELS BEARING ROYAL NAMES
British Men-a'-Was thai Saras
Daaatad III lark.
One of the strongest and most Inef
faceable of all suiKTstltlona in the royal
navy superstition almost as strong to
day as ever It whs Is that vessels
bearing the name of royal iorsonages
are doomed to ill luck, and strange as
It may seem there- Is ao undeniable his
torical basis for this feeling, says Tit
Bits. Some of the most terrible disasters
ever known In connection with our
navy have concerned war vessels with
royal names. Two vessels called the
Royal James came to disastrous ends.
One of them exploded, and some HOO
officers and seamen perished ; the other
ship so named was actually carried out
of the mouth of the Thames by the
Dutch under circumstances disgraceful
to those In charge of the craft
Then there Is the forever uieinorablo
disaster of the Royal George, that
turned over and sunk in sight of
crowds at Splthead, over 1.000 souls.
among whom were !UH) women, being -sacrificed.
And second only to this hid
eous disaster Is that which afterward
befell the Royal Charlotte, which was
consumed by fire off Leghorn, over 80ft
of the very flower of our navy perish
ing with her.
When in 180.1 the Victoria, a new
essel and tho very triumph of modern
Invention, was rammed and sunk In
sight of the whole fleet there was not
a sailor, however matter of fact he
might be, who did not remember the
dire fate of royalty named cm ft Three
years later a schooner named the Roy
alist foundered In a gnle oft Holyhead.
while In 1801 a British bark, tint
Queen, was sunk and her captain and
six men drowned.
Legal Information
Hmimm.
The burial of a dog In an adjoining
lot is held, in Hertle vs. RIddell (Ky.)
100 8. W. 282, 15 L. R. A. (N. 8). 700.
to violate the property rights of a lot
owner In a cemetery set apart for the
burlnl of the white race, and for cem
etery purposes only.
Baling of hay by a purchaser agree
ing to pay a certain price per ton for
hay and do the baling la held, In Drlggft
vs. Bush (Mich.) 115 N. W. 085, 15
L, R. A. (N. 8.) 054, to be sufficient
part payment to take tho contract out
of the statute of frauds.
The destruction of a bridge by ex
traordinary flood Is held, In Mitchell
vs. Weston (Miss.) 45 Bo. 671, 15 I-
R. A. (X. 8.) 833, to be within tho
obligation of a bond requiring the build
er to replace It If removed from any
cause, lire excepted, within a certain
period.
An attempt by a municipal corjiora-
tlon to prohibit loitering on the streets.
In so fur as applied to persona conduct
ing themselves in a peaceable, orderly
manner. Is held, in St. Louis vs. Gloner
(Mo.) 100 8. W. 80, L. R. A. (X. 8.)
073, to be an Interference with the con
stitutional right of personal liberty.
Failure to enclose the elevator on
which an employe waa injured by tho -falling
of a barrel from an adjoining
elevator operated In the same enclosed
shaft Isheld, In Fowler Packing Co. vs.
Enzenpergor (Kan.), 04 Puc. 005, 15
L. R. A. (N. S.) 784, to be prima facie
evidence of negligence, within tho
meaning of a factory act requiring own
ers or operators of manufacturing es
tablishments properly and substantially
to inclose or secure elevators, etc. ,
Where an agreement by the owner of
land with an adjoining owner not to
sell, or permit the sule, HKn the prem-,
lses for a period of years, of intoxicat
ing liquor, Is not contained In a deed or
Indenture In the chain of title, subse
quent purchasers and assigns are held.
In SJobloiu vs. Mark, 103 Minn. 103, 111
N. W. 740, 15 I R. A. (X. 8.) 1120, not
to be bound thereby, unless they have
such knowledge or notice thereof as to
Imply that the burden was assumed a
part of the consideration; and the rec
ord of such ah agreement docs not
constitute constructive notice.
Wonderful America Ilea.
The cackle of the American bens ari
welling Into a mighty chorus. Sixteen
billion times a year these small cltlwis
announce the arrival of a "fresh laid,"
and the sound of their bragging Is wax
ing loud in the laud.
According to the last census, thero
are 233,008,005 chickens of laying agvi
In the United States. These are val
ued at $70,000,000, and the egga they
lay, would, If divided, allow two hun
dred and three eggs annually to every
person, man, woman and child In the
United States. The value of all thu
fowls. $85,800,000, would entitle every
person in the country to $1.12, If they
were sold and the proceeds divided.
All the weight of the animal product
exported, the pork, beef, tallow, ham,
bacon and sausage, weigh 8-1(1,800 tone,
while the weight of the eggs laid yearly
tips the scales at 070,303 tons. TVU.
ileal World Magazine.
'Carl's Aspirations,
Little Carl, six years old, bad bee.
teased a great deal by his uncle about
the vocation- be would choose when ha
became a man. One day ho overheard
his mother and a caller talking about
a certain gentleman being a bachelor.
When the caller left, his mother no
ticed tbat he was unusually quiet and
teemed to tie In a deep study. Finally
he said to her, "Mamma, Is a bachelor
a good trade?" Delineator.
When a man talks about hia prlu
clyle, ha usually means bis prejudice.
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