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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1905)
is Heart's Desire 1 By SIR WALTER BOSANT tj j'l'M'iiimiwwfwmmiiMittfMiww CH APYElt V. At half-past four exactly Mr. Leighan. of Grantor, commonly called Daniel Daniel Leighan, or Old Pan, or Mr. Daniel, according to the social poaitlon of those who spoke to him, awoks with a start from his afternoon nap. He was the rich man of a pariah In which there was no so,uire: he waa th. Tillage miser; he was the terror of those who owed him money; he was the driver of the hardest bargains ; he was the Urong and masterful man; he was the scourge of the weak and thriftless; he was the tyrant of the Tillage. He knew all this, and so far from being humiliat ed, he enjoyed the position. The girl who sat working at the opeu window waa his niece, Mary Nether cote. She lived with llanlel, and took care of him. He railed at all the world except her; he quarreled with nil the world except his uiece; and those persons who averred that he was kind to her because he had the keeping of uer money and took ail the interest for himself. and had her services as housekeeper for nothing, were perhaps only Imperfectly acquainted with the old man's motives and his feelings. Yet the statement was true. He did have the keeping of her money a good lump of money; and .he did give himself the interest in return for her board and lodging; aud he did haTe her services as housekeeper for nothing. Daniel Leighan awoke suddenly with a cry, and sat upright in his chair clutching the arms, his eyes rolliug in horror and amazement. "Mary!" he cried. "I saw him; I saw him the man who robbed me. I saw him plain and I have forgotten I have forgotten! It was oh, I knew just now I have forgotten, Mary!" "Patience, uncle, patience." Mary Tatted and smoothed the pilows into their places. "Another time yon will remem ber; you are sure to remember, if the dream only comes again. Lie down again and think." He obeyed, and she covered his head again with his silk handkerchief. He had started from his sleep, as if stung into wakefulness by the recollection of some thing horrible and painful; and his dream had vanished from his memory, leaving not a trace behind. But the terror was left, and the foreboding. Mary saw the terror, but she knew nothing of the fore boding. Yet her uncle's mind was filled with anxious fears. She saw the rolliug eyes, the clutching of the chair arms, and the look of bewilderment; but she only thought her uncle was startled, like a child, in his sleep, and crying out, like a child, for help when there was no danger. He lay still for a few moments while she stood beside him and watched. Then he tore off the handkerchief and sat up again. "It Is quite gone," he said, In despair. "I have lost the clew. Yet I have him i oh, I saw him, clear and distinct! the man who robbed me. And while I was going to cry out his name just as I had his name upon my lips I awoke and forgot him." "If it comes again," said Mary, In credulous in spite of her words, "you will be sure to remember. Perhaps it will come again. Patience, uncle." "Patience! when I had the clew? Pa tience! when I could follow up the rob ber, and tear my papers out of his hands? Patience! don't be a fool, Mary!' "Well, uncle, if it has gone, you can't bring it back again, try to forget that It ever came; that is the wisest thing to do. You shall have your tea, and then you will feel better." "Mary" he turned to her plteously "it is cruelly hard. Can t you remem ber? Think. Perhaps I talked in my sleep some men do. Have you never heard me say anything call some one by name? If I had only the least little clew, I should remember." "Why, uncle, how should I remem ber?" "It came back to me all so clear clear and plain. And I have forgotten. .Oh, Mary, my money! my money!" "Yes, uncle. But it is sis years ago, nearly, and you have done very well aince. And it is not as if you bad lost el your money. Why, you have pros pered while all the rest have been doing badly. You must think of that. "Lost all my money?" he repeated tea tily; "of course I've not lost all. As if a man could bear to lose a single penny of the money that he has spent his life In saving. Do you know what I have lost, girl?" She knew very well, be cause lie told her every day. "There were bonds aud coupons in fche bag to the sum of near upon a hundred and fifty pounds a year nearly three thousand pound they meant. As for the share certificates, they didn't matter; but cou pons coupons, Mary; do you hear pay able only to the bearer a hundred and fifty pounds a year a hundred and fifty pounds a year! near three thousand pounds!" His voice rose to a shriek, aud suddenly dropped again to a moan. "Three thousand pounds! Payable to the bearer, and I haven't got them to present! If I were a young man of thirty, I might recover the loss; but I am old now, and can never hope to make It up never hope to make it up again!" It was six years since that loss had occurred; but this wail over the lost money was raised nearly every day, and almost in the same words, so that tha girl felt little sympathy. "It was six o'clock when I left Ash burton." The girl had also heard this story so often that her interest iu tlta details had become numbed. "Six o'clock when I started to ride home. I had sev enty pounds in gold upon me fifty pouufls In one bag and twenty iu an other; my tiu box in a blue bag was round my neck, and it was filled with securities and bouds and share certifi cates. At half past seven it was dark then I rode into Widdicombe. After that I remember nothing. Why have I forgotten the ride through the lanes? Why don't I remember passing through llowedstone Gate to the open down? Yet I remember nothing more. Mind you, I won't have it said In my hearing that I over gave anybody anything, or that I left my bag lying about like a fool. Yet when George Sidcote picked me up the bag was gone, and twenty pouuda had gone too twenty pounds!" "Well, but, uncle, consider; you had seventy pounds in gold in your purse and only twenty were taken. If it had boon a thief he would surely have taken the whole, and your loose silver, aa well as your watch and chain. Why, all those were left." "I don't know. Perhaps he thought the bag of papers would satisfy him. How do I know? What made me fall off the pony? I never fell off the pouy before. "Well, uncle, but think; every day you trouble your poor head about it. and nothing comes of it; why not try to for get the loss? Think what a prosperous man you have been In all your life. You should be thinking of what you have. not what yon have lost." "Go on; go on. Easy for a girl like you to talk. There's the difference with a woman that she only enjoys th spending; while the man he heaved a deep sigh, and did not complete the sen tence. "Oh! Mary" he reached out his loug bony fingers and made as if he were raking in the gold "to think only to think! of the pleasure I have had In making the money! It was little by lit tie. not all at once. No, no; I saw my way, and I waited. I laid my plans,-md I had patience. Be sure that not a field have I got but I worked and planned for it. The world is full of fools; weak men who have no business with prop erty; men without grip, men who just hold on till somebody comes and gives 'em a shove off. Your cousin David was such a fool, Mary." cn A PTE It VI. Mary said nothing. Her cousin David was doubtless a great fool, but people raid unkind things about her uucle's conduct toward him. 'If I had not secured his property. some one else would. It is still in the family, which ought to be a great com fort to him, wherever he has gone. George Sidcote is another well, he Isn't exactly a fel. like David; but he doesn't get on he doesn't get on. I fear very much " L'ncle, spare him!", Because he wants to marry you. child? Is that a reason for interfering with the course of business? When the pear is ripe, it will drop! if not into iny mouth, Into some other man's. Business before love, Mary." If I could give my fortune, he wonld be out of his difficulties." 'Your fortune. Mary? Where la It? What fortune? You hare none unless you marry with my consent Your for tune? Why, It depends on me whether you ever get it. I don't say that I shall never consent Show me the right man not a spendthrift, Mary." "George Is no spendthrift" . "Nor a man In debt" "If George is in debt, It is not his fault" A substantial man, and one who knows the worth of money; bring that man along, and we will see. If not well, Mary, I am getting on for seventy, and I can't last forever, and perhaps pernaps, 1 say I shall leave you my money when I die. You can wait till then. Six thousand pounds is a tremen dous big lump to part with, when a man is not obliged to part with it. And I am not obliged to give my consent. No, no; and after I've lost three thousand three thousand! Besides, your comfortable here; what do you want to marry for? What's the good of marrying? Better stay at home and save money. I give you your board and your lodging, Mary, while you are here, for nothing; aud your cloth ing, too yes, your clothing." He spoke as if many young people had to go with out "Yes, I know." She laughed thinking how much her uncle had given her for dress in the last year or two. "Well, un cle, but if I do marry without your consent you will have to give the money to my cousin David." "Yes, yes; of course. What's the good of telling me that? But David is dead, no doubt, by this time, and then the money must remain with me, of course. But you won't do that, Mary; you'll never be so wicked as to do that. Be sides, if you did, David's accounts with me have never been uiado up, and I don't doubt that when we come to look into them it will be found Lhat he om-s me a great deal still. I was very soft foolishly soft with David." Mary made no reply. Her uncle had been, indeed, soft with David; so soft that he had sold him up aud turned him out, aud now possessed his land. Mr. Leighan sighed heavily, no doubt over his foolish softness, and became silent. It was not often that be talked so much with his niece. Six years before this, about half-past nine one evening in the autumn of the year 1M80, George Sidcote, walking home. found Mr. Leighan lying in the middle of the road on lleytree Down. His pony was grazing quietly beside him, and be was lying on his back senseless, with an ugly wound in bis head, the scar of which would uever leave him. He had fallen, apparently, from his pony. No susicion of violence or robbery was en tertained; first, because no one ever heard of violence at Challacombe, aud secondly, because he had not apparently been robbed. So, at least, it seemed to those who carried him home, for his pock ets were full of money, and his watch and chain had not been tanen. For three days and three nights Daniel Leighan lay speechless and senseless, and but for a faint pulse he seemed dead. When he recovered consciousness, the first qiistious be asked were concerning a certain tin box containing papers which he declared waa hanging in a bag from his neck. Now of that tin box no one knew anything. Presently, when be counted his money, he awore that be waa twenty pounds short I rrlip It was tli agony of ml ml , cause, I by this K .perhaps (lie Mow upon his head, which caused the pnraly I sis of Ms legs. This attUctinn fell upon i him a month or so after tlio accident. . 'I'Ihmi tin'- put hint In hi chair beside hia table, ami propped lilin mi with nil , Iowa, and he wont abroad no more. Hat 1 . . . . . . . . ... : in nraiu wna aa clour aa iiciore. It la will a strong, and his purpoao na determined cn a pri nt vit. When Mary had given her uncle his , tea and cleared away the "things," she left him to his papers and his pipe, took her hat and went into the porch, wher she stood for a inouicnKdangling her hat by Its strings and shading her eyes with her hand. Then, with 'a little flush upon her cheek and a brightening of her eye, she passed through the garden to the back of the house, where she knew George Sidcote waited to take her to the choir practice, for 'twas Saturday evening When Mary came through the garden he took both her hands In his, bent over her and kissed her gravely on the fore head, as if to seal her once more for his own. There was little of the sweet love language between theso two; they be longed to each other; they were so well assured of the fact that there was no ueed to renew their vows. "George!" said Mary, softly. "Mary!" George whispered. They sat down together on a wagon shaft, side by side. "I saw him this morning," he said slowly Mary knew very well who was meant by "him" "and I told him what I told you the other day, my dear." "What did he say?" "He said that he knew It beforehand. He had calculated It all out on paper, and he was certain, he said, that this season would be the last. 'Very well,' he said, 'the law provides a remedy wheu the interest or the principal cannot be repaid. Of course,' he added. 'I am not going to lose my money.' This is what ne said first, Mary." "Oh! and what did he say next?" "I told him that if he would give his consent, your fortune would nearly pay off the mortgage." "What did he say then?" "Well, Mary, then we had a little row not much. He said that it was clear I only wanted your money, and he should never give his consent I said that It was clear he nieatt to make any excuse to refuse his consent, In order to keep your money In his own hands." "I am sorry, George," said Mary. "He told me nothing of this." "It was not likely that he would tell you. He heard what I had to ssy In his dry way, and then asked me If there was anything more that I wished to say. Well, Mary, I was roused a bit by this. and I reminded him that. If you did not receive your aunt's fortuue. David would be entitled to the money. Well, he was not the least put out. He only laughed his laugh Is the sort that makes other people cry and said that you were a good girl, but silly, like most girls, and if you chose to throw away your fortune he was sorry for you, but he could not pre vent It Well, Mary, I came away. So that Is done with, and this is the last year there will be one of the old stock in the old place." "Courage. George." she said: "we will do something; we will go somewhere somenow we will live and prosper yet, Somewhere!" " he echoed, "and somehow," Well, I have a pair of hands and a pair of broad shoulders yes. But you, Mary, and my mother?" "Courage," she said again, "have faith. George. Even if we have to go away, we shall be together. I was reading yesterday a story about settlers In Can ada. It had pictures. There was the wooden house and the clearing, with the forest all round; I thought It might be ours. I read how they worked, this pair of settlers, and how they gradually got on, clearing more land and increasing their stock till they became rich in ev erything except money. I thought of our selves, George; we shall not want money if we can live on a farm of our own somewhere, and if we can work for our selves. You are so strong and brave; you do not mind hard work; and aud let us have faith, George. God is good. If we must go from here, we will go with cheerful hearts, and leave my poor uncle to his lands and wealth." He threw his arm round her neck and kissed her again an unusual demonstra tion from him. (To be continued.) Face West lor Heat Work. To test the truth of the assertions of many persons that they sleep better with their heads pointing to the north, work better facing the east and so on, Dr. Charles Fere, who s well known In France for his studies In physiolog ical psychology, bus constructed a del icate machine which he calls an ergo graph, with which he has achieved some Interesting results. This ma chine registers the number, rapidity and equality of the movements of the Index finger when writing or perform ing any accustomed work. He announces that his experiments with it prove that work done by a person facing the west or eust Is bet ter by 23 per cent than similar work done by a person facing the north or south, and that when working fac ing the west It Is about 25 per cent better than when facing east This matter of orientation seems to have an Influence upon the nervous system, due largely, It Is believed, to the fact that the earth Is a gigantic magnet. Many learned men have uo tlced that they sleep best with the head Jo the north and work betting facing the west, while at least one fa mous pianist finds he plays with the greatest ease when tho piano faces the east. It may be that tho great migrations of the human race, all of which have been from east to west, and the observed tendency of trees to develop In the same way related to these phenomena. Polite. "So you have Invited Brown to din ner? I am afraid he won't think much of my cooking. "Ob, well, you inusn't let that trou ble you; he Is too polite to say any thing." Houston Tost It's usually the alimony he has to pay that causes a man to figure la divorce suit. . p"- rn nrrr r rsiu . IVM i I .V . Ininrnved liav Device. The man who bus stood with his buck to the stack pitching hay by band under a hot July sun will P predate tho picture hero shown, say a writer In tho Ohio Farmer. 1 he "" rick or pitcher will cost tho ninii on tho farm about In cash. It I mounted on runners twelve feet long Tho base of tho frame Is 10 by 10 fee sonar and the top 5 by o feet. The telephone polo In the center Is twenty five feet high. The arm la fourteen feet long and tho brnco about twelve feet The jole and arm can be turned In a complete circle by means of crowbar inserted In the polo neur tho bottom. An entire haycock can bo easily lifted straight from the ground to A H AT DKHIIll K. level with the top of tho stack, then carried over and dropped at any place on the stack. It will keep two men busy on the stack all the time, and they will not have to reach over the edge of the stack to help get tho bay up. Besides, It doe not drag up the side of the stack, as many pitchers do. nor does It make the stack heavier on one side than the other. A round stack can be built twenty feet high and easily made to hold from twelve to fifteen tons. It saves time, money, help, muscle, patience "and other things too numerous to mention." Costly Crop Peats. The proceeds from the wheat crop, the average annual farm value of which may be roughly put at four hundred million dollars, haTe In more than one year been cut down aa much as fifty per cent as a result of the ravages of the chinch bug and the Hessian fly. King Cotton alone was damaged to the extent of nearly tlfty million dollars by the so-called Mexi can boll weevil, In the single State of Texas, in 10O3, according to a care fully i compiled report Issued by tho Census Bureau. The apple crop has been reduced as much us twenty-five per cent In many seasons through the operations of the codling moth and other Insects. So one might go through the entire list The burden Is dis tressingly heavy, but it is safe to as sert that farmers themselves who, obviously, ought to know ns much of this phase of the matter as anybody will agree that their losses, in practi cally every Instance, would be fur greater were the scientific knowledge of the Department of Agriculture's staff not put to account. A careful survey of the fa Ms leads to the conclu sion that the total damage each year would be from two to four times as large were It not for the Department of Agriculture's unremitting warfaro against the pests, and that a maxi mum annual destruction of two billion dollars, or nearly one-half the whole yearly value of the country's crops, at present, would be possible. C. Arthur Williams in "Success Magazine." Iireaklnif for Wheat. cJ The early broken wheat ground Is usually the land from which the larg est yields are taken. The .land breaks well. No clods to mash, no packing to do late In August. When the ground becomes hard and breaks Into large clods a great deal of labor Is -eulred to get the seed bed lino stid well packed for the proper germination of seed. Then again the doubling up of work that causes so much extra labor and v.'orry may be prevented later on at sowing time. Instead of having to break land, harrow, drag and roll, the:i Immediately follow with the drill. A surface harrowing may be all lhat tho seed bed needs Lefore sowing the seed. The work of, sowing wheat need not come In a lump, if taken In time. Churn Often. The best butter Is made by churning every day, but upon most farms there Is not enough cream to do this. If churning Is done but twlco a week good butter can be made If the cream has been kept cool and then ripened properly. Some farmers that keep but lyo or three cows churn but once a week; under such conditions, great care should be taken to keep the cream to fifty degrees Fahrenheit, If possible. When cream is kept at a high tempera ture for a long time, the butter will have an old flavor. If cream is kept much below fifty degrees Fahrenheit, it Is likely to develop a better flavor. lluck wlieut. Essentials are that the land bo clean, warm, and In a fine moldy state to re ceive the seed. The rows may bo drilled, If that Is the method of sowing, fifteen Inches apart, the seed slightly covered with It arrows, and a very light rolling glon to level the surface, so that all plants have eiiial chance of starting together. There Is a good do.il In this latter, for where Irregular ilrst growth I made there are always incudes to take the plants as they ap pear. A Good Hlmk Tonic. Each of the inaiiv stock foods, or coiull mental spices now on the market has It own particular composition and It Is better, both from the point of view of economy and cleanliness, to make use of these, but If tbl I M1'11" Impossible the following recipe may be safely adopted: Turmeric, one naif pound; cumin, one half pound; gentian, three fourth pound; ground ginger, one half pound; grain of paradise, one-half pound; Id carbonate of soda six ounces; fenugreek, six ounce blood root, four ounces; nsafnetlda, four ounces, brown sugar, five pounds; fine salt. 1 .14 Mounds. The sUve In gredient should be well ground by the druggist and tie thoroughly mixed with one thousand pounds of finely ground meal, or, If desired. It may be fed without the meal. When mixed with maize meal the quantity to be fed to a horse, cow. or ox at each feed I one pint, and to each calf, foal, sheep, or bog. half a pint. When fed without the meal It should be glv en In the proportion of a tsMespoonfnl to a horse, cow or ox, and tut I f that quantity for each of the mini tier farm animals. Indication In Cow. It 1 a common expression to speak of a cow as losing her cud when nh stops ruminating. The trouble Is duo to Indigestion wholly, and may be easily remedied. In most cases, by a proper diet. I'sually tbl trouble oc curs moNt frequently In the winter, when the cows are heavily grain fed, but sometimes occurs with cows In the summer who are on the range, but are receiving some grain. In such rase a good plan Is to cut out the grain ra tlon entirely for a few days, or until the cow again chews her cud. For a time after she resumes ruminating feed her largely on the grass with some good hay. and gradually get her on to the grain. A day or two after the grain ration has been cut off the cow should have a single dose of one pound of Epsom salt and two ounces of ground ginger root mixed In two quarts of warm water. In the winter reduce the grain ration one-half, glvo ber the medlcliio named above at th.) beginning of the treatment, and makf up tne ration with root or ensllan. At all tlmos cow should have free nc cess to rock salt, for It Is a great diges tive. To Put Potatoes In Cellar. Here Is an excellent device for use In unloadlug apples or potatoes from a cart to the cellar. Take a piece of No. 12 wire (telephone wire) and run It from a stake In front of the rollway down through the rollway, or itato bin. String two Iron hooka on the wire and hook the loaded basket upon these, when the load will slide smooth- FOH 8TORI.NCI roTAToKM. ly down aud across the cellar, where tho helper can empty the basket. A light cord attached to the busket al lows the man outside to pull the bas ket back ' for another load. This saves a large amount of heavy lifting and saves time also, since two baskets can be kept going. Fig. 1 shows the hooks on tho wire. Fig. 2 shows the device In action. Hatectlnif llrood Stock. If one has raised a litter of line pigs of goxl breed there are probably sev eral among them that will make good brood sows if properly brought up. The Individuals should be carefully watched as th"y grow ami when the selection Is mado the pigs should be about five months old. From then on they should be separated from tho market stock, and until the end of the sen son, placed on the best grass pos sible. All females IiiIcmiIimI for breed ing purposes should have less carbon aceous food than that given to those Intended for market. From one-half to two-thirds corn Is enough In tho ration from the time the young sow begins to est grain. The llrood Hows. Glvo brood sows tho freedom of the pasture fields when with young pigs and as soon as tho pigs are old enough to eat, feed a little shelled corn and dry middlings with a mash of wheat middlings aud milk. Sows with pigs should always have access to a good blue grass pasture and should not bo fed too much corn. The largest part of the ration should be made up of oats and bran with a little oil meal. Have plenty of charcoal ami ashes con stantly available. An occasional feej of salt will be found profitable. Top Dressing Forage Crops. At the New Jersey Experiment Sta tion tests have been made of nitrate of soda as a top dressing on forago crop.) In connection with the manures and fertilizers generally used. In all cases a very marked Increase due to the ap plication of nitrate occurred, flinging from 81.1 per cent for corn to UO.fl per ent for barley n profitable return from the use of the nitrate on all crops except the barley, which, owing to unfavorable weather conditions. did not make a large yield. , .Tift 1 I'mie Pam's secretary of stato Is usually a fJ.'i.tss) or $r.o," man who serve hi country for $s,ikh). -Chicago Tribune. The Sultan of Turkey Is b ginning to wonder how those report that lie hail the worst go eminent In Europe originated.- Washington Ntr. The Kiliisu con Id wlni wa p I roled and sent to work In the harvest Held now lias mi Idea of what real punishment moan. Washington Post. When the beef trust remember Imw Commissioner GarlloM lured It on with false hopes It Is nor surprised at any goveriiiueulul knock. - Chicago News. Mr. tieorge J. Gould 1 going Into poultry farming. Of course, Ills n. peiionce with geese that lay golden eggs will be a lot of liel;i to bil l-- H" ton Transcript. Oklahoma shows strong reason why It should be admitted as a Slate, but does It expect the bnlb-d States Sen ate to be swayed by mere reason?-. Chicago News. Despite hi latest gift of $ 1 0. s s " s, there Is reason to believe Mr. ItocKe feller ha laid away enough In a safe spot so be will not suffer during III old age.--Detroit I roe Press. If education the greatest moral force It might be a good thing for Mr. Itockefeller to attend some of tlie col leges which be I helping with hi money. Norfolk ( a I i-annuiars. The beef trust can expect little sym pathy In It battle for the market of the world as long ns It I endeavoring to escape trial on tne charge that It I robbing tho American consumer. Pittsburg Dispatch. Peary says that lit expedition may open up ;i, . i square nines or country hitherto Inaccessible. It will be some time, however, before the "why psy rent" sign follow hi tr til. Washington Star. Abdul HauiM. Sultan of Turkey, I reported to lie In a critical ondltloti. The case wouldn't be so bad If tho Sultan ofilil only fol sure that the doctor wasn't trying to poison him. Chicago ltecord Herald. In the light of past performance on tho part of Kusslau gunners, It would have seemed safer for those Odessa mutineers to bid defiance to the rest of the fleet and take chances on being sunk. Detroit Free Press. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has rejected "Nestor" and "Orestes" as names for collier. He points out that ope suggests antiquity and the other Insanity. Another one of "then literary fellows" In office. Syracuse Herald. Cud uo attention Is being given to the Missouri Judicial decision that a wife Is entitled to "frisk" her hus band's trousers and take any money she finds. No Judicial determination could alter or affect that custom. Washington Times. The Chinese otllclals who were onco reganbil as being pro ICtissInn are fust vanishing ns the situation changes. They are all entertaining grateful feel ings toward Japan. Diplomatically thero will bo some subterfuge played, but on the whole Japan will get all she wants. Toklo Asnhl. According to the best Judgment that caff bo formed at this distance, we are unanimously of the opinion that Mayor Weaver has wiped up tho earth with the gang In Philadelphia. Thero may be some fragments, but they are not able to sit up and take notice. Montgomery Advertiser. The Stato of Kansas luis reached the conclusion that It has no power to centred the traffic of the Pullman cars, as tho Pullmans are not common carriers. They're certainly not coin inon carriers, nor even common charges they're Just plain, ordinary common plunderers. Pittsburg Times. If It be true, ns M. Wllte declares, that M. Trepoff Is tho real Czar of KtiNsIa, then Nicholas Alcxanilrovltch, Is relieved of the responsibility f,,r a vast amount of folly, stupidity and cruelty. Whether the creature can ba greater than the creator Is a ijiicMtlon for casuists, however. Chicago Chrou icle. How providential It seems that the only man In America who Is known to have two hearts Is a plain. Indus trious carpenter who earns his llvTi hood with his hands at New Bochelle, N. Y. Just contemplate for n inliiuto the effect on society of two hearts 'u a man like John D. itockefeller. Kan sas City Star. If tho exclusion law Is to bo so con strued or modified ns to admit Chi nese students, we'll probably find that about 100,000,000 Chinamen have sud denly become Inspired with tho most Intense desire to study everything In the books from Confucius down to Laura Jean Llbbey and Mary Machine. Los Angeles Times. "Tear this up," enjoined Statistician Holmes, of the Department of Agri culture, In one of his Incriminating let ters. There Is no known preservative of written matter whoso action Is sure as "burn this letter" or "tear this up." Norfolk Landmark. The warden of the Ohio Stato prison discovered recently that some of his charges had been making counterfeit money. Can this have any connection with the fact that the prison contains a bnkors dozen of ex-bankers? Spokane Spokesman-Hevlew.