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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1905)
El 1 'IMIH.MI'MMIMIIir UiMM 't1trtl ''Nt' If WW Is Heart's By SIR WALTER BESANT M'iiminitfttH CHAPTER XIV. Ok the next day. Monday, a very sin gular mikI inexplicable thin happened nay, two singular thing the full mean ing of which I did not comprehend until accident put the solution into my hands. I loft Sidcote at eight, before the morning freshness was quite gone) from the air, anil followed the road which lead to Widdicombe. After Heytre. the road runs for the best part of a mile over tli opeti down where Mr. Leighan met his accident. I soon had the whole of the great flat ridge to myself as I left King's Tor and walked briskly southward. Half way along this upland plain there stands au upright stone of gray granite, six feet high. Beside it lies a small fl.it stone; It la called the Cray Wether. Who put It up, and why it was put up, uot the oldest inhabitant can tell. What happened was thla. Between the upright stone and the flat atone the edges of the latter being irregular, then' Is, at a certain place, an aperture or re cess. I carried with me a stick, on which I was leaning. Now, by this kind of chance which we call accident. In chang ing my position I stuck the point of tli tick into the aperture a thing of which one would have been hardly conscious but for an unmistakable clicking which followed, as of coins. The opening. I found, was too small for a man'a hand. The flat stone was immovable. Perbabs with the stick I could at least feel the coins? Yes, I made them rattle. Now. when I took out the stick again bit of yellow leather ahowed for a mo ment just booked up by the ferule as far aa the light penetrated. The eight of the leather inspired me with a faint hope. I reversed the stick and fished with the handle, to such good purpose that in a very few momenta I had the leather thong in my fingers and hauled It out. The thong tied up the mouth of a mall brown canvas bag. The bag was a modern bank bag. and its treasure was e collection of twenty coins. Twenty sovereigns in a bag, a modern brown canvas bag. Who could have climbed up Hamil Down in order to hide twenty pounds in a little hole like this? I put the gold into the bag, tied it up gain, and put it into my own pocket. Then I walked on, meditating. While I was thinking, a figure, which I began dimly to perceive through the nebulous veil of thought, was working his way slowly down the hillside opposite by nearly the same way as I had my self picked among the bowlder. He came plodding along with the heavy atep and rolling shoulders of one who walks much over ploughed fields and heavy land. He stopped finally. Then he looked around him quickly, as If to assure him self that no one was present to observe him; I wonder he did not aee me. Then he stooped down, reached within some cavity and drew out aomethlng. It was in a big blue bag. I could plainly see that the blue bag, like my , canvas bag, was weather-stained. He ' laid the bag upon a atone, and proceeded to draw out its contents, consisting of a single box. It was a box about two feet long and eighteen inches wide, and two or three inches deep. It was a tin box. What had David got In his box, for the man was David. I might have walked down the hill and asked him that Question, but one was naturally some what ashamed to confess to looking on at what was intended for a profound se cret. David was so anxious to keep the se cret that he actually took off his jacket, wrapped it round the bag, and tied it se curely with string. Then, without look ing about him any more, .he turned and walked back slowly and deliberately as be had come, carrying the treasure under Lis arm. As soon as his figure had sur mounted the brow of the hill and had dis appeared, I got up and sought the hiding place. It really was a place into which nobody would think of looking for any thing. The top etone sloped downward over the mouth, so as almost to hide it. In this cluster of four great stones no one would have dreamed of finding or of looking for anything. David's hiding place was well chosen. Then I followed, walking slowly, so that I might uot catch him up on hi way home with his tin box full of queer things from the Southern Seas, I sup posed. In the evening I told George all that had happened, and produced the brown canvas bag. George took the bag, looked at it, opened it, poured out the gold, counted it, held It in hi hand and weigh ed it; looked at it again, put it into the bag, and laid the bag on the table. "It is weather-stained, old man," he aid, "and smells of the mold. I should think it had been there some time." He took it up again and turned it round. "Look!" he said, "here are initials; they re nearly faded, but they are certainly Initials. I make out an A no, a B; or Is tl a D? and an L. Certainly an L; 13. L. or D. L., which Is ltT" "Looks to me," I said, turning the bag about in the light, "looks like B. A.; but It may be D. L." "Will," be cried, "I believe you have really found something important. Six years ago, when Daniel Leighan fell off his pony, he always declared that lie lost twenty pounds in gold. It was tied up, he always says, in a canvas bag. This must be bis bag and these must be bis Initials. I am quite sure of it." "Very odd, If it is so. Why should a man steal a bag of money only to put it money and all Into a hols and then to away and leave it?" "Well, I take It that the thief put the bag there meaning to return for It, but forgot where he put It "You can't forget tha Gray Wether Btone, George. There is only one Gray Wether Btone on Hamll Down, and who la the world would go all up Hamll on purpose to hide a bag of money when there are biding places la every stone wail about tha fields r m Desire mmmmmmm mum "Take It to Daniel to-morrow and show it to him. Will. He always de clare that he was robbed of this money at well as of his bonds and securities. Nobody ha ever believed him. because It seems unreasonable that a robber should take twenty pound and leave fifty. But If It Is proved that he Is right about the money, he may also be right about tha bonds." Strange that neither of us thought of connecting David's box with his uncle's bonds. But then I did not know that the bonds were in a box; one thinks of bonds as a roll of paper. "As for David's box," said George. "I agree with you, Will, that it Is best to say nothing about It. Let him keep hi secret. If It is valuable, so much the better. We will keep the thing to ourselves. But as for the canvas bag, you must certainly take it to G rat nor to-morrow, and give Daniel the chauce of claimiug it." CHAPTER XV. Had I taken that canvas bag to Grat nor early In the morning instead of the evening, many things might have turned out differently; among other things, Da vid's extraordinary scheme of revenge might never have been possible. If I had told Daniel Leighan the strange thing I had witnessed from Hooknor Tor. he must certainly have connected the box taken from Grimspound with the box of his own papers. The scheme was almost worthy of Da vid's American pals the gentlemen who had all "done something." Tha box, when David had carried it home, proved to be quite full of papers. His own knowledge of their value was slight, but he knew very well that signed papers had been bis own destruction, and that the possession of signed papers made his uncle rich. David called upon his nncle abont 11 o'clock in the forenoon. He was receiv ed with the cordiality generatly extended to all needy relations. Mr. Leighan shuf fled his papers as a sign that be was busy and wished the call to be short, nodded his head with scant courtesy, and asked his nephew what he came for. "I've come, uncle," David began very slowly, spreading himself upon a chair and producing a small brown paper packet. "I've come, uncle" "Don't be longer than you can help, David. Get to the subject at once, if you can. Say what you came to say, and then go away and leave ma with my own business. It's high time you were looking after your own. Will George Sidcote give yon a job? I hear you bor rowed a bed yesterday, and a chair and a table, and that you have settled In the cottage my cottage. Very good. I don't mind if you have it rent free till you get Into work, when you'll have to pay your rent like your neighbors. If yon be gin any more nonsense about robbing you of your land you go oat at once." David, at the risk of seeming monot onous, uttered a forceful wish for the destruction of his uncle's cottage. "If that is all you csme to say, nephew, the sooner you go the better. And the sooner you clear out of my cot tage and leave the parish, the better, or I'll make the place too hot for you " "I didn't come to rail at you, uncle," said David, more meekly. "If you wouldn't keep on thire, I've done; now hold your tongue and listen. I've got something very serious to aay, and it's about your business, too!" "Then make haste about It." "Six years ago, they tell me, you were robbed, that night when you fell off your pony, after I'd gone away." "It was the evening of that very day." "Ah!" David's eyes smiled, though bis lips did not "we little thought when I used those words with which we part ed how quick they'd come true. When you lay there on the broad of your back, now, your face white and your eyes open, but never seeing so much as the moon in the sky, did you think of your nephew. whose farm you d robbed, and did you say, 'David, 'tis a Judgment?' " "No, I didn't, David." "You felt it all the more, then. Very well. While you lay there, as they tell me, some one comes along and robs you. What did you lose, uncle? Was it your watch and chain and all your money?" "No; my watch and chain were not taken, and ouly a little of the money." "Uncle, are you sure you were robbed? Do you think that robbers ever leave money behind them? Was the money taken in notes, or was It In gold?" "It was all in gold. Fifty- pounds In one bag, twenty pounds In the other, and both bags In one pocket. The small bag was taken and the big bag left. But what does It matter to you?" "You shall see presently. I am going to surprise you, uncle. What else did you lose besides the little bag?" "I lost a box of papers but what does it matter to you? Did you come here to inquire about my robbery? I suppose you are glad to hear of It." "Never mind, uncle. You go on an swering my questions; I've got my rea sons. I am going to surprise you. Wait a bit." "Well, then; but what can you know? It was a tin box secured by a lock and tied round with a leather strap; I car ried It In a blue bag a luwyer's bag hanging around my neck for safety." "What was in that box, did you say?" "David!" the old man changed color, and became perfectly white, and clutch ed at the arms of his chair and pulled himself upright, moved by the thought, "David! have you beard anything? have you found anything?" "Wait a bit; all in good time. What was la that box, did you aay, again?" "Papers. I lost with that box papers to tha tuna of three thousand pounds all la coupons I" "It was a judgmentl Why, my mort gages were not so very much mora. Three thousand pounds! Gome, even you would feel that, wouldn't yon? Were there ac tually three thousand pounds In that boxr "The man who stole that box might nave presented these coupons one by one. and got them paid as they fell due. with out questions asked that Is, he could un til I stopped them. Oh! I could stop them, and 1 did; but I could never get them paid until I presented them through my own banker. David, if you are re vengeful, you may laugh; for It is a blow from which I have never recovered. They say that the paralysis In my leg was caused by falling from the pony, where by I got. It seems, concussion of the brain. But I know better, David. A mau like me doe not get paralysed in the leg by falling on hi head, 'Twa the loss of all the money that caused the paralysis. And now I sit here all day long 1 who used to ride about on my own laud all day long! and 1 try to think. aH day and all night, if I could have left that box anywhere, or given to any one that bag of twenty sovereign. David, tell me I will reward you If you tell me anything to my advantage have you heard something?" CHAITER XVI. David nodded his head slowly. "Three thousand pound," he repeated. It was threo thousand pounds." "I'm not a rich man, David, though you think I am. As for taking your farm if . h.v.u't taken it, somebody clse would! for you were a ruined man. And now, even, if I leave it to you hi my will. It would bo little use, because Mary's money must come out of it. Oh! it was a hard blow a cruel, bard blow." "Yea," said David. "A a Judgment, it was a a a wuuucr. 1 never heard of a nobler judgment. Three thousand pounds! and a fall off your pony! and n paralysis! all for robbing me of my land. Did you ever offer any rewarl?" "No. What was the good?" "Would you give any reward?" "I would give I would give yes I would give ten pounds to get that box back again." "Ten pounds for three thousand. That's a generous offer, isn't It?" "I'd give fifty pounds I'd give a hun dred two hundred four hundred, Da vid." He multiplied his offer by two ev er) time that David shook his head. "You'd have to come down more hand some than four hundred to get back three thousand pounds. Well," he rose as If to go, "that's all I've got to say this morning. That will do for to-lay. Much more handsome you would have to come down." "David!" cried his uncle, eagerly. "what do you mean by being more hand some? Tell me, David do you know nythlng?" "Why," said David. "I may know, or I may not know. What did I tell you? Didn't I say that I might have something to sell? Well that's enough for this morning!" He moved toward the door. "David, David, come back! What have you got to sell?" "That is my secret he stood with his hand on the door handle "if you tell a secret, what is the good of It?" "David, stop stop! ' Do you know where that box was taken? Oh! David, put away your hard thoughts. Remem ber you were ruined already. I didn't ruin you; my heart bled to see your fath er's son ruining himself." "Look here, uncle; perhaps the box ex ists, and perhaps it doesn't. Perhaps I have learned where it Is and perhaps I haven't. Perhaps 1 ve got a paper out of the box in my pocket at this minute, and perhaps well, what would you give me for a paper out of the box. taken out this very morning, none of the other papers having been so much as touched? What would you give for that. Just to show that the others can be laid hold of?" "Oh! give it to me. David," the oil man stretched out both hands with yearn ing eyes; "let me look at it. Can It be that the box is found after all, and safe?" "If it la found, depend upon It that It is safe, uncle. Take your oath of that. The man who's got that box won't let it go in a hurry, particularly when be knows what's inside it. Three thousand pounds! and, perhaps, if he knew it, his own, for the trouble of presenting them at the right place." "They've been stopped," Daniel ex plained for the second time. "You dou't know what that means, perhaps; it mentis that any one who presents those papers for payment will find the money stopped, and himself taken up for unlawful pos session of the coupons, David which is seven years, I believe!" (To be continued.) Tlie President Smiled. "Rough, tough, we're the stuff! We want to light and we can't get enough! Whoop-e-e-e!" President Roosevelt stood with a cup of coffee In his hand and ripped out that battle cry as lustily as the khaki clad rough riders who wen gathered around him. Indeed, the presidential voice put a high C crescendo on that "Whoop-e-e-e!" that drowned every thing except the bass of MaJ. Llewel lyn, says the San Antonio correspond ent of the New York World. The president took tne lid off when he foregathered with his rough riders at the fair grounds In the afternoon. Until that time he had been president Then, with his high hat pushed back displaying every tooth, he was a rough rider himself. The only drawback, his comrades said, waa that he did not wear his uniform. Their fond hopes that In some way he would get a chance to put on his khakl suit were dashed early In the dny. There was no bundle under the seat In the car riage. Mr. Roosevelt kept to the presi dential attire, but be entered into the affair so heartily that his collar was wilted wlien he started home and his face streaked with dust. The rough riders were mobilized on the fair grounds, about three miles from San Antonio, in May, 1808. The president had not been In San Antonio since, but he had not forgotten that he started here the career that made him president of the United States. He spoke about it to the crowd. "When I was last here," he added, "nobody In the world dreamed I would return as president" The rough riders disagreed. H 1" they said, ""We know It all tho time." Then tho president waved a depre cating band, but ho smiled. The boauty soon li parti la Mm who It Botoo. Ml, 'J1', Simile for Huinll Htock. Most farmers iiiuko sumo attempt to provide shade In t ho pasture for their horses and cows, but let tin' swim, sheep wild poultry go without It, which Is certainly a mistake, for nil nittninl mid birds like shade In summer. It I mi easy mutter to erect a number of small shade place on the pasture, nnd lit small expense. If one Is willing to Invest the small timoiint of labor inves wiry. If there I a wood lot on the farm what la easier than to cut n n um ber of poles to use for posts, nnd then n number of lighter brunches to use n the foundation for the roof. Set the pole (Irmly In the ground, making four post for the corners, then, with the branches mid a lot of waste buy or straw, n thatched roof Is easily con structed. Spend enough time on the work to make It strong enough so that the wind will not blow It over. When you llnlsli you will have a shade house something like that shown In the cut and the stock will enjoy It and be all the better for it. They would thank you for It If they could, so spend a little time build ing some, even two or three, by way of experiment Indianapolis News. Feeding Too Maur Fowls. When the hutching season I over there Is no necessity for retaining the roosters, ns the hen will lay without their presence, and their room Is val uable, while they cost more for food than they are worth, says Fnnn and Fireside. It Is well to retain the best of the early pullets, but all pullets that do not show evidence of thrift or of reaching maturity before winter should be disposed of. The young cockerels should be disposed of Just as soon as they are large enough for mar ket or the table. It la better to give the growing stock plenty of room than to crowd them. The poultry house Is usually a warm place In summer when well filled with birds, due to the ani mal heat of the Invites, and the flock should consequently be reduced to the lowest number consistent with the fa cilities. Borrowed Trouble. There are people who have genuine troubles, but the woe of genuine trou ble Is nothing compared to troubles which are expected and which never come. Too many fnnners borrow trou ble when It rains, because of the fear that the ruin will continue too long the downfall will be too great When It discontinues for a few days the fear and the prediction is that a drought Is In prospect that will destroy the crops. All this borrowed trouble Is wholly un necessary, and If It affects the general result at all. It affects It for the worst It Is better to be cheerful and make the most of conditions as they arise and take chances for the fntura with out worry. Journal of Agriculture. Bhropshlre Kan. THK CHAMPION BIIHOP8HIRE. This champion Shropshire ram Is owned by George Allen, of Vermilion County, Illinois. Potato Quality. The quality of potatoes Is the sub ject of Interesting tests by the New York Experiment Station. There Is reason to believe that good quality Is developed in a soil temperature of 05 degrees to 73 degrees, and the tubers growing from one and two to five Inch es below the surface are subject to these conditions. Great fluctuation in the soli temperature Is detrimental to the best development of potatoes, and tubers growing too near the surface are subject to this fluctuation, A too low temperature also injures the devel opment of ripening and the soil tex ture probably has sometlhng to do with ripening and flavor. Hence, if pota toes aro planted shallower than three Inches or deeper than six inches tho conditions are unfavorable. Treatment for Fence Poets, A cheap and effectual method of preventing the rotting of fence posts is said to bo practiced by French fann ers. The posts are piled In a tank and tho whole thickly covered with a quick lime, which Is gradually slacked with water. Another plan, used in this country, Is to char tho posts to tho depth of bait aa Inch, and then dip ir tr.ni v a i 4 &iL&$. Jji2& them In coal tat but the con,l tnr Should be so used ni to extend nbovn the surface of the ground, when the posts are In place. While this may not prevent decay, yet it will prolong the period of durability of the posts, Working In the Wheat lipid. Most people are probably familiar In a general way with the principles nnd methods used In wheat shocking. Yet there are detail the conformation to or neglect of which makes nil the dif ference between a Mist class Job mid a poor one. I wish to show hero some of the detail which make for convenience and excellence In the work, says a Rural New Yorker writer. I And the following plan of setting up a shock most satisfactory: Set down four bundle In a row and follow with one lu (be middle on each able. Now place a bundle In each of the four va cant plncc and put on two cap. For cap select bundle with long straw above the bund. They will cover the shock better ond will not fall off so easily. Place the bend of the caps In the direction from which the strongest wind blow. If the bead face the wind the cap will not blow off as readily il they will If the butts face It. Here are a few general suggestions: If tho shock bus been set tip us here directed It will contain twelve bun dles. Experience tenches that till I very nearly the right number. Some little variation, of course, Is allowable. But If a shock I much smaller It lack stability, and the same I true if the shock I much larger, especially If the wheat Is dead ripe. When the wheat I dead ripe the bend stand out, and, especially In a large shock, the bun dle are liable to fall down. If the head stand out It I a good plan to hug the shock tightly Iwfore capping. In a large shock slightly green wheat Is apt to mold. When starting n shock If convenient start It In the middle of the bunch of bundles. This will save the time and latxir Involved In carry ing bundles around the shock. A New Apple Picker. A Washington State fruit grower has Invented an apple picker which attracts considerable attention among fruit growers In that section. It seems to be a telescopic device which can be instantly adjusted to reach tho fruit on any level of the tree. At the upper part Is a ring with the cutting edge operated by a trigger. The ring cut. off the fruit which drop from the horn, or telescope, to the canvas bag attached to the shoulder of the opera tor. It Is claimed fruit can Ix picked without bruising and In about half the time required by the common method. UwDown Kark for Cora. Whoever raises sorghum for any purpose but grazing and cuts corn stalks whole will need a low-down rack for this sort of work. No Job on LOW-IKIWN RACK. the ordinary farm Is more laborious than cutting and handling this kind of forage and anything Unit facilitates the lifting and loading Is a good thing to have. It saves both time and muscle, for both corn stalks anil sorghum, and especially the latter, are very heavy to lift and load on n high nick. In the absence of a "low-down" wagon, a ruck like the accompanying Illustration will be found to be a great help. Fngllah Lime Ratphtir I Hp. In England, an experiment was made In dipping sheep with n lime-sul-phur dip containing 2." pounds of sul phur per 12' pounds of lime. A quan tity of water was used sulllclent to give a dark red color, nnd In-fore using tho liquid was diluted to 100 gallons. The dip proved effective for sheep scab and did not materially Injure the wool. Wheat Screen In as. Wheat screenings, either ground or unground, are very satisfactory for sheep feed. At the Minnesota station It required 18 per cent more wheat screenings than wheat to produce a given gruln. As the screenings are n production of the northwestern wheat fields, their value as a feed may easily be seen. Redacting Heed Potatoes. Varieties of potatoes may be pre vented from running out nnd even im proved by selection. To select pota toes, dig by hand-picking which will separate and select the seed from the best hills. In a few years by thla process the yield of merchantable pota toes can be easily Improved. Farm Notes. Poor food for tho cow and poor treatment effect the milk supply. Cows in the stable can be protected from files; nets and screens are both used. Sponge off the horse thoroughly and dry him well before putting him in his stall. New York City consumes on an aver age about 85,000 sheep and lambs weekly. Do not use any preservative to prr vent milk from souring; keep it cool and clean. Keep a wet sponge, straw bat or cabbage leaf on tho horse's bead on warm days. Tick tomatoes as soon as they begin to turn color and spread them out un der glass. This will help them to ripen quickly. Pull up onions aa soon as tho bulbs aro well formed and leave them on tho ground until cured. Then spread them thinly under cover until wanted. m 4 k. SB m V It Is naturally presumed that tho dear lady In Chicago who wants to put a ban on Mother Gi reads Homer to her little lap dog. Philadelphia Telegraph, When the Knlser has completed hla task of looking nfler other people's business ho might go home and spend a few months building his own fences. Pittsburg Dispatch. Tho popular contempt of wsrfsro against tho mosquito proves the ca pacity of the American public for straining nt a gnat nnd swallowing an epidemic. New York Mall. A mull I largely determined by hla environment. Christopher Columbus might have been a New York police man for twenty years without discov ering even u poolroom.--Puck. If old man Sherman hud only waited around long enough to see the peace envoy start for Portsmouth be might not have emitted such a cantankerous opinion about war. Philadelphia Tele graph. Turkey has ordered In France a tor pedo bout destroyer, three gunboats, two transport nnd artillery lining, and It Is rumored that as soon a (hose urn ilellvensl th.i Snlliin Intends to nut Out his tongue at the C.ar. -I guidon Punch. The "lingo" of the yellow fever re jport might bo applied to the dally 'new from the Agricultural Depart jiiient nt Washington. New "foci" ami i"sut foci" are constantly appearing un der Secretary Wilson's nose. Spring Held Republican. Portland, Me., Is scouring the conn try for subscriptions to Its Thomas It. Reed memorial fund. They want f."0,. ou) and have on hand about fin,!"). Tom wouldn't have approved this dun ning bis friends for such a purpose. Boston II cm id. A woman swearing offends no nioro against moral than a man swearing, but she offends more against manners, and by about as much a we are tho more shocked at her swesrlng than nt his, by so nun li do we bold maimers abovo morals. Life. Our old friend, Wu Ting Fung. Is said to have been commissioned by tho l'ekln court for tho task of forcing this country to a fair course of treatment of Chinese subject. The childlike Mr. Wu knows us well, and how to pinch where It will hurt us the worst. Buf falo Courier. The Russian government according to a St. Petersburg dispatch, has d clded to Issue a second Internal loan. The amount Is said to be $ Iixi.isni.iss). The Russian Internal loan of $!, , INSI last March came like pulling teeth; this one, it Is fair to presume, w ill bo like killing tho nerve. Hartford Cou nt nt. Tho dirt nt Panama Isn't flying, nnd the government has lit last decided that It won't fly until sanitary condi tions nre so Improved (but a sulllclent number of workmen can be uttracteil to the Isthmus. The original Idea that the only thing needed to Insure thw canal was the money has been stil Ntuntlally modified. Buffalo Courier. So many subjects of his majesty Ed ward VII. fear that America's future Is threatened by China and Japan, tho yellow peril, that there come an Irro slstlble temptation to remind tbeiii that the United States ha managed to Increase some "o.oo.ikki In popula tion In the last century without an ori ental market. We can probably play along. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Senator Mitchell, or Oregon, has been tried, convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $10,000; but still holds on to his seat as a Senator fnnn Oregon. Tho salary, mileage and perquisites of Sen ator Mitchell forn year will abont pay his flue, but tills Is a new way to uso the ofllee of United States Senator, nnd will probably be very unpopular. Louisville Post. The suggestion tbnt there be a na tional celebration of the two hundredth nniilvcrsnry of Benjamin Fninklln's) birthday next Jiinuiiry was to be ex pected about this time. The day will surely bo observed In various places, and one of them should be Boston, which Frunklln ran away from at no early age. A truly national celebra tion, however, might be dllhVult to inunage. Springfield Republican. It would be Interesting to know how much money has been spent, first und lust, on the search for the north polo. When the Imposing total hns been as certained, the question may be asked whether more prolltablo results would not have been obtained If the money had been spent In some other way. The backers of an arctic explorer have a right to spend their money on htm if they please, but they would benefit humanity more If they put their dol lars into model tenement house's or consumption hospitals. Chicago Trib une. Another plot has been discovered In Constantinople tha purpose of whloli was the removal of the Sultan. Tho Sultan's time Is all filled dodging bombs when he li not dodging bills. Chicago Inter Ocean. Short Personals. Tolstoi spends much of his time la roaming through tho woods. Gen. Booth, commander of the Salva tion army, Is said to be a slave to work. O. li. Rustard of Duluth, Minn., is a direct descendant of tho old royal family of Norway,