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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1905)
is Heart's By SIR WALTER DBSANT (twnMMNMm CHAPTKK XXI. "Quick. David, quick!" cried the old man. eagerly. "Let ns pot to work. Oil. you waste hnlf the morning; lot us get on. At this rate," he sighed, "we shall take months before I got back the prop erty." "There will lie no traile this morning, uncle." David replied, standing In the TlwoTway. It was week ffteM ''I )iim the truth. Tie bad been -turning It over In his mind in the Interval. ,. '.'"Why not T Divi1. If yort wore Hour ly seventy you would bo anxious to got - on; you would not shilly-shally over a single bit of paper. Let us get on. Pa rid. Oh, you've got all the power now, nnd I am in your hands. I won't grum ble, David, Nvtakl ypur' bwu time, my boy; 'take vonr own tim. The poor old man was strangely al tered in four 'or five weeks, that he should thus humble himself before his nephew. But David had all the power so long as ho had any of those coupons left. "You lrttie tttiMight )Whoh I came hero that I was going to give you so much trouble, did you. I'ncle Daniel? You thought you had the whip hand over me always, didn't you? But you see, first the fall from your pony, then the loss of your papers, then the-stroke, then my comlnf home and finding. those papers all part ef the ' judgment! and now thore'mrtr to frrtlew." i - "What more? Oh, David, what more?" the helpless old man only groaned. "!T6-aay,"fcucle; "Ihav com to talk about my aunt's will. Will Nethereote told me." "You did not. You thought that as s-wn as our little business was flnlsh- 1 d I should go away and never come back any more. You thought you would '" keep the money, did you? Not so, uncle; not so!" "I thought you would never find It ,,-oui, David," Mr. Leighau confessed, with somewhat surprising candor. "I soou -. fuuud that , you. knew nothing about it, and that you never go about and talk; t iaJ I was pretty certain that you would never find out. Well, now you know. fr.,what difference does it make?. You art no nearer the money." II ana II a a a I w a .... . ri I ,-. . , , n . r as well have left It to me as to you. ..To be sure, I never thought she bad hnlf ao much. She began with a thousand. She must have pinched and saved. She left it to Mary, on the condition of her marrying -with your consent; and, if cot, the money .was to go.to.'niev. And If i was dead, the will said nothing. 80 you thought yo'a could stick-to- the- money. Uncle, -'-you're a Joxy onel You ought to be la the States, and thirty years young er. Iliere 704 would &od yourself at home, with plenty of opportunity. Well. 'I -am wiser now than I wan. - And see ;iow, uncle, I don't mean to go away until this qu&stkm is settled. What are ijou going to do?'? . . i "Why should I tell your 1 "Keep it to yourself, "' then; I' win tell "you w-hat you thought you were going to rdo.: I've worked It alTout." First, if you 'let George and Mary get married before 'the law lets you' take Sideote you will lose Sideote." He began, In his slow -ay. to tick off his points upon his fin ders. "That's the first thing. After 'you have trot Sideote, yon will be Still loath to let the money go, and you will keep Mary waiting on. Y'ou think that I hall soon go. Then you will keep the money as long as you live. But suppose they were to marry without your consent, all the money comes to me comes to me. That sticks, doesn't it? Y'ou can let tliem marry now and you will lose Sid eote; you can let them raarry after you have got Sideote; and yoi) vjll hare to pay up; If you keep On refualng our con tent, you can keep the' money as long as you like unless they marry without. Then you've got to'give ft to me. You've -; hl a taste of m-"Rlready.-j - ' He waited a little. His uncle said "". nothing, hot watched him from under his long, white eyebrows not contempt uously, as on the first interview after his return, hut -with the respect due to the strength of the situation, ' "Very well, then; you would rather give that 'money to Mary than to me. -,. But yon would like to get Sideote; you . hate the thought of giving It to me, you intended to keep it yourself. Yet there Is no way out of It If you want Sideote. Perhaps you think you would give it to Alary, after you have got Sideote. But . suppose she marries before? Then you would be obliged to givje it all to uio." " "Go on, David; perhaps you are going to propose something." "" '"I hare been thinking things over, un 'Cle. You are getting old, you may die ..any day; then Mary would be free. It is true that she might marry to-morrow, in which case I should be entitled to ev erything. But I don't think she would be such a fooL If I were Mary, I should wait. You are seventy now, and you've lost the use of your legs. You can't last very long. I should wait, If I were Mary. Yes; It might be a year or two; It couldn't be longer." . -His uncle heard without any emotion this argument In favor of his approach ing demise country people use plainness of speech about such matters but he felt himself very far from dying, as mas terful men always do up to the very end. .,. "Well. David, supposing that what you 'say is common sense, what next? If Mary marries at once she is a fool, and 'then I have you to reckon with. There is a good bit outstanding on the old no couiit, and I don't 'suppose there woul 1 ' be much coming to y6u when compound " interest and all comes to ' be reckoned ' up." ' ' ;' "As for your outtsandlng accounts, we hall see wnen tne time comes, auu as for compound Interest, it will be for von' to nsr that oh mr aunt's six thou- "sand pounds."' "The Interest went for the keep of -Mary." "I haven't heard that there's a word 1,..,.. iKnt in (Kd U'llt Ytm'va Im.t liU rervlces as housekeeper for five years, and you've pocketed the interest. Wuy, I take it that you made 5 per cent. That's-three hundred a year. There will Oesire 0 be a beautiful day of reckoning, uncle. Th a sale of your coupons Is nothing to it." "You wore going to make a proposal, David?" "Buy me o(T. old man." "Always buy alwavs buy!" "To be sure. You've got to buy your own property back because I've conic home. You're got to buy me out on the chance of the money coming to mo. I'loase yourself. What do you say to buying me out at a thousand?" "O thousand pounds?" "Ye. Uncle Daniel, "a thousand pounds. And a very moderate figure, too. Consider, if they were to get mnr lied, you'll make five thousand by the bargain, not to speak of the interest. If th?y don't you'll have the satisfaction of giving your nephew a few thousand pounds back out of the property you're robbed him of." "A thousand pounds! I'll think It over." CHATTEIi XXII. Mary went to plead with David for her uncle. He was in the deserted farm yard of Berry, with Its tunibte-down buildings. He leaned against the gate, thinking always of the fields he had lost, aud the way in which they had been taken from him. Of course his first thought was to get out of her way. "Don't run away, David," she said; "I caniD to talk with you." "WeH. come through the gate then. Mary. Will you talk in the cottage, or will you talk hero?" "Let us stay outside here In the shade, David. When will you cease to worry your uncle?" "Did he tell you that I worry him? Has ho been complaining?" "No. He even denies that you have nny share in the new trouble that seems to have fallen upon him. Buj I know that It Is caused by you. After every one of your morning visits be Is miser able, livery day he grows more nervous nnd more Irritable. He sheds tears when he is alone. I am Quito sure that you are tho cause of his trouble. "Well, Mary, perhaps you are right. I may be the cause of it. Perhaps I may be the cause of a good deal more trouble than I have done." "Oh! David, think he Is an old man; he Is atHicted with paralysis; you are hastening his end. What good will It do to you If you worry him into his grave? Will that restore the past? Will that make you what you used to be?" "Nay, thai It will not do. But when I see him at my mercy, crying for pity, I thluk of tho day when I came to ask him to lend me a poor fifty pounds, with which to try my luck In Canada, and he laughed me In the face." "Well, then. David, does It do you any good to remember that day? Let the past be dead, David, and live for the future." "You don't know what you are saying. Mary. What should you know about It? You are only a girl" he spoke roughly and rudely, but not unkindly "what do you know? Let the past be dead. Why. all the world is crying because the past won't die. I only wish the past would die." Here, It seems to me, David hit upon a profound truth; for very nearly all the world not quite it would be. unhappily, far better if the past would die. "If the past should die, Mary, I 4'iiould forget that I was once a substan tial man, who sat respected at the mar ket ordinary, rode my own horse, and farmed my own laud. I should forget that I had to go away from my native place and take ship with the lowest emi grants. I should forget Mary," he whispered, "I can trust you I have told no one else I should forget that I had been in prison yes, in prison " "David!" She shrank from him, but recovered, and laid her hand softly upon his. "Yes; In prison. And now I am no longer fit to sit and talk with George and you. But I am fit to talk with my uncle, because, bad as I am, he Is worse." "But If ho is. David, forgive him." "I will worry him," said David, "as long as I can. I will never spare him. I've got another But never mind. Oh! when you are gone, Mary, he shall have a life that he little dreams of now!" "David! It la terrible. Can nothing move you?" "Nothing, Mary; not even you. And mind you, don't try to put yourself be tween him aud me, because he won't stand it. It isn't me that won't stand it, because I don't greatly care who knows; but It's him. He likes me to come; he watches for me and waits for me. though he knows that when I am gone he will turn and wriggle In his chair, and cry and curse. Yet he wants 1110 back. Say no more about it, Mury." It was Indeed useless to try further persuasions. Mary was silent. Her cousin, worked up by his wrath, stood before her with purple cheeks and (lam ing eyes. "I must go away soon," she said. "I cannot let George go out into the world without any one. And then I muxt leave him alone." "Yes; but he will have me," said Da vid, grimly. "Well, I have said what I came to say, David, and I ha'e done no good. If you would only forget." "I cauuot foiget. Stay, Mury; ono thing 1 must say. Iteineinber ufterwurd that I sail it in time. Then, perhaps, you'll think that If it hadn't been for him I might have been a different mail." "What is It, David?" "I; is this." His face softened the moment he ceased to think upon his wrongs. It was but the wreck of a face which had once been handsome and full of hope; but it was better and healtliiir to look upon than the face black with revenge. "Will tells me thut you are golntf to marry George without your uncle's- consent ?" "Yes." "Y'ou know that he must then give me the whole of my uunt's money?" "Yes." "Very well, Mary. I am fooling him. Never mind how. But yon shall not bo wronged You shall have all your for tune. Marry George without any four. Uemombor you shall not bo wronged! I am as bad as yon like, but I will not rob you, Mary; I will not rob you!'' CIIAPTRU XXltt. , It was heard In tl.o otllce of the pflpet which had secured my services that thorn wns to bo held a special nicvting. on an evening early In October, of the !oynl Geographical Socioty, in order to hear A paper read by a German traveler recent ly arrived In Kurop, rftrr a lengthened stay in the South Sea Islands. At the hour of eight the chairman en tered with Ins captive traveler. Tho, latter, certainly one of the tallest aud finest men I have ever beheld, took his place In front of his maps, and began, after the usual Introduction, to read his paper. After this paper was read, tho umiuI Irrepressible persons g t up and began to discuss. At this point 1 retired to add a few thitics to my article and hand it In. 1 then repaired to the Savage Club, which at 11 o'clock logins to be a cheer ful place. Hero I found, iu fact, an ani mated circle, an 1 among them my friend of the K. (!. S., the Baron Sergius veil lloNtciu, who had been brought by one of the members. It is always interesting to meet with men who have been 011 desert Islands, or lived anions cannibals. It is enough for some people only to gam upon such a man. Kor our part, at the Savage, we fouud the baron not only nn Interesting person, but also a singularly amusing companion, and brimful of anecdotes mid stories of all kinds. We talked till late. At about three In the morning, when we had gone hnlf round the world with him, he told us a very singular and surprising story. He had not been the only L'uropcau on a certain island all the time, ho said. For six months or so be had a companion in the shape of a poor fellow an Kng lishman who had been washed ashore upon a piece of timber. The natives were going to spear this human jetsam, when he interfered anil saved him. and continued to protect him until he was able to get him oft" the island In a vessel which came a blackbirding. "This fel low," said the baron, "was the most in tolerable creature in existence. Karlier In his existence he had committed a murder, and during the whole of his stay on the Island he was suffering agonies of remorse; all day long he wept and groaned, and was afraid to leave me for fear of being speared. At night he would not sleep at a distance of more thnn a foot or so from me for fear. And he was always visited every night by the gh.st i f t!9 respectable undo whom he had slain." "Did you see the ghost?" "No, nor did I hear its voice. Tet It spout the best part of the night in abusing the poor man, and he iu an swering it with prayers and protesta tions. As for revenge. I suppose no oth er murdered man ever took so much out of his murderer. Well. It was tedious. At length my Knglistunan declared that he desired nothing so much as to get away fr m the island, and give himself up to justice. If he could only make his way to Australia and then get a passugo to England, he would give himself up and confess the whole truth." "A lively companion." "Yes. But to look at him you would think him a dull, heavy fellow, who seemed t-j have no spirit for such a des perate deed. Well. I got him away tit length, and was left happy at Inst and alone. Before he went, however, I wrote down, at his reiUest, a statement of the murder, a confession, in fact, which he and I witnessed. I warned him that I should make nny use of it that I thought fit. As yet I nave done nothing with it; and as I dare say he is dead by this time, I do .lot s-e why I should not tear it up. Here It is. however, written iu my old note book." (To bo continued. ) Thin I)o Surely Kraaoned, "I see," said the St. Louis mini, "tlmt the que-stioii of whether animals think or not is now ltin nitK'li discussed In tho pupt-rs." "And which side do you take?" was nsked. "I know they think. "When I was n boy I went after harvest apples once aud the farmer's dog drove me up a tree and kept me there for live hours." "But tlmt doe.su't prove that he had thoughts?" "Hold on. The farmer wn awny from home and didn't return until sun down, and then he took me down out of the tree and gave me the walloping of my life. In the first place, the dog knew that his master was gone; In the second, he knew that he wouldn't be back until sundown; thirdly, he know that If he came back and found 1110 I'd get u hiding; lastly. If It wasn't all reasoned out, why didn't he leave me at the end of four hours to bite a tramp who was stealing turnips farther down the road? 1 still have one more reei-son." "And that Is?" "Tlint three months later, when I met that dog on the steps of the meet ing house of a Sunday, he bolted for home like a streak of gtw.sod light ning. Would he have done that If lie hadn't thought I had a brickbat under my Jacket?" A Guy Deceiver, "George," said the bride of a week, didn't you promise 1110 that you would (rive up smoking the day I married you?" "That's what I did," replied George. "And now," she continued, "I llnd you pulling a cigar, Juxt as though I were not In existence. What explana tion huve you to offer?" "Well, I kept my promise all right," answered the husband.. "I didn't smoke a single cigar on our wedding day." Wireless Measures, They were Hat dwellers. "Why," asked the ulleged boss tt the domestic ranch, "do you always sit by the window In tho air shaft when sewing? You can't half see there." "True," replied his better half, "but I can heur beuutlfully." I; - ' iVM for Vf'M FwiW There Is probably u greater inllengo of wire fence in Texas thau any other three States, and Texas people ought. ! therefore, to bo the best Judges of 1"W to make them iieriunnelit. Ai'Oiu "strain posts" 11 Texas stockman l'n nil and Hunch suvs: Iu Numerous plans hnvu boon given for making secure comer posts for wli'tt- fences. I have tried many plans, ami have found every plan to mnk a corner post bear the strain of 11 lonrf fence to bo a failure. The strain eon. tlnues without Intermission, and final ly the writer post give way. With short fences the dilllculty Is not great. I have built some hundred of miles of wire fencing. My plai( now is to use what I call n stralij post. Instead of putting the strain on Col StR roVT JTRfll Poll rosTH ron wins xfncfs the corner post. I put down a good corner post; sntl at least twenty feet from this put down another good lost, large u nil deep Into tho ground. At the ground. I run wires to the top of the strain post, and stretch these wires tight. This puts most of the strain on the strain post, and nil the strain placed on the corner post comes at Its bottom. Again, tbo strain jMjst Is not put Into the ground straight, but leans to the corner. The effect of this Is that the strain tend to force It tleepor Into tho ground. In stead of drawing It out. It will be, found easier to put In a good corner post aud two strain posts than to put In one corner post In the way often directed. t I show the plan In sketch sent herewith. It will be best first to stretch the wires around the strain post, making them secure to It, nnd then to complete tho fence by building a short fence at the corner. Of course, such can Is not needed for short lines) of fencing. MaktiiK the l'iic Grow. Give the young pigs a good start 's will be to your interest to do so. A young pig that has once been stuntc!; will never wholly outgrow It, no man (or how good the subsequent care inuyl be. Any animal being grow n for mvit should have feed enough to make u good gain every day from birth M slaughter. If there Is ever a tim.i In that animal's life when no gain Is being made In weight nil feed con sumed during that time Is practically lost, for the profit nil eotnes from tho feed that makes the gain above tl: amount required to maintain the ani mal's needs. In other wonrs, n cer tain amount of feed necessary to kco; the nnlmal nllve and the profit nuwt all come from the Jlttle extra, feel thnt makes the gain In flesh. A yoiin nnlmal will gnin more on 11 given quan tity of feed thnn nn older animal on the-an me feed. I think we might afe ly say the younger the nnlmal the greater the gain for the feed.eOiiMunied, Thnt Is why it pays better to feed young stock. Swine Advocate.. Wagon for yrglthurreli. Professor Wnugh. . of Massachu setts, says In a report f Iu handling the fruit In the orchard, between the trees and th storage-room, or later between the storage nnd the shipping WAOON KOK IIANDL1N0 FIIUIT. station, some suitable wagon ought to be provided. A stone boat in some times used aud Is not tho worst thing that could be found, especially for short hauls nnd sinnll loads. It Is better, however, to nave one of The low-down wugons made especially for handling fruit In the Illustration one Is kIiowu as It was actually ma le up at homo. Some sills .were 1111113 ly strap Irons from the front nnd rear axles of u common wagon frame, nnd on thowe some boards were laid, mak ing a tlr for currying tho barrel. Handling burrels of apples In and out of tho common high wagon Is hard nnd expensive labor, and It hi apt to damage the fruit. A Good Kgu-Tester. Take thin paper, says a writer In American Poultry Journal, and roll It up so as to- leave the open space a trifle loss iu diameter thau the length of an egg. Tie a. string around .the center, so the paper cunnot unroll, and your egg tester Is ready for use, and equal to any that can be bought Hich rgif Nrptirutoly, plnr It rtgaut 0110 end of the "(ester" and plmte the other end of the "tester" close to your eye. and louk through towjird ibo light, or, better still allow the j ays of Uio sun to full directly on tUei'egg. Be careful not to let the lingers Intercept the light. The fertile ogk's which have begun to Incubate wjll show 11 dark spot, with veins ra diating from It. This dark spot be comes larger and darker as tin devel opmcnt of the chick progresses. The nppeHrauc of the Infertile Is perfectly ejear tsiune as fresh eggs) until they have been set about two weeks, ufter which time they begin to decay. V v t ure lego Iiicrrniiliiii the lorn Crop. G. Golden, I'mfcsHor of Agrlcul at the Illinois Agricultural Col nt Cliiiiiipliiln, Is a man whose nnme and memory should be much re spected, not only by farmers, but by all who are consumers of American grown corn. When 11 college student he was teaching school In Michigan. He asked hU students to each bring him nn ear of corn from the crib at home. ' Tbey did so, and he showed them tba different grnden. from very good to very poor. Then he asked ofich one to plant three seeds from the liest ear In 11 box, nnd water It. The result was an excellent crop of large, wpH-fllled ears. The pnrents became Interested, nnd soon began to plant only the best com for seed, much to the advantage of their crop. After he went to Illinois, he began to talk the benefits of selected corn for seed to the fanners, and simn not only were most of them converted to his Ideas, but the farmers of Iowa mid Missouri were looking for better seed. Later n he became director of n farm near Bloomltigton, where they usually planted twenty thousand ncres of corn, with nn average yield up to thnt time of forty to tlfty bushels per acre. The tlrst year be Increased the yield by ten thousand bushels above the best previous season. On some acres he brought the products up to seventy bushel per ncre. This year he had a apeclnl train from which to talk about corn to the farmers of Iown, nnd If we have this year the largest crop of corn ever grown In the. United Stntes, Professor I (olden Is entitled to the credit of having add ed millions of those bushels to the crop by his ndvneney of the doctrine ot tiling only the best seed. !!onia-Mu! Corn Cutter, This Idea of a corn cutter comes frorn Australia where the machine Is used In harvesting sugar cane nnd sorghum, ns) well us com. The Imple ment has been tried by n number of farmers In this country and pro noums-d a success. It Is made by bolting the blade 1 si ythe to a sledge In the Illustration. Iron about utiu In f 11 strong heavy or sled, as shown A rod of wrought h Iu diameter Is bent to former follower, as shown. One of these machines Is expected to cut about 'iVt acres per day. After cutting, the crop Is less easily handled than when cut by baud, but the total saving In labor Is considerable. Wire Chicken-Catcher. A chicken-catcher Is needed on many farms which can be uiiidu from No. 8 wire. Five feet of wire will be long enough. Bend a loop at one end for a handle, with a shepherd's crook at the other end, bending the crook small enough, of course, to hook around the leg of a chicken w hile It Is eating. If the hook Is innde the least bit flaring, but closed up about a half Inch, It will hold the chicken securely by the foot. This Is the best way to catch 11 chicken when wanted 011 short notice. Many farmers train a dog to catch chickens, but this causes a com motion uinong the fowls and Is one way to make them wild. Uneasy, frightened fowls nre not thrifty, like quiet, contented birds. Pulverizing the Soil, Considering the pulverizing of tho clods thnt turn up In the most heavy land after plowing, prevention Is the best method. If the Held is well drained nnd not plowed when wet, there may be no clods. It will, how ever, take two or three seasons to thor oughly flue the soil that has been In jured by previous mismanagement, Full or winter plowing, turning the land In ridges and leaving It as rough ns possible, ho ns to expose tho moist surface to tho frost, will do the work, but unless there are underdridns to carry off the wnter the plowing may do as much barm ns good, ' The Dslry Itarn. The dairy burn, as built In the near future, may not have so much loft room, but Instead a number of struc tures In the form of silos, but not air tight or so solid. Into these several months' or the entlro winter's supply of roughage may be cut Inland Farmer, , 1IOMK-MAIIK COIlN CtTTKK. i Conquest 5 Great I American Desert Were all of arid America (11 for Ilia living. It could be occupied by n third of the entire isipulatlou of the t'nliisl States. Go Into the foothills of Colorado and Nevada, There the sago brush springs from lb" snnd as It does on the sunbaked mei.as of At'l.oiiit nnd New Mexico away lo the south. The statistician estimates that even III Kansas, Nebraska and the I'aUotas fully seventy live million acres will produce only it scanty herbage Jusl enough to keep range cattle nlUe H fi w weeks during the grafting season, yet these Stales ate not considered ll part of the desert. Already n modern miracle has been wrought. The one who has lint vis ited the oasis created by Irrigation may scout Ibis nssirtloii, but should lie chance Into tin valley through which the llio 1'ecns Mows, or III Cob nolo nloug the I'oudro Itlver, I he land scape of Held, orchaid and garden which nature has created In a literal wlldfrty-s will convince lilin bevoiid the shadow of a doubt. In the Hoiith west fruits and gr.i'us both of the ttople nnd temperate rones arc to bo seep growing In luxunnnce where yes terday only grensewooil, sagebrush and cactus existed. Yet the soil Is un changed, save for the application of water. It Is that of I lie desert with out moisture, almost Incapable of sup porting life. When moistened, how. ever, these particles of sand, even al kali rock, fnntnln properties so fertile that from them springs vegetation more abundant nnd luxuriant than the crops thnt nre gathered from tho rTI black loam of Indiana and Illinois and the fertile valleys of New York Itself. Although less than lo per cent of the HViillable area for trrlgatbui has thus fnr ts-en readied. In ( 'oloi'inlo It self no less thnn 7. per cent of ttb lands available for cultivation depends ll m n the nrtlflclal watei supply. These farms aggregate "."hi.issi acres I bo South Pbltte Valley, the most eten lively Irrigated region In the I'nltcd Stntes, Including irtlotis of Colorado. Wyoming and Nebraska, has J,' "",) acres which are artificially watered. I'lirms In ("tab thus supplied aggre gate !HS,(n ncres, Arizona contains loo.is) ncres. New Mexico l.-.n.ooo acres, Nebraska lon.txm, while some of the most prnduoilvK valleys of Call fornlii which send their fruit and vege tables by the ear load to all parts of the I'nltcd States ns well ns ...e prin cipal cltbsi of Kurope, lire nurtured en tirely by wells ami minis. Vet tho average size of nn Irrigated farm Is not over forty ncres, which gives an bleu of the millions of people, who to day depend iimiii these great water works for their livelihood. Outing Magazine. TREES AND LIGHTNING. Open Field tho HuTest I'lticr I'.liit 11 ml Oitka Mmt Oil. 11 llll. About the most dangerous place to seek shelter In a thunder storm Is .under an nak or elm tree, as was proved again by the cporlcnee of n dozen person In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, only a short time ago. 'I bis fact has long been known to scientists, but many persons are killed every yeur by lightning been use of the lack or disregard of this knowledge. The total annual loss of life by lightning Is not known, for complete statistics on the subjt ct have never been kept A few years ago the I'nl tcd States, weather bureau attempted something of the kind In a tcntatlvti way. Its experts figured out tile av erage number of pet sons killed by lightning yearly In the I'nltcd States ns .'112. But this was not complete. Prom several States In the I'nlon I lit weather bureau received no reports. The reports received did show that of all that lightning killed only a few were struck In the open field. Most of the killed nnd lnjuted, It was found, bail sought shelter from thunderstorm under trees, In doorways of barns or near chimneys. While no record of the kinds of trees) most often struck by lightning hue ever been kept In the Pulled States, the lightning rod conference held In Kuglnud In 1KS1 reported that In the I'nltcd Kingdom the trees most often struck were the elm, on I;, ash and pop lar. It Is also said that the beech, birch and maple were seldom touched by lightning. It was an elm that was struck In Prospect Park July H. For a period of eleven years In tho principality of Llppe 1 let mold exhaus tive records were kept of all tree struck by lightning. These showed Hint trees standing near water seemed to be the most likely to lie hit, and gave this table of comparative danger: Oaks, 1(H); elms, 77; pines, ll.'l; His, 10) fir trees In general, 27; beeches, by fur the safest of all forest trees, 'J. New York Sun. Heard It tor Yours. Her "Why did you laugh when I told you that Joke wus original with mo?" Him "Bcenuse I caught you In misstatement." Her "Oh! you doubt my word?" Him "No, but you told mo Inst night you were only i!3. If you com posed thnt Joke you nre at leust GO. That's ull." Cleveland Leader. Give a girl a dollar nnd It will go either for a complexion bcautlfler, chocolato caramels, or to a fortune teller In exchange for a peep Into the future.