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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1905)
CHAPTER VII. -(Continued.) "You don't know what a strange place this world Is, Miss Mallett," h began. "Your father loves you, and takes every care of you. You must therefore bear this lu wind, and not be hard ou the fail ings of others who have not had your privilege. My wife poor girl! had no mother when I first, met her, and wa totally dependent on her father for so ciety. It was a bad training for a young woman, for her father was a good-natured, careless fellow, always avoiding re pponsibility as long as was possible, and when at last compelled to show authority, making up by ex.igserated harshuess for Ms previous neglect. "My wife was a high-spirited girl and could not submit to the alternate fits of indulgence and tyranny, She was about seventeen when I first met her, aud her father's treatment was becoming unbear able. I became desperately sorry for her and suggested the only means la my power to help her, which was to make her my wife. It was a foolish proceed ing. I know, but I was young then, and had not begun to look at life seriously, or I should hare asked myself how her position would be bettered by being tied for life to a helpless, penniless fellow, as I was then. Well, we were married privately, of course and for a few weeks thought we loved each other very dearly: then she had another fearful quarrel with her father and begged me to take her away to a home of her own. I was earning a beggarly pittance at that time. I explained my position to her, nd advised her to wait until I had ob tained a certain appointment, of which I was almost sure. She lost her temper, poor child, and vowed ahe's never come near me again. The very next day I was telegraphed for to England. I wrote to her, asking her to be patient for awhile, telling her that I would work hard and get a permanent post now that there was a necessity to work, and prom ising to come back shortly to take her from the cruelty to which she had to sub mit. "On my arrival In .England I found that an almost unknown uncle had left roe a property amounting to nearly three thousand pounds a year. You can Im agine how glad I was for my poor girl's sake. I made np my mind to surprise ber and personally communicate the good news, so did not write. I got through the nsual legal formalities as quickly as possible, and rushed back to Rome only to find them gone! Some told me they had gone to one place, some to another, until I was utterly at a loss what to do However, I traced them, after a month's search, to Naples, and then it waa only to find that her father had died a few days previously and that aha had disap peared no one knew whither. "I did not know any of her people, ao I was compelled to search single banded. For six months I went np and down like a restless spirit in search of peace. At last I found heir or rather ber grave for she had died; she had died in a convent, where she had been teaching English. By the help of a ser vant I obtained permission to see ber grave. There was a plain atone with her Dame only, and the date of her death, which took place some few weeks prior to my visit Poor child! I cannot con vey to you how great a blow It was to me, and my grief was not lessened by the fact that she bad died at enmity with me." "We must hope she forgave you, al though you did not see her," Ethel said quietly. Felling did not answer, and there was silence for a time. It waa a relief when Mr. Mallett spoke. "She must have been of a most unfor giving disposition to resent your pov erty so bitterly, and to nurse her hatred in her dying moments," "I don't think she did that Indeed, the chances are that. In her poor little way, she was looking for me as anxious ly as I was for ber. It waa one of those strange fatalities that human foresight seems utterly unable to prevent" He rose aned shook himself, as if wish ful to put away the memories that had crowded upon him while speaking of the long-silent past "You will think me no end of a bore for annoying you with all this history; but, if you can imagine the relief it has been to me to speak of it and you have any human kindness in your hearts, you will forgive me for the infliction. But my poor sketches? I have it! You must come down and spend a long day with me on Sunday. What do you aay, Miss Mallett?" Ethel looked perplexed. She had hoped against hope that Jack would return ev ery Sunday since his departure, and went through a torment of expectation as the day wore on. This had taken place for the last three Sundays; but she went on hoping. II" father, recognizing the diffi culty in which Ethel found herself, came to the rescue. "If Ethel can arrange mattera, It shall be as you wish. I cuu't say more; for it is not uiy affair, but hers." "Thank you very much." Ten minutes later the captain stood alone at the gate, watching the dog cart disappear down the road. "So it's Ethel's 'affair " he said. "Well, I hope they'll come and bring Ethel's 'affair' with them. I shall be better able to judge of my own chance after I have seen my rival." CHAPTER VIII. It was a day or two after Ethel's visit to Wimbledon that she sat reading a curious letter, which ran as follows: "Your lover cares for you no longer. His honor and his pity for you alone keep him to his given word. lie makes light of you to others." Ethel did not quite believe all this; but she believed enough of it was true to justify ber in giving Jack an oppor tunity ..of freeing himself from bis en gagement. She decided that she would not worry her father, but would act for herself. Acting on this decision, she wrote: "My Dear Jack You hart uow been The fttfc's Sccrct OR A BITTER RECKONING By CHARLOTTU M. BRAUMU away three weeks. As yet you do not say anything about returning, but, on the contrary, speak of your work as being likely to keep you for several weeks longer. In the three weeks of your ab sence yon have written me four letters, and those have evidently been an unwel come task. Io yon guess what I am go ing to say? I wish I were sure you knew, that I might be save,! the pain of writing the words. I think you have found out that you do not care for me in the way you thought you did, and your sense of honor alone is keeping you to the letter of your engagement to me. I have reasons of which you know nothing for believing this to be the cine; so we have both made a mistake, and that, if you are willing, our engagement had bet ter conic to an end. "Please don't think I blame you In any way; it was only one of those mis takes that everybody is liable to make. "Ever your sincere friend, "ETHEL MAI-LETT." Poor Ethel! How she cried over that letter! How she hoped against hope that Jack might not be willing to end the engagement! How carefully she read the words through to bo sure that she had not definitely settled the matter that, In fact, she had done only what she in tended given Jack a chance of accept ing his freedom if he wished for it! Had the matter-of-fact little epistle arrived at a more favorable moment, had Jack had leisure to read between the lines and discover the wounded pride and self-respect that had dictated every word, his manhood might have asserted itself In Ethel's favor. As it was Jack read the letter impatiently at first, but as its meaning dawned upon him he turned back to the top of the leaf and read It again, assured himself of the un equivocal nature of the offer of freedom. thrust It into his pocket and went off whistling enegetically to meet Miss Mail ing at the station on her return from town. Pauline saw at a glance that some thing had happened, and, knowing what she knew, guessed shrewdly what that something was. She had not beeu five minutes In Jack's society before she felt a subtle difference in his manner toward her. "I am ao glad to find you still here, Mr. Dornton," she said at luncheon, glancing at him bewitchingly between the leaves of a palm plant "We were ao afraid that you would not have been able to endure a fortnight of this terribly dull place. Weren't we, Mrs. Sefton?" "lou forget that Mr. Dornton has had a real occupation to make the dull ness endurable. His life Is not passed in killing time, as yours is, dear." "To be sure. I had forgotten to ask how the pictures have progressed." "The view of the house from the woods is finished as far as I can finish It here. The rest of the work I must do in Newman street "That is where your studio Is, Is It not? I should like to see some of your completed pictures. Will you ask us up some day to look at them?" "Any day you please. Say the day after to-morrow." "I cannot go back to dusty London again so soon. I expect my first batch of visitors on that day, too. At last I shall be able to do something in the way of entertaining you, Mr. Dornton, and show my gratitude to you for enlivening our aolitude in the past" "You are too kind. But I have made arrangements for returning to town to morrow." "Nonsense. Y'ou speak of arrange ments in such a serious way that one might Imagine you had a wife and chil dren; Instead of which you are the en viable creature a man without a tie." She paused an Instant, dreading bis reply. He made none; but a dull red crept slowly up his face to the roots of his hair. She read thia sign to suit her self, and went on: "That bejng the case, aa you have no one to claim your presence as a right, why not favor me with it as a pleasure? I should advise you to stay, Mr. Dorn ton. There are some really charming people coming on Thursday whom you should know." Mrs. Sefton was the embodiment of discretion, a very model for lady-companions. She walked away, and Jack followed Miss Mailing to the picture gallery. They were standing In front of the easel on which Jack had placed his paint ing of Malliugford House. It was a charming picture. "You must do me a copy of this, Mr. Dornton," said Pauline, "as a memento of that first morning when I found you asleep in the wood." "And awakened me!" The words were simple enough, but Jack threw a great deal of expression Into them, and his eyes conveyed a world of meaning. .uss Mailing tlushed a glance at him as she asked: "Did I wake you? It was quite unin tentional on my part." v "And Involuntary on mine." Pauline, fearing that the conversation was getting beyond her control, turned quickly and caught up the first picture that came to her hand from the opeu portfolio. As was to be expected, Jack had spent many of his spare hours during the last lonely fortnight in puintiug her portrait from memory; aud it was this that she caught up in her nervous haste. "Oh, Mr, Dornton!" she exclaimed, In rapturous tones. Even her vanity was satisfied, and she blushed genuinely at the lovely picture Jack had made or her. "I am sorry you found uat, You will perhaps think it gross presumption; If so, I can destroy it. I can't wish it undone, for it has given me so many pleasunt hours." "Presumption? No, Indeed! I feel as tonished at the truthfulness and the flat tery you have managed to combine In the picture." After that there was an awkward pause. Pauline half wished to bear Jack say that be loved her, and she half dread- ' d It, for ahe had not yet made np her mind as to how she would answer him. Her wish was fulfilled sooner than ahe anticipated. Jack showed her bis sketches one after another, and they were discussed, criti cised and replaced. As he put the last: one back Into the portfolio he turned and addressed her abruptly. With such Im petuous force did his words How that sue was compelled to listen to the end. ' "With regard to my staying here, Miss Mailing, I did not care to discuss the matter further before Mrs. Sefton at luncheon; but I must do so now." He drew a deep breath, and clinched his hand firmly ou the back of a chair. "I cannot I dare not stay here with out telling yon the truth; for, if 1 allow my feelings to become any stronger than they are. and meet disappointment In the end, I'm afraid I shall not be responsible for my actions. Miss Mailing, I love you madly. While I am telling you this I know the chances are that you will presently turn your back aud say, as you leave me, 'Please quit my house at once;' yet 1 now tell you, because 1 cannot stay in your presence with safety another hour unless you give me some hope. I have loved you from the moment 1 vvoko and saw you that morning in the wood. You will s:iy that Is not very long; to me it Is a lifetime. I never lived until that moment. 1 shall never live again if you send me away." His face was very pale when he censed speaking. Pauline stood near him. the color coming and going in her cheeks, I her eyes fixed on Ins face; but she said never a word. hen tie spoke again nis words came slowly, hesitatingly, and his voice had a stilled sound, as if choked w ith despair. "You have no answer for me; but you do not tell me to leave you! it cannot be that. Pauline; heart of my heart qiieen of my soul, yon love me!" His last words died away to a whisper of intense rapture; and. as Pauline felt his arms encircle her, his kisses on her lips, she forgot all the shadows that lurked in the past, forgot all tho ques tionable means she had employed to at tain this end. She only knew that she loved him with all the force of her na ture, that she was loved in return; and for the moment there was iu her heart as supreme a joy as was ever felt by a woman. (To be continued.) CAR WHlELS AND CURVE& Scientific Amrriciin A ns wrr Question Ketcurdinic Tlietu. One of the questions from corre spondents that comes to this otllce wiui persistent reiteration is mat or , tm, Illoni,,B t r.,m, so after they the possibility of one or the other ofliavt, p,m, t0 r,Hlst prinkle 11 little the pair of wheels ou a railroad axle, ! pnltll , ,.llafr on the floor to keep in passing around the curve, slipping tluMU llllsv tll tlll. morning until they on the rail over which It is rolling, while the other wheel does not slip ou its rail, says the Scientific Ameri can. Although we have frequently ex plained how this condition Is possible, the question Is one that evidently continues to puzzle a great many people In which respect It la first cousin to that other much-debated fact, that the portion of the periphery of a rolling cart wheel that is near the ground Is mov ing more slowly with relation to tho earth than is the rest of the periphery. In the case of the two wheels on any axle of a railroad or trolley car that Is passing around a curve It is evident that In a given length, say loo feet of the curve, measured on a line lying centrally between the two rails, the Inner rail will be shorter than the outer mil, and this for the reason that It Is struck to a radius that Is about four and three-quarters feet shorter. Now, when a pair of wheels passes around the curve it follows that, be cause of the difference In length of the two rails, either the Inner wheel must slip backward on the Inner rail or the outer wheel slip forward on tho outer rail, for the two wheels, being fixed on the same axle, move at tho same peripheral speed over different lengths of rail In the same time. It is probable that the excessive wear of the rails on curves Is duo chiefly to the slipping of the wheels. Not long ago some remarkable facts on rail wear on curyes were brought out In the course of a paper read be fore the New England Street Railway Club by the rondmaster of the Boston elevated rond. The road Is exceeding ly crooked, over 40 per cent of the lino consisting of curves, many of which are very sharp. There are eighteen of less than 100-foot radius and sixteen others w:lth a rndlus of less than 150 feet. On the sharpest curve, which Is of only 82 foot radius and where It Is claimed that the traffic Is heavier than that on any other steam or heavy elec tric rullroad, the life of ordinary steel rails averages only forty-four days, tho head of the rail wearing down from 0.00 to 0.77 of an Inch In that time. The great Inconvenience en used by tho constantly recurring repairs led tho company to experiment with hardened steel rails and when sonic nickel steel rails were put In on the curves tho wear was reduced to 0.53 of nn Inch In 204 days. A manganese steel rail Is now being used with good results nnd the wear of these Is only about .13 per cent ns rapid ns that of the nickel steel rnll nnd about 0 per cent ns rapid as that of the carbon steel rails. Atfiie. "But I thought you told me this was such a congenial country," said the man who hud Just moved out In tho suburbs. "And It Is," replied the suave agent "Why, it Is full of mnlnrla!" "And that Is why I think It Is so congenial. You see everybody la al ways Blinking Natural Deduction. Oruff Patient Are you quite sure you understand your business, sir? Physician Well, I've been practic ing medicine for fifteen years and not one of my patients has ever com plained. Gruff Tntient Huh! Probubly not Dead men tall do tales. Winter Home tor Turkey, While the i,oa of the turkey I. i ivost high, this prlvl.cgo ciiimot ulw l) ! be accorded If a struituro Is to be pro vlded for the birds In which to roost. If they are to roost In the trees, then they may choose their own limb. It Is a good plan to make tho turkey house low, but placing the roosts as high us possible without humping the birds up against the roof. The ven tilation In such n bouse must largely be provided from th bottom, nn.l till Is done by having n row of windows r v' IT -F WIHTKU Tl ltKKV Hot SK. not over eighteen Inches high at tho bottom, so arranged that they may be lifted up to penult u current of ulr to enter. These windows will also light the floor of the house, ami n larger window may bo placed 011 the opposite side, but higher up. In order properly to light tho bouse. The turkeys will be 1Ixd!( t(l K,,t out of , I,,,,,,, oarly are let out. Turkeys on the range must be well fed during the period they are under cover, particularly at this time of year when the feeding on the range is poor, and when It Is essential to keep them In good tdmpe ami able to fatten readily a little later. India nap oils News. For Drlvlnn Hog. This Is another Idea which the one mnn fnrmer will fin 1 exceedingly use fill If he has to drive hogs for any purpose. It needs but one experience with the beasts to convince any man of the dltilculty In making K K " here desired. The hurdle described will help wonderfullv In this work. Use slats of one bv three material and mnko .1 Lurje two nnd one half feet high n:il about four feet long. Make It or light weight material, so that It may be easily handled. In either end piece, at top and bottom, bocks may be placed so that the hurdle may be attached to posts if required at any time. Then make handles to muke It convenient In manipulating It One should be ou the center upright near tho top and one ou either side of the upright in about the middle. These handles are mude by fashioning a strip of wood lurge enough to get hold of, nnd then nailing it ou to a block and through the hurdle material. Made light, in tho manner described, one can drive a uumber of hogs with ease and also ward off tho quarrelsome boar If a member of the herd. In the Illustra tion the small cut ot the left shows tho completed handle and the one at the right the manner of fashioning the bolt through the block of wood, nnd the end of the nail or screw going through the slat World's Milk Production. It Is estimated that the total weight of cows' milk produced In tho world is 2J,400,(MX) hundredweight, distrib uted us follows: United States, 0,100,. 000 hundredweight, Russia 3,500,000; Germany .1,000,000, Trance 20O.00O, Engluud 200,XK), Austrlu 1,700,000, Italy 1,450,000, Canada 1,.100,000, Hol land 1,200,000, Sweden and Norway 800,000, Switzerland 700,000, Denmurk (.00,000, Belgium 000,000, Australia 550,000, Spain 500,000 and Portugal 500,000. The production of milk In Europe is 18,450,000 hundredweight from 45,000,000 cows. Tho number of milch cows in tho world Is 03,800,000 15,040,000 In tho United States and 10,000,000 in Russia. There) are only six bead of homed cattle In Spain to each 2Ya acres of cultivated land, whllo In Franco there are thirty-four and lu England fifty-six. This allows tho poor condition of cattlo breeding lu Spain, and explains the constant In crease In the price of butcher's meat for publlo consumption. 13 I j HURDLE FOB DRIVINO nOOS. Illlakilitf lorn, My far the most serious tank lu rais ing corn Is Hie matter of husking It lu the Held. Up to date 110 practical ma chine adapted to this purpose has up pea roil. Many have been tried, bill they usually fall short lu some Import ant particular. None of them has be come popular, and 11 fortune awaits the man who perfects a thoroughly practical corn busker, which will be as successful relatively us the modern busker Is for corn fodder, says Orange Judd Parmer. When corn Is to be husked direct from the standing corn, It should be allowed to mature qultu thoroughly, part Icularly If It I of 11 variety with large ears ami large cob, containing a high percentage of mois ture. This must be determined by ex amination. Some seasons husking be gins the latter part of September, while lu others It Is not safe to begin husking until the middle or end of Oc tober. The time will also depend largely iijmii the variety. Early ma turing kinds have small cobs, and they an be husked nun h culler than Inte muturliig and large cur varieties. Corn when llrst placed In the crib contains i:i to :!.- or l per cent of moisture. A common practice lu the great corn States Is to start through the Held marking a "down" row. Husk two rows to the l. ft of the wagon and tho one row that is under It. Go around a good-sized "land'' In this manner. The next time through the Held and every succeeding time thereafter have tho team straddle the last husked row next the corn that has not Ih-cii husked. This will prevent the noiiw slty of picking up a down row each time, aud w ill enable the busker to do bis work. The ordinary wiigou box will hold from twenty live to thirty bushels. When the corn Is exception ally good, a skillful busker will U- able to more than till one wagon box In half 11 day. The capacity of a Imix may be Increased by putting on nddl tlolial sideboards. On the right side ot the wagon box It Is desirable to place, one or two extra Isiards to act as bump boards. The busker will not need to use so much care lu throwing In bis work. A good busker so gauges the distance from the row In the wag on box that It Is not necessary for I1I111 to look where he throws lila ear. KcrllltxInK the Harden. There Is no better way to fertilize the garden than to haul fresh manure, from the stables aud spread over the surface during the winter. Contrary to the common belief, there Is never a time when manure Is so rich In plant food as the day It Is made, and th sooner after that It can be got to the place where It Is to be used, the more value It will add to the soil. It Is al most Impossible to put too much ma nure on a garden. We would not hesi tate to put It a foot thick ou the sur face, for It will leach only so much more plant-food Into the soil, nnd by plowing time next spring will Ije set tled down until It can easily lie plowed under to furnish humus for the better ment of the physical condition of the soil. Wood ashes makes an excellent fertilizer for the garden, but It should be saved and npplleil on top of the soil after It Is plowed in the spring, as potash Is one of the plant foods that may be washed too deeply Into tho soil to bo reached by the roots of gar den plants, many of which are shallow-rooted. Fattening Hteers. The old method of cramming coi-n Into a steer regardless of whether or not he digests It, depending on hogs to pick up the undigested corn, Is u poor as well ns nn old method. To put on good flesh nnd to put It on fast a steer should digest thoroughly all tho food that he takes Into his stomach. The food should be prepared carefully In order that perfect digestion should take place. I.e.-s corn nnd more en silaged foods should bo used In tln Ishlug a steer for 'he market, for the old idea that corn Is ti.i only food that will llnlsh a steer properly Is demon strated to be a mistake t 0110 by ex periment stations conduct d by respon sible men sclcdcd by the government Kxhihltinif Fruits at Fulrs. One of the handsomest and most at tractive exhibits of fruit wo have ever seen was that shown by Lucas County at the Ohio State fair. Tho fruits, which comprised practically the whole list of those available nt that scn:u, were nei.tly arranged on a large table ubout twenty feet square and In such 11 manner that the combination of va rieties nnd colors nt once attracted at tention nnd prompted comment on Ihu beauty of tho products. Too frequent ly color on exhibition tables Is over looked. Exchange. Land thutHliould He Drained. It Is estimated that there are about one hundred million acres now unpro ductive which can bo reclaimed through dikes nnd drains. This land would have a productive capacity equal to four times that of the Stnto of Illi nois and would considerably exceed the productive area which can be re claimed by Irrigation. Cost of Filling Slloe. The cost of tilling silos was esti mated by the Illinois Station from rec ords obtained from nineteen farms In various parts of the State and the fig ures showed a range of forty to seventy-six cents per too, the average being fifty-six cents. Our Audubon societies linve now succeeded lu gelling every soft of bird pretty well protected ecept the stork. New York Evening Mall. Notice II list of deeds John I). Rock efeller has done lu n year. A list of Individuals would be more to the point. New York Evening Telegram. The only reluming Russian gcncrnl who has had a triumph at St. Peters burg unfortunately achieved It by get ting killed. New York Evening Mull. A California paper says bad water kills as many pie ns bad whisky. Maybe It docs, but we don't have to buy It nt 75 cents a pint.- Roticeverte (W. Va.) News. Senator Depew says It Is not wise for corporations to contribute funds to political campaigns; Indeed, It's quite otherwise If It gets loiind out -Houston Chronicle. If Mr. Rockefeller can convince the coal barons that there lire things bettpr than "mere money gelling" he will have done the country ' 'eul service. Chicago News. it begins to look as If Secretary Tuft didn't sit upon that Chinese boy cott long enough while In Hongkong to in ipllsh Its complete collapse. I ictrolt Journal. Some men lire born Infamous, soinn gradually lose their reputations ami some have their reputation taken aw.ty from them by eoinmlltccs of In vestigation. Houston Chronicle. If It Is true that W. T. Stead says It Is every husband's duty to whip bis wife once lu a while, evidently anoth er term In Jail for W. T. Stead might be w holesoine. Muffalo Courier. Hereafter the Meef Trust Is to pay for the Inspection tags which b:ivo been ct'Ktlug the government $"o,(ss n year. Rather, the beef consumers ar to pay for them. Atlanta Constitu tion. Miguel Gomez Insists that I'ncln Sam ought to take a baud In the Cu ban situation. It looks as If I'ncl.i Klin would get tired tilling the Job of wet nurse after a while. ltlruiliigli'irt News. China's determination to get her rail roads out of the hands of the foreign ers may be due to Wu Ting fang's o! servatlotis of the part our railroad piny In the government. Pittsburg Dispatch. Three burglars In New York claim to have robbed 400 homes. It's a great record, but It looks dim beside the n-e-ord of three Insurance companies, who have touched about 4,00l,tNNI homes. Montreal Star. The denial from Secretary Tuft that he Is on the outs with Chairman Shouts Is welcome news. Another change lu that olllclal family Is the one thing the government cannot afford at this time. Pittsburg I (Ispatch. Pat Crowe now admits Hint he In tended to kidnap John l. Rockefeller and hold him for a f 'J.imio.im) ransom. Pat Crowe talks like a man w ho docs) not know the Rockefellers. New York ICvenlng Telegraph. When one observes how Stoessel, nllve. Is disgraced by his government, nnd Ko: tradeiiko, dead, Is honored, one may be excused for surmising that good Russians must be like good In dians. Indianapolis Sentinel. Alwnys learning something. Mr. McCurdy now Informs us that n mu tual Insurance company Is nn eleemos ynary Institution, which fact Is Infer entlnlly set forth In Its circulars.- New York Evening Telegram. The I'ciuisylviinlaiis who used odious libel laws to gag the newspapers have irwakened the people of Philadelphia ho wide awake that it Is plain they will never ngaln sleep without one eye open. St. iouls Glolie-Democrat. One of the life Insurance presidents who was nuthorlzed to tlx his own salary drew tho line nt if 100 a day, Sundays Included. This moderation In tempered with the Idea of a frequent raise. St. Louis G robe-1 temocrat. The Supreme Court of Kansas has gravely decided that n pool table is a billiard table. This Is one of tho most notable decisions since George E. Cole, then Slate Auditor, held that thero were .10 days In February. Kansas: City Star. Mark Twain's opinion that the pence of Portsmouth "Is entitle, I to rank -14 the most conspicuous disaster lu po litical history" marks Mark Twain ii the most conspicuous Dick Deadeyo hi Hie United States. Syracuse Post Standard. Hon. William E. Chandler feels pret ty sure that neither this session nor next session will bring forth any rate regulating legislation to which the rail road companies and the $1.1,0OO,00O,0X) behind them seriously object. Hart ford Cournnt. Mrs. Russell Sngo hns donated $75,. 000 for a public school building at Sag Harbor, A few more of such offen sive performances nnd Uncle Russell will bo coming In for some hot shot from tho nntl-wealth agitators. Mil waukee Sentinel. That New York man really ought not 10 feel proud of his record of 400 burglurloH In the last two years, with loot of nearly $1,000,000. Look at the Equitable Llfo Assurance Society; it has moro than (100,000 policy holders. Minneapolis Star. I ;