Between Two Fires
By ANTHONY HOPE
"A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds." Francis Hacon.
rltAPTKIt VI. iCon'tnuod.,
'1 1 11 Il.. Johnny Why n-t it the
House 7" said I t.i l.im. "You'll want ev
ery vote to night. 1!.' niT Mini help ttu
ministry, and take iVmn.i An'.oni.i with
jou. They're eating up the minister of
lin.niiv."
"All right ! I'm coins ah soon
had tino:hcr mutSin." said Johnny,
wli ii's ihi row about V
"Well, they want their money.
I've
"Put
1 re
pinM ; and Imh Antonio wont
give It
them. HelliV had feeling."
"Tell yon what it i." said Johnny
hasn't goi ft "
ll-re li.nina Antonia struck in. rather
suddenly. I thought.
"lo slop tho gentlemen talking poli
tics, Madame IVvarges. Thoy'll spoil our
ton party."
"Your won! is law," I said; "hut 1
ahou! I like to know wh.it I Km Antonio
liasn't eot."
"Now do bo quiet." she rejoined : isn't
i' quite enough that he has got a charm
ing il ins'irer';'
"And a most valuable -vie." I replied
xcith h bow. for 1 a v tin: for som rea
son or other I lonn i Antoni.i iliii not mean
1o lot m. pump Johnny I'.irr, and 1 want
Oil lo pump hi;n.
"1 u't say ati t h-r
she said, with a li'igli
e-d. Mr. Carr."
'You know yon
!on'i know anvtliimr."
Meanwhile Madame IVvarges was giv
Ins uie a nip of tea. As she h.inilod it
to mo, sho sail in a low voice :
"If I were his frio:i;l I should take
en rv Johnny didn't know anything, Mr.
Martin."
"If I woro his frion.l I should take care
lio told mo what ho know, Madame IV-vari-"s."
I replied.
"Perhaps that's what the Colonol
thinks," she s.iiil. "Johnny has just lnvn
telling us how very attentive he has he
com '. And the Signorina. too. I hoar."
"You don't mean that'" I exclaimed.
"Pur. after all. pure kindness, no doubt !"'
"You have reivivel many attentions
from those quarters," she said. "No douht
you are a poo l jn !,. of th? motives."
"Don't, now, d :i't U disagreeable,"
laid I. "I oatne h-'.-e for pe.ioe."
'Poor young man ! Have you lost nil
jour money? Is i- possible that you, like
lion Anronio. b-iven'r rror :i V
"What is going to happen?' I asked,
for Madame IVvarges often had iufor
niation. "I don't know." she said. "Hut if I
owned national bonds, I should sell."
"I'ardon me, in.il.iuie ; you would offer
to s-11."
I did not see any need to enlighten her
further. So I passed on to Ponna Au
tonia. who had sat somewhat sulkily since
her outburst. I sat down by her and
said :
"Surely I haven't offended you?"
"You know you wouldn't care if you
had," she said, with a reproachful, but
not unkind fclanee. "You will not let
your real friends save you, Mr. Martin.
You know you want help. Why don't you
consider the state of your affairs?"
"In that, at least, my friends in Whit
tlnsham are very ready to help me," I
answered, with some annoyance.
''If yo-.i take it in that way." she re
plied sadly, "I ran do nothing."
I was rather touched. Clearly she
wished to be of some use to me, and for
a moment I thought I might do better
to tear myself free from ray chains, and
turn to the refuge opened to me. Hut I
could not do this; and, thinking it would
be rather mean to take'advantage of her
Interest in me only to use it for my own
purposes, I yielded to conscience and said:
"Ponna Antonia. I will be straightfor
ward with you. You can only help me if
I accept your guidance? I can't do that.
I am too deep in."
"Y'os. you are deep in. and eager to be
deeper," she said. "Well, so be it. If
that is so I cannot help you."
"Thank you for your kind attempt,"
said I. "I shall very likely be sorry some
day that I repulse it. I shall always be
glad to remember that you made it."
She looked at me a moment, and said:
"We have ruined you amongst us."
"Mind, body and estate?"
She made no reply, and I saw my re
turn to flippancy wounded her. So I rose
and took my leave. Johnny Carr went
with nie.
"Things look queer, eh, old man?" said
he. "Hut the President will pull through
In spite of the Colonel and his Rignor
Ins." "Johnny," said I. you hurt my feel
ings ; but still I will give you a piece of
advii-e. Marry ponna Antonia. She's
a good girl and a clever girl."
"That's not a bad idea." said he. "Why
don't you do it yourself?"
'Heeause I'm like you. Johnny an
J. Hot," I replied, and left him wondering
why, if he was an idiot, and I was an
Idiot, one idiot should marry Ponna An
tonia, and not both or neither.
As' I went along I bought the Gazette,
the government organ, and read therein:
"At a Cabinet council this afternoon,
presided over by his excellency, we un
derstand that the arrangements connected
with the national debt formed the sub
ject of discussion. The resolutions arriv
ed at are at present strictly confidential,
but we have the best authority for stat
ing that the measures' to be adopted will
have the effect of materially alleviating
the present tension, and will afford un
mixed satisfaction to the immense ma
jority of the citizens of Aureataland. The
President will one at'ai'' l" hailed as
the savior of his country."
"I wonder if the Immense majority will
Include me?" said I. "I think I will go
and see his excellency."
CI I A PTE It VII.
The next uioruing I took my way to the
fiolden House, where I learned that the
President was at the ministry of finance.
Arriving there, I sent In my card, writing
thereon an humble request for a private
interview. I was ushered into Don An
tonio's room, where I found the minister
himself, the President and Johnny Carr.
As I entered snd the servant, on a sign
from his excellency, placed a chair for
um, the Utter said rather stiffly:
"As I presume this is a business visit,
Mr. Martin, it is more regular that I
should reivive yon in the presence of one
of inv constitutional advisors. Mr. Carr
is acting as my secretary, and you can
speak freely lefon him."
I was annoyed at failing in my at
tempt to see the President alone, but not
wishing to show it, I merely bowed and
said :
"I venture to intrude on your excellen
cy, in consequence of a letter from my
directors. They inform me that, to use
their words, 'disquieting rumors' are
afloat on the exchanges in regard to the
Aureataland loan, and they direct me to
submit to your ex.vllonoy he expediency
of giving some public not ilicnt ion rela
tive to the payment of the interest falling
due next month. It appears from their
communication that it is apprehended
that some difiiculty may occur in the mat
ter." "Would not this application, if luw
sary at nil, have bivn more properly made
to the mini-try of finaiiiv in the first
instance.' said the President. I hose
details hardly fall within my provin.v."
"I can only follow my ins; met ions, your
excellency," I replied.
"Have v oi any objection, Mr. Martin."
said the President, "to allowing myself
and my advisers to see this letter?"
"I am empowered to submit it only to
your exivllincy 's own eye."
'Oh, only to my eye," said he, with an
amused expression. "That was why the
interview was to be private?"
"Kxactly, sir," I replied. "I Intend no
disrespect to the minister of finamv or to
your secretary, sir, but I am bound by
my orders."
"Yon are an exemplary servant, Mr.
Martin, l'ut I don't think I m-ed trou
ble you about it further. Is it a cable?"
He smiled so wickedly at this question
that 1 saw he had penetrated my little
fiction. However, I only said:
"A letter, sir."
"Well, gentlemen," said he to the oth
ers. "I think we may reassure Mr. Mar
tin. Tell your directors this, Mr. Mar
tin. The government docs not see any
tiis'd of a public notification, and none
will made. I think we agree, gentle
men, that to acknowledge the necessity
of any sin h action would be highly deroga
tory. 1 1 u r assure them that the President
has stated to yon. Mr. Martin, personally,
with the concurrence of his advisers, that
he anticipates no difficulties in your be
ing in a position to remit the full amount
of interest to them on the proper day."
"I may assure them, sir. that the inter
est will be punctually paid?"
"Surely I expressed myself in a manner
you could understand," said he, with the
slightest empha sis on the "you." "Au
reataland will meet her obligations. ou
will receive all your due, Mr. Martin.
That is so, gentlemen?"
Pon Antonio ainiuiesi-ed at once. John
ny Carr, I noticed, said nothing and
fidgeted rather uneasily in his chair. I
knew what the President meant. He
meant, "If we don't pay. pay it out of
your reserve fund." Alas, the reserve
fund was considerably dim'.iished ; I had
enough, and just enough left, to pay the
next installment if I paid none of my
own debts. I felt very vicious as I saw
his excellency taking keen pleasure in the
consciousness of my difficulties, but of
course I could say nothing. So I rose
an I bowed myself out, feeling I had gain
ed nothing, except a very clear convic
tion thut I should not see the color of the
President's money on the next interest
day. True, I could just pay myself. Hut
what would happen next time? And if
be wouldn't pay, and I couldn't pay, the
game would be up. As to the original
loan, it is true I had no responsibility;
but then, if no interest were paid, the
fact that I had applied a second loan,
my loan, in a manner different from that
which my instructions authorized and my
own reports represented, would bo inevit
ably discovered. And my acceptance of
the bonus, my dealings with the reserve
fund, all this would, I knew, look rather
qiii-er to people who didn't know the cir
cumstances. When I went back to the bank, revolv
ing these things in my mind, I found
Jones employed in arranging the corre
spondence. It was part of his duty to see
to the preservation and filing of all letters
arriving from I'urope, and, strange to say,
he delighted in the task. It was part of
my duty to see he did this; so I sat down
and began to turn over the pile of letters
and messages which he had put on my
desk ; they dated back two years; this sur
prised me, and I said :
"Kather behindhand, aren't you,
Jones?"
"Yes, sir, rather. Fact Is, I've done
'em before, but as you've never initialed
'em, I thought I ought to bring 'em to
your notice."
"(juite right very neglectful of me. I
suppose they're all right?"
"Yes, sir, all right."
"Then I won't trouble to go through
them."
"They're all there, sir, except, of course,
the cable about the second loan, sir."
"Kxeept what?" I said.
"The cable about the second loan," he
repeated.
I was glad to be reminded of this, for
of course I wished to remove that docu
ment before the bundle finally took its
place among the archives. Indeed, I
thought I had done so. Hut why had
Jones removed it? Surely Jones was not
as skeptical as that?
"Ah. and where have you put that?"
"Why, sir, his excelleucy took that."
"What !" 1 cried.
"Yes, sir. Didn't I mention it? Why,
the day after you and the President were
here that night, his excellency came down
in the afternoon, when you'd gone out to
the Piazza, and said he wanted it. He
said, sir, that you'd said it was to go to
the mlulstry of finance. He was very af
fable, sir, snd told me that It was neces
sary the original should be submitted to
the minister for his inspection; and as he
was passing by he'd take it up himself.
Hasn't he given It back to you, sir? II
said be would."
"Slipped hli memory, no doubt, AM
light, Jones."
"May I go now, sir?" said Jones. "Mrs.
Jones wanted me (o go with her."
I saw nil now. That old villain hid
stolen ihi cable. And his vxivllency's
words came hack to my memory, "1 make
the most of my opportunities,"
CHAPTI'U VIII.
The next week was n busy one for me.
I spent it in scraping together every bit
of cash I could lay my hands on. If I
could get together enough to pay the in
terest on the JltiKI.IHKt supposed to be in
vested in approved securities really dis
posed of in a manner only known to his
oxivlleney--1 should have six months to
look about mo. Now remaining out of my
"bonus" was nil, out of my "reserie
fund" $i.ikn. This was enough. Hut,
nlas, how happened it ttiat this sum was
In my hands? Heeause I had borrowed
$o,INHt from the bank! If they wouldn't
let their own manager overdraw, whom
would they? So I overdrew. Hut if this
money wasn't back N-foro the monthly
balancing, Jones would know! And 1
dared not rely on Isong able to stop his
mouth again. When I said Johnny Carr
was the only honest man in Aureataland
I forgot Jones. Jones also was honest,
Hiid Jones would consider it his duty to
let the directors know of my overdraft.
If on.v they knew. I was lost, for an over
draft effected privately from the safe by
the manager is, I do not deny it, decidedly
irregular. Cnless I could add Jo.iMHt to
my Jlil.UHl before the end of the month
1 should have to default !
This melancholy conclusion was re-en-fonvd
and rendered demonstrable by :
letter which arrived, to crown my w s-s,
from my resctod father, informing mo
that he had unhappily become indebted to
our chairman in the sum of fli,NN, tlm
result of a deal between them, that he
had seen the chairman, that the chairman
was urgent for payment, that he used
most violent language against our family
in general, ending by declaring his in
tention of stopping my salary to pay the
parental debt. "If he doesn't like it he
may go, and small loss." This was a
most unjustifiable proceeding, but I was
hardly in a position to take up a high
moral attitude toward the chairman, and
in the result I saw myself confronted
with the ivrtainty of beggary and the
probability of jail. Hut for this unto
ward reverse of fortune 1 might have tak
en courage and made a clean breast of my
misdoings, relying on the chairman's ob
ligations to my father to puli me through.
Hut now, where was I? I was, as ponna
Antonia put it, very deep in indeed. So
overwhelmed was I by my position, an I
so occupied by my fran'ie e (Torts to im
prove it. that I did not even find time to
go and s.s the Signorina. much as I need
ed comfort ; and. as the Jys went on, I
fell into such desniir that I went no-
iiliere I, of -it I 1 1 v if. n, i- ,,.i. r..oms
looking at my port manteau. 'and wonder-
ing how soon I must pack and liy, if not
for lifo, at least for liberty.
At last the crash came. I w is sitting
in my office one morning, engaged in the
difficult task f trying to make ten into
fifteen, when I hear dthe.i latter of hoofs.
A moment later the d or was opened,
and Jones ushered in Colonel Mct'regor.
I nodded to the Colonel, who came in w ith
his usual leisurely stfp, sat himself down,
and took off his gloves. I roused myself
to say:
"What can I do for you. Colonel?"
He waited till the door closed behind
Jones, and then said:
"I've got to the bottom of it at last.
Martin. That old son nip's villainy," said
he, jerking his thumb toward the Piazza
and the statue of the Lilierator. "He's
very cute, but he's made a mistake at
last."
"Po come to the point. Colonel. What's
it all about?"
"Would you ls surprised to hear." said
the Colonel, adopting a famous mode of
speech, "that the interest on the debt
would not be paid on the '1st?"
"No, I shouldn't," said I. resignedly.
"Would you be surprised to hoar that
no more interest would ever be paid?"
"What do you mean, man?" I cried,
leaping up.
"The President," said he, calmly, "will,
on the 31st instant, repudiate the national
debt !" ,
(To be continued.)
She Knew llrr Dualnraa.
He hnd been sweet on her for some
tlm.; ami one evening lie dropped lu
on iiis way home from the oflic.
"I hope you will excuse me for call
ing; In my business unit," lie said,
"but "
"Oh, that's nil right," Interrupted tlm
fair imihl, "that is, if you mean busi
ness." A id the next day n d iw ntovvii Jew
eler separated him from n month's sal
ury iu ext liaiij;e for the r'u'.
Another Version.
Jack wim Just ulsjut to build his fa
mous house.
"Why don't you get some men to help
you?" usked u curious friend.
"No, sir," replied Jack, "they would
cull u strike on me before the house
WHS fjliished. I'll build it myself." j
Thus we know why the house wus
called "the house that Jack bill It."
Well, Vr.
Antmlnta (exhibiting the
herjbl Is there uiiything.
family
sweeter
than a baby?
Young Spooiiall Why, ! sometimes
think it baby's lS-ycur-old sister Is Just
u Utile ei- "
Wllllntr Marlr.
Merchant I would be glad to give
voti the position, oung man, hut 1
i. it ii rule to milov married meu'nnt Item In estimating his value for
olly
Applicant peg pardon, sir, but have
you un unmarried daughter?
life.
IPs Wife I'm awfully tired. 1
spent the afternoon nt my dressmaker's
trying to get a fit.
Her Husband I'm tired too. I met
my tailor on the street und he gave
me nts.
WbUt.
Kva Yes, It was a long, long quar
rel, but they made up w hei- they ui
ut Uie curd table the other night.
F.dwln Ah, they hastened
"brldgo" over tho dlffereue eh)
fresled White Itncka.
Hullolltl No. til of the peiuHtnent
of Agriculture says of the Crested
Whit,, duck :
The Crested White duck Is what may
be- culled nil uninuiciit il duck. Hindi H'f
same ns Polish chickens. They are
not bred to any grout extent In tliM
country, Mini they nro wry seldom seen
In the showrooms. Tbcy lui v ii' '"'
poclnl value to the fanner, as better
and more easily bred birds mo to be
found In tin Peklii niiil Aylesbury.
Those duc.s have n medium size I
head: nioilluni slod bill, a hirgc. well
balanced crest upon the i row n of the
head; a rather long neck; a niisllmn
length back; breast, round and full;
b sly, round nud of medium Tength;
( KKMmi WIIITK tU'l'K.
medium length wings that smoothly
fold; hard, stiff tall feathers, with
well onrhM feathers In the tall of
drake; and short ami stout thighs nud
shanks. Their eyes nro largo and bright
nud of a deep leaden blue or gray color.
The shanks, toes ami webs are of n
light orange color.
The standard weight nf the adult
drake Is seven pounds ; adult duck, six
pounds; young drake. lx pounds, and
joiing duck, five pounds.
Thp M oil lt- r CoV.
Tw" r""s ,,,,-t " -v",r f"r
j 1 ! ( ""' "t l'"ii yields ihi quarts
't mill; a year, that bring $si',. The
other yields 1,'JIIU quarts, that bring
.,; -fi an,.r ,)M.s about $11 ami
,.,!,.,, .i, ..,, ,, ,,, f.,r.P fr..ni
SI'! to $.;o Why do you keof that l.-'iMt-quart
cow? You would be better off with
the one that clears $ii, for yu would
have only half the Investment, half the
work ami half the feeding, and you
would gain $ 14 each year.
There would be no surplus butter on
the market for years to come- nud
prices would rule strong If nil the
cows were eliminated which are kept
at n loss, pairy fanners have not yet
half waked up to an understanding of
the great practical Importance of wissl-
Ing out the unprolltab! ws from their
herds. Many a liinn would make a fair
profit, th.lt now faces constant loss. If
he would keep only such cows as pay
a profit on their keep.
Water eeiletl li Corn.
Much Interest has lately been mani
fested In determining the exact amount
of water required for the grosvth of
plants. This Is Just its tiiNirtaut In
the east as In the Irrigated region, for
we often have droughts which made
necessary the most careful cultivation
to prevent plants from MifTerlng. Pro
fessor Clothier has found that after
corn becomes two feet high each stalk
uses up three pounds of water a day
until the ears mature. This Is equiva
lent to an inch of rain a week. In
regions where the average rainfall Is
lower, and where a good, milky quality
of sweet corn Is desired lu the garden
during August ntld September, It Is ob
viously necessary to have the soli In
the most perfect state of cultivation so
as to retain us much moisture as Is
needed.
I'atteulnv Stock.
Weight Is the main object of the
farmer In fattening stock for market,
and this weight Is easiest obtained by
feeding corn In order to produce fat.
Farmers have long been taught by ex
perience that fat is a desirable quality,
nud that It adds to the attractiveness
of a carcass on the stall. It litis been
demonstrated at the experiment sta
tions, however, that the weight can he
secured at less cost, with a greater pro
portion of lean Interspersed with the
fat, by feeding a nitrogenous ration,
which means that, In addition to n lib
eral supply of corn, an animal should
receive a variety of fisid that Is not so
rich In oil, starch and sugar ns Is corn.
This fact Is worthy of consideration.
Heavy Horse.
1 The weight of a horso Is an Import
j draft purposes, for the fine Ismed horse,
with well-developed muscles, may do ns
"'" work as the heavy-boned one for
n short time, nud Is even better for road
purpose. Hut In plowing, or other
heavy, steady drawing, the light horse
Is less useful. Then, In price, the
weight Is an Important Item, If a good
horse weighs over 2,000 pounds he may
' possibly sell for as much ns $1 per
pound, and from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds,
for less, the prlea rapidly declining,
1,200 to 1,500 pound horses selling at
t ' from 10 to 30 cents per pound, though
It Is considerably more than any other
grade of stock on the farm will bring
It the borset are well bred.
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BIMI'I.K HlKI KIM.IV0 THAI'.
slons are 4 feet Ini-ln-s long, f,.,.'t "1
Inches high and 1 foot ; Inches wide.
There Is a sliding do-.r nt the hack end.
When the hog puts bis head through
tho hole In front, Jam the lever against
his neck.
The Farm Tool house.
No building on the farm pays better
than a good toolhouse. It should be so
convenient of access that there need 1
no excuse for leaving farm Implements
excised to the weather when not In
use. Properly cared for, many 1,,,,,.,..
nients that now last only u few years
ought to be serviceable as long as the
fanner lives to i d them. Ilesldes, a
tool that has not b. rusted, wiirjled
and cracked by exosure will work as
well the second and third year of use
as the first. On many farms the tools
are so much Injured by being ,.ft ollt
of doors that after the first season they
oot moro for repairs than they buve
In labor.
Olllnir Harness,
To Klvo harness a good finish satu
rate the leather with as much 0 ns It
will take, and then sponge the harness
with n thick lather made of ..
,, . , inuiu
soap. When dry, wipe gently with a
solution or gum tragacanth, which.
made by hulling half nu ounco 0f the
gum In two quarts of water, boiling
down to three pints, stirring
whllo it is on the fire. When cool nm.lv
II. III,IV M.r. I. ...!.. "H'ly
ib iig"ij i" iiiiviivr
How About 1 1 f
The coreless apple
Has been born,
Hut who would a ill
For IVkblaaa m-w
Nsw Xork Sua.
Vrnii or '
In large i Mos are chaiv d .
In Hie 'ksters and rroooM. '
tv th lorly - sfor a fn
con.a ,g m t hwMl.v to ;'
p,,,..,..: other fruits and leg-W'-J
proportion. I. ' M 1- 71''
farmers fo Know I'"" much of .l is
Is I Led as pro.l.s. Mariners (
I prices; In fad they ..re In. K "
(lleV gel one third of I In- prices now
pro'val.lng In Chicago. Illll-.r
class of handlers Is maUng exo.-bnani
profits or there Is an un r,'
penso atl.iehed o tho business of
trlbutlon. It costs v to handle
produce. If requires slot ig-'. hoi so
and men. and n, f those things are
cheap in tho city, but there Is no g 1
reason win t ousu.iier -hmihl t".V
throe hundred per -vut profit on w Hn
the farmers sell 1 nri.i. Held and
I'lresldo.
A .Ii-ii.II.I he 'rp.
The annual crop and business report
of tho Commercial National Hank "f
Chicago, covering the Mississippi
lev. and a few ..f the more liiq.ort.int
Slates of the Pin-Ill-' eoast. says, In
part :
The wheat cr-p of I'""' ,"'
among the largest and best eer pro
ducsl. The yield not only " '''
great, bill the weight and quality will
bo far beyond V rdlna-v. In the-"
respects It may I .nl-lored nearly
perf.s-t. The period "f uncertainty Is
closing rapidly and the n-.p may now
bo called practically out of dinger.
The yield of s..fl winter wheat Is large,
quality the finest and in-oeinctd free
Inasmuch as this in oeiuetit has begun
early and all grains an w Hourly or
quite on an e.r basis (with the ten
dency of prices downward l. n largo ex
port business may In expected."
ueu in her.
I raise live crops Instead of om nti
the same ground, and on the same lines
with hardly any evlra work. Plant lu
the usual way. When a cucumber is
taken from the !ne let If be cut with a
knife, leai lug about an eighth of uu
Inch of the cliou'iiher oil the stem. Then
slit the stein with a knife from It, end
to the line twice, le.UMig n mill p,.r
tloii of the cucumber on e.i. h division
On each separate fill there will be a
cucumber as large as the first. I ty tills
method V"" will only need oneftflti the
ground that oli Wolll l Heed If glow
Ing cucumbers In tie- old w ay.--Walter
Strosnlder lu Ppilomlst.
MarLrllnu l arin Produce.
A small fanner who has made a "lie
cess of market. ng his produce gives
sound and Ingenious advice In a recent
inaga.lne. Ills preliminary work sug
gests lliiin.il lilasse's fatuous preface
to her Instructions for cooking hare:
"First Hud a lady en-tomer," Is his ad
vice. To her sell nothing but the
choicest of fruit and produce. It will
not he long Is-fore sho will acquaint
her frletuR nud they In turn will pass
stung the word to others. f pays to
sell nothing but the host; the Inferior
produce can he fed to stock, and In n
short time the fanner will find ho has
a good market and a good price, with
no leakage of profit to the middleman.
Ilou-llliiulnii Trail.
The frame for this hog ringing trap
should be made ,,t Uxllnch lumber
bolted together nt corners. The dltnen
THE VEEKLY
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forts I l it cr and I 'I nk, . I '
IS-'J t ' tl lull for.-f defeat. I III
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near Itli hlllolid, K).
lS"- 'il pit ul.lt loll of Sedan I'V
tin
I 'l ell. ll.
1SS Sieatner II. Iiuollt cnpn.- l .a lli;,
nver; l.'i In.- lo.t.
IVm; ltritih boiiiliiirded palace
tan of .rtiimhitr.
1SH7 Itostoll mlbw.l) opened.
ls'.is CI. Henry, who f.i.-d .
(Ik'-iuisI l're)fus, commit
....Ciar propose) nu int.-::
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pi'llcn . ullf. reli.e,
l'J Volcanic eruption of M-mni I'. !r
r.Hi.'l 4 '.deb PoWel'4 found It'l.i'V f
coniplli ity in I'ov. lix bel murder in
Kent in k v .
I'.kiI I chi.-!., iii ntliick of J.ip.m t
I.i.loy.llig repulsed by the It 111 in.
l'.si:, lldwiii I. Holmes, Jr., nidi. -ted in
the gov eminent inltoii report . niUI
. . . . J.ipsiiest. and Itussiiiu envies It
Portsmouth reached peace iigreeiin'iil.
'I he Colleue llreit l-armer.
Prof. I.. II. Ilailcy. director ..r Hi- '"
lull university college of agriculture, in
the third of his series of article for Th
I'elllliry, gives the result of hi i'l'l'lir
among Ins sin. . -nt as to what prnti.nl
us., the) ex.cled to put iheir '-, In, .il i' HI.
Ilf I he 1711 replies reis-ived. seven!) eiglt
were those of stud. -nt reared mi the f irm.
f these, sixly-eiglll doircd to "
practical fanning and I lien t i.liin
and e i un. hi. il work. Of ihe ii.v iii"
students reared in town or cit.v. loit)
four wish to go into practical farniinif.
fourteen into leaching, eight into lui'b
scape gardening and the rest undecided.
Of ihe fourtis-n women students, tw.)
w mil lo Is me practical farmers aii'l
twelve teachers of nature st inly und agri
culture. Of the eighlis'ii foreign student'',
fifteen wish to return to the farm i""l
three to enter experimental work. l,'l"
Hniley says Hint the agricultural rollers
is now touching from the farm nil her tluin
from Ihe HCiideiuic point of view.
A New A III to the IIIIikI.
I)r. Oeorge XI. Could, the Philadelplils
eye sieciiilist, writing lo the New Vers
Heieinv f Ihe recently Improved Hoiils
sell device for the rcprisluct ion of speech,
known lis the tologuphone, suggests that
this ls employed to take the place of lh-
cuiiilsTsoine, expensive, slow and w','iir)'"
ing embossed letters and )Mlnts through
which books are now made available to
Hie blind. In this way a lunik i.uld !
read to Ihe sightless or to the iiivali'l
while Ihe patient lies in bed, and lectures,
enmvrts, recitations, etc., may b' hiul '
will. Letters may Is. dictated or sHiken
lilion the thin sheets of sloel, and tlie'i
lifter Is-ing sent by mail lo a distant
friend, will rcpriMlum I he voice of tho
sender exaotly as to Inflection, pitch and
emphasis. The record may bo used again
und again.
New Volcanic Islund 1 lalled.
Oflioers of the revenue culler servic
were able to explore on July tl"'
volcanic Island lu tlm Iiogoslof gruii u"
the Iterlng sou, although it was still very
hot from tho action of the volcano wlii j
threw it up ten days prior to thai.
great column of sinoko and steam contin
ued to riss over this new-born isle. At
tha northern end tho laud rises abruptly
to -tiMI feet, and on tho west to a li-iJ
of 700 feet. Notwithstanding th''. ,hd
surfaou was still wann and soft the
plorors ascended to tho summit.