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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1915)
11 BROKEN SIXPENCE By CHARLOTTE LEE. (Copyright. 1915. by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) Dick Worthing's laugh was bit ter as he digested the full meaning of his uncle's absurd legacy. "A broken sixpence," repeated the lawyer, looking mildly over his spec tacles at the chagrined young man. "It sounds very ridiculous, Mr. Worthing, but I regard it as merely a manifesta tion of your late uncle's extreme inter est in the art of unraveling mysteries." "But the idea of bringing me up to suppose that I should Inherit a share of his fortune and then cutting me off with but half a broken sixpence!" "And leaving you a large fortune on condition that you find the other half of the broken sixpence," quietly fin ished the lawyer. , Dick laughed again. "He might have omitted turning the knife around in the wound!" be grim aced. "It's harde: than hunting a needle In a haystack. I wouldn't know how to look for the other half of a broken sixpence broken, Lord knows how many years! It's simply another manner of disinheriting me." Mr. Tapping suppressed a smile that lurked around his thin lips. "If you believe that, Mr. Worthing, my advice would be to find that six pence and have the laugh on your uncle after all." Dick shrugged his shoulders. "Very well, Mr. Tapping, I'll take your advice and do some sleuthing for that sixpence. But, say, why didn't Uncle Joe make it half a dime or half a silver qua t-TT Why a sixpence?" Again Mr. Tapping suppressed a smile. "Perhaps because your first clue lies in the fact that It was a broken sixpence." Then he added in a panic stricken tone: "Now I utterly refuse to be questioned any further. I prom ised your uncle not to help you." Dick picked up his hat. "I may as well take my sixpence, Mr. Tapping," he suggested. "I'll have to fit it to the other half when I find it, you know." The lawyer gave him a tiny white box. "it's In there" his voice dropped to an unaccustomed tone of familiarity "and Dick, my lad, guard it carefully It means your fortune and I'll war rant your happiness aB well!" Dick thanked him soberly and left the office. He chose to walk down the long flights to the street, and as he went be mused over the lawyer's con cluding words. "My happiness!" he muttered grim ly. "As If I hadn't lost out on every thing the past month the girl I loved, poor old Uncle Joe, and now my legacy Is only half of a broken sixpence!" He turned into his club and sat down in the cool east window that faced the avenue. His quarterly al lowance had been untouched in his pockets when Uncle Joe died so that his immediate future was assured, but what to do when that melted away -scared him, fie. was an architect by profession, , but Uncle Jos had never wanted him to open ah officii, assuring him that it would not be necessary. Now, the reading of the old man's will left him adrift with a few hundreds In his poefcts and all the tastes of a rich man's pampered nephew, "I'll try the sixpence first," he de cided after an hour's bitter cognition. "Tapping Bays my first clue lies in the fact that the broken coin is a sixpence. What significance is there In a broken sixpence?" He put the question to the next man who came Into the room. "A brokon sixpence," explained Freddy Morehouse thoughtfully, "Is a pledge of constancy between lovers sort of an old English custom among humble folk, don't you know? The man severs a sixpence In twain and gives the girl hair and keeps the other half himself. If one desires to end the engagement, why, he or she sends back the sixpence. See?" "Yes," answered Dick vaguely."I be lieve I have a clue." "A clue?" asked Freddy curiously. "A clue to matrimony, eh?" "Rather more- like a clue to patri mony," was Dick's mysterious reply as he went away. Celia Moore had been engaged to Dick Worthing, but Cella was poor and very croud and she fancied Hint th engagement was galling to her lover and that bis marriage to a humble lit tle stenographer would estrange Dick's stern Uncle Joe and darken that be loved young man's life with poverty. So Celia. after the manner of some women having nerved herself to the ordeal or an entirely unnecessary sac rifice, quarreled with the bewlhiereil Dick and proudly gave him back the ling. 80 a number of people were quite unhappy about this time when this ad vertisement appeared in a morning newspaper: WANTED Lost half of a broken six pence, year 1870. One hundred dol lars reward paid for missing half. Ad dress L. X. B." Now Celia Moore wanted $100 very badly. There was a great specialist who might 'help her mother to perfect health, and (100 would pay for the treatment. Cella had talked It over many times with the family physician. Cella saw the advertisement for the missing half sixpence. "Mother, dear," she snld that night as she flew around the little flat preparing their simple dinner, "it I had a broken sixpence 1 could earn $100! You have produced almost everything from that magic box of yourB are you sure you haven't a half sixpence?" she laughed gayly as Mrs. Moore turned to the quaint Jap anese cabinet beside her sofa and unlocked the door. Within were tiers of little lacquered drawers with wrought steel handles. The tiniest drawer of all had to be un locked, and from a secret receptacle behind it Mrs. Moore brought out a bit of white tissue paper. "Here is the sixpence," she said. "Mother!" cried the girl incredulous ly. Then, as she uuwrapped it and discovered the broken half of a bright English sixpence, she added: "It is keepsake somethlns you have cher ished! It Is dear of you to give It to me, but " "It has outlived its sentiment, my dear," said Mrs. Moore quietly. "It was given to me years ago by my first sweetheart He married another, and so did I. I was very happy, too, with your dear father. Take the sixpence. It would have been yours, anyway, some day." So Celia tock the sixpence and noted with a thrill that the date was the one required in the advertisement 1870. It would Indeed be wonderful If It should happen to be the missing hair for which the mysterious L. X. B. ad vertised. Visions of her mother's res. toration to health made her quite hap py again. That is how It happened that Dick Worthing was thrilled at receipt of a little unsigned note In a familiar hand writing, bearing an address that was strange to him, for the Moores bad moved since the estrangement. "It couldn't be Celia, though," he told him Belt. At seven o'clock Dick rang the bell of apartment B, his hair or the broken sixpence in his vest pocket. Cella Moore's pale race greeted him at the door. "Why I er Dick!" she cried all In a breath. And Dick gasped about the same thing, only bis exclamation ended in Cella's name. "I I didn't expect you, Dick," mur mured Cella as she led the way to the little parlor, but her eyes were very glad. So glad, indeed, that Dick put his arms around her then and there and dec! red nothing should part them again. After a long, long while Dick re membered something. "Funny thing, darling, I didn't know you'd moved," he exclaimed. "I In tended to call at apartment B " "This is apartment B," explained Cella, equally amazed. "You didn't come about a sixpence?" "I did. That was your letter after all?" So arter many explanation Celia brought rorth her hair or the Bixpence, and marvelous to relate, it fitted Dick's hair perrectly. "Did your Uncle Joo know all about me and about my mother?" questioned Cella at last. Dick nodded. "Or course! I couldn't talk enough about you. I remember he once told me that he used to know a girl named Celia Dupee, who had married a man named Moore" "That was mother's name and, Dick, your Uncle Joe must have been her first sweetheart! And perhaps he guessed that she still had the broken sixpence, and In sending you after it why, he was mending our broken en gagement and making . you happy, too!" "Bless his heart!" muttered Dick with misty eyes. "Hut, dearest," he added, with a shudder, "he was taking some chance In reckoning that your mother would keep that halt or the sixpence." Cella smiled wisely. "Your Uncle Joseph understood women," she said. THE IRISH OF THE BALKANS Serbians Have All the Virtues and Some of the Weaknesses of the Hibernian. The Serbians are the Irish or South eastern Europe, with all the virtues and Borne or the weaknesses or the Irish people. They are specially proud or their national poetry, which they possess as no other nation possesses in modern times, Tor they still have their national bards men who live by making natlonul song, not highly cul tured poets, but men In the street. Thoy do not go to a nowspaper to re port what they hear, but to the next inn or coffee house, and there take up their instruments to recite what they have to say. Virtually our bards are ancient reporters. The old ones sing. Those ot the present day stenograph. The Serbian language is the rlcheat and most musical or the Slav dialects. The Russian language has that repu tation, but it Is not so musical and clear and rich. Mlyatovitch, Serbian minster to England, in tho Manchester Guardian. The Inventor of the Circular Saw. Some discussion appeared recently in several llrltlsh technical publica tions as to who invented the circular saw, and tho claim Is made thut it was Invented and used by a wood turn er named Murray at MnnsUold. Eng land, about the year 1820. The tlrst saw Ib described as having been about six Inches In diameter, and was un doubtedly used on a wood turning lathe operated by water power. James Murray, the Inventor, is snld to have been tho Bon ot "Old Joe Murray," the "avorlte servant of Lord Ilyron, Torsion-Testing Machine. One of the Interesting exhibits at the San Francisco exposition Ij a machine for testing the twisting strength of tteel, which records au tographlcnlly tho torslou curve of the piece of metal under test. Hereto fore this meusuronimit has been cal culated, with more or less accuracy, by tho person making tho tost. It has a capacity of 2110,000 Inch pounds, and will test iipccltucns rnnj lug from one-eighth of an Inch to twj and a half Inches In diameter, and of any length up to eight foot. The Real Punle. Hill I see the Btcnm laundries In the United Stutes employ 10'J,4Sl per sons. Jill That's a good many people "You bet It Is; no wonder It's so hard for a fellow to tell who tore his shirt" Why He Never Married. "So, doctor, you are still single? Ah, I fear that you are somewhat of a woman hater." "Nay, madam; It Is to avoid beconi Ing one that 1 remain a bachelor." No Lounging Allowed. "Can't 1 sell you one of our hand some lounging coats?" asked the clerk. "No use," replied the man, looking around; "my wife won t lot me loungf around the house." WORMS HARM CABBAGE Butterflies Deposit Eggs On Leaves of the Plant. Pest Is Easily Controlled If Destructive Measures Are Promptly Begun And Practiced Throughout the Season. (By PHOF. L. M. MONTGOMERY, Ohio State University.) At this season of the year, cabbage fields are visited by large numbers of small butterflies which deposit large quantities of eggs on the leaves cf the cabbage plants. These eggs hatch in a few days and develop hordes or small greenish cabbage worms. These worms reed on the leaves of the cab bage, sometimes eating out consider able boles and frequently eating into the newly rormed heads. The worms are easily controlled if destructive measures are promptly begun and consistently practiced through the season. Failure to control them is Virginia Cabbage Field. largely due to neglect or prejudice against the use or certain methods of control. The most serviceable remedy which has been used In the university gar den la white hellebore, a vegetable poison obtainable at any good drug store. This material comes in a pow der form and loses its poisonous prop erties In a short time If exposed to the air. Thererore it must be fresh. Apply it as a spray mixed In water at the rate of one ounce to three gallons of soapy water. The soap makes the solution stick to the leaves. There Is absolutely no danger associated with the use of hellebore, because it will have lost Its poisonous property before the cabbage is marketed. Further more, there is no chance for the ma terial to get Into the interior or the head, because cabbage heads form from the inside and the outside leaves are removed before use. This ma terial must be applied thoroughly as often as the worms begin to appear numerous. Arsenate of lead may also be used effectively at the rate of 2 pounds to 50 gallons of water, but we prefer the hellebore. Hand picking is a laborious method where only a few plants are grown. PREPARE EXHIBITS FOR FAIR Best Time of Year in Which to Lay Plans for Capturing Blue Rib bons Spray the Fruit. At this time of year the secretaries of various fair associations are ar ranging their plans for the exhibits which will be held this fall. These are reminders that this Is the best time of year in which to lay plans for capturing the blue ribbons. Fruit growers, particularly, need to begin their work now for the exhibits they will make at the fairs and apple shows, for the fruit which will wear the ribbon must be Bprayed. Hut even If it 1b not now the expec tation ot any fruit grower to make an exhibit at a fall show, the chances are thut he will change his mind when the premium lists arrive, and it Is Just as well to begin. Sprayed fruit Is coming to be the only kind to which the better clasB of trult dealers will give any consideration, and in spray ing it Is well to do the spraying with the Idea in mind that every fruit must be show fruit Show fruit might real ly be called "extra fancy" so rar as its grade 1b concerned, and the "extra" applies not only to the grade, but also to the returns which the fruit will bring. So, after all, It Is well tor ev ery one of us to feel that our crop is to be show fruit, and work through out the entire Bummer with that ideal in mind whether or not we actually place any ot It in the exhibits. Cheap Beef and Milk. More than ever, this Beason of high priced grain, will we see the money in making beet and milk more largely on cheap roughage. Our beef making must continually grow more nearly like the methods ot the old countries. We are going to use more roughage aud less grain. In the past we have used too much corn and too little corn stalk. Conditions have changed wonderfully since that system of feed ing began. Growing Potatoes. To guard against dlBcase and Infe rior quality ot potatoes It is necessary to rotate crops. Grow alfalfa, clover or peas two or three years, grain one year and pota toes one year is f. good system. Select good seed. Too much Indif ference with regard to the quality of seed results lu crops of Inferior qual ity and the amount consumed is far less Hum It a good quality ts produced. Renew Strawberry Bed. The old strawberry bed may be re newed by mowing the foliage, raking It oft or burning it quickly on the bed, then hoeing out or plowing all but a strip about one foot wide, and letting the new plants take the space Am J-rMh Si PREVENTION OF "SHEEP FLY" I Shearing Cuts Ought to Be Treated at Once Machines Tend to Re duce Cause of Attack. The sheep that Is "struck by the fly" is at first restless and excitable, stamps Its feet, runs about, and Bomo times trys to bite the part Later it becomes dull and dejected, loses its appetite, and stands listlessly about, with Its head hanging down, apart from the flock. The wool at the seat of the injury is rough and raised, and as the maggots burrow their way into the skin and tissues, causing suppu ration, cloBe examination shows a mov ing mass of them. Unless these mag gots are destroyed and the wound kept clean, the torture ends in death. "Prevention Is better than cure," and in the case of "fly" It Baves the animal much pain and annoyance and considerable damage to the fleece. Prevention includes the prompt treat ment of shearing cuts, fighting wounds or abrasions of the skin generally at the time of the Infliction, and espe cially of shearing wounds, which are too often neglected. The increasing employment of machines in shearing will tend to the reduction of Ibis cause or "fly" attack. The removal or dirty locks or wool and the trimming or the soiled parts is imperative. These precautions, however, will not always suffice, for the yolk or the wool will prove suffi cient attraction unless poisoned or rendered distasteful to the fly, and the pest will sometimes strike, especially on hot days, and when there is thun der In the air. SOLVE FARM LABOR PROBLEM Labor-Saving Machines Are Great Aid In Keeping Reliable Hired Men Medicine Chest la Handy. Dairy equipment is one of the great est aids in solving the farm labor problem. Observation leads one to be lieve that the farmers who are trying to run a good dairy farm are having the least trouble in keeping reliable hired men. The man who is responsi ble tor the condition of a respectable looking dairy barn equipped with mod ern labor saving appliances feels that he owns a position and not a mere Job. Unless he is the kind of em ployee who can succeed nowhere he will appreciate the efforts of the farm er to produce good milk in an econom ical manner. The hired man feels that it is worth while to co-operate. A good medicine chest is a neces sary feature of tho dairy barn. The farmer cannot be his own veterina rian, but he can keep a 3upply of sim ple remedies for the bovine troubles which can be cured by the use of Dim ple applications. This chest should not consist or a dirty cloth and a cou ple or empty bottles either, as "dirt diseases" cause a vast amount of trou ble among all kinds of animals, and If wounds are not carefully treated and thoroughly protected from Infec tion, the home treatment always leads to unfortunate developments. HOW TO SAVE GARDEN SEEDS Clean, Assort and Tie Up In Sock Tops as Shown In Illustration Label Each Package. (By J. W. GRIFFIN.) JuBt as soon as the seed of squash, cucumbers, melons, and tomatoes are removed from the fruit I wash them in two or three different waters and thoroughly dry them in the shade. The Seeds Stored for Winter. same with bean, pea, corn, beet, tur nip and similar kinds or seed. Clean and assort and tie up in sock tops and stocking legs. Then hang up In the tool house where rats and mice do not trouble. Each little sack is labeled as soon as the seeds are put in, with the date. Then when planting time comes the seeds are ready. CARE IN FEEDING NEW CORN Severe Losses May Be Avoided by Ex ercising Judgment In Changing From Ine Field io Another. Unless hogs have plenty or pasture and rorage crops the change ot feed must be gradual to escape derange ment of digestion and disordered stom ach. It means a little more work to feed supplemental feed and old corn with the new, but the advantages are so great that feeders should not neg lect that which is safest, and promises the best returns. Hogs relish new corn, and we are often tempted to feed too much at the start. At least a month's time should be taken to bring them from pasture and forage crops to a full feed of corn. It requires more bushels of new corn to make tha samo gain that sound corn will make. Hence It Is advantageous, both from the stand point of health and profit, U feed r.nie old corn while bringing the hose -.o a full feed of new corn. Severe losws may be avoided by the excrclso of c.nr9 aud Judgment in feeding new corn. Clean Up the Fence Corners, Roadsides and fence comers free of weeds, rank grass and rubbish are not only pleasing In appearance, but In jurious crop pests cannot start house keenlnir in such places. Neither is there a chance tor noxious weeds to mature or dangerous plant disease to start on clean roadsides. Let's Btou breeding trouble on your farm. For the Swine Breeder, Give your hogs good pasture all summer. Give them a change of pasture fre quently. Feed a liberal grain ration. Keep good clean water accessible. Provide sunshades or wet wallows. DRIED FRUITS IN DESSERTS Properly Used, It May Be Made to Serve to as Good Purpose as the Fresh, Dried fruit is quite as nice as fresh but it has been overworked in the al leged interest of economy. It will make a dessert second to none, if properly used. The covered enameled ware casse role is the proper cooking utensil for dried fruit Let It soak over night, and cook very slowly, and it will re gain Its shape and also Its finest fla vor. In addition it should have some sort of accompanying flavor. Prunes soaked In just enough wine to cover them and then cooked in this way taste like something costly. Apricots cooked with raisins are good. So are dried apples cooked in the good, old fashioned way, in cider. A mixture of two or three kinds of dried fruit, all cooked together, Is good. Dried peaches add a little vanilla to the sirup when they are done. Dried cherries are not used here to any extent, but in Eng land, where the cherry Is an old and famous fruit, they are used with cur rants in plum cake, and very nice they are. It is perfectly practicable to use any sort of dried rrult, cooked slowly In this way, to add flavor to bread pud dings or steamed puddings. The trult can be either mixed with the bread pudding or put In the dish with the bread on top, or in layers; but when It Is used the bread should not be soaked In milk; the fruit juice will make enough moisture, and the bread should merely be soaked enough In water to make it bo ft, and cooked with the fruit, covered. FOR THE MORNING REPAST Some Dishes That Are More Than Usu ally Acceptable In the Hot Weather. In the summer this meal should be simple and of wholesome, easily di gested food. Of course things must be tasty, and quite as much thought and pains should be expended on a light breakfast as on a heavy one. Foods should be selected in reference to their suitability to one another and the season. The Sunday morning breakfast should be different. Banish from the Sunday morning breakfast table anything that is served on week day mornings except coffee. Here are a few simple menus which may serve as a guide: Peaches or stewed pears, hominy, poached eggs on toast, cocoa or coffee. Raspberries or blackberries, fried egg plant, toast, coffee. Blackberries, cream of wheat, mold ed eggs, toast, coffee. Fruit, cereal, Bmall broiled lamb chops, with cold asparagus; rolls, coffee. Fruit, cereal, an omelet with peas, asparagus or tomatoes, biscuits, coffee. Fruit, cereal, a well-soaked salt mackerel, boiled or broiled, with a cream parsley sauce; rolls, cocoa or coffee. Fruit, cereal, creamed dried beef, muffins, coffee. Chop fine a cupful of dried beef. Put over the fire with one gill of cream or milk. Season with pepper and stir in four beaten eggs. When thick turn over squares or hot buttered toast Orange juice, cereal, broiled mack erel, baked potatoes, toast, coffee. Carafe Frappe. Frappe, as most persons know. Is to freeze, and carafe Is the class decan ter smart folk use at their functions ror holding drinking water. Fill the bottles with distilled water to within an inch of the top and then sink them to two-thirds depth in a tub of Ice, as for making ice cream; use less salt than for cream, and do not have the Ice cover the decanters any higher than stated, as the glass may break. Stopper them with bits or absorbent cotton during the rreezing. The ice forms at the bottom of the bottles and the displaced water rises, and as long as the ice remains the decanters can be refilled and used after a few minutes. Bake Vegetables. Do not boil vegetables in the old- fashioned way and throw away most of the substance in the water. Cook them in the oven and pre serve the flavor and prevent odors in the house. This last is especially true or sauer kraut, cabbage and onions. If you have no casserole cook them In a granite pan, placed in a pan or water in the oven, if to be served with a cream sauce, pour a thin sauce over the raw vegetables and cook till ten der, or cook with butter or meat fry- Ings or bacon. Eureka Fudge. Two cupfuls sugar, three-quarters of & cupful milk, pinch salt, piece but ter. Boll without stirring six minutes over gentle fire. Add square or choco late or three tablespoon fuls cocoa, hall cupful shredded cocoanut, tind ten marshmallows. Cook, stirring now three more minutes. Add vanilla fla vor and beat until cool, standing pan In cold water. Omit marsbgnllows, If you wish. Salad Louisiane. To one pint of Bhredded celery, finely minced, five oranges and two lemons, dried, add one pint of large Btrawberries cut In halvea which have been put on the Ice to chill. Beat two egg yolks very light, add a tea spoonful of very fine salt, the Juice ot two lemons and lastly, one cupful of strawberry juice poured over th salad Just when served. Fruit Trifle. For a quick dessert try beating one halt cupful of cream until thick, then fold In oue pint of canned peaches, which have been drained. Sweeten to lasts. Serve very cold. Other frull may be used. Pint Towel Racks, If towel racks In kitchen and bath rooms are not nickeled carefully palm them with at least two coats of whltt enamel paint to ivold the possibility ot Iron mat spots as well as tor gen ersl inlini. LOVERS of the most beautiful things have had one great piece of good fortune In that Ravenna does not lie on the route ot the mass of ordinary touristB through Italy. Honeymooning couples avoid It; so do the personally con ducted flocks. It Is, moreover, ex ternally a dull town, and Its streets and near surroundings are flat and uninteresting, writes Sir Martin Con way In Country Life. A few miles away, Indeed, there is the beautirul pine rorest sung by Dante, a wild stretch of broken ground along the Adriatic coast, with charming glades and hollows, bushy below and overarched by rugged and pathetically dignified trees, where those who do not suffer from fear of snakes can wander in romantic sur roundings. The neighborhood of Ra venna Is, moreover, fever-stricken. I shall never forget a visit paid to the church of Santa Maria in Porto Fuorl. It standB in a hamlet of decaying houses, Itself also far gone in decay the pavement broken, plaster fall ing from the walls, and all the usual signs of dilapidation. A woman who brought the keys of the church told us how the rew peasants about were all broken down with fever, how the priest was away aB much as possible, how the folk were mostly athelstie and anarchistic, and how only the very minimum of work was done by anyono KG 1 22 ISC B 3SC 1 aSB!C B 231 3 B ZSXIKZ ARCADL AND ALTAR, 5T about There were reeking quagmires and damp places and stagnant pools on all sides, and the old church itself Beemed to be sinking into the swamp Thus, in fact, Ravenna actually is sinking. It is not merely that the level or the ground or the town Is rising, as ground levels in towns nor mally rise; but the buildings sink Into the sort alluvial soil by little and lit tle, and have thus sunk from the day they were built The process Is a very slow one, but likewise very sure, and It cannot be stayed Already in the wet season of the year the naves of the old churches stand a root or two deep in water, and that although the floor level has been raised as much as three or four feet, so that the bases or the columns are buried. The older the church the deeper It lies in the ground. Some have been dug out and surrounded by a kind of walled moat; but all this only post pones the inevitable ultimate end Ravenna is, in fact, a dying city, and has been dying slowly ever Bince the Lombards came and drove out the ex archs ot the emperor of Byzantium a century or so before Charlemagne lib erated the pope from Lombard op pression. Once Actually on the Coast. At an earlier time Ravenna was actually on the coast. The Roman port was only a mile or two away, a relatively shallow port in the midst of lagoons, which were continually being silted up. That port, however, was the best then available for ships ot war, and its site, now miles inland, Btill bears its ancient name, Classe. Descriptions ot Classe tell us of its great basins and quays, Its noble Btreets and houses, its many churches and monasteries. We likewise learn from them of the noble avenue of Btately buildlrgs which led thence to Ravenna Itself, where was the splen- COLLECTING BILLS IS AN ART A Man of Resource Is What Is Need ed, Says a Big Concern's Manager, "A good collector is a combination of nearly all the requirements which make a live business man." said George W. Hurn, office manager of the Haverhill Electric company, Haverhill, Mass., in a recent address on modern methods of collecting outstanding ac counts. "He must be resourceful in methods diplomatic, courteous and withal capa ble of drastic, kind, severe, generous or relentless moods; in fact, of every temperament that fits the particular requirements of the task In hand when he undertakes to separate the debtors from their money. A method that works well with one debtor may fall flat with another A method that builds business through courtesy and kindness with one man may with an other result in loss ot money. "Collecting Is the art of educating customers to make prorapt payments not the collecting ot accounts alter did palace of the prince and Buch num bers of churches and public buildings as almost to seem incredible. Today, of Classe and the great avenue ot buildings, not one stone remains upon another except in the case or the sin gle church which is famous under the name of St. Appollinare in ClasBe. The earliest building ot Interest still existing in Ravenna is the small but most attractive little mausoleum ot Galla Placidia. It attempted no rival ry with the mausolea or the great Ro man Imperial days, such as that of Trajan or even the Constanttnlan San ta Costanza. It is only a little cruci form structure or brick, surmounted over the crossing by a tiny dome; but the three sarcophagi that All Its arms are stately, and the lining or gold ground mosaic that covers its lunettes and vaults glows with all the splen dor which ancient artists knew so well how to attain; while the marble revetment below them, admirably re stored, and the marble pavement and thin alabaster window slabs (likewise restorations), complete an interior decoration which, for perfect taste, subdued magnificence, and simple dig nity could scarcely be surpassed. St. Appollinare In Classe I suppose is sometimes used for worship, but It wears a look of tidy abandonment There are no bouses near to supply worshippers, and only the wandering visitor breaks the solitude; but it is a APPOLLINARL IN CLASSE peopled solitude all the same, a soli tude vocal with memories of great men and great doings long ago. The spacious marble floor is divided by the two great ranges of columns, noble an tique monoliths of veined marble standing upon sculptured bases which are not buried. The simple apse, en riched with mosaic, is all the more splendid In effect because so much else of the walls Is bare. An ancient altar of small dimensions is In the midst of the nave. Another, sur mounted by a remarkable ciborltlm of sculptured marble on spirally fluted columns, fills the east corner of the north aisle. Tomb of the Great Ostrogoth. One other monument of great im portance cannot be passed over with out a brief mention This Ib the mau soleum of Theodoric himself. It Is not large, a little larger than Galla Placidia's, but It is imposing by the strength ot its massive stone con struction. Polygonal in plan, two storied, with external staircases lead ing to a gallery round the empty up per chamber that is all. For roof It is covered by one huge hollowed block of stone, like an Inverted saucer in form, with an -external protuberance In the center, on which a bronze orna ment once stood. The bronze doors, the bronze parapet of the gallery, and perhaps other ornaments, were carried away by Charlemagne and built Into his palatine chapel at Aix-la-Cbapelle, where some of them can still be Been. Nothing of Theodoric himself re mains In his grave. His body was thrown out when orthodoxy supplanted Arianisro. The mausoleum is now a mere empty shell, well protected by a salaried guardian, who In the hot season, when I vas last there, accom panied me wtth a broom to sweep away the harmless snakes which are now the ole occupants of the pile. they are due. If, therefore, we train our customers to pay their bills promptly, the results will be advan tageous to both the customer and the concern, because If a customer can be educated to pay his bill within the dis count period, he receives his service at a smaller cost and will be more sat isfied than he would be If he had been hounded by notices and collectors." Electrical World. Eel's Deadly Blood. If Injected Into man. the blood of an eel causes death almost Immediately. This should deter no one from eating the fish, however, for the heat of cooking destroys the toxic properties of Its blood and, besides, that blood la practically harmless when taken Into the Btomach. To Remove Wet Ink Stains. Rub with a piece of rrpe tomato and then rinse well In cold water. Wash and boil, or put a little red Ink on the mark and wash. The acid dissolves the Iron In the Ink and sets free the tanning or coloring matter, which will boll out