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tion. I wanted you also to feel sure of
C H A P T E R X X III.
Dropping hi» glove» upon the out your own. You remember that you said
spread uiap, and with an exclamation of to me on that night in the woods that It
unmistakable astonishment and delight, might be my Just punishment that you
Mason Huntley spraug forward and selz should uot be able to tell whether yon
eJ the outstretched hand in his owu. And loved an Ideal or a real man? You re
then, while both were speaking so that member? I thought o f that almost ev
neither could understand the other, he ery hour, and wondered If I were to be
threw his arm about her, and seeing punished by such a misadventure of all
something in her eyes that at least did my plans.”
not repel him, he bent his head Impul
“ Ah, you cunning fellow, you! I sup
sively and pressed bis lips again and pose you didn’t know that to surround
again to hers, that were very perceptibly yourself with all this mystery and diffi
turned toward him and pouted In the culty wns the best o f all methods to
prettiest concession Imaginable.
John make me think o f nobody else? Why,
W lckly looked on In the greatest aston it wns equnl to parental dissent, I verily
ishment, set off and Illuminated with a believe! O f course, none o f the attrac
half sarcastic smile of enjoyment.
tive young gentlemen whom I have met
" I don't care," said Lizzy, still hold here bad the slightest chance against all
Ing Mr. Huntley’s hand In her own, and your mystery.
But I ’ m really a little
plainly Interposing to prevent him from doubtful o f you yet. F ather’s coming
dropping the encircling arm from her in now, and you must get Into the cab
shoulder, as she half turned her head with us, and go down to the hotel. I
with a rosy flush upon her face and some have hours o f business conversation to
pretty drops o f shining tears in her eyes, bo held with you, in relation to my num
and along the under lnshes, while a erous and Important financial transac
smile o f enchanting mingled shame and tions. And I know of no one whom I
■tlf-vindication lighted up her face like could so complacently put In charge of
t halo about an angel's head. “ I don't my wealth as the man who put me In
care!
He's treated me dreadfully— I charge o f It.”
mean horribly, since I'v e been here In
W hat a ride It was, to be sure! Bud
the city. And I ’m going to know why, Ellet, knowing by Intuition, or perhaps
before I let go of your hand sir!” she by experience, Just what was required of
continued, turning away from her father, him, saw his party of three safely In the
and shaking her brown curls that hung cab, and then concerning himself about
so charmingly out from under her hat nothing beyond making this the longest
and down a little way upou the sides of possible trip to the hotel, drove slowly
her face.
down one street and across and up an
" I f that’s It,” said Mr. W lckly, with other, taking the party past all the pret
a sort of roguish shrugging of his shoul tiest and newest and grandest residences,
ders, “ I think I'll step out and see If and by every object o f Interest that he
those horses are standing all right. They could think of, well knowing that no
might run away and leave us, you know. body save John W ickly himself would
And then I can’t be of any use what be, by auy probability within his com
ever In this sort o f an Investigation,” prehension, likely to see these sights.
end he turned and went out, his daugh
ter calling after him:
C H A P T E R X X IV .
“ You needn't, sir! I don’t care If you
In fact, the two lovers were In that
are here. I shall say just what I'v e got
to say, anyhow. Now, teil me what you state of ecstatic somnambulism In which,
meant by It, Mr. Huntley. W hy did you with eyes and ears wide open, they are
tell me you would see me soon. If it able to see absolutely nothing, besides
were in your power, and then have me each other, and to hear no sounds save
right here in the city for weeks and the murmured words that passed between
weeks, passing me on the streets every themselves, to the perfect and inexorable
day without a word or a look, or any exclusion o f everybody else. Listening,
thing to Indicate that you had ever had ns anybody in the world will listen, to
even a passing acquaintance with me? the cooing o f real lovers, and looking at
W asn’t it your place to come to me at them slyly through the wicket, as any
once? Or, if you had any doubts about body lu the world will look at real lovers,
my treatment of you, couldn’t you write Hud Ellet could see and hear almost all
to me? Do you think it was my place to that could hare been seen and heard by
chase you all over the city and hunt you John W lckly, leaning back on the front
down, without even n trace of you? sent, in the shadow so deep as to be In
Couldn't you even do so much to facili effect absent, and therefore not at all In
tate the search ns to leave a hint of your the way.
whereabouts, upon which I could begin?
“ There appeared to be some real es-
Suppose I hadn’ t found you at all; would cuse for my disguise aud my imperson
you have persisted in staying away for ation of a fictitious individual,” Mr.
Huntley wns snying, as his left arm fit
ever?”
There was enough light from the nf- ted Itself snugly Into a comfortable sup
ternoou sun coming in at the west and port for her head, where his hand could
southwest windows of the room to throw lie protect ¡ugly, caressingly upon her left
a very effective gleam upon the lovely shoulder without the slightest Inconven
form of Lizzy W ickly, clad in a pale ience to anybody. “ You see the other
brown silk that shed Its suit sheen along road held tho mortgages ns collateral for
every line and curve. H e had never seen a debt o f the Farmers' Bank. And by
her so richly dressed.
She had never some means they had gotten a hint of
been so richly dressed. And there was, the existence o f coal veins under your
In the heightened effect of her charming land. I was employed by our company
dress upon her always pleasing face and to go and make a thorough Investiga
figure, that best of all excuses for the tion o f the whole matter as secretly and
very richest dresses that any woman can quickly as possible. Fortunately for us
afford to wear.
H e stood a moment and for you, the other company was not
without a word, but with his eyes telling Impressed with the value of the deposit
voluble stories eloquent with admiration, to the extent o f Inducing them to act
as they llew rapidly from the brown very promptly.
And consequently my
plumes in her darker brown silk hat, that work wns almost completed when they
framed her fresh, ruddy face so chartn- began their survey thnt
revealed to
lugly, with Its broad, brown satin strings, them the great value of the deposit. Then
Both com
tied In an elegant bow under her dim came strategem and strife.
pled chin; dowu the sloping shoulders, panies had obtained right o f way, save
with the line of faintly glittering light some formalities on the part of our op
reflected from the silk threads, changing ponents thnt eunbled us to clnim ex
Its direction as the bosom rose and fell clusive right up to thnt time; and not
In quick, sharp undulations o f excite only to put down our track, but to pre
ment und delight. Ah! W . Mason Hunt- vent them from putting down theirs. By
ley! I f ever there were a pretty, straight menus of my character of geologist, and
forward. frank and fearless daughter of my brown wig. I could come and go be
tho Wabash, well worthy of the admira tween the field o f my explorations and
tion, the respect and the love o f a good the central office o f the company without
man, for those qualities that enabled her arousing suspicion. On the evening of
to throw aside the conventionalities and the hurricane, you remember?”
go thus boldly about the city, to chase
“ I have never forgotten It for a mo
you down and take you to task for your ment. I shall never forget It. I shall
neglect and misfeasance, then this is always love a storm o f wind and rain so
on«t
long as I live,” she interrupts, leaning
“ And have yon actually been hunting her brown silk hat down against his
me all the time?” he murmured, delight cheek In a way that everybody openly
edly.
“ Have you actually felt that I derides, and secretly applauds and envies.
have mistreated you In not going at once The protecting and caressing left hand
to see you? Have you had time, in all upon her left shoulder beuta a little tat
the rush and hurry o f the last two too of grateful applause.
months, to think about me long enough
“ That evening I discovered that our
to make real search for me?"
adversary had become aware of wbat
H e stopped to kiss her again
and was going forward, and had prepared to
again, Just as she wns opening her pretty outbid me for the land. It was neces
curved lips to reply— and so frustrating sary to go back ami present all the facts
the reply for a full twenty seconds.
that went to show the actual great vnlue
"Y ou know I have,” she snys, putting
of the deposit, and get authority, and
up her gloved hand to prevent another perhaps means, for a large advance upon
frustration o f her reply. “ I ’m sure now,
the original sum I had been authorized
that you knew of It on the very first day to offer. I found some difficulty, and ex
that I chased you, and lost you behind perienced a vexatious delay
In
this
a barricade o f wagons. I f 1 had known branch of the work. And when I was
Just what your
scheme
wns, sir, I finally ready, I found a force o f armed
shouldn’t hnve hunted you a step.” And men to oppose onr rightful entry upon
she slaps his face and then pulls It down the land, and so was compelled to meet
to cure the blow with a kiss that heals force with force. A bloody conflict was
like magic. "R u t you hnvon't told me probably avoided by the timely and de
one reason for your abstention— and a termined interposition of old Coonrod
good one, too. No more shallow excuses Redden, who, when he discovered that
will do. W hat was It?” She looked very some one else had been at the bottom of
eagerly and brightly expectant Into his the troubles o f the Sandtown Farmers’
eyes
Rank, and that I was not at all to blame,
“ You know already.
Yon know as took part with us very heartily and sav
well as If I had said It in every possi ed us from n very formidable peril In
ble form of phraseology," he retorted, the shape o f the militia of Rig Rattle
laughingly.
snake t'reek and Reel foot Pond.
And
“ Rut I want you to tell It, even If I now you know all the mysteries o f the
do know It.
And enn yon pretend to geological survey o f Wlckley'a Woods.”
read a young woman's thoughts In such
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an off-hand manner? Or to presume up
Not many days after there was a great
on my ability to read the purposes of
such an arch impersonator and dissem stir at Sandtown; this time not at all
bler aa yon? W hy In the world did you a military nor financial excitement. Quite
ever put on that ugly brown wig, Mr. the reverse. The Sandtown Brass Band
Huntley? Now, there wasn't a particle was out In full uniform, and the Mouut
o f reaeon In that, you must confess. Rut Zion Double Quartet Club were out, too,
go on and tell me first, why you didn't In an open wagon, and there was the
come to me at the hotel. Or before I whole available population o f Sandtown
gathered
came away from flaudtown, even.” lie and Its Immediate vicinity,
etoopod a little and kissed her again be about the little new railroad station.
As the train from the city pulled In
fore he replied:
“ I wanted you to see and mingle with upon the sidetrack, the band, following
the beet people o f the city. 1 wanted a little signal blown by the leader, the
you to feel free to form any opinion of young l>oc Dikes, upon his cornet, struck
them, or o f any one o f them, without up a very popular air o f those days, and
In
hindrance from me In any way. I knew very appropriate to ths occasion.
that yea felt sure of my love and devo whlak every Instrument save the base
upou “ H aste to the Wedding.”
Then the bridal party got off the car,
and was instantly surrounded by ths
whole crowd, in the center o f which the
tall, angular form o f Coonrod Ueddeu
could be seen, a head above the tallest.
“ Howdy, Mason! Howdy, I^izzy! Orto
call you Miss Huntley, now, I ’ low.
Wush yuh much Joy, both uv yuh! By
gum! I nuvver no more thought uh sich
a thong thun I thought uh gittun matrd
muhaelf. By gum! I didn’t. But Ma
son, you needn’t to ciper on go-un away
from San'towu to live, un uh teckun
the puniest un smartust g-yurl they Is
about h-yur away from urse.
W e ’ve
gut use fur you h-yur, I kin tell yuh,
my good feller! Un we hsln’ t uh go-un
to let yuh off, nuther.
D rive thattalr
calrge roun’ h-yur,
fellers!
Closeter!
That’s hit! Now, clam en thar, Llszy!
Mason! H-yur’s yur father un mother,
right en thar. Lots a room! Now, soon’s
tham fellers git ready to let the club
song, we'll pull out fur ar house. W e ’re
a go-un to have the hustunest infair yuh
uver see, L izzy! By gum; uvverbody en
Redden township’s thar, by this time.
There goes the sengers. ’ A t ’» Clumburse
■eugun tenor thataw ay! You kin h-yur
’ im a mile uv a clur evenun, when ths
wind halnt uh blowun. Listen at tham
Reelfoot Pou’ fellers uh yelun. Yuh
cain’t h-yur yourselves fur ’ um.”
W hat a triumphal march down the
Overcoat road, from the station to Coon
rod Redden’s house! W hat waving of
hats and handkerchiefs, and what yells
and screeches! There was Just thnt ele
ment o f the ludicrous, that tint o f absurd
ity, In this noisy demonstration thnt made
it doubly acceptable to the fun-loving
Sandtowner. It was an unexpected dem
onstration, and so had the features of a
huge and successful practical joke which
the Hoosler loves so w ell; while It served
as an ample opportunity for all to Join In
a public exhibition of respect and admira
tion, which the true Hoosler dellghta to
make In honor o f any citizen who. In
any walk o f life, attains distinction and
so reflects luster upon his native State,
or his adopted town and country.
"T h e re ’s the Woods.” I.lssy whispers
In Mr. Huntley's ear.
H e turns, and
glances up the little woods road that
branches off from the Overcoat road and
winds away Into the recesses o f the for
est, now beginning to exchange its gay
green coat for a mantle of brown, trim
med with knots and fringes o f yellow,
and cardinal and purple.
"M y darling w ife,” he whisper». “ I
want to keep that little, lone
brler-
frlnged road just as It la, so long as you
shall love me.”
(T he end.)
W H E N A R E IN D E E R IS A N G R Y
H e W i l l T r y to P a w a M a n to D e a th
W i t h o u t M e r c y o r R e a so n ,
all. T h e Brat lot o f w ater turned tn
takes out 60 per cent o f the sugar, and
the second lot takes 60 per cent o f the
In some o f the W estern States, espe remainder. T his Is repeated ten times,
cially Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, and In the end has exhausted all the
and the western part o f Kansas, the sugar from the slices to within one-
grow ing o f beets fo r sugar, haa become tenth o f oue per c e n t Th s slices re
a recognised Industry. L a rge factories m aining a fter this process are dropped
fo r the conversion o f the beet Into from the tanks and run through large
sugar have been erected, and here are presses, and the partly dried pulp Is
employed large numbers o f men during deposited In cars and wagons to be
used fo r feedin g cattle. It being
Maple-sugar making la getting to b *
the fa ll and w in ter months.
a restricted Industry, and may, Indeed,
Colorado leads in the production of great milk and flesb produce*
T h e Juice rem aining Is o f s dark become a lost art. T h e Bureau o f For
t>eets. This can be accounted fo r by
the same reason that »h e Is noted for brow n color, containing much organic estry, which haa recently made a study
her cantaloupes; that Is. Irrigation and m atter not sugar. It la run Into tall >f the business, has brought some Inter
the large numbers o f daya o f
sun tanks holding a couple thousand gal esting facts to light. Since 1850 ths
shine. T h e sun shines on fu lly 800 lons, and here the lim e solution which area o f maple-sugar-farm lng has great
days o f the year and the beet Is stim takes out the organic matter, Is add ly changed and shrunk. In early days
sd. It now goes through a series o f maple-sugar was made even In ths
ulated to a w onderful growth.
In grow in g beets the ground la pre boilings, filterin g aud c la rify in g pro South, because cane-sugar was scares
pared 111 much the same w ay as for cesses, which leave the fluid a moder and expensive. In N ew England. N ew
rantaloupes, a thorough breaking and ately thick syrup, ready to be boiled York and a fe w other States the In
pulverizing o f the ground betug neces down to sugar. T h e syrup Is pumped dustry has held its own or been ex
sary fo r beet results. A fte r levelin g up Into large round vacuum pans. In tended. T h e bureau finds that seven-
the ground, which
makes Irrigation side these pans are colled large copper eighths o f what is sold as maple-sugar
or maple-syrup Is spurious; but In moat
easier, the beet d rill Is brought Into steam pipes, and a large air pump
eases the adulteration Is the work o f
uae. This drill Is on the order o f an produces a high vacuum and rem oves
middlemen, not o f the producers. T h e
ordinary grain drill, w ith the excep the evaporated w ater so that the syrup
net Income o f a mnple-sugar grove la
tion that It only plights four row s 18 boils very rapidly and at a very low-
con servatively estimated at $3 an acre;
Inches apart at a time, and has no a t temperature. This boiling mass is
and since the work can be done a t a
tachments for d rillin g In fertilizer. On watched through glass window s In the
tim e when there Is little other farm
sides
o
f
the
pans,
and
when
small
the drill are tw o sm all shovels, placed
employment, nnd the g rove w ill also-
so that they m ake tw o fu rrow s be grains begin to appear they are fed by furnish the fam ily firewood without
tw een the tw o row s on each side. adding fresh syrup until they reach the deterioration, a angar-orchard is a fa ir
These furrow s entry
the Irrigating required size. W hen the size Is right, ly profitable Investment.
water, which soaks back and moistens and the w ater evaporated sufficiently,
the steam Is turned off, the pump
the seed.
G reater secrecy than ever before w ill
W hen through w ith the seeding, ths stopped, and the mass Is allow ed to
be exercised this year concerning the
w ater Is turned Into the fu rrow s made run Into the tanks below, by opening
scores made at target practice by the-
by the drill, between each tw o rows. a v a lv e at the outlet In the bottom of
varlous vessels o f the A tlantic fle e t
the
pan.
T h e w ater Is kept running until the
W h ile some o f the details o f the re
seed Is thoroughly soaked, care being
T h e syrup at this stage has the ap
sults may be made public, It la not the
taken that the w a ter does not over pearance o f dark molassee, thickened
Intention o f the N avy Department to
flow very much, as this causes the with granulated sugar, and Is so thick
greund to bake, and the sprouts cannot that It w ill barely run. Th is Is put In g iv e out the scores. This governm ent
force their w ay through the crust thus to the "centrifu gals,” large w h irlin g has never been able to gather Inform a
form ed.
W hen plants have obtained drums having their sides perforated, tion concerning the target practices o f
the height o f one-half inch to an inch, and lined with gauze. Aa these ma other navies and there seems to be no
the cu ltivator la brought Into use.
chines w h irl around, the sugar rises reason w h y the scores o f our navy
Th is cultivator Is drawn by
one along the sides o f the drum, and the should be made public. G reat B ritain
carefully guards all o f the scores made
by her warships. Some years ago an
officer o f a British vessel on the Aslatlo-
statlon told o f the results o f the tar
get practice then Just finished. T h e
Inform ation reached this country and
was published. A thorough Investiga
tion was made and the officer would
have been court-mnrtialed i f It had
been possible to produce positive p roof
against him.
B e e t B a s e r M a k i n g In th e W e s t I s a
V e r y I n t e r e s t i n g P ro c e s s .
T h e expenditures o f the governm ent
exceeded Its current income by more
W e w ere forced to w ait three days
than $9,000,000 In April, and the treas
a fte r It had stopped snowing fo r a
ury deficit fo r the first ten months o f
crust to form so that w e could travel
the fiscal y ea r Is upward o f $34,000,-
again. It was w ith m any m isgivings
000. W h ile the months o f Muy and
that w e began the last h a lf o f the
June nearly alw ays show a balnnce on
Journey, since the snow was now very
the right side o f the governm ent's ac
deep and the danger o f our sinking
count books, many fear that the de
Into d r ift» w as great. T o add to our
ficit at the end o f the fiscal year, June
general feelin g o f fear, the reindeer
30, w ill reach $30,000,000. T h e problem
behaved very badly and w ere exceed
o f the deficit Is a serious one In the
in g ly unruly. T h e wind had m oderat
opinion o f the treasury officials. T h e
ed somewhat, but It was still intense
cash balance In the treasury has de
T H E RO CKY FORD B E E T SUGAR FACTO RY.
ly cold.
clined to $133,181,777, including the-
W e had traveled h a lf the day w ith
amounta held by the nntlonal bank de
out any serious mishap and w ere be horse and cultivates tw o rows at a molasses Is thrown out through the positories, and Secretary Shaw lias
ginning to forget our fears at starting i time. I t Is mounted on tw o wheels, holes In the sides, leaving the sugar found It necessary to w ith d raw from
out, when w e sped m errily down a each about 30 Inches In diam eter. Re- sticking to the gauze. T h e sugar Is the banks $20,000,000. T h e cash bal
mountain side, singing and halloaing j hind these wheels are tw o horizontal washed by spraying cold w ater and air ance actually on hand In the treasury
at the top o f our voices, and ran Into i liars, connected by tw o other bars to against It as It whirls, a little bluing Is said by some to have fallen below
a gulch and stuck there. T h e songs j tbe axle, on which they have a fre e up lielng added to g ive It brilliancy. Th e the point o f absolute safety.
stopped In our throats, and w e sprang nnd down motion.
T h ere Is also a machine is stopped and the sugar now
to our fe et to sink w aist deep In the , p ivot which allows a side motion, con- w hite and uiolgt. Is dropped from the
B ew are o f the high rate o f inter
d rifts that had entrapped us.
| trolled w ith handles by the operator. bottom o f the machine aud conveyed est,” Is the lesson o f most o f the swin
E v ery m ovem ent o f onr bodies sank | W ith the cultivator are several sets of to the granulator, where It Is dried. dles against which the l ’ost Office De
us deeper In the snow drifts, and the knives shovels, etc., any o f which can This granulator Is a large horizontal, partment hns recently Issued fraud or
Infuriated
reindeer,
finding
them lie fastened to the horizontal bars, the revolvin g cylinder, heated by steam. ders. A n o ffe r o f exceptionally la rge
selves caught In the banked-up snow, gro w e r using w h atever kind Is adapt W h ile d rying Is In process, the fine •eturns fo r either labor or capital
alm ost to their haunches, turned upon ed fo r the kind o f cu ltivation be w ish dust o f sugar Is draw n out by a suc should at once awaken suspicion. I f
us and would have paw ed us to death es.
tion blower. Th e sugar passes out o f the enterprise Is so promising, w h y
but fo r the forethought o f Ooalltk,
W hen plants are a couple o f Inches the granulator through screens at the does not the person who controls It
who, seeing our danger, sprang fo r high they are thinned out, leavin g end, which rem oves the lumps. The keep It for him self?
T h e fact that
w ard and, hoisting the
overturned plants six to ten Inches apart. This sugar is now placed In bags ready for there are a few , a very few , eases
pulks In his strong arms, brought work Is usually done by contract, the shipment.
w here large risks have been taken and
them down ov e r our heads and shoul price paid averagin g from $t> to $7
The molasses which
has
been large profits hnve been realised Is the
ders and pinned us out o f sight In the per acre.
thrown from the centrifugals. Is either argum ent most used by those who-
In rem ovin g beets from the ground, m ixed w ith fresh syrup and boiled have patent rights, gold mines nnd oth
snow.
W e heard the hoofs o f Uncle Ren a large plow or lifte r la used. This again, or is boiled ulone aud once more er such properties to sell at a thou
beating on the pulk's side as he pawed plow has a depth o f 18 inches or more, passed through the machines. The sand times th eir value. Th e person o f
up the snow In his efforts to get at us, made necessary by the great depth to brown sugar resulting, is refined by moderate means cannot afford to take
such risks.
aud If we had not held to the straps which the beet penetrates the soil. It m ixing w ith fresh syrup.
In all beet factories, chemicals piny
and had not kept the pulk over us he Is draw n by three or four horses, and
would have toased It into the air w ith raises the beet partly out o f the an Important part, and the laboratory
In 1904 the number o f arrivals at
one sweep o f hla horns and would still ground, so that It can be picked up by m ight be called the heart o f the fa c E llis Island was 000.000, the number
tory, as It Is through the agency of
have had his bout w ith us. In which the topper.
T h e beets are taken by local freigh t chem ical» that the sugar Is extracted In the entire country being 800.000. O f
case w e should have been helpless and
to
the fnotory, where they are dumped from the b e e t A ll beets, juice, syrups these 203.510 settled down In N ew York
com pletely at his m ercy.
Into
long ditches, which have n stream and boiled sugars, are tested, nnd the City, and the great m ajority o f the re
F o r the first tim e wo had occasion
o
f
w
ater
flow in g through them. These analysis o f every pound o f sugar Is mainder went to other cities ns Inhor-
to see how fierce an angry reindeer
ditches, which are lined w ith cement, known, and every loss located anil ac ers, etc., w here they are not needed.
eun be. W hen he was convinced that
slope tow ard the factory building, near counted for. T h e values o f different It Is now estimated that one m illion
he could not reach us Uncle Ben
which th ey converge Into one large soils nnd fertilizers for beet grow in g Im m igrants w ill come to this country
turned upon Oosllik, and w e heard the
one. T h e w a ter in these ditches serve are tested, ns are also all coal, coke during th « yea r 1906. T h e task o f ab
Eskim o shouting Hnd clubbing the
sorbing this great mass into the politl-
the double purpose o f carryin g and and lim estone used.
deer ns he ran In nnd out o f the pulks
pnrtinlly cleaning the beets.
A t the
A t Rocky Ford, 111 Southeastern Col | cal system Is one o f the penalties which
In a s w ift circuit, pursued by the
end o f this large ditch, the beets are orado, Is located one o f the largest beet I the United States pays for Its unrival-
b ellow in g reindeer.
raised from the w ater by an elevatin g sugar factories In the country. The j ed economic opportunities. Its re lie f
W e spent an excitin g h a lf hour un
apparatus, which deposits them In a buildings are built o f brick, and are from great standing nrmies, and Its at
der the pulks, w ith the hoofs o f the
largo washing machine. Th is consists surrounded by fine grounds und fin* mosphere o f freedom.
deer rattlin g like hall on the frozen
o f an Imm ense spiral rev o lvin g In a residences, where some o f the officers
bonrds, ami then the unusual com m o
During the last yea r more than fiv e
round Iron .box. placed In a horizontal o f the company live.
L ik e all other
tion ceased all at once, fo r the rein
position, and w ith a stream o f clear factories, this one runs day nnd night, thousand rural mail rentes have been
deer had found a lichen bed.
In a
w ater flow in g through It. T h e tieets. seven days In a week, and only stops established, and during the com In »
Jiffy they w ere p aw in g up the snow
rollin g and tumbling, are pushed fo r
In case o f an accident or to clean up. enmmer a thousand more w ill be open
In th eir hurry to get at the succulent ward through this w ater, and com ing
This factory, on an average, converts ed. E very route over whlcji the car
moss, and w e w ere forgotten.
out free from dirt, are deposited In a 1.100 tons o f beets Into sugar every rier fakes his little packet Is a thread
'A m a ltk and Ooalllk lifted the pulks »c re w eleva tor and carried to the top
tw en ty-fou r hours. One ton o f beets which binds (M s g r e a t spreading coun
from our heads and dug us up out o f o f the factory. H ere th ey And their
w ill m ake 200 to 275 pounds o f sugsr. try into more solid unity.
the snow and set us on our feet. By w ay Into an autom atic w eigh in g ina
and from 1,100 tons, this means about
the tim e the reindeer had eaten them chine, then dumped Into the
slloer 150 tons o f sugar each day.— W illiam s
Kxpnmdno seems »till to be the na
selves Into a passable humor Am allk w here they are cut in em ail piece».
port (P a.) G r it
tional w atchword. The general s ta ff
and Oosllik led them back to
the
On the next floor below the alleer Is
o f the arm y has decided tn lengthen
A B i o g r a p h i c a l D ic tion ary.
pulks.
located the diffusion battery, which la
One o f the most helpful dxioks tn the United States bayonet by fo u r
W e had four hours o f traveling be composed o f a number o f Iron tanks,
keep upon your table, ready to be con Inches. Still. It wns a dictum o f O liv e r
fore w e came In sight o f the corral placed In a group. T h e tanks are con
H olm es that as
nation »
sulted aa you read other hooks, la a W endell
that had sent us the reindeer from nected with each other by large pipes,
biographical dictionary.
Then, when lengthen their weapons they n arrow
Eaton Station. As soon as the deer and each tank Is capable o f holding
you come to some historical character their boundaries.
scented the well-known corral
they three or four thousand pounds o f the
about whom your knowledge la a little
T h e first tank Is filled w ith
quickened their strides so that ws allces.
L a b o r N otes.
faded. It w ill require but a moment to
slices,
and
has
w
ater
turned
Into
It.
reached th# station before It was quite
The teschtng of typewriting will be
refresh your memory and m ake jsiur
dark, and craw led from the sleds w ith T his Is allow ed to stand w h ile the
hegnn In the normal senool at Zacatecas,
reading more Intelligent. You have a
Mexico. The government of the State
a deep feelin g o f relief, glad beyond second tank la Oiling w ith slices. Then
right to the acquaintance o f these dis has has bought a number of mnehines o f
measure to be at home a fte r the perils the v a lv e connecting the first tank
tinguished men and woman, and should the most modern and best types for the
o f our protracted Journey.— 8L N ich o w ith the second Is opened, and the
keep up at least frien dly
relations school.
w a ter In the first tank, havin g absorb
ls *
w ith them. I f fo r no other reason than
Chicago and Alton employes have been
•d some sugar from the slices,
la
In gratitude fo r w hat they have done Instructed not onty to give np drinking
In India the pow er given off by • forced Into the second by fresh w ater
to make your life pleasant— S t N ich intoxicating liquors, hat to stay away
first. T his
m otor Is sometimes ez pressed In ele being pumped Into the
from gambling places nnd dance halls.
olas.
w
ater
passes
from
tank
to
tank
ab
phant equivalents, a tw en ty-tw o bores
The eompsny says It means to keep Its
Some men’s Ideas o f reciprocity ar# men up to as high a physical end nieat.il
m otor being described as a three »1 » sorbing a little m ore sugar from each
tank, until It has goua through them rather one-sided.
phant pow er v s h lc l*
standard aa possible