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! matters to the station master, who tele graphed for an angina to bn sent from Tai-Youan to tha Nankin Una. A t three o'clock. Just at daybreak, we returned to wait for the eugine at the Junction. Three-quartera o f an h o w a f terward Its whistle announced tta ap proach and It atopped at the bifurcation o f the lines. W e climbed up oh to tha tendar, and half aa hour later bad re joined the train. The dawn had come on aufflctently for ua to be able to see over a considerable accomplice waa at tM points. A n d aa distance, W ithout saying anything to C H A P T E R X X V I.— iContinuad.) I will go back to Popof. Iiupoomlbli. soon as the signal was given that we anybody, I want In search o f tka body I Mem tQ be nailed to the floor o f the were on the branch all ha had to do waa o f my poor Kinko. And I could not find S im p le F a rm Onto. to gain the footplate, kUI tha driver It among tha wrack. ran. My head swims. A s the engine could not ranch the T h a gate shown in the accompany I t la true we are running toward the and stoker, slow the train and get off. ahy* ? No; I am mad. Farusklar and leaving the steam on full to work np to front , o f the train, owing to there being ing illustration la recommended by n only a single line, and no turning table, correspondent o f the M ontreal Fam- hla accomplice« would be hurled over full apeed. And now there could h» « « donhr that it was decided to csuule it ou in the rnax. H y H erald. T ilg gm t f f f lu lauded <o~- aa well. They would ahare our fate. the scoundrels, worthy tha most refined and ran backward to tha junction. In inai<i* They would periah with ns. inraiinn, nnn. farm instead lnelda iocationa, apon • a farm Inatoad ___But there are ahouta In front o f the tortures that Chinees practice could de th k way the box, a k a ! without the Rou o f bars or sw ln gln g gatos whlch ara manian in it, waa in tha last carriage. vise, were hastening down Into the TJon train. The acreama o f people being kill ed. There k no doubt now. The drirer valley. Thera, amid the wreck o f the W e started, and in half an hour wa ware troublesome and apt to get out o f or- der. Th e correspondent haa alz o f end the etoker are being strangled. .1 train, they expected to And the fifteen on the main line again. Everything ends in th k world below, these gates on hla ra n ch .*® «* ««P ® «* * feel the apeed o f the train begin to millions o f gold and precious atones, and this treasure they could carry off with- even a voyage o f six thousand kilometers soon to put In aa many mora. I t w lll alarken. I understand. One o f the ruflena oat fear o f surprka when the alght en- • • the Grand Tran aatiM k; and after a be notlced that the gato k not hung ®f thirteen days, h ew after hear, know a how to work the train, and he k shied then to consummate thk fearful on hIngés. I t consista slm ply o f a W ell, they hare h e w robbed. train stopped at the getan o f the alewing it to enable them to Jump off crime. hurdl* whlch atonda betwecn tw o these robbers, and .I h ow they w ill pay [capital o f the Celestial win pa? end aroid the catastrophe. strong posta set áo that tha gata eastly their crime with their Urea, at thk I begin to master my torpor. Stagger- países baek betw ecn tirana. T h e eec- C H A P T E R X X V III. I alone know what hue panned, lag like a drunken man. I crawl to AU chante °n d bar o f tha gata reata on n clcat “ Pekin!” shouted Popof, Klako'a cane. There, la a few words. I hut I will tell the atopy- tor poor Kinko A , ahown ln tha Mustration. Thla tell hka what has passed, and I exclaim: h no more. I t waa four o'clock la the afternoon. cleat constata o f incb lamber, fon r Yea. my mind k made apt' I w ill “ W t are lost!" J t have asen Since F o r people fatigued with three hundred laches w ide and 12 or 14 lochas long. "N o — perhaps----- " he replies. speak ea Before I can more, Kinko k ont of Klork. Th e poor girl must be told with and tw elve hoars o f traveling. It waa no T h e gata w lll elide eaally l f tha top o f Tha death o f her be time for running about the town— what h k box. H e rushes toward the front consideration. say?— * « the c,eat ,B uo i I sa y(— the tue fonr lour towns, lncloeed inclosed - one ~ . _ .. * . • » gata is trothed must not come upon her like a do door; he climbs on the tender. betw ee n the tw o poeta. “ Come along! Come along." he ahouta. thunderclap. Yes, to-m orrow , as Boon as within the other. Besides 1 had plenty _______ ________ o f time. I waa going to atop soma weeks which prevent it from being pushed I do not know hoW I hare done It, hut w a r e a t Pefclu. either way. here I am at hk side on the foot plate, A fte r all, if I do not aay anything in th k capital. Tha important thing waa to find n ho my feet in the blood o f the driver and about Kinko, I may at least denounce Points In fa v o r o f thla ga te o ver stoker, who hare been thrown off on to Fbruskinr and Ghangir and the four tel ln which one could live passably. Mongols. I can say that I saw them go From information received I waa led to the line. Faruakiar and hia companions are no through the van, that I followed them, believe that the Hotel o f Ten Thousand longer here. But before they went one that I found they were talking on the Dreams, near the railway station, might o f them has taken off the brakes. Jammed gnngwaj-, that 1 heard tha acreama of be sufficiently In accord with western no down the repot*tor to futFapeed, tbroWh the driver i n i ' stoker as thej’ were tions. fresh coals into the fire box, and the strangled on the footplate, and that I A s to Mademoiselle Klork, I w ill poet- train is running with frightful velocity. then returned to the . cars, I wlll shouting, pone my visit till to-fhorrow. In a few minutes we shall reach the rail on her before the box arrives, and Back! Back!” or whatever it waa. -jo n viaduct. - W e are now standing at the head o f even then I shall be too soon, for I shall Kinko, energetic and resolute, k as the train. M ajor Nottita, the German take her the news o f K in koV death. coo. as a cucumber. But in vain he baron, Caterna, Ephrinell, Pgn Chao, H a lf an hour afterward w e are fai- ■ u o m o GATE WIDE OPEN. tries to move the regulator, to shut' off" Popof— shout twenty travelers In all. atalled at the H otel o f Ten Thousand the steam, to put on the brake. These The Chtneee guard, faithful to their Dreams. There w e p#e served with a those in ordinary use are aa follow s: valves and levers, what shall we do with trust, are sttft near the- tree sure, which dinner in Chinese style. T h e repast be- It Is cheaply and easily made; It is them? not one o f them has abandoned. The ing. over— toward the second watch— we not liable to ge t out o f order; quickly “ I must tell Popof!” I shout. rear guard haa brought along the tail lay ourselves on beds that are too nar and easily operated; requires only or- “ And what can die do? No, there is lamps, and by their powerful light we row, in rooms with little comfort, and only one way.” - — sleep not the sleep o f the just, but the dinary fence posts, no hinges, or latch, can see in what a state the engine k. “ And what is that?” sleep o f the exhausted— and that ii just and I f the train, which was then running “ Rouse up the fire,” says Kinko, calm at an enormous velocity, had not stopped as good; T h ls Y e a r 's W h eat Crop. ly; “ abut down the safety valves, and suddenly.and thus brought about its de I did not wake before ten o’clock, and Another bumper wheat crop la In blow up the engine.” struction it was because the boiler had I might have slept all the morning if Estim ates by the Depart And was that the only w ay— a des exploded at the top and on tha aide. the thought had not occurred to me*that prospect. perate way— of stopping tue train be The wheels being undamaged, the engine I had a duty to fulfill. And what a | ment o f Agriculture on grain ln the fore it reached the viaduct? had run far enough to come gradually duty. T o call in the Avenue Cha-Coua field indicate a total yield o f w in ter Kinko scattered the coal on to the fire to a standstill o f itself, and thus the before the delivery o f the unhappy caa« wheat o f o v e r 411,000,000 bushels bars, lie turned on the greatest possi passengers had been saved a violent to Mademoiselle Zinco Klork. I against 401,685.887 ln 1003 and 325,- ble draught, the air roared across the shock. Ah I lf Kinko had not succumbed, I ............ — 1- 374,503 in. 1004; a gain o f 10314,113 furnace, the preasnre goes up, np, amid O f the boiler and Ha accessories only a should have returned to the railw ay sta ; bushels o ver 1003 and 85,225,497 buab- the heaving of the motion, the bellowing few shapeless fragments remained. The tion— I should have assisted in the un- ot the boiler, the beating o f the pistons. funnel had gone, the dome, the steam loading of the precious package. I would e*8 o ver 1904. T h e estim ate on spring W e are going a hundred kilometers an chest; nothing bnt torn plates, broken, have watched it on the cart, and I would wheat Is 348,000,000 bushels, but there hour. twisted tube#, split cylinders, and loose have accompanied it to the Avenue Cha- are good reasons fo r believing that “ Get hack!” shouts Kinko, above the connecting rods— gaping wounds In the Conn; I would even have helped In war- the yield w ill be from 10,000,000 to roar. “ Get back into the van!” rylng him up to Mademoiselle Zincs 15,000,000 bushels greater than the corpse o f steeL “ And you, Kinko?“ And not only had the engine been de Klork. And what a double explosion o f present estimate. H ow ever, the com- “ Get back, I tell yon!” stroyed, hut the tender had- been ren parlson, accepting the estim ate me I see him hang on to the valves and dered useless. Its tank had been cracked jumped through the panel 7 to he? fa ll Into . . , JK • . . put hia whole weight on tha levers. eX: and ita load o f coals scattered over the the arm . of the fa ir Roumanian! Bnt COrref t" ! ^ ntereStl“ g ’ “ Go!” he shouts. line. T h e luggage van, curious to re no! When the box arrives It w ill be <*“ fo r 1906 o ver tb® * M A ot 1904 and I am off over the tender. I am through late, had miraculously escaped without empty— empty aa i heart from which all ,eaa than 1903. * • follow s: Estim ate tha van. I awake Popof, shouting with ■Injury. o f yield o f spring wheat, 1906, 348,- the blood haa escaped. all my strength: (T o be continued.) 000,000 bushels, against 355,183,656 ln I t k only too evident.” said one of “ Get back! Get back!” 1003 and 279,606,656 bushels in 1904, the passengers, “ that our driver and A few passengers suddenly waking ' about 7,000,000 bushela less than the stoker have perished In the explosion.” from sleep begin to run’ from tha front “ Poor fallows!” said Popof. “ Bnt I yield o f 1003 and 68,303,344 more than car. wonder how the train could have got last year. According to the official es Suddenly there k an explosion and a on the Nankin branch without being no tim ate, the total w heat crop o f the shock. Th e train at first Jumps back. ticed?” United States this year w ill be 670,- Then it continues to move fo r about half “ T h e night was very dark,” amid Eph Llaknm waa the “ butt” o f the “ lo- 000,000 bushels. Unless serious dam- a kilometer. rinell, “ and the driver could not see oal” room o f the dally on which he age comes to aprlng w heat daring ita It stops. Popof, the major, Caterna, moat o f the the points.” worked, aaya the Brooklyn Eagle. H a ripening, the total w heat yield o f the “ T h at k the only explanation possi paasengera are out on the line in an In waa a dried-up, w rinkled Uttto chap. U nited 8tates w ill be about 118,000,000 ble,” said Popof, “ for he would have stant. w ho m igh t have been either 20 or 60 greater than ln 1904 and 33,000,000 in tried to atop the train, and, on the con A network o f scaffolding appears con years o f age. W h atever w en t wrong excess o f 1903.— E p ltom ist fusedly in the darkness above the piers trary, wa were traveling at tremendous about the office w as laid to Llskum, I which were to carry the viiiduct ficroas Cost o f M a k in g Beef. ---- — But.” «aid Pan Chao, “ how doe* h and w hatever w as attributed to him L ~ the TJon valley. * I t has been accepted as proved that T w o hundred yards further the train happen the Nankin branch wa* open he accepted w ithout a murmur, only a hen the TJon viaduct is not finished? siniling a crinkly little smile that won the younger an animal the low er Is would have been loet in the abyss. Ila d the switch been interfered with?” the heart* o f the Whole staff. For, the cost o f putting on flesh and fat. “ Undoubtedly," aaid Popof, "and prob C H A P T E R X X V II. Joke him as they might, every reporter Some experim ents have been made to ably out o f carelessness.” And I, who wanted “ incident,” who on the paper had a tender spot for Prove Diis, but the data are too men Up to now Mujor Noltitz had taken feared the weariness o f a monotonous get to permit o f the building o f very no part in tlie discussion. Now he in Llskum. voyage o f six thousand kilometers, in the terrupted Popof, and in a voice heard One day Tompkins, the “ star” re strong arguments on them. Professor Course o f which I should not meet with by all, he asked: porter, came ln to find the group about M um ford o f the Illinois station has an impression or emotion worth clothing “ W here is Farusklar?” the big store In the local room indig taken up the question and Is m aking in type! They *11 looked about and tried to dis nantly discussing something. an experim ent that w ill at least add I have made another muddle o f It, I cover what had become o f the manager admit. M y lord Faruakiar. o f whom I “ Llskum had been fired,” some one to the volume o f the data If It does o f the Transnsiatlc. had made a hero— by telegraph— for the Th ere was a g m r t f u s s not 8ettle the q ue»tlon, which It prob- “ And where is his friend Ghangir?” to hi him. readers o f the Twentieth Century. about the third ward story to this ably w,n not* Herd8 o f varioU8 a* e8 asked the major. There was no reply. W e are, as- I have said, two hundred are being fed at the station, and these “ And where are the fonr Mongols who morning’ s paper.” yards from the valley of the TJon, so were in the rear van?” asked Major W hy, i ’ w ro te that m yself,” said w111 be markfeted 88 fa8t ag ready and deep and wide as tv> require a viaduct Noltitx. . Tompkins. “ Llskum had nothing to carefu l report8 « > mP|led o f tb® C08t from three hundred an4 fifty to four And none o f them presented them do with i t ” A nd with that be started o f * aln mflde on each lo t Th ere *8 a hundred feet long. The floor o f the selves. __ point beyond which It does not pay a fo r the m anaging editor's room. valley is scattered over with rocks and “ W ell, then,” «aid M ajor Noltits, “ the animal, even a hundred feet down. I f the train had Mr. Rockm an sat by his flat-topped fa n n e r to keep an rascal who sent ua on to the Nankin though that animal Is all the tim e been burled to the bottom o f that chasm line, who would have hnrled ua into the desk; Llskum stood opposite him. gain in g in w eight. Th e station is try not one o f ns would have escaped alive. Tom pkins slowed down ln an apolo Tjou valley, to walk off with the impe This memorable catastrophe— most inter in g to find the point at which steer getic w ay, fo r he remembered that ha rial treasure, is Farusklar.” esting from a reporter’s point of view — W hat!” said Popof. “ Th e manager had violated precedent by entering the feeding must stop, l f a profit la to be would have claimed a hundred victims. made. -Every day a fte r that point tbe o f the company, who so courageously editor’ s room w ith ou t knocking. Bnt thanks to the coolness, energy and fa rm er Is losing money and losing the drove off th* bandits and killed their “ Come ln, Tom pkins,” said Mr. devotion o f the yonng Roumanian, we chief, Ki-Tsang, with his own hand?” tim e be Is putting on the care o f the have escaped this terrible disaster. Rockman. “ You are Just the man I Then I entered on the scene. animal. A ll? No! Kinko has paid with his “ The major k not mistaken. It was w ant to see.* life for the safety o f bis fellow pai Llskum turned his crinkly smile on A K ic k in g Cow, Faruskiar who laid this trap for ns.” And amid the general stupefaction I Tom pkins but spoke not a word. T h ere are many recommended meth Amid the confusion my first care was told them what I knew, and what good “ I have Just dismissed Mr. Llskugs ods o f dealing w ith kicking cows. One, to visit the luggage van, which had re fortune had enabled me to ascertain. fo r that third w ard story, said the which Is by some found to be very mained uninjured. Evidently, If Kinko I told them bow I had overheard the editor. j effective, is to rope or strap the hind had survived the explosion, he would plan o f Faruakkr and hk. M ongol«, have got hack into his box and waited I beard * * “ replied Tompkins, ” bt»t ' lege together Just above the hock. T h e when it was too late to atop it, but I till I put myaelf in communication with H e had rope or strap should be put on in tbe was silent regarding the Intervention of I w rote that gtory myself, him. | fo rm o f a figure eight, having it croes Kinko. Th e moment had not come, end nothing to do w ith i t ” A la *! The coffer is empty— empty a* I would do him Justice in dne time. “ I know that,” said the editor. “ Th at betw een the legs. Borne m ilkers ap- that of a company which has suspended Now that all danger had disappeared, Is w hy I dismissed him. A formid- P^T th® r°P® c*OSfc down to the feet payment. Kinko haa been the victim of we must take Immediate measures for able delegation o f third-ward people and fasten it to a ring In the floor, h k sacrifice. running back tha cart on to the Pekin came here this morning, and made it B ath er than fasten the rope securely, And eo there haa been n hero among line. very plain to m e that something must It la better at the first trial to have our traveling companions, and he was “ Th e beet thing to do k to go to the be done to Boothe them. I knew you an attendant to hold the rope, so that not Faruakiar, thk abominahk bandit nearest station, that o f Fnen-Choo, end bidden beneath the akin o f a manager, telegraph to Tai-Yonan for them to send w ere such a fiery chap It would neve* he can loosen it In cgse the cow throws whoae name I have so stupidly publish do to let yon face them, ao I brought h erself in her effort to kick. A plan on a relief engine,” I suggested. ed over the fonr corner* o f th# globe. T w elve o f us, Including Pan Chao, Llskum In and Indignantly dismissed that does no good and generally much I t w a* this Roumanian, tnk humble, thk MUle. th k poor fellow, whose sweetheart Caterna and myself, volunteered to ac him from the report«rial staff. 1 nm harm is to beat the animal. Th is only But by com Just now engaging him aa assistant Increase* the retaliation ln the form will w ait for him in vain, and whom she company M ajor Noltitx. | o f kicking. A kicking cow Is an an- w ill never again see. W ell, I will do him mon accord w * advised Popof not to alt? editor.” Jostle«. I will tell what be has done. Aa abandon th# train, assuring Mm that w o Llaknm turned another crinkly smlla g r y cow, and a fte r one has exhausted to h k secret, I shall be sorry if I keep would do ail that was necessary at on Tompkins* and the star reportas hM e ffo H ïÎr i’ attem pting to soothe her It I f ha defrauded tba Grand Trans- Fuen-Ohoo. w en t back to the Wg stove ln the by mean* o f patting, currying, giv in g Then, armed with daggers and revolv asiatic It is thanks to that fraud that room. mashes, etc., w ithout success, the only er*— It was ona o’ clock In tba morning— a whole train haa been saved. W a were •’ B oy»,” he said, “the oM man is nil th in g to do Is to secure her ln a man- lost; w * should have perished la the moet we went along tha line to tha Junction, n er that she can neither kick nor in horrible o f deaths lf Klmco had not been walking aa feat as~tha very dark night r ig h t ” ju re herself.— Am erican Cultivator. permitted. th«r*. In lesa than tw o honra w * arrived at U p to the A ir . I went beck to the lino, my heart Fnon-Choo station without adventure. T b s Ont Crop. heavy, my eye« fall o f tears. “ W h y don’t you turn your pen to T h e oat crop la one that requires a Assuredly Faruakiar’« scheme, ln the Evidently Faruakiar had cleared off. The higher themge?” asked the well-mean execution o f which be had executed hk Chines* polle« would have to deni with ing friend. grea t deal o f moisture throughout the rival, Ki-Tsang, had been cleverly con thp bandit and his accomplices. Would __ season, and the beat crop la assnred 'I'd like to,” replied the funny man, trived la ntilking th k branch llna leading they catch him? I hoped eo, bat I doubt “ but there doesn’t teem to be any do- b y preparing tbe soil ao It w ill con- to the unfinished viaduct Nothing was ed tt mand fo r skyscraper jokes at peasant,” *** ** moisture. Tba A t the etatloa Pan Oboe U n a to switch off U a train U aa Special Correspondent plan o f seeding oat* In corn atnbbl* fa lls bo frequently la bécause the ground Is stirred shallow and w et ear ly ln aprlng time and when a fe w w eek * o f dry weaother com# It bake* ns herd a* the road and remains In th u condition until h a rvest I t Is not ■ good plan to be ln too big ■ burry about sow ing oats. W hen the ground Tulin n nriaoolli w hs haa hcan tba ha* dried out so It 1* in good condi tion to break then start the plow.— central figure In tba Chicago labor gra ft rumor*, hss bean conspicuous Ohio Farmer. fo r years In labor affaire. W hen th * The S hortage o f Bhoop, Associated Team “ Michigan sheep and lamb feeder* ing Interests waa find themselves up against a peculiar organised ln 1002 situation, and many o f them are at a he waa sleeted sec loss how to proceed,” aaya a w riter in retary and held -ibe D etroit Tribune. “ Th ere are many tbe position until feeders who w ere o f opinion that celpts o f W estern abeep at Chicago April, ib is yaar. Mr. D riscoll w as w ould be larger late ln the season and born ln Oswego, h ave w aited In the b elief that tbey N .' T „ M ay 29. jr o n ,d abl* to ■ * »heir ordara flUed a t low er prices. Present .indication« joHH c. oaisvu ia 1869, and look ns l f there would be fe w o f the brought by hie parent* to Chicago bargains that b a rs been offered In oth when hot nine months old. H a w aa e r years. educated ln S t Ignatius’ College, “ N e v e r before In the history o f th *| Whero be took a classical course and! Chicago yards boa there been aucb a w a * graduated w ith tbe degree o f A . pressing demand for feeding sheep and B. W hen Mr. Driscoll severed hla lambs. E very day now tha aheap pens connection w ith tbe Associated T eam are full o f strangers w ho are looking ing Interests he declared that during fo r bargains, end every desirable hia term aa secretary no team o w n er bunch la caught up at high prices com bad lost a dollar through la b o r pared w ith other years. T h e outlook troubles. ^ fo r wool and mutton was never bright •i— e r than at present, and the general be In W illia m B. Cramer, publisher o f lie f Is that aheep and lamb feeders the M ilw aukee Evening W isconsin, an w ill make plenty o f money thla year, other hero o f tbe profession haa passed no m atter w hat they pay fo r feeding aw ay. Though for stock.” many years blind The A u to Nalanacs. and all bat totally During an English farm ers’ meeting, deaf, he managed the chairman- had suggested th a t he to' H e p in' touch should Instruct his teamsters to hold with events and to their wagons across the road when direct the policy of autos w ere approaching at a furious his «plendld jou r rate. H e received the fo llow in g huius - naleVen to the last, lng communication: ” Aa I doubt the and fe w o f Its Is p ow er o f the average farm laborer to sues ev e r w ent to distinguish between the Innocent and print without some the guilty, I offer my services. I hold article o f his own W. E. CHAMES. a discharge as a sergefint from the c o n t r l b n tion. arm y, and am a train ed sh ot A t Throughout hla 65 y e a n ns an editor least fifty autos pass my house every he never departed from tbe high Uleala dfjr. W ith an ordinary magazine rifle with which he began his newspaper I could get about thirty dally, and I career. Hla opinions, and they w ere o ffer my trained services to the cham strong and influential, w ere alw ays ber at a charge o f six pence per head. confined to tbe editorial page. H i* I should like to know to whom* to fo r news columns w ere sacred to tbe news, w ard the heads. I could use explo containing fair, Im partial stories which sive o r poisoned bullets i f ao de w ere never distorted o r confused for s ir e d ” — *----- bribe, fa v o r or personal In terest H ow Bnndax A ffe c t« the Cow», T b e manager o f the Wisconsin ex L orin C_ Collins, w ho baa been ap perimental farm once said that be pointed associate Justice o f the Su could tell the Sundays ln tbe calendar preme f’ " " - * * the Panam a fia n «i by looking at his m ilk record, which rone, is noted aa a showed the daily yield, because the urist and law m ak quantity obtained was Invariably er. F o r six years sm aller than on a week day “ Our be w as on tba Chi men milk a little later on Sunday cago circuit beach, 3Í - M S ' morning, and a little earlier at night, •nd he a b a baa probably hurrying the operation, and served three term s tb e cow s resent tbe treatm ent by »ty In tbe Ilfinots teg- in g a somewhat sm aller yield it stature, h a v i n g m ilk.” I t w as observed, also, apropos been a t a o e session o f tbe necessiti fa r kind and gentle (1888) speaker o f treatm ent ot d* try cattle, that a new *■«1 £ tbe House. Judge band obtained as m ilk from a c - t l o r in c. ■»« Collins w xs born than she would yield to a milker, not W apping, Conn., In 184K hut w o * necessarily more expert, to whom abo taken to S t Paul to bis childhood. In waa accustomed. 1872 be w as graduated firm» N orth western U niversity, and tw o years F o r Sharpening Fonts. T o save lota o f w ork In sharpening la ter b *. began tbe practice o f la w to posts, fix up the rig illustrated, ad Chicago. Hla home la to W heaton, ID. vises Charles H e c h t T b e forked p o i* -c— t- Francis Hendricks, w h o h a s reported tbe results o f bis long Investigation o f the Equitable L ife Assurance Society’ s affaire, has been superintendent of Insurance o f New Y o rk State since 1000, when he suc ceeded Louis F. BIO FOB BHARPE2tII«0 POSTS. Payn. I l l s home ts Syracuse, of Is 12 feet long, the brace o f 1x4 being In about 5 feet high. A stump makes cHy he bi»* M ayor and tlie best block upon which- to sharpen been where he has es post. tablished an exten- Hod H o u s e » a n d T e le p h o n e » . si ve photograph F. HKNDUiCKS. Sod houses and telephones are the «ap ply house’ .” ' M r strange combination now offered by Hendricks has served In both branches he prairies o f the M iddle W ert. Y e t o f the L e t f „ ature. having been Sena- the combination is less strange than tor three successive term *. H e w a . l i Prer “ i ^ b o n n e n collector o f the port o f N ew York from are by no m ean, to be despised, par- 1801 t0 18n3. H e was born ln 1834 and tlcularly ln cold weather. They are built w ith considerable attention to j ®ducated Albany, com fort, and, with an interior lining .— *}— *■ o f Portland cement, offer almost the T b e " aco®88or at W ashington of advantages o f a atone building, and ^ ° UI,t Cassini, the Russian ambassa- a t the slightest coat, w hile the n e t- 1 dor’ wl11 h® Baron Rosen, form erly minister to Tokio. w ork o f telephones overcomes the Iso W h ile at the Jap lation o f earlier days. ^ anese capital B a r P o u ltry Pick in gs. on Rosen w as one Save the cabbage fo r the hena. o f the strongest Leaves make good scratching ma advocates o f peace, terial. vigorously oppos ing Adm iral A llex- Cracked corn w ill put fa t on a fo w l letTa w arlike prep about the quickest o f any feed. arations In Man A lot o f extra cockerels are a nui churia. H e has sance. K ill them off l f yon want the respect, even egga. admiration, o f tha Green out bone o r good beef scraps b a r o * Hoe km Japanese, and It la w lll force the polleta to early m .tu - ' fortunate that ha is 'to b ^ ln W a s b t o r rity - ¡ton, w here peace negotiations are to Dampness Is one o f the w orst trou- be conducted. Baron Rosen’s ac- bles o f poultry keepers. Sunshine is qnalntance w ith thla country and the sure cure. | Am erican people extends over a period Lim e w a te r la a corrective o f fo w l o f some thirty years. H o has been disease* and la also a good remedy fo r consul general at N ew York, and waa charge d’affalrea at W ashington dnr- soft shelled l f egga w ere «old by w eigh t the talk *n* Cleveland’s first administra- about big eggs would g iv e place to t,on that o f more o f ’em. . .«n o r. taster than . I Bwlftwater Bill” Oates, who made A duck grow s faster than a chicken, \ fortune In the Klondike and threw it sella fo r more In m a rk et costs no to th# winds, has tnad* another strike, m ore to feed and needs but little care, thla tlma In tha Tanana district in Weak-' T o obtain the beat result* from hena Ington. keep them ln flocka o f from thirty to •’ Rider Haggnrd, th« English novelist, forty with one or two males. Crowd traveled about 7,000 miles In his tour of ing never pays any breeder. — k ..a _ _ ’ this country, trying to find a location for Aa k rule heng fa ll off In eg g Pro - 1 eolonl* . for hi, countrymen. ductlon a fter they are three or four | years old, and It la only ln exceptional Joaef Hofmann, th* great pianist, la cases that It la advisable to a clavar electrician and devotee nearly til hla apare time to the selene«. 12