! 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«.
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