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Prisoners and Captives B y H. S . M E R R IM AN picked up a piece o f straw, of which there was a quantity lying on table and floor, and this he was biting meditatively. It was as yet entirely a pusale to him. and this was only a new complication. He could not understand It, Just as better men than Claud Tyars have failed to un derstand it all through. For no one, I rake It, does understand ievo. and n o man can say whither It will lead. “There heed," continued Oswin Grace, perforating a aeries o f' small- bolts- In hla blotting paper with the point of a cedar- wood pencil, “ be no nonsense of that sort. 1 am going to take it upon myself to watch over Helen's Interests; they are much safer in your hands than la mine.” Still Tyars said nothing, and after a little pause, Grace went on, In measured, “Ah . •' Tyars looked up sharply, and as sharp thoughtful tones, carrying with them the ly returned to his occupation. Easton weight of deliberation. “ There Is one point,” he said, “ upon was grave, and Tyars knew that be had come with news of some sort. He waited, which I think there must be an under however, for the American to begin, and standing.” “ Yea,” said Tyars anxiously. continued to fold and arrange bis papers. “ Any risks— extra risks, such as boat- “ I have.” said Easton, sitting down and Capping the neat toe of his boot with his work, night-work up aloft— these must be cane, “ hit quite accidentally upon a dis mine. From what you have said, I gath er that your intention was to be skipper, c o very, ----” "P o o r chap!” muttered Tyars, abstact- and yet do the rough work as well. When anything haaardous is to be done, I shall «dly. “ Which will make a difference In your do it. You mutt stick to the ship.” " I have no doubt,” said Tyars, seating crew.” “ What?” exclaimed Tyars, pausing in himself at the table and beginning to open hls letters, “ that we are all con the middle df a knot. “ One rule,” continued Easton, bis queer structing a very fine mountain out o f ma little face twisting and twinkling with terials Intended for a molehill. I, (or some emotion, which he was endeavoring one, have no Intention of leaving my to conceal, “ was that no sweethearts or bones in the far North. There is no rea son why we should not all be back home wives were to be left behind.” “ What are you driving at?” asked by this time next year.” "None at all,” agreed Oswin somewhat Tyars, curtly, in a singularly lifeless perfunctorily, adding, with a suspicion of voice. •' • . “ Well, old man, I have discover'd a doubt the next minute: “ Suppose we succeed?” sweetheart.” ’ "W ell, what then?” Tyars threw the papers in a heap and "Suppose we get there all right, rescue rose suddenly from his seat» He walked the men and go on sa fely; we get over to the mantel piece. “ O f course,” he said, “ your discovery the elemental danger, and then we have to face the political, which la worse.” * can only relate to one person.” . “I do not see It,” ¿replied Tyars. “ We “ Yes; you know whom t.mean.” H alf Tyars nodded his head in acquiescence sell the ship at San Francisco. and continued smoking. The little Amer the crew expect to be paid Off there, the ican aat looking in a curious way at this other half will disperse with their passage large, impassive, high-bred Englishman, money in their pockets.- and very few of «# will find their way back to England. as if gathering enjoyment and edification Our doctor is a German socialist, with from the study of him. “ Well,” he drawled, at length, “ you say several aliases; our second mate a sim ple-minded Norwegian whaling akipper. nothing!” The exiles do not know a w ord o f Eng “ There is nothing to say.” “ On the contrary,” returned Easton, lish, or pretend they do not. and none “ there Is everything to say. That Is one of the crew speaks Russian. There will • f the greatest mistakes made by your be absolutely no Intercourse an board, people. I have noticed It since I have and only you, the doctor and myself will been in this country. You take too much ever know who the rescued men really (o r granted. You let things say them are. The ciew will Imagine that they selves too much, and you think i t . very are the survivors of a Russian Ivory hunt fine to be impassive and apparently Indif ing expedition, and If the truth ever ferent. But it is not a fine thing, it is comes out, it will be impossible to prove silly and unbusiness like. Do you give that you and I knew better.” 'But It will not be easy to keep the up Os win Grace?” “ Certainly; if you can get him to stay newspapers quiet.” “ We shall not attempt to keep them behind.” , It will only be a local matter. " H e will run his head against a wall if quiet. be can. That is to say, is there is a thick The San Francisco papers will publish libelous woodcuts of our countenances and enough wall around.” column or two purporting to be bio Tyars hesitated. “ 1 am not quite sufe that it is my business,” be said. “ I hate graphical. but the world will be little the meddling in other people's affairs, and, wiser. In America such matters are In after all, I suppose Grace knows best teresting only in so much as they are per sonal, and there is In reality nothing what he Is doing.” "Men rarely know what they are doing, easier than the suppression of one's per under these circumstances," observed Eas sonality. There is no'dlfllcnlty in kick ing an Interviewer out of the room, just ton. He waited patiently, hat in hand, to as one would kick out any intruder; and hear what Tyars had to say. While he we are quite indifferent as to whether stood there. Muggins, the bull-terrier, rose the American newspapers abuse us or not from the hearth rug, stretched himself and after having been kicked. As to the de looked from one to the other in an in tails of the voyage, I shall withhold those quiring and anticipatory manner. He with the view of publishing a book, which took it to be a question of going for Is quite the correct thing nowadays. The a walk, and apparently imagined that the book shall always be in course of prepara tion. and will never appear.” casting vote was him. In tbis wise the two men continued “ A ll right,” said Tyars, suddenly, “ I talking, planning, scheming all the morn w ill speak to him again.” “ To-day?” pursued Easton, following ing, while they worked methodically and up his advantage, “ or to-morrow at the prosaically. The eleventh of March was fixed for latest.” “ Y e s ; to-morrow at the latest.” the sailing of the Argo, exploring vessel, Then the American took his departure, and Easton's chief thought on the sub and Muggins curled himself up on the ject was a vague wonder as to what he hearth rug again with a yawn of disap would do with himself after she had gone. The Argo was to pass out* of the tidal pointment. Os win Grace was seated in the bright basin into the river at one o’clock, and little cabin at a table writing out lists of at half-past twelve Easton drove up to •tores. Many of these same stores were the dock gates. He brought with him the piled on the deck around him, and there last items of the ship's outfit in the shape was a pleasant odor of paraffine In tne of a pile of newspapers, and a bunch of •Jr. Tyars closed the cabin door with his hothouse roses for the cabin table, for there was to be a luncheon party on board elbow. “ I do not see," he said, slowly and un while steaming down the river. He found Admiral Grace strolling comfortably. “ how you can very well go about the deck with Tyars, conversing in with us.” Grace laid aside his pen and raised his quite a friendly way, and endeavoring keen, gray eyes. His brow was wrinkled, honestly to suppress his contempt for seamanship of so young a growth ss that bis lips set. his eyes full of fight. “ Because,” suggested Grace, in a hard of his companion. The ladies were below, voice, “ I am in love with Agnes W in inspecting the ship under Oswin’s guid ters?” ance. Tyars nodded his head and stooped to “ Hhe is," be said, addressing himself to pick up his gloves, holding them subse the admiral, with transatlantic courtesy, quently close to the bars of the stove, "a strange mixture of the man-of-war where they steamed gayly. There was a and the yacht— do you not find It so, silence of some duration, and every sec sir?" ond increased the discomfort of Claud "She is,” answered the old gentleman, Tyars. guardedly, “ one of the most complete ves “ And you,” continued Grace, at length, sels I have ever boarded— though her very deliberately, "love H elen !” outward appearance Is, of course, against Tyars stood upright, so that his bead her.” was very near the beams. He thrust hla “ One can detect,” continued the Ameri gloves into his pocket and stood for some can, looking round with a musing eye, seconds, grasping his short pointed beard “ the influence of a naval officer.” meditatively with the uninjured hand. The old gentleman softened visibly. A t “ Yes,” he said. “ I do.” Grace returned to his ship chandler’s this moment the ladies appeared, escorted bills with the air of a barrister who, by Oswin Grace— Miss W inter first, with having established his point, thinks it a searching little smile In her eyes. Eas prudent to allow time for it to sink into ton saw that she was very much on the alert. the brains of judge and jury. “ I feel quite at home," she said to him, “ I do not mind telling you," he added, carelessly, almost too carelessly, “ that looking round her, “ although there are so Miss Winters is perfectly indifferent on many changes.” the subject.” “ So do I ; the more so because the "D o you know that for certain?" asked changes have been made under my own Tyars, sharply. directions.” “ She told me so herself,” answered They walked aft, leaving the rest o f the Grace, with a peculiar little laugh which party standing together. As they walked, was not pleasant to the ear. Oswin Grace watched them with a singu H e waited obviously for a reciprocal lar light in hlk clear gray eyes; singular confidence on the part of Tyars; but he because gray eyes rarely glisten, they only darken at times. waited in vain. “ O f course,” be said, “ I have no desire • Presently the vessel glided smoothly be to meddle with yoar affaire. I ask no tween the slimy gates out Into the open questions, and I look for no spontaneous river. The tow-line was cast off, and the confidences. It will be better for you to Argo’s engines started. The vessel swung lose sight altogether of the coincidence slowly round on the greasy water, point ing her blunt, stubborn prow down the that I am her brother.” Tyars had ssstsd himself on the corner misty river. She settled to her work with • f the cabin Uhls, with his back half a docile readiness, like a farmer's mart tw aad toward hla companion. He had on the outward road. C H A P T K R X X II. Matthew Mark Easton was a quick thinker if not a dsop ooo, and It is those who think quickly who flea quickly. This n an had sons thin« to glee, somethin« to tear away from his own heart and hold wwt with generous, smiling eyes, and. be (•re Mias Winter’s door had closed be hind him, the aoorifice was- made: He called a hansom cab and droee straight to Tjrara’ club. He found" his friend at work among his ship's papers, folding and making up in packets his receipted „b ills. “ Morning,” aaid the Englishman “ Theee papers are almost ready to be banded over to you. A ll my stores are •n board.” r I CH APTER X X III. Had an acute but uninitiated observer been introduced into the little cabin of the Argo during the consumption of the delicate repast provided *y her officers, be or she could scarcely have failed to no tice a certain recklessness among the par ty aaaembled. Admiral Grace was the only one who really did Justice to thé steward’s maiden and supreme effort, and he, in consequence, was singular in fall ing to appreciate the witticisms of Mat thew Mark Easton and Oswin Grace. This was, perhaps, owing to the fact that wh we have passed the half-way mUestoue in life, we fall to appreciate the most hril I liant conversation. It Is Just possible that Admiral Grace did not think very much o f the wit— taken as wit pure and simple. Hls position was not unique. Once or twice Easton’s words recurred to Mise W inter ; “ I Intend to he Intent ly funny, and I guess you will have to laugh.” This was her cue, and" she ace upon It. The meal came to an end a^d a move was made. There was nothing else to do but to go on deck. The moments dwin dled on with the slow, dragging monotony which makes us almost Impatient to toe the last o f faces which we shall perhaps never look upon age In. P resently, the town of Gravesend hove In sight, and all on the quarterdeck of the Argo gaaed it it as they might have gaaed on some on- known Eastern city after traversing the desert. And then, after all— all the wait ing, the preparation, the counting of tou rnent«, and the calculating of distance»-— the bell In the engine room came as a surprise. There was something startling In the clang of gong as the engineer re plied. Helen was the last to rise. She stood holding the shawl which Oswin had spread over her knees, and looked round with a strange, intense gaae. The steam er was now drifting slowly on the tide with resting engines. There were two boats rowing toward her from Gravesend Pier, one a low, green-painted wherry for the pilot, the other a larger boat, with stained and faded red cushions. The scene— the torpid, yellow river, the sor did town and low riverside warehouses could scarce have been exceeded for pure, unvarnished dismalness. Already the steps werg being lowered, tn a few moments the larger boat swung alongside, held by a rope made fast In the forecastle o f the Argo. A general move was made toward the rail. Tyars passed out on the gangway, where he stood waiting to hand the ladlee Into the boat Helen was near to her brother; she turned to him and kissed him In si lence. Then she went to the gangway. There was a little pause, and for a mo ment Helen and Tyars were left alone at the foot o f the brass-bound steps. “ Good-by," said Tyars. There was a slight prolongation o f the last syllable, as If he had something else to say; but he never said It, although she gave him time." “ Good-by,” she answered, at length; and she, too, seemed to have something to add which was never added. Then she stepped lightly Into the boat and took her place on the faded red cushions. The Argo went to sea that night. There was much to do, although everything seemed to be In its place, and every man appeared to know his duty. It thus hap pened that’ Tyars and Grace had not a moment to themselves until well on Into the night. The watch was set at 8 o’clock. For a moment Tyars paused be fore leaving his chief officer alone on the little bridge. “ What a clever fellow Easton Is !” he said. “ 1 never recognised it until this afternoon.” (T o be continued.) RO U N D U P OF W IL D HORSES. « » ■ « • l a S t a l e ml W a s k i s c t o i t o B e C le a r * « o f G r a u C o a a s a e r s . One o f the most exciting chases, If It may be so called, that has taken place sluce the era o f the grand buffalo bunt ended on the great plateau, la the pro posed round up o f 18,000 w ild horses In Douglas County, Washington. As sched uled, 400 cowboys w ill take part In the ride a fter these w ild creatures o f the range. Th e purpose Is to rid the range o f this great band o f grass consumers and the effort, presumably, w ill be to dispatch rather than capture the horses. These untamed and practically un tamable animals are the product o f na ture left to Itself on the great range for thirty years. Th e stock Is Interbred and, o f course, underbred, and has no place In the economy o f civilized life. W h ile Its exterm ination w ill be a gain to the legitim ate stock breeding and raising Interests o f the section over which the horses have so long roamed at w ill, the Instincts o f humanity are shocked at the cruelties that w ill be In flicted through the means by which this purjtose Is to be accomplished. Perhaps this Is the best that can he done at this stage o f affairs to rid a wide section o f the country o f a verita ble pest to the stock Industry. Like many other scourges, the remedy for this plague o f w ild horses lays In pre vention. T h e careless settlers o f thirty years ago who allowed their ponies to run uneared fo r on the range year after year w ere culpable In thla matter. The result has been a multiplication o f un profitable animals that bava eaten out tha grass on the range fo r years to tha detriment o f the Interests o f a legiti mate stock Industry. Now comes the necessity o f repairing tbs consequences o f the settlers’ carelessness and a “ roundup” looking to the extermination o f thousands o f these w ild creatures, w ith such cruelties as w ill be necessary to accomplish that end. Th e chase w ill he an exciting one, no doubt, and the ultim ate result w ill be beneficial. Borne H i lls t w . “ Do you see that distinguished look ing man over there w ith gluechlored whiskers? W ell, he furnlahee the bone and sinew o f the nation.” “ You don’t say. Is be the bead o f a physical culture college?” “ Nope." ;" “ Recruiting station?" “ ’Way o ff." "Th en what la hls line?” “ Why* ha runs a »-cent lunchroom.’* W m < i WEALTH FROM WASTE. t a C m Tha corn plant la a gross feeder and accepts any kind o f manure that may ■ v-P r® eo o ts O f t « « M o r a V a l o a k l o th a n I k * O r ls r ia a l M a t e r i a l . be applied, but It w ill not thrive in .. ... .. , . ,__ | Science hag worked wonders In devel- partuarahip with any other ptonto, to r W Mlth from w u t e . In tb# old which reason It must be kept free from candlem aker. who used palm ? 0rd-r ,to on their own trouble, w ith glyeer- ***• ,n f * " J lne. i f tha caudle was blown out the which necessitates the frequent use o f , smoldering wick uted to leavq an offen the cnltlvator. Th e clean preparation sive odor. I t was the glycerins that o f tha land before planting nod the .. . . „ _ ■- paused this. Naturally, tha only thing •'?' .inr» *... * . . r r M o o t o t M ilk P a ll. That many o f the odors and much o f tha dirt which gets Into milk la during the process o f milking: moat o f ns know, hence every precaution to overcome thla should be taken. One o f the beat methods-of protecting the milk In the pall Is to arrange a cover o f tin and chess « cloth. H a re a tin cover made to go over the pall loosely so as to allow for the apace taken by the cloth strainer. The tin cover should be higher In the center than at tha sides (sea small cut rain destroys weeds and grass, which permits tha farm er to accomplish such task at the least coat aa he benefits the com crop w h ile preparing tbs land fo r another the follow ing season. For this reason, where large fields are cal tlvntud, there can be no substitute tor corn, and whether prices rise or fall the corn crop 1« a necessary adjunct to farm ing In this country. On tha farm Its value la not ¿»onload to its grain alone, but the en tire plant can bs util ised fo r some purpose. I t Is, therefore, the most Inexpensive preparatory crop known. Every farm er alma to secure a crop o f corn, and lata planting la re sorted to rather than Incur total fa il ure. Success with a late-planted crop depends upon the condition o f tha soil, the variety and the mode o f cultiva tion, but the main drawback Is the ap pearance o f frost early In tha season, which, however, dose not frequently occur. to e lt v p le e tn w d M . t u « . PilOTECTED M IL K P A IL. to righ t) and a hole about fonr Inches In diameter made In the front center through which the m ilk la directed. Then have plenty o f cheese cloth cov ers large enough to reach five or alx Inches over the side o f the pall, where It may be secured by a tape o r by slip ping a hoop o f sheet Iron o f proper size over It, and pushing It down hard. Put on one o f these covers, then the tin .cover, and you are ready fo r milking. The cheese cloth w ill prevent any filth getting to the milk, and If tbeaa covert are washed In boiling w ater and sun- dried they may be need a number o f times. The Illustration shows the Idea plainly, the cut to the lower left show ing the pall complete with the strainer and the larger cut ft bowing bow the. cloth Is slashed at Intervals so It w ill fit around the pall without trouble.— Indianapolis Newa. HmmiUmm O s I s m F o w ls . . Young guinea fo w ls are quite tender and need feeding frequently, say every two hours, fo r a week or two. They can be raised successfully I f fed sim i lar to turkeys or young chicks w ith a variety o f feed. Including s p a ll seeds, etc. They must have pure w ater and shade and some animal feed, such aa worms, grubs, or green bone. Mrs. Tate wrote to Farm and Home that her chicks are fed equal parts o f bran, corn- meal, crushed rice, and a little bone- meal, and some ground raw potatoes each day a fte r the first week. Chicks are fed all dry food In hoppers, so none Is wasted or soiled. They are fed all they can eat o f the dry corn, meal, bran and crushed rice. Gravel and fresh w ater are kept before them all times. W ater must be In tin and galvanised drinking fountains so chlcka can Juat get their beads In, but not their fe e t B m h b v H on* M a n se r. In response to the urgent demand tor Instructional and Investigation work along poultry Unas, the board o f trus tees o f tha Iow a Agricultural College, at a recent meeting, created a new po sition In the animal husbandry depart ment, that o f Instructor In animal hus bandry, In charge o f poultry. Howard Pierce, a graduate o f Cornell U niver sity, baa been placed In charge o f the work. Mr. Pierce Is one o f the beet- trained men In America along all lines o f work pertaining to the poultry In dustry, and the college authorities oon- alder themselves most fortunate In se curing the services o f ao competent a man to build up thla new and Import ant line o f college work. Plana are now being prepared fo r the erection o f the moet modern and com plete poultry plant to be found at any educational Institution In America. The plant w ill be located on the farm re cently purchased fo r the dairy herd and poultry work. Both Instructional and Investigation work w ill be com menced with the opening o f the college year. During the first few years ape- call attention w ill be devoted to the most economical methods o f feeding for egg production, and o f fattening chick ens fo r m arket -------- H e r S tM k w . Th e bay derrick shown here Is for stacking hay In the field. The skid* are 10x12 Inches, 16 feet long. The two cross pieces are 8x10 Inches, 8 feet long, each set In 2 Inches. The nprlgbt and tha next thing was to get rid o f It down the gu ilty Into tbs crank. People com plained; but what «la# was an hon est chandler to do? La tterly they have been figuring on tha m atter, and some o f them have coma to tha conclusion . that they oasd to let aa much aa W O O worth o f glycerine get aw ay from t f t f every week. In the last five yea re tha aoapm aken have learned that they can realise more money ont o f the glycerine than they can out o f tha soap they make. Seme o f this glycerine la refined, but the greet part e f the tra d e goes to the manufacturers o f dynamite, which la nitroglycerine m ixed w ith Infusorial earth, ao aa to weaken I t Back o f the tin shop there used to be a heap o f shining clippings. Th e heap o f dippings Isn't there now. I f there are any bite o f tin too small to make the hacks o f buttons, they are pressed together to make wtndow-sasb weights. N or la that p ile o f sawdust back of tha aaw m ill any more. T h e butcher* want It fo r their floors, but that Isn’t the most economical use o f I t There are acetic arid, wood alcohol, naphtha, wood ta r (and all that that Im plies) to be had from the distillation o f sawdust — to aay nothing o f sugar from birch sawdust »hasps’ wool la d irty and grassy when It comes to the mills. W ash It with strong alkali In running water. Th at la what baa alw ays been done But a man In Massachusetts thought It would be a good Idea to dissolve the grease w ith soma such solvent as naph tha. H e saved the naphtha to use over again ; he recovered the grease, which Is tha meat softening and penetrating o f all fats and la most valuable for ointments, and ha recovered carbonate o f potash. A ft e r the wool la once woven Into d o th w e may dismiss from our minds all thought o f effecting any more econ omies. When the suit o f riothea is worn to rags, the rags are still as goad i new, fo r the wool is picked Into strands o f fiber again and woven anew. It Isn’t ground Into shoddy as It was during tha C ivil W ar. Tha wool la picked apart aa long aa It has any staple to It at all and forms part o f the most expensive and enduring fab rics. It may be mixed with cotton, but when It comes to be a rag again the cotton Is burned out either with arid o r heat, the dust Is taken out and once more behold absolutely pure wool, much safer to wear than the new wool o f the tropics or semi-tropics. And when at length there Is not enough wool to hold together, still it goes Into our clotblug. W ith wood ashes and scrap Iron It ceases to be a fabric and becomes a dye— Prussian blue. CURE VOS STAC KINO H AT. post la 8x8, and 9 feet high. Th e three braces are 4x4, or round poles. The boom pole la 82 feet long, 4 Inches at top and 8 or 10 at bu tt Th e chain can be shortened to raise the boom or lengthened to lower. The boom Is •wung by a swing rope, as can be seen. “ A ” shows the fork on which boom pole Is swung. Th e bole In the post la lined with a piece o f gas pipe with solid plug In bottom. A 6-tine grapple fork can be uaed. Th is la Intended fo r 6-foot atoll and can be any width. Stall poets are set op In fron t o f trough« also, tw o feet back, w ith cross piece mortised Into each, tw o feet from floor, fo r trough to rest on. Trough tw o feet wide, 7-Inch breast plank, 9-Inch fro n t Entire trough made o f 2-Inch oak plank. Hay board tw o feet wide, one Inch thick, binged to edge o f trough. Brace on T o D r i v e Awm jr th e G r a m F ly . outer edge o f board to bottom of N ext to clean w ater for the destruc trough. I use an old buggy top Joint. tion o f green fly upon the m ajority o f Board can be dropped down out o f way plants, gardeners value soft soap the when not In use. Rack fits apace be m ost; when Judiciously used It id an tween stall posts, hinged at top so as unfailing remedy and attended w ith no to sw ing back when placing grain feed risk. Dissolved In water, at the rate In trough. Rack Is made o f 2x2-lnch o f two ounces o f sogp to one gallon of hemlock, Corners smoothed off. Horses water, and the plants dipped In the w ill not chew hemlock. Rack can be liquid, or syringed with I t so that it reaches Insects In sufficient quantities to thoroughly wet them, It w ill do Its work In the most effectual manner. It Is, however, a remedy that requires «be exercise o f a little forethought I f It Is to be used In bouses It should be ap plied In the evening, when the bouse w ill be closed fo r several hours, and when It w ill not dry up too quickly. When the liquid Is to be applied to plants or trees grow ing In the open air It should be done In the evening o f warm and still days. I f there la only a little wind blowing the liquid ao quickly disappears that It Is dried -ip before It has time to complete Its work VOMICA I. B O M B X A lv e i e f destruction. da o f Iron or any kind o f wood. No Th irsty L a s l i . animal can toss hay from thla manger According to an «Xpert In the em or waste any grain.— C. B. Scrogga, In ploy o f the In terior Department, the r a n n P ro g n e ». enormous basin drained by the Mis souri R iver absorbs no leee than 88 per P m u I m p m i « 4 w it h E>r*> cent o f all the rain that falls upon It, Th e method o f the California Fru it whereas the basin o f the Ohio R iver Oanners’ Association at San Jose o f absorbs only 70 per cen t The amount using lye fo r eating o ff peach aklns aa o f rain fall In the course o f a year la a substitute for paring was Investigated proportionately greater tn the Ohio by a member o f the California State than in the Missouri basin, and so the Board o f Health. By this process the form er river, although much the short fru it la Immersed In the hot lye and er o f the two, contributes more water quickly passed Into pure cold water, to the Mississippi than does Its gigan which Is constantly changing and tic rival from the west. quickly washes away the «alk ali. The N o w l y a l m • * Cfcooso M a k l a s . process la believed to be entirely clean A large cheese factory la projected ly and tha fru it healthful, tha peaches In the province o f Ontario, Canada, by not being bandied aa they must be New York produce merchants, reports when peeled by hand. T w o cana o f Consul Van Sant from Kingston. Tbs psaebas thus prepared were analysed factory 1« to be operated on an entirely w ith reference to arid content In both new system o f cheese-making. W hite practically the normal amount o f arid cheese la now In great demand at L iv was found. It Is stated that the a a a e erpool, betps 48 cento higher than ool- HUcia— la nsad w ith prune« FORGOT 'T W A S SU N D AY. Orlsrta o f la y ls a , “ Ho Has L w t tk * Coast o f Hla Baakoto.’ * Thor# Is a very old saying In France^ ” 11 a perdu le' compte de ees panlera” (H e baa lost tha count o f hls baskets), which came about In this w a y ; The old cure o f la Buxeretto was fu ll o f good-natured hum or; never troubling himself o rer that bs wished to forget, and remembering the arrival o f Sunday only by tha number o f baskets be had made, at least that la what everyone said, fo r he was In the habit o f mak ing one each day. A s soon aa he bad finished one he bung it on a nail. Whan be counted alx o f them be knew the Sabbath was come. It happened one time, contrary to hla custom, that he employed two days In making a etcher (a kind o f latticed cage or osier basket In which to dry cheese). This unusual work made great havoc In hla counting time. It was good luck the next Sunday morning that bis housekeeper was scan- da 11 zed to see him go to hla work o f basket-making, and said to h im ; “ Mon sieur the cure, to-day la Sunday!” “ B a h !” tranquilly replied the good pastor. “ Count the baskets; there are only four.” “T h a t la truth,” replied the brave woman, "but, monsieur, remember, yon passed the days o f Thursday and W ed nesday making the cheese cage.” “ Ms f o il Tbou art right. Marguer ite,” cried the honest cure, throw ing down hla dear Implements o f work, “ rim quick to Genrtant (hla sacristan) to ring tha lin t bell tor grand mass. I'll be ready In an In stant” From this adventure arose the cu e tom o f saying In .many cantons tn ■peaking o f anyone who baa lost la carta, or coma out wrong In hla cal culations, or lost the street or number, "H e baa loet the count o f hla baskets.” — Toronto Star. Tko B o ffln n lo e . “ Do you think attention to the streets o f a city la the first thing In beautifying a municipality?” " A t least. It paves the w ay.” — Balti more American. A B ro o k fa s t D lo lo sro o . Mr*. Talkworda— Henry, you were talking In your Bleep last n igh t Henry— Pardon me fo r Interrupting you.— »m a rt S e t Tha World extends the glad hand to the lucky man. but all It hands tha victim o f tough luck Is a Nttle celd» Sympathy.