Image provided by: Newberg Public Library; Newberg, OR
About Newberg graphic. (Newberg, Or.) 1888-1993 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1906)
By H. S. NERRIMAN ■^V rirv*. CHAPTER XXV. Matthew Mark Kaatno arrived in St. Petersburg by train from Libait, and took a Jroaky to th« llotal de France, for which be paid seventy copeck*. Ilia paaa- port was in perfect order. although ameared moat lamentably by the clerk of the Russian consulate who vised It In 1 .on don. A fter breakfast he wandered forth, guidebook in hand, having refused the service« of a polyglot individual who pro fessed to be the brother-in-law of the hall porter. The landlord himself directed Maaton to the Newakt a*roapect, which, however, was not considered Interesting until the afternoon. Nevertheless, he went that way. and Anally found himself on the English quay. He crossed the Neva, still in the name tourist gait, and lost himself among the smaller commercial streets of the Vasili Ostrolf. Presently by the merest accident he found himself opposite a small warehouse bearing the name " I * Ogroff” in painted letters above the blind windows o f what had once been a shop. He pushed open the curtain ed door and. addressing himself to a pleasant looking girl who was seated at a counter adding up the columns of a ledger, he mentioned the name “ Loris Ogroff.’’ “ Yea.” answered the girl, in perfect English, “ he is in. Who are youY’ “ Matthew Mark Easton.” > “ A h ! Come in.” She led the way Into an Inner room whUA was lined with shelves containing long wooden boxen like miniature coffin*. There/Were upon the table some rolls of common cloth. “ Mr. Ogrofr Is apparently a tailor,” hazarded Easton in a conversational way. “ Yea,” she answered, with a short laugh, “ a very cheap one.” “ He is upstairs in the cutting-out room,” she continued, with a twinkle in her childish eyes. “ I aha 11 tell him.” Easton stood looking at the curtained door after she had closed it. Then he picked up a piece of rough cloth and ex amined its texture critically. “ I am half inclined.” he reflected aloud, “ to become a nihilist. There are alleviations even in the lot of a tailor’s assistant of the establishment Ogroff.” In a few moments the door opened again, and a stout man entered with a bow. He shook hands without speaking, and pointed to a chair. W e last saw this man in Easton's rooms , in London. Ilis name was not mentioned then, because there was not much in a name for him. It was not Ogroff then. He was not minutely de scribed. because a written description is not always of great value. For instance, be was in London a dark, grizzled man with a beard: in hia shop in the Vasili Oatroff, St. Petersburg, he was a fair, hairless man. “ Well?” be said, asthmatically, at length. “ Not a word,” replied Easton; “ and you?" The man shrugged his heavy shoulders. “ Not a word. I have written to you all that I heard. I wrote on the fifth of M a y ; have you destroyed the letter 7” “ Yea— burned it.” “ W e ll!” ejaculated the Russian, mis using the word. “ I heard,” he continued — “ never mind how— that they all got away, in good health, at the proper time — that is, in the early summer of the year before last. They were followed, but they destroyed all the horses and boats gs they went, snd the pursuit was naremarily given up.” “ Since that,” inquired Easton; “ not a word?” “ Not a word.” “ There has been no semi-official ac count o f tbe matter in the newspapers?" “ N o ! it has been hushed up. The of ficial report is that certain exiles and prisoners escaped: that they were pur sued by Cossacks, and that the chase was only given up when their death by starvation was a moral certainty.” “ And.” said Easton, "are they struck out of the list?” “ Yea; they are struck out.” " I am going to look for them,” an nounced Easton, after a pause. The Russian raised his flaxen eye brows. “ A h ! I understood that you were con demned— by the doctors.” “ No, not condemned ; they merely said. ‘ I f you go, it will kill you.’ ” “ And still,” said tbe Russian, aalmly. “ you go.” “ Rome one must. You cannot— you are too fat. I am going by land,” continued the American. “ I leave Petersburg to morrow morning.” Ogroff rose from his chair. “ You must go now,” he said. “ You have been here long enough; we are watched, yon know. Here In Petersburg we all watch each other.” The Ruasian held out a fat white hand. “ Good-by, yon brave American,” he •aid. “ G’b y !” returned Easton, with a laugh. C H A P T E R X X V I. “ Well, at all events, we have tried i t !” These words were spoken by tbe mere .emnant of a man to a solitary compan ion while both looked out— peered through the twilight— on death. He who spoke crouched in a singular way on the hard snow, supporting himself on one fur-clml srm. He could not stand, for be had but one teg. The other had been cut off fust above the knee— a recent amputation, rudely tied with rope, was stained a deep, suggestive color. His face was a horrid sight to look upon, for here and there in the pasty yellow flesh were deep in dentations of half-healed sores, the re sult of frost bite. One eye was quite dosed by a swelling which deformed the feature* and drew them all up. He spoke In a mumbling way, as if hia tongue were swollen or diseased, and tbe language was most dramatic of all tongues— Russian. Ilia companion, a abort, thick-set man, stood beside him : but he stood weakly, and the terribly sunken lines of hia cheek* told a story only sHghtly lea* horrible than that depicted by tbe face and form • f the cripple. Both faces alika bore that strange dry look which tells unerr ingly of starvation. W ithin * few yards o f th# two at their hacks, stood a* rude, ill-ahapen hut, built clumsily and ignorantly of snow. Its low doorway faced the north, and amid the gloom o f its interior there were discernible s number of heaps, apparently formed of old and tattered fur clothing. These were dead men; the women of Rergiua Pavloaki'a party had not lived to see the Arctic Oooan. The man who stood gave a short heart rending laugh as he looked out over the froaen sen. ^ . “ Yea,” he said, “ we have tried It." There was a pause, and then the crip ple— Sergius Pavloaki— spoke again : “ O f course,” he said, almost unintel ligibly. “ we have failed; but still our failure may teach others, and we hare kept it aecret. Those who want to know will never know. They will always b# in uncertainty as to whether we have escaped and are living hidden in America, in Europe, perhaps in Russia. We ahall be more terrible, doctor, dead thaa alive.” “ I hope so.” “ I, at ail events, shall be, for you say that I could not live a week in a warm climate. This leg of mine is leas painful to-day; perhaps it is healing.” “ No, Pavloaki; I have told you a doz en times it is not healed, it i* only froaen. It can never heal- The moment it thaw* you will die.” A sickly smile passed across hia un sightly features, and there was silence for a time— the deathly expectant silence of the far North. At length Pavloaki raised his mittened hand and extended I: outward like the needle of a compass. “ I wonder,” he mumbled, “ if Tyars la out there.” “ I wonder,” said the doctor, “ why you intrusted this to an Englishman.” “ I f I had the whole world to choose from, I should not have selected another man," said Pavloaki; “ but there was no choice in the matter.” “ I suppose,” said the doctor, with an ill-concealed sneer, “ that he has turned beck.” “ I will swear by St. Paul that he has not done that!” “ Then where is he?” u “ Dead!” was the answer. “ I f Claud Tyara bad been alive, he - would have come. He is not here, therefore he ia dead! Ough!” He stopped and fell back fainting with pain. In his excitement he had moved, and allowed some of his weight to rest upon tbe raw stump of his leg. In a sec ond the doctor was kneeling on the snow beside him. raising his head, touching his lips with snow. It was a poor restora tive. but there was nothing else at hand. One cannot offer to a dying man even the tenderest piece of an old sealskin mitten. Without waiting for consciousness to return, he attempted to lift the cripple, intending to carry him within the little snow hut, but the movement brought back Pavloski’a failing senses, and be shook his head in token that be wished to be left where he lay. "N o ,” he said, after gasping twice for breath: “ I would rather die out here.” The doctor’s bare hand crept within the tattered sleeve toward the pulse. He said nothing. There was nothing to say. “ I do not want.” continued Pavloaki brokenly, “ to see their faces. I — brought them here. It la my fanlt. I suppose— the good God—'w ill know how to revenge ail this. I f they— the Romanoffs— the Caar— had twenty live#, and we could take— them all— we might pay— the debt; but they have— only one life— to taka; that would be too short— a punishment. God will know how to do It— will He not, dpetot?” "Yes,” said the sweet, deep voice of the doctor, “ God will know how to do it.” “ Pray,” said the dying man, “ pray to Him to do it— w e ll!” Then bis head fell back and he breathed regularly and softly. But this was not the end. Presently tbe blackened lips began to move, and he spoke in quite a different voice— so different as to startle his listener. It was soft and even, as if recounting a dream not long dispelled. “ It is not yet a year ago,” he said. “ There were seven of us— four Russians, two Englishmen, and an American. Four Russians, two Englishmen and an Ameri can— what a strong combination ! The Russians to go into action on land, the Englishmen on the sea, and the sharp- witted American to watch and plot and scheme. I remember the last time we met was at Easton's house. Tw o of us are dead, and I am nearly— dead. Tyars and Grace— where can they be? They are ont there, doctor, in front of us— to the north. I — I shall go and— meet them.” The lipa closed with a sadden snap, and the doctor leaned eagerly forward. Ser gius Pavloski was dead. The survivor rose to his feet. It had begun to snow gently and in large flakes— a snow that would cover the ground to the depth of twelve inches in half that number of hours. As it fell it gradually covered the dead man, even to bis face and eyes, which were already cold. Presently the doctor moved a little, and. turning slowly round, scanned the near horizon. He could not see tbe pack ice now, for the snow was blowing In from tbe north, wreathing snd curling as it came. Then this lone man moved toward the snow hut, and entered it on his hands and knees. He took no notice of the dead— one soon gets accustomed to them — but fumbled about among tbe -baggage piled up in one corner. In a dull, stupid way he realised the responsibilities of his position. He drag ged two of the sledges out of the hut, and with a hatchet broke them up. Then he took tbe two strongest pieces of each— the cross-bars— and bound them securely together, thus forming a rough pole. Thfa be erected on a little mound where tha snow was thin, building it npNrith such debris as he could lay hands upon. It stood up gauntly, almost the only object within sight that was not white. It was a mere pole, the thickness of a man’s wrist, and yet It was probably visible ten mile* off against its gleaming surround ings. “ It would be good,” ha mumbled, “ to be warm once more— Just once.” Aad be plied up the wood in a little heap. H* crawled Into th* but an l pres ently returned bearing a good sized tin * 1 EARTHQUAKES IN C A R I B B E E 8 . Pkesoauaa A lw a y s A ttesd cd D read B o rd c rls z o a T e r ra ». by . T o us the lauds and countries about the Caribbean Sea are o f tbe greatest interest and Importance. Our people w ill be locating there with more aud Increasing frequency, and all the while the ties o f International co-operation w ill become stronger, says Francis C. Nicholas In the Review o f Reviews. That eruptive and seismic disasters have afflicted places In those regions w ill not deter us very much, fo r one has abundant faith that It Is not going to happen to him, and a good many o f our people are locating directly In range o f the volcanoes, happy and pros itering along with tbe natives. Th e region Is not very fa r away. A few days on the steamer and one is In tbe tropics. Th at bit o f yellow seaweed picked up at tbe shore last summer be cause It was different from tbe others was probably brought by tbe gu lf stream from tbe Caribbean regions and carried to our shores by a southerly wlud. Surely it Is not a far-aw ay coun try that we are considering, and It Is very beautiful— sunshine and flowers, green savannas and towering moun tains, torrential rivers, clear, splashing brooks and deep blue seas. W hy should one think o f earth quakes? My own experiences w ith them have happily been free from scenes o f d ea th ; yet the coining o f an earthquake is so sudden, so w ildly terrible, that tbe stoutest hearts must quail. E vsd w ild animals shrink with fear, and one is alw ays filled w ith dread bordering on terror. It is all so sudden. A sense o f some unknown fea r pervades all na ture, as i f the spirit o f the world bad caught its breath and held all life an instant In suspense, w hile sounds seem to beset one’s nerves rather than to assault tbe ears. Then comes a reel ing, sickening, staggering motion, and fear, and human crying out, and then quivering silence for tbe space o f a breath, follow ed perhaps by crushing destruction, or, it may be, by a sound like a great sighing and the earth set tles back, that tbe pulsations o f na ture may begin again in harmony. Then excited people find their voices, be wildered faces gleam with intelligence and every one is talking, comparing ex periences, wondering what it was, where it had come from end how it had gone away. Rucli have been my experiences with earthquakes In tbe Caribbean regions. S t a lk ln ir W ild G eeae. In a number o f counties lying on l>oth sides o f the Sacramento River, in the ^central portion o f California, the farm ers are greatly harassed every winter by the depredations o f countless (locks o f w ild geese, which swarm over the broad grain fields and destroy the young, sprouting grain stalks. Indeed, so serious has this annual invasion be come that nearly all tbe large farms have employes who regularly patrol the fields, and do nothing else but keep tbe feathered pests on the wing. One o f the most novel blinds or stalk ers ever used in that section, or any other, fo r the purjiose o f destroying tbe geese, is that o f a Colusa fan ner who lives on the bank o f the Racramento. H e has a big red steer which he has trained to stalk geese. Th e steer walks round a flock o f geese in an ever de creasing circle, his master, armed with a repeating shotgun, walking beside him, but on tbe farther side from the flock. Th e geese have become so Used to seeing animals grazing near that they pay no attention to them ; so the farm er Is enabled to get within shotgun dis tance and pour a broadside into tbe flock w hile It Is feeding on the ground, and tw o more shots before the birds are out o f range when they rise. This dumb hunter is held In great es teem by Its owner and his fam ily. It Is needless to state, and receives the beat o f everything. D a a s«r*n C lo S M ask er, L tv e le r aa4 D im « . This clod mo»ucr, leveler and drag can also be used fo r mashing -down cornstalks and weeds. Cut off a log about tw elve lnchee In diameter that w ill split straight through the middle nicely, take off tbe bark from both pieces, that w ill leave one flat aide and one rounding side to each piece; get some old half-inch rod Irons, alx pieces about fifteen Inches long, have taps on one end and book about two inches long, bent on tbe other e n d ; bore two au ger'holes In each piece a foot from each end; put the hooka with taps through holes. Get two pieces o f old log cbsiDs, w ith three links each, which w ill fasten the two pieces o f timber to gether. Bore two more holes In one o f the pieces about two feet from each end, and take one long trace chain and fasten to doubletree. Letter A shows shape o f the rods. I f you want to make it heavier, drop a pole on the chains between the logs: This w ill make as fine a drag, clod crusher, land leveler, atalk and weed knocker aa you would wish to use. Con Peat. Th e cornstalk borer has Infested va rious parts o f the county fo r many years, but has not done great damage in most parts o f tbe corn b elt It has begun to appear In Iow a and Kansas In the last two or three years. I t Is a large, whiter brown-spotted caterpillar which bores Into a stalk o f young corn. When fu lly grown It bur rows down Into the tap-root and In the spring transforms to a pnpa, from which tbe adult soon emerges and lays Its eggs on the young corn near tbe ax ils. Tbe young larvae hatching from them bore Into the stalk and upward through the pith. When fu lly grown they bore outwards to the surface, making a hole, from which the moth escapes and trans forms to pupa in tbe burrow. This In sect Is two-brooded, tbe second brood feeding on the old stalks, generally be tween tbe second join t and the ground, and becoming full grow n a'»out harvest time, when they go into winter quar ters. When corn w as seriously Infested last year and the atalks left standing a second infestation may be expected this year unless tbe farm er has raked and burned, a method which w e have alw ays suggested when tbe cornstalks w ere known to harbor any kind o f in sect pests. Corn ia too good to be with out Is full supply o f enemies, which at tack It from the very tim e it ia planted In tbe ground until It Is In the full ear. C hase r e a l A leoh a l. Denaturlzed alcohol w ill probably be come another great product o f the southern states. It Is claimed that cot tonseed oil machinery Is perfectly adapted to making Industrial alcohol from the potato. I f this Is successfully proven, the many cottonseed oil mills o f the south, which are idle each sum mer season fo r lade o f material, w ill be able to operate all tbe time and keep their employes together. Furthermore, being already equipped with tbe ma chinery, they w ill, no doubt, be able to mahufaefure tbe alcohol very cheaply. Fanners would also be benefited by the Immense demand for potatoes that would result. In Cuba alcohol Is pro duced and sold from tw elve to fifteen cents a gallon, and it la said to make an excellent fuel- for running engines. I t produces no soot or disagreeable odors. When the law recently passed by congress to denaturlze alcohol In the United States becomes operative It is expected greatly to Increase tbe use o f the article both fo r fuel and other purposes. It la a distressing thought that many o f the physical Ills In the world might have been prevented bad tbe sufferers only known bow. Much o f tbe blind ness found In asylums la due to a de structive Inflammation o f tbe eyes oc curring soon after birth, which can al most always bo averted by proper treatment. Very many cases o f deafness are also preventable if treatment la begun early enough and persisted In long enough. Sometimes loss o f boaring Is duo to disease o f tha auditory nerve# In the Inner e a r; that la usually unavoidable and Irremediable. But lu the'great ma jo rity o f cases tbe trouble Is in the mid dle ear. snd Is prim arily o f a catarrhal nature. It does not originate In the ear ordinarily, bat extends to It fropi the throat, and so It happens that treat ment o f catarrhal conditions o f tbs noss and throat Is tbs bast preventive o f deafness. Tbs most frequent cause o f deafness In children Is the presence o f adenolnda, or the throat tonsil. This obstruct# tbs paasags o f air from tbs nose, and so compels tbe child to breathe through tbe mouth. Th e mucous membrane o f the throat was never Intended to re ceive the Impact o f tbe unflltered and unwarmed air, which In health Is both warmed and filtered o f much o f Its floating dost daring Its passage through the nos*. -Th e Irritation caused h j tbe dust and the cold results In a low grado o f Inflammation with Increassd secretions, and that we call catarrh. This Inflammation is apt to spread outward from tbe center, passing from on# point to another and op through tbe connecting air tubes from tbe throat to the middle ear. This exten- ifi on o f tbe Inflammation Is often helped along by tbe bad habit o f blowing tho nose violently when It Is stopped up. fo r thus a little o f the secretion Is forced Into the tube, and sometimes even Into the drum cavity o f tfie ear. From what baa been said o f tbs cause o f catarrhal deafness, the means o f prevention can be readily under stood. Any child who breathes through its mouth should have the throat ex amined, and If adenoids are found they should be removed. Any chronic ca tarrhal condition o f the throat and noss should receive proper treatment, and any one w ith -a tendency to taka cold on small provocation should con sult hia physician, who may find some local trouble In the nose which a sim ple operation may remove, or may And that tbe sufferer la not living hyglenl- cally. or that the throat needs some remedial applications to relieve a state o f Irritability.— Youth’s Companion. O r a d la f C r c t a . Th e establishment o f creameries has done much to put the dairy business on a stable and profitable basis, a « well as to provide consumers with a uni form quality o f good butter. T b e in troduction o f tbe band separator, by enabling tbe farm er to feed skim-milk in prime condition and minimising transportation expensd, has also done much for tbs business. This has not been without a drawback, however, in A rra a sla s L a rs* K *n i*. that tbe separated cream Is not always This illustration gives a plan to sat kept under proper conditions, snd that -A Give-Away. delivered to the creameries differ* up s kettle In butchering time which It greatly in quality. When all are paid much better than tbs old w ay with tbe same rate fo r butter fa t there Is posts and pole. Take one snd one-half- no incentive to careful preservation o f the cream. A t the experiment station, A' - Manhattan, Kan., a system o f grading cream was adopted about tw o years ago, the prices paid varying with the quality o f the cream. This has resulted In great improvement In the cream de livered and enables the butter maker “ W ith the aid o f my mesmeric Influ to do his part better. Bulletin No. 185, ence I put tbe subject Into a bypuotlo “ Grading Cream,” treat* o f this sub sleep, causing him to remain in a posi ject, and can be obtained by addressing tion Impossible In tbe normal subject. the station as above. HOW TO SET TH E KETTLE. Th* W av <• M a k e H a a s M o u lt . One o f the achievemefits o f modern poultry keeping is that o f forcing a hen to doff her old coat, and grow a new one before the time when she would do so naturally. Many hens abed their feathers so late In the season, natural ly, that cold weather overtakes them before they get new suits, consequently they seldom begin laying before spring. I f the moult can be hastened so that a new coat o f feathers Is grown and the laying can be started before cold weather, the prospect Is good for a supply o f eggs during fall and winter. T b e result Is usually accomplished by cutting o ff all meat and mash foods, putting tbe hens on short rations o f grain for a week or so to stop tbe lay ing. then allow more lib erty and feed a full ration high in protein. This loosens tbe old feathers, which drop off quickly and starts a rapid growth o f tbs new. A liberal allowance o f beef scrap Is essential, and linseed meal is an advan tage. Sunflower seeds are also good during tbe m ou lt T s »o Worm la Torker*. Th e presence o f the tapeworm may be recognized through the Indolent drowsy spirits o f turkeys Infested by i t ; a careful examination o f voldlnga w ill rveal Its presence, as those In fested w ill pass small portions o f tbe worm. Powdered male fern Is an e f fective remedy, and may be adminis tered1 In doses o f from thirty grains to one dram o f tbe pow der; or o f the liquid extract, fifteen to thirty drops. Th is should be administered morning and evening before feeding; tbe mini mum dose to tbe younger. Increasing tbe does as they grow older. Oil o f S h o rt. turpentine Is an excellent remedy “ I bear some scientists are going to against worms o f all kinds which In try to make the north pole with an air habit tbe digestive organs o f poultry. •hip. Do they Intend to stay long?” A common remedy fo r tbe removal o f “ Oh, no. Th ey're only going to maks worms from fowla Is one drop o f kero a flying trip.” — Detroit Free Press. sene oil night and morning. This should not he administered to tbe very Trouble is about tbs only thing that young, but may be used with Impuni you can borrow that Is not wanted ty a fter they are a few weeks old. Inch old wagou tire to the blacksmith shop and get a ring made tbe size ol your kettle, with three legs welded to I t and you can move your kettle an; place where wanted, and nothing Is Ic your way to go around i t C a ttle « A ip »r * * m S t a lk s . The right way In cutting asparagut stalks, says an expert In answer to a question, Is to cut everything clean up to tbe end o f tbe asparagus season, oi up to about the time that green peat are fit to gather. A fte r that we let all the stalks grow, but If we were to cut any, we would remove the little ones rather than the big ones. This clean cutting Is also tbe best remedy for the asparagus beetle, which gives us some trouble here. As long as all the stalkt are cut, the Insect Is given no chance to breed, and later on, when we stop cut ting. we can spray tbe plants with the Bordeaux mixture and arsenate o f lead combination which makes an end to the beetle attacks for a while, and also checks tbe rust If that gives trouble. For ridding the atalk s,of slugs alone, dnatlng with freshly slaked lime while tbe plants are still wet with dew w ill answer. V e la « of D olrr - Prisoners and Captives bottle labeled "Spiritua.” n e poured th* contents over the wood and struck a match. In a moment the blue flames leaped up and the wood crackled. He crouched dowu to the leeward aide, so close that his clothes were singed and gave forth a sharp, acrid smell. He withdrew hi* mittena and held his bare, scarred bands right into the flames. “ A h !” he murmured In t gurgling voice, “ that is good!" But It did not last long. The wood was light and very dry, and in five min utes there was nothing left but a few smoldering ashes. The doctor rose to hia feet and looked long and ateadily out to the north over the broken ice. Hia eyes lingered over each whits mound and hillock— not loving ly, for it was horribly dismal, almost too dismal to he part of this world at all. Strange to say, hia eyes finished their Inspection by looking up to heaven. The great snow-clouds were rolling south, bearing in their huge, rounded bosoms the white pall to cover a continent for many months to come. But this man aeemtd to be looking beyond the clouds, seeking to penetrate the dim ether. He was not looking at the sky, but into heaven. At last he gave a contemptuous little shrug of the shoulders, full of a terrible mean ing. The next moment he sought for something In the inner pocket of hia fur tunic. There was a gleam of dull, rusted metal, and he raised his hand toward hia open mouth. At the same instant a sharp report broke upon that echoleas silence, and a little puff of white smoke was bar southward on the breeze. (T o be continued.) P r o fa c ta . ‘T h u s !" A P s l k e t le F la re r*. Some time when you are walking In the Rue de Rlvoll, nays a w riter In The Munsey, pause fo r a moment and glance up at tbe balcony o f the Hotel Continental. You may see a little, weazened old woman there, dressed In rusty black, with w idow's weeds. O f her Paris talked m ightily once upon a tim e ; fo r that old lady Is the Empress Eugenie. She stands looking ont on the gardens o f tbe Tullerles. where once her palace was— where once she reigned In greater splendor than any queen o f them a ll; a dreary, pathetic figure; a text for a sermon on fallen greatness. P e * * ln a f* t le . “ Good n ew s!” cried the lawyer, w av ing a paper above hia bead. “ I ’ve se cured a reprieve fo r you.” “A reprieve?" replied the convicted murderer. Indifferently. Why, yee; don’t you see, you ought to be happy— " ' A h !” replied tbe prisoner, gloomily, “ that »Imply means a delay, and I ’ ve always been taught that delays are dan gerous."— Catholic Standard and T im e « There were 12,147,804,550 pounds o f milk and 588,186,471 pounds o f create used in 1904 In the manufacture o f 551,278,141 pounds o f butter, 813,685,- 290 pounds o f cheese and 808,485,182 pounds o f condensed milk. These fig ures are part o f tbe census o f manufac tures fo r 1906. Tbe total coat o f tbe m aterial« used in tbe Industry was C s t la T a lc s k o a e R a le * . $142,920,277, w hile tbe value o f tbe pro T o meet the telephone competition it ducts was $168,182,789, an Increase o f Is proposed In England to reduce the the form er o f 81.8 per cent, and o f tbe cost o f a six-word telegram, including latter o f 28.6 per cen t The number the address, to 6 cents. o f establishments dropped from 9,242 A woman can put this and that to to 84128, w hile the capital Increased 80 per cent to $ 47 , 258 , 666 . There were gether and tell everything her husband 8,607 salaried officials and clerks and la doing. But a woman can fool her 174167 engaged In tbe manufacture o f husband whenever abe wants to- For these articles. Tbsss received s a la ries! tunately, woman do not often ca r« to amounting to S9w78Q.0ML | fool their husbands.