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THE GIRL WITH A MILLION ----- By D. C. Murray ' C n A P T K R X X IV .— (Continued.) “ Don’t go. Hector,” said the widow. Paring the whole of hi* harangue ahe had held his hands and had kept her eyes fixed upon his. and be had endured her gase like an honest man, and had returned it with a sad and gentle gravity Inexpressibly affecting. “ Don’t go, Hec tor.” There was a tender parting, and he eras out in the streets alone, with hia amazing good fortune. It was early afternoon when a letter from Julia reached him. He opened it with a curious sort o f misgiving, and rose to his feet startled at the sight a check within the letter. The check eras for no leas a sum than a thousand pounds. The little widow’s accompany ing letter told him that she had heard o f his embarrassments, and had desired to speak o f them, but could not find the courage. He was to take this whether be wanted it or not, and if he refused, she would never, never forgive him. When once he knew the priceless good fortune that had befallen him, he seised hia .hat, dashed into the tereet. and hail ing a cab, was driven to the bank. He was but just in time, and was the last Ban served that day; but when he •merged he carried the price of his own freedom, and Dobroski's safety, in his pocket. upon the bell pull, waiting while he might have counted three. He had scarcely ever found e pause In his speech so long. He rang twice, one pull followed swiftly and sharply on the other. “ Coffee for two— black coffee." The qotable scheme was well upon its way now, and the spy’s pulses beat quick, and his throat and tongue and lipa were dry, and felt hard, like wood. The cof fee came, hot and fragrant. Dobroeki drew bis cup beside him on the table. It seemed an age before he sipped. The spy had already put his lips to his own cup, and could detect nothing strange in the flavor of the liquid. At that instant a curious burning pang shot across the spy’s stomach, and a sec ond later a feeling o f nausea rose within him. like that he always experienced even in the smoothest weather when he pass ed between France and England. Dob roeki shifted uneasily, and took a drink at his coffee. “ I can afford to escape the rest.” said the spy to himself. “ But it shall be mine to open the ball.” He began to walk up and down the room, and suddenly threw a window open. Dobroeki turning to look at him, saw that he was rubbing at the bottom of his waistcoat with both hands, and that he wore a disgusted and almost indignant look. “ What is the matter?” asked the old man, rising. “ You are In pain?" He ad vanced toward his betrayer; but as he C H A P T E R X X V .. Mr. Wroblewskoff was out at the mo took hia first step he paused and flushed, ment of O’ Rourke’s call on business of im- laying an outstretched hand upon hia rtance. He felt for his own part that breast. “ I am on fire,” said Zeno. " I am i immediate business was the most im portant upon which he had ever embark sick. I loathe myself.” ed. It led him to the residence o f Dr. “ I* too,” said Dob roski, quietly, “ feel ““Bran,” Th Holiington place, and made a a sensy o f burning add sickness.” - “ It is the coffee,” cried Zeno. “ We lengthy conversation necessary there. “ I have simplified my plan, sir,” said have both taken it. There is something the junior spy, “ and if I so happy as to unwholesome in the coffee." secure your approval ot it, I can sat to The old man sank bat^ into hia chair, white and trembling. “ You have drunk work at once." more than I,” cried the spy, as if In a “ Let me hear,” said the elder. “ Dobroeki is more interested in the paroxysm of regret and fear. “ You’re younger men than in the elder ones,” ill. A h ! dear sir, you’re ill. He is ill. — td Zeno. “There is a youngster named He is dying. A h ! the doctor. There is Bernstein, a son of Carl Bernstein” — a doctor on the second floor. What a Dr. Bmn nodded— “ the lad who was late providence!” He rang the bell, and then rushed to ly chased out of Vienna. He has many friends in Warsaw, and Dobroeki is very the door and tore it open. “ The doctor!” he shouted. “ The doc fond of him. and proud of him.” “ I know— I know," said the eider, “ do tor on the second floor I Tell him to come here ! Quickly ! quickly !” A door opened below, feet ran rapidly “ I propose to call on Dobroeki this afternoon, with news of Bernstein. I upstairs. A man presented hlmaelf, strug respectable professional propose to ask him to come and dine with gling into a frock coat aa he entered the room. Bernstein and myself this evening.” “ What la the matter?” he demanded. “ Where is Bernstein?” “ My friend!” cried Zeno; “ the dear- " In Paris. I represent him ss having t. He is dying. And I also. W e have Jast arrived in London, mad with his late expulsion from Austria, and determined taken poison. The coffee.” H e threw himself upon the couch and in go at once to Warsaw and head a rev olution among the students there. I rep contorted hia body, as If he were in resent him as having appealed to me to agony. Dob rook! sat white and still, with Join him. I beg Dobroeki to meet him both hands trembling on his chest, and this evening at my rooms and dissuade great beads of sweat running from his The newcomer tasted the him from this mad enterprise. There is forehead. no surer bait than this. He w ill rise to coffee, and spat it out again, with n wry face. Dobroeki watched him collectedly it, I know." and inquiringly: • “ W e lir “ Verdigris," said the doctor. "Another “ Once et my rooms, we sit down to await Bernstein. I have been so very example e f the folly o f the copper kettle. particular about to-day’s dinner that I I will put you both right in a moment.” myself have engaged the cook. He is one He ran downstairs, and presently return o f our own people— Bernardo— a poor ed with a tumbler in either hand. “ Your antidote, sir,” he said, in a «restore in his profession, but an ad mirable cook. When I ring twice eagerly business tone to Zeno, and then advanc and close together he will know hia sig- ing to Dobroakl set one hand below the aal. It may be coffee— It may be soup old man’s head and with the other held — it will have to be whatever I can per the draught to hia lips. “ Drink this, s ir ; it w ill soothe you at once.” suade the old rascal to take." He went quietly from the room, but "Precisely," said the doctor. “ Petrovaki is in apartments oh the did not trouble himself to descend Into floor below, and has been there in readi the kitchen. He occupied himself instead ness for a fortnight. He is known to by looking over the contents of a small the people of the house as s doctor, and black hand-bag, which held among other has already attended the landlady and a things five or six blue vials with glass housemaid. When Bernardo has prepar stoppers, and a hypodermic syringe in its ed the coffee or the soup, it la sent np. case. This last he examined with great Whan Dobroeki has taken it, be feels un particularity, and for extra safety be stowed It in his waistcoat pocket. well.’’ “ The old gentleman being unwell, and I being unwell also,” continued Zeno, C H A P T E R X X V I. “ we suspect the soup or the coffee, or In a little while the doctor mounted to (whatever it is we have taken. W e be the room above, and entered softly with come alarmed, and I ring the bell. ‘Ran out knocking. Zeno, with a shining tri fo r the doctor on the second floor.* The umph in his looks, arose, and lifted a doctor inquires for symptoms. W e have trembling forefinger for silence. The doc tor advanced on tiptoe. great nausea— we have burning pains.” “ And then— the old gentleman must be “ He is sound," whispered Zeno. “ W ill attended to first. I am younger and can he awake upon the Journey?” bear it better, sad I am very solicitous " I will take care of that,” replied the fa r tbs old gentleman. The old gentle doctor. man gets a soothing draught. and la ad Neither he nor Zeno could sit still. vised to lie still. He lies still and goes They prowled stealthily here and there, doing unnecessary things, and now and to sleep.” . again exchanging a whisper. Once or "And wakes in Calais?” , “ And wakes In Calais. W e travel, at twice the doctor took Dobroeki by the tended by the doctor. The old gentleman wrist and counted his pulsation. Once he wakes In the same room, and finds his lifted one e f the sleeping man’s eyelids friends beside him. He will be very III and stared fixedly at the unseeing eye and languid. Ha will complain o f n that looked hard at him. “ The carriage is here,” said Zeno, when splitting headache. H e will need a new half an hour had gone by. “ Let us get medicine.” “ Yea, yes. And the new medicine lands away at once. W e can drive slowly. I stifle in this abominable indoor air." him at Vienna?” W ith this be disappeared, carrying his “ Then,” cried Zeno, "and the thing is portmanteau with him. In a minute or done I” He shook hands respectfully, and with two be- waa back again, and, entering drew. The good Wroblewakoff half an with needles# stealth, signed to the doc hour later called upon Dobroeki with tor to assist him in moving the sleeping haste and trouble legibly painted on his man. A wickerwork wing, with here and face. He told his tale e f Bernstein, the gallant, fiery youngster, the Benjamin o f there a clamp o f iron to strengthen It, lay on either side the couch, and these the insurrectionary flock. “ When do you expect him?" asked Dob- being mined and fastened with straps the figure was secured from falling off. roski. “ Now a cloak over all. Draw out tbs “ In an hour's time, dear sir." A little before bis appointed time Dob hood. Bring it more over the face. That roeki arrived, and waa shown upstairs will do. L et ns get away." The two men took up their burden and Into the spertinents of Mr. Wroblewskoff. bore it down stairs. The narrowness of "Our young friend is not here yet?” "N o t yet, sir, I expect him momentar the way and Its many comers mads this a difficult and lengthy task, and when ily ” “ W e most save the lad, Wrobleekoff." they came upon the street at last the “ You w ill save him. dear sir," cried two bearers were flushed and breathless. Wroblewskoff. “ Hs will listen to you; Facing the door stood a brake, with a he «rill obey you.” Then there waa si- pair o f homes, sad aeated on the box was lencs for awhile. Once or twice the a liveried coachman with a cockade upon spy’s lips moved, but he did not speak. his hit. One or two pa ssers-by paused H e cleared his throat with a rasping to watch the proceedings. “ Can my poor deer friend bear the sound, and arms from tbs seat he had taken. “ A cup o f coffee, dear sir? I ’m journey, doctor?" asked the spy, in open solicitude. Just about to order it." “ Easily," returned tbs doctor. A mo “Thaak you. Yea." There waa a lingering Indecision ba ment. I have forgotten my medicaments." H e dashed upstairs la search ef the the words, and the an K Tke street In which Mr. Zone had had apartments waa a third of a arils long, and the bouse in which he had lived was the fourth from the eastern end. A mere minute before Dobroeki waa carried out by careful doctor and sorrowing friend a lounger turned the corner tar away, lie •ew something like a coffin carried from a boose at the other end of the lengthy street, and mw one or two Idle people stop to look on. He quickened hia pace; peering keenly beneath the hand with which he shadowed his eyes. Then, In a sudden, he broke into a headlong run, and while Mr. Zeno was posturing over his poor dsar friend the attention o f one- half the little crowd waa drawn to this advancing figure. The man run, though unpuraued, as if hs ran for Ilfs, and at the moment when the doctor leaped Into his place and gave the word to the near li man, the newcomer seised the homes by the reins and panted, “ Stop I" Zeno looked up and m w O’Rourke. “ Stand clear I” cried Zeno, in n sudden frenzy. Then, to the coachman, “ D riv e ! Out him down and drive!” “ Stop this man!” cried O’Rourke, ap pealing to the crowd. Zeno snatched the whip from the coachman’s hand and slashed at O’Rourke and the horses again and again. There waa a prodigious rearing, and then all at once O’Rourke waa down, and the brake waa away full speed. e e e e e e e The Vienna correspondent of the Oomet writes as follows: “ What may be fitly described aa an entr’acte in the romantic Dobroeki drama, which is absorbing the attention o f the whole world of Vienna at thia moment, took place to-day. The wedding aff^his gallant deliverer, Mr. Hector O’Rourke, XL P-, with the charming American mill ionairess, waa attended by the whole beau-monde, and places were struggled for as if the high contracting parties had been emperor and empress, instead of plain Irish gentleman and American lady. The real attraction waa the presence of Monsieur Dobroeki himself, who gave away the bride. T had a long interview with the bride groom yesterday. H e has recovered from his injuries, and the fe a n of Internal damage have disappeared. H e made hue statement which appears to me to deserve to be chronicled as a psychological curi osity. He declares that in the first dawn of recovery after six-and-thlrty hours of unconsciousness, his effort to recall the facts, and his fear lest he should not be able to make them clear to those who were about him, retarded the return of speech for a whole day. It was only by a prodigious effort o f self-contnol that he lay in perfect quiet for an hour, and thus gained self-pousessioo and tranquillity enough to explain the extraordinary cir cumstances o f the case. “ Mr. O’Rourke, who has had several interviews wiUi the RuMian embassador since hia viawhere, is fully persuaded of the truth o r the energetic protestations his excellency has made aa to the inno cence o f the Russian government from complicity in thia remarkable affair. Hs regards the abduction of his friend Mon sieur Dobroeki as the fruit of a private vendetta. “ Mr. O’ Rourke will return to Vienna in time to attend the final examination of the prisoner. It is to be regretted that the mainspring o f the villainous affair, the treacherous Pole, Wroblewskoff, should have succeeded In making good his ape. The mere fact of the Polish origin o f the criminals is in itself re garded here as a sufficient proof o f the innocence of the Russian government.”—- (T h e End.) CO LLEG E BROADENS W O R K . ished by the reclamation serviee and bv the forest reserve policy o f the govern Additional Agricultural Specialities A re ment, which is elim inating mnch of the range from pnblio use. J. 0 . A dded at GorvalHs. L lo yd , an extensive sheep grow er o f Agriculture la being given prominence this year a t the Oregon A g thia county, estim ate« that not more ricultural college. There baa been a than 88,000 iam bi w ill be shipped to re-organisation of the work and addi Eastern markets this year from the tional agricultural specialists have been country between Ellensburg and Pasco, added to the h c u lty . There w ill now whereas five y e a n ago ovar 200,000 be four men instead o f tw o devoting bead were «hipped y e a r ly . . This ia th eir tim e exclu sively to livestock, p artly due, h o* ever, he says, to the dairying, field crops and pou ltry. I t fact that more lamba a rt now shippsd is hoped to add « t i l l further to the agri to the eoaet than a few y e a n ago, a l cultural staff at the oollege so that the though the total shipments t h e n thia Oregon institution m ay fu lly .meet the year, h e thinks, w ill not exceed 60,'000, “ T h e range is being so dim inish ed.’ ’ demands # tha farmers of the state for competen t direction along agricultural m id M r. Lloyd, “ that none but thoee w ho own th eir lend ran afford to raise lines. D r. James W ithycom be, in addition sheep in any quantities. Mach ot the to hia duties aa director o f the exp en farm er range is being converted Into mant station, w ill have charge o f the good farm ing land through irrigation, anim al husbandry work o f the college and the forest n eerva p o lic y o f the and station. Professor V. L . Kent, government is thu tting the sheep raiser heretofore assistant agriculturist, baa out o f a large part c f the range, been made profeasor o f da iryin g and should say that the elim ination of this w ill give hia fu ll tim e to that subject. land b y the governm ent has ea t down Professor H. L . Be udder, o f the A g r i the number e f aheap on that land by aa cultural college o f Kansas, has been se much as 26 par cent. “ T h e sheep in this sect ton are being lected to fill the new chair o f agron om y, and his work w ill be along the raised as much fo r mutton now as for line o f field crops and farm m achinery. w oo), and there is a greater demai Protestor Sc adder is a graduate e f the for good mutton than there need to be. Illin o is college o f agriculture, nod after Th e price, too, has advanced, which leaving college spent seme tim e in the makes i t a profitable business to pur- I em ploy of the U nited States depart m ent c f agriculture, hia work taking h im into nearly every agricultural re gion o f the W est. ' In California he made an extensive study o f irrigation and soil cu ltivation . Professor Scudder w ill be o f great assistance to the farm ers o f the state as w ell aa to the students in the class room. For the new department o f poultry busbar d 'y James Dryden waa selected. Th e poultry industry is a great wealth produeer in this state, and tha college proposes tc aid in fjkn developm ent by the dissemination off inform ation on better methods and in the investigation of problems connected w ith poultry keeping. Pro fessor Dryden cornea from ths Utah Agricultural college w here hia experim ental werk was so soooeasfal as to bring the Utah station international recognition for its pou ltry w ork. He spent some tim e at th e Montana station in eatablishing a poultry department, and from there w ent to New Y ork state to start a poultry farm for the Cyphers Incubator company, returned to the Utah station last year upon being offer ed superior inducements.' H e believes there it room for great developm ent of poultry husbandry in Oregon. T H E S T A T E F A IR . E x M b lt«.' W hile C reditable, Did D o S ta te Jus tide. Not Th e Oregon State fa ir was a oredit- able showing o f tb e products o f the The county exhibits, though not as numerous aa they should have been, showed a great profusion o f pro ducts of the highest excellence. The people o f the state don’t half appreci ate the state and ike marvelous re sources. I t it doubtful i f any other county in any other state of the Union oould show such a g n a t variety o f pro ducts o f such high qu ality as any one o f the oounty exhibits at the Belem fa ir. Th e Agricultural college exh ib it was an educator. Th e ex h ib it from tbe DEADLY W AK E OF KINO GEORGE Eastern Oregon experim ent station waa amoat striking showing oi tha agricul Th e m s S till T a l a s to Conjure w ttk In tural resources o f thrit section. • om o P a rts • ( W orlS . livestock ex h ib it on the w hole was T b e draft and I f ever you happen to be so fo r w orthy o f the state. tunate as to take a trip down the went conch horses made a splendid show ing. coast o f A fric a you’ll be sure to hear A good showing was made by dairy cat o f the famous old W est I nd lam an. K in g tle , bnt hardly enough o f d airy pro-' George, says a w riter in the New York ducts. O f beef anim ats the exh ib it Herald. This- y a m is backed up by was not as large as it should be, but The the records o f the British admiralty, some fine animals were shown. so, o f course, it is true. Bbe was ■wine ex h ib it was most creditable. The sheep exh ib it waa good, but many wrecked in the year 1780, during a o f tb e sheep were not in show condi hurricane that devastated thy coast o f tion. T b e poultry bu ilding was w ell Cuba and the W est Indies generally. patronised and the e x h ib it was fa irly Every man, woman and child aboard good. Th e almost entire abeenoe of o f her was lost, and the ship herself farm machinery was noticeable. A was stripped o f her top hamper, masts strong ex h ib it o f farm machinery should and spars and went drifting, a hope- be a feature o f every good fair. lew wreck, “ bawd to all dim ster.” She was first reported by a ship o f W illam ette Valley’ s Reputation. the same company some hundred miles The W illam ette v a lley has a reputa north o f the point where the storm is tion a ll over our country as one o f the supposed to have struck her. Men most productive regions in the world. were sent aboard her from her sister Th at reputation seems to have been Indiaman and, reported that ahe was based on pest achievements rather than sinking rapidly. A fte r that she was on Its present day fanning. H its la never completely lost to sight fo r the not true of a il sections o f the valley, best part o f five years, when she van bnt aa a whole the va lley is not produc ished In a storm o ff the Grand Ca in g one-half o f what it m ight easily oduce by the same expenditure of naries. In that time she had drifted bor. upward o f 10,000 miles, and had been W ith a soil of great n ative fe rtility the direct cause o f at least four wrecks and the indirect cause o f three mors. and w ith a clim ate salted to the h igh H er travels were strange enough, espe est production, it would look as though cially at that time, when the locations there were no excuse for a crop of o f the ocean currents w ere only vagus; wheat yielding leas than th irty bnshels an acre, and tbe w riter has seen a yield ly guessed at by the most speculative off less than fifteen bushels. o f mariners. She Journeyed north Th e trouble ia that tha W illa m ette ward and eastward from the G o lf off va lley has been farmed fo r fifty yean Mexico to the British Isles, and then, w ith little or no effort made to give making a long curve, to the west beck to tbe soil tbe fe rtility that ye a n coast o f Africa. During all that time o f successive cropping has taken aw ay. she was constantly reported by pass Had more clover and a lfa lfa bean ing ships, many o f whom sent men grown, the W illam ette va lley m ight aboard o f her. A t last the British s till be tha wonder and adm iration of government dispatched a man-of-war tha w orld. W h ile a crop of wheat or( a fter her, w ith orders to blow her np. other grains leaves the soil poorer, a Instead the friga te ran on a reef and crop o f clover or a lfa lfa actually leaves was wrecked. Another, the Daphne) i t richer. Thia lesson doss not seam was then sent out, bnt she encountered to have bean w ell learned in the “ Fam a slaving dhow and was sank in the ous W illa m ette V a lle y .” B ensuing figh t By thia time the whole English- P A L M Y S H E E P D A Y S A R K O V E R . speaking seafaring w orld was agog over the mystery. When a third w ar G reet Flecks N e a r Ellensburg a Th ing ship waa dispatched and In her turn o f tha P a st. ■ ran high and dry on the beach, super Sheep raising in the Ta k im a section stition had Its w a y and the King fa undergoing im portant ohangaa, doe George was allowed to proceed on her to conditions which have arisen in the ghostly path in peace. She was re test 10 years. W h ile it «till oontinnas ported a few times a fter that by pass an important industry in K lttitaa ooun ing merchantmen, then disappeared for ty and other parte o f the Yakim a val good and all in a tornado that destroy ley, It is oof carried on ao extensively ed much beside the derelict Bnt M r aa a tew y e a n ago, and the number off same Is «till a thing to conjure w ith aheap growers is m a te ria lly d “ gradually Is some parti ef the Orvgun Irrigation Th e first irrigation corigrass o f Oregon was held at Grants Pass on September 10 and 11. At the oloaa o f the aemion s permanent organisation was effected, w ith Dr. W ithycom be, o f the Oregon Agricultural college, aa prasidswt; M r. W . M allett, of V ale, Oregon, as vice president, and M r. O. 8 . Blnoohard, o f Grants Pam, aa secretary. I t ia pro posed to hold annual meetings to dis cuss irrigation and forestry problems. A com m ittee waa appointed to confer w ith the com m ittee o f the Forestry as soc inti on w ith a view to tw o organisations. I t was felt that ir- oommon. Much good from this organisation. should W aa tarn A pples Beat. T h e official report o f tb e department o f Agriculture on this condition o f the apple crop on September 1 fu lly oonfirma ea rlier estim ate« of a poor apple crop throughout tha U nited States. Th e average condition ia reported aa 24.7 per o^nt. Few if any o f the states have an average crop. The Pacific state* show np beat— California 76 per cent, Oregon 70 per cent, W ashington 88 per oent. Th e M iddle it s tea are the poor est, the lowest o f a ll being w - « — which ia 2 per cent, and M iam ori, which is 0 per oent. Th e report ia a good advsrtisement for Oregon and W ashington. I t w ill aarva to direct farth er attention to thia territory as a favorable apple country. Sloop to sasteet and the meat refresh ing wbep tha head to somewhat low er than the fe a t Instead o f tw o pUlconk therefore, use only one, and place the oth er under the fo o t Th ia position, says a doctor, la a marvelous core against all nervous diseases, and also lung d iaeeme. If adopted In tim e A n y offie threatened w ith blood to the bead, however, should not steep w ith tbe fee t higher than the head. H ot soda battel are recommended by ’ some person « tot «hoqmotlam, and the «ra y they a re taken la th ia : FB I the v tub h alf fu ll off «rater aa h ot aa can bo borne, add h a lf a pound o f «common baking soda, and immerse the body fo r a t least twenty minutes, keeping op ■ tha tampers tore by the addition o f hot w a ter from time to time. Vaseline o r cold cream should bo nibbed Into tb e skin a fter tbe latter baa been dried, in order to replaco the natural o B * T b s term ptomaine poison Is quite common, ye t few people know what It really la. According to scientists, pto maines are poisonous products form ed In fish, meat, m ilk and other articles of food by a process o f decomposition that leave# little other trace o f Its action. Bacteria probably promotes tbe form a tion, but on that point some doubt re mains. T b s taint develops hi conse quence o f fa ilu re to cook food proper ly, and i f kept fo r acme time fa not •rated air-tight Excruciating afeknoaa and often death follow s cose a fte r eat ing foods Improperly cooked or canned. A lw ays d oss the eyes fo r a fe w sec onds when changing suddenly to a bright fig h t Do not face a light when reading, w ritin g or working. Do not sleep facing a ligh t; not even moon lig h t When the eyes are very tired, bathe them In hot and cold «rater alter nately— first h o t then cold. A pply the hot and cold writer alao to the back o f tbe head and neck, at the base o f the brain. Th e hot application relieves con gestion w hile the cold stimulates the blood and nerve v«sa ils to renew ed ac tivity. Massage tbe back o f tbe bead and neck and along tbe spine. Notice the coarse o f the optic nerve. Id o l F e t e d w ith Skeletons are being found In a gravel pit from which the Chicago, Tha contract baa bean 1st fo r tha Milwaukee and S t .Paul Railroad Com construction o f a college ham a t tha pany la obtaining ballast fo r Its e^ten- tbrough western South Dakota Oregon Agricultural college. T h is w ill be one o f the meat oomplete barns at from Mlssonr river to the Black Hills. any o f the oolleges, end «r ill h elp the T h e gravel pit la situated on the east livestock and dairy work greatly. ern end o f the extension, near tbe tow n o f Oacoma, and hut a abort dis Farmers m ight help solve tbe freigh t tance from Missouri river. In the car shortage by ke ping more poultry, neigh boro hod o f fifty human skeletons feeding the grain to the chickens and have thus fa r been unearthed. send the eggs to maHiet by ex pram or Most o f them were found at a depth o f from four to eight feet beneath the surface o f the ground ,and all were P w tlM . buried In either a standing or sitting “ D ear," said the w ife. " I n e lly don’t posture. Th e m ajority o f the skeletons believe yon would marry f i n i f you are thorn o f people o f a small stature, were to lose me.” much below the ordinary or average “Oh, I ’m devoted enough," replied height o f the preeeqt North American tbe husband, "but there a n others.” Indiana " I wasn’t thinking o f that,* ahe re One skeleton, however, la that o f a plied sweetly, “ but that I don’t know man who In life m int have been fn lly another woman who would ha vs you." ■even feet In height. In dose proxim — Philadelphia Ledger. ity to the skeleton o f thia giant were found Implements o f copper and bona m iM M k r . these being found In each o f tbe graves " A real philosopher,” said Uncle near that o f the giant, w hile In another ffben, "kin alias find Bumpin' to bs grave was discovered a copper Idol glad about I used to know a man dat about eight Inches In length. found a hasp o’ satisfaction In hia wooden leg, ’cause it l e f him d a t much to e re l «p a t*. leas room fob de rheumatism.” — Wash W e read In an ancient chronicle that ington Star. when a letter not altogether courteous was sent to the Emperor off Japan by r W«t the Emperor o f China, the Mikado " I havs made np my mind,” m id Mr. opened hia answer thus: “ Th e Emperor Tlm mid, “ that I ahail apeak to your o f the land where the sun rtaes ad father soon.” dresses hlmaelf to the Emperor o f the “ Tea,” replied the dear girl, "fa th er m id be thought yon would and be also land where the Bun sets.” On another said I f you tru ly loved me you’d take occasion, when tbe Chinese Emperor out an- accident-Insure nee policy In my bad the audacity to demand the sub mission o f Japan, that spirited country favor.” — Philadelphia Preen chopped off the pend# o f the luckless ambassadors!— Mexican Herald. W ltkout S a y l» * . Conan Doyls had Just notified Sherlock Holmes o f bis approaching marriage. “ O f course,” hs said, “ I need not tell you that I have Mlected you as my best man. Tha position nxturall/' belong# to you." “ Quito so," assented Sherlock Holms#, absent mlndedly shooting a charge of done into hi# left arm.________ R # I# n la k e . A member of the proletariat was ad mitted. “ Sir,” Mid he, “ the wolf has beea at my door for months.” “ Pooh, pooh, my good man,” responded ths fat capitalist. “ Such Is not ths na ture of ths wolt. Ton have evidently been reading unscrupulous literature.” — Philadelphia Bulletin. T b e W a r e l It . Hnsband (during ths s p a t)— I sup pose I am never to havo my w a y about anything? W ife — O f course you are. You can have your w ay when It la the asms as m y way, but whan our «rays are differ* eat I intend to havo my way. H «r Im p ra a a loa . “ Now I have an Impression In my head,” said tbe teacher. “ Cun any o f you tell me what an Impression la?” “ Yee'm, I ran,” replied a little fol low at the foot o f tbe class. “ An Im pression Is a dent In a aoft «pot.’’— Birmingham (A t e .) Advance Battar W o rth K n e w t e « . Long before tbe popularity o f Jin Jlt- su, writes a metropolitan preacher, In the Homiletic Review, “ I learned, what every minister ought to know, how to put a disorderly man out o f the room. But a better thing to know la bow to put an evil thought out o f the h e e r t " * ■ • ■ # tho Maraiolda. ‘ She la alw ays anxious to get into tbe surf aa soon aa ahe ran," said on * girl. “ Yea,” answered tha other. “ H er bathing adit Isn’t at a ll pretty.”— Washington Star. A (w a rs . Howe'er we oil ths stagnant pond# And oil tha stagnant sloughs. There's at teeat one mosquito left Who chows and chows and chews. -Houston Post. A n A «T M ta g e > ’’T h e n ia one thing to bo said la fa vo r off a boy going to a circus w ith hia fath er," remarked the Observer o f When a man prides hlmaelf upon Evento and Th in gs; " M don’t bava to alw ayr being perfectly just you may craw l under the depend upon it others do not think
