C H A PT E R V.—«Continued.)
“ Now supposing.” continued the senior
partner, with a smile on hia thin tips,
“that each a report got about. Suppose,
too. that we were a t this time, when the
market was in a depressed condition, to
invest several thousand pounds la them.
I f these rumors of an alleged discovery
turned out to be entirely unfounded, of
course the value of the atones which tire
held would go up once more, and are
n ig h t very wall sell out for double or
treble the sum that we invested. Don't
you see the sequence of evehta?”
•*
“There seems to me to be rather too
S uch of the suppose in it,” reuiaiked Ears.
“How do we know that such rumors will
get about; and if they do, how do we
know th at they will prove to be no-
founded?”
“ How are we to know?” the merchant
cried, wriggling hie long lank body with,
am usem ent “Why, my lad. if we spread
the rumor ourselves we shall have pretty
gcod reason to bet.eve that they are un
founded. Eh, E a rs ! Ha ! ha 1 You se?
there are some brains In the old mau
Ezra looked a t hia father la coosid-
abl* surprise and some admiration.
Yhy.” he exclaimed, “it’s diahonsaL I’m
“ Dishonest I Boob T
The merchant
m a pped his fingers “ I t ’s fineaee, my boy,
commercial finesse. Who’s to trace it.
I should Uke to know. I haven’t worked
out all the details— I want your co-ofi-
eretion over that—b u t here’s a -ouch
sketch of my plan. We send a man we
can depend upon to some distant part
• f the world, Chimboraso. for example,
or the Ural Mountains. It doesn’t soot
ie r where, as long a* it Is out of tbe
way. On arriving at this place our ugent
/“ * * • • report th at he has discovered a
diamond mine. We should even go the
length, if he considers it necessary, of
hiding a few rough stones in the earth,
which he can dig up to give color to 'h is
storyC O f course the local press would
be fall of this. He might present one
of the diamonds to tbe editor of the noar-
**t paper. In course of time a pretty
colured description of the new diamond
fields would b id its way to London and
thence to the ( W
1*B answer for It
th a t the immediate effect is a great drop
in the price of stones. We should have a
eecond agent a t the Cape diamond Helds,
and be would lay our money out by hay
ing ta all th at be could while the panic
laste^L Then, the original scare having
proved to be all a mistake, tbs prices
naturally go up once more, and we get a
long figure for nil th at we hold. T hat’s
w hat I moan by ‘m ak.nj a corner In dia
monds.’ There is no room in It for any
miscalculation.”
“I t sounds very nice,” his son remark
ed, thoughtfully. “ I ’m not so sure aoout
its warking, though.”
“I t .most work well. As to r as human
calculation can go there is no possibility
of failure. Besides, my boy, never lose
sight of the fact that we shall be specu
lating- with other people's money.* We
ourselves have nothing to lose, absolutely
nothing.”
“ I km not likely to lone sight of it ,”
said Ears angrily, his mind coming hick
to his. grievance.
. “ 1 reckon th at we can raise from forty
to fifty thousand pounds without
d.fflrulty. My name is, as you know,
a s goqd as th a t of any firm in the city.
F u r nsarly forty years it has been above
sta te far suspicion. If we carry on ojf
plans ;at once, and lay this money out
Judiciously, all may come right.”
“I t ’s Hobson’s choice.” the young man
remarked.
“We must try some bold
stroke of Che sort. Have you cboeen the
right sort of men for agents? You should
have men of some standing to set such
reports going. They would have more
weight then.”
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•
John Oirdlestone shook his bead de-
epondingly. "How am I to get a man of
any standing to do such a piece of bus!*
ness?” he said.
“Nothing easier,” answered Ears with
a cynical tough. “ I could pick out a
score of impecunious fellow* from tbe
d u b s who would be only too glad to earn
« hundred or two in any way you can
xnentipn. I shall go myself to tbe dia
mond fields. As to our other agent. I
have the very man, Ifajo r Tobias Clutter-
buck. He is a shrewd, clever fellow, and
fw's always bard up. His social rank
you have willfully wasted the money.”
“Brilev# me. I have tried te act for tbe
best. The good name of our firm to ev
erything to me. I have spent my what*
life ta building it up, and if the day
should come when it moot go, I trust
th a t I may have gone myself. There Is
nothing which I would, not do to pre-
tV | «he? 'Ifon meat glvs my to r* '«
both^
“ I low la it that you haw n*W
to lea u»?*’ TVu *»ked reproashft
ta rn f e t yon never have an accident k “Mr. tiirdlMtape think* th a t''
vlth them, while your two new uninsured been too idla lately, and that 1
Upper* run each other down."
atay at home. I am afraid ^ t
“ Well, what more can I d o r replied aome little time hefora i can *tea
•he merchant. “They are thoroughly rut- to Kensington.”
en. I h aw done nothing for them for
Tom consigned her guardian on
/ear*. Sooner or later they muat go. I breath to a region warmer e w a tl
-annot do any more."
arena of th at gentleman’* com
“ I d make ’em go down quick enough,“ speculations. “ Which nay are j
muttered Kara with an oath.
Why don’t luc?" he naked.
on make old Mlgga bow a hole la them,
“ I wa* going to Victoria atr
w pot a light to a barrel of paraffin? change my book, and than to
rhe thing’* done every day«. W hat’» the atreet.”
,
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mo of being mllk-aad-watery about i t r
“What a at range thing !” the young man
“ No. no. E a rn !” cried bit father. “Not exclaimed. " wa* going in that direction
that, not that. I t’» ona thing letting too.” It seemed the more strange aa ha J |\ f j j ; i J 8 » '- v w
I
uattece take their coane, and it la an was walking In the opposite diroetlon
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other thing giving pooKive orders ta seoc- when she met him. Neither seenmd In-
h s C jy
•‘T-»*%«
le a ship. Besides, It would pot ue In dined te make any comment upon the
i
Mlgga* power. I t would be too danger- fact.
,
- n riin r n n n n n n r
As thay walked on, threading their way
H enteve mm* C ookers,
“Please yourself,“ said Kars with a among the vehicles. Tom took bin com-
meet. “You’ve got us into the mesa and panion’a hand In hit, and they exchanged 1 T he cheapest and moat economical
you muat take ua out again. If the worst one him grip, which each felt to be of the b eater ever used w as one of my own
How sunny and construction. 1 m ada n fram e of 2x8-
comta to the worst I’ll tell you what I’ll nature of a pledge.
jo. I’ll m arry Kata Hurston, wash my bright the dull brick-lined streets seemed inch pine seven feet long and twenty-
lands of the firm, leave you to settle mat to those two young people th at after- K,Ten Inches wide. I p u t a bottom on
ters w.th the creditors, and retire with noon. They were both looking into a th |a of ^ o . 18 galvanised Iron, letting
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. . . . . .
the forty thousand pounds.” w ith which ru m p * t-k rh a M m »f1 tA h * An# Ion # vin f i
threat the junior partner took up hia has
and swaggered out of the office.
After hi* departure John Girdleston?
spent an hour in anxious thought, arranf-
ing the details of the scheme which he
had just submitted to his son. As he ant
'll* eye chanced to fall upon the two let
ters lying on hia desk, and it struck him
that they had better ha attended »o. It
lid not suit hia plans to fall back upon
hi* credit just yet. It has been already
thin, little particles of cream on the
top of th e scum will dry and do not
churn Into the b u tter, but will rem ain
In th e ir hard s ta te end e ith er show
apecks in the b u tte r o r come to the top
of tb s w ater In washing. T he trouble
can be hindered by strain in g the cream
before churning.
T he o th er way Is earned from leav
ing the cream sta n d too long before
churning. If a- little of the milk le
Study H a t te r o f Feeds.
Fifteen hundred pounds.
“In the United Metropolitan. John?
Let me see. Their present rate of inter
est is four and a half?”
“Four. s.r,” said John.
“F our! Dear me, John, that is poor
Intebest, very poor indeed. I t Is moot
fortunate that I made these Inquiries. I
w as on the point of drawing fourteen
hundred pounds from on* of my’ corre
spondents as a temporary convenience.
For this I should pay him five per cent.
I have no objection. John, as you are an
old aeiwant of the firm, to giving you tbe
preference in thA m atter. 1 cannot take
more than fourteen hundred—but 1 shall
be happy to accommodate you up to that
sum at the rate named.”
John Uilray was overwhelmed by thin
thoughtful and considerate act. “ It toi
really too generous and kind, air,” ha
said. “ I don’t know how to thank ybu.”
“Don’t mention it, Jokn,” the senior
partner said grandly. “Tha firm to always
glad to advance the interests of ita em
ployes to any reasonable manner. Have
you your check book with you? Fill <t
up for fourteen hundred. No more, John,
1 cannot oblige you by taking any more.”
John Gi rdlestone's private residence te
Eeriest on square was a large and sub
stantial house in a district which the
wave of fashion bad passed over in it*
westwerd course. The building wai> *t,*rn
and hard, and massive in its external ap
pearance, but the Interior was lu iury it
self, for the old merchant bad a due ap
preciation of tbfe good things of this
World
Indeed there waa an oriental
and almost barbarous splendor ibout *ha
great rooms, where the richest, furniture
war Interspersed With skins from the Ga
boon, hand-worked ivory from Oh] Cala
bar, and the thousand other Strang* val
uables which were presented by hia agents
to the African trader.
After the death of hia friend. Girdle-
stone bad been aa good as hid word. He
had taken Kate Harston away from the
desolate house at Fulham and brought her
to live with him- From tbe garrets of
th at palatial edifice to the cellars she was
a t liberty to roam where she would, and
do what the chose. No cares or responsi
bilities were imposed upon her. The do
mestic affairs were superintended by a
stern housekeeper, who arranged every
detail of housekeeping. The young girl
had apparently only to exist and to be
happy.
John Oirdlestone had been by no means
overjoyed upon tbe return of tbe I>imu
ds lea from Edinburgh to learn that hta
ward hud been thrown into tbe company
Of her young cousin. He received her
coldly, ahd forba de her to'vistt Bhillimore
Gardens for some t.me to come. H* even
took tbe precaution of telling off a confi
dential footman to walk behind her on
all occasions, and to act either aa an es
cort or aa a sentry.
It chanced, however, that one day, a
few weeks after her return, Kate found
an opportunity of recovering her freedom.
The footman had been di-tpatched upon
some other duty. So she bethought her-
aet/ th at a book was. to be bought, and
some lace to be matched, and several oth
er Important feminine duties to be ful
filled. It happened, however, that as she
walked sedately down Warwick street
her eyes fell upon a very tall and squar>
shouldered young man, who f i n lounging
In her direction, tapping hto stick listless
ly against the railings, as is the habit
of idle men. At this Kate forgot incon
tinently all about tbe book and tbe lac*«
while the tall youth ceased to tap the
railings, and came striding toward* h*-r
with long spr.ngy footsteps and * smiling
face.
“ Why. Cousin Tom, who would have
thought of meeting you here?” she eg-
claimed, whan the first greetings had been
exchanged.
“ It to a most surprising
thing.” I t to possible that the incident
would not have struck her os so very as
tonishing after all, had she known (M l
Tom had spent six hours a day for the
tost fortnight in blockading the entrances
t# Ecpleston square. .
“Most rem arkable!” said the young
hypocrite. “You see 1 haven’t anyth!**
to do yet, so I walk about Loudon a good
deal. I t wa* a lucky chaoes th at seat
me te this direction.”
“And how to the doctor?” K ste ashed
really I don’t know what be would do
If he knew about it. He would curtain-
ly make IU very uncomfortable for me to
live with mm. Remember 1 am nearly
twenty now, so in a little more than a
year 1 shall be entirely tree. T h at ta hot
rery long.”
|
. “ I don’t know about that,” Tom said,
doubtfully. “ However, If you will be
biore comfortable, of course, th at rattle*
the qbestlon. It seem. rather h e r* though.
W hen g rain to high in price, the
ralsnr of stacks needs to study th e m at
te r of feed m ore th en a t any o ther time.
I t does not pay to give foods th at
m erely fill up, and th a t to w h a t the
tem ptation to in tim es w hen prices a n
inflated for th e moot valuable feeds
T he m an th a t u n d erstan d s the con
stitu tio n o f feeds will generally find he
can beat the high prices by raising
some kind of a crop th a t will give him
a big supply of cheap feed. T hus, the
m an th a t h as a good blue g rass pasture
can conserve It, fertilise It and make
It produce a very large am ount o f nu
tritio n s feed th a t will, fo r aome of his
stock, m ake It possible to greatly cut
down on the g ra in ration, though th li
cannot be cot out entirely. The men
th a t have been feeding corn extensively
to steem will .h a w to balance th a t com
w anes t a x i aim coom b .
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the ground, pud ou tw o lengths of th ing else to decrease th e am ount ot
stovepipe and w ired It fa st to tbe rod. corn used, to r protein In corn comet
a piece of sheet Iron w as set up be- very U gh, on account o f the large
f0re the fireplace to «control th e d ra ft am ount o f starch th a t baa to be paM
and keep th e fire.
fo r to get a little protein.
T his b e a te r w as located n ear foe
w| n 4 m[)i and storage ta n k and I could
„ „ u from e ltb er. j
heat the
" I t’s only for a time, Tom ; and you ^
brush o r trash . I boiled pnmp-
may tell them at. bom* by all m eans No a -, kina and sm all potatoes fo r fatten in g
P a p e r w it* P e a t O p ia io a a .
T he oddest new spaper In the worlfi
ls oue nam ed th e W ocbenbiatt, which
is published in G runlngen, a sm all town
of some 1,200 Inhabitants In th e can*
ton of Zorich, In Sw itzerland. I t to
th e foundation, w hile I moved the tan k
about an d used It for various p u r
poaea p or a tim e I used It In a sheep
«mature, then to mix m o rtar In while
building, then as a pond for little
d ’jcfcs, aa i could easily tip It over
»octal Democrats« Pages 1 an d 2 bo-*
f* * * ! ,
nng to the L iberate and p ag e. 8 and 4
Wben corn I . husked and the stover
o the Socialists, and the two p a rtia l ritredded a t a je r y
lnf
ibuae one an o th er h eartily In Its page« C0Bt lver t b*t of huskUig y “
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p ractice m uat commend Itself to every
c k a r * « i t i p th e B tu .
' j fa rm e r on account of tbe g reater con-
“Doctor." said a shrewd-looklng man, sentence w ith w hich tbe m aterial may
bow m any feet of gas does It take to be bandied and fed, and tbe ability to
Jll a m an?” '
• preserve tb e m aterial from dam age by
"T h at’s a queer question,” replied rains, etc., say s D irector H. J. W aters,
he doctor.
“ Why do you wish to Mlooouti experim ent otatlon. Not only
:nowT*
so, b a t th e g reatest single objection to
_ " T f . M,r.*‘
. „
refused by stock fo r bedding, and still
Yes, boasted Mrs, New coin, ‘‘when j.a T i th e m anure In s condition to be
my husband returned from Europe he i,aI1died easily by a m anure spreader,
.weighed Just fifty pounds more than
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when be sta rte d .”
t o *.
S ta b ile « H eeeee.
, “G racious!” exclaimed Mrs. De Stylo,
W e can. learn from th e Jap an ese a
w ith a yawn. “Did the custom s officer» th in g o r two about stabling horses. In
forget to search him ?”
. th a t country horses a re backed into
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th e ir atalto ; then a door to closed at
w n a t i t t**a4s t «.
• th e head, w hich has a g rain and hay
,r .
—
VVcdfieriv
-rarara
Y e* I x n a * * ,
An acra contain« (UTSUtaO square
A n v .v
,Bebea ° f ■n r fa c A «Od Sn llK* Of ra in
know* ‘h a t U le In aome eenae a “good
*nck pin," but how it cam e to be eon-
*,d«r*d »oeh and w here th e p eculiar
>»<1 curiously a ttra c tiv e symbol origl-
Q* ted u know n to com paraU veiy few
persons.
T he sw astik a In one o f th e g re a t re
ligious sym bols of th e w orld. I t h as
been recognised ns s religious emblem
by m ore people, very likely, th e n h s s
the cross Itself. As such symbol It Is
very m any h undreds o f y ears older
th a n the C h ristia n e ra . in fact, i t la
perhaps, th e very ea rlie st of religious
»igna o r ch aracters. I t h a s been re
vered all over Europe an d Asia, and
long before th e daw n o f C h ristia n ity
our pagan an cestors looked u p to It.
as th e emblem of w h a t they w orship
ed. I t Is one of th e oldest things In
history, and th ere Is scarcely a land
In whose ruined tem ples It is not
found
"S w astik a,” the nam e given It by
the B rahm ins and B udd h ists of India,
la a S anscrit word signifying “o f good
fortune.” In th e P all tongue It Is
“au h ,” which m eans “I t to well,“ or
“so be It,” which to m uch th e sam e
m eaning a s th e S an scrit word. T he
Japaneee call It “m an jl” and th e Chi
nese call It “m an jl” a n d th e Chinese
h a e w - tt- a m Mwnan” e s “w an.” T h e
French call It “la crelx p attee,” the
tooted croaa, w hile th e ancient E ng
lish nam e to “fly-fot,” m eaning e ith e r
four-footed o r m any-footed.
T he m ost pussling an d most in ter
eating th in g about th e sw astik a Is th a t
It to found In n early all p a rts of th a
world. In tbta country aa well aa In
E urope an d Asia, w herever archaeolo
g ists dig up th e b u rled cities o f th e
rem ote p ast. D raw n, p ainted, c u t
woven, scratch ed o r otherw ise design
ed, not only upon b u rial u rn an d sacri
ficial atone, but also upon ntenslto and
objects of everyday nse, the catio n s
symbol appears.
I t h as been found am ong relics th a t
m ark th e bronze age In Europe an d
some an tiq u a ria n s believe they have
discovered th e fact of Its existence In
th e so-called polished atone age of
he expert-
k pv+tHf*!«
from tbe
sections,
ry
r la
n a ry for
fru it
zer to he
u la rly af-
stash may
nuriate of
y used In
il applies-
isde upon
to to the
P rof* 9<hlleaian found it a t Htoaar-
,,k ,n tb * buried cities th a t u nderlay
th e ancient Troy, of w bicb Hom er
M °ff- nrhlcfa Indicates Its existence a t
* P*rIo<1 from 3.000 to 8,300 y ears ago.
Those who look upon th e region to
be northw est of In d ia a s tb e prim al
borne of th e blonde races o f tb e w orld
11,110 rol>,1‘le r th a t an cien t land a s be-
,n* tbe birthplace of tb e sw astik a. K.
p - ° re g , an em inent E nglish a u th o rity ,
a r*uea th a t “ It w aa a much-used and
fo ro rtte religious symbol am ong tb e
M r |tor A ryan races, an d waa Intended
bJ them . In tb e first Instance, to rep
resent In a cruciform sh ape an Ideo
graph o r symbol suggested by th e fork-
m eat.
sd lightning.” O ur prim al w h ite for-
and gral«. bears w orshiped D yau ao ltar ( J u p ite r ) ,
treat help th e sky fath er, an d tb e jagged light
en a t the nlng w as th e n a tu ra l emblem of th is
in F arm aw ful power.
n space a.
W ith the successive em igrations of
------------- the A ryans from nortfiern India all
over Europe, th e sw astik a spread and.
adopted as a symbol of B uddha In tb e
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seventh cen tu ry before C hrist, It w aa
la te r carried Into C hina and Ja p a n .
T he A rabs an d Jew s knew It not, n o r,
a n p r
did tb e ancient E gyptians, but they
w ere not o f A ryan blood.
L.
T hus th e ham m er of T hor, the S can
------------ r dlnavlan d eity for whom T h u rsd ay to
I In a t h. nanied> waa th la very sam e sw astik a
The p a rt * h lch the m aiden o f to-day Is using to
r may b*, ornam ent a sum m er s h irt w aist.
It
has need hn
" S T "
edge m ore o r lera complete of all tbo * thf 0.! ? i i
"
.
n a tu ra l sciences, and hia to tbe only
Z " * * * 1"1
occupation th a t denis w ith th e sciences.' " >h rP ° d
f °"r'
T h a t education drives th e young man
**ch * a " * c re o o g u te e d r b , r **
from th e farm proves nothing except “ “f® * , th e , whl,m ," n
*v er'
th a t all men cannot be farm ers, for w . ™#,e V * * * " ! ^ v" « " n t
f» "« 1
moat have all tbe trad es and profee- » * ""•* » > » •
buf ° °
«™ -
slons filled. B ut ag riculture to more >«ons « ,to «um w as exceeded. Bays tb e
im portant th an all o th er callin g , com-
0 r ? L f tT ? ton’
blued, for tbe farm er feeds an d clothe. H untingdonshire : -M ay. 1 0 0 1 -P a ld In
the world. T herefore tb e b etter the ch arf * tak ,n * °P a d '" ^ actedLwomnu.
farm er knows bis business the better T**0“ 10* 1! " Ä“
w b ,Pp1n« hpr n e r t
will tbe w orld be clothed and fed.
I * * 6 «billing. « p e n « ." A fter whip-
-
ping people according to th e s ta tu te
r u n ]«•«••.
I tbe au th o rities som etim es gave them a
Cream kept too long m ay bscotne lette r recommending constables and
b itte r and be fall o f wählte flake*.
o th e rs “to be s r ch aritab le a s th e law
O at» a re good for laying bens. Do
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not be a fra id they will s a t too m any off.
c m u t? n * a * t o * r tn Or««*,
them.
| O ur clotbus a re all alike, and th is
Sheep a re a p ersistent agency of Im- monotony h as led to nollm lted extrava*
provem ent to the land on tha farm s Y*nces. W hat has not been done to
where they are k e p t
m ake th e etern al pinafore frock took
Bncceaa In livestock raisin g depends »Hglnal? New elaboration» a re Invent-
on producing a b etter «train of anim ate * d a,ly ’ aacb ona “ ore
th a n
w ith each breeding.
‘be l a s t but nobody to deceived. I t te
nt . h -n -
. «till the old pinafore, only a little mad-
W odderly Yes, I guess so. Anyway,
^
therefore, th e sam e num ber of
never W t a y w ife know w hat I r—11»,
lncfaH * wat* r. v A gallon con
ln* or 2 * 5 ______________ _
ta in s 277.27 cubic Inches of w ater, and
s te w T ra in s
B ar#»*.
an Inch of ra in fa ll m eans 22,622 gallons Impossible to get a good «apply o f
In the m a tte r of tra in speed A ustria, 0g « « te r to th e acre, a n d sa a gallon bones. I t to a good scheme to m ake ar-
^ ä s ÄTsr-i*: •£!»“• - — v •*»-«—
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wtM n ■ m ao fal,a 10 « ttrn c t atten-