Newberg graphic., July 09, 1908, Image 6

The C hauffeur'
and the Je w e ls
C ôpfH rht 1 »* . by J. B. L irriitc o T T C o m p a n y .
All rights rmarved.
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By
E dith M organ W ille tt
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In line with the best modern productions of fiction
which we are offering, this serial is timely, intensely entertain­
ing a id dramatic, and should be received with enthusiasm
by every reader who delights in a bright, interesting story.
It is entitled. “T he C hauffeur and the J ewels ,” and
aside from the automobile element, which is fascinating,
has a wide range in land and ocean travel arid includes
scenes and incidents of varied interest.
T h e gifted
authoress is E dith M organ W illett , the story is
finely written and interest is maintained to the very last
chapter.
T h e heroine is Annette Bancroft, the daughter o f’ a
retired army officer, whose home is in Washington.
Miss
B a croft and her mother pass a wonderful year visiting
England in May, summer in Switzerland, the Tyrol in
September and the winter in the Riviera, where their
automobi'e was bought.
T h ev are robbed in a mysterious
manner ot very valuable jewels, and this incident lorms
the central point in the romance.
Complications ensue
and around these are grouped p o t and counterplot and
numerous incidents that are intensely depicted. There is
a stiong element of love and devotion all through the
story, ending in a dramatic, way that is original and
striking.
Th is serial has a further element of fashionable society
life that lends a pleasing variation to it§ development.
T h e double impersonation, the loss of the jewels, the rapid
change in sc ne, all continue to maintain the interest, and
the result is a story of superior power and merit.
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C H A P T E R I.
Springtime in Franc»»— a poet's theme !
The charm o f a gray-blue sky strung with
bead-like clouds, o f level fields, o f dis­
tant spires and turrets jotted picturesque­
ly on the horizon : and always the white
road, glistening, undulating ahead, .keep-'
ing step with the windings o f the Seine!
It was with the satiety o f utter enjoy-
ment that Annette a: last closed her tired
eyes and, ieaning hack on the crimson
cushions o f the tonneau, gave herself up
to the twin luxuries o f perfect motion
and perfect air.
Chug-chug, snorted the motor aa it swept
ahead, consuming space at the rate o f
sixty kilometres an hour. O ver the girl’s
head rollicked a merry wind, now steeped
in sunshine, and again chill with the
breath o f far-away ice fields. Behind lay
Paris, left that very morning, and now
only a confused, composite memory o f de­
lights which had been crowded into three
delicious weeks.
Ahead tbe telescopic
•yes o f the motor pointed to H a v re ; and
then— Mias Bancroft shivered slightly—
there would be the Channel crossing,
Southampton, Liverpool, and eventually
— home!
Home. T o the girl in the tonneau that
magic word signified chiefly an abode in
8 street, one o f Washington’s unfashion­
able thoroughfares, where bay-windowed
“ twenty-foot-fronters” elbow each other
w ith offensive fa m ilia rity ; where walls
are narrow, and ceilings low, and the
•melt o f cookery haunts the air.
I t was in one o f those so-called “ desir­
able wesidenct*” that Annetje’s father— a
retired army officer on half pay— and her
tw o little brothers had been keeping bach­
elor's hall without her for the past year.
However. M ajor Bancroft was a wise
parent, as well as a kind-heart»«! if some­
what prosaic mortal, and when Mrs.
Dick Waring, who was n distant cousin
o f his late w ife's and a handsome woman
to boot, had taken him off forcibly in her
victoria one fine day o f the previous
spring, and begged “ the loan o f that nice
girl of his for twelve months on the other
side o f the ocean,” he had said " Y e s "
without hesitation.
A fte r all, when a man has a penchant
fo r doing his own marketing and divides
his time satisfactorily between the club
and his newspaper, an only daughter is
not
always
indispensabl»*— especially
when she writes regularly and doesn't re­
quire an allowance.
Besides, what an
opportunity for the ch ild !
Europe at
twenty-one!
A witching combination,
even with an exacting chaperone to offset
its charms.
“ You know,” Mrs. W aring had Inform­
ed her propos««! charge vfry frankly, 'T v e
quarreled with Julie— and. any way. one
gets tired o f traveling forever with a
maid, as I ’ve had to do ever since poor
Dick departed this life— French women
o f that class have no ideas to speak of
and are such poor travelers. You won’ t
mind booking me up behind sometimes,
w ill you, dear, and packing my trunks?
W e'll have a beautiful time together and
see everything within reach.”
And so indeed they did. the wonderful
year linking a chaplet o f experiences that
Annette, like a good Catholic, was for­
ever conning over and over.
England in M a y : summer in Sw itzer­
land: the T yrol through September: then
Ita ly — and a winter on
the
Riviera,
where the automobile had been bought.
At this most exquisite point in Miss
Bancroft’s rosary o f recollections, a voice
broke in upon them.
“ Where are we now ?" it demanded, in
Mrs. W aring's clear, trenchant tones, that
carried above the whistle o f the wind.
“ W hat's that In the distance. Sarto?”
“ Chateau Gaillard. madame.”
Then,
to Annette. “ There, to your right, see?"
Annette opened her eyes.
Beside her
the chauffeur was leaning forward and
pointing to distant battlements.
Far
above the road on a rocky height the cas­
tle towered— a sullen mass o f ruins, blot­
ting the fair landscape.
The two people on the front seat o f the
motor bad turned their heads and were
staring up.
“ What's the use o f stoppln’ and over­
haulin' that old den?" demanded the huge,
broad-houldered. thick-set personage who
was grasping the steering wheel. _“ I f
we’re goin' to reach Bourn thiawfternoon.
we'd better push straight on and keep
our nerve and muscles and temper for the
W hat say, Gussie?"
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“ A ll right,” laconically agreed Mrs.
W aring, and the car shot on. “ Mr. Buist
is not an admirer o f ruins.” remarked the
chauffeur »otto-voce, and then, as his
companion acquiesced with a whimsical
shake o f the head, he shrugged his leath­
er-covered shoulders and sat staring at
the Englishman's square back with eyes
which glittered behind their goggles.
The chauffeur himself was not an in­
effective figure, in spite o f fhe goggles,
the heavy brown beard, and brigand-like
moustache, not to mention an automobile
livery which could not quite obliterate
the graceful lines o f his person and the
straightness o f his nose.
Six weeks ago it was that he bad ap­
peared miraculously on the wide, shallow,
orange-potted steps o f the Hotel de Paris,
at Monaco, at the very moment that Mrs.
W aring was descending them, and, ap­
proaching her with a low bow, presented
to her a coroneted missive, in which no
less a personage than the Prince Rode-
rigo del Pino sang the praises o f one
Ludovic Sarto, who had managed his
new forty-horse power touring car for
two years in a trip which must have tak­
en in all the corners o f the globe, dis­
playing nerve, resource and science in
all motoring exigencies, besides intimate
fellowship with Baedeker and “ unusual
linguistic ability.” The effect o f all this,
endorsed by the cordnet, had its influence
on Gussie W aring, who engaged the par­
agon on the spot.
«
And so Ludovic1 Sarto steered tne new
Napier motor over the upper Cornice,
down to Monaco and Monte Carlo, and
finally up to Nice., where. Mr. Gerald
Buist. an ancient ally o f Mrs. W aring's
( besid«** being second son o f Lord Lind­
s a y ). appearing on the scene, the new
chauffeur was relegated ignominiously to
the tonneau fn d the society o f Miss Ban­
croft.
• A month is a long enough time to reg­
ister an impression, and in Annette’s
diary it will be found recorded that there
are »some things in this sad world than
being whirled through space in a comfort­
able arm-chair, tete-a-tete with an agree­
able individual who has apparently been
everywhere and s»»en everything and who
(n ow s how to talk about it all in excel­
lent idiomatic English.
“ Chauffeurie,” if there be such a word,
is a curious craft, which admits o f its
votary working like a coal beaver and
engine driver combined, while at the same
time preserving the manners and appear­
ance o f a gentleman.
“ I know he's a gentleman,” Annette
told herself Irrelevantly, and for the
twentieth time, that June day, as they
left Chatean Gaillard— a pin point on the
sky line— speeding on to Andelys, which
shimmered allaringly through
a
blu#
haze.
Above the front seat a veiled hat and
a gray auto cap could be seen in close
propinquity, while their owners indulged
in absorbed conversation, and the swing­
ing car traced eccentric scallops on the
broad road.
“ W e Will be In the ditch without doubt*
if Meester Buist is not more careful,”
commented I he chauffeur aside, in his pre­
cise foreign English. He b it his lip and
scowled as the motor skimmed the edge
o f the roadway in a zigzag course of per­
ilously acute angles.
The girl beside him laughed softly.
“ H ow you want to'b e on that front seat
at this moment!” she ejaculated.
Sarto turn«»d his head.
“ Scusi, signorina?” he asked, eyeing
his companion with an intent glance that
gave way to one o f reluctant admiration.
Annette Bancroft was not a beauty;
the small oval face, with its delicate
childlike features, had none o f her cous­
in's emphatic brilliance.
Nevertheless,
the girl's shy grace was full o f poten­
tiality— hints half nttered. yet unmistak­
able, o f the charm that was to be.
“ W hy do you imagine that I covet the
front seat, signorina?*’ he inquired curi­
ously.
,
Again Annette laughed. “ A h ! I know
you roust long to be at the helm again,
she surmised sympathetically, “ in your
rightful place, with your hand on the
steering wheel.”
“ In my rightful place!” echoed the
chauffeur. The man had taken off his
glasnes— an unusual action with him
and withont their somewhat grotesque
protection his eyes gleamed out unfamil-
la r ly ; long, heavy-lidded brown eyes they
were, slightly raised at the corners, giv­
ing their owusr the half-sad, half-won­
dering expression o f an animal.
*
He smiled now— an odd, twisted smile.
“ It is not always that I have been on
the front seat o f a motor, signorina.”
Then, breaking off abruptly, “ This is
Andelys,” he said, in his usual tones.
“ Th at spire— It is a good piece o f N or­
man architecture, do you not think so?”
But Annette only gazed absently ahead
as the motor tool»«]
through
evooked
streets at a pace that gave chickens and
small children acaut time to get out of
the way. '
When tney had left the little town
quite behind, she turned to her compan­
ion again. “ Now I am going to make a
conjecture," this abruptly
spoken
in
French, the painfully correcrlFrench of
the, boarding school. “ Do you know’’—
she flushed a little, inwanily surprised
at her own audacity— “ I ’ ve been wonder­
ing— tell me if I'm not right in fancy­
ing that at some time or other in the
course o f your life you’ve been a sol­
dier; you know there is such an unmis­
takably martial look to your shoulders.”
The chauffeur smiled.
“ You have
great discernment, mademoiselle,” he said
politely. "Y es. I have been in the F o r­
eign le g io n — you know nothing o f that
organisation? It is an extraordinary a f­
fair. the Foreign
Legion” — his tones
quickened, gaining a certain enthusiasm
— “ the moat marvelous chemical solution
in existence, capable o f depriving a man
— any man— of his identity and turning
him into a bit o f military mechanism,
neither more nor less. I served in the
ranks for two years.’’
H e stopped short, and as suddenly the
light, the vigor o f an unwonted exalta­
tion, went out o f his face, which settled
ihto its habitual impassivity. Replacing
his goggles, he lowered his cap over his
eyes, and folding his arms sat looking
imperturbably ahead down the long road
— a motionless leather-encased figure sug­
gestive o f motor cars and naught beside.
This attitude was not conducive to fur­
ther confidences, but Annette Bancroft ht
twenty-one had all the instincts o f a bora
biographer, and when once on the scent
o f possible romance was not to be turned
aside.
“ I suppose.” she hazarded at last, join­
ing the loose ends o f his unfinished story,
“ that a fter you left the army you took
this up?”
Her companion hesltnt«*d. twisting his
long, brigand-like mustaches.
“ W ell, not immediately,” he responded
guard««ily, still sp»-aking in French. *1
got down here by degrees: that is the
way it generally happens. Let me see—
I started by tutoring a bit in Sw itzer­
land ; the boy had consumption and died
in less than a year. A fte r that one took
up what came easiest. The transitions
do not amount to much, but” — he laughed
suddenly, a frank, gay. wonderfully light­
hearted laugh— “ in the course o f
my
checkered career I have been respectively
guide, courier, croupier, and evep cabmen
on occasions. besid«-* officiating as motor
pilot for various racy individuals— not, o f
course, including H is Highness the Prince
del Pino.”
He paused with a faint shrug o f the
shoulders.
F o r an instant the girl gazed at him
with eyes that were unnaturally dilated.
“ H ow interesting!” she murmured at
last, inadequately.
The chauffeur made a slight bow.
“ Rouen already!” he ejaculated, die
missing the subject an^ glancing around,
then relapsing into his careful, conscien­
tious English.
"S ee you our auberge at the end ot
that little street? H ow have we made
the run?”
H e pulled out his watch.
“ Good ! Seventy kilometres in as many
minutes.”
W h iz ! buzz! sang the
motor,
its
breath expiring like a wounded sky-rocket,
as it drew up in front o f a red brick
Normanesque facade.
“ S a rto !” called Mrs. W aring peremp
torily.
She stood, minus her dust-cloak and
goggles, a dazzling tailor-made
vision
with a big bunch o f violets at her waist,
smiling with unwonted graciousness to
the chauffeur, who hastened to do her bid­
ding. Then, accepting his hand, regard­
less o f the Englishman beside her, the
landlord in the ddorway. and an obsequi­
ous cemmis-voyageur who was pressing
fo rw A d to her assistance, she stepped
nimbly to the ground and passed into the
inn. followed by her cousin.
Mr. Gerald Buist with an expression­
less countenance sauntered off to the
postoffice.
wondering “ what
possessed
Gussie W aring to make such a fool of
h erself;” but the man whom she had
delighted to honor stood by the motor
rooted to the ground, gazing in a rapt,
reverential way at
his leather-covered
gloves.
( T o be continued.)
O n ly a a O B e e B o y .
“ I f you want s ready-to-han<1 study
in th e-d ow n righ t cussedness o f bnntan
nature unwarped,’’ said an Insurance
agent. “ Just watch tlib office boys in
you r own or any other place o f busi­
ness.
In fou r cases out o f Ore the
th in g w ill com e out this w a y :
” A, new boy is engaged. H e is m.-ek
and m ild, apologetic o f bearin g n.id
courteous o f speech. H e Is apfiarcntiy
seeking an excuse fo r d a rin g to m ake
a living. H e looks rep roach fu lly at the
head office boy, w ho orders him around
in a rough, catch-as-cntch-can
style
Bush rudeness pains him.
“ N ote this boy a little later.
H is
rude superior has resigned or been <ila­
in I seed. and be Is now head office t>oy.
Is he meek and m ild, apologetic and
reproach fu l? Ray. he's a w orse y«>uug
ruffian than his predecessor— bullyrags
the newcom er, ignores the cuspidor,
uses language not lit to prin t and routes
dangerously near ‘snsslng’ his employer.
H e knows it all, and a little more.
“ T h e re are
exception*,
but
they
prove the rule.” — N ew Y ork Globe.
1 A H e a d y S m a ll B a ra .
A M issouri su bscrlW r o f F arm and
Home fo rw a rd s a device fo r a baudy
and inexpensive barn, and In describ­
ing same sa y s : "M a n y sm all farm ers,
poultrymeu, fr u it and truck grow ers
have no use fo r ■ large barn such as
' W m z I z x p i * » .
I t w ill soon be tim e to take young
pigs from the sows, and in w eaning
them much care w ill be necessary to
avoid stunting them or stopping their
grow th.
W hen about three weeks old
tbe young pigs w ill begin
to
look
around fo r feed, and a pen should then
be provid ed fo r them w h ere they can
be coaxed and given a little fresh
m ilk— It takes very llttje at first— a fW r
they have once tasted tbe m ilk they
ipny be easily called to th eir 'feed .
C o m should be constantly kept In this
pen and the little pigs have fre e aeeesa
to It at all times. M ilk o r s w ill should
be fed to them, a little at first, and
Increased grad u ally d ally.
I t . w i l l be
beneficial to g iv e them a ll the fresh,
clean sw ill they w ill drink up clean
at each feed.
N e v e r feed little pigs
an yth in g sour, o r so mtich sw ill that It
w ill stand in the trough and sour. Feed-
them this w ay uutll you see that tbe
sow Is dried up. then rem ove her *and
the pigs w ill be weaned.
U n it e d S ta te s F o r e s t U s d .
FRO.NT VIEW.
those usually published by the papers.
1 send the plan here Illustrated In the
hope that it w ill be o f some use to
those w ishing a sm all barn. I t Is lSx
24 feet on the ground and d ivid ed as
shown In the floor plan. T h e often shed
Is used fo r tools, a wagon, buggy, or
a shop, and sometimes sim ply as a
place to store manure. In some o f the
colder States doors should be provided
fo r tbe sited, and possibly the p a rti­
tions extended to tbe celling.
Tbe
structure is ten feet nt tbe eaves and
fourteen to sixteen feet In fron t. T h e
loft Is floored o v e r eight feet above
the grad e line.
T h is provides am ple
storage space fo r hay and rough feed
and tbe tw o fee»l rooms are am ple fo r
grain and bran. These m ay be floored
or not. as desired. T h e outer w alls are
boarded np and down and battened.
The ro o f should he covered w ith some
rather tigh t m aterial not o ver eigh t
inches wide, and this Is turn covered
with any o f the prepared roofing fe lt
now ’ on the m a rk e t
T h e barn has
been built several tim es at a price
ranging from $50 to $00, and can be
built some cheaper w here n a tive luiu-
ls*r Is used.
When neatly painted It
w ill mnkq a very good appearance.
I
was prom pted to submit the
sketch
from several articles w ritten by sub­
scribers statin g that sm all barn plans
never appeared in tbe Journals, and as
It Is v e ry evid en t that th ey can only
publish such a rtic le as a re submitted.
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possibly the readers are at fa u lt and
not the journals.
I hope tbe above
olan w ill be found useful to m any.”
H lx * i
B rc c S U f.
In m ixed br*-eding, o r cross breed­
ing, nothing is accom plished > beyond
th e first cross, says a C olorado v eter­
in a ry bulletin.
W h ile a fe w good In­
d ivid u a ls m ay be secured, the tend­
ency Is fo r the progeny to be below
rath er than above tbe average. A man
conducting bis breeding in a .haphaz­
ard w a y is contending w ith
fea rfu l
odds, grop in g In tbe dark fo llo w in g a
w lll-o ’-tbe wisp.
In a hundred years
he w ould be ju st w here he started. In ­
c id en ta lly this Is Just w hat w e have
b£en doin g In this country from the
beginning, and the reason w h y w e
h a re so fe w pure breeds o f liv e stock
and are. a fte r all this tim e, sensing
on r good m oney across the w a ter fo r
pure-bred sires which w e should pro­
duce at home.
A ft e r an im als have been graded up
to a practical pu rity o f blood, the
lon ger th ey a re bred along this line
the in o r^ p rc p o te n t they become, and
the m ore certain that the offsprin g
w ill a u lfo rm ly possess general ex cel­
lence o f 'form ,
qu ality,
action and
u tility.
T h e sam e Is, o f course, tru e o f all
liv e stock.
T h e only certain method
o f raisin g the n rerage standard o f e x ­
cellence Is by persistent breeding to
sires o f the same breed until the na­
tiv e blood Is obliterated and the pro­
gen y u n ifo rm ly possesses all those de­
sira b le qu alities o f the pure breed em­
ployed.
D on’t N v x lK l
th e G a r d e n .
In sum m er the fa rm er has p len ty o f
work on hand, and w ork that must
have prom pt attention, but the w ork
needed In the gnrden Is th at w hich he
should least neglect. H is liv in g depends
on It, a t least liq ongbt to think eo, and
act on th at belief.
I t Is certain that
there is no oth er part o f his en tire
w ork so im portant to th e . health and
co m fo rt o f his fa m ily and him self, and
the actual savin g o f ex|>enses which a
bounteous garden Insures Js a featu re
which alone w arran ts 4ilm !h m aking a
good garden, no m atter w h at
other
Tfce W r # i * One.
w ork m any cause him to defer. I t Is
L a d y— I'm looking fo r a governess presum ed that he has b f this tim e o f
fo r m y children.
(y e a r inode a ll necessary preparations
Mnnt|ger o f
In telligen ce
Office— 1 fo r a supply o f fr u it fo r fa m ily use
D id n 't w e supply you w ith one last d u rin g tbe en tire summer, and much o f
w eek?
the provision fo r s supply o f staple
“ Yes.”
vegetables
should be com pleted, but
“ W ell, madam, according to her r e ­ there la tim e fo r much more, and It
port, yon don't need a governess. Y og w ill not pay to neglect IL
need a llo o tam er.— L ife .
T h e U nited States Forest Service
now line adm in istration
over
more
than 1644)00.000 acres o f land. T h is
la slig h tly more, than oue-fifth o f the
cou n try's total forest«>d a r e a ; the re­
m ainder is in the hands o f p riv a te
owners.
N e a rly all the tim ber land
o f tbe unappropriated public dom ain
is now in tbe natloual forests.
T h is
means that
it
is being protected
against lire, th eft, and w nsteful e x ­
p lo ita tio n ; that Its pow er to g ro w
wood and store w a ter Is being s a fe ­
guarded fo r all time, and th at n ever­
theless Its present supply o f useful m a­
teria l Is o|H>u to Im m ediate use when­
ever It Is wanted.
D ts trlb s tra
F e r t i li s e r .
FerJIlixer is the lire o f the farm .
T h e man who applies It generously Is
rew arded by la rg e aud fine crops, but
tbe fa rm e r w ho Is
sparing
w ith
tbe
soil
reju vena tor
pays
tbe
penalty
w ith d e c r e a s i n g
crops until be dis­
covers
that bis
ground Is “ w orked
out.”
N e x t to tbe
use o f this valuable
m aterial Is tbe m at­
DISTRIBUTES
te r o f Its applies-
m m izn.
tlon. T h e best results are obtained by
its even distribu tion o ver tbe ground, so
thnt a ll parts w ill obtain the benefit.
W h ere It Is scattered In lum p« and
heap«, much o f It« virtu e Is lost.
In
order to accomplish this operation In
the m ost approved manner the ap­
paratus shown h erew ith has been In­
vented
by a V irg in ia
genius.
He
claim s th at It Is the most effe c tiv e and
com pact o f all the machinea fo r the
purpose, and besides thla it la capable
o f ve ry fine adjustm ent, so th at the
amount o f fe r tiliz e r m ay be regulated
\o a nicety.
S c c it a s C lever.
T h e re are customs which a re rig id ­
ly adhered to in tbe sow in g o r plant­
ing o f staple crops. C lover la usually
sown on w heat land In the spring, the
seed being scattered o v e r the around
when It la covered w ith snow in order
to
fa c ilita te the work. One o f the
rigid rules Is to sow a certain qu an tity
o f seed (a s little as possible If seed Is
h ig h ), and should the stand be Jlght
the cause Is ascribed to everyth in g but
the qu an tity o f seed th at has been
used. T h a t fact Is that seed should be
used m ore liberally, as much o f It Is
destroyed In various w ays before germ i­
nation. the savin g o f seed causing a
loss o f clover.
A n oth er point is t «
h arrow the wheat, seed down tb e clo v­
e r nnd then use a ro ller on tbe laud.
T h e better the preparation fo r clover,
the m ore seed w ill germ inate and the
more perfect the “ catch.”
*
THE WEEKLY I
RIAN
!431— John d’A rc burned at Rouen.
1643— Union o f tbe N ew England colo»_
nlea.
1672— I ’eter the Great o f Russia born at
Muncow.
1704— French fleet defeated in the Ray
o f Biscay by tbe English under Lord
Howe.
1313— English defeated the Americans at
battle o f Rackett’s Harbor.
1814— Empress Josephine, w ife o f Napo­
leon, died at Malmaison.
1832— Opening o f the Kideau canal.
1835— Pope
born.
Phis
X.
(Guioeppe
S a rto )
1848— Wisconsin admitted to the Union.
1884— Sheridan joined Grant before Rich­
mond.
1871— Canada issued its first post cards
1876— Several hundred bouses destroyed
by fire in Quebec.
1880— Garfield and Arthur nominated by
the Republican national convention
at Chicago.
1880— Texas Spring
F ort W orth.
Palace
opened
at
1890— The Texas Spring Palace in Fort
W orth burned.
1003— Last performance given in the his­
toric Boston museum.
1005— Lewis and Clark exposition opened
at Portland, O r e . . . .President Roose­
velt offered his services as a mediator
to end the war between Russia and
Japan.
1007— W idow o f President
M cKinley
buried* at C anton........ The Watere-
Pierce O il Company having been
found guilty o f violating the anti­
trust laws o f Texas, was fined $1.*
623,000.
The w ill o f Henry Blount, an eccentric
miser o f Herfordshire, England, leaving
$465.000 to Y ele university, was admit­
ted to probate at Ixmdon, although rela­
tives expected to show that his mind was
unbalanced. Y ale w ill get the money.
(
Freshmen and sophomores from the
University o f Minnesota engaged in s
lively battle s i s dancing. academy In
Minneapolis and It took a squad o f police
end a number o f men armed with buckets
o f water to subdue them.
The sopho­
mores attempted to cut the hair o f the
f reshmen boys who attended a class par)y.
The Virginia high school debating in m
claims the Minnesota Rtate'charapionahip
for 1908, on the grounds of having met
and defeMed the strongest teams in tbe
debating league, including the teams o f
8t. Paul and Minneapolis, and also on the
recent challenge issued to meet any (nun
in tbe league or out o f the league. Gold
medals are being struck for the members
of the team.
D. II. Burnham o f Chicago and W al­
ter Cook o f New York, the tw o distin­
C o r n e r P o st f o r W i r e P e n ce.
guished architects, who with W . M. Ken­
T h is contrivance Is Intended fo r the yon o f Minneapolis, have been chosen aa
attachm ent o f a portable woven w ire judges to pass u()on the merits o f the
fence nt tb e ends. T w o posts cleated plans submitted in the open competition
for improving and beautifying the greater
campus o f the University o f Minnesota,
have begun their examination o f the twen­
ty plana submitted by architects.
Negotiations are under way in 8t. Pam
to secure the Minnesota college, a Scandi­
navian Luther institution, now located in
Minneapolis. The college Was established
a few years ago. Since that time the col­
lege has prospered and grown so that
It needs more room. It has been unable
to secure property in the neighborhood o f
its present location, and the authorities
o f the institution are now considering the
advisability o f removing it to St. Paul.
A committee o f St. Paul business men
have the matter o f aiding the college in
hand.
President Swain o f Swarthmore Col­
lege has announced that the board. o f
managers w ill be asked by the faculty to
.authorize the abandonment o f intercollegi-
noon c o r s e r p o s t .
I ate athletic contests for at lewst one year,
togeth er at both top nnd bottom about and that the football and basketball gatnea
fo u r Inches ap art a re set In line w ith scheduled for next year be canceled. But
the fence nt each end. T w o pieces o f 1 contests in the milder form, such as ten­
nis and lacrosse, may be continued. The
one by fou r Inch oak are bolted on the
decision Is based on complaints of mem­
fence in the form o f clamps, placing bers o f ‘ the faculty and o f the alumni
one on each side o f an nprlght w ire to (hat “ th* desire to win has come to over
p reren t slipping o f the laterals.
shadow the legitimate purpose o f athletics
to such an extent as to form a serious
R k lm M il k to r C k le k e n s .
menace to the primary purpose o f college
T h e W e s t V irgin ia experim ent sta­ life.”
The Athletic Advisory Committee
tion made a 122-dny test to ’d eterm ine la willing that the experiment be tried,
tbe value o f tbe skim m ilk as a chick­ hat believes thnt It w ill not be found to
en feed.
T h e y selected tw en ty-tw o be In the best Interests o f Rwnrthmore.
|»t»t,a nnd fed them skim m ilk w ith the j
President Dabney o f the TThiveraity o f
result that they secured 1,244 eggs In Cincinnati haa asked for the resignation
this time.
A n oth er lot o f tw en ty-tw o of Prof. I t II. Ilawden o f the department
liens fed w ith mash w et w ith w a ter of philosophy because o f the private views
laid 006 eggs in the 122 days.
! held by the latter on the question of mar-
Best Roll tpr Beets.
Beets w ill “g ro w w ell on any kind ot
soli except a hard, compact clay. T h e
Ideal soil Is a m ellow , m oist one, p r e f­
era b ly
a
sandy
loam.
W ell-rotted
manure should be applied to the poorer
soils, the amount depending on the cun
dltlon o f tbe soil.
I
I riage. It was said that tbe request was
Inspired by the dscloaurea made by Mrs.
Bawden concerning the effect o f her hus­
band’s peculiar views on their home life.
H e holds that corifradeahip should be the
only tie between roan and w ife on the
spiritual plane, and that where thla does
not exist separation should be made as
aimnle as possible.
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