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■ . îtflf* ■ The Ç h a u ife u r and the J e w e ls C o p r r ir b t. l W i h r ) . B. U r r i K o r r C o W pawy . By AU r ig h t* r e a e r n d . Edith Morgan Willett CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.) Giving his shoulders a resolute, fatal Istie shrug, Sarto stepped out of his stateroom and, locking the door behind him, went jauntily down to dinner. In the saloons through which he passed peo pie were still scattered about, notwith standing the claims of table d’hote, and more than one loiterer turned around or glanced up over his newspaper at the sight of the distinguished looking for eigner sauntering by. “Dining saloon on the left. Your High ness,” an obsequious steward informe«! our friend as he turned into the maiu entrance. Alceste was an ally worth having! With a sense of satisfaction that amounted to positive elation, Sarto open ed the door on his left. Before him glim mered a river of lights, looked a river of faces—men and women of varying types, plying their knives and forks as siduously. Perfectly conscious of the eyes that followed him. the mock prince walked slowly up the length of the room between rows of waiters, his eyes well to the front, where a chair had been already drawn out for him, far up at the captain's right. It was as he sat down, with a bow to his uniformed host, and let his glance wander idly about him that Sarto expe rienced his second shock that day. and a startling one indeed. For an instant the sheer surprise of it staggered him com pletely. Then, recovering himself with supreme effort, he lifted his monocle and looked steadily across the table. Yes. there they were—there was no mistake—the very last people he had wished or expected to see—Mrs. Richard Waring, Annette Bancroft and Gerald Buist, Englishman t After all, why had he not thought of this possibility? It was just like Gussie. after laying her plans for a protracted stay in London, suddenly to take passage for home. Raising his head, the chauffeur glanced rapidly over the tables, his quick eye picking out a keen-edged profile—an an gular back. Surrounded! Hemmed in on all sides! His lips twitched. The situation was positively comic in its dire fulness. Detective, robber, and robbed, breaking bread together! What a juxta position ! “Game’s up,” Sarto told himself stoic ally. and, fixing his eyes on his menu card, he awaited the inevitable check mate. But it was long in coming!. Over and over the chauffeur conned that intermin able list of dishes, his brain on the alert for developments across the table; yet nothing happened, the tinkle of glasses and the clatter of cutlery continuing un broken. What did it mean? At last the sound of a voice opposite made him prick up bis ears. “I told you Blantock was on board,” came a familiar British drawl. “See him over there, Gus- «i«r Q S I “ Where?” Sarto experienced a faint thrill at the clear-cut, well-known tones. “ Down there. That second table to your left. Look! Four seats from the end.” But Gussie did not look! Under his lowered eye-lids the man opposite was unpleasantly conscious that her gaze was upon him curiously, interrogatively. She had recognized him ! Taking a little gold pencil out of his pocket. Sarto began, 'with perfect self- possession, to cross off an elaborate meal, while he waited for her next move. What would she do? Gradually the eyes upon him shifted, then they came back again. Gussie put up her hand and lightly touched her hair, the furtive, beringed fingers patting a lock here, a coil there—a characteristic gesture, this of hers. Why. the bird was actually pluming itself! For whose ben efit? There was a moment's silence. “ If Mr. Blantock is really on board,” Mrs. Waring remarked, in obviously cau tious tones, “what do you suppose it means?” Gerald hesitated a moment. “ Perhaps,” he suggested significantly, “it means that a friend of yours is on board too.” It was a tremendous moment. Handing the card to the waiter, with a low-toned direction, Harto now raised his head and looked deliberately across the table, his eyes encountering those of the woman opposite in a steely, impenetrable stare. To his surprise. Mrs. Waring looked away, blushing faintly, and set down her wine glass with a little click. “ Well, I’ve quite finished,” she an nounced. glancing at her party: “how about you? Shall we go up on deck and have coffee?” The girl beside her acquiesced, speak Ing for the first time, and, still under his lowered eyelids. Harto watched the familiar procession pass out of the room, Gussie taking the lead, as usual, the Eng lishman bringing up the rear. If they had recognized him, of which the chauffeur made no doubt, then, he told himself, there must hav# been a mu tual silent decision *o avoid a scene in the saloon. Probably the arrest would he made as soon as he went out. “After dinner, the deluge!” quoth Sar to, the philosopher, paraphrasing a fam ous maxim, and. true to the teachings of Mme. de Pompadour, be set forth on his consomme. It was some time later that, his eventful meal ended, the mock prince stepped out of the saloon and, standing in the lee of the outer door, placidly lit a cigar. What a night of enchantment It was! Low in the heavens, over the luminous, palpitating ocean dangled the full moon —a great, golden coin—and from it, de scending the waves, a ladder of light hung suspended, each rung girt with silver. Not a breath of air moved, the throbbing of the screw alone breaking the mystic stillness. Glancing about him cautiously, Harto tank in one group after another saunter- ng up and down tj»e deck, and then drew '>ack with sudden swiftness into the door »hadow, his cigar bitten tight between his eeth. his breath coming unevenly, as he watched two familiar figures go by un der the electric lights. Scarcely were they past, a breath of violets following the swish of Gussie's skirts, when the man in the doorway sprang forward and picked up something that whirled over the deck in her wake. What should he do with it? Grasping the white lace thing, he star ed after the couple, twisting his thin lips uncertainly. Fate had thrown him Gus- sie’s handkerchief, with some obvious end in view. Why not run the chance now? “It’s always best to know the worst,” Sarto told himself, with unconscious Irish wit, and he set out along the decks, quick ening his steps to catch up with the loit ering pair. “Pardon, madame!” He saw them stop, and felt Gussie turn her head Inquiringly. , Then advancing, hat in hand, “I think you dropped this,” he said, speaking in English and holding the handkerchief out to her with a glance that was half ques tion, half grim, daring defiance, for Gus- sie’s eyes were full of recognition. “Thank you very much,” she said, tak ing her possession without looking at it. and, with a little hesitation, “ Isn’t this the Prince del Pino? The captain told me that he sat opposite to us at dinner.” Holding himself well in hand, Sarto achieved a bow. Mrs. Waring smiled. “I feel as If I knew Your Highness already," she said. “through my old friend Count Souravieff, of the Russian Legation. I wonder if you ever heard him speak of Mrs. Richard Waring?” ~ ... . With his self-possession miraculously restored, Mrs. Waring's chauffeur bowed over the hand so graciously outstretched to him. “I have heard your name, madame, a hundred times,” he said gallantly, “and from many others beside Count Soura vieff. Boris Souravieff!” He laughed, with a keen recollection of his late pat ron’s boon companion. “Why, we were motoring together only last autumn.” At this point another voice broke in. “My name's Buist,” said that individ ual, Introducing himself with his usual nonchalance. “Glad to meet you. I'm sure.” • “Charmed,” declared the Prince del Pino. Clicking his heels together, he bowed again, searching the other’s face warily; but Gerald's straightforward lineaments were as open as the proverbial political door. Not a shade of suspicion, not a sign of doubt, lurked in that broad, clean shaven expanse! Behind his tilted monocle the eyes of Ludovic Harto, chauffeur, glistened with satisfaction at his own amazing good for tune. Ho these two people had accepted him without reserve! Theirs be the risk, then. He would play the part for all it was worth. “ We were Just about to join my cousin. Miss Bancroft,” Gussie explained, leading the way around the deck. “Ah, here she is!” “Annette, this is the Prince del Pino.” Hhe sat down next to the girl and smil ingly motioned to a chair beside her. “Won’t Your Highness join us? You see, Mr. Buist is evidently going to desert us for a smoke. Perhaps you will take his place?” With a murmured word of thanks. Sarto slipped into the low, easy chair, his mind going back rapidly to a certain ten party when he had first taken Mr. Ituist's place—when the humble chauffeur had b«ien first allowed the honor of sitting by Mrs. Waring. What a turning of tables to-night! With what subtle difference of texture the Fates had woven in the old design! And yet this exquisite situation had its undoubted perils. It was with a swift realization of his own immediate danger that, turning his head, the mock Prince del Pino now met Gussie Waring’s half- puzzled, interrogative gaze. “Really,” she apologized, “your face is so absurdly familiar, you know, I’ve been wondering, ever since I first saw you across the dinner table, where I could possibly have met you before—or is it that you remind me of some one I know? Let me think” (she frowned absently). “Who can it be?” "Yes, who can It be?” echoed the man beside her. He smiled a faint twinkle in his inscrutable eye. “Not Houravieff, I hope?” Gussie took the bait. “Houravieff. I should think not !” Hhe laughed, remem bering the diplomat's razor-like outlines. Then, her thoughts swerving unconscious ly into a new channel, "Oh, by the way, prince, we have another mutual friend I haven’t mentioned yet”—this with a mis chievous side-glance at Annette. "Perhaps you haven’t heard of my experience with your chauffeur?" “Ah, that miserable scelerat!” ejacu lated Iaidovic Harto. He bent towards the woman he had robbed, his face posi tively sphinx-like in its impenetrability, his manner serious, deferential; and, re lapsing unconsciously into French, “My dear Mrs. Waring, I cannot tell you how distressed—absolutely apologetic—I feel about your loss. To think of that fellow of mine turning out such a rascal! It is inconceivable.” He paused, hesitated, then, the humor of the situation carrying him on Irresist ibly, “ Why, I trusted Ludovic Harto as I did myself,” he declared, with infinite pathos; "I was sincerely attached to him !” For the first time ha looked across de liberately at the girl on his other side, Annette Bancroft was leaning forward also, taking in every word that be said, her lips parted, her small face, in the all- revealing electric lights, oddly tense and eager. “Ah! yon too!” she exclaimed impuls ively, as she caught his eye. “ WaaB’WJt ' a terrible disappointment that he should turn out so? That poor chauffeur I” There was a little pause, then: . “How about my poor diamonds?” aakev Gussie. “ What do you think, prince?” .She turned to him. “Shall we ever get, hold of that man?” :. “ How can I tell?” asked Ludovic Sarto. He cleared his throat and spoke in busi ness-like English. “ What steps are you taking, if I may ask, madame? I sup pose it is in the hands of the police— Yes?” Mrs. Waring nodded hey head. “ I have a very capable detective,” she said confi C u ltiv a tio n a t C o ra . dentially, “who tracked the chauffeur all Corn makes a rank growth both above the way from Southampton to Liverpool, where, unfortunately, he gave him the and below ground, and for that reason slip. Mr. Blantock’a idea is that he was requires treatment somewhat different from what Is given to wheat or oats. trying to get over to America.” “That is very probable," agreed Sarto. Planting in rows Is necessary not only Turning slightly, he glanced again at to permit full development of the stalks, Annette, to fiud her eyes fixed on him but also to glvq plenty of feeding room with an intensity that was almost painful. to the roots. Corn roots, If they have "My experience of the man indeed,” he a chance, will occupy every Inch to the went on. choosing his words deliberately depth of from three to five feet, and and watching her face, “is that he sel dom fails of his ends. Sarto, I think, will the yield of the corn will depend on elude you by every means in his power. the completeness of this occupation. He is a shrewd fellow, I can tell you, and The feeding ground, or, In other words, if you are too many for him”—he shrug the corn root pasture, depends mainly ged his shoulders—"nut foi l I doubt me on the preparation and cultivation ol if you will ever catch him alive.” the soil. It may be limited In many With keen satisfaction he saw Annettt ways, so that the farmer, instead of us wince. “A h!’’ she said, in a low tone, ing from three to five feet of his field “what a grisly suggestion!” Then, rising aa soil, will use only a small portion of abruptly, “There's Mr. Buist.” This with | evident relief. “I think I am going -to It If the land Is not properly drained, join him and walk up and down a bit, either naturally or artificially, the corn if you and the prince will excuse me, roots cannot penetrate Into the regions saturated with water, for the water Gussie.” . , Holding on to the rail, she made her . shuts out the air. If hard pan comes way off unsteadily. Watching the small near the surface the corn roots cannot figure, Sarto was so absorbed in his own reach Into that, and he may be culti speculations that it was with a start he vating but six, eight or ten inches of the became conscious of a voice beside him. field as soil. If the land be heavy and “ Don’t you think," it asked, in languio, ploughed wet, full of lumps on the sur rather bored accents, “that your chauffeur and my diamonds have absorbed quite face or resting on the plough pan or enough of the conversation? It seems to bottom of the furrow, the corn roots me that you and I, prince, have a thou cannot utilize these, and hence his soli Is limited. If he has ploughed under, sand other things in common.” in a dry time, coarse manure, so as to (To be continued.) TEA FROM THE FLOWERS. .N a tu r a lly Sw eet T e a o f W n te n C h in a — V a lu e o f T e a D u a t. Tea, not from the leaves, but from the tlowers alone of the plant, Is rare ly encountered in commerce. The petals, stamens, etc., are sun-dried, and the resulting tea la of a rich, deep brown hue of peculiarly delicate odor, and gives a pale amber colored Infu sion rather more astringent In taste than that from the average fair grade leaf. The taste for it is au acquired one, and even if this tea could be made commercially possible, It is doubtful if It would ever become popular. The American tea trade could advkn tageously take a suggestion from the brick tea of the far east. In our coun try, the tea dust, some of which Is of good quality. Is not properly utilised. In Europe it is a regular article of trade, and It Is advertised and sold as tea dust. In America It Is sold to thou sands of cheap restaurants, who make from it the mixture of tannic acid, sugar and boiled milk which they sell as "tea.” If. as In the Orient, this dust were compress'd into bricks, good tea could be made from It, and the product would find a ready market through the multitude of uses for which It is adapt ed. A beginning in this direction has been made by the Plnehurat tea estate in Bouth Carolina, and In Europe sim ilar advances have been inaugurated. The virgin tea (blepjcki-chi), so called from its use at Chinese wed dings, is the sun-dried leaf intact, tied up with three strands of colored silk. After infusion, these fngotllke little bundles are pickled In vinegar and used as salad. This tea is sold in especially handsome silk-covered and glass-topped boxes. The rarest of all teas, and one that has never been known to reach, this country, is a naturally sweet tea, produced in western Chinn on a v«>ry limited scale. Its culture Is centuries old, and the secret has been jealously guarded from generation to generation. The saccharinity is probably due to grafting and years of patient study and care, such as only the small Chinese tea farmer Is capable of bestowing.— Scientific American. N ew R ed C lo v e r Is F o u n d . The Bureau of Plant Industry has been experimenting with a new f«>rm of red clover which came from the black soil region of Russia. The plant Is practically hairless and therefore does not hold dust like the common red clover. For this reason It Is believed thav It will make a better forage plant for horses, since it will be much less like ly to cause heaves and will be cleaner and more convenient to handle. Bloat ing in cattle Is perhaps due In part to the presence of hairs on common clover. If this be true the trouble would be obviated by feeding them the new hairless Orel clover. Another objection to the common red clover Is that It mntures much earlier than timothy, with whh'h It Is usually sown. It Is thus Impossible to harv«*st the mixture at a time when the full value of both the clover and timothy can be obtained. The new Orel clover matures two weeks later than the common red kind, or at the same time with the timothy, and at a season when the farmer’s at tention is not so imperatively demanded for his corn, and also at a time when In most of the clover belt the weather Is more favorable for harvesting the crop without injury by rnlh. E f fe c t o f H eavy G an F ir e . The firing of a big gun causes hem orrhages In the ears of eight out of ninety-six soldiers. Freckles may be hereditary. Case* of freckles all over the body are men tioned. Food Is not supposed to cause them. Hun and wind make soma faces freckle. shut off the supply of water from be low, the corn roots are again limited. It Is, therefore, about as necessary for the farmer to understand corn roots and their habits and ways as It Is for the surgeon to understand the anatomy of the system, where the bones He, and where the arteries, veins, nerves and muscles ar? hidden under the skin. The corn plant, it will be seen, has no top-root. The first roots start out from the seed grain and go down. C s s m l f O s l l o w C a ll* * . A simple method of constructing s cool, outdoor cellar In localities where the common'house cellars are too warm for use during the summertime, Is shown In the accompanying sketch. It Is a cellar made under the pump, so that the water pumped by the windmill has a very cooling effect. In places where It Is difficult to obtain Ice, It will prove Indispensable to the dairyman who keeps a few cows. An other Important Item Is the fact that a man does not find It necessary to pull up all of the pipes every ttmo that he finds It necessary to repair the pipes and pump. It Is constructed of concrete. The top Is re-enforced with oii(-half-Inch steel rods placed one foot apart each way and the concrete Is about six Inches thick. The sides are made by using a form and t.ie stairs are also made of concrete and a r j re enforced by small steel rods. The cost OUTDOOB cells a. Including the labor, amounted to about $50 In the west and southwest It will also answer the purpose of a storm cave, which Is considered a fixture on all farms.—Farm and House. A N e w S w in d le o a F a r m e r » . An entirely new but highly successful scheme to separate farmers from their money has been worked In Bouth Da kota during the past few months. An oily grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his land. The figure* are absurdly low at first, but by de grees are raised as high as $60 an acre, and the farmer consents. Then the visitor explains that he Is only an agent, but that he can sell the land at the price named if the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of 50 cents an acre. The “agent” promises orally that the advertising money will not be payable until the land is sold, but this stipula tion Is not contained In the contract that the farmer signs. In a few days be receives a copy of an ad and not overcoarteous demand for money. It is said that twenty-two agricul turists were caught with this bait In Brown County and that one of them gave up $320. T h a s S « m ad M i l k . nisTBiBimoN o r c o w soots in boil . After this the roots are sent out In whorls of from two to ten. As the plant advances toward maturity, these whorls rise closer to the surface. The first roots thrown out immediately above the primary roots run sideways and occupy ten or fifteen Inches below the surface. These lateral roots throw out fibrous or feeding roots, which run In every di rection through the soil and occupy every Inch within a radius of from two to five feet. It Is evident, therefore, that if we plough corn immediately after planting, or after it is first up, we can plough as deep as we like, and generally the deeper the better. When, however, the roots begin to rise and occupy every square Inch of soil within reach, it will not do to plough deep. Our cultivation must, therefore, be lim ited to the surface, and with the end In view of killing the weeds and forming the mulch of dry dirt which will shut off surface evaporation, and spread out the water which is continually rising from below within reach of the roots. The older and larger the plant the shallower should the cultivation be. In fact, If the ground Is well prepared, ploughed deep when there Is no dan ger of cutting off the roots, the only thing the farmer needs to do during the latter period Is to maintain the mulch of dry dirt on the surface. F a rm H e l p L e s s E x p e n s iv e . Farm labor Is cheaper than it was at this time last year and Is pretty sure to continue so for the season. There has been some curtailment In manufac turing throughout the country, the re sult being that a great many men are out of work. With this condition farm ers find that they can get help more readily now than they have been able to for several years. It Is ascertained that where contracts have been made In the Middle West and Bouth west for farm hands the rate of wages averages about $5 per month low er than that prevailing a year ago. A common rate of pay for farm bands at this time Is $25 per month, as against $30 last season. Competent men with experience In special departments ot farming will command more, but not as ranch as In 1000 and 1007. Good live stoak bands receive $35 to $45, hut above this there arc few men hired even for fancy farming or the specialties who are receiving more. Youths and inexperienced Immigrants are offering their services for from $15 to $20 per month. To many persons the curdling of milk In a thunderstorm is a mysterious and unintelligible phenomenon. Yet, ac cording to scientists, the whole process is simple and natural. Their claim Is that milk, like most other substances, contains millions of bacteria. The milk bacteria that In a day or two, under natural conditions, would cause the fluid to sour are peculiarly sus ceptible to electricity. Electricity In spires and Invigorates them, as alco hol, cocaine or strong tea affects men. Under the current's Influence they fall to work with amazing energy, and In stead of taking a couple of days to sour the milk they accomplish the task completely In a half hour. With an electric battery It Js easy on the same principle to sour the freshest milk. I m p r o v e d S h o v e l H a n d le . In a scoop-handle for shovels, spades and similar articles recently patented, an Illinois Inventor claims that he has designed a device for tools of this kind by which the weight of the load can be more ef fectually balanced and the forward band of the opera tor shifted In a mor e convenient manner to facili tate the operation B A LA N CES LOAD. of the tool In scoop ing and lifting. The operator Is also relieved of the necessity of stooping so low as he does In shovels of the or dinary construction. He introduces a supplemental handle, which Is secured to the handle of the shovel, the oppo site end extending forward of the rear end of the blade, being supported from the latter by braces. The supplemen tal handle Is engaged by the forwnrd hand of the operator, the latter being thus greatly relieved of weight. It avoids the twisting strain of the body caused by lifting a henvy load when the forward hand Is placed low down upon the usual handle. The hand of the operator can he readily slid back and forth In the various manipulations of the scoop, rendering It more con venient and efficient in use, adapting it to be used with decreased power and strain. T h e C o d d lin g M o th . About one-fifth of the first laying of egga by the coddling moth Is on the fruit, the rest being on the leaves and branches. The young larva that hatches from the egg Is able to feed on the foliage to some extent and may come Into maturity without entering the fruit, although It rarely does so. About 80 per cent of the first brood finds Its way Into the apples at the calyx, while the rest eat In a t other points, principally at the stem. Only about 28 per cent of the second brood enters at the calyx, the others eating In where the apples touch each other, or a leaf at the stem end. The aver- ags Ilfs of the adult Insect, or moth. Is about four days. 110®— -Death of Peter the Hermit, the preacher of the first crusade. 1388—-Swim defeated the Austrians at battle of Hempach. 1006—Champlain founded the city of Quebec. 1700—Peter the Great of Russia decis ively defeated Charles X II. of Swe den at battle of Pultowa. 1775—Washington took command of ths Continental army at Cambridge. 1781—Engagement between British and American troops at Kings Bridge, N. Y. 1779—Fairfield, Conn., burned by ths British. 1792—City of Washington selected as the capital of the United States. 1839— First normal school in America opened at Lexington, Ms 1840— Commodore 81oat of the United Htates navy bombarded and took poo- lion of the city of Monterey. 1848—Peace proclaimed between ths United Htatea and Mexico. 1850— Integrity of Denmark guaranteed by England, France, Prussia and Hweden. 1851— Corner stone of the extension of the capitol laid by President Filmore. 1854—Turks defeated the Russians at Giurgevo. 1865—Lord Canning appointed Gov ernor General of India. 1803—Hurrender of Port Hudson, a Con federate fortress on the Mississippi riv e r.. . .Last day of the battle of Gettysburg. 1865— Execution of Payne, Atxerott, H ar old and Mrs. Surratt, for complicity In the assassination of President Lin coln. 1866— Prussians defeated the Austrians at 8adowa. 1887—The Ameer of Afghanistan, follow ing a rising against taxation, pro claimed peace, amnesty and a remis sion of taxes for two years. 1890—Idaho Territory became a State. 1893—Marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck. 1895—A third daughter was born to the President and Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables... .Twenty persons killed in a railroad wreck on the Grand Trunk near Quebec. 1897— Lisbon celebrated the 400th anni versary of the departure of Vasco da Gama to discover the sea route to the Indies. 1898— The Island of Guam seised by the Americans of the warship Charles ton. 1900—LI Hung Chang made viceroy of China. 1905—Christ's College, Cambridge, cele brated the 400th year of its founda tion. ' ‘' 1907—Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco sentenced to five years' imprisonment for extortion.. . .Opening of the new lift lock in the canal at Kirkfield, Ont. / c t iO O L S (O J « F * W V /\A /W N /\/W The baccalaureate address of President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton to ths senior class said that the fundamental moral problem in the complex civilization of to-day was “how to separate the in dividual from the mass, to lift the indi vidual soul out of the confusion and dis traction of modern societies, unions, brotherhoods, leagues, alliances, corpora tions and trusts, into some clear placs of vision, where he may think and ses apart, looking beyond the things of to day to the things that a"bide.” Standards, he thought, had been confused by the at tempt to confound morals with material ambitions. Individual conscience and not law would make reforms. But the ten dency toward vast organizations of all kinds had resulted in men’s trying to sep arate their individual life from the life of their organization, being mhrnl In ths jne and immoral in the other. He declared that the tendency to be practical would not conquer the tendency to be moral. Gov. Warner has announced the ap pointment of Chase 8. Osborn, of Hault Hte. Marie, Mich., as regent of the Uni versity of Michigan, to succeed the lata Peter White, of Marquette. Mr. Oshorn was chairman of the Michigan delegation at the Republican national convention. Gov. Johnson of Minnesota delivered the commencement address to the stu dents of Kansas State university. His subject was “Landmarks of American Liberty.” Dr. Wu Ting-Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, delivered the com mencement address at Iowa University. At the conclusion of his address Minis ter Wu was given the honorary degree of LL. D. In the afternoon Minister Wu delivered an open-air address. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of ths President, has taken his degree as bach elor of arts, thus flnlantng a four years’ course In three*years. The young man has mads known hla purpose to begin his ctrear in the ranks of the manual labor ers, and is said to have strop ted a p a s t •« a miner.
