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CHAPTER V II.
It was on the fifth day out that a fog of* Sarto's parentage. Miss Banc
I drifting in from the Great Hanks struct asked, with some hesitation. " I j
lop with the Majestic, bringing the great
,4ip map or less.”
¡ship down to half'apead.'~nPa» I i d y il|t t
«he could answer.
j hours she steamed slowly ahead over a on. in an odd, constrained tons,
(great, glutinous, lonely ocean, walled In hia English mechanically for thè
J by shrouds of mist, her fog horn sounding French. “ Ilia mother was a Fret
drearily and incessantly. It was not a of good family, his father a gond<j|
ik’S hopeful prospect, and yet—»—
wag a Venetian romance, you ~
“ I believe’ th» T or is changing Its Van off. married-him, and of cou(
¿¿gi course,” predicted the Prince del Pino, never forgiven. Well, you can
1» late on the second day of darkness. \*'I tha sequence—Sb* misery for her.
would lay a wager that within twenty- vfc was their only child— his moth«
He stopped short.
ixj tour hours we sight your Sandy Hook.”
He and Anaetta Bancroft wars sitting
Annette looked up quickly,
® amidships, about eight bells of the after­ she said, also in French. "That’d’
noon. in a cosy angle of the deck, well tha education and refinement cat
K screened from tlje steady drip, drip, drip
“ Tea, he had every advantage^ said
of the mist, which nevertheless lay heavy the man, looking over the rail ; “ah* did
on everything, touching the blond hair of what she could, and then she died—poor
4 the girl with chill fingers and lining her woman! Curious, was It not?” — hi» epoks
j steamer cap with Uula »bining drops.
a littla huskily— “ that, in spite of her
“ Your Highness doesn’t speak with training, fhe vagabond streak in the fel­
) much enthusiasm,” she now commented, low was so strong.
’ in answer to her companion's speech.
Annette followed his thought. “ Yes,"
^ “ From your tone," she hesitated slightly, she said slowly, “ I think I undowtand.
3 “one wouldn't suppose that you were ea- It was the eon of the .gondolier who stole
■'-1 peciallv anxioMs to have your prophsky those jewels."
■ h lilliU v v v V
A C H C k H d A There was a moment's silence while
‘ Perhaps I m Sot," agreed the man they both stared ahead of them, sod then
beside hi*. He was sitting * little for- the girl rose abruptly.
j ward in bis chair, elbows on knees, gas-
“ I think I ’ll go in now,” she «aid ;
*; ing fixedly into the blankness. “ Perhaps “ won't Your Highness pilot me bock to
. I am not in such a desperate hurry to the cabin door? I really can't MO my
reach New York.” Qa smiled, an Intro- baud before my face in thia fog.”
spective, half smile. “ Perhap# I enjoy
But. looking down at the smaty figure
this drifting existence we are leading, shut beside him, Sarto saw, with an Inèxplica-
• j Op in this fog-country. Who knows?*'
ble thrill, that it was not tbs fa* alone
Nam wiag his eye* he atarad in front that won blinding Annette’s eye#.
of him. ' “ What a mysterious thing it la.
When he had helped be* In, hq found
this brume * Xothtog tb be seen before ns his way out again oil deck and dropped
or behind. Somewhat the way it is in into the nearest chair with a gestore of
this life. Miss Bancroft, and .vet” — he weariness. The* telling of that story had
lifted his eyebrows with s taint shrug of haen a necessity— a momentary relief to
the shoulders— “ when a man loses his— his feelings, but the after effects were
. what you call—bearings in the exceeding undoubtedly depressing.
•. mistiness and swerves from the straight
Viewed from his present standpoint,
course, he is called bard names and cast I.udovlc Sarto's career made a pretty poor
into prison. It appears a trifle unjust, showing, and the man had merged him­
does it not?”
self so completely in his new role that be
"Y-e-a.” agreed Annette. She was also was able to view the chauffeur and hia
leaning forward, her, hands clasped, shortcomings with the detached, tempo-
matching him with a pmaisd, wondering verity Impel «seal- feeling the* a contem­
gaze.
plative snake might experience towards
"Yea,” she repeated slowly, “ it does hie discarded . winter akin 1 In hia bor­
sound cruel, unjust, and yet” —she hesi­ rowed Identity Sarto was at hie beet. With
tated— “ so much depends—doesn’t it?—on all the attractive qualities, hidden In the
how far your mariner has strajfgAhC on chauffeur, turned brilliantly to the light,
what , your man has done. Of couase, t far more agreeable pafeonagL the mock
you're not referring to aqftt|| crims.” Her Prince del l’ino, then the «stornine, dys­
Voice: dropped Impressively.«: &
peptic invalid. #ho might be ,*t that In­
, Putting up his monocle. Lndorie Sarto stant dying In a Liverpool hospital. Per­
scrutinised the little gray-coated figure haps he wal already dead !
so near him.
A sudden light leaped Into the chauf­
It o w n uiusual state of things that feur’s eyes and then j d B M f r :
had Chtoton those two together; as a rule,
What possible difference could it make
. -during the past five days the Prince del to him whether Roderigo del Pina* Mved
¡Pino had fallen to Mrs. Wartng’» share.
or died? Whatever happened, when the
“Crime?” he repeated; “criminal? Majestic touched its pier Ludovic Sarto
Jteste! What horrible words
words!”
J” This with must retava to his own again, with the
ja twist of the thia lips, concealing a hair ev«nls of the
tin last five days only so epi-
smile. “ What do you krtow, indeed, about sod*.
crime. Miss Bancroft?
Can a jeoae
His mind went back slowly, reviewing
demoiselle like yoursgl^ comprehend the that as* life with an odd mixture of en­
swirling currents”— his tunas - deepened joyment, pride, bitterness and jealousy.
and roughened— “ the irresistible impulses Yes, jealousy! At times the eh&affenr,
that may turn an honest man at any mo­ who had always had the world to light.
ment into a criminal—a thief, for in­ I the oijilj against him. was conscian» of
sent«, unreasoning jealousy of hie own
i' Behind his monocle his eyed glittered prsssnt triumphs. They we«* so edsily
expressively. How inevitably, all against won, so palpably unjust ! All door«,wers
his will, bis thoughts harked back to tha open to him naturally now. Everything
•ue subject oo his mind I
-
•*£*- - possible, hi« opinions received with defer­
Fortunately, Annette found nothing ence, bis wit with appreciation, his at-
miwpievs— iw the con versa flow’s drift. ■ ■ fr entfiw*— “
“ A thief!” she repeated, absently.
Hers he smiled—a tight, curiously co­
" H u t reminds s * of karto, I to. you vert smile.
__
* know” —she 'spoke with a certain wist-
Mrs. Waring had been very charmi«* to
fulnesx "L'vs so often thought that that I the Prince del Pino^ her most hriifiant,
* poor fellow had great possibilities, with seductive self. Still with the same tense
‘ his cleverness and— and attractions---- - smile the man. whom she had once humil­
«
“ A h !” ejaculated the man Iteside her, iated to the dust, reviewed a dozffn ..most
J as she did not finish her sentence.
agreeable tete-a-tetes, word for wor<^ his
W Pulling oat a cigar, he lit It very de- »ves gleaming somberly in the dark» his
* liberately. speaking between wriffs. “ It lean cheek burnt,to a dull red.
is astonishing to me that you should have
Ah ! But there were moments Indeed
*» found out all that. Creaturea of Sarto's when the chauffeur enjoyed the p ric e’s
* class” — his mouth curved cynically— “ are triumphs.
, not, aa a rule, supposed to possess any
Through the dimness of the fog )4mln-
■ personality— individuality tvM\ t* say ous «pot* gleamed now, intensifying the
nothing of attractions.”
gloom.
■* For a moment Annette stared at Mu.
The steamer was lighting up. ffrotn
J wondering, as she had a hundred times far away cams tbs first braxen notes of
during the past five days, what manner the band
* of man this extraordinary prince really
Listening absently, Rarto lost sight for
■ »**# **»♦ ♦ ♦ «♦ ♦ »♦ «»«*♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ■ » *
“ Ah! Your Highness doesn't really In ths dark expanse of hia mind a faint
mean that,” she said impulsively; “ I ’m light now became visible, a email, fixed
sure yon found out, during those two star.
years be was with you, that Sarto wasn’t
■dlnsry chauffeur. Isn't It inrrwHbW
to you that any one of his education, his that was more than gratitude, he easy her
^refinement, should have had the instipots again, standing at the cabin door, hStjlipH
of a common thief? Isn't ir unaccount­ trembling, her eyea misty with py® for
able?” r .
i
«
i
• the chauffeur qrko had play*d so tiilse
“ Lee, 1 suppose It is, agreed th* otb-_ and 'tn hi» senayive, eavions nature, the
.
J 0'1—perhaja if you bad ever teart , he had b ( ih for Lafimie Sarto out­
J f known anything about the man and Ills weighed a hundred fold all the smiles lav­
O p a s t yon might understand a Mute.”
ished on tha Prince del Pino.
jri, He had dropped his monocle white
After all, the ego clamors insistently
S speaking, and, free from it* glassy screen, in every one of us. In spite of his lapses,
- his eyes gleamed out with their queer this man bad an unquenchable loyalty to­
dumb wistfuiness unconcealed
wards himself— the snake a fondness for
For the moment the Prince del Pino ita own akin.
was off his guard.
Far some minutes the time slipped by.
“ Oh!” exclaimed Annette Bancroft. She punctuated by an occasional ringing of
was leaning forward and looking at hJm bells, and lost to the present the chauf­
A with a certain eagerness,
feur sat steeped in memories introspec­
i»/ “ You are so like him!” she cried invol­ tive, while the fog drew ita curtate shel-
untarily, “ so astonishingly liks him at teringly about him and the even plashing
times!“
of the screw chimed hi with his mood.
V With fingers that twitched ever so
The sound of voices aroused him from
•lightly, the man beside her replaced hie hls brown study.
It bad grown very dark, the fog hiding
A eye-glam
X
“ Who?" he asked quietly, knowing full ths electric bulbs a few feet off. And
at first, bis senses smothered by the noise
* well whom she meant.
of ths waves, Sarto waa only dimly aware
l A Anaett* was vividly crimson.
., .
oughtn't to has# mentioned k,” she that a man and a woman were talking
apologized hesitatingly, biting her lip with not six feet away from him, their tones
annoyance. “There Is a certain resem­ coming through the wall of fog that ren­
blance— we’re ., ad noticed It— between dered them uncannily Invisible.
ÏOUT Jijgbupn apd tigt Chauffent— Just
The next instant he leaned forward in
. tfM* . f .«pression i supposa/ y Of ) sudden eagerness, bis breath half-caught,
for be had discovered who they were,
course you know
“ Oh! yes. I am quite aware Of the those two, almost at hls elbow, leaning
ri'Jfcen**.” ffrff ItodovTO Stoto. r i o feet, ovst the n il.
“ No, I'm not going In yat,” a familiar
w« bay« been taken for each other more
rirfm dipped the darfcneeet "let’e stand
lino oboe*
’ ' ' He got up with a resolnte shake of ths here and look oat t moment. This fag
shoulders and stood frowning ahead of fascinates me. It’s like being up In the
under Niagara Falla, as la
fill
book • gainst thé tabi» waüji with «ars
»(1ft* f
comppred^higfiaaU sham fl^iy
to listen.
“ It would be a great' M lel” -~th4“Bn«
list man spoke at last with * certain pon­
derous foenwMty—" I should ha ! very
muqhr nbiigpd i l you would kindly let
kuow just where you and I stana at t
present m b m e n ir*^ 1^-*rft v.
“ Certainly; At thia present
— Gussie.was most ohligingly
“ let me see— on the deA of the
I should say, facing due north— I don't
know exactly what the latitude and longi­
tude are, but I can easily find one tf you
want to know.”
,
A loud, exasperated sigh came out of
the fog.
“ Would you mind being serious tor on»
moment?" inquired a resolutely patient
voice. "This Is the first five minutes 1
have had alone with you in aa many
days. Perhaps you can spare me an In­
stant— I know it’s a great deal th ask—
from Del Pino’s society.”
He paused, waiting for her to contra
diet him, for some time; however, there
was silence, emphasised by ths Impatient
tapping of a small boot.
* “ I knew it,” came pettishly at length.
“ Now you’re going to be a horrid, crosa
man and spoil the whole evening. You're
in one of your impossible moods. Oh,
dear, and I thought we were going to
have snch a nice time together out here
in this fog by ourselves.”
There was s wonderfully natural catch
in the voice, calculated to soothe the aver­
age masculine wrath, but Gerald’s was
beyond such sedatives.
“ Yes, you can always be nice enough
when you want to," he growled; “ but
there are limits to a man’s endurance,
don't you know? I ’ve stood this sort of
treatment long enough. Gar l yon must
think I am * duffer not to see through
your game all this time. How long has
It been going on?" He gave an txpress-
Ive snort. “ First of all, there was that
rotten sport on the Riviera. I was play­
ed against him pretty successfully for
two weeks— not quite as blind as a bat, let
m* tell you! Then that donkey of a
Swede down at Monte Carlo— I thought
he -waa the limit, but you didn’t stop
there----- ”
Hie tone sombered. “ I ’ve stood a lo\
Gusaie; but when you started to make a
fool of your ow« chauffeur!— Pah I Ths
fellow’s bead was completely turned be­
fore yhu were through with him. Well,”
he gave a cumbroue sigh, “ I thought
there’d be a little peace when he waa
shipped, but no! You must needs tak#
up with this precious prince 1”
“ Well r Gusaie’s voles slid Impsrturh-
sbly from the darkness. “ What about
him, I’d like to know? 1 own I've had
rather hopeless material to manage from
tltne to time”—her tonea were suspicious­
ly dry— “ but surely you cant object to
the prince; he’s been a most agraeablr
addition to oar party.”
“ Has he? Yes. I thought so!
settle* It.”
G«rajd seemed to be talking to him
self.
“ Just a minute. Gnesle,” be asked, with
ominous quietness. “ D’yoo remember what
you said to me just before we left Havre,
lire days ago?"
“ Fire days ago— I* It only five days
ago?” Mr*. Waring wondered irrelevant­
ly. “ It seems a great deal longer.”
“ D’you remember what you promised
that day?”
Buiat’s tone was a trifle
louder.
"Promised !” Oiwwle repeated the word
blankly. “ My dear boy, did I really prom­
ise qnything? Surely—you wouldn’t con­
sider a few vngue words binding. ’ I'm
sure 1 don’t remember what I said.”
“ Pity I didn’t take It down in black
and white. One would think a person's
word amounted to something. Good beav
1 .rfiL ^ fikW I
6'
Ing. using different kinds o f toughugfi.! ;:hetr w
uh JUggeet
pia
Ties« experiments show
< *ta *r ‘k W l t f V b M r Ì w W * to ltili
néver a part o f the yi
^ There
* - — is ------
Serin* Hls Fare.
Patience— Aa I came by Mrs Redd's
door I overheard her say to her hus­
band, “ Oh. darling, I’m so glad to see
your face again!” Has be been away
long!
Patrlre— N o; they both have bean
out In their automobile, and I suppose
he had Just taken off hls auto mask!
— Yonkers Statesman.
T h * T e s t.
“There*« none so blind a« those who
won’t see,” mused tha gentle philoso­
pher.
“ H— m,” replied hls friend, “ and
there's none so doubting as those who
won’t believe,” «mearlng hia fingers
through ths freah paint to make sure
that the sign told tha truth.— Detroit
Free Press.
Previ sel r Ipaak ta*.
“ I understand he has entered tha
state of matrimony.”
“ Why, yes. He Is traveling ln Utah.'
—T b s Bohemian.
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even at^
at^i
I **% -*«> fif
mi
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Rating the gHfe #t the low prtoa of five*
rents per pound, ths feeder gets some- :be mountain,
W ir e f s a s s n g h t s s s r .
thing mote than sight conta per bushel ^Y'wenty-flvo' mMl ÌRT$NlRTt»f~?ff ghe
Every farmer knows how hard It Is
ror bis
n.a corn wnen
no feeds
reooa It
u with/M
wun. ^ v,K(ltlon
viglltlon
the air,
alr> have
haTe fo
formed
for
when ho
the
rm ed T
to keep wire fences hi good condition
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more than a year or two at a time, j
timothy. Put the hay away, having In
Ttia totffioto oi^ h q ^ lu lfifii to ol -
Cattle are bound to rub up against
„
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.
-urn suiiauie gruuno* tor experiment! 1
them, people will sag the wires In get­ . . . .
and to all growing and all rnkleh api- 18cent, and Sl(|||a{a
aad w .
ting over the fence, and even the
mate and to oell the tlmpthy. Good— jt*ii/«H/vn
flharm _
itructlon
shops.
weight o f snow baa been known to
real good—clover hay la aa good fo r1
break them. A wire fence looks all work hones aa timothy. I f you don't) A residence o f at least five years
right as long as the wtree are taut,
boilers It, try It ou t But tha dover* required to qualify an alien for natu^-
but as soon as the atrande begin to
must be cut early enough—when the illzatlon. No matter how long a mi
heads have Just become real red—and 1 4 may hare been In the United Stab
rrymrw m a t «taps* notwaan tk a «Mrta
handled without much rain or dew,
and not he overcured— that mean* the i f his declaration o f intention and hls
/
use of the heat haying machinery. In­ ldmittance to fu ll citizenship.
‘ f | j £ r.
E rv r : ‘ { i .*
f
"'r1.,o !■“ «»r «? “r
W IBK-K1TCK T t O H T U m .
Mg and loop It la no longer attractive»
nor Is It a sure means of keeping
stock within bounds. Many devices
have been suggested and even patented
for stretching wire, but here Is a
simple .little contrivance that anyone
can make In a few minutes that will
do the work qnlckly and well. For
short spans it can be made of wood,
although for heavy wires or for long
stretches It would be better to maka It
out of Iron. This little contrivance la
about two feet long, with two pins
about three Inches apart at one end.
Place the wire between these pine and
turn the stretcher around until the
wire la drawn tigh t By engaging the
pin at th# other end o f the stretcher
the tension can be maintained while
the wire la being nailed fa s t With
an arrangement o f this sort on# man
can do rapid work alone and- tax up a
'egging fence In short order.
T * Male* a Good Clstei
Ln absolutely water-tight cistern
may be made as follows:
In digging, tha sides should be made
smooth and true perpendicularly. For
the bottom use five parts o f dean,
rearm, sharp aand (plasterers call It
fine gravel) to one part of cement . It
>nly requires to be damp enough to
work well. It should be thoronghly
mixed, all at one time, and he lowered
Into the cistern quickly sod spread
more rapidly with a shovel or hoe, and
should be beat down hard and smooth.
Upon this bottom foundation the
detent should be walled up with brick
or atone In cement to at least 6 Inches
above the top of the ground, which will
keep all surface water out For finish­
ing the bottom use one part cement to
one part aand;.this la thoroughly mix­
ed while dry, and then water should be
added until It la like plastering mortar,
Dump it on the bottom about 3 inches
thick and smooth with a trowel. It
will soon be hard as stone. For the
sides o f the cistern, which should he
done before finishing the bottom, use
And Buist stopped short, politeness and equal parts of sand and cement and
as you would plaster a
ehivalry towards the weaker vessel forbid­ apply quickly
ding the utterance of his sentiments at wall. It Is not safe to use anything
but the best Portland cement, which
that moment.
(T o be contlnaed.)
»oats about $3 a barrel.
Obsolete Cares.
It was formerly believed that epi­
lepsy could be cured by wearing a
silver ring made from a coffin Hall.
Seven drops of. blood from the tall of
a cat and blood from a recently, exe­
cuted criminal were said to be valuable
remedies for epilepsy.
To cure a
felon or run-around, hold the finger in
a cat’s ear for half an hour. For tooth­
ache, trim your finger nails on Friday
or eat bread that a mouse hna nibbled,
or carry In your pocket a tooth from
a soldier killed In liottle. For ranni*
of the tongue, »pit on a frog. For al­
coholism. drown nn eel In brandy and
make the drunkanl drink the brandy.
To cure warts, ruh the wart with s
potato and feed the potato to a pig.
The Hayinarket riot in Chicago oo*
Mm?
m , , ij
ITelen Huut .Jto^suu ls burled *
Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Bpring«
It Is expected that the AOBfrjflithYtjfd
Uaela l e a ’s Silas L s s l R m w v s .
The time when a man might move
westward and take up virgin soil at hi*
pleasure has passed, and. In general,
It may be aald that tha son o f tha
fanner o f to-day must look for hls sole
heritage ln the land hls father bolds.
It la now a barren boast that “ Uncle
Bam has a farm for every on# o f as.”
In 100« wa bad less than 90,000,000
acres o f unoccupied habitable land.
What a illm reserve that Is may be
realized from the feet that one-fourth
o f It waa disposed o f In the following
y^ar. We cannot add to our agri­
cultural areas except by Irrigation and
drainage, but we may. by Intelligent
selection of crops, by scientific cultiva­
tion and by careful treatment of land,
make It produce three or four times
as much as It does at present And
this Is the direction in which onr de­
velopment should proceed, for we must
find room within the next 80 years for
^ doubled population accordliy to our
undiscernlng Ideas.
The American
farmer o f the future must be a man of
broad mind and technical knowledge.
rat
H aas a s l a
th a S oil.
I f your soil .needs humus, plow under
■11 the coarse* manure you can get this
fall. Every farmer re*llxes the neces­
sity o f having more manure, and one
way to secure It Is by providing an
abundant supply o f absorbing material.
Even If there appears to be a large pro­
portion of this material ln the manure,'
making it strawy and coarse, It can be
plowed under and will answer an ex­
cellent purpose. Every effort should be
msde to secure all ttie manure that is
mPA* on the term, so that nothing
■ball be lost This manure, properly ap­
plied on the me#dews, should be toorth
$1 per two-boree load In the extra
amount of bay that will thna ba secur­
ed from Us uae.
Ti »ifI 14/III fi Jf |l> Jj
w Su 5r5L ¿ï r .«SSI,
To m«e| f l * datttfit fe the Widget the
cidentally, the uae o f the beat haying
machinery means hay at leas coat for French Minister o f Finance suggests
the doubling at the licensing feas of
the making.— Weakly Witness.
Tenders o f abalntbe. This taxing o f
the “ green peril” will, it Is thought, be
To A I t s s m A n te s lle re .
With tha fi?5,000,000 the United popular; the minister anticipates that It
State# Department o f Agruculture has will bring him in $2,000,000.
available for thia year's use consider­ . Adeline Genee is a Danish girl, who
able progress should be made in agri­ made bar debut M A djyu.iT at Copep-
cultural advancement While all lines hagtm when
l* * ™ of [afik
of work are to. be carried out as usual, She tfceh wewt to Berlin ¡CO dance at
moat attention will be given tha for­ the Grand Opeta House, a n d ' after­
estry service. Forestry Is one of the ward to Munich. Bbe to considered to
more Important problems now before be one o f the moat graceful and accom­
the American people and it la but plished dancers In th* world.
proper that it should receive first at­
In the manufacture o f alcohol from
tention. The Department o f Agri­ pent, a Danish company, with one' ex­
culture is doing a good work. There
perimental plant ln Denmark and one
are thooa who belittle ita efforts and
ln France, ban found the «oat to be
Claim the money given anuatly for Ita
about one-fourth of that made from po­
support is wasted, but much of tho
tatoes. In the process of manufacture,
standing agriculture enjoys to-dfiy Is
the criluloae o r fiber of the peat la con­
due to this division o f the government.
verted by sulphuric acid Into a soluble
Let the goad work go on.—-Exchange.
carbohydrate and this Is fermented by
Dae»* M e a ts l a S a s l m a t .
a special yeast.
The London Meat Trades Journal In
In 1907 Philadelphia’« export and
an editorial says the retail prices o f Import trade Increased $25,000,000 in
meats hare made a substantial advance value over the figures for the p rev lows
In that country. It la pointed out that
rear. Th * total vain* o f the city’ e*
tho supply of native-bred stock has for ternal trade for that year was over
bom* time past been short tn numbers
$150,000,000. Thane figures aotount In
and deflrieht In weight and qrallty.
pari for the opening o f the new steam­
and tn tb* United States and Canada
ship service between Genoa, Italy aad
the supplies o f lir* cattle, sheep and
the City of Brotherly Love. The Ital­
refrigerated beef were on a steady
ians went some of the business.
diminishing scale. Under such elrcam-
India’s government ha* recently au­
stancea, says this authority. It Is but
natural to expect that prices all around thorised the employment o f women
should advance materially, but more telegrhpb--' operation. 1 k t o oatidldnte*
particularly for tjie choicer grades. most be between 18 and 80 years o f
From these reports It seems that the age, and they must be unmarried or
a training
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ng datore, daring, which Oaip- they will
A r a r e s t !» * A s h s i l Seatlettaa.
receive ftLO^ a mouth, the snipe allow­
Consul General Alban G. Snyder ance that'fk draWn tty male learners.
sends from Buenos Ayres # tabulated
In connection with the death o f
Hat from a report Just issued by the Orover Cleveland, It Is Interesting to
minister o f agriculture showing the note that only twice before In the his­
numbers o f lire stock In Argentina. tory o f the nation has the United
They total 114342.440, divided as fol­ States been without a living ex-Presl-
low#: Cattle, 25,844300;' sheep, 77,- flent. George Washington died In 1709,
581,100; horse«. 5,402,170; mules and when John Adams, the second Presi­
donkeys. 545370; goats, 2308300; pigs, dent, wss ln office. Andrew Johnson,
2341,700.
at the time the only surviving ex-Cblef
The province of Buenos Ayres con­ Executive, passed away In J875, two
tains one-half o f the lire stock o f the years before General. Grant reti red «¿o
republic, having 7.000.000 cuttle and
private <II/«v f t
a ’ y n
48,000300 sheep. Entre Rios province
Tlie Dutch government has granted a
has 0,006,300 nnimals, Corrlentes 7,911,.
000, and Cordoba and- Santa Fe each concession to the Amsterdam and North
Holland El*ri»lo Tra^uway Company t o
nearly 7.000,000.
build arid operate fen electric railway
■Ansa F o r T h r e e H orses.
system ln Holland. The route will ¿>e
In using three horses try this way of nearly fifty klloms, running from Am­
arranging the lines: Take a pair o f sterdam north through Zaandam l o
old single harness lines and make two
Kromemlnle, from Zanndyk. ts Wyk-
eroea Hues a little longer than the reg-
aan-Zee, and Wormerveer to Purmer-
end. The, Holland DevelopmenLX'om-
pehF o f Amsterdam W tl bfiifd the en­
tire system.
Thè “ fllrabtéfc Night»” it M extensive
collection o f tales forming part o f tb *
Arabic literature, and the exaty title
of which IS T h e Book o f th e Thousand
and One Nights." They were first made
) n n tU ' i
known to Europe by Antoine Gafland,
1 srTiiljrîyï ! 'fis Till-'
between 1?04 and 1717. He was a
French Orientalist, who succeeded,
m i t r a - HORSE LINES.
■after much effort, in obtaining apuiqn-
CTCIB M O I ? r f n w
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rscript, vrblcb.he supplemented hy gath­
nlar ofiek. Fasten them to the Inside ering tolsi freni bifore «stonai story-tell­
bit rings o f the outside horse«. Lot ers, whom he (net during bis travels In
this run over the back of the middle the East.
horse and buckle Into the regular
As an Instance of the Great Eastern
buckle. It works fine and give« one Railway’« elaborato precautions for tbs
full control of hls team.
snfety qf travelers <m It» system, tho
Rrtftwky N ffé » Srijfs fhaf at Brea bourne,
H o w to C o o l M ilk .
Practical experiments seem to prove for the purpose o f advising the station
that many, If not all, of the benefits of signalman when a train has passed hls
aerating milk were due more to cooling down or up advanced starting signal, a
than to any other canre. Cooling to the rail contact la placed about 300 yards
same degree will accomplish substan­ ahead o f the respective advanced start­
tially the same results, but without an ing signal«, aud on the engine reaching
aerator It may be difficult to reduce the the rail contact a bell Is rung In the
temperature as rapidly, hence the aera­ signal box, and this bell continues ring­
tor may be conaldered an advantage un­ ing until the signal Is replaced to dan-
less a patent cooler 1* used.
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According to.«..rep ort In the Neue
P ra c a te a l P o a l f v r W o r k .
Frele Presse, Vienna. J. Plerpont Mor­
To stop turns from eating egg* put a gan waa a busy tfghtseer In that qlty
little vinegar or something sour in their on hia recent v is it With Mrs. Douglas
food.
and her daughter he visited all tha
j j r o p a piece of alum In {he drinking great art collection« “ and on Sunday
water every two or three weeks; ft called at Kreutxenstetn castle, wbsre
will prevent throat and lung disease. * be was received by the Countess Rln-
For fill cuts, wounds and ulcere nit aky. H* waa deeply interested In what
Uaterine. Nothing la better for a conib he saw tn tha reatore<l castle and l i s ­
injured In fighting or for ray' raw su(- tened with devotion when hia hoefiees
played on the chapel ot-fatl.” T h «» re­
faco.
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port «Iso speak* o f Mr. Morgan's * s l t
U you have pot already done so,
to the Lnlnzer Zoo, where be shaded
out all surplus stock. 'Do not
the greatest Interest tn tha boars, “ as
feed on birds that are df no valoe
h- had nsvef before «eoo atto."
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