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The Trail of the Dead: a THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF DR. ROBERT MARLAND ''' By 0. FLETCHER ROBINSON and J. MALCOLM FRASCR (Cop)rlfht, I90S, by Joseph B. Bowies) CHAPTKU V. IL THK MYRTKUY OK THK I.KMS- DOltF ir.VM. How ltudolf Maniac, the venerable arant, brought about ttio death of hi rlral and critic, Profesor Von Stock mar, of Heidelberg University, I hare already explained. I hare, moreover, re lated tin1 accident by which my cousin, Kir Henry Oraden, the fatuous explorer nml scientist, chanced to tie visiting me, n student of medicine at the Oerniau tint verslty; and I hare endeavored to outline the step by which the baronet arrived at the dlscorery of the crime that had been committed. I hare now to tell of the pursuit of Maniac, the murderer; a pursuit as strange In It outset as It was terrible In its conclusion. For this, the first adventure In the chae of th's In human monster. It mar he said that I liare chosen a fanciful title. Yet 'The Mystery of the I.emsdorf Ham" I too appropriate to be neglected for that rea son. At the first the Heidelberg police met our theory of Vpn Stockmar'a death with Incredulity. When they mured In earn est It was too Isle; all trace of Professor Marnac had been lost. It was diseor rrel that he had taken from his rooms n small trarellng valise and a consid erable sum In ready money; but beyond these fact nothing was known; eren his manner of tearing Heklelberg was a mystery. For myself, the weeks that followed were In erery respect Intolerable, From a peaceful studeut I found myself trans formed Into a secret ally of the police, nn unhappy being whose privacy was liable to be disturbed at all hours by mime Inquisitive official. Kven worse, the authorities had detained my cousin, and those who are intimates of Sir Henry Oraden will uuderstaud that I suffered at his hands. In the capture of the murderer as we knew Marnac to be he took a passionate Interest, He was forever In my rooms, denouncing the authorities for their delay, advancing theories, or cursing his owu Inaction. The lieutenant in charge of the Heldel berg police went In absolute terror of the Knglishman. and. Indeed, refused all Interviews In which he was not adequate ly protected by his satellites. On n calm October morning I was sit ting reading by my window, thankful of the momentary quirt I enjoyed, when the door burst open and my cousin come frolicking into the room. I admit the ab xurdlty of the expression when applied to a middle-aged giant of sixteen stone; but frolicking describes It. Without a word ef apology he seized my book, a new edition of "Dhrestire Organs of Mol luscs," and flung It Into the fireplace. It was too much. -uenry iirsupn. saui j, starting up indignantly, "you are my cousin, but you presume on that relationship. These chool-hoy antics are Insupportable." "Capital, Robert! capital:" he an swered, regarding me with a comical expression. "I say J there's stuff In the boy! You'd like to punch my head, I aupposeV" I was somewhat ashamed of my out burst, and picked up the book, which vras greatly damaged, before I replied. "It's all rrry well. Cousin Oraden," I said, sulkily enough. "Hut between you and the police, I am worried to death." "Oood! Then you can have no ob jection to leaving Heidelberg this after noon." "Leave Heidelberg! Why should I leave Heidelberg?" He strode over to where I stood and laid Ills great bund mi my shoulder with a touch that implied an umlogr. "A schoolboy you called me just now. That's just what I am, a schoolboy let loose on the playground. The olive have raised their ewlmrgo. Ah address which will bring me whetf they have item) of jny evidence that Is all they ask. Now, I want a traveling coHijiaiiion -a man 1 Cill trust. Y can guess my errand. Cousin Hubert. lUfore a week Is out I Hball hare my -bund oh him, I shall, by heaven! You will come with me? Oood lad, I knew It. The train loaves at three. I'll call for you." "Hut where are we going?" I shouted, running to the door; for already lie was down a score of stairs. "St, Petersburg. You have a pass port?" "Yes but Couslu Oraden, Couiln Oraden, I say " It was no use. I heard the street door slam behind him. St. Petersburg and the winter coining on- Hugh! I bad always detested cold. Hut next to escaping misfortune It Is host to possess a philosophic mind. J commenced to pack iny bag with my warmest underweur. At thirty-live minutes past two Oraden Bent up word to say that he had a cab waiting my pleasure, and in three min utes more my luggage was upon it. Half way doiyu the luuln street wa chanced upon Mussel, the fat lieutenant of police. Ho glanced at us keenly, with, as I thought, a certaiu ausplelon. Oradeu naltited blm coldly, iiiutturlug maledic tions upon him for a stupid ass. There woa np great friendship between the two. 1 paid the cab while my cousin saw to the tickets. Five mark provided us with a aubservlent guard and an empty carriage, "And what are your plana for this intolerable Petersburg expedition?" I asked, ai the train thumped iu way out the ititlon. "We are not going to St. Petersburg. We aro going to I.emsdorf." "To I.emsdorf! I have never heard of the place." "No more had I an hour ago. Allow me to discover It." He pulled a red-bound llaedeker out of his pocket and 'fluttered through the pages. "Here we have It 'I.emsdorf: four teen to fifteen hours from Herlln. Hislug town In West Prussia; 12,1)00 Inhabi tants. I-argo dye-works. 'Print von Preussen,' 'Ooldner Adler' hotels well spoken of. Cab from the station, 73 pg. Little of historical Interest. Kxcurslous to Denker and the Huron, a wild and desolate district with several large lakes, on the Russian frontier.' Not altogether an Inviting prospect at the. latter end of October, eh, Cousin Robert?" "I did not Imaglue we wero going there for pleasure." "Pessimist! Do neither the 'Prlnx ron Preussen nor tho 'ooldner Adler,' 'well spoken of,' as Haedeker describes these hostelrles, attract you? Then the dye works, they are sure to be interesting." "Henry Oraden," cried I with deter mination, "you try me too far! I am as eager as yourself that this criminal should bo brought to Justice. For this reason alone I have erery right to know the why and wherefore of an expedition which will entail upon me, as I see clear ly, the most extraordinary discomforts." "It seems a pity, my dear cousin, that Nature, which endowed you with so many admirable qualities, should hare omitted the sarlng grace of humor," be rejoined And then changing his tone to a greater sobriety: "You shall hear all that I know or conjecture. It will, at least, help us on our Journey. "First, as to the facts at my disposal For myself, I had heard much of ltudolf Marnac, but only as a Heklelberg pro fessor of distinction, whose stupendous effort, 'Science and Relief," had set edu cated Kurope by the ears. From you I learned of his quarrel with Von Stock- mar, a quarrel originating In the latter a attack ou the work In question, of which Marnac was Inordinately vain. Then came the chain of facts that proved to our mind at least that Marnac had mur dered his colleague with a tlinltolieal In genuity. Could such a crime be inspired by a quarrel so trilling? It was almost IMist belief. Further evidence was iiec essary; and this evidence the Investiga tions of the police have supplied. "When I learned that his father, Jean Marnac, bad died iu a Paris asylum, I tn'gnti to see my way. Hut It was the statements of his servants that cleared up my last doubt. An eccentricity which at one time s mused them had of late been changed to a violence that filled them with terror. He had presented them with copies of the liook, elaborately hound. A housekeeper who had serrml him for twenty years was loaded with abuse and discharged because the old creature admitted that she could not fol low his arguments. He was the victim of a partial mania. Such cases are not uncommon. "Whither had this dangerous creature fled? It seemed a mystery Insoluble He was well provided with money; on all topics but one he was admirably sens ible. The jKillee admitted that he had beaten them. Hut only yesterday I ob tained a clue. It may bo valueless; but for myself I think otherwise. At least it Is worth the journey I am asking you to make in my company. "At my urgent request the olIce ad mitted me to his rooms. His papers they had already examined, without re sult. I found that he possessed a fine library. I am a book-lover, and my first step was to examine U. Tucked away In a corner of a shelf, yet within easy reach of bis customary chair. 1 found a vol ume. It whs typical of the man that it should be elegantly bound. Within were collet-ted the hostile criticisms with which his IxMjk had been loaded. The more severe were scribbled over with the vilest epithets. Von Ktoekmur was personally threatened, as was also a certain Mech ersky, h professor of the Imperial Uni versity at Petersburg. I abstracted the volume. You may like to examine It." He drew It from the capacious pocket of his traveling ulster and gave it to me. The cover was of the choicest morocco; upon it. In gold, were emblazoned the ii nn of the university. It was a triumph of tliw binder's art, yet I handled It with a singular feeling of disgust. The Interior was oddly divided. The greater part consisted of clippings from papers and magazines, neatly gummed upon blank page. Hut here and there were Interpolated pamphlets, held In their place by elastic bauds. Iu contrast with his orderly arrangement, scarcely a page but was defaced by penciled re marks, satirical or abusive, I ran through them hastily until I came upon the arti cle which bore Mechersky's name, ex tracted apparently from some French re view, Its severity seemed to have lashed Marnac to fury. It was covered with a maze of peucillngs. Hut my attention was soon centered ou a portion of the text which, being underlined In red, stood out from the page with some prominence. "The author of 'Science and Uellef," for thus It ran, "seems to hare lost touch with humanity. His deductions might be correct If men were bloodless, merciless automatons. He regards them ai might soma reptile let us say, a toad scientif ically Inclined." Across this criticism. which seemed to me unnecessarily severe, wn written In Hermans "Infamous scoundrel! Would that 1 might crush you like n toad!" "A curious wish," I said, pointing to the passage. "And from Marnnc a most dangerous one," ho answered. "1 can only hope wo shall reach I.emsdorf In time," "I.emsdorf again! And why I.ems dorf?" "For the excellent reason, Cousin Rob ert, that Mechersky, who comes of land owning Polish stock. Is holiday-making nt Castle Oster, n place ho has In that neighborhood. Ami as sure as 1 sit here, where Mechersky Is, there will be that madman, ltudolf Mnrunc. If he means to murder the man, ho will have had nigh ou a month to bring It off. Heaven grant that we're In time!" The tone Iu which he spoke thrilled me with a dreadful anxiety. The danger was Indefinable; but fear draws Its dark est terrors from the unknown. "One thing more." I said. "How did you discover Mechersky's whereabouts?" "I had thought him at St. Petersburg; but a wire to a friend there gave mo the Information I required." CHAPTKU VI. I have neither the necessity nor the Inclination to dwell on that Journey. It was very late when we rolled Into the station of the good town of Lelpslc. whero we spent the night at a convenient hotel. Yet It was nt an early hour that Oraden roused me from a tired sleep to catch the rosea express. The country through which wo now Journeyed was of a melancholy similitude, and the broad plains, though reasonably cultivated, af fected me with a mental depression which the cheery efforts of my companion could not conquer. The day was draw ing to its close as we reached Poseu and passed through that fortress city Into a land of desolation. Oloomy pine woods, great lakes ou which the dying sun threw patches of ruddy gold, forlorn heaths and swamps that, as I Imagined, could scarcely bo equaled for sheer dlsmalness of aspect, slid by us In a never-ending chain. Save for the eastern sky. glori fied by the fiery sunset, the heavetis wero obscured by ponderous clouds of muddy grey that foretell the tlrst snow of win ter. iamues nail fallen when we changed carriages at a Junction; but It was close upon midnight before tuy cousin, who had been sitting with a Con tinental Hradshaw ou his knees, thrust his head out of the window and cried that the lights of I.emsdorf wero In sight. Our luggage was piled upon an antiquated call and In ten minutes more the host of the 'Ooldner Adler,' n thin, handsomo Pole, was boning n stately welcome to his guests. Supper and then to bed. The room assigned to me was an oak paneled aHirtuient of considerable size, and the single candle with which I was provided seemed only to deepen the lurk ing shadows round the walls. The huge china stove failed In warm a place so thoroughly ventilated by draughts. At another time the cause of our Journey, combined with the uncanny nature of these surroundings, might have acted ou my nerves. Hut I was too weary, too angry with my present discomfort, to give opportunity to fanciful terrors. The bed was small, and In all protmblllty damp. 1 took off my coat, rolled my self In a thick traveling rug, heaped the clothes upon Hie, and blowing out the candle I bail placed ou a table at my el bow, lay down to sleep. How long I may have slept I cannot say, but I was awakened by a sudden ilash of light that struck like n blow through the darkness. For a score of seconds. It may have been, I lay mo tionless. The room was In utter dark ness and silence. Then I heard a foot fall, a creaking of a door. I sprung from my bed, only to trip and fall heavily over the rug which I had carried with me. I groped for the table, found it, and lit the candle, crouching, half expectant of some nt luck when I should reveal my self. I looked keenly about me the room was empty. Hut 1 had had a visitor, for the door was still ajar. I ran to It, shading the light with my hand, peered down the (Mssage. There was no one visible. I returned to the room, this time locking the ibHir securely. Per lisps, after nil, I reasoned, there had been no cause for my alarm. Some fellow-gumd might have mistaken his chamber, retiring quickly on discovering his error. This argument bearleued me, for, to be honest. I was shaken not a little. I examined the room carefully, without result; and thstfi. after a composing cigarette, slipped back Into hod, leaving the caudle burning In the center of the room. (To be continued.) IIOSllllll. "Tull; nbout hospitality," observed tho jiorlly MiKougcr, nx bo lighted nn olsse cigar tvllli n nil nml gold life pnitorvor nroiind Its stonmcli, "Ihey certainly luivo It down Hue In Atlnutii, During h thris.' dnys' sojourn there re cently they wouldn't let mo spend n Wilt." "Must bo Homotlilng llkn Chicago," rejoined tho tln-cnii drummer, "The Inst time I wna there they didn't let mo spend n cent, either." "So?" queried tho other, akeptleally, "It Im even so," continued tho can limn, "They held inn up luilf n Kqimro from tho ilejsit nml took every cent I bad uwiiy from iins," Under Witter. "Look here." ahoiitcd tho Htonny In dividual us ho rushed Into tho real estutu olllce, "when you bo hi mo that suburban lot you wild It wim Mich n beautiful placo It was a fit abode for fairies and nymphs." "And Imven't you found my Baser tlou to bo correct?" nuked tho luud agent. "No, air; you ahould bare said It wm a fit abode for mennstda." I in pros In lilte Nliick, Tho best families of liorstw, whether thoroughbred runners or trotters, wero produced from n few selected ancestors. Inbreeding being largely practiced. Ilrecdllig close to tin Messenger blood, through lliimlilcloiiliut, bus certainly Increased tho speed of nttr trot lor, mid, mliiilttlug that the Instinct of trotting bus Invii more tlrinly Impressed, yet there Is a much larger proportion of failures. oniiiired with the siiivcs nt tallied. If tho fact Is niivldcrcd Hint tho iiiuulx'r of tho whole Is many times greater tliuii Hint of half n ccntuuy ago: The form of tho trotter, us well us Unit of the thoroughbred, shows plainly the work of Inbreeding, for while the spirit mid will fonv have liectl Increased, It has required nil oe casioinil Infusion of new blood (not, however, altogether foreign) to retain the Miimllin mi essential to roadsters. The thoroughbred runner of to-day Is lurg-dy Indebted to I Homed, Sir Arehy, Olcmw nud l.evlugtnii for Improve ment In endurance nml snssl. Tho mutton breeds of sheep lire How utpnhlo of producing spivliucns exceed lug l() smnds live weight, with nlo mi Increase Iu length of wool and weight of lleece. while the licst meri nos en it shear oter thirty siuml. livery decade lias witnessed the breaking of "risinls" among nil classes of animals, which Is the lct evidence tlmt Improvement Is rapid, lunch of the miccosm being duo to liihrccsllhg. n system that Is unsafe unless practiced by one who fully understands the se lection of the cholctHt Individuals, their adaptation to circumstances and the ob ject sought to lo Hceompllshcd. a llniulr Hnll llos. This bandy salt Nix can Is put up n gal list the shed, and cattle can get salt at will. Tin snlt will ! out o' t''c weather, mid there will lie no tr.u b'.o of salting the cuttle every few days. Tin Imx should Is made IS IiicIi-m wide. !M Inches long. '' Inches ilceji In front and 111 Inches In the I wok. so tint the lid wilt lime enough fall lo shut Itself when rohwscd. The lid sliouM extend four Inches titer the Imix for h row to get hsiht on. a notch should It cut four Inches i lii-j i In front of the box (Ml. fit that when a row smells the Imix she will smell salt and 'Uck her tongue In the iHiteli (nt mid lick It. II) IIANIir MAIT IMIX. pii-lilng a little harder the lid will rille Up mid she call get enough Milt, mid the box will elosu. Fnrni Prog ress. Millions of I'rosen I'ltrcMSses. According to Sir K. Montague Nelson, says the Kiiglucer of IauhIoii, there lire sixty large meat-freezing establish ments In the colonies mid Argentina; the carrying trade la riiirtsuiiitcd by 171 refrlgoratiHl HtiHtiiiers, with u cu-mi-lty euleiilatHl at no loss than 10,- IMXi.UiO carnissi': and In Knglmid there are "H refrigerated stores In liudon mid 1(H) Iu provincial towns for Hit storage of moHt ou arrival. Those dis tribute dully ou tho iiverHgo over -il,-(XX) sheep mid lambs anil l.(ss) quarters beef. The lotiil luiiiiallou of frozen iiiohIk Into OroHt llrltiilu during HHift eonslsted of H,'-'77,7.1l enrrus! mutton us J lamb and l,'J71,:t.'. quarters beef. Ilrlef I 'it nil Topics, The farmer who broke his hoe han dle leaning on II was leaning on the wrong thing. Ouo wuy to tell n good row Is to watch thoxo that tho dairyman docs not, want to Ml. A row which will not mako more than l!!fi iNiumls of butter In n year has no place In it dairy herd kept on I.') laud. Slio belongs to Hut range herd, where It may pay to let her raise ii calf, Two very good wnya to market furm eroM limy lie found In the pig Bkliiuud In tho milk run. It 1m not ho much tho number of stalks to tho hill iw It la the number of ears of corn one In able (u gather Iu tho full. Two good-Mlzed earn to each hill means sixty bushel of corn per acre. Do you exjM'ct It? An authority ou such matters oJalius that one-fourth of tho hay crop t-oinea from wild grass, it la a notable fart that of tho wild grassi used for liny Iu the United States not ouo variety tins been brought Into cultivation. HB F. 0. Ilnrllolt, of Hoeorro County, N. M.. recenlly sold l'J.000 niiiiiU of nooiired wool, the Inst year'a rll of his owu Hocks, lie claims In luu unido Jl.'.'lHl err hU wool. To combat the fraud of soiling sheep akin for real kid n ib'iiionstrulloii win recently uirtdo Iu Wilmington. IM., with a view to eduoalllig puniinsers In buy nothing but the real nrlbie. As n rule It require quite a change of I ho program to Induce a man lo leave the corulloht lo engage In other pursuit when there are so ninny weeds that need killing, but It l nil right to stop to haul off a lot of hogs that have liccn finished for the market when prices ure right. MnrMiiK Arrstmeisrot. The two Mile stacking arrangement here shown can In' readily constructed. The poles are leaning iignlut th I wo nut guy wires so the fork lintivs di rectly over the loud. As the horse pulls nil the rope with pulley attached a short illstatiiv from the ground the loud of buy ou the fork Is drown up to the pulley mid the pulling draws (lie ios ru.Mtr.Mi.jiT srACKiMi ni.ticr. ovei as shown Iu the dotted lines mi tho fork hangs oter tho stack when the strip Is thrown nud tho load dis charged ou the slack. Inres oil llrsM, Numerous Inquiries have mine Into the olllce of the Ithodo Island KxHrl lueut Station regarding tho. cause of the frothy iuases on grass mid other herbaceous plants mid ou shrubs mid tns-s. Popularly this has Invii ascrib ed to frogs mid snakes and named ei ther frog or snake spittle, as the raso might be. In fact, It Is due to n small lusivt Mniiglug lo the llHiilptera or tnie bugs, which lite Inside the frothy muss. Commonly those Insivts are call ed spittle Insects for obvious riHisoiis. nud also frog Iiopimts. Ims-huo of their connection with the frothy muss which was formerly known as frog spittle, or IhvhIiso In their broad, squatty np I nn rami' when mature, they nsemhlo frogs to sihiio extent. It Is not known exactly how the frothy mass Is pro ducts!, but It Is silplHhusI tlut the In sect hiiiim the sap out of the plants, mid In iMisslug It through the alimen tary vmimI mixes air with It to form small air bubble. There are quite a niimlM'r of sssles found at thovreseit time. MHiie living on grass, others on shrubs, mid al-oi oil Irn-s. ImiIIi eier grnsi ami deciduous. .Mint of the spo eles have their early or nymph stage entirely within the protection of the frothy mass. When adult, however, they are found outside In the open nlr. I'rntliiK l I ii I en .tleal, Oliitru feisl Is tery talunhle In the dairy; rich In protein and something of which the stock are very fond, It ran In profitably used If handled rightly; on the other band there Is opportunity to fiiil It extravagantly as well as to feed so much of It that the rows will lie Injured. 1 1 should Is- Invaria bly fed wltli some other grain, mid If other oom-eiilrntcd foods are uhi It Is better not to feed the gluten dally. If, however, bran Is usml to a consid erable extent the gluten feed may lie safely made a wrt of the dally ration. While gluten nasi I Is frequently fed with ground corn mid rob meal, mid fed Inexpensively In this way, we pre for to use It with common I and bran, nbout three miuiiiIs of gluten meal to two pounds eaeh of the bran and rorn mi I, giving, of course, h liberal quail Illy of roughage. As gluten produces considerable body hoot, and more when fisl Iu conjunction with common). It Is essentially a valuable winter feed, but Is host rut nut of the summer ra tlou. Ilittfus (liorr Nrrcl. The rlover aciil huslness Is laing closely watclied by agents of the Do partmeut of Agrlrulture. Of ri'-'l sam pies of red clover ohtalned Iu tho open matket lid sa tuples were found to con tain seed of the dodder, live aamples were adulterated with seed of yellow trlfoll, u worthless plant, of which the seed resemble the clover, Iu fact, rattle have been made sick by eating clover mixed with the trlfoll plant, whl.'o the dodder plant Is a atlll more serlouK post, KiiniK" mid Nolllnir Croiis, Of tho crops grown during tho three years at tho Pennsylvania Station sor ghum mid i'owih'iik produced tho larg est yield of green substance per acre and alfalfa tho greatest weight of air dry Hiibstauee. Ihith crop are consid ered very untlsfuctory as green forage. Corn grown an a single erop ranked second In tho production of air-dry matter, Field peas and oat aro also considered very witlHfactory Hold crops. Flat nea and nine are not recommend. ed. CowpeiiH are considered proforable to soy bcuus. ,'r Jr' V -. -v 3gflveniion A singular spring lately discovered In New Mcxhv discharges a saturated solution of sodium sulphate at a tern pornlnro of 110 itrgrnw P. The weight of the liquid Is It) k'-.'l niuiuIs ht gal Ion, that of distilled water being only 8 I !l isiunds. The oterllow from thn spring line solldllbsl Into a is-rfectly level, snow while Isst of sihIIiiiii salts, miles In extent. In llrooksldo Park, ('lowland, a roticrete bridge has Just Im'cii opcne, to tralllo which la said to possess some Hotel featuri'S. It Is Is'lloved to be the tliittest M'liilelllpse of concrete orrr instructed without a heavy roeii. fnreelllcnt of steel. Its elliptical form Is perfect, with a major alls of o fcrt nud n semlmlnor nils of only t fiTt. In other words, the rle of the arch Is less limn one truth of the span. The entire stomach was first sin eisssfully remotest by Schlatrr of u rbii In INI. II. Vassallo, a sitrgisui of Argentina, reHirls having now per formed seventeen pyloris'tnllllr and iiiiislders the gravity of those oNru Hon more apiwireut than real. Pour mouths after tho last nnupleto remotal of this organ the patient was Iu excel lent biHilth, with no Inconvenience ri vpt tho nwissty of eating often and but little at a lime. Seasickness I proton by Dr. Clinrle Davison to h a common etTivt of earth quakes. The feeling of uauxM may 1st produnsl by shm-ks lasting not morn than eight or ten seconds, and whi tihratloiis hate n total range of only a small fraction of an Inch, and In one light I'ngllih earthquake too small to Injure any tHilhllngs -alxuit one oh- serter III fifty was affrs-tnt, The fesd lug usually lasts a few minute, though sometimes terltliig an Iwur or inorr. Prof. J. II. Poyntlng risvutly de wrlbisl Isifore the Itoyal Soelrty all "cicctrle-touch" nnsiurtug iiiachlue which gltes results siiNrlor to any oh tatiiahlo with the usual "uii-cbautcal-touch" machines. The underlying prin ciple I that chvtrlr contact Is substi tuted for mechanical rontnrt lu do termliilug, for Instance, the thickness of a gage or plate. Iteadlug4 with the new machine are taken with ease and ivrlalnty to one twoliuiidrnl-ainlrifly-thousandths of hii Inch, mid etou one quarter of this rati be obtalmsl If dr slnil. It may surprise many reader to leant that ores of lead and other met His may contain stiitlrlent water to In rrisise very materially their weight. This fart U the bast of a division, n-cenlly rendered by the United State geiieial appral-er. that rtistoms olll rial hate no right to romiH luiMirt appraisers to Hsy duty ou moisture Iu ore. In tho rase oil which the dels Ion was based, one car of lead ore, (Mining from llrltlsh Columbia, weigh ed tr.'.UV) pounds gross, but with llm moisture removed, only t'yt".'! isnituls. The figures for another car were re npectlvely (kMIK) pounds and lUi.im) IMUiuds, The local appraisers applhsl to the moist ore the percentage of li-ad found lu a drleil sample, nud this the general appraisers decided was wrong. ,n Anuria Virginia - Do veil think I will have any dllllculty lu learning lo limit, Jack? Jack (enthusiastically) Nn, Indeed. Willi n little practice, I'm sure you could lly. folk's Confession, Ooreruor Folk had Just returned to tho Htate house, after a Hying trip around the Ohio Chautauqua circuit. Ho tviia dead tired and looked travel worn. "Oovernor," wild Secretary Woodsltle, "why do you accept all theso cliautau qua Imitation? la It the upccchoH?" Tho Oovernor mulled a suave smile. "My dear boy," ho Mild, "how Inno cent you are, If tho Introduction." St. LoiiIh Pot-Dlspatcli, Sometime a man attempt to cover up IiIh hIiih by donating a hiiuiII tier ceut of tho epolls to charity, S 1 A u&iLtiiA,, .jHHli.i. A