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j By MRS. HENRY WOOD
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OHAPTKIt IV.
One morning thero wa i startling nn
nouncement In the Time. A Iaily
Avon's eye (oil upon It, she truly thought
they must Is playing her false; that her
tight was falling her.
The living of (treat Whltton wa be
atowed upon the Hon. ami Hev. Wilfred
Hlliotscn, a personal friend of the Karl
of Avon.
Her ladyship called out for her daugh
ter lu commotion: she sent her maid
Charity, to hasten her. Orace feared her
mother wan worse, and flew to the room
wlta rapid atop.
"What can bo the meaning of thin.
Orace?" gasped the counted. "Henry ha
not given the living to Mr. Uaumgarten
nftcr all; he has given It to young KHIot
on 1"
"Oh, Indeed." said Orace, carelessly.
"Harry can do a. he like, I suppose."
"No, he can't. In such a case a thl.
At leant he ought not. Once hi promle
was given to me, it should have been
kept. I cannot understand his going"
from It. It Ik not like him."
"Well, mamma, I don't see that It mat
tor 10 us, whichever way It may be."
"hut it does matter. 1 uon't want it
almpcrlng young fellow like Wilfred Kl
Hot eon down here, and whoe wife goes
In for rank I'uvyistn besides. She ha
only been waiting for hi appointment to
n ebureb, report say, to make him play
nil kinds of antics In It ; she leads him by
the noe."
(Srace laughed.
"It Is no laughing matter." reproved
her mother, "for me or Mr. Itaumgarten.
I shall be ashamed to look him in the
face. And he bad begun to lay out plan
for hli marriage with Miss Dano and
their life at Oreat Whltton !"
"How do you know that?" asked Grace,
quickly.
"Mrs. Drlcc told me so when she was
here jesterday," replied Lady Avon. "She
knew from the Danes that Hyle Raumgar-
en was to have Oreat Whltton and to
marry Kdltb. Why Henry should be so
changeable I cannot Imagine."
Iady Avon wa evidently very much
nnnoyed, and Justly so; annoyed at the
fact, and annoyed because she was un
able to understand her son, who was
neither capricious nor Inconsiderate. She
wrote a letter of complaint to him that
day, and awaited his answer.
The III new broke abruptly upon Mr.
Uaumgarten. The little hard-worked. In
offensive Mr. Hrlce, who bad a kind heart
and never failed to have a kind word for
his patients, chanced to sec In the Times
the same paragraph that Lady Avon saw,
and nn the same morning,
and on the same morning.
"Hies my heart," he exclaimed, "what
an unlucky thing! How could Haumgar
fen have made such a mistake? He said
Lady Orace told him. Perhaps it was she
who mistook the matter!"
Away he battened to Whltton Cottage,
the newspaper In hi pocket, and Into the
clergy Stan's presence, who sat In bis lit
tle study writing a sermon. And when
lie got there, be felt at fault how to opn
the ball. It seemed so cruel a thing to
Ia. Mr. Haumgarten, who looked gay and
unconscious, Wd up to It.
"Have you heard any particular news
this tuornhig?" began the surgeon, after
a few word had passed.
"No," lightly replied Mr. Itaumgarten;
"I've not seen any one to tell me any:
I bate been busy since breakfast with
my sermon for next Sunday. Nearly the
last I shall preach at Little Whltton, I
expect."
Mr. BrJce coughed. "Have you heard
from Lord Avon?" he asked.
"Not yets I rather wonder at It. Kvery
Dionilng I look for a letter from Mm, but
it does not come. He may be In France
iigain fur all I know myself; I don't like
to call at Avon House until my appoint
ment is confirmed. It would look push
ing: a if I were impatient."
"Well, I I saw a curious paragraph
la the newspaper just now, about Oreat
Wbitton being given away; but It was
mother name that was mentioned, not
jours," aald Mr. Iirlce. "I thought I'd
como here at once to see if you knew
anything about It."
"Not anything; newspapers are always
making mistakes," smiled Mr. Uaumgar
ten. Mr. Iirlce took the paper from his
jiocket. Finding the place, he laid it be
lore the clergyman, who read It. Head it
twice over, and began to feel somewhat
list easy. He read It a third tin', aloud.
"We are autborited to state that the
valuable living of Oreat Whltton, Home
n!i I re, has been bestowed by Its patron,
the Karl of Avon, upon the Honorable
and Reverend Wilfred HIHotsen."
There ensued a pause. The two gen
tlemen were looking at one another, each
questlonlngly.
'It must bo a mistake," said Mr. Ilaum
csrten. "Lord Avou would not give the
ln-JOg to me, and then give it to some one
cist."
"The question Is -did he give It to
you?" returned Mr, Iirlce. "Perhaps the
mistake lies in your having thought so."
"I saw it in his own handwriting, In his
letter to his mother. Lady Orace showed
it to me; at least, a portion of it. He
wrote In answer to an appeal Lady Avon
Jiad made to him to give me thy living.
Ills proinfso was a positive one. It is this
newspaper that makes the mistake, Iirlce;
it cannot be otherwise."
"Auy way, we will hope so," briskly
added the surgeon. Hut he spoke more
confidently than he felt ; and perhaps Mr,
Uaumgarten had done the same.
Lord Avon's reply to his mother's let
jter of complaint and inquiry came to
her by return of pot, and run as fol
lows :
"My Dear Mother I canceled my
promise of giving the living to Haumgnr
ten at Orace's request. She wrote to mo
pothate some days ago, telling mo there
were reason why Uaumgarten would bo
utterly unfit to hold Ore.it Whltton. nnd
begging me to betow It upon any one
Jther than uon him. That Is all 1 know;
you mint ask an explanation of Orace.
Of course, I assumed she was writing for
you. It I settled now, and too late to
change hark again. Klllotsen will do very
well In the living, I dare say. A to his
wife wanting to turn and twist him to at
tempt foolish thing in the church, as you
eom to fear, I think it hardly likely. If
he does, he must put her down, liver
your loving sou,
"HENRY."
"Ye. I did write to Henry, mamma:
I did ask him not to give the living to
Mr. Uaumgarten," avowed Orace, with
paslonate emphasis, when quet lotted, her
cheeks nllame, for the subject excited anil
tried her. "My reason was that I com
idor him an unlit man to hold it."
"Why, It was at your request that 1
aked Henry to give It to Mr. Itaumgar
ten; you lot me have no aoe until i
consented," retorted Iady Avon.
"Hut, after reflection, 1 came to the
conclusion that I ought not to havo press
ed It; that he ought not to have It, and
would not do It; nnd the shortest way to
mend the matter was by writing to Harry,
rhafs all."
Lady Avon glanced keenly at her daugh
ter. She was mentally asking herself
what it all meant the burning face, the
tone sharp as a knife and telling of
pain, the capricious conduct in regard to
the preferment. Hut she could not tell ;
she might have her suspicions, and very
ridiculous suspicions, too, not at all to be
entertained; but she could not tell.
"I am sorry that a daughter of mine
should have condescended to behave so;
you best know what motive prompted it,
Orace. To bestow a living and then
snatch It away again In caprice Is sheer
child's play. It will be a cruel blow to
Kyle Itaumgarten."
A cruel blow it was. Lady Avon turn
ed to her desk after speaking these word
to her daughter, and began a note to the
young clergyman, feeling very much hum
bled in mind as she wrote it. lu the most
plausible way she could, a lame way at
beit, she apologlxed for the mistake which
had been made, adding she hardly knew
whether it might be attributed to her son,
to herself, or to both, and pleaded for Mr.
Haumgarten's forgiveness. This note she
dispatched by her footman to Whltton
cottage.
Mi. Itaumgarten chanced to be stand
ing in the houso's little hall as the man
approached. He received the note from
him.
"Is there any answer to take back,
sir? My lady did not say."
"I will so," replied Mr. Haumgarten.
"Sit down, Itobert."
Shutting himself into hi study, he
opuned the note. For a few happy mo
ment If moments of suspenw ever can
be happy he indulged In a vision that
alt might still be right; that the note was
to tell him so. It was short, filling only
one side of the aper, and he stood while
he read It.
Hefore he had quite come to the end,
before he had well gathered In Its pur
port, a shock, singular In Its effects,
struck Mr, Itaumgarten. Whether his
ortath stopped, or the circulation of bis
heart stopped, or the coursing of his
pulses stopped, he could not have told, but
ho sank down In a chair powerless, the
ielter falling on the table from his nerve
leas hand. A strange, beating movement
slltied him Inwardly, his throat was gaije
iTit, his eyelids were fluttering, a sick
funtness had seized upon him.
Hut that he struggled against it with
desperate resolution, he believed he should
have fainted. Once before, he had felt
something like this, when he was an un
dergraduate at Oxford, and he hail been
rowing against time to win a match. They
said then, those around him, that he had
over-exercised his strength. Hut he had
not been exercising his strength now, and
he was far worse this time than he had
been then.
He sat perfectly still, his arms support
ed by the elbows of thu chair, and recov
ered by degrees. After a bit, he took up
Lady Avon's note to read it more fully,
and then he knew and realized that all,
to which be had been so ardently looking
forward, was at an end.
"Her ladyship's notice does not require
an answer, Itobert," he said with appar
ent coolness. "How Is she to-day?"
"Middling, sir. She seemed much up
set this morning, Charity told us, by a
letter she got from his lordship in Ion
don," added Itobert. "Oood day, sir."
Mr. Haumgarten nodded In answer. He
stood at the door looking out, apparently
watching the man away. The sun was
shining In Kyle Haumgarten's face, but
the sun which had been latterly shining
on his heart, Illuminating It with colors
of the brightest and sweetest fancy that
sun seemed to have net forever.
CHAITKIt V.
The Hon. and Hev. Wilfred KJHotsen
took possession of tho living of Oreat
Whltton, having been appointed to it by
Lord Avon. And the Hev. Ityle Haum
garten remained, as before, at Little
Whltton.
Changes took place. They take place
everywhere. The most notable one was
the marriage of Mr. Haumgarten.
That lie bad been grievously disappoint
ed and annoyed at the appointment of
another to the living, which be bad been
led to suppose would be his, wa a hitter
; tact, Ho. sot It down to thu caprice of
groat men, and strove to live down the
sting. The chief difficulty lay lu hi con
templated marriage; nnd ho deliberated
with himself whether ho ought fur the
present to abandon It, or to carry It out.
lie decided upon tho latter Nurse. It I
probable that ho deemed ho could not In
honor withdraw now, and It I more than
probable that, ouoo having niton ml him
self to cherish hi hopes and hi love, ho
was not stoic enough to put them from
him again.
Mrs. Dano gave permission readily. A
long a she lived nnd wns with them her
small liiconio would augment their. And
within n month of Mr. Hnumcartou's dis
appointment, he nnd Kdltb became man
a ml wife.
"You do quite right," warm-hearted lit
tle Mr. Hrloo had assured them. "The
cuttings and contriving necessary to
make a small Income go n far as n largo
one render a jouug couple all the hap
pier. I ought to know; initio wa small
enough for many a year of my married
life; it's not much else now."
The autumn wa ndvauclug when Iord
Avon came down to pay n visit to his
mother. HI lordship brought with him
full intentions to have It out with her,
and with Orace, about that matter lu the
summer. He began with hi mother. Sho
knew no more of It than he did, she pro
tested resentfully, for she was still sore
ilium the tmlnt. AH she could say was
that he had written to promise the living
for Mr. Haumgarteu and then gate It to
Wilfred Klliotsou.
Orace was more Impervious still. She
simply refused to discus thu subject at
all, telling her brother to hold his tongue.
"I don t see why jou should blame me,
mother, remonstrated the joung man.
"It was certainly no fault of mine."
"It was your fault, Henry," retorted
Lady Avon.
"I toM you of Orace's peremptory let
ter." "Who but you would heod the wild let
ter of a girl? You should havo waited
for me to confirm It. As I did not do so,
you ought to have written to me In-fore
acting. I did not care for Mr. Haumgar
ten to have Oreat Whltton: it was Grace
who worried me Into asking It of you;
but as you promised It to him, It should
have N-on his. You cannot picture to
yourself, Henry, half the annoyance It
has cost me."
I.ord Avon could picture It very well.
All this arose from Orace's absurd ca
price. She had been Indulged all her life
and did Just as she pleased.
"And for you to put so silly a young
fellow a Klllotsen Into It," went on
l.ady Avon, enlarging on her grievances.
"I told you his wife would make him
play all kind of pranks In the church."
"What doe hn do?" asked Iord Avon.
"Very ridiculous thing Indeed. He
has put a lot of bras candlesticks on the
communion table, nnd he turns himself
about and bows down at different parts
of the service, and she sweeps her head
forward In a fashion that sets the whole
church staring. We are not used to these
Innovations, Henry."
Lady Avon was correct In saying so.
The Innovation were Innovation In
those days; now they are looked upon al
most as matters of history, as If they bad
come In with William the Conqueror.
"And the parish Is not pleased with
them?" returned Trtl Avon.
Tlensed with them," reborn! his moth
er. "He began by wanting to make every
soul in the parish, laborers and all, at
tend dally service In the church from 8
o'clock to I), allowing them ten minutes
for breakfast and fifty for prayers; and
she has dressed the Sunday school In
scarlet cloaks, with a large white linen
cross sowed down the bark. On" thing Is
not liked at all; the lnxNrlnced rustic
cannot tie made to understand which way
he wants them to turn at the creeds; so
be has planted some men behind the frvo
benches every Sunday with long white
wands, ami the moment the Helief begins,
down come the wands, rapping the head
of the doubtful ones. You have no Idea
of the commotion It causes."
Iord Avon burst Into a laugh. "I'd
have run down for a Sunday before this, '
had I known the fun 4hat was going on,
said he. 'The girls must take raw the
bulls don't run at their scarlet cloaks."
"Ah, Henry, you young men regard
these things but ns matters for Irreverent
Joking. Mr. Hauiifgarten would not have
served us so."
Presently he walked out. In one of
the pleasant green lanes with which tho
place abounded, he suddenly encountered
Hrlce, the surgeon, who wns coming along
at a steaming pace,
"Walking for a wager?" cried he.
"That's It; your lordship has Just hit
It," replied the surgeon, grasping warmly
the ready band held out to him. "I and
Time often have a ma toll together, ami
sometimes he wins and sometimes I do."
(To lie continued.)
IJvrn ut Last,
"In the dark, still hours sotno one
shouted 'Hurglnr!'"
"You don't Miiy?"
"Yes, ii ml then wo nil rushed out of
our nimrtinntH nnd down the atejm. In
the shadows of a corner wo saw a
crouching IlKiire,"
"0 melons!"
"Anil wo pummoled lilm until lio wns
Muck mid blue. Then tho lights wore
turned on nnd everybody gavo it cheer
tlmt could bo heard n Mock."
"How exciting! And It was really the
burglar?"
"No. It was tho Janitor. Wo hnd
niado a mistake, but everybody got tho
clmiico to settle up an old (midge."
An l'y to the future.
"Would you rather marry a lawyer's
or n minister's daughter?"
"A lawyer's, A dlvorco coata moro
than a wedding." Houston Post
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ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS. .....
Uy John .11. Stnnl.
While not complaining nnd while frcvly nnd
gladly iickiiowledglng tholr grout prosperity,
duo lu largo incisure to tho dotelopinent of
niniiufnctutv. trnuHirtntloti anil trade, farm
cm never! holes believe tlmt tho tunrgln be
tween the price paid to them nnd tho price
tn Id by the etmsumor of tholr product Is
altogether too great and that this margin has
contributed much to aggregation of wiMlth
tlmt are dangerous; hence farmer would not try to lu
eronse by large tholr proMt by rouicllliig the consumers
of fnrm products to my more, but rather by lessening
the opportunity of an lnorene by unfair menu of the
wealth of those nlready too rich.
Farmer recognize that tho value of their Innd and
the protlts of their huluc are largely due to tho mar
kets created by umiiufiictun'r and the transportation pro
tided by railways. Hut the farmer distinguishes between
the iiiiiuufiu'ttttv, transportation and snlo of .irtlrlc ami
tho work of coriMiratlous ami Individual that put tholr
nttorucj and willing servant Into State legislatures anil
tho National Congress, lu cxccutltc ollteo ami even on
the bench, not for the public good, but to secure iidvnn
tages (hat are uufnlr III themselves nnd In their result
tlnngcrou to the musses. Spoukliig largely, the remedy
we would proiKiM' for economic Injustice wouhl nut Ihi
of the nature of special laws or efforts lu the wny of arid
try hindrances to honest trade or arbitrary seizure of
the holding of any cluss ami a distribution to any lu
J tired class, but rather wo would depend on the ntvnkou
lug of such a national conscience nnd spirit ns will com
pel Just Inwa nnd secure to etery class It full rights In
open competition with all.
0
MEN AND WOMEN BOOMERANO TAROETS.
lly HI In Wheeler Wilcox.
How Idly tte usp the phrase, "Cast thy bread
tiM)u the waters; for Okiii slmlt find It after
many days." Hut no truer words eter were
Inspired by tho divine sources of all truth
Whether jour brent! Is aweet or sour, whole
some or imiIhouous, It shall return to you
"after many days." Thought Is a laNimernng
It sometime Is long lu proving Itself to.lo of
this reacting nature; but the greater the delay
tho stronger will tw Its force when the backward swing
begins.
t'nless we find something every day to be happy over
wc never shall ! able to enjoy fully any blessing which
may como to u. Coiitliiuol discontent sIiii(m the mind
for uuhappluess, and no amount of gisxl luck enu twist
It hack Into harmonious proMirtlous. The man who timer
has learned the Icmdou of contentment nnd happiness In
some degree In his hard days never will tlmt It lu his easy
ones. When he undertakes to enjoy travel, society or
home, he will llnd the only demon of unrest Is with him
his relentless boomernng.
There Is the disloyal thought, which ninny people. Uitli
men ami women, surfer from. Thuy blame fiite Instead
of their own iiilud for their bruises. Thu disloyal friend
or the faithless lover, sets currents In action which In
evitably must bring disaster In time. I do not intsiii the
friend ttlio outgrow the other, the lover wImi find It
liiilMiMlhlo to iiiiilluue loving. TImww sail rxrlu.'v
sometime .Mviir with the imt loyal! Hut I refer to
those who reimy trust with trickery, conlldeuro with do
colt, jet wlsi cry out ngalnt cruel destiny when they
are form! to suffer from the sumo luinlltlea lu others.
WOMEN'S EXTRA VAOANCE OFTEN MEN'S FAULT.
lly Helen OhlllelJ.
Nothing can ls more rooiisii nmu ror a
jouug couple to start marrletl life with n
grnml splurge, spending the few hundred or
so lu the Iwuk In unnecessary ettrnvagam-es
which will do them no practical service when
the money I gene. F.ven tvliero there Is a
solid reserve fund fttnllalde It I III advised to
draw unii It heavily, or even to abtnlu from
mldlnc to It, If Mlhli. at the outset of inntrl
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itiuiij. When once inn iiiuihi chii. i ' n i
and hoiiso furnishing nre over, the cost of living might
to be. nigt usually Is, less for a time than It will be there
after. Kterythliig Is now, and with ordlnnry enre then
should li no outlay lu replnelng or repairing for some
time to come.
Whatever a man's Income, K It large or small, his wife
has a moral right to a certain tirtloii of II, upon which
she can IcwihI, and this should Ni git en to her regu
larly, without her Mug eiHiipelW to ak for It. It I n
humiliating sltlou for any oiw to be left without n dol
lar to wy an expressman; nay, worse, not to hate thu
small amount dun on a letter delltered at the iloort Tim
aternge tiinu dlllike exceedingly to ho continually nskesl
for small amount of money, but lie randy appreciates
how galling It Is to hi wife's pride. hr self respect, to lm
obliged to make such requests, let etcry man l honest
enough, ami loving enough, to give his wife a fair blest of
hi financial mmHIoii, ami trust her to eiHtdik't herself
accordingly, nor leave her In Ignorance wIhmi erlw
trouble Is threatening to Ingulf her as well as him.
SNOBBISHNESS AND "THE ELECT."
lly Julie I V. Stmuit.
There I no simh o unutterable, o
disgusting and Intolerable as the In
tcttciitlnl snob. If ho were really
bright he would know things ami
among them he wouhl know what
real "smartness" Is ami that (icopln
who liute It never go blathering
around alsiiit "the ehrt." They Just
be It nnd say nothing about It.
The Ides of calling those who havo
smvrcddl In getting rid of their ob
ligation to their neighbors, nnd form-
jtt.ii.TV HTUAiss. ,d n little clique of their own llm
elect! I ut disgusted with these smart (xsiple who can
llnd only n few appreciative friend, who call the Moplo
around them "theso people" and assume an air of horetl
suH'rlorlty.
I remember of hearing n little girl say once to a com
rade lu the "eli-el" business: " I Just we. us nnd com
pHiiy." 1 tot Ii of them tittered at this ami looked (a only
female can look) at another little girl who wasn't "In"
we, us and company,
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UKISBk SsV
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ii i UTILE LESSOI II PATRIOTISM.
MA 4
tmm V-sfl
When In June, 1777, Oetioral Hur
goytie stnrtisl from I'-aundii with .SO.IXH)
splendidly cqulpiN-d soldiers, and tho
II lie t train or nrtll
lery that hnd eter
Im-cu seen In Atner
lea, It was confi
dently oxiieetoi! by
thu Hrltlsh minis
try and the Hrltlsh
army that he would
experience no dllll
rulty lu subjugating
,thc von tin on tal
arnij.
Hut Oeuernl I'hll
Hiii.tr Hiiiivmi. I,, Schuyler hail
been busy In felling tho trees, obstruct
lng the fords and breaking down thu
bridges In tho country through which
Hurgoyno must come, Uy tho tiinu Hur
goyuo readied Fort Kihvnrd, ho was
compelled to forage for food. Tho New
Kuglaud mllltlu cut lilm off from Cau
uda. At tho hattlo of Heuiilugtou thu
AmorlcaiiH under Stark hnd defeated
him. Now nothing was left to lilm hut
hard lighting. Tho genius of Oeuernl
Schuyler hail hemmed lu tho Hrltlsh.
Just us victory for tho AmcrlcatiH was
In sight Ocncral Schuyler was suMr
Billed by Octiural (Intra. To Oaten went
tho credit of tho splendid victory of
Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777.
It might havo been expected that
Ocncral Schuyler, whoso retirement
had Ihjcii duo to a uilstaku, rather n
blunder, on tho part of tho utithorltlcH
In charge, should feel the iHirsomil
chagrin ho keenly that ho would havo
no moro to do with tho cause for which
ho had fought, but where his service
wero uunppreclnted. On tho contrary,
he devoted his lx-st efforts to It and
was Ilualy rewarded with tho vindica
tion and tho honor ho desorved.
CLEANING. THE FUNNEL
OF A FAST CRUISER.
It takes mall at least soven day to
go from Chicago to London.
"When u girl wants to sec her Holovcd
to-ulght, and learns that alio can't sou
him till to-morrow night, tho day of
Judgment doesn't hcciii to bo half us far
off.
From tho viewpoint of it scuslblo
person Imitation In tho most disgust
ing form of iluttory.
GOOD ONLY TO RUN RACES.
The picture shnwa an operation which
gin's on quite frequently on Ismrd ship,
esK'elally lu the navy, where It Is con
sidered tho proMr thing to keep the
men employed as much its mihsIMc, As
Hiyiu ns the uxmhc( surfaces of n ves
sel are covered irox'rly with paint It
Is scraped off and tho prmv I re
Hated. Thus It Is that Undo Ham's
hill for white loud and linseed oil
amounts to a tcry largo sum every
year,
lllnek WhIhu! (lor lo (Jrruiniir,
Illack walnut Is produced In this
country at an annual rate of about ,'UI,
1)00,000 feet. Tho larger sirtlon of It
now comes from Southwestern Missou
ri, Arkansas, Oklahoma ami Indian
Territory, although (hero In some scat
tering growth still picked up lu Indi
ana, Ohio, Tojiiicsmoo and West Vir
ginia. Tho most considerable stand of
thu wood remaining east of tho MIshIs
slppl river Is on tho upper waters of
thu (liiyaudotto river lu West Virginia.
Tho homo demand for black walnut
lumber Is only for comjwirntlvoly small
quantities. Its use Is largely conllned
to gnu stocks, norultlcM, electric work
etc Tho chief demand for walnut
comes from Oerinnny, and Hamburg Is
mo comipcrciai center of tho market.
Southwest Magazine.
Two-thirds of tho so-culled socloty
"400" uro ciphers.
'I tiori.i.Klil.rril llurs Wniilil Hk Vk.
llrlr. U Tliertt Wrrm No llrlllnK.
James Cojl got a Nirty of iHHrtlug
men ami race liors owners to ginwdng
a few nights ago. They were discuss
ing the thoroughhnil and Incidentally
s)Icm ami hotting. Mr. Cojle advanc
ed homo original views as to what gltvi
the thoroughbred raco horro lis value.
Ho sot thimi nil gueiHilug by the state
ment that If Isdtlug on raretrncks wsi
suddenly prohibited tho race horss
would hate no value whatever,
"You Mlovc that Mtiug Ims not all
to do with tallies of tho roeo horse," b
said. "Why, If the right to ls-t on
raw was cut off that Is, If thoro ttai
no Itcitlng allowed- -tberu am horses In
all sir(s of the country, worth fnwi
?.'!0.tssi upward, that would not lJ
worth :) cents. You needn't look m
siiriirlsed," ho (siutliiued. "What ik
thu (Msiplo go to lucclracks for? I It
lo sou the ruciMi? Thoy can't eo nay
thing hut n llnlsli in most of theiu.
What crowds tho tmco courso at Ml
utetits? Do jou Udlevu It la all l'e
for tho horses? More tiinu hnlf ot
those In nttendatice do not even m-e th
llulsh. They a ru thero to lay down
bet.
"Now, If they cannot M will the;
attend the races? And If they du not
attend wiin t will Mfomo of tho rac
tracks? If thero Is no racing what will
1st the value of your high-priced ruie
ulng horse 7 ll(. cannot ho used tot
riding, driving cr hauling a wngoa
Well, If they can't rnco nor ! ucI '8
any other wny what Possible vntu
could they luiroT Cit off Isttlng nnJ
seo what your hlgprlced rnclng horn
will bring." ('Iiitliiimtl IJnqulrcr,
Suro of llitr Kiiola.
A small girl wns fascinated by tb
talo of (ho "Threw Hears." as told W
hy n visiting iiursi'. livery tlnm I'-!
tiurso caiuu sho was nuked to reis'iit -
III "Tho Queen's I'imr" tho tiurso tell'
of the child's opinion.
Noticing that during tho almost il1'
ly recital tho little girl kept her cycf
on u plcttiru of somo Isij-h play mi j
football, I wondorcd what coiincctll
thoro wiim In hor inliul hetween tho twftj
and tlnallv I asked her. "What !
hmim?"
With tho love! tont'H of n person lf
foctly suro of hor facts, alio rcpiiMJ
"Hears la boya,"
h