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CtlAPTEB lU.-tContinued.l Rtanrllnr unon a mound near her, she, places her hands to her pretty month, and, with a simple eloquence that cannot be too highly commended, cries "Hi!" to UilU, ai IUK lUy Ul Un HW Whether the breeze has played traitor,' or whether the bending fignre Is of o gross material as to be deaf to this' bril liant appeal, who can say. At all events, he never stirs or lifts himself from his task, whatever It- may be. Nothing daunted, Griselda returns to tht attack. "Hi!" cries she again, with a sharper, freer intonation And still nothing comes of It Tht bending figure refuses to straighten his back, and things remain as before. It la really too bad. Getting down from her mound she clambers up on a higher bank, and once more sends out her voice upon the world: "Hi, my good man!" This does It. As If compelled to acknowledge this tribute to his virtues, "my. good man" uprears himself, looks vacantly round him at ev ery point but the right oue first, and at last sees Griselda. The effect produced Is not only instantaneous but marvelous. Down goes his rod, bis cast, his choicest fly an admirable orange grouse and he comes steaming toward her at about twenty knota an hour. His eyes, ever since they first lighted upon Griselda, have seemed to grow to her, and now; as he draws nearer, she too sees and recognises him.' The knowl edge thus gained so surprises her that she very nearly falls oil her high bank, and then grows very charmingly rosy, and a charmingly confused. It is none other than the young matt who had helped to restore the carriage to Its legitimate position. CHAPTER IV. "It Is really you?" cries he, with unaf fected delight, coloring warmly. "It la you, too," replies she, reflectively, and as thnueh it is a little unfair to throw ail the personalities at her. j "So it is," says he, smiling gayiy. "Ton wanted me? I hope you had not to call often?" "Very often," smiling, too, and Jumping down off her pedestal. ' "I thought I should never make yon hear. Do you know the road to Greycourt? I don't." "I (in.. It is a tedious way,' and com plicated. But if you will permit me to go with you and show It to you, Miss Dy sart?" "Oh, no5. No, Indeed. It Is giving you quite too much trouble, and how do you know my name?" asks she, with a shy glance at him from under her long lashes. "I asked somebody in the village," con fesses he, honestly, "and he told me you were Mr. Dysart't niece. You don't mind , (hat, do you?" . ; "No. I, too, Beard ef you," she says, "but then I didn't take for granted every thing that was told me." . "What did you hear of me?" "That you were a young man 'down from Lunnon town, an' as full o' tricks as a ezir's full o mate.' " replies she, de- miirelr. evidently ouotlng somebody, and with a glance so "full o' tricks" on her own account that he laughs in spite of himself. "Well." says he, "I'm not from 'Lun non town,' certainly, and I hope I'm not a greater wretch than my fellows. As to my 'tricks, I don t ne'ieve i ve one. "If not from London, from where?" "Ilather close to you. My sister lives just over the border of this county, a matter of twenty miles or so; and I spend most of my time with her. "It was a very good thing for my sister and me that you came fishing," says Gri selda; "or I suppose we should both be BOW either dead or dying." Here she looks round her. "Have we very much further to go?" "About a mile." "I wish it was less," nervously. "I am ' afraid Vera will be frightened at my long absence, and and that my uncle will be ansrrv." "Perhaps he won't hear of It," says Mr. Perton. hopefully. Griselda shakes her head. "He looks just like a person who would hmr everything the says. "I've heard a good deal about him off and on. People will talk, you know, and he's eccentric, Isn t be? "If you mean weak in mind you went never further out in your life," says Gri selda, mournfully. "He is all mind. In mv oDinion. There Isn't a weak spot In him. By the by, have you ever been to Greycourt?" ... "No. I've often thought I should like to to ori some Wednesday or other." Some Wednesday! What Wednesday? And why Wednesday? lirlselda is dis tinctly puwled. but hardly likes to ask a Question on tne suDjeci. "it'a a auaint old bouse, she says. "and might be lovely, I think, if the trees were cut away and some aunlight let Into It and a H'" rurnunre. it a -empty, positively empty. "Surely you forget the galleries?" says he. : "la It indeed possible that yon do not know tha those picturea of your an cestors are absolutely priceless? Pnre Lelys and Knellers, Gainsboroughs and Reynolds. .Why, those galleries at Grey court, I've often heard my father say, are about the finest in England. Your uncle is good enough to open them to the pub lic every first Wednesday In the month at the very trifling charge of half a crown." "Why!" crlet Griselda, flushing to hot a color That-the tears grow within her eyes. "Oh. you can't mean that" "Well, why not?" says the young man, boldly, preparing with a stout courage to defend a vile cause. - "It la to Improve the tastes of the multitude that he doe it, of course. And if he choose to repaV himself for the wear and tear of his car pets, who shall say he has not common ease on his s.de?" At this moment the chimneys of Grey court shone through tht interstices of the trees on her left, and. with the knowl edge that tht bad gained her home, come, too. the sound of running water, and the thought that all through her re turn, walk through the leafy woods that music had rushed as a chorus to her words. "Ah! now .1 knowP crlet she, stopping abruptly, and looking full at her com panion, who grows somewhat guilty in appearance. "That noise of running wat er! that it tht river that flows beneath Greycourt It I had only followed it I need not have given yon all this troJble." "It U ne trouble," says he, plainly. She holds out to him her hand. "Good bv." she saya, gently. "Oh. not good-by, I hope," returns n. anxiously, taking the tiim little hand and holding it as warmly at M dare, per hap more closely than he it quite aware. "I shall see yoo tgain?" "Oh. no. No. Indeed." toftly. "You mutt not think that Uncle Gregory does not permit us to know our neighbors.' He lifts bis hat and Griselda. giving him a rather solemn little salute, turns away from him. A second later, however, ahe finds him again beside her. "It there is sll the appearance of corn Int rain in the sky," .he says, gravely. Don't too think so? I fear we shall hire a perfect storm before long. thought I'd tell ion, so that yoa might get as much good out .of these woods as nossibl before the deluee. mis wees. now. might be fine, but I should not an swer for tht next; and. Indeed, if 'oa will permit toe to advise yoa, I should reeom nirod U takt a walk to-morrow. Who fahall u; that rain might not fall the day after r Who, indeed? " ' It seems the soundest reasoning. So Griselda, having shuwn herself impressed by It, Inclines her head to him once more, and, a turn in the path hiding him at last from view, takes to her heels, and hard ly draws breath until, having found the small iron gate that admits to the gar den at Its lowest end, she enters by it and feels herself at last a.t home. On the hall doorsteps, as it lying in wait for her, atands Mrs. Grunch, the housekeeper. "Dear me, misa, and so yoa have re turned," says she. "Dear! but master will be main glad to hear of it He was that upset by your absence that we daren't so much aa approach him." Gri selda's blood grows cold. "But now he'll be sure to tell you himself how glad he la to see you back safe and sound." CHAPTER V. Mrs. Grunch, as Griselda left her, turn ed aside, and with darkened brow made for the library, Mr. Dysart't usual abid ing place. Not finding him here,; the hurries onward down the hall, until ahe comes to a heavy curtain, once handsome, now moth-eaten and dingy, and pushing It aside, reveals a long (lagged passage, with a high, narrow door at the extreme end. . , Stooping as she comes to It, she peers through the keyhole, and finding it emp ty, tries, with a cautious, quiet grasp, the handle of the door to find the latter locked. Still very cautiously she slips her hand into her pocket, draws out a key, well oiled, and iuserting it in the keyhole, aoftly opens the door. .- .' A grim smile overspreads her face as she looks toward the further end of the room. There, on hit knees beside a cab inet, kneels Mr. Dysart It is open, and Mr. Dysart, in his worn and shabby old coat la kneeling before the secret open ing, gloating openly upon its contents. Piles upon piles of yellow sovereign are so built one on the top of the other that they reach from one narrow resting place to the other above, and ao on. Dull, heavy gold that scarcely glitters, save In the eyes of the wretched miser bending, over them. ? . i Yet It is not so much on the money as on a paper he holds in hit hand that his attention is concentrated. He is so. bent on the perusal of It that he hears neither the turn of the key in the lock nor the woman's entrance. And now, aa a mali cious chuckle breaks from her, it so star tlea him that he springs to bis feet as if shot, and a sharp, horrid cry, that, is almost a shriek, escapes him. His face has grown deadly white, great dropa of sweat stand out upon his brow. "Comforting yourself with a look at It," says she, with a malignant leer. As she speaks she points not at the gold, but at the paper he bas tightly clutched in his hand. "How did you come nere, woman?" de mands he, in a shrill tone. He is trem bling, and with nervous fingers presses-! the paper into the secret recess in the cab inet, and shuts to the oaken woodwork. "Why, through the door," retorts she, sullenly. How else? You should remem ber to lock It when engaged on work like this." t couia nave sworn i locked it. says he, still snaking. bee! bere is the key in my pocket. I tell you," with Increas ing agitation, "I did lock It Are you a fiend that you can follow me through bolted doors r ' "Hush! Don't give way to foolish fan cies. And after all, why need my com ing fluster you? Surely," with a mock ing air, "your occupation was an inno cent one; you were but refreshing your self with a glimpse of "Be silent, woman! Are you mad?" cries he, lifting his arms like one In. mor tal fear. "You're but a poor aort after all," ahe aays, contemptuously. "Too poor for faith or trust of any tort What! can you hot even believe in me, who has served you and yours long and faithful for forty years? Is it likely I'd betray you now for his children? "Ay, ne servea you taiseiy once," says Gregory Dysart a savor of pleasure in hia tone. "He took my best my life, my soul- the heart of everything," says she, slow ly beating one withered hand upon the other. "Though years have rolled by 1 have not forgotten; I shall not forget a all. When first I saw them I felt as though, if power were given me, I could have blasted as they ttood those Insolent hussies upstairs." . , . Something out of the goodly' past, tome vague touch of decency belonging to the days when he was young and happy, and when honor was will word to which he clung with all his might, renders tbit coarse epithet, as applied to the pretty or phans committed- to his care, insupport able. - - You hardly remember, perhaps, that you are speaking of my nieces," he says with aa angry frown. - Hoity toity! None of your airs with me, say she, sternly. She advances a step nearer to hini "Remember, Dysart, that I can either make or mar you. I, and I only." . ... I would I were aure of that," aays he. moodily. "But ' Have you forgotten Sedley? He kuew." Pish! He's dead: let him rest. What a one you are to worrit! Twenty years and more, and no algn of him, and I ask you waa be the one to remain quiet it he taw a way to forcing a aovereign out of you?" "True, true," tayt Dysart, eagerly patching at this suggestion. "And yet 1 would give much to know that he waa in the grave. ' - "Ay, and I la mine! I know you," saya she, with an evil look. . "You fear me." "I fear nothing," says he, coldly.' "What," says she, slowly, regarding him closely; "not even that your son should know?" She pauses, pletsed with her work. All at once, as it were, on hearing thia ques tion, the old msn quails before her like a beaten bound. The life goes out of him. he seems to shrluk into himself, and puts out his handa aa though to ward off tome fatal blow. "Not that. Anything but that," he mutter, feebly. "Well, don't drive me to It" aya she, sulkily. "Remember, It was for him I did it" cries he, shsrply. "After all my lore, my care, my tecrecy, to have it now laid bare to him! I tell you" his fingers working convulsively "rather than that he ahoutd know. It teemt to me that it would be a sweet and simple thing to murder him who would betray me." "I'm not going to betray yoo," tays she. "And as for saying 'twas tor, him yon did It, why " "Fur him. For his take only." "Partly, I think." tays she, dryly. - "Entirely; altogether. What other crea ture had I ta love me to love? Hit mother, as yoa know, hated me; and whea ahe died I waa glad," tayt he. crushing hia fiugert together. "Yet the deed wat scarcely necetstry if dose foe him," tayt Grunch. holding he ground. "That old aunt of hit the mother's sister put wtnt out of the que tioo for t ax. "I knew noth nf of hrr desire to make; him her heir then." "Ton know it now. anrwsi." savs ah. ! with a nasty sneer. "AaJ it is never to late roend t find by accident taad paper yon have Just locked up." "I have thought of It," says he. with lowered brow and eye bent upon the ground, "dreamed of it: and all my i warning has but convinced me that things had better. stay as they now art. Into-what better hands could they, havt fallen? 'Who would have husbanded it all like me? You know the care, the trouble, the. sleepless, days and nights 1 hare devoted (o-tbe management' of of It. - Y6u know, whe.her it has ever been a joy to me rather a grief, a wearying of the flesh, a curse!" The word comes from herween his lips with a little hissing sound. "But it is all for him, for him, be says, in a dying tone. With restless, feeble steps he begins t pace the room. "He believes In me. He trusts me; he alone now! But if ever he were to learn the truth he would suurn me from him. I swear to you" he turns and fixes, his burning eyes on hers "I'd strangle you with these hands," holding them out be-; fr, her. trembling- with passion, yet ttrong and lithe, "before the words co.uld pass your lips." "I'm not going to play traitor.' I've told you that," says she, frowning. "I've had a chance before this if I wished to do It: and I'm not going to help his children, whatever happens." Her brow growt black and her eyes lighten. "May curses follow him wherever he be, even through the gatea of death!" "Amen," saya Dysart, carelessly. Then, In a different tone: "Seaton is coming home to-morrow." "You have a design," say he, fixing her sharp eye on him with a searching regard. "True: and I think well of mentioning it to you," says Dysart, slowly. "After lone and careful thought I have decided on abandoning more ambitious schemes and wedding him- to my elder niece, Vera."-'-'' i (To be continued.) DOROTHY DREW. Anecdotes of the Late Mr. Gladstone's Little Gr.in td inahter. Dorothy Drew, Gladstone's famous grandeHild, whose loving companion ship added so much to the bappluess of his later years, U the subject of a yery- Interesting sketch" In the Young Woman. We learn from It that before her fourth year her political views bad become decidedly radical; to her mind the House of Lords was a most repre hensible Institution, and the House of Commons the mainstay of tbe nation. When the House of, Lords was spoken of in her presence as the "Upper House," she would retort: "You man the House of Commons!" She visited the latter dur.ng her third year, and for a time thought herself In church. The frequent rising and sitting of the members sxm und.cjlved her, how- ever, and frcm these movements ar.d tbe oratorical gesticulations of the speakers, she fancied herself In a gym- naslum--an Impression derived from a previous visit to such a p'.ace. For some time after this, the Commons was "the place where grandad goes to do his 'nasties," or, on occasions, "the place where grandad goes to do bis les sons." . Her visit to Queen Victoria was a momentous episode In her younar life, and from the artl.le above nvnlmid we quote the narrative of her de.lght ful experiences: Dorothy relates bow she went down the very long co.rlJor to put on her neflr white frock -and her Bilk gloves. anij now a grand servant all dressed In red came to say that tne gueen was waltlrg. "The Itdlan man whom the Queen likes very much was at the door, and the next moment Dorothy stood .before the great Queen w tom her grandpapa had served for sixty years, - But Dor othy thoi ght nothing of ths vastness of the empire," or of the length of the reign which all tbe world was cele brating. It was nothing to ber that the kludly gray haired lady before her was mis: re sj of one-quarter of the whole human race. To Dorothy she was Just another woman like grandmamma, with a white cap on her h.-ad; aud Dorothy courtesled and kissed her, and told ber her name was "Dors e," that Bhe called Mr. Gladstone "grandpapa," that they all had pet names at the castle, and so on and so on; and many Interesting pet names were revealed on both sides. "Th Queen put da ber glasses and asked me to go to tint other side of tbe room, so that she could see me better," Dorothy explains, "and then she took a little Jewel-case and said: 'This Is for you. "I opened It and saw a darling little brooch, with a diamond V and a dla-1 mond R and a turquoise I, and a little crown at the top made of red enamel. I courtesled and kissed her hand and said: 'Thank you very much.' She looked very nice and kind, aud I liked her very much." Then the Queen kissed the little debu tante again, and Dorothy and her moth er returned to town. Kipling, who Is numbered among the celebrities who have sought Dorothy's ...,,alntanr,a folia OTI O m !, d I Tl C ntnrv tt their meeting. They had been In tbe grounds surrounding Hawarden for some time together when Dorothy. mother appeared, saying: "Now Dorothy. I hope you have not been wearying Mr. Kipling." "Qh. ty; not a bit," was tbe frankly unconventional reulv. "Mr. KlDiinir bas been wearying me!" Chinese Compliments. There Is one point in which Chinese etiquette, so often absurd, is much more sensible than ours. That Is In Its failure (o regard tbe Imputation of ma- uce.nge as a discredit to either man or Tvoniao, or, on the btber hand, the ini- putatlon of youthfuluess as a compll- ment to persons of either sex. An ex- ample of -Chinese politeness, connected with the visit of tbe Prince and Prln- cess Henry of Prussia to Shanghai, Is amusing, as It reflects on our own false notion of the complimentary ln such matters. TheGerman prince and princess were visiting a notable mandarin, one of whose first questions to tbe prince es being an Invariable matter of Chi- nese politeness wa: "How o'.d are you?" "A little more than thirty-six," an swered the prince, smiling. "Indeed!" said the mandarin. "Your highness appears fifty." The mandarin then turned to the In terpreter Herr Volght, a German and Inquired the princess' age. She an swered. "Thirty-two." The Interpreter Interpreted, and the mandarin made a remark" In-Chinese evidently intended to be complimentary. The interpreter . . . . . - - ...... blushed uneasily, and hesitated to translate the remark. The prince saw the difficulty, and laughingly com manded: ' "Cfut with It Tolgbtr -Ue says," the Interpreter then trans lated to the princess, "that your high ness looks like sixty r He had meant It well, and of course the princess bad sense fnougb not to take It ill. One rich man owes bis wealth to the gammed, newspaper wrapper, and the genius who put a piece of rubber in a circle of tin and attached it to tht and j a Ud pencil mad his fortune. science. gBVention France bas now the deepest well la the world. It Is 3.09 feet aud the tem perature at the bottom Is 117 decrees. The largest artesian well In the world Is fourteen luches lu diameter and 18-1 feet deep. It Is at Cerrltos, In California. E 1h the most common letter. In oue thousand letters E occurs 137 times lu English, 1S4 times In French, 145 lu Spanish, ITS in Ceruuut. . In three hundred years the average length of liuuniu life has been doubled. lu the sixteenth century it was between eighteen mid twenty years; ut the close of the eighteenth century It was a little over thirty years, aud lo-day It Is over forty years. The internal beat of the enrtb Is a survival of tbe time when It was a glowing bull aud was turning oti its axis with a velocity four times as great as at present. It was slowed down principally by the action of the tides, Internal and external, these being one of tbe results of tbe moon's attrac tion. The rotation of tbe moon In such n way that it shows to us always the same face was sbowu to be the conse quence of the tides lu the molten moon due to the attraction of the earth. The earth has not surrendered itself to the tides caused by the moon because they are relatively go feeble. It will, how ever, without doubt ultimately present always the same face to the moon. Gunnar Anderson, a Scandinavian botanist, makes a specialty of tbe study of plant growth inside the Arctic circle. Tbe total uumlier of flowering species so far Identitied Is about nine hundred, of which 435 are In Iceland, 28(1 In Greenlaud, and the .rest mostly lu Spitzbergen. Tbe Arctl6 summers, though short, are often hot and dry, aud the lack of moisture keeps plant life dwarfed. Many of the species are the same as In larger forms In southern lands. The resistance of cedar wood to de cay has lone been famous, and cedar fence-posts often last for generations, A remarkable Instance of the Inde structibility of cejr.r has been noted In the State of Washington, where a for- est of hemlocks, near Acme, has grown up over an ancient uuricu forest or ce- dais. The trunks of cedar, although lying In a moist soil, have been almost perfectly preserved for at least 150 years, the length of time that the rings of growth show the hemlocks to have been growing above their fallen prede cessors, j Inpolntlngoutways to Increase Amer ican trade In China our consul at Nluen- I wang, Mr. Miller, calls attention to some interesting peculiarities of the Chinese people. It is one of their traits, be says, to handle the things they use very carefully, and for this reason they ' make cheap and poorly made articles last much longer thau do other people, They make things in what seems to us a flimsy way, and are very economical, iMrplf quantities of old scrap iron are Imported Into China to be worked' over Into cheap, useful articles In the small blacksmith shops scattered throughout the country. The Intense love of the Chinese for pictures and artistic orna ments causes them to buy cheap arti cles of that kind, such at in our country can only be distributed gratis for ad vertising purposes. ABOUT MISDIRECTED LETTERS. Surprisingly Large Nnmber In the Postofiice at Cincinnati. At tbe request of the Postmasters' Association of the United States, Post master E. It. Mou fort of Cincinnati, has prepared a paper on the subject of "Misdirected Mall.". It hns been order ed urluted. says the Cincinnati Corn- nu.rc-lal Tribune, and Is to be sent to all ,lie nOSt0ilices of the country as' the opening move lu arousing the people generally on this matter. Cupt. Monfoi t says In part: In March, 1901, I found by the re- 1 nnHfl .,. ln the.Clncinnatl Dostofflce thnt there had l)eeI1 ian(led ln the I mailing division 043,385 and in the de- llvrv .....i,,., rmots niaklne a total of , 47(. 000 misdirected letters in one , year. This appalling fact led me to examine into methods and ascertain cause for this condition and to seek a remedy which might result lu an im provement of the service. I found that the newspapers were ready and willing to render assistance and publish the conditions and a warning to the public to exercise more care. But this remedy seemed Inadequate. I addressed a letter to Dr. R. G. Boone, superintendent of ''e P"1'1 fuool,s- 'nformed him of the nuu,ber of Isdireeted letters passed tnrougn i.i.s o.nce. a, u us " " u,tu 1,1 tlle conditions fully, could not be read 1 1 tle pupils In the public schools, so a awaken a disposition to exercise more care in auuressing letters. I ad vised him that mistakes were not con fined to Ignorant people, but that a large proportion of letters which failed of delivery were from families having u moderate education and from profes- slonal and business men and women, and that mistakes were largely due to carelessness. Dr. Boon responded promptly and effectively. He called bis 000 teachers together and read them the letter and Instructed them to give flfteeu minutes' time each week to special Instruction on tbe question of addressing mall. It Is too early to give the results of this teaching, but we have uo doubt It will be far-reaching and show a decided Improvement In this location If these instructions ln all the schools of could be given the country aud the children Impress ed with the Importance of special care. this process of education would bring marvelous results to tbe country." ARE KNOWN BY THEIR EARS. Crlaainala May Be Detected bjr tbe Shape of Their Aural Organ. It Is well known that lunatics are distinguished by tbe peculiar develop ment of their ears. "The insane ear" can be detected at a glance by an ex pert alienist It is now claimed that i " .7'""' T ",ul 'of a crowd by the distinguishing mark upon their ears. A new investigator Id this field of work, Arthur Keith," pre sents some Interesting facts regarding the significance of the variation of hu man ears. Mr. Keith, In the first place, points out how seldom the ear Is de scriljfd In llteratture a compared with the space devoted to other features. He roughly divides the extremes of ear types Into two classes, the small, com pact ear and tbe Urge, broad ear that often stands out from tbe bead like "wind sails from the portholes of a steamer." Tbe comnact ear be calls the "orang type." and tbe broader ear tha VhlmnlDYM Irn.1 Avww,r.l?na t, the -chimpanzee) type." According to bis olasslBcatlorj tb? "shell like ear" of novelists, supposedly ao Indication of high birth. Is nearest the orang type, and be notes that "of eight peeresses five have ears -of tbls type, which cer tainly lends tome support to the popu lar supposition, Ou the other baud, of five leading lady singers only one shows this type of ear." As the broad type figures very little In fiction there teems to be no .popular conclusion re garding Its significance, so Mr. Keith's Investigation bas a marked element of novelty. In examining the criminal, the Insane as well as the normal classes. In order to find tbe ratio of prevalence of these contrasted ear types Mr. Keith discov ered: That taken as a class, not as Indi viduals, criminals show a departure from tbe sane In their physical consti tution. But what does this really mean? It means, I take It, that tbe criminal class Is recruited In undue proportion from the group of men who manifested the 'orang type' of ear and tbe women who possess the 'chimpan zee type.' A larger proportion of indi viduals of these two classes Is predis posed toward crime than those with op posite types. But clearly the preseuce of the orang type ear In any Individual is of Itself no evidence of this predis position." Mr. Keith, however, not only studied the variation In the orang and chim panzee types, but In that type of ear which possesses an ear tip or pointed effect on tbe outer edge, as well as a weak Inner convolution, and be says of the studies: "All that can be deduced from the present investigation Is that a slightly greater proportion of the people wtio have ear tips aud retrograde heUces give themselves over to crime thau those In which these two features are absent. The evidence Is just sufficient to justify the suspicion that a small proportion of criminals are criminals because of their physical construction, and It is certainly the duty of every anatomist to discover how such Indi viduals may be recognized. As yet all the criminal marks we know of can only be stated In relative terms of the class and have, unfortunately, no ap plication to the Individual". HOW DOG SAVED MASTER'S LIFE. Beegan Wat CauBht Under Tree and Tiger Took Hit Boot Home, John Reegan, a farmer of Gulf Sum mit, Pa., went out upon a hill near bis house to cut down trees, takiug with him his dog Tiger. He cut a tall oak. which fell In such a way tnat it knocked him down and imprisoned bim in a little depression. Had It not been for tbe depression bis life would have been crushed out. but as It was be was held a prisoner and, struggle as be would, be could not free him self. He shouted and bis dog appeared. Tiger apparently realized at once the dangerous predicament In which his master was placed and also tbe fact that he could do no good ou the spot He tugged awhile at the Imprisoned man and then started off for home on a wild rush. , Arriving at the farmhouse be set up such a bowling that the attention of every one on the place was attracted to him. All wondered what could be the matter with him, never suspectiug the true cause of his trouble. No at tention was paid to his uolses except to scold bim. The dog now made off bock to where bl$ master lay, and a few moments liaer was again be&i-d howling at the farmhouse door. The first person who approached bim saw that he had one of his master's boots lu his mouth, and It was at once surmised that something was wrong with Reegan. aud that the Intelligent brute was trying to convey a message. M- u .1 , l.n.l.al with itallirht tt-hon several of tbe farmhands set off with him to see what was up. Tbe men found Reegan almost unconscious and suffer - Imr ereatlv. says a New York World special. The unfortunate man was re leased and was found to have suffered no serious Injury. Tiger Is now a great hero. TEA AT $50 A POUND. That la What Borne Kplcurea Pay for the Leaves. ' Washington Is a good tea market. Dealers In the fragrant leaves aver that ads tne teacher to attain results. Prob no statistics are at hand indicating theauyi arui most likely, the lack of the extent of tea consumption in the dis- j (0reign student of this essential Is ou trlct, but they say tbe fact Is apparent acc0Unt of the system of supervision thnt Washlngtonlans drink tea. Not an(j restriction that obtain abroad. It Is only do they driuk much of It, but they aim0st a crime for a junior cierK to sug drlnk the best that Is, what passes for ge9t au Improvement to the manager the best on the market tea that Is 0f a corporation aud likewise It Is con worth from 80 cents to $1.25 a pound. I gidered very bad for a student to ad- "It would surprise you," said a dealer, vauce any ideas in class, according to the Washington Star,"that Any one of the foreign schools Is bet some tea sells for $50 a pound. I think ter equipped, more expensive to main It Is not worth It. but that Is the price tain and better fitted to exert an Influ asked and the price puld for a peculiar ence in tbe student body than ours, but variety that comes from Ceylon. There the medieval practice of restrictions are other varieties of Ceylon tea which places them beyond the pale of our sell at $40. $25. $15 and $10 a pound, i work. Omitting the English schools, and some of the commonest grades of any one of the others has a distinct ad teas drunk In the cities come from that vantage over our schools from the - fact far east Island. It Is the opinion of tea dealers that the maximum price which can legitimately be asked for tea Is $4 a pound. The prices that I previously quoted are fancy prices and are will- lngly paid by rich people with whom the gratification of appetite outweighs gold. The first pickings from the tea bush are tbe choice leaves. They are long and full of tbe essence that epi cures In tea demand, and they have a flavor absent In later leaves. There Is no difference in the curing processes, so It is only because the leaves are themselves the select few that the price is so high. The picking Is done from tbe youngest plants and before tbe first leaves on these plants attain maturity. The astringent flavor notice- able In most teas Is not In tbe leaves I describe, but there are not many per sons who pay $50 a pound for tea." Btrange Etiquette. If the King or Queen of England sign their name Id a visitor's book. It Is customary to provide them wiib a new pen, which hi not used by tbe hosts or tbe other guests unless It be banded tbem by tbe royal visitor. An other small point of etiquette connect ed with pens and paper Is that in writ ing a letter direct to tbe British sov ereign. It Is written on thick, white An n n n !.!.. nnlv a nit I a nlaw.1 (jairci, vu - - - In an envelope large enough to con-, tain the letter-unfolded. I Forgot Her Prayers. A 4-year-old girl was spending a night away from borne. At bedtime she kneeled at ber hostess' knee to say ber prayers, expecting tbe usual prompting. Finding Mrs. 0. unable to help ber out she continued thus: "Please, God, 'scuse me; I can't re member my prayers, and I am staying wfcth a lady that don't know any." It Is easy for women to be good. Af ter a wc.au bas bad children, tbe 'only temptation she meets Is one to 1 1 n,Aw fmm fliIp t.aliL-B borrow money from their bauka. I STRANGE SERPENT SUIN IN EVERGLADES. .a" r tV "DRAGON OF THE EVERGUADES," .. N enormous re&tile, more ukb ne myiuica , u.. ----- has been killed by a hunter in the lower Everglades. ! or WO years it hns no. only beea tradition among tbe Seminole Indians who Uve In the Florida everglades, that an immense serpent maue us """"" " and they affirm that two Indian had been carried off by the monster. RecenUy Bs,er Ferrel. one of "tbe boldest and most noted hunter, at Okoch bee. who for twenty year, ba made the border of the lake and h eW.de. h. home, on one of nis periouicai .vw "",;" ....,, u-. noted what he supposed to De tne paiuway u ....... -r eraldays he vtsi.ec I the locality for the purpot. of killing tht .aunan unsuccessful in finding nim. . th Finally he decided to take a stand in a large cypress tree and await tn coming of the alligator, taking provisions to last him several days. For two days he stood on watch, with his ride ready, but without the desired success He was becoming discouraged, but determined to give one more day to the effort On the third day. before he had been on hi. perch an boar, he was almost paralysed by what looked to him like an immense serpent gliding along tne a. pposeValUgafor track. ' He estimated it to be anywhere from I twenty to thirty feet long and fully ten to twelVe inches in diameter where . tht head jo ned the hodv and as larire around as a barrel ten feet farther back. Hie stirs o'p Vi in eas leach o, his gun and raised its head to take . Prec.tio.,ar, -lew of it. .urroundingt. A. it did Ferrel opened fire e. it. -jhooUng at It. hea Taken b, .urprise, the serpent dashed into the marsh at railroa d speed wtul. Ferrel kept up fire oa it until he had emptied the magaa.n f his rifle, but failed t0 Aboin'four day. afterward he ventured back Into tht borhod U jet how thing, were, and about a mile from where he first urn r the a large flock of bumrds and went to see what they were after and M ?ound the creature dead and its body so badly torn by the bunard. th.l It was imDoss ble to save the skin. He however, secured ita head and has It now in hTsTom. on the Kislimmee river. It is truly a frightful looking object, full, tea inchea from Jaw to jay, with ugly, razorlike teeth. AMERICAN SCHOOLS EXCEL. Cblcasro Professor Give Particular o Deficiency in European Schools. The American schoolboy Is two Incbet taller than tbe average European schoolboy of a like age, writes Prof. Watt of Chicago. I am positive of this declaration after a tour of luspectlou of the various schools of Europe, aud I place the usefulness of the instruction Imparted, from an educational and a hygienic point of view, as follows: First, the United States; second, Eng land; third, Germany, closely followed by France and Russia. There is a great difference In the school systems, but In two ways is this more noticeable, viz.. Inspection of school work and Its results. Tbe system of Inspection abroad bas been develop ed to such an extent that It Is more of a science thau an ordinary routine, as in this country. The luspector spends at least a day a month In each room, making copious notes of both teachers' and pupils' work, criticising In open class the deficient studies and com mending those that are satisfactory. I am willing to concede that It is pos sible to be more definite abroad than at home, owing to more specific alms ln AMERICA. ENGLAND. the minds of both the educators aud text-book writers. Text-books are rare ly changed abroad, and a student Is taugut ratner to grasp tailed Information than look for It In ! himself. Blinders, as placed on bis eyes, so hat he Is unable to look sldewlse. Certainly these schools are more advanced In theory thau ours, hue we surely excel them from a practi cal side. We aim to Impart a theoreti cal aud practical education combined, and more nearly to procure the acme of usefulness In after years. Then, too, the natural teudeucy of the American youth to apply knowledge as soon as acquired is a superiority that greatly that reading and spelling are mastered in three years, because words are spelled as spoken. Many of our pupils are unable to read English after ten years' steady application. Arithmetic is much easier abroad, because tne tables n founded 0D tbe declmal system, like our money, and require very little mem orizlng. It Is conceded that a boy com ing out of the preparatory school on tbe continent Is about two years abead of our boy of the same age who Is grad uating from our high school While this Is true, our boy bas doue at least three years more work In mastering tbe reading, spelling and grammar of our difficult language with Its barbarous spelling aud numerous Irregularities of grammar. j Then, too, our high schools take ln all clasesa of boys who can afford to re main in school, because we are an edu cated people, while In Europe no com mon boys attend tbe secondary schools. Only those who are In training for pro fessional careers and wbo are supposed to be specially well endowed mentally enter those schools at all. Again, tbe matter of fitting a pupil so that be is able to step Into an office as soon as be is out of tbe high school Is not consider ed abroad as It Is here. Little or no at tention Is devoted to what we call com mercial training, such as shorthand. typewriting and commercial law This luatructlou Is only obtained by a Euro pean stndent In a college course. Tbe sa-fiie openness of mind so notice able In tbe American youth Is totally lacking In tbe foreign student, and be Is held to'tbe facts in bis books until be has no breadth of range. He spends much less time In the open air and takes less exhilarating exercise thau our boys. Add to this the scientific ven tilation of our classrooms, tbe dash of our methods, shorter hours of Instruc tion, more cheerful methods, periods of relaxation more frequent and it is no wonder our boya grow two Inches taller than the foreign boys when taken age for age. Tbe American does not work a colt before be has jrown. aud It Is on this "J-.a- . am. I FROM A SKETCH BY AN INDIAN. .l-.-i hn ii land teroent For tev but waa Idea that our educators refrain from putting our students to the severest mental test. We do not ask how niueu can Dossiblv be accomplished by a child, but bow much Is best for bim. The fullest auswer to the whole ques tlnn is to compare the ages of the aver age college graduate. In tbls country It averages about 22 years, while abroad It Is about 28 years, and from that we see that our pupils progress slowly In an educational line at first, but after the faculties are thoroughly developed a very rapid advance Is made, and we aim as nearly as possible to devolep the mental and physical natures of the stu dent at the same time. The success of tbls plan, I think, is evident t orn the number of young men at tbe head of the many large Industrial establish ments successfully competing with the product of the world In every line. WEPT HIS WAY TO VICTORY. Candidate W aa Doped, bnt Hia Tear Were Eloquent. "There are all sorts of tricks In a po litical campalgu." snld the ex-member of ih- Legislature, "and one was play ed upon me when I was doing my flvst stumping that was Intended to lay me 6KHMANT. F BANCS. out flatter than a pancake. I was ollied to speak at a certain village, und I prepared a first-rate talk for the oc casion. Half an hour before 1 was to take the platform I was Invited to have a ulp to brace me up, ami ten mlLUtes after imbibing I didn't know whether 1 was on foot or riding a camel. As a matter of fact, I bad been 'doped' In order to prevent me from speaking. When 1 began to rall-feuce around and tulk nonsense they tried to t.-ike me away, but I became as stub born as a mule and iuslsted upon speaking. It would be a "all lu my colliu to show me off in a drunken con dition, and I was finally pushed for ward. I was simply conscious of tbe fait that I was making a fool if uiy self, aud after uttering a dozen words I begun to weep. There was a goo3 deal of laughter at first, but pretty soon a man culled out: " 'Look here, fellers, this man ain't crying for uotblng.' " 'You bet he ain't,' shouted another, " 'He must be weeping over our high taxes,' suggested a third. "'That's it, and It shows his true feeling,' added a fourth. Here's one vto pledges himself to work und vote for him.' " 'Aud here's another,' called out twenty men In chorus as I was led away with tears streaming down uiy cheeks. "That was my speech," sold the ex solon, according to the Detroit Free Press. "The people laid It ail to emo tion, and that town gave me a major ity to make my hair stand up. couldn't reduce their taxes, but 1 got a bill through against any one owning a bull without keeping an iron ring In his nose, and did not lose any of my admirers." Family Pride. "Mr. Cumrox Is only suffering from an ordinary cold. I believe," said tbe sympathetic visitor. "Well." answered Mrs. Cumrox. "we've done our best to keep It from being ordluary. We've seut for ths most expensive physician in the city." Washington Star. Obviously Not. "That baker keeps presenting bis bill" said tbe debtor, "aa If be needed tbe dough." "Perhaps," said tbe highly humorous friend, "If he doesn't get tbe dough be cau't knead any more."-Baltimore American. Suicide in Freucb Army. According to a rrench army paper, suicide Is more common in the French army than tn any otber In Lurope. Of tbe .nnual death rate in all branches of the service suicide accounts for per cent No Deer. "Ba scorn will never be mistaken fji a deer." ".No, ne t more apt to oe mixed up with tbe modest animal that display ears In place of antlers." Washington Star. Tbe C'onnt Came l-'ir.t. "Miss Boody bas marked blot, in ing titled foreigner. Couutr "I tbluk be did."-Smart Set Too many people do what tbe; should do aud theu eau'it credit for It GEO. P. CROVELL, SuceeMOt to E. L. Smith, Oldest Etbllhed House In tht valley.) DEALER IN . Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Flour and Feed, etc. flu's old-ettaUislied lionse wi I con tinue to pay cash for all its goods; it pavs no rent; it employs a clerk, but does not have to divide with a partner. All dividends are made with customers in the way of reasonable prices. Davenport Bros. Are running their two mills, planer and box factory, aud csn till orders for Lumber Boxes, Wood and Posts ON SHORT NOTICB. DAVIDSON FRUIT CO. SHIPPER! Or HQQD RIVER'S FIMS FRUITS. PACKERS Of THS Hood River Brand of Canned Fruits. MANUFACTURERS OF Boxes and Fruit Packages DEALKKB IN Fertilizers & Agricultural Implements THE REGULATOR LINE. Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. COMMENCING JAN. 1, 11'02, And continuing nntil March 1, 1902, this company will have butonesteamet running between The Dallas and Port land: leaving The Dalles Monday. Wednesday and Friday, aud Portland Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. STEAMERS Regulator, Dalles Gty, Reliance. 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