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CHAPTEH IV; Had It been possible for Winifred to guess Errol Hastings' real feelings she would have been forced to confess how f"!y she had misjudged him. He was for the Brst time in his life unreasonably, bewllderingly, in love, and his judgment was at war with his passion. Reflection did not help him, cither. "I have, heard," he thought, "of men counting the world well lost for a wom an's sake, but I never realized the feel ing until now. Now I feel that I would five all I possess If I could raise her to my position, or sink to hers. She Is only bright, charming child yet, but what divine womanhood she will grow Into when she begins to love. I canuot Imag ine any greater happiness than to look into the depths of those beautiful eyes, and read there, 'I love you,' or to take those little, slender hands in mine, and hear the confession from her lips. But I could not trust myself to stay here and see her often; silence would be impossi ble. If it were not for our cursed Hast ings pride I might tell her now, this very day, how I love her, and marry her if the would have rae. But that cannot be. Have all my ancestors kept their resolve In spite of everything until now, and hall I be the first one to break It by my weakness or cowardice? No! no! no!'' he thought, passionately "the honor of our house first." And so Errol made up his mind that lie would see Winifred no more he would not yield to temptation, or expose her to disappointment, and when he passed the next day with Miss Champion he kept his face steadily averted from the Farm, Httlo guessing how bitterly the woman he loved was commenting on his apparent eglect. Several daya passed, and the house was full of guests. Everyone declared that Haxell Court was the most charming country house to stay, at, and that Mr. Hastings was the perfection of a host. He and Lady Grace Farquhar made the ' most delightful arrahgemeuts for the gen eral amusement; and everybody was amused and pleased in consequence. Mist Champion and her brother were over at the Court almost every day, somewhat to the chagrin of Lady Ulrica St. Ego, who had resolved to do everything In her power to win Errol Hastings. Her sis ter, Lady Angela, had similar Intentions toward Lord Harold Erskiue, who was almost at rich, though not of nearly such old family. One day, when Errol had ordered hit four-in-hand to take the party driving, he asked Miss Champion, who was sitting on the box beside him, which way they hould go. "Over the common and up the hill, I think la the prettiest," answered Flora, with the malicious design of passing the Firm, that Winifred might tee them. Just as they came up to the Farm, Win ifred, who had been standing at the gate, turned and walked away to the house. "I say!" cried Lord Harold, "what an elegant woman! Miss Champion, you art the great authority In the county please tell me who that young beauty la I" "She It a farmer's daughter," said Flora, coldly; and Errol almost hated her (or laying it. "A farmer's daughter! I could havt worn, with that figure and tournure, the longed to one of the best families In the county. I was just Indulging hope, Hastings, that we should see her at the ball. Do you know her?" "res," said Errol, gravely, "I have that honor." "Could you not invite her?" Lord Har old went on. "Ask the ladies," answered Errol, with 0 unwonted tinge of sarcasm, "whether they would consent to the presence of a girl who wat only a farmer's daughter?" "Indeed, I am sure I would," cried Mist Alton, who was too pretty to be jealous; hut the others remained silent. Winifred had turned away from the fate with a swelling heart. "He may not care for me," thought the poor child; "but he need not come past so often with his aristocratic friends to show how far above me he Is!" The day before the ball, Errol had retired to hit sanctum, after lunch, to write two or three letters, when there came a gentle tap at the door. "Come in!" and Lady Grace appeared n the threshold. "Will you pardon my Intrusion?" she aid. "I have always wished to tee your haunt, and a request I have to make to you hat at last given me a fair pre text." "You might have taken my consent for granted," he answered, with a pleasant mile; "but I am quite content that you hould think It necessary to ask it, since your scruple brings you here." "My request relates in t measure to one of the dearest friends I had, poor Wini fred Champion." "Champion?" said Hastings, Interroga tively. "Yes, the daughtei of old Sir Howard." "I did not know that there was another daughter than Lady Valanton." "Yes, but she made a mesalliance, and Blr Howard, who it a dreadful tyrant, hat never allowed her name to be mentioned tince. I waa very fond of her, poor girl, although the wat tome years younger than I was, but I never saw her after he ran away, for I was abroad with my husband, and before I returned to Eng land, she died. Her governess, Madame le Montolieu, was a very good and charm ing person, and I have always kept up correspondence with her from time to time. I Invaded your retreat this after noon on purpose to ask tt I may have the pony carriage, in order to drive over and pay the old lady visit." "Why not take the barouche, Lady Grace? Lady St. Ego and Lady Marlon have declined driving this afternoon, and the young ladles intend to ride over to Mrs. Champion's before dinner. "Thank you. I would rather not discon tent my old friend by too much state; be tides, I have a great fancy to drive your pretty ponies." "By til meajn. then," exclaimed Errol Lady Grace Farquhar arrived, very quickly at the little cottage, and pre pared for long chat with Madam d Montolieu. who was very glad to tee her. "I heard." she aald, "that yon had ar rived at the Court but I scarcely ven tured to expect you nntll after the festiv ities were concluded." I should have come over long ago," Lady Grace answered, gayly, "but I am doing my duty at the Court as hostess. Ton see. dear madame, I am getting to Id thrt it seems quite natural for me te he acting at Mr. Hatting' mother." NLY A FARMER'S DAUGHTER. By MRS. FORRESTER. "Thlt Mr. Hastings," asked Madame d Montolieu. "do you Ilk him?" "I think him charming. He Is so agree able, and clever, and well bred." "But it he good, and honest, and truer' Lady Grace looked a Uttle eurprised at this question, the more 10 at It wat put with an unusual degree of earnestness. "I cannot tell, but I thould think to," she replied. "It seems to me at if his greatest failing was the hereditary Hast ings pride. Why do you ask?" "I remember his mother," remarked Madame de Montolieu, checking herself. "She waa very goad and amiable." "She waa, Indeed!" tighed Lady Grace. "I have been going to ask you, in so many of my letters, what hat become of poor Wlnifred't child. She wat bright looking, Intelligent little girl." "Ah, Lady Grace," aald the old French lady, sighing, "the fire me the keenest anxiety." "How to? Is the not turning out wellf ' "Too well, too well," ejaculated Mad ame de Montolieu. with an expressive shake of the head. "She Is aU the fond est mother or friend could wish; 1esu tiful, amiable, graceful and accomplish eda child to be proud of. Ah, dear Lady Grace, I fear greatly that I bar taught her too much, the It to far beyond her father' i station; but, Indeed, I did it all for the beat. I honed Sir Howard would have noticed and brought her out, but he sternly refuses to have anything to do with her; and they are all ao cruel and disdainful to the poor child it breaks my heart." "It is just like that detestable old Sir Howard," cried Lady Grace, with un usual energy. "He always insisted on sacrificing everything to hla stubborn pride. Can nothing be done?" "I fear not," replied the old lady; and then the proceeded to tell her friend of Mist Champion's treatment of her cousin. Lady Grace was highly indignant. "I can quite believe it," she remarked. "Miss Champion has an air of haughty superciliousness that offends me greatly. I cannot understand how it is that Mr. Hastings see ins to admire her to much." At this moment the door opened, and Winifred entered. She drew back on tee ing a stranger. "Enter, my loce," sold Madame de Montolieu. "Thit It Winifred Eyre," the added, addressing her visitor. Lady Grace waa fairly astonished at the tight of tucb graceful, elegant crua ture. "Come here, my dear," the tald, gently, "and let me tee if you are like your moth er." Lady Grace left the cottage that after noon perfectly charmed with Winifred. "I will tee if something oaunot be done to bring her Into a position for which she Is fitted," the thought, at the drove (low ly back to the Court "Ah, if I could only have had tuch a daughter!" and poor childless Lady Grace alghed heavily. CHAPTEK V. Winifred had just left the Farm on her way to the cottage, when she met and waa accoated by Hawkins, the gamekeep er. "I beg your pardon, miss, for making so free," he aald, taking off hit cap re spectfully, "but I thought maybe you'd like to see some of the grand doings up at the Court to-morrow." Winifred colored painfully, and Haw kins, remarking It, wat terribly concern ed. "I am sure, miss, I meant no offense I hope you won't take what I aald at liberty." The man looked anxiously at her. "Indeed, no," exclaimed Winifred, re covering herself; "I am much obliged to you for thinking of me, Hawkins." "You tee, miss," said the gamekeeper, eagerly, "It wat In (hit way. I tayt to myself, why, the doings at the Court to morrow will be quite a tight; there's the ballroom done up In that beautiful way aa 'ud be ahow In itself, let alone all the county fam'liet coming from miles round. They tell me at how the' master would make everybody promise to be there by half-past nine, to thinks 1, if Miss Eyre '11 just step round about ten o'clock I could let her Into the little garden that the ballroom looks Into, and she could see all the gay dolnga without a soul being the wiser." "Thank you, Hawkins," said Winifred, gently; "it waa very good of you to think ot me." Aa Winifred went on her way she wat terribly hurt at a proposal ao injurious to her dignity; hut it waa Impossible for her to feel any annoyance with the man, who had evidently spoken from sheer good-will and the wish to afford her a pleasure. But the Idea of her, Winifred Eyre, going to look In surreptitiously at a window to aee the upper claasea amus ing themselves waa dreadful offense to her pride. But It frequently happens that when we violently repudiate an Idea at first we are all the more likely to com round to it afterward. And at Winifred walked along, insidious thoughts crept In to un dermine th stronghold of her determina tion. . "After all," whispered Curiosity, "why should I feel to bitter at th thought of being only spectator of thlt grandeur? I shall never be able to participate in It and why should I refuse a opportunity I have to often coveted, of teeing a really rand ball?" Then th fell Into a train of thought "If I had only th advantage of being Sir Howard's granddaughter, that Flora Champion has if I could have met Mr. Heatings in society, tnd ridden and danced with him at the ha done, I think I could bar mad him lov me; but at a farmer's daughter, what chance hav 1 with an admired, aristocratic beauty?" Her word failed her, and the tat down on th bank In th lonely wood, and th tears atreamed down her face. So intent wat the on her misery that the Did not hetr footsteps approaching her, and when man's voice sounded tenderly In her sirs, saying, "Mjs Eyre, sre yon In trouble T' ah started, blushing, to her feet "Mr. Hastings," ah exclaimed, covered with confusion and crimson shame; bnt somehow th sight of hit handsome fac banished th memory of her sadness, and a bright tmlle cam into her eye. "I am so glad to see (mil again," Errol Mid, with th tenderest Inflexion of his voice, "I could not bear to e yon in distress." "When people have not very much to occupy their minds," Winifrd anawered, "they are rather tubject to fit of de pression, without sdequsts cense. I envy yon almost now yon are se busied In en tertaining and amusing people, you have no time for regrets. "'o time for regrets!" echoed Mr. Hastings: "for the last three week my life has been one unceasing, haunting re gret" Winifred looked up Into tit fac in quiringly. "It if a trouble I ctnnot ask anyon to share you least of all," he (aid, after oa use. Winifred'a eyes- drooped beneath his gaze it waa so sad, yet so eager. A voice waa heard calling, "Hasting, Hastings!" In an Instant he had taken her hand, kissed it passionately, and wat gone. Winifred turned away quickly, and went on her way to the cottage. She was trem bling, confuted, glad, surprised. She scarcely knew what her real feelings were. But as Hawkins proposal re curred to her mind, she determined to accept it When she arrived at the cottage, she found Lady Grace, aa has been described, When the had accompanied her to the pony carriage, she returned to the little drawing room. "Dear madame," tald Winifred, kneel ing betide her old friend, and half hid ing her face. "I want you to take me to the Court to-morrow night "The Court!" exclaimed Madame de Montolieu, in overwhelming surprise; "has Mr. Hastings, then, invited you to his ball?" "Oh, no, not that" Winifred answered, quickly, with a deep blush. "To-night, as I wat coming here, Hawklnt met me, and asked me If I should Ilk to te th ball. He tald he would let me Into th little garden under the ballroom, and there would be no one else there. At first I was angry at the Idea, but 1 hare chang ed my mind; and, oh, madame," ahe con' eluded, earnestly, "I do to want to go." Madame de Montolieu looked at ber with Impressible astonishment. She al most failed to believe her tenset when proud Winifred Eyre mad tnch re quest. "I know it mutt teem strange to you, Winifred said, Imploringly; "you think I am forgetting my pride, and my (elf- esteem; but I have a reason Indeed I have." "Winifred!" cried Madame de Monto lieu, in a pained voice, "you are think ing too much of thia Mr. Hastings." She caressed the head that lay In her lap pitifully and tenderly while she said: "I will go with you If you wish it" "I do wish it; thank yon a thouaand timet." The next evening, shortly before ten o'clock, Winifred and her companion, cloaked and veiled, appeared at the little garden gate. The faithful Hawklnt was waiting for them, and, true to hla prom ise, not another person wat to be teen. He had placed two chain for them behind a clump of laurels, and as the ballroom windows were down to the ground they could see plainly everything that took place. Winifred sw Lady Grace Farquhar, robed in delicate tatin and lace, stand ing with other ladiet on kind of velvet dait, receiving the gueatt at they entered with ttately graciousnesa. Then she saw something that made her trem ble and turn pale. Mr. Hastings entered the room, looking more handsome and courtly than she had even Imagined, and on hia arm leant Flora Champion, with the proud diguity of an empress. A jealout pang thot through Wini fred'! heart at the eight, and when the taw Hastinga bend down to Flora, and perceived the tmile that Wat reflected back in hit eyes, she clinched her teeth over her lips to keep back the tears of mortification. She turned to Madame de Montolieu and said, In quick, gasping tones: "It is enough let us goI" (To be continued.) LATE PRESIDENT'S SURNAME. Come from Gaelic MasFhlonnlalgh, Meaning "Fair Hero." The surname of MacKinley or Mc Klnley (the latter as spelled by the late President) Is the same with Flnlayson, both meaning "son of Flnlay." The name Is distinctly Scottish, but occurs also in the north of Ireland among the descendants of the settlers of the "Scots plantation of Ulster." The name, unlike most other Scottish1 surnames beginning with Mac, Is not a very common one, and occurs only sparingly In the public records of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as McFlndlay, McFlnlay, Mclnlay, Mc Kindlay, McKynlay and McKlnley. ( In Gaelic orthography, says George F. Black In the New York Times, the name Is MacFhionnlalgh (with fb si lent). So early as the end of the tenth century the name Flnlay Is found borne bf a .powerful earl. Flnlalc, son of Rualdhrl, Mormaer or earl of Moray, a province which at that period Included almost the whole northern Scotland. The "Icelandic Saga or History of Olaf Tryggvlsson," gives- his name In a Norse form, Flnnlelk, and states that he suffered a severe defeat In Caith ness at the hands of SIguard, earl of the Orkneys, about 083 A. D. In the year 1020 Flnlalc was murdered by bis nephews, the sons of his brother Mael brlgde, and Tlgbernae, the Irish annal ist, in recording the death of his suc cessor, calls Flnlaic Rl Albaln; that Is, "king of Alban," Indicating that he claimed a position of independence, both from the earls, of Orkney and the kings of Scotland. His son was Macbeth, the usurper and murderer of Duncan, whose ob scure career Shakspeare has Invested with the splendid light of genius. The Duan Albanach, an old Irish poetical chronicles of the kings of Dalrladn, said to have been written about the year 1057, In giving length of Mac beta's reign, says: "A seacht blladhne, deag mac Flonnlaolch;" literally that Is "seven years and ten (ruled) the son or Flnlay." The early forms of the name given above show us that It means "fair hero" (from Gaelic flonn, fair, white, and laogh, hero), a meaning which Is quite In accord with the prin ciple upon which early Celtic personal na'mes were compounded. Effect of Raft-Time Bong. Sunday School Teacher Now, chil dren, what did Pharaoh say to Moses) Children We don't know. Teacher Oh, yes, yon do. He told Moses to go and do something. Now, what did he say? Class Go way back and sit down! Baltimore American. Thia Kale World' Ware, "Any society news out In your su burb?" "Oh, yes; those folks who moved there only a month ago are moving away Just whan it Is their turn to give a garden party." Detroit Free Pre. The man whom gin ruins write his name on the margin of defeat a 1 1 t,A4,44i tet ...... A Curious Elliptical Bridge f - tS VIEW SHOWING THE POSITION A clever and peculiar example of bridge construction has recently been carried out upon the seacoast of Coun ty Antrim, In the north of Ireland. At this point the shore drops precipitously into the sea, the cliffs, wbleh are known as "Gobans' Cliffs," being 200 or 300 feet high. The seacoast scenery is of the wild est and withal most beautiiful in its solemn grandeur In the north of Ire land; and to enable visitors and tour ists to view the spectacle from Its most advantageous points, and also to gain PECULIAR. BHIDQE CONSTUUCTIOX access to the many remarkable eaves in the vicinity, a walk lias been cut out and built In the face of the cliffs. This pathway Is only from two to three feet In width, and winds along the face and climbs the cliffs In a most extraordinary manner, which from a short distance Imparts to the promenade a most perilous appearance, since immediately below the waves thunder among the rocks. But the walk has been most skillfully and clev erly designed and constructed. Steps are cut roughly and broadly into the solid rock, but to Insure perfect safe ty to climbers a hand rail has been Pi 111 TWIN-SCREW STEAMER "MINNESOTA." THE LARGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT IN AMERICA. The Minnesota, recently launched at the yards of the United States Ship building Company, New London, Conn., for the Great Northern Railroad Com pany, Is the largest vessel ever built In America and has the greatest freight capacity of any ship In the world. She Is C30 feet long, nearly 74 feet wide and 68 feet deep. She has nine decks. The Minnesota will ply between Seattle, Honolulu and Yokohama, and in order to make these long trips she has been provided with bunker space for 6,008 tons of coal, which will be automatically delivered to the stokers. Her total carrying capacity Is about 30,000 tons dead weight. The Minnesota will not be an "ocean greyhound," her speed being only about fourteen knots, but every provision has been made for the comfort of passengers and crew, and several novel features Introduced In her construction have resulted In a great economy of space. It Is said that If the Minnesota should prove as successful as Is hoped for the purpose for which she Is intended several vessels of exactly similar model and size will be built as soon as possible for the Taclflc trade. It is believed that vessels of such enormous carrying capacity, where there will no abnormal con sumption of coal in the effort to get great speed, will be more economical of operation than any steamships ever built REAL FEMININE INSTINCT. Jennie Waa Bound to Succeed In News paper Work. She had a gawky girl with her when he appeared In the editorial rooms of a woman's magazine. "My daughter Jennie," she an nounced by way of Introduction. "A fine looking girl," commented the editor. "Yes, and I want to tell you about her," said the woman. "She knows more about bow to do things than any other girl living." "She does?" "Well, she thinks she does. She can It In the parlor and give me advice better than any one I ever knew." "Capable. Is she?" "With her tongue, she is. " I don't eem to ever do anything Just right myself, so she tells me. She advises me about cooking." "Yes." "And I've been cooking since before he was born, while she never has made anything but fudges. She tells me bow to make pretty things out of barrel heads and old boxes, too." "Most important" "But I don't see that she's able to "make any of the things herself. And, y! you ought to hear the advice she gives me on how to be beautiful. Why. the rules she lays down wouldn't leave a woman time for even sleep!" "It' a woman's duty to make her self attractive." "But I don't notice that she's worked herself over Into any Venus. And then there' etiquette " "But why do you come to ua? Is be inclined to shirk her own duties? Do you wish us to advise her " "Advise nothing!" retorted the wom an. "She's so loaded up with. advice that I thought you might like to give her a Job. Seems to me that every woman who geta bold W a pen or a t4-t't;a ...... OF THE BRIDGE ON THE CLIFFS. provided. The Intervals between the rocks are spanned by delicate and spider-looking bridges of Iron. The length of the jwalk so far constructed Is nearly three miles, and It is to be continued for another two miles, which it Is anticipated will be com pleted within a few months. The most notable triumph of engi neering In connection with this work is the erection of what is known as Gobans' bridge. This structure is dis tinctive owing to its curious design, being elliptical In shape. This piece of work was rendered necessary to span a gap 65 feet In width, giving ac cess from the mainland to an lso?ated rock known as "The Man-of-War." Owing to the exposed position of the site of the bridge, the turbulency of the surf playing upon the rocks imme diately below, and the strength of the tides, it was found impossible to erect the bridge on the spot Under these circumstances the structure was elect ed at Belfast and transferred Intact to a scow. The latter was then towed to "The Man-of-War" rock and care fully brought to, as far as possible, Im mediately below the spot where It was to be installed. Lifting tackle was then placed in position upon each side of the gap to be spanned at the road way level, and the lifting cables at tached to each end of the bridge. The hoisting operation bad to be carried out with extreme care, owing to the cramped space in which the lifting tackle was operated, and to prevent the structure being thrown by its own swinging motion when suspended In the air against the face of the rocks, which would have seriously damaged It. The structure was, however, lifted to Its position without mishap. It was originally intended to stay the bridge when In position with guys, but when the bridge was erected it was found to be sufficiently rigid to dispense with these additional supports. Montreal Star. typewriter gets the idea that she's a regular mine of wisdom and Is spe cially ordained to tell other women how to do things. I figure that In an other ten years half the women In the country will be telling the other half what to do and how to do It, and In twenty years there won't be anybody left to do anything except give advice. That being the case, I suppose Jennie might as well start in now. All you've got to do Is to give her a pen and a bottle of Ink and a page on which to spread herself and she'll be in the front rank mighty soon. She's got the real feminine Idea." Brooklyn Eagle. Yankee Ideas Invade Syria. For the first time the ancient and primitive methods of labor in the Holy Land have been disturbed by the intro duction of Western inventions. The natives of Syria have been Jolted out of the rut of ages by the boom of the thrashing machine and the musical whirr of the reaping machine! Last summer an enterprising Ameri can imported the first reaper and set it to cutting the grain in the Syrian fields. He had It sent all the way from Chicago. Then a little later a steam thrasher, the product of an In diana foundry, waa heard of in Coele Syria. It created great excitement among the native farmers. They were afraid of it at first then later con cluded It to be the work of the evil one and tried to destroy It Tbey were with difficulty brought to see Its many advantages over the old way of tread ing out the grain. The American windmill speedily fol lowed the thrasher, and a month or more ago a flour mill with machin ery and oil motor engine complete, from Indianapolis, began grinding wheat in Lebanon. A helping hand four sees. Phila delphia Telegraph. A FEMININE FINANCIER Chicago Woman Proves She Baa "Head for Business." The people who rashly allege that women have "no bead for business" will find It bard to maintain their ar gument In the face of a tale told by the Chicago Post The story began with the wife. "George," she said, "mother has sent me a check for forty dollar to get a new gown." "Very thoughtful and kind of her," be commented. "It's to be spent for nothing else, she says." "Quite right" "I wish you'd put It In with your bank account. I'll ask you for It when 1 want It I can't do my shopping just now.'.' That was the first chapter of this financial tale. Now we come to the second. "George," she said, about a week later, "I wish you'd bring me bomt the money to-night I'm going down town to-morrow." He brought the money home and gave It to her, and that ended the second chapter. The third contained a, sur prise. "George," she said, toward the close of another week, "I wish you'd bring me borne that forty dollars that moth er sent." "Why, I gave you that last week," he protested. "Oh, you gave me forty dollars, of course," she admitted, "but yon re member mother said her money was to be used for a gown and nothing else." "Yes." "Well, I didn't use that for a gown, so the money wasn't hers. I got some things for the children and the house with It, and now I want her money for the gown." "O ho!" he exclaimed. "So you mis appropriated funds." "I did nothing of the kind!" she as serted. "She gave you the money for a cer tain purpose and you expended It for something else," he argued. "That's a clear case of misappropriation." "Not at all," she Insisted. "If I had spent It for the gown It would have been ber money; but so long as I did not It was yours, and I spent It for your children and your house. Now I want the money that mother sent." The poor man brought borne another forty dollars, and considered the Inci dent closed. But In the course of another week the wife remarked, "You have fifteen dollars left of mother's money, and I believe I'll take It now." "But I gave It all to you," he pro tested. "You gave me forty dollars," she re plied, "and I spent twenty-five dollars of it for a skirt. That was mother's money, but the other fifteen dollars wont for the children and the house, so that wasn't mother's. There's Just enough left for a Jacket." "I'll meet you to-morrow," he said, "and we'll go together and get that jacket. I don't believe I care to take any more chances with that money." A day in the planet Eros Is 64 hours. On all South London street railways the fare is now one cent By the sea San Francisco is farther from New York than It la from Liver pool. The tubes In the boilers of a large ship would reach ten miles if placed end to end. The average European Is 5 feet 6 7-10 inches high; the average American, 0 feet 7 8-10. Their .respective weights are 138 and 141 pounds. Regarding cuckoos. It Is said that the ! long tail of these birds so interfered with their balancing that they have necessarily developed strong feet with two toes pointing backward and two forward. By this arrangement the cuckoos are able firmly to grasp their perch. It may be the Ozark rocks and cav erns in Arkansas contain evidence of a more primitive man than hat been found elsewhere In the middle Mis sissippi valley region. It Is Just pos sible that they may contain the evi dence, Bought by scientific men for years, that cave men existed on the American continent at the end of the last glacial epoch. I It is believed that the largest mule In the world Is owned In Callaway j County, Mo. The animal Is the prop-! erty of "Mike"' Murray, of Hereford, and It stands eighteen hands high and weighs 1,841 pounds. The mule Is bare-, ly three years of age, and its owner expects to have the phenomenon weigh upward of 2,000 pounds by the end of the year. Mr. Murray Is not working ' the mule, but Is feeding It for exhl-l Lilian . C T nitl. 11 I I'. r, I in 1904. Not Her Only Loes. The widow Slmonds had appeared be fore Squire Benson with one complaint after another. This time she accused one of her neighbors of . stealing two ducks. "I missed them from the dck pond yesterday," she said, plaintively, "an' this morning, square, I'm Jest as sure s I'm standing here that I saw them In Harr'et Shaw's yard. They had a; different look from her own ducks." "O, nonsense!" said the squire. "Mrs. Shaw Is as honest as the sun, and you know It! Why, I've pot half a dos n ducks In my yard this minute that are exactly like yours!" . , "Well, square,"- said the widow, lugubriously, "these two aren't the nA, th. nnlv ama. I ' I a ...i I ui"l uvi mc v "'j v .ii . a i c til IB.- fl una summer, but you know I never was one to make complaints till I'm sure of my ground." Youth's Companion. Where No Wheels Can lie I'aed. In the whole of the Madeira Islands there are no wheeled vehicles, for the roads are too rough and mountainous There are few heavy sledge drawn by bullocks, but the favorite modes of locomotion are hammocks slung on I poles and borne by natives and basket sledges. The latter are used for de scending the mountains, and are skil fully guided by runner behind. GEO. P. CROVELL, jSucoemor to E. U Smith, Oldest Kiiabllihed House 1b ins valley. DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hardwarer Flour and Feed, etc. Thit old-established honse will co li tmus to pay cash for all its goods; it pays no rent; it employs a clerk, but does not have to divide with a partner. All dividends are made with customer! in the way ol reasonable prices. Lumber Wood, Posts, Etc. Davenport Bros. Lumber Co. Have opened an office in Hood River. Call and get prices and leave orders, which will be promptly filled. THE GLACIER Published Every Thursday $1.60 A YEAR. Advertising, 50 cents per inch, single column, per month; one-half inch or less, 25 cents. Reading notices, 5 cents a line each insertion. THE GLACIER prints all the local news fit to print. When you see it in THE GLACIER you may know that others see it. . STEAMERS REGULATOR and DALLES CITY . Between Portland and The Dalles daily except Sunday. Daily round trip to Cascade Locks, affording the visitors a fine opportunity to view the scenery. Leaves The Dalles 7 a. m. j arrive at Portland 4 p. m. Leave Portland 7 a. m. ; arrive at The Dalles 5 p. m. Leave Hood River, down, 8 :30 a. m. Arrive Hood River, up, 3:30 p. in. II. C. CAMPBKLL, General Manager. Oregon SsiorT line and union Pacific A' Mo Dinar T,"E SCHEDULES ...... "If" PortUsd. Of. A"'T Chicago Fr.lt Lake, Denrer, 4:30 p. ss. Portland Ft Worth.Omahs, Bpecitl Kansas City, tit. :20a. m. Loui.,(JhicaoauJ via taut. fluntlngton. A t'antlo St. Faul Fast Mall. 10 :30 a. m. Express 1:15 p.m. via Huntington. Rt.r.Hl Atlantic Express. 7.85a.m. Faul Mall (;0U p. m. via pokana 70 HOURS PORTLAND TO CHICAGO No Change Of Cars. Loneit Rates. Quickest Tims. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE most POHTLANU. p.m. All tailing date 1:00 p. ss subject to cliaugt For San Franclneo Sail every dart Dally Calumbla Rlar 6 00 p.m. Ex. Sumter Sttaatera. Ix. Sunday I uu n.m. Faturdar To Astoria and Way h.uu p. m. Laudiuga. S.Ue.m Willamette Rlter. SSOpm. Hon.. Wed. Tuee.. Tha and FrL Balent, Indenen- be. I. denre, Coirallli and way lauding.. 5:00a m. TaaiMN Rlvsr. 4:Mp. m. Tuee., Thur. Mob., Wed. and Bah Oregon City, Dayton audrru and wajlaodiufs. Lt. Rlparia tasks Rlar. Lv Uwlttom 4:66 a.m. SOOa-sa. Deilv eieept Rlparia te Uwlaton Daily exeat. Saturday Friday. A. L.- CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Of, A. It. HOAR, A feat. Blvar,