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Show UE GRUBSTAKc mine THE NEW e, o, Has "table f1 dkon'ER gives his name kings. Shes too good, any way said the officer, common scrub cowboy ironed Hes man, but i buckling. you should see her6 siTa buck' I hand ami foot, for fear of lug horse! Shes like the west wind dents; but mind, if he riding a cloud, with the bright mu hair fly. and Ill for you, yell, vords 6 btoneho tears lot" the ground but she laughs as sheupdrives !, policeman :h a nlliar ?"lr. nml heres no fear in H heres yer lawyer; and two men for fooling i6 6 flat it tou smash him up y hier flroady)ue vvltu rides on hnrsm1 this ii lies in the hospital; the axles ZLg to behind me, but SiSht WitU KU,1S. the cell that at first I I hunted him out of the country. Jack Brancepeth always iUteSf,51IrJr08 was hand- I, ahem. some, but now ns he laughed in .fternoon ' what may tnunipii I feit that Miss Ana never knows had no Jail. need to rue her choice, forKitty the Bitter Root City this gallant, growled simple, boyish lover had 2olug t hurt you. the face or u Sit down; make yOUrGalahad ier, me.1 Yes, that s why Ive been trying to wns manly, resonant; the keep straight. Why, Id be a nmugy could I Just hermit if I could make myself young athlete; good .'bis boots were the dainty, enough for her. Bm, ns she sahl, the a of cowboy; old man would never let me have her ,4 Wellingtons unless Id lots o wealth. I tried hard rest of his dress a som art overalls, a broad web enough, hut then wed been engaged round the more or less for two whole Silg handkerchief years with The character. the out out my making my pile. let brought up fsence already But, said I, (his doesnt seem to I are felt that have much it memory; Indeed I rigid, bearing on the present s, not under the trouble? bmi, but ly of Surely this sunburnt It bnsnt, eh? Well, you reach your each was some old hand Into the left 'rontiersmau tegs, pocket of my belt, and youll find her letters. There, ward offer you any refreshments, thatB thus right; now read the one on top. said the boy, drowsily, So I found myself Ter, teral over the ionlmodatioiis, in fact, are first of a batch of glancing their letters In a fine woke up, round school Why. he t dim. girl hand Ilka a stringful i deuce are you staring at? of knots. The letter read: I ventured, Brancepeth, Dear Jaek-- If you want me dont be a know me? a fool. Heres Ta favoring Daddy with Ilurrah! Longlegs, who wants me i williams, major? otect awful bad. in duffer."' lies given Daddy Longlegs a straight not easy to shake hands, for tip how to make his fortune. Ia told was shackled him fchoolfellow g Is that theyve Just found a tremen:!e fashion to the bed. he dous lot of ore In the Grubstake mine, me be laughed, theyve got icted but the principal owners are lying low, and then theyll and saying bad r branding, wing things about the mine ars and coral mo all to my tt until they can rope in all the stock, I corrupt the good manners n& whatever that means. Any way, r victims." I hr broken down the pumps on purtheyve said I. frankly, It Jolly well pose to let the works the get flooded, so as A fool who amuses to hide n right. pro what theyve found. Daddy on booting the stockbrokers coo Longlegs has sense enough to speculate wlit to be coal I knocked li Grubstakes; you havent ed. said .Tack. tted KITTY. marshals, damaged deputy i It continued Yes, Jack, Kittys pretborel a few boles through tloi ' rally. I wisfli I could chew ty straight goods, and when she says as the she means it. If Daddy Long-logpolice by way of dessert thing had a thousand dollars, I was as a chip. ippy worth two thousand; at least that's ire, were civilized people In I realized In hard cash by selling it City; were not used to what my ranch to a tenderfoot So I rode TS. down here to Bitter Root City, went to io dont amount to shucks, Kittys uncle. Hi Ilewson, the stock. I.ook here, I want you to broker, planked down ray roll ot bills, the bars of this corral Ive and said: Buy Grubstakes. You hadnt ought to buy outright so I get you out? Dont you stockbrokers are not used to says Ilewson; you should margin.' Whats that? said I. at? It means, said he, that you plank be groaned, thats whats I run the show; If r. Ive offended their little down your money; sell out when you I stock the up, goes offices, lint thats all right! :ht for State Prison, I er- think you're pretty well fixed for life; If the stock goes down two thousand ne only chuckled. dollars worth, you lose all you have Iff Id ruffle em up some. But, got. thats all right. Ill tell you Ill gnmble said I, with all I'can j Atrarn then you can turn It hold down ly sitting straddle. fitfit kind of lies, and have Well, you should have seen the am to. See? brokers guying III Ilewson in the Min.said I. with. I got me a tract ing Exchange, and afterward I beard themselves la the w land up Wild Creek, back them talking among I hville, Idnlin do you know Coffee ralace, Whnt. sa.vs one smnrt Aleck, you I Xo? Well, I stocked the d of shat Id saved, with a think III Ilewsons working for Silas, Silas P. Ilewsons a bull by ciiinar, together eh! You must think ty nine head of scrub cattle, gone loco! The old man confessed only mnd of Since then, last week to n friend of mine that the ponies. r Ive happened mines played out. Why, the works upon are chock nblock with water, and no know rattle, you facilities to drain It; the 'irff the pour orphans, clapped tunneling broken down and of real He Q -- that's have pumps and brand my ore Isnt a dollar In sight there at Into the pay pasture. Theres A level head has old man Silas, satisfaction In annexing old son's calves, but even then snys another; ns to III Ilewson, hes who thinks he can mr and above square dealing. roped in a sucker hhh it's slow work building gamble some fool of a cowboy, he b out of strays. So I suppose says. I head nil told There was another sucker last would make up ''t shat I had last fall, though week, says smnrt Aleck; Daddy Long a Ive been down a laying by my legs they cull him planked liars a mouth thousand dollars on a falling market, Ispmre Triangle outfit down he, he! Well, hes busted now; marf. which money Ive put Into gin all rim out. ents on At that they all drank a toast Long my Wild Creek live the suckers; but well I laughed. to have been on the Now rend the second letter. said 1 EDUCATION IN JAPAN. The breeding of cattle in Mexico is of numbers Tli Tfiulirr I steadily increasing. Large Vntrlrlinl CanUeman Seutvii on a CunUlon. different breeds have recently been If you can imagine a long room In a Imported from the United States, HolLouse with thatched roof, dark long Switzerland. land and plastered walls, broad doorways closed Men of science have never been able with paper covered latticed frames which slide In grooves, bare floors covto explain why a thunderstorm spoils ered with perfect fitting straw mats, milk, beer, meat, and other articles of some tiny tables, one by two feet in consumption. The latest German the- size and eight Inches high -- If you can ory is that there is some Injurious elec- imagine this, then yon can conceive of In Japnu. tric influence, w hich also causes head- an ancientIf schoolroom can imagine a patriyou Again, iu many sensitive archal old gentleman, with sparse ache or ilepres.-don storm. before persons just beard, n bead half lmid. a small twig of hair turned buck on the lop of Ids Insurance experts are discussing sta- head, then seated on a Utile cushion tistics as to the increase of longevity, behind one of the tiny tallies on which Is a fiatsione Inkstand, a manuscript and they generally agree that the sur- school hook nod a long bamboo pencil est guarantee for a peaceful and liappy at one end of which is a tine pointed old age and for becoming octogenarians brush for writing; then think of some even and and nonagenarians, going tiny children a half dozen probably tak- the boys heads slmved, except for a tho is the century mark, beyond circular bunch of lralr exactly at the ing out of a plentiful supply of life crown, the girls with long tassels of Insurance policies. straight black hair hanging In front of each ear, all dressed In little flowing Transcontinental automobile trips garments with sleeves like the wings are becoming numerous, but the pub- of birds these children sitting behind In lic is beginning to discount the value other little tables, their brushes from the teaeliers and hand, writing, d of a test of this kind with a (Rotation, strange shaped characters on vehicle, operated by puid ma- coarse copy books Imagine this, and chinists and litled nt various points you have an ancient Japanese school along the route with new tires, parts, in session, both teacher and pupils the floor. etc., as these become necessary. Such sitting upon never went beyond reading and They tests must be made under normal tour- counting upon the (abaeust. ing conditions to have any great influThings have changed now. The old has utterly passed nwny. A most effence upon prospective buyers. icient educational system, Western In The Grand Tulais in Iarls possesses theory and practice. Is now In full throughout Japan, Commoa wonderful clock, which was shown operation dious common schoolhouses, nml Imin the Taris Exhibition of 1S35. It was posing college and university buildings the work of Collin and has just been are dotted all over the country. A overhauled. It is claimed for this thoroughly graded system operates school to the Imchef d'oeuvre, says the Debats, that It from the primary which ranks with University, perial does not vary more than the hundredth the highest American Institutions. The part of a second in a year. It Is official or government schools are four and a half metres in height, and worked out to cover the whole field of indicates the time In the twelve chief education except the religious feature, this they are endeavoring to supdtlcs of the world, each city having its and ply by nn eclectic system of morality, own dial. The clock not only marks both Oriental and Occidental. Besides tlic regular course, which exthe year, month and day of the week, with her. tends from the common school through barometer a forms but its pendulum The clock wns going so slow that It the high common school, the middle seemed to have stopped. Five past of singular precision. school, tho high school, to the univerthree; the three, ten past, quarter-pas- t there are government teclinlenl sity, ! At a recent meeting of the Tarls schools for every branch of trade and stock at Twenty pnst three, twenty-threpast! I was saying my Academy of Medicine Dr. Gamier cited the nl, army, prayers with my revolver ready In my cases in which hysterical women had navy, agriculture, textile, mechanics, hand for death If I lost In the game. monstrous accusa- law, medicine, normal, language, etc. There was a commotion down In the brought the most The government maintains a special hall a rumor was spreading through tions against their relatives, their school for the teaching of every modern the crowd, Gil It rippled np Into the neighbors, and their very fathers and English, language of importance gallery, and I heard the news the mothers, the whole bclug entirely a French, German, Russian, Fpanish, Grubstake syndicate bankrupt! of their sick brains, but re- Italian, Chinese and Korean. But tho I knew It could only be a lie gotten figment English language precedes all other lated with such perfect tip by old Hewsons broker. I knew languages, and it Is making such rapid that In another moment the newspaper that even courts of justice had been progress that It Is destined to hceorne posters would be fastened up at the wrongly led to infer that they were the spoken language of tbe nation. door. I knew that It the market hold true. ' The Judge in a trial where hysOne scrlons criticism against Japans still another three minutes Id saved terical women is that it discourshould, he said, educational system appear my game. schools, luplls of priages private comThe fool at the blackboard was have them examined by a medical vate schools of equal grade and efmarking the closing prices on Tigers, mission as a means of protection. ficiency with the government schools Toorman. Cocur dAlene, Eagle of Murcannot pass on to the upper official derer's Bar, Grubstake. Ilcd wiped The study of words serves a double schools with the same facility as puout the old figures to write down Grub- purpose. A wide vocabulary not only pils of the government schools. When stake at the price of n bankrupt mine; the government us to express our ideas exact- we remember that the brokers were yelling like demons; enables schools are not free schools, and thnt the place shook with the uproar; the ly and concisely, but new words actual-l- many excellent private schools suppnst; the clock ticked nt twenty-ninbring us new Ideas. Someone spoke ported by foreign capital give students fool wns writing the figures that meant to me the other day of exercising a an education praetleally free, this diswould ruin despa ir death ! over another. crimination of the government "corrigible influence seem to he unwise, and It Is likely to Raising my gun, I fired right at his The word was new to me; I looked it be corrected in tbe nenr future. fingers, missed, fired again, but the fool wns gone. I fired again and again, up and found a whole train of new Tbe American nation should be espethen once again, and flung my revolver thought started up by the new word, cially proud of Japans educational at the blackboard across an empty says Adeline Knapp, In The House-bol- record, since it Is from America that taken her lesions in Westhall. Yes, Id stampeded the brokers, was a great pleasure. An Japan has It confounded whole the ern learning. Harpers Weekly. Id stampeded outfit the ruck of them was screeching enlarged vocabulary actually means an Ksw. Tli lliuor I enlarged mind; every new word that with panic against the doors-a- nd Do you knew why we dip a razor The game comes to our knowledge brings with It stood alone in tho gallery. in hot water before we begin shaving, was won! chain new of ideas a and do you know why some Ignorant by suggestion. WImt matter If I did get excited? men say a razor Is tired?' asked the Whnt matter If I did knock a few deplihrber. Well, this is all duo to the measures in Introduced The sanitary uty marshals out of the gallery? What a razor Is a saw, not a knife, that fact ocAmerican tbe official Cuba military during matter If I did damage a city and it works like a saw, not like a or a dozen or scores? cupation have been continued, and the knife. Examin. d under the microscope The news Is out; Ive won me a island as a w hole Is now more health- its edge, that looks so smooth to the wife and a fortune; Im boss of the ful than at any time In Its history. naked eye, Is seen to have Innumerable range; nml Kitty shall live like a queen Minister When these teeth Squicrs In a recent report and fine because I love her because Ive loved all the honing dirt with clogged shes mine! says: In the District of Havana the get her like a man-n- ml and strapping In the world will do no death rate decreased in June to 400, good the razor is dull, nml nothing Waverley Mngnzlne. against 4 IS iu tbe preceding thirty will sharpen It. Then Is the time the One an Thsrkaray, oral against 510 In June of last Ignorant say It Is tired, and stop using From Dublin comes a letier from a days but the wise know it is only notes year, and Is the lowest figure for June It, correspondent commenting on our clogged. of a few days ago on Thackerays visit ever recorded In Havana, as far back The wise, though, dont suffer their There Is," says be. a as relinblo statistics can be obtained. razors to to Ireland. get clogged. They dig them story which, If true, ns I believe ft to Tho whole Island Is free from small- In worm water lx fore they use them, a solace to the minds of Irish be, and yellow fever. In many of the nml (bus tbe teelh are kept clean. It men who have found It hard to forget pox is because a razor n saw that lather abor forgive the Battle of Limerick. provinces the death rato has been Tho lather Is used on toe beard. first visit to Ireland, normally low for the time of year, ow- doesn't soften tho beard, ns so many When on lil Thackeray took a drive on a Dublin ing to tho improved methods of people think; it StifleiiH It. so that It car some distance Into tho country. a firm nml reoisting snr will pro-ru- t Milestones had recently been erected Nov York World. fuce to tho razor. One of tho strongest influences for along the roads, with the letters G. P. The Yutttiff U 0., distances being measured from the nations is the grownn peace among tho In tho Editors .study of Harpers general pct otHfo, TliarUoray tvni hnblt of borrowing and lending Magazine Mr, Al len gives this encouraware of thl and in bis thirst for ing whnt carman money, or International investment. agement to joung writers: the knowledge "No young writer ln.uliom the lithow France The reply recollects prompt pment. letters tho Everybody Thnek O'Connell. erary aspiration Is a passion need, or was, God abused tho United States when this the but will, bo rowed by tho array of wns told, lie really wlmt believed erny Lad to tako Fpalu to task for mighty and expert antagonists In tho Incident only appeared In the first edl country tho mI.govcrmucnt of her colonies. Tho arena, whose names sound and resound tion of his book." London News. root of It all was a huge amount of so gloriously from the herald's trumpast J Tti rnqllutimnn Drlprlort!nf t French money in Fpaln, Franco has pet, In full volume, n true and by becomThough has compiled triumphs. rd'.'ont A in foreign countries, now Invested ing modesty may well temper his amsome statistics which would seem to Spain and bition. it should In no degree suppress Russia, England, chiefly physical rather a alarming lndlento deterioration In tho British pcoplo. Italy tho, sunt of six billion dollars. his ardent longing. These veterans, Indeed masters, Tho figures, based upon tho recruiting England, on tho other Land, Las ton young aspirant, nre as exemplars. They such, but, of your the army, ihow, and medical reports billion dollars Invested abroad, and a lilddjn infor example, that while In 1SS9 tho good suui of It Is lu Franco, but per- also had theirtobeginnings, be the sources of the deed, as used proportion of men in the irray tinder tho greatest part of it is in tho Nile, not permitted to be seen small, flvo feet five Inches In height waa 100 haps their art before la a thousand, the following year it United Ftates. But the American mil- because they mastered had risen to 115 In a thousand; in 1S01 lionaire Is also abroad, and he Is buy- they exhibited ns artists." to 117; In 1SIS to 132. Tho proportion ing everything ho can lay Ids Lands on I nit nn Te. of men measuring lesi than thirty-thre- la bo cant much of persons employed In of number it ami The Europe, inches around the chest wai, in untea the throughout British as Lis such in Industry homo 1S98 was trunk, in It in bring 100; 1SS3, seventeen bothWO permanentIn India JIVJ, was, 1000 159.4 In 1S71, per twenty-three- . derground railways, mineral springs, PO.PId temporarily. It If said and ly in 120 under were pounds recruits ruins, shoo thnt a hotels, castles, capita! ot more than $200,000, weight: in Hast the proportion had in stores, electric factories, foreign U !imUd lu tho Indian tea 1000. 301 Uarpofa to per creased brogues and anil American prejudices, Weekly, .. dropped to forty and a half; but If It went below that I was lost On Tuesday 1 went to the Mining Exchange Building with my heart In my mouth. The stock opened at forty-threthen a little was sold at forty-twand at Boon it stood at forty-on- e and a half. Feared almost crazy, 1 grabbed hold of a reporter, stood the drinks, and loaded him lip with news. I told him to say in his paper that the Ilewson outfit was bearing down the market, that Silas had flooded the mine to bide his bonanza until the moment eatne to shout. But the reporter nmde out that the next, edition came out at four oclock, ami the Exchange closed at half-pas- t three, Get out the posters early, I told him, bribe the printers, work the ropes somehow, ami if I wlu my game, J wont forget you. The reporter winked, and started to write out his news; but when the market opened again in the afternoon, there seemed to he no hope left, for the stock was nt forty-onand a quars of a poiut ter, with only between me and perdition. From where I stood iu the public gallery, I saw the brokers whispering, for a rumor lind got wind from the printers that made them crazy. Some of them were offering forty-threforty-foueven up to. fifty for Grubstake stock; but there wasnt a dollar for sale. Twas old Ilewsons broker that started the counter rumor making out that the newspaper yarn was some fools canard or else a tale gotten up so the holders could sell out In a hurry, I was paralyzed when the bidding stopped short; I didnt know one more move that could save the gnme; I was ready to kill myself. HI Ilewson s nt up a clerk to say he hated to see me ruined Id better sell, It wras dceent of bim, but I told the clerk to go to blazes and further, before Id throw up my hand like a white-liverecoward. At three oclock came a telegram from Kitty thut said: Be brave. Pa has bought all the stock he wants, and wired his broker to quit bearing." Oh, man, but she was worth lighting for. Shes an angel out of heaven, and Id rather have died than broken faith for 1 Jones, I f Js JrS 'll . e sur-jone- -- , fob-gi- mnv--.brand- -- Jack. Daddy Youre a daisy," I read. heaved n great slgli. me deuced 1ms come back dead broke; Longlegs tough. Why, Ive I poker, quit getting drunk, and Ms language Is Just disgraceful te " oir.v ulong without cuss Hold on, keep right hold. Jack, for pa says hell soon be lotting the cat out of the bag, ro If the stock goes down '? allt tlds virtue? you sie, you loon you anv more vou must keep a good heart ditf'k Im lu love sll for I Kitty sake. Kitty hy iil. Fay, do you know Uewson down to Idaho 1 Hi" capitalist who floated teke i, duo? A right smart bote t Ite the cirnlistake. Why,' man must bo worth bis ft f west of the Bitter Root third letter." and away up at Hold on to the slock. I rend. You neednt have been Jealous of Daddy. IIo aint In R, never wns, for I love ""'ll". Out of the very you old lior. On Wednesday morning Theres Kittle, Paph, tho news will be In all the papers that Zehudah amt Mehit the Grubstake wns flooded on purpose ll h Ibe ranch, nil teuded to kerp the secret of a great bonanza; a fortune. ,no., at wild Creek your stock will bo worth tlo you mean Hold on for ray sake, darling. is, , MTTA. for all youre worth. "At ttint I plucked up courage, laid u te ,ad U tu llor pretend to any of Jack, cheerfully. 1,1 llk0 lhr,n 01,1 die rlfie, coat, shitps. lariat, ipuri, , In .tlla so lords and watch, everything; and planked down O'" lodge, and the cash with 111 Ilewson. I could it'i t cm because they ain't bold on now, ho told me, till tk itock culhers, , 1' f li;,,i,s MVt A ny way, lies U of young fillies, that there KITTY. anil hold on. Thats nil right," said Jack, but by the time I got the letter on Monday morning tnv margin wns running out, too. Fays HI. Its nil your own fault; vou never took the trouble to ask my advice, or you wouldnt have bought but that wns poor consountil fool lation, for 1 was like to be ns big a Exthe When Longlegs. as I'liMy Grub Mon-lathe on change close-, and stake was quoted at forty-threelower my two thouIf It vent n point sand dollars would be lost. Read tho e three-quarter- specially-prepare- r, soro-bn- d forty-one- e professlons-cominercl- y e d. saw-teet- 1 1 eaul-bltio- linc-tliMt- or I o Ivy-cla- SIGNS OF RAIN. 'Twill surely rain falls, the squirrels sleep. The spiders from their cobwebs creep, J,oud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry. The distant hills look clear and nigh. And restless nre the snorting swine, While busy flies disturb the kine. on the hearth, with velvet paws, f Fits wiping off her whiskered jaws; 1 The dog, quite altered in his taste, Units mutton hone on grass to feust; ' From all these signs I see with sorrow Our work must be put off u If the foot Scribbles, the poet, now hr.s twics the number of readers be lmd before." So? Whom did be marry ? Life, To bet on the mat kettle though lie went to ... And now Washington Star. Nell Yes, were engaged, but 1 took 1 Bells my timo about accepting him, Indeed? Waited till he actually ger. She I am afraid I cannot marry 11U Lordship Oh, you, dearest. She "Bnpu would never why not? forgive mo for being so extravagant" -- Life. Do you think It wrong to Foozle I Niblick play golflt on Sunday? think it wrong to piny such a game as you do on any day of the week. Bos- ton Transcript. Myer Did you ever see a shnrk? No, but I once Gyer saw a man eating cattish. Myer Indeed! Where? In a restau-raut- " Gyer News. Chicago Lives of all great men remind us man-eatin- If g We could make our lives sublime. we only had tho money, Brains enough, and lots of time. Indianapolis News. Flic I'll never forget my feelings when you asked mo to marry yon. He Why. was It such a hard thing to answer? She No, but you were such a soft thing to answer." Ihlla-dclphTress. Your husband," snld Mrs. Oldcastle, seems to be so altruistic." Yes, I know it. But Joslah nlwnys wns a great band to overeat, and I think that must be whnt gives It to him." Chicago Record-IIcrald- . Returned Traveler I wonder whatever became of Bryton. I used to have a great admiration for that man. H wns such a finished scholar." Native He is now, anyway. He went Into Chicago Tribune. politics. "Language was given for the concealment of thought, quoted the wily cit Izcn. That is perfectly correct," answered Senator Sorghum; If every man voted the way he talks wed have Wash all kinds of reform In no time. lugtonr fMnr. Fidgott Do you ever take any no tlce of anonymous communications?" No; not unless the writer MIdgett names nre signed to them." Fldgett Yes, I suppose thnt does make ft dlf ferenee; I never thought of that."Boston Transcript. Whnt do you think of our author friends success?" Its the Irony of fate. After he has gone on record to the effect that the public Is totally lacking In nrtisllc discrimination an$ wnnts nothing but trash, ho gets out ft book that makes a universal hit la Washington Star. Some men nre so fortunate In securing good wives, remarked the man who wanted to be sympathetic, "Yes," Now, my wife Is replied Ilenpecic. Just like sunshine about tbe house," Im sur Indeed! Yes. Shes never there prjqp,! at nil at night. Womans right meetings nml oil that, you know. Philadelphia Tress. Well-er-re- ally, Brick Versus Wooilrn Dwellings, Experience shows that the average two nml one halt story house with tho tisunl fittings can be built for three or four dollars per square foot of ground covered, according to tbe qunl y ot finish desired. Tho advance In tho cost of building lias been from twenty to thirty per cent lu tbe post ten years. Many architects urge their clients, where they can afford It, to build of brick rather than wood. Tho cost of brick Is relatively less today than It used to be. Wood shrinks, and swells, and burns. Wood lias to bo painted, and grows shabby with tlnio. Brick takes on a lielter tone and texture with time; docs not shrink and swell, and wont burn. Vines will grow on the brlek wall; repairs aro less; insurance rates nre less; the brick house Is roolcr In summer and much more economically licatcd In winter, nral built with a hollow wall It Is entirely free from dampness. The cost of a brick ov r a wooden bouse Is ten to fifteen per n nt., as a gmicrnl thing. But tbe difference Is made up In smaller Mils for coal and paint. Good Housekeeping. Hi. TUbU i'.rtrk. of Niagara Falls, G. .Who. while bo was searching for tho best clay to make crucibles, read tho stat ments In the liflit (ImpUr of Exodul about tho use of straw and stubble la tho manufacture of am li ut Egyptian bricks. Ho proetired some straw, bad It boiled nral mixed the dark red liquid thus obtained wbli clay, IIo found that tho 11.11: telly was greatly Increased, Xnvest'ga'ioii allowed thnt tbs tannin was tin active agent, ftnd when ho treuted over day with a solution of tunnln tu water ho obtained surprising results. Tho strength ftnd plasticity of the clay nre Increased snd tbs tendency to sin ink and warp is greatly redmed. Sn this process sun far superior to burning, and drying la ten days the clay Is bi tter tempered than In mouths or cvcu years by tL old proems. H. |