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Show I "Ye gods and litt'e minnows: three o'clock this afternoon, and I am worse and more of i' You don't sure he hasn't been quite right in hi? mean that you are going to accept!" heat! since." said Adams, aghast. "Why. how dreadful!" said Besslf, And suppose there We sympatheticauj. "Certainly; and so are you. shall have quite enough of Mr. isn't a doctor to te had anywhere in 'demnition grind' up here In these tenible mounta -- 3." this wilderness without But upon this point Adams reasscamping our one little chance to for- sured her romptly. get it for a 'ew social minutes." "Oh, yis, there Is; Winton has alThere was no more to be said, and ready had his preliminary oansulta the technologtan held his peace while tion and is, as you may say, In the Winton scribbled a line of acceptance way of wing prescribed for. And I l! I on a leaf of his note-booand bent it see to It that he takes his medicine By FRANCIS LYNDE across to the Rosemary by the hand before he turns in You may 1 A Author ot The Grafters." Etc. of the water toy. But in the evening, trust me for that." as they were setting out from the conThus Mr. Morton IV Adams, in struction camp to walk up the track to irony far too subtle for the flaxen But Winton's replies Argentine, he made a final effort to haired Bessie. (Copyright, ijoc. by J. I'.Lippincuttcoj call a halt. were not specially irrelevant when VirCHAPTER VII. Continued. "Jack, this is worse than idiotic," ginia evoked them. On the contrary, "Lncle riomerville, can't we win he protested. "There is that consign- he was finding her sallies keenly prowithout calling in these horrid men ment of steel you were wiring about vocative of what wit and readiness with their guns?" she began, plunging one of us ought to go down there was in him. to the Junction to see if it is ready to "I believe your chief delight in life desperatey into the midst of things. A mere shadow of a grim smile came be shoved to the front." he is to catch a man napping," and went in the Kajah's eyes. "Bother the steel!" was the impa- laughed, when she had succeeded in "An unprejudiced outsideh might tient rejojinder. "Drayton wired It demonstrating, for the third time in eay that the horrid men with their wouid be there, didn't he? Come on, as many minutes, how inadequate a man's wit is to cope with a woman's guns' were on top. of that embanK-men- we shall be late." "I do enjoy it," she confessed, with my deah ten to ouh one,' he "Whom the gods would destroy they remarked. "It was the first time I first make man," quoted Adams under the brown eyes confirming the adeveh saw Misteh Deck rt show the his breath; but he maco no more diff- mission. "What woman does not? white featheh." Isn't your nan's attitude towards us iculties. "But should think we might win Their reception at the steps of the one of thinly veiled contempt at the in some other way. What is It you Rosemary was a generot s proof of the very best? For instance: you said want to do? specifically, I mean. aptness of that aphorism which sums just now that while no woman could Make me your ally and see if I can't up the status post helium in the terse do without a man, the reverse was help you." phrase: "After war, peace." Mr. Dar- true of the man." Mr. Darrah pushed his plate aside rah met them; was evidently waiting "I didn't know I said anything like If I did, it was heresy." and cleared his throat. for them; and was as heartily hos- that. ' "For business reasons which you "No; it was one of those little lapses pitable as a master of men can be Into sincerity which a man permits ah wouldn't undehstand we can't let when he puts his entire mind to it. the Utah finish this railroad of theirs "Come in, gentlemen; come in and himself on rare occasions, when he into Carbonate this winteh." be at home" this with a hand for isn't flattering. You really believe it, "So much I have inferred. But Mr. each. "Virginia allowed you wouldn't you know you do." "Do 1? It wouldn't be polite to conWinton seems to be very determined." faveh us, but I assured her she didn't "Mmph: I wish Mr. Callowell had rightly know men of the world: told tradict you. But what I said, or tried favehed us with someone else any- her that a picayune business affair in to say, was that a man could exist, one else. That young fellow is a bawn whicn we are all acting as corporaas Adams and I are existing at preslighten, my deah." tion proxies needn't spell out anything ent, without feminine oversight." "You mean that another man might like a blood feud between gentlemen. "But what you meant was the othmake it easier for you?" she insisted "that we are not Misteh er,'' afteh WMnton; ahead, Straight "I mean that anotheh man would you, Misteh Adams." necessary to you, while you are necesSuch was the auspicious beginning sary to us." Then, reverting to the probably dally along with ouh help till the snows come." of an evening which Winton thought matter of mere existence: "Could you Virginia had a bright idea, and she worthy to be marked in his .calendar keep it up indefinitely, Mr. Winton." advanced it without examining too with a white stone. "Isn't our being here this evening The dinner was a gastronomical proof positive to the contrary?" closely into its ethical part. "Mr. Winton is working for wages, Isn't, he?" she asked. "Of cou'se; big money, at that. His sawt come high." "Well, why can't you hire him away from the other people. Mr. Callowell might not be so fortunate next time. And it wouldn't be dishonorable in Mr. Winton to resign and take a better place, would it?" The Rajah sat back in his chair and Then a regarded her thoughtfully. slow smile twitched the huge mustaches and worked its way up to the fierce eyes. "What is it?" she asked. "Nothing, my deah nothing at all. I was just wondering how a woman's ah sense of propo'tions was put But your plan has merit. Do I understand that you will faveh me with your help?" "Why, certainly, if I can," ehe assented, not. wiuiout dubiety. "That is. I'll be nice to Mf. Winton. if that is what you mean." The saying of it cost her a blush and Mr Darrah remarked it. But he did not give her time to retract. "That is precisely what I mean, my deah. We'll begin by having him heah to dinneh this evening, him and the otheh ; uing man what's his name? Adams." ' But, uncle," she began, in hesitant protest, "what ever will he think!" "Neveh mind what he thinks. You faveh nie, my deah Virginia, by sending htm a right pretty invitation. You know how to do those tnings, and I why, bless my soul I've quite forgotten." Virginia found pen, ink and paper, "MAY I HOPE YOU WILL FAVOR US OFTEN?" something doubting doubting a great deal, if the truth were told but not marvel, considering its remoteness "She smiled approval. "You are doknowing how to go about refusing a from the nearest base of supplies; the ing better much better. With a little confederacy which she herself had Rajah laid aside his mask of fierce- practice you are sadly out of practice, Mrs. aren't you? I do believe you could ness and beamed hospitality; proposed. And the upshot of the matter was a Carteret was innocuously gracious; pay one a pretty compliment." Winton rose mantully to his oppordainty note which found its way by Bessie of the flaxen hair and the Revthe hands of the private car porter erend William Calvert came in har- tunity. to Wiuton, laboring manfully at his moniously on the cheerful refrain; "No one could pay you compliments, task of repairing the landslide dam- and Virginia but it was Virginia wr.o Miss Virginia. It would oe utterly images: this in the middle of the after- filled all hor.zons for Winton. possible." noon, after the sheriff's train had gone "Why? 1 'cause my chief delight in Knowing no more than any serious-mindeto all Carbonate and back opposition man the latest social niceties life Is to catch a man napping?" seemed to have been withdrawn. no. Because the prettiest "Oh, of a dinner party, and caring still less "Mr. Rninerville Darra li s compliments to for them, he monopolized her shamecould be said of you would that things Mr. John Winton and Mr. Morton P. be only an awkward mirroring of the Adams and lie will be pleased if they will lessly from the moment of greeting. dine with the party In Hie car Kosemary In the interval of plate laying he ma- truth." "Dear me how fine!" she applaudt at seven o'clock. neuvered skillfully to obtain posses"Informal. e sion of the chair, and with ed. "I am afraid you have been readDecember the Ninth." "Wednesday that convenient piece of furniture for ing 'Lord Chesterfield's letters to His an aid he managed to keep Virginia Son' very recently. Confess, now; CHAPTER VIII. to himself, un . dinner was haven't you?" wholly Adams said "By Jove!" in his most announced. Winton laughed. cynical drawl when Winton gave him "You do Lord Chesterfield a very another man the informal table For dinner-biddinto he the read; then I cribbed that from gathering might have been easily pro- great Injustice; laughed. hibitive of confidence a deux, even The Indiscretions of a Marchioness,' " Winton recovered the dainty note, with a Virginia Careteret to help, but he retorted. Here was another new experience folding It carefully and putting It In Winton was far above the trammel-ing- s he hano vritlng was the his pocket, arteret: to have of time and place. All attempts for Miss same as that of the telegram abstracton the part oi his host, Mrs. Martha, the trodden worm turn; to be paid ed from Operator Carter's sending Adams, or the Reverend Billy to en- back In her own coin. She liked him book. . tangle him In the general table talk rather better for It: and, liking blm, "I don't see anything to mugh at," failed signally. He had eyes and ears proceeded to punish him, woman-vishe objected, in the tone of one who only for the sweet-faceThe coffee was served, and Mrs. Card does not mean to see. Whereupon Miss young woman beside him, and some teret was rising. oa must be in tathoms deep of his replies to the others were Ir- Virginia handed her cup to the techno'No? ot to be able to multiply such a very relevant enough to send a smile loglan, and so had him for her comidem twice two. First the Kajah around the board. chair, leavpanion In tue sends the sheriff's posse packing withing Winton to shift for himself. absent-minde- d WinMr. "How very The shifting procsss carried him out striking a blow, and now he In- ton seems to be this evening," murvites us to dinner. What's the Infer- mured Bessie from her niche between over to the Rajah and the Reverend In a corner of ence?" Adams and the Reverend Hilly at the Billy, to a small table "Oh, I don't know as there has to farther end of the taole. "He Isn't the compartment, and the enjoyment Let us say he has be an lnleTence. at his best, Is he, Mr. Adams?" of a mild cigar and such desultory seen the error of his way and means quite racketing of the ball of conversation "No, Indeed," said the technologlan, as three men, each more or less into come down gracefully. her undertone, "very far tent "Don't you believe it! Beware of matcning He upon his own concerns, may keep has been a -- It off all day; frOB it. the Creeks bringing gifts. You are touch up. of mountain I'm afraid." fever, hit right where you live Later, when Calvert bad been elm. going to be "But he doesn't look at all HI," ob- lnated this time " by Miss Bessie. Winton looked "I hould say h Miss Bessie. to see the true Inwardness of the Winton growled his disapproval of jected la a ierfect picture of rude health." made manliest by his host. ivy su. h uncharitable hypothesis "You can't tell anytnlng about him That M Sotnei vlile Darrah had an "You make me eiceodlngly tired at Odd moments. Morty Why can t you by his looks," rejoined Adams, glibly. ax to grind In the rlgbt-O- f way matter mask that face of his. he did no: doubt; this notwithstandgive Mr. Da i rah me credit of beingt "Absolute But between us. don't you know. I ing his word to Adams uefenslve of rinh what he CMlly is It bottom fcearted Virginia gentltman Jf the old think h must be going to have a the Rajah's probable motive. fever. Struck him all at once about rro uii roKTtMtfSU) chool?" ! SERIALS) EXIT POULARD OMELET nOULTliv 1 Man-talini- a"fool l? FOR LOVE I 's k y; t, 1 TRUST takeu around by a guide But there are few, if anv, who have not watched the cooking of the omelet which has made Mine. Poulard famous the world Entire, Family on Rocky Island of over. Thanks to the position of her hotel Mont St. Michel. Noted for Their in the Barbican, and even more to the Out Cooking, Bought by fame of the omelet, Mine. Poulard has Soulless Corporation. carried off the bulk of the trade and confesses she has mad" her fortune, Paris. Mont St. Michel, said Victor but withholds the exact figure. She Hugo, is to France what the Pyramids will, however, not leae the island and are to Egypt. To this comparison may has promised to conic from time to be added another, that the omelet of time to sec that the Omelet is still made in the traditional manner. Madanie Poulard is to Mont St Michel Thus the silver age departs and the what Mont St. Michel is to France. iron age arrives The golden age end But now, alas! sad news comes from the tourist haunted island. No longer ed with the original Poulard, who was will the hundred thousand visitors who arrive each year by the little railway which runs from the mainland along the milt and a quarter ol raised roadway, no longer will the thousands who pedal thither on bicycles, the hundreds who come in motor cars be met by tho representatives of the rival houses of Poulard. No longer will those signs be needed which hitherto have warned the newcomer not ,to confound the house of "Poulard the elder" with others of a similar name, nor those that told Mont Saint Michel. him that "the Widow Poujard" was the one and only original, while a the sole innkeeper of the island. He third notice advanced the claims of kept no books, made out no bills. "Poulard the younger." At the end of his visit the guest reFor now twentieth century methods counted the meals he had eaten, tho have thrust themselves upon the rocky-Islan- drinks he had drunk M Poulard did where St. Aubert built a chapel a little mental arithmetic and named about the end of the seventh century, the sum to be paid. Perhaps he had and a limited liability company has less cause for anxiety in those days bought out the Poulard family, elder, when there was no raised roadway younger, widow and all, and henceand visitors had to arrive and depart forth the tourist will be at the mercy by carriages between the tides and of a soulless trust. run the risk of driving into the quickThere have been those who have vis- sands with which the bay is tilled. ited Mont St. Michel without seeing, At least he was true to the tradiexcept from the level of the sea, the tions of the place, for we read in the glories of the Mervielle, or entering chronicles of the miracles performed the Salle des Chevaliers, which has by St. Michel on his island that "sevbeen called the finest Gothic chamber eral persons having dined and not in the world, because to do so they having wherewith to pay their scot, must climb innumerable steps and be the landlord was paid by a miracle." SEIZES ON A FAMOUS FRENCH INDUSTRY. MICH1GAN GIRL AT THE HAGUE., KING'S CUP FOR YACHTSMEN. Miss Margaret A. Hanna Serving as ocgicidry in react ueiegdiion. Edward of England Sends a Trophy for jamestown Races. Is most Washington. Michigan creditably represented at the peace Norfolk, Va. King Kdward of England has given a handsome cup to be competed for at the yacht races at the Jamestown exposition next September, it is to become the permanent property of the winner. The king's gift is of fine silver gilt with cover and cup mounted on an ebonlzed base. It is a copy of the early Georgian period, with two massive scroll handles. The cup and .cover are ornamented with inlaid scroll mask and strap work. It is 22 Inches high, 22 inches wide, including the handles, and the diameter of the It weighs 278 body is 12 Inches. ounces. The Inscription on the front bears the engraved personal monogram and crown of the king, with the letters E. R. and Roman numerals VII. interlaced immediately below appears the following inscription: by His Majesty, King Kdward VII., to the Jamestown exposition regatta, 007, Hamilton roads, Virginia, U. S. A. In commemoration of the first permanent Kugllsh settle- - ye-ye- s, d tete-atet- g la MI8S MARGARET A. HANNA. in Peace Delegation at The Hague.) conference at The Hague in Miss Mai garet A. Hanna, who was appointed secretary to the assistant secretary of state, A. A. Adee, and one of the secretaries to the delegation. Miss Hanna is the elder of the two daughters of Edwin P. Hanna, solicitor of the navy department. She was born in Ann Arbor during the latter part of her father's course as a student In the university. She had been for several years in the stale depart ment and has won by her discretion and cleverness the distinction of lie ing known as the "woman diplomat, Miss Hanna studied the Spanish language when a mere child when the Importance of the language was just beginning to be felt in this country After this work she took up French and German and has some knowledge of half a dozen languages. She came to Washington with her parents when quite young and has lived here ever since, receiving her education in the Her first mission public schools. abroad was In connection with a ca heard In Paris about three yearf ago, Though a native of Michigan, Miss lUnna was appointed to her position In the state department from Kansas Her grandfather founded the Salina Herald in the early days of the civil (Secretary tete-a-te- te dinner-- bidding Shakespeare and Cervantes. It is perhaps one of the most remarkable coincidence in all literal 1616, should history that April have been the death day of the two greatest geniuses of their time, or. indeed, of any time Shakespeare and Cervantes. But it Is doubtful whether they ever heard of each other, just as Burns and Schiller who were born In the same year, twinkled, to use; Carlyle's fine pbraite. like bright parttcular stars in opposite firmaments, and never mingled their rays. It does not appear thai Shakespeare knew any Spanish, and as the earliest translation of "Don Shelton's Quixote" began to appear In 1612, after the author f "Hamlet" had retired to Stratford, and was finished In 1620. he Is not likely to have come under its Influence. It was "The Knight of the Horning PestlT which Brr. betrayed this - j ' - the Box Hive Because It Is Hard to Get At. Do Not Use Box hives, says Farm and Home, are not advised. Kven though you. now think you will never open a hive, you may change your mind, and then it will be better to have had movable-fram- e hives from the start. Your bees may fall Into the hands of someone who will great prefer the movable frames. A colony In a box hive may be queenless; you are helpWith less; the colony is doomed. movable frames you can easily determine the condition of the colony and supply a queen, if lacking. There is no longer any patent on the movable frame and good work may be done with any one of the different forms. The idea that if you adopt a Certain make of hive you will get an extra amount of honey is all Hives don't gather and store honey; bees do that. One of the simplest as well as one of the best is the dovetailed hive, so called because its corners are locked together for greater strength. It is the most pop- - Dovetailed Hive. ular among men who produce honey by the ton, as well as among amatuers who keep one or two colonies for the pleasure of It. Each comb Is in a wooden frame, and one or all the combs can be lifted out of the hive and returned at will, and this is true of all movable-framTho hives. frame used In the dovetailed hive is called the Langstroth frame and is 17 Inches long and 9V& inches deep, outside measure. For the production of extracted e hive is best. For honey, a comb honey it is also best, except for those who pay a great deal of attention to their bees. Such persons may do as well or better with an eight-framhive, but for those who have only a few colonics and do not expect to spend much time with them, a hive so small as one having only eight frames is not to be thought of. Too much danger that the bees will be scarce of stores and starve in winter or spring. Another reason why the larger hive Is better for the average farmer Is that bees are not so much given to swarming where they are in large hives. However desirous you may bo now to have your colonies swarm so as to increase the number of colonies, you may rest assured that the time will come when you will be still more anxious that your bees shall not swarm. Every swarm that issues means just so much cutting down of the honey crop for the current year. e ten-fram- e CHICKEN e. low-voice- BEST KIND OF HIVE. CHATTER. Influence of Bad Eggs. When a bad egg is placed among good ones It doesn't take It long to spoil them. The sex of geese may be distinguished by the voice. The female has a loud, coarse voice, while that of the gander is fine awl squeaky. II a pumpkin is cut in two and placed in the poultry house, in a short I time nothing but the rind will be left. The same is true of mangel wurtzels. The comb of a hen or pullet, if it shows up good and red, indicates that the bird Is In good condition and laying, or that the laying time is near at Be to For YachtsCup by Competed hand. men. Early hatched pullets are the ones ment In America, 1607." that make the winter layers, and this On the reverse the enappears should be borne In mind both In get graved text: ting out the hatches and in picking This cup is to be competed for by out tho females to keep over winter. yachts of class A In the International Pure bred poultry, first, last and all races at the Jamestown exposition In the time, is the motto of many breedSepiember. I!n7. Won by." ers, but a well cared for Hock of com mon chirkens will do better than a Of American Origin. neglected Hock of the best breed on earth. The results of recent exploration If you provide several inches of show more and more clearly that If America has received much from the chaff or litter on the floor of youi old world it has in return given much. coop, the chickens will not be troubled bruises caused by The American origin of early types of with bumhlefootthe horse, the camel, the rhinoceros heavy fowls Jumping from the perches and other animals, which eventually on to hard floors. attained a circumpolar distribution, Any old kind of chicken will lay In but that the same fact Is true of some the spring, but It Is the early hatched, forms of existing mammalia doeg not well fed, quickly matured pullet that seem to have hitherto recognized. lays when eggs are scarce and high Dr. Allen thinks thai eastern Siberia priced. And a little foresight will prolias derived some of Its present mamduce these birds. malian life from boreal America Cows and chickens go well together. within a comparatively recent period. Anything that promotes milk producYouth's Companion. tion Is also good to feed to hens, even to the silage and clover hay, and milk Is one of the best rations that can b" Back to Bee Keeping. to the laving hens. given One of the pleasantcst vocations Keeping male birds with female leidlng away from the strenuous llf that are not used for breeding is u and back to the Ht?, declares Forrest waste of food, infertile eggs will keep t'rlssey in the Saturday Evening I'ost longer than fertile ones, ami the heus ts that of ben. keeping, and It Is ejpe a- well, ot better, If not elallv attractive from the fact that U will lay fully b the attentions of the harrassed M open 0 St omen as tO men. males. - I -- |