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Show ( J &Ae t INDEPENDENT. D. a WOHKSOX, PabUsfcsS 8PR1NQVILLE. UTAH He who has known love can never know poverty. Old wine and young women are a hvrd combination to beat. The irrigation question baa many a good man to the deviL tent 6 wearing Is seldom a convincing argument ar-gument except to the man who does it. ' It Is the consensus of opinion at Buffalo that death killed Burdlck and Pennell. Mr. Edison has invented a process for getting gold from the deserts. Save your deserts. "1 occasionally drop into poetry," said the caller as he fell into tho editorial edi-torial wastebasket - Soaking one's overcoat doesn't necessarily nec-essarily mean that the garment will suffer from dampness. At any rate Sir Thomas Lipton can always build a Shamrock that will outsail out-sail the previous Shamrocks. Many a man has gained a reputation for wisdom by just looking wise when everyone else was acting the fooL "-Tn the death of Harry Merrick of I .r-f.tnn Post OTm ti w c -rx i t r " f"r - man in America suffers a personal loss. The first rule to be observed by a young man who has determined to have money is to get the money to save. Richard Harding Davis is expected to reach Macedonia in a few days, when the war in the Balkans will proceed. - Advocating cheerfulness and hilarity hilar-ity as a cure for dyspepsia is a good deal like recommending plenty of hair for baldness. The new wheat crop in Kansas is good for several million bushels of flour and an equal number of new breakfast foods. It is a pity that Miss Clara Barton's Bar-ton's old age should be embittered by the dispute about the control of toe Bed Cross society. A man says there is one thing funnier fun-nier than a weeping jag, namely, an Irishman coming to an Englishman to have a joke diagrammed. The Atlanta bank clerk who filched 194,000 drew a salary of 980 per month. Yet he was what may be termed a high-priced man. By Informing Hetty Green that she would have to pay a dog tax of $2, the Hoboken authorities reduced the number of canines in their precinct by one. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain confesses that the Boers have been misjudged by the Britons. The latter must have found this out as soon as the fighting began. t The man or woman who will listen surreptitiously to a telephonic conversation conver-sation would steal a pocketbook, take candy from a baby or utilize secondhand, second-hand, chewing gum. When the battleship Indiana hits a mark at five miles with a 13-inoh gun fourteen times out of sixteen it is better to be "the men behind the gun" than in front of them. Years ago George Francis Train made the discovery that a man could live on 5 cents' worth of peanuts a day the year round. Ten cents a day is gross extravagance. A Boston woman declares that "the need Is not more children but better ones." She is probably going upon the old theory that her own are the only good children in the neighborhood. neighbor-hood. , The latest claim for the meanest man comes from a Kansas town, where lives a father who encourages his daughters love affairs because he has heard that people in love do not eat so much. A woman in Cleveland has applied for an injunction restraining . her divorced di-vorced husband from attending the church where she sings. The presence pres-ence of the man whom she put off puts her out, she says. The New York Sun thoughtfully asks, "Will man become obsolete?" As a New York woman is reported to have just paid $1,650 for a new spring hat his chances of survival would seem to be diminishing. There is a young man in Atchison, Kan., according to the Globe, who is euch a wretched dancer that the girl with whom he was entangled passed-in passed-in the whirl long enough to ask, "Are we waltxing or wrestling?" J. Pierpont Morgan is so mad at the photographers that he announces his willingness to give $500 to any one who smashes a camera that has been pointed his way. Mr. Morgan's next appearance in public ought to be an enjoyably exciting occasion, even if it does cost him a pile of money. Gun practice appeers to be much more deadly than war, if the battles of Manila and Santiago are to be used in comparison with the killing on the battleship Iowa a few days ago. The sixty-ninth blossoming of Cbauncey M. Depew was celebrated by the Inevitable banquet Mr. Depew said in part: . . . (Great laughter.) Canada has prohibited the use of cigarettes. - This should effectually screen out an undesirable class of Immigrants Im-migrants from this country. Now that the household conference has proved it possible to live on ten eents a day some captious person will want it to prove that life on ten eents a day is worth living. The St. Louis man who Invented the "gta rlckey" died in New York, but It is no consolation to his relatives to say that he went to his reward. We propose to keep the cup If possible. pos-sible. But if there is. such a thing a a saucer belonging to it Sir Thorn-. $M lipton ought to get It, tT-m i no. m j r7 - is. i interna jional press association. BY PERMISSION OF RAND, MSN ALLY & CO. . CHAPTER I. . T "WAS A BRIGHT frosty night toward the "middle of March. The moon had risen an Jiour ago, and hung like a round mirror, of burnished silver close above the glittering stream of Thames, as he swept broadening down to West minster Bridge. The Abbey towers rose sharply Into the clear air, and caught the moonlight full upon their heads, but beneath them, on the farther side, lay a wide region of silent and mysterious jadwn tfiejjvth njmr. r r TT man. By the slow and monotonous regularity of his footfalls as he passed backward and forward you might have taken him for a sentinel on guard. But to a closer look, the long, high-collared coat, the quaint and ample outline of his hat, and a certain balance in his step betrayed the seafaring man, and gave a hint of his rank. His figure and the easy swing of his movements proclaim pro-claim him strong, but the obscurity concealed con-cealed all other characteristics. Up and down, up and down, he paced; always the same measured step, always al-ways the same distance to a yard. Nothing Noth-ing about him spoke of impatience, and yet he was evidently expecting some one or something; for each time that his beat ended at the angle of the northern north-ern tower he stopped, and looked first to the right across the deserted square up to the entrance of Whitehall, and then to the left, where, on the edge of St James Park, the lights of Glamorgan Glamor-gan House shone through a few gaunt and leafless trees. For this was In 1821, and in 1821 Glamorgan Gla-morgan House was still standing. And tonight it was especially in evidence, for the open gates and the unwonted illumination of the garden court showed plainly that some festivity was in preparation prep-aration within. Minute after minute passed, till suddenly sud-denly from overhead came the deep sound of the clock striking the half hour. At the same Instant a carriage rolled into the square. The watcher had Just turned his back, and was retreating retreat-ing for the fiftieth time toward the doorway of the Abbey, when the vibration vibra-tion of the chimes ceased, and the sound of the approaching hoofs and wheels fell upon his ear. In a moment he was back at the corner of the building, where he stood motionless, with his head thrown forward like a dog straining strain-ing in the leash. The carriage passed close before him, Wheeled off to the right, and disappeared disap-peared Into the court of Glamorgan House. He made a quick step forward as If to follow, but checked himself, and stood for a moment Irresolute. While he was hesitating, a party of ladies muffled in opera cloaks and shawls, and attended by several gentlemen, gentle-men, crossed the road from the entrance en-trance of Dean's Tard, and took the same direction as the carriage. The figure fig-ure in the shadow hesitated no longer, but followed in their wake with long, resolute strides. He came up with long, as they reached the portico, and passed Into the cloak room with the gentlemen of the party. There coat and hat were laid aside, and he stood revealed as an officer of the king's " navy, wearing a captain's epaulettes upon a very stalwart stal-wart pair of shoulders. As he entered Lord Glamorgan a tall, old man with bushy eyebrows and a jovial red face stepped in front and shook him warmly by the hand. Then putting a big hand upon his shoulder with a fatherly air, he wTheeled him forward, for-ward, and himself turned to face his wife. "My dear," he said, with a half bow, "I present to you Capt Richard Estcourt of his majesty's ship . Well, well! Dick, which shall It be, eh?" His lordship had been a lord of the admiralty in the last ministry, and though now for some time out of office, he retained a perhaps exaggerated idea of his own Influence in naval affairs. Lady Glamorgan received the young man with all the graclousness for which she was deservedly popular. . "Capt. Estcourt," she said, "is slower to follow fol-low an advantage on shore than at sea; his reputation had been here long before be-fore him." Estcourt flushed. "I have been four years on the Indian stations," he said, "and three before that in America." Since he hp.d been almost the first In the room, it seemed Impossible that he should miss the person for whom he was waiting; but when the stream of lrfcomers had apparently ceased, and Lady Glamorgan found time to leave the door and look at the dancing, her eye fell on him at once, still on guard In his solitary corner. She came toward him Immediately, bent on the hostess' congenial duty of introduction. "Capt. Estcourt," she said, "you are positively not dancing! A sailor too, and at a sea lord's ball!" "Pray do not trouble about me. Lady Glamorgan," he replied; "I am in no hurry to begin." "No, no!" she said, "I must find you some pretty craft at once; I have good patronage to bestow Just now, and you may choose between a strong ally or a rich convoy, both making their first voyage." His grave eyes lit up with a smile In answer to her playful tone. "New ships," he said, "are never lucky; I'd rather have one taken from the enemy." en-emy." There was an undertone of unexpressed unex-pressed meaning in the words; she caught it, and looked at him with kindly kind-ly interest. "If you are waiting for some one," she said, "of course I will not trouble you; good fortune to the brave!" and she left him glowing with mingled confusion con-fusion and gratitude. She was far too great a lady to be curious, but all gend women of her age are very naturally Interested in a young romance; and it Is not astonishing that she found time now and again to glance In Estcourt's direction. ' - For a. long while he did not change his position, and she began to fear that he was doomed to disappointment. But at last there was a stir near the door, and she hurried forward to receive the new guests. - An elderly dowagrer In green satin, and a gouty old nobleman in a star and spectacles hobbled in and paid a brace of homely compliments. As they passed en. Lady Glamorgan glanced back sver her shoulder, and saw to her surprise sur-prise that Estcourt was coming forward for-ward through the crowd with a look of relief upon his face. "The Milbricks?" she asked herself. "What can the man be thinking of?" But as he drew nearer she saw that his eyes ignored this absurd old couple, and were fixed intently upon some one beyond. She turned to the door once more, just in time to welcome a very different pair. A gentleman with Iron-gray Iron-gray hair and mustaches, wearing a red ribbon across his plain evening dress, was piloting a lady through the ft u m sr m -.. mm BY ffENRY WzWBOLT throne that blocked the entrance, with con- a courtesy and adroitness that splcuously distinguished him from all around. As for the lady, whoever looked upon her turned to look again. She was fully as tall as her companion, but scarcely more than half his age; her dark-blue eyes flashed fearlessly upon all they met; her Hps were red with life and curved with the pride and laughter of youth; the slight flush of her marvelous complexion and the spring of her step roused the beholder's pulse in sympathy with her splendid vitality. Her dress was of white and gold, scarcely less brilliant than herself; round her neck and on her brow were diamonds, and she wore them lightly, like a queen. "Ah!" murmured the countess to herself, her-self, as she came forward, "it Is Madame de Montaut; a prize taken from the enemy! I understand, but it Is a bold game for so quiet a man." She shook hands with her guests and retreated a little to watch their meeting meet-ing with this audacious young captain. It was evident at once that he was already al-ready in favor with Col. de Montaut at any rate; the lady too, after a few moments' mo-ments' talk between the three, accepted Estcourt's arm and raniijMAdhMMH gress down the room. branch, A quadrille was just ending; "in an other moment the dancers would be dispersing, dis-persing, two and two, in all directions to the seats and more secluded corners. Estcourt led his partner across to the farther door; there she stopped him and turned to look at the dance. Her eyes sparkled, and her foot began to beat time upon the floor. "Splendid!" she cried; "I long to be one of them myself!" His brow contracted slightly. "Don't you think," he suggested, a little timidly, timid-ly, "that we had better choose our seats before the rush comes?" "Oh, no, thank you," she replied, laughing. "I shall not need a seat for a long time yet; we have only Just arrived. ar-rived. But perhaps you have been here longer and are tired of dancing already?" al-ready?" "I have been here an hour or more," he replied, "but I have not been dancing." danc-ing." "And pray, if I may ask, for what other purpose did you come so early?" This directness confused him. "I I got here too soon," he said, "and had to wait outside by the abbey." "Where, of course, you could not dance?" she interrupted, mischievously, "And even then I was almost the first here," he continued; "and and " "And so you resolved to dance only with the latest comer, by way, I suppose, sup-pose, of striking the balance right?" He pulled himself together, and made an effort to play his part in the game. "Balance or not," he said, earnestly, "I resolved to dance only with the latest lat-est comer, If she should be Madame de Montaut." "And so you shall," she answered merrily, as the dancers broke off from their first figure and made for the door in pairs; "that is, as soon as these poor things have rested; in the meantime let us walk in the empty room till they come back." . She took his arm once more, and her touch seemed to send a tremor through him from head to foot; they stepped forward into the great ballroom, hung with mirrors and gaily colored flags, and brilliant with a thousand lights that threw a dazzling sheen upon the broad expanse of .polished floor. She talked with animation, and he answered almost mechanically; the Intoxication of pride mounted to his head and numbed his senses as he made his triumphal tri-umphal progress before the eyes of the elder ladies on the dais, the long line cf dancers sitting out against the walls, and the herd of solitary men standing, each with folded arms, at the bottom of the room. Their whispers reached him with faint incense, and he scarcely knew himself for a mortal like the rest. But now the band struck up again; the crowd returned, and he found himself him-self floating with his radiant partner through the upper heaven of perfect rhythmic motion. Suddenly, as it seemed, the music stopped; he mastered the swimming sensation in his brain and turned to look at her. Her eyes beamed back upon his with frank sympathy. sym-pathy. "Glorious!" she exclaimed. "What a pity it must end so soon!" -"So soon?" he stammered, in a sudden sud-den panic; "so soon?" "We are leaving early to-night." ', "But it is only just 11." "Then we have but half an hour more." They had left the ballroom and were mounting the stairs in advance of the throng. At the top a tiny boudoir offered of-fered two chairs, and no more. "Shall we hear the music so far away?" she asked as they entered it. He was pale and evidently ill at ease; he grasped at her question as at an unhoped-for opportunity. "I shall hear your voice," he said, nervously, "and that Is all the music I desire." "What!" she answered, laughing, "with my strong French accent, as your people choose to call it?" She sat down in the higher and straighter of the two chairs, and opened her fan. Only a low lounging seat was left for him, and nothing could have been more uncomfortable under the circumstances. He fixed himself upon the extreme edge and was about to speak, when she broke In be-fore"him. be-fore"him. "You don't look as much at rest as you deserve to be after that famous dance." - He was beginning an answer, destined des-tined no doubt to end sentimentally, when she again forstalled him; "You are not accustomed to the luxury lux-ury of arm chairs at sea?" He saw that she did not mean to give him an opening, and tried determinedly de-terminedly to make one for himself. "Forgive me," he said, disregarding her question, ."but I have something to say to you." "And I to you," she answered readily. "I have found the peart you were good enough to hunt for the other day. Where do you Purpose it was?" "Madame de Montaut," he said, with desperate irrelevancy, "I have admired you ever since I first saw you." "You can hapdly expect a woman to go quite so far in return," she replied, with an affectation of cordial simplicity; simpli-city; "but I may say truly that there is no one whose step I. prefer to yours. Come, the next dance must be beginning, begin-ning, and I am eager not to lose a note-of it." And she rose lightly and shut her fan. - He too stood up, but did not move toward the door. "I am sorry," he said; "but what I have to offer you is more than a dance if it be not much less." Her quick ear caught the sincerity of his tone and her look changed. "You are right," she said, with a serious grace; "I will hear you." And she sank with a soft rustle into the low chair, which she filled with an air of easy royalty. roy-alty. He remained standing; his hands, as they grasped the back of the other chair, were tense with nervous energy, but his throat was dry and his brain confused; for his life uj could not break from this fatal dumbness and express himself. ' . . A gleam of not unkindly merriment shone in her eyes as she came to the rescue. "Capt. Estcourt," she said, "you are a man whose words mean, at the least. all they say; since, then, you speak admiration, I understand you to offe me love." J "Love? Devotion 1" he exclaln with husky fervor, but stopped agai. and began to stammer. J "And I suspect," she continued, "fro jfuui cuiuaiioDBiucui, Lut&i you nave na thoughts of asking me to marry you." "Oh! it is too great a think, I know" he broke in earnestly; "it Is out of all reason; but I do not ask it, I entreat it of you." She raised herself a l'Ule and look him srravely In the face. (to bb continued.) TALE OF TWO BANDMASTERS The Same Showing that Neither ' Jeslonay In in Heart. The Marine "Ranrt bt, h.-o- -o. 6- r ft J filled engagements, at the same tlme10"iera e lmItation- I can P"t en-recently en-recently at Memphis. According to all l1" intol the languid man; I can accounts, the Marine Band had some- Ffwake op ne 'How who has the cus-what cus-what the best of the joint appearance fetomary lAtlessness of early spring, of the far-famed organizations. Its au- ,and that nleans everybody." aiencea were me larger. Memphis f Buvweu tun appreciation oi me artistic! al canital. ruirino- tho Mtir John Phllln Sous tt,mriri th qh given by the Marine Band. 'The house4 was crowded an unusual occurrence at a band matinee and Fanclulll was In rare spirits. His band played per AAt.. ,1, . . elements combined to make the jt-A happy. His quick eye had not "OjjL to detect the presence of his predecessor, predeces-sor, ex-leader John Philip, in a box Did It disconcert Fanclulll? Not a whit. Possibly it accounted to a degree for the vim he was putting into the per formance. Sousa affable, good-! John Philip serene as a May n -natured ' enjoyed It all. He lookedtfyAiinely pleased at the artistic success of one of Fanclull a-la!SttUCU7n?.hTfirst day of vacation; it will urits rose. His audience was- enrao- H lureu. ai tne ciose or. me numDer mere was tremendous applause. Fanclulll bowed and bowed. His triumph was complete. As the encore was renewed he gave whispered instructions to hki musicians, each in turn. There was no turning of sheets, no preparation, but as Fanclulll, baton In hand, resumed the stand as the applause subsided, the band broke forth with an inspiring march a familiar march, played by the band from memory one of Sousa'i marches, his most widely known and considered by many his greatest march, "The Washington Post March." The audience greeted It hilariously. The ap' plause was deafening. As the echoed of the march died away, John Philip Sousa arose in the box In acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of the compliment and bowed to leader Fanclulll. Then leader Fanclul ll bowed to John Philip. Then the au-H dience cheered again. And the best of this story is that it Is all really true. It happened as here chronicled. But, as stated in the beginning, be-ginning, it happened at Memphis. -N THE ARCTIC MUSK-OX. Oat Big Animal Which Is Mot lakely to Become Extinct. But there is one large bovine animal on our continent which is not destined to be snuffed out of existence like tbe unfortunate bison, and that Is the musk-ox. He is under the protection of the forest king, whose game pastures are seldom penetrated by white poachers. poach-ers. On me map of Arctic America you can put your finger down almost anywhere, so that it be on land north of the Great Slave Lake and east of the Mackenzie river, and say, "There lives the musk-ox," without fea of success ful contradiction. Just beyond the limit of trees and bushes, even the smallest and scantiest, on the silent, desolate,' and awful barren grounds northeast of Great Slave Lake, at 64 degrees north latitude, the musk-ox draws the line marking his farthest south. A man who can endure cold like an Eskimo, travel like a caribou, live for weeks on frosen, caribou meat,, starve as cheerfully, as a Yellow-Knife Indian, and endure the companionship of vermin-covered natives, na-tives, can reach the southern borderland border-land of the musk-ox, and possibly get back alive with two or three skins. Mr, Warburton Pike, Englishman, can do and did all these things no longer ago than 1890; and his book on "The Barren Grounds of Northern Canada" Is a most interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of that very desolate country. The musk-ox Is perhaps the rarest, and to white men the most difficult dif-ficult to secure of all our land quadrupeds. quadru-peds. Robes are by no means uncommon, uncom-mon, and often sell for as little as $15 each; but of mounted skins there are in our country exactly seven. Three of these constitute a group in the National Museum;' two are in the American Museum of Natural History in New York; and the museums of Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Cambridge have one each. Although during their long sojourns In high latitudes Gen. Greely and the members of his expedition party killed many musk-oxen, you will notice that they were unable to bring back even so much as a single horn. WIT AND WISDOM. It is better to be Interesting clever. , than The laughter of some women seems punctured with tears. Very few people can be delightfully delight-fully improper successfully. . I think I prefer a knave to a fool; he is apt to be more interesting. The saddest experience of life is the awakening to find our Idols clay. A man -never forgives a woman for being more clever than he thinks himself. - Tact is the quality that will make even a very unattractive woman very charming. A letter Is an index to character, culture and the general makeup of the writer." The woman whe Invites the social microbe ends In the high fever of sycophancy. ' A fool will often succeed where a clever man will not (have the ghost of a chance. i ' ' When a man criticises a woman it is safe to conclude that she has turned turn-ed him down. Never let even your best friend see too much of you. Hate is Cousin German to love. If some men would offer to ' kiss their wives the wives would have hysterics or fits. People who enter matrimony expecting ex-pecting a blissful haven often find It devilish hard work. ; Yielding or- resisting temptation is not so much a mater of virtue as of who, and what and where. The woman who boasts of platonic friendships has a better opinion of herself than others have of her. If women could know men as men know each other, the matrimonial market would have fewer bargain sales. v 1 Put Life in shemer's Guarantee That l f the Most Languid Certainly Borne Out by the Results of the One Experiment Greatest scheme in the world!" he laizned when he at last got the of the capitalist. "All I need is lent money to develop it." es, returned the. capitalist, dis- edly. "I've heard something effect from many, many peo- can prove It," urged the 4T 4.1 1 A. I. I IV .-emer ve gui iub real uiiug; an "Q, there" are lots of these spring medicines,'1 sserted the capitr'-gt. don't do the 1-isiness " 1 1 engagement ir..., I. , ... . .- . ., anz tDey persisted tne sfenemer, r mine wiu. You know how it Is irvJene spring; we all know. ArelkysTanguld? Are you listless? 'e'you tired? Of course you a"j You can hardly get up gh energy to attend to your regu- business. You long for something that will rouse you, that will make you quick, energetic and sprightly, and I have it. I don't ask you to take my word for It; I am prepared to offer proof. You are now listening to me wearily, but one of my capsules will put life into you. It will make you spring lightly from your chair; it will lead you to caper like a boy on the dispel you to do things. Haven't you at this very Tip VPas a Wrong One Returned Spirit Made Trouble for Unfortunate BadDebt Cc0 lector-r-Ghostly Visitor Very Badly Mixed In His Dates Find Was Not Welcome. They had been talking about spirits. spir-its. "As far as ghosts are concerned," said the bad debt collector, "I had an experience in that line once myself. I was lying In bed wide awake. I always al-ways insist that I was wide awake. I didn't dream it. I was wide awake when somebody or something tapped me on the shoulder. I was frightened, frighten-ed, to be sure, and turned my head. Then I was scared almost to death, for there I saw the figure of a man clothed in knickerbockers no cycling outfit, but the old-fashioned knee breeches, with the long waistcoat, the long-skirted coat and the three-cornered hat My hair stood on end and I was speechless. He told me about a man named Moore some one I had never heard of, who lived up in Albany. Al-bany. This Moore, it seems, was the ghost's great-grandson, and the shade wanted me to straighten out some legal snarl. "The long and short of it was the great-grandson was about to lose his property that formerly belonged to the ghost because the original will could not be found. The ghost told me just how I could find Moore's house, and said the will was in an old chest in the garret So the next day Took Him for a Woman, idyllic Beauty of John Randolph oi Roanoke Led Guest of Prominent Southern Club Into Deplorable Error At the Grave of the Great Southern Statesman "When I was in Richmond a few days since," said Mr. Ridgely Howard How-ard of Baltimore to a representative of the Washington Star at the New Willard, "I made one of those bad breaks which prove so embarrassing. I was a guest of a member of the crack Westmoreland club, and after a slight repast I was escorted through the building for the purpose of viewing view-ing the pictures, relics of the civil war, etc. During the tour mentioned my attention was particularly attracted to the portrait of what I took to be a very handsome brunette. I incidentally inciden-tally remarked to my host that the young lady was quite pretty, when, with a low chuckle, he replied, 'Yes, quite pretty, but as a matter of fact the picture represents John Randolph of Roanoke at 18.' You also smile, but -let me explain how I was caught. The hair was parted in the middle and neatly combed back of the ears; the i features were of a purely feminine mold, and the expression of the eyes and face was so shy and bashful that you will readily understand how I was deceived. One can hardly con- Squirrel Colony. Brandywine Manor has a large colony col-ony of gray squArels, but no shooting is permitted near the village, the squirrels being the pets of all the residents resi-dents of the place. A number of years ago the late William Wil-liam Rettew, who resided in the village, vil-lage, discovered a number of squirrels in the garret of his house and cared for them. Then he became embued with' the idea of protecting all the squirrels fn the vicinity. In the garret he arranged neat nests for them, and fed all that came. The number multiplied mul-tiplied rapidly and they gradually established es-tablished homes in the trees in the woodland near his home. The worst enemy of the gray squirrel squir-rel is the red squirrel, and Mr. Rettew Ret-tew began a war of extermination against the latter, which he kept up until his death. Then his son continued contin-ued the work, and to-day there are hundreds of gray squirrels. In the woods for a mile around the village, but few red ones. Every resident considers con-siders it his duty to kill a red squirrel wherever found. During the summer the animals may be seen playing about the trees in every direction, and they are often found in the houses of the residents. Philadelphia Press. , Spain's Orange Trade. It is generally known that Spain supplies us with most of the oranges we eat but few people are aware how enormous the industry has become. The Spanish orange region extends, however, over eastern and southern Catalonia,' Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Malaga and Seville, and in parts of Valencia and Murcia the trees now grow in forests, the soil of the famous Valencian "huerta" lavishly manured with guano being the richest in Europe. Eu-rope. Here a single full-grown tree will yield 1,500, and at times as many as 1,800 oranges in a season, fruit-bearing beginning when the trees reach their sixth year, and increasing till they are twenty, when degeneration usually sets In, the Capitalist He Could Infuse Energy Jhto minute tht usual spring languor?" "I have" admitted the capitalist. "I am, I covfess, enervated." "Then take this," said the schemer, producing- a capsule. "If it does not give you an interest in life I will retire re-tire without another word. I am a stranger to you, and I do not expect you to accept my unsupported statement; state-ment; I wish you to be coarvlnced, to know that I speak ffce truth, and really have something that will do all I claim for it Take it and swalkw it. Wash it down with a little water it: you wish, and then note the result." The capitalist took the cipsule, and immediately thereafter he got up and jumped over hia chair. "Didn't I tell you?" cried the schemer exultantly- "No laaiguor now, Is there? You are- moved to action, you are lively " "Water! Water!" yelled the capitalist, capi-talist, as he cleared the top of hta desk and made a rush for the wash room. "Look how sprightly he Is!" commented com-mented the schemer backing tovrard the door. "But I don't believe I'd better wait; I don't think he's in the, humor to invest just now." "What is it?" roared the capitalist "Red pepper, you darned old skinflint!" skin-flint!" answered the schemer, as he disappeared, satisfied that an old grudge had been wiped out at last Brooklyn Eagle. I started for Albany. I arrived. at at Moore's all right, and knocking the door, asked: " 'Is this Mr. Moore V "'Yes,' said he. " I saw your great-grandfather last night,' said I. " 'You're a ' began Moore. " 'Now, never mind,' said L and then I told him about the ghost And sure enough there was a lawsuit We went up to the garret, and. sure enough we found the old chest, just like they do in those yellow-covered books we used to read, and there was a false bottom all right I was so excited I could hardly move as Moore pulled it out and displayed a paper musty and dusty with age." "Um-um," murmured the man who traveled for a sotap house. The collector remained perfectly quiet, and finally the man who travels for a soap house said cautiously: "The will, eh?" "No," 6aid the collector. '"It was an old bill for a pair of knee pants, and Moore, to whom I had given my business card, kicked me clear out to the front gate, saying I couldn't come any bad debt collecting games on him." ceive. looking at the portrait of Randolph Ran-dolph at the age represented, that he could ever grow into the cynical and disagreeable creature he is reported to bave been in his later years. If he evar had love affairs which went wrong I have never heard of them. As near as I can learn he never had any real ardent affection for any woman wom-an except his mother, who, it is said, was beautiful, and whom it is also said he closely resembled In beauty as a child. "Later in the day I paid a visit to Hollywood cemetery, a beautiful spot, and sought the gravis 5f Randolph. I found it on a gentle slope overlooking overlook-ing the James. It appears that some twenty years ago, or more, the remains re-mains of Randolph were moved from the lonely spot in the forest at Roanoke Roan-oke to their present resting place by the state authorities. A marble slab now covers hie last resting place, on which is the following inscription: 'Here lies John Randolph of Roanoke. The only other words on the slab are those gtving the date of birth and death." Scientific Point Settled. The evolution of color in flowers, which has long been thought to depend de-pend upon the necessity of attracting the honey-consuming insects in order that the flowers might be fertilized, is now shown to have no such influence by Plateau, th.e Belgian professor. Using Us-ing a species of poppy, he clipped the petals from thirty out of a group of 100 flowers without touching them. The poppy flowers thus carefully pre pared were watched and the number and kinds of insects visiting them noted. At the same time the intact flowers wre similarly watched. Taking Tak-ing the average each of the thirty petalless flowers received 4.5 visits, aach of the seventy normal flowers received re-ceived 2.4 visits. So great, indeed, appeared ap-peared to be the attraction of these petalless flowers that on many occasions occa-sions Prof. Plateau has seen more than one bee in a single flower. Town Given as a Pledge. Wismar, a town on the Baltic, now possessed by Germany, was given as a pledge by Sweden to Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Schwerin June 26, 1803, in exchange for the sum of 1,258,000 thaler (about 4915,000), on condition that Sweden, after the lapse of 100 years, should be entitled to take back the town on repayment re-payment of, the sum advanced, together togeth-er with 3 per cent interest per annum. The date for closing this bargain is approaching. The Swedish government govern-ment will waive its right to redeem the town. A Problem for Scientists. Prof. Reitter recently introduced to the Society for Internal Medicine in Vienna a woman with a musical heart For the last four years she has suffered from palpitation, and about eighteen months ago she noticed notic-ed for the first time a peculiar singing sing-ing noise In her breast which was also audible to other persons, and rose and fell in strength and pitch. The sound is said to be due to a malformation mal-formation of the heart valves, which sets up vibration. , What Everybody Says, LoriSTTLLH, Kt. For a yesr or more I have been suffering with severe pains in the mall of my back and kidneys ; had tried s number of remedies but without relief. I decided to try Dosn's Kidney Pills, snd purchased two boxes, and am glad to state that after taking the two boxes of pills I was relieved of all pains, and have not been troubled since. 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"Don't you see, judge," explained the politician, "that if we put the salaries sal-aries of the Judges up to the figure you want, the people will turn around and elect real lawyers to the bench." The point of the story is that the judge dropped the amendment at once. New York Sun. THOUGHT HE HAD HELLFIRE. Old Gentleman Imagined He Was Getting Practical Lesson. Dr. Talmage used to tell a story about an old presiding elder who had a great fondness for tobasco sauce. Not always able to get this on his travels through his districts he carried car-ried a bottle of it with him. This he always had placed on the table of the hotel where he stayed. One day an old rustic sat opposite the venerable elder at dinner and helped himself freely to the compound. com-pound. He got a big dose of it in fact, it took some time for him to recover from the effects. When he did "finally stop coughing long enough to talk, he glared at the elder and said: "I've heard lots of preachers preach about hell-fire, but you are the first I ever seen that carried it about with him." Man Walks Many Miles. It Is safe to say that every . man walks two miles a day, if only in stirring about his room or office. If a man lives to be thirty years old he will walk 21,900 miles. The man who believes in a daily constitutional of five miles will walk 54,750 miles. The circumference of the earth is 24,899 miles. Walking five miles a day, a man who has walked for thirty years will walk around the globe twice, and have a few thousand odd miles to his credit Texas Cotton Production. Texas now produces more cotton than Georgia and Alabama, the next two largest cotton states, combined. BE INDEPENDENT. 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In one portion of the oratorio occurs the line "The earth was shaken," which Is supposed to be sung very softly. Mr. Morgan was shocked to observe that the passage started off and ended on the "shaken" with a blast which nearly near-ly shook the house. He called a halt "You shake too loud." he said. "I told you that the passage should be sung softly. It Isn't necessary really to shake the earth, you know." New York Press. .- Art Critic Stirs Connoisseurs. Giulio Bonola, the well-known Italian art critic, has just finished his investigation in regard to the Santa Cecilia of Donatello and the results will presently be published. According Accord-ing to Bonola, the bas-relief In the British museum, which is regarded as the original "Santa Cecilia," is nothing noth-ing but a copy. The critic asserts that he has found the authentic original origi-nal in Padua. CHEAP PASSENGER RATES. From Ogden'and Salt Lake via Santa Fe route, June 4-5-9-10. Missouri river and intermediate points and return, $32.00. Chicago and intermediate points and return, $44.50. St Louis and intermediate points and return, $39.50. Final return limit, September 8, 1903. 3 TRAINS DAILY. For further information and for rates to points other than above, apply to C. F. WARREN, General Agent, 411 Dooly block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Lesson In Chaplain Milburn's Life. It was of the late William H. Mil-burn, Mil-burn, the blind preacher chaplain . of the house, and afterward of the Senate, that William R. Morrison once said: "Mr. Milburn is a man who fears God, hates the devil and votes the straight ticket" Mr. Mil-burn's Mil-burn's life illustrates what one can do in the face of hardships. He was totally blind before becoming of age, but became a Methodist clergyman, successful lecturer and author, keeping keep-ing at his work until a few months before his death at the age of eighty. The newspapers were read to him every day and he kept fully posted on passing events. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. THE ONE THING LACKING. British Tourist's Complaint of a Deficiency De-ficiency In Canada. In the smoking compartment of the Montreal express the other day two British tourists were talking with a New York traveling man about their impressions of Canada, from which country they were returning evidently after a long journey over It "Yes," one of them was saying, "Canada is a delightful place. The country is wonderful, the people are charming and hospitable to a degree, the clubs are ripping and the Niagara Falls are all my fancy painted them to be. And when I get home I mean to tell every one I know that they must really come out and see It alt But, if you will allow me to make one criticism, I must say there Is one thing lacking. They haven't a good bit of cheese In the whole blooming; place." Alabama's Advantages. With the single exception of wheat growing Alabama is a better location for the small farmer than Kansas or Nebraska is. Both the climate and the soil are favorable, and men can work out doors all the year If necessary. neces-sary. Lands can yet be bought on reasonable terms and in South Alabama Ala-bama there are many thousands of acres where the timber has practically prac-tically all been cut off. This land can hardly be excelled for vegetables, fruits and all of the grain crops except ex-cept wheat, and recent experiments have shown that fair wheat crops can be grown. If all the advantages poe-. sessed by Alabama were properly made known to - home seekers our state would get many thrifty and self-sustaining self-sustaining farmers who now flock to the better advertised West. Montgomery Mont-gomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Bear Worshipers in Japan. : The queerest and perhaps the oldest old-est people of the earth are the AInoa, the bear idolaters, who a fr,, the Japanese islands of Kovriles, Sah- anno ana chiefly in Yezo or Hon-naido. Hon-naido. They number not mn thn 18,000 souls In all and they are fast disappearing. They have the broad nose and the obliaue eyes which hiv acterize the Chinese and Asiatic races generally, but there the resemblance ends. The Ainos are a laree and powerful people, straight as an arrow. All the Ainos declare they sprang rrom the Great White Doe the bear and a princess of the south. The bear is their chief god. Lived Long in Seclusion. An inmate of an Armenian convent has recently, died after being there ninety-eight years without once going outside the convent walls. Her re corded age was 115 years. 1 n V it. it J -1: if i i |
