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Show 1 - bbbbbb, m mm mm mmm mm m mm aw aae v ' t &wm&&' II SkHfFfiK . 1 INDEPENDENT. D. CL JOHKlKJS, PnbUshe 8PRINQVIULE. . . . UTAH Prince Radii will feaght Count Sixzo. Result: Fizzle. Unless a man has bad rheumatism Jfimself the bee-sting cure may seem strenuous. Is there room for two such absolute dpota In Russia as the czar and he Standard Oil company? It is about time for the Mad Mullah to swoop down somewhere again and take somebody by surprise. France Is said to be waiting for an other Balzac. And the whole world is waiting for another Dickens. Would it Le right to let the Ameri-ca Ameri-ca cup go into the possession of a man who calls it "that long-lost mug"? The Cuban republic is now in its second year, and stih the price of Havana Ha-vana cigars In Boston hasn't been reduced. re-duced. A Chicago man has been fined $10 for calling a woman a rubberneck. What does the South think of this for chivalry? We take no stock in the disheartening dishearten-ing assertion that hoop skirts are com ing back. Imagine a girl in a hoof skirt playing golf! America may be the "land of th dollar," but the cry of distress anywhere any-where In the world always loosens lw grasp on the dollar. Boston has not all the thirst fo culture going. In Chicago a man wai shot dead for disputing the spelling of the word "catsup." Some of the members of the peace society think that the second letter In the name of the torpedo boat destroyer de-stroyer Hull is wrong. Abdul Hamid is in an embarrassing position. He can fight Bulgaria all he wants to, but the powers will not permit him to whip her. Two hundred thousand dollars damage dam-age has been done to Dr. Webb's preserve pre-serve In the Adirondacks by recent forest fires. No insurance. If you would give your panama a genuine look, let the family cat sleep on it all night, and the children play football with it before breakfast. The world keeps on making fun of the senior's graduating essay, but the school management keeps on requiring requir-ing him to write it, just the same. Lord Roberts is planning to be in New York during the races for the Anerica cup, although his plans do not include seeing the Reliance win. Mrs. Bonney of Utica, whose corset steel deflected a bullet and so saved her life, has decided that corsets are healthful, no matter what the doctors say. Which side the United States will be found on little Japan is Insistently asking. Now isn't that a bit prema tur? There ain't going tojbe any 3' Holland's minister of foreign affairs h'is received Andrew Carnegie's check for $1,500,000 to pay for the peace palace pal-ace at The Hague. He ought to get It photographed. The New York school principal who has been teaching continuously since 1863 ought to be able to write a large book about successive fads in modern education. With Herr Most advising anarchists to uphold the flag and constitution of the United States and to refrain from acts of violence we may imagine the millennium is not far away. A man named Hamm and another named Bacon are rivals for the affections affec-tions of a Miss Frye at Odessa, Mo There will doubtless be some egg-throwing, egg-throwing, no matter who wins. How pleasing it is to contemplate the unsordid innocence of a Boston boy of eight who found a $20 bill In an ash barrel the other day and sold it to another boy unknown for 25 cents! Observant and scholarly Frenchman who has been here looking us over as a nation says the dollar has no majesty majes-ty for Americans. That's awfully nice, unless the observant and scholarly scholar-ly one is jollying us. It Is useless to be pessimistic, but the probabilities are that as soon as the floods get through washing out the crops and making people homeless the public will have a chance to see how it likes an old-fashioned drought. As a possible explanation of the growing number of bachelors and maids, the proponents of the "race suicide" theory are invited to consider the announcement recently made that an average fashionable June wedding casts 11,400. Not only did Gen. Miles hold an informal in-formal reception at a fashionable girls school in New York, but by a great effort of self-control he refrained from kissing any of his girlish worshipers, thereby setting a model example to all his gay subordinates. The officials at AVashington have decided de-cided to give the Indiana every cent that is coming to them. This is not only honest, but it will hasten the day when most of the money will get back into the hands of the white man. Letter writers in the London Time are discussing the pronunciation of the word "golf." It . appears that "goft" is an Edinburgh affectation, "gowf" is the caddies' pronunciation, and "gofe is the gentleman's way of saying it. Please not to foozle by calling it "gawf." A man who died at White Plains, N. Y., recently, leaving a fortune of $5,000,000, willed $30,000 of it to his coachman. The latter is said to be grieving himself to death over the loss of his employer. People who have been waiting through long weary years to inherit money will wonder what kind of a foolish mortal this coachman coach-man can be. A boy in Battle Creek showed a companion com-panion how desperadoes shoot from the hip pocket. Preparations for the companion's funeral are under way. OLD-TIME COOKERY AS TAUGHT 250 YEARS AGO In the early days of the seventieth century gastronomy was truly a wonderful won-derful science, if a little cookery bok, published in 1638, and now in the possession pos-session of a Chicago woman, is any criterion. The title it bears is "Mur-reH'p "Mur-reH'p Two BoVs of CooVerie and Carving. Carv-ing. Printed for John Marrlot, and are to Jrf oiu.i. ins oflcp m baint l)un-stan's l)un-stan's Church-yard in Fleet steet, 1638." To bake "red deere" you are directed to "Parboyle it, and presese it and let it lye all night In Red-Wine and Vinegar; then Larde it Thicke, and season it with Pepper, Salt, Cloues, Mace, Nutmeg, and Ginger. Bake it In a deepe Coffin of Rye-paste, with store of Butter; let it soake well. Leaue a vent-hole in your Pye, and when you draw it out of the Ouen, put in melted Butter, Vinegar, Nutmeg, Ginger and a little Sugar; shake it very well together, and put it into the Ouen agalne, and let It stand three or foure houres at the least, to soake thorowly; when your Ouen is cold take it out, and stop the hole with Butter." This surely ought to be rich enough. Next is a heading, "Fritters on the Court Fashion": "Take the Curds of a Sackeposset, the yolkes of slxe Egges, and the whites of two of them, fine flower, and make batter; season it with Nutmeg and a little Pepper, put In a little strong ale and warme milke; mingle all together, and put them into Larde; neither too hot nor too cold. JOURNAL HAS TWO EDITORS IN NINETY-FIVE YEARS Within a few months Samuel M. Shaw will retire from the editorship of the Cooperstown Freeman's Journal, completing a journalistic career which alone is remarkable in the history of newspaperdom and coupled with that of his predecessor, John H. Prentiss, forms an even more extraordinary chapter. The retirement of Mr. Shaw will be a noteworthy Incident and has already been widely commented on. The Cooperstown Journal is published in a region made famous by J. Feni-more Feni-more Cooper, and its columns have always breathed the same purity of thought, the same elegance . of language lan-guage and the same thrilling spirit of Americanism as the works of the author whose name is perpetuated by that of the town. The beautiful Otsego Otse-go lake and its splendid environments have been an inspiration for the writers. What has made the journal notable among the papers of the United States is the fact that only two men have been its editors since its foundation ninety-five years ago. It was in 1808 that the paper was founded. John H. Prentiss was its first editor, and his connection therewith continued forty- SAD END OF BRILLIANT AND WELL-BORN VIRGINIAN too in in a snlarm tse on' Washing-1 ton Hights, in West One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street, the dead body of a man was found, writes Tip in the New York Press. It had been cold for five days and was In a state of decomposition. decom-position. The police being informed, It was duly sent to tne morgue, where the name "Hardy" discovered by a letter in the pocket of the coat was recorded. The initials were destroyed, therefore the identity of Hardy was in floubt. A man of the name of W. J. Hardy was missed from his usual haunts, and as he had been a schoolmate school-mate of one of our city magistrates, John B. Mayo, that gentleman made inquiry concerning him. Some one mentioned a Hardy at the morgue; the magistrate went thither and found his old friend, rotting on a slab. In another an-other day the body would have been buried in potter's field, qb. Hart's Island. Judge Mayo rescued it and sent it to Norfolk, where another old PEARL UNDER A PLASTER. Chinaman Chose a Novel Place for His Contraband Goods. Tam Quang wore a porus plaster on his back when he landed from the steamer China a few days ago. It was a harmless looking thing, but the customs cus-toms inspectors were suspicious. They removed the plaster and a large and very valuable pearl dropped to the floor. Now Tam Quang is in custody. Quang is wealthy. He is a member mem-ber of the firm of Quang, Tuck & Co., 625 Dupont street. Besides the pearl In the plaster the inspectors found eight single stones and two strings of pearls sewed in the lining of his blouse. Another coat revealed much dutiable goods concealed cleverly. Inside In-side the lining of a gorgeous bedspread bed-spread was a bolt of heavy embroidered embroid-ered silk. Deputy Surveyor St John ordered the man arrested. All his goods were seized. The contraband articles are: Twelve strings of pearls, eight single pearls, one large pearl, one pair of Jade bracelets, three jade stone, two flat jade stones, three pairs of jade earrings, three jade bracelets, ten gold forks, one piece of embroidered silk, eighteen ivory chopsticks, fifteen silver-tipped ehopsticks, 406 pieces of cut Jade stones and ten garments of wearing apparel. The goods are valued val-ued at $500. San Francisco Examiner, er. How Could She? She had been naughty, there was no doubt about that, and her mamma was administering corporal punishment. punish-ment. All morning she had been perverse, per-verse, and now, as the maternal hand feh with depressing force upon her small person, she yelled lustily. - "Be still, I tell you!" said her mother, without interrupting the business busi-ness In hand. "Stop crying! Stop this minute!" The small person turned defiantly. "Well, how am I agoin" "to stop cryin'," she sobbed, "when you Keep a-spankin me all the time to make me cry?" No Room for Improvement. "There is one branch of labor," said the great inventor, "that must always be done by hand." "What is that?" queried the reporter. re-porter. "Pocket picking," replied the g. L with a ghoujish grin. X your batter swim, It is In good tem- A recipe, "To make blancht Manchet la a Fryingpan," by its substitution of Manchet" or fine bread for meat, s,iows "Chaucer's "blank-manger" on i s way to become the modern blancmange, blanc-mange, though it is the fourteenth, and K)t the seventeenth, century form Nrhich has survived. The recipe runs: "TaLe halfe-a-dosen Egges, halfe a .inte of sweet Creame, a penny man-:het man-:het grated, a nutmeg grated, two ;'poonefuls of Rosewater, two ounces of 5ugar, worke all stiffe like a Pudding; ,hen frye it like a Tansey in a little fryingpan that it may be thicke; frye f. browne and turne it out upon a plate. Cut it in quarters, and seme it like a Pudding. Scrape on Sugar." The method of concocting a "Gellle of Pippins, of the Colour of Amber," is also worth quoting: "Take eight faire pippins, take out the coares, boyle them in a quart of Spring-water, from a quart unto a pinte; put In a quarter of a pinte of Rose-water, a pound of fine Sugar, and boyle it uncouered until! un-til! it come to the colour of Amber; you may know when it Is enough by letting a drop fall on a piece of Glasse and if it stand it is enough; then let it run Into an earthen or Silver Bason upon a Chaffindlsh of Coales, and while it is warme fill your Boxes or Printing-moulds with a spoone, and let it stand, and when it is cold you may turn It out of your mould. three years. During that time he waa a power in state politics and was twice elected a representative to Congress, Con-gress, serving from 1837 to 1841. Upon severing his connection with the Journal Jour-nal he was succeeded by Samuel M. Shaw in 1851, and when the latter retires re-tires in August of the present year he will have completed fifty-two years as editor of the Journal and nearly seventy years in newspaper work. He will then have reached his eightieth birthday. His first efforts to attract attention were in the campaign of 1848, through which he carried the Poughkeepsie Telegraph. The next year he went on the Albany Argus and remained there two years, when he went to Cooperstown and became editor edi-tor of the Freeman's Journal. Marcy, Seymour, Tilden, Corning and other Democratic leaders were his associates associ-ates and valued his counsel. Hla articles in many campaigns were widely wide-ly quoted and his paper was the first to advocate the nomination of Tilden for governor and for president. He declined nominations for high offices persistently. He has participated actively ac-tively in fifteen presidential campaigns, cam-paigns, often speaking on the stump. .aJT&liiXrieJM' ltaji 4ave J t proper mi er in en I. This man Hardy was the son of the richest man in Norfolk, Va., a refined, educated, cultured gentleman of blue blood. Among his. former companions he was regarded as the most excellent of entertainers. He could order a dinner that all styled a "dream" or a "symphony." He was no glutton, as so many gourmands are, but a connoisseur, a nice feeder, an epicure. He was married, but had been separated from his wife, who now lives in Baltimore, I believe. His sister married one of the most distinguished distin-guished officers of the United States army Maj. Cen. Arthur MacArthur, at present commanding the department depart-ment of the Pacific. This good fellow, hon vivant, epicure, F- F. V. this prince of entertainers actually died of starvation in a small rented room on the Hights, and his molderlng, cankered can-kered corpse was on its way to potters' pot-ters' field when accidentally found. NOT A SHREWD CUSTOMER. Man Thought He Was Beating the Bar, but Lost His Own Money. When a man drinks alone It is 15 cents straight in most respectable groggeries. The other day a genius stepped jauntily into a Pine street poeada and ordered "two whiskies." The natural supposition of the barman bar-man was that a friend was expected, therefore he set out two empty glasses, two glassfuls of water from the tub and a bottle of something, then bit off a check for 25 cents, cast it upon the bar and remarked: "Please pay the cashier." The customer poured an ounce of liquor into each empty glass and passed back the bottle. bot-tle. After swallowing one drink he ate a cracker, then gulped down the other, paid his quarter and went out. "Wise guy," said the barman, impressed. im-pressed. "Fool guy," said the owner. "He paid a quarter for two ounces of whisky in two glasses." New York Press. Thomas Carlyle and His Wife. As a married couple they were indeed in-deed to be pitied if the world had known it. They were childless, and therefore half the world was dark to them. No man can be a "sage" who has no children. A barren woman is like half a story. Let her be ever rso clever, so literary, so witty, when it comes to the essentials of life she is open to retort. How do you know? And so it was with the Carlyles lh, their unsatisfactory world of literary eminence. Pity them, gentle reader! When they shut the doors of v their several bedrooms at night a mouse might not squeak or a fly buzz but they must start full awake In the blessed dark and moralize, the one on eternity and the other on Thomas. London Outlook. It Would Seem So. Wife "I was i, surprised to learn that Mr. Oldsmith had taken unto himself a wife after three score years of single blessedness." Husband "Well, the ol 1 adage Is still working. A man never gets too old to learn." First Recognition. Ernie "Oh, my father has just discovered dis-covered that you are a poet." Suitor (sadly) "Well, that Is mora than any of the editors have don Origin of Petroleum. E. Coste, the president of the Canadian Cana-dian Mining Institute, recently read an interesting paper before that body, setting forth his reasons for believing believ-ing that petroleum denosits of the world are of volcanic origin, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. He points out a number of facts which render the theory at present generally held by geologists that it has arisen directly from the decomposition ot organic remains, animal and vegetable untenable. He calls attention to the fact that no such process is at present under way; that all organic decomposition decompo-sition of animal material is so rapid and complete that there is no oppoWlV" tnnitv for the pntnmhmpnt nf anvthine but bones in sedimentary 'rocks ; that as the oil deposits of the lower Si lurian limestone of Ohio and of oth beds, and as it is generally admitttj 1 1 t A 1 . . J 11. 1 W. ' oy geologists inai previous to uie iTVt- ter age there was very little vegetab life on the earth, these enormous d posits could not have arisen from organic or-ganic remains, because there were few organisms at that tira and, final ly, that If petroleum was due to the destructive distillation of qbal, thetej would now be no coal beds. 'all havInW long ago been transform A Trackless Trolley Car. Probably not half as much objeci has been raised to the setting of p1 to support the trolley wires as to laying of tracks over which the are to run, farmers especially s ing to have a grudge against the t ing up of the roads for this pur; Now a Boston man has come to conclusion that if he can get the ri of way to set the poles over which transmit the electric current he c manage to do without the rails; fact, he will put a motor on anyo wagon and turn the horses out to grass or ship him abroad to be eaten. One use of the rails in a trolley system is Car Travels Over Ordinary Road. to convey the return' current, after It leaves the motors of the car, but by using a double wire the inventor does away with tjiis need for the rails, drawing the power from one wire and J f v 1 Tl 1 V a P returning it, through the other aftaJiOUsly much dearer than burning it has served its purpose on his wagon or car. The-usual trolley pole supports contact devices, which in this cae comprise a pair of wheels mounter' on a -azy-tongs mechanism, with . " uu,ii wires, it is an easy tnm r y fcJ. v t uv jljx luc ovect i. J.iw ui V v hicle, and with good roads wh hinder the farmer fromco town tjy ti'oney wittr Til!? duce, instead of making his haul the heavy load? Commercial Sales of Liquid Air. Liquid air is delivered in Berlin, two liters (0.528 gallon) at a time for about 35 cents. In a recent issue of Energie, of that city, it is stated t)V the receptacles are made of glass with double walls, the space between the walls being filled with an insulating, material, the walls being silvered to prevent radiation of heat, and the whole enveloped In an Insulating material. ma-terial. They retain their temperature for fourteen days. 'Several drops in a glass of water produce freezing, and it is intended for such uses as refreshing refresh-ing drinks and improving the condition condi-tion of the air in sick rooms. New Penmanship Chart. It is universally conceded that the small letters, w, m, n, x, v, i, u, c, e, o and a, should all be of the same height for the base line, and serve as a unit of measure In forming the other letters of the alphabet, which extend two or more units above or below the base line. In what is called "slant writing" there are in the perfect copy but two angles, which, with their modifications, form the basis of all small letters, the main slant, which lies at about , fifty degrees, and the connective slant, at about twenty-five degrees fronv.,the base line. - Taking advantage 6TT these principles, the Inntor has formed a chart which nor only has the horizontal lines usuany found in copy books, but has, in addition, a set of oblique lines placed at such an angle that the curved lines of the letters let-ters will extend irom the crossing point of the horizontal and oblique lines to the crossing above or below. The student soon learns the correct movement of the pen to form accurate ac-curate curves, both ascending and descending, as his pen must start at a certain point and end at a second point, either above or below, following follow-ing the general angle of the oblique line which connects the same points. For vertical writing the guide lines are drawn vertically instead of slanting, slant-ing, but the principle remains the same as in oblique writing. Rapid Field Analyses of Water. Undei a system- perfected by the officers of the Hydrographlc Division of the United States Geological Survey Sur-vey a rapid analysis of water can be made, the object being to make a number of approximate determinations, determina-tions, sufficiently accurate for practical practi-cal purposes, rather than a few very complete determinations. A special equipment has been designed which will be issued shortly, and can be carried without inconvenience by the men engaged in the Leld work of Investigating In-vestigating quality of water, Th vi.4 A J 1 : LJ n I tV".,.C, .I'll 1 J railway companies and railway chem- lst$ are interested in the matter, as brjthe new system as many as sixty terminations of sulphate In water Uji be made in one day, thus greatly fdcilitating the work of investigating t quality of boiler waters Safety Brooch Fastening. little study of the "Lost and 1" Columns nf tVia Hull. nonsc y n. -.' vv uuiij aicio snow tnat one of the articles t likely to turn up missing is the och, and for every one advertised lost there are nrohablv manv nore which receive no public notice. Tie most probable cause for these I i Self-Closingf Guard Holds the Pin. fis the liabilitv of the end nf to become unfastened, when Orooch can work loose and fall without the wearer being aware ne fact, unless some one chances call attention to it. In the ac- f flnpanylng illustrations we show a Lyice which has been Invented to ent the end of the pin from com- oose. One drawing shows the scending pin; , another shows in place and securely fasten- he hook closing over it, while indicates the position of the n place on the brooch. The mounted that it has a con- stahtetiaency to spring open, and is thus pulling on the under side of the hook member, and the latter, being be-ing under this tension, has no opportunity oppor-tunity to fall back and release the pin. To remove the brooch the pin must be depressed and the hook vmember pulled open by the finger, while to close it the pin has only to be pressed in the slot, as the guard JL is automatically thrown over the pin by the pressure. ' ' Electric Heating. In a recent address before the Brit- sh Institute of Electrical Engineers, Mr. James Swinburne, the president, spoke at some length on the question of electric heating. The limit of electric heating, he said, is clearly purely financial. To convert heat into other energy with a very small efficiency and to send it out by ex pensive cables, and then to degrade the energy down to heat again is ob coal or gas direct. But in many domestic cases the convenience is rfsp great that the limit is not so low as might be thought, and electric heat- ng for cooking and other domestic ises may develop considerably. The ctricarc and incandesent lamps are entially cases of electric heating. ar the most important use of ic heating is the furnace. Here perature available, is only iffiTIea oy the " vblatillzatldn "Of " the lectrodes, and this enablesv us to get temperatures otherwise unavailable, so that we can get chemical actions which are impossible at lower temperatures. tem-peratures. It is impossible to say what our limits are in the electrical furnace. Probably the temperature fis limited by the volatilizing of car bon. Disposal of Smoke. At a recent congress of the Sanitary Sani-tary institute, held in . Manchester, England, W. N. Shaw discussed the question of smoke abatement. He drew an Interesting parallel between the treatment of smoke and the disposal dis-posal of sewage, and stated that In London nearly a million tons of sewage sew-age were removed day by day from about 600,000 houses, averaging about a ton and one-half for each house. At the same time, each day in winter each house throws into the atmosphere on the average, perhaps, ten tons of smoke laden air, or a total of 5,000,-000 5,000,-000 tons of smoke laden air for the inhabited houses of London per day. That was his estimate of the amount of refuse which is thrown into the London atmosphere. New Electrical Radiator. A new electrical radiator, intended to supersede the steam heater, is formed by enameled iron plates, the SIace Detween oemg nnea witn pow dered carDon, Kept in position Dy asbestos cardboard. : Into this radiator radia-tor are led three copper strips, one at each end and one in the center, and a continuous current of electricity electric-ity is passed from the center to the end strips. With current of eight mperes, at 200 volts, a heating sur- of twenty-five square feet can be at a temperature of 190 degrees enheit. uture of the Yukon Country. is aerlcultural Dossibiiitiea nf are pointed out by F. T. Con- lbBfeel new Canadian Yukon com missioner, who states that when the moss is removed from the soil that it is found to be very fertile. He is reported as saying: "I want to impress im-press upon the public mind that the future of the Yukon does not depend upon minerals of any kind. The district dis-trict is destined to be one of the greatest agricultural- spots in the world." m The Ship's Rudder. The shape of the rudder of a vessel seems to be of more importance than has been generally supposed. Experiments Experi-ments in Scotland by J. Foster King indicate that the rectangular form has decided advantages, as it presents a larger surface at the load line under all conditions and , requires a smaller stock and working gear than curved shapes. With sufficient area the narrow nar-row blade is as effective as the broad one, while it can be set more rapidly. Excavation of Prehistoric Bones. Prof. Warren Morehead of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., has discovered discov-ered on a farm east of Hopkinsville, Ky., what is presumably the burying ground of a prehistoric people. Ten skeletons in a fair state of preservation preserva-tion were exhumed. The bones are probably those of an extinct race of mound builders. The skeletons were discovered in receptacles built of flat stone. Stone utensils were . also 1 P V V V i r I T i T V11 I I fotfnd. MTLRNAWNAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. I BY PERMISSION OF RAND.MSNALIX & COL . CHAPTER V. (Continced). Dick, over whose half-conscious head this sword-play was flickering, saw only that an argument was going on; which side was which, and why, he could not understand, and so resolved to speak with caution if he had to steak at all. Camilla felt that the colonel was pressing her closely, and tried to disable dis-able him by a stralghter thrust. "I don't suppose you are a blind fol lower even of Lord Glamorgan," she said to Dick; "you probably do not wish the emperor released?" "It would not benefit him If I did,' he replied: "but I am sorry for him it he suffers as they say." This was worse than ever for Dick, and the colonel was prompt to seize the opportunity. "He does indeed Buffer." he said. "It is our greatest grief, for Madame de Montaut is entirely devoted to him." "My devotion," retorted Camilla, al most Indignantly, "Is natural enough; but the loyalty that binds me can have no hold upon an Englishman." "There are more kinds of loyalty than one," returned her lmperturDaDie antagonist. an-tagonist. "I, for instance, am loyal to the emperor, not only as a Frenchman, but even more strongly from my loyalty to you, who have made his cause your ovrn; and this, or something like It, may conceivably be the case with oth ers. Camilla looked unutterable scorn. "Capt. Estcourt," she said, turning to him with a bow full of graceful mock ery at her own question, "will you, as a kindness to me, carry the emperor off from St. Helena?" Dick was relieved at her apparent re turn to a lighter mood. "I can hardly undertake to go so far myself," he replied re-plied laughing; "you had better commission com-mission my friend Johnstone, the smuggler, smug-gler, to do it for you." "Good!" exclaimed the colonel. Join ing in the laugh with the loud tone of one who wishes to emphasize a jest. "Capital advice, Camilla, and you can't do better than follow it." She did not for the moment grasp his Intention in saying this, and made no reply beyond a distrustful glance. Dick, meantime, had been looking at his watch, and now held out his hand. "I am afraid," he said, "that I must be going home; I have trespassed too long upon your kindness, and the doctor said 1 must be in by sunset." "One moment," said Camilla, hoping to gain an instant's privacy In which to give him some kind of warning. "Stay a moment; Col. de Montaut will order the carriage for you." "It is at the door," replied the colonel, and he bowed Dick out before him, and followed him downstairs. Camilla heard the front door close and the carriage drive away. A long silence followed. The colonel had evidently evi-dently gone to the length of accompanying accom-panying Dick to his own lodging. The mischief might be done by this time, and here she sat powerless to prevent it. She .fretted under the thought at first, and her Indignation chafed her in -tfeo-mtyMHeo of an object, upon which to spend itself; but at last it seemed to have worn itself out for a time, and she fell Into a quieter mood. All the same she started guiltily when the door opened almost without a sound. There stood the colonel, like some wily emissary of evil, following up his calculated opportunity at the most deadly moment of weakness. He appeared to have entirely forgotten forgot-ten his late struggle with her. In his hand was an open letter, which he held up to her view. "I have just heard," he said, "from Carnac, who has received a letter from St. Helena." She held out her hand for It. "You are tired," he said; "I will read It to you. Be prepared, for It Is far from pleasant hearing;" and he began at once: The letter or, at any rate, his reading read-ing of it ran as follows: " 'My Dear M. de Montaut: A packet dispatched from St. Helena at the end of January contains the following melancholy mel-ancholy intelligence In the cipher of Gen. Bertrand: The emperor, having suffered severely n health from want of active occupation, on Jan. 22 resumed re-sumed his riding exercise, after an ln-termision ln-termision of two years. The effect of this violent change of habit was unhappily un-happily the reverse of beneficial, and he has been more or less prostrate for a week past." " The colonel looked at Camilla, and went on more slowly: " "His majesty has become subject to fits of profound depression, which are the despair of his physicians. He bitterly bit-terly declares himself deserted and betrayed, be-trayed, and his reproaches are terrible to hear. He talks openly of committing commit-ting his last wishes to paper.' " In her agitation at this news Camilla forgot everything else. "Oh, no!" she cried, clasping her hands as though to entreat the cruel fates. "We shall be in time; we must, we must!" "We must!" he echoed gloomily; "they expect us on the 5th of May." "And when do we start?" "Before the beginning of April; we have hardly more than a week left In which to gather our forces for this final attempt." She was silent, and seemed unwilling to venture further into the region of detail. "The vessel is all but ready," continued con-tinued the colonel; "a mixed crew can be collected In a day or two at Deal or Bamsgate." He paused, as if expecting a question from her; but she was still silent, and he went on again. For the money I am relying on you." She nodded. , "As to the rest," he said, eyeing her cautiously, "our frieads have failed us, as you know." She looked straight at him, and her face took a passive expression, as if in expectation of a blow. "This Is our last chance," he said; "the emperor's supreme and only hope. No consideration must weigh with us against his life and liberty." She drew her breath quickly; he saw that he must give her more time yet." "This man Johnstone," he said, "will, I hope, consent to work the submarine boat for -us. I will search him out tomorrow, to-morrow, and make terms with him myself my-self If possible." She was relieved to find that so far this was all, and assented reluctantly, hoping against hope to find her further suspicions unfounded. But the colonel went on relentlessly. "There remains only between us and success, between the emperor and safety, safe-ty, this one difficulty of discovering a suitable captain for our ship." "fou have time to go to France for tht' yourself, she said in desperation. "Everything must be dared, as you said only Just now." He shook his head. "Daring of that kind is useless here," he said. "No Frenchman can serve our purpose." She feigned astonishment at this. fiY HENRY 'J&WB0jr "My dear Camilla." he said, "you misjudge mis-judge our friend In thinking him so rancorous. ran-corous. He has fought, as he told us, chiefly against Danes and Americans, and has no cause to bear malice to the French." "I was not thinking of the French," she returned, "but of the emperor, who incited both Denmark and America to war, and thereby made himself the enemy en-emy of all true Englishmen." "SureJy not quite all," said the colonel; col-onel; "the opposition have often, botli in parliament and out of it, pleaded with the government for his release. Lord Glamorgan," he continued, looking look-ing at Estcourt, "Lord Glamorgan, for instance. Is a member of that party, and yet in every way a true Englishman." English-man." "No.; he continued, "I have considered consid-ered this part of the question long and thoroughly, for It is that upon which all the rest depends. These are the two necessary qualifications for our captain. cap-tain. First, he must not only be a good ally, In the sense of being a bold and competent seaman, but he must be bound to us by a tie stronger than that of mere pecuniary interest." "Yes," she interrupted, quickly, "he must act from patriotism, too; and therefore, he can be no other than a Frenchman." He shook his head again, with the same gentle regretfulness. "Where will you find such a self-immolating patriotism at a moment's notice, no-tice, and among those to whom our ideas are strange?" he asked. "Do you forget that even the inner circle of our confederates has failed us?" .She trembled In silence. "No," resumed the colonel, "he must be an Englishman, and one upon who: we can exert an Irresistible moral force. But that Is not enough." he added, quickly, and she almost breathed again. "The second qualification is this he must be a man known favorably to the authorities herein England, or at the least to those at St. Helena. Otherwise Other-wise he would be unable to obtain leave to anchor, and he could not face those naval police without fear of suspicion. We should be searched," and here his voice fell to a low, clear tone, "searched and seized, or driven from the coast, and the emperor must die a brokenhearted broken-hearted exile." Camilla burled her face in her hands. The colonel looked down upon her with a faint smile of self-congratulation. "Very well, then," he said, "for the present we will discuss the question no further. I will do my best to secure Johnstone, and I ' leave you to ' think the other matter over by yourself; It Is quite possible that you may be able to discover among your English friends some one an officer, perhaps who will at your persuasion, if for no other reason, rea-son, help us to save the emperor and France." She did not move or speak; when at last she looked up he was gone. But every word that he had spoken, and every tone of his subtly , modulated voice, passed through her brain over and over again with a paralyzing clearness; clear-ness; and "he sat on, as if under some horrible spell. She was roused by the crackling of paper beneath her hand, and looking down found that she had been clenching clench-ing a letter in her unconscious grasp. A start of surprise followed as she recognized rec-ognized the appearance of the paper. It was Dick's application to the admiralty. ad-miralty. The, official to whom the colonel col-onel had presented it had glanced at Its contents an handed it back, with an. off-hand statement that it was too late, another man having been already appointed ap-pointed to the Favorite. The colonel had accordingly brought it back to Dick, and In the confusion which followed fol-lowed the latter's sudden attack of illness ill-ness it had fallen unperceived behind a cushion of the sofa upon which Camilla Ca-milla was now sitting. Anxious to free herself from the toils without a moment's delay, she rose and went down to look for her brother-in-law. She found him In the study, busy among his papers; he looked up to greet her with an indulgent smile, as If to assure her that he felt for her past struggle, and was ready to receive her submission graciously. She saw It, and anger choked the words in her throat. "Well," he asked, "and upon whom has your choice fallen?" "There Is no choice." she answered: "I have no friend capable of an act of treason." He saw that he had been over-confident, and was ready on the instant to meet her with fresh patience. "Treason?" he said, quietly; "It is no treason to undo the work of treachery." "What do you mean?" "The English nation, or rather their government, betrayed the emperor's voluntary trust in them, and, as I have heard you maintain with truth a hundred hun-dred times, faithlessly made a prisoner of him after he had acdepted their protection pro-tection as a guest." She laughed scornfully to see him using still the methods of an hour ago. He little suspected how trenchant a weapon chance had put into her hand since then. "It is true," she cried, "and their treachery must be undone; but It can not be by Capt. Estcourt's hand." He raised his eyebrows. "I did not mention Capt. Estcourt." "No, but you thought of him, and of him only. It is a proof of how little you know or understand his character." He saw the change of her position, and was yet once more ready for her upon her own ground. "Oh, as for that," he said, "men are all alike in one respect. When they are in love they are deaf to every other, call; a woman may lead them where she will." "Not friends like mine," she answered an-swered proudly; "not a man like this:'" "Capt. Estcourt is as honorable a man as most," he replied, "but I undertake to say that his devotion to you, coupled with a clear explanation of the case from me, would ensure his adherence to our cause." "Never!" she cried. "Your cunning fallacies may blind weak women, or men whose Intellect is keener than their sense of honor, but you could not even tempt him for a moment!" "Will you wager on it?" asked the colonel with a mocking smile of security. "My life is not my own," she cried, "but I would stake my fortune on his answer." "Done." said- the colonel; "I accept." She saw the trap now, but scorned retreat. re-treat. "Try it!" she cried, with passionate defiance In her voice. "Try it, and learn with shame what duty means to a strong heart!" CHAPTER VI. OL. DE MONTAUT saw no more of his sister-in-law that evening.' On the following day he was up early ear-ly and breakfasted alone in his room, occupying himself at the same time with the details of a toilet which was intended to make him unrecognizable to those who ordinarily or-dinarily knew him. and acceptable to ill" these with whom he had to deal. His Identity was thus concealed without with-out any loss of personal dignity, such as is usually involved in a disguise, and yet. could be resumed without difficulty and almost at a moment's" notice. He gave a final glance at the general effect, ef-fect, completed It by the addition of a low-peaked cap of weather-beaten appearance, ap-pearance, and turned from the glass well satisfied. He took with him a small sum of money and no arms; what difficulties he might meet he hardly knew yet, but at any rate they would -not be of a kind to yield to force. The closed carriage In which he left the house set him down at the entrance of the narrow streets beyond the houses of parliament, and immediately disappeared disap-peared in the direction in which It had come. He quickly made his way to the river side and hailed a waterman to take him over to the other bank. When the boat was rather more than half way across, however, he appeared to change his mind, and asked whether he could be taken as far as the Tower. The waterman assented readily, gave a single stroke with the left hand, and In a moment the current was sweeping them rapidly down toward the bridge. It was a bright, keen morning, and the boatman was in a cheerful mood and Inclined to be talkative, as Is the custom In his trade; but he got little response or attention from his fare, who was pondering his next move, and had not yet come to the stage when conversation conver-sation would be of use to him. (to bb continued. i A POET'S CHILDREN. They Were Book from Which He Learned Much. The following letter, written by Coleridge Cole-ridge in 1S03 to a Mr. Coafes of Bristol, appears in the London Spectator. It la not included in any of the published collections: "Hartley Coleridge, seven years; Derwent, three years old, and Sara, a year old on the 23d of this f month. Hartley is considered a genius by Wordsworth and Southey indeed, by everyone who has seen much of him (but that is of much more consequence conse-quence and much less doubtful), he has the sweetest temper and the most awakened moral feelings of any child I ever saw. He is very baokward in his book learning, cannot write at all, and a very lame reader. We have never been anxious about him, taking It for -granted that loving me and seeing how I love books, he would come to it of his own accord, and so it has proved. For in the last month he has made more progress than in all his former life. Having learned everything almost from the mouth of people whom he loves, he has connected with us words and notions, no-tions, a passion, and a feeling which would appear strange to those who had seen no children but such as had been -taught almost everything in books. Derwent is a large, fat, beautiful child, quite the pride of the village, as Hartley Hart-ley is the darling. Verily, the constitutional consti-tutional differences in the children are gTeat Indeed. From earliest infancy Hartley was absent, a mere dreamer at his meals, put the food into his mouth by one effort and made a second effort ef-fort to remember that it was there to swallow it. With little Derwent it is a time of rapture and Jubilee, and any story that has no pie or cake in it comes very flat to him. Our girl is a darling little thing, with large brue eyes a quiet creature that, as I have -often said, seems to bask In a sunshine as mild as moonlight of her own hap piness. Oh, bless them; next to tne bible, Shakespeare, and Milton, they are three books from which I have learned the most, and the most impor- . tant, and the greatest delight." AS GOOD AS WHEAT. The Farmer, the Fanning Mill and the Bags of Atmosphere. A " "I see," remarked the wide-awake farmer to the Buffalo Express man, "that wheat has gone up to 70 cents in Chicago, and there's a report that it will keep goin' till It gets to $1. Now, I'd like to contract, to sell you mv crop for 70 cents. Seventy cents will iio me. I'd rather have a sure thing while it's goln than to take my chances on doin better by waitin'." "But," replied the commission merchant, mer-chant, "I can't agree to contract for your wheat at 70 cents." "Why not? It's goin' up to $1, an you'll make 30 cents a bushel. An't that enough?" "Oh, yes; but, you see, that 70 cents Is only a speculative price. It an't what, they pay for real wheat." "Don't pay that for real wheat? What In thunder do they pay it for, then?" "Why, for options." "Well, what the blazes are options?" "Why, they're promises to get wheat and sell It for such and such a price." "Well, then, they got to get the wheat, an't they?" "No; they sell the promises again, according ac-cording as the market rises or falls." "An don't they buy an' sell any real wheat at all?" "Not much." "Just buy and sell wind at 70 cents a bushel?" "That's about it." "Thunder an' Mars! Wish I'd knowsd that last fall. I wouldn't a-sowed any wheat. I'd tied my grain bags to the back o my fannin' mill an kept the boy turnin' It all winter, till I'd filled all the bags I could get hold of. But It an't too late yet. By gosh, If it's wind they want 'stead of wheat I can supply the market for the hull country right off my farm!" A LOVE MAP. Annabel's Face and It Made it Was on Her Rather Suspicions. "Annabel," called a Harlem mother over the banisters, as she heard the front door close. "Yes, mamma," replied a sweet girlish girl-ish voice, and Annabel Googan slowly framed herself in the darkness of the staircase. "Was that Mr. Tinberry, Annabel?" "It was, mamma." "Do you know it Is 11:20?" came in cold tones from the wrapped figure la the upper hall. . "Mamma, we hadn't the slightest idea it was so late," said the young lady earnestly. "You see," she continued, "Mr. Tinberry has been telling me about China and Japan. He said everybody ought to know about the w and it was so interesting we never thought how late it was getting. Do you kmw, mamma," added the sweet girl as she reached the landing, "that in China they " "Did Mr. Tinberry draw a map of China on your face, Annabsl?" asked Mrs. Googan, sternly. - "Why, mamma?" said the daughter in startled tones. - The young girl rushed to a mirror and saw with horror-stricken glance that the left side of her face was streaked and stained with ink. "Heaven and earth," she screamed, "his fountain pen must have leaked into his waistcoat pocket!" and with a shriek of horror the beautiful girl fell fainting to the floor. New York Advertiser. Destltate Settlers in Oklahoma, The news that there is great want and suffering among the Oklahoma settlers Is not surprising in view of the conditions condi-tions that prevailed last year and the year before. These people entered the newly opened territory at precisely the worst point In the late financial depression. depres-sion. They were of an improvident class and had gone there in the expectation expecta-tion of making big fortunes with small outlay or exertion. The result is precisely pre-cisely what might have been expecteJ . If reports are true, they have paid i sharper penalty than usually falls to the lot of folly and are in genuinely pitiable pit-iable condition. St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Pio-neer Press. Tank cars are used in France for the transportation of wine. J L V ( 1 f. I 4 f ) iff i ' t " ' t 4 If A. A |