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Show W9 INDEPENDENT. Bw C 40BHM0X, FMtafc PRINQVILLB. UTAH Can the bartender be called snake charmer? You may blow your own horn,but don't toot your whistle. The Servian reignmakers may be useless in a drought district. You never hear anybody applauding applaud-ing the industry of the mosquito. ft the problems solved by the graduates grad-uates this month would only remain solved! What good will it do us If they have found the smallpox germ? We didn't lose him. Aquatic Harvard is beginning to realize that the amateur coach needs a lot of coaching. New York city has 1,320 millionaires, million-aires, nearly all of thera weak-chested, dyspeptic and Irritable. Whether or not he geta the cup Sir Thomas Is evidently going to give us a good scare this time. The powers have evidently decided to let Pete have the job as long as he is fool enough to risk it. Give a man what he wants most fof anything in the world and In 'tlx months he will be tired of It. Irish members of the British parliament parlia-ment have almost forgotten how to get themselves put out of the house. Independence Hall is In Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. It Is about the only sign of Independence, In-dependence, that Pennsylvania has left "Women," says Judge Crane of New York, "should be made to think." The judge seems to be a man of extreme views. "John 1U Sullivan's diamond belt Is In pawn again," states an exchange. Then John himself is also once more "In soak." The biggest hypocrite in this world is he who says grace over a three-pound three-pound roast that he has no intention of paying for. If Australians had read the Kansas newspapers during the last ten years they would not be subscribing money to the rainmakers. King Edward's grief over the death of Alexander is pathetic, but his friends hope it will not serve to pull him down much. J. B. Burdette, whose automobile raced the Pennsylvania flyer, doesn't take after his namesake, Bob, for beating beat-ing the flyer Is no joke. Another wonderful boy violinist from Hungaria Is now in this country. His name Is Kun Arpad. It sounds as if he ought to be a corker. Not having expected much, the constituents con-stituents who got the short government govern-ment packages of third-rate seeds were not greatly disappointed. , luircunug' around with all kinds of new-fangled guns for the army when it can get toy pistols at such low rates? A jealous New York lover shot his sweetheart, but her corset stayed the bullet. This is one of the worst knocks ever handed out to Dr. Mary Walker. Rigid economy is being practised in San Domingo. In choosing Gen. Gil as their president the people have shown that they have no intention of wasting words. One who remembers Emerson now recalls that when rallied on his fondness fond-ness for pie, the sage replied, "What is pie made for If not to be eaten?" How paradoxical, yet how true! The Argentine government has put a price on the heads of natives, the government paying $5 for each head delivered. There are heads in this country that would be dear at that price. Pleasure is not all pleasure. Every victory has a dozen defeats back of it. The recollection of other disappointments disappoint-ments Is bound to have a tinge of bitterness, however Bweet the gathered gath-ered fruit may be. The police In Providence have found in a vacant lot a dress-suit case packed with both masculine and feminine femi-nine apparel, and containing also 8 marriage certificate. Now they are looking for the bride and groom. A Boston policeman spelled a clti-aen's clti-aen's name "Jerymier" while making up a list of voters. And now they don't know whether to banish him to Chelsea or to use the new spelling as the nucleus for a universal language. Miss Sophie Hanks, now the happy bride of Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, hu-morist, says that she didn't feel obliged to get her father's consent to her marriage, because her father had remarried about two years ago without with-out consulting her. That's reciprocity. recipro-city. ' Hawaii has a pressing "labor problem" prob-lem" on its hands. It is the question how to make people work in a climate cli-mate which produces food in such abundance that they don't have to. The largest man in the' world has been discovered in Kustjak, Russia. Good! We have several unbeaten specimens of the smallest right here. It is hoped that the new Mrs. Fitz-simmons Fitz-simmons will not fail In her wifely duty when the time comes to admonish admon-ish Robert to paste him in the slats. Young Cornelius Vanderbilt has helped the Emperor of Germany to splice the main brace, or something of that kind. Now will Mother-in-law Vanderbilt be good to Grade? Sir Thomas Lipton seems perfectly sure that the Shamrock -III. is going to win. Does anybody over here feel that way about the Yankee boat? The New York Sun discusses editorially edi-torially "A Suppositious Letter From the White House." Maybe the Sun a supposititiou t one. JPM Portable Irrigator. Among recent inventions in gardeners' garden-ers' implements is one worthy of special spe-cial notice, says a writer in the Scientific Sci-entific American. The implement is a portable irrigator especially adapted adapt-ed for treating the roots of a plant with fertilizing liquid. The general shape of the irrigator la similar to that of a pitchfork, the tines and handle of which are hollow. A piston is adapted to be operated within the hollow handle, serving as a The Irrigator in Use. pump to draw the fertilizing liquid from a supply pipe entering at the top of the fork head and to force it out through the openings in the tines. In operation the tines are buried Into the ground, with their lower ends in proximity to the roots to be treated.' The liquid can then be forced out in a fine spray at the point where it will do the most good. Wasted Power. In his recent presidential address before the American Electrochemical Soelety, Dr. Joseph W. Richards touched briefly upon the waste of power which is now going on at blast furnaces and coke ovens. About two-thirds two-thirds of the gases given off at a furnace fur-nace are used to raise steam for power and to heat the blast. For a furnace making 500 tons of Iron per day this is, on an average, about 2,500 horse power. If the gas used to develop this were used in a gas engine instead of under boilers, and that which now goes to waste were saved, it Is estimated that there would be an excess of 10,-000 10,-000 horse power over and above the requirements of this furnace itself. The Investment required to develop this power compares favorably with the cost of developing water power, and is, therefore, not prohibitive. There are thus scattered over the United States, in many cases in every desirable locations undeveloped powers pow-ers aggregating over 1,000,000 horse power, the use of which would not cause any drain on our natural .resources. .re-sources. This condition of affairs should not be allowed to continue, and, as the price of coal is always rising, it deserves an increasing attention from those in search of sources of power. . Sleepers on Trolley Lines. The International Sleeping Car company com-pany has given orders for building an electric autocar, which, by August next, will be running upon the Belgian Bel-gian state railroad, between Brussels and Ostend. The distance of 78 miles will be covered, it is stated, in less than one hour. The car will car ry forty passengers. ...ujYiu operate Bleeping cars oe-tween oe-tween Columbus and Cincinnati, O. The cars will be constructed so that they will have twenty seats and twenty berths, and will be more con venient than the sleepers on the steam roads. It is the Intention of the offi cials to operate the through cars on a fast schedule. Convenient Safety Envelope. As is well known, it is a compara tively easy matter to open the flap of the ordinary envelope, for reading or appropriating the contents, afterward sealing the letter again so that it is difficult to perceive that it has been tampered with until it reaches its destination and has been examined by the person to whom it was ad dressed. Several inventors have produced pro-duced devices designed to prevent this state of affairs, either by combining a sheet of tissue with the flap, or by adding coloring matter to the gummed edge. Still another idea is presented Stamp Seals the End of the Flap. In the illustration, which practically answers the purpose of the wax seal, but is much more simple to manipulate manipu-late than the candle, stick of wax and seal. The picture shows a slight change in the shape of the flap, extending ex-tending it parallel with one edge of the envelope until it is long enough to fold clear acrosa the back and leave a short end projecting beyond. This end Is folded over on the face1 of the envelope, where, as will be seen, it is just in the right position to be sealed by the postage stamp. The latter affords af-fords still further protection, as it will be extremely difficult to loosen the stamp and then detach the gummed edge of the flap from both the front and back of the envelope. Edgar C. Thumb of St. Johnsville, N. Y., is the inventor. Sun Spots and Earth Temperature. At a recent meeting of the French Academy of Science a paper was read by M. Ch. iMordmann on the period of the solar spots and the variations of the mean annual , temperature of the earth. His discussion is founded on observations obtained at a great number num-ber of stations during the years 1870 to 1900, and is, In fact, a continuation of that of Koppen, which depended on those from 1830 to 1870. As the latter lat-ter had shown that no regular succession succes-sion could be traced from observations outside the tropics, M. Nordmann has imade use only of stations within the i tropics, of which a much larger number num-ber are available than were for his predecessor. His conclusion is that .the variations of mean terrestrial tem-'perature tem-'perature do undergo a period sensibly !qtm4 to that of the solar spots, and jt&at increase in the frequency of spots j corresponds to diminution of tem-perature tem-perature and vice versa. Koppen P TS1 found from the long series of observations obser-vations that within the tropics the maximum of heat usually occurred about a year before the sun spot minimum. mini-mum. The most striking correspondence correspon-dence is that while the interval from maximum to minimum of the spots is greater than that from minimum to maximum, a similar inequality is manifested man-ifested in the variations of temperature. tempera-ture. New Electric Lamp. A new pattern of electric lamp is being be-ing put on the market. The filaments. Instead of being In ordinary bulbs, are enclosed In short straight tubes about nine inches long; the filament has a small curl in the middle to allow for expansion. These tubes are mounted end to end in a metallic casing, which serves as a reflector, and also carries the leads and the sockets into which the lamps fit There is thus produced a single line of light, which is very suitable for certain forms of illumination, illumina-tion, such as shop-window lighting, lighting by reflection from the ceiling, decorative illumination and the like. The lamps are made for all ordinary voltage, and of toe same candle power and efficiencies as ordinary lamps; they are run in parallel for voltages up to 130, but for voltages above 200 the lamps are run in pairs, the two lamps of each pair being in series. The system has been tried on several occasions recently with very satisfactory satisfac-tory results. An "Air-Wave" Typewriter. The newest development of wireless telegraphy is an air-wave typewriter, which has been invented by Mr. A. Kamm, a well-known engineer and member of the Royal institution. The main idea is that messages typed on one of these machines are transmitted by wireless telegraphy to another machine ma-chine at a certain point, where they are typed directly onto a tape. These machines are so delicately adjusted that interception Is impossible, and absolute secrecy is insured. Mr. Kamm has been working for years on various forms of electric typewriters to ba used in connection with telegraph lines, and many of his machines are used by the German government and have been operated between London and Leamington, Brussels and Paris, Berlin and Frankfort. London Illustrated Illus-trated Mail. For Lawns. A new invention is a pair of long-handled long-handled shears for use in trimming 1 wns. . . Sextant Observations at Sea. An artificial horizon attachment to sextants, invented by Commander Campbell Hepworth, C. B., consists essentially of a contact maker, operated oper-ated by a plummet mounted on a' sextant, sex-tant, and connected with a galvanic battery. It is so adjusted as to close the circuit and ring a bell when a slit or line of the horizon glass is in alightment with the eye of the observer ob-server and the sensible horizon. Observations Ob-servations for latitude and longtitude at sea are rendered impossible when the natural horizon Is obscured by fog or mist, although sun, moon or stars may be shining clearly, but with the aid of this instrument the observer may obtain the true altitude of a heavenly heav-enly body within five minutes of arc. This rough approximation will often be valuable. Light as Aluminum; Cheap as Brass. A German journal states that a new metal has been discovered which will be put on the market under the name of meteorite. It is a compound of aluminum, is just as light In weight as aluminum Itself and proof against chemical influences. At the same time it is extremely pliable, so that it can be used for pipes, wiring, horseshoes and in all cases where brass is now ued. Its weight is one-third of that of brass and its price the same. Wonders of Invention. Glass models of mines are . now made showing all the workings. Street railway crossings which are almost noiseless are now made by the use of blocks of wood placed on end. The largest oil ship in the world, the Naragansett, has just been launched in the Clyde. It will hold 10,000 tons of oil, which can be discharged dis-charged at the rate of 900 tons an hour. The government of Japan now limits lim-its the number of emigrants to Hawaii Ha-waii to 22S per steamer, of which the number of men must no exceed 150, the rest being women. This is to encourage en-courage the emigration of the mar ried. That automobile racing will be per manently prohibited in France is unlikely. un-likely. Automobile building now en-gages en-gages more than 20,000 skilled workmen work-men in France, and the races give world-wide advertising to French ma chines. r Within seven years Germany has laid 7,373 mile3 of ocean cable at a cost of $7,000,000. The important ones are: Emden to New York, via the Azores, 4,813 miles; Shanghai to Tsin- tau and Chefoo, 723 miles; and Ger many to England, 280 miles. Wireless Telegraphy in the North. Iceland and the northern mainland of Scotland are to be brought into direct di-rect communication with each other by means of wireless telegraphy, and an agreement has been concluded for the purpose. Couldn't Get the First One, "Johnny, I'm sorry to hear that you did not obey my Instructions at the luncheon. Don't you remember that I told you not to pick over the sandwiches, sand-wiches, but always to take the first one?" "Truly, mama; but whenever I tried to get the first one somebody grabbed it, and I had to dig in wherever I could." FIGHT WITH In a long journey by sled, in thje region of Great Bear Lake, Mr. Ege. ton R. Young had a trying adventurfe with Eskimo dogs, which he relates i "My Dogs in the Northland." He ha traveled several days with his owH; dogs to the point where the Indian $; were to meet him and replace th tired dogs with fresh ones. When the; dogs were changed, his guide, who ha accompanied him throughout the joui. ney to this point, gave him a heavy whip, and said, "Now do not speak 4: word and there will be no trouble,; They do not like white people, but i you do not speak to them they wilj never suspect, in their anxiety to gftl home." I "I looked the fierce brutes over.f Bays Mr. Young, "placed my heavy whip so I could instantly seize it, and made up my mind that I was In for t wild ride. The owner of the dogs applied ap-plied his long whiplash to them, and away we started at a furious gallop. "We had traveled some distance, when I was startled by a splendid black fox, which dashed out of a rocky island on our left. Hei struck across our trail, and made for another island of rocks half a mile to our right. "The dogs fells into disorder and sped after him. As we had fifteeijt miles yet to go, it was not safe to be racing after a fox on this great lakej So I resolved to break the'silence an bring the dogs back to the traiL. .evew. if I had to fight them. " ? "Bracing myself on my knees, V gripped the heavy whip so that I could use the handle of it as a club. Then I shouted to the degs in Indian to stop and turn to the left. SHE BOILED Just at the northwest border of By-field By-field parish lies the settlement called Dogtown. They raise a very peculiar cucumber, early, richly-flavored and singularly smooth on the outside. Determined De-termined to keep the plant to themselves, them-selves, as it brought in a good income, in-come, they agreed never to sell a seed outside the settlement. But a certain grocer in Newburyport determined deter-mined to have some of these seeds. He commenced by making a friend of an old dame who occasionally came into his store to trade, by treating her to sundry potations of cordial, a plug of tobacco, and snuff. One day, after the good dame had swallowed two bumpers of peppermint cordial for a pain, the subject was broached, telling tell-ing the dame that he knew it was against their rules to part with the seeds, but he had a friend who was bound for New Orleans who wished for some of them to take with him, and he thought if she had no objection objec-tion he should like some as it would in no way interfere with the market. It was long past midnight and Bil-kins Bil-kins was asleep. He was dreaming sweetly, and this is what he dreamed: He had been appointed chief caretaker care-taker of the animals of the estate of 'John D. Rockefeller. All went smoothly until a strike was rUrl against his authority. The revolt was headed by an enormous tomcat, who was the Sam Parks of the Rockefeller animals. Bilkins remonstrated with the feline walking delegate. He did not know where he learned the language, lan-guage, but he was talking "cat talk" to the leader of the strikers. During the negotiations the tomcat took the shape of a kangaroo, only he walked on his hind legs in dignified fashion instead of leaping about. Bilkins grew terrified and shouted for help, still in the cat language. The walking delegate then picked up a baseball bat and Bilkins again cried out for aid, but the cat brought the bat down on Bilkins' head with ter England has had hard luck in Africa, from Egypt to the Transvaal. What with fanatics who achieve heaven hea-ven through a violent death and Fuz-zy-Wuzzies who are disinclined to shoot up their blood relations, the Mad Mullah has proved a formidable and relentless foe. The latest disaster disas-ter comes from Somaliland, which the British have for a long time been trying to pacify. The Mad Mullah's mission in life is to preach the gospel gos-pel according to his lights and to cut up, destroy and annihilate British and Egyptian troops sent to remonstrate remon-strate with him. On April" 18 he caught Major Plunkett, with a command of - 200 Sikhs and African rifles, at Gum-burru, Gum-burru, which is somewhere in the center of Somaliland. Nine British officers and nearly the entire force of ONE-ARM BILI " ' -Near Billings, Mont., is an old-time cemetery which contains but fifty-two bodies. The cemetery is a remarkable remark-able one in that every person buried there died with his "boots on." The graveyard is an old one, and the memory of it has almost passed from the minds of the rising generation. genera-tion. It is one of the pioneer institutions institu-tions of this state, and to the mind of le old-timers bring many recol-leetSons. recol-leetSons. There is not a headstone in the cemetery; if ever there was one it was of wood and has gone the way of all the world. It is doubtful even whether any of the bodies buried there were encased in coffins. Montana was a territory when this cemetery was started j the originator of the place was a gambler known No Violence. Jolkley I submitted some humorous humor-ous sketches here several days ago. They haven't appeared. Did you kill them? Editor I passed upon them, but I don't think that killed them. Jolkley No? - Editor No; I think they Just died naturally of old age. ' Pekin's Population. The estimates of the population of Pekin vary from 500,000 to 1,800,000. AFTER. THE WELSH RAREBIT ENGLAND'S TASK IN AFRICA ESKIMO DOGS "The Instant they heard my voice they did stop so suddenly that my eariole went sliding on, past the rear dog of the train. They came at me furiously. The leader of the train, the fiercest of the four, began the attack. It was well for me that he did, for he swung the others about into such a position that only one at a timecould reach me. As he sprang to meet me I guarded my face with one hand which I wrapped in the furs, while I belabored the dog over the head with the oak handle of the whip, which was hard as Iron. "Three or four good blows were all that he needed. With a howl he dropped on the ice, while the next one in the train tried to get hold of me. One fortunate clip on the side of his head sent him tumbling over his leader. Then I had to face the third dps, which proved the ugliest customer cus-tomer of all, for his head took a prodigious pro-digious amount of thumping before he yielded. Failing to get hold of me, he tore the robes and the side of the eariole, which was made of parchment. parch-ment. "It was fortunate for me that the traces of the fourth dog, fastened to the front of the eariole, so held him back that he was unable to do more than growl at me. "When I had conquered the third dog, I uncoiled the lash of tha whip and shouted, 'Marche!' The leader wheeled to the left, and away they flew. ' I had no hesitancy in speaking now. The dogs showed no more desire de-sire for battle, but only a desperate desire to reach the end of the journey." jour-ney." Montreal Family Herald. THE SEEDS The dame promised the grocer the seeds and got a quarter .of a pound of snuff on the spot, with a promise of a bottle of cordial upon the delivery de-livery of the good 8. 'The next week, true to her word, she came with the seeds and got her bottle. The following season the grocer gro-cer planted his seeds with a great deal of care.- Cucumber time came, but he had not even a vine. He dug up the seeds and foimd that they had not commenced to germinate. So the next time the d?me came into the store he told her the fact. "How do you know?" she said. "I thought ycu were going to send them to New Orleans." "Yes, but I kept a few to try them myself and see how they were going to work," said the grocer. "Don't ye 'spose I knowed all that," returned the dame. "You, 'port merchants, mer-chants, ar'n't nigh so sharp as you think you be. I know'd what you was up to, so I thought I'd fixe ye. I biled them 'ere seeds." Boston Globe. rific force. Then Bilkins woke up. His wife was thumping him vigorously. vigor-ously. Subconsciously he caught his last feline cry, and knew he had had a bad case of nightmare. Mrs. Bilkins knew it, too, and when her 'i.ioiaa t-tti - to eAptaiu it to her ms tongue, still tangled with the intricacies intrica-cies of feline language, did not put forth intelligible Anglo-Saxon, and she pounded him still harder. Bilkins was now sufficiently awake to grasp the situation, and he began to laugh. He laughed so hard that he could explain ex-plain nothing, and his wife still thought he was struggling with the nightmare. Her thumps came with redoubled vigor, and as she pounded him she began to cry. "Hold on! I'm awake now," Bilkins Bil-kins managed to gasp. "I'm so glad," sobbed Mrs. Bilkins. "Do you know you were yowling just like a cat." Bilkins has sworn off on rarebits. native troops were killed. "Ran out of ammunition and fought with the bayonet until overwhelmed," reads the dispatch. Hadji Mohammed Abdullah, Ab-dullah, the Mad Mullah, only achieved achiev-ed political prominence a few years ago. After a pilgrimage to Mecca (which may or may not have consisted con-sisted of a trip to Feringhi rifle manufactories), manu-factories), he returned to the desert to revive the religious spirit of the tribesmen and back up his new creed with Martinis and patent ammunition, ammuni-tion, which he had in great plenty. A bold man and a prophet (who possessed rifles), the fame of the Mad Mullah extended into Abyssinia; the tribes to the number of 80,000 insane men gathered to his standard, and in 1899 with an army at his heels he "declared war" on the British invader. in-vader. Then began the .Somaliland campaign. VS" GRAVEYARD i ... i i - throughout th West ' as "One-Anm Bill," who conducted several games la the little town that at that time occupied occu-pied a site near here. "One-Arm" Bill is believed to have been the originator of the expression "private graveyard," and it is certain that he did his best to increase the population of his. Of the fifty-two men buried there, old timers say more than half were slain by Bill, who was noted a3 a dead shot. The existence of this old burying ground had almost been forgotten until un-til recently, when human bones were unearthed by a man who was digging the cellar of a house he intended to erect. A pioneer was in the office of the coroner when the find was reported, re-ported, and he explained how all the bodies came to be buried there. At the Commencement. "What air they a-doin' of now?" asked the old man at commencement. "They're a-talkin' at each other in Greek." "Ill tell you what," he exclaimed, quite out of patience. "I'd give a dollar dol-lar to hear 'em ring a dinner bell in dialect." Rome's Immense Cemetery. The biggest cemetery in the worH is the catacombs at Rome. They con tain six million bodies. DRESSED "Breathes there the man with soul so dead," As Walter S'cett sang In a ballad. Who never to his friends has said, "I, I alone can mix & salad!" Who when his variet, meek and low. Suggested he himself should fix it. Exclaimed with petulance: "No, no! Give me the cruet and I'll fix it!" We gaze on him with civil smile If we his strong esteem would capture; Our optic organs roll the while In throes of simulated rapture." He's bound the verdant leaves to spoil, - This lettuce notoriety seeker. With too much vinegar or oil Or oversurfeit of paprika. Still we maintain our placid grin. Although 'tis salted much too fully. And garlic cloves galore rubbed in, We voice the eulogistic 'Bully!' For conscience prompteth us this way To revel in the product gladly. Well knowing on some future day We'll mix another just as badly. New Tork Herald. II , Committed to the Deep ii The steward knocked, and put his head in at the door. "Cabin passenger, sir, No. 16." he reported, with a business-like brevity. brev-ity. "Very bad." Dr. Yalden glanced up from his desk irritably. "What's the matter with him?" "Dun'no, sir. Uncommon bad." "Usual thing, I suppose?" "No, sir. Not sea sick. Queer when he came aboard yesterday, I thought. Been in bed all day. Wouldn't let me get him anything. Till just now ha asked me to fetch" you." The steward withdrew, and the doctor only delayed to finish the first paragraph of a letter he had been writing when he was interrupted. It was not precisely an urgent letter, let-ter, for he had no intention of doing anything with it until the ship arrived at Liverpool; but it was to contain much that he knew he could not possibly pos-sibly put into speech, and it was to tell the recipient that he would arrive ar-rive less than half a day behind it. The lamp that shone from the wall of No. 1 showed him a haggard man stretched . on the bunk apparently asleep. While the doctor was taking a preliminary survey of him he coughed and awoke. "Steward!" "I'm the doctor. You sent for me. What's wrong?" "Oh, thanks. ... I don't know, doctor. My head's all afire, and my hands, too. Feel that." The doctor took his hand and laid a finger on his pulse. The hand was hot and dry, the pulse was galloping furiously, and a brief examination was sufficient to diagnose his ailment. "A touch of pneumonia," said Yalden. Yal-den. "You must take more care of yourself than ycu've been doing lately. late-ly. You were not fit to travel; you must have felt ill before you started." "I wanted to get home," the other answered, wearily. "I've been away a long time." "We must see what we can arrange about nursing," the doctor concluded. "I'll give you some medicine; you've got a good constitution, and with care, you'll pull round all right." "Think so?" "Oh, yes. . . . He mustn't be left, Barrow." The doctor turned to the steward. "Somebody will have to sit up with him to-night. I'll see him again before I turn In, and I'll get the captain to let you have assistance." assist-ance." After fulfilling which latter duty he retired to his cabin and resumed the laborious composition of his letter. Three years ago he met in London the girl he told himself he had been looking for all his life. She was nearly near-ly twenty years his junior, but what did that matter? Her people had been rich and proud, and now, through recent financial disasters, they were poor and prouder, but what did all that matter either? She heard him with pity in her eyes, but not love; and she told him, with only pity in her tones, that the man she loved was dead and her heart was buried with him. Later he learned the story that lay behind her words, and saw more hope in it for himself than she had given him, for surely his living love of her could, in due time, win her away from the memory of a dead rival. He would not take her answer then, but begged her to think of all it must "What's the matter with him?" msan to him, and let him ask her for it, once for all, when he came home from his next voyage. He was speeding homeward now, and the letter was to prepare her for his coming. He wrote it with so many pauses for reflection that by 10 O'clock it was still unfinished, when, mindful of his patient, he relccked it in his desk. ( No. 16 was awake, but drowsy with sheer weakness. "If I don't pull through this, doc-tor doc-tor " "Den't you worry 'about that; you will." "But if I don't I'm not afraid of dying. I've been near it tco often for that; and yet row it ssoms harder hard-er than it ever did before." ' "You'd better net talk. I don't want you to excite yourself." "Not me! What I mean is, it would be hard luck to die on the way home. I've been away nearly nine years. I went away as poor as a rat, and I'm going back rich. That's something, isn't it?" "It's a groat deai." "And I'm net yet, though I'm supposed to be'" the ether chuckled, grimly "Ocf cvpria.sirg, terrible mm J ran h ft wM W 4i fw&s H?ite.! TO KILL winter we were snowed up miles away from everywhere, and we were put down as done for. Only two of us managed to worry through, and we wandered heaven knows where, and we lived well, we didn't live. But we worried through and I'm going home." His eyes closed and he ram bled on dreamily: "Nine years; but she'll be waiting. I told her that it wouldn't be more than two and she said 'It's till you come, Ned, and if you never come, I shall wait till I meet you, at the end.' " He lay quiet a minute, and then, opening his eyes and finding the doc tor regarding him Intently, he con tinued : "We've never written to each other. We promised her people we wouldn't. She was to be free to change if she would; they said it was best. I had tow; fr Flung the glass far cut into the dark no money and no prospects, but If went back a rich man and she had not changed. . . .1 knew she never would. Whether I lived or died, she said she would never change and she won't." "Did you say your name was Ed win Ashton?" The doctor was startled by the alien sound of his own voice. The sick man nodded, and, pointing across the cabin "Her portrait's in my bag, doctor," he said. "Do you mind getting it for me? My will's in there, too. I made it as soon as I struck my first luck in case. . . . Oh, what I wanted to ask you, doctor, was if I don't pull round, will you have my bag and everything sent to her? You'll find her address " "Yes, yes. But not now," Yalden interrupted harshly. "You've talked too much already. . . . Come along, Barrow," he hailed the advent of the steward with ineffable relief "Call me if he is worse in the night." He was dazed and stupefied by the knowledge that had come upon him so unexpectedly, and yearned mto get away and be alone where he might think of it. One thought only burned to a clear and fiercely steady blaze a sinister, hellish thought that ha dared not face and could not extinguish. ex-tinguish. He lost all count of time, as a man does when he sleeps, but when the steward summoned him hurriedly an hour after midnight he had evidently not been in bed; a light was burning in his cabin, he was still dressed, and his face was wan and his eyes heavy, as if he were in pain. s "Mr. Ashton's worse, sir. Edwards is with him, and called me to fetch you. He can't sleep. Keeps sitting up, Edwards says, staring as if he could see people, an' talking very sing'Iar. Delirious, I expect, sir." "We must try a sleeping draught," said Yalden dully. "I'll be there directly." di-rectly." Barrow being gone, he busied himself him-self in the medicine cupboard, and hastened after him, carrying something some-thing in a glass. Drawing near to No. 16, he could hear the sick man babbling monotonously, monoton-ously, and the very sound of his voice stung .him and quickened a fiercer flame within him; till suddenly he caught a word of what the man was sayiEg merely a name, but the utterance utter-ance of it checked him instantly, as if a hand had plucked at his sleeve. Ha stood trembling, and in that same instant saw, shaping white in the darkness before him, a sweet, sad face, grown pale with weary years of longing the pure, wistful eyes looked into his, and their calmness calmed him, and their sadness made him ashamed. With a something breaking like a sob in his throat, he swiftly retraced his steps, pausing in the unlighted salcon to open one of the , portholes and fling the glass he carried far out into the dark. Thereafter he sat till well into the day watching and tending the ma she loved and had loved so long. Going on deck in the morning, ht leaned,, over the side to tear up the letter he had written and scatter its fragments into the sea. It was the burial of a great hope that had died in the night. As he walked away, the captain, coming from breakfast, met him, and lingered to make inquiries. "Morning, doctor; how's the patient? pa-tient? You're not going to make a funeral of it. I hope?", "Not quite," Yalden laughed carelessly- "He has taken a turn 'for the better." Black and White. LITERARY NOTES. F. Marion Crawford, the brilliant young novelist, has an article in the August number of Everybody's Magazine Mag-azine in which he discusses the problem prob-lem of Leo's successor with an intimate inti-mate knowledge of the ground and the candidates that no other writer could command, in view of the fact that a most cordial friendship existed between the head of the church and the author. It is claimed that Leo a'ppointed Crawford his biographer and gave him access to much valuable information that the casual biographer would never have acquired. Aside from this excellent article, this most estimable magazine contains an unusual un-usual number of well written bits of fiction, some excellent half-tones of people of prominence, and several jolly jol-ly little stories of real life, the whole making a magazine ef unusual merit. Frank A. Munsey, the pioneer in the introduction of the popular price magazine, has made a fortune in the past few years and now. has many periodicals and newspapers to look after, but Munsey's Magazine is never neglected and grows brighter with each issue, the August number being the best number yet put forth. This is in keeping with Mr. Munsey s pol icy, to never retrench, but to improve with every issue. A number of pictures of Lhasa, the sacred city of Thibet, are published in the August number of the Century il lustrating a well written article by J. Deniker. To Ushe, Narzumof, a Kalmuk pilgrim, who twice managed to elude the-vigilance of the guards, the world is Indebted for pictures of thus forbidden city and much valuable information concerning, it. hasa is but on Mount Polala near tiiMSPWT oi me rver Indus. Tradition says it had its beginning in the seventh cen tury, and no outsiders are allowed within its gates. The "Captain's Toll Gate" is the title of a new book just published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. It is by the late Frank R. Stockton and is the last of his novels that wh. ever be published. Frank Stockton has written some of the very best novels of the age and his writings have always al-ways been eagerly sought by both publisher pub-lisher and reader and this, his last novel, is considered by many critics to be his best effort. The book is prefaced pre-faced by a memoir of the noted author, written by Mrs. Stockton and contains, besides an excellent portrait of Stockton, Stock-ton, himself, illustrations of his homes at both Convent, N. J., and Charles Town, W. Va. No library is complete without this last work of Frank R. Stockton. Among the many interesting books recently published by Houghton, Nuf-flin Nuf-flin & Co., New York, is "The Legatee," Lega-tee," by Alice Prescott Smith. It is a dramatic and absorbing novel and one that will be widely read. There is excellent character drawing in It and the interest is well sustained throughout. through-out. It is just the book to buy to take with you on your summer outing and it will bear a second reading when you return to the home. It Is excellently excel-lently and tastefully bound and an especially handsome volume for the library shelves. Cotton Eatting Realism. It was at the old New England farm drama.' "You look overheated," remarked re-marked the stage manager. "And I feel it," growled the hero; "the way they covered me with snow in that blizzard scene was enough to overheat any one this weather." What Will Mr. Bok Say to This? It is related that in a country town recently, when there was a procession wedding, the bride wished to have the groom meet her at the altar. As there was no vestry room for him to omoT-crA frnm it wn2 Tarrnn?rpd for him to hide behind the cabinet organ till the bride reached the altar. Atchison Globe. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY. Nctre Dame, Ind. We call the attention of otir readers to the advertisement of S t. Mary's Ataiiemy, which anpears in another column of this paper. We do not need to expai iate upon the scholastic advantages of St, Mary's for f ie catalognecf the pciiool shows the eope cf work included in its curriculum, which isof the hiahest standard, andlsc-trried out faithfully in the classrooms. We simply emphasize the spirit of earnest devotion which makes every teacher p.t St. Mary loyally strive to develop each young girl attendant there into the truest, noblest, and most intelligent womanhood. Every advantage of equipiiicntinthe class rooms, laboratories and study rooms, every care in. the matter of food and clothing, end exceptional ex-ceptional excellence of classic coudit ions "all these features are found at St. Mary's, in the perfection of development only to be obainsd by the cous'-cratioa of devoted lives to educational Christian work, in a BDot f avored bv the Lord. Old-Time Forest Fires. October 8, 1825, a conflagration broke out in central i!aine which overran over-ran more than a million acres of land and swept all before it. About the same time a fire arose near Quebec on the St. Lawrence river, which killed more than 5,000 persons, including nearly every member of the Mame-lons Mame-lons tribe of Indians, and which poured pour-ed a tide of scorching flames across the province of Quebec, licked up the northern end of New Brunswick and did not stop until the margin of St. Lawrence bay was reached and Miri-machi Miri-machi turned to cinders and dust in a day. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put toaether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. incur-able. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failins to cure -with local treatment, treat-ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoqnful. It acts directly npon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. I. CHKXF.Y & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. y Hall's Family -Pills ape the- best ":J - ' High Life in New York. Valet service is not enough nowadays now-adays for the bachelor apartments to supply. In all the large houses of this kind there must be valets' rooms as well. In the valets' rooms are all the objects required for the valets' duties. There these men press clothes and polish hats, do the shoes and attend to any other detail of dress that may require particular preparation. The ise of this room is free and there are low few bachelor apartment houses .hat would attempt to get along with-mt with-mt one. New York Sun. PIso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs. WM. O. E8BSLIT, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Training for Policemen. There is a policeman's college in Petersburg to train applicants for the force. There is a museum combined with the school where the pupils make themselves familiar with the tools of criminals jimmies, drills, chisels and contrivances . for robbing collection boxes, a special field of Russian thieves. The Russian passport system is studied in detail. The duties of the dvorniks, a sort of assistant police, are taught. They keep watch on the. residences, resi-dences, report on the habits of the tenants, their visitors, examine the papers of newcomers anr" direct them to report themselves at the .police station. |
