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Show V 1 I X5he INDEPENDENT. . ... TO. C JOU.NMI.N. PablUaaa. 8PRINOV1LLE. UTAH This is the open season for minis-ers minis-ers In Bulgaria. It would seem that Patti's other visits were merely au-revour tours. Living is high in New York. Eveu a dog ate $100 for luncheon the other day. At this season of the year no boy needs to be told that swimming is a healthful exercise. A Minneapolis hospital offers to treat a man free. Huh ; most any can-didate can-didate will do that. The remodeled White House contains con-tains thirty-two miles of wire and several people to pull it. They are busy in New York jait row counting the geese that "Get-Itich-Quick" Goslin plucked. Bulgaria should Join hands with Japan Ja-pan and divide the expenses of the enthusiastic search for trouble. Any reasonable man will admit that there are two sides to every question his side and the wrong side. Mr. Whistler is no more and the gentle art of making enemies is relegated rele-gated exclusively to our reformers in , jjolitics. fall What worries the sultan is not that his treasury is empty, but that he has reached the end of his ability to go into debt. American warships in European waters wa-ters have been winning peace victories vic-tories that are no less valuable than those of war. People who can't get along without borrowirg trouble might save wear and tear on tneir nerves by moving to Paterson, N. J. Prosperity among the politicians is beyond question. The diamond importation has increased 50 per cent during the last year. It is said that Indians have acquired ac-quired the divorce habit. Perhaps the real truth is that some of the squaws have decided to strike. The peek-a-boo shirtwaist may shtck us, but it has one great advantage, advan-tage, the dear girl who wears it attracts at-tracts all the mosquitoes. The latest bulletin from Jim Cor-bett's Cor-bett's camp proves conclusively that when his "new blow" has been tried out, Jeffries will again be a boilar maker. Anthracite coal fields have been discovered dis-covered in Colorado equal in extent to those of Pennsylvania. The Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley will now be between two flres. When an old-fashioned mother wants to say in a back-handed way that her boy is good at school, she says that he likes all his teachers. i, Atchison Globe. It is hoped that the Fourth-of-July victims have nearly all been accounted for. The automobile accidents continue, con-tinue, however, to be reported in gradually grad-ually increasing numbers. Mrs. Corbett has dreamed that her husband will knock out Jeffries in the thirteenth round. But if she wanted to be convincing, why couldn't she make it some other round? A New York corporation, of which the stock is said to have bej, "all water," has been declared bankrupt. The company's floating debt did not keep the directors in the swim. Peace once more reigns in the educational edu-cational world since the president of the State university of Vermilion, S. D., has been exonerated from the charge of drinking beer and smoking cigars. Prince Botljar of Paris calls the Servian affair an "operetta." Well, it depends, Prince. If you had been playing the star pert doubtless it would have seemed a little nearer the legitimate. Dr. Stiles claims that in some cases the "laziness disease" has been fatal. The only case just now recalled is that of the man who was too tired to get off the track when the train came along. England complains that we have seized some of her islands. But we have not It is merely an exchange We gave her William Waldorf Astor, ard surely he is worth more than any little bunch of islands. Jacob Jung and Marie Mosser, aged 87 and 63 respectively, kissed each other in Lincoln park, Chicago, recently, re-cently, and were promptly arrested. Poor young things! How can Chicago Chica-go tolerate policemen with no tender sentiments in their souls? When the theosophist lady and gentleman gen-tleman who stood up before their friends the other day and said they were married want to call it off they will find it necessary to go through a few additional formalities. The law is queer about come of these things. President Butler of Columbia spent the Sabbath with President Roosevelt, and both remained away from church. But let us put way the suspicion that two presidents were out back of the barn playing quoits. A Missouri editor was fined $500 for contempt the other day because he criticised a decision of the court, When the citizens heard of it they at once subscribed the morey that was needed to pay his fine. Some courts don't know when to let well enough alone. Japanese tea merchants are In this country for the purpose of booming their goods, but as they brought no racing yacht along Sir Thomas need not worry about the new competition. Abdul's strong box is empty and nothing emerges from the cavernous darkness but the hard breathing of the finance minister feelirg for the last piaster Is the farthest corner. Mr. Payne Whitney Is going to look for King Solomon's mines. , .Think ef leaving Wall street on such a search! TALE OF BUTTERBY'S KID Old man Butterby hated Bob, And Bob, he equally hated him. And as each was onto his shoottagr Job, It seemed that some one's show was slim. For from Butterby's ranch to Bob's home place Was a mile or so, and that was all; So the boys all said, as they viewed the case: I reckon the Coronerll git a call." Well, Bob and Butterby met one day Twas a thing, of course, they were bound to do And each of them put a tree In his way. And then, you bet, the bullets flew. Bob's arm stuck out, and he got a ball Bight where its passage was bound to hurt. And old man Butterby had a call From a bullet that injured the side of his shirt. But they stuck to their trees as If they were glued. And they hurled some names that that are not in the books. "Come out!" said Bob, and his tone was rude, "You dassent," said Butterby; "dern your looks!" And the air was full of bullets and flings, And adjectives dire of a red-hot brand. And they knew that Death on his misty wings Was waiting about to take a hand. "Come out," cried Bob, "you cowardly cow-ardly cur!" Most of the mental devices for wooing sleep have failed because they have nearly always tried to resort to "local treatment;" in other words, they have made a homeopathic . attempt at-tempt to stop thinking by thinking about something else a process which might also be called "elimination "elimina-tion by substitulon." But all thinking, think-ing, spontaneous or forced, draws more or less blood to the brain, prevents pre-vents deep inhalations and bars the gate to the kingdom of dreams. Any device, on the other hand, which will make one take deep, long breaths spontaneously (the invariable forerunner fore-runner of sleep) may be counted upon as a genuine remedy for insomnia. Even deep breathing which is forced is better than any purely mental attempt at-tempt "to win sleep, says Good Housekeeping. House-keeping. But if the deep breathing can be produced involuntarily one is sure of a passport to Nodland. After several nights of experiments to this end the present writer decided to apply ap-ply the principal adopted by the masseurs, mas-seurs, who begin their manipulation "at the point farthest from the seat of difficulty," which, in the case of There nave always been men like Thoreau and St. Francis who believed, be-lieved, says the London Spectator, that property brought with it a heavy heart, and who have refused, as did the American philosopher, to be "harnessed "har-nessed to his possessions." St Francis Fran-cis "cast aside every weight" that he might free himself from "idle sorrow." sor-row." He and his first disciples "loved nothing earthly; they were secure se-cure in all places, troubled by no fears, distracted by no cares; they lived without trouble of mind, waiting wait-ing without solicitude for the coming com-ing day." St Francis in the fastnesses of the Italian hills singing French hymns among the highway robbers in his whimsical lightness of heart makes a strange picture. He knew French badly, but it seemed to him the language lan-guage of gayety. The founder of the Franciscans, though we are told that he possessed what was quaintly called the gift of tears when performing perform-ing his devotions in his call, was never nev-er seen abroad without a smile, neith If the sea were drained, says the Family Herald, what treasures we could find upon the old ocean floor galleons loaden with gold beyond the dreams of avarice! Lesser waters than the sea, however, hold treasure which can be found. Almost simultaneously simul-taneously come reports oftwo scientific scien-tific quests for wealth hidden under the face of the waters. The Tiber of old Rome is to be searched, and a lake In the Republic of Colombia is to be drained for the gold and jewels, votive offerings, that were thrown into It by the natives long ago. For a century there have been plans to turn the Tiber aside temporarily tem-porarily to search its dirty bottom. Now the authorities have given Prof. Nispilandi permission to make a systematic sys-tematic hunt The ancients used to throw treasures to Father Tiber as offerings to the gods, and tlie current of the river has swept away the arms and armor of thousands of warriors who fought on the banks. Much of this wealth has no doubt been de "I gee by the papers," said the man who has engaged summer board at Bensonhurst, "that they have been having some lively sessions at Bath Beach. A friend of mine who recently recent-ly moved there with his wife confessed con-fessed to me life there was a little too vigorous for him. He is carried to a woman who means well, but who has the society bee buzzing noisily in her bonnet. She would walk four miles any day to attend a social function. func-tion. On the other aand, my friend looks with great disfavor on all such frivolities. He is content to labor all day. read at night, and then retire to sleep the sleep of the truly good. "Last night my friend was returning return-ing home' a little later than usual as he had been detained in the city. He passed a cottage, through the half-dotal half-dotal shutters of which streamed a Jktetd of light From within cam DEVICE FOR WOOING SLEEP - ' LIGHT HEARTS AND HEAVY x . . ; ; s TO SEARCH FOR TREASURE WHAT THE PEEPER SAW For his shoulder burned and his thoughts were hot A laugh rang out where the bushes were. And into "the open there strayed tot, A wee little tot with curly hair. And eyes with dreama in their blue depths hid The fairest thing on the mountain there, And her laughter was sweet it was Butterby's kid. Her eyes met Bob's, and she laughed again As she toddled straight to the tree where he stood. Tve lost my dolly," she said, "but, ren, I dess 'at oo'll find it; I 'pose 'at oo could." Bob kissed the babe, and he left the tree, "Shoot if you please," he cried, "dern you! There's a Job right here that is callln me." Said Butterby then: "I'm damned if I do!" There is peace to-day on Butterby's hill, There Is peace in the home and the heart of Bob, And the sounds of strife are hushed and still. And the Coroner yet is minus a job, I don't go much on cussing and such, But I hope the angel the record hid Of Butterby's oath, or, with gentle touch, Wrote only: "Forgiven because of the kid." Alfred J. Waterhouse in New York Times. insomnia, would be the feet. Lying on the right side, with the knees together, to-gether, and considerably flexed, the victim of insomnia should begin to pedal both his feet slowly up and down, with the movement entirely in the ankles. The pedaling should keej time with the natural rhythm of respiration res-piration and be continued until it is followed by deep and spontaneous breathing. Several people who have tried this remedy report that involuntary invol-untary deep breathing invariably begins be-gins before they have pedaled up and down a dozen times. In obstinate cases of insomnia the patient may need to keep up the pedaling two or three minutes, or even more, with in-termissions, in-termissions, if necessary. The treatment treat-ment may also be varied by moving the feet alternately, instead of simultaneously, simul-taneously, though the latter method has proved the more speedily efficacious effica-cious in the cases known to the writer. The explanation of the result obtained is probably simple. The blood is pumped from the head, and with the removal of brain tension, a general relaxation follows, with a sequent se-quent deep respiration and its resulting result-ing sleep. er would he tolerate any appearance of heaviness in his followers. He rebuked a brother to whom a deject-ed deject-ed manner had become habitual, say. ing: "My brother, repeat thy sins in private and do not appear before the community thus downcast." We are inclined to think that those who make their living provided it is a fairly good one in the sweat of their brow have lighter hearts. than those who make it in the sweat of their brain. The high spirits which seem to be enjoyed by domestic servants to judge by the sounds which come upstairs are a case in point Dusting, Dust-ing, scrubbing and plate , cleaning seem to weigh on the heart far less than doctoring, journalism or the study of law or theology. Too often spirits are broken by overwork or by disappointment in the wild struggle to succeed which goes on among professional pro-fessional people. Certainly in the literary lit-erary world light hearts are generally general-ly lost early, yet the light-hearted man of letters, though he is rare, is the most attractive of all light-hearted men. stroyed by ages of rust and rot, but here must be a great deal not yet ound by occasional seekers. The quest for gold and Jewels at he bottom of the Lake of Guatavita in Colombia is at once more romantic and surer to be profitable. The lake lies ten thousand feet above the sea, and was held sacred by the tribes of natives that lived near it when the Spaniards came. Every year the savages, sav-ages, headed by their king, visited the lake. The king, covered with gold dust, plunged into thejvaters, and his subjects threw after "him gold and silver and emeralds. When Quesada and his Spaniards made their way up the Andes to the lake, the natives threw their treasures to the god of the lake for safe-keeping. Enough riches have been found in the lake to warrant several attempts to cut a depression in the side of it All such attempts have lowered the water only a few feet. Now an English company is to drain the lake by means of a tunnel, and rake the bottom. sounds of revelry Amid the laugh- ter and the talk -he recognized bis wife's voice. Curiosity led him to peep tn rough the blinds. He beheld a joyous company cf men and women, wom-en, youths and maidens. They had been playing games, and at the moment mo-ment the good man was looking in at them were engaged in the happy pastime pas-time of selling the forfeits. "My friend saw his wife kissed three times by a good-looking young fellow. Then she sat In a chair and the young man went up behind her and held a handkerchief over her head, saying: " 'Pleased or displeased? "This was too much for my friend at the blinds, and in a voice equaled only by the roar of a mad bull he bellowed: bel-lowed: "Very much displeased!"' New York Press. ODD SWISS Peculiarities That Appeal to the "Western Traveler Unconscious Uncon-scious Humor in the Columns of a Berne Newspaper How Wayward Ci izens Are Punished (Special Correspondence.) The tireless tourist, whose aim it is to cover as much of the ground of Switzerland in as relatively short a time as possible, darting from Geneva to the Oberland, or from Lucerne to the falls of the Rhine and back again, over one of the Alpine passes, with Rathhaus pleasing impartiality, seldom if ever sees or hears of the thousand and one peculiarities .and oditles of customs cus-toms that are in vogue in the various towns and villages through which he has made bis gaping way. It is only after long residence and a familiarity with the languages that these are brought to one's attention, while even then many may be missed, for the Swiss are too phlegmatic a people to draw attention to their own little idiosyncrasies. idio-syncrasies. Take, for instance, the custom of annexing the wife's maiden name to that of her husband by means of a hyphen. Then signs over the shops are generally lettered In that way, and one may read over the door of a confectioner, con-fectioner, "Arnold Wiesendanger-Nievergelt," Wiesendanger-Nievergelt," through which sign the public Is immediately informed that Mr. Wiesendanger married Miss Niev-ergelt, Niev-ergelt, and that no er or in the name of Mr. Wiesendanger's mother-in-law need be made. Which is comforting, to say the least The different districts have an official offi-cial puolicity organ caned the "An-zeiger," "An-zeiger," or, literally, "The Informer," which is nothirg more or less than the ancient town crier modernized for present usage and put on paper. In Berne, this "Advertiser for the City of Berne" i3 published every morning .and distributed gratis to each housV' holder by women messengers, whQ carry the publication in market baskets bas-kets or push it in old perambulators. Unconscious humor frequently plays a generous part in the columns of the "Anzeiger," as the request of a young man to learn billiards from an experienced experi-enced player in exchange for gratis refreshments consumed by the teacher teach-er during the lessons, or another, which read, "For .sale Two canary birds and a 6mall cook stove, cheap." Whether or not the stove was indispensable indis-pensable in its connection with the ranary birds or whether the young '0 f8?! fTT J"'T fcK j Spalen man found a person to partake of his gratis refreshments, the nature of wMch, by the way, was not given, will hare to be learned from private sources. - On festive occasions the peasants in ihe country parts were wont, and occasionally oc-casionally still do inaugurate a "face-making" "face-making" contest, which finds great favor. There must be a strictly Impartial Im-partial and upright judge, contestants and spectators,' which latter are most important, as you will see. The latter lat-ter group about at points to vantage, van-tage, the second form a line, the Judge takes his place where the visages vis-ages of the assembled crowd are exposed ex-posed to view, and at a given signal the competition begins. Each contestant con-testant endeavors to screw his face about in a more fantastical manner than his neighbor, and each tries with might and main and muscle to outdo out-do the others. These physiognomical contortions last some little time, and the spectators become greatly interested. inter-ested. Fritz's sickly smile and Hans's giggling grimace appear to cause a singular effect upon the onlookers, for gradually, ard at first almost Imperceptibly, Imper-ceptibly, the contagion spreads, and one by one the members cf the Solemn and staid audience unwittingly commence com-mence to smirk and grin, while it not Infrequently happens that one of these spectators twists his visage into the most pleasingly grotesque distortion, whereupon the award of a cheese as a prize is made to this astonished person per-son who has thus involuntarily entered en-tered into the facial rivalry. pQte ' -s . L mm' i in .,,.' g ; i it S t S St BIS - - -.t' r- i i SIS' ;vt "ftV " 'zJ?" M i S I bwfr fr' it ALrzL -x 1 " """""' is'" s ' I xAS iSvyy . ; CUSTOMS. In several of the cantons, notably Berne and Vaud, and in a few smaller ones, a punishment is Inflicted upon 'wayward citizens, which consists simply sim-ply of forbidding them to enter an inn, placing as it were, a ban upon convi-val convi-val meetings for a certain length of at Basel. time. Each male citizen in Switzerland Switzer-land must serve in the Swiss army if physically capable, and if he be ex-.empt ex-.empt from service upon grounds of non-capability, a tax must be paid in its stead. If this tax remains unpaid, the "Wirtshausverbot," or, literally, "saloon ban " as. the law is designated, is called into force and the name of the delinquent-is published in the official offi-cial paper mentioned above, while a penalty is imposed upon an Innkeeper who wittingly caters to such a person. The government believes that if a man has money to spend for beer and liquors, liq-uors, he must certainly be in a position posi-tion to adjust his small dues to the state, and in consequence of publicity this loss of the privilege of hobnobbing hobnob-bing with one's friends in a favorite resort is felt greatly by the erring ones, who realize keenly the humiliation humilia-tion caused by the prohibition, and pay at their earliest opportunity. Even though such a law can be but partially enforced, it appears to serve its purpose. Another peculiar law in certain of the cantons is that winch compels a man to vote at local elections, whether he so desires or not. A fine of a small sum is exacted from those who do not go to the polls, and the only excuse is absence, death in the family, or a condition of health that renders it Aiecessary for the citizen to remain at home. This enforced voting may tend to bring out a respectablo percentage of electors, yet the proverb, "You may lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink," in this case might well bo varied so that one could say, "You may lead a voter to the polling poll-ing place, but you cannoi prevent his casting a blank or mutilated ballot." The more money one deposits in a bank, the less Interest is paid. A large sign posted next to the teller's win dow in the Swiss People's bank states the amount of interest the bank pays upon certain sums. Amounts under s rr-$ sis if Fountain. $1,000 draw 4 per cent interest per annum; an-num; from $1,000 to $3,000, 3 la paid while if one has an account o( more than $3,000, he receives but 34 per cent. Although economics explain this seeming singularity, the statement state-ment causes momentary wonderment His S..Dt Were Small. S. H. Minor of Aurora, while out hunting one day took a shot at a quail with No. 8 birdshot Imagine his surprise sur-prise and dismay to see a man bob up from behind a corn shock and catch the load full in the face. Instead of dropping, the man started toward Miner, Mi-ner, his face all covered with blood and with a murderous Iook in his eyes. Minor tried to run, but he was so badly bad-ly scared his feet refused to move. The fellow drew near and as Minor was about to drop with fear reached out his hand and said: ' Partner, have you get any cnewin'?" "Yes," Minor almost yelled as he handed him a plug. "Take it; it's all yours." "Well," replied re-plied the man as he bit off a. large chew, oe a little keerful when you're shootin in this here field., Ef them hed been big shot they might hev spiled my complexion." Kansas City Star. Debts of Southern Cities. The debts of most southern states diminish slowly, but the debts of southern south-ern cities are not generally considerable. consider-able. New Orleans owes $18,000,000, Louisville $8,000,000, Kausas City $6,-000,000, $6,-000,000, Memphis $3,300,000, Atlanta $3,000,000 and Nashville $3,600,000. f S r INTERNATIONAL PRE S3 ASSOCIATION. BY PERMISSION OF RAND. MSNALLY &C(X.K , CHAPTER XII. OHNSTONE!" cried Dick, at last, "what does this mean? How do you come to be here?" "From the Hamilton." Hamil-ton." replied the man; "I'm working out to the Cape." "But they told me your name was Gil-dez." Gil-dez." So It was on the barque yonder. You see my own's a bit too famous for general use. But here I'm among friends, and can fly what flag I please." "Among friends?" said Dick; "what do you mean by that?" "It seems I've an old acquaintance with you to begin with." said John-Stone, John-Stone, impudently; "and then I've come a good way with madame and the colonel." col-onel." "Answer me." said Dick, angrily, "and remember your place1." .."So I do," retorted the other; "I'm captain of this ship for the time being." be-ing." Estcourt was more astounded than ever, and indignant at the brazen face of the fellow. "Come, my man," he said, sternly, "your tongue's too loose; you'd best tell me the plain truth at once." "You've got it already," replied Johnstone. John-stone. "I'm to sail the brig for Captain Worsley until he's on his legs again." "By whose authority?" - "His own; he's an old friend o' mine. We've made many a lucky voyage in company before now, and he knows there's no crew afloat that I couldn't handle." Dick looked at the herculean frame and fierce domineering face before him. He remembered how the boldness and force of the man had indelibly impressed im-pressed him years ago at Copenhagen, and-he felt that Worsley was amply Justified in his opinion. And he reflected, reflect-ed, too, that it mattered little to him who sailed the Speedwell, so long as she was safely carried Into port; In fact of the two men he preferred Johnstone, for, though he was less respectful than Worsley, he was at any. rate beyond comparison more active and courageous. coura-geous. "Well," he said, at last, in a mollified tone, "I dare say you'll make as good a captain as we need have; if you don't, you'll have me to reckon with, you know." And he was about to turn away, when he remembered that he had had no explanation, yet of the locked cabin. "If you'll be good enough to unlock that door," he said, "I'll go in and pay Captain Worsley a visit." At this moment the colonel appeared in the passage. "And how is Captain Worsley getting on now?" he asked, as he came toward the other two. "That's just what I want to find ot for myself," replied Dick, and he held out his hand for the key. Johnstone drew back a step, but seemed uncertain whether to comply or not. The colonel, standing a little behind, be-hind, frowned and shook his head over Dick's shoulder. Johnstone put the ky back in his pocket "Excuse me, sir," he said to Estcourt, with more respect than he had yet shown, "but I have strict orders to the contrary, and I daren't go against them." Before Dick could speak the colonel intervened. "I think you told me." he said to Johnstone, "that Captain Worsley showed an unreasonable prejudice against Captain Estcourt in particular?" particu-lar?" "Yes, sir; he's very violent." replied the man; "and if he's thwarted while he's in this state, I won't be answerable for the consequences. And just now he's sleeping heavily after his dose." Dick saw that it -was of no use to press the matter further. There was something odd about" the whole affair, but he was really very little interested in the patient or his case, and, having hav-ing done enough for civility, was quite ready to turn away to the more attractive attrac-tive society of Camilla and her brother-in-law. But he had scarcely yet recovered re-covered from his surprise at meeting Johnstone again so unexpectedly after twenty years, and made a remark to that effect as he went up on deck with the colonel. "Johnstone?" said M. de Montaut; "what Johnstone?" "Do you remember of my talking to you of a man of that name a famous smuggle! who volunteered to steer the ship on which I served at the battle of Copenhagen?" "Ah, yes," replied the colonel; "I remember re-member the incident perfectly, but I had forgotten the man's name. But what do you mean," he continued, "by saying you have met him again?" "He is our new captain, the man we have Just been speaking to." "Impossible!" exclaimed M. de Montaut; Mon-taut; "that was the Spanish sailor Gll-dez, Gll-dez, who was in the Hamilton with us." "That's the man, for all that," replied Dick. "I knew him at once, and he answered to his right name without question. The other was only assumed, for reasons best known to himself." "Really," said the colonel, "you can not imagine how you Interest me! I must have a good look at this romantic roman-tic figure next time I see him." "And, perhaps," said Dick, "Madame de Montaut may also be interested to know that she" is sailing under the auspices of so celebrated a captain." The colonel was here again In a d.'ffl-culty d.'ffl-culty which he had not foreseen. "My dear Estcourt,- he said, confl-dentiafly. confl-dentiafly. to Dick, "if I were you I shouldn't enlighten her as to the Identity Iden-tity of this Johnstone with the hero of your story." " "Why?" asked Dick, in astonishment "Well, you may think me absurdly cautious, but it is only for your own sake I am. You know how anxious I am for your success with Camilla." Dick grew hot with mingled embarrassment embar-rassment and gratitude. "This man," the colonel continued, "once tried as I think you yourself told us to capture the Emperor by a desperate des-perate stratagem; my sister-in-law has had a particular horror of him ever since she heard this. for she thinks he must have been actuated act-uated by motives of personal malice mal-ice you know how her enthusiasm en-thusiasm runs away with her.' If she is not told, she probably will not think of connecting this man with that incident in-cident merely because of the name. In any case, if she is to learn of the identity, iden-tity, let it be through me, and not through you, from whom she might think the information in bad taste." ' "I don't quite see it," said Dick'but no doubt you're right I'd rather bite my tongue out than hurt her feelings, and I'm rry grateful to you for tb hint" I. i. - BY HENRY AEiWBOLi: Rain now began to fall heavily and they were obliged to go below. The wind rose in gusty starts, sail after sail was reefed, and by the middle of the' afternoon the brig was scudding along before the gale with her masts almost bare. She was at all times unusually un-usually fast, but she was now flying along at nearly half again her ordinary rate, and for six whole days she never relaxed her speed. In spite of the rain and the spray, which from time to time swept over her, Dick and Camilla spent a good part of every day on deck, keenly sympathizing sympa-thizing with each other in delight at the swift, exhilarating motion of the vessel and the unchanging restlessness and grandeur of the waves over which she passed so lightly. Of the rest of the company on board they took but little heed. The mate nev er came their way. The captain was. reported still unable to stir outside his cabin, where Dick, after one or two more ineffectual requests for admittance, admit-tance, was quite content to leave him. The colonel had struck up a considerable consider-able intimacy with Johnstone, whom he pronounced to be not nearly such a ruffian as he looked. When the ship's motion was not too violent he went on tours of Inspection with the new captain, cap-tain, and was even found one morning alone in the hold, examining the cargo with incomprehensible energy and interest, in-terest, f "I can't think," said Estcourt, laughing, laugh-ing, "what on earth you can find to amuse you in the sight of all these casks and cases." "It is the thought of what they contain con-tain that fascinates me," replied the colonel, who was In a humorous mood. "What!" cried Dick, "stores and fittings fit-tings fascinate you? That's a dry taste!" "Ah!" said M. de Montaut, "but I have the poet's vision; I look beyond the mere articles themselves to the results re-sults they may effect. These packing-cases, packing-cases, you say, are but necessaries for the refitting of your ship. I see more than that. From the parts I reconstruct the whole In Imagination. I see, rising from these fragments, an entire vessel, with a fate of her own, and fraught with many destinies. Nay, who knows," he added, with mock sententiousness. 'but the ship that lies hidden in this despised cargo of yours may change the course of history!" Dick laughed again. "My dear colonel," col-onel," he said, "you see a good deal more than I do; I find it uncomfortably dark down here." "Ah, that's because I'm standing between be-tween you 'and the light," replied the colonel, taking up the lantern. "Come, let's go upstairs again." And . he led the way back to the middle deck. During the night of the 22d the wind fell to a steady breeze, and on the following morning they saw the sun again at last, standing over a headland that lay on the larboard quarter. The colonel appeared at breakfast with a chart, and Dick, borrowing It from him, explained the position of the Speedwell to Camilla. "Here," he said, putting his finger upon up-on the map, "is the stretch of coast along which the wind and the Guinea current have been hurrying us so fast. Here is Cape Palmas, which we have Just passed, and now we shall see no more of the shores of Africa. You see we have been carried a little too far to'the east already, and Ascension lies right below us in mid-ocean there." "And how far is it?" asked Camilla. "Twelve or thirteen hundred miles," said the -colonel, who was also looking on with interest. "Hardly so much as that; I wish it were," said Dick. "But I am afraid eight or nine days from the outside will take us there." "And from there," asked Camilla, still poring over the chart, "how far is it to St. Helena?" "I can't say exactly. To the Cape it is about two thousand five hundred miles, but that is the straight course, by which you go some way outside of St. Helena, and don't even pass near enough to see the famous pigeons." "What are they?" "Oh, they're only a kind of pigeon peculiar to that island; but they're rather well known for their beauty and because they're found nowhere else. They often come circling around a ship at an immense distance from the land, and the sailors catch them to take home to their friends; but they mostly die before the voyage is over." "Have you ever seen them?" asked the colonel. "What are they like?" y "They're small gray birds, very graceful grace-ful and light on the wing, with bright pink legs and a curious band of white under the eye." "No," replied Camilla; "didn't you hear Captain Estcourt say that they are peculiar to St. Helena?" "But surely they must have made their way across at some time or other; the two islands are not so very far apart." "It is curious," said Dick, "but I assure as-sure you that there are none to be found anywhere else. If I saw one of them, I should know for a certainty that I was off St. Helena, though a moment before I had been thinking myself my-self in the Pacific or the North Sea." He rolled up the chart and returned It to the colonel, who went off with it to his own cabin and did not appear for some time. Dick and Camilla went on deck, and enjoyed the sun and blue sky after so many dark days. "Do you know," she said, "that I did not always enjoy that perpetual rush of wind and rain? And If I hadn't seen that you were quite cheerful about It, I should have really been quite alarmed at times." Dick smiled. "I was more timid than you, I expect; I was by no means as cheerful as I looked." "Then there was danger?" she asked. "There was a lee shore, and there were nights in which we could see nothing." noth-ing." "Then how could the ship be steered?" . "She couldn't; she drove before the wind, which happily was in the right direction; all - the steersman could do was to stand to his helm and be always al-ways ready for a sudden danger." "What work!" she cried. "Then it was really one man who saved Us all?" "Oh. no," he answered, "that's too much to say: let's hope he would have saved us if he had had the chance." "How can you speak so lightly of him!" she exclaimed, warmly. "He is a hero, and I shall thank him myself I" Dick was silent, and looked away. Johnstone was passing near, and Camilla called .to him. "What is your steersman's name?" she asked, as he approached. Dick- had made some hasty excuse, and was gone in a moment "We've been taking the wheel in turns of late." said Johnstone; "but on the worst nights. Captain Estcourt wouldn't let her out of his own hands." She nodded and turned away. Johnstone John-stone passed on with an approving shake of the head. "My word!" he muttered, "he would be a fool to stick at scruples now; he'll be better paid than me by a long sight" As for Camilla, this episode brought to a decisive end the struggles which had been going on at intervals in her mind since she came on board the Speedwell. She was convinced, and glad to be convinced, that Dick was indeed the man she bad thought him of old. What ever had been his reasons for Joining in this expedition, they were not, sha felt certain, either weak fondness for herself or disloyalty to the colors under un-der which he served. With this conclusion, which was rather due to instinct than reasoning, and was but half-consciously present to her mind, her old feelings toward him resumed their place, and the restraint which she had hitherto endeavored to put upon them broke down completely. Eight days passed in great content The colonel troubled them with his society so-ciety less than ever. When he was not alone in his own cabin, he was generally general-ly in that of Captain Worsley, of whom he gave reports to the others twice a day. It appeared that the medicines on board were insufficient; the Speedwell carried no surgeon, in spite of th twelve weeks' regulation, which expressly express-ly Includes the Cape; and the patlent'i condition was, therefore, unsatisfactory, and at times even critical. Hearing this, Dick foresaw that th remainder of his voyage would probably prob-ably be spent In the sole company of Johnstone, and he began to realize how quickly and how pleasantly the last twe weeks had flown. Tomorrow Camilla would leave the Speedwell, and with her would go for the present all the sunshine sun-shine of life. Happily he had discovered discov-ered that she had no Intention of hiding hid-ing herself again from mm; she was evidently anticipating a meeting in th near future, though under what circumstances cir-cumstances he had no means of guessing. guess-ing. To his great surprise the next day passed without any sign of the Island of Ascension coming In sight. He supposed sup-posed that the brig had not been kepi Straight to her course, and In his heart thanked Johnstone for tne bad navigation naviga-tion which had given him another day's happiness. (TO BB COXTISCBD.) SWEET MILK AS SUSTENANCE. Physician Proves a Theory by a Personal J-'jrperIno. A medical man expresses the belief that a person1, could live for any length of time and take heavy exercise all the while on no other food than sweet milkv His conviction is the result of personal experiment, says the Philadelphia Record. Rec-ord. He wanted to establish the fact that persons convalescing from- sickness sick-ness may grow stronger with no other nutriment than sweet milk, and that they are not obliged to take "something "some-thing solid" to eat, as so many people imagine. He holds that many a convalescent con-valescent has gone into his grave as a result of overtaxing his weak stomach by putting "solid" food into it; and he maintains that the old belief as to bread being the first essential of human life Is shown by his experiment to be erroneous. er-roneous. His test was to live for thirty days with only sweet milk as a nourishment. nourish-ment. In the whole time he lost five and a half pounds in weight, but no strength. He even attributes the loss of weight to the warmth of the weather and to excessive exercise on the bicycle, bicy-cle, and the daily manipulation of 16-pound 16-pound dumbbells and other heavy weights. He took more exercise than usual in order to test the thing fairly. On the seventh day of the experiment he ran several foot races with a skillful runner and was beaten in each race. On the thirteenth day he again pitted himself against the same runner and did the best of the racing, which certainly cer-tainly would tend to confirm his statement state-ment that he lost no strength during the thirty days' test. He drank four pints of milk daily for the last week. He thinks a healthy person should take about five pints of milk daily when no other food is being taken. His practice was to drink milk at intervals of two hours during the day, commencing at 7 o'clock in the morning and continuing until 10 at night. After that he would take no more until next morning. -OUR COUNTRY HOSTS. What They Think of Us, Oar Work, Oai Ways and Onr Ambitions. A young friend of mine overheard this conversation between the proprietresi of a country farmhouse and her help the other morning: "Manda, have you rung that second bell?" "Yes, indeed; but I never see such people! Eight o'clock breakfast! Who ever heered o' such a thing! Why, I'm pretty near ready for dinner now." "Oh, them folks dunno anything 'bout time. I can't see how they do it Six o'clock breakfast is late enough for anyone." "There's that Mr. Craig, goes in his room and writes three hours a day, an calls that work." "Why, Eben'd saw a cord o wood in that time!" Eben would probably get 50 cents for his labor, while Mr. Craig, who is a well-known magazine contributor, earns $25. But let that pass. "Manda, if that Miss Clarke asks for any more stale bread, just tell her there ain't any. I want what I've got for the flap-jacks." "My gracious, if nice hot biscuit ain't good enough fo:r 'em, then I'd like to know! "An' that fini y Mrs. Hall askin' if I mixed up my biscuit with a spoon! "Well, if her conscience is as clean as my hands are, then it's a mighty good thing for her!" "Here they come! Look out for that pork steak, Manda, an see that it don't burn." Charm of a Well-Modal ited foice. Every woman, says the illustrated American, will acknowledge the charm of a well-modulated voice yet how few are willing to take the time or trouble to cultivate one, cultivation being, un- happily, necessary for the American woman, whose voice, through heredity and climate, Is aggressively sharp and distressingly monotonous. There are methods for training the voice to speak just as there are to train the voice to sing. In this era of physical culture I cannot understand why some one has not started the fad of "voice cultivation." cultiva-tion." It is true we have broadened our "a's," but most of us have stopped there and have expanded nothing else. The trouble is few American women know how to breathe which is not remarkable, re-markable, when one considers for how many generations American women have been satisfied to be absolutely inert. in-ert. The "new woman," whatever may be said against her, should at least be given the credit of arousing the feminine femi-nine part of this unwholesome lethargy and showing them the way to health and contentment through the mazes of various exercises. But defective breathing breath-ing is not the only immediate cause for defective vocality. Whatever affects unfavorably the general tone of the' system will surely, sooner or later, register reg-ister itself in the voice even if respira-' tion is good for the voice is not only! an "index of the soul," but a remarkably remark-ably accurate index of the body as well.' Bntopia for the Servant GlrL Servants seem to have the upper hand in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. They re- I fuse to cook dinner later than 4 o'clock, ! and insist on going home before dark, so that not a house has a servant in it after 8. and mothers have to stay at home to look after their babies. N. i |