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Show as , President Amador ci Panama FOR PLANT LOVERSi TOMMYS CRAIGS By G.F. MILL1N Thomas Copyright, 1JW. by Tommy Trad Traddles Joseph B Bovtle HELD CAPTIVE BELLE i Event lies, as we all called him was a piquant and Interesting old bachelor. He was very popular in a wide circle of acquaintances, for added to his he had amiable personal qualities, plenty of money and was gloriously hospitable. At the same time he possessed parsimonious peculiarities that made him the subject of innumerable! good stories, adding considerably to j amusement of all who knew him. Still he was, indeed, the last man In f the world we would have expected to be bowled out in an act not quite consistent with severest rectitude. So t when Dickson came hurriedly into our hotel at Boulogne and lold us that! Tommy was proposing t.o do a little smuggling, we were all disposed to be Incredulous. We had picked up Traddles on our way home from an autumn holiday in It was the morning of Normandy. the day on which we had arrived to take the boat across from Boulogne that Dickson told us how he bad chanced to spy the solemn, immaculate Tommy In the very act of making up a brown-pape- r parcel of dried botanical specimens. In the middle of which he was cunningly concealing some bundles of Petits Bouquets, evidently in the hope of smuggling them. WTe felt we had get Tommy on toast thlB time, and we owed him a witticisms long score for practical played upon us: Now we could pay him in his own coin, although we couldn't agree as to tbe best method of doing It. What we wanted was to expose Tommy's little enterprise without doing him any real harm, and that was just what we couldn't quite see our way to do. Kingstone took no part in the discussion until we seemed to have reached the end of our Inventive resources; then he quietly announced that he had a capital plan, and If we would follow his directions. Tommy With should have a startling show-up- . the promptitude of a master mind in command of dolts Kingstone first held a whispering aside with the Dickson, and then sent him away on some errand, and with many an irrepressible chuckle, he proceeded to initiate the others into the parts each would play In his interrupted. "Hang it all, Traddles. urged Dick sqm, "you can't say we stole vour cigars, when the worst we've (lone has been to get 'em through the customs for you." quite Well," replleli Traddles. " implacable, and shaking In his sternest manner, "1 won't say anything further on the score of theft, but Ill show you what I'll do." And to our amazement he dropped the window and shouted to a customs officer who stood on the other side of the platform. The man came promptly to his call, and Tommy addressed him. "Officer, he said, this man admits having brought these cigars ashore In his handbag without having offHaving said icially declared them. this, he dropped into his corner with the air of a man who had accomplished a painful duty. For the first time In our knowledge of him, Tommy, the hospitable, sociable old Joker, had done a really malicious thing. The officer's manner was very quiet and very serious. Taking possession of the cigars, he intimated that Dickson must accompany him to the supervisor, and with something like a We all groan, the culprit departed. we left the as and after hint, trooped carriage every one of us. except Klng-ston.hurled reproaches at the grim figure In the corner, who went on to town by the train, which started very soon after we left It. We tried to make the supervisor understand what had happened; to show him that the real cuprit was the Inplot But although the According to Instructions, we began former himself. looked enough, he officer sagacloua Interest an inquisitive by displaying and could seemed dense, we extremely got In Traddles' parcel as soon as on board the boat We offered to lend him a small portmanteau "to which he might transfer his botanical specimens. It would be more convenient and would look better. As our voyage progressed, we was not happy. Traddles that agreed Apparently, the parcel weighed on his mind, and quite unscrupulously we took every means of increasing his on tbe We enlarged uneasiness. tales of told and of smuggling, folly and heavy exposure ignominious (Fro itr to graph, copyright, by Underwood Ji Usdcrwood, N. T.) WHY FOOD IS HIGHER. DUE TO PRIDE AND VANITY CONSUMER. Flour costs anywhere fron four dollars to six dollars a barrel of 196 pounds, according to the price of wheat. But people don't buy barrela of flour as of yore. They demand It In fancy packages, and sometimes get it In tbe form of prepared foods. The flour that goes Into a one pound package costs about a quarter of a cent. The consumer pays much more, of course. The price for this one pound package is higher than It ought to be. it probably costs eight or ten tents, where It should not cost more than five or six. The higher price to the consumer Is the result of the fancy package, demanded by the widely spreading national vanity, and further of the fact that the article must be delivered, service that la demanded by the pride of the purchaser. "People are spending money nowadays and they are spending It fast Our prosperity depends upon spending. If everybody hoarded what he earned, prosperity would cease. We would try in our own fat." OP Government Statistician Declare Even Common People Want Bast of Everything and Pay for Fancy Packages. Washington. Pride and vanity on the part of the average Individual rather than in increase In the cost of raw products or manufacture are the rausea for the present high price of foodstuffs, according to Dr. Le Grand Powers, agricultural statistician of the census bureau. "People nowadays I mean average people, common people if you will insist upon having the best of everything," said Dr. Powers. "The insists upon the finest cuts of meats and he buya better meat, perhaps, than the salaried or professional man. He doesn't subscribe to the shinbone doctrine of Edward Atkinson. He has a feeling that he is as good as anybody else, and this feelCURED BY ELOPEMENT NEWS. ing asserts itself In bis purchases. That Is vanity. 8 hock Restores Aged Father of Girl You remember the time, perhaps, - .Who Runs Away to Wed. when a man who wanted to buy a t s steak threw his basket over his arm .The elopement ot a Ixmrf-doand went to the grocery after It. But git I has eured her elderly fathef h WdnT carfy a bundle now. His of a painful nervous disorder. Includimeat must be sent to him. That is ng agoraphobia which may be . d pride. scribed, youghly. as a dread of open It Is safe to estimate that it costs and exposed places. e cents a steak for every cut that is The specialist who telia tbe story fa delivered io the house.' The same is the Lancet nays that tbe man was true with other commodities of every seized with panic. when In a wide The man whose food street, and could cross a brl(ge only day necessity. Is delivered to him by the grocer or la an omnibus, with his eyes shut butchr pays the freight. But, after some months, he entereo You may take any article you tbe specialists consulting-roofines. apparplease, continued Dr. Powers, and ently a changed man. "He said he 'Fines! echoed one of our party. you will find that the margin between bad a dreadful shock; a terrible trou Since "They don't fine nowadays. the manufacturer and consumer Is ble. His daughter had run away from the last act the penalty for smug The middle borne, and joined a lover. Still, he did constantly increasing. gllng fs imprisonment, without the man, or dealer. Is the gainer, to a con- not look shocked. On the contrary option of a fine." siderable degree, although he Is not be appeared complacent and content Poor Tommy's face was a study. responsible altogether for the high ed. Then the story came out. His jaw dropped dismally, and he 'What I have come for Is not tc prices of foods. He must meet the looked altogether moody and miser his consult you about my health, but tc must he consumer's make fancies, able. goods look attractive, and be must lay tell you that this shock has complete As we drew near the end of the them at the door of the household. All ly cured me. I have not the slightest If as looked he voyage Traddles thia cqsts money and of course the difficulty In going anywhere I like. of would give worlds for the opportunity Go to the Devil! cao go through wide streets, over the consumer pays the freight. overto diop the wretched parcel bridges, across Trafalgar square, and breakfast want "People prepared board, if only he could get out of see nothing but the fact that It was foods now. where sat- even Into the parks. to be used The recovery they We took not the Informer who was actually our sight for a moment. isfied with o.atmeal and mush,. or pos- cse to me suddenly. Immediately af should of that there smuggling. good care, however, guilty dishes or cakes made of flour. ter I had the dreadful shock. " We had worked ourselves to a cli- sibly be no backing out of the enterprise, and as Tommy marched down the max of exasperation, when a lad came (OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC oononooooooo ooooooooooooooe gangway, he looked, or we fancied he in and handed the supervisor a note. did, a little white about the mouth, He opened the note, and as he read Cigarettes but be held his virtuous head so up- we saw that it contained a surprise. their own country and In turn He hastily turned to Tommys right, and dandled the parcel with ship It to foreign such an air of Innocent concern, that Petits Bouquets that lay on the countries, England and the United States being the chief market he might have passed through but for table beside him. eagerly exam for the the astounding action of Dickson, Ining first one and then another, Washington. A controversy which In tact, Egyptian clgaiettes, which are who hurried forward and tipped a finally extracting a cigar; he broke has been Greek cigarettes, those bear es- and on .In Europe, going wink to the man in buttons as - he it in two, then suddenly seizing Turkish being importeo rival peclally In England, as to the both bundles he came out to us Iq a merits of Turkish and Egyptian cigar- - rom urkF direct passed. Anything to declare?" was the towering rage. ettes seems likely to be settled by a Take your rubbish and go to the report of a disinterested but observ- - j phlegmatic official Inquiry, as Tommy devil! he said. passed. ant American consul. Farmers Wife Has Bearing Treei declared the What's up? What's the matter Nothing dutiable, Though the United 8tates is the Growing In Hsr Garden. audacious Tommy, with an air of now? we broke out. each in his own great cigarette-producinof nation dignity that Bhould have carried con- way. the world, there are imported Into this Bussey, fa. Not only does the lows viction. "Clear out, I tell you," roared the oountry every year more than $3,000,-60- farwer's Only botanical specimens wife produce the fruit wltt I've had enough . of and and one or two other things. furious official; worth of foreign-madcigarettes, which to make her pumpkin and goose-berrNot dutiable, I assure you. this foolery." some Turkish and some Egyptian. pies, but Mrs. B. T, Little, wife mean?" do to hard What maintain you tried ejaculated very Tommy of Turkey Is a large Prosperous fanner living near an aspect of outraged dignity as the Dickson, and as he spoke he drew oul country, 50,000 tons of tobac- Bussey, has succeeded in yielding producing officer resolutely began to untie the one of the Petits Bouquets and broke co every year, and the Turks, it is the lemons with which she will menu parcel, but he couldn't help betray- it as he had seen the supervisor do well known, are a nation of amokers. facture her lemon pies for Thanksglv ing the greatest agitation. He stood and then we saw what Tommy bao The amount of tobacco raised in lag the very picture of a detected crim- done. They were mere dummies ot Egypt is Inconsiderable, and yet Tkkt this particular variety of inal. He protested, then he blustered cigars, and of course were not dutla fruit may Egyptian cigarettes are Imported Into cultivated with some ble at all. and coaxed. this country In considerable amounts uch a varied climate as the We shall just catch 4:28," said every year tt was, of course, useless, and the low offers has been demonstrated by Wt official was deaf to' entreaty. With Kingstone in his driest manner. as The explanation of the matter, Mrs. Little. he on first the find deliberation shall heartless Tommy opened platform offered by the American consul in We has half a an' outside paper, then an inner pa- with the luggage. I believe he expects Athens, is simple. It seems that tbe growing n her dosen lemon trees have per, and then began to rummage us to dine with him at the Criterion Greek tobacco crop last year was tbe til produced fruit garden. They of Some this year. I "He to in wired botanical arrange. specimens, up among the Greece ever harvested-abo- ut largest are of showenormous site, the center of which he found a small, know." A brand of 200,000,600 tB,t th Iowa soil is full of the pounds. Dirksou was the only one who did Greek tobacco Is used for Egyptian substance eruaty loaf of bread! necessary to the production ft was, 'of course, the very famil- not look like giving a ready accept- cigarettes. of )non piet. iar joke that Dickson had perpetrated ance, for he had been specially vicof N Why, it is asked, Egyptian? The lemons which have direction. He had timized all through? tonder Kingston 00 th trees cultivated answer is that Egyptian clrgarettes by Mrs he said, as Look here, Kingstone. contrived to take out the cigars and are made by Greeks because cigarnd 10H inches in had out of the we net had then the as soon and supergot in the loaf, slip ette paper Is too expensive In Greece, C L.!rrflC' will weigh nearly customs official mtendlng- - visor's office, did old Traddles let me i where it is a government monopoly. one pound each. see him making up that parcel on Thus the business has gone Over to amuggier. - , dclare they will make Sir, I told you there was nothing purpose? The most famous cigarett Egypt J p,M ,n th tte and k!1J,bob Kings-tonas he did." replied Of course to declare! said Tommy, sternly, makers of Egypt sre Gyeeks. roadh five to seven pies the man deftly retied the parcel and taking him by the arm, and - A very largo business in cigarette 2 Hes been planning thia making has been established In Alex- Hwws are ,er Immense lemons. The moving on. poshed it from him perfect in shape snd color. We presently discovered him locked little eell for weeks. Come on, or we andria, and It It in tbe hands of evenly, and seem ta he - shall lose the train" byTtfm! a first-clasrarriase, quite Greeks, who import thetr.tohacco from jujquie4 flavor.-- - e work-fagma- n simple-- hearted 1 Large Number of Imported. 0 e tobacco-producin- g cit-m- t. e, s "Commodore" Hammer, as he Is called b the naval veteraus, started hla seafaring life at a vety tender age. sailing from his native place, Trondhjem, when M "years old. After touching at various ports In the East Indies and South America, he arrived in Boston In the winter of 1861. one of the crew of the ship Dolphin of Bath. Me. from Calcutta. It was at a time when the government needed men In the navy. The day after his arrival he enlisted and was rushed to New York, where he was assigned to duty on the steamer Sumter. This vessel was on the blockade off Charleston and In the below Savannah, In the left leg. He had been on board the Sum ter less than two months when he waa made a quartermaster. After 10 months on the Sumter he was accepted as one of the volunteers to man the lT. S. S. Connecticut, which was fitted out especially to look after the rebel cruiser Alabama, and waa afterward transferred to the blockade off Wilmington. She started on her historical cruise Christmas morning, 1862. The notorious confederate spy. Belle Boyd, waa captured by the cruiser, then commanded by Captain Almy, and It waa through the efforts of young Hammer that the Greyhound with Belle Boyd and a large sum of money was taken. On May 9, 1864, a haay morning. Quartermaster Hammer Informed the "I don't deny it, said Dickson, "but you know, Traddles, you might have " "nd you were all parties to the - the Stirring Career of Capt. F. M. Hammer. Bedford air he in s Different Specimen Vary Greatly in Their Requirements Not All Need Sunlight to Attain Perfection of Growth Care of Palms. Many do not think it is wtsr to have plants in their living rooms during Jhe winter, while others aie careless of the wisdom of it. hut would not he happy unless thev had green and flowering plants in one or more rooms of their homes To see the pains housewives take to have plants in llieii homes, often under the moat adveise circumstances, leads one to believe that the love of nature and ot the beautiful Is deeply planted with In the character of most women If ou me going to have plants, and otherwise, in yon I? floweitng home, it is of the utmost ImiHirtaoie to know tile eliai arler and habits of each plant, if you wish to eulliv.aio and have them flower successfully. Some should tm placed where they get the direct rays of the sun at midday, while others, like salamanders, will stand any amount of heat and do best at a south window. Few plants will grow and bloom without sunshine, but there are a few which make a lovely show even In the north window. All kinds of ferns love just such a situation; sweet violets will grow among tbe ferns ami bloom freely, filling the room with their sweet odor. The varieties of begonias which depend for their beauty tallage rather than flowers do weft without sun. We have even seen begonias covered with bloom and perfect masses of foliage which haft reached that stale of perfection, without a ray of sunshine. For aouth windows geraniums, fuchsias, sweet alyssum. heliotropes, and oxtails will give perfect satisfaction and a mass of bloom. The can also be grown in an east or west window, but geraniums particularly will not do so well any place as- in a south window. Begonias, callaa, fuchdo well sias, feverfew, mignonette.-al- l where they get sun but part of the day. Any of the following, plants are tc be relied on either for bloonr or foliage, as stated. They are particularly d suited to the furnace-heateair of our dwellings, and not need much attention: The India rubber tree (ficus elastics) stands at the head ot decorative house plants which will stand a hot. dry atmosphere. A large, well grown specimen will have leaves four or five inches wide and nearly a foot kng.t It does not drop it leave easily, some remaining on several yearn The . ftusma n TEaTfffgBwnr" The plant requires plenty of llght.and' water, snd makes a better growth If supplied with plant food once a week. , Dracoena terminalls la another Very ornamental, plant. Liko the ficus, it will stand a dry atmosphere. Its leavea are a dark crimson, marked lengthwise with a lighter pink. ' The plant needs repotting spring and fall. During the winter the leavea must be wiped off with a damp sponge as often aa the dust accumulates on them. It requires soasw sunshine and considerable water. Another plant which will thrive in the same situation Is the screw pine (pandamus Javanacus). P. variegatus la particularly desirable. It has long, narrow, drooping leaves, variegated with lighter green, almost white. It will do well with but little sunshine, but needs plenty of light. It requires but a moderate quantity of water. Most of the palm family are suite! for pot culture, and do well when given a place where they are seenre from freezing. They will do with little light, and for thia reason are desirable ornaments for the ball or the stairway landing. They do not, however, object to sunshine, and are a handsome addition to any collection of plants. They should be kept in a rather small pot. They require a peaty soil, mixed wtth sand, and plenty of water. Ltvlstona chfnensis is one of the most elegant varieties, but latanla bourbonlca and the dwarf pal. metto (sabal adamsonli) are also ear-natio- - dust-ladene- w u long-leave- CAPT. FRED. M. HAMMER. Head of National Aaaoclation of Naval Veterans. officer of the deck that he wanted to be sent aloft In the crow's nest, ilia mates laughed at the idea of making out anything in such an atmosphere, hut up he went, and while at the mast- head Hammer raised a steamer which proved to be the Minnie. The capture of this steamer, which had run the blockade out of Wilmington, .not only resulted In the taking of a large sum of money, but from the crew It was learned that the Greyhound was coming out the next day. The Greyhound also was captured and a prize crew put on board In charge of Acting Ensign Harding with order to proceed to Boston. The dashing young confederate spy. Belle Boyd, who was on board, had, however, made a deal with Harding to take the prize to Bermuda, but happily the scheme was thwarted, tbe Greyhound again run down and the whole outfit taken Into Hampton roads. While there young Hammer was given orders by Captain Almy to keep MIbs Boyd under surveillance. A few years ago while she was lecturing In Fall River he made himself known to her as she In his discourse alluded to The circumstance, and upon hearing that he was the young fellow who had kept An eye on her move "Well, it was ments. she replied: lucky for you at that time that I did not have a revolver; yon wouldnt be here today talking to me Commodore Hammer at tbe close of the war commanded merchant vessels sailing out of Boston, New York and Baltimore, and 20 years ago was master of quite prominent as a sailing yachts owned by George O Shattuck and J L. Stack pole of Boston. He Is an active member of Cumberland Association of Naval Veterans ot New Bedford, and has tbe confidence of the entire national body. Pompous Officer Rebuked. certain colonel who was fa com mand of the Perthshire Yeomanry wax at an evening party In Edinburgh com plaining loudly of bis officers, alleging that all the duties of the regiment de volved upon himself. "I am, said he to all intents and purposes my own own lieu major, my own captain," my To cornet own say noth tenant, my leg of being your aln trumpeter, too,' remarked a grim old Scottish lady, A d verj-good- Other annuals welt worthy of pot culture are sweet alyssum, mignonette and morning glories. Tbe totter are fine for hanging baskets and for pots trellis a When, grown in pot on foot high, they will show a perfect In the jtouse the mass of flowers. flowers remain out all day and are about half the usual size. German Coffee Cake. Take one scant tablespoonful of hut ter and onejof lard, cupful s sugar, one beaten egg and of a cupful of milk; sift together two cupfuls of flour and a teaspooBful . and a half of balling powder and mis with the other Ingredients to make hatter that will spread; spread In a buttered dripping pan, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and fine cut almond on top, then with tbd thumb make lTf tie indentations on the surface and, drop in little lumps of butter about as large as marbles; bake fa a quick oven and eat with coffee. one-quart- three-quarter- Stuffed Sweet Potato. Stuffed sweet potatoes are a novelty Bake and will be found very nice. om large onea, and when soft make a slit down one side, scoop out the inside, and beat it with salt and pepper, a small half cup of cream and a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Fill the shells, return to the oen and brown. Harpers Bazar. sottovore. ' ? V BOYD. ('apt. Fred M Hammer, the newly-electehead of the National Assocla tion of Naval Veterans, an organization largely represented in Boston. Providence and Ihiludeiphla, is a Norwegian by birth and a resident of New son. "You admit, then, that you took them out of my parcel? said Tom-thmy. opening his moiith for the first time, and speaking with an offended theft?" OP CHARACTER HABITS AND HOUSEHOLD ORNAMENTS. is' |
