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^ THE ITSTERIOIS KEY OR, PLANNING FOB THE FUrUUE. CHAPTER XVIII. , The key was inserted, turned half-round, and the mystery was in- atantlj solved as that painted iron plate Bpraug outward from its place. • ''Ahi! that is indeed a very cle- .ver arrangement:'' remarked the president, in a tone of satisfaction ; "and I am exceedingly obliged to ^-ou, Mr. Winchester, for taking the irouble t-o come to point it out to me!" "You are very welcome, sir," Gerald courteously replied. â-  "I wonder if there Ls anything ip the place now!" said the other gentleman curiously. '"I am quite Bure there is not," uid Gerald. 'Mr. Brewster did n^t mention anything but the two b^xes when lie commissioned me to oome here for them." "'It cannot do any harm to inves- •ti-gate," the banker observed, as he thrust his hand deep into the aperture. "Aha I" he suddenly e'jaoulated again, in a tone of tri- umph, when, upon drawing it forth, Gerald espied a small book clasped }ti liib fin-gera. . Bringing the light to bear upon it, they saw there was a label on 'thi- cover. • "Kotes of European travel, .18â€"," the gentlcojan read aloud G«rald started violently, the hot 'color rising over his face. . That was the very year of his .mother's marriage. "May I look at it, sir?" he ques- 'tione<^l, with repressed e.xciteraent. "Certainly â€" certainly," said his • -companion, as he cheerfully passed . it til him. , With a hand that trembled vis- ibly, Gerald opened it and ha.stily sratiucd a few pages here and there, ' his- heart beating with great, start- I led throbs as he read. "Mr. Bancroft," he at length remarked, "I believe that this lit- tle book will prove to be of the most vita! importance in the forthcom- ing eonte.1t for the Brewster for- tuiu", and with your permission I Tvill take it to Mr. J.yttleton." "Certainly you have my permis- sion. I have no right whatever to ♦be book, and if there is anything in ii that will bring that rascally guardian of the latft Mr. Brewster'g pietty daughter to justice and give the liglilful heirs the property, no ono will be more glad that 1. I have believed from the first that the man was guilty of the foulest fraud. That was a sad fate the poor little girl met with 1" Mr. Bancroft responded. It hfui been th->uglit best not to reveal the facts regarding Allison's wonderful escape and recovery un- t-1 she should appear in court to confront the man who had so deep- ly wronged hor. The young man then bade the banker good morning, and, with the priceless little book buttoned close ugaiust his heart, hurried hack to Mr. Lyttteton's office. "What on earth is the matter, Gerald (â- ' that gentleman exclaimed the moment be opened the door ; "you look as if you had seen a ghost:" "I have â€" a very tangible ghost of the past," said the young man, with repressed excitement. "1 be- lieve that I have in my possession a\] missing links connected with my pjother's history, and ample ma- terial, as well, to solve the mystery of my father's apparent desertion of her." And eagerly drawing forth the precious book which had been dis- covered in the secret vault, he laid it before his friend, and explained where and how he had come by it. "Gerald, if that is the case, you are a lucky fellow," cried Mr. Lyttloton, starting up, all on the alert. "l!ut here," he added, after glancing at the label aud passing it back: "}*>> n.nst first read it by Tour3eU'-t::eii> nny be some things »u it that no one but yoi;rself should know." Gerald stood regavdii's if a mo- ment with an air of indecision. Then he took it mechanically, and, sitting down at his desk, opened it and began to read. The first entry in the book, which was evidently l diary, had been made on shipboard, and read thus: "Germanic, 8 p.m.. -Tune iS. 18â€". Sailed at 12 M., but 1 am blamed K I like the way in which I have been hustled off; but f;Ulier insisted that I must join mother in Paris by the eigth of July, aud no other Tes.'-el would leave in season. I'm deuced lonesome, in spite of the fact that the governor sent Tom, his valet, along with uie-to pre- itrvf- the importance «.if the family, 1 .'-.uppose. since we are going to the North Cape with a swell ci-o\yd. Bah' I abominate style, and V\o no n.'irthly use for a valet. Poor M.' It was tough on both of us, vhea we had everything planned The next entry of any interest to Gerald was mode on tihipboard : "Have been terribly seasick for two day.s â€" soraethiiig unusual for irie; but when the b\)dy suffers, the heart let.s up a little. Went on dec'c for a while this afternoon, and met a Miss Porter and her sister. Tho latter's a sweet little blonde who reminds me strongly of M. They are returning from a visit to some friends in England" Tliree thin : clays afterward occurred for such a cozy time all by our- selves. The Germanic is a dandy boat, every convenience, fast sail- er, first-elaBs tible. Th'? only thing lacking is the heart to eni*>y it all ; but that I've left behind :i:e." Every day of the ensuing voyage was noted, various items of interest recorded, the captain, crew, and p-assengera described, and in almost every entry there was also .some al- lusion to "M," which plainly re- vealed a heart liungering for some love^ presence. On the lar^i day at sea there was this record : "Have written a long letter t;> my dear girl over yonder, which I shall mail the moment we land ; but I feel as if I can hardly wait for the next vessel to arrive, when I shall surely hear from her." Ther« was nothing cf special in- terest for several pages, until, un- der date ten days later, in Paris, Gerald read : "K^> letter! What can it mean? Tom brought me in a whole pile this morning, but not the one I wished for above all others. Surely M. cculd not have neglected to write, knowing that I would be wild w^ilh anxiety if I did not hear from her by every steamer." Page after page Oerald turned, searching for these significant allu- sions to the dear one so reluctant- ly left behind. There were various bright and animated accounts of people, places and things. Paris was d -scribed in i vivacious way, which betrayed that the writer thoroughly appreci- ated the gay city and its inhabi- tants. The affectionate welcome rc- ceive<l from hi'j mother and other friends who were to comprise the party which was going to the "land <.f the midnight sun" was faithful- ly and vividly recorded; but through all there ran that plaintive noteâ€" "No lotter from M." The reader followed the writer through Norway and Sweden, and many other places en route, and his own' heart ached in sympathy with that of the impatient and unwilling tourist, whojo hopes were never realized. It was evident that his anxiety fo preyed upon his naiud that he was at times really ill on account cf it, for mention was frequently made of having been "laid up for a day or t.vo," and also of bis mo- ther's annoyance at having her trip interrupted because of it Their tour had evidently been cxteiide<l far beyond the time at Pr.st determined upon, for months were passed in traveling from place '( place. Mention was made several times o' a determination to break away from the party and go directly homeâ€" the "anxiety and suspense were becomiug intolerable" ; but these resolutions were always ap- parently overruled by the entreat- ic.'' or commands of his mother. At last there came an entry that was almost paralyzing, for it com- prised but ono word, and was the only one upon the page : "Dead!" The next entry was two days lat er, and read thus : "Good heavens! How have I I'ved since receiving tho.se home papers ? Who could have sent m© that New Haven paper with that paragraph marked? It looks as if some one h.ad discovered our sec- ret, and was flaunting it with cruel spite in my face. l)ead ! my dar- ling dead '. No, no ! I cannotâ€" will not believe it. And yet there it is in black and white, and branded on my brain in letters of fire : 'We learn with deep regret of the recent death, of quick consumption, of Miss Miriam Harris, who was a beauti'ul and talented young lady, and a resident of this city for mary years.' That is allâ€" vague, mys- terious, maddening ! Where did she die, and when, and who cared for her i There is no date given ! I shall go mad ! I must go home at once, to Icaru the truth. Oh, my love! my love!" The record ended abruptly here, and tor upward of six weeks no- thing more was written in the diary. Then the journal was resumed, in London : "Ha-d an enjoyable promenade on thd upper deck with little Miss Por- ter. Bhe is a very winning little bodyâ€" siio appeared to divine at once that I had .some secr;l sor- row, and her manner was full cf a gentle, indescribable sy.npithy. She makes me think of M. ciore and more." There was nothing additional for a couple of weeks, and then there were three or four pages that were full of fire and passion : "Made a discovery to-day that has almost made a murderer of rae, and I must let off steam, or do some desperate deed. I have been hoodwinked for mouths. I have been the victim of the most dia- bnii.:al plot that was ever conceiv- eo against a huinau being. My father, by some means unknown to me, discovered the fact of my mar- riage to M. some time last summer, and, instead of ranting and tearing and denouncing me, he craftily set himself at work to part us, and he .succeeded but too well. He plan- ned that trip abroad to Norway, Sweden, and all those other tire- some places for the sole purpose of getting me out of the way, to en- able him to mature some scheme t<i .separate me from my darling. Alas! grief and death aided him in this but too effectually; for. of course, .'•he must have grieved her- self to death over the belief that I had cruelly deserted her. "The cat was let out of the bag in a strange way. I wanted Tom to do an errand for me this morning aud when he did not answer the bel T set about, hunting him up. I found him in his own room, over- hauling his trunk. He had just turned it upside down as 1 entered, and among a lot of rubbish I espied a letter that had a familiar look. I captured it. It was one that I bad given him to mail to M. when i 1 first reached London. I pounced j upon him like a cat upon a mouse, I and demanded the nieaning of it. At first he swore that it m.ust have j eot into his trunk by mistake. But I niy suspicions being aroused fright- ened the fellow almost to death, and he confessed that, by ray fa- ther's orders, he had intercepted every letter a<ldresncd to New Hav- en. He could easily do this, as it had always been his duty to attend to the mailing of all letters, as veil as to the collecting of them, wherever wo went. "Having gleaned that much from him, 1 went downstairs and faced my father, and we had it out be- t'.vecn us. hot and heavy. He saw- that the truth must come, and he concealed nothing. He had heard of my attentions to M. while 1 was iu college, and he commissioned soin.> one to watch me ; but it was only when 1 was on tlie point of graduating that he learned that I was a.;tually married to her. He was in a terrible rage at first ; he c< uld not endure the scandal of such a misalliance, for he at once set his wits to work to fiu<l some way for me out of the scrape. Hence I. is phit aud his orders to go abroad. Tom, the valet, was sent along to act, with my mother, as a spy, and with instructions to in- tercept every letter that was mailed to or sent from New Haven. This he felt sure would result in making M. feel that she had been desert- ed in cold bltiod if kept up long enough, and so he rested and left matters to take their own course for a while. "At length ho thought the time ripe for action, aud he went to see tier and try to browbeat her into suing for a divorce upoii the grourd of desertion. But she had disap- peared from New Haven, aud no one could tell biin anything about her. Later he received a paper from his spy in New Haven, and f<.uud, to his great relief, that it contained a notice of M.'s d^ath. That settled everything. 1 was free, and there was no furthoi need of making excuses to ke.^p me abroad. The same mail that bore that fatal paper to mo contained a letter to my mother bidding her come home, a surumons which she would gladly have obeyed immedi- aloly, but for my long illness. This i.s the cursed story which I wrung from ray father. When it was fin- | isho<l I left the house in a white heat of passion, swearing that I would never cxUer it again." Two days later : "Have been to New Haven to sock some tidings of my dear one. Could got no trace of her. She left the little h' use on ^ Street some time durin-r the winter. The Ah, me ! There I found a new-made grave, which told its own sad story. My heart was torn asunder again, and I came away without asking a single question. Am sorry now, though, that I did not hunt up the sexton and get the date of her death and burial, but that I can dc- later" Two months after, and written at the Parker House, Boston, Mass. : "Came to Boston on the tenth to attend the wedding of an old chum. Met the Porter sisters again. Miss .Mice, strangely enough, was a Iridesmaid. She is really a charm- ing girl, and has promised .to cor- respond with me." There were various entries after this, but nothing of especial import- ance until at the end of three months, when the following was written : "The governor died this morn- i'lg; sent for mo last night, and beg- ged my forgiveness for the wrong done me. I tried to be kind, but hi my heart I could not forgive him ; but I promised him that I would always care for my mother. He has left everything to di^. and I am to carry on the banking business just the same as he had done for the last twenty years." There was very little more relat- ing to Gerald's mother, althougn the diary was continued irregular- ly for more than a year. Then there was a skip of nearly two years before another date was added, and tiiat was the last record in the book : "To-morrow I am going to marry lovely Alice Porter. She is very like my lost one, and I have grown very fond of her. I have never told ber of my marriage, and I never shall. It is an episode in my life which I believe no one else living knows anything about. Life once nioTP looks very inviting to me, and I will try to atone by my devotion to Alice for the great mistake which I made three years ago. Secret marriages are a device of his Sa- tanic niaiesty to trap the unw-ary and ruin the lives of innocent girls. Now. good-bye. my companion of many sorrowful hours! I should never have had you but tor my promise to M- to keep a diary while I was abroad I shall never talk to you again, for I am going to burn you as soon as the fire is lighted in ray office in the morning, and so end forever the first volume of my life, which no one must ever read. I trust the sequel will bring me happier days." (To be continued.) IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND SEWS Bf MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND UlS PEOl'LU. Occurrences in the Land That nicreial World. ReisDs Supreine In (be Com* There were re.';ently seven sui- cides in twelve days at Leicester. It i» proposed to raise, a memorial ^' late Sir W. H " JMu+^^-f^-f-f^fi-ffft+^fttt â- f : About tli8 Farm i *â-  â- â™¦â€¢ ♦• ♦ *•♦♦ f-f-f 4- ♦♦ 4 ♦♦♦â- â™¦â- >♦♦♦♦ ♦♦* SPRAYING POTATOES. As is well known, both early and late blight on potatoes are much less prevalent in dry than in wet seaiions. In the State of New York , ^, r , <.,. ,„ „ ., , the season of 1009 was dry through- to the late Sir W. H. Curzonjeut, and late blight was practically WyUie. , r.- r .. T> J, ! "nknown; nevertheless, the conclu- Lieut.-General Sir Leslie Kundle|sio„ of the PZxperimental Station, has been appointed Governor and : (;<,„p,.jj ,,t y., is that even iu dry Commander-m-Chief at Malta. | years it pays to sprav with poison- Thousands of eggs were destroy- j^f^ Bordeaux. This Conclusion was ed in a fire which damaged a chick- reached from observation, not only en incubator establishment at Ply- mouth recently. Au unsigned donation of $125,- Ihat of their own experinnenia, but also those of farmers in differont parts of the states who joined with COO was received f..r the Queen Al- [ them in conducting experunents af- fc,xandra Samtarium at Da>o3 (High ^^^ t,,^ fashion of the experimental ^?/^' /?â- â-  ^"U''^ consumptives. u^i^n ^^^ Quelph, Ont. Mr. Claude Hay is to introduce a x »i j t it n bill into the House of Commons to! ^.^"^ '''^^ ^«'-<l^ «^ a report from the make further provision for the ex-j^''"^ '^ Station: "It is unwise to pulsion of aliens convicted of cor- »«sleet spraying in dry sea.sons. tain offences ^^'^" "â- '"^" '^''^''^ " ^^ blight, fav» Tho late Mr Ellis Abraham ' ^'^ 't'^ ^P'-ayiag^ ^^^^^^ be made Franklin of Porehester Terrace, ! ^'"''"S ^he sea.son In dry weather Hyde Park, London, and of the ' ','»» ^;ounding of the leaves by bugs, banking firm of Samuel Montagu ii. flea beetles, and other insect:;, is more injurious than in wet weather. It is an established tact that through spraying at a proper time will lessen the damage done b.v flea beetles. If flea beetles arc not at lea;-4t partially checked by spray- it is Co., left .$120,000 to charity The official returns for June show an improvement in trade in Bri- tain. Both imports and exports are higher, and considerably high- er than they were last Juae. , . â- ,., t-, , â-  ^ An expanse of 250 acres at Cas- >"S.^«'>t'' Bordcau.x '"'-^ture tleBrorawich has been acquired as p^^'tive proof tnat the work ha« a playing ground by the Birming- i ''«f ". <J"'?« Propcj\y. With us the ham and District Housing Heform : ^'P'"'"" '« «t«^''.v growing that and Open Spaces Association. ^"^ fj-'w farmers spray thoroughly A respectably dressed womun did «°«"K'' to secure the ma.x.mum 8650 damage to plate glass win- P-'ofit from the operation. Thero dows along the Strand. London, ^^'r'^^ ^^ ^'' ^'^tle danger of over- She had a piece ol gas piping strap- : ^^"'.ns * '« nia^e"--, , There were ped to her wrist when arrested. 1 S'^'"? ^f f''"'" »« ''"['''^V T "r When searched in a London police' wards per acre, even in too dry .^a- son of laos, as a result of spray-; ing with Bordeaux, compared with areas on which insectitieides only were applied. AN EFFECTIVK WEED DE- STROYER. SEEDS A CENT APIECE. They're From (Jinseng Though and Are Mighty Senree. Ginseng seeds are worth one cent apiece or from eighty to one hun- c'ted dollars a pound. Dried root is worth $6.25 a pound. When first growing from -he seed the ginseng plants have two forks or stalks and one leaf on each stalx. The second yeai it ailds another leaf on each part and the tiiird year the plant grows in three parts with three leaves on each part and this year a seed ball forms. This grows direct from the main stalk of the plant and from four to five inches above the foliage. The average plant, says a writer in Outing, produces from fifty to sixty seeds. Wild plants yield bet- ter than cultivated. The fourth and fifth years one leaf ii added to each stalk. The fifth year the plant is full grown, hav- ing three forks and five leaves on each stalk. It grows from one to two feet in height ; some times as high as twenty-seven inches. The leaves arc broad and fiat, about tour inches long and two inches wide when full grown with esc:il- loped edges. It takes five years to grow the root from seed tor market and eigh- teen months to germinate the seed for growth. There is more culti- vated root now on the market than wild. The plants are found on high, dry land in the woods and never in swampy places. podrome, Blyth, Northumberland, j ^'•e^^'ailfble. a spray is made where a cincmktograph fire, al-i'^e-tles down on the If actions speak louder than words, what a lot of noise deaf mutes must make when they talk. In after years, when a man's wife springs au old love letter on him that he wrote, he is apt to sneak up an alley and try to kick himself. Lady Teacher (drowsily)â€" 'What is it, Tom V Tomâ€" "Jimmv's swear- ing!" Lady Teacher (still drows- ily)â€" "What did he say!' (Pause ) Tom â€" "Well, miss, if you say over all the bad words you know. I'll tell you when you come to it!" court, a female shoplifter was, found to be wearing a ''shoplift- er's" apron, a garment with capa- I cious pockets worn beneath the dress skirt. I Roj-al Humane Society medals I were presented at Bristol recently i to Wm. Jones and John Gane, cor- 1 t»--..i. ii • x i ..- r • 1 ~ „ f - ,„=«., ir.,, »ni VV ith the introduction of impror- ' poration workmen, for rescuing an i . . i i ^^ „ .„ -,„„ „ ^1,10, *'<' spraying machinerv aud Letter unconscious comrade from a sewer, ^, j t r » i u c i , , methods of manufacture, sulphur of I manhole. . . . j • i ,,. , , , „ 1 „ L,. 4^t,„ T ._ iron IS coming more and more intO' Work has been begun by the Lon- ; er .â-  i j ,. I J T,.,, „ I c, „f),„„^ u.j,i use as an eneetive weed destrover. j don. Tilbury, and Southend Itail- . , r i i.! !w.ay Companv on a new station ' F"'-â„¢^'-'^ when applied with » which will enable passengers to join brush, any solution or the pur- er leave the main line trains at P««« *°"W f«r?» 'â- > '".«? ^â- '"P-- J- . . c t in smaller drops which would Several women and children were : ^"^J^ large .,nes and drop off. Now , . , . , • „„i ,c 4.i,„ u:_ I With the improved sprayer whien bruised in rushing out of the xlip- 1 -i n • i u ^ - â-  â-  • 'are available, a spray is made that settles down on the stems and though it was easily extinguished, j '^'^^ *^^ «f/f'« ^'^''-'^ ""^^ ^tays there, caused a panij. | Many farmers do not realiz-- the Owing to an accident at Blaen- i extent of damage done to crops by sychan colliery, near ^ewport! 'eeds. It is statr^ that every ton (Mon.), recently, a cage containing : of dry matter produced on a field 20 men was for a time suspende<l five hundred tons of v.ater is taken ir' the sh.aft; 700 other men declined from the soil and <lischarged into t) work inconsequence. ! the air, water that is needed for. \n offer bv an unknown gentle- ' the growth of the legitimate crop., man to give" twenty-five prizes of. It is clear then how important it' 10s. each U) the tidiest children in is that the weeds be destroyed, j the schools was accepted by the Where crop rotation is possible, I Education Committee of the Lon- weeds are not so much of a me-, don County Council. | nace. but crop rotation, as a means Lord Kinnaird recently turned of wee<l destruction, is not always the first sod on the site of the new; possible on account of climati<' ai-i headquarters of the Young Men's labor conditi<jns. For instance. Christian Association at the corner rotation calls tor a money crop, and of Tottenham Court road and .a uianurial crop as w,?!l as a deaa- Grcat Russell street. | ing crop. The cleaning cropâ€" corn. At the baptism of the twin cliil- 1 potatoes, beets, etc., cannot bo dren of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gilling- 1 used over great areas on account ham, at Kirkham. near Preston, , of labor and market conditions. So the father's twin sisters acted as' it appears that spraying must re- godinothcrs. and tho niotb.er's twin! main the only pra(:ti<'al means of brothers were godfathers. j weed destruction for many years Britain and France have conclud u, come, or until our p.pulation ed an agreen.ent, Mr. Gladstone ; increases to the point where our announces, by which a British ^ Mist prairie lands are he'd as small workman iu France will grt com- i tarms, making crop rotation prac- pensation for accidents there ar.d licable. tirailarly a French worker in Bri-i Su'phalo of iron is a by-pn-duct fn\i}. ' j ir. the manufacture of wire and ia More than 1.700 prison officers ; put up for thi? market in conveni- have subscribed to the fund raised , <^nt-sized ^acks like plasters, in- for Miss Rogeri>on, former matron^ ste.a<l of coiuina in huge crystals as of Reading Prison, London, who; formerly.â€" Anicric:in Farm Review. was recently injured by a woman I _ prisoner throwing vitrol over her.. DEHORNING C.VTTLK. In the presence of a large number | ot showmen, the funeral took place; Uathet than to cause cattle to recently, at "Tow Law. Durham, of suffer (he tortures of pain by liav- Mr. Waiter Scott, proprietor of a! ing their horns removed after they nell-knowu travelling circus, who have attained their normal growth at the age of fiftcon received a com- ' and owing to th.- fact that it is an maud to appear before th© late a<lvantage that an iniinal be dc- Queen Victori.a. . borued in or<ler to protect them 'from each other, it is .idvi^.-ilde to * " j prevc'.il their horns from growing. ! This can be successfully done by jclippins the hair off of the little 'knob.« where the horns appear and The rabbit is an expensive little carefully applyi'ig a dehorning pre- animal A return has just been â-  ^eutativp to a small surf:ice not to I presented to the Parliament of "xecod the si/c of a quarter of a ! Queensland showing how much the'<lollar I destruction • f (he pest has c<jst that! •State. The ligure is a tidy oneâ€"; '£1,252.591 Until tlie early '(iOs . I there were no rabbits in Australia. ' jThen bomc malignant fate prompt- j eo a st|uatliT to import a few for, >-portiUfi purposes. These became: iiie progenitors of countless mil- WHAT RABBITS AUSTRALIA. COST If "Have been ill for many weeks, and would have been glad if the end had come : but my dreary life seems place wa« .=-i'ld -'u>rt!y .-Iftcr. and i likely to be prolonged indefinitely. | ' ' I thank the fates, however, f.h.it' my mother is at last weary of war-! deriuK. and we are to go home smi e, time within the next fm-tniglit." ' notliiii'!; ^."..^ «'v;>r ktv'wn ^f her af- j terw.-'vd '>>-<>-:ir t^" f'lct ' of lier , death. Thon T Went to >shtou. a little to.vn in Rhoue ?-'i'id, w'-ere [ knew Lev p;ir'ii'.:, v, ore b;iiljd. I)ora--'And so you quarrelled /" Lottie--"Yes ; and I returned all his presents. And what do you think he <Iid I" "Soniethiog hor- ri<I. I'm sure." "He sent me half a-dozcu boxes of fare powder, with a note explaining that he thought he had taken as much as that home on his coat since bo first knew me." on the other hand the horns nave been al!owo«l to grow and tho owner thinks it be«t to remove same, it is ad-i-^able t<i place ani- mal in a star.siou. ca:efi.l!y secur- iu,? the head, (hen applv the de- horning shears f:ir enou-gli down in- to the h^ad so as to remove enough i lions, and the â- 'rabbit plague" i '^f the horn to prevent any further j brought about the ruin of thousands erowth. To prevent infection ap- of farmers, Tho prize of JL'J. 000 for I P'^' an antiseptic solution to the an effective exterminator has never affP*^**"^ parts.â€" Dr. David Roberts, been won. Among those who had a shot for it was M. Pasteur. RARE EXCEPTION. A two weeks' vacation never seems long when- compared to th« I same time it takes to get liione/i one enough to finance it. M '1 rather pride myself on thing," >aid the young father. I though I have th« brightest, smart- A jealous man appears t oalimi8», . est, cutest, best youngster, 1 ever 'saw, I never brag about him." as good advantage as a jealo'^s ««• man.