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MY DAVID MAlfAM 4ffnm*9r jwecmT. jcrc cô rmcffrjro /into at-N£'RR/j.L COM PP. CHAPTER XIV.~Ccutir.ued. Latterly, whenever I was urging «pon Burbank a line of action requir­ ing courage or a sacrifice of some one of his many Insidious forms of per­ sonal vanity, I always arranged for tier to be present at our conferences. And she would sit there, apparently absorbed In her sewing; but in reality . she was seeing not only the, surface reasons I gave him, but also those underlying and more powerful reasons which we do not titter, sometimes be­ cause we like to play the hypocrite to ourselves, again because we must give the other person a chance to play the hypocrite himself--and us. And often I left him reluctant and try­ ing to muster courage to refuse or finesse to eVade, only to find him the dext day consenting, perhaps enthus­ iastic. Many's the time she spared me the disagreeable necessity of being peremptory--doubly disagreeable be­ cause show of authority has ever been distasteful to me and because an or­ der can never be so heartily executed as is an assimilated suggestion. When I went to him a month after her death, 1 expected he would still be crushed as he was at the funeral. I listened with a feeling of revulsion to his stilted and, as it seemed to me, perfunctory platitudes on his "irre- reparable loss"--stale rhetoric about her, and to her most intimate friend and his! I had thought he would be Imagining himself done with ambition forever; I had feared his strongly re­ ligious nature would lead him to see a "Judgment" upon him and her for having exaggerated her indisposition to gain a political point. And I had mapped out what I would say to induce him to go on. Instead, after a few of those stereotyped mortuary sen­ tences, he shifted to politics and was presently showing me that her death had hardly interrupted his plannings for the presidential nomination. As for the "judgment," I had forgotten that in his religion his deity was al­ ways on his side, and his misfortunes were always of the evil one. These deities of men of action! Man with his god a ventriloquist puppet in his pocket, and with his conscience an old dog Tray at his heels, needing no lead­ ing string! However, it gave me a shock, this vivid reminder from Burbank of the elavery of ambition--ambition, the vice of vices. For it takes its victims' all--moral, mental, physical. And, while other vices rarely wreck any but small men or injure more than what is within their small circles of influence, ambition seizes only the superior and sets them on to use their superior powers to blast communities, states, nations, continents „ Yet it is called a virtue. And men who have sold themselves to it and for it to the last shred of manhood are esteemed and, mystery of mysteries, esteem them­ selves! I had come to Burbank to manufac­ ture him into a president His wife and I had together produced an ex­ cellent raw material. Now, to make It up into the finished product! He pointed to the filing-cases that covered the west wall of his library from floor to ceiling, from north win­ dow to south. "I base my hope on those--next to you, of course," said he. Then with his "woeful widower" pose, he added: "They were her sug­ gestions." I looked at the filing-cases and wait­ ed for him to explain. "When we first married," he went on presently, "she said, 'It seems to me, if I were a public man, I should keep everything relating to myself-- •very speech, all that the newspapers said, every meeting and the lists ot the important people who were there, notes of all the people I ever met any­ where, every letter or telegram or note I received. If you do, you may find after a few years that you have en enormous list of acquaintances. You've forgotten tljem because you meet so many, but they will not have forgot­ ten you, who were one of the princi­ pal figures at the meeting or recep­ tion.' That's in substance what she said. And so, we began and kept it up"--he paused in his deliberate man­ ner, compressed his lips, then added-- "together." I opened one of the filing-cases, glanced at him for permission, took out a slip of paper under the M's. It was covered with notes, in Mrs. Bur- bank's writing, of a reception given tt> him at the Manufacturers' Club in 8t. Louis three years before. A lot of names, after each sum reminders of the standing and personal appear snce of the man. Another slip, taken at random from the same box con* 'tained similar notes of a trip through Montana eight years before. "Wonderful!" I exclaimed, as the full value of these accumulations loomed in my mind. "I knew that she was an extraordinary woman. Now I see that she had genius for politics." His expression--a peering through that eternal pose of his--made me re­ vise my first judgment of his mourn­ ing. For I caught a glimpne of a real human being, one who loved and lost, looking grief and pride and gratitude. **If she had left me two or three years earlier," he said in that solemn, pos­ ing tone, "I doubt if I should have got one step further. As It is, I may be able to go on, though--I have lost-- toy staff." What fantastic envelopes does man, after he has been finished by nature, wrap about himself in his efforts to Improve her handiwork! Physically, even when moat dressed, we are naked in comparison with the en- •wathlnga that hide our real mental •ad moral selves from one another-- lad from ourselves. My campaign was based (A' tfc* contests of those filing-cases. I learned all the places throughout the west--cities, towns, centrally-located villages--where he had been and had made an impression; and by simple and obvious means we were able to convert them into centers of "the Bur­ bank boom." I could afterward trace to the use we made of those memo randa the direct getting of no less than 107 delegates to the national con­ vention--and that takes no account of the vaster indirect value of so much easily worked-up, genuine, un­ purchased and unpurchasable ."Bur­ bank sentiment." The man of only iocal prominence, whom Burbank re­ membered perfectly after a chance meeting years before, could have no doubt who ought to be the party's nominee for president. The national machine of our party was then in the custody, and sup­ posedly in the control, of Senator Goodrich of New Jersey. He had s reputation for Machiavellian dexterity, but I found that he was an accident rather than an actuality. The domination of the great busi­ ness interests over politics was the Probably I should have been more leisurely in bringing my presidential plans to a focus, had I not seen how great and how near was the peril to my party. It seemed to me not in­ deed a perfect or even a satisfactory, but the best available, instrument for holding the balances oC order as even as might be between our country's two , opposing elements of disorder--the greedy plunderers and the rapidly in­ furiating plundered. And I saw that no time was to be lost, if the party was not to be blown to fragments. The first mutterings of the storm were in our summary ejection from con­ trol of the house in the midway elec­ tion. If the party were not to be dismembered, I must oust Goodrich, must defeat his plans for nominating Cromwell, must nominate Burbank in­ stead. If I should succeed in elect­ ing him, I reasoned that I could through him carry out my policy of moderation and practical patriotism-- to yield to the powerful few a mini­ mum of what they could compel, to give to the prostrate but potentially powerful many %t least enough to keep them quiet--a stomachful. The world may be advanced; but patriot­ ism still remains the art of restrain­ ing the arrogance of full stomachs and the anger of empty ones. In Cromwell. Goodrich believed he had a candidate with sufficient hold upon the rank and file of the party to enable him to carry the election by the usual means--a big campaign fund properly distributed in the doubtful states. I said to Senator Scarborough of Indiana soon Cromwell's candidacy was announced: "What do you think of Goodrich's man?" Scarborough, though new to the senate then, had shown himself far and away the ablest of the opposition senators. He had as much intellect as any of them; and he had what theor- in-law should have an amh&statlorsfctp if Burbank were elected; the other half set aside by me from the serve" I had formed out cf the year- by-year contributions of my combine. By the judicious investment of that capital I purposed to get Burbank the nomination on the first ballot--at least 460 of the 900-odd delegates. In a national convention the dele­ gates are, roughly speaking, about evenly divided among the three sec­ tions of the country--a third from east of the Alleghanies; a third from the west; a third from the south. It was hopeless for us to gun for dele­ gates in the east; that was the espe­ cial bailiwick of Senator Goodrich. The most we could do there would be to keep him occupied by quietly en­ couraging any anti-Cromwell senti­ ment--and it existed a-plenty. Our real efforts were to be In the west and south. I organised under Woodruff a corps of about 30 traveling agents. Each man knew pnly his own duties, knew nothing of the general plan, not even that there was a general plan. Each was a trained political worker, a per­ sonal retainer of ours. I gave them their instructions; Woodruff equipped them with the necessary cash. Dur­ ing the next five months they were in­ cessantly on the go--dealing with our party's western machines where they could; setting up rival machines in promising localities where Goodrich controlled the regular machines;, us­ ing money here, diplomacy there, both yonder, promises of patronage every- after wbere_ • 'Senator, This Burbank Nonsense Has Gone Far Enough." rapid growth of about 20 years--the consolidations of business naturally producing concentrations of the busi­ ness world's political power in the hands of the few controllers of the big railway, industrial and financial combines. Goodrich had happened to be acquainted with some of the most influential of these business "kings;" they naturally made him their agent for the conveying of their wishes and their bribes of one kind and an­ other to the national managers of both parties. They knew little of the de­ tails of practical politics, knew only what they needed in their businesses; and as long as they got that, it did not interest them what was done with the rest of the power their "campaign contributions" gave. With such resources any man of good intelligence and discretion could have got the same results as Good­ rich's. He was simply a lackey, strutting and cutting a figure in his master's clothes and under his mas­ ter's name. He was pitifully vain of his reputation as a Machiavelli and a go-between. Vanity is sometimes a source of great strength; but vainty of that sort and about a position in which secrecy is the prime requisite, could mean only weakness. Throughout his eight years, of con­ trol of our party it had had posses­ sion of all departments of the nation­ al administration -- except of the house of representatives during the past two years. This meant the un­ interrupted and unchecked reign of the interests. To treat with consid­ eration the interests, the strong men of the country, they who must b*vve a free band for developing its re­ sources, to give them privileges and immunities beyond what can be per­ mitted the ordinary citizen or corpo­ ration--that is a course which, how­ ever offensive to abstract justice, still has, as it seems to me, a practical jus­ tice in it, and at any rate, must be pursued so long as the masses of the ists, such as he, usually lack, skill at "grand tactics"--the management of men in the mass. His one weakness --and that, from my standpoint, a great one-^-was a literal belief in denfc- ocratic institutions and in the inspir­ ing but In practice pernicious princi­ ple of exact equality before the law. "Cromwell's political sponsors,'"was his reply, "are two as shrewd bankers as there are in New York. I have heard it said that a fitting sign for a bank would be: 'Here we do nothing for nothing for nobody.' " An admirable summing up of Crom­ well's candidacy. And I knew that it would so appear to the country, that no matter how great a corruption fund Goodrich might throw into the campaign, we should, in that time of public exasperation, be routed if Crom­ well was our standard-bearer--so ut­ terly routed that we could not pos­ sibly get ourselves together again for °, perhaps 12 years. There might even be a re-alignment of parties with some sort of socialism in control of one of them. If control were to be retained by the few who have the cap­ ital and the intellect to make effi­ cient the nation's resources and en­ ergy, my project must be put through at once. I had accumulated a fund of $500,- 000 for my "presidential flotation"-- half of it contributed by Roebuck in exchange for a promise that his son- Such was my department of se­ crecy. At the head of my department of publicity I put De Milt, a sort of cousin of Burbank's and a newspaper man. He attended to the news agencies. He and three assistants wrote each week many columns of "boom" matter, all of which was carefully revised by Burbank himself before it went out as "syndicate let­ ters." If Goodrich hadn't been Igno­ rant of conditions west of the Alle­ ghanies and confident that his will was law, he would have scented out this department of publicity of mine, and so would have seen into my "flota­ tion." But he knew nothing beyond his routine. I once asked him how many country newspapers there were in the United, States, and he said: "Oh, I don't know. Perhaps 3,000 or 4,000." Even had I enlightened him to the extent of telling him that there were about five times that number, he would have profited nothing. Had he been able to see the importance of such a fact to capable political man­ agement, he would have learned it long before through years of constant use of the easiest avenue into the heart of the people. He did not wake up to adequate ac­ tion until the fourth of that group of states whose delegations to our na­ tional conventions were habitually bought and sold, broke its agreement with him and instructed its dele­ gation to vote for Burbank. By the time he had a corps of agents in those states. Doc. Woodruff had "ac­ quired" more than a hundred dele­ gates. Goodrich was working only through the regular machinery of the party and was fighting against a widespread feeling that Cromwell shouldn't, and probably couldn't, be elected; we, on the other hand, were manufacturing presidential sentiment for a candidate who was already pop­ ular. Nor had Goodrich much advan­ tage over us with the regular ma­ chines anywhere except in the east Just as 1 was congratulating mysel) that nothing could happen to prevent our triumph at the convention. Roe­ buck telegraphed me to come to Chi­ cago. I found with him in the sit­ ting-room of his suite in the Audi­ torium Annex, Partridge and Granby, next to him the most important mem­ bers of my combine, since they were the only ones who had interests that extended into many states. It was after an uneasy silence that Granby, the uncouth one of the three, said: "Senator, we brought you here to tell you this Burbank nonsense baa gone far enough." It was all I could do not to show my astonishment and sudden fury. "1 don't understand," said I, in a tone which I somehow managed to keep down to tranquil inquiry. But I did understand. It instantly came to me that the three had been brought into line for Cromwell by their powerful business associates in Wall street, probably by the great bankers who loaned them money. Swift upon the surge of anger 1 had suppressed before it flamed at the sur­ face came a surge of triumph--which I also suppressed. I had often wish­ ed, perhaps as a matter of personal pride, just this opportunity; and here it was! "Cromwell must be nominated," said Granby, in his insolent tone. H« had but two tones--the insolent and the cringing. "He's safe and so (in a. Burbank isn't trusted in the east. And we didn't like his conduct last year. He caters to the demagogues.*' (TO BE CONTINUED.) World's Largest Diamond. The American Magazine reports graphically the recent discovery of the largest diamond in the world-- a diamond which weighs in the rough 3,024% karats. Translated into under­ standable terms, it is a stone weigh­ ing a pound and a third. Until the voters are short-sighted, unreasoning j discovery of this wonderful gem the and in nose-rings to political ma­ chines. A man's rights, whatever they may be in theory, are in practice only what he has the intelligence and the power to coinpel. But, for the sake of the nation, for the upholding of civil­ ization itself, these over-powerful in­ terests shoym never be given their heads, sho^ild be restrained as closely as may J^e to their rights--their prac­ tical rignts. Goodrich had neither the sagacity nor the patriotism--nor the force of will, for that matter--to keep them within the limits of decency and discretion. Hence the riot of plunder and privilege which revolted and alarmed me when I came to Washing­ ton and saw politics in the country­ wide, yes, history-wide, horizon of that •lew-point. world's record in diamonds was held by the "Excelsior"--a stone of 969 karats--nearly half a pound avoirdu­ pois. Three years ago the "Excel­ sior," which was badly flawed, was cut up into ten stones, valued at $415,- 000. This in turn utterly eclipsed all the other great diamonds of the world. Thus: Kohnioor (after first cutting), 279 karats; Nizam of Hyderabad, 279; Regent or Pitt, 137; Duke of Tuscany, 133; Tiffan> .'yellow), 125; Orloff, 194; Star of tile South, 124. Censure Sometimes Compliment. In doing the right thing always, yon may expect many time*. that broad, comprehensive compliment of certain types: "You are no gentleman!"-- John A. Howland. , The Bothersome 'Phone. Except in business offices, hotels police stations, and the like publld places, telephones bhould be forbid­ den. There is neither peace not privacy in the home in which thest instruments find admittance. One's time and pleasure and very sleep ars at the mercy of every gossip and busybody in the. town. The women, children and servants of the houetv hold all catch the hello fever, and lift becomes a long nightmare of bel* ringing, wrong calls, yes-yesses, busy- nows, and other distracting noises.--• Virginian Pilot. Cat Fixes Right Time. A woman received a telephone call one morning last week from a woman friend, asking her the time of day. The friend telephoned back it was 10 a. m , whereat the other explained that her clocks were all at 9:30, which shs knew was wrong, as her pet cat had just washed Its face, which it did every morning precisely at ten. Hers* after the woman nronoaes ta,j,regniate her clocks by the cat.'| ERICANl HOME 2A.RABF0RD ) EDITOR Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expe­ rience as Editor, Author and Manufac­ turer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1W Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A small cottage house 25 feet wide by 48 feet 6 inches long is given In this plan. It is built without an attic which saves expense in roof construc­ tion and the low roof design fits the general style of the house better than a high roof could. It is a small affair when measured up against the ordi­ nary bouse, but it contains more room and more convenience than the ortho­ dox five-room flat in a city and it is immensely superior when it comes to comfort. A person never appreciates the value of a good cellar until they leave one and go to live in a city flat where you have no cellar, except an ice box, and no room to store a pint of cider or a peck of potatoes. It is much better ar­ ranged than a flat because you have light on all sides and the bedrooms, as well as all other rooms, are light and airy, a great advantage in both comfort and health. "Be it ever so humble there is no place like home" is a senti­ ment that applies in a general way to all small houses, but not especially to this one because it is so attractive in appearance, so thoroughly well ar­ ranged and so comfortable that the humble features are lost sight of en­ tirely. There Is a gtwwTAwn* '** the shape of the cellar. A guu*. say csiiars are almost useless except to keep the house up away from the ground, to keepsit dry and assist some in keeping the lower floors warm. Some cellars are too dark and musty to be desirable and a great many cellars are too con­ temptibly dirty for any purpose what­ ever. A good deal depends on the tight just by the difference in the way the materials are mixed. It some­ times is desirable to have the back end of the cellar dry and the front part of the cellar somewhat moist for fruit and vegetables, but •.his depends upon what use you wish to make of the cellar. Great changes have come about In building small houses within a few years. Until recently the idea of hot and cold water and a bathroom in a house of this size was almost unheard of. In order to enjoy what are ordi­ narily called modern conveniences it was necessary to occupy a large house, but bathrooms, hot water in the kitchen, gas and electric lighting are growing more common all the time and they are being installed in small­ er houses every year. Because it is necessary or because a person prefers a small house it is no longer necessary that they should do without the com­ forts of civilization. With the in­ crease of small houses fitted with such luxuries the health of the people has improved. It Is generally understood that clean­ liness is a good thing for more reasons than one. Cleanliness as long ago as Bible times was recognized as one of the leading virtues, but the full ben­ efits were not appreciated until the bacteriologists got to Work with their miscroscopes and ferreted out a whole lot of mischievous germs that were making human life miserable. Clean­ liness cannot be maintained without hot water and a reasonable warm at­ mosphere. That is one reason why a furnace and running hot water are £o valuable in a house. % These things do not necessarily cost a great deal more when you are build­ ing. There is a little additional ex­ pense, of course, but it is so small when weighed against the many bene­ fits to be derived that the extra cost is not worth considering. When you EFFECTS OF DRUGS VARIED VIS!Oti& FOLLOW USE OF MEXICAN MESCAL. Feciing Throughout is One of Enjoy- ment -- Alternate Delight and Despair Attend the Indulgence in Haschisch. -,'V" V, > s "4 An experimenter with the Mexican drug mescal is rewarded by many and varied visions. Before him flit myriada of dainty butterfly forms, glistening. Iridescent, fibrous wings of insects, r®« volving vessels on whose highly pol­ ished concave surface of mother-of- pearl many strange and vivid hues play. There are elaborate sweetmeats in endless and appealing variety, and living arabesques of gorgeous hues and superhuman design. He may take up a pen for the pur­ pose of making notes, but will find himself unable to use it A pencil, however, proves easy of manipulations As he writes his paper is covered with a soft, golden light, and his hands, seen indirectly, appear bronzed, scaled, fantastically pigmented and flushed with red. Tiring of the visions, he may lights the gas, which immediately fills the room with a glorious radiance, while wonderfully colored shadows of red; green and violet flit here and there^ Generally, it is said, no feeling Of 4®* pression or physical discomfort fol­ lows the dream. A medical experimenter in Ken­ tucky, soon after taking a large dose of haschisch, began to feel very ex­ cited; a feeling of finer joyousness possessed him; all fatigue seemed banished forever, and his mind ran riot, one bizarre idea after another rapidly passing through his mind. Later his brain seemed spilt In two parts, one of which urged him to tho performance of comic gestures, while the other as insistently hinted an im­ pending death, and suggested restraint and instant medical advice. While waiting for a doctor he expe- rienced alternate spells of lucidity, and periods when all connections be­ tween himself and the outside world seemed to be severed, when a chaos of disjointed ideas and wild reveries obsessed him. The duration of these latter periods was never longer than two minutes, but each seemed an eternity. It appeared a hopeless task to follow the minute hand of Ids watch during Its infinite round; long before the 60 seconds had elapsed he gave up the stupendous task in deep despaih The departure of the doe- tor synchronized with the return of the feeling of impending defith, now most horribly intense. He imagined himself surrounded by grotesque, menacing, cruel-visaged monsters. He felt himself expanding, dilating, dissolving into space, as I*® ascended steep precipices, covered with Brobdignagian creatures some­ what like lizards, overhanging enor- mous abysses, the while he was over­ whelmed by a horrible, rending, naut* terable despair. shape of the cellar to commence with, but more depends on the manner in which it is built and the care it re­ ceives afterwards. All cellars should be dry, that is there should be no per­ ceptible dampness. When eatables are stdred in a cellar there should be no accumulation of mold. At the same time a cellar should not be dusty dry. Generally if a cellar is five feet under­ ground and the wall extends two or two and a half feet above grade the cellar will be cool in summer, will not freeze in winter and it will be neither too dry nor too damp, but there are local conditions which affect all cel­ lars. Sometimes the ground is very damp and in some places it is very dry. The X'TCMew |BID MOO** aco mo** >o&es,. touFeCT C Floor Plan site may be exposed to the north winds or southern sunshine, either of which will affect the general condi­ tions and require attention when build­ ing. In a little house like this the cellar becomes of more importance than where the house is larger be­ cause you want the cellar for storage. It will be used for a great many pur­ poses, when a cellar In a large house would be neglected. In building your own home it pays to look after the building of the cellar. After the excavation Is made study out for yourself the peculiarities of soil, location and exposure. If the soil is inclined to dampness have a course of three-inch tile laid all around the bot­ tom outside of the wall with an outlet at sufficient distance. The outlet may be simply a sinkhole filled with stone, but it must be lower than the cellar bottom and give a good opportunity for any water that may accumulate to get away easily. If the ground is very- damp have another course of tile about two feet above or half way towards the surface. The use of cement mortar is a great preventive against dampness in the cellar and the way the cellar floor is made has a great deal to do with it. Vou can make a cement bottom that is porous, or you can make it water build have all the modern improve­ ments you can get your hands on. If you can't have electric light and gas at once you can put in the pipes and wires. You can have hot water under pressure if you want it. and there is no excuse for not having a well equipped bathroom. It Is better to do without a parlor than to leave out the bathroom. PERFUME PLANTS OF INDIA. Industry Which Dates Far Into the Past. The manufacture of perfumes in In­ dia is an Industry which probably dates back to "the dim ages of the past," for the native of India dearly loves perfumes. His tastes, however, are not those of the European, and Indian scents do not commend them­ selves to Europeans for the reason that they are "heavy," In the sense that they are not volatile. Indeed, the effects of the Indian perfumes are gen­ erally overpowering to the outsider. Moreover, the method employed by the Indians to extract the perfume from flowers is peculiar, being always in oils. They have .no idea of "es­ sences," such as are manufactured by European perfumers. One reason for the heaviness of In­ dian perfumes is found in the vehicle employed, which is sandalwood oil. This is not, strictly speaking, sandal­ wood oil, but the common "sweet" or "genjelly" oil employed as a vehicle for extracting the perfume from san­ dalwood, and it is this oil that forms the basis of all Indian perfumes, and which accounts for the heaviness re­ ferred to. The Indian perfumer has not yet arrived at the stage of assimi­ lating western methods When he does, the perfume industry of India will become one of the most important in the world. That this country possesses hun­ dreds of perfume yielding plants is undoubted, and a few of them are the several jessamines, the champa. the J rose, and keora. The well-known | khus-khus yields an oil much utilized < by natives; another grass oil is ob- J tained from ogia grass. The foregoing , may be regarded as the principal ; plants depended upon for the masu- j facture of Indian perfumes. There j are. of course, hundreds--nay. thou- j sands--of shrubs and trees in this country yielding highly scented flow­ ers, which could be utilized for per­ fume manufacture, and were a gpod firm to open a manufactory In India an extraordinary impetus would be given to the perfume industry of this land. The Habits of Wolves. The range of a pair of wolves is Ml area of from six to ten miles square. When the hunter learns that wolves have been seen and neard In a cer­ tain locality it may take several days of scouting before the dogs can be got on the trail. The hunter must look sharp for signs In soft or sandy places and along creeks and streams. The old lady wolf will, as a rule, go to the nearest water to drink when leaving the den, or go to get a drink as she returns from the hunt before going to the den, and Its local­ ity is often found on account of that habit. A wolf track can be distin­ guished from that of a dog, because the two front toenails are set fur­ ther ahead, making the track more pointed. When wolves are running and especially If frightened, these toes spread apart, making a track that at a hasty glance looks very much like the track of a deer.--Fur News. i Some of This Story Is True. The unusual and romantic marriage which is the central feature of Mrs. Florence Morse Kingsley's new novel, "The Princess and the Plowman," oc­ casions much discussion as to its prob­ ability. A young girl writing to the author complained that the situation, although thrilling, was impossible, a marriage in a cornfield unheard of, and that there never was such a "lovely goose" as the heroine. Mrs. Kingsley replied that, as a matter of fact, this incident of a girl's marriage to save her inheritance actually occurred in a little New England village, only the girl was not a college girl, and the man followed a somewhat different calling than that of a plowman. More­ over, Mrs. Kingsley has seen the house where the runaway bride lived tor more than a year before she went hap-, pily back to home and husband. I In Shakespeare's Time. j The big yellow men a climbed above the trees. j "Be careful, Romeo," cautioned the | fair Juliet, "if papa hears you there will be trouble." "But what objection has he to me?" said Romeo, somewhat piqued. "Didn't you tell him I move in the best of so­ ciety?" "Yes, dear, but he Insists that yon are only a climber." And then and there Romeo decided to cut out the balcony scene and make love out on the lawn. Head of Boiler Plate Factory (to the manager)--Why, r didn't expect you to-day. Didn't your wife tele­ phone last night that you were sick in bed with a nervous headache? Managers-Yes; but she's giving a bridge party to-day, and 1 thought I'd be better off here.--Life. Electric Anesthesia. Electric sleep, or anesthesia, pro­ duced by the action on the brain of intermittent electric currents of low voltage, has been a subject of special study for several years by Prof. Stephanie Leduc of Nantes and others. The application has been perfected until it is practicable to put dogs aad rabbits quickly into a calm and regu­ lar sleep, with general and rnmplnHj anesthesia.--Electricity. i New Answers to Old Questions. Restaurant Patron--What is intli to-day, Otto? ^ Waiter--Nothing, sir. The table d'hote is a rehash of yesterday's menu, and the a la carte has been la the icebox since Thursday. But yoa can get some nice chops and steaks up at Smith's eafe. Going, tfl* QasA day, sir.--Puck. * . ^ :'p V