#| --s«<OR, THE GIRL IN BLUE TATE TECH SO SOFIE IE III: PIE IOS TE HII * CHAPTER Vi.--(Contined),, "Good-bye," she cried; Then she be- * lo me. <cabman where to drive in my own. thoughts. 1 was like a mani | 'fn a eee at Truly my night's experi- neces had becn of a nrost extraordin- + Phin © in: his efforts to earn. the Rage his colleague, 1 should, witha , ton al ue Midnen, feeling, 1 ascended the stai fherclore enterlained every confidence if prainised re- was now of His way to find ; the old driver "Doughyy ° aiely ew andé if Edna had ieee Area ae cab piensa, 'Thus, wilh a light step ee pressures. ing me lo ke blind, they certainiy cout not fear any revelations that I m take. If was an Solan which 1 sive in vain to solye. The tantalizing: darkness in'which 1 ary suataclee I had long heard: an what old Mrs. Baker a say [orted arte me to desperation, Imag- < s y i Sie "inet cag at "sung et 2 ge, a apn i Feat bi London 'ani oe tie meer explain 3h nO. DES SE sook OMe oe uld fd but 6 16 looked upon my mys- aceaentat hagas ond now, by a mere my sree and opened door, pont irae hit 'pon oa haa | aap ad obtained personel know- entered the liny lobby that serv- ter Us ss of one, and had ow esCap- | og jalten yiclims of the: unknown assassin, @i, losing my life,. 4d -sat-in- the -bar-parlor~fully half hour before resuming my drive Sudd gather something from the caliu es pushing open the Jittle sae uired- where he oor in the roof, 1 ing nee laken u "In Albert Tod, Ratlersea, sir." 'This surprised "me. for Vhad no idea the Surrey side 'of -dtiat 1 had been on . [ feit so unwell that ai lenly 1 recollected that Yr wie ay in which to hang conts, a» startlin scimd broke upon my cars--the sou a a woman's instant I "drew bac spcechiess, aghast. CHAPTER VII. a _} of a woman surprised Bb: fo investigate, J dingy Sine tee othe aitel purpose of hall and a place svete Ty greclad me, 1 oer aie rig- |¢ 9° become The voice which Lene me ee tat suddon entrance; and walking apply pecee inte ny own Low different would have been. my tion. 'The events al) seemed ke soe hideous nightmare; yet now that caliniy eae this narrative, oh in- bagk-tosme witha yeageed ness just as "that which whelted nyy a pie for further spina ot, and nt ohed wi nme a desire to have the truth at whalever' cost. Theat one could meet wilh such on adventure in -London™~ seemed, almost nites comprehension, yet when one icnibers the many strange stories 'or ene Which daily add horrdr to the 2. FM nd resh tho ae " I have a visilor, it Senms," 1 ex. | Pages © newspupers, it does no! } expluined to the mon my blindness, claimed; stopping short. 1 net seca $0 actually incredible as Wat rst -and pee him lo describe the Jady who know fad appears. JL has bee! ~ had ay me into his cab, "Well, sir'? he snid, "She was fockl-looking--ch?" "Yes, sir, a much prettier y I sighed. niy poor ee o- woze upon } her more ¢ Clasely es had Leen 'Tu vd, ba i mh anxious to know exactly 'what shes wy had lovely eves. sir, shade of dark brown, dnnecent-looking. Biurpriscd to Sec "Like whul? "Hull-dreacned Hlev fa like a, child's, ihe et "Yike. you, and: drove CEOES Avert Bridge. he ake ramen Street, he slapped: the cub - speuk to eon Gis "Who was it?" 1 asked eagerly, "A woman. mo: "Yu siy that he arty? "Yes, worse then Sida and Scott! sir. they bad © a deed, : "she was very pretty in with gréy ¢ and dark- ish heir fie 1 don't think I've ever scen in Y hair Been oh a bit untidy. but it what apres dow Semed & a was : iu She had on a ibs sutier cab: as soon ce aie from It ' the a 1 pee sce -- tinctly. Théy re too far away, and ginied down cheene Walk, ie 1 didn' . Bee 'em any re." clothes were' very: ; 'prea You) s response. L knew that the woman 7 ha How tantalizing it was that se unabie want {fo send fem te the cleus when | SS, © you fruc. The slime of the river emitted: ce a sickening stench, but it Jortunately eorved the blood-stuins upon my cant, 1 Jaughed planations, "From her appearance did my con panion lead you te believe thit she was. --® lady" "Oho ves. cst, tons alent that. girl, or anything of that sorte By he manner youd Ae ll her as a jady shone ten thousa were was * pething noticeable abo her wherby J om recognize again? 'Try and recollect." "Noo sir," "She w and sesh through the root of the cab. very beautiful young lady, alt P noticed yee know her ee if you saw oy sheuld just sny I woutd. the anon. "When e chap sec man as lovely as a is it aint "hkely her. even though he may have * 'aw fe and 'arf a dozen kids at fe tl forget 'oure "You're emiticn hy aeons." - tae "Well. preity Best lye ever seen, "What's vour name?" "West. sir--Tem West. 432. 1 stand on the Park Corner. "Well, Vee!" 1 saic aut a aa case. and etait ny it to "a ever soo thal lady tigain. an can 'Gnd eutwho and what she is. an where she lives. Vi -- say twenty pounds." "Twenty quidt' the man echoed, wit a whistle. "Vd like te touch the oo her. beauly, or € ead: rank al fir, "a you bet Pil keep omy weather ee Ope "AS peel ns you've found bers ket me v You : a sharsuin." fe foyer are, sir. est "if vor only knew the driver perhaps, learn somethin Pe itst what I'm thinking," he "The man whe drove. her was. ~an- old {elkeay that aS Speughe: but Tm 'not a me eure, However, as soon as 1 set i dow T}' go and find him. fieull lo recognize o wens ancfher evercoat, las bdx . That. you ed Tin not certain that it really was v, By the sharp descent of the roadway 1 knew that we were already in Essex Streel, and a few moments ned ] paid ding the 'tw man West and was ascen slair to my own chambers, The i cabmin, the on ommencement of thé investiga Ty oul. A cabman perched upon his box, and driving hither and thither through the London thoroughferes, .is afforded excellent opportunities for ob éervation, ané it seemed .quile within bounds of possibility that if con- stantly on the wutch he might recog- ihe nize her. sharp, willy fellow; and me." What the man said was perfectly ait, ut this remark of his. but) 1 had no intention to enler upon ¢x~ There's no two opin: |! She wasnt a mre her answered the >man's yeice was = lagna Wo- Rut 1 ndmire and hers is the prettiest Number 67. Hyde faking a card him. vive you a present bdo my very of the cn) sie look after we parted yeu might, we know A ahaa is dif- if enlisunent inlo my service of this ly person who had seen {be mysterious Edna, was, 1 congratu- sae myself, @ very shrewd and clever tion hich | inténded, at all hazards, to car- fo conceal one Ahing. namely.) , nN te Shay i q d d h f, n » s mich hed jhappencd fiteen, hours! iy: tile, and ae ' beauty had caused ek a plea ymintic cabman 1a gaze up- on her Jn wrapt admiration. Having cast aside my bal. 1 sank into wy armehair, muddy and ditt just as 1 was. My- hea a aes it ha Ne Leen struck in the occident. pained ime eon. siderably, and 1 Telt that? liad 2 latch of fever com: pe hs Yet sh my Thoughts ated upon t palin agi oat inight bring tipon Surely mo men had ever found heist in a more remarkable sitimtion then Twas at that monient; certainty né niin conkd be mere sid tal and puzzied. Deeply 1 pondered agni nny again, but could muke ee ot that langied web ol startling fac Ry-ne-slesire-or-inel: pation or ae "OWN I had fallen among whal appeared to be very undesirable company, ond had involuntarily promised to vohachet ane E he strange oppression that tel: me on me recursory of evil, wel clothes sticking to ine chilled ve qo the bone, and, with a sudden re- solve to shake off The gloomy apprehen- scons thal second e have ae ms heart, C sod inlo. m room lo wash and ba a change m3 clait in ing. The prolonged absence of Parker "aussd me much wonder. She never Went ont unless lo go into the Strand ta purchase the diurnal steak or. tri- weekly. choo which conslituled my chicl éuslenance; on, rhaps, on Sunday aflernoon she would, on rare occasions, "lo lake a cup o' lea" wilh hor daugh ter, who was a music-hall artiste. and lived Somewhere off the -Kennington on ; Having cleaned myself, 1 proceeded fo dress the wound on my head, my a medical knowlelge standing nie stead, and when } had satisfac- ty bandaged ib and put on & dry tof clothes, I groped about through sits sae small rooms Which were my home, Nothing scemed disurranged, nothing missing--only the woman who had ever been so faithful to me and had treated ine as tenderly in my help- lessness as though I liad been her own son. : In impatience I took a cigar, lit it. and sal down lo wail. No doubt, when She returned 1 should find that she tad keen absent upon some errand connect- e! with her notover-extensive. cuisine. Poor old soul, she never was much of a cook, and I always = feared to order ag sunes in consequence of the agon- ie indigestion -which I invariably catleces after eee ot them. She once, indeed, made me a blanc-mange, ond flavored it with spirit of turpentine instead of extract of almonds. After that I was compelled to strike blanc. mange off my menu. Unlike all other Jaundresses, however, she ad on pa ehty for Old To: The upon me that m. 'promise io fhe Pe ferious Edna, whoever she migh was a rashly: foolish eta 'and mus sult in some emireiente 2 for me. 1 had willingly 4 given up my 'TI counted found tha was ¢leven o'clock in ue amarning. Tow pies .} of apart n caleulawd that iscovered | in - we ussean with her needle, iL will se ail she felt 'hopes sts erie tremus, kis, as ever animated a $ sere ane Salou ie "te slighest Sferred his uffections, 'fO-CR tied, 16 ine Farrelly. aioe focal heanly. "The priest, like everyone in the country round, koew of Flyiin's failliess- ness to Mary: Durkin, and, after giving lin ond Anne Farrelly a severe lecture, telling them he questioned if they conld be happy after: breaking' poor Mary's heart, the good father retused-to marry (hom, Flynn and Ame were mare jod hy civil pi This the fariners living near et Hie Kain-Shonnon regard as inypious, ides they.nre angered by Flynn's Sune at Aire Durkin. So when the bride and bridegroam were returning from the civil ceremony thirly "young men met them, Without wasting words these rural de. fends af the faith and of constancy in Jove sige -Elyan and look his bride back to lier father's house. 'Then they carried fhe struggling bridegroam lo his house. For ton days and nights the young far- mers kept constant guard aver 1 wusés, have had Mr. and Mrs, Fivan un- dor amecas'ng surveillance, and have pre- vented them from rejoining och other, * AS BAD AS CHICAGO. VWellingion, New Zealand, one of the Windicst (ies in the World, Wellington, ae political capital of New Zeal. is one of the windiest cites in fhe world, Sait 'ance a building Were gets "ett alight" there is Hie chance of sav- i Recently the eye "tons 's Reman Catholic twice burned down, hoglon chitehes his hat an rounding a street corner to prevent its being hlewn inlo space. A Wellington man is always krown in Svdney, Melbourne and other cities by halding on to-chis hat theough ferce of habit. ------ A. QUEENS APARTMENTS, Queen Alexandra's private eepectrayaed in Buckingham Palace are o! style filling her exalted rank, The 'bedichaen- her js an immense ron with a height af al least twenly feet. In the centre of one side stands the bedstead--a massive ahaiv of carved mabogany, tt stands so tngk from the ground that a cushioned elep rons.ail round. Curtains are 'p bo fo enclose jt entinet? if necessary. 0 e a large dressing- fate and two huge weardeabne with plate gitss doors, Each wardrobe js fully ten feet high and twelve feel Jong. On one side of the bedchamber is another room, On the opposite bedc' r are th room superbly fitled up with se and silver, and the doir, d aled in rose pink and moss green, with |. sik fae walls: Near at hand are suites 4 ments occupied by Princess Vie- ¢ foria and n. Charlotte Knollys, her private Gecrstiry: en Insur urance Official--"Ol what oom- }plaint did. your father dle? AD, icant --"The jury foud him guilty, , ull tT would, {ic keep a complete record of all otfend- ott i erie respect, jie eatin in his community, ea pro' » he experience that havin rien a up court, and Unatoo often lack of imerwge-through political favor. i Ube" cates lee aoe lipped the wrong way. SPIRIT, NOT LETTER, ober also at ot the city_might-on occas zn + Petty: = aie nance, 23 fora pigui-tnng: ct 'pursuance of this ict be he Sata hig men to, issued "k to unfortunate o the pre and ordinances when we misdemeanors only. provided they Lirposely Math a view to injuring the property of scipplichh a He oid itd Me siong p be sev Diy nd releniiess rieale his ne fo warn and ally. provided ache S person mls stone ma Of a trivial nature; and "a more strigns offense, nid aut int cach morning's report ta 'fur- hi Fb in With the tolal number arnin wen and> the nuniber of persons ease. % NEWS IN UNDERWORLD.: Kohler found himself cought up ina whirhvin : 1 100k sidoe und Sauded the chief by turn. "sex! ol ilwse 9 who mi ade public express questioned the feasibility of the Golden Tule as ; Sevey measure, "Sli of "Chi," and "Dead Arn of wvenee 4 pile ail the Test of their ki gol the news by undersworid wire anid. "palling Cleveland down as "an cisy burg." dropped in as fast as through freights would bring them. Then these Saine mon began te hit harmless Cleve: landers over the heads with hiackjacks find slung slits. Kohler took natire at euch as were nol 'sent deny * for the winter, talked it ever "on outhenind freights and decided that in sone re- spects at least Kobler was nel a suecess as a Golden Rule chief, MEN FOLLOWED IDEA. On {he whole, Kohler says he is pleased) Nt pel, appre: tinted fa sate with dct pals ee, He hast of He stn Her happiest hours are | y nich speedily develops ranciudity. cut-down) the number of arrests. to.a.| "hen she ean Toy aside her crown and | 'rhe process of extracting' the oil is point Lelow adything sien in Cleve. land for years. Though he has puzzled mightily eume of the force whe were ¢ rast in 'the scheme of things rather mere ne role of Samson, than Solomon oa: Meses, the men have, in general. tiv td " to the Ider. Petty famity fends have been patched ap; bay @angs, full of mis- chief rather.tian "malice, have Leen shown the erfor of their ways, and wan- dering feel have ben guided home. in- stead of-to the station hou-e, If the mace ir _ "run thin fn." it has rel dared t " <sssielytincae BECAUSE BLOOD Is REN. "How often we hear the phrase 'Like waving a red ug rea bull fl" says a noluralist. "Yet how many people know what it means? Why should a bull. or any other creature, be enraged when a picce of seurlel cloth is flaunted behoee Sent Yor buils _ ay alone in this Sheep. usually kK and gentle, will apparently become eaneporien with rage if they see anything of this colour. Geese and turkeys ure similarly affected--the former even having bee lack. a scarlel-"lad child. r WelP the exeitement animals display in such circumstances is similar to that coused by the smell of biood. Here is my theory: 'The color reminds the ani- mitis-of blood 0n association which in- varlably sugaeie bodily discomfort a hurt, "So they express their terror by the only means they Possess, HIS AWFUL FEAR, Mon, the sarrew of it!" sobbed the fair maid, "Last n night I refused van Blank and this om his_body wa. found in the river "Poor fellaw!" murmured her girl friend, " suppose he was afraid you might. change your niece - = SAME OLD 'poy, 'The main'ywho sigh for the by-gone day When 4 boy hi Tight. he. eaw three things. He knew how an kowered o man's scil- He also be- fore" was a morta! offence in ihe polis ' either trough police court -juctice alsa believed Sats minor laws - jraken detriment to | the civic or- wis, harmless cases of tion of the traffic ordl- d the lke, +e ey. reasons and in Menders against the cases sa Salistied" ame, offence was not oPMaliciously committed, or persar or con . an On Breseition, of the 1 oe Sr hobitual vio | Pe ea ide otogne nal sgt Pe PERSONAL FAI PARAGNAPHS. -- World's Prominent & great liking for fencing, and is now tak- (ra Seeman labor trainin pose ing a course in an ancient tradiLon of the Hohenzollarn I .| King' Haakon of Norw Tle is mena a new inven- which may be of use at sea or Navy. 'He also likes sport, is a fine shot, rides well 'to hounds, and is cara ge teat King Haakon is a Knight ef the Gurter, and mgt several ather British dignilies, It is curious to thal at the Court of oreey {here are no nobies aml no Ulles; and in this respect it resembles the Courts of Athens, Bel- wade, And Bucharest. When. he cane to the throne he abolished the prefix of "Your Excellency" for Ministers and olher dignitaries, and even wished to dhspense with the 'title of "Mujesty. amiractor, builder, millionaire, ar lover, and fist neh "af Paddinglon, Sir ichn Aird, who has just celebrited his fseventy-fourth birthday. has had a stren- Vous be a uneventful hfe, His prand- fther & Working men who was Killed dur ig the building af the Regents Canal, while his futher held a subordinate Tesition in a London gas company. Sir Jehan, from: small beginnings, hos built Hp one of the Jargesi and most suecess- fal contracting firms in the warkl, Por. haps Sir John's oo t wig hey WAR | lie erening af the Nile, five or six years he 14.000 men working for bim on the ba. a of that great rivers and the Luge reservoir which he -buill, holding $9.000,000,008 yailons of water siands as one Of the engineering: marvels of the fige. Sir Klos spare time isdeveted to hie callection cof art treasures, and en- fertaming: his friends jaa ight reyal manner, Lord Biythswood, who is said to Le en- Hoged on the construction of a new fy - tes -machine, has a magnificent libora- tity ond cnginesring shop at Bivthswood kuse, in Renfrewshire, Seatland. Here i not only conducts his experiments in aerial navigation. bul is also seeing: what te can«lo in -- od of uminafacluring precious ston 1 s been discovered that when re hineray ean, whi ch is a colorless crystal of exacily the same nature as the tapaz, finetlivst, ruby, and ok Seb is dnt close fo radiiun for a period of about 'two months, it changes to thé' color of one of these gems. The test these stones are indistinguishuble from the gems they represent, the sights at Biythswood House is the largest stilie ekcctrical machine in te world, de- sipmed and made by Lord Blythswood in Its own. worksho The 280ib, son of Celywayo i certainly a sauvage by birth, bul by no means 'a Suvapge in his manners, «ois a thor- oughly civilized Zulu. speaking English ve wearing European clathes, and MSSSIN Aa passion for playing the aca and listening lo the gramophone, To his guests Dinizuiu is mast hoaspit- alle and. Kenerous. Tf you paid him a visit you i find a speci) brick build- int se t for you. and an English. sjuking ualive Valet told off | afer you. The valet sleeps at your de Kor at night--day and night you eh caved for, Al night vou can hax itede chooks with all the latest Englist: tunes, or, he is well, he will py fo you on an English organ. and sing hi yeuteo. in the English language, his faye rite-air is, "Home. Sweet Home. Ne learnt it when in exile, and says he Will never forge: it, Nothing has been more t nie hing i in con- nevtion with the deliewte health of the "Empererof Ail the Russias' than the devotion of the Czarina do her hustand. The pomp and cireunistance of the Rus- shin Court has made no change in the simple, unaffected Prinerss Alix whom tholas TL. wooed and won on the banks Zzuhrs jlay with her children. Much of her mar- ried life, in fact. has been spent in homety domestic dulies, or in studying the tot af the Russian poor. She has read ¢ tnd has placed herself at the head of the | beady charged with the arrangements for | toor Law relic Mer Majesty coy speak ip five kanguaipes, und ¢ /- paing. sheich, mw. and swin. | As earlyenist sue Weald have m aide the "torenc a selenin, bearded infant in tong clothes, surround. elby ao host of pompous officials armed vith feeding-botties A ley who will never Jack pocket- heney ts the son of Mrs. John Nichelns Brawn, sister of Mrs, Goorge Vandertilt. Lathe Johnny. who i Vseven years old, is heir ty $10,000,000, and by the time he is Iwenty will be worth amelher 10,000,000, He has three palatial pesi- dcenecs and a yacht, and when he travels is Acconipmnied by a specal physician, a governess, a valet, Iwo trained nurses, aml Sin Servants, the richest baby in : Vandertilt, coho agi 'vould rrgand such an i ion with a contemptuous sniff, for he beats fen'. baby by senie Sita. wi The Vanderbilt youngster is heir lo a lite fortune of $60,000,000, his meter being a Miss Virginia Fair, who - had $10,000,000 of ber own at her marriage bd add lo her husband's fortune of $100,- . The richest boy in the world, » is Marshall Field, the twelve- vanes 'millionaire, whose grandfather, a Chicago store-keeper, died last year and left a fortune 'of $150,000,000, --_--_ -___ ARE YOU? Are you half as anxious, nefghbor, When 4 fellow's down and out ~ & And' give him a cordial greeting ts the abel 209 who used to say: "Gee, 1-9 ose mani" - Gossip Ab About Some of the People. F ie Majesty the Queen has lately taken from one of the ncing sa in England. The mas- the Kaiser, have & school at Gross-Lichlerfelde, for the pur- practical niechonies, This is in accordance with | y¢< though ihe institution were a t ota: potentiie liens, and especially in any Slieiane in the a first-rate nate al} ne foor receptacles made of fhe best works on the Fngti ish Pear Law. Ine ite r | 3 Eesential cand Hans i 1 ! [THE BIGGEST PAWNSHOP | 4 invariably redee LIKE A BANK, Al closing time the doors are shul, are tuken from thei ond then placed in the : brwilquaciens wap- gon and driven off, Here they are ex- amined, registered and put away upon miles 'of shelves, or in vast sleel vaults, according to their size and value. In the ground fuoor one may see even attomobiles and things which ne ordin- Bry pawnbroker would even dream of ac- cepling. There are Uousands of eyeles chestnul poasters, perambulaters. " even the furnilure of married souples Without children, -- ny have Jeft Puris for a pleasure to It is quite the thing. hen (a the way, for i for safe-héecping. In this way no. only ure the charges of 4 iy company done away with, but » depositar achuaily gels an advance at money while his property is in site ceping. MUCID JEWELLERY. On the first floor are rows ef anmense is containing jewellery, and many pieces among Lien worth $50,000, Kor ¥ lady knows, when she goes south te of Aix-les-Bains, that (here is no place a sufe-heeping like the Government Mont de Picte. There are luundreds of Uousands of j watches, and simply mules of gold chains t eailed up in cotton wool the hibernating | snakes. Sloreys above cantain = a ape j pare! of a great cily; then some inde eiainen' Ay "nuscethisecus" 'Teewnn, und (highest ef all ane comes upon whit the ani sndly calls "the region of sarnaw and privation." Pere are the mattresses end bed clotlung of the poor, parted with only when their owners are in desper- ate strane. AH bedding by the way, mast earefully disinfected by up-to- 'date wind scientific bygienmic muchinery Lefere Lemg put away MANY RENEWALS, The long vistas of walls are pigron- holed for boxes and bundles, Rach time a renewal is trade a new ticket is slilshed over Uae old one. Count these tickets ond you will sce how Jong the article had been there, I noticed one wilh ten lickels. There was another little bundle «na which but-three franes haw been lent, is FF 15 CONDUCTED BY THE. FRENCH POOR an o Itt FARM Pewee. weve = ran alos "| FEEDING EARLY-HATCHED PULL ) ose. bee the regiments of Household Cav-| The Mont de Piete is Vast Institution--| | held by some that, rs. ie : fees boasts of race Ser Many Curious Pledges Among curly-hatehed pullets make tne best win- : ie ; wager Sytem. nan in E oa Se describes Her Majes-| Collection. r Regt curly ones may not be a Sh a rd 4 : cal ' 5 ; Se oe Rcaulon nade apparently Sates se Hof polit in the United | {y as being a Thorn fencer," and a6 09¢1' srernaps the inost curious pledge of all [through tke summer: that, if fed smu and every in Lf ; ' ix a gilver five-franc piece brought to the | isting food, the are likel lo lay a few % | been taken fo conceal the a pli when 'he visited ras Bese ieee ecuieved great promi- | yi ont de Picte by working people who anant eggs. t y mat od . ny, with : y- Yet the chief features o the } i eland, ond; @ few years ego and when they. were married, hud the coin | g:eat injury to their egg production; end affair which e mo- | found such. arrangements) The German Crown Prince's not the | piessed by the priest. It is only in hours | that, therefore, they should be re live ig endeavoring to take my life in shat (bere wend aeeeucany nothing for his | only scion of Royalty in the gine cf great distress that this is brought to | during, the sunimer, so that they muy en- that cellar beside the Thames. I hed garta! servico men: who fe learning a "trade. oung | the Mont de Piele, where four and a half; ter on the winier season in full vitality. su no one, and, g ub hen * was = made chief of Sle sons of Prince' erm ss Leopold of | frances are always tant upon it. The coin] With the object of testing the truth o lerly ignorant of the house where:n the he. began 4o-oast about-for wrongs in, nephews ved. this statement, a series of experimenis were conducied at Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, and the resulls heave just been issued ih a bulletin, No. 249. Four methods of feeding were resor! is. In the first pen, the pullots received a grain' mixture morning and night in Ure lifter, and wet mush at noon. Yo. 2, the grain mixture was given img and night in the litter, and dry mash was given in a hopper, open al all times. r pen No. 3, where the pullels were "re- tried "ino stimulating mash -- bein, sen), gruin was fed morning, noon ap hight in liller, and beef scrap once a dey ki a trough. In pen No, 4 (also "retard- . grain mixture ang beef ecra were fod in-a hopper, epen al all limes. Gril, oyster shell, and water were * en rage pred July wet 20th--then closed in ri with wirenct ting openings .¢ toll in cold weather) us- til March 20th, The experiment lasted The groin mixtures were cracked corn, wheal and and of the same, addition of buckwheat, from 19th lo February 16th, sa mixture was made of cor middlings. beef scrap, wheal bran, alfalfa nica Tre resulls per hen for the 364 days were as follows: Pen 1, average. 1A egys: pen 2, 120.3 eggs; pen 3, 110.7 eggs; pen 4, 107.5 eggs. aeration re mouling. ete., weight . fertility of eggs. cle, were piso * sumimalised as . however, that 2 be regarded as repeated eNperis » fawds; feth, £907, pullets, nade a helter peo than "retarded" pullete. 'They ate le food por ben. ab bess cers Lo per het, danas * puflets; produce tere eggs, oa larger size, and at less cast per lozen; gare better hatching vosulls: made uler percentage of yom uy weight; "and Giawed fhe fast most preitic pullele, < found, did net always lay the carl Hopper-fed dry mash gave betler rr sults mo gain ef weight, produchon of eggs, gain in weight of CEES hatching wer et eyus. days fost in moulling, merkilily, healli and profit per hen, than yel mash. Wet-mash and grain- pate pul- rss and yel il was covered with a mass of lickels of meny. hucs, because there is.a cclor for each re ack *About thi® tiltle bund there is a story. Bielon the perl nelicing the smallness of the loan and the renewals itlen to the pled- ir asking why the 'eal had nol been cdeemed, The woman came to head- quacte rs uid exploingd she was too poor. "It is very valuable fo you, is it net!" Rlaize asked curion sly The poor woman burst inta tears. "Al. Mensicur,' she sobbed. "it is Me ents thing DT have te remind me oefmy mother.' This was too iach even for a French gevernment etficund, The -- directan promplly gave her back the bundle and paid fer it himself St conmtamed merely on old dinity petticoat, M ----e | HOW OLIVE OLL IS MADE. Fruit is Crushed to a Paste From Which the Oi is Pressed. The finest ollve cll in the world is weeran in Tuscany-- the parden ef thaiy. The trees bi-ssom in 'Tuscany in the m nth of May, The frat begins te Novenber acd us penerally on by January, fut muturily It is a risky crep, says What-te Aioty mithuring as it dees dining winter wer ther, cell snip chuse great damage Sometimes the fruit trees till May. yielding a pate, (iriers, siniple tn the extreme; the fruit is first crushed in a-mill to a uniform paste. jihen the paste is tensferred to cirsular vepctable A pile of these are placed in a D press ted the exuding ail Hows imtte a beclectny lank below ar that the mull telat aie revolve toa fast oar it will verligal the ol fives te The ett 4 talk should net beef metab for the same Vea on, Alse the deprer af pressure. when the chyect vis to Ps 4 the finest quakity of orl as the fernr runs Phe finest Sentatly a culd drawn il. Hleut iss prejudiced fo quality, However, whe nab) possible heen taken in the mains that olive ou can he from freshly pathered. . tipe olives of the The fig fat alives « . sulfropical eli mates m0 never sesid d delicately Ma veered oil The ne wily nade cil must be albaved to settle. Tl is then caritied simls by passing if Uhrough purified ec than ina suitable titer, Really tine «dive ctl catis for no ether treatment whatever, mical or otherwise, ts render it fil fer On thes point itis well ba as reference has been niule before now 16 processes for refining Mive oil so as to oblain a specially fine mualily--one might as well try 'to "paint the lily or adern the msé! Afler bemg brought to America the clarified o!} is preserved in warehouses in large slate lined tanks; holding up {» 20,000 gallons each, wherein the oll is maintained at' an equable fempern- For bolWing and can filling -- oses it is transferred by pipes these large tanks to other smajler carrie in the packing rooms, IT ALL DEPENDS, "Things is blessin's or otherwise." sal 'Uncle Eben, "'cordin' to how you ses 'om: Hope is what keeps some men workin' deir best an' what encour. ages others to Tun into debt,' With the strength of both your hands? } tely consumed élightly less cus! produced eggs at slightly less nm than dry-rmas dd grain fed pulle Ilopper-fed {han hand, fed pullets, whole groin, ate more gril and shell ~ Ihose having a proporbon af gre vrain, Earliest preducers did got eve sy many eggs in early winter, ot turers gained iis rapidly in weight as linase beginning laler lo Proheacy ~emed fo make bul slight ¢ 'difference in veight of hen and of egg. IMPURITIES IN AMERICAN SEEDS. Of 1.217 samples of red clover seed s¢e- cured in the open markel for purposes of analysis by the United Stules Depart- ment of Agriculture, 405, one-third, ctikumed seed of dodder, and 424 con- luined traces of yellow trefoil seed, Of 200 samples 'ot alfalfa seed secured, Je}. or about ene-half, cantained seed of dedder, 195 contained a trace of yellow contained a trace of sweet 6 contained a trace oF burreelever OF the above timpuri- bas, fhe only = can is the dadder, hut it is very serious inderd, Of tid samples of Soe fescue seed, "0 contained chess in amounts. varying from @ mere trace Up w) cent.. 4 contained "soed of rye grass, 4 were misbranded, 4 of them being Can- de blue giaiss, | orzhard grass, ond the a a oinisture of orchard grass and 60 : ats ih 4) samples of Brown's inermis seed I> eonlained chess, 28 contained fram 2 to 3 per cent. of the wheal grosses, Sev- eral contained secd of meadow fest: ene, and one contained mare than 24 per eent. af mendaw 'fesene and rye giéise Of 428 samples of Kentucky blue grass a' but & contained Carnhda blue grass. un most of tiese samples, the trace of yada blue geass found was immohire cal, showing thot it was hary ested with Kentucky blue grass seed. In Hi) simples, Canada tue KASS read was feund in quantities exceeding & per cent., 82 of These being Canada Hue grass seed mishrandad Kentiteky bhie pres While tianks lo the Seed Contr} Act, feuh, the Canadian seed) trade is on a hetfer Tnisis Te that across the berder, is well us fa he acquainted with the cial impurities in American seed, partic a in the ense of alfalfa, Ie dder, in especial. is a pestifonius weed, and a he quaisded against too Vipi- Ey fp HOW bo. YoU W. AL Ke This is not the simple question il ap- pears. Many people now believe that o Kcrson's character may be foretold froin is' wwethud of walking. Firm regular steps are said to denale a steady. re. hable nature, while jerky, unever movements indicate the cnergelic person walks quickly and siops stiuddeniy; fhe dreamer saunters nlong ys 'ith slow, abstracted mien, 'The obstin-- vie man goers straight ahead, refusing' te turn aside for anybody, On the other hand the person vw ho is re ndy to slepout ot evervane's way is not necessarily weak-willed. He may be eMicted with toa: much courtesy. The long swinging step usually marks the generous brond- mind- ed person while the small petty tread shaws the walker to be of A mean and narrow character, This last rule applies, of course, far more. to men than woe! en. a Ww HEN THE GUARREL | CEASED, They were having the usual family quarrel, As was niso usual she could mit convince him that she knew where- igo lo school, stupid," she screamed, "yor, dear, you did," he replied calms ty' *Apt you céug back stupid."