Ona lowly wooden headstone in a. certain churchyard in Wales is in- scribed the following epitaph: "Here lies the remains Of Miser Haynes, Whom no one forgets And no one regrets.'" _ Who put the headstone there, or who carved those bitter words upon it, nobody knows. But they are felt to be so true, and so well de- served, that nobody, not even the vicar, has ever troubled to have that strange memorial removed. Miser Haynes had come to that Welsh village from London, a mid- dle-aged man, intending to spend his declining years there in peace and quietness. But all his hfe he had been amassing money. He had lived for money. Xt seemed to him the only thing worth living for. At first he had made some at- tempts to cultivate a garden, and to interest himself in local affairs. - He had tried to lead the idly-busy _ life of a prosperous man, retired from business, and enjoying his ac- cumulated stvings.~ But he could not. Very soon he was dealing in houses and land, stock and scrip, in shares, and in every other form _ of inveatment that promised a sub- stantial profit. It became known through Pen- morva that he was always willing to lend money on good security. His rate of interest. was high, but he was such a pleasant, hearty old fel- low, and he had such a blunt way with him over a friendly pipe and glass, that many of the farmers and tradesmen eagerly availed them- selves of this opportunity to lay out a little much-needed extra capital upon their tillage or their business. Thus, in a few years, he held mort- gages upon half the property in that neighborhood, and there were not many houses in which he had not a bill of sale upon the furni- ture. And when the time came to pay arrears of interest, or to renew an acceptance, he was not so pleasant or hearty as he had been in the past, though quite as blunt. It was discovered, moreover, that he had invented a harsh system whereby it was impossible for anyone to clear himself except by prodigious gacri- fices. It was not to be wondered at, then, that everybody hated him. And he was hated all the more be- cause, though he was so rich and grew rapidly richer, he was so mean and grasping that he begrudged himself the very necessaries of ex- istence. He did all his own cook- ing, such as it was, and all his own housework, too, rather than spend a shilling or two occasionally on outside help. He never sought any diversion, or did anything whatso- ever that might cost him a penny. And yet times were so bad and cash was so scarce that sooner or later nearly everybody had to 'go to him for a loan; and so it came about that his power increased daily until, in time, he had most of his neighbors in his clutches, and could lord it over them like any emperor. As he passed through the High Street all the women bobbed to him, all the mon touched their hats, and all the children stood and gaped and trembled. Among his humbler victims were Mr. and Mrs. Purvis, a couple not long married, with one baby girl. Purvis was a carrier. It was to buy a horse and cart that he had bor- rowed money from Miser Haynes just before his marriage. And he had not been married many months before, one night, his horse was killed and his cart smashed by a powerful motor-ear that whizzed away into the darkness and was never traced. To replace his loss Jim Purvis had to obtain a fresh loan from Miser Haynes, and the burden of this new loan, added to his old obligation, was slowly crushing all the joy out _ af his, young life. Im vain he and his wife stinted themselves in order that their baby girl should lack nothing. They fell ever more and more into arrears with their pay- ments. Every week Miser Haynes grew more and more rapacious and threatening, until there seeined to be nothing but utter ruin before them. "Tt isn't as if I had repaid the loan over and over again in mere interest," said Jim Purvis one timidly at the : After a long 1aterval it was open- ed, and the face of the miser peered out. He was wearing his battered old hat and ragged, threadbare overcoat, as if about to start on a journey. = : "Ob, it's you,'? he snarled. "Come to pay the money ?"' "N-no," she stammered. "T have come- » : Z = . . "Then go away again,' said he, "and look out for someone to take you in next Saturday. You'll need a home then.' -- He tried to shut the door on her, but she pressed against it with her shoulder. bets "Please, dear Mr. Haynes," she baby----"' away roughly. slam, and she ws alone in the dark- ness, weeping. 2 On the other side of the door Mi- ser Haynes stood scowling and trembling, his evil face showing livid and distorted in the murky rays of the candle he carried in his shaking hand. He sniffed the air. It was heavy with the reek of paraffin. "T wonder if she noticed the smell?" he quavered aloud. 'If she did----"' His voice sank to a muttering un- dertone as he went slowly up the narrow passage to a cupboard un- der the stairs, and looked into that black hole. Here the odor of paraf- fin was almost overpowering; and his feeble light showed a great heap of paper and shavings and wood soaked in the oil, A broken lamp lay on the floor of the passage, im- mediately underneath a bracket af- fixed to the wall whereon it ordi- narily stood. Obviously, the old man had been about to set his house on fire when poor little Mrs. Purvis knocked at the door. But why should a man so rich be guilty of the crime of in- cendiarism? Ah, there is the mys- tery of miserliness! A while ago one of his many nefarious schemes had failed, and he had been mulct- ed in a sum of three hundred pounds. That loss had preyed on his mind. ~ He felt he could not rest, he could not eat or sleep or have any satisfaction in life, until he had made it good. So he had thought of firing his house and getting the insurance money. It seemed so easy and so safe. But now--had this woman gus- pected anything? He decided that she had not. He struck a match, Ten minutes later he was hurry- ing through the tiny village toward the steep little hill beyond, from which he purposed watching the blaze. Then suddenly a devastating thought occurred to him. He had forgotten something. He had care- fully banked his hoard: that was all right. But he had forgotten the old oak chest in his bed-room. And that shest contained all his bonds and securities, all the deeds and documents that represented so much wealth. If those papers were destroyed, he would jose the bulk of his fortune. What a fool he had been not to think of that before fir- ing his house! He stood stock-still, then wheeled about, and started off in the direc- tion of his house. Already there was a red gleam in the distance. He saw the smoke go rolling up in a pulsing glare. He began to run, _haltingly, stiffly, against the furious opposition of the gale. The streets had been deserted be- cause of the inclemency of the night. But the sound of his hurry- ing footsteps echoing on the slate pavement drew a hundred faces to the doors and windows. He tore along the narrow, winding way at the head of an excited mob: and as he raced across his weed-grown front garden the mob burst through the gate after him. Jim and Nance Purvis were there. They saw the miser plunge into the burning house. But by this time the fire had taken such hold, the heat was so intense, and the roar and the crackle of the flames so menacing that none dare follow him. Alone he groped his way through the smoke, along the passage, up the stairs, until he gained his bed- room. There the fire had as yet evening, to his pretty young wife. "The money that man has had out of me these last two years or so would have set me up with another mare and bought a go-cart for Babs into the bargain. And yet, if I don't find another six pounds be- fore Saturday, he'!ll come down on us and take away all we've got.' Mrs, Purvis raised her tear: stained face from the cot over whioh she was bending. made no headway. He found the chest, and began to drag it across the floor. It was very heavy--too heavy for him to carry downstairs. But he decided that if he could drop it out of the win- dow that would serve him equally wall. So he strained and tugged at it, and by an almost superhuman exer cise of strength he tilted it up. on to his bed, and lodged it firmly and 'Perhaps he ain't quite so bad as what people make out, Jim," she said soothingly. "Perhaps----'"' "T tell you, Nance, he's hard to| : L And I wish he was dead !| choking him. the core. Though even if he was dead,"' add ed Jim, on reflection, 'that would n't help us, 'cos there would still be that ba'. paper I] signed. Ah, well, I think Vl do as I gaid have a look round and gee if I can find a friend in need,"' And, having kissed his wife fond ly, he went out. Nance stood at the door of their cottage watching his dejected figure as it retreated slowly from her and disappeared in the gathering dusk. When he had gone she went hastily indoors, dressed herself and the! baby-girl in their best clothes, and | went her way along the deserted High Street towards Miser Haynes house, It, was now quite dark, A fierce hurricane was blowing off the sea. But as she went along a new light of hope kindled in her breast and seemed to brighten her path. . Her idea was to go and sce Miser Haynes herself. She would plead with him. And if he still rroved obdurate she would show him her little baby girl. securély against the inner sill. | He threw up the window, and in | stantly. the smoke and heat rushed in, scorching his face, blinding him, But Just one last heave, and all would be well. He yot his hands For an instant it top- ipled, balanced precariously, on the window-ledge, Then he gave it a final thrust, and it hurtled out with a scraping sound into the hazy void. For a moment he stood there, panting, with a glad thrill of re- lief at his heart. Then he realized his imminent peril, and turned to find a way out of the house. By this time it was blazing like a box of matches. Tongues of flame were licking under the door. The floor was intolerably hot beneath his feet. He flung open the door, and. in- stantly the fire lunged at him, lap- ped him about in a searing embrace. He closed the door again and fan back to the window. There also was an impenetrable wall of smoke and sparks that bristled with a myriad spears of flame and soared up to the sky. He caught a dim glimpse of horri- wailed, "see here! I'ye brought my. He swore at her and pushed her Then there was a loud resounding under the sharp edge of the chest. | He hoisted it up, bit by bit, higher | just | and higher. upefying - fume were as water. * = clean gone out of hin wore alt weap "as ee Between those two fires J hither and thither, tearing seen by the watching crowd of yil- lagers. Se a thankfulness that at least his pre- cious chest was safe. But his chest was not safe. It was 80 cid and brittle, and so seamed and cracked and warped by the dry- rot and hard usage of years, that, as it struck the ground, it burst into fragments... Its contents were thus scattered over the garden. And the fierce gale caught them up and flung them broadcast, far and wide, chased them over fields and woods, up hill and down dale, un- til it cast them into the sea or otherwise consigned them to obliv- ion. Thus, with the destruction of this documentary evidences, were Jim and Nance and baby-girl, together with hundreds of their neighbors, set free from the heavy, black, in- cubus of debt, that had brooded like a dark thunder-cloud over the whole village. And thus it comes about that to- day there is inscribed upon a cer- tain grave in Penmorva Church- yard this mocking epitaph: "Here lies the remains Of Miser Haynes, Whom no one forgets And no one regrets."? --London Answers. eee ss SIR JOHN'S WIT. Sir John Boyd, the eminent To- ronto judge, is noted for the keen- ness of his intellect. The Chancel- lor grasps a counsel's argument al- most invariably before the lawyer has finished his speech, and it ir- ritates him when the lawyer is at all verbose or has not his case well up. The Chancellor also has a sharp wit. The other day in the somewhat informal court known as Judge's Chambers, a young lawyer com- menced to argue a case with which he was obviously not well acquaint- ed. He fussed and hummed and 3 Sak Sir John Boyd. hesitated. He wandered all about the point in a vague manner. -- Sir John, however, had seen threugh the case like a flash. It was really a very simple one. "What have you to say upon this point?" at last asked the Chancel- lor a little sharply, referring to the key of the situation. "Oh, I was just coming to that," said the young lawyer brightening. "No, you weren't,"? retorted Sir John, evidently fearing that the lawyer was getting to make a fresh start. "'You passed it long ago." See, | Eoedinneres oe A WORD TO MOTHERS. Be Carefal What You Say Before Your Children. Most of us do not credit young- sters with the intelligence of the pet dog or cat. We announce with pride of the- latter, 'He knows everything you say," but will calmly. talk scandal or discuss the small child to his face, with the con- soling belief that he does not under- stand. The quicker we get a wholesale awe of the precocious child the bet- ter for family peace and child de- velopment. No wonder a girl grows up a vain little prig when she has heard from infancy what a beauty she is, or that a small son gets un- bearable when his smart doings and sayings have been repeated con- stantly before him. "Don't tell me your child does not understand," said a friend to a doting mother who was heralding lher little one's beanty and clever- | néss. "Took sat that 'conscious smirk," ' A smirk on a child's face is In- variably imprinted by the folly of |) 8rown-ups. Chitdren may be shy by | nature, but they never have that |disagreeable look of self-conscious- | ness unless they have heard them- | solves discussed, If you cannot. refrain from talk- ing of things that should' not be heard by small listeners, keep away from them. The mother who neglects her children often does them less harm than the _adoring mother who lets them hang about and gives no heed to her tongue, The nursery, not the drawing. room, is the place for little ones, and the wise mother is she who sees that her children do not get a chance to listen to foolish talk, whether they take it jn or not 4 eR terion: With coal and a new overcoat to pay for the averagé man is safe in prophesying a tough winter ahead. scanty white locks, and screaming horribly, until at last he sank | down on the floor and was no more |{~7- - 'His last conscious thought was of e | a wonderin 'remarks a wri- York Sun, not only words but of facts. amusement of his pupils exander would sometimes out thinking," and he would then ] forth period after period of Strange words and incongrueus im- ages, harmonious and even rhyth- mical in sound, but wholly destitute of sense. If any one thinks this is an easy feat, let him try to suspend his reason and give free rein to his fancy in periods which shall be gra- matically correct and yet without meaning. : z Another of his feats was to sub- mit himself to examination and tell off-hand where he was and what he was doing on any day of any year the examiner chose to name. His most wonderful feat was displayed at the matriculation of a class in the seminary. Forty or fifty stu- dents presented themselves for ad- mission. Each handed his creden- tials to the professors, who exam- ined them and, if satisfactory, en- tered the student's name and ad- dress in the register, When the students had retired the professors began bantering one another as to which one should take the register home, and prepare from it an alphabetical roll--an irk- some task. "There is no need to take the register home,' said Dr. Alexan- der, "TI will make out the roll for you.' Whereupon he took a sheet of paper and, without referring to the register, wrote out in alpha- betical order the full names and addresses of the students, which he had heard once only, when they were recorded. ; What makes this still more won- derful is the fact that the entire mass of names and addresses must have been present in the doctor's mind while he was selecting each one in its alphabetical order. De RISE IN FUR PRICES. Cat Skins Can Be Worked Into Imitation of Any Kind of Fur, Society women of London, Eng- land, who cannot spend magnifi- cently are loudly complaining of the soaring cost of furs, and they | derive little comfOrt from learning that the increased price of seal skins is due to greater restrictions on hunting in American waters. Eighteen years ago a seal jacket cost $200, but at the present time | they cannot buy one in London un- der $700. This rapid rise in the cost of all kinds of furs has greatly speeded up the trade in imitations, and inci- | dentally called into existence a new | business to supply the demand. Some wideawake furriers having discovered that catskins could be worked into a tolerably perfect imi- { tation of any kind of fur, there in- | stantly arose the profession of cat- snatcher--a, lucrative one, as a ood skin now fetches a dollar. Consequently the possessors of prized felines are living in daily fear that their pets will be abduet- ed, and special watch has to be set them lest they stray into the hands of the thieves who ride around the suburbs on bicycles with baskets attached for earrying their prey. No fashionable woman, however jhard-up for cash, would knowingly wear catskin furs, but the skins are made up to look like the thing, that the glib-tongued © offers her a bargain can |mostly foist her off with the imita- tion goods. As it is estimated that the eat population of London is 760,000, it will be a-long time be- fore this source of supply is ex- hausted. ; 4 } i | sO well | | real i furrier wl evan artemis, « Gatiabe a Stoo GUESTS GOT DRENCHED. Hidden Fountain in Moorish Palace Played Practical Jokes. The Moorish palace of Sultan Abu Jakub Yussuf, at Seville--known to-day as the Alcazar--containg qne of the most elaborate practical jokes extant, says the Strand Maga- zine. When in a gay mood some important merchant or notable of Seville would receive a pressing in- vitation summoning him to the presence. In a fever of delightful ;expectancy, the flattered guest would don his whitest raiment, and j hie him to the palace. There he | would be ceremoniously conducted to the gardens and directed up the long avenue, But alas! Half-way up it, he would mevitably tread upon a moving flagstone and fine jets of water would gush out of the ground and from the surrounding shrubbery and drench him. Amid the jeers of the courtiers, the luckless and bedraggied wight would beat an undignified retreat. Before he was allowed to leave the palace, however, he was sworn to secrecy on pain of death. At all eosts. nothing must make the joke | fall flat when repeated. The trea- |cherous flagstone has been remov- led, and to-day the visitor may pass with impunity, but a peseta to the head gardener will usually cause the fountains to play. Ares ROG "EE dame TAKEN ALL THE WATER. In the early days of Johannes- burg water was often very scarce. A lady, who was staying at a hotel there, one morning saw a bath-tub half-full of water standing outside her door, and, thinking it was in- tended for her use, took possession of it. Later, however, some one came to fetch the tub, and was ex- tremely angry to find it gone. Then the lady learned to her dismay that she had taken all the water in the hotel, and that it was required for cooking. 'It would not have mat- tered so much," gaid the angry servant, 'had you not used soap! DRAMAS ON PALATIAL Bape ee . ae == OCEAN LINERS. °~ Stories of Hearts Broken and of 7 Hearts Made Eestatically Happy. | Cupid has "many favorite play- grounds where he loves to practise his skill in archery ; but he is never more in his element than when he is playing havoc with hearts on the high seas, with a liner for his pala- tial hunting-ground. Of course, it is a dangerous game to play; and many a man or maid who steps on board with a free heart, finds that it has been trans- ferred to someone else's keeping before the voyage draws to its end, says London Answers, When Mr. G--., a young Ameri- can millionaire, left New York last summer for a coronation jaunt to England, he was as heart-free a man as the Oceanic carried. And, in this unblessed condition he' re mained for the first two days of the voyage, unti] chance in her most trivial guise brought him suddenly face to face with Fate. He was tak- ing the sun on deck one morning, when the breeze brought a dainty little handkerchief fluttering to his feet. To pick it up and restore it to its owner, who was in pursuit of it, was tho chivalrous act of a moment; but when his eyes fell on the flushed prettiness of its owner's face, and her shy, sweet-volced words of thanks fell on his ears, he was un- done, Before the coast of England rose on the horizon, so quickly had heart grown to heart, he was the HAPPIEST MAN ON BOARD, for he had won her consent to share his life, Such is one of many recent loye- romances of the liner--a story well- known on the other side of the At- Itnic, where Mrs, G----, whe has now worn her wedding-ring for nearly a year, is among the most popular women ijn society, But all these dramas of the seas are not quite so ideal, Two years ago the daughter of a North Country solicitor started with her wedding-trousseau on her voyage to Haig ne fe where her flance was to crown his four years' waiting by leading her to the altar, Noth. ing was farther from her mind than failure to keep this tryst, to which she had looked forward so long. But, in this case, as jin many an- other, the last word rests with that imp of mischief, Cupid, Before the bride-to-be had left the English Channel behind, she made the acquaintance of a fellow- passenger, a handsome young offi- cer, on his way back from furlough, to his regiment in India. Fach day brought its pleasant meetings, From an acquaintanceship the two young people. drifted, before they knew it, into a mutual] love, until, before Suez was passed, the officer vowed that he could not live with. out her. In vain the girl protested, with tears, that she was pledged to an- other man; though, as she con- fessed, her heart was no longer his. It was a bitter struggle between love and duty, in which, as so often happens, LOVE WON THE DAY. And when the expectant bride- groom at last was able to welcome his bride to India, it was to learn, with tears and broken words. that she could not marry him, since her heart was given for life to another. A more pleasing story is one that is told of a wealthy and attractive young widow, who was crassing the Atlantic two years ago with her maid and ker pet Pomeranian, to which she was devoted. One day, as she was standing by the ship's side gazing out to sea, the dog struggled from her arms and fell overboard. Almost before the first shriek of horror had left her lips, one of the ship's officers had dashed to the side of the vessel, and sprung into the sea; and, swimming with pow- erful strokes, succeeded in- reach- ing the drowning pet, which a quar- ter of an hour later he restored to its delighted and grateful owner. A few months later, the sea lost a smart officer, and the widow gain- ed a husband. ee an LOVE'S BLIND EYE. Newly-married, the young couple were going on their honeymoon. Beyond themselves, they had no in the railway-carriage ! wayside station, known to-fame as Sawyer Junction. | Sawyer! Sawyer! Sawyer! } shouted the low, common station | porter as he passed the open win- dow of the carriage containing the honeymoon couple, The young bridegroom, who had just kissed his new-found missus for the six hundred and twenty-first time, rose in his wrathsand thrust his head out through the aperture of the window. yy HOW TO BE HAPPY. Don't borrow another man's au- tomobile and break it. Don't start any argument on ro- ligion or women's ak asi Don't take a deaf party to the theatre with you. Don't ever expect any returns for a favor. Then maybe you'll get it. Always carry a dozen extra. col- lar buttons in your pocket and three or four safety pins. Don't polish your shoes with a (es wt MENTAL GYMNASTICS FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD. -- How You May Find Two Numbers Thought of at Once By An- other Person. 'Most boys and girls know the method by which a person can tell any number thought of by another person. A more difficult trick is to find two numbers thought of at once by a person. The trick may be done by two different persons each selecting a number, but in that case they would have to do their calculations on paper, or send the guesser out of the room. The process is the same in either case, and an explanation of the method for one person will show bow it is done for two. First of all you ask the person to add the two numbers together and then to multiply their sum by their difference and to add to the product the square of the lesser of the two numbers thought of, and to tell you the result. Upon hearing this you can at once name the greater of the two num- bers thought of. Tn order to arrive at the smaller number the person is asked to sub- tract the first product from the square of the: larger number thought of, which you have already named, and to state the remainder, This enables you to give the other number thought of, VERY EASY TO FOLLOW, Let us suppose the numbers thought of are simple ones, such as 5 and 8, Thelr sum is 8, and their difference 2, the product of which is 16, Adding the square of 5, the lesser number, we get 16 and B and 25, and when you are told 28, you take the square root of it--5 as the greater number, For the lesser number, returning to our first product, which was 16, which is to be taken from 25, we have 9 left, and the square root of that is 8, the lesser number sought. The following method may seem simpler, but is more likely te be seen through, To the sum of the two numbers thought of add their difference and state the sum, Half of this will be the greater number thought of, Then subtract the difference frem the sum, and half the remainder is the smaller number thought of, Suppose the numbers are 8 and 5, Their sum 4s 18 and their difference 3, which gives us 16, half of which 4s 8, the greater number thought of, Subtract the difference, 3, from the sum, 13, and the remainder is 10, half of which is the smaller number thought of, Stil] another way to do the same trick is to tell the person to multi- ply the two numbers together and then to multiply their sum by whichever number it is desired to discover first, and to subtract from the product thus found the product of the two numbers, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE. Suppose the numbers thought of are 7 and 4. The product of their multiplication is 28; their sum is 11. If the person multiplies this sum by the greater of the two numbers thought of he gets 77, amd when he is asked to subtract the product of the two numbers multiplied toge- ther, which is 28, he has a remain- der of 49. The sequare root of this is 7, the greater number thought of, For the lesser number the sum 11 is multiplied by 4, giving the pro- duct 44, and when 28 is taken from | that, it will leave 16, the square root of which is 4, the number sought. You can vary this trick by asking | that the two numbers thought of should neither exceed one figure. The process then goes this way. Add 1 to the triple of the larger | number thought- of and then multi- | ply the sum by three, To this add| the sum of the two numbers thought |sian Court and the Ozar's ---- Occurrences in Tho and ' Reigns Supreme in the Com- : mercial World. The Earl of Eldon presented 18 bottles of port wine to the Maryle- bone Infirmary. Sate One man was killed and four bur- ied by a fal] of a roof at the Vivi Colliery, Monmouthshire. -- 'One man was killed and injured by an. explosion > curred on H.M.S8. South .The Japanese Embassy, with its offices, has been 'to 10 Grosvenor -- Wy =e ae Lord Furness has res: chairmanship. of Palme: building & Iron Company, Tarnow, SEN The Woodcock Hayes farm h near Tiverton, Devon, nearly . years old, has been destroyed fire, ie Mr. T. C. Jarvis, assistant toy clerk of Hammersmith, is resig: after serving upwards of 81 y. The Lady Mayoress of will shortly open a new shelter lost, strayed and unwanted cats Settle Road, Plaistow. a Miss Joyce Brown, a young tralian violinist, made a brilli suecess at the Queen's Hall Pre nade Concert, London, Dr, G. K, Fortesoue, the keey of printed books at the British Mu- soum, retires under the age limit at the end of this month, e It is proposed to construct an motor road sixty feet wide between Thornton Heath Pond and Pur at a cost of $277,465, nee Lieut.-Colonel OC. R. Burn, Hon- orary Colonel! 2nd County of Lon- don Yeomanry, has been appointed as aide-do-eamp to the King. The death has oecurred at Folke--- stone of Sir Francis Outram, old mutiny here, aged 76, on the anniversary of the Relief of Luck now, ere A lady motorist named Miss Man der, was fined £1 and costs at Brox- ton for driving a motor car at a apeed dangerous to the public, Mr, Henry Whitson, of South Park Drive, Seven Kings, was fa--- tally injured when his motoreyele ran into a ditch at Shenfield, Essex Mr, Cl@ment Mackrow, of Grov Hill, South Woodford, was killed on the level erossing of the G, HB. Railway near Canningtown 'Sta tion. : A man named Carter was commit- ted for trial at Dorchester, for re- fusing to go to the help of a police: man when called upon in the King's name, g John Wilson was sentenced at Bromley (Kent) to six months. labor for stealing nine altarj from the Church of St. Michael' Beckenham. The Great Northern Railway Co. has begun the work of extending its line from Cuffley to Hertford an Stevenage. The work will be fini ed in three years. Be CZAR OF RUSSIA'S WEALTH. He Is One of the Wealthiest Men In the World. One of the few hard-working offi- cials in the Russian Empire has just. died. This was Count Hendrikoff, master of ceremonies at the Rus. financial adviser, As the Ozar is one of the wealthiest men in the world. it ia an immense task to supervise all the sourees of his income. : The Czar's income is estimated at $37,500,000 a year, and is made. up of tho civil list and revenues. from various industrial undertak- ings, crown lands and private es--- tates, The civil list amounts to of and state the result. Whatever figure is named take 3, and the figures that remain the two figures thought of. All these tricks excel] mental practice for any boy or girl, | off | are j mm ee are ant | as they concentrate attention. Aas | eae ances . ae 7 * eG " | OUR FURRY FRIENDS, The season for furs is approach- ing, and for some time past nual Siberian slaughter has going on in order that the require: | ments of Dame may be properly met. Despite the advance | made by Canada in the fur j the +: Une seme been } | | | | } Fashion indus 'try, Siberia still takes first place. | | Siberia thoughts for anything or anybody, particularly profitable and they sat, oh, so close together | By-and-by the train drew up at a/ ' | | | | ! | | | | | | | jof fashion some two hundred thou bath towel and let yonr wife find it out. : | these | dressed, jand erey squirrels provide a branch of the industry, nearly five million of | sportive creatures being | killed in the woods of Siberia last | year, The money value of the ex ported squirre!] furs nearly $2,500,000. Toll was also taken of | a million white hares---f little -animals whose skins. when very. much rare white fox, were killed was resemble | the | there favorites Ineidentally, ulso for the | sand ermine, nearly as many skun) sixteen thousand @ becoming mere over wolves. soarcte in Siberia, only l Sables arc j and last season some twelve thousand were killed, bringing the fur traders return of about $500,000, fetal tar Soap scraps put in a little bag can be used for dishwashing. Beds should never be made up immediately after they are vacat: ed. It is not hygenic; beds should be aired at least two hours. The odor from boiling cabbage or cauliflower can be lessened by a piece of bread put into a muslin bag and dropped into the pot. A-spo ge should -- occasionally be washed in warm water with a little tartaric acid or soda; afterward rinse it in clean warm water, j enna i $260,000 is i only fascinating | o t bo about $8,000,000. Of this the Ozar spends $1,000,000 on an annual sub- sidy to the theatres and academies ;_ granted to the Czanina and the Dowager Empress as<pine money ; $500,000 goes to the Grae. Dukes and Grand Duchesses ; $20,- 000 is pub away yearly for each daughter and $50,000 for the heir to. the throne until they are of age. The rest the Czar keeps for himself, and it is wel] known that he spends ~ 2 small part of this and saves ithe rest. The Czar's personal savings, ac- cording to a report published i 1906, then amounted to $45,000,000. Now they probably amount to $60, - 000,000. The greater part of this' money is . deposited "in various banks, particularly in the Bank of | England. Some of it is invested in Sugar refineries and other under: takings as. well as in land. -The- enormous private estates in Siboria and Turkestan cover an area' as" large as Germany and include some r the ores," gold, silver, atinum and so forth, in the world. { mines worked in' a © wasteful. war and the Cuar's ans come frem this s urce only amoynts ; 87,500,000. The erown land an-area the size of Tre also badly managed and revenue of only $20,000,900, $6,000,800 goes ta~ the 1 Dukes, e t ichest the are ey | eh W Wit cover \ '| Gran« iliac o--~ 'PROTECTION FROM FROST, To the long list heretofore proposed fields, orchards, against frost, a y t ly been added i fist. i it frosts are not feared wh eit blows ; he is thus led to suggest ¢ creation of an artificial wind by the installation of electric fans ainc the plants to be protected. He eon- siders this plan applicable chiefly. vineyards, but also possibly use: in orchards. ty of the means. of protecti and i yrs rvYorrrTyTerTe ¥