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K iSMi T VB 3WE CR0KER next day and went into the matter of the late Mr Brabazons will and personality and found not a few loop holes and flaws jit appeared that Mrs Brabazon had so far overstepped her rights that luorian was his sisters legal guardian and that the lady had for years been trading on the ignorance and innocence of her step children and regularly pocketing the In terest of Esmes little fortune Half the modern silver was the widows share Ibut of linen plate lace and china there jwas no mention A very solemn scene rwas enacted in the dining room when the silver was divided and weighed under the jeyes of the lawyer a silversmith Miss Jane Gussie Esme and Nokes Mrs JBrabazon cold and trembling stood very close to the scales with an air of tragic protest She considered that she was be eAilitapyoniaocsoofegootfpica MwMmMm CHAPTER XXII Continued How the tidings were broken to Mrs Brabazon we need not linger to relate for no pen could give the faintest idea of that ladys indignant incredulity in the firsts phase wild incoherent invective in thesecond and hysterical weeping and denunciation of Florians inhuman in gratitude in the third and last scene She went about her handkerchief applied to her eyes a model of injured innocence or posing as a melancholy representation of fallen greatness She wrote reams of letters and made many farewell calls in the neighborhood good naturedly taking lier acquaintances into her confidence as regarded her opinion of the bride elect and she left not a few directions to Esme of a distinctly testamentary nature In deed one would imagine from the way she bore herself that once she had shak en the dust of Baronsford from off her feet its downfall was a mere question of time Mrs Brabazon had a large really sur prising amount of baggage trunk and case and case and trunk were Oiled and nailed down day by day and certainly the china and curios about the house be came smaller by degrees and beautifully less as these packages increased in num ber and size One morning Esme fetched her aunt upstairs to the big spare room in which Nokes and her mistress had been closet ed since breakfast timev They simultane ously uttered an exclamation of hasty an noyance as Esme slowly pushed back the door against a pile of books and stuffs on the floor and admitted Miss Jane Now now Miss Esme just please to look where you are going said Nokes tartly and indeed she had need to do so Also her aunt who stepped nimbly over all obstacles and stared about her witli a face of undisguised amazement The car pet was littered with lace house linen knick knacks and old china and the bed was spread from top to bottom with fam ily silver punch bowls teapots cream jugs marrow spoons sauce ladles snuff boxes candlesticks nothing had been too Insignificant to escape notice The dress ing table was loaded with piles of old brocade and needlework and three greedy looking big trunks yawned open mouthed in the middle of the room ready to swallow those treasures Before one of these boxes Mrs Brabazon was kneel ing Good morning Sara said her briskly - Busy I see as usual I just came up to ask if I could help you in any -way No no thanks I can manage very well by myself with Nokes looking greatly put out as she spoke and scuf fling away some articles out of sight I never can pack if I am watched it puts me out altogether Here closing the lid with a bang Ill come down with you Jane But surely you are not packing these things are you Sara You are only put ting them away and I can do that for you you know said the old lady still hanging back Putting them by No Im packing them up to take away now driven to bay they are my own property Good gracious Sara what do you mean Is not that my grandmothers posset bowl that Nokes has in her hand ehe asked with an air of pious surprise There must be some monstrous mistake in your packing up family silver lace linen and china No mistake at all Everything in the room is mine waving her hand dramat ically toward the floor the bed and the dressing table resolved to put down Miss Jane as she had ever been wont to do My dear husband gave me all she add ed with a kind of sniff that might mean either defiance or a tribute to his mem ory But these were heirlooms and for once the old lady was firm f He could not give you what never was bis Sara They are heirlooms they be long to his children and childrens chil dren This must be seen to Im really astonished that you do not sec the mis take yourself stiffening visibly as she tspoke Mrs Brabazon failed to see any mis take and her instincts of rapacity and plunder extinguished everything else in iher bosom even ordinary prudence Each llady stoutly maintained her own opin ion and the result was a very pretty quarrel to which Esme and Nokes were the two speechless seconds Mrs Brabazon figuratively bounded in to the arena and let herself go for once he so far forgot herself as to call Miss Jane a miserly old sneak and a med dlesome old cat and the latter without descending to such vulgar expressions made some very telling hits and managed to have her say in a collected and im pressive manner and in the eudj by a clever maneuver concluded the battle by locking up the room and carrying off the key which needless to say was tanta mount to capturing her enemys colors and guns and as she departed key in pocket she sternly announced that it was her- immediate intention to summon the family lawyer The family lawyer duly arrived the MR ing shamefully robbed Still she made it a point to grasp what she could from the wreck oC her property and once when her share in the balance was half an ounce lighter than Florians slie fiercely Linsisted on her due her half ounce and to that end wrested a spoon uout of a mustard pot with her own quivering claw like fingers On the whole this di vision of the spoil was harmoniously con ducted for Miss Jane and her nieces pre served throughout the ceremony a re served air and prudential silence No one was sorry when MrsBrabazon departed As she stepped into the brougham and was promptly whirled away she vowed many many vengeances on Florian and that little serpent his fu ture bride However there were crumbs of comfort very solid pleasant crumbs in the shape of safe investments in the three per cents so let no one commiserate her as she is most cheerfully driven to the station and thus passes out of the story CHAPTER XXIII Florian is a married man Hatty Clip perton reigns boisterously at Baronsford and Esme has been spending a season in town and has really seen the great world at last has become alive to the fact that she is considered one of the beauties and has had several unexceptionable offers It is a very warm and almost tropical afternoon near the end of June and she and Gussie are alone in Gussies little front drawing room which is crowd ed with flowers in banks between the windows in the gate on the chimney piece and on every available bracket shelf and table The windows are open the rose colored blinds are half drawn down yet the atmosphere is oppressive and stifling Both the sisters are dressed in white Gussie with mauve ribbons and Esme with black the former is stretched out on the sofa in an attitude of complete physical prostration I have been thinking Esme she ob served at last thinking seriously about you aud I have come to the conclusion that you are an idiot fanning away briskly as she spoke I dont mean a candidate for an asylum quite but simp ly that you have an unusual deficiency of sense Im sure I am greatly obliged to you rejoined Ithe othjr looking up with a smile May I ask why you think I have no sense Certainly you may ask Because here you are refusing to make hay while the sun shines obstinately declining offer af ter offer There was now rapidly count ing on her fingers Foster Forbes Sir David Campbell young Galloway all sent to the right about Pray sarcas tically what do you expect a duke No with curt decision The season is getting on and you have been considered quite one of the belles and yet you are not engaged grumbled Gussie aggrievedly What is the good of having a pretty sister and ev eryone maldng a fuss about her when she will not take any advantage of her opportunities You are enough to pro voke a saint Which you are not returned her companion with more truth than courte sy I wonder you are not tired of the subject Gus I am I have told you at least fifty times that I do not wish to marry I mean to take a leaf out of Aunt Janes book It is not penal to pre fer single blessedness I intend to be a very nice old maiden lady j An old maid disdainfully A likely tale but angrily Iknow why you talk like this I believe you have still a lik ing for Miles you infatuated young wom an Miles was good looking and gentle manly I give you that in Yes yes half sitting up and gazing keenly at her sister you need not speak your face is sufficient Positively I could light a can dle at it I do assure you Ah I see that it is still Miles And I must say I wonder you have not more pride even if he would marry you to marry him would be madness For instance you know that I am very fond of Fred but all the same if he had not been well endowed with this worlds goods 1 would not have married him It is quite superfluous to mention that rejoined her sister sharply Now dont be cross Esme Im only doing my duty and it is really most un selfish of me to put these things plainly before you for I would much rather you remained single and a companion for me But when I see Craven Hepburn and twenty five thousand a year actually beg ging of you to take them 1 feel that I must speak Well now you have done your duty and relieved your conscience I will tes tify to the fact to all inquiring friends said Esme impatiently and let us hear no more about it Never mind my love affairs Gussie What about going to the Bohuns this evening Its too hot isnt it coaxingly Oh fanning very fast one may just as Avell be hot there where one is amus ed as here where theres nothing to do We will go of course with decision Mrs Vashou was a little lady who lived on excitement and was never happy un less she was flying from one entertain- ment to another Her appetite for con stant amusement was insatiable and the same spirit which prompted her to run down and play tennis at the Bells to walk into Byford to volunteer for ba zaars childrens parties and school feasts anything for a change anything Jor novelty was the same that now impelled her to one continual round of dances theatricals flower fetes races and din ner parties If she had one day one af ternoon even with nothing on hand she was a miserable woman She was never exhausted never satisfied No sooaer was one great event over than she was thinking of another and the sugges tion that they should stay at home for once and have a quiet evening she look- rA irTi no elmnlir o mftncfrnnc oVicHTrlifT She was not she frankly stated over and above fond of the domestic hearth Time j FARMERS PASS RESOLUTIONS enough when she and Fred were old oddities in spectacles and slpipers Leaving Gussie ruminating over het wardrobe with alkthe nower of her shifty little brain and l2sme casting anxiously about for some good excuse to remain at home we turn once more to Miles and his friend Captain Gee The latter has been in England for six mouths on med ical certificate basking and butterflying in ladies society not only in his native north but in the larger pleasanter pas tures of the great metropolis He does not look much of the Junior Army and Navy in the wakeof his friend Miles Miles whoonly lauded from South Af rica within the last twelve hours It is nearly two years since he last stood 12 the dining rootn of the club two drearj years spent -on Africs sunny strand struggling to make the best of a dull monotonous existence endeavoring with all his might to forget what might have been and yet dreading every newspaper he took up every letter he opened to see the announcement of his cousin Esmes marriage Of course she would marry From words ignorantly let fall by his brother officers lately from home from copious descriptions from Annie he was fully alive to the fact that Miss Braba zon was no longer a mere pretty little country flower born to blush unseen but that all through the full fierce light of t London summer she had ranked as one of the seasons beauties It was by no wish of his own that he found himself in London He had been sent home at two days notice in charge of invalids and had only had time to tele graph to Dicky from St Vincent He found that gentleman eagerly awaiting him at Southampton ready to welcome him the moment the gangway was out The two friends journeyed up to Lon don and of course dined at the club to gether sitting a long time over their meal and talking any amount of shop for Captain Gee was greedy of regimental news When he had severely cross-examined his companion down to the personal appearance of the latest he suddenly said in the most matter-of-fact manner but f looking askance under his white eye lashes By the way Miles Im going to take you to a party to night Miles merely stared at his friend for some seconds with lazy amusement and then said as he deliberately helped him self to cheese Not if I know it oltf man Oh come you know none of your nonsense You must come to oblige me And why What is the special attrac tion I promised Mrs De Montmorency Bo hun to go to be sure and put in an ap pearance and I could not disappoint her with conscious importance Bosh my good sir shell never miss you said his companion discouragingly She will never know whether you were there or not Im afraid you are getting that red head of yours turned I promised to go and bring a friend proceeded Dicky firmly to bring a friend You are the friend with a pompous sweep of his hand Am I ironically I rather fancy that by the time you are fighting your way into this good ladys drawing room I shall be in bed I have invested in two of the most touching buttonholes in London and Im not going to have yours wasted return ed the other coolly ignoring his friends remark It would be rather hard lines if we did not spend the first evening to gether -eh And strictly between you and me theres a little -girl 1 particularly wish you to see Meaning the future Mrs Gee ex pressively Im not sure grinning anyway she does not stand half a bad chance But can you not manage to present me some other time Why not to morrow feebly You know how I loathe par ties You wont loath this one Ill go bail Youll come You must come Well irritably I suppose I must but -mind you Ill only look in for half an hour Remember Im not as keen a society man as you are and Im only go ing to oblige you Within five minutes of midnight we discover the two gentlemen leisurely winding their way up Mrs Bohuns tsair case To be continued An Overworked Word An artist paints our pictures and an artist cooks our feed An artist writes the poems and the novels that we read An artist draws the sketches for the books and magazines An artist writes of Gatling guns and wars destructive scenes An artist serves our drinks to us an artist shines our shoes An artist makes our clothing and an artist sells the news An artist shaves our faces and an artist pulls our4 teeth An artist runs our trolley cars and grinds us underneath An artist sells us shirts and socks an artist nails the crime Another artist failed in solving once upon a time An artist serves our demi tasse an artist sings our songs An artist wields a Jorgensou to right his countrys wrongs An artist gets our money with his little game of guff An artist writes the coon songs goodness knows he writes enough An artist makes our sausages au artist plays a part The world is full of artists but where oh where is art A New Use for Balloons M Letorey a French architect baa applied the captive balloon to the cleaning or decorating of cupolas- high roofs towers aid monuments The balloon can be raised or lowered from a wagon by a windlass and it can be steadied by stays from the side of the envelope It has two platforms or nacelles one on the top the other underneath and these communicate by a ladder up a central tube The bal loon scaffold as it is called might be useful and safe in many operations such as now require steeple jacks for example the wreathing of Nelsons col umn and also In wireless telegraphy as an aerial station- London Globe -- Delegates Disagree as to the Cost of vIaisinjr an Acre of Corn t II TMjflP i The farmers nationarcongressin ses sion at Colorado Springs refnsed to pass a resolution asking Congress to compel Sleeping car companies to reduce their rates Other resolutions were turned down as follows Favoring the storage of flood waters and constructing of canals by -Government aid - t Asking Congress to pass a bill to com- pel manufacturers of farm machinery to make and place on sale interchangeable L At paru -- Other resolutions read and passed were as follows Favoring appropriations to complete the work already begun on rivet andha bor improvements Favoring the building of an inter ueeanic canal in Nicaragua Favoring the extension of rural mail free delivery i Protesting against the leasing of the oublic domain for grazing purposes Recommending the distribution- of seeds through experiment stations only Favoring public ownership of water ourses for irrigation purposes and favor ing government investigation of irriga tion The subject which seemed to most en gross the attention of the congress is the merchant marine The resolutions committee had several memorials onthis matter which were referred to a sub committee A feature of the discussion at one of the sessions was the wide1 dif ference in statements of farmers as to the cost of producing a bushel of corn W G Whitmore of Nebraska said the average cost was between 20 and 25 2ents while E Filley of the same State claimed that lie was producing an -acre of corn for 20 cents CENSUS OF CHICAGO i i Sliowa Greater Growth in Population than Other Cities Chicago is still in all likelihood the sec f ond city in population in the United States The figures of the census bureau announced Monday giving tht city a to tal of 1608573 while disappointing to those who pinned their faith in the cor rectness of the postollice directory and school census counts show that Chicago is still increasing in population at a mar velous rate lu the percentage column New Yorks increase of 3533 per cent was dwarfed by Chicagos showing 5444 increase over the figures of 1S00 Those who were missed by the enumerators if there were any will have to wait until next time to be counted Next time will be in 1010 Following is a table showing the in creases in various cities the population of which has been announced by the cen sus bureau Increase Per- over cent- hitlon 1S90 age Greater New York 3437202 904G11 3533 Chicago 1698575 50S725 5444 New York proper 2050GOO 53529 3533 Cincinnati 325yuJ 2Suy4 vrt Buffalo 352219 X5o5 3377 Washington 2S7316 56024 2003 Milwaukee 25315 804547 3y54 Louisville 203501 42372 2700 Providence 175507 43451 32SS DOLLIVER APPOINTED SENATOR Iowa Congressman Given the Place Left Open by Gears Death Gov Shaw of Iowa has announced the appointment of Congressman J P liver of Fort Dodge to be United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator John H Gear CONGRESSMAN DOLLIVER - The appointment runs to March 4 1001 The Legislature does not meet in regu lar session till 1002 and Dollivers ap pointment is likely to be renewed to run until his successor is elected KANSAS GREAT WHEAT CROP It Means a Shower of 60000000 to the Farmers The Kansas farmer has begun to turn his grain into dollars The movement of the greatest wheat crop ever raised in the Southwest is under way Elevators are kept busy receiving the wheat and pouring it into cars to be whirled away to the groat markets But the movement is not yet well under way Many farm ers are holding grain for higher prices Others cannot secure threshers immedi ately although thousands of them were purchased this season It is estimated that this years wheat crop will require 100000 cars Should any considerable portion of this crop be thrown on the market now the rail roads would be swamped They are now running night and day shifts in the work of car building and repairing The wheat crop of Salina County alone amounts to 3000000 bushels worth 2000000 Eight hundred bushels is counted as a carload Fifteen counties in the wheat belt harvested an average of 3000000 bushels each So the sale of this one pro duct will bring to each of them 2000 000 in cash A Hartford Conn dog broke into the poultry yard in the suburbs of that city a few nights ago and killed 160 chickens He picked out foe his victims a lot of fancy poultry the owner of which had reserved them as fancy specimens of his different breeds for exhibition purposes during the coming fall At the Point Judith Country Club Naragansett Pier L I As You Like It was produced Amelie Shaw and Maurice Bairymore took leading parts and Kid McCoy filled the role of Charles the wrestler SPOT- 1LESS frOWN 5TVr - V S This is the Alaid of fair renown fWho scrubs the floors of Spotless Town To find a speck when she is through Would take a pair of specs or two And her employment isnt slow For she employs SAPOLIO How tlie Chinese Unite Words The Chinese unite the words in a name so that riiey form one word just as we write Newtown Hartford or Deerfiekl Sometimes we unite the words in a Chinese name and some times we separate them but there is no reason for example why we should write Tien Tsin when we do not write Pe Kin Each of these names is com posed of two words Pe means -north and Kin means the capital or the the Kings household and thus Pe kin means the northern capital Tien means heavenly and Tsin means place and thus the name of the larg est city in northwest China means heavenly place a name it has borne for many centuries When Marco Polo visited the city in the thirteenth cen tury he translated its name into Citta Celeste Ncv York Sun Newest Wrinkle Her marriage seems to be happier than ibe majority of that kind Yes aud its all owing to the wisdom of her father Instead of settling a for tune upon them he gives his titled son-in-law an allowance that is to cease if they ever separate Oh I see Instead of buying a hus band for her he 1ms secured one on a salary Chicago Post Bavarian Pencil Factorfes Bavaria can boast of twenty eight pencil factories which employ 10000 people including men women and children Together they produce no fewer than 4000000 black and 300000 colored pencils per week The total output last year reached the enormous quantity of 230000000 pencils in the manufacture of which over 1S00 aeres of cedar were used At 1 Per -What was the trouble at that house where the complaint came from yesterday- asked the superintendent of the gas company Nothing much replied the inspec tor WI found a centipede in one of the pipes Ah an extra hundred feet See that theyre chafed for that Philadel phia Press Melted butter requires three and half hours for digestion ipi Spotless Town and Its People im lis2 ITHE MAYOR A SPOTLESS TOWN This is the Mayor of Spotless Town The brightest man for miles around The shining light of wisdom can Reflect from such a polished man And so he says to high and low The brightest use SAPOLIO 1- iJME BUTCHER SPOTLESS - TOWN w - This is the Butcher of Spotless Town His tools are bright as his renown To leave them stained were indiscreet For folks would then abstain from meat And so be brightens his trade you know By polishing with SAP0L10 rTHF MAID V7 - tiaissjR -- 4 JLESS VTOWN Ver V ml II ft tIjL - II ffHECOOK lSP0T - 1 V B V I - 1 0 I Jf I iiaLjr I J I If The Cook of Spotless Town you see Who takes the cake as youll agree She holds it in ber fingers now It isnt light but anyhow Twill lighten her domestic A cake of plain SAPOLIO V rTHEPOLICEMA5 5P0rf y 1 cv ffiilL rturii lilts D LESS town i 4 THE OCTORi mmsi f 5P0TLESS TOWN r 9- a- i This brilliant man walks up anddowa Upon the streets of Spotless Ton The glitter of his shining star 4 Arrests attention from afar j K lights the beat and goes to show That naught can beat SAP0LI07 This lean M D is Doctor Brown Who fares but ill in Spotless Town The town is so confounded clean It is no wonder he is lean Hes lost all patients now yoa know Because they use SAPOLIO s Bis Reasons iov Running Away You ran at the first lire dirt t rm said the colonel of a colored regiment Yes sab was the unblushing reply an 1 would have run soonah if I had knowed it was comin I uut have you no regard tor vour reputation Sam Reputation is uufbn to me sab by the side of life s - Well it you lost yq r lifeyou would have the satisfaction oCknowing that j you died for your country I What satisfaction would dat be to me sah when de powqirof feelin it was gone W Then patriotism is nothing to vou Sam Nufiin whateber sah m If our soldiers were like you trait ors might have Ikokerup the govern ment without reslsftnee Yes sah dats so dere would hab been no help for it J Wouldnt put mv life into de Wiling gainst any gubern ment that eber exisva for no gubern ment could replace de Ipss to me I spect though dat de gulJernment would be safe nuff it iill del soldiers were like me as den dere couldnt be no fitinV Shipyards in Germany There are thirtynine shipyards in fk fciuany employing altogether nearly 50000 men aud togethar they con Ftructed last year ZlS vessels of all kinds for the navy the merchant marine and for river traffic of the larger description 0theseyards five are used for the construction of naval vessels having an aggregate capacity for the simultaneous construction of over forty of the largest ships twenty eight torpedo destroyers and thirty torpedo boats In Boston Minervn I wouldnt think of marry ing him Why he said he boped he could make me happy thaIanaflt iS the to wnrTWfa7 he ougbt know that mortals are put on earth to fulfill missTonsSnot to be happyf ppc The Prince of Wales still pursues his law studies most systematically He was chosen a bencher of the Middle Temple a number of years ao ft r V- i 1 1 f i V tr 1 VI A