f KDIN, AND THE HEHO.
HAT afternoon M.
Sanvallicr received
from his younger
son, lieutenant in
the garrison at
Versailles, the fol
lowing letter:
“My Dear Fa
ther: I am threat
ened with a fright
ful disaster which
areccis you as wcu
as me. 1 write to you because I can
never—must never—see you again. I
am unworthy of you. Led away by a
friend, I speculated at the bourse and
have become involved in yesterday’s
downfall, in that unexpected collapse
where so many fortunes have been
wrecked. I dare not tell you how much
Ihave lost—it must be,however, for the
honor of the Sanvalliers is involved.
Alas! it means very nearly your com
plete ruin. I owe 46J,000 francs! Ah!
curse me! I am a wretch! But I did
not suspect that such a thing could
happen. After having tried in vain to
avoid this disaster I returned to my
room, wild, my brain on tfre, deter
mined to end my life. But I learned
. that they are recruiting volunteer offl
k-Acers *or Tonkin, and I asked to be sent
%’d£fe. Out there, at least, my death
Fwill be useful; it will have nothing
'Cy^bout it to make you blush and it will,
perhaps, inspire you with a little com
passion for that guilty but unhappy
and despairing son, who suffers keenly
from the wrong which he has done you,
and who bids you good-by forever!
“CAMILLE SANVALLIER.”
M. Sanvallier, a widower of several
years’ standing, one of the most es
teemed foundry owners of Paris, was
judge of the Tribunal of Commerce
and officer of the Legion of Honor.
He had two sons, Camille, the lieu
tenant, and Auguste, a painter of some
originality, married to a charming
woman and father of a little 6-year-old
girl, Andree.
He had kept them away from all
commercial enterprise, fearing their in
experience and dreading for them the
universal cruel risk of business. He
also exacted that after his death the
business of the foundry should be liqui
dated and not sold, in order that it
should not pass into other hands, and
thus be sure of preserving forever in
tact the name of the Sanvalliers. And
now, in spite of all these precautions, a
, misfortune greater than any which he
[' could have foreseen had fallen upon
him!
The sum must be paid the next day;
he must procure it at any price. It
was hard! The foundryman’s fortune
was composed of material and mer
chandise; would such a forced realiza
tion yield the necessary amount? He
di^ not know yet.
'lAnd then, afterwards, with the debt
once paid, could he fulfill his con
tracts? By that time it would be fail
ure—the failure of Sanvallier!
&
a-w
u ms
ATTACKED THE ENEMY.
Fail! He, the officer of the Legion of
Honor, judge of the Tribunal of Com
merce! Never! He would sooner kill
himself.
And all night long the poor man
searched, calculated, and contrived
combinations; in the morning he start
ed out with anguish in his heart,
fc He appealed to associates, comrades.
Camille’s debt was paid. Their
honor was saved, but M. Sanvallier’s
fortune had vanished. However,
thanks to certain arrangements, he
was allowed to continue in the pro
prietorship of the foundry.
Then he said to himself that he
would work yet, in spite of his sixty
years, that he would work without rest,
with the anxious desperation of those
commencing life, who are tormented
with the care of the morrow. He re
duced his expenses, gave up his apart
ments to live with his son, sold his
horses and carriages, sent away his
servants, diminished his personal
needs.
A dread haunted the old man, troub
ling his sleep and arresting his
thoughts in the midst of his occupa
tions; he feared to hear some day that
Camille had speculated once more; that
he was again in debt.
He forbade all mention of him in his
presence. He was henceforth the
wicked son, he of whom all are
ashamed, the remembrance of whom,
heavy as remcrse, saddens the paternal
home and makes the meals silent.
Down at Grenelle the foundry was
seized with a fury of work, with an
enormous productiveness.
Its furnaces biased In the shadow of
the sheds like piercing eyes; its power
ful blast shook the surrounding
ground; the melted metal, smoking and
red, ran like its life-blood in the cru
cibles.
Auguste took the place of designer
tend his wife that of cashier at the
foundry. And each went to his or her
work, accepting their several tasks
without a frown.
At that time the campaign of Tonkin
was at its height.
The French soldiers fought, desper
ately against a slippery enemy, always
springing up afresh, in an unknown
country, harassed with difficulties
without number.
The slightest success excited the pa
triotism of the populace.
One morning Auguste entered his fa
ther’s private office, looking very pale,
and handed him a paper.
The latter read from the Latest tho
following dispatch from the intrenched
camp at Dong Song:
"Capt. Eanvallier attacked the enemy
this morning with great vigor, fought
all day against large forces, and tool;
successfully four redoubts. At last hia
soldiers gave way, crushed by the su
perior numbers of the foe. Although
grievously wounded, he insisted upon
being carried by two men to rally his
company and led them to the assault.
Capt. Sanvallier’s conduct was admir
able, and his condition is now desper
ate. I have placed the cross on his
breast. This brilliant ejploit will per
mit me to enter Lang Song to-morrow.
Twenty-seven killed, forty-three
wounded.
“GEN. BRIERE DE L’ISLE.”
A strange emotion in which anguish
mingled with joy caused M. Sanval
lier’s heart to beat rapidly. For a mo
ment he remained silent. Then, his
gaze a little unsteady, his eyes wide
open with sad astonishment, he asked
his son in a slow voice: “Do you be
lieve that it is he? He would then
De captain.”
Two hours later a letter from the
minister of war informed the family of
the event, and the next day all the
papers were talking of Capt. Sanvalller,
recalling the fact that he was the son
of the honorable foundry owner of
Grenille.
Now the foundryman could not go
out without seeing Camille on every
side! in the kiosks of the boulevard, at
the corners of the streets; Camille
looked at him as he passed, followed
him with his eyes as if he was living
and only left him to meet again fur
ther on.
But, alas! the dispatches which he
received daily from To’nkin left but
little hope.
Would the son of whom to-day be
was so proud ever return?
One morning, three months after
wards, M. Sanvalller was working In
his office when the door softly opened
half way, and the curly little head of
Andree appeared.
And suddenly she entered, holding
by the hand Capt. Sanvalller, then
cried in her sly little way: “Look,
grandfather, here he is.” Auguste and
his wife entered the office in their turn.
M. Sanvalller, who had not been pre
pared for the arrival of his son, rose
quickly, then stood motionless, choked
by his emotion.
He saw Camille with the scar on his
forehead, the cross on his breast.
Timid and embarrassed as a guilty
child, Camille hung his head; he saw
his father changed, grown old on his
account.
Then very humbly, a little bent,
ready to get down on his knees, he
came forward with slow steps to his
father’s feet, but at that moment M.
Sanvalller, with an abrupt start, seized
him round the neck, crying in a voice
suddenly broken by tears. “No, Ca
mille! In my arms! In my arms, my
child!” And father and son held each
other close, their shoulders shaking
with sobs, while Auguste and his wife
wept beside them.—London Sun.
UNDER WATER FOR 18 HOURS.
An Italian Inventor Has a Submarine
Adventure.
An Italian Inventor, named Corzctto,
says La France Militaire, has con
structed an apparatus which he calls
a “methydric sphere,” and hy means
of which he professes to be able to
descend to any depth in the sea. In
his experiment at Spezzia he stored
some two thousand cubic feet of com
pressed air in his apparatus, - which
he entered with two friends and which
was then lowered to a depth of some
thirty feet. As after the expiration of
nine hours the "sphere” had not yet
been seen to reascend to the surface,
a message was sent to the admiral in
command of the naval department,
who at once sent a diver to the spot.
The “sphere” was found still resting.
on the sea bottom, but the diver heard
nothing in answer to his knocks.
Some barges having been brought to
the spot by a tug, the “sphere” was
hauled up with ropes, and as soon as
it emerged its door was opened, and
the inventor appeared with a livid face
and half asphyxiated. His two com
panions were unconscious, but were
quickly resuscitated. They had re
mained eighteen hours under water.
The inventor explains that so far all
his experiments were successful, but
on this occasion when he intended to
return to the surface the air pressure
at his command proved insufficient to
expel the water ballast, of about two
tons weight, which had so far kept
his appliance submerged, and hence
they had to remain where they were
until rescued. At any rate, three per
sons were enabled to remain under
water for eighteen hours, and this ex
periment may not be without signifi
cance as regards the much discussed
problem of submarine navigation.
Healthful Schoolrooms.
An ideal, but, we are assured, quite
necessary state of cleanliness for
healthful school rooms requires that
the floors shall -be dampened and
swept every day, with all the windows
open, the dusting to be done the next
morning with a damp cloth. In ad
dition to this cleaning. Dr. Adams, who
is the president of the Orange County
Medical societies, believes that at least
every other day the floors should be
thoroughly scrubbed with soap and
water. The various women's clubs
throughout the country whose members
are interested in the work of the pub
lic schools will do well to find out how
near the school rooms where their
children spend the greater part of their
waking hours approach this state.—
New York Post.
Australian Cattle and Kngland.
In his annual report to the legislative
Assembly, Mr. Alexander Bruce, chief
inspector of stock for the department
of agriculture, New South Wales, does
not. view very -.encouragingly the estab
lishment c" a trade in lire stock be
tween Australia and Great Britain. I Jo
says in effect: “The trade, which at
first bid fair to assume some import
ance, has turned out a failure, princi
pally from the following causes: (1)
The cattle after the first few shipments
were ordinary bush cattle, r.ot broken
to be tied up and unaccustomed to cul
tivated food; (2) through effect of the
.drouth, very few prime cattle were to
he had, and instead of prime well-bred
young cattle, a great deal of compar
atively old, large boned, second rate
cattle were shipped; (3) Instead of being
well rested, watered and fed, after long
journeys by rail, they were put on
board in a starved and fevered state
direct from the trucks; (4) in loading
them the cattle were in many cases
very roughly handled, and there is no
aouDC numbers of them seriously In
jured themselves before they were tied
up In their places; (5) the space given
them was In a good many cases insuffi
cient for the proper accommodation,
care and cleanliness of the stock; hut
(6) the principal reason for want of
success and discouragement as regards
the trade In the future Is the low price
which the heef and mutton of cattle
and sheep slaughtered at the port of
debarkation (which it must now all be)
in England brings. The very best
American is now sold at from 4d to 5d
per pound, and this has arisen from
enormous increase in the importation
of stock, principally cattle from the
United States, Canada, and the Argen
tina, but mainly from the Argentina.
The greater portion of the defects no
ticed could no doubt be remedied, but
if a very considerable rise in the price
of this class of beef and mutton does
not take place in England, there Is lit
tle or no prospect of Australia with the
long voyage, comparatively high
freight, and heavy expenses for forage
and insurance, ever being able to com
pete with Canada or the Argentine, or
even the United States.” -
Some Inquiries on Sorghum* '
The Department of Agriculture has
sent out blanks for answers as to the
sorghum crop. It is hoped that every
reader of the Farmers’ Review that re
ceives one will not fail to fill it out. The
questions are as follows:
1. What experience have you had
with sorghum as a forage crop?
2. What methods of seeding, culti
vation and harvesting have you follow
ed, and with what results?
3. How do you store and how teed
It?
4. To what kind of stock have you
fed it, with what results?
G. How does it compare with corn
as to yield, cost of production, feeding,
value and effect on the land?
6. Have you ever noticed any bad ef
fects to stock from feeding on the sec
ond growth?
?. What has been your experience in
feeding the seed?
8. What varieties do you consider the
beet for forage and the best adapted for
your region?
The questions are of interest and
the Farmers’ Review would like to
have them discussed in its columns.
Let us hear from our readers that have
been raising the above-mentioned crop.
Latent Fertility.
In the older districts and states of
our country the question is, “How shall
we restore the fertility of our lands ?”
The question here should be, how Bhall
we prevent the further depletion of
ours? for it is much easier to prevent
depletion than to restore fertility when
lost. Luckily for us, nature is very
cautious and conservative in her gifts
to her children. If one generation were
permitted to use up all the plant-food
their inclination might lead them to do,
and thus exhaust the soil entirely, it
would rob the next generation and be
come a bar to human existence. But
nature has so arranged as to give us
timely warning of decreasing fertility,
and long before we arrive at total soil
exhaustion we reach the point of un
profitable cultivation, and when we
have cropped our lands till their fer
tility has been reduced to a minimum,
Dame Nature has cautiously kept back
in the great storehouse of the soil
plant-food for generations to come. It
is this resource, thus kept back inert
and unavailable at present, that is the
saving clause in the construction of our
soils.
Move the Butter.—Because money is
easier is no reason why holders of cold
storage butter and eggs should leave
their goods in storage any additional
length of time. These goods should be
moved and moved about as rapidly as
possible. Even good times in this
country will not Increase consumption
sufficiently to take care of the surplus
butter.- It must be exported, and ex
ports from our seaboard were not satis
factory so far as butter is concerned
last week. Mpre must move out.—Ex
Let the nests be in a dark place.
The hens like it better and are less
liable to acquire the habit of egg eat
ing.
The only way for the farmer to re
sist the trusts and combines is to unite
on some plan of action.
The poultry business is not being
over-done. It is not easy to get an
over-supply of fresh eggs.
The ramlly of the farmer should be
well supplied with all kinds of fruit.
Lay plans for a good kitchen garden
next spring.
Stop up the cracks in the poultry
house.
Attend the dairy conventions.
| WHAT A STUPENDOUS LIE I
Wo hear a farmer say when ho reads
I that John Brelder, Miehicott, Wls.,‘
grew 173 bushels of Salzer's Silver
; King Barley per acre In 1SDG. Don’t
you believe It? Just write him! You
see SalrcrV seeds are bred up to big
j yields. And Oats 33 > bushels, corn 260,
; Wheat GO bushels. Potatoes 1,000 hush
els, Grasses ti tons per atm.. etc., etc
SI0.00 Foil 10 CSiSTC.
Jnst Send This Notlee With 10 Ccntf
| stamps to John A. Sal.-.or Seed Co.,
| La Crosse, Wls., and got 12 farm seed
samples, worth |10, to get a start, w.n.
Col. T. W. Higginson in his reminis
cences in the January Atlantic speaks,
of an interesting coincidence. It was
often his habit to read for into the
night; and sitting up until four one
morning, lie left his book mark at an
unfinished page, having to return the
book to the college library. A year
later he happened to take the book
from the library again, chanced to get
up at four o’clock to read, and began
where he left off. Afterward looking
in his diary he found that he had
skipped a precise year between the
two days and continued reading the
same passage.
New Line to Washington.
The popular Monon Route has estab
lished a new Sleepiug Carlino to Wash
ington, D. C., via Cincinnati and Park
ersburg, by the C. H. & D., B. & 0. S.
W. and It & 0. Railways. The sleeper
is ready for occupancy in Dearborn
station any time after Up. m., and
leaves at 2:45 a. m. daily, arriving at
Washington at 6:47 the following morn
ing. This schedule will be in effect on
January 24 and thereafter. As the
sleeper goes through without change,
and the hours of leaving and arriving
are most convenient, this will prove al
together the most comfortable, as well
as the most picturesque route to the
national capital. City ticket office, 232
'-’lark street. Depot, Dearborn Station.
The Climate of Thibet.
Anthropologically considered what
nn enormous strain there must be on
the man, ns an animal, when exposed
to the wild changes of temperature
which he experiences in twenty-four
hours when living on the Is'gh Thib
etan ranges. Thero is not a night in
the year that water does not freeze,
while at mid-day the heat is often
120 degrees.
The Most Unique Calendar of the Season
Has just been issued by the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Ry. Copy can be
secured by sending six cents in stamps
to cover postage, to A. J. Smith, G. P,
A., Cleveland.
She Was a Hygienist.
The robber knight pleaded. "May I
not hope," he asked, "to exact a trib
ute from those sweet lips?” His fair
captive shivered. “If you can find it
in your heart to take advantage of my
helplessness-” In her voice was
the dull, leaden ring of despair. "To
force attentions upon me that are so
very unsanitary." From all of which
it became at once apparent that the
lady had followed the scientific dis
cussions of the day.
Cheap Lands and Homes
Are to .be had on the Frisco Line in
Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. The
best route from St. Louis to Texas and
all points west and southwest. For
maps, time tables, pamphlets, etc., call
upon or address any agent of the com
pany, or, D. Wishart, Gen’l Passenger
Agent, St Louis, Mo.
ngrB-sneua.
Tho employment of egg-shells for
ornamental purposos is extremely an
cient. A manuscript in the Harleian
collection represents a number of egg
shells ornamented in the most ele
gant and costly manner. Miniatures
were often painted upon egg-shells
with extreme care, and shells thus
curiously decorated became valuable
and highly-esteemed presents. In
Venice young noblemen frequently
lavished large sums of money upon
portraits painted within egg sheila
intended as presents.
TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAT.
Take Laxative Btomo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. 25c
Balt used in sweeping carpets will keep
out moths. _
Mrs. 'Winslow’s Rootblns Irrnp
For children teethIng.soften* the gums, reduce* inflam
mation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26 cents a bottle.
Looking a difficulty square in the face
will often kill it dead.
JrsT try a 10c box of Cascarets, candy
cathartic, the finest liver and bowel regu
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If you have preached charity all the year
this "is the time to practice it.
FIT8 stopped free and permanently cured. No fits
after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
Restorer, tree $2 trial bottle and treatise.
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A wise man is afraid to receive a gift; so
much will be expected from it.
Heurmnn’i Camphor Ice wttlft Glycerine.
The original and only genuine. Cures Chapped Hands
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When men begin drinking, they gener
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Only One!
Not more than five men or
women in a thousand are free
from some form of Kidney,
Liver or Bladder trouble,
which is certain to run into
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Voices of tho Nationi.
The Tartars aro supposed to have,
as a nation, the most powerful voices
in the world. The Germans possess
the lowest voices of any civilized peo
ple. Tho voices of both Japanese and
Chinese are of a very low order and
feeble compass, and are probably
weaker than any other nation. Taken
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habitants of the other continents.
Calendar* and Coupon*.
So many beautiful calendars and enter
taining novelties liavo'been issued by the
proprietors of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, that we
aro hardly surprised to receive tills soason
not only one of the very prettiest designs
in calendars, but with it coupons which en
title the recipient to attractive noveltios.
Every one who gets a Hood's Sarsaparilla
calendar for 18U7 secures somothing that
will prove interesting and valuable as well
as a beautiful specimen of the lithographer's
art. The calendar is accompanied this
soason by an amusing little book on “The
Weather.” Ask your druggist for Hood's
Coupon Calendar, or send 6 cents in stamps
for one to C. L Hooil & Co.. Lowell, Mass.
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A new monument to Garibaldi, and
perhaps the finest in Italy, is to be
erected in Rome next September. It
is to stand on the Janiculan hill, op
posite the dome of St. Peter's. It is
said that there is not a town in Italy,
or even a populous village, that does
not contain statues of Victor Eman
uel and Garibaldi. The great monu
ment to Victor Emanuel now in
course of erection on the Capitol hill
will have cost $5,000,000 when com
pleted. _
I never used so quick a cure as Pise's Curl
for Consumption.— J. B. Palmer, box 1171
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 35, 1805.
The West Point Academy has this yea
833 cadets, the largest in the history of thi
institution._
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Third Prize. 25.00 In Cash
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plainly in ink, alphabetically arranged, numbered, signed by the contest
ant, and sent in not later than February 20, 1897. The list must be com
posed of English words authorized by at least one of the leading dictionar
ies—Webster’s, Worcester’s, the Century or the Standard. If two words
are spelled alike only one can be used.
Abbreviations, contractions, obsolete words and proper nouns are not
allowed. The same letter must not occur twice in one word, but may be
used in other words. In case two or more winning lists contain the same
number of words the neatest and best list will take first place, the others
ranking next below in the order of quality. Residents of Omaha and win
ners of -former prizes in W’orld-Herald contests are not permitted to com
pete directly or indirectly.
No contestant can enter more than one list of words, and each contest
ant is required to send, in the same letter with his list, one dollar to pay a
year’s subscription to the Omaiia Weekly World-Herald.
Every competitor whose list contains as many as twenty-five words
whether he wins a prize or not, will receive
THIRTY COMPLETE NOVELS
in one paper covered volume of 192 large quarto pages, among the authors
being Marion Ilarland, ltudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Col
lins and Miss Mulock. Lists cannot be corrected or substituted after they
are received.
The list of words winning first prize will be published in the Weekly
World-Herald, together with the name and address of each of the prize
i wiuners, as soon after the contest closes as the matter can be decided.
5 The Weekly World-Herald is issued in semi-weekly sections, giving
J the news twice a week, and hence is nearly as good as a daily. This is the
9 paper of which W. J. Bryan was editor for about two years prior to his
# nomination for the presidency, and is the leading advocate of free silver
• coinage. This ad will not appear again. Address
i WEEKLY WORLD-HERALD, Omaha. Neb.