HB.Srai5)i)a
CHAPTER XXIV (Continued.)
8t'(U explained to hitn that she could
mt pmiltr leave Brumm thus abruptly,
fee bad frand kind friends and a home
Vtat and ber friends must not be left
toa. 4iosrtesy. Her feminine instinct
sH bar that to be driven back to the
testis ja Lord Lashmar's phaeton would
t rU a scandal. If she was to re
Mr Arc mt all, she could not so too
"IX ber ladyship realty wishes me to bo
sKk. Vthxpm she win be kind enough to
m mm a line and to send a conveyance
r te to-morrow."
""$be shall do so. Yes, perhaps It would
Mt ut it shall be to-day, not to-
TVS' went out of the cemetery togeth-
ajui through the streets of Brumm,
lkUK to ch other as if they had been
a of a year's standing. The love
Tsaat ap Jo -liber breast, the passion long
ntkt is cheek, drew them together In a
hWBfmt. Yhcj met as rivers meet and
'Jfcjjiee aa rivers mingle. The shock of
.4"ati!g waa tremendous, but the
a-ws instantaneous and complete.
Mj Caapman shop was not very far
CJokl-wm'g aiir a long way from the
SneRa lexplatned that since she had
aw-art is Bxamm she had gone daily and
"muines twice a day to her -father's
rv
"3i waa tbe-ordy thing I could do to be
Nur'iiini,'" ae said.
""Ah, it was my cruelty which told you
7f&3 death."
'-lit 5,4, Tbettpr for me to know the
" oruii." jih Answered gently. "All my
k K-Wu about Vim were childish dreams.
Z wsrht fe have known that if he were
"Vast fee would have come fir me or sent
ant. aSe wwH'Mt-lare uvea away
erWtoe all we years and made no sis",
fesfi I tMerVJbjm more and more love
'tepj-moaM "cannot for the sacrifice of
'twSifts. What am I worth that two such
V lives should be risked for met'
To ure worth all the world to me,
Jfctfia.' answered her Jover fondly; "and
tnrtux tells me that you are going to
tbe BTt charming story teller if I
MR American I should say romnne-st-o
the age, and to delight all the
"Mc. "Resttotto Ts too kind."
Ji4 he asked yon to be his wife he,
tuataa wona women have adored and
at rinsed him. Why did you reject
grit a a. Stella"?"
Sffe vn silent, the pah1 cheeks kindling
nhio blush, the eyelids drooping.
"Wtkjs, 4Sf lia, why?" he urged.
i could care for no one in
ss -swartd "but you," she answered falter
fcsafeu "Yu seemed so far off and so
l w'iw loved you passionately all the
,SSt0; loved you and fought against
wn S"dUatey.i; ried to be wiser than
aJea. It you knew how laboriously I
m.irKd 4o fall in love with Lady Car
taisi r jnu would understand how potent
mm bat w3er influence which drew my
tVu)aitwa.v from her."
Thffwere at Mr. 'Chapman's corner by
as tiate a -corner shop in a street of
sfcaTwy little houses, out of which
a "1 rigst and left other streets of just
k hbk .pattern.
""Tfcstse. s s private door," said Stella;
jvu snind going through the
sJM&T'
"3 -sfeoalu adore it. 1 hove never seen
isViifT -tw kind.' laughed Lnshmnr.
tfce i..r: to trend his head a little under
wbws hanging from the ceiling
', onions, ii-nnrtis in nets.
3at m 4ear little bop:" he exciaim-
.M well found. It U like the
cshin on my Norwegian yacht."
3SWl led hiiu into the parlor, that sa
s"4 1iMiher w rarely tenanted in lhe
The Chapman family were tak
saE 4i.4ock tea in the kitchen.
went in to them mid told them
trM4 l-ashmar had crmie to thnnk tbem
'ir iindness 1o her ami how her
fc-sasB wished her to go hack to the
fkik 1 aliall have to leuve you this
or to-morrow at least," she said
AjsV; "but I shall never forg-t your kind-
ease to tnlnk of you as my
And I shall come to nee you
I if yon will let me.
"f own; we will, my lass, and always
se jrour pretty face," said the
Kassjsaan, looking up from a break-
tuasi f steaming tea.
-Lasltfnar here!" exclaimed Polly,
awe-slrickeo look. " IMdn t I tell
wt. -' ), you naughty girl, to try to
aV - to me." ,.;
conie in, Mrs. Cbnpinsn'" ask
1 tjbmar, showing himself in the door
sr5 fretsyeet) parlor and kitchen.
IMtaiar shook bands with Chapman
.affably aa if be bad been elect ion
srtnK. a that worthy citinen remarked
THTwrnda.and thanked the whole family
fci rTiest fashion for their goodness to
IS ili'iiWttoi.
Htm -will have another name before
, 1 hnpe," be added, glancing fondly
omtitas race, and when she is
: mhsnsT she eaa take rare that her
twajsah n i w deals at Mr. Chspman's for
vwa nnaiers IM inings, wito a
CHAPTEB XXV.
Hark! carriage wheels, decidedly car
riage wheels, and the rhythmical trot of a
pair of horses. Stella ran into the front
room and looked out. The blase of car
nage lamps seemed to illuminate all the
street It flashed in upon her as she stood
at the window.
The carriage was her ladyship's own
chariot, the horses were her own partic
ular sevenleen-haiiders, grand, upstand
ing bays, which in that shabby little
street looked almost as lanre n.ir ..t
i;iriuams,
Hd Ibis state vehicle hn
mockery? Stella wondered, scared at the
Ieciacie. W as it a piece of practical
Irony on the part of Lady Lashmar?
A footman opened the
uuwager nerself alighted, moving slowly
and feebly, leaning on the tall footman's
arm a little as she descended tn earth
uui tan, stately and imperial looking in
her large circular cloak of black velvet
ana darkest sable.
"Stella. I have come to fetch you," said
her ladyship in an earnest manner. "You
were very foolish and very impetuous in
running away because of a few unkind
words from an impulsive young man. Put
ou your oonnet while I thank these kind
people for bavmg tket care of you."
"Oh, Lady Latdiiuar, I only wanted to
be allowed to love you," faltered the girl,
her cheek against the dowager's shoul
der, her waist encircled by the dowager's
arm.
"The permission is freely given, child.
Love me jour hardest, love me with all
your might. I may not be spared many
years to enjoy your love to see you and
Victorian happy together to live in a new
atmosphere. It will be the Indian sum
mer of my life."
- Mrs. .Vluieiber was in the hall when the
dowager and Stella alighted from the car
riage. Domestic convulsions were her
natural element. She came on board the
family ship st such times like a pilot, and
thought no bark could get safely to har
bor without ber assistance. She took
Stella in her arms and cooed over her with
a sound as of an elderly wood pigeon.
- ".My sweet girl, did 1 not tell you it
would be so?'' she murmured.
"Oh, Mrs. Mulciber, you told me some
thing quite different."
'lid I, dear? About Mr. Nestorins?
Oh, to be sure I did. Bot I was right,
yon see. I knew you were destined to
make a great marriage. And now run
and dress for dinner."
"I have dined with my friends in
Brumm," answered Stella. "I shall have
some tea in my own room, thanks."
Mr. Nestorins had heard from Lashmar
how the fugitive had been found among
the dead; and how in that place of death
the bond of union had been sealed be
tween the living. He and Lashmar had
talked gravely together for a little while,
and then Nestorins had bid him a kind
and quiet farewell and had driven to the
railway station on his way to Indon.
"Will you not stay? Would you not
like to see her?" pleaded Lashmar.
"Xo, my dear friend, the wound is too
new, I love her too well to lie able quite
honestly and frankly to rejoice in her
happiness jet awhile. Years hence, when
you are a family man, I may once more
be your guest and hers. Old Dr. Time
has an ointment for all wounds."
Stella did not appear at the eight o'clock
dinner, a officious Mrs. Mulciber would
have had ber appear, accepting at once
all the importance of her position as Lush
mar's promised bride. She had some tea
in Barber's sitting room and was wept
over by the warm-hearted Barber and
slipped back into her old life as naturally
as if she had only left the castle for a
few dnys' holiday. '
"Will you come down to the drawing
room with me and lie made known to
my son's friends?" asked her ladyship.
"Not for the world, dear Lady IjihIi
niar," she pleaded; 'let me be Just what
I hare been, your reader and amanuensis.
Only love me a little, if you can. U is so
sweet to be loved."
Her eyes filled with tears as she spoke,
and for the second time Victorian's moth
er took the orphan to her bosom and kiss
ed her.
"I cannot help loving yon," sh said.
"Yes, it is sweet to be loved. You have
been patient and faithful to me without
reward, poor child. Henceforward give
me love for love. There shall be no debt
unpaid between us."
tfL?Kli '","JrK-".W '"V" "oa """ " ' to es. b other ui.sw.res, ovr
bL I hi L" realisation of ( stepping . boundaries of rank .ud clr-
r.A i '"k" a . eumstauce. Never was there a quieter
tn a L , ui serious wedding, seldom a prettier one, s.-cirdin
Illness during her sou I absence, through- to the few spectators, wbo were sli rap
turous about it sfterwar4.
n i wsaSaisceace of the mingled odors
rt 9ercelved as bt passed through
" i )1 my lava, yo do as too much hon
r." us1 -Ae grocer. "Bat I hope your
imAitp wBI always remember that it
ss Jonathan Bold wood's daughter we
M MM b, sot the future Lady Isb-
rfkssa BoMwood'a daughter
m Mgratafal because she
aaa.n aasnrerad Lashmar.
Jtd$umlm, ahmmt, 1 wMl leave you with
rr nm4 M4a km fat a eoaale of
( e flag ie. ggfrtai will a here
i wy at tateak, I toft, Ovod day,
.,.-Jjffc!3BMa -
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Guests sud host were all gone by the
end of the week, each to his or ber several
destinies. Lashmar to make sjei'hes in
the endeavor to enlighten Ihe great mass
of the washed and unwashed who were
soon to enercise their elective functions
and to leturn whig or lory, as tbe tide of
popular opinion (lowed this way or that.
He was to come buck for a week at
Chrislmss; and then he was to go away
again and ii'cnr no more till he came
in the season of woodland primroses and
budding hedges to claim his bride. Iidy
Lashmar had stipulated that he should
wait six months. He was to give himself
this much time in which to lie sure of him
self and his own feelings, and he was to
give her this much time in which to take
her new daughter to her heart.
"1 want her to grow to me; I want her
to be verily a my daughter before you
give her the right to call me mother," she
aid; "and when once there is this bond
of love between us neither you nor she
shall ever have cause to dread the influ
ence of the proverbial mother-in-law."
"I have no fear of that, mother. I
know bow noble yon are, and that when
once you have accepted a position "
"I shall perform the dnties of that poal
tlon. Yea, V let oris n; but in this instance
I hope to render something more than
duty"
Lashmar waa too grateful to rebel. H
ateeped himself 1n th rmiltles! vortev snd
uicu oieim nursea ner wltn un
wearying patience and care; and day by
day and hour by boor tbe bond grew
closer between them, and the proud, re
served nature opened its treasure house
of tender feeling.
"Ah, Stella, my Stella, you have given
me new hopes and new joys in spite of
myself," murmured the dowager once, in
the deep of night, when Stella bad been
sitting for hours beside her bed. "After
all, love is the one thing needful for us
poor mortals in our earthly pilgrimage
the one star to euide us thronvh rinh'i
dark labyranth and in loving one anoth
er we learn to love our Uod. ho has told
us mat He is love."
"Iear Lady Lashmar "
"Call me mother: never aeain bv anv
colder name."
Dear mother, you have filled rnv life
with gladness. I never could have been !
happy with Victorian if you had denied
me yonr love."
Lady Caiminow had no remained in
England to assist at the trinmnhs of an
obscure rival. She had taken advantage
oi Kuoo-narurea Mrs. Danebrook's being
wen, to whisk her off to Aix-le
Bains as rapidly as if she bad been nro-
vided with Medea's fiery chariot, and
from Aix, when the weather grew colder,
they went on to Montretu, and from
Montreux to Bella gio, and tbence to Flor-
ruce.
aou in one of the noblest palaces of
mat favored city Lady Carminow set u
ner court, and surrounded herself with
worshipers and sycophants of the highest
quality, spending Job Danebrook's hard
won wealth with a royal lavishness which
enchanted everybody.
From her Italian retreat the sultana of
toe ltanebrook iron v-orks held occasiona
communication with her vassals through
her grand vizier, the manager of the
worss, wnom she regarded as a particu
larly troublesome, officious and pig-headed
person, with a passion for giving unnec
essary and even lmirtiiient advice.
't 1 -
a ruie never to take anv
notice of anything he says," she observed
to one of her friends, s civil engineer.
nu mom, as a practical man. she some
times discussed the prospects of the iron
iraoe.
out may not bis advice tie wnrih b.
ing once in a way," suggested this tentle
man, "were It only as tbe exception which
proves tne ruler
un, ir I were once to rive wav to his
ideas I rhould never again be mistress of
my own pioperty. I believe he is a very
wortny person and that he understands
the iron trade; but be i a horrid rndin!
The very air of Brumm is infected with
revolution."
In the face of this calm and sweet-tem
pered obstinacy the manager could do
nothing. Vainly did he write his views
nHin this necessity of marchinir I n the vnn
rather than in the rear of Progress. Vain
ly diii hif inform her ladyship of increasing
signs of disaffection and ill-will among
her army of workers: vainlv warn her f
the peril to ber fortune involved in this
question. Lady Carminow was as obsti
nate as George III. in his treatment of
America, and tbe result was somewhat
similar.
One winter midnight the city of Brumm
was seared by such a conflagration as l.ad
not been seen under that murkv skv for
more than half a century. Men and wom
en thronged the streets, strangers drove
into the city from outlying towns and vil
lages, little children were taken out of
their beds and lifted up at tbe windows
to see the red havoc flaring against the
dark night. The great Danebrook iron
works and all their dependencies model
dwelling honses, clerks' offices, store
houses, stables were burning, and no
power of fire engines which Brumm or
the neighborhood could muster could in
anywise avail against tbe might of that
gigantic conflagration.
The fire had broken out in a dozen dif
ferent places almost simultaneously. No
one could doubt that there had been de- j
111......... -.I-L ..I.. . ...
luridir niiu mnuoraiciy piouitl arson;
and the traces of thqt crime were found
afterward in several directions, while it
was also discovered that one of the con
spirators, just a i: lie Ies ruthless than
bis fellows, had sent an anonymous
scrawl to the head stable keeper, warning
huh iu Ki-t ma iioim's out or tne way soon I
after dark that evening. This message
the stable keeper hud brooded over for
hours, and had obeyed only just in time to
save his stud of magnificent tart horses
from perishing in the flames.
The loss of Lady Carminow waa com
puted at nearly a million. Mr. Dune
brook bad been his own insurer. The
only policies upon the whole establish
ment were thoe small policies which in
sured the furniture of tbe operatives, and
which Job Danebrook bad always insist
ed upon paying the premiums himself
and deducting the amount from wages.
Happily there were no lives lost. It
was suposed afterward that a signal of
some kind had been sent round from house
to bouse at 10:30 o'clock, and that all
were on the alert, ready to make their
escape before the moment of danger. De
liberately, audaciously as the work of
destruction had been carried out, the con
spirators were never brought to book.
There was n prolonged inquiry and the
police did their best; but among nearly
fifteen hundred disaffected workmen it
was not an easy matter to bring the crime
home to individuals. '
Seven men were arrested on
Biella was given away by ber future
mother-iu-law, who had all the loiperisj
gra. of a portrait by Sir Jo.htiu lte
ookls, clad in white samite Angltce, in a
lar(.-e white velvet mantle bordered with
white fo.v, and a white velvet Unmet with
otitrkh fi-atbers. The tall, thin figure,
silvery bnir, and Marie Antoinette counte
nance were wondrously set off by that
white velvet and fur. It was said that
the dowager was a mort interesting figure
than the bride, although Stella looked
lovely in her shite cashmere gown and
fox fur jacket and little white toque.
arensed ready to start on her honeymoon
journey to the land of Don Quixote,
where Lnshmsr was to take her in search
of a grandfather and pedigree,
lie had shown her copies of her moth
ers letters and they had planned this
Spanish journey together, lie was to
take ber to all the fairest soots in Hint
romantic land, all scenes richest in. his
torical associations, and cities rich in
treasures of art; and it was only as if
were en passant that they were to bunt
for the traes of her parentage.
I hey were saved all trouble upon this
score, for within a fortnight of their mar
riage, lashmar received a Spanish letter
addressed to his town house, and forward
ed to him on his travels.
It was from a lawyer In, Madrid, who
wrote to inquire whether the lady whom
he had married was Jonathan Bold wood's
daughter by his marriage with a Spanish
lady, or whether she was tbe offspring of
a prior or subsequent marriage. If she
were indeed the sole offspring of Jona
than Bold wood's marriage with a young
Spanish lady, whom he carried off from
Madrid and was supposed to have mnr-
ried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields in Au
gust, 1,S! , the said daughter was sole
heiress to Don Zavier Olivarez, merchant.
no nan lately died intestate, arid who
had left papers relating to his daughter's
elopement, and letters written by him to
her, in the care of the writer, his leiral
aaviser,
Tbe formalities which appeared to be
necessary to complete the identification of
the inheritrix lusted nearly six months
and at the end of that time Stella became.
possessed of alwut A30.000 variously in
vesica.
It Is more than enouch to renovate
mat old barrack in Grosvenor souare."
said Lashmar, who was eager to we his
young wife take her place in society.
And to buy an annuity for dear Mr.
erner, so that he may feel quite inde
pendent," added Stella.
iiaoricl erncr Imd been brought back
to his old rooms in the castle since Stella's
marriage, and reinstated In his nost of !i-
nrarian with power to add from time to
mie to that magnificent collection of old
books which bad made I-ashmar Castle
famous.
iJidy Lsshrnar's novel was published
nonymousjy a few weeks after her mar
riage, and more .than justified the opinion
r me publishers render and the admira
tion of that still finer critic, Mr. Nestorins.
It was the book of the season, a book
which a great many nconle read, and
hich everybody talked aUuit. those who
ad only read the reviews naturally talk-
ng loudest.
The freshness of the style, with Its pas
sionate flow and youthful vigor, was cu-
lously contrasted by touches of archaic
earning which set the critics wondering
tiont tlie writer. Before the book had
been out a month there were plenty of
people ready to affirm that It was written
y Mr. Nestorins, and some even went so
far as to produce circumstantial evidence
n proof of that authorship.
firstly, the book was produced by Mr.
estorius' publisher. Secondly, it had
leaked out that the proofs had been sent
to Mr. Nestorius, Thirdly, nobody less
ccomplished of less all-round cleverness
could have written such a book.
There was, however, a small section of
the reading public chiefly women who
new by fine instinct that this story of
passionate, unrequited love could have
leen written only by a woman, since only
to woman Is "love the one thing needful."
(The end.)
Isn't It Worth While?
The construction of a system of na
Clonal highways would, of course, be
I matter of enormous magnitude, but
It Is worth considering whether, lu
view of the tniquestlouable advantages
:o be derived, it would not be worth
while for the national government to
X)utribute largely toward the construe-
Jon of aucu In-conirnunlcatlng lines of
roud by the several States, conditional
uiKiu the following of certain prcwrlb-
nl lines and the observation of certain
requirements essential to good con
struction, maintenance, etc. Boston
Herald.
Turkish Policemen at Prayers.
When tbe muezxin called from the
I minaret nnd the faithful lnld down
their work and moved Into the mosque
to prny, Mabmoud went too. After the
first day he dimorded his uniform, all
but bis fez, for a suit of light gray,
exchnnglng his short sword for a atout
stick. This stick Caslmlr held aa his
badge of office while Mabmoud prayed.
I followed bltn once Into the Mosque of
Ahmed and watched him as be knelt,
barefoot, his face to the slone wall, hi
lip moving In prayer, bin eyea on Mec
ca, bis forehead touching tbe mats.
This bloodthirsty savage! This bar
baric Turk whom we would teach mor
1 and manners! I can Imagine how
hoarse a mu;y.zln't throat would be
come calling the Broadway squad to
prayer If bis duty compelled him to
continue calling until our police should
fall upon their knees In tbe nearest
ehurch.-F. Hopkinson Smith In the
Century.
suspicion
Collected the Bill.
There Is a one-cbalr barber shop In
Southeast Washington. Tbe proprietor
formerly owned a grocery store, but In-
and a mass of evidence was brought to-1 Judicious credit broke him up. A man
gether, conversations held in public entered the little shop and took a seat
houses and club rooms were repested lu In tbe chair. The barber tucked a
detail-circumstantial evidence as to the towel under bis chin, lathered his face
then, passing the keen edge of the ra-
purchase of parafflne and other combusti
bles was sifted and resifled a hundred
and fifteen witnesses were, examined and
cross-examined-the men were remanded
and again remanded, till newspajier read
ers began to tire of the great Danebrook
arson case, and the result was nil.
So the great Danebrook Iron works
came to an end like a tale that Is told.
Lady Carminow decisively refused to re
build or to hear anything more about
iron.
"if I could be grateful to those wretches
for anything it wonld be for this fire,"
she said, with her grand sir. "f t's such a
comfort to think I am no Urfijfer In trade
and that I shall never sgain have my
carriage blocked by a hideous procession
of grimy wagons with my name painted
upon them."
CHAPTEB XXVII,
Victorian and Stella were married la
Vaster week. It was an early Easier, the
season of primroses and hedgerow vio
lets and wood snemores. Such self-sows
lowers seenied most In bamoay with
such a wedding a nlon of hearts that
or across his customer s wlndplie,
said:
"You owe me a grocery bill of fl'O.
Will you pay It or shall 1 collect It
now?
The man In the chair saw In the
glass a determined face, a Arm hold on
a glittering blade, and, producing two
tlO bills, jumped from the chair and
ran, saying:
"I don't want any receipt, and never
mind the share."
In a few minutes a hoy came In with
tbe barber's towel, and requested the
customer's cott and bat.
Good Demswd for Saakea.
Baat ladlaa snakes are In great da
man for European collections. Kr
ery German steamer that leaves Cal
cutta takes bnadreds to Hamburg for
distribution over the continent
cbnatp thinks other ebuape are
mighty amart
Good Koads.
"There be thive things," said tbe
great Lord Bacon, "that make a nation
great and prosperousa fertile ttoil,
busy workshops, and easy conveyance
for men and commodities from oue
place to another."
Tbe first and second of the.He rpquls
ites the- great West jiottsesses in abund
ance, and in an abundance that, ho far
ast.be "busy work.boa" are concerned
continually is hicrea.sliig. In the third
it Is sadly deficient. Tbe West and the
South certainly do not have "easy con
veyance for wen and commodities from
one place to another." They have t runt
ed too much to their railways, forget
ful that railways must be but receivers
of travel that coinen along Innunie-ra
b!e lines of highways. Many a farmer
who live three miles from the nearest
railway station spends more time and
worries himself more In reaching It
thin ! traveling fifty miles nftor he
has reached It. It often costs more to
haul a load of corn from the farm to
tbe railway than to carry It a hundred
miles after It Is placed on the cars. It
often takes a longer time to go for and
come back with a letter or newspaper
from the nearest postofllce than It docs
for the missive to come from its start
ing placr to the office.
Many a plow emu unrepaired, many
ft needed j.4eoe of farm work goes un
done during (he long winter months
and forms a needless part of the "wor
ry" In getting ready for springtide op
erations, because of the all but Im
passable roads between tlie farm and
tbe store or the shop. Country mer
chants lone trade, farmers lost; money
by Inability to take advantage of a
temporary rise or fall in the price of
produce because of roads uion which
nothing considerable can be ba.uled
during a great part of the year. There
are whole counties which rain and
frost rule w-ltb despotic authority.
Rain converts the tracks that are dig
nified by the name of roads into Im
passable swamp, frost hardens tbe
mud Into ridge and mounds that no
horse cau travel without danger of
lameness and acrosa which no beavy
weight can lie drawn. Tbe loss to the
farmer and country merchants of fhe
South and West Is not to be counted
y hundreds of thousands but by mil
lions yearly, and It Is quite probable
liat tens of millions would be needed
o express It.
It Is true lhat vigorous work, ,md
work that I as lntell!ent s It Is vla-
orotis, should be done In remedy of the
evil condition Into which we have fal-
en. Every road district should have
Its society for fhe Improvement of high
ways, every county should have Its
central committee with which tbe dis
trict societies can confer, nod every
State should have Its yearly convention
of societies. The questions of drain
age of road beds, of the os!!l!!ty of
finding gravel, stone, or other material
for construction, and of the compara
tive merits of roads built by local cor
porations that can levy toll, or by coun
ty taxes, or by State aid, should be
carefully discussed. The Interest of
the public In this Important matter
should be stimulated by frequent com
munications to the newspapers, both
those of the county seats and those
A'hleh have a circulation co-extenslve
with the domain of the Ilepubllc. Dur
ing tbe winter season farmers bare
much enforced leisure; they can em
ploy a part of It to no better purpose
than In striving to organize a move
ment for road Improvement.
along at a behind time rate of speed,
when tbe old bishop, frightened aad
trembling, dured to ask the conductor
what was the time of day.
If you have traveled Westward yon
know that at Ogdeu the time citungea,
and San Francisco lime, one boilr ear
lief, is adopted. The conductor bad
Sau Francisco time and lie said:
"It Is 7:10 ten minutes after seven.'"
The old bishop, previously haunted
by a dread of Impending destruction
ticca use of the horrible rate of speed at
which he was being whirled through
apace, rose with a wild cry and made
for the door.
"Letnme off." he cried. "It was 35
minutes after 7 an hour ago, an' we're
goln' so fast we are goln" faster than
time can count Itself. Lentiue off!"
Had be really been going as fast aa
the old man had believed, be would
surely have been beaten to bits as be
Jumped from tbe train. Aa it waa, ha
was only rolled somemlng like a hali
nille, and was carried back to Ogdea
on a hand-car. Chicago llecord.
The Cayman In the Weet Indies ex
port nothing but turtles.
The tiger's strength exceed tbat of
the lion. Five men can easily hold
down a lion, but alne are required to
sulslue a tiger.
Ou June 12, 1775, upwards of 2,400
salmon were taken above the bridge la
the IUver Tyne, and sold In Newcastle
st Id. and ld. per pound.
Herman fJunaallus, of Beech Creek,
I'., recently caught a large caUamount
in a trap at the bead of Big Run. Tbe
animal measured three feet seven lach
es; from the tip of the nose to the Up of
the tall. Guosallus has also caught four
bears In traps last winter.
Live bee are sometimes shipped on
Ice, so as to keep them dormant d urine
tbe Journey. This u particularly the
case with bumble bees, which have
been taken to New Zealand, where
they are useful In fertilising the red
clover which baa been Introduced Into
the colony.
The common seagulls will become
great pots. They are useful birds la
tbe garden, eating everything in tbe
form of an Insect they can get bold of
and do not seeru to reut the restric
tion of clipped wings. They will con
tentedly spbtKb around In any little
pond of water, and so Ion aa they geX
their meals are conteut. They become
great frleods sum! are very amutring.
One seagull made friends with a cat
and presumed upon uhe Intimacy to rob
pussy of tbe mice she caught.
Here Is a w range story. Tbe plant
known aa vervain, which Is not dkctlu
gulshed for Its beauty, aad which
grows in EuglUb villages utUwly disre
garded, was so sacred to tbe Druids
tbat they only gathered It for their
divinations when the great dog-sstar
arose, In order that neither sun nor
moon should see the deed. Moreover,
tney lert lioueycombs on the sttot In
atonement for tbe violence done to tbe
earth In robbing It of no holy a herb.
Nor was It precious to the Druids alone,
for anioug the Greeks and Rxkumns M
crowned altars, decided fortunes), waa
sen by ambassador on tieatlcs of
IKsice, was used in solemn IncanUaioua,
and also as a love philter. In fact, waa
regarded with sacred awe and revsr-ence.
Beating Father Time.
Speed was once demonstrated on a
Western road In a fashion to curl tlie
hair of at least one old Mormon bish
op. The churchman considered It a
phenomenon, and got off the lraln as
quickly as he could. He had bull
whacked across tbe plains In the early
days, aud, si range to say, bad never
ridden on a railroad trslir until the
time when he entered upon bis trip
rom Green River to Kan Francisco,
The speed was, therefore, s revelation
o him. He had never before aeen any
thing so swift, sud he was scared.
I bout twelve miles from Ogden he
isked the conductor for tbe time of
lay, and was told ihst It was 7:35. He
m pressed this time forcibly on bis
31 1 nd.
Now, for a wonder, the Western con
nection at Ogden was quickly made,
and after the lapfe of but a few min
utes the Kan r'rncl--houut travel
ers wan on their way California ward.
Ogden had been left behind only a few
tiles, and (lie ira'M was whooping!
Mistake In Delivery.
Queer things happen In, suburban
towns, where the residents have a way
of utilizing menus at baud uhterly re
gardless of the consequences. Mrs.
Stiuipson, a uotable bouse-wlfe wbo
lives In one of these terreKtrlal para
dises, recently replenished ber stock
of household furniture at tbe ouly de
partment store lu the place and ordered
tbe purchases sent home tbat afternoon
when sbe would be there to receive
them.
She was In a particularly bappy
frame of uilud ait she sat at ber front
windows watching for thcJr arrival,
remarking wllh satisfaction the vacant v
places tbe new furniture would adorn, J
when an undertaker's wagon drove up
and stopped In front of ber door and a
solemn-looking driver In rusty black
descended from the front seat and rang
her bell. She did not lose a moment In
raising tbe window and calling to blm
In a frightened voice:
"lo away! You've stopped at the
wroug house! There Isn't anybody
here!'"
"I don't want a body, ma'am, I've
got some things I was to leave here,"
called the man.
"Take them back!" she commanded,
"I tell you 1 won't have them! You
ought to be ashamed to stop berel
What do you suppose tbe neighbors
will think?"
"Uell, ma'am," said tbe man, as he
climbed on his wagon again, "If you
don't want your new furniture, ail
right, but I've got It Inside."
"And I wouldn't take It as a glfl,"
said the distressed woman, "the Idea
of bringing- my goods In an under
taker's wagon,"
"Wo hadn't another vehicle lu the
barn, and you said yen wanted it right
off," responded the man as he drove
away.
But the man of many calling who
had utilized the last conveyance In his
establishment lost the sale of the fur
niture and Uie good will of a customer
who did not appreciate such mortuary
en tori wise.
Hick Prloa fbr Bread.
In 1901 the prloa of the quatsm loaf
In Kaglaad reached about 37V& cent,.
This waa la the tints of the Nayoisoale
wan.
