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t3e Bondman By HALL CAINE. CHAPTER VII. THE GOSPEL OF RENUNCIATION. I. What had happened In the great world during the two yean in which Michael Sunlocka had been out of it is vtry simple and easily told. Old Adam Falrbrother had failed at Lon don aa he had failed at Copenhagen, and all the good that had come of hits efforts had ended in evil. It was then that accident helped him in hia des pair. The relations of England and Den mark had long been doubtful, for France seemed to be stepping between them. Napoleon was getting together a combination of powers against Eng- j land, and in order to coerce Denmark Into using her navy a small but effi cient one on the side of the alliance, he threatened to send a force overland. He counted without the resources of Neleon. who, with no more ado than Betting sail got across to Copenhagen, took possession of every ship o war that lay In Danish waters, and brought thorn home to England In a troop. When Adam heard of this he saw his opportunity in a moment, and hurry ing away to Nelson at Spithcad he asked If among the Danlbh ships that had been captured there was a sloop if war that had lain near two years off the Island of Grimsey. Nelson an swered. No, but that if there was such a vessel still at liberty he was not of a mind to leave it to harass him. So Adam told why the sloop was there, and Nelson, waiting for no further in structions, despatched an English man-of-war, with Adam aboard of her, to do for the last of the Danish fleet what bad been done for the body of it, and at the same time to recover the En glish prisoner whom she had been sent to watch. Rpfnro anvthinr wan known nf this final Btcp of Nelson, his former pro ceeding had made a great noise throughout Europe, where it was loud ly condemned as against the law of na tions, by the rascals who found them selves outwitted. When the report reached Rekyjavlk, Jorgen Jorgensen saw nothing that could come of it but instant war between Denmark and England, and nothing that, could come of war with England but disaster to Denmark, for he knew the English rtw nf nH Rn In nmlii ilnnhlv sure of his own position in a tumult where in little things would of a certainty be seized up with the great ones, he conceived the idea of outline Michael Sunlocks out of the way, and thus set tling one harrasslng complication. Then losing no time he made ready a despatch to the officer In command of the sloop of war off Grimsey, ordering him to send a company of men ashore immediately to eiecute the prisoner ly ing in charge of the priest of the Isl and. Now this despatch, whereof the con tents became known throughout Reyk javik in less time than Jorgen took to write and seal It, had to be carried to Grimsey by two of his bodyguard. But the men were Danes, and as they did not know the way across the Bursting- sand desert, an Icelander guide had to be found for them. To this end the two taverni of the town were beaten up for a man, who at that season It was winter, and the snow lay thick over the lava Btreams and the sand would adventure so far from home. . And now It was Just at this time, after two-and-a-half years In which no man bad reen him or heart him, that Jason returned to Rekyjavik. Scarce anyone knew him. lie wag the wreck of himself, a worn, torn, pitiful, brok en ruin of a man. People lifted both hands at sight of lilm. but he showed no self-pity. Day after day, night after night, he frequented the taverns. He drank as he had never before been known to drink; he laughed as he had never been heard to laugh; be sang as he bad never been beard to sing, and to all outward appearance he was nothing now but a shameless, grace less, disorderly, abandoned profligate. Jorgen .lorgensen heard that Jason had returned, and order his people to fetch him to Government Houhe. Thny did so, and Jorgen and Jason stood face to face. Jorgen looked at Jason as one would say, "Dare you forget the two men whose lives you have taken?" And Jaon looked back at Jorgen as one would answer, '"Dare you remem ber that I spared your own life?" Then "without a word to Jason, old Jorgen turned to his peopie and suid, "Take him away." So Jason went back to dissipation and thereafter no man said yea or nay to him. But when he heard of the despatch, h was sobered by It In a moment, and when the guards came on their search lor a gUIUti IU tltt? L4tiu ttut'lii Jic aa, be leapt to his feet and said, "I'll go." "You won't pass, my lad." said one of the Danes, "for you would be dead drunk before you crossed the Basket Slope Hill." "Would I?" said Jason, mooSiiy, "who knows?" And with fiat he shambled out But in hi; neart he cried, "The hour has come at last! Thank God! Thank God!" Before he was missed he had gone from Reykjavik, and made his way to the desert with his face towards Grlm ey. The next day the guards found tholr guide and set out on their Journey. The day after that a Danish captain artved f.t Reykjavik from Copenhagen, and reported to Jorgen Jorgensen that off the Westmann Islands he had sighted a British man-of-war, making for the northern shores of Iceland. This news put Jorgen Into extreme ag itation, for be guessed at its meaning la an Instant As surely ta the war hip was afloat she was bound for Orlmsey, to capture the sloop that lay there, and as surely as Ergland knew of the sloop, she also knew of the pile oner whom It was sent to watch. Brit ish sea-captains, from Drske down it ards, bad beeh a race of pirates and cut-throats, and If the captain of this ship, on landing at Grimsey, found Ml fhul flnnlocks dead, he would follow n to Reykjavik, and never take rest ' until be bad strung up the aovernor n4 his people to tbe nearest ysrdara. . Ceethuitf Story. I So thinking in the wild turmoil nf hi hot old head, wherein everything he naa tnougut before was turned topsy turvy, Jorgen Jorgensen uecided to countermand bis order for the execu tion of Sunlocks. ' But his despatch was then a day gone on its way. Ice land guides were a tribe of lazy vaga bonds, not a man or boy about his per son was 10 be trusted, and so Jorgen concluded that nothing would serve but that he should set out after the guards himself. Perhaps he would And tbem at Thingveltr, perhaps be would cross them on the desert, but at least he would overtake them before they took boat at Husavlk. Twelve hours a day he would ride, old as be was, if only these skulking Iceland gi ants could be made to ride after him. Thus were four several companies al the same time on their way to Grimsey: the English man-of-war from eplthead to take possession of the Dan ish sloop; the guards of the Governor to order ihe execution of Michael Sun locks; Jorgen Jorgensen to counter mand tbe order; and Red Jason on bis own errand known to no man. The first to reach was Jason. When Jaton set little Michael from his knee to the floor, and rose to his feet as Greeba entered, he was dirty", bedraggled, and unRempt; his race was Jaded and old-looking, his skin shoes were splashed with snow, and torn, and his feet were bleeding; his neck wap bare, and his sheepskin coat was hanging to his back only by the wool len serafe that was tied about his waist. Partly from shock at this change, and partly from a confused memory of other scenes the marriage festival at Government House, the nlKht trial in the little chamber of the senate, the Jail, the minus, and the Mount of Laws Greeba staggered at alfeht of Jason and would have cried aloud and fallen. But he caught her la his arms in a moment, and whis pered her in a low voice at her ear to be silent, for that ho had something to say that must be beard by no one toslde herself. he recovered herself Instantly, drew tack as if his touch had stung her, and isked with a look of dreau if he had known she was there. "Yes," he answered. "Where have you come from?" "Reykjavik." She glanced down at bis bleeding teet, and said, "on foot?" "On foot," he answered. "When did you leave?" "Five days ago." . "Then you have walked night and day across the desert?" "Nlgbt and day." "Alone?" "Yes, alone." She had become more eager at every question, and now she cried, "What ha happened? What Is going to bap pen? Do iiot keep it from me. I can tear it, for 1 have borne many things. Tell me why have you come?" "To save your husband," bald Jason. Hush! Listen!'' And tlun he told her, with many geutle protests against her ghastly looks of fear, of the guards that were coming with the order for the execu tion of Michael Sunlocks. Hearing that, she vaitcd for no more, but fell to a great outburst of weeping. And until her bout was spent he stood si lt lit, and helpless beside her, with a strong man's faint at sight of a wo man's tea i d. "How she loves!" he thought, and egaln and again the word rang in tbe tnipty pi jo) of his heart But when the had recovered herself lie smiled as he was able tor the great drops that stni rolled down his own hnpgard face, and protested once more that there was nothing to fear, for lie himself had come to forestall the dan ger, and things were not yet so far past help but there was still a way to compass it. "What way'" she asked. "The way of escape," he answered. "Impossible," she said. "There is a v,ar ship suicide, and every path to the shore Is watched," He laughed at that, and Mild if every f,oat track vere guarded, yet he would make his way to the sea. And as for the warship outside, there was a boat within th9 harbor, the same that be iiad come by, a Shetland smack that had made pretence to put in for had dock, and vould sail at any moment that he gav it warning, She listened eagerly, and, though Ft.e saw but little likelihood of escape, she clutched at the chance of It "When will you make the attempt?" she asked. "Two hours before dawn to-mor-iow." b answered, ... - "Why so late?" "Because tbe nights are moonlight." "I'll be ready," she whispered. "Make the child ready, also," be Mid. "Indeed, yce," she whispered. "Say nothing to anyone, and If any one questions you, answer as you may. Whatever yuu hear, whatever you see, whatever 1 'nay do or pretend to do, rpcak not a word, give not a sign, change not a feature. Do you prom ise?" "Yea," nlto whispered, "yea, yes." And then suddenly a new thought smote her. "Hut Jascn.". she said, with her eyes aside, and her fingers running through the hair of little Michael, "but, Jason," she faltered "you will not betray me?" "Betray you?" he said, and laughed a little. "Because," she added, quietly, "though I am here, my husband does rot know me for his wife. He In blind, and cannot see me, and for my own reasons I have never spoken to him since I came." "You have never spoken to him?" said Jason. "Never "And bow long have you lived In this house?" "Two years." Then Jason remembered what Sun locks bad told him at the mines, end In another moment he bad read Qree ba's secret br tho light of bis a an. : understand," he said, aadly; "I think I understand." She caught the look of sorrow In his eyes and said, 'But, Jason, what of yourself?" At that he laugibed again, and tried to carry himself off with p brave gayety. "Where have you been?" she asked. "At Akuyeri, Husavlk, Reykjavik, the desert everywhere, nowhere," he "What have you been doing?" "Drinking, gamlug, going to the devil everything, nothing." And at that he laugbted once more, loudly and noisily, forgetting his own warning. (To Be Continued.) Pardonable Evasions. Some evasions of the inheritance tax law can hardly be regarded as wholly unpardonable. General Dl Ceanola, of the New York Metropoli tan Museum of Art, says that Mr. Charles R. Curtis informed him some time ago that be had made provision in his will for a bequest of 910,000 to the museum. Lately Mr. Curtis called again and said: "General. I don't think I will leave you that $10, 000. I will give It to you In cash. The Inheritance tax will take up $1,500 or $2,000 of it. and you will not get the benefit of the whole amount If I leave it to you In my will." And he handed over the cash. Tweed Responsible for tbs Tiger. The origin cf the tiger as an em blem of Tammany Is said by W. C. Montayne, a coffee and spice dealer !n New York, to date from the time when William M. Tweed, then fore man of "Big Six" fire company, took a fancy to a picture of a royal Bengal tiger In his father's store In the '50s. Tweed adopted the emblem for the Amerlcus club, and It soon wai accept ed !y all Tammany. Tweed bad tho tigtr's head woven In the center of the pailor tui&et of the Amerlcus elu) in its tporty club house at Greer.wreh, Conn., and It was painted on the old hand engine of Big Six. Tremendous Bridge Traflle. Twenty years ago it was estimated that 200,000 persons crossed London bridge daily, 130,000 on foot and the rest in vehicles. With the growth of population these numbers have almost doubled, in spite of the relief afforded by the building of the tower bridge, half a mile downstream. It has there fore become an urgent matter to In crease the capacity of the older bridge, and it has now been decided to ac complish this by means of granite corbels which will carry the footway as projections over the water on each side of the bridge. Tbs Cur Isn't a Reader. The czar of Russia does not rea'" newspapers regularly, and seldom looks at a book. While attending to his official business in the morning he sips one cup of tea after another, oc casionally eata a caviare sandwich. The hours from 1 to 4 p. m. he gives to his family and family affairs. From 4 he works again till dinner time, at 7. His typhoid fever has left him stronger than he was before. His face is full and round, and he has had none of the headaches and epilep tic fits that used to attack him before bis recent illness. Salt Baths at flnme. Persons desiring to take salt-water baths at home should first learn the quantity of salt to use In the tubs, Victor Smith suggests. An ordinary bath contains from ninety to 100 gal lons of water, Into which a thoughtless person will dissolve a pint or two of sea salt, so-called, and Imagine him self disporting In the ocean. It he followed nature he would use twenty five or thirty pounds of salt to the 100 gallons, and this. If purified, would cost him 70 cents. He -would have about four baths to each 700 pounds of salt. To Ruin Tea In Couth Carolina. A new tea company, Influenced by Dr. Shepard's success, has just bought 6,000 acres of land in Colleton county, S. C, Intending to raise tea for the market Tbe company paid $20,000 for the land, and will plant but 100 acres this season, as it is now rather late to begin the preparation of the grounds. Next year over 5,000 acres will be planted, and the output Is ex pected to exceed 300,000 pouuds. Constructively In Sight. A queer will case has just been de cide by the courts of Minnesota. The witnesses stepped through a doorway Into the adjoining room and affixed their signatures at a table about ten feet from the testator, Just out of his sight, but while he was seated on the side of his bed and could have seen them by stepping forward two or three feet The attestation and subscription of the will under these circumstances are sustained. Sanserif, Fracrlt anil Maeadhl. India has hundreds of dialects which may all be classed under three great heads the 8anrcrlt, Pracrlt and Magadbl. The Sanscrit Is the funda mental language and that of the Ve da; the Pracrlt the vernaci'Ar lan guage In many dialects, and tne Maga dhl or Mlsra Is that of Ceylon and thi Islands. Tot an "ail" Window at Wrexham. A number of Yale graduates hav completed the subscription list for the placing of a memorial window for Ellhu Yale in the church at Wrexham, Wales, near which Yale lies buried, and work on the window will be be gun at once. A Governor's Pet. Governor Odcll, of New York, has a pet water spaniel of which he Is very fond. The dog is well trained, and among other tricks will pounce upon a lighted match and extinguish the flame by blowing on It aa a man docs. nam la the nig Alps. A road It being built In the high Alps, which pauw the Great St. Ber nard and fclso tbe bosplce of that name. This groat engineering fest will be fin ished and opened to traffic tn Jul of next year. NOTES ON SCIENCE CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Some Words of Advice to Thin People- Something New In I'mbretlas Aa Automatic Pistol Of Interest to Carpet ti A WOKU TO THE THIIf. A great deal has been written by physicians for the benefit of fat per sons who desire to reduce their weight, but the discontented at the other end of the scale, who long for more covering on their bones, are very generally left to discover for them selves, If they can, a means to gain their end. Thinness, like obselty, may be due to some constitutional defect In nu trition, often running In the family, or it, may be a symptom of chronic dis ease. A gradual loss of flesh, occur ring without any apparent cause, in one who has been in previous good condition, is a suspicious sign, and should lead one to seek a careful med ical examination, so that the cause, whatever it may be, may be discovered and corrected while there is time. Other persona have always been too tbin, while seeming in other respects to be In fair health. To such a few simple directions may be of service. Tnin persons are very apt to be nervously strung, fretting over trifles, and borrowing trouble on every pos sible occasion. They sleep poorly, dream much, and are always In a state or unrest In their waking hours. They an not uncommonly rather large eat ers, but tieir food is for the most part meat, and Is bolted with very little mastication. It will be of little use to modify the diet in such cases unless the nervous ness Is treated at the same time. The person must avoid all things which stimulate the nervous system excit ing novels and theatrical pieces, tbe use of tobacco, coffee, tea, and so forth. The diet should consist largely of articles of a fattening nature, such as starchy vegetables, sweets, butter and fat meats. Meals should be small but frequent. A certain amount of nourishment taken In six portions will make more flesh than the same amount divided Into three meals. Chocolate may be - substituted for the morning tea or coffee. Water should be drunk in large quantities at other than meal-times, but fluids should be taken sparingly with the meals, Codllver oil, If it does not nauseate, should be taken regularly; if it cannot be tolerated, cream may be substituted. The night hours of sleep should be long, and a nap may be taken with ad vantage In tho middle of the day. rOW KB LOOM. It is reported that an English syn dicate has purchased from the in ventor a new method of manufactur ing Oriental carpets. The apparatus Is called the Hellensleben power loom, and the claim is made that it has a ca pacity of thirty-five square yards per day, while by hand It takes half a day to make a square yard. It Is also stated that the material Is equal to the finest Oriental productions. A pecu liarity of Its construction is that a shuttle Is dispensed with, thus permit ting the, utilization of low-grade ma terial hitherto considered useless. An other novel feature connected with It is the process of coloring yarns, which, in view of Its simple character, it Is thought may be adopted in other branches of textile manufacture. MOTOR TRACTION ENOI1XK. An oil engine, which has recently at tracted considerable attention abroad, and which was invented in Germany, is said to be tbe counterpart of an en gine brought out In this country some time since by Richard Dudgeon, with the exception that Dudgeon used steam as a motive power, while the new engine uses oil vapor. It consists of a friction roller, working on the In side of a larger wheel. Its tractive power Is reported as being very great. SOMETHING NKVtf IN IMIIItKIXAg. Every one knows that tho weak point in an umbrella Is the wire that holds tho ribs together at the notch where they unite with the stick. This wire soon rusts and breaks, permit- BALL-BEARING UMBRELLA FRAME. ting the ribs to t'irust themselves through the cover. A ball-bearing um brella Is now being manufactured which disposes of this weak point by doing away With the wire altogether. In place of the ordinary notch a steel cone, much like that used In the ball bearings of a bicycle and like It filled with steel balls, Is used. The ordinary ribs, with the exception that they holes countersunk In them, are In serted Into the cone through notches. Tkn balls fit Into the countersunk boles In the ribs and a washer held down by a screw cap holds the whole thing together, while It admits of tbe ribs moving up and down with perfect ease. It is claimed that this umbrella is stronger and can be rolled closer than the one at present In use. Also that If a rib breaks the owner can put a new one in himself without hunting up an umbrella expert. TIIK AUTOMATIC PISTOL. The latest In small arms Is the pis tol wblcb bas just been adopted Dy the Swiss government and has lately been tested by the United States war department In speaking of it in the American Machinist, G. H. Powell calls attention to tbe fact that the limited range of tbe revolver is large ly due to the escape of the powder gas xbout the cylinder, and then says: "What Is known as tbe automatic pistol of today seems almost a perfect realization of the ends sought. Though called automatic, this weapon Is In reality only semi-automatic, as suc cessive pressures on the trigger are necessary to its operation. "This weapon is a repeating arm in which the force of the expansion of the gas tbe recoil, or 'kick' is utilized after each shot to open the breech block, extract the empty case, cock the flrlng-pln, and, by means of a recuper ative spring, charge the pistol with a new cartridge, the operator merely having to press the trigger for each successive shot" In editorial com ment the journal Just referred to re marks: "The performance of this Luger pistol Is remarkable, as shown by tests of army boards. Twenty-four . SECTIONAL VIEW, shots were fired from it at the rate of 116 a minute. This Included the time of removing two empty magazines and Inserting two loaded ones, so that the rate of firing one magazine charge, or eight shots, must of course be consid erably faster. In the accuracy test the mean deviation of the shots was shown to be ' slightly more than 0.5 inch at a range of 75 feet. It was taken apart in 3 seconds, and reas sembled in 12 14 seconds. "It also stood the remarkably severe dust and rust tests very well and gave every evidence of being the very best military pistol presented before the trial board. After being immersed in a solution of sal ammoniac and al lowed to remain until thoroughly rust ed, it was without cleaning fired as a single breech-loader, and after being simply oiled, without disassembling, worked automatically as before. It is thought probable that the United States army authorities will adopt It for army use, in which case it will be manufactured here." TBI TIGER'S EYES. Mr. Beddard of the London Zoolog ical Society calls attention to a pecu liarity of the ears of tigers, which he thinks may be classed under the head of "protective markings." On the back of each ear is a very bright white spot, and when the ears are directed for ward these spots are conspicuous from the front Mr. Beddard suggests that when the tiger is sleeping in the dim light of a cave or thicket tbe spots on Its ears may appear to an enemy, look ing tn, as the gleam of its watchful eyes, and thus save the sleeper from an unexpected attack. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. The total undeveloped energy of Niagara Falls Is estimated by' electri cal experts to be 8,000.000 horse power. Of fifty-six glaciers observed in 1897 thirty-nine were found to be decreas ing, while five were stationary and twelve were Increasing. Tbe steam yacht Arrow, being built by Lysander Wright, of Newark, for Charles R. Flint, is expected to de velop a speed of forty knots an hour. A seven-story building in Chicago has just been raised with jacks twenty-one and one-half feet without crack ing a pane of glass or Injuring wall. A new line of steamers to ply be tween Tacoma and Liverpool via the Suez canal, touching at Manila and other Philippine ports, comprising nine ships. Is announced. The British parliament is, busy at present In Investigating the various electric railway schemes that have been projected In all directions in Lon don since the opening of tbe Central London Electric Railway. The experiments tried during the Ashantee campaign by the British of ficer with the megaphone for giving orders were unsuccessful, owing to the thick jungle and winding paths pre venting the sound from traveling. An attachment Is provided in Swe den by which the secrecy of the tele phone line Is assured. The apparatus, which is rented at a moderate rate, indicates whether the telephone op erator Is listening to the conversa tion or not. A German society of engineers has In contemplation the preparation of an International technical dictionary, to be published in English, French and German. The object is to secure com pleteness and Identity of meaning In the use of technical words. Hydraulic press-ire Is being used at St. Etlenne tn making steel In molds tapering toward tbe top by pressure from tbe bottom Instead of from the top of the casting. It Is said to pro duce a more homogeneous steel and give better results generally. 1 COW DEPENDED HER CALF. rat Haat-ir aa te WUght After Battle feoyaA. The calf, having nursed sufficiently and feeling bis baby legs tired of the weight they bad not yet learned to carry, laid himself down. On this the cow shifted her position. She turned half arotyid and lifted her bead high. As she 4id so a scene of. peril was borne la upon her fine nostrils. She recognized It Instantly. With a snort of akger she sniffed again, then stamped a challenge with her fore hoofs and leveled the lance points of tier horns toward the menace. Tbe next moment her eyes, made keen by the fear of love, detected the black outline of the bear's head through tbe coarse screen of the Juniper. Without a second's hesitation she flung up ber tail, gave a short bellow and charged. The moment she saw herself detected the bear rose upon "her hind-quartern; nevertheless, she was In a measure surprised by the sudden blind fury of the attack. Nimbly she swerved to avoid it, aiming at the same time a stroke with her mighty forearm, which If it had found Its mark would have smashed her adversary's neck. But as she struck out, in the act of shifting her position, a depression of ground threw her off her balance. The next instant one sharp horn caught her slantingly in the flank, tipping its way upward, while the mad Impact threw her upon her back. Grappling, she had her assailant's bead and shoulders in a trap and her gigantic claws cut through the flesh and sinew like knives; but at the desperate disadvant age of her position she could inflict no disabling blow. . The cow, on the other hand, though mutilated and streaming with blood, kept pounding with her whole massive weight and with short, tremendous shocks crushed the breath from her foe's ribs. Presently, wrench ing herself free, the cow drew off for another battering charge, and as she did so the bear hurled herself violently down the slope and gained her feet be hind a dense thicket of bay shrub. The cow, with one eye blinded, glared around for her in vain; then, in a pan ic of mother terror, plunged back to her calf. Leslie's Monthly. GOOD LUCK IN BAD ERRORS. Greet Froflta Have Sometimes Resulted From Seeming- Mistakes. Mistakes are not always unprofit able. Sometimes they turn out to be the most fortunate things that could have happened. When Orme won the Eclipse stakes at Sandown eight years ago the prince of Wales sent his friend Mr. Courthope to lay a bet on a horse called Orvieto. But Mr. Courthope misunderstood the name and placed the prince s money on Orme. wnen Orme came in a good winner the prince thought of course, that he had lost, instead of which he had won $50,000. A lucky mistake was that which resulted in the opening of the famous Niersfonteln gold mine In South Africa and the making of $30, 000,000. It was an error that saved a score of people from ruin and made wealthy many of them, for the orl Insl Inranrlnn nf twentv nOOr men Who were seeking fortune was to buy a mine called the Rensnek farm. The prospectors who examined this farm found that It gave great promise of a rich mine, and they commissioned an agent to buy it for $6,000. The agent, however, got mixed and made a hope less blunder through not knowing the district well. He bought another place called Niersfonteln for the prospectors, and the money was paid over before the dismayed gold seekers found they were let in for a place they did not want They refused to accept the deal, but the money had been paid and re traction was impossible Worst of all, some outside people profited by the error and snapped up the coveted Rensnek. Before going to law to re pudiate the transaction the little com pany had a look at the despised Niers fonteln place, and on giving a trial to it they found it worth while to hang on. The other place the Rensnek gave out within a fortnight and ruined the company which had bought It, while the Niersfonteln became a mag nificent mine and has yielded over 130,000,000. Or eat Growth of "Wire Houses." There are 500 telephones on the floor of the exchange, each In charge Of a boy, who receives orders from his of fice and transmits them to the floor broker for execution. In every brok er's office there are from one to ten telephones,- and many brokers rarely see their clients, who telephone orders from uptown offices, homes or out of town. In recent years there has been an enormous growth of what are known as "wire houses." There are New York, Chicago or Boston firms which lease private wires connecting with many of the leading cities east of Denver.. No firm yet controls a private wire to the Pacific coast, but doubtlesss one will be heard of before long. World's Work. Telephone's Progress Abroad. Although' the use of the telephone has tncreased rapidly here there are countries In Europe in which tele phones are In far more general use than here. In Stockholm, Sweden, on person in every fourteen baa a tele phone, there being more than 20,000 telephones In a population of 271,000. Every tobacconist's store Is a public call offlee and the rates are very low. England Is far behind In the matter of telephones, there being only 1 to every 836 of tbe population. In little Swltser land there is 1 to every 172 persona, but far more business is done over the telephone In England than In Swift land. ' " Only a fool forgets bis folly.
