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The Secret By JAMES CHAPTER XI. T nty-four mile eastward of tbe city Bie email town and fortress of Schins etbarg stands at a point where the Neva knuM from the Lake of Ladoga and In the l?ft bank of the river. On an i!and, where the river joins lie lake and moats it ruuud. i built the fort, which Is about four hundred yard Iquare; ita walla are of 'atone, massive, lad fifty feet in height, terminating in tsttlemeiits and turret of antique form, fbe passage to this island is by a long I ra r bridge. The guard which kept thia formidable tUU p.-Uon, whers Biscy a hopeless sigh ass wafted through the rusty bar of ita srison grillea across the waters of La loga, was composed entirely of a body of lismounted Cossacks, selected for the Surpose, as the task of keeping or seclud ktg the dethroned Emperor Ivan was ne of no small responsibility and im portance. A guard of these men received Bal uuie at the gate and drawbridge with I profound military salute; and pietnr tsque aspect they presented, as their arms flashed in die murky light of the treat oil lantern that swung in the dark, weird and deep-mouthed archway. The great masses of the fortress, ghostly and shrouded, with faint red sgbts gleaming oat hers and there; the tnormous strength of the gates, together ith the difficulties he experienced in procuring admission, all served to im press unpleasantly on the mind of Charlie Balgonie a state of extreme watchful less, of suspicion, and mistrust; and also a sense of vast responsibility of the tharge confided by Catherine to Colonel Beruikoff. That gallant officer and estimable per sonage had retired long since, and Lieu tenant Tschekia informed Balgonie, Would be quite invisible till breakfast time to-morrow, when the dispatch would be delivered to him, and a sigh f real annoyance escaped Charlie when te found that this odious paper was to be Fet some eight hours or more in his ecret pocket. He repaired to (he officers' guardroom t the barrier Kate, and there, wrapped In his cloak, lay down to sleep, and if possible to dream of Natalie; but he had undergone too much toil for such gentle hantasnis, so he slept like a dormouse till the sun was high in heaven, unawak Wed even by the deep boom of the nioru lig gun, as it pealed across the Lake of t-adogn; but ultimately he was roused by fschekin and Captain Ylaslief, a very sandsonie young man, but cruel and leartless, whom ultimately he detested, these, after shaking hands heartily, an tounced tbiit Colonel BeraikoEC awaited kirn si breakfast and was not in a mood to brook much delay. His hasty toilet was soon complete, Ind he was speedily ushered into a plain, iltnost naked whitewashed apartment arched with stone. Here, at a table of plain Memel timber, destitute of cloth, but on which massive silver vessels with rudely formed wooden bowls and plat ters were oddly intermingled, was seated the Governor. "Hail to you I wish you health," said Bernikoff, courteously enough, in the old Russian fashion, and presenting his band to Charlie, who took it, shuddering, as le remembered the fate of Peter HI.; "welcome to Schlusaelburg, Captain Ivanovitch Balgonie." Bernikoff, who wore a dark green un Iress uniform faced with scarlet, was a ban well up in years; he had fierce and mining black eyes that made soldier tnd serf alike quail beneath their gaze; ret tli k were small, cunning and twiuk Ing ees, the lashes of which were half Slosed Use eyes of one who could act the cruel tyrant on one hand and the (ringing slave on tbe other. "Seat yourself, captain, and proceed to breakfast, while I read your dis patch," said the governor. "It is from uath urine Cliristiunowna herself I The Czarina is great, but heaven is higher!" le added, placing the paper on his fore lead, as he bowed over it; and then tak ing an enormous pinch of snufT he pro teeded to peruse that document which lad proved of such trouble to the bearer. The eyes of Balgonie, Tsohekin and Tissue!, who Miuiie Wri pfrncut, Wefc Ixed inquiringly upon him, and they tould see that Vhe contents disturbed him Jrt!y ; he jrrc pr!c and Suited by turns; his brows contracted to a terrible frown; a red spark of light glittered in lis eyes, and his lips were compressed. "Ah, the Asiatics! the accursed Asiat ics!" he muttered. This is a most oppro brious epithet in Russia, and excited lome surprise in his henrers. He carefully folded the dispatch, and turning sternly to Charlie, who was teeping his eyes on him, and drinking lis coffee the while, he said; "Ivanovitch Balgonie, there is a feath ir in the seal the usual sign of haste unong ns here in Russia; yet you have lot troubled yourself with much speed, tor this dispatch is dated Novgorod more ban a month back!" "Permit mt to explain, excellency," said Balgonie, eagerly, and anxiously, too. "I shall be glad if you can explain It," Mid Bernikoff, with increasing sternness. 1 hart known a general, a leader in ten battles, degraded, knonted, and sent to bunt the ermine with a cannon ball it Us heels for f smaller dereliction of duty ban this." Balgonie'a heart beat very fast while to related his story of his being misled ly traitor twice; of the passage of the Lonfa at such terrible hatard; of his Mbseqnent illness, ami the episode at bat tog bat "That yon were in the guidance of a traitor I knew before your arrival; and I mm extremely glad that be fell Into lie own mare," replied Bernikoff, a lit tie ore calmly; "but this matter is ex trsiily awkward for you, and becomes ore complicated every hoar." After glancing agafa at tbe dispatch tad beading his keen, ratlike eyes on Balgonie, be asked. "Were Basil Mlerowlts or Usskoff. the Kiss of lfaaeppa, at tbe Castle of an tlDM during your sojourn ftanr Dispatch GRANT "No, excei!-ncy. Deither of them were." "Spies say differently but can yoo swear itT "On my honor du I saear it! But why?' "I have had bad news from the head quarters of your regiment, sod from Lieutenant Genera! Wermaru, since you left Novgorod." "And thete tidings, excellency 7' "Are to the effect that your friends, the two subalterns, have both deserted, with several soldiers, all of whom are natives of the Ukraine, and aiv nowhere to be fouud, though pursued by a whole company of Cossacks." "Deserted P cried Balgoriie with real concern. "Yes the cursed Asiatics!" replied Bernikoff. For some moments intense anxiety and alarm bewildered Balgonie, and he felt himself grow pale at a time when six searching eyes were bent with a doubt ful expression npon him. He remember ed the hostility, the threatening and mys terious words of Natalie, and grew almost sick with apprehension of he knew not what, as he muttered inandibly: "Basil deserted and bis cousin, too! The whole family will be inculpated and degraded. Oh. Natalie, my hapless love! Did General Weymani stats this in bis dispatch V he asked aloud. "He did, and at its end referred to you." "To me, excellency?" "Yes; here is the document, and it coo dudes thus: 'As I and the regiment of Smoleusko will shortly march into St Petersburg, Captain Carl Ivanovjtch Bal gonie need not return to Novgorod; but, until then, shall attach himself to your staff, and remain in Schlusselburg, where, ere long, you may require all the good service he csn render you Weymarn.'" Great were the mortification and dis gust of Balgonie on learning that he waa to remain for an indefinite period In a place so revolting snd uncomfortable, and with uo other society than that of three military Jailers cruel, hard hearted aud avaricious Muscovites of the worst kind; and with these orders died his hopes of revisiting, as he intended, Louga, oa his return, aud of seeing Natalie again. I'nder the ban, as all the household of Mierowitz would be now, should he ever see her more? Every way fate and the tide of events seemed to be against him and lier, already in the very dawn of their love." "And now, gentlemen," said the Gov ernor, lowering his voice, "the Empress' dispatch contains only two lines, thus: 'A scheme ia formed to free Prince Ivan. Let him not fall alive into the bands of those who come to seek for him!' Nor shall he!" exclaimed Bernikoff, with fe rocious enthusiasm. "Long lifs to her imperial majesty Catharine Christianow na hurrah!" "Hurrah, hurrah!" added Vlasfief and tbe lieutenant. Balgonie, also, as in duty bound, es sayed to "hurrah," but tbe sound died away on his lips. CHAPTER XII. Full of anxious thoughts, Balgonie passed more than half of the succeeding day on the ramparts of the castled prison aloue, avoiding Colonel Bernikoff, Cap tain Vlasfief and their subaltern, Tsche kin, none of whom were consonant to bis taste, for all were deep gamblers. On three sides, far around this islsnd prison, stretched the waters of Ladogs the largest lake in Europe. From the somewhat dreary view of this small Inland sea, he turned to sur vey tlio fortress, with all its strength of gloomy walls, grated wiudowa, and frowning cannon, till suddenly his eye was arrested bya very remarkable face, which was observing him from the som her depth of a strongly barred and arch ed window of the great tower. It was a pale face, but singularly handsome grave, and even sad in ex prosion a young man's face with the slightest Indication of a mustache, but for which, in its paleness and extreme delicacy of feature and tint, it might have passed for that of a twin brother of Natalie Mierowna! Suddenly it detect! by s Ocsrirk sentinel, who shouted shrilly and slapped the butt-end of his loaded musketoon; on thi the fsce instantly disappeared. This was he concerning whom Bal gonie had brought that terrible dispatch Ivan, the deposed Emperor the pris oner of RehluKselborg! "Twenty-three years!" thought Balgo nie with a shudder; "twenty-three years in that tower since his very babyhood oh. it is terrible!" Other ears had heard the shout of tbe sentinel; for now a man, who in a boat had been fishing near the fortress, sud denly shipped a pair of sculls and pulled away toward the town with an air of alarm that seemed equalled only by his dexterity. This fisher bad been hover ing about the fortress all day. "Can he be the gypsy the half-breed F' thought Charlie; "ah! the dispatch Is out of my hands now." Fortunately for Balgonie, there wai I chaplain of the Russian Greek Churct, attached to the fortress; and bis society, at times, tended to alleviate what he en dured from having to associate with such a human bear as Colonel Bernikoff so innoyance from which he would only be relieved by the longed-for return of General Feymarn and the begiment of Sinolensko to 8t Petersburg, Through the good offices of the chap lain, with the permission of the gov ernor, which waa yielded very unwilling ly, Bnlgonie waa presented one evening to the deposed Emperor Ivan, and the particulars and Incidents of that inter view made deep and sad impression npon him. Confinement hid rendered Ivaa'a fea tures unnaturally pals and delicate; and, by jean of systematic constraint and oppression, his fine, clear and very beau tlfnl dirk eyes had a soft, subdued and chastened expression that was siogulsrly touching snd winning. The tone of his voice was also gentle and alluring. "Hospodeen." said be, presenilis; his hand to Bilgonla, "I, rejoice to most you, if one wbo leads a life so straige as mine can be said to rejoice; but yo are one to whom I may talk a little with out danger eh. Father Cbrysostomf And be has told me, Hospodeen, that yon sre not s Russian, but a native of some island that is far away in the sea. What sre you? A Tartar a Tcherkesse? Oh, no, you csnnot be either. I know them; for they guard me," be added, with a little shudder. "I am your friend, lielieve me, Ivan Antonuvitch," replied Balgonie. As they were retiring tbe prince saidl "Hospodeen, yoa have dropped some thing." It was the locket with Nstalie's hair. "What is in this?" asked Ivan, with childlike interest. "A luck of hair, your highness. It is the gift, the souvenir of a lady I love, and who hives me; s country worn in of your own." "A woman?" said Ivan, pouderingly. "Yes, excellency." "I hsve never looked upon a woman'i face, aud know not what it is like; though the Empress visited me when child, is I have been told. I have beard that they are not bearded like men. I shall never see one, it in forbidden; yet yet I vfiru tell Father Chrjsos toin, I have dreams by day dreams of something else than wild swans snd i-earded Cossacksof something to cling to, some one to love and be loved by. It must be this kind of love yoa speak of oh, yes, it must!" ssid Ivau, ss be gazed with stupid but reverend wonder st the lock of hair ere he returned it te Balgonie. "Poor young prince!" exclaimed the latter, aa the chaplain hurried him away and the portcullis clanged behind them in its grooves of stone. The priest now urged npon Bslgonie, thst if his visits were to be continued, the affair of the outer world must In uo way be referred to, or the result might be most disastrous for all con cerned. "The seclusion la which the prisoner is kept haa, I fear, impaired his under standing," said Balgonie. "Hah! do you think so?" grunted Colo nel Bernikoff, who overhesrd the remark, as they issued from the tower of lvsn. "You must know, tbst your genuine Rus sian is like a tiger, as some writer has it a tiger who licks the haud of bis keep er, so long ss he is chained; but who tears him asunder when loose. Tbe Em press quite understands this!" "How is It that you trust me so freely to visit your prisoner?" asked Charlie, who began to fear that Bernikoff might be laying some snare for him by accord ing this hitherto unwonted permission. "Because you sre the safest man lo Russia to have this liberty." "iiow!" "As a soldier of fortune a stranger among us you can have no sympathy with anything but the strict and steady execution of your duty; and the line of that," added Bernikoff, darting a keen glarce at the Scot, "s with us all, lie! in fidelity to the Empress." "True," replied Balgonie. with some thing of sadness iu bis tone, and very little of enthusiasm. "Thus, were I to order jou to blow Ivan Antonovitch from the mouth of a cannon, I should expect you to obey!" "I trust that no such test of my obedi ence will ever be necessary," replied Bal gonie, with a bauteur which Bernikoff was somewhat unused to see among his subordinates. "We shall have some other aud more troublesome prisouers ia Schlusselburg ere long." said the Governor, with knit ted brows. "Whom do you mean?" "Old Mierowitx and his family. War rants have been issued by the chancel lor to arrest them all." "Ah!" said Balgonie, in a faint voice. "Yes, women ss well as men; an es cort of the Regiment of Sinolensko ar rived at St Petersburg yesterday with Mierowitx and the Hospoza Mariolizxa. His daughter, who seems to be deeply involved in some plot, has for the time effected her escape. But they will soon be all before the Secret Chancery, and then the knout and the wheel will be at work with a vengeance!" The reader may judge how these and similar remarks affected poor Charlie; while the governor, as if pleased that he could thus inflict pain, walked sway with a malicious smile on his somber visage. (To be continued. CHEAP GERMAN LABOR. Hand Work Cost Farmers In Father land Less lhan L'se of Machines, In a recent report to the department of state on tbe use of agricultural machines In Germany, Oliver J. D. Xluguea, cousui-geiierHi at Cuburg, caiis attention to the fact that many of the machines offer no advantages, as It Is cheaper to utilize band labor. In the course of this report, according to the New York Time, Mr. Hughes gays: "It seems to me that while the small tradespeople (of Germany) must be supplanted or absorbed by larger rivals, this cannot be said of the ag riculturists, as tbe smaller fanner possesses many advantages over the large landowner, which show that the small farmer has a good chance to compete with the large landowner in the present as well as In the future. Certain branches of igrloulture, as, for Instance, the so-called spade culti vation!, are only possible and profitable on tbe lands of tbe small firmer, as tbe larger landowner has to bare this work done by the use of machinery, which Is mora expensive or at least costs more in cash outlay. "For instance, the expense caused by tbe use of a grain sowing machine is 21 cents per hectare, while tbe cost for band labor is only 10 V, cents; further still, tbe manure-scattering machine costs 21 cents, as i gainst 13 cents for hand labor; tbe self-binding grain ma chine costs $2.67, as against 12.61 for hand labor. Finally, I may say that tbe potato and turnip gathering ma chines also coat more than hand labor, although I am unable at present to give the exact figures." A Good Index. Listen .to what your friends say of others If yoa would know what the say of yon. Chicago Dally News. What haa become of the old-fashion eu schoolgirl wbo wrote an essay oa Tbe Horrors of WaxT I New York has a German population )f nRmsjo and Chicago has 4-KU JO. The twenty -five largest Loudon the iters seat l.tsSJ people and earn $au, ) a night. Eugiaud gets about $5,0uo.0ts worth f new gold from Africa every month ind t7,.,J worth out of Australia. Mis Vlda Goldstein, the woman ainliilate in Victoria for a seat in tbe L'omiiKiuweulth Senate, was not elect si. but she received Hl.tsll votes. Tbe annual loss from the burning of buildings in the I'nlted States is alout not Including cost of ln uranee aud the appliances for fire pro tection. A bore put down at Ceasnotk, near Miiitlaud. in New South Wales, re-ent-iy peuetinted, at a depth of feet, a mm of ooa! twcntv-eveD feet in thickness. In a divinity essay written by an English scbooltioy appeared the follow ing passage: "So be sed unto Mosses. Come forth; but be come fifth and lost the Jobb. MorraL Git up urly." Mr. Chamberlain Is said to be a re markably proficient political stage manager, appreciating and knowing the value of a dramatic entrance quite is well as Sir Henry Irving or Mr. Beerbohoi Tree. It is stated that over 2.700.0UU tons f dust ejected from the Soufrlere vol tano In SL Vincent have fallen on tbe .slaiid of Barbados. Tbe dust, contrary to expectation, has been found to have do fertilizing value. Fublic revenue of Great Britain from April 1, VJ03, to tbe latest date it hand amounted to fT.i7.M9.7ti5, a de crease of J3S.iKM,7lt.r from lust year. Expenditures were 73S.22T, a fail ing off of $101,714,305 from last year. The value of exports to the United States from Panama In tbe flsoal year l!:i amounted to 1!3,342, of which ?i,7'i" was the va!u of hlde, f4(, i'i India rubber, f T.S5 cocobolo nuts, f!i,.'iH Ivory nuts, $13,372 deer skins mil $;,SKS coffee. Phonographic records of Emperor William's voice, on metal matrices, will be the first deposits made In the phonetic archives that are to be kept it Harvard University, and In the Con gressloual Library and the National Museum at Washington. The Russian government has elalior ited statutes on general life Insurance by the Klate. The business is to be intrusted to the governmental savings banks. All kinds of policies will be issued and the Insured will participate :n the profits of the business. Cobra George Salem, an Egyptian, wbo entered the Missouri University last fall and is taking the four-year fourse in agriculture, is so well pleased with his work that he has succeeded In persuading several of his friends in Egypt and Turkey to come and take a similar course In some American col lege. In commemoration of the Indian princess Pocahontas, wbo died at Gravesend, England, when aliout to sail to Virginia with her husband In St. George'g Church, In Wapplng, h to have a pulpit made of wood brought from Virginia. Pocahontas is buried in the chancel of St. George's Church. The Greco-Roman chariot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the new exhibits, has ex lted great interest among artists and irchacologists. Its preservation was lue to the fact that It was buried by the ashes of Vesuvius. Many other treasures were found In the same neighborhood, some of which Baron Rothschild bought and presented to the Ixjuvre. The chariot in question Is ;wo-wheeled and is perhaps the rarest in the world. Feb. 13 was tbe centennial of the a.se of steam traction on railroads. It was only a flve-ton moving engine mu ling over the Mertliyr Tydfil course. Its inventor was Richard Trevlthlc, a rorn!?hn!sn. It coii iii-aw flfin tons it a rate of five miles nn hour. It had in eight-inch cylinder and toothed wheels, which caught In notched rails Ind helped it over hard places In the track. Only a few trips were made by It, for the experiment was not com mercially profitable. TALENT HAS DEVELOPED EARLY, Precocious Vonrmlen Who Are Mak ing Their Mark In the World. At Grand Rapids, Mich., there Is a precocious child who recites selections from Kipling, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Eugene Field and James Whltcomb Ulley with apparently as much appre ciation of tbe demands of the pieces In the matter of expression and dialect is many a professional elocutionist This child is Louise Remington Fiy, 3 years old, daughter of Mrs. Helen Remington Fay. She comes naturally by her talent, as her mother Is an elo cutionist and has appeared more or less in public ever since sbe was a few years older than her daughter. Re--ently Louise gave readings from Kip ling and Dunbar before the Elocution Club, and tbe event has been tbe talk !of Its members ever since. She bai I tlso appeared In public on several oth er occasions. Tbe child's mind does not seem taxed In tbe least by her work. A youthful Inventor bis just built a wireless telegraph apparatus which he bn operated with success In tbe phys ical laboratory of tbo Indianapolis Manual Training High School. He Is Arthur Berger, 19 years old, who will be graduated with the June clasa. Berger conceived tbe Idea four yean ago of making a wireless telegraph system. He gathered all the knowl edge be could of the Marconi system from scientific periodicals. When fa miliar with the apparatus and the fundamental principles be began bis first machines. They were crude af fairs, but demonstrated tbe soundness of the principle on w hich he bad built them. Last year, during bis study of elec tricity lu advanced physics. Berger be gan tbe construction of a second set of instruments, with many Improve ments ujion his former system. The construction of a wlrelesa tele graph system Is not the first apparatus made by Berger. He has invented an automatic letter-folding machine de signed to facilitate the work of the mailing departments of large business firms. The machine folds the letters, puts lu any advertising matter de sired, such as a return postal card, seals the letters and puts tbe stampl on. It is a simple device, and a child could operate tbe machine. Berger i perfecting the ietter-foiding apparatus aud expects to put it on tbe market soon. "Tibbie" I'age, a daugberof Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Page, of Pay son. Utah, is the latest musical genius of Utah. Though only C years of age, tbe child playi tbe cello In dance music aud ex ecutes difficult accompaniment! to vio lin selections by her father. The little girl was born June 27, 18il7, and even before she could walk was bumming tunes. After hearing ber father play the violin sbe would bum the melody, and when her bauds were powerful enough to lift a bow he picked up tbe knack of handling It, solely by observation. At the end of a week, hiving bad few lessoni In tbe methods of placing the fingers, sbe could play bass parts by ear with her father. Tbe child practiced until she wat sble to play waltzes, all by ear, and now she accompanies her father In dif ficult numbers. She has been play ing her part In tbe orchestra during a six months tour of Utah, Idaho and Oregon. In addition to her other ac compllnhnients the little girl Is a clever dancer and sings well. WHEN NATURE 18 REMISS. fomttlmn the Menses An Forgotten In the Making of Unman He inn. Nature nods undoubtedly at times, at in the case of the child born without a brain, whose case has been made public tills week. Not long ago an in fant was born anil lived for thrc weeks with a hole through its heart Thousands of us are color blind, otheri have no musical sense. And there arc many Laura Brldgrniins, many Helen Kellers. The queen of Itoumanla hue or had at her court In personal attend a nee upon herself tbo daughter of a blind nobleman. She could neither heai nor speak and had to be taught to communicate by holding the throat ol a speaker and imitating the vibration produced by the effort. Hut what a grudge against nature must such a on as Lyon Playfalr dlsi-overed ever feel! Here was a girl who wns blind, deaf, dumb and could neither taste nor smell. One might be pardoned for asking if such a life was worth living. Yet there was a beautiful lesson In such an existence, as the great warm heart of Playfalr discovered. He sent her a pretty finger ring, and the poof mite replied In this pitifully pretty let ter: "Dear Sir Lyon Playfalr: Sir Lyon Playfalr gent Edith ring In box. Edith thank Sir Lyon Playfalr fot ring. Sir Lyon Playfalr come to i Edith. Good-by. Edith." During hli first vlRlt the child had closely exam ined his hands, wrists, arms and face, ber touch being marvelously accurate. A year later he went again to see her. At first sbe did not recognize him and no one betrayed his Identity. At length she turned back the cuff of his shirt and touched bis wrist. Her face lit up with intense Joy. "It is the Eng lishman who gave me the ring," she rapidly spelled out on her fingers. And In a second she had Dung her little arms around 1)!b neck and was weep ing with delight ui the fwC-Ogiiitivii. St. James' Gazette. Johnny Got the Hose of Oil. "Johnnie, you must go to the drug store and get me a dose of oil," urged the iKiy's mother. Johnny, who stammers frightfully, begged thutsbe send his younger brother, who wag not so atlllcted, but this the mother refused to do. "You must obey me," she pressed. Finally, aud after making threats of a whip ping on the mother's part and a great deal of crying from Johnny, be said be would go if she would write lbs order upon a piece of paper. "Give this boy a dose of oil," the mother wrote, and Johnny took the or der to the druggist, wbo mixed the oil in a glass of soda water and Invited Johnny to drink thereof. "Well, Where's the oil?" inquired Johnny's mother upon bis return noma "It's in me. Tbe man said: 'Here, boy; drink tbli soda water,' and I did," explained Johnny. "When 1 kept bang lng around, tbe man asked me whst 1 wai waiting for, and I I said I wai waiting for the oil. Then he said, 'You've swallowed It,' and that I had better run along borne to my mother." Washington Poit Not Appreciated. "Now, Tommy," aald the fond moth er, "when you see people your senloi standing you must ask them to ill down, and they'll like yoo." "I asked old man Spirki to alt down and he tried to lick me," replied Tom my. "How waa that?" "Tbe pavement was Wet and flip pery." ! CITY THAT PAYS NO TAXES. Income from the Property t Fre41si i atodt ys AU tie fcaaca. I In tbe Ilia, k Forest of Germany is the little city of Freudenstadt, with lout 7.UXJ inhabitants, a busy Indus trial place with iron and chemical works of wiiii imiHtrtance. Small as it is. Freudenstadt is a fuU fiedjred city, with a mayor, aldermen. half a dozen policemen and a fire cr I. i.... ti, hiuinwu Is conducted H I J' . Ll '"I.I.V " " on an economical basis, and the total expanses do not ex.-eed $n,0uu a year. Freudenstadt has tbe distinction of being tbe only city In Germany, aud IM-rbaps In the world, which does not tax the citizens a dollar for municipal expenses. The yearly net income frwm the public property covers all the out go. This property consists of about ti.OUO acres of fine forest, which, being man aged under the best forestry methods, is a permanent source of Income. One or uiore trees are planted for every one that Is cut down. No tree Is cut till it can yield the iimximunj profit. After deducting all the expenses of the industry the annual profit to the acre is about 5. That is exceptional even for Germany, where tbe annual profit ranges from $3 to $4.50. The question II often isked In this country whether It will pay to kea land under permanent forest Unles at least a moderate profit Is possible no one can be expected to grow trees on laud that can be used for any other purpose. Tbe Rhode Island experiment statiea 1 now giving some attention to this question, and in a bulletin prepared by Prof. F. W. Card some Interesting figures are presented. He cites the ex perience of Zacliarlah Allen, of Rhode Island, who planted a worn pasture with trees in 1S20 aud kept a careful financial record til! 1877, flfty-sevee years. After deducting all expenses be found that his profit was nearly 7 per cent per annum on tbe original Invest ment. There Is also a record of the returns on a forty-acre tract of white pine la New Hampshire for eighty years, dur ing whkh time the average annual profit was $3.7-" an acre. The facts given by Prof. Card, seem to show that only a moderate profit Is to be expected from forests treated as a per manent crop. Perhaps we cannot make as much money In this industry as is made in Europe, where every part of a tree can be marketed at some price, even the small branches and twigs be ing gathered Into bunches and sold for firewood. New York Sun, SEVERE ESQUIMAU SWEAT BATH. Won I.I I'rohablr K-itl a Whits Bor Natlvea, However, KnJ" It. Boys who make a fuss because their parents oblige them to take frequent baths should be glad they are not Esquimau children, living on tbe shores of Norton Sound. In that cold region of Alaska all the boys are obliged to take a sweat bath once a week, and this bath Is no Joke. A fire of driftwood Is built In the center of the floor of the kashlm the one room house, where the men and boys of the village pass most of their time and when the smoke lias passed off aud tbo wood is reduced to red, glowing coals, a cover Is put over the smokehoU; iu the roof, and the place becomes in tensely hot The boys then must take off their clothes and sit about the fur nacelike apartment until their skin be comes as red as Uie shell of a boiled lobster and seems on tbe point of blis tering. Owing to the Intense heat, the bath ers are obliged to wear respirators te protect their lungs. These respirators are pads of shavings bound together, concave on the inside and convex on the outside, and large enough to cover the mouth, nose and part of the cheeks of the wearer. Across the Inside runs a little wooden bar, which Is held by the teeth to keep the respirator in place. The boys sit there until they are dripping with perspiration. Then they rush outside into the Intense cold and roll in the snow. K. V'. Nds.'!!, M'ho ?jMnt bet'ec!i four and five years in Investigating for the government the Esquimaux llv- thfi ttooii! tVtiiiiiK ntiait, nnya. "Gil several occasions I saw them go from tbe sweat buth to boles iu the ice on n neighboring stream, and, squatting there, pour Ice water over their backs and shoulders with a wooden dipper, apparently experiencing the greatest pleasure from the operation." , Al though the Esquimau Uyn seem to withstand such a bath as this all right aud seem even to enjoy it, It would, in all probability, kill any white boy who tried it Detroit News-Tribune. The Jap tturpriked ller. Travelers oil their first trip abroad are likely to place too low an esti mate on the Intelligence and educa tion of tbe foreigners they we. An American woman was walking with a man lu The Hague, when she saw a Jupanese standing in front of a shop, L's expressionless face perhaps ap pearing to ber as an Illustration of tbe stolid. Illiterate people of the Orient as she bad imagined them. "Ob, see, there is a Jap!" sbe ex claimed. ' The native of the far East removed bis hat, bowed gracefully and said la perfect English: "Yes, madam; I am a Jap." Detroit Free Press. The Hea-nlatlon Focus, Frltllla Papa, what 1 a society manner? ! Papa Well, meet your guests with stylish cordiality beaming out of one eye and critical Inspection glaring out of the other. Brooklyn Life. Fortunate la the man who can boo row enough money to pay h-s debt