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By EAVID GRAHAM PrULUHS, Author of “THE (CQ^-^/S/tT J90S tetfie £C3BS-I£Z£iaCJ; CG7£21/Vy2 V. DANGER SIGNALS. At that time I did not myself go over the bills before the legislatures of those states in which I had inter ests. I trusted that work to my law yers—and, like every man who ever absolutely trusted an important divi sion of his affairs to another, I was severely punished. One morning my eye happened to light upon a minor paragraph in a newspaper—a list of the "small bills yesterday approved by the governor.” In the list was one ‘'defining the power of sundry com missions.” Those words seemed to me somehow to spell "joker.” But why did 1 call up my lawyers to ask them about it? It's a mystery to me. All 1 know is that, busy as I was, omething inside me compelled me to <i:op everything else and hunt that joker” down. I got Saxe—then senior partner in Browne, Saxe & Einstein—on the ’phone, and said: “Just see and tell me will you. what is the 'bill defining the power of sundry commissions'— the bill the governor signed yester day9” "Certainly, Mr. Blacklock,” came the answer. My nerves are. and al ways have been, on the watchout for the looks and the tones and the ges t . r-s that are just a shade off the n i oral; and T feel that I do Saxe no Injustice when 1 say his tone w'as, not shade, but a full color, off the nat ural. So I was prepare^ for what he said when he returned to the tele phone. “I'm sorry, Mr. Blacklock, but wi seem unable to lay our hands on that bill at this moment.” \Miv not? sanl 1. in the tone that makes an employe jump as if a whip lash had cut him on the calves. He had jumped all light, as his voice showed. “It’s not in our file,” said he. "It’s house bill Xo. -i?7. and it’s apparently not here." 'Tile hell you say!” I exclaimed. "Why?” ' i really can't explain,” he pleaded, and the frightened whine confirmed my suspicion. I guess not.” said I, making 1lie words significant and suggestive. “And you’re in my pay 10 look after such matters! Hut you’ll have to ex plain, if this turns out to he serious." "Apparently our file of Hills is com plete except that one," he went on. ‘ i s’.i pose it was lost in the mail, and 1 very stupidly didn't notice the gap in the numbers.” "Stupid isn't the word I'd use," said I. with a laugh that wasn’t of the kind that cheers. And 1 rang off and j asked for ihe state capitol on the “long distance.” He re I got my connection Saxe, whose office was only two blocks away, came flustering in. "The boy has been discharged, Mr. Blacklock,” he ’ -gan. “V. hat boy?” said I. "The boy in charge of the bill file —the boy whose business it was to keep the file complete.” "Send .him to me, you damned scoundrel,” said 1. I'll give him a job. What do you take me for any way? And what kind of a cowardly hound are you to disgrace an innocent boy as a cover for your own crooked work?” "Really, Mr. Blacklock, this is most cxtv; ••rJiiiary,” lie expostulated. “Extraordinary? I call it crim inal." I retorted. "Listen to me. You look after the legislation calendars for me. and for Langaon, and for Roe Iand for Melville, and tor half ten others of the biggest finan in the country. It's the most •iant work you do for us. Yet as shrewd and careful a lawyer ere is at the bar, want me to re you trusted that work to a If you did, you're a damn fool, u didn't, you're a damn scoun There's r.o more doubt in my than in yours which of those has you sticking on it.” m are letting your quick temper iway with you, Mr. Biackiock,” qirecated. op lying!" I shouted. “I knew iad been doing some skulduggery I first heard your voice ou the lone. And if I needed any proof, leek way you've taken my abuse 1 furnish it, and to spare.” t then the telephone bell rang I got the right department and 1 the clerk to read house bill 427. ratained five short paragraphs, "joker” was in the third, which the state canal commission the “to institute condemnation pro ngs, and to condemn, and to s’n, any canal not exceeding 30 i in length and not a part of the acted canal system of the state.” len I hung up the receiver I was isorbed that I had forgotten Saxe waiting. He made some slight 1. I wheeled on him. I needed nt. If he hadn’t been there I Id have smashed a chair. But i was he—and I kicked him out of my private office and would have kicked him out through the anteroom into the outer hall, had he not gath ered himself together and run like a jack-rabbit. Since that day I have done my own calendar watching. My lawyers had sold me out; I, fool that I was, had not guarded the only weak plate in my armor against my companions—the plate over my back, to shed assassin thrusts. Roebuck and Langdon between them owned the governor; he owned the canal com mission; my canal, which gave me ac cess to tide-water for the product of my Manasquale mines, was as good as closed. I no longer had the whip hand in National Coal. The others could sell me out and take two-thirds of my fortune, whenever they liked— for of what use were my mines with \ no outlet now to any market, except the outlets the coal crowd owned? As soon as I had thought the situa tion out in all its bearings, I realized that there was no escape for me now', that whatever chance to escape I might have had was closed by my uncovering to Saxe and kicking him. Fiut I did not regret; it was worth the money it would cost me. Besides, I thought I saw how I could later on turn it to good account. A sensible man never makes fatal errors. What ever lie does is at least experience, and can also be used to advantage. If Napoleon hadn’t been half dead at Waterloo, I don’t doubt he would have used its disaster as a means to a great victory. When I walked into Mowbray Lang don's office, I was like a thoroughbred exercising on a clear frosty morning; and my smile was as fresh as the flower in my buttonhole. I thrust out my hand at him. "I congratulate you,” said I. He took the proffered hand with a questioning look. "On what?” said he. It is hard to tell from his face what is going on in his head, but I think I guessed right when I decided that Saxe hadn’t yet warned him. "I have just found out from Saxe," 1 pursued, "about the canal bill.” "What canal bill?" he asked. “That puzzled look was a mistake, Langdon," said I, laughing a him. "When you don’t know' anything about, KEEP OUT OF TIiTTIaiARI a matter, you look merely blank. You , overdid it; you've given yourself away." He shrugged Ills shoulders. “As I you please,” said he. As y >u please was his favorite expression; a stereo typed irony, for in dealing with him, things were never as you pleased, but always as he pleased. “Next time you want to dig a mine under anybody,” I went on, “don't, hire Saxe. Really I feel sorry for you—to have such a clover scheme messed by such an ass.” "If you don't mind. !'d like to know what you’re talking about,' said he, with his patient, bored look. “As you and Roebuck own the gov ernor, I know your little law ends my little canal.” "Still 1 don't know what you're talk ing about,” drawled he. “You are al ways suspecting everybody of double dealing. I gather that this is another instance of your infirmity. Really. Blacklock, the world isn't wholly made up of scoundrels.” “I know that,” said I. “And I will even admit that its scoundrels are sel dom made up wholly of scoundrelism. Even1 Roebuck would rather do the decent thing, if he can do it without endangering his personal interests. As for you—I regard, you as one of the decentest men I ever knew—outside of business. And even there, 1 believe you'd keep your word, as long as the other fellow kept his.’’ “Thank you,” said he, bowing iron ically. "This flattery makes me sus pect you've come to get something.” , “On the contrary,” said l. “I want to give something. 1 want to give you my coal mines.” “I thought you’d see that our offer was fair,” said he. “And I’m glad you have changed your mind about quar reling with your best friends. We can be useful to you, you to uh. A break would be silly.” “That’s the way it looks to me,” MAGE, MATT. HE ADVISED. "Like everybody else, only more successfully than most,’’ said I. “Everybody advertises, each one adapting his advertising to the needs of his enterprises, as far as he knows how.” “That's true enough." he confessed. “But there are enterprises and enter prises, you know.” “You can tell ’em, Sam," said 1. “that I never put out a statement I don't believe to be true, and that when any of my followers lese on one of my Material for Music Strings Source cf Supply—Great Amount Re quired to Meet Demand. “One of the most generally accepted, but mistaken, ideas that is entertained by the people of this country,” said S. R. Huyett, American traveling repre sentative of a foreign manufactory of gut strings, “is that strings used on musical instruments are manufactured from catgut. If that were true, the cats in th's world would have been ex | terminated many years ago in supply i ing the market with material for mu sical instrument strings. “The fact is that they are manufac tured from the intestines of sheep, and in obtaining enough raw material even from these anitnal3 the manufacturers at times find difficulty. “The only string made from the in testines of the feline is that used for surgical purposes—for sewing up wounds. One would be amazed to know that there are millions of musical in strument strings used in North Ameri ca alone, and just think where the tabbies would be if they ha.d to supply the consumption! “Another amazing thing i§ that there are over 700 different grades of musical instrument strings. The de rnand for strings in North America is increasing every year, especially in the south anti in Mexico. There are more guitar strings sold in Mexicc than any other kind, but through the south the banjo string still holds its own, despite the fact that every year has marked slight, but gradual falling off in the demand. The harp is be coining more popular, and there is a good demand for strings for this in strument."—Kansas City Journal. Woman Kills Big Grizzly Bear. Tiinidad, Col.—On the Duling ranch in Stonewall, a large grizzly bear was shot and killed by Mrs. Duiing, wife of the county commissioner, a few days ago. Mrs. Duling was alone on the ranch and was riding about look ing after stock when she saw the bear eating a heifer it had killed. Mrs. Duling had a Winchester and prompt ly killed the grizzly. She is known as a remarkably nervy woman and dur ing her many years residence in the Stonewall has killed several bears, at one time saving her husband from what seemed sure death, when he was attacked by a female grizzly he had wounded. Mrs. Duling killed the bear when it was within a few feet of her husband. I assented. And l decided that ray sharp talk to Roebuck had set them to estimating my value to them. “Sam El'.ersly.” Langdon presently remarked, “tells me he's campaigning hard for you at ihe Travelers. 1 hope you’ll make it. We’re rather a slow crowd; a fc v men like you might stir things up.” I am always more than willing to give others credit tor good sense and good motives. It v;as not vanity, but this disposition to credit others with sincerity and sense, that led me to believe him, hath as to the coal mat ter and as to the Travelers club. "Thanks, Langdon,” I said; and that he might look no further for my mo tive, i added: "I want to get into that club much as the winner of a race wants the medal tha;: belongs to him. I've built myself up into a rich man, into one of the powers in finance, and 1 feel I'm entitled to recognition.” ' VI. CF “GENTLEMEN.” When I got back to my office and was settling to the proofs of the "Let ters to Investors,” which I published in sixty newspapers throughout the country and which daily reached up ward of five million people, Sam EI lersly came in. His» manner was cer tainly different from what it had ever been before; a difference so subtie that I couldn’t describe it more nearly than to say it made me feel as if he had not until then been treating me as of the same class with himself. 1 smiled to myself and made an entry in my mental ledger to the credit of Mowbray Langdon. "That club business is going nicely,” said Sam. "Langdon is enthusiastic, and I find you've got good friends oil the committee.” I knew that well enough. Hadn’t I been carrying them on my books at a good loss for two years? "If it wasn’t for—for some features of this business of yours,” lie went on. "I'd say there wouldn't be the slightest trouble.” "Bucket-shop?” said 1 with an easy laugh, though (his nagging was be ginning to get on my nerves. "Exactly,” said he. “And, you know, you advertise yourself like—like-” 1 tips. I’ve lost on it, too. For I play my own tips—and that’s more than can be said of my 'financier' in this town." After a while I dragged in the sub ject. "One tiling 1 am and will do to get myself in line for that club,” I said, like a seal on promenade. “I'm sick of the crowd I travel with—the men and the women. 1 feel it’s about time I settled aown I've got a for tune and establishment that needs a woman to set it off. I can make some woman happy. You don't happen tc know any nice girls—the right sort, 1 mean?' "Not many,” said Sam. "You'd bet ter go back to the country where you came from, and get her there. She d be eternally grateful, and her head wouldn’t be full of mercenary non sense” "Excuse me!” exclaimed I. “It’d j turn hei head. She'd go clean crazy. She'd plunge in up to her neck—and | not being used to these waters, she'd make a show of herself, and probably drown, dragging me down with Lz., If possible.” Sam laughed. “Keep out of mar riage, Matt,” he advised, not so ob tuse to my real point as he wanted me to believe. “I know the kind of girl you've got in mind. She'd marry you for your money, and she'd never ap preciate you. She'd see in you only tlie lack of the things she’s been taught to lay stress on.” "For instance?" "I couldn’t tell you any mofe than I coulu enable you to recognize a per son you'd never seen by describing him.” Ain t 1 a gentleman? I inquired. He laughed, as if the idea tickled him. “Of course," he said. “Of course." “Ain't I got as proper a country place as there is a-going? Ain't my apartment in the Willoughby a peach? Don't I give as elegant dinners as you ever sat down to? Don’t 1 dress right up to the Piccadifly latest? Don't 1 act all right—know enough to keep my feet off the table and my knife out of my mouth?" All true enough; and I so crude then that I hadn’t a sus picion what a flat contradiction of my pretensions and beliefs about myself the very words and phrases were. “You’re right in it, Matt," said am. “Dut—well—you haven't traveled with our crowd, and ihey’re shy of strang ers, especially as—as energetic a sort of stranger as you are. You're too sudden, Matt—too dazzling—too ’’ "Too shiny and new?” said I, begin ning to catch his drift. “That’ll be looked after." VII. 3LACKL0CK GOES INTO TRAIN ING. Tins brings me to the ugliest story my enemies have concocted against mo. No one appreciates more thor oughly than I that, to rise high", a man must have his own efforts seconded by the flood of vituperation that his enemies send to overwhelm him and which washes him far higher than he could hope to lift himself. So I do not here refer to any attack on me in the public prints; I think of them only with amusement and gratitude. The stor.i that rankles is the one these foes of mine set creeping, like a snake under the fallen leaves, everywhere, anywhere, unseen, without a trail. It has been whispered into every ear— and it is. no doubt, widely believed— I that 1 deliberately put old Bromweil Ellers !y “in a hole,” and there tor tured him until he consented to try to compel his daughter to marry me. it is possible that, if I had thought of such a devilish device, I might have tried it—is not all fair in love? But there was no need for my cudgeling my brains to carry that particular for lification on my way to what 1 had fixed iny will upon. Bromweil Eller sly came to me of his own accord. I suppose the Ellerslys must have talked me over in the family circle However this may lie, my acquaint ance with her father began with Sam's asking me to lunch with him. i “The governor has hoard me talk oi you s# much,” said be, "that ho is anxious to meet you.” I offered to help him, and I did help him. Is there any one, knowing any thing of the facts of life, who will cen sure me when I admit that i—with deliberation—simply tided him over did not make for him and present to him a fortune? What chance should I have had, if I had been so absurdly generous to a man who deserved noth ing but punishment for his selfish and bigoted mode of life? I took away his worst burdens; but I left him more than he could carry without my help. And it was not until he had appealed in vain to all his social friends to relieve him of the necessity of my aid. not until he realized that i was his only hope of escaping a sharp comedown from luxury to very modest comfort in a flab somewhere—not until then did his wife send me an invita tion to dinner. And I had not so much as hinted that I wanted it. (To be Continued.) Mark Twain. From etereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. The well-known American humorist does practically all of his writing in bed in his New York city home. CANNON ARE SOON USELESS STARTLING ADMISSION BY ART/n ORDNANCE OFFICER. Gan. Crozier Says Guns at Coast Fort ! ificaticn Would Not Last Two Hours in Battle Because of Hicjh Velocity. Washington.—That the 12-inch gun m use at most of the coast fortifica tions of the United States would not last through an engagement of two hours, the period that would elapse from the time the leading vessel of a lleet would come within the range until the last vessel would pass be- : yond the range of the guns, is the statement made by Brig. Gen. William Crozier, chief of ordnance, whose an nua! report has been made public by the war department. Gen. Crozier believes that it is of the utmost importance that a method be devised whereby the necessary gun powder can be obtained at less ex pense than that involved in using the high velocities of projectiles now em ployed, with the accompanying rapid wearing away of the rifling in such a manner as to destroy the accuracy of the gun after a few rounds. The 12 inch gun will last about 60 rounds, and as it is capable of firing for a considerable interval at the rate of 45 rounds an hour, it can be seen that: the limit of the life of this gun could he reached in less than an hour and a half. bimiiar statements can be made with regard to guns of smaller cali bers, says the report, although as the caliber diminishes the admissible ve locity increases. By lowering the velocity of the 12-inch projectile from 2,500 to 2,250 feet a second the life of the gun is increased to 200 rounds. The penetration of armor is reduced by the process, that of the 12-inch gun at 10,000 yards coming down from about ten and one-half inches to about nine inches and the range at which its projectile would penetrate 12 inches of armor plate being reduced from about S,000 yards to about 6,000 yards. The chief of ordnance states that It appears that by using in the situa tions requiring the greatest power a 14-ineh gun with 2.150 feet a second velocity of projectile, instead of the 12-incli gun, with 2,GOO feet a second HEN DOES WORK ON A TRAIN. Brood of Chickens Comes to Light While Train Speeds Away. St. Louis.—In some corners of Kirk wood it is not considered polite to in quire too closely as to the origin of a man's chickens or whether they were raised in Missouri, in Arkansas, or from a low roost on a dark night. Horace E. Hand of that town, how ever, is much interested in the nativ !ty of 17 fowls he received from George E. Dent of Lawrence county, j Arkansas, a few days ago. He had asked Mr. Dent to send him some baby chickens for his little girl, and Mr. Dent, who had no small chickens on hand, shipped a Plymouth Rock hen and her nest of 16 eggs. Soon after leaving her Arkansas aome the old hen began to announce with exultant clucks that her three weeks’ work had not been in vain, and fluffy little chickens began to ap oear. At Imboden, Ark., there were six chickens, and back counties to hear from. The passengers on the train became greatly interested, and made frequent inspections to count the brood and speculate on the next edition. As the train approached St. Louis 15 of the eggs had produced chickens and the passengers were dis posed to agree that the old hen had accomplished all that could reason atdy be expected of her. At Tower Grove station, ten min utes before the train was due at its destination, the old hen triumphantly clucked the announcement that her maternal labors were crowned with complete success, and the sixteenth chicken was a St. Louisan. Gets $10 for Saving Train. Xew Concord, O.—George Patter son. a student in Musltingua college, received a check for $10 from the Bal timore & Ohio a few' days ago. Pat terson was w'alking on the railroad last June when he discovered a broken rail, flagged an incoming passenger train and saved 95 persons from a plunge over a high embankment into the river. Slaughter in the Ocean. In the sea there are no vegetarians. Fish live on each other, and the whole ccean is one great slaughter-house, where the strong prey endlessly upon :ne weak. CHICAGOANS BUY A LARGE RANCH. Will Build a Town on 45,000 Acre Tract of Land. Falfurrias, Tex.—On a 45,000 acre ranch, situated near here, which was recently bought by H. H. Judd, of Chicago, and 17 other equally rich men of that city, is to be built a new town, which is to be named Chi cago. The plans for laying out the future city are now being prepared by ex perts in that kind of work. Thirty six thousand acres of this land is divided equally between the 18 mil lionaires. The remaining 9,000 acres is owned by E. C. Kelly, of Chicago, who conducted the negotiations on be half of the other purchasers when the ranch was bought. The new Chicago will be located in the center of the big tract. The own ers will divide their lands into farms and place a farmer on every 40 acres. The whole 45,000 acres is in the arte* sian water belt, and can be easily irrigated. The farms will be devoted exclusively to truck growing, it is planned to establish about 1,000 fam ilies on the lands. Only stone and brick buildings will be erected in the town, and the streets will be parked and paved. Kermit to Hunt in Maine. New York.—Kermit Roosevelt is soon to go on a hunting trip on Mat tawamkeag lake, Aroostook county, Maine, where William Sewell, Presi dent Roosevelt’s old Maine woods guide and western ranch superintend ent, has been building new camps. Some time ago Sewell invited the president to come on a hunting trip, but thus far the head of the nation has been too busy to accept. He may, it is said, come later in the season. Sermon in Two Lines. It is supposed that there will be a back door to heaven for the hired girls.—Toledo Blade. initial velocity, the army would hate a better gun and one which would last ! four times as long. Gen. Crozier says that the Taft board for the revision of the report of vhe Endicott board on coast defenses recommended this gun and that the department has decided to use it in place of the 12-inch weap-; on in situations in which the highest power is required. Gen. Crozier says that plans and specifications are in preparation for the a liny smokeless powder factory,! for which congress at its last session J appropriated $105,000, and that upon ' the selection of the site the work of construction will be pushed to com pletion, hut the site has not been se lected. In speaking of small arms the gen eral states that the magazine riile. j 1903 model, was supplied to the regu lar troops in the United States for their use in target practice. The im proved rifle of 1905 model, with knife, bayonet and rear sights, has been is sued to the troops in the Philippine j islands and will be issued to the! troops in the states and the first issue will be recalled. As a result of tests during the year some changes have: been made in auto-loading magazine rifles which may render them satis- i factory for service use. The maun-\ facture of small arms ammunition is somewhat mere expensive than for merly, owing to ihe increase in the cost of brass and lead. Among the changes made in the equipment issued to cavalry, infant ry and artillery during the year was that in the cup, which formerly was made ; of steel heavily tinned and which now ; is made of aluminum, adopted after an extensive service trial. Gen. Crozier states that a number j of militia batteries have been pro-' vided with the new three-inch field artillery material and others are be ing rapidly furnished with it. Hornets Attend College. Norman, Ok!a.—a swarm of hornets taking possession of the laboratory of the University of Oklahoma gave the Class in pharmacy a vacation. An effort was made to drive the hornets ‘ out, but after several men had been j badly stung the door was closed and ; the room turned over to the stingers. Finally burning sulphur was placed in the room and the unwelcome vis*- i tors were ejected. TURN SOIL BI STEAM ENGINES NOW USED ON PLOWS IN PARTS OF KANSAS. As a Result Farmers Are Able t< Plant Mere Wheat Than They Can Harvest—Work for Hun dreds of Strangers. Kansas City.—The steam plow has become a familiar object in western Kansas. Managers of the big imple ment houses here say that about 25C outfits have been sold in the last 12 months and that about 600 are iu use on the western and central Kan sas plains wherever the fields are large enough and ihe ground level enough to permit their operatiou. All through the western portions ol the wheat belt big traction engines, with wheel tires nearly a yard wide, are at work pulling the gang plows and turning up the soil at the rate of 30 acres a day, with two men working each outfit. These two men, work ing in the old way. could plow only about six acres a day, so that the steam plow has increased the effi ciency of labor fivefold in this one character of farm work. Those outfits cost about $1,900, but the expense of plowing averages only about 40 cents an acre, as compared with an expense of 75 cents to $1.50 an acre when the work was done by a man with a team. Therefore, a farm er who owns 1.000 acres of wheat land ! can save enough in a few years to pay [ for a steam plow. Kansas City dealers say that about half the steam plows in the west are owned by large farmers, and the re mainder belong to the thrashing ma chine men who run the plows in the spring find the late fall when they are not thrashing grain. The rush to get the fall plowing fin ished while the ground is in good con dition has prompted some farmers to run their steam plows at night, with a great glaring headlight streaming across the fields, as well as In the daytime. The only objection to the steam plow is that it enables farmers to piant more wheat than they can liar rest. In portions of central and weat ern Kansas, where the farms are large and the population is compara tively sparse, a favorable fail for plowing and planting, and a steam plowing outfit at hand result in such large areas of wheat that when the harvest season comes the task of gathering the crop must wait on the incoming hundreds of strangers to labor for a few weeks in the har vest fields. MAN WITH TEN CHILDREN. Rival Candidate Has to Yield to Presi dent’s Choice. Bloomington. 111.—James M. Court right. the newly appointed postmas ter of Normal, the educational suburb of this city, is the father of ten chil dren. His predecessor and rival can didate for the position, C. S. Neeld, could boast of but two. After a stren uous fight for the place, both candi dates having a strong hacking, Presi dent Roosevelt personally selected Courtright. Noeld is related to the law partner of Vespasian Warner, United States commissioner of pensions, and se cured a former appointment largely through the influence of Col. Warner. It was laken for granted that as Col. Warner is still friendly to Neeld, the latter had every likelihood of reap pointment. There was great surprise, therefore, when the announcement was made that Courtright had been chosen, and it was not generally known that he was an aspirant. The Normal office pays $2,300 year ly. Postmaster Courtright is an in tense admirer of President Roosevelt, and believes in large families. He is very proud of his ten boys and girls. MARRIED THE SAME MAN TWICE. Wife Finds Husband Is Bigamist, and Asks to Be Freed from Him. New Orleans.—The suit filed by Mrs. Coralie Amelia Bernier in the New Orleans district court, asking for the formal annulment of her marriage, develops the remarkable fact that, al though she twice married the same man, she was yet unwedded. Mrs. Bernier married, in 1902, in St. Ber nard's parish, a man calling himself Loys M. Lemoine. Some years after the marriage she discovered that this was an assumed name, and that Le moine was Louis M. Thompson in reality. Fearing that the marriage under a false name might invalidate their mar riage, she insisted on a second mar riage under the true name, and this was solemnized in Mandeville less than two months ago. The publica tion of the marriage brought out the fact that Thompson had one wife al ready in Helena, Ark., and the twice married woman now asks that she be freed from him. STORES HIS CIDER IN CISTERNS. Apple Grower Introduces New Method of Keeping Pressed Juice. Waterville, Wash.—A new method of storing cider was introduced into the apple growing section of Big Bend county. John Wardinsky, a farmer in southern Douglas county, has a dry well on his place which he lined with cement in approved sanitary man ner. This was used as a “cider cistern,” placing his cider in it for storage through the winter. The well is, equipped with a pump. Mr. Wardinsky formerly lived in the great apple growing sections of northwestern Arkansas, and says that it is not uncommon for farmers there to keep cider in this manner, where it is regarded with almost as much favor as storing in barrels. Con venience for drawing it for use is an other argument favoring the cistern method. A chemical is used to pre j vent the cider from acquiring to# 1 great a degree of “hardness.”
