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Lady Isabel Attends a Sale By Mrs. Neish i (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) “What are you reading so attentive ly, Isabel?’’ Lady Isabel looked up absently, and smiled. “I’m only looking at this catalogue." She handed it to tne across the table, “ft's a sale at the Veringham’s—you know, that lovely place of theirs in Sussex, and you remember poor Lord Veringham going smash the other day?” “Did lie?" “Yes; he financed some company, or they unfinanced him, or something." she explained vaguely; “but. as you know, I don’t understand finance, Mar jorie.” “Don't you?” T asked innocently. Lady Isabel laughed a little as she leant back in her chair. “Well, per haps I do a little,” she admitted, "but only my own. It’s a pity they’ve had to sell Marsden Hall,” she continued; “but he's so fearfully honest he will insist on paying off all he can: how ever, I daresay the things will fetch very big prices.” “Are you going to the sale?" “Oh, yes," she answered, “and ?o are you—1 want you to help me by bid ding for some of the things." “11111 I don't want to buy anything,” I protested. “My dear child,” expostulated Lady Isabel, '"you surely don’t suppose all the people von see at auction sales wish to buy things; why, lots of them are trying to sell.” “How sell?” I patiently awaited ex planations. “Well, you see, the art of supplying is to create a demand. Now supposing you bid for things and 1 bid for them too, it makes other people bid as well, because people always want what other people are trying to get." “Some people." I corrected gently. “I wish you’d give up that h&rrid habit of arguing, Marjorie; most peo ple do," she repeated; “and then the bidding becomes very brisk, and every body gets awfully keen to get things away from every one else, and even dealers sometimes lose their heads a little-—especially if the things are real ly valuable." “But supposing 1 bid and the thing is knocked down on me?” I said, feel ingly once more inclined to argue. “Oh. that won’t matter," she said airily, "because you will only bid up to the reserve—and I will mark the re serve price on the side of your cata logue. It’s only decent sympathy and friendship to try and help the sale to go," said Lady Isabei. “Just think how often you and i have been to the Ver lnghams’ parties—yes I know they were a horrid bore as a rule,” she add ed hastily, in reply to a look, "but"— reproachfully—“surely, my dear Mar jorie, it’s not very much to do for a friend.” “Of course it. isn’t," I agreed, feel ing rather ashamed of myself, "snd after all. as you say, if the things are really very valuable, it would he a shame to let the dealers get them too cheaply." "Yes,” she agreed, “and dealers are horribly tricky, you know. I have asked a good many people to go to this sale, because if outsiders don’t go, the dealers will get all the things at kncck-out prices." My dear Isabel, whatever are knock-out prices?” "Don't you even know what a knock out is?" “No.” “Why, it's like this—so many deal ers combine together to buy, say, a valuable Chelsea group of figures, but one only bids, and the others refrain from bidding so as not tc spoil his chance.” “Oh well, that's rather nice of them.” “And then,” continued Dadv Isabel, ignoring my comment, “they all meet afterwards, generally at the nearest public-house, where they select a chairman from among themselves, and the thing is put up again and knocked down to the highest bidder, while the surplus above what it realized in the action is divided up among the rest/ I sighed. "What a very complicated world it is.” “Very,” said Isabel laconically; "and | now, my child, we'll dress and go tc ■ the sale and bid.” ! - I was feeling philanthropic. Thf ; room was growing hot and stuffy, ant ; I was tired and rather overwhelmed j by a stout lady who now and agaii ' murmured guttural observations in my ear. “The Veringham drawing-room wa^ I being sold, and we had just arrived at j lot 94. The sale was going very well, and now and again the bidding be came extremely keen, and Lady Isabel, who was sitting almost opposite me, ! never even glanced my way. She had t told ine to buy for her two Sevres i jars, three Chelsea figures, and a good many pieces of jewelry, and she had marked on my catalogue the reserve to which I was to go, but told me not to notice her, as the dealers might think that we were friends. Amused in spite of boredom. I ( watched her bidding with a cold busi ! ness air that suggested knowledge and | determination not to sacrifice her ! friends’ valuable possessions to the ' dealers. However, she did not obtain l a single thing, and her look of dis | appointment filled me with sympathy, I because, she told me. she wanted so : very much to get the particular things j she had marked on my catalogue. She 1 went far beyond the reserve to which she had limited me. and, bending eagerly forward, only relinquished the jewelry to a higher bid of half a sov ereign. At last the sale (excepting for the rooms that she said were not worth bothering with) was over, and we were in the sweet fresh aid again. “It was a splendid sale,” said Lady Isabel, “and a good deal due to me, you know. Won’t the Veringhams be pleased ?” “They ought to be," I said crossly, for I was very hot, and tired tc*>. “I am sure the prices were high enough;', but I’m sorry Isabel, that, after all your trouble, you d d not get the things you want.” “She smiled as she leant comfort ably back in my brothers car. “It j did seem a pity"—she paused—"but I then, you see, I’ll get the cheque.” | “The cheque,” I echoed, over whelmed by a sudden feeling of indig “Well, My Dear Margorie, Those Es pecial Things, You See, Were Mine.” nation; “but surely the Veringhams ! ‘"ren’t paying you for helping them tc I sell their things." “My clear Marjorie," said I^ady Isa bel in a horrified voice, "what put such a dreadful idea into your head?’ “Well, what do you mean, then, about getting a cheque?" "Oh, well, you see," she said hur riedly, “things one doesn’t want—use less wedding presents, and all that, you know—sell so flinch better when they are put in a sale as part* of a well-known collection, and the things I marked on your catalogue—you know, the things that ‘went’ so very well. She hesitated, and leant for ward to bow to a friend. “Well, Isabel?” "Well, my dear Marjorie, those especirl things, you see, were naiue.” An Automobile Plow The horse hat been superseded in the field as well as on the boulevard. This photograph sjjows the latest method of turning the so I. Do Cats Think? At nine o’clock on a cold wintry night a scratching was heard at a cot tage door in the country. The door being opened a cat walked in, carry ing in her mouth a kitten, which she laid down before the fire, looking up at the cottager with a glance that seemed to beg pardon for the liberty taken. The cottager spoke a few kind words to the cat and watched to .see what she would do next By gnd by she went out and brought in another kitten, which' she placed beside its fellow. Finding that she was not tc be ill treated she made herself com; fortable alongside of her offspring. Where Auto Profit Comes In. She—It must coat an awful lot tc keep an automobile in repair. He—It does; yet mine has been a source of profit to me. She—Why, how'* that? H® But for it I. probably would never have collected my accident in' surance—Chicago Dally News. Once a Forest King. From iwpjrignt, by luderKnoil i Uruler».n»‘, N v Magnificent lion recently presented to the New York Zoological Gardens by Andrew Carnegie’s little daughter. It was stuffed and mounted in the New York Museum of Natural History. A MASTODON ON ICE. PREHISTORIC MONSTER, PRE SERVED INTACT, FOUND. Will Be Taken from Resting Place in Alaska to Yukon Exposition at Seattle—Big Beast to Look as if Alive. Seattle. Wash.—When warm weath er comes again a party of men with well-developed domes of thought is go ing to take out of cold storage the largest and the oldest piece of meat ever preserved in this manner. They will be strengthened for their work by roasts from this wonderful bit of cold storage preservation, r.d will bring back to civilization enough to prove the almost unb dievable stories they will tell. The particular piece of meat, which is to be taken out of cold storage shortly after the robins' nest again, is a mastodon, which was discovered in cased in ice in the Cleary creek region of Alaska late last summer. The prop osition is to induce this monster to yield up its hide, hair -and bones for exhibition at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition, to be held at Seattle, | Wash., year after next. The ilesh will be eaten, as it is not i considered practicable to preserve it i with embalming fluid by the process 1 practiced during the late unpleasant ness with Spain in the case of roast beef prepared for the fighting men. Skeletons of the mastodon have been reconstructed from scattered bones and exhibited at former fairs, but no exposition has had the big beast just as he looked when alive. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacifle exposition i will be held primarily for the exploltaj tion of Alaska. Late last summer, while President J. E. Chilberg of the. exposition was at Nome word was brought in that a com plete specimen of a mammoth incased in Ice had been discovered by W. E. Thomas on Cleary creek. Mr. Chilberg investigated, and learn ed that the specimen was practically perfect, the itesh and hide being intact except in one small place, which the melting ice had exposed, where some animal had eaten away a portion ol the flesh. Aside from the small hole in its back, the animal was in excellent shape. It is probably the finest ex ample of the preservative powers of cold storage extant, for the animal got caught long before people knew even how to keep ice during the summer months. President Chilberg learned also that the mastodon could be removed from the ice, preserved and shipped to Se attle at comparatively small cost. It was tco late then to send a crew of men to preserve the specimen, but there was present the consolation that the approaching cold weather 'would freeze it solidly and no harm could come to it until next summer. Early next season Prof. Trevor Kin caid. the zoologist of the University ol Washington, will be sent into the in terior of the northland to save every particle of the creature possible. The job of preserving the monster will be a big one for some taxidermist. PUT PONIES ON SNOW SHOES. Novel Experiment on Mountain Trail a Complete Success. Granite. Ore.—To Elmer Thornburg and J. W. Tabor of this place proba bly belongs the distinction of being the first parties to travel over the deep snows of the Blue mountains with horses equipped with snowshoes. Their first venture in this way of trav eling was so successful that hereafter for such trips they will use horses in stead of carrying heavy packs on their backs. The trip was to the Ben Harrison mine, about 15 miles from this place, in the Greenhorn mountains. The road for six or seven miles this side of the mine is buried under several feet of snow. Packing mine supplies and pro visions over this snow on snowshoes is a difficult proposition, and it was to avoid this that the experiment was made with horses on shoes. The horses used were two black ponies owned by Grant Thornburg. They weigh between COO and 700 pounds. The snowshoes were made of boards, i‘2 inches square, one of these being firmly clamped to each foot of the I.antes. Thus fitted, the ponies were able to walk over the snow eight feet deep with perfect ease. They were hitched to a beef hide, in which had been sewed 500 pounds of mine supplies and provisions, and this was dragged fit hind the team. 28 PITTSBURGERS "SQUARE.” Chamber of Commerce Starts Hunt Because City !s Called Sodom. Pittsburg, Pa.—Every prominent and wealthy man in Pittsburg is going around with a worried look. Fear that his name will not appear in the list of "the righteous" selected by the Pitts burg chamber of commerce for its vir tue banquet is the cause. Some time ago a newspaper in a lit tle town in Iowa declared in an edi torial that if Pittsburg had been in ex istence in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, the city would have been destroyed long before those ancient cities. The paper went on to quote from the eighteenth chapter of the book of Genesis, twenty-sixth verse, which says: “And the Lord said. ‘If I find in Sodom 50 righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.’ ” The paper went on to tell how Abra ham was unable to find the 50 right eous. The Iowa paper remarked that Pitts burg could not produce even half a dozen men who would pass muster. This statement “riled” the chamber of commerce. They had an indigna tion meeting at which it was decided they would show the world, at their annual banquet, just howr long the city is on righteous men. The banquet committee was authorized to select the list. They have been working on it ever since. They announce they have found 28 men who will pass mus ter. Growing Old. It is ten p. m. They are seated in the parlor. “No,” she says, bowing her head: “Pa says I am too young to become engaged.” It is just 1:30 a. m. They are still seated in the parlor. Suddenly, from somewhere upstairs, a gruff voice shouts. “Hen rietta, if that fellow waits a little longer you'll be old enough to accept his proposal!”—Woman’s Home Com panion. The Smithsonian Institute. i Mr. ChaHes C. Walcott, the new secretary of the Smithsonian institute ! at Washington has announced that a fresh departure in research work has ! been made possible by the gift of private funds which are to be applied to particular investigations. PROTECTION OF CHILD LIFE. j Congress for This Purpose to Be Held in Brussels Next Fall. Washington.—The department of state has received from the Belgian minister announcement of the second international congress of ‘‘gouttes de !ait” (protection of child life), which will be held at Brussels from Sept 12 to 16, 1907. This congress is to be held in ac cordance with resolutions passed at the genera! meeting of the first con gress of “gouttes de lait” at Paris in 1905. There will be two sections. The first will be concerned with philan thropic and social questions, the sec ond with the scientific problems of in fant hygiene. The congress will con sist of Belgian and foreign members who have subscribed beforehand the sum of 20 francs ($3.96. Any institu tion for the protection of child life may be represented by a delegate in whose name the subscription should be paid. An exhibition of infant hygiene will be organized and opened during the congress. An Appropriate Name. ‘•But why do you call your dog Thirteen?” “Don't you see he's lame?” “Yes; but what has (hat to do with it?” “Why, he puts down three and car ries one, doesn’t he?" Digs His Own Grave; Dies. Wyoming Man Also Made His Coffin and Carved His Own Tombstone. Lander, Wyo.—Jerome Wilkins died and was buried a few day? ago at New fork, a little town southwest of Lander, under very peculiar circumstances. Despite the fact that he was then in )ds usual food health, he predicted with the utmost confidence last fall that he should die some time in March. Accordingly he set about making preparations for his death and his funeral. He made a pine coffin with his own hands, lining it with cheap (doth and carving his name on the lid with a jackknife. He ordered a tomb stone for his own grave and wrote out the Inscription to be chiseled on it. He made out a list of the men whom he wished to serve as pallbearers at Ills funeral. Jtnd finally the first of March he took a pick and spade and went out and dug the grave in which his own body was to be buried. ■■ Then he went home and .calmly wait ed for the end. Within a few days he was stricken with pneumonia, con tracted, his physician said, when he was digging his own grave, and within 38 hours he was dead. “I had a premonition last fall,” he said just before he died, “that I should die iu March and I have not doubted since then that I should go to. my rest before this month was out. I do not fear death. On the other hand,. I wel come it.- I am getting on in yean and if I should live I should soon be a bur den to myself and the world. It Is bet ter that I should go now.” Takes X-Ray Photos of Breath, lierlin.—The science of the photog raphy of the breath was explained at the annual meting of the Roentgen ray conference. Cinematographic pic tures of the breathing of sick and healthy persons were thrown upon a screen. The inventor of the method is Dr. Kohler, Wiesbaden. It is ex pected that the discovery will play an important part Irt the diagnosis of tu berculosis and other respiratory dis I eases. INVENTION TO PURIFY MILK. London Man Pumps in Carbonic Acid : Gas and it Keeps 20 Weeks. London.—A solution of the problem of preserving milk fresh for an indefi- I nite period seems to have been found by one Randolph Hemming. The mortality among babies in London av erages 60 per cent., owing principally to impure milk. The invention of Hemming consists in the forced introduction into every bottle of milk of a certain quan tity of carbonic acid gas by means of a special machine. Already the board of health has made tests of milk so preserved for over 20 weeks, and it was found to be Just as fresh as when taken from the cow.. In order to teed the infant, it is only necessary to open the bottle and let the carbonic acid gas evaporate, which requires only a few mlnvtes. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.—o. W. Holmes. Washington Day by Day News Gathered Here and There at the National Capital CONGRESSMEN NOT IDLE DURING SUMMER RECESS WASH1XGTOX. —» Notwithstanding the fact that every member of the senate and house is now drawing Itay at the rate of $7,500 a year—50 per cent, more than the salary before March 4—not. a few of them will be found during the summer earning an honest penny by entertaining the pub lic with their particular accomplish ments. The echo of the vice presi dent's gavel had not died away when Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, was on his way to fill a lecture en gagement at Baltimore. With but oue or two exceptions he will deliver his famous lecture mi the race ques tion every week day evening from now until congress meets in Decem ber. His pay is reputed to be $200 a lecture, so it will he seen that whether the sun shines or not Senator Tillman has a lucrative haymaking time ahead of him. Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, will be much before the public both on the platform and in print, but the speech making he does will not yield him a cent. But his writings probab y will add largely to his bank roll, for the debate on national issues likely to fig ure in the next national campaign, which he is conducting through the columns of a western niagaz ne, is one of the greatest things ever at tempted by a publication. The de bate already has opened on state'.-! rights lines, Mr. Beveridge taking ad vanced ground and contending for what he calls “nationalism.'' Former Senator Fred T. Dubois, of Idaho, quit public life on March 4, be cause his opposition to the Mormon church cost him his seat. But he prob ably will malte more money and create more sentiment during the next year than he has ever before done in a similar period. The women's organi zations which fought to drive the Mormon apostle, Reed Smoot, from the senate, all are now clamoring for lectures from Mr. Dubois on the Mor mon question, anil he has a rich string of Chautauqua lecture engage ments to fill. PRESIDENT’S BOYS BEAT FATHER AT HURDLING Baron speck vox sterxburg, the German ambassador, showed young Theodore and Kerrnit Roose velt how to jump hurdles just beyond Rock Creek park, the other day. He taught them so well they beat their father, the president, who failed to clear a five-foot hurdle. Baron Stern burg was a hussar in the German army in the war with Prance and what he doesn’t krow about horses is not to be found in the best literature on the subject. He learned the art of riding from the ground up, for he en listed as a private and worked his way along to a commission in a crack cavalry regiment. The lesson that Baron Sternburg gave the Roorevelt boys was not their first under his tutelage. He has been out with them several times "on the quiet" and has managed to.bring them to a state of efficiency that already gives them the confidence and ability to follow the hounds. Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, of the Seventh cavalry, is assist ant tutor and the president also takes a hand occasionally, but leaves most of the instruction to the German am bassador. and the army officer. The Roosevelt boys had the time of their lives. There was tonic in the air and the animals they rode at fence and hurdle were full of mettle and in spired with the spirit of the sport. Two of them were the president’s own mounts, Roswell and Audrey, mag nificent blooded hunters of a line of hunters. The horse that was first sent at the jump was Gray Dawn, a gift to Theo dore, Jr., by Capt. Seth Bullock, of Deadwood. If he lacks the style and conformation of Roswell and Audrey, he makes up in ginger and endurance. The jumping started at four and one half feet. The boys cleared this with little difficulty, but the president only topped the hurdle by a supreme effort. Then Baron Sternburg put ip the bars to five feet, and the two boys tried it again. There were one or two balks for each, but they finally got over, their father and other specta tors applauding. The president was not to be beaten by his boys if he could help it, so he put Roswell at the rail again. Ros well started well, but the rail was too high and his rider too heavy so he quit at the bar. Again and again the president tried, but in vain, and to the delight of his sons he had to admit that he was beaten. WHITE HOUSE PET DOG NAUGHTY-IS BANISHED ROLLO has been banished from the White House. The time was when Rcllo, bis. St. Bernard pup. was the most prized of all the White House pets. But Hollo fell into evil ways. When the French ambassador. M. Jusserand, came over to play tennis with the president, or Baron S]>eck von Sternburg, the German ambassa dor. wandered about the grounds, Rollo evinced a disposition to make them climb trees or jump fences. All of Rollo's troubles are blamed on a bull terrier presented to Mrs. Roosevelt several months ago. Up to the coming of the bull terrier Rollo was the best liked animal anywhere. The terrier and Rollo apparently were awfully good friends. They were both about the same age and the bull terrier undertook to teach Rollo ' rough house" games. He would grab Rollo by the throat and roll him good and plenty. Rollo, who grew until he was about the size of a calf, tired of this, and the constant attacks of the terrier appeared to ruin his dis- j position. He became petulant and retiring, disliking the company of either man or beast. Several times members of the president's tennis cabinet have had to step lively to escape a nip from Rollo. After chasing ambassadors, cabinet ministers, and minor officials, Rollo sealed his doom the other night when he treed a couple of the watchmen from the navy department who were going through the White House grounds about midnight. Rollo wagged his tail, expecting to be commended for what he had done, but after it became knojvn and dis cussed Rollo was sentenced to be ban ished to the farm of Surgeon General Rixey, down in Virginia, where he can chase rabbits and butterflies. The bull terrier, now that Rollo i3 gone, has turned his attention to Skip, the little black and tan hound which was given the president on his lion hunting trip in Colorado. Skip, so the president says in his book, "can climb trees.” blit the terrier has not made him do it yet. PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO LECTURE ON THE CANAL Representative Marshall, of South Dakota, wants President Roosevelt to tour the we®, giving •'travelogues” describing the Panama canal work. Arrangements have been made so that the president can have a moving picture machine accompany him if he desires, or just a plain stereopticon if he considers it more suitable. “Now, ladies and gentlemen.” he will be expected to say. “the next pic ture on the canvas is that of the awe inspiring Cnlebra pass. Right back of there I shot two alligators, which the next film displays in their last agonies pf death. Death, we must re member, comes to all in time. "We should 30 live that we are ever ready to face it. Let ns not live as drones in the hive of modern politics, but join, young and old, to work for our advancement and the advance ment of the grand old Republican par ty, football, science, tenpins, rate leg islation, boxing, bunting, literature, yachting, tawn tennis, polo and mili tary and naval supremacy. "The next picture displays,” etc. Eight, congressmen who have just returned from the canal zone, are pre paring to make a tour telling their constituents the good news. The president has not consented to be booked as yet, but smilingly admit ted that the suggestion might be a good one. Hebrew High in British Service. Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of Hongkong, is the only member of the Hebrew faith among the satraps of Great Hritain s important colonies. His salary is $110,000 a year and at present is in trouble - because the Hongkong weather observatory failed to give warning of the recent ty phoon, which resulted in the loss of 10.000 lives and many millions in property". Has Insignia of Columbus. It is not generally known that the insignia of the Golden Fleece con ferred upon the first duke of Welting ton was that actually worn by Co lumbus and, a6 a special mark of Spain's gratitude, this insignia was made hereditary, so that the present duke is the proud possessor of the star worn to the discoverer of America. from Errand Boy to Governor Edwin S. Stuart, elected governor or Pennsylvania, is Ae first native born PhlladelDhlan to win tfewt dis tinction in many years. In his early teens he started life as errand boy in a book store. Mr. Stuart is a bacnelor, his home "being managed by his sister, Miss Cora A. Stuart.