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IN AUTOMOBILES.
Motorists ride in their cars straight from the roads of France onto the
deck of the steamer, remain in their machine during the voyage, play bridge
If so inclined and ride out onto British soil over a special gangway.
TRAPS CATCH MEN
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Present Statutes in Pennsylvania
Are Not Being Observed.
Accidents to Hunters in Keystone
State May Lead to Enactment of
Law Prohibiting Use of Any
But Old-Fashioned Traps.
Williamsport, Pa.—It looks as if the
steel bear trap, with its diabolical pos
sibilities, would have to go. The hunt
ers are up in arms over the dangerous
devices. Several valuable dogs have
already been caught in them and their
hind legs broken, and one man in the
Kettle Creek region of Potter county,
who walked into an unprotected and
practicaly unmarked trap, is now suf
fering from blood poisoning due to the
ugly wound made by the jaws of the
trap. Hunters says that if during the
great rush of hunters in the woods in
the 15-day deer season men are not
trapped and wounded it will be a great
wonder.
Men who have been in the deep
woods where bear are wont to work
report that the number of steel traps
h;.s increased 50 per cent, over former
years, and that many of them are be
ing set and maintained in utter disre
gard of the restrictions prescribed by
the game laws. Many of the men who
are engaging in the use of the traps
do not even know the law, and others
who seem to know that there is a pre
scribed way to set a trap and fortify
other hunters against it carry out the
precautions so indifferently that they
are of little help.
Grant Hoover, a recognized deer
and bear hunter, who is the owner of
three traps himself, declares that he
is ready any day to throw his traps
away if the game authorities say so,
as he sees in them a terrible menace
to men and dogs, simply because those
who set them pay no attention to the
matter of fixing guards or danger no
tices. It is prescribed by law, he
says, that an inclosure two feet high
be maintained about a trap when it is
in position and set, so that the hunt
er can discern it easily at a good dis
tance, and not only save himself from
coming in contact with it, but also
guard the movements of his dog that
it is also insured against accidents.
U^Two local bird hunters In the Gray’s
Huh district recently were attracted
to a thicket by the suspicious move
ments of one of their dogs, and on
making an examination found a bear
trap in position, though the stakes
forming the inclosure were only four
inches high, while there was no other
notice visible except a three-inch blaze
on a sapling, on which, In lead pencil,
were written the words: “Bear trap.”
The low stake inclosure ran back
against a log, at which a part of a
beef’s head lay as bait It was the
meat that had aroused the dog,
though, fortunately, the animal had
cot stepped into the inclosure, in
which event he would surely have
been caught, as the trap was without
so much as its nose showing above
the leaves.
The sentiment of the hunters In
this section is that all traps except
the old-fashioned log trap should be
important Discovery Accidentally
Made by Government Official In
Oklahoma Cotton Patch.
Durant, Okla.—The federal govern
ment will experiment In cotton fields
near here, with black ants to exter
minate boll weevil, the most damaging
of cotton pests. The discovery was re
cently made by Special Agent S. W.
Murphy cf the department of agricul
ture, who is located In Durant, that
the ants will devour the young ..eevil.
The discovery was made entirely by
accident in the following manner:
Murphy had visited a cotton patch
■ dear Durant and secured several wee
-vll which were about to hatch. They
were taken to his office for observa
tion under a magnlflying glass to de
termine what effect, if any, the recent
bot weather had had upon them. They
were placed upon a newspaper and
left upon a table while Murphy went
to dinner.
When he returned scores of little
u
black ants were devouring the weevil.
He wrote a full report of his discovery
to Dr. Knapp, head of the bureau of
plant life industry, under whose direc
tion Murphy is now working. Murphy
is confident that he has found in them
an Insect which will destroy the boll
weevil without Injuring the crop, and
he intends to colonize as many ants as
possible in a cotton field near Durant
next year, and to assist him in his ef
forts he has asked that a government
expert be detailed.
TO PROTECT THE DRAFT DOG
Bill Is Laid Before Dutch Government
Providing for Uniform Regula
tion of Canines.
The Hague.—A bill has been laid
before the second chamber of the gov
ernment providing a uniform regula
tion concerning draft dogs. This, it
is hoped, will render the protection
of those animals easier than has been
prohibited. The increase in the num
ber of bears has caused an increase
in the business of trapping, so that the
woods are full of the steel-jawed and
hidden traps, each one a menace to
the safety of the hunter and to the
life of his dog. There is some likeli
hood of trapping becoming so -widely
practiced that the bears will become
scarce, thus destroying a variety of
gunning that now' promises to be
among the best sport in the Pennsyl
vania woods. One trapper in the
Blockhouse section of this and Tioga
county is reported to have trapped
eight bears this season thus far. sell
ing hide and carcass for gain. An or
dinary sized bear at the edge cf the
woods will bring $25 any 'day. End if
the bear is extra large and the hide
exceptionally fine $35 is not a:i un
usual price to be paid for the prize.
At this rate the Blockhouse trapper
has made at least $230 since the sea
son opened. There is also a senti
ment growing in favor of limiting any
one man from taking more than two
bears in any one season.
The outgrowth of the sentiment
against the steel bear trap will prob
ably be a memorial to the state game
commission, with the request that the
hidden trap be outlawed and that only
the old log trap be permitted. Last
year two men in Tioga county, during
the deer season, walked into and
sprang bear traps on their ankles, and
one of them sustained a fracture of
the bones. A man can generally re
lease himself from a bear trap, though
to be wounded by one of them when
alone and far in the wods would be a
pitiable fate. In the case of dogs that
are caught in them their legs are usu
ally broken, and shooting is s.lways
necessary to end their misery.
Could Save Many Children
From 100,000 to 200,000 Yearly Said
to Die in America of Prevent
able Causes.
Washington.—From 100,000 to 200,
000 children under five years of age
die every year from preventable
causes in the United States, is the
opinion of Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief
of vital statistics of the census bu
reau, who has prepared a bulletin on
the basis of present-day knowledge of
sanitary measures.
Of the number of deaths returned
for 1908— 691,574—which covers the
registration area, Dr. Wilbur has
found that nearly one-fifth were of in
fants of under one year old and more
than one-fourth of children under five
years of age. Reduced to figures, Dr.
Wilbur makes the following esti
mates: More than one-eighth of a
million babies tinder one year old and
fully 200,000 children under five died
among about one-half of the popula
tion of the United States in the year
mentioned. It is considered probable
that fully 200,000 more died in cities
and states not included in the census
bureau dea.th registration area.
In this connection Dr. Wilbur quotes
Prof. Irving Fisher’s conclusion that
Ants Will Eat Boll Weevil
black ants were devouring the weevil.
He wrote a full report of his discovery
to Dr. Knapp, head of the bureau of
plant life Industry, under whose direc
tion Murphy is now working. Murphy
is confident that he has found in them
an Insect which will destroy the boll
weevil without Injuring the crop, and
he intends to colonize as many ants as
possible In a cotton field near Durant
next year, and to assist him in his ef
forts he has asked that a government
expert be detailed.
TO PROTECT THE DRAFT DOG
Bill la Laid Before Dutch Government
Providing for Uniform Regula
tion of Canines.
The Hague.—A bill has been laid
before the second chamber of the gov
ernment providing a uniform regula
tion concerning draft dogs. This, It
is hoped, will render the protection
of those animals easier than has been
of all the diseases of infancy having
the median age one year 47 per cent
may be prevented, and that of the dis
eases of childhood having a median |
age of two to five years 67 per cent
may be prevented.
“It does not seem unreasonable,"
Dr. Wilbur says, “when we consider the
fact that there is apparently no rea
son why infants, if properly born—and
this means simply the prevention oi
ante-natal disease and the improve
ment of the health and conditions ol
life of their parents—should die in
early infancy or childhood except from
the comparatively few accidents that
are unavoidable.”
The bulletin continues with a state
ment that the general death rate ol
a country is dependent largely upon
its infant mortality and says:
“In the light of the figures quoted
it would seem that practical sanita
tion has only made a beginning in the
i work of preventing the occurrence ol
infant and child mortality. The
ground has only been scratched over
Deep stirring of the soil and thorough
cultivation of all the means available
with our present scientific and medi
cal knowledge for the guarding o'
young lives, would produce startling
and, from all human experience, al
most unbelievable, results.”
the case heretofore. Every province
or municipality had its own laws on
the subject The awful treatment tc
which some of the dogs are subjected
long ago started the friends of ani
mals to action and a national society
for the protection of draft dogs was
formed and it bas been actively en
gaged in bettering conditions. It is
largely due to the insight into the
matter gained by this society that the
present bill has been satisfactorily
framed. Stringent provisions are
made against the see of sick and
feeble dogs and the size of the ani
mals, the relation to the carta and
loads 1b regulated. Suitable harness
la prescribed. A dog cart may not be
in the exclusive care of minors, but
must be accompanied by some re
sponsible grown person. Every owner
of a dog car must apply for a govern
ment license and such a license can
at once be withdrawn in case the pro
visions of the law are not complied
with. Ko one who has been convict
ed of cruelty to his dogs will be given
such "a license. ’ ’ ■
If at first yon don’t succeed, blame
it on your luck.
RICE IKES CIS
Production Makes Big Jump in
Last Twenty-Four Years.
World’s Market Amounts to $150,003,
000 to $200,000,000 Per Annum—
Louisiana Leads in United
States.
Washington.—The growth of rice
production in the United States, from
less than 100,000,000 pounds a tew
years ago to over 000,000,000 in 190S
] lends interest to a study by the bureau
j of statistics of the department ot com
; inerce and labor of the markets offered
! tor this particular commodity.
Rice production in the United States
i seldom reached 100,000,000 pounds pet
j annum prior to 1885, and had but
1 twice crossed the 200,000,000 line prioi
to 1900. Then came in 1901 a produc
tion of 388,000,000 pounds; in 1903,
660,000,000; in 190-1, 586,000,000, and in
1908, 60S,000,000 pounds.
The rice production of the United
States in the last decade has thus
equaled that of the half century imme
diately preceding, or, in other words,
the quantity produced since the begin
ning of the year 1900 has been as
great as that of the 50 years from 1850
to 1900.
Domestic production about equaled
the imports, making an average annu
al consumption ranging from 250,000.
000 to 400,000,000 pounds.
Even during the recent period ol
large domestic production, importa
tions have continued at about the
same rate as in former years, while
exports have been coraparativelj
small, hinting at a largely increased
domestic consumption.
The world's market for rice, rneas
uring this ‘market merely by the im
ports of the principal countries of the
world, amounts to from $150,000,000 tc
$200,000,000 per annum. The Imports
of rice into the principal countries oi
Europe in the latest available year
amounted to about $82,000,000 value;
into North and South America, exclu
sive of the United States, $13,000,000
and into Africa, $6,000,000.
It is estimated that the world's rice
crop is 175,000,000,000 pounds per an
num, of which 60,000,000,000 are pro
duced in British India, 50,000,000,000
to 60,000,000,000 in China, 15,000.000,
000 in Japan, 6.750,000,000 in Siam,
6.500.000. 000 in Java, 5,000,000,000 in
French Indo China, 3,000.000,000 in
Korea, 2,750.000,000 in Formosa, 750,
000,000 pounds in Italy and 500,000.000
pounds each in Spain. Ceylon, the
Philippine islands and the United
States.
Rice forms the chief cereal food ol
about one-half of the world’s popula
tion, and wheat the chief cereal food
of the other half.
Of the 608,000,000 pounds of rice
produced in the United States in 1908,
52.8 per cent was produced in Louis!
ana. 41.8 per cent in Texas, 2.2 pet
cent in South Carolina, 2.1 per cent in
Arkansas, and the remainder in Geor
gia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and
North Carolina.
This year’s rice crop in Arkansas
will net the growers about $950,000
according to estimates thus far for
mulated, and under the impetus of the
prosperity which this will bring about
it is probable that the rice acreage in
the state will be nearly doubled next
year.
In September about 1,000,000 pounds
of the present year’s crop were mar
keted in that state and twice that
amount was shipped. By February '
it is predicted that the entire crop o!
25.000. 000 pounds, the produce of 28,
000 acres of land, will have been mar
keted.
KEEPING SHEEP AND
CHICKENS IN SAME PEN
Practical House that Shelters Both—How the Structure
is Arranged — Favors Winter F.ggs as
Money Getters.
If I were asked to name the two
things most neglected on the aver
age farm, I should name the two
things that pay the best for the
amount of capital invested, sheep and
chickens, writes R. C. Thomas in
American Agriculturist. And with a
little more care or a little different
care they can be made to pay much
better and together make the best
combination I know.
As a rule, when you are busy with
one you have very little to do with the
other; and the sheep are certainly a
great help to the hens in winter,
wheru they are housed together. a3
the animal heat from the sheep keeps
the hens warm at night.
The house we have is built on the
lean-to plan, against the haymow. The
back of the haymow forms the back
of the house and makes it tight and
warm. The front faces south. We
cut the logs on the farm and had
keep my hoppers in there. I use the
dry method of feeding.
The ground floor furnishes scratch
ing room. The other end is the roost
ing room. I keep from 300 to 400 Leg
horns in this house, and make a spe
cialty of winter eggs. I could not. keep
that many healthy and vigorous in
that space only for the fact that they
have free range all the year.
The arrangement on the ground
floor for the sheep and lambs is as fol
lows: Along the front, running from
the double doors to the end, we have
small pens for ewes that we want to
keep to themselves for any reason,
and across the end, running from
these pens to the back, we have a por
tion slatted off as a feeding space for
the lambs, the slats wide enough to
admit the lambs, but to keep out the
ewes. Along the back, one end and
part of the front we have the hay
racks; and on the ground, under the
Where Sheep and Chickens Live Together.
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them sawed and only had the roof
to buy, which is of galvanized iron.
The house is 50 feet long by 30 feet
deep, the back is 16 feet high and the
front 8 feet. There are four posts
set in the center to support the roof,
and running from these posts to the
back we have a floor 7 feet from the
ground and running the entire length
of the building. This gives a floor
space upstairs 50x15 feet, which is in- j
closed by wire netting, with a door
at each end.
One end of this room is cut off for ;
a feeding and laying room; that is, I I
hay racks and close to the wall, are
troughs for feeding grain, silage, etc.,
to the sheep. On the floor we always
keep plenty of straw.
The house is not very tight, and
there is a space over each window of
about 3 inches that is always open,
and we never close the doors only on
the coldest nights. We keep about
75 sheep in there, never have a lamb
freeze to death, and have no trouble
to get eggs in winter. It is a sur
prise to anyone to go in there on a
cold night and find how comfortable
it is.
ONE METHOD OF CUTTING BEEF
The Illustration shows how a re
tailer usually cuts beef, the average
market price of the cuts, and their
uses.
The Loin.—This cut includes short
steaks, porterhouse, sirloin, and ten
derloin. The tenderloin is a long
muscle that may be stripped from be
neath the loin, but when it is re
moved it destroys the value of the
porterhouse and tenderloin steaks.
The first four cuts from the small
end of the loin are called club steaks
because they contain no tenderloin.
The next are the porterhouse; the next
and up to the beginning of the hook
bone are the tenderloin and are the
highest priced cuts in the beef. The
remaining cuts of the loin are the sir
loin.
The tenderloin wtien sold separate
ly is deficient in fat, hence must be
larded when roasted or broiled. The
lcin is cut into steaks and broiled; oc
casionally it is sold as roasts, but is
more expensive and no better than
are the ribs or chuck.
The Round.—This cut consists of
very Juicy, lean muscles, and but little
bone. It is sold as steaks, roasts, and
for beef tea, and beef juice. It is ex
cellent for pot-roasts, braizing, for
beef loaf, or for casserole of beef.
The Rib.—This cut consists of sev
en ribs, called prime ribs; the cut is
made close to the shoulder blade and
separates it from the chuck. It is sold
as roasts, being cut into one, two or
three rib pieces according to the size
of the beef and the wants of the fam
ily. The ribs may be removed and the
piece rolled. If the ribs are left, it is
called a standing rib-roast. Dealers
sometimes remove the ribs and cut
and sell this piece as steak, calling it
New York porterhouse.
The Chuck.—This cut is next to the
prime rib cut and similar to it, but
contains more bone and gristle, and is
not so fine grained and tender; the
portion near the point of the shoulder
blade Is excellent for steak, and the
remainder is fine for roasts, mince
meat, etc.
The Rump.—This cut contains tne
end of the hip bone and joint. There
Is considerable bone, but the meat
makes excellent roasts or pot-roasts.
The Clod.—This cut Is back of the
brisket and below the chuck. It is
sold for boiling, stews, braizing, mince
meat. etc.
The Flank.—This cut comes from
below the loin. It is boneless and
coarse, but of good flavor. There is a
inrfU lean muscle embedded on the
ot the flank which is pulled out.
scored across the grain and sold as
steak; sometimes this steak is split,
made Into a “pocket” trussed and
roasted. The flank is a good boiling
piece, or it may be rolled and braized
or corned.
Hie Neck.—This cut cornea from be
1 low the riba. It has layers of fat and
lean, and is the end of the ribs. It is
used for boiling and corning.
The Shank.—These cuts are the
fore and hind legs. They are tough
and contain large bones and tendons.
They are used for soup, cheap stews
and chop meats of various kinds.
Cement Floors in Winter.
An excellent suggestion is made by
a practical swine breeder to those
having cement floors in their pens.
He advises a movable wooden floor
for the winter. He makes his own
floors of one inch boards and lays
them flat on the cement, in sections
small enough to be easily removed at
any time.
In this way he combines the advan
tages of both the cement and the
wood. He can remove the board floor,
scrub out the pen and also thorough
ly clean and disinfect the false floor
outside.
Cement is the cheapest material in
the end for the floor of the hog pen.
The floor of the outdoor apartment
should be a few inches lower than the
house floor, so as to insure drainage
and dry sleeping quarters.
Landscape Architecture.
At the present time, as never before
in the United States, interest in land
scape architecture is beginning to
claim the attention of our people, for
though among us it is still in Its in
fancy, such progress is being made
that we have every reason to antici
pate a brilliant future for this, one oi
the most delightful of the fine arts
However, until the art of landscape
architecture is clearly distinguished
from that of gardening, as well as
architecture, forestry and other closely
allied callings, no such future can be
reasonably expected.
Small Boned Hogs Best.
Many farmers who are buying breed
ing hogs are demanding size of bone,
they want large, coarse-boned hogs
and will insist on having these oi
none. These men are making a ser
ious mistake, as many of the mosl
broken-down pigs we see are those big
soft-boned fellows. Buyers of market
hogs avoid the big-boned hogs and
select those with good, even bodies,
with as neat bone as possible, and
light offal as can be had, and this,
they find in the hogs that possess med
ium bone.
Buying Peed.
When much food is to be bought the
aim should be to grow so much coarse
fodder that whatever is bought will be
bought in the shape of fertilizer. The
wisdom of doing this arises from the
less cost in transporting concentrates
because of the less bulk which they
contain in proportion to their nutri
ents. The fertiliser obtained may be
very profitably used in growing the
coarse fodders needed.
laiiM
Mrs. Wilton’s Expectations
By JANE RICHARDSON
(.Copyright, by Shot
Mrs. Wilton sat in consultation
with her three daughters the day aft
er her husband's funeral. She had
been a great belle in her girlhood—
a large florid woman, with ari abun
dance of blonde hair. The two elder
girls. Cecilia and Edith, resembled
her, both in appearance and in the
indolent good nature which was their
mother's chief characteristic. Susan,
the younger, had been named by her
father for his mother, and the name
suited her. She reminded one of
some plain, old-fashioned flower. She
had been born with the instinct of
helpfulness, and all her life had been
ready to do the tasks which others
shirked, or over which they rebelled
and grumbled.
Her husband's sudden death had
been an overwhelming blow to Mrs.
Wilton. She was as helpless as a
baby, and the two elder daughters
scarcely less dependent; there was
nothing by which either of the two
might have added to their income.
“Cecelia might take up her music
again and fit herself for teaching,”
she said.
“There are already 27 music teach
ers in Madison, mother,” Susan inter
posed.
"There's your uncle Jabez, he
is certain to help us. He never for
gets us at Christmas, nor on any of
your birthdays. Though he hadn't
seen your father since he went out to
California, he was very fond of him
when they were boys, and he alwas^
meant to visit us.”
“No, he won't forget us,” Cecilia
echoed, hopefully.
“We can't depend upon that either,”
said the practical Susan, “he may ‘re
member’ us, and he may not."
“You disapprove everything,” said
Edith. “What do you advise—that we
p
Old Mr. Worthington.
shall march in procession to the poor
house, with mamma at the head?"
“What I propose," said Susan, un
hesitatingly, “is that we turn this
house into—a boarding house.”
There was an exclamation of hor
ror. They had always prided them
selves—with all their old-fashioned
hospitality—on their exclusiveness.
“Open the house to everybody and
anybody—never,” and they shook
their heads vehemently.
“To anybody that is respectable—
and can pay,” Susan replied, un
abashed.
In the end she had her way. The
house was soon filled with the usual
floatsam and jetsam that drift
through life, content with, or tem
porarily resigned to, their homeless
ness; the young rector of St. Jude’s,
Miss Vantage, the principal of the
high school, a rich widow with her
two daughters, several young business
men, among whom was Richard Bur
rell, to whom Susan had been engaged
for a year. All were tractable and
reasonably well content, except old
Mr. Worthington.
There was but one room vacant
when he came, a small stuffy chamber
in the rear, but after much fault
finding he said that it would do. He
was exacting about the cooking, and
imperious in his demands for hot wa
ter, although Mrs. Wilton said plain
tively that she could not understand
why, since he, apparently, used so lit
tle. But she grew accustomed to him,
as one gets used to a pinching shoe,
and turned him over to Miss Vantage,
who played chess with him occasion
ally. From her he learned of their
“expectations,” and that their relative
in California had really sent them
the money with which to undertake
the boarding house.
"More fool he, remarked the old
man crossly, as he protested against
an unforeseen checkmate. “They’re
a worthless pack.’’
"O, don’t say that!” exclaimed the
good-natured schoolteacher. “I’m sure
Miss Susan Is as good as gold.”
“Well—she’s all right, maybe,” he
admitted tentatively, making another
unlucky move. It was true: Susan
was as good as gold.
They had held their own and no
more. Susan had not expected to grow
rich, and was grateful that they had
not fallen into debt. But the house
had suffered; the furniture began to
show signs of hard usage; the car
pets were growing threadbare, and
the profits of the business would cer
tainly not enable her to rejilace them
when they were quite gone. And she
had other troubles. She had insisted
upon releasing Burrell from his en
gagement, arguing his salary was
not more than sufficient for two. She
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wdruid not consent that he should be
burdened with the support of her
mother and sisters, as hundreds of
other women had done before her.
Burrell, who was superintendent of
the electric light works, had to admit
that she was right, and. while he re
leased her. he did so with the clear
understanding that he considered him
self still irrevocably bound, and
should continue to do so as long as
she lived, or until she married some
other man.
And, moreover, he came to board
with them, and found consolation in
I seeing her constantly, and helping and
comforting her in a thousand ways.
He was especially fortunate in be
ing able to mollify old Mr. Worthing
ton, listening patiently to his com
plaints and his interminable stories,
and he even relieved Miss Vantage at
chess, permitting himself to be beaten
with the utmost amiability. But his
indulgence drew the line at the old
man's criticism of the house and its
management. Not only did he stop
him, but he intimated pretty plainly
that he was ungrateful. “I reckon 1
am,” he replied, gruffly, ‘‘but I haven't
any patience with their fool talk about
their rich kin; I don't believe they
have any.”
This, however, was to be at last
proved beyond cavil. Mrs. Wilton re
ceived a letter from Jabez Wilton's
agent in San Francisco—he nevet
wrote, himself; he always telegraphed
The letter stated that Mr. Jabez Wil
ton would start east that morning
and be with them five days later
Mighty preparations began at once
Mrs. Wilton insisted upon giving uf
her own room to Uncle Jabez, ana
went to the expense of buying a new
carpet and new curtains; she alsc
brought out the fewr remaining relics
of their former prosperity—pictures
and bric-a-brac and embroidered
cushions.
The eventful day came, dull and
threatening, with a biting east wind
A fire crackled in the grate, casting
rosy shadows upon the wall and ceil
ing of the cheerful room, which was
in readiness for its prospective oecu
pant. At the last moment Susan hao
filled a bowl with splendid yellow
dhrysanthemums and placed it upon i
table by the window.
The train was due at four o'clock
and Burrell and Susan had gone tc
the station, hoping to recognize the
expected arrival by some sort of in
tuition.
Mrs. Wilton ran upstairs after the}
had gone to see if any thing needfu,
had been forgotten in the guest chain
ber.
On the threshold she detected at
unmistakable odor of tobacco. Sht
opened the door and stood transfixed
There sat old Mr. Worthington it
his shabby dressing gown, lounging ir.
the armchair, smoking his pipe, hit
slippered feet on the fender.
Newspapers were scattered about
and he had been lying on the lounge
as the disordered pillows made evi
dent.
“Well, really, Mr. Worthington!’
said Mrs. Wilton, her eyes flashing—
she knew him to be capable of any
thing—“I must say that this is un
pardonable.”
She was always ladylike.
He turned and glanced at her calm
ly over his shoulder, and did not stir
“Sit down, Arabella,” he said at
length, “and don't excite yourself. ”
Arabella indeed! Addressing her
by her Christion name! He had nevei
been quite so impertinent as this.
She walked across the room and
stood beside him, panting with indig
nation.
“I've a right here,” he said with un
usual mildness. “I'm the man you’ve
fixed up this room for, and Susan will
not find me at the station. I’ve beet
in your house some time, as you'll al
low.”
Mrs. Wilton did not in the least
comprehend what he was saying; she
was so dazed that she could not
speak.
“This has been done before,” he
went on, “I’ve read about it. I wanteo
to make certain as to who and what
you all were before entering into an
arrangement that I might regret. Sit
down, do.” And thus urged, she
dropped limply into a chair beside
him. The truth at last dawned upon
her, but she could only look at him it
silence.
“You’ve been really kind and pa
tient and I ve tried you purposely
I like you, Arabella—and Susan. She
may have this house, if you agree—
it will be just the thing—and you and
the other girls may go back to Cali
fornia with me, if you have no better
plan.”
Mrs. Wilton had no better plan; and
it was so arranged.
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There is something new under the
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Gustav Manler’s new symphony is pro
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called musical.” It is our|Well known
friend the automobile horn—not th6
new, many toned siren, but the old
basso profundo bark which at some
time has startled us all. But that
is not the latest. Paderewski’s new
symphony will introduce the tentitu
on, which Is an invention of the pi
anist's. It will take the place of the
instruments which until now have
been used to produce thunder sounds
in the orchestra.
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