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Addressing Under wood with impudent familiarity, he went on: "The d—d boy didn’t seem to know ; y°u w'ere in or not. so I came up ; anyhow.” Glancing at Bennington, he added: “Sorry, if I’m butting in.” Underwood was not in the humor to be very gracious. Long ago young Howard Jeffries had outgrown his use fulness as far as he was concerned. He was at a loss to guess why he had come to see him uninvited, on this particular Sunday night, too. It was with studied coldness, therefore, that he said: "Sit down—I’m glad to see you.” \ ou don't look it.” grinned How ard. as he advanced further into the room with shambling, uncertain steps. Concealing his ill humor and prom ising himself to get rid of his unwel come visitor at the first opportunity, 1 nderwood introduced the two men. "Mr. Bennington—Mr. Howard Jeff ! ries, Jr.” Mr. Benuington had heard of the ! older Jeffries’ trouble with his scape grace son, and he eyed, with some in terest, this young man who had made such a fiasco of his career. “Oh. I know Bennington,” exclaimed Howard jovially. “I bought an ele phant's tusk at his place in the days when I was somebody.” With mock sadness he added, "I’m nobody now —couldn't even buy a collar button.” “Won’t you sit down and stay awhile?” said Underwood sarcastic ally. "If you don't mind. I'll have a drink first.” replied Howard, making his way to the desk and taking up the whisky decanter. Underwood did not conceal his an noyance. but his angry glances were entirely lost on his new visitor, who was rapidly getting into a maudlin condition. Addressing Bennington with familiarity, Howard went on: “Say, do you remember that won derful set of ivory chessmen my old man bought?" nenmngton smiled and nodded. "Yes. sir; I do. indeed. Ah, your father is a fine art critic!’’ Howard burst into boisterous laugh ter. "Art critic!" he exclaimed. "I should say he was. He’s a born critic. He can criticise any old thing —every old thing. I don't care what it is, he can criticise it. ‘When in doubt —criticise,' is nailed on father’s es cutcheon." Bowing with mock cour tesy to each he raised the glass to his lips and said: “Here's how!" Bennington laughed good humored ly, and turned to go. “Well, good night, Mr. Jeffries. Good night, Mr. Underwood." Underwood followed the manager to the door. “Good night!" he said gloomily. CHAPTER VI. The door slammed, and Underwood returned to the sitting room. Taking no notice of Howard, he walked over to the desk, slowly selected a cigar and lighted it Howard looked up at liim foolishly, not knowing what to say. His frequent libations had so befuddled him that he had almost for gotten the object of his visit "Excuse my butting in, old chap,” he stammered, "but—" Underwood made no answer. How ard stared at him in comic surprise, j He was not so drunk as not to be able to notice that something was wrong. "Say. old fellow," he gurgled; "you're a regular Jim Dumps. Why so chopfallen, so—? My! what a long face! Is that the way you greet a classmate, a fellow frat? Wait till you hear my hard-luck story. That’ll cheer you up. Who was it said: 'There's nothing cheers us up so much as other people’s money?’ ” Reaching for the whisky bottle, he went on: “First I’ll pour out another drink. You see, I need g»urage, old man. I’ve got a favor to ask. I want some money. I not only want it—I need it." Underwood laughed, a hollow, mock ing laugh of derision. His old class- ! mate had certainly chosen a good time to come and ask him for money. How ard mistook the cynical gayety for good humor. "I said I’d cheer you up,” he went on. "I don’t want to remind you of that little matter of two hundred and fifty bucks which you borrowed from me two years ago. I suppose you've forgotten it, but—” A look of annoyance came over Un derwood’s face. “Well, what of it?” he snapped. Howard took another drink before he continued. “I wouldn't remind you of the loan, old chap; but I'm up against it. When the family kicked me out for marry ing the finest girl that ever lived, my father cut me off with a piking allow ance which I told him to put in the church plate. I told him I preferred independence. Well,” he went on with serio-comic gravity, “I got my in dependence, but I'm—I'm dead broke. You might as well understand the situ ation plainly. I can't find any busi ness that I'm fitted for, and Annie threatens to go back to work. Now, you know I can’t stand anything like that. I'm too much of a man to be supported by any woman.” He looked toward Underwood in a stupid kind of way, as if looking tor some sign of approval, but he was dis appointed. Underwood’s face was a study of supreme indifference. He did not even appear to be listening. Some what disconcerted, Howard again raised the glass to his lips, and thus refreshed, went on: “Then I thought of you, old chap. You’ve made a rousing success of it— got a big name as art collector—made lost of money and all that—” Underwood impatiently interrupted him. “It's impossible, Jeffries. Things are a little hard with me, too, just now. You’ll have to wait for that $250.” Howard grinned. “ 'Taint the $250, old man, I didn’t want that. I want a couple of thou sand.” Underwood could not help laughing "A couple of thousand? Why not make it a million?” Howard’s demand struck him as be ing so humorous that he sat down con vulsed with laughter. Looking at him stupidly, Howard helped himself to another drink. “It seems I’m a hit,” he said with a grin. Underwood by this time had recov ered his composure. “So you’ve done nothing since you left college?” he said. “No." answered Howard. “I don't seem to get down to anything My ideas won't stay in one piaee. I got a job as time-keeper, but 1 didn't keep it down a week. 1 kept the time all right, but it wasn't the right time.” Again raising the glass to hfs lips, he added: "They're so beastly particu lar.” "You keep pretty good time with that.” laughed Underwood, pointing to the whisky. Howard grinned in drunken fashion. "It’s the one thing I do punctually," he hiccoughed. "I can row, swim, play tennis, football, golf and polo as well as anybody, but I’ll be damned if I can do anything quite as well as I can do this.” “What do you want $2,000 for?" de manded Underwood. "1've got an opportunity to go into business. I want $2,000 and I want it deuced quick." Underwood shrugged his shoulders. “Why don't you go home and ask your father?” he demanded. His visitor seemed offended at the suggestion. '^'hat!” he exclaimed, with comic surprise, “after being turned out like a dog with a young wife on my hands! Not much—no. I’ve injured their pride. You know father married a second time, loaded me down with a stepmother. She’s all right, but she's so confoundedly aristocratic. You know her. Say, didn't you and she— wasn’t there some sort of an engage ment once? Seems to me I—” Underwood rose to his feet and ab ruptly turned his back. “I'd rather you wouldn’t get person al," he said curtly. Sitting down at a desk, he began to rummage with some papers and, turning impatiently to Howard, he said: “Say, old man. I'm very busy now. You’ll have to excuse me." If Howard had been sober, he would have understood that this was a pret ty strong hint for him to be gone, but in his besotted condition, he did not propose to be disposed of so easily. Turning to Underwood, he burst out with an air of offended dignity: “Underwood, you wouldn't go back on me now. I’m an outcast, a pariah, a derelict on the ocean of life, as one of my highly respectable uncles wrote me. His grandfather was an iron pud dler." With a drunken laugh he went on: "Doesn’t it make you sick? I’m no good because I married the girl. If I had ruined her life I’d still be a decent member of society.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) . Have School for Brides ... English Institution That Really Has a Great Deal to Be Said in Its Favor. A school for brides Is the latest Eng- ! lish educational enterprise and as the brides are taught domestic economy and housewifery there ought to be re- i joicing in that country of unskilled cooks and incompetent housekeepers. The new school calls Itself the Col- j lege of Housecraft and though It Is ' founded in the hope that newly mar ried young women and girls about to enter matrimony will patronize it It is open to other women. At present besides prospective brides there are ordinary middle class girls who have been well educated and are trained in sports and accomplishments but are lacking in rudimentary knowledge of home making. In many cases they are planning to go to the colonies or to take some position in domestic service after they have gained a knowledge of I housewifery. 1 The college Is arranged like a reg ular bouse and run without any serv ants. The pupils do all the work- Six j months is the full course, but shorter terms are arranged as in the case of the society women, while some stu dents are allowed to come as day workers or can attend special classes. The students wear a plain uniform of brown linen with mob cap and linen apron in the morning and of brown cashmere with muslin cap and apron in the afternoon. They sleep 1 in little curtained ■ibicles. but those who wish it can ve separate bed rooms at an additional charge ol 11.25 a week. Grub Street’s Pawnshop. If the Avant is not the oldest and best known pawnshop in the world it deserves to be. It has been in exist ence ever since the days of Shake speare and Ben Johnson. It is in Fleet street—Grub street—and has been the poor writer’s uncle for all these centuries and years. It has an old legend something like this: “Old Literary Friends Never Forgotten.” There are many souvenirs, sayings and traditions of the greatest men on earth, who. going broke, had to patronise IL Outside of its own name it is well known as the "Grub Street Pawnshop.”—London Mail. MANY EXCELLENT QUALITIES OF PURE-BRED JERSEY COW Reasons for Claim That Animal Is Superior to All Others Is Her Ability to Produce Butter and Cheese Eco nomically and Records Made in Many Tests Gives Her Reputation That Is Indisputable. Prize Winning Jersey Cow. After a lifetime spent in learning j the business of keeping cows I do not j hesitate to say to the young man 1 reared on a farm: "Farm; and if you farm, keep stock; and if you keep stock, keep cows; and if you keep cows, keep Jersey cows,” writes H. S. Chapman in the Breeder's Gazette. Of course, I add to this, “If you keep Jersey cows, keep registered Jersey cows. My reasons for maintaining that the Jersey cow is superior to all others as a Butter cow are as fol lows: Her ability to produce butter and cheese economically stands undisput ed. Her record in many public tests, including the Chicago, St. Louis and Portland expositions, has given her the reputation, enviable and indisput able. of being the world's greatest but ter cow. The extra size of the fat globules in Jersey milk renders the butter of superior grain and firmness and more easily separated from the cream. The Jersey cow has the function df assimilation developed to a greater degree than any other breed. She is a high-grade specialist as a feeder She will give profitable returns from a ration so rich (concentrated) that other cows can not assimilate it. It is this ability to stand force-feeding that has brought the Jersey out ahead in so many public tests. This is a merit of the Jersey that can profitably be taken advantage of in a working dairy herd. In the herd in which the rais ing of stock is the primary considera tion I would keep a little closer to na ture, even at the risk of surrendering to some extent the meritorious quali ties that artificial conditions have pro duced. Superiority in numbers makes the Jersey a more practical animal than her rivals. The animal that naturally is matched against the Jersey is the Guernsey. The Guernsey has her good points and doubtless merits the friends she has won. If you like Guernseys better than Jerseys, that may be a reason why you may succeed better with them. I am frank to ad mit that my personal preference for Jerseys doubtless has been a factor in my success with Jerseys. But setting aside personal likes and dislikes, it is far easier for the beginner to start with Jerseys, because so many more bulls of that breed are kept than of Guernseys. Consequently, there is far less excuse for inbreeding, and the breeder easily can find the bloodlines that he needs in his herd without the expense of frequently buying a bull. Another point in favor of the Jersey cow is her medium-small site. Ex periments have proved that it re quires about 2 pounds of balanced ration per day to sustain each 100 pounds of an animal's live weight; the dairy products and gain in live weight are made from what feed can be assimilated In excess of "the sus taining ration. Then if the 900-pound cow will produce as much dairy prod uct in 10 years as will the 1,400-pound cow, can we afford to carry this extra 500 pounds of live weight for a term of 10 years at a cost of 36,500 pounds of feed, just for the extra 500 pounds of poor beef we would have at the end of that time? Just the item of extra cost of barn room for the larger ani mal for the 10 years would overbal ance the value of the extra amount of beef. However, if there is such a thing as a practical dual-purp(*e cow it is to be found in some of the fam ilies of large Jerseys. The popular demand for large cows made it necessary for me to carry a family of large Jerseys during the last 20 years. This family of cows weighed from 1,200 to 1,300 pounds each, but in our families of smaller cows we had a far greater proportion that would make 2 pounds of butter per day, and they would do it on less feed. Farms of United States. It is estimated that the farms of the United States with all they con tain in the way of livestock and im provements are worth about $30,000, 000. VESTIBULE IN THE HOG HOUSE An Iowa subscriber, Mr. Horace Carter, sends the following suggestion to the Homestead, which involves the use of a vestibule in a hog house in cold weather. "Many hog houses are made very cold in winter through hav ing a door left open for the hogs to go in and out and even in case a swing door is used the wind will blow through. All draft is shut off by means of a vestibule constructed as follows: Place a small shed 3x5 feet in front of the door to the hog house. This can easily be removed in warm ■ ■■ ■ 1 ■ ■■■ ■ weather and used for several winters. The doors are made of old carpets or burlap or any old cloth handy with a strip of wood on the bottom to keep it straight. Hogs will very readily learn to pass through them. In teaching them pin one side of the curtain up, leaving a small hole, and after awhile the curtain can be let down entirely and they will go through Just the same. The curtains may be made to serve two purposes by keeping them saturated with coal oil or some dip for lice. NEW HILL ONION IS BIG FAVORITE Particularly Adapted to Severe Cold of Northern Winters and Free From Ravages of " Onion Maggot.” (By F. L. ROBINSON.) The potato, or hill, onion is becom ing more and more a general favorite because it will stand the severe cold of northern winters, and also because of its freedom from the ravages of the "onion maggot.” Besides, of Its very tender and delicate flavor. Sets planted in the fall will produce marketable bulbs the nest June or early in July, and will bring a desir able price. The large bulbs planted in the spring make sets by the fall, so mak ing it necessary for the onion-grower to save mature bulbs for spring plant ing. in order to keep up his supply of sets. The mature bulbs should be stored In layers In a dry and well-ventilated j place. The Care of Lambs. At eight to ten days of age lambs will begin to eat. At that time a creep should be built which will give them access to a feed box containing grain and a trough with hay Box trough and feed should alwavs be kept sweet and clean. A good grain ration for lambs is made as follows: Mix one-third part of oilmeal with one part each of bran oats and fine cornmeal. Red alfalfa hay or the second cutting of alfalfa hay are the most desirable form of roughage. Of the two alfalfa Is to be much preferred. It *s a good idea to keep up the grain feed right along until the lambs are sent to market. By so doing the iambs are kept fat all the time and are ready to be turned into cash on short notice should the market take a sudden rise. Navsi Oranges. It Is said that navel oranges sprung from a single tree that was found growing on the northern shore of the Mediterranean sea. nearly J50 rears ago. I Ifbried Beef|| Old Hickory Smoked || Highest Quality A v/i Finest Flavor M 8 Try This Recipe II To the contents of \Ik one medium size jar of §\ Libby’s Sliced Dried Beef, I I add one tablespoonful of Ik butter, then sprinkle ilA 11 with one tablespoonful 11 W of flour and add one-half I I Hi cup of cream. Cook 5 J/i minutes and serve on VI toast. fl Ask for Libby’s in the \I. I sealed glass jars. tlA At All Grocers 11 'Libby, McNeill & Libby Q® i Chicago * A halting speech may be the result of a lame excuse. Garfield Tea corrects constipation by arousing the digestive organs to their in tended activity. Composed of Herbs. But few novels are written for think ing people; most of them are written for the entertainment of women. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of | In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria So Familiar. “Yes.” said Nagget, "a woman us ually treats her husband as the aver age servant treats bric-a-brac.” “Go ahead.” said the wise Mrs. Nag get. “What's the answer?” “Why. the more he's worth the more she tries to break him." Australia Rich in Libraries. Victoria's (Australia) five hundredth free library was opened lately. One and all of the older libraries are well patronized. The gross revenue re ceived by them in the aggregate from halls, members’s subscriptions, and grants is about $340,000. There are about a million books in these libra ries, and it was claimed that some thing like 3,500.000 visits are paid to them in the year. While works of fic tion are read to the greatest extent, general literature and history receive a good deal of attention. Properly Thankful. Clark Howell of Atlanta tells of the sad case of an elderly darky In Georgia, charged with the theft ot some chickens. The negro had the misfortune to be defended by a young and inexperienced attorney, although it Is doubtful whether any one could have secured his acquittal, the com mission of the crime having been | proved beyond all doubt. The darky received a pretty severe sentence. | "Thank yo’, sah," said he cheerfully, addressing the judge when the sen j tence had been pronounced. 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