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CHAPTER XVI3I.—
*> •' •mfcrHjr.'' fee *j, saying, stilt
** b k~- ~ri! seer- • smile “I d- .a t
w tug j«; Ha* joo'fe cttri
'dr C«u»i I d:l bate the devil's
**ai «**» »;,*h a:« eyes iff a a false
•s.4 *»> »~d I d mj- sight • t»ure
I. ! tmmtr’U went al-- id oa ta-ir
' ■!' »~k*- < »ne -tf the few b».n- »:
■ »' 'is* ! bead. l v the live—it you
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il. . -ia rang bt terly in Coast s
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« :* 1 found ray s:re: Rill of tis.oc
r ■ 'i.:.- !'u* wa; t - iu|e .rant? amused
Ab t.’ih.- the make > litre; it »a»
• Be ^ —i> ct-.eXTing lor a time 1 re
• tied • jv ’.deration 'hat I wouldn't
* ‘ t> -t'h* .»:-e. axd ! taw a lot I
’ • V|* '1«( to tee, .UO then.
- »• I le»L to see more and
’to are > leartjr. ! realized tie immense
adva’ ir • it wouiu give tae to keep
* I reiand.ns . . . You can figure
. ’ ?<» »—K. from )ojr o«a i.dica
*t*u* ***|ierSe»ce “
A i». dark f. 4 colored Coasts
e Tb*w. he asked a trace thick
-hr are >(« giving >ourself away
Mr* Y
IWaat* it diverts: me cvtraor
i rtanlf , lij jour !■ ire,* H!at kstone
n *4 fcta. with ca>uwc»-iled amusement.
Voor r >r> n-d look. Tour annoyance
It's rii a. mj 1 ft is! Besides.
Iks tier-- fit* n« k"* ;«ing job in the
s>rY» e‘ :tii*at*-d in an hotir. my
g dd» o ’- «d •- me*, I'll be bidding
> jo a i' --d fare we!: it* been a very
I -or !: -C" »S:,- t: aud I c:
Y wr! ei cbhsat-d j yon lor mat
let i i rfc an i: c *:.;uata a** of > our.-ei:
t«r !ij ’ -b at bet -he curtain * about
' rr >* : Hi-B'r *hese epilogue'
'dual. , ..id Cot d. slowly, uo you
flunk jou ne *t.T“
Ij, | m announcing to
f m~ Rkxbf • k }awie-d uffectedlr
t he ! ..n ti . t- : ." lie continued w ith
n» wdueg ; »!.+• oi candor. “I'm
a ui but 4 by tfe..- :»!#ce. It's served
»• - fl'ttjri-* w. 1 ehOOgfe—I owe it D'»
l-artt abut and I've had icy
Biiig down her and made my bit of
«-ad} merer bsr bow—no thanks to
•■si. by ’he bye bis heck of the
« *d* i» growing a trace too hot lor
'v So I'm going U* beat it and leave
ftm cork of the rood"
Yon mean you're going to try to
e.-c ajs- in that cat boat T~ Coast nodded
tow: -d -k exalt in question with-cut
feSBoung feu regard from B’ackstock
1 ost tub? Never--r-r! No—inquisl
tiis * t ut I don t rultid—Cm going to go
awij from here in a nice little, tight
.;t'i« ce tor-boat that's now t g the way
dons from New Bedford, kindu si oi
the as*e irw-c 1* who sent me the
» ursair— which you Interfered with
i: f'jr that shell out there. I guess
no*’”
bUckstuck
Then why . . ~
“See tor tobrti If."
? 044-4.
t'oitti ijrnt'd -o look -retaining with
•toe ci: • -:tjr t - srs>;> ;;pjn tin- do*
■UK IntermiUeatiy whi'e Black
►iom ta ».*-d »h«- blind f*ol!i*? had been
•nakin* vicious tIMnjiU to 1 reak
*»»>. .-ri-arentiy Infuriated by tbe
•nan • harsh and ot<!<i:.ic accents.
And tn.-< b„*n: ••.*> Coast had been re
nt raining hits
indistinctly in the failing light he
tuari - on! tbe lull. gaunt figure of the
' ; s . : • . - a *i’h lift-4 arms on
tihe fiui.v: -- ot tr Ih-u* preparing to
dive, and he r-t.-iied a vague iutpres
•don tb.» ilie boat i ell was riding
lower ia th- water. .v first fi(. failed
'» tm-b- th*- co-ace 'ion letw-en the
• *o Tie*, a* he m a - cei. Chang
leapt iigi.t:» up and out. turned in
wiitt nd e®ie:i*d the water as neat
ly as an arrow, with barely a per
reptibie j-plash
"Ton see.” commented Plackstock
With a note of Impatience. “1 though
I'd rfesst at least one lord* n from
your already overstrained ictelll
***«•'
tils insolence farm-d to a flame
the smoldering resentment in Coast's
bosom W hat the devil are you *et
itn* at V be demanded hotly.
- too.' returned Hlackstock. un
moved ~l had an idea you were mak
ing sheeps eye* at my little boat, so
I decided to deliver you from tempta
r*on and sent Chan* out to scuttle
tor 4 ■*"?!» matter—watch her set
time ao»' —jast a strong twist cf tile
wris- and nut corues our bilge plug
and in comes th- water and—down
she goes!”
Coast, choking with despair and
race. ;n silence saw the prediction ver
itied to its bitterest letter. Then he
swung back to his tormentor, qutver
ir.e w h indignation even as the dog
u- h- id quivered and strained against
restraint
Itatun >ou'“ h-- cried despite him
seif
lCa« ksto. h la :ghcd again, by all
’ 'Inns en ■ tit; hunsell immensely.
Hut «i.. !** he asked lightly “Why
■ a:un me far tak us a simple meas
re towerd self-preservation—obeying
N tune's first lav., and all that sort ot
• g 1 v. ant you to stick here un
:■ rr.iw n ’-c;n;. at the earliest: i
' gives ti e u chance to make a
■ '• at: £. t aw:i\ Why should I ieave
he means gum up my plans? ,
i .. • ks i ni many kinds of a loo!. 1
know, but not that bad!"
You'it never leave this island free.”
Coast mutteted
Eh. what's that* Oh. you think
• so? IV- eve me my gay gallant.
I n * se to ai you're banking on. It's
ti e you had nte g\essing for a time '
—i wasi; ; s'.ri about you at first;
imiuatur- i e .rd you've been grow
"g recently is quite some disguise.
Just cow—merely satisiitU .
the case. . . . Well, as 1 was sa>u..
I worked the wireless pretty stead
ily—was happy enough to pick up a
message to the Scylla—a revenue cut
ter. I take it—ordering her here to |
bust up a nest cf smugglers, and !
spiked that gun with another m?e- ■
usage. a couple of hours later, revoking 1
The order as being based on false in- i
formation And. finally. I got my j
friends on the mainland to make up ft
little party to fetch me off. So. ail
things being pleasant as afternoon
tea. I came down to gloat over you a
little. Hope you don’t mind."
"Why.” said Coast—"since you’d
made up your mind about me—why •
did you held off this long” To laugh
at me?”
“Partly. Mr. Coast, partly. There
were other reasons. One was I don't
bear you any ill-will; which you’ll
allow is pretty decent of me. consid
ering the rotten way I've treated you.
I don't kill in cold blood without a
pretty good reason Van Tuy’s
mouth had to be shut, you know—or
rather, you don't know why. and
likely never will; and Power was
threatening to split on the game here,
so he had to be taken care of. But
you . . . I'll be candid: to begin
with your life wasn’t worth a tallow
dip; ! made up n:y mind to eliminate
you w ith neatness and dispatch— I
when your bark was turned, for
choice. But then I began fa think
the game was about up. so far as No
Man's Land was concerned So. what
was the use of making a bad matter
messy? You were harmless, and I
didn't hate you hard enough to want
you murdered—unless you made it
necessary. So I voted for the laugh
instead of the funeral."
"Do you think for an instant I in
tend to let you go?”
"You? What've you got to say
about it? Don't be silly: I'm going—
"You Can Figure It Out Yourself."
i te.-id-> you’d changed your way
talking: his lordship's languid
: *1 was missing; and you look like
any other ordinary mutt, out of your
y c ubes—but I got your num
r in due course of tinje That
ak r> i made about the gin when
- !:i.g my biuif about knowing
■ ; !e 1 ’ the f- < 1 of th«*ir laces—
> no .. t yourself then, and 1 hadn't
it n:« • doubts 1 did some tall fig
.-nag he; re i sot completely hep. but
a lit'!- work v.ifh wireless rounded
fh -pry on'. You sj e. you had the
y. rn ot the t'orsair's troubi* down too
and glib for it to be without a
t a:n of truth; you gave n:e that
t:- :■ to g on. . . . And then—
we!1, we knew one man certainly, and
prot. bly two. had b-en on the island
| in *he fog yesterday morning and
but*r-d in on ti:» funeral obsequies of
:ny ill advised young assistant. Power,
and it didn’t seem in reason they'd
content to let the matter rest at
that—specially after going to the
| tremble of breaking Chang's head in
return for being shot at. ... So I
g t busy, as I say. and the fog help
tig I fixed things up very prettily.
1 warned Yoorhis—he's sloping for
safety now; sent the tug after the
Corsair, unhappily too late—it's evi
dent your friend, the Secret Service
sleuth-“
“How did yeti guess that?" Coast
demanded huskily.
"Considering what I've been up to.
wiat was the Wiliest guess? I
wa-n't sure until vou gave it away
I and not to the electric chair, either.
I shall just quietly drop out of your
ken for good and all—and some day
you'll be grateful. Look what a cute
little island I'm making you a pres
ent of—God knows I've no further use
lor it; you're welcome. Same way
with my wife: I was rather fond of
her, once, but now you can have her.
Of course there'll be some delay
about the blessed respectability end
■ of it—the divorce—grounds—deser
j tinn—and all that—hut, still, if you're
half as keen a lover as you are a
fool-"
' You contemptible hound!”
"Steady, there!" Blackstoek's voice
dropped to a dangerous key. “Re
member-”
He found no time to finish. As he
spoke Coast, beside himself, released
■ the dog and whirled the tiller above
his head. With a grunt Blackstock
j stepped back, tugging at the weapon
in liis pocket; but before he could
drop it the dog, free and frantic with
j hatred, launched itself like a bolt for
his throat and, blind though i: was.
I springing by instinct toward the
sound of his voice, found its mark.
Coast's .bludgeon, sweeping for his
head with deadly accuracy, none the
less missed its mark, so quickly the
dog staggered and carried Blackstock
off bis feet.
In a twinkling they were down.
Blackstock underneath, grappling
madly with the frenzied collie whose
jaws were snapping wickedly at his
j throat.
•TO BE CONTINUED.)
Marble Quarries in Italy
Though Wsstefully Operated for 2.0G3
Years, the Supply Is Still
Inexhaustible.
Twenty centuries ago men were
digging out the side of the Apuan
mountain.', in Italy, for as far back
as that time they realized what could
be done with the marble which com
poses so much of this mountain range
The mines or quarries are only with
in a few square miles of territory, but
an army of 6,000 men and boys are
continually -* ir earnings
northwestern Italy. No one knows
how much marble is contained in this
range of Italian mountains. Though
they have been opened for 2,000 years,
and, as stated, the mining methods
are attended with enormous waste, it
is known that vast beds of the marble
still exist. By digging longer and
longer tunnels and shafts an inex
haustible supply can be obtained, for
the beds are so extensive that some
supporting
people of
of the mines are worked at a height
of over a mile above the sea. while
many of the workings are over 2.000
feet above the sea. This is a great
advantage to the Italians, however. .
because methods are still In use in
quarrying and getting out the marble
which are hundreds of years old. But
little advantage has been taken of
the modern labor-saving machinery,
such as electric and compressed air
drills and saws, the principal tools
being steel bars and chisels, mallets,
while not only dynamite but gun
powder is placed in big holes, ex- i
ploded. and frequently the side of the !
mountain will be so shattered by the
explosion that the waste marble is i
much more than the block which is 5
loosened.—Albert Wilheim in Cassier’s
Magazine.
The Other Extreme.
"I haven't enough money to startle
society with my gowns." "In that case.
I why not go in for barefoot dancingr
GREAT CANAL NEARING COMPLETION
A W
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Our photograph shows one of the immense loc* chambers of the Panama canal
pieted.
at Mlrafiores nearly com
DOCTORS UP BOOKS
New York Woman Chooses Odd
Profession.
Receives Calls and Makes Visits Like
Any Physician. With All Book
Lovers as Clientele—At
tends Great Libraries.
New York—Miss Janet C. Lewis
bas taken up a work which, ia ail
probability, is the most novel profes
sion ia the country. She is a book
lector. That is literal, for she re
ceives her calls and attends her pa
rents in much the same fashion as
iitv other doctor. The diseases to
which she ministers are various, and
inly too well known to librarians who
have to deal with old and valuable
hooks. The chief of these is dry rot
cr disintegration, due to various
causes.
The use of sulphuric acid in tan
ring. may be an excellent preventive
tor worms, but. on the ether hand,
leather so treated soon loses its natur
al oil.
The present conditions in nearly all
libraries do not tend to preserve old
md valuable bindings. Direct sun
shine is one of the most potent factors
in disintegration, as are also gas and.
to a lesser degree, electricity. The
best way to secure good, fresh ven
tilation and a proper supply of light,
n bile barring the sunlight, is to have
the windows and globes of the lights
tinted red. green or yellow. Green
lives the best results.
Glass fronts. Miss Lewis says, are
■ not advisable, since they prevent the
| free circulation of air. which is es
! sential for proper ventilation. Ex
cessive dampness is as much to be
shunned by the librarian as excess of
• stacking room.
Miss Lewis uses in her work an old
! preparation which is based on a secret
formula willed to her by an old Ger
man librarian, a great friend of hers,
who died a few years ago. To this
recipe she added certain lubricants
with whose properties she was con
versant and evolved her present prep
aration. It is of the consistency of
vaseline or petrolatum, and almost
Mack in color. The original recipe
had been handed down from father to
1 son in a family of book lovers and li
brarians. and previous to coming in'o
the hands of Miss Lewis had been
used effectively in various European
libraries.
Miss Lewis star-ed her work some
eight years ago. and since then has
treated most of the great New- York
libraries with success, including in
her long list the New York Rar asso
ciation. the Avery library at Columbia
| university, the private collection of
J. P. Morgan and the library of the
Metropolitan museum. In addition to
being a book doctor. Miss Lewis is a
practical llibrarian. having been in j
charge of the Richard Hunt collection
for many years before taking up her
present work. She finds that she can
no longer continue her work unaided
and now has a corps of assistants
book lovers as she is herself, whom
, she chooses with the utmost care and
who have become very expert in the
work.
FASHION CURSE TO THE RACE
Missouri Lecturer Declares Vanity Is
Basis for Much of Our
Poverty.
Kansas City. Mo—The whole gain
of modern civilisation in science, in
dustry and the art of living has been
more than lost by the waste in the
ceaseless pursuit of fashion, according
to assertions by Prof. H. J. Daven
port in one of the series of lectures of
the University of Missouri extension
here.
"There !s no cure for poverty when
all surplus energy is dissipated in
show." declared Professor Davenport.
'Fashion today is a compound of fool
ish pride and foolish flunkeyistn. If
the social leaders have chosen a new
costume or a new trick akimboiits:
ik :r arms or of drawling their w ords
all the social small fry must take the
cue therefrom. A part of the life of
the best of us is set as a burnt offer
ing for vanity.
"So long as our desires fix them
selves in the gratification of vanity we
shall fad that all our possessions are
dead sea fruit and our life is weari
ness."
His Wife Lcved Him Too Much.
Chicago.—John Reekinger. when
brought before the court of domestic
relations, told the judge that he left
his wife because her continued dis
play of affection for him became very
tiresome. She even followed him to
his office -«*-i <nt*rfer*d with his busi
ness
USE ENGINE IN THIEF CHASE
Railway Policeman Orders Engineer
to Pursue Thief and Makes a
Capture After a cight.
Oakland. Cal.-£Pressing Into serv
ice a switch engine. J. J. O'Connor,
state railway policeman, pursued a
burglar along the rails on the Oakland
mole, caught up with the man after
a four blocks' chase, engaged hint in
a hand to hand encounter and finally
subdued and arrested him. The pris
oner is Kd Rensen, and he is in jail
charged with petty larceny.
The capture was made late last
night. O'Connor noticed Rensen and
another man removing about one hun
dred feet of lead pipe from a freight
car at the Oakland mole. He ordered
the men to halt, but they took to their
heels and ran down the footpath along
the rails. O'Connor followed, but the
men were too fleet for him.
Seeing that he had no chance of
capturing them on foot, he ran over
to a tram which was being switched
about and ordered the engine driver
to assist him. The train started alter
the burglars with O'Connor in the en
gine cab. When the engine was
a1 reast of the fugitives O'Connor
jumped off. He sought to arrest Ren
sen. but the latter fought. O'Connor
was the stronger in the scuffle and
downed and handcuffed his man. In
the meantime the other man disap
peared in the darkness.
Exonerated for Death.
Springfield. Ohio.—A jury acquitted
Pearl Elder, white, charged with man
slaughter for the killing of James San
ford, a negro, alleged paramour of El
der's mother, September 2S. 1910.
Brave Diver Saves the Ship
Goes Under Water Amid Sharks
to Fix Propeller.
Boards Up a Hole Made in Boat by
Storm in the Gulf of Mexico and
Enables British Vessel to
Reach Its Port.
San Francisco.—One of the most re
markable feats ever performed by a
i diver is related by the offices and
crew of the British sloop of war
Shearwater, which is undergoing re
pairs at the Union Iron works. J P.
Ijrgane. a young Irish shipwright.
! boarded up the prope”er well while
the vessel was rolling in heavy seas
and so enabled her to make the voy
age to this port.
The Shearwater was cruising off the
coast of Mexico w*hen in a storm she
lost her propeller. Resort was imme
diately had to her sails, but it was
I found that steering was almost im
possible. because the big arch or well
! ".nder the stern in which the propeller
had revolved made the rudder's work
ineffectual. The officers decided that
if they were to bring the ship to port
this well must be hoarded up.
Lingane was sent down to do the
work. Though hampered by his heavy
diving suit and by the weight of wa
ter. he was able to adjust himself to
the had roiling of the ship and to
handle the heavy timbers that were
passed to him. He fastened the boards
so securely that they had only shifted
in one place when the Shearwater
I
reached this port, even though she had
: been battered by heavy seas on the
way. Naval men have given high
praise to the young man for what he
did and a special report on it has been
sent to the British admiralty.
A trial to the nerves of the young
diver while he was at work was the
i presence of several sharks, which at
! times swam close to him. Armed men
j on the warship, however, kept them
from attacking him.
GIRL GOES INTO A CAISSON
Clad in Gyrr Costume. Overalls and
Jumper. Miss Ruth Kenny Watch
es'Cinking of Piers.
—
Kansas City. Mo.—Miss Ruth Ken
ney. teacher of mathematics in the
Rosedale high school, descended the
narrow, muddy ladder to the bottom
i of the pneumatic caisson which is be
ing used to build the foundation for
the James street bridge in Kansas
j City. Kan., and remained half an hour
thirty feet below the bed of the Kaw
; river.
Miss Kenney wore her gymnasium
costume and over that a pair of over
alls and jumper, just like the "mud
hogs” who work down in the slime at
the base of the piers.
She had been told by the foreman
; just how to take a full breath and
| slowly exhale, so as not to be affected
by the air pressure.
“Often I have read how these piers
are sunk." she said, “but I never bad
| an opportunity before to inspect one
1 in course of construction.”
Costly Joke on Detective
Philadelphian Took Seaman on Leave
for Deserter From United
States Navy.
Philadelphia. Pa.—As a result of a
boast that he was a deserter from the
navy. Owen Martin, a seaman on the
battleship Idaho, at League island, was
arrested in Pittsburg, and brought
back to his vessel two days before his
leave of absence had expired, while
the detective who paid the expenses
of bringing him back to his ship in
the hope of obtaining the customary
reward of $60, returned to Smoky City
without the money, a sadder but wiser
man. Martin had been visiting his
home in Sellersville, 111-, and was on
his way tack to Philadelphia when the
Incident occurred. In a spirit of fun
he declared that he had deserted the
Idaho several weeks previous.
Without w-aiting to write or tele
graph to the Idaho for particulars, the
detective, whose name is Miller, took
Martin into custody and boarded the
first train for this city. Martin de
nied that he was a deserter, stating
that he had made the assertion in fun,
1 but Miller was obdurate and insisted
on accompanying him back to his
1 ship.
Arriving on board the Idaho at
league island the defective found that
Martin had been on a leave of ab
sence and still had two days to his
credit before reporting for duty. Miller
could only retire as gracefully as pos
sible. while the crew of the Idaho
gleefully bombarded him with pota
toes.
Child Slid Down Pipe to Furnace.
Altoona, Pa.—While looking for his
mother's thimble. Morris, the two-year
old son of Robert Templeton, stepped
into a hot-air pipe this wek and slid
down to the furnace. His mother,
frantic with fear that he had been
roasted alive, tore down the pipe, and
found that the child had saved him
self by making a wedge of his arms
TRAMP SEIZES A FINE HOME
Leavenworth. Kan, Caretakers Make
Odd Discovery at Cheever
House.
Leavenworth, Kan.—When caretak
j ers for the house cn Miami street for
! merly occupied by Col. and Mrs. Ben
| jamin H. Cheever and now owned by
: Mrs. Cheever entered they found that
a tramp had taken possession. The
house is richly furnished and has
been without a tenant except the
tramp. He had slept on the spotless
linen in the massive brass beds, wash
! ed his hands in marble basins, waltzed
: with his brogans on the oriental rugs,
eaten from silver plate and drunk
from cut glass goblets.
Cans of imported dainties were
robbed of their contents and cob
webbed bottles taken from their musty
; hiding places is the cellar bins.
New Ambassador Sails.
Xew York.—Former Gov. Myron T.
Herr*~k, recently appointed ambassa
dor to France, sailed for that country
with Mrs. Herrick.
BIG GOAL DEPOSITS
Rutsian Scientific Explorer Tells
of Sakhalin.
Declares Its Agricultural Possibilities
Are Small, but Says There Is Good
Pasture for Cattle—Deep Bor
ings Made for Naphtha.
St. Petersburg.—Sakhalin, the for
lorn easternmost island of the Russian
empire—once the grimmest of convict
settlements, and now. since the Ports
mouth treaty. Japanese territory in its
southern part—is attracting consider
able scrutiny as to its natural re
j sources. Russia is doing much to
; open up her Amur territory, and the
process would be helped if Sakhalin,
t "the cork of the Amur bottle." were to
prove an economic asset. A Russian
scientific explorer. M. Polovoy. has jus:
given the St. Petersburg Geographical
society an estimate of its resources.
Facade of Government Buildings.
Its agricultural possibilities ho rates
as low, but there is good pasture for
cattle. The meat trade, however, is
no: organized at all. Vladivostok,
close by, gets its supplies in c-old stor
age from Australia.
Coal is probably the best of its as
certained properties. He believes
that there are at least ten million
poods of it in the island. It would
find a good market in the western
states of America, besides in Japan.
Deep borings are now in progress for
naphtha, which is in as good position
as the Itaku wells and should be abie
to compete with American petroleum
in east Asia. Gold prospecting has
not had success. There Is a great
supply of timber, of which no use
was made until in 1906 a firm begaa
tc export railway sleepers.
The population, which a dojen years
ago consisted of 20,000 Russian de{>ort
ed convicts, and about half as many
free persons, sank to about 6.000 after
the Japanese war. The convicts bad
got their liberty on condition they
volunteer for the war. Russians
sold their houses for next to nothing.
A whole village was left to caretakers
for 50 rubles. Last year the ex-con
victs who had served in the war and
returned were declared free peasants
and settled near Alexandrovsk. the
seat of government.
Sakhalin's weak side, as M. Polovoy
found it, is in its cut off condition, not
so much geographically as through
want of steam navigation. Moreover,
the coasting trade is closed against
foreign shipping. There are very few
roads into the interior, even the roads
prospected by the Russian prisons de
partment have fallen back into waste.
Harbors are scarcely to be found at
all. Labor is unskilled and there is
no ascertainable general rate of
wages. Evidently the piantlessness
that has hitherto marked the adminis
tration of the important "cork of the
Amur" will need to be changed if its
great coal and lumber resources are
to get a chance.
WONT SELL JEFFERSON HOME
Congressman Levy, Owner for 35
Years. Announces He Will Not
Dispose of Monticello.
New York.—Congressman Jefferson
51. Levy has no intention of selling
Monticello, once the home of Thomas
Jefferson, to the government or ai v
one else. The idea of the purchase of
Monticello by the government, recent
ly proposed by patriotic societies in
'iVasbington. is distasteful to him, lie
declares, in a statement given out
here
Mr. Levy has been the owner of
Monticello thirty five years and dur
ing that time the property has been
scrupulously maintained. Visitors have
been admitted to the estate freely.
Sir. Levy explains, and the condition
of the property is better than it
would be if owned by the government.
Hen Hooks a Long Ride.
Winsud. Conn.—A. Thomasion, a
grain dealer, received a car load of
baled hay from Canada this week, and
when the shipment was being unload
ed a white Leghorn hen was discov
ered between the hay tiers. Biddy
had laid several eggs while in transit.
The car containing the hay and hen
left Canada two weeks previous and
Biddy had no food or water during
that time.
Home Rule Bill Liked.
London.—John O’Callaghan, nation
al secretary of the United Irish
League of America, was the guest of
honor at a dinner given by nationalist
members of the house of commons. T.
P. O'Connor praised Premier Asquith s
bill as the best measure for home rule
ever introduced in parliament.
Promise Reduced Rates.
Liverpool.—Frank L. Brown, chair
man of several committees, sailed on
the Mauretania with the promise of
several steamship companies to grant
reduced rates for European visitors
and exhibits for the Panama-Pacific
exposition.