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preserving fruit. .
Tlir Unit Nlrm lo Hrlrrt hiiiI tl lull lUxir
Nnrtlcil.
Fruit of inoiHuin size ami high llnvor
N best for cunning. It should In fully
ripe, liul thin mill free from bruises
or lot leu .specks. Clingstone penciled
me much tlio best. Choose fruit from
ln nearest orchards Unit which has
been shlpficd a long distance seldom
pays for cunning. This Is particularly
Into of pears, which arc almost llnvor
less ipic.s ripened on tin tree. Fruit
must, lie picked Just as It begins to
turtfor, long-distance shipping, hence
1 always mom or less tiftQW"
WasTi'mid drain the frulrMiotore be
ginnlng to pare It, II It Is Hit leant
hi; dusty or sticky Pare us thin in
possible ilic burst l'nill Haver lurks
next the skin. Drop peaches last as
peeled Into a deep Jar lull of clear
li.uc w iter. This prevents llielr turn
lug lirovvn and In a measure hardens
them. Leave tliem whoK' unless too
big to go In the can. In that case,
halve, leaving the pit Hi one half.
When all are peeled, drain off the
llinc water, cover with fresh water,
rinse well ami weigh. Take half the
weight of pared fruit In granulated
sugar, put It over the lire In a pre
serving kettle, with half a pint or g. ti
ger lea. ami the Juice of a lemon to
each pound, prepared as follows; Tare
olf the yellow lemon rind before
squeezing, ami put It Willi (he fruit.
.Make the shiner ''" '' bruising half
an ounce of ginger for each pint
wanted. (ovcrlng It with boiling water
and lolling it siaud for llfteeti minutes
heroic straining.
1 toll (lie syrup live minutes, skim
ming it well at least twice, and when It
bulls hard, drop In all Hie peaches it
will cover. Leave them In until the
kettle again strikes a hall, then skim
out with a perforated skimmer ami put
into hot glass jars; Set the Jars where
they will keep hot iiulil all the fruit
has been in the syrup. Add a plat of
fresh syrup for each half gallon al
ready Used. F.rlng it to a quick boil,
skim thoroughly, and till the cans with
it boiling hot. Scatter the leimm peel
well tliiough the fruit as li is put into
the Jars. Seal after lllllng. and stand
where the cooling will lie gradual,
Washington Star..
. (,'llMIH lf A!IIKII 5lllp.
Two bundles of asparagus, one qitnrl
of white slock or water, one pint of
mill.-, one of cream, if stock Is used,
lint If water, use all cream. Three
taJilcspoonfuls of liuiter. three of Hour,
one onion, salt ami pepper Cut the
tops from one hunch of asparagus ami
cook them twenty minutes in salted
wnler to cover. The remainder of the
asparagus cool; twenty minutes In the
quart of stock or water. Oil (he onion
in Ihhi slices ami fry In the butter ten
minutes, being careful mil to burn;
then add the asparagus that has been
boiled in the stock; cook live minutes,
stirring constantly. Mien add Hour ami
enok the minutes longer. Turn this
mixture into the boiling stock ami boll
gently twenty minutes, ltub through
a sieve, add the milk ami cream which
linn Just come to a boll, ami aNo the
asparagus tips. Season with suit and
pepper ami serve.
jJjlKiJ U d Hints for tbt
Cool rain water ami soda will re
move machine grease froir washable
fabrics.
A lublespoonful of i ugar added to
mill; that is to be boiled for custard or
sauce lessens the danger of the liquid
burning.
To blanch a few almonds and put
them into soft gingerbread Just before
putting It liilo the oven makes ihe cake
mori' tasty.
Wash fabrics that are Inclined to
fade should be soaked and rinsed in
very salt water, lo set (he color, be
fore washing In the suds.
Inexpensive jule tapestries may be
had In strong, rich colorings that make
very desirable summer hanging: the
blue and the green are especially good,
Kerosene will make tin kettles as
bright as new. Salurate a woolen rag s
jiikI rub with II. It will alo remoela
Mains from the clean varnished furni
ture. '
The best way lo lake grease spots out
of carpets is to mix a little soap Into a
gallon of warm water, then mid half
an ounce of borax; wash the part well
with a clean cloth, ami the giease or
dirty spot will disappear.
Black lace may lie washed in warm
water, lo which a little borax has been
added In the proportion of a teaspoon
ful to a pint. Tills lace should never
be dried by the tire, as It will turn
rusty. To sponge it use an old black
kid glove.
All canned vegetables should be
opened ami set aside. If possible out of
duors.for some time, perhaps half an
hour, before using. Thus I ho oxygen,
removed In the process of canning, Is
restored to them, and with It much
of the fresh taste.
Heeswnx and salt will make your
rusty tlatlrous as clean and smooth
us glass. Tie a lump of wax In a rag
and keep It for that purpose. When
the Irons are hot, rub them first with
the wax rag, the scour with a paper
or cloth sprinkled with suit.
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
An
KiirIIkIi
onlcrr Wmnnl nlnut
Jlrnlli. j n
An Kngllfdi sill wan engaged l W
married t' n young American who had
been n student abroad. They had met
M Heidelberg, Jle died .iiiddetily after
returning to this country. She came
over here shortly afterward to visit his
mother. While In New York she went
to a medium. There was mi appoint
ini'iit beforehand and there was no
way by which the psychic eotlld know
who she was. Taking tier turn, she
sat down 'iy the medium, who went In
to a trance and began to speak. Im
mediately the gill's lover claimed lo be
present, lie told lor some things
which only they two had ever known,
Up recalled circumstances connected
with their acquaintance abroad. Now,
Ir'KCtfflilippciicd that this young lady's
'frttfibtvvui mi Knglish oiljeer In the
wiir"jfiHoiilh AH'tea. Ainng other
tilings which Hie young man told was
lids: lie said "I am glad that I have
been aid" to save your father's llfo
once or iwlee during the past summer."
Now conies the strange coincidence,
If coincidence It be The father wril"s
home from South Africa, being en
tirely Ignorant of all that has taken
place here, and rehitrts What seems to
It lit a somewhat rcnuirknhl" fact. He
tells how he was sitting in Ills tent
one day when there came upon him
suddenly an itmiecoiinlable Impression
that he was in danger. It was as
though some one were trying to make
hit.i feel this and Induce him In move.
So strong was the finding that he got
Up and went over to the oilier side
of Ids tent. He 'aid hardly done this
before a shell struck the chair where
he had been sifting. Had he remained
there h wniih' have been Instantly
killed. Of course. It Is not assert"d
that this Is anything inol'e than a co
Incidence; litit the (suggestion Is made
that coincidences of this soil have
been so very frequent as lo make one
womk'r as lo whether there Is not
some deeper meaning In It al.1. Minot
.1. Savage, In Alnslre's .Magazine.
Wlirnri Cmnr i:ir tl l Itv '.'
At a llmrwhen electricity Is rapidly
transforming the face of the globe,
when it has already In great nleasure
annihilated distance and bids fair to
abolish darkness for us, it is curious
10 notice how completely Ignorant
"the plain man'' remains as to the later
developments nf electrical theory.
Siiue recent correspondence has led
me to think thai a vague notion that
electricity Is n fluid which In some
i lysterloits way Mows through a tele
graph wire like water through a pipe.
Is alioiil as far as he hits got: ami If
v.'e add to this some knowledge of
what lie calls "electric shocks." we
should probably exhaust his ideas on
the subject. Yet this is not to lie
wondered at. Kvcn Hie most In
Mructcd physicists can do nothing but
guess what electricity Is. and the only
point on which they agree Is as to
what It Is not. There Is, In fact, a
perfect concensus of opinion among
scientific writers Unit It Is not a Hold,
I. c a continuous stream of ponderable
matter, as Is liquid or a gas: ami thai
11 is not a form of energy, as Is heat.
Outside this limit the scientific Imag
ination Is at liberty to roam where it
llstcth, ami although It has used this
liberty to ;t considerable extent, no
delinlte result has followed up to the
present time. -The Academy.
Tli I'Uli of llrriiiniU.
There is a great given parrotllsli"
of Itenumhi, as brilliant In color as
his namesake the bird, showing himself
boldly, ami hwlimning along slowly,
secure from any assault.' ills scales
are green as the fresh grass of spring
time, ami each one is bordered by a
pale-brown line. Ills litis are pink, ami
Ihe end of the tall is banded with
nearly every color of the rainbow. IK
Is showy, but this Khowlucss serves
him a good purpose. Ills flesh Is bit
ter ami poisonous to man, ami prob
ably so to other lishcs as well, and
I hey let him well alone, for they can
recognize him afar oil', thanks to his
candy dress.
Underneath the parrot, lying on the
bottom, is a "pink hind." You notice
him. and as the parrot passes over
him he suddenly changes to bright
scarlet, and as quickly resumes his
former faint color. Had Hie parrot
been looking for Ills diiuicr.nudthought
the hind would make a good tirst
course, this sudden change of color
might have seared him off. Just as the
sudden bristling nf a cat makes a dog
hange ids mind. When ihe hind is
disturbed al night he gives out Hashes
ot light lo startle Hie Intruder, and
s ud him away In a fright. St. Nicho-
I't t-li M-nt I'roin l,rui;iiuy.
According lo Hie report of I.'nlleil
States Consul Albert W. Swtilni, at
Montevideo, the exports of fresh meal
I roiu Hie Itiver Plate show a steady
increase. Nearly two years ago the
export of live slock from the Illver
Plate lo r.urupe was embargoed by
reason of the fool and mouih dease,
ami while die disease has disappeared
the quarantine remains. This has
caused a marked development of the
refrigerated beef Industry, so Hint
three Uw of steamers, including the
Itoyal Mall Packets, have been titled
lo carry beef In quarters to the Mngllsh
markets.
These beef exports, up to October 1,
t'.HH. have amounted to .'tlT.U'.'l quar
ters, as against 1 i:t,S.V,i for the same
period of lPOU, During the same nine
mouths 1,1 iiSO.it I 'J frozen sheep were ex
ported to llnrope. The Itiver Plate can
easily furnish from H.tMHi.otX) to l.MHi..
IHMI quarters of beef for export.
The cattle used for the trade cost an
average of $'J,". to ?."0 gold per head at
tie killing imiukej. The best sheep for
freezing cost an average of $ii per
head.
AMERICA'S PINE CATTLE
VALUE
OF SCIENCE IN BREEDING
PROVED HERE.
An Account oT tlir KtoIiiIIoii of Cntltfi In
Aiimrlrit by un JUprrMnny llrpril
foinlilnrO 111 tlieNo.Crtllnl .Vntlv'n Cul
tlr Worlf of tmiirovliic tlin llorrf.
(ienrge M. ltummel, expert in animal
husbandry of the Hurcau of Animal
Industry, says In an Agricultural De
partment bulletin. Just. Issued that
American bleeders of cattle have
equalled if in t excelled the reHtilts
reached on the other side of the
water. "Hut." he adds, "no suprem
acy of excellence, no Victory 111 show
ring or market, can cITacc the memory
of the debt America owes to those
stiirily yeomen whose ur.mes adorm
Ihe hest herd records of Kugland ami
Scotland."
Mr. Nomincl's pamphlet Is devoted to
a study of American breeds of beef
cattle. He begins at the very begin
ultiir, goluw act; to that voyage of
Columbus on which the tlrst cattle
known In Hi" Western Hemisphere are
supposed to have been In ought over,
other Spanish explorers and armed
invaders followed Culiiin'iiiVs exam
ples, bringing not only cattle but hum's
as well.
Then' was an abundance of grass
ami water, ami as the Spaniards pene
trated further into the Interior of the
country their herds In grdwln? num
bers followed tliem. I'linn these sprang
ihe native cattle of the West Indies
and Mexle.o, the long-horned steers of
Texas and the wild horses of Hie
pialns.
The next cattle Immigration . cniue
with the Portuguese t, Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia. The Kivucli, too,
introduced caltle into Arcadia and New
Prance.
These were carried Into tit" far in
terior, ami as far back as 17." j the
i'Vi'tich missionaries In Illinois pos
sessed considerable herds cf ca'HIe,
!iorsc.s and .swine.
Virginia gol her cattle from Kugland
soon after the settlement cf .lames
town, Tliey multiplied iii the Old. Do
mil. ion very rapidly, one contributing
cause being the fact that the law in
those early' days made the killing of
caille ;i crime tinlsliable with death.
The Pilgrim I-'athers began the cat
He business with three hellers am) a
bull, brought over from Kugland in the
ship Charily In HUI. New llampshiie
got her first cnUlc from Denmark.
New York from Holland, and Delaware
from Sweden, ift about the lime the
Charily lauded ihe three heifers and
the bull.
The tlrst shipment to Ihe Carollnas
was from Kugland In KiTO, while Geor
gia was the last or all llie'coloules tr,
llgure as a market for Hie Kngllsh ex
port trade in breeding cattle.
Thus It was that the l.'nlted States
gol its tlrst start in Hint cattle business
which in Hie year of grace llltW has
made it possible to have all the present
rumpus about the .Meat Trust. The
stock gathered from various parts of
Kurope were all so hopelessly inter
crossed in course of time that their
Identity was lost, with the result that
our forefathers had what were known
as the native caltle of the United
Stales, of this slock Mr. Koininel
says:
"What the native stock was like we
can best imagine from the stories of
men now old, ami from the scrub stock
Hitil Is even yet the eyesore of many
American pastures. Itluoil cf Spanish,
Swedish. French. Dutch and Kngllsh,
with, may lie. a dash of buffalo as they
wandered westward, gave this stock a
cosmopolitan character that was repre
sentative, perhaps, but hardly profita
ble1. "Lack of care by farmers, with no
Pakewell to point the way t Im
provement, brought about a type of
animal that a century has not yet
been able lo absorb."
In Hie years from 17)10 to 1K17 there
was an awakening. That was the era
of the ferineuilve stage or Anglo-Saxon
cattle breeding.
It was in 17ti0 that Hubert Hake well
began the operations which left so
lasting an impress upon the cattle
breeding business. He was the tlrst
man to practice systematic Inbreeding.
Around Ids name those of all great
improvers- of live stock group them
selves, ami from the lessons he taught
by example every breeder to this day
learns Hie fundainenlals of his craft.
He was a Leicestershire man, given
btile to talking, and not at all to writ
ing about his methods, A great deal
Hun he learned by careful experiment
lie Kepi to himself.
His aim was io secure cattle that
would fatten on the smallest amount
of food, and Ihe great success of his
an was revealed only by what he did
and not by what he told anybody to do.
This secret Mr. Itommel describes as
Inbreeding in Hie hands of a master.
i in- surest way known to secure
Improvement of stock.
mi
"Out of the dark ages of Ignorance
and Ihe scrub." says Mr. Itommel, "by
leaps ami by bounds, using what male
rial lie had at hand, ami iiiouhlln II
to his will, the Kngllsh fanner devel
oped the modem breeds; producing
lender meal where lough ami leathery
tibre had been before, paying the rent
with bis cuttle and his sheen, and In
time niiiirlbuiing very largely to the
growth of agriculture In tlie New
World."
The liuprovei it In America began
almost simultaneously with that in
Kugland. No sooner hail the Hevolu
Honary War dosed than iiniuirtiitintw
of
mproved stock began. This was
kept up until the War of 1S1'' temnor
arlly checked It.
Mr. Itommel says that the year 1S17
will always be memorable In Ameri
can cattle history, lu Hint year, fol-
lowing the Short-Horn importations
of 1812, came the beginning of the
Devon and Hereford importations, to
Kether with still another arrival of
Short-Horns.
Growth was slow up to 18U7, when
(here came renewed activity, especially
In' Short-Horns, Companies were
formed ami the Improvement of cattle
'was marked. In point of numbers the
(Short-Horn breed rapidly assumed the
foremost position, ami until the year
1880 was about the only beef or promi
nence. The expntislon or the caille business
wits rapid. Up to the opening of the
Union Pacllle Itallroad- It was -mainly
carried on In the part of the 'Country
east of the Missouri Hlvcr.
Then came the discovery of the great
opportunities offered by Ihe far West
ern plains for p'uzlng. The growill
In thu eiUUe,ralsilng Industry AvnsjliQn
abnormal. -.,
"In the early eighties." says Mr.
Honimel, "pure bred cattle by the thou
sands were brought from Kugland to
supplement the American herds In
breeding bulls for the range, and the
nearest that the Hereford ami Angus
bleeds ever came to having a boom
In tills country was at this time.
"After the collapse, which was bound
to follow, the cattle business is now on
what Is thought to be a substantial
and healthy foundation. Quality is be
ing bred Into the range herds by the
extiudlng use of pure bred sires, and
this, with the better methods, Is bring
ing thu range steer to a high plane of
excellence, ltoth on the range and on
the small farm Improvement has gone
hand In hand with increase in num
bers." ,.M
Kkb line i I in Coin.
Iii these days, when everybody Is
crying out upon the scarcity of hen's
eggs, says the London Answers, It Is
interesting to know that in soni" parts
of Peru notably in the province of
lauja, the fruit of Hie hen is circulated
as small change- Prom forty to tifty
cgg?t the number varying according', icj
they are plentiful or .scarce, are count
ed as a penny to sixpence of our money.
In t'he market places and in the. shops
Hie Indians make the- most of their
purchases In this brittle sort of money.
One will give two -ir three egys for a
ill Ink of the llery. native brandy called
"plsro." three more for a villainous
native ctem'. and .can have a regular
onrv on a dozen eggs.
These eggs are packed in boxes by
the shopkeepers ami shipped as soon
iM possible to Limit, the Peruvian
capital. Prom ilahja alone several
thousand call loads of eggs are shipped
annually to Lima and Cnllao. The
eggs are brought Into the town of
.lauja 'by tin- Indians from all the
region around about; the shopkeepers
insist upon their being fresh. A shop
keeper hi .lauja can tell iiu aged egg
(ami will reject if) as readily as a bank
cashier can detect a counterfeit coin.
IllooilliniinilK h Irtri'tlvn.
Ill the West Ihe bloodhound is now
extensively used In the detection of
crime ami the capture of criminals.
The modern criminal is a very elusive
person. He is always abreast of the
times, and, quiet, skilful and often
courageous, he has this advantage, that
he usually does his work at night.
When he lias completed his task, lie
silently makes Ids cscap.'. frequently
leaving behind him no clew by which
his movements may be traced. So, at
least, he believes; but try as he will, he
must leave some clue. Intangible, in
visible as It Is. it yet exists the pc
ctiltar odor of the human body. It is
n certain guide to Ids footsteps; science
cannot efface it. Ingenuity cannot wipe
II out. This odor Is as distinctive as
the features of the face. No matter
where a person moves; uo matter
whether his trail is crossed by a thou
sand others of Ids kind; no matter
whether the rains have fallen, or hours
have elapsed shuv his foot pressed the
earth, the trail Is still there, and may
lie followed. There Is only one animal,
however, which can infallibly trace
out the scent after It has been on the
ground for several hours, and that Is
Hie bloodhound. The Century.
Lightning ami AVutcliei.
"An electrical storm seems to have
a peculiar effect on some li.uepieces."
remarked the Junior partner of a big
down-town Jewelry linn. "Kvery time
lightning ami thunder get.t active in
this vicinity one of the results Is that
our watch-repairing department is
overworked for several days there
after. The damage wrought chlelly
consists iif broken inal.isprlngs.
"When business yets dull with us,"
added the Jeweler. Jokingly, "we re
quire all our employes to pray for a
thunder storm. Falling to comply with
this order is considered sutlielem cause
for discharge. 1 am unable to make
clear the whys and wherefores, but It
Is au established fact that after the
lighluiir: has frolicked awhile in come
the watches with mainsprings
wrecked." Washington Star.
WonU.
"No die will ever be able to deny
that the Fifty-seventh Congress was
an energetic one In some directions,"
observed a member of Congress the
other day as he read a letter he had
received from the-printing otllce. "Al
ready we lutve delivered In our legisla
tive halls speeches which we think
worthy of reproduction ilOO.OOO.tHKl
times.
'Must think of the reading the Amerl.
lean people are to have Indicted upon
them in the next campaign, ami that
campaign is this fall. Three hundred
million congressional speeches Is four
apiece for every man, woman and
child in the laud, mid yet we are still
talking and the printing otllce is run
ning uight nud day." Washington
Star.
MOST C0L0SSALSW1NDLE
DETAILS OF THE HUMBERT.CRAW.
FORD $10,000,000 HOAX.
A Kiifn In l'rl ,Siiiiii'.tl to Conlnlii
tyo.OOO.OdO l-runc, When Opened' Ift
. Found lo Until Only 840O mill H I.lttln
.I.-wrlr.v rrwlullt.v Kiin SlHilif f
Details of the colossal hoax which
for the last two weeks has occupied
Hi? attention of Paris to the exclusion
of almost everything else are at hand.
On the pretence of a fortune of ?'J-I,
0(K),(HKJ locked up Hi a safe the perpe
trators of the fraud ha.v'beeii nhuf'to
borrow In the last twenty years slims
aggregating a total amount of $!),'-HV
ooo. When the creditors became Impor
tunate the fatuous safe was Opened
and found to contain securities amount
lug to nbqui f 100. a little Jewelry' jnnd
sonic worthless papers. i
The story begins In Nice in l$77,;iud
the principal actors are an American,
one Holier! Henry Crawford; Therese
d'Aurlgnac. now Mine. Humbert; her
husband, who Is a son of n former
French minister of Justice; two broth
els and a sister of Mine. Humbert, sev
eral lawyet's. and' last, but not least,
two nephews of Hubert Henry Craw
ford, both New Yorkers and liolh mil
lionaires. Concerning the existence of
the Humberts ami the d'Aurignncs
there Is no doubt, but no one seems
ever to have seen or to have heard of
Crawford or his nephews, nlthougb the
latter have been parties In Innumerable
suits contested In fhe French courts
over this fabulous fortune.
According to the legend that has
grown up. In 1S77 Henry Hubert
Crawford tiled in Nice, leaving his
whole fortune or l'JO.0110,000 francs to
Therese d'Aurlgnac, who had liurseil
him during Ids last illness, she was
'the daughter of a linen draper lu Tou
louse, and shortly after the fortune
had been left to her she married. Fred
erick Humbert, whose father wir's min
ister of Justice in He Freyclnet's cab
inet, lu IKL.'. Hut before she had lime
lo enjoy her windfall two nephews of
the. deceased Crawford appeared Hub
ert and Henry Crawford, of New York
bringing- with .them another will
made on Hie same day as I h cm me which
left iill in Mine. Humbert. This will
provided thai the fort line should be
divided into three equal parts, to be
given to the two nephews"'' and to the
younger e.lster of Mine. Humbert. Ma
rie d'Aurlgnac. with the condition,
however, that an annuity 'of :t;o,O0
francs a year be paid to the elder sis
ter. Hut the nephews were rich al
ready, ami generous," too, so they pro
posed I hat the fortunes lie united and
all made fair by one of litem marrying
Mine. Humbert. When they discovered
she was already married they proposed
tlir. union of one of them witli the
younger sister, Marie, who at this lime
was a child In school, and the offer was
rejected. Then au arrangement was
niad? by which Mine. Humbert was
made trustee of the entire fortune, to
hold until her sister came of age. She
was to have an allowance of :!(S.",000
francs a year, and Hie rest of the for
tune was to be locked up lu a safe ami
not be dlstiii'lfd. A few years Inter
when Marie d'Aurlgiiiic came of age
she refused to marry cither of the
brothers Crawford, and since that
time, a natter of twenty years ago,
French courts have never been without
a Humbert-Crawford ease.
In the meantime, no one, not even
the lawyers retained by them, has ever
seen H.e Crawford brothers, although
up to a comparatively short time ago
they received, or asserted they re
ceived. Instructions from them, and
that all the necessary l"gal papers were
slgued by them. And Mine. Humbert,
unable to get their consent to open the
safe and divide the money, look lo bor
rowing on the concealed assets. She
boughl a palace In the Avenue de la
(iruiide AiTt.ee lu Paris, two lnagnlll
cent chateaux In the country, a steam
yacht, splendid jewels mid spent great
sums lu various charities, the money
for which she borrowed at very high
rates from vaiious money lenders and
banks. From one man, a M. (ilraril.
she got .VL'-MO.imi); from another man
-Sl.lOO.ODO. and from several she se
cured nioiT i ban half a million.
All this time she was ass-Mtlng that
the safe contained 1'JO.OOO.OIH) francs
in securities which she could not touch
without ihe loiiseut of the Crnwfords,
ami to calm the fears of her victims she
would show them the ofliclally sealed
envelopes containing the fortune, with
the allidavits of Ihe notaries as to their
contents. A few years ago communica
tions from Hie mysterious Crawfonls
ceased, Ihe brothers wen' completely
lost sight of, and all Hun Mine. Hum
bert could do was to borrow money,
which she did most successfully, con
sidering that the only proof of the ex
istence of I lie fortune was her word
for It
In IS! (7 O Irani, one of her principal
creditors, committed suicide on account
ot his failure to collect the money he
had lent to her. Ills estate was liqui
dated by M. Waldeckltousseau, the
present Premier, who, during the
course of his argument, asserted that
the Cravfords, uncle and nephews,
had never existed, that they were un
known in New York, and that the
whole business was a gigantic fraud.
Mine Humbert settled this claim for
l!,.00.00(i francs. (The Nationalists are
making political capital out of Will
dock-Houssean's connection with the
case, accusing li I lit of having known
the truth for the past live years and to
lime concealed it for good reasons).
Lately, however, new complications
have arisen, and finally, two weeks
ago, the courts ordered that the safe
be opened and the contents examined.
This ceremony was to take place on
the afternoon of the !lth. On the even
lug before, Mute. Humbert with a
party, was lu her box at the opera,
weajiug her famous Jewels, wjilcu
have not been paid for. After the
opera she and her friends disappeared,
the supposition being that she went to
Dieppe, boarded her yacht and sailed
away to parts unknown. The next day
t.he safe was opened, with the results
already Indicated. Warrants have been
Issued for the arrest of Mine. Hum
bert, her husband nnd her sister and
two or the lawyers Implicated , were
arrested the dny following lAieOclos
ure. Up to last accounts tntvhere
abouts of the principals had not been
discovered.
The swindle is one of Ihe most -extraordinary
in the history of crime. Were
not the truth vouched for by theT
French courts it would be Impossible
to believe that a woman could have
borrowed nearly $10,000,000 lu twenty
years on such a slim story as Mine.
Humbert's. The genius with 'Which
.the. scheme was devised,, matched
on'y Jiy tjic audacity wltir'jvhrcii It was
carried through. New York dotnmer
clul Advertiser.
An Uiionlrlnl nrilrr.
Thomas, tenth Karl of Dundonald. at
his death Vice-Admiral lu the KuclWIi
navy, tells in his "Autobiography of a
Sen mini" of an incident on hoard the'
Hind, on which he served as midship
man. The pet of the ship was a parrot,
the aversion of the boatswain, whose
whistle the bird learned to Imitate ex
actly. One day a party of ladles paid us a
visit nboaid. lty the usual means of a
"whip" on the yard-arm several had
been hoisted on deck. The chain laid
descended for another. Scarcely had
Its fair freight been lifted out of Hie
boat alongside when the panel piped.
"Let go!" ,
't'he order was Instantly obeyed, and
the unfortunate lady, Instead of being
comfortably seated on deck, was soused
In the sea.
Luckily for her. the men were on the
watch and quickly pulled her out. and
luckily I'm the parrot the boatswain
was on shore, or this unseasonable as
sumption of the boatswain's functions
might have ended tragically fur tin
bird.
Wimn'l Hid liul. Anyway.
.Mr. Wcddle. .visiting. Uls wife's rela- ,
lives up in Maine, fairly had to go t
chinch that Sunday. He did not want
to go, but his wife thought It would
do him good, and would be apt lo pre
serve the harmony nf the family.
The sermon was long and powder
dry. and Woddle stole.off into the arms
of Morpheus, gently and serenely. As
he did not snore his wife did not sus.
pe'et that he had gonc'to sleep along
side of bet. and gave herself up fully
to Inspecting the bonnet of the woman
In the pew In front.
Like all things, good and bad, the
sermon came to an end at last, but
Weddle slumbered on like' a baby even
after a deacon began taking up the
collection In a hat. When the derby
was paused to Weddle. Mrs. Weddle
was surprised to see that he did not
respond. She nudged him violently to
bring him back to his senses, and Wed
dle. awakened with a start, sat up
right, and. bewildered, gazed at the
lint in the hand of the deacon. Then
he shook his head sleepily and said:
"No, that Isn't mine. Mine is a gray
fedora," New York Tribune.
iieru VIcIiiI'Ih'h 'Way.
The Queen's Interest In and oversight
of public affairs did not cease with the
Prince's death, although, lu the tirst
years of overwhelming sorrow, it must
have been dllllcult to carry out her con
ception of duty. All important resolu
tions were taken by her; the personal
notes in the "Court Circular" were
written by her own hand, and were
seen by no one else. When Sir Henry
Pousonhy became the Queen's private
secretary, she said to him: "H.'inember
this: uo advice! 1 am older than you
are, anil have had more experience."
In after years, historians will have
much to say upon the Queen's personal
sluiiv in the government of her do
minions. All her papers have been
most carefully preserved and arranged,
and some day. perhaps, will be ac
cessible to the Inquirer. On the other
hand, there is not a single paper be
longing to (ieorge III. which is known
to be in existence. Professor Oscar
Ilrownlng, in the Century.
NHpoli-on'it (lrrt I'oiiniif,
Napoleon Bonaparte's will, among
those of great men, affords the nearest
parallel to that of Cecil It bodes in the
fortune It bequeathed, lie was surely
the richest exile since the world be
gan. From his lonely home at St.
Helena he bequeathed to his relatives
mid friends $10,000,000. He had been
rich, In gold as lu power, beyond ihe
dreams of avarice, and there must
have passed through his hands a pri
vate fortune such as mortal man lias
lately dreamed of. His exactions from
conquered States have been set down
at nearly .Sa7.",000.000, which Is, after
all, but six times multiplying the gift
he secured for himself from the Aus
trian treasury after Auscerlltz- UhU
cago News.
I.ediiilnxtiT'B Old llucklni; Moot.
In the old Priory Church of Leomin
ster is a very Interesting specimen of
the old clicking and ducking stool, a
universal mode of punishment former
ly In vogue for the punishment of
scolds, scandalmongers and women
with too long a tongue. It was also
Inttlcted on brewers and bakers, etc.,
transgressing the law, who in ueb
stool were inimerged over hciiiifiul
cars in (stercorc) stinking water. This
mode of punishment dales back to Sax
on times, mid the Leominster speci
men was the last used lu Kugland of
which we have any record, lu ISti'.l.
Several other specimens still exist
about the country, as at .Montgomery,
Warwick, Fordwlch nud LecUe,
Twivel.
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