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CHAPTER x:il.
An Interview with the King.
A door oji-r ed and a courtier (it
wes my bete niire. Sir Raoul Dwight)
cam- from the anteroom, into which
1 was waiting to be admitted. It was
ident that his Majestj's mission
had not retained him from court so
long as he had automated.
A frown was on hi t.row and his
Lead lump. He would have passed
m hail not my deep look forced his
-. Tin- irown broadened, and a
curse burst from hit- sullen mouth.
lh hand tlid to iiis swore.
Will not to-morrow be time
"i.ouah. 'Cousin Raou""?" I asked.
Tore Cod! I'll kill ou then," he
growled venomously.
"At your service." I said.
My name being called. I turned mv
back uiKjn him and walked to the '
room where 1 was to have mv inter
view with King Charles II. Had
Raoul Dwight a knife then and no
one been about I doubt not but that j Ijongville (he is dead, so nothing can
I should have felt it between my . be proved) and the King knowing he
shoulders. j was on duty out of the way. all tended
His Majesty sat surrounded by his j at the time to lend confirmation to
dos. pulling the ears of one, slapping j the deed. Lord Waters questioned
another over the nose with his lace j the page. He told him that he had
kerchief, chiding yet another who j made a mistake, and handed him an
uould be too fond. Doing thus he other note, which proved to be merely
kept me standing, inwardly chafing at j a message from the King sending him
The delay. upon a mission that should take him
At last, tired of this plav. he con- I from the court for a few days. As he
descended to speak; before doing so.
however, he gave the dog nearest him
n vicious twist of the ear, which sent
htm yelping back of his master's
chair.
"So." he said, "so this Is the re
doubtable Quentin Waters, son of that
r'Ugade Lord Waters of Long Haut.
te it?"
He looked at m long with a heavy
fiown on his thin face. Not an aus
7i ions opening certainly.
"Yes," I aJlirmcd, "I am Qucntin
"Waters at your command. sir"
"And why does Qucntin Waters.
Kin of Lord Waters. !aie venture into
Ivondon?" he questioned imperatively
"Why I have ventured in'o London,
and s-eok this interview is -well I
am ome upon my fathers affairs." I
managed to stammer.
"I see." arca.m rang in his voice.
"Meanwhile jou spend our time
threatening a lair subject of mine
villi a meaningless piece of paper
profitable business, indeed," he
sneered.
Evidently Sir Raoul Dwight had not
had the ear of the King for naught. j
"Not o." I replied; "you, sir. have i
been misinformed. I threaten no ,
lady."
"Say you so?" he retorted. "Then
where is this paper I have heard so
much about the court is wearied to stened to say, "else the war had been
death with the various stories rvi'.oat 1 sooner ended and his Majesty a. pris-co?iceT-ning
it I would see it." j oner some months ere he was."
"If it is the pron.ie of marriase i "How so?" he asked.
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"So," he said, "this is the
won from the lady's father you mean.
I have it not in my posses-sion." I said.
"Promise of marriage." lie repeated.
"Poof! it is nothing. I tan do away
with it as easily as I can squash
this fly."
He raised his hand and brought it
down upon, he supposed, that trouble
some insect, buzzing about so late
in the season. When he raised his
hand there was not bins: under it; the
fly had flown to the wall.
"It is not always so easy to squash
even so mean a thing as a fly," I
murmured.
"Think so?" he questioned.
He rang a bell. One of his guards
came at its summons.
"There is a fly on the wall to the,
right: kill it." he commanded.
1 The man proceeded upon the chase.
It required some effort. His Majesty
leaned back with half-closed eyes,
waiting, while he fingered the long
coat of one of his pets. Once he
tapped his foot impatiently at the
mans delay I watched the fellow
with more interest than the case de
manded, and had 1 been in any other
presence than the King's I should
have laughed at his frantic move
ments and the cleverness of that
small insect.
At last he had him his day was
done the man held out his hand to
his Majesty, and in his palm lay the
crushed fly.
"It is done, your Majesty." he said.
The King commanded him to leave
the room, and asrain resumed his play.
"I see." I said after a pause. "A
mans word coes for naught in Kinc
Charles" court. But your Majesty, if
1 have your permission. I will tell
yoti my reason, or rather my mission
In London."
He nodded. Having successfully
demonstrated his object lessen he was
in a good humor.
"My father, you already know, is
Lord Waters of Long Haut, and was
Master of the Bed Chamber to
Charles I."
The King frowned, and I thought it
best to get to the very gist of what
1 had to tell at one without any pref
acing. "The two beings he held dearest in
life were His Majesty King Charles I
and his young "wife. One eight it
was the night of the 16th of January.
1639 being stationed in an anteroom
by the express command of the King,
a Tage came to him. saying, A mes
sage from the King.' Thinking It only
an ordinarv r!sive ienaining to the
business en han' he took it from
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him. opened and read it. Here is the
paper."
I took from a jeweled locket I wore
fastened to my waistcoat by a rosette
of ribbons the paper I had received
j from my father. I hail kept It secure-
ly hidden in its jeweled receptacle I
did not intend it should be stolen lrom
me a second time.
The King took it daintily, rather
disdainirg that old slip of paper. He
opened it with a bored look: that look
turned to animated interest when he
' saw it had hi? deceased father's sig-
lift attached to it.
"A love letter?" he asked.
' I nodded. "Read it. sire," I begged,
I "A forgerv cleverlv done and
signed with the King's signet!" he
eiaculated when he had finished.
"Who would have dared?"
'A forgery, as you say." I said:
"and so Lord Waters, my father, in
his later years came to think, but not
at the time. The artlessness of the
pane, young Kenneth, son of old Sir
was delivering a cutting reproof to
the careless page before letting him
go, he saw something in the fellow's
face that made him stop and ask him
to whom he was to deliver the other
note? The page stammered and ap
peared so confused that Lord Waters
was determined to be answered. Hi3
hand was not light and he soon knew
what he feared. It was intended for
1 ady Waters, the page confessed.
You see. sire, the name In the note is
Elaine it was her name."
"Ah!" the King said.
I should have be"n hard to please,
indeed, if I had not been satisfied
with the King's change of manner.
"Crazed he left the court, without
seeing either the King or his wife.
Tis a matter of history how he joined
Cromwell, forsaking the King."
"Yes." he cried impatiently. "But
why did he not see the King and have
the note authenticated? Why act
like a jealous fool?"
"Yes, why?" I said. "He was too
sensitive. 1 think."
"He had great provocation if it were
true." he said, "but not enough, me-
thinks, to join that assassin's army
and give him service, and good serv
ice, too." he finished bitterly.
"Not so sood. perhaps, as Cromwell
would have wished, however," I ha-
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redoubtable Quentin Waters?"
"Alter the battle of Marsden, Lord
Waters had the honor of taking his
Maje-ty a prisoner." I said.
"No? An improbable tale." he
cried.
"I have proofs." I retorted.
I held out to him the tiny brooch,
l'e took it with a shaking hand.
"His! rot a doubt of it." he whis
pered: "the martyred King's!"
He got up and paced the floor, look
ing at the jewel in his palm.
"Yes. as a ch'ld I have seen him
wear it." he murmured. "By what
machinations did Lord Waters obtain
this brooch?" he said cuttingly.
"I told you, sire," I replied with
dignity.
He paced the floor with a more hur
ried tread, while he frowned and knit
his brow in deep thought. He said:
"Now. I remember having heard that
after the battle of Marsden. being sep
arated from his guards, he had been
captured by a man serving on the
other side, but when the man found
that it was the King he held, he had
released him. even given him safe
conduct to his men. so that he should
not be retaken. It was told me by
General Lauderdale, to whom my
father had related the incident.
Strange! the King, my father, did not
recognize so familiar a man at court
as Lord Waters."
"He was much changed, sire." I
said, "and affected the puritanical
style. It was also dark and he wished
to be unrecognized."
"What strange creatures men are!"
soliloquized his Majesty.
"I would have you know, sire," I
continued, "that after that the old
love for his King returned to Lord
Waters. He resigned from Crom
well's army, and went to his estate in
Long Haut. There he obtained a
divorce from his wife. and. after liv
ing in retirement, married my mother,
who died in childbirth. During the
years of my minority the thought that
he might have wronged the King and
his first wife never left him. It made
him what he has been ever since, a
miserably sick man. Owing to his
condition he was not able to come
himself, so he sent me to lay the mat
ter before your Majesty and" plead for
forgiveness."
I had finished and I knelt before
him.
"Tore God! you shall have It, he
cried, as he motioned me to rise; "but
it seems to me that 'Us to Lady
Dwight you should go as your father's
emlcs?ry to plead for forgiveness."
' '-- Dwight!" I exclaimed.
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I was too astonished to say more.
"She is your father's divorced
wife," he explained.
"My father's wife!" I repeated.
"Even so," he affirmed, none too pa
tiently. Light dawned upon me and I under
stood my lady's fainting fit; she, too,
was overcome by circumstances.
"And Sir Raoul Dwight?" I ques
tioned fiercely.
"Your half-brother," he answered;
"born in France, six months tfter
your father left in such importunate
haste."
"My (iod!" I cried. "And they talk
about instinct; I had not the least in
nate feeling toward him. Why, we
were ever as cat and dog whenever we
came in sight of one another."
"Even brothers will quarrel over a
woman," he smiled.
"There need be no more quarreling
upon that score," I replied; "he Is
welcome to the lady."
"That is good, he enjoined. "You
will return the paper at once to Lady
Fclton. and renounce all claim to her
hand."
"Certainly." I replied. "I never In
tended to keep her to it. I will get
the paper from the person who has it
and make her a present of it to-night
before I sleep. Had the lady been in
town she would have had it before
this."
"Been in town?" he began. "Ah.
yes. So you shall gladden Raoul
Dwight's heart; he but now went
from here with a hanging head be
cause I would promise him nothing."
His Majesty yawned and then dis
missed me.
(To be continued.)
HE KNEW THE CREED.
Proved That at Some Time He Had
Attended Sunday School.
There is no clergyman who enjoys
a good story more than Bishop Pot
ter, even though it touches uiion af
fairs of the church. One of the recent
occasions on which he indulged in a
hearty laugh was while listening to
the experience of a young man who is
engaged in city mission work on the
east side.
Among those the young missionary
tried to interest jn church work, were
two rather hardened characters, who
in their boyhood days had, however,
attended Sunday school.
"Oh. that's all right, boss." said
one. "i don't need no church going. I
learned all that as a kid and so did
Jim here. Why, I know the prayer
book backward."
"I'll bet you don't," interrupted his
friend. "I'll bet you a dollar you cau't
say the creed now."
"That goes. I'll take you," was the
reply. He then proceeded to repeat
the Lord's prayer, laboriously but cor
rectly, while his friend listened in as
tonished silence.
"Well. I'll give in." said he, when
it was ended. "I don't see how you
could remember the creed all these
years. Here's your dollar, confound
ou!" New York Herald.
WATER GARDENS IN THE YARD
A Plea for Something Different in the
Small Home Inclosure.
A small outdoor water garden is
just the thing to m:rke one's place dit
ferent from the general run of com
monplace gardens, s-ays a writer in
the Garden Magazine. Why not try
some hardy water lilies this year.
I have two pools in my garden, and
both are a source of great pleasure
to my family and myself, as well as
the stranger in my gates. One is
planted with water lilies and the other
with lotus. In thn lormer we hive
flowers fror spring to late
autumn. The colors are white. el
low and pink. The lotus blooms for
a peiiod of about two months, and I
h:ie nothing in my garden to com
pare with its flowers in beauty.
If you aie a lazy gardener try water
lilies. They require no watering, when
everything else is crying up, and no
weeding at any time. They multiply
so fast with me that most of them
have to be dug up every spring, and
the increase sells at good prices. Do
not grow geraniums, cannas. coleus
and the like, when so many beautiful
plants can be grown so different from
jour neighbors.
A Complimentary Contradiction.
A New York publisher has a repu
tation lor employing the homeliest
rnogranhers and typewriters in the
city. Efficiency rather than beauty
! what he wants, and he knows the
picttiest ones are not the most effi
cient. Just the same it is said of him
that he doesn't know a pretty woman
when he sees one. Still, his wife is
an unusually handsome woman.
Not long ago she came into his of-
nce. w nere tue uppeti onij cit. rare
intervals, and only when it is abso
lutely necessary. She was met by an
office boy. a bright Irish lad. who had
never seen her. She asked for Mr.
Blank.
"Who shall I say wants to see him.
mem?" he inquired.
"His wife." she replied.
He looked at her in open-eyed sur
prise and genuine admiration.
"Sure, mem. I'll tell him," he said,
starting off. "and bad cess to thim
that says he has no taste in ladies,
mem."
The Man Who Loves Words.
"Other folks, of course, have their
poor pleasures." says Richard Le Gal
lienne in Harper's, "but for a man
who loves words no joy the world can
give equals for him the happiness of
having achieved a fine passage or a
perfect line. When Thackeray struck
his fist on the table, as the story goes,
when he had finished the scene of Col.
New-come's death, and exclaimed. 'By
God. this is genius.' there was no em
pire he would have accepted in ex
change for that moment. We often
hear that your true artist is never sat
isfied with his work. His ideal escapes
him. the words seem poor and lifeless,
etc.. compared with the dream. Who
ever started that story knew veTy lit
tie about the literary temperament or
he would have known that the words'
are the dream. The dream does not
xist even as a dream, or only very j
mpcrfectly. till it is set down in j
words. Yes, the words are the dream.'
Quaintly Expressed.
Some people are noted for the terse
ness of their replies to ordinary qaes
tions which in not a few instances
turn out to be wit. A certain mild
mannered old darky who for many
years pat has acted as butler for a
prominent family on the Park Slope
recently lost his wife. A friend of his
called on him a few days later, and
not knowing of this fact, questioned
him.
"How's your ole woman to-day.
Jackson. They tell me she's kindei
been feelin' aiky of late."
"She ain't doing so nice ss she
might he dis eVnin." said Jacltson.
somewhat sadlv. onickly adding.
"he's -?d." Brooklyn Eagle.
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Faiwus Texan ymqSzrvzd
and was Last or thl
Cheat ComtmiE limits
Tall and rugged, every line of his
face indicating indomitable will, there
stood upon the western bank of the
Red rivr a stalwart young fellow of
twenty years. In his hand a small
bundle tied in a blue handerchief his
entire wardrobe. In his pockets a $10
bill issued bv the bank of Holly
) Springs. Miss. his entire fortune.
j His face was toward the setting sun
I and he IcokeJ Texas ward. , "
j It was the afternoon of May 23. 1S39. j
i and as the young man looked he real
j Ized that in all of the great land be
I fore him there was none to whom he
might look for aid. His future was his
alone. About him on every side were
the foes of the frontiersman, but not
for a moment did his feet falter; not
for a moment did his heart fail. He
vas strong with the strength of one
who knows himself, and without fear
he took up his journey into a strange
land.
Three score and six years after, the
young man, now in his six and eight
ieth year, had closed a marvelous ca
reer. In his life he had served under
three flags, had honored and been hon
ored by the people in whose cause he
was as valiant in war as he was wise
in peace, and finally, in the fullness of
years and achievement, passed to his
eternal rest.'
Born in Sevier county. Tennessee,
Oct. 8. ISIS. ?nd dying at his home at
Palestine, Texas, March 6. 1905, the
activities of John Henninger Reagan
furnish an inspiration to all Ameri
cans. In the Republic of Texas he
fcught in many campaigns against the
Indians. In the State of Texas he
served the commonwealth as colonel
ot its militia, justice of the peace, sat
in its legislature and upon the bench.
Then he went to Congress and was
counted one of the ablest members of
the House, which he left in 1SG1 be
cause he believed it his duty to cast
his fortunes with the confederacy.
Under the stars and bars his was
high political preferment. First Post
master General of the Confederate
States of America, he relinquished
that post to become, secretary of its
treasury, devoting his energies and
his fortune to a cause he loved and
fondly hoped might prevail. But when
the fortunes of war decreed that the
southland should not depart the Union
returned to nis people to advocate con
ciliation and unity.
Ripe in experience, he again became
a legislator of the nation, serving as
a senator from 18S7 until 1891. father
ing the "Reagan interstate commerce
law," which as afterward amended
by Senator Cullom of Illinois became
the law which is now in force.
The life of Judge Reagan links the
history of the old with that of the
new. His work was strenuous, history-making.
For more than sixty-five
years and during the greater part of
this period he was in the political
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The Late John H. Reagan.
arena. He remembered the great tar
iff debate of 1S32. which resulted in
the passage of the nullification act by
South Carolina. He could recall the
fight made by Andrew Jackson against I
the United States bank.
As a young man he was thrilled by
the cry. "Remember the Alamo," and
it may be said that he never ceased
to be inspired by Sam Houston's in
junction. He saw the Republic of Tex
as set its star in the flag of the Union.
He saw the gieat West and Southwest
won into the circle of civilization. He
felt that the war clouds were forming
as early as 1840. and he witnessed the
cempromise ot ten years later. By
him the "Dred Scott" decision was
heard as it came fresh from the lips
of Taney, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
was read and given his careful
thought almost the moment it came
from the press.
When the Butler-Brooks-Sumner in
cident occurred in the Senate Judge
Reagan was a member of Congress.
His associates were the great men of
Gulf Stream Lore.
It Is said that the gulf stream is run
ning so much more rapidly than for
merly that sailing ships can not make
headway against its current. This
"river in the ocean" i? caused by the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico piling
up until that oval caldron rises two or
three feet higher than the waters in
the mid-Atlantic. Florida strait, about
ninety miles broad, forms the only
egress for the waters, which flow
through this narrow outlet, between
Key West and Cuba, at a speed of
eight or ten miles an hour.
Milk Cende-sers Combine.
A combination of the largest mnk
condensing firms in Europe, the Henri
Nestle and Anglo-Swi condensed
milk companies, is announced by the
London Express. T e -ew compan
will control, practicallj. the European
supply. Most of the shares are held
in Switzerland. Cor Sensation consists
in evaporating a ;.o-Tion of the water
and adding sugar. Milk contains SS
per cent cf water in its natural state,
abct 0 per cent of which is evap
orated. 'Frisco Fish Trust.
A fish trust has San Francisco in its
grasp. Salmon, which not long ago
sold at retail for 7 cents a pound, now
costs 25 cents, though the waters of
California are crowded with the fish,
atriped bass, which was 5 cents, now
costs 20 cents. The retailers and the
public are helpless.
Swedish Parliament Building.
The new parliament building in
Stockholm, which was begun ten
years ago, is now completed. It lies
on a small island.
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dot foxm am South
the period of 1S40-1860. Clay. Cal
houn, Webster, Benton, Houston.
Breckinridge, Douglas. Cass these he
knew intimately. Upon the southern
states he saw the war cloud burst
all of this he saw and part of this h
v. as.
He was with Jefferson Davis at
Montgomery and at Richmond. He
saw the confederacy rise and he saw
it fall. He met and chatted with Lee
and Jackson and Stuart and Johnston
and Beauregard and Gordon. He wore
the gray when McDowell was routed
at the first Manassas, and he was
v. earing it when the great Lee. on that
April morning in 1SC5, said to the he
roes of the Army of the Virginia:
"Men: We have fought through
this war together. I have done the
best 1 could for you. My heart is too
full to say more."
The uniform of gray was worn by
Reagan after that. He still wore it
w hen. with Jefferson Davis, he started
on that fateful ride to the southward
ftom Richmond.
Through the period of reconstruc
tion he passed. And he lived to re
joice that the men who plundered the
South in her poverty, oppressed her in
her weakness and mocked at her in
her calamity were cast down. In the
times of depression, of failure, of dis
couragement, he turned his face to
ward the morning, he looked to the
dawn of a new and better day. Shoul
der to shoulder he stood with the
great men who emancipated and re
deemed the land he loved best of all.
In a talk with a friend some time
before his death. Judge Reagan said:
"I am hoping to have time to write
a little something on a subject very
near and dear to me. I am not fighting
the war over again. God forbid that I
should say one word to revive the
dying embers of passion and prejudice.
What I would do and what I would
have all true southrons do is to pre
serve the true, loyal spirit of the con
federacy and take a positive stand
against the perversion of the history
of the conflict and its causes.
"It is not for the past that I would
fight, but for the future. It is not for
ourselves, but for our children. It is
for them to perpetuate all that is
noble and grand and manly in the his
tory of their fathers and forefathers
and to keep ever in mind and bring to
the eye of all the world the history,
the true history, of the confederacy,
and the causes, the real causes, which
led up to the war between the states."
This passing of the "last of the con
federates" calls to mind the cabinet
of the South, its chief. Jefferson Davis,
its vice president. Alexander II. Ste
phens. Robert Toombs of Georgia
was secretary of state; C. G. Mem
minger of South Carolina, secretary of
the treasury; L. P. Walker of Ala
bama, secretary of war; S. R. Mallory
of Florida, secretary of the navy, and
Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, at
torney general. The companion and
peer of such men as William L. Yan
cey, "the morning stcr of session":
Benjamin H. Hill. R. Barnwell Rhett.
James. L. Orr. R. M. T. Hunter. Augus-
I tus II. Garland and Louis T. Wigfall
I in the Senate, and Meredith P. Gentry,
j Rosier A. Pryor and Thomas S. Bo
I cock in the House, his was a position
both enviable and influential.
In 1STG Judge Reagan was in the
urmoil of the Hayes and Tilden con
test, and although he believed that the
latter was elected and the former seat-
ed. he accepted the decision for him
; self and saw it accepted by the South
j with absolute loyalty and absolute self
( control. He witnessed all the interest
; ing political and social developments
that have made for progress in three
' score years. Throughout his long life
! he conserved the boy into the man
and stood for horor. justice and truth,
j Pioneer, surveyor, lawyer, soldier.
1 legislator, jurist, statesman, patriot,
j honest gentleman. John Henninger
Reagan, trie to himself and false to
no man. leaves upon the scroll of
I fame a name which adds luster to the
' glory of the country. Henry Barrett
Chamberlin in Chicago Record-Herald.
FEAR INVASION OF "TRADE."
Fashionable and Exclusive New York
ers in Commotion.
Fashionable New Yorkers who live
on the exclusive Forty-seventh street
block between Fifth and Madison ave
nue reported to be much disturbed
ever the purchase by a modiste of the
house formerly occupied by Richard
Canfield as a gambling resort. It is
understood that the house is to be con
erted into a tailoring establishment.
Among the dwellers on the block are
Ferry Belmont, the Boardmans, the
Alexanders, the Stevenses, the Gilder
sleeves, the Eaxters and many more
of New York's ultrafashionable folk.
They fear that, this proposed commer
cial establishment is the entering
wedge en their block for the invasion
of trade that is driving society off
Fifth avenue. As a result of the fash
ionable alarm some curiosity is ex
pressed as to the school of morals
prevailing in a district which protests
against a dressmaker but tolerates a
gambler.
Railway House Partv a Fad.
The railway house party is a rap
idly growing institution among Amer
ican multimillionaires. The hiring of
a special car for eighteen full fares
from New York to the Pacific coast is
of common occurrence. One Pacific
coast magnate makes the trip regular
ly every few months in his own pri
vate car, seldom with anything aboard
but his private secretary and his valet.
He pays $5,662 mileage for the single
trip and declares he saves rhnt mnnh
money in the amount of business he '
transacts.
Painting Nature.
Just down by the stream where the
bracken grows she placed her easel
and sat by it, sketching from nature.
"Please, ma'am, is that me you're
drawing milking that cow in the pas
ture?" "Why, yes, my little man, but I
didn't know you were looking!"
" 'Cos if that's me," continued the
boy, unmindful of the artist's confu
sion, "you've put me on the wrong
side of the cow and I'll get kicked
over." Exchange. I
Naughty Sculptor.
The discussion about Aphrodite m
New York might perhaps be enlivened
a little by the quotation of the inspired
limerick:
There or.ce was a sculptor named Phidias,
Whose statues were perfectly hideous.
He made Aphrodite
Without any nightie.
And thus shocked the ultra-fastidious.
Motor Car on Postal Route.
The French postoffice department Is
now operating twenty motor car pos
tal routes in various parts of the
country.
INVEST VAST SUMS.
HOW FUNDS OF GREAT CORPORA
TIONS ARE HANDLED.
Not Necessary for Officer of These
Concerns to Seek Fields of Profit
Railroad Bonds a Favorite Form ol
Investment Absolute Security Re
quired. Under the title of "Investing a Mil
lion Dollars a Day," Henry Wysham
Lanier tells, says the World's Work.
how the great insurance companies
dispose of vast funds. Among other
things Mr. Lanier says: "The presi
dent of one of the great concerns
lcoms large In the financial world:
Ltit. when it comes to actual invest
ing, he is only one of a financial com
mittee, whose separate interests and
connections are so varied that few
projects come before them concern
ing which they do not have some out
side (or inside) information. As o
rule, no investment is made unless
tLis committee agrees upon it tinani
mously.
To begin with, the problem is much
simplified by the fact that invest
meats now come to them. The great
companies, far from having to seek
for investments, are continually be
sieged by a thousand-and-one people
offering bonds and mortgages and tht
like. Broadly speaking, everything
comes to them and comes before it
goes elsewhere.
These applications go to one man.
generally the assistant treasurer, and
he investigates each one. so that it
comes before the committee accom
panied by the information necessary
for them to pass intelligently upon
(say) the estimated value of the land
to be mortgaged or full facts concern
ing the enterprise issuing the stocks
or bonds. The three qualities desired
are absolute security, adequate inter-e.-t
and a long term to suit the many
obligations maturing far in the future
Practically a third of the insurance
assets are in railroad bonds and the
companies own about 10 per cent of
all the $0,000,000,000 or $7,000,000,000
of outstanding bonds issued by oui
railroads. A few years ago the pro
posed reorganization of a German
railroad (with a whole great plan ol
consolidation depending upon it) was
absolutely blocked by an insurance
company, which held a large propor
tion of the bonds, until the terms were
modified to meet its idea.
Railroad stocks and bonds and real
estate mortgages and holdings take
up three-fourths of the vast sums the
insurance companies invest. The
hold also state and city bonds (the
former sometimes of "repudiation")
a few of United States bonds and a
gieat many of those of foreign gov
ernments (one of our companies often
takes an entire issue of. say. $10,000,
000 of such securities), bonds of elec
tric light, gas and water companies,
stocks of trust and companies and
banks and a few miscellaneous con
cerns and $20n.0'i0.000 of loans on
premiums to policy-holders and on
collateral.
Even Boys Learn Grafting.
"I have a little hoy in my room who
is bound to figure in some great mu
nicipal scandal some day." said the
M-hool teacher to the Indianapolis
Star. "Uo's a lazy little fellow, and
he exasperates me because he can do
so well when he does work. lately
I've been giving him low grade marks j trjc catarrh there is a great accumula
to se if that woiild not spur him up j flon 0f germs, which are destroyed by
a little. But, while it disturbs his ftnit juice. A well-prepared diet of
father, the youngster himself does
not seem to mind his low rank. Yes
terday he came to me with more in
terest in his face than I've seen for
some time.
"'Say, teacher,' he said. 'dad says if
I'll get a sood rank this month he'll
give me $20. And I'll tell you what
I'll do. If you'll give me high marks
I'll divide the $20 with you.'
"It was in vain that I labored with
him and pointed out tha' he had in
sulted me. He insisted that it was
merely a way for us both to make $10
easily. If he doesn't get a Folk after
him some day I shall be very much
mistaken."
Luxuries in Alaska.
A side light upon the mode of living
in Alaska is ghen by stating the fact
that in Seattle recently T.r.Oo cases of
canned cream, Pfteen freight car
loads, was ordered by one Seattle firm
from a single cannery for shipment
to Alaska.
This cream is leally milk condensed
to about half its volume, and it is very
poj ular in Alaska. The Alaskans
drink it as they eat bacon.
In Juneau the cold or so-called
"shut-in" months are enlivened with
club affairs, dances and social func
tions, at which the men are required
to wear dress suits.
There are carpets on the floors of
the Alaskan log huts, and the more
pretentious houses have almost all
American luxuries. Binghamton
Piess.
Best of All Plays.
I do not care for problem plays: give me
the kind of play
In which the girl is ju?t as pure .i are
the tlowers in May:
The play in which in time of nerd the
hero's right on l-ck.
And where the scheming villain Rets it
always in the neck.
I love to hear the girl refuse the villain's
gold to take.
And say that rags are royal Uurts when
worn for virtue's sak:
I love to s-e her beaux decline to heed the
rich man's beck.
And swat the villain with a club athwart
his ugly neck.
Oh. not for me the Gallic farce, the Ib;en
fol-df-rol.
Where man is but a jackanapes and wo
man, is a doll:
I'll take the sturdy plot in which the
villain tries to wreck
The hero's life, and in the end just gets
it in the neck!
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Practical Lesson in Jiu-Jitsu.
For our fourth lesson let us consider
for a moment how to proceed in case
any financial weakling were pitted
-ingle-handed against the great John
D. Rockefeller.
The best way in which this new and
easy method of conquering an enemy
could be applied to John would be to
cize him firmly by the pocketbook
with one hand while with the other
you push heavily on the price of crude
petroleum. In five minutes he would
rell "Enough!" and offer you several
Dright new pennies to induce you to
desist from your awful torture.
That is all of the lesson for to-day.
Baltimore American.
High and Low.
Irving Grinnell. treasurer of the
Church Temperance Society of New
York, was talking about the difference
netween high and low church among
Episcopalians.
"I heard two boys talking on the
street the other day." he said.
'"Our church is awful high. We
aave matins.
" That's nothin',' said the other boy.
We have carpets.'"
TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN
Appalling Mortality Among the Little Ones Due
to This Cause Proper Attention to Health of
Mothers Would Save Many Lives
The number of deaths due to tuber
culosis is tremendous. When the word
is spoken one instinctively thinks of
pulmonary consumption. This is the
form which attacks adults and which
we see daily gathering in its victims.
There are other forms, however, more
common in children, that levy trib
ute upon them without calling atten
tion to the relationship between these
diseases and consumption of the
lungs.
Dr. Jacobi is authority for the state
ment that "Tuberculosis kills as many
people, old and young, as diphtheria,
croup, whooping cough, scarlatina,
measles and typhoid fever taken to
gether." In all of our cities active
steps have been taken to protect the
I eople from the above named dis
eases. Until quite recently, however,
a few years at most, nothing was done
to reduce the mortality from tuber
culosis. Now, however, the attention of the
world, the common people and the
health authorities, has been called to
its curability and preventability.
The causes, the modes of scatter
ing, and the prevention are all being
studied, anil an educational campaign
is on to wipe out this "white terror."
The children suffer from tubercu
losis of the bones, the bowels and
hmph glands. Tubercular meningitis
is frequently found in early life and is
uniformly fatal. Only by careful at
tention to the food and daily habits
can the rising generation be made im
mune from these varied forms of tu
berculosis. The fact that over one half of all
babies born die before they reach the
age of five years, proves that the 'con
stitutional capital" bequeathed them
is small. Is the proper attention paid
to the diet, exercise and out-of-door
life of the mother? If this were done,
the child would undoubtedly have
greater vitality and could by proper
care and education live above the tu
berculosis of childhood and of adult
life. t
Cause and Cure of Gastric Catarrh.
Chronic congestion of the stomach,
known as gastric catarrh, is usually
caused by one of the following errors,
or by all of them put together: Eat
ing too much or too fast; swallowing
food insufficiently masticated; the
use of such coarse foods as cabbage,
greens, etc.; mustard, peppersauce,
ginger and other condiments and
spices; pastry containing animal fats;
free fats, which lodge in the stomaoh
and remain there a long time; pork,
griddle cakes and burned fats these
are the things that produce gastric
catarrh.
The first and most necessary step
in the treatment of this disease is to
remove the cause of the trouble. We
may induce activity of the skin by
hot applications followed by cold or
hot bath followed by a short applica
tion of cold: fomentations followed
by a short cold application to the
stomach. These treatments are use
ful, but the most important factor is
the regulation of the diet. A fruit
diet is bet, for the reason that in gas
toasted bread, zwieback, granose nis-
cnit. etc., is also useful in these
cases.
Bedroom Climate.
A person at the age of sixty years
has spent about twenty years of his
life in his bedroom. Have you inves
tigated the average sleeping room cli
mate? If you were sent as a mission
ary to some distant pestilential spot
the climate of which was as unhealth
lul as that of the average bedroom,
would you not feel that you were risk
ing a great deal for the sake of the
heathen?
On the tombstone of tens of thou
sands of those who have died from
tuberculosis mteht appropriately be
inscribed. "Disease and death were
invited and encouraged by a death
dealing bedroom climate."
To show that this is no exaggera
tion it is only necessary to call at
tention to the fact that fully half of
the tubercular patients placed in out
door consumptive hospitals make a
satisfactory Tecovery. If fresh air
will cure the disease, it is certainly a
wonderful preventive of it. It is not
more reasonable to deliberately
breathe impure air than it is to drink
impure water or to eat itnhealthful
food or wear infected clothing.
Tender-Hearted Savages.
One of the most anomalous features
of our Christian civilization is the
slaughter house, especially the abat
toirs of our great cities, where veri
table torrents of blood perpetually
flow, the ebbing life of millions of in
nocents which die that man may feast.
Indians ara not noted for being
over-sensitive; and particularly de
spise any exhibition of weakness. The
interior of a slaughter-house, however,
is said to have proved too much for
their powers of self-control. The Chi
cago Record states that "a party of
fifteen Blackfoot Indians recently vis
ited the killing room of Armour's
plant. One fainted, three more were
ill, the rest covered up their eyes
They were hurried out of the place
into the fresh air."
A Good Reform.
The abominable practice of wear
ing long skirts for the street is dying
out. Pretty as it is to see a summer
Chinese Reformer in America.
Kang Yu Wei. formerly secretary to
the emperor of China, but now a ref
ugee from the wrath of the empress
dewager, has arrived in Oregon,
where he hopes to find relief from
bronchitis, from which he has been
suffering. Nearly seven years ago he
took a leading part in reform move
ments in China, thereby rousing the
i anger of the dowager empress. She
I ordered his arrest, but the secretary
' firl and sought refuge on a British
i war vessel. There is a standing re
ward of $100,000 for his capture. He
urges his countrymen to study reform
methods and then carry the work back
to their native land.
Minister Fined for "Toting Gun."
Rev. Wayman Nilcs. a well known
minister of Wayne county, W. Va.,
admitted carrying firearms because
his ministerial duties often made it
necessary for him to travel at night,
and sometimes through a country in
fested with bad men. The plea did
not go with Judge Wilkinson, who
Imposed a thirty days sentence in
jail on the parson and a fine of $25.
jm iiuih
dress negligently trailed over a
smooth lawn jeweled with daisies, the
sight of a woman dragging her gown
in the street, sweeping up the iltb,
and collecting millions jqf microbes,
is a revolting spectacle ;and yet -with
a long skirt the only alternative isr
to hold it up, a practice which in
duces cramp in the arm. as well as
cold fingers in winter, and gives a
decidedly ungraceful walk and atti
tude. A Cure for Cold Feet.
An excellent and simple remedy
for cold feet is the application of cold
water. Step into the bathtub, let tha
cold water run in a liule faster than
it runs out. Standing in the water,
rub one foot with the other, rapidly,
ten or twelve times. Then change anil
treat the other foot in the same man
rer. Keep up this alternate rubbing
for about three minutes. The feet
will have become very red. and as you
step out of the water, you will find
them burning and glowing with the
warm blood brought into them by this
means.
Some Chinese Baths.
A traveler in Mongolia writes:
"There are some hot springs on tho
read about twenty miles north of
Chingpeng. The place is named
Tangshan. The arrangements for
those anxious to benefit by their heal
ing properties are very primitive. A
row of twenty to thirty wooden boxes
the size of an ordinary packing caso
is ranged beside the road. In these
sit bathers of every age and both
sexes, with their heads protruding.
Attendants with buckets continually
refill the boxes from the springs. For
less luxurious bathers there is accom
modation in a pool which has been
dug out close by. In this they squat,
scoonlnc up the water and pouring it
oer their heads with brass basins. It
is curious to reflect that establish
ments like Homburg and Aix-les-Bains
have had their origin in such begin
nings." Training the Skin.
Tho usual effect of a draft of eoltl
air upon the back of the neck is a cold
and a sore throat. Many years ago
Dr. Brown Sequard. an eminent
French physician, devised a means by
which sore throat from this cause
might be prevented. By blowing upon
the back of the neck with a pair of bel
lows. Increasing the time each day. he
trained his patients until they couhl
endure this treatment for half an hour
without injury.
It is not necessary to be exposed to
a draft of air on the back of the neck
in order to obtain this result. By
means of the cold bath, the wet-sheet
rub. the shower bath, towel friction,
etc.. the skin may be educated to con
tract on the slightest increase of cold.
Daily exposure to the contact of cold
air is of the utmost importance, it is
became of the lonstant exposure to
cold that the Indian's body is "all fare"
the skin of his whole body has
learned to take care of itself.
Dr. Lcrenz Strict Teetotaler.
At a banquet given to Dr. Loienz.
wine was served. He pushed tho
wineglass aside. Someone enquired it
he was a. total abstainer. He an
swered: "I am a surgeon. My success de
pends upon having a clear brain, a
steady nerve, and firm muscles. No
one can take any form of alcohol with
out blunting thise physical powers:
theretore. as a surgeon. I must not use
any form of spirits." Journal of In
ebriety. In Harmony with Nature.
Modern scicnc" as well as experi
ence has shown that contact with nat
ural surroundings, especially fresh air.
sunshine and the czoning emanations
from growing plants, has marvelous
health-imparting virtues. In these
natural agencies is active the power
which creatM and maintains all things
and which is constantly communicated
to all living things a- the essential
condition ot continued life. The more
closely man comes to Nature, the
more deeply he may drink from tho
fountain of life and healing. To live
in harmony with Nature in the fullest
and truest sense is to live in har
mony with God: and to live in divino
harmony is to be happy.
How to Resist Old Age.
A chain is as weak as its weakest
link. The body is as weak as its
weakest organ. To combat the on
ward march of old age all organs must
be marshaled to harmonious resist
ance. This resistance can be devel
oped best by cultivating "reaction."
This means that the body forces act
against some external stimulation and
overcome it.
The best developer of reaction is
cold either cold air or cold baths.
This must be done gradually, espe
cially if one Is already weak. Culti
vate the power or resistance by daily
exposure to cold air. Live out of
doors as much as possible. The abil
ity to resist cold will also enable one
to resist pneumonia, dyspepsia, apo
plexy, diabetes, obesity, old age.
The cold morning bath is a wonder
ful youth preserver. Try it. Begin
carefully. At first rub face, arms and
chest with the hands dipped in cold
water. Then tho rent of the trunk and
the legs. Dry quickly and exercise for
ten or fifteen minutes. In a month
you will hardly know yourself. Try it.
Pope Pius to Leave the Vatican.
The pope has expressed his deter
mination to go to Castel-Gandolfo, a
village on the northwest side of Mount
Alhano, fourteen miles southeast of
Rome, for a few weeks, when the
weather improves. The pope's health
absolutely requires a change of air
and scene-. Castel-Gandolfo, among
numerous other villages, contains the
summer residence of the popes, which
has not been used as "such since Pius
IX shut himself up in the Vatican c;
a protest against the deprivation of
Ms temporal powers and the occupa
tion of Rome by the Italian troops in
1S70.
Boy a Master of Languages.
Martin Sitera, an A. D. T. boy In
Omaha, speaks five languages Bo
hemian (his own), English. French.
German and Spanish and hopes ere
long to gain some mastery of Greek
and Latin. He was born in Cernikov,
a mal! village of Bohemia, but came
to this country" about four years ago.
Though but 14 years old, he Is an om
nivorous reader, devoting every spare
minute to hi books.
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