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r-w-y.-? -wsisf3af sep -? 53 -r; t wm -?mrx.J piuLbn t."T Fvrtrr- . w,- ccs. wt -v-r - , ' Ai -v fc n s - --it 's-- ? ' " V I1 '--" -r v 'tt'l,'s- "5- rawS?! a s i - r. v ly f ? AFOOLFO . qS fCopniCkU18IS.bjJ.PaJi CHAPTEK XL Continned. The Rajah dropped his cigar butt in the snow and trod upon it. "Possibly you will faveh us with your company to breakfast in the Rosemary, Misteh Winton you and Misteh Adams. No? Then I bid you a vehy good morning, gentlemen, and hope to see you lateh." And he swung up to the steps of the private car. Half an hour afterwards, the snow still whirling dismally. Winton and Adams were cowering over a handful of hissing embers, drinking their com missary coffee and munching the camp cook's poor excuse for a breakfast. "Jig's up pretty definitely, don't you think?" said the Technologian, with a glance around at the idle track force huddling for shelter under the lee of the flats and the decapod. Winton shook his head and groaned. "I'm a ruined man, Morty." Adams found his cigarette case. VI guess that's so," he said, quite heartlessly. Then: "Hello! what is our friend the enemy up to now?" McGrath's fireman was uncoupling the engine from the Rosemary, and Mr. Darrah, complacently lighting his after-breakfast cigar, came across to the hissing ember fire. "A word with you, gentlemen, if you.will faveh me," he began. "I am about to run down to Argentine on ny engine, and I propose leaving the la dies in your cha'ge, Misteh Winton. Will you give me your word of boneh, seh, that they will not be annoyed in my absence?" Winton sprang up, losing his tem per again. "It's well. It's blessed lucky that you know your man, Mr. Darrah!" he exploded. "Go on about your busi ness which is to bring another army of deputy sheriffs down on us, I take iL You know well enough that no man of mine will lay a hand on your car so long as the ladies are in it." The .Rajah thanked him, dismissed the matter with a Chesterfieldian wave of his hand, climbed to his place In the cab, and the engine shrilled away around the curve and disap peared in the snow-wreaths. Adams rose and stretched himself. rBy Jove! when it comes to cheek, pure and unadulterated, commend me to a Virginia gentleman who has ac quired the proper modicum of west ern bluff." he laughed. Then, with a cavernous yawn dating back to the sleepless night: "Since there Is noth ing immediately pressing. I believe I'll go and call on the ladies. Won't you come along?" "No!" said Winton. savagely; and the Technologian lounged off by him self. - Some little time afterward Winton. glooming over his handful of spitting embers, saw Adams and Virginia come out to stand together on the observa tion platform of the Rosemary. They talked long and earnestly, and when Winton was beginning to add the dull pang of unreasoning jealousy to his other huttings Adams beckoned him. "I should think you might come and say 'Good morning' to me, Mr. Win ton. I'm not Uncle Somerville," said Miss Carteret. Winton said "Good morning." not too graciously, and Adams mocked him. "Besides being a bear with a sore head. Miss Carteret thinks you're not much of a hustler," he said, coolly. "She knows the situation; knows that you were stupid enough to promise not to lay hands on the car when we ?Duld have pushed it out of the way without annoying anybody. None the less, she thinks that you might find a way to go on building your railroad without breaking your word to Mr. Darrah." Winton put his sore-heartedness far enough behind him to smile and say: "Perhaps Miss Virginia will be good enough to tell me how." "I don't know how," she rejoined, quickly. ""And you'd only laugh at me if I should tell you what I thought of." "You might try it and see." he ven tured. "I'm desperate enough to take suggestions from anyone." "Teil me something first. Is your railroad obliged to run straight along in the middle of this nice little ridge you've been making for it?" "Why no: temporarily, it can run anywhere. But the problem is to get the track laid beyond this crossing be fore your uncle gets back with a train load of armed guards." "Any l"ind of a track would do, wouldn't it? just to secure the cross ing?" "Certainly; anything that would hold the weight of the decapod. We shall have to rebuild most of the line, anyway, as soon as the frost comes out of the ground in spring." . The brown eyes became far-seeing. "I was thinking." she said, musing ly, "there is no time to make an other nice little ridge. But you have piles and piles of logs over there" she meant the cross-ties "couldn't you build a sort of cobhouse ridge with those between your track and uncle's, and cross behind the car? Don't laugh, please." But Winton was far enough from laughing at her. Why so simple an expedient" had not suggested itself In stantly he did not stop to inquire. It was enough that the Heaven-bom idea had been given. "Down out of that. Morty!" he cried. "It's one chance in a thousand. Pass the word to the men; I'll be with you in a second." And when Adams was rousing the track force with the bawling ghoul of "Every body!" Winton looked up into the brown eyes. "My debt to yon was already very great; I owe you more now," he said. Bat she gave him his quittance in a whiplike retort. "And yon will stand here talking it it when every moment is pce- 7 Ga!" she mmmmM' aa4 he - - "" LOVE 5LYNDE GRAFTERS." ETC Oski So now we are to conceive the mad dest activity leaping into being In full view of the watchers at the windows of the private car. Winton's chilled and, sodden army, welcoming any battle-cry of action, flew to the work with a wilL In a twinkling the corded piles of cross-ties had melted to reap pear in cob-house balks bridging an angle from the Utah embankment to that of the spur track in rear of the blockading Rosemary. In briefest time the hammermen were spiking the rails on the rough-and-ready trestle, and the Italians were bring up the crcsslng-frogs. But the Rajah, astute colonel of in dustry, had not left himself defense less. On the contrary, he bad provid ed for this precise contingency by leaving McGrath's fireman in mechan ical command on the Rosemary. If Winton should attempt to build around the private car, the fireman was to wait till the critical moment; then he was to lessen the pressure on the automatic air-brakes and let the car drop back down the grade just far enough to block the new crossing. So it came about that this mechan ical lieutenant waited, laughing in his sleeve, until he saw the Italians com ing with the crossing-frogs. Then, judging the time to be fully ripe, he ducked under the Rosemary to "bleed" the air-tank. Winton heard the hiss of the escap ing air above all the industry clamor; heard, and saw the car start backward. Then he had a flitting glimpse of a man in grimy overclothes scrambling terror-frenzied from beneath the Rosemary- The thing done had been over done. The fireman had "bled" the air tank too freely, and the liberated car. gathering momentum with every wheel-turn, surged around the circling spur track and shot out masterless on the steeper gradient of the main line. Now, for the occupants of a runa way car on a Rocky mountain line there is death and naught else. Win ton saw, in a phantasmagoric flash of second sight, the meteor flight of the heavy car; saw the Reverend Bil ly's ineffectual efforts to apply the hand-brakes, if by good hap he should even euess that there were anv hand brakes; saw the car, bounding and I c "EWHiu- wmtzSXte RUN. CALVERT.' lurching, keeping to the rails, may hap, for some few miles below Ar gentine, where it would crash head long into the upward climbing Car bonate train, and all would end. In unreasoning misery, he did the only thing that offered: Ran blindly down his own embankment hoping nothing but that he might have one last glimpse of Virginia clinging to the hand-rail before she should lie lost to him forever. But as he ran a thought white-hot from the furnace of despair fell into his brain to set it ablaze with pur pose. Beyond the litter of activities the decapod was standing, empty of its crew. Bounding up into the cabv he released the brake and sent the great engine flying down the track of the newIine. In the measuring of the first mile the despair-born thought took shape and form. If he could outpace the runaway on the parallel line, stop the decapod and dash across to the C. & G. R. track ahead of the Rosemary, there was one chance in a million that he might fling himself upon the car in mid flight and alight with life enough left to help Calvert with the hand-brakes. Now, in the most unhopeful struggle it is often the thing least hoped for that comes to pass. At Argentine Winton's speed was a mile a minute over a track rougher than a corduroy wagon-road; yet the decapod held the rail and was neck and neck witn the runaway. Three miles more ot the surging, racking, nerve-killing race and Win ton had his han'e-br?adth of Izzd and had picked his place for the izillloa chanced wrestle with death. It was at the C. A G. R. station of Tierra Blanca, 'just below a series of sharp curves which he hoped might check a little the arrowlike flight of the runa way. Twenty seconds later the telegraph operator at thelonely little way sta tion of Tierra Blanca saw a heroic bit of man-play. The upward-bound Carbonate train was whistling In the gorge 'below when oat of the snow wreaths shroaded the new line a big engine shot down to stop with Are grinding from the wheels, and a man dropped, from the high cab to daak across to the -station platform. v , At the same 'instant 'a runaway pas senger car thundered out of the can yon above. The man crouched, flung himself at It in passing, missed the forward" hand-rail, caught the rear, was snatched from his feet and trailed through the air like' the thoag of a whiplash, yet made good his hold and clambered oil This was all the operator saw, bnt when he had snapped bis key and run out, he heard the shrill squeal of the brakes on the car and knew that Jon a Winton had not risked his, life for nothing. - And on board the Rosemary? Win ton, spent to the last breath, was lying prone on the .railed platform, where. he had fallen when the last twist hail been given to the shrieking brakes, his head in Miss Carteret's lap. "Run, Calvert! Run ahead and stop the up-train!" he gasped; then the light went out of the gray eyes and Virginia wept unaffectedly and fell to dabbling his forehead with handfuls of snow. "Help me get him in to the -divan.' Cousin Billy," said Virginia, when all was over and the Rosemary was safe ly coupled in ahead of the upcoming train to be slowly pushed back to Ar gentine. But Winton opened his eyes and struggled to his feet unaided. "Not yet," he said. "I've left my automobile on the other side of the creek; and, besides, I have a railroad to build. My respects to Mr. Darrah. and you may tell him I'm not beaten yet" And he swung over the rail ing and dropped off to mount the octopod and to race it back to the front. Three days afterwards, to a scream ing of smelter whistles and other noisy demonstrations of mining-camp joy. the Utah Short Line laid the final rail of its new extension in the "Car bonate yards. The driving of the silver spike ac complished, Winton slipped out of the congratulatory throng and made his way across the C. & G. R. tracks to a private car standing alone on its sid ing. Its railed platform, commanding a view of the civic celebration, had its quota of onlookers a fierce-eyed old man with huge white mustaches, an athletic young clergyman, two Bisques and a goddess. "Climb up. Misteh Winton. climb up and join us." said the fierce-eyed one heartily. "Virginia, heah, thinks we ought to call each otheh out, but I tell her" What the Rajah had told his niece is of small account to us. But what Winton whispered in her ear when he had taken his place beside her is more to the purpose of this history. "I have built my railroad, as yon told me to, and now I have come for me" "Hush!" she said, softly. "Can't you w?it?" "No." "Shameless one!" she murmured. But when the Rajah proposed an adjournment to the gathering-room of the car, and to luncheon therein, he surprised them standing hand-in-hand and laughed. "Hah, you little rebel," he said. "Do you think you dese've that block of stock I promised you when you should marry? Anseh me. my deab." She blushed and shook her head, but the brown eyes were dancing. The Rajah opened the car door with his courtliest bow. "Nevertheless, you shall have it. my deah Virginia, if only to remind an old man of the time when he was sim ple enough to make a business con federate of a charming young woman. Straight on, Misteh Adams; after you, Misteh Winton." THE END. ENOUGH SAID. Gerald -We all have our weak nesses. Geraldine Well, you're not mine. Illustrated Bits. "I have two lovely little puppies," said Mrs. Tawkley. ' "I have met your hnibaad," replied the man. "Who is the other mS0Ok I mmmmimT'vr HrSmmpBTmBSBBBBBr 'BBSs Mvmmmnj v mnv NOTES MRM fyMilffir Labor considered, sheep pay better than' cows on the right kind of land. Some one who has tried it says that strong salt" solution is best for ridding the hen house of Mce. A Missourian has invented a clover header which saves the seed and leaves the straw on the ground as a. mulch. The city has got to be fed by the farm, and the surest way of winning the gold of the city is to stick to the farm and raise what the city wants. The dirt and harmful germs may be in the milk;, even though you can't see them; in fact, the most injurious im purities are the invisible. It is said that nine-tenths of Ameri can men who have attained eminence in the various fields of laudable activ ity came from the farm. It takes the farm to produce sturdy, strong man hood. One of the finest exhibits of horses at the Wisconsin state fair this year was made by a company of six enter prising farmers who organized about two years ago for the breeding of fine Percherons. Here is a hint for a group of farmers in other places. Scarcity of labor in the south is forcing planters to look to machinery for relief. Cane loaders and cotton harvesters and threshers are being de vised for the doing of work which has always been performed by hand la bor. The Russian thistle is a tumble weed, whose greatest danger lies in its habit of rolling for miles in a high wind and scattering its seeds in its path. The Canada thistle is a much worse pest, for it is a perennial, spreading by its root joints like Ber muda grass and about as hard to get rid of. In spite of repeated appeals many a farm has gone through the growing season. again without a garden for the supplying of the table with vegetables and fruits. Not enough time to spare to it, is the old, old excuse. But yon have time if you will only" take it, and It will pay. Make up your mind that wife shall have that garden next year. Wouldn't be a bad idea to plow and manure the patch of ground for the garden this fall, and thus have a bet ter start for next year. In the case of old fields that have been allowed to grow up in pines, green briers and other trash, because the soil was not worth cultivating it can be cleared and brought under cul tivation by cutting, drying and burn ing the trash and then letting cattle and sheep range over the land to keep the sprouts down. Under this method the roots will die in two or three years and rot so that the plow can be used. If the plow is used at once after clear ing, the roots will live for years. Here is a proposition' for the farm er to consider. Let bim give his an swer, and then order his conduct in accordance therewith: Two cows cost $40 a year each for keep. One of them yields 4,000 quarts of milk a year, that bring $86. The other yields 1,200 quarts, that bring $26. The lat ter loses about $14 and reduces the gain on the former from $46 to $32. Why do you keep that 1,200 quart cow? You would be better off with the one that clears $46, . for you would only have half the investment, half the work and half the feeding, and you would gain $14 each year. Dairy farmers have not yet half waked up to an understanding of the great practical importance of. weed ing out the unprofitable cows from their herds. Many a man would make a fair profit that now faces con stant loss, if he would keep only sueh cows as pay a profit on their keep. And the only way to ascertain which cow is making the profit is by keep ing an individual record of each cow and testing the milk. J. H. H. Gregory, the well-known Massachusetts seedsman, tells how he raises onions, which is by the follow ing simple process: "Broadcast ten cords of strong manure made fine, and plow four or five inches under. Then fine land well, and, unless very fine, cross-plow shallow with one-horse plow. Next, scatter 1,000 pounds to the acre of onion fertilizer, and hand rake it in, making ground as level as a floor and very fine. Do this in strips across ine piece, riant wun some good seed drill and rake another nar row strip; plant it and proceed. Plant four and one-half pounds of seed to the acre, dropping about 15 to each foot Test machine first on barn floor. As soon as onions break ground, at the first hour the rows can be barely traced, run the wheel hoe through them and hand weed immediately after. Do this if necessary four or five times during the season. When about all the tops have fallen down pull, putting six rows in one. Hand turn every other day, and house in piles about two feet deep before heavy frosts come. For northern plants earliest sorts; the Gracker for early yellow and Red Flat or Red Globe for red. If crop does not promise well, just before they begin to form bnlbs, scatter 2,000 pounds nitrate of soda to the acre, and ran the wheel hoe over the bed to work it In. When tops are large, substitute a single hoe." A Pennsylvania farmer Is said to have discovered a snail beetle that feeds on potato bugs. "No hoof, no horse," Is the old adage, and it may. well include tre legs. In feeding hay to horses it should be well shaken up and moistened with a little water. In feeding beef cattle a little oil meal or stock food of some kind is good to tone up the system and will assist in the conversion of food to flesh, j There Is a story from Maine that skunks have been digging the potato crop for the farmers there. There is a strong odor of the improbable about It' Out west here it Is Ukely that the fanner will stick to the old methods. The ewe that Is over six years old is generally unprofitable. Weed out the old ones from the flock If you would make yonr sheep pay.- -Only in rare cases of remarkably prolific ewes shoal they be kept The coding moth and woolly aphis have wroaght untold damage in the apple orchards of New Zealand, and the government pomologist Dr. W. A. Boucher, has just spent several months in California searching for parasites to combat the pests. At the first indication of cholera outbreak among the hogs, the diseased animals should be quarantined, and all avenues by which the germs could be distributed by people, dogs, stray hogs, etc., guarded against. Remove the healthy hogs to a new yard, and tar disinfectants should be used daily about the .feed troughs, floors and sleeping quarters. The dead hogs should be burned, which is not a diffi cult task if the bodies are placed on top of a pile of wood that burns quickly and makes a hot fire. There is no more striking illustra tion of the growth of the country than the facility with which farmers are handling and marketing their crops this year. No longer is it necessary for vast sums of money to be sent from the east to move the crops, for the farmers now have snug sums ol money themselves, and banking facili ties are afforded right in the thriving, growing towns which are being built up In every farming community. An other improvement over the methods of years ago, when the farmer had to get his grain to the distant market, no matter how low the price, is that "now the farmers are able to hold their crops for favorable prices. Apple butter that's worth eating on a cold day in winter Is made by boil ing sweet cider down to about one half. Add an equal quantity of good cooking apples, which have been peeled and quartered. Boil until the apples are tender, then sweeten with light brown sugar, or with half gran ulated and half brown sugar; add spices to 'taste. After the sugar is added continue the boiling, -stirring constantly meanwhile, until the whole is of the consistency of a smooth paste. Pack away in stone jars and it will keep indefinitely. The addition of the spices is merely a matter of choice as many may prefer the plain apple flavor. If the apples are tart and well flavored it seems that the spices de tract rather than add to the palatabil ity of the butter. Recent experiments have proved the remarkable activity of the circulatory system of trees. At the North Da kota experiment station tests made with poorly nourished young trees have shown that when supplied with a bottle into which tho roots were placed they sucked in sustenance at a raflid rate, chemical substances be ing detected in the sap of the top most twigs within ten hours. So far, indeed, was it the case that the trees drew up sustenance that it was found possible to regulate to some extent the growth of young trees by such means, retarding their development or making it more rapid, as might be desired. It is all a matter of food supply, the "patient" under treatment showing a ready willingness to ab. orb extra provender and to utilize it in the building of plant tissues. A French experiment station recom mends the following method for the preventing of the lodging of grain. "It was found," says the report, "that on very rich soil by mowing luxuri antly growing grain when 30 centime ters high, removing the upper 15 cen timeters, and leaving the cut material as it falls will not only prevent lodg ing, but will also make a more uni form crop in length of straw and size of head and kernel. If after the first cutting the growth of the crop is vig orous enough to indicate danger of lodging, it may be cut again about two weeks later when the plants have again reached the height of 30 centi ceters. The mowing should be done when the dew is off, preferably in the afternoon. This method was success fully applied in 1901 on Chevalier bar ley growing on rich and well-fertilized soil during a warm, rainy season." 'A centimeter is the hundredth part of a meter and is substantially equivalent to four-tenths of an inch. We were talking with one old farm er the other day who has made a splendid success of agriculture, and who is looking forward to the time when his two boys will take the heavy end and run the farm. They are fine toys, have been fairly educated and take naturally to the farm. We sug gested the sending of the boys to the state agricultural college for the tech nical and scientific training which they would need to equip them for the highest type of farming, and this is what he said: "Yes, I suppose it wouldn't hurt them any, but then, you see, they are just where they can give the best help on the farm now, and I don't know as they need this extra learning. They'll make good farmers if they work the place as I have worked it, for I flatter myself I know a thing or two about raising crops and handling stock. That scientific train ing is all right for them professor fel lows, but I'm not so sure that it Is needed by as fanner folks." Old Ironudes." 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THE INVENTION OF A BOY IT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE THE PRESENT TYPEWRITER. V'rginia Youth Hae Accomplished That Wich Hae Puzzled Mechan ical. Experts for Many Years. Norfolk, Va. The problem of an automatic carriage for the typewriter, one over which experts have been laboring and experimenting for years without success, has probably been solved by Robert Eugene Turner, a Norfolk boy, who Is yet to reach his majority. That the invention, if practicable, is destined to revolution ize the modern typewriter, is the 'opinion of experts, men who have studied the problem for years. Years ago it was recognized that the invention of an automatic car riage return for the typewriter would add from 25 to 30 per cent to the speed of the operators an item that tells in the business world. The manufacturers of the leading ma chines put experts on the problem. No stone was left unturned to solve the problem of the transference, re direction and control of power. It is said that one company offered a handsome prize to the man in their employ who would discover the prin ciple, to be worked out later. Mr. Turner, who Is a member of the architectural firm of Hebard A Turner, and who is a lover of mathe matical problems and technical ques tions worthy of solution, had his at tention drawn to the matter. At that time he was in his teens. He began to think out the problem, conveying his ideas to drawings. For three years he studied it at spare times, day and night The young inventor grasped the dif ficulties clearly. He finally solved it, that of regulataing the power at all times, controlling and reversing it at will. Briefly stated, the regula tion and control of the power is by means of the space bar. It is unop erative automatically until the car riage has gone a certain length, but by means of a key it can be ma nipulated at the will of the opera tor. Like all valuable Inventions, its simplicity is the thing that attracts attention. It can be added to ma chines at a nominal cost; it will not affect the durability of the machine, will not add to the cost of repairs, and is not easy to get out of order. Its speed is suffcient for all practical purposes. The following statement in refer ence to the invention was made by Mr. Turner recently: "It increases the mechanical con trol of the carriage, making it un necessary, for the operator to remove his hands from the keyboard during writing, a feature especially valuable to touch operators. A Roaring Lion in Tattnall County Is Haunted by a Big Yellow Cat Savannah, Ga. The lower section of Tattnall county is pretty well scared because a wild lion has been seen in that vicinity. Mothers are keeping their children indoors after dark and posses of determined men are trying to run down the unwelcome visitor and put him to death. On Thursday the lion was seen on Mr. Brooks Harvey's place, between Mor rison and Groveland. Mr. Harvey could not kill him at that time, as he did not have his gun. The animal was seen by both Mr. and Mrs. Har vey. It was very large and appeared quite ferocious. Since then it has been heard roaring in the vicinity by several people at night As far as can be learned, it has not carried awa; any hogs or cattle and the peo ple are wondering what it lives on. Twe or three soarrhisg parties hare 1 "The mechanism causes the car riage Ho return to the Initial writing point automatically when the end of a written line, is reached, and also to return automatically from any point in the line by pressing a special key. Means for cushioning the im pact of the carriage -to prevent a de structive jar to the machine is amply provided for, as well as an improve ment in the runways and rollers bear ing the carriage to reduce the fric tion to a minimum. "The momentum attained by the carriage in its return stroke is atil Ized to effect the line spacing, which can also be done from the keyboard. An Ingenious but simple device Is Introduced, so that the setting of either the automatic or nmnnal line spacer will adjust the other to con form in the uniform spacing of lines." An Interesting feature in reference to the Invention is the youthfnlness of the inventor. When the appli cation for the patent was filed nearly two years ago. or in February, of 1905, Mr. Turner was only a little over 18 years of age. As he began the study of the problem several years before this, his youthfulness can be appreciated. It was a mere boy who had undertaken to solve a serious scientific mathematical prob lem. Robert Eugene Turner was bom in Norfolk November 26, 1886. He is the son of R. E. Turner, general su perintendent of the Virginian-Pilot After leaving the Norfolk high school he devoted his time to the study of mechincal engineering and architec ture. Mr. Turner was nearly two years in securing a patent on his Inven tion, but it was finally obtained through Walter B. Burrow, patent at torney at Norfolk. Mr. Turner's friends are confident that he has a small fortune, to say the least, la his patent Superstition Rife. "Magianism. rosicrucianism, gnos ticism, occultism, together with Mo saic and Hermetic mysteries, are flourishing .in this country and Europe. Packets, locks of hair, wands, vagaries, fakes and morbid mental states due to these are on all sides. How can mental physi cians keep up with the new brain diseases? Superstition is now in tensely alive, and all kinds of mind distortion, born of prehistoric and) barbaric ages, when men did not know a single law of nature, are rife, even, in the shadows of univer sities and colleges." Prof. Larkin. of. Mount Lome Observatory. Mrs. Langtry Drops the "Lily." Mrs. Langtry, who is now playing, in a vaudeville sketch, will not allow her manager to advertise her as: "Lily" Langtry. Only intimates are now permitted to call her by that name. a. gone out for the beast, but they have not been successful in capturing him. About two years ago Mr. David Bea sley killed a lion near Groveland. He has It stuffed at his home now. This one is said to be very much like the one Mr. Beasley killed and many think it is possibly his mate. Until the new arrival is slain there will con tinue to be excitement School Gardens of Austria. It Is stated that nearly 8,000 school gardens exist in Austria, not Including the sister kingdom of Hungary. They are connected with both private and public schools, and are used for par poses of practical instruction in hor ticulture and tree growing, and often. contain botanical museums and hives. "The doctor says I mustn't play whist any more it makes me irrita ble." "That's foolish. It might as well be whist as anything Cleveland Pl Dealer. 4h rj m. ." -! is.. -izyti iEE2i&&&&&h 4T- "t.-'S.''' 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