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20 THE OMAHA DAILY R! SUNDAY, ATJOUST 1002. in thoroughbreds. Bj W. A. FRASER. Author f "Tin Outcast. 'Mooiwi.' and Other Stories. (Copyright, J90J, by McClur. Phillip A Co.) CHAPTER IV. For week John Fortr brooded ever Lucretla'a defeat, and, worse (till, the de facing blotch that had smirched bla good aam hi th unjust luaplcton of tha un thinking public - . Touched In Ita pocket, tha public re speeded la unsavory reference to Lucre tla'a race. Porter loved a good hone, and liked to see him win. The confidence of tha publlo la bla honest? wi aa great a reward as tha a take. The avowed principle of racing, that It Improved tha breed of horses, was but a ailent sentiment with him. Ha be lieved fa It, but. not being rich, raced as a profession, honestly and squarely. He bad itaerted mora than onca that if ha were wealthy be would never rice a 2-year-old. Bat bla income must be derived from hla fcorsos, bla capital waa In them, and Just ' M fl ,.l!. J S,'r " 1 ' . " 'a r- " : Caf . , hyU?'y' ' . mJiIj' i LMlP afcf V mm, -m I If. I ft. 4Wlri SOMEHOW", LANUDON" FELT MISERABLY INEFFICIENT IN THE PRESENCE 8UFFERED; THE OTHER MAN'S MIND WAS SO OVERMASTERINO. k this time b waa sitting In a partlcu artr hard streak of bad luck; financially, was in a hole; morally, he stood 111 with public His reason told him that tha Ill-fortune timid not last; be bad one grand little bare, good enough to ' win, an . honest ralaer there the Inventory stopped abort: U stock-in-trade waa incompletehe had lot a trusty Jockey. In' hU dilemma he threshed It out wltk i )lxoa. ' "How's the aiare doing, AndyT" he asked What did the race do to her?" "She was never bettor in her life," tbe Iralner answered, proudly. Then fee added, e easy the troubled look tb&t waa In the n-ay eya ot hi maater, "She'll win next Ime out, sle I'll gamble my abtrt on that" "Not with another McKay up." "I think she's good enough for the Eel Ires,' air, dashed If I don't. I worked ler ine distance and she ahaded the time key roads last year." "Whit' the use," said Porter, dejectedly, where'll we get a boy?" "Oh, lot of the boy are straight." "I know that," Porter answered, "but all k straight onea are tied hand and foot to tome big stable." "I've been thlnkln' it over," hazarded Dixon, tentatively "Boston BlU'a got a food lad there'a none of them can put it rver him,' an' hi bos ain't got nothln' in be 'Eclipse,' I know."! "That meana the same old game, Andy; re nurse the horse, get him Into condition, place him. where he can win and then turn lira ever to a plunger and take the small ind cf the divide. Boston Bill would back ter oft the board." "The stake 'i mount up to $7,000 or 8,000, ta' tha win would square the little mare artth tbe public." "And I'd do that It I didn't land a dol fcr." said 'Porter. "Andy, it hurta me more lo see the filly banged about there in the rack than it did giving up the money." The trainer smiled. With him this was tnnusual; there was a popular auperstltton that he sever smiled except when one of lis horaca won. But hla heart expanded tt Forler'a words, for he, luu, waa fond ot ihe little mare. Then Pcrter spoke again, abruptly and hst, aa though he feared he might change 11 miud: "They downed m last trip Dixon I gueaa I'm getting a bit alow In py paces, and do just aa you like arrange rlth Biston Bill if you think It's gocd j justness. Ha makes a specialty of win ling races sot pulling horses, and we teed a wis too, I guefs." "Thsnk yen, sir. We'l land that stake us' p'rapa tbe sharp division ll take a arable I'll bet a dollar tbv'U gv. ,r the Dutchman-If they atart h!. Lucretla's igat en edge, she' lookln" for the key tole aa' may ga back if we don't give her t race. We'd better get tbe money tor the tat bill while it' In sight. She ougbter be t leng price la tbe bettlu', too," continued Dixon, meditatively; "tbe public aoou sour sb a beaUa horae. You'll have a chance to et even." "I don't like that part of It," muttered Porter. "I'm In tbe Uek booka now. rropls have no reason at all no sense; ley ve got it Into tbelr heads that dirty b wta my making and it tha filly start it tee te one and I win s bit they'll howl." Ym can't make succeea. of racln' air. an' ma your stable fur tha public they don't lay the teed bill." "ferns ps you're right, Dixon," answered orttr. Fcr Immediate financial raltet Torter tnev that he must look to Luc ret ia no Khar horse In bla aiable waa ready to sin, but more liajuediately he must ar- a&ge certain t ey matter aith bis Maker, who waa Philip Crana. Te Porter, Crane had been a tolerant financier, taking the maa'e honesty liberally as a security; not but what Rlngwood had bee a called upon as a tangible imt. Bo that day, following bla conversation with (Jlxoa, the Blaster of Rlngwood bad aa in tcrslfw with hla banker. It waa natural that ha should rpek ct hla prospects hla hope ot wiuntDg tb Eclipse niib Lucretla, and, corroboiaU!y, mention her good '.rial. "I think tbat'a a good mare ef yours. Mr. fetter," a 14 Craue. SfuivalheUitlly. "I only race, myself. In a email way. Just for tha outdoor relaxation It gives me, you know, ao I'm not much of a Judge. The other horae you bought the winner of the race, I mean, Luzaone wilt also help put you right, I ahould say." Torter hesitated, uneasily. Ha disliked to talk about a man behind his back, but he knew that Langdon trained for Crane,' and longed to give the banker a friendly word of warning; ha knew nothing of tha letter's manipulation of the trainer. With a touch of rustle qualntness ba aaM, with seeming Irrelevance to tha su- ! Joct. "Have you aver picked wild straw- berrlea In the Oelda," Mr. Crane. "I have," answered the other man, show Ing no surprise at the break, for life in Brookfleld had accustomed him to dla Jolnted deals. "Did you ever notice that going down wind you could tee tha berrlea better?" Crane thought for a moment. "Yea, that's right; coming up wind the leavea hide them." , "Just ao," commented Porter; "and when a man's got a trainer he's nearly always working up wind with him." "Tha trainer hides things?" queried Crane. ' . '.'Some do. But the outsiders walking down wind as the berries." Again tbe banker pondered for a minute, then he said, "Whose garden are tbe berrle In. Mr. Porter, your er miner "I see." said the other, meditatively. "I understand. I'm much obliged. If I thought for an Instant that any trainer waan't dealing perfectly atralght forward, with me, I'd have nothing more to do with him nothing whatever." Crane sat looking through the open win dow at John Porter, as the latter went down the atreet. About hla thln-llppcd, square -framed mouth hovered an expres sion that might have been a smile or an Intenae look of Interest, or a touch of avartcloua ferocity. The gray eyes peeped over the wall of their lower lids, and In them, too, waa the unfathonable some thing. "Yes," he repeated, aa though Porter attll stood be!de him, "it Langdon tried to de ceive me,. I'd crush him. Poor old Porter, with hla atory of the strawberrlea! If he were aa clever aa he Is honest, he wouldn't have been (tuck with s horae like Lausanne. I told Langdon to get rid of that quitter, but I almoat wish he'd found another buyer for him. The horae taint la pretty strong la that Porter blood. How the girl said that !ine: "And a hush came over the clamorous mob. Like a babe on his neck I was aobblng." "She" cleverer than her father." Crane eat for an hour. Porter had van ished from the landscape, but st'll the banker's thought clung to hia"peronallty aa though the peeping eyes saw nothing else. From the time or the first lean obtained upon Rlngwood, Crane bad coveted tbe place. It appealed to him, with lta elm- bordered, sweeping driveway, leading from gate to old colonial residence. Its thlck grasscd fields and running water made It just the place for a man who tempered his passion for racing with common aens. Api It would pass from Porter's hands right enough Crane knew that. Porter miftht call It Ill-luck, but he. Crane, the banker, knew It was the lack of something, the Inability to make money. "Made music to me on Crusader," yts. that wa It- With the Porter it waa lng!e of spurs and stride ot the horae. AH very fine in theory, but racing, ss he looked upon It, waa a question of proper odi and many other th'ng connected with the bet ting ring. Wby did the girl. Allis, with her Jlng'lng verse, creep into hi mind. Perhapa tt was because she was ao different who waa alwaya steeped In atrphanotl. Of the one there waa only the memory ot an unmod ulated voice and oppressive perfume; In truth, of tbe other there waa not much more lust a pair of big, blue-giay. honest ryes, that somehow stared at him fear lessly, and, withal, with a great aweeloess. Crane suddenly chuckled lii dry disappro bation of himself. Orosteequely enough, ell at once he remembered that he waa 40 that very day, 40. He ran hla hand over Ma walat coat. and. finding something. dipped twe flngera into his pocket and drew out a cigar. Ordinal! ly, the face of aa alabaster Bud dha was sioblle and full ot rxpresaloa com pared with Crone'a. Ilia mind worked be hind a mask, but It worked with tbe eleir cut precision of clockwork. When bis thoughts had erystailud ln(o a form of ex preaslon. Crane was very apt to be exactly right la Ms deductions. Ease fcr the curling amoke that streamed lastly upward from his cigar on mUht have thought the bau.'ier tsl aaleep In hi chair, so atlll he sat, while hie mluj labored with the quiescent velocity ot a splnn'ng lop, Ms had woo a big stake over Lausanne' victory. The race had helped btggar Porter and brought Rlngwood nearer his covetuu grasp. If Porter failed te wia the Erllps his Huances would be In a pitiable s'a'.e. h might vea have te U hi goud Oily Luc ret la. That would ba a 'golden oppor tunity. From desiring the farm. Insensibly Crane drifted into coveting tha mare. Ha fell to wondering whether tha Dutchman might not beat Lucmla. A question of thla sort waa one of tha few he discussed with Langdon, Crttne had amoked bla cigar out, bad aettled tha trend of many things and de veloped tha routine for bla chessman. "I'll give Porter rope enough, In tha way of funda, to tangle himself, and In the meantime I'll run up to Nw Tork and see what Langdon tblnka about the Dutchman," waa the shorthand record of bla thoughts aa be threw away the end of bla cigar, took bla hat and passed out ot the bank. That evening he talked with hla trainer, "What ahould win tha Eclipse, Langdon T be asked. "Well, I don't know what'lf atart," be gan the trainer with diplomatic caution, running through bla mind the moat likely t-year-olda. "Would Perter'a mare have a chancer" "I think she would. I bear aomethla' about a trial aha gave them good enough to win If I eould find out ber time Portar don't talk much, an' Andy Dixon's like a clam. There'a a boy In the stable, Shandy, that I might pump" "Don't bother, Mr, Langdon; I dislike prying Into anybody's bualnesa." . The trainer atared, but ha didn't know that Porter bad told Crane all about the trial, and ao the latter could afford to take OF CRANE HIS SELF-RESPECT a virtuous pose. "Ha the Dutchman a look lnf" con tinued Crane. "On his runntn' hs ha; he wasn't half fit. an' got as bad a ride as-ever I see in my life. The rscs ought Jo be between 'em I sln't seeu no l-yer-old out to beat that pair." .-. , "If I thought the Dutchman would win I'd buy htm. I like game horse, and men, too that'll take the gaff and try."1 "I don't know aa tbe owner'd sell him." "Do you remember the buying of Silver Foot, Langdon?" "Yes.;- "He was a good horse." "The beat handicap horse In the ceun try an" be waa sold for s song seven thou sand." -Less than that, the Drat time," cor rected Crane. "Yes; they stole him from old Walter; made him believe the hone waa no good." "Just so," commented Crane; "I've heard that atory,". and hi smooth putty-like face remained blank and devoid ef all meaning, aa hi eye peered vacantly over their lower l!ds at the trainer. Langdon waited for the other" to con tlnue, hut the hanker seemed wrapped up In a retrospect of the Stiver Foet deal - "I knew Billy Smith, that trains the Dutchman," hasarded Langdon. "I m glad of that I mean, that you know Smith," declared Crane. "I happen to kn?w the owner hla name 1e Baker. HI racing la what might be called Indiscrimi nate, and like men of that class he some times blunders upon a good horse without knowing It and I doubt very much but that If he knew all about the other rttee hew bad Lausanne really la, no the mare, Lu cretla well rot shut off and couldn't get through her horses eay of eourse his own trainer, 8mlth, would have to tell him these th'ns. you understand. In fact. If he knew the exact - truth, he might take a reasonable offer for the Dutchman." Langlon nodded approvingly. He loved this subtle matter; card up hi sleeve tingled hi serve and loaded dice were a joy forevermore. Crane proceeded to unwind tbe silken ccrd. "Naturally Smith would hate to lose a fair horae out of his stabls and would, prrbapa, attempt te thwart. any deal; so, I think you might remunerate him for his loss." "When Silver Foot was aold they gave him a bad trial before the sale" "I'm cot Intertsttd' In Silver Foot." In terrupted Crane "and I shouldn't like to have anything well, I don't want my name associated with anything shady, you understand. Langdon? You are to buy the Dutchman a cheap aa you ran and run him aa your own horse In the Eclipse. I think Porter' mare will win It, so w needn't lo'e anything over the Dutchman." Langdon started. With all his racing finesse he was s babe. The smooth complacent-faced man in front of him made hlni realize this. "But." he gasped, "there waa s row over Lauxanne'a race. If the Dutchman runs in my name, an' s lot o' mugs play him It's dollars to doughnuts they will as' he gets beat, there'll be s kick. I can't take no cbanoee of be l a' had ao by the stewards " "Wait s bit," replied Crane, calmly. "Sup poclng Porter's mare worked five and a halt furlonga in 107, how would ebe go la the Eclipse?" "She'd wtn In a walk, unless the Dutch man was at hla best, when he might give ter an argiment." ' "Well, it I thought the Dutchman cou'd beat the mare I'd make blm win. If he never carried the saddle again," declared Crane almost fiercely. Then he Interrupted himself, breaking oft abruptly. Very sel dom Indeed It waa that Crane gave expres sion te seailment; hla word were simply a motor for carrying the Impact of hie well-thought-out plane to the executive agenta. "It will he doing John Porter a good turn to to that la. tt Lucretla wins I fancy ha seada a win. 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Why should he reason, or object, or counterplot, er do any thing, but just follow blindly the dictate of this past master In tha. oblique game he loved so well? . ;' v Crane wanted the Dutchman because he was a good Mrse; he also wanted to have a heavy plunge on Lucretla; bnt with the aon of Hanove In other hands, the good thing might iiot corns off. ' , ' .. , Somehow Langdon felt miserably Inef ficient in the presence of Crane-r-hla self respect suffered; the other' man's m'nd was so overmastering,' even to detail. The trainer felt s sudden desire to right him self tn Crane'a etlmatlon, 'give some evi dence of ordinary Intelligence, or capability to carry out hla mission. "If ' the Dutchman'a owner was made to think that the horae was likely to break down, throw a splint, o " But Crane Interrupted him In his quiet, masterful way, saying: "I know nothing of horse trading; I simply furntah the money, loan It to you, my dear Mr. Langdon, and you buy tbe animal In your own best way. You will pay for him with a check on my bank." ' No man could close out an Interview o effectually aa Crane. As Langdon slipped sway aa though he had been thrust bodily from the room there was in his mind nothing but admiration ot bis master the man who backed up his delicate diplomacy with liberal capital. In spits ot what he had said to Langdon there waa little doubt in Crane's miud but that the son of Hanover was a better horas than Lucretla.. A sanguine owner- even Porter waa one at time was so spt to overrate everything In hie own stable, especially if he had bred the animal him self, as Porter had Lucretla. To buy th Dutchman and back him on uch short ownership to beat Lucretla would have been the policy of a very ordi nary mind Indeed; he would almply be fencing, with rapiers of equrl length, with John Porter. Crane bad attained to hi success by thinking a little deeper than other men, going a little beyond them In tbs careful neaa ot hi plans. 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When 4be bookmaker needed financial assistance' bo ' gof "' It , from the banker; when Crane nestled 'jjg missionary amongst the other beokrrr.kers Faust acted for him. . .-.-! ,' . ','1 want to back Lucretla for the 'Eclipse,' Crane said to the bookmaker, ' "Lucretla!" ejaculated FauatT. "She'll have a rosy time beatln' Dutchy on their last race.. They'll' put a better boy up op the colt next time ah' he oughter, come home all I v himself." : . ' "Yes, fairish sort of a jock will hsvs the mount, I think Wsstley'a a good enough boy." ' "Weatley?" came wonderlngly from Fauat. "Yea," Langdon owns ths Dutchman now.'' The Cherub pureed his Hps In a soft whistle of enlightenment. It bad stag gered him at first thst Crane, for whoas acumen he had a profound respect, should have intended such a. hazardous gamble; now he saw light. . "Then my book I full on th Porter mare?" he said inquiringly. - Crane nodded hla head. "An' I lay agalnat the Hanover colt?" Again Crane nodded. "It's not bookmsking," commented Faust. . "I'm not a bookmaker," retorted Crane. "And see here, Faust," he continued, "when you've got my money on the Porter mare when and bow I leave to you, I want you to cut her price short do you understand? Make her go to the post two to one if you can; don't forget that." . "It the mare goes wrong," objected Faust. "I don't think sbs will, but you needn't be In a hurry there' plenty of time." "What's the limit?" ssked Faust. "I want ber backed down to even money at least," Crane answered; "probably ten thousand will do It. At any rate you can go that far." Then for a few days Langdon prepared his new horse tor the Eclipse according to hla idea of Crane's Idea; and Dixon rounde4 Lucretla to In a manner that gladdened John Porter's heart. They knew nothing of anything but that Lucretla was very fit, that thoy had Boston Bill' jockey to rid straight and honest tor them, and that with a good price agalnat the mare they would recoup all their losses. Th day of the race, when John Porter went In to the betting ring, he wa con fronted with even money about hi mare. If he bad read on tbe ring black-board a notice that she wa dead, he would not have been more astonished. H fought hi way back to th open of the paddock with out making a bet. "Even money!" ejaculated Dixon when bla owner told him ef the ring situation, "why they're crasy. Who' doln' it?" "Not ths public." declared Porter, "for I wa there just after tha first betting. It must be your friend Boston Bill that had forestalled us; nobody else knew ot the mare'a trial." "Not on your life, Mr. Porter; Beaton play fair. D'ye think he eould live at thla gam If he threw down hi friend?" "But nobody else even, knew that we'd got a good boy for tbe mare." "It don't make s deference," curtly answered Dixon; "if a million dollars to a penny whistle that Boston hasn't a dol lar oa yet. Our agreement wa that he'd send hi commission when, they were at tha post, an' hi word' Ilk your own. sir, aa solid aa a Judge' decision. It' some one else. Tbeie's somebody behind that damned Langdon he'a. not clever enough for all this. D'ye know that tha Dutch man'a runnln' In Langdon'a name today?" "He UT" "Yes, he'a supposed to own him." "But what's that got to do with Lu eretla'a price?"-' "It meana that we're goln' to be allowed to wtn. Tha other day they laid against her an' ahe got beat; today they're holdln' her out, ao I suppose sbs'U win, but some body else get th benefit." "Gad! that Langdon must be a crook," muttered Porter. 'I'm going to apeak to my friend Crane about him again. No honest man ahould have horsea la hla table." r-V nTT A s? A tFTK S To) or reader or worthy tersm recommended CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. "That they ahouldn't," assented Dixon, "but we've got our. own trouble today. ?M)M ti.t V - tttm thin- V4 a V - - -- o - back the mare at even money than I would If she ten to one. If I'm any Judge, we're being buncoed good sod plenty." "I , think you're right,;. Dixon. ,' I'll ' go back and; have a 'good, bet down en her at even." . But in ave tnlautes'Lucretla'a owner was back In tbe paddock with) the cheerful In telligence that the tsar was now three to Ave. j ' , :.' ' ' .v. ;. . .. .. "I .wouldn't back 'Salvator amongst a lot' : of cart horsea , at - that price,", com mented Dixon; "leave It alone, an' we'll go for the stake. ' We're, up against it good and hard; aomebody seem to know, more about our own horses than w. do our selves." " "I think, myself, that th god are angry with ua, Dixon," said Porter, moodily; "and the mortal will, be furious, too, whichever way the race goes. They've bscked ths little mare at this short price, no doubt, an' If she's beaten they'll howl; If shs wins they'll swear my money was on today and that I pulled her In her last race." (To Be Continued.) OCT OF THIS ORDINARY. Reform school lads make good fighting material, aa England baa discovered re cently. Lord Leigh aaya that In th South African war soldiers who graduated from reform achoola won three Victoria crosses, ten distinguished service medals (D. S. O ). two promotiona to commercial rank and four mentions In dispatches, Ths two principal engineering magazines hitherto published in England have been American, th text being printed In New York and tbe aheet sent to London to be bound up with local advertisement. Now England I to have Page's Msgazlne, an Illustrated technical monthly, ot her own. Mr. David Page, the editor, haa been the English director of Caaaitr Magaslne. So many horses have been frightened by automobile In and around aristocratic Lenox that Courtland Field Bishop and Al bert B. Bhattuck have undertaken the task ot accustoming all horsea to ths unusual sight and sound. Every morning they take out a few of the thoroughbreds and ln'.ro ducs them to th motor car. Their effort have met with great success, none of the horsea so treated now showing any fear of th auto. British army authorities have been wres tling with the weighty question whether tall coata ahould be substituted tor the short Jacket now worn at mess. The opinions of regimental commander have been asked aa to the matter and one of tbem haa dared to poke fun at the whole affair in thla profane fashion: "I beg to report .'.at (1) I approve th adoption of a tail coat for mess, and (2) I consider on tall should be red and the other blue." Passengers arriving on tha westbound St. Louis it San Francisco train at Jopllo, Mo., report th death of Owen Oreellsh of Leavenworth, Kan., who committed sui cide by climbing on top of s water tank and leaping into the funnel ot s locomo tive. The deed wea committed between Lebanon and Springfield. Greellsh gave a whoop before jumping. He was pulled out by the trainmen with difficulty, terri bly burned. Hla body was taken to Lebanon, To the long list of strange death must be added that of James W. Carroll, a mer chant ot Lamberiville, N. J. Mr. Carroll's death waa caused by a rooster. He waa taking two hens from the chlckea yard when a rooster flew at him and thrust one ot his spurs Into Mr. Carroll's hand. Tbe wound became very painful, but waa not regarded as serious. A few hours later he dropped dead. It la supposed that tbe rooster's spur pierced aa artery, causing a blood clot, which went te the brain. The only flag ever allowed to float above th stars and stripes on th vessel of our navy 1 th church flag, a broad white streamer with a blue cross. Its presence marks on of th most impressive sights on shipboard ths sacred service held every Sunday morning, attended by all officers land men. .Nearly an in oenominauons, in tested agalnat th growing secularization i A MtraeuloenB Caee. wwrnn. 111. I feav been rractlclna medicine for about thirty years, and have beon using , VHm-Ore for the ! eignt yeara. j ne. lleve It will give better results, and that is will meet mors Indications than any ' other medicine I ever bandied. , I will refer to Just one case where Vitas Ore gave almost miraculous results, that of O. O. K..of Weston. McLean County, Illinois, who received a lacerated wound on the flnvers of one hand from a corn shelter.. In a few days it swelled and beoame very pain ful, and In a short time the entire akin of each flnver became detached, as also the thick skin from the palm of the band, leaving- a large ponket end a very painful and onslirhtly hand. In the meantime the other band beoaro infectod and axaumed the same -aspect. After hie family physician hd at tended blm about four weeks I was called to tied aerere cane of Blood Poisoning. I Immediately had V.-O. applied to his bands, and kept tbem wrapped w It h cloth saturated with It; aim administered two teaapoonfula of V.-O. Elixir three times a day. In less than two hours the pain was all removed, and the patient was aleeplns sweetly, which he bad net done in weeks before. , . LEVI VINCENT, M. D. Bright' Blmmmmm-Omrmd thm Doctor. MiNNBAPot.is. Has. t have need both Vltir-Ore and V.-O. Pills personally for some time. I was troubled with Briirht's PiseaHe, my feet being so swollen at times that I eou d not wear my shoes, complicated with Oanralgia (pnlns In the lower part of the abdomen). All of thla has left me, I nfcing nothing but the Vltie-Ore and V.-O. Pills. I will say further that ( have used the above remedies In my practice with a degree of success that I bare never attained with any other remedy, and I ahall continue to u- them ns long as I can procure them. O. W. SMITH, M. D. Dopendm Upon It. Poitwd. Wia. I depend upon Vltoj-Ore altogether in all kinds of Throat Diseases. Pitihthnrla, Quinsy, and in fart -any troubles of the throat. L. O. WALKER. II. .D. M of th Lord's dsy. In st least ene branch of the government service, th navy, Sun- is? ! Z' 1 n "H- f're han lopt wHth tha years In tokens of respect. .Mr. Berwind, who ervants all went on strike at ber splendid Newport villa a week or so ago, . a still having trouble with ber domest lee. The, force with which .she re placed the dqserters Included some shady specimens, two of whom got Into a flstlo argument tbe other evening over the. ques tion which should serve coffee to the guest at dinner. The row developed In th pan try, and one of the men nearly lost an eye. Ths'6ther was sent" to Jail for thirty days. This deplorable acandal was one of the reason why Mr. Berwind' butler took leave on short notice, saying he did not like the rules ot ths establishment. Lighthouse keepers on Percy .Island, oft the coast of Queensland, In 1900 were for gotten for months by the government au thorities. .The food supply of Percy Island Is supposed to be delivered once a quarter, but no food arrived 'at the Island attar th first week In June until a British sloop chanced to pass In Octo ber. The islanders, twenty In number, were delirious from lack of food,' man aged to hull the vessel, which left behind an ample aupply of provisions, .and reminded- the Queensland government of the lighthouse men whose existence It bad forgotten. - . The largest raft of lumber that ' ever floated down the current ot the father of waters arrived at St. Louis recently from m It the Minnesota pineries. Not only was tbe biggest raft on record, bat It made re markably quick time to ita destination. It contained B,SOO,000 feet of lumber aod was towed by two steamers. It left Stillwater, Minn., June 10 and arrived at 'St, Louis tn a little over three week, It would have been In earlier, but an accident to the ma chinery of one of the towing steamboat caused a tleup at Alton until repairs could be made. There Is no record of any raft of tbe air ever reaching St. Loula. m 1 AH existing, railroad spane of ever f00 feet have been built alnce 1870, and prob ably more la America than In all the nest of the world together, and certainly these are much better and cheaper and have been more rapidly and safely' constructed than those of any other country. In a word, American engineer have built most of the greatest and moat difficult bridges In ths world sod In lea than half a century, largely within the last quarter century, have developed the art of bridge building to a perfection that no ether sort of con struction has reached in hundreds of years. They have brought It to practical limits that cannot be greatly extended until some radically new material is provided that Is notably stronger, cheaper or lighter than ateel. KDliCATIOWAL. Re. Dr. Guy Potter Benton, president of the Upper Iowa university, has accepted the presidency of Miami university, Ox ford. O. Rev. Father A. Barry, chaplain of the Carmelite convent at Roxbury, Mass., ha been Installed as a doctor ef sacred the ology In that Institution. Prof. Brander Matthew of Columbia university Is to go to London next mi. nth to lecture on the development of the En, llsh drama and on the dramatist's art. Prof. Henry Nelson Snyder has been elected president of Woffard college at Hiiartansburg. 8. C, ucceeil!i)g Vr. Jumne II. Carlisle, who remains as emeritus pro fessor of ethic and astronomy. Rev. William H. Salmon of Brldxeport Conn., who recently declined th presidency of 1'thnr collcua to low. hi. .1' presidency of c'arleton college, Northflel, Pa., and will enter upon hi duties on Jan uary I, lSeJ. Dr. Herat, th Zionist leader, ha been summoned to the Vlldls puluce bv a fele- fram from tha sultan and will negotiate for he aeiiuialtlon of concessions in Faioatlne permittli.g of the liaiulgratlun and settle, tnent of Jews there. Prof. J. H Heale of th Harvard La School ha been granted a Wave of sb. Dr. Louis Duncan of New York, who has been aiMlntcd as head of the depaitm.iu of elecul.'.l eiiKtaeerlng at . the Mm,.. rliukr.it Institute of Te,in,lay. U on of Ihe best known electrb emtUitrs In this ti.ur.try, having bean tal. e ( ho,! president the Aiaerlcan Inalltuu f Lleclrlcal tnglnttra. -en. v uiut iousij luiia 19 undertake tr work of organising the new law a. hool founded at the Chii-aeo. university bv J.lm U. itockefell.r. It wFil b. on line ilrnlU? to- tbusa of Harvard. n