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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-8-16, Page 3.„„ iesieseeseseseeiesseesse, „ „ '10f1 01 \O, 1 janin put up his grimy, hand as if he would brush the tears away; then with soMething like a groan, he hoW- eci his head lower over the shoe and •drew it on, laeginning to fasten its • tine lanes with trembling hands. Rose had looked on, pallid and fierce during the little interlude, and now she said something swiftly to him in French, which he seemed neither to bear nor heed. aleanwhile Daffy, who was a brave • little person, swallowed his tears, and had quite composed himself when Rose took his hand to lead him away. "Good-ly, Janine" he said, turning to nod his goldenhead as he went out, but Jaren had turned his back, and made no sign.. Daffy's heart ached as he went along, and his shoes ached a little too, he thought, and he wished it was his mother's' hand he held, and net Rose's, for Rose did not love him—he knew that in the eore of his heart, though he waskind to him enough—and he and "mother" used to have such gay • little walks and talks together I Ile wondered so much whyl She 130V- • er came out now—she was not ill in ".'bed, for she could run about and play indoors with him, but she always put him off with "To -morrow, perhaps 1" Only to -morrow never became to -day. "You must not talk to that common man, Master Daffy," said Rose, as they went away along the mews that be- gan at a few doors' distance from the cobbler's. Had they turned to the right, it would have brought them in less than a minute to the door of No. 13, and Daffy objected to this' round- about way of going home, and once tried to explahn to bis mother that Rose brought him "miles an' miles" •out of the way. But Elizabeth did not understand, and indeed, for the first time in hiii life Daffy found a difficulty in engaging her attention. For the day of the trial was then hear at 'hand, and, so far, Mr. Lat- . rielle had discovered nothing to loos- en the halter that Jack had placed round his neck, but the promise had been wrung from him that he would not plead "Guilty." "If you do," Mr. Latrielle had said plainly, "yoi . take three lives—not one." ie "What do you. mean ?" said Jack, the blood ebbing from his heart, and leav- ing hirn pale as a corpse. - Mr. Latrielle repeated word for word Elizabeth's message, and filled up her pause according to his even impres- • sions. "She would not do it," exclaimed Jack in horror, "she is the gentlest creature---" and then he reniember- ed what she had done, and measured possibilities by facts. "The gentlest women are invariably the fiercest on occasion," said Mr. Latreille, "and—she will keep her word. So now you know what such mad pleading means." " And Jack did know—he was begin- ning to know of what stuff Elizabeth was made. Mr. Latreille's mind was eased on that score, but lie felt that though Le did his best, that best would be bad. True, he had accumulated certain eviclence, and hen one trump card in . his hand; hut he knew well enough • how serious was the weight of evidence on teed -other side,. and Mr. Leinaire, tooreflected, not without some aseer- lag cif spirit, that, if he failed, all the e'Weld, Would be there to see. ' ' ;For was there not a chance that Mrs. St. George would appear in court, and try to reassert. those ex- travagrant self-accusations that were the punishment she chose to inflict oed herself for her unlawful loves ? She had been clever enough in the device of getting her lover actually domiciled tinder the sante roof with her, fancy a woman' with those jewels finding it necessary to take a lodgeri • but with all her cleverness she had been found out. And if she appeared, then there would be a scene and the public loves • a scene, and while individually hum- ane, collectively gloats over the ter- ror, anguish, and guilt of a fellow- buman soul. The attitude of a mob or crowd toward any hunted thing must convince the most hopeful among us how much nearer we are in our at- • tributes to the beasts than the god,. and for One vvho will stand forth to champion the defenceless, there will be a thousand ready and willing to' stone him down. ' But neither friend nor foe knew -what Elizabeth intended to do on that day. • Nor did Mr. Lernaire know what he was going to do, either. CHAPTER VIII. "What sudden change is this," quote he, "That I to love .must subject, be, , Which never (hereto would agree, But still did it defy1" Jack had given up his tense atti- tude of listening for those light steps that never came, which indeed he had forbidden to come, 'but -that he had 9cted all the same, with a long - that turned to aching as the days w'ent by. .. He had sent Elizabeth a message hat he would not see her at anytime, et the prison officials would not ad - her, no matter how loudly and tag she beat for admission, and she -had DtSt:' beat so much as once and softly—and the terrible silence filled his ears,' and heart, and soul, as he sat there day after day, and week after week, alone. But Elizabeth was Very proud, and once he had shut the door against her, no prayer for the reversal of his sentence would ever cross her lipa. Tlae woman who clamors in vain, in- flicts on herself a double pang, for the toss of self-respeot is even more bit- ter than the refusal of what she de- mands. And jack could not call her back In these long days of loneliness he was living over again i he time when he and his lit tie Elizabeth had dwelled to- - gather in a world out of which every one else was shut, save Daffy;'when he was as sure of her love and' faith- fulness, as his own; when his knew - edge of her goodness, for who could 'lye -with and doubt her? made him think tenderly,of all women for her sake, and in the best sense of the word she had made hie house a home, and shritted him deep id the purest heart he had ever known. Whaispever thing is defaced and - broken was Et not clean and whole once ? ,There ITItial be a beginning, to aJ1 moral defilement ; but looking back; jack could find no lightest sign to mark the decadence ot all things love- ty, aud of good repute, in Elizabeth, fle thought Of her always now as one thinks of somebody deed, for the new woman who had risen in her etead was not Elizabeth, and he now her not. • He wondered if her mother's 'love had gene by the board with the rest —yet in tile same breath hoped that Daffy ryas taking good care of her, Daffy, whose firm coaviction it was that she needed a great deal of taking care of, and whom he consequently led over crossings, to his own imminent danger, and hers, very often. He was also most particular to explain every- thing said by the shopman who served her, and. his high, clear little voice often brought some amusement, and a good deal of gentle commiseration •down on the head of Elizabeth, whose chief misery in her misfortune Was the constant reminder of it she got whenever she moved abroad or saw new faces. Daffy did not konw this, but he eecrelly felt himself a much older and more experienced person than his mother, and never failed, on going out, to tell the servants to take care of mother,' as if she would be in SeriOUS jeopardy until he came home again. ' But strange and true as it was, that the moment those iittle feet came into the house, however far away, Elizabeth always felt and knew they were there, and she contd always hear his voice a long way off, though a wall Seemed built round her to ordinary sounds. Night and day Jack thought of theas two—his only two in the world—and sometimes he wondered if they prayed for him now, . . . they did, they must, just as bus own lips framed the same prayer each night that they had done in the days of his happiness. One prayer he had added, that on the day of the trial he should not look up to behold her face. The sight would unman Jahn, and he required all his strength; still, if he had been able to endure what he had don, hie back would grow to the burdeh-ef the rest. If, indeed she were there, he wonder- ed which face she would wax e—the one that he had known and worship- ped, or the other, all disfigured and branded, as it had been that awful morning, with the terrible stamp of —but his thoughts seldom': got further. Often, too; he thought of Barry, the fast friend Of over twenty years, who had rem,ained his friend long after both had outstripped the ephemeral friendships that had strewn their paths, and whom he had taken into his house as carelessly and securely as ithe were his other self. True they had met but seldom. Bar- ry dined each night at his club, and their morning hours of going out were not the same. It had, moreover, been an understood thing that there was to be no running in and out of each other's rooms, and a message was al- ways to be sent to know if one pould receive the other. This mile had al- ways been adhered to, and Jack could scarcely have told how it was that such meetings had become rarer and more rate—only one day, when Eliza- beth was sitting working apart, too far off to hoar their voices, shut in within those walls of deafness in which she sometimes sadly dwelt, and in whose coldness she must have peri-, shed, but for the love that surrounded her, Jack caught- a look on Berry's face, quite -unconscious, •but . betray- ing eieuchha hunger of love and devo- tion as flashed upon hiin an altogether disagteeable andheinexpected reveld: The look was gone in a moment; the next, Barry presented the spectacle of an 'ordinary young man intently watching a young woman in the act of threading her needle, thre,adinge it, too, as if she, loved it, as Elizabeth 'as- suredly Jack had pondered long over the circumstance, loth to put -into words whathe hadeeen, and supposing -Eliza- beth to be perfectly unconscious, .he felt it impoesible to. speak' to her. On the subject. And Barry ? He thought he had'not' kamen his friend's heart all .tihese years for nothing. Then a few weeks.nasi gone by, and suddenly without the warning of a. liniment, had come the •catastrophe. . - He saw before him now that friend's face, vivid in,death, and in.his ears a desolate voice rang out, "His sun went down while it was yet day." Ay! but it lied not, gone down, it had been quenched all too soon, as it rode in mid -heaven, and the pity of it would overconie Jack at moments, as with ail the strength of his soul he would wish lais friend back, and that one lightning moment of crime un- done. ' - • In fancy Barry once more walked be- side him, as in those cOiestant days of companionship when they, and the world, were' young, arid their hearts were fresh as their' hopes were high; when they mapped out their iivessin 'glorious fashion, and vowed to, make themselves known by all Manner of brilliant deedemand great thoughts, and new—Barry had died before ever attaining to frame, and Jack's only grand achievement, as he thought it, was when he persuaded deaf little Elizabeth to be his wife.' .Would he have loved her ,go much if .Nature had extended her. cruel stepmother's touch on the girl's ears to the Innes of her face and figure? I t.rovv not. Men will do a great deal fer what pleases thena, but nothing at all for that which pleases them not, And deafness is an unbeautiful thing, and needs nau,ch love and patience in those who have to bear with it. Poor Elizabeth used to say that deaf people were sent irite the world to practice patience themselves, and disoipline others to patience also; but Jack "would not have changed her for the naost perfect person, mentally and physically, in the world, But that was then, and this was not. And on the morrow his cell would bo empty, and' he standing in the dock. " CHAPTER 'IX. "0, gentle Maurice, still oasys bairn, 0, still him with the keys!" "He whine still, fair lady, Let me do what I please." A message from Elizabeth to Jack was evesi now outside his door, though he did not know it, and indeed, he seemed to come out of e stupor, in which he had heard no SOUII(1 of locks unbarred, to see a light figure all in white, save:where the gold of hi$ heir was, shining, come dancing in, and flutter, En& his erase, with an ecstatic cry of "Daddy 1" Jack thought himself mad at last, but hero was ho visionary touch, only a very teal pair of loving arms finest- tling his neck, and soon he 'realized that tius was indeed his own little child in the flesh', and nestling Isis head into ide soft neck and curie, could laat-e Wept, for the jjoei and anguish of the moment. "Daddy," said the boy, "ruy mern, dear daddy, won't you come along %me with me, and see mother' Jack did not sinews'', OlUY PregS° ilia face dbwn closer, and smoothe with •hungry hand the soft head iyin so close witn lips warm against hi throat, "Poor mother,' said Daffy, svitli a catch in his vome, "she's growed quite finn, and said she was so w elly tired site couldu't jest come out to -day." ' Jack's broad chest Was heaving,. he was struggling for the mastery of lam - self, end when he had got it, he un- loosed Daffy's arms, and put him beck so he might kiss hine. Da"fIfIyoeTh dhoe syaoiud, like , my new house, "0—ola I" mild Daffy, looking round with ziauch 'interest, and speaking in the wise little voice he usually af- fected, when not quite sure that he knew his subject, "there's lots Of room for n'a,e,'Daddybatandbailf. Shall us 'ave a little g "Another time my boy," said Jack, steadying his voi4; "but who brought you?" "lease She's outside witla such a funny old man—got sech lots end dots of keys! I wanted to bring the mouse," he went on; "he's so fuil of tricks, and growed such a rediklous person 1" He paused to laugh indul- gently. But mother thought he might get out—and she heve cared for him so and fe,d him every day." Daffy looked exquisitely cared for, and a very picture of health and hap- pinesshad abeens hesat o ron his father's ail tner'ed knee H ed triumphantly through all the loves ly gradations of a joyous babyhood to the sweet dignity and majesty of four years old—the most delicious age, pro- bably, to his mother, in a child's young life. Jack felt the soft warmth of the dear little boy like the blowing of a soft wind on a poor wretch scrammed with cold and hunger, and for awhile he only held him fast, saying no word. But presently; "Did mother send any message ?" he said. "0' course!" said Daffy, holding uP to his father's gaze a face upon which the very print of Elizabeth was set " lots and lots of kisses, a.nd thanks with complements!" " Thanks with complements," Was Daffy's invariable formula for extra fervid love. "Daffy," said Jack,- holding the lit- tle fellow away from hire, "are you quite sure? Cab you remember if it was only one kiss or heaps arid heaps?" Daffy knitted his soft brows, and put the best part of a tiny kid glove in his mouth, to aseist memory, but at last conamitted himself to the bold assertion that his naother had said thousands --not heaps and heaps. Jack sighed. "I've got a message for mother," he said: "Will'you tell her, Daffy ?—now try 'and remember it—that I read in a paper the other day that some things are sold how to make people hear—and I should like her to buy some. I'll write the address down, and Pot it in your bosom, and you'll be sure and give Pt her?" "0' course," eaid Daffy with an im- portant air. "New ears for poor moth- er--bult she always hears me." Jack wrote the address clown--juet that, and no more—and pinned it against hte boy's soft, warm neek. Did, he think, as he did it, of ,how •little she would care to hear, when he would be deaf to all sound for ever? Of how her life 'was to go on, while his was violently cut in twain befove her eyes? And possibly his message came more in cruelty than in love. "Were you, frightened at coining pdro:enenttolythis'strange place?" said Jack, "0, no I" cried Daffy, with a burst of .glee: "Me dancy down the steps in the city I" . 'The ignorance of the child, his un- consciousness of anything strange in his.father's surroundings, brought tears' to Jack's eyes. "And mother," he said, with trem- bling voice, "does mother play and have games with Deffy now?" "Mother tries," said the boy, the corners of his lips falling, "but she saysn-mother says she don't fink she's quite so young as she used. to be." "Does she ever go out ?" said poor Jack: ". Not never; and it's' welly lonely," went on Daffy, shaking his head, "ancl Mr. 1Voss has goneded away; but my dear little white mouse is SO pretty. -prettier nor ever I" A' warning knock came at the door. "ISpeet that's Rose," said Daffy, wrinkling up his nose expressively; "he always hurries me; ebe won't let me talk to Jenny." • "Who is Jariny ?"said Jack, snatch- ' ing him up, and covering- him With kisses, some of which surely must find Elizabeth, "He takes the pains out of ray shoes," said Daffy, as the door opened a very, very little way, as if a kindly hand sought to gently remind him time -was up. "I wish," he added, wistfully, "he could take mother's pain away, too, she says it aches just -here," and he spread his hand out expansively above leis smart sash. The door opened wider; Jack clasped the boy in a last embrace, a.nd sat him down.. "Tell your mother," he said, "your naother--" In the distance was heard Rose's voice calling to the child. uk. sudden impulse seized Jack; he •strode to the door, and there, just be- hind the gaoler, stood the French maid, her face white in the du.sk, as she cow- ered away at sight of her master. What did that look and attitude mean —of what was she in fear / A poor wretch who might beat his own life out; against his prison bars, but who had no power to harm her or any oth- er now? "Your mistress is well, Rose ?" he said. - "She is as well, sir, as she can be." 1 -le did not remove his eyes from her face. "Time's up," said the gaoler not un- kindly, aud Daffy recognizing him ia- tuitively as an enemy, clung round his father and hid his face in his knees. Did those little tender hands make jackthinkof thoise others that he bad so 'remorselessly unbound a few abort weegs ago'? I know not,—but when Daffy was borne away sobbing bitterly by the wonian whom Jack felt he could no longer trust, with a /lovely added pang the husband realized how utterly alone arid friendless his little Elizabeth was new. To be Centinued. GROWING STRAWBERRIES. A Sunisnarn of Experimente by Pro- fessor Rene Of New liaranshire. Tne culture of strawberries IS the Same both for home and the market. The strawberry does well wherever given. good cultivation, proper drain- age and plenty of fertiliser in ayailable form. Well rotted manure, bone meal, and wood ashes (or some of thepotash salts) are conelderecl the beet eer- tiliz,ers. Fall plowing, mulching with manure and thorough preparation Of soil be- fore Setting Plants are the first steles in -strawberry growing. A crop of clover or other green mo.- nuee known to be free from insects will, when plowed under, prove of great value to the crop. BRANDYWINE. EURACII NO. 5. HAPPAILLND. Coarse manure may be plowed under with good results, provided it is .ap- plied early enougb to be well deomn- ' posed by planting time. Spring' set plants give the best re- sults; where fall set they should be grown especially for that purpose, small pots being most commonly, used. Where plants are grown by hill con t-ure they are usually set in rows 3 or 31/2 feet apart and one foot apart in the - row, all runners 'tend blossoms being i kept off tile fleet season. In matted rows the rows are from 31/2 to 4 feet apart, and plants are set from 15 to 18, incbes in the row, ac- cording to variety and, width et row. Fruiting one season only is usually advocated by best growers. It is lees work and more profitable to set a new , bed than to renovate an old one. It is necessary to ptoteet the plants In winter by mulching vvitli §omer ma- ; terial, spell a§ straws marsb hay, pinel needles,; pine boughs, coarse manure, „ o pc ect from heaving. 1 Failure to get a maximum crop fre- t quently cornes from improper fertilize - tion. Have at least one row in every four of a perfect flowering variety. The practical growers generally agree upon the merits of the following. ! - varieties:- Beverly, Brandywine, "Bu- bach, Clyde, Crescent, Greenville, Hay- ! erland, Lovett and Warfield. ; Irrigation has proved of great value Wherever tried. Summer Pruning Needed Blackberries and raspberries should be stopped when the new growth has reached three to four feet, depending on varieties: To develop the fruiting side branches I have found it impor- tant to stop the new growth On the Cuthbert when it reached above and beyond the fruiting steins; also to cut out and burn the fruiting canes as SOOD as they are done fruiting. It gives room for the new wood do keep an upright position and destrOys very many lice and other insects that in- fest the old cane. Currants and goose- berries need prunning as soon as the fruit is gathered. Cut out all surplus old wood. It may have lice on it, or, In the stalk, the larem of the stalk borer. Sea prunifolia, lilac, forsythia and all the early flowering shrubs want cutting back severely immedi- ately after blooming, so tbat they have time to develop new wood and flower buds on them before winter. Others want shaping to make them pleasing to the eye and sometimes for their own good. Roses need the pruning shears itt In- tervals all summer. Cut back the bloesom stalks when the blossom falls and let it start a new blossoming stalk instead of blind wood. In this way you may have not only ;lune roses, but roses nearly all the time till sbarp freezing weather.—Charles Black, New e Jersey. - A Gem Among Chinese Prinureliets. Among recent introductions of the t primrose family it writer ha Meelsan's Monthly bas mentioned Primula slet- Iola as one of the best. The foliage e is very dark purple In dolor. The flowers are pure wlaite and abont one inch in diameter, produced on tiers , one above the other, reaching ever 20 inchea in height. The plants flower me uch longer than the sinensis type, The seed should be , sown bitApril in r light soil to get good sized plants and given a little more sun than is usual for sinensie. AUTUMN WORK. Zit Oreltard and Garden—Remedying Neglect, tete-mine inset:0e Etc. During August and September there Is usually a dry period wheil nature is preparing all trees and shrubs for -the change 1.'0131 growing to a dormant condition. For tine important time The American Agriculturist makes a number of discreet suggestions: If the - orchard and garden through neglect have been left during JUDO and july to care- for themselves, vigilance should be exereisesS in maintaining an even development both in roots and limbs. A neglected condition may be remedied ny mowing the grass and weeds before the seed is ripe and piling It about the stalks as far out as 'the roots extend, At this time also a careful wateb shonld be kept for the tent caterpillar and borer. Do not forget the woolly aphis and white grub, which are the most destructive during the hot, dry season, when trees and plants are struggling to maintain the growth, There is more injury to the orchard and garden from these two insects than most growers realize. In fact, the woolly aphis and white grub pave the way for the first stages of some of the fatal diseases and insect attacks on the orchard. One of 'tbe best remedies for the woolly aphis is tobacco dust or tobacco stems., Dig down until the large roots are found, place in the dust or stems and repack the soil. With young trees and shrubs, remove the dirt with care, near the body apply the dust or stems and put back the soil. This remedy will prove effectual and if applied in time will save many trees. For the white grub apply wood ashes, air slaked lime or salt around the trees of plants to the full extent of the roots, in propor tion to the size of the tree. Use from one pint up to one-half bushel of ashes or lime to the tree and from one-half pint to one gallon of salt. There is more danger of getting too little than too much of either salt, ashes or lime. For the eating insects use the spray- er with paris green. For the borer ex- amine each tree and witch for the sawdust, using a sharp knife and a small wire. Cut and gouge out all the borers. If it is necessary to cut away the bark and wood, the wound should be covered with a combination of fresh cow tuanure and subsoil clay worked together until of a puttylike substance. Press this preparation into the cavities as far as possible and cover the wounds completely. If the trees are kept in a healthy, thrifty, growing eondition, there will be but little cause to fear the borer. Blasting Out Stump,. "I had, in the spring of 1898, a piece of ground containing about three acres, on which there were by actual count 186 stumps, ranging from 10 inches to 2 fret in diameter, which had been tut six or seven years, but bein'g most- ly chesnut and white oak were cone- puratively sound. I naYself, and one hired man spent two half days blasting on these with dynamite, and I cleaned the whole piece in tbat time. We can get dynamite, 40 per cent nitroglyeerine In Baltimore for 12 cents per pound in 25 pound lots; fuse is CD cents per 100 feet and caps or primers 75 cents per 100. Freight to our station is $1 per 100 or fraction. "We found by experinsenting nthat a stump up 'to 12 inches in diameter, in tbe condition others were', could be brought out of the ground with from one-third to one-half a stick or one-half pound. On no stump did we use orer one pound, and we figured actual cost, including labor, at 5 to 8 cents per stump. Since then .we have used it often on trees which we wished to re move and find that a half pound stick will throw the earth out from under al- most any tree up to one foot; so that the roots can be cut and stump and all removed. in probably . half an hour when it would take nearly half a day to grub it out." •To this estimate given ifilaC:ountry Gentleman the writer dds If your correspondent wishes to re- move green stumps, he would do well not to cut the trees clown, but simply blow the earth out while the tree is standing and cut it off afterward. Dynanalte will not remove green stumps from which the trees have been cut without the use of excessive charges. Even then some roots will have to be cut and a lever of some kind brought in to lift it out of the hole, for if anything is heavy a stump with its usual amount of clinging earth is. News and Notes. The latest theory of tip blight in po- tatoee is that it is not a blight at all, but merely sunburn; that the cause is the loss of vigor in the plant by long cultivation of varieties and that it rarely affects the newer varieties. 11 appears a theory on which a little care- ful observation will enable each grow - r to form his own opinion. In the midst of the general glooray utlools for peaches New York, with ndications pointing to rather IllOre ban a nail aro, and California,. with t he prospect of something less then hree-fouiths, according to the july stimate of the department of agricul- ure, imernlbighly favored. Cold storage affords one of the most sractical means that we have of pre - renting waste in the fruit crop. Ap ies tbat fall from the tree When at. nost ripe and are lost are frequently ipe enough to be picked and place, a <mid storage, as apples for cold torage ehoulcl be picked while solid, The ee inners of the fir§t lied second rizes for the best yield of wheat per ere tit the seconcl wheat conventioe of eorgia were asbrother and sister who Owed froM wheat that had been in heir fantilY for 50 years, A method of tilancliing celery much a favor with prOgressive growers is y setting boards on each side of the or so as to shade It corimietely. This s especially suceeSsful with the eo ailed tent blanching kinda. isloveere les Vienne. P Nothing embellishes a Power like' Ito Own foliage: Roses should imee nods - lag inore, nor lily of the valley, tulips s or anY bulbous plante or chteesanthc- mums, If the ehysatitheinum foliage not geed, cut eome that ie. Anythihg it else Weald be ridiculous. But .carnaa b fiens are wenk in foliage, and sprays r of Aeparague siermigari will go vvell \Vali theilec says inflorel authimity. c PROHIBITION LEADERS Senieshing About tie Men Chosen se Presidential candidates. John O. Woolly, who Wits recently noinivated for pi•eeident by the natirmat Prohibition party, is one of the leading prohibition lectures's of the land Dud be- lieved by niauy to be the ablest to espouse that case since the days of John 13 - Gough. He was formerly a lawyer, but for several Years he has devoted all hi time to talking prohibition from the lee time Platform. His heme is in Chicago. Mr. Woolley is a tall, slender man or ; 50 years. He is not an orator, but h4.4 has a quiet, earnest manner of giving voice to clear cut, forceful and movins liinglish. Moody, the evangelist, regard, ' ed Mr. Woolley as csne of his ablest co adjutors. Miss F'rances Willard looked upon him as the special protege of the 301IX G. WOOLLBY. Woman's Christian Temperance union. He has been Lady Henry Somerset's guest in England. He is widely read, with an analytical mind. Yet at one time he was himself a vie- tim of drink. Through it he loin every- thing but the affection of a devoted wife. Once, when intoxicated, be nearly killed a man. Only the most powerful influ- ences saved Min from niaprisonment. He reformed about 13 years ago, -and from that day has never touched liquor and has been most active and eloquent in temperance and prohibition work. Mr. Woolley was born in Collinsville, near Cincinnati, on Feb. 15, 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, beld the (dike of city attorney at Paris, Ills., is 18761'7 and of state attoreey in Minneap olis in 1884-8. Henry B. Metcalf, the vice preeidene tial nominee on the Prohibition ticket, k 71 years of age. He is president of tie( Providence County Savings bank and sw perintendent of the Sunday school of the Church of Our Father in Pawtucket, R I. Mr. Metcalt was once a Republican but joined the Prohibition party sevee years ago and has been its candidate fol governor of Rhode Island several times A CHINESE PLUTOCRAT. Here is a pia s t ure of ths I He Controls All the ; Chinese wh ; Telegraph ; ihiaasg t lba ee ewn o rkl dell; I, I ignorance of tie( Line of the EmPire` mischief don( 4, it by his country, men during th present uprising. His name is Shen; Tiiotai, and he is in control of all Oa( telegritph lines in China. Sheng is a pig tailed plutocrat; He is one of the ride est men in the empire rand one of thl most powerful. He is almost as great at Li Hung Chang, although not nearly se' well known. He is progressive, however( and part of his immense fortune is in vested in telegraph lines and railroads. Of course there are comparatively fees telegraph lines in China. Such moders1 affairs the superstitious Mongolian SHENG TAOTAI. gards with distrust and hate. The first wires strung were cut many times, and they were finally left undisturbed only because a sharp iinperlal edict demanding their protection was issued by the auto- cratic empress dowager. What few lines there are have either been destroyed recently or are tied up by an order trona Sheug, -who is probably in secret sympathy with the Boxers, This is why the cables have been so barren of news coneerning the events which have been taking place in Peking, only :1 short distance back from the (mast. Silk and Wool. It is litIOWY1 to everybody that Silk is electrified by friction. Acting 'upon the suggestion thus furnished, a French, savant, M. Henry, bas made experiments which show that the electrification of the air inclosed in a tissue of silk pro- duces a circulation of its particles which tends to equalize the teamerature. similar effect is observable le wool, and hence the superiority of silk end 'wool for garments intendedeto protect the body against vicissitudes of climate. Their Quarrel. 'Mrs. Muggins—Why have) Mr. ani Mrs. Wigwag q ne reeled Mrs. tuggins--Beeftwe he inul rubbei heelgsput oti hi§ shoe, end now ehe nee, er beer -bile when he senivis home late. e -Philadelphia Record 't 4