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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-12-29, Page 2r`f1-1, !freaoeste eveitattaaataanteaat aueatea-esee-Seareene,,es „ as- Thc Price of Libcrty OR, A MI DN IGHT CALL 1teSteaseaue.eseaterent.,1.-i-L-t-I-LU-t-i-J-Laltate ............. 4actleetarillearroaewesaseler CaTAPTIell XXXIV.--(Continued.) "Of course. Presently I am going to show you a little more of the comedy, Well, I was on. the terrace pretty late when 1 heard dear Re- ginald down the cliff calling for as- sistance. He pretended that he had slipped down the cliff and could not get up aatein. By the aid of a rape that fortunately happened to be elose at hand I mired bur dear friend's life. I have learnt from one of the gardeners just now that Regiateld placed the rope there hira- self-a most efDective touch, you must admit." "Very," Bell said, drily. “But I quite fail to see why—" "I am coming to that. Don't you see that if anything beeepened Reg- inald could prove that ho was not near the house at the time? llut Just before that I saw his aecom- plice come up the cliff; indeed, he passed quite close to me on his way to the house. Reginald quite over- looked this fact in his heed for his own safety. When I had effected my gallant rescue I heard an owl hoot. Now, there are no owls about here. "I guessed what that reeant-it was a signal of success. Then I went back to the corridor and the Rembrandt was gotta The stays had been cut away. At first I was -dreadfully upset, but the more 1 thought of it the more sure I was that it was all for the best." "But you might have raised an alarm and caught the thief, who-" "Who would have. been promptly disclaimed by Reginald. Let ine tell you, sir, that I have the thief and the lost Rembrandt in the hollow of my hands. Before the day is out I shall make good my boast. And there's the breakfast bell." It looked quite natural some time later for the three etenspirators to be lounging about the gallery when I'lIenson emerged from his bedroom. He appeared bright and smiling, and most, of the bandages had been re- moved from his throat. All the same he was not pleased to see Bell there; he gazed uneasily at the doc- tor and from him to Littimer. "You know Bell," the latter said, eaxelessly. "Feat is, there's been. a great md.stake." Bell offered his hand heartily. It cost him a huge effort, but the slimy scoundrel had to be fought with his own. weapons. Henson shook his head with the air of a man. ex- tending a large and generous need of forgiveness. He sought in vain to resx; Bell's eyes, but there was a stead, almost boyish; smile in .thenaae istdeed rejoice," he said, unatu.- ously. “I indeed rejoice -rejoice -- realm " He repeated the last word help- liessly; he seemed to have lost all his backbone, 'and lapsed into a flab- by, jellified mass of quivering white humanity. His vacant, fishy eyes were, fixed upon the Rembrandt in a kind of dull, sleepy terror. "I'm not well," he gasped. "Not so strong as I imagined. Ell--I'll,go and lie down again. Later on I shall want a dogcart to drive me to Moreton Wells. I—" Ire paused again, glanced at the picture, and passed heavily. to his room. IAttimer smiled. "S.Plendie." lie said. "It was worth thousanels just to see his face.'" "All the same," Chris raid quietly; "all the same, that man is not to leave for Moreton Wells till I've had a clear hour's start of him. Dr. Bell will you accompany me?" ('TTAPTER XXXV, Lord Littimer polished his rarely used eye glass carefully and favored Chats with a long, admiring Stare. At the same time he was wondering why the girl should have taken SUCh A, vivid interest in Reginald Efenson and his doings. For some years Peet it had been Littimer's whim to hold up Henson before everybody as his suctessor, so far as the castle Went. Be liked to see Hemeon's mod- estsmirk and beautiful self -abase - Meat, for in sooth has lordship had St• pretty contempt for the man who 11013%1 to succeed bine 13ut the will made some time ago by Littimer would have come as a painful shuck to the philtenthropist. “It is a, very pretty tangle as it stands," he said."Miss Lee, let ale coinpliment you Upon your astute- ness in this matter. Only don't tell me you schemed your way here, and that you are a lady detective. I read a good many. novels, and I don't like them."- - "You may be easy on. that score.." C•hris laughed. "1 ant not a lady de- tective. All the same. I have defeat- ed Mr. Reginald Henson" "Yon think he is at the bottom of the mystery of the other Rem- brandt?" • "1 'a.m certain of it; unless you like to believe in the truth of his charming scheme to give you a les- sen, as he called it. As a, matter of fact. Mr. Henson discovered the ex- isteuce of the other aria; he dis- covered that Dr. Bell possessed it - the rest I leave to your own as- tuteness. You saw his face just now?' "Oh, yes. It was a fine study in emotions. If you could find the other picture---" "I hope to restore it to you Wore the day has passed." c Littimer •apalateded, gently. He was charmed, ha said, with the whole coraedy. The first, two acts heed been a brilliant suocess. If the third was only as good he would regard Mess. Lee as his 'beneta,ctor for ever. It VMS not often. that anybody intellec- tually amused him; in fact, he must add Miss Lee to his collection. "Then you must play a part y=ortr- self," Chris said, gaily. "I am go- ing into Moreton Wells, and Dr. Bell accompanies ,me. Mr. Henson is not to know that we have gone, and he is not to leave the house for a good hoer or so after our departure! What I want is a fair start and the! . privilege of bringing a guest home to -dianer.''• "Vague, mysterious, and allur- ing," Littimer said. "Bring the guest by all means. I will Pledge my 'diplomacy that you havie a long start. Really, I don't know when I have enjoyed layself so ranch. You shall have the big wagonette for your journey." • "And join it beyond the lodge - gates," Chris said, tbaughttally. "Dr. Bell, you shall stroll through the park casually; I will follow as casually later on." A little later Henson emerged from his room dressed evidently for a journey. He looked flabby and wor- ried; there was an expression very like fear in his eyes. The corridor was deserted as he passed the place where the Rembrandt hung. He paused before the picture in a hesita- ting, fascinated way. His feet seemed to pull up before it involun- tarily. "What does it mean?" 'be mutter- ed. "What in the name of fate has ha.ppened? It is impossible that Merritt could have played me a tridk iike that; he would 'never have dar- ed. Besides, he has too much to min by following my instructions. I fancy—'' Henson slipped up to the picture as a sudden idea came to hirra If the picture had not been removed at all the stays would still be intact. And if they wero intact, atelait was likely to have a bad quarter of an aour later on. It would be proof tat - But the stays were not intact. The heads had been shaved off with some cutting instrument; the half of the stays gleamed like silver in the morning light. And yet the Rem- brandt was there. The more Henson -dwelt. upon it the naore he was puz- zled. He began to wonder whether some deep trap was being laid for hillIBUt, no, he had seen no signs of it. 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To protect yeti agairtat imitations the portrait, and signature of Dr, A. W. Chase, the famous re- ceipt book author, ere on every bot- tle. vicious Pin, Nor was Littimer the hind of maa who over tronbled hiateolf to restrain his teenage, it he had got to the bottom of the whole bus -Mess he would have had Hansen Icielted out of the house without delay, But Latimer suspected uetaina. His greeting just now showed that suspected n,othing, because he had shaken hands in the heartiest warmer paseible. And as for Mise Lee, she was no more tame a smart Yankee girl, and absolutely an out- sider, Still, it was dreadfully puzzling, And it was not nice to be p,nazied at a time when the arca-conspirator ought to know every move of the game. Therefore it became neces- sary to go into Moreton Wells and see IVIerritt without -delay, As Hen- son °reseed the hall the cheerful voice of Littiater hailed him. "Reginald," he (tied, "I want your assistance and adaice." With a muttered curse Hanson en- tered the library, Latimer was seated at a table, with a cigarette in his mouth, his brows drawn over a mass of papets. "Sit; -amen and leave a cigar," he said. "The fact is I am setting my a,ffairs ia rder--I n going to make fresh will. Tf you handn't come down last night I should probably leave sent for aou, Now take my bank -book -and cheek those figures," "Shall we be long?" Henson ask- ed. anxiously. Littimer tartly hoped that Eleason cauld Spare bint a,n hour. It was not usual, he said, for a testator to be refused assistance from the chief benefactor under his will. Henson apologized, with a sickly smile. He had important business Of a pleilan- thrapie kind in Moreton Wells, but he had no doubt that it could wait for an hour. And thee for the best part of the mom -ring he sat fuming politely, whilst Littimer chattered in the most available fashion. Henson had rarely seen him in a better mood. It was quite obvious that he suspected nothing, Meanwhile Chris and Bell were bowling along towards Moreton Wells. They sat well back in the roomy wagonette, so that the servants could not hear them. Chris regarded Bell with . a brilliant senile on her face. "Confess," she said, "confess that you are consumed with curiosity." "It would be just as well to ac- knowledge it at once,""Bell admitt- ed.' "1i. the happy old days your sister Enid always said that you were the clever and audacious one of the family. She said you wotad elo or dare anything," "I used to imagine so," Chris said, more quietly. "But the life of the last few years tried one's nerves terribly-. Still, the change has done me a -deal of goad -the change and the knowledge that Reginald Hanson regards me as dead. But you want bazaar at Littimer Castle for the fm'al "zsteauy,hip, Ald etc'd,somereofthenkinht was 'tie meal with the thumb. I should have told you this befOre, but I had forgotten it in watching your fascinating diplomacy. Whoa the at- tack was defeated the rascal bolted ia the direction of the cliffs, Of course, he was off to tell Hermon of the failure of the seheate and to go on. with the plot for getting the other picture. If lie had stolen xny Rembrandt then the other would have remained. 1 couldn't have turned up with a cbck-and-bull story of having started with the picture and being rdbbed of it by a total stranger in the road-- But I am in- terrupting you." "Well, I marked that thumb care- fully. I have already told you that the thief paeseci me on his way to the house when he came up the cliff, I Was leaning over the terrace when I saw him emerge into a band of light caused by the big are in the eastle tower. I forget that I was in deep shadow and that he could not possibly see me, I jerked my head back suddenly and iny diamond star fell out anal dropped almost at the feet of the intruder. Then he saw it, chuckled overit-Placed it in his pocket,' I was g-otrig 10 call out, but I didn't:, I had a sudden idea, Dr. Bell -I had an idea that almost amouated to an inepieation," Chris paused for a moment and her eyes sparkled. Bell was watehing her with the deepest interest and ad.- rairatioia. "I let the man keep it," Chris went on, moreslowly, 'with an eye to the future. The man had stolen the thing and I was in a position .to prove it. He would eas pretty awe to pawn the star -he probably has done so by this time, and therefore WO have him in our' power. We have only to discover where the cliaanonds have been 'planted' -'is that the cor- rect expressione-I can swear an in- formation, and the police will subse- guentla search the fellow's lodgings. NYben the salmi!: is made the missing Rembrandt will be fouad there, Mr. Merritt would hardly dare to pa,wrt that." "Even if he knew its real value, which I doubt," Bell said, thought- fully. "Henson would not tell his tool. too much. Let me corgi -ath- lete you upon your idea, Miss Chxis. That diamond star of yours is a powerful factor in our hands, and you always have the consciousness of knowing that you eau get it 'back again. Now, what are we going to do next?" "Going to call upon Mr. lWerritt, of course," Chris said, promptly. "You forget that I have his address. I am 'deeply interested in the welfare of the criminal classes, and you are also an enthusiast. I've looked up tat:anal/les of one or two people in the •directora who go in for that kind of thine and I'm going to get up a to kieow how I am going to get the Rembrandt?" "That is what is consuming me at present," Bell said. "Well, we are going to see the man who has it," Chris explained, coolly. "I have his address in More- ton' Wells at the present moment, and for the rest he is eallea the Rev. James Merritt. Between ourselves he is no more a reverend than yeat are." • "And if the gentleman is shy or refuses to see us?" "Then he will be 'arrested on a charge of theft." "My dear young lady, before you engl get a warrant for that kind of thing you have to prove the theft, you have to swear an information to the enact thet you believe the pro- perty, is in the possession of the thief, and that is not easy.'e "There is nothing easier. I am prepared to swear that cheerfully." "That you actually know that the property is in the possession of the thief?" "Certainly I do. 1 saw him put it itt his pocket." Bell looked at the speaker with blank surprise. If such was the fact, then Chris's present statement was exactly opposed to all that she had said before. She sat opposite to Bell with a little gleam of raise older he her lovely eyes. "You saw that man steal the Rem- brandt?" Bell gasped. "Certainly, not. But I did see him steal my big diamond star and put it in his pocket.' And I can swear an information on that." "I see that you have something interesting to tell me," Bell said. "Oh, indeed, I have. We will hark bates now to tae night before laSt. when Reginald Henson made his per- sonal attempt to obtain the Rem- brandt and then played the trick w- on you that was so very nem° to be- ing a, success." It would have been best for you," Bell murmured. "Well, really I am inclined to think so. And perhaps Lord Little melt would have given you in custo- dy on a second charge of theft, If he had clone so it would have gone hard with you to prove your inno- cence. But I am wandering froin the point. Henson failed. But he was going to try again. I watched him carefully yesterday and managed to Soo MS letters and telegrams. Then I found that he had telegraphed to. James Merritt, whoso address in Moreton Wells I carefully noted 'down, It did not require much in- tellect to grasp the fact that this Merritt was to lie the accomplice tts the raw effort to steal the pettier°. Mr. Merritt came over and saw his chief, with whom he had a long con- versation in the grounds. 3. aleo forced myeelf on Mr, Uerrilt's no- tice. "He was ntroduced to me as a brand plucked from the burning, a converted thifit who had taken, or- ders of some kind. He is a Sorry - looking scoundrel, and 2 took partis miler note of hire, especially the hor- rible smashed thtueb." "The what!" Bell exclaimed. "A thumb like a snake's head 'With a little pink nail on it?" The ea= man, S6 you have Met him," "We met on our way here," Bell eald, drily. "The reseal sent the dogcart away from the statIon oe that I should bave to walk home, and he attacked me 10 the reed. 'But benefit of the predatoryealassee who have turned ever a new leaf. I am particularly anxious for Mr. Merritt to give us an address. Don't you think that will do?" "I should think it would do very well indeed," Bell said. (To be Continued.) FRANCE'S MILLIONAIRES. According to M. Neyrnarck, the not- ed French statistician, the number of French citizens posses -slug estates exceeding $10,000,000 is under thirty while those possessing estates over $2,500,000 but under $10,000,000 in. value total about one hundred. Be- tween dive hundred and six hundred persons possess fortunes averaging from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Some four thousencapersons in France pos- se's fortunes of between $500,000and under $1,000,000. About thirteen thousand French citizens are "mil- lionaires" in the French sense of the wora-namely, possessing over $200,- 000 and , up to $405,000. Going low- er down the scale, it is estimated that 262,000 Frenchmen possess a capital •of between $10,000 and $20,- 600, and 1,548,000 hold between *2,- 000 and $9,51Leac,..h. 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By all grocers. , Received the gold medal and highest award at St. Eouis. -)•=enseesaeleeteeeeee DRESSING HOGS. Pivreepsatt3efograoclhog o-krdileirand by by.gettlng tenpro- viding a suitable place for scraping and hanging up the carcass. A table twenty-four inches high and thirty, inches wide by six feet long will be found a very' convenient thing upon Which to scrape the hog, and is preferable to a box in that one call get up to it bettor, and it is easier to move about. The top should be of 2x1.0 plank and legs of 4x4, with 1x8 around the upper end just underneath the top. A kerosene bar- rel set slanting against the end wakes a suitable a,nd cheap scalding vat, The water should be at a tem- perature of 180 deg. to 185 deg. when the hog is put in the barrel. To insure this temperature, do not remove the water'from the fire until it boils. Then, if it must go into a cold barrel, it will be about the right temperature when the hog is put in. In warm weather it will ofteu be necessary to add half a pail of cold water to reduce the tempera- ture, butin the winter where the work is done outside and with snow on the ground it will hardly be wise. The water should be so hot as to be decidedly, uncomfortable to the tou,ch when, the fingers are dipped into it the third time. If the water is near the boiling point, care should be used to air the hog quickly or the hair will be "set." With water at 185 deg. there is little danger. To aid in loosening the scurf add to the water a fire shovel of hardwood ashes, a generous handful of soft soap or a table -spoonful of concen- trated aye. The hog should be se- cured before the water is put in the barrel. In sticking the hog it should be placed squarely on its back and an incision opened lengthwise of the throat two inches in front of the breast bone. Then with the sharp side . of a straight sticking knife turned upward and directed TOWARD THE rrAIL-14ThAD, insert it ,to a depth sufficient to reach the arteries leading front the heart: In a two b.unclred pound this will be five or six inches. At7the depth the knife should. be turned a quarter way round and inunediately withdrawn. Care should be used to keep the knife pointed directly over or as croped, raw potato. the backbone to avoid sticking lin the shoulder, Do not put the hog in the water until life is extinct or the skin will be reddened by the cooking of the blood in -the capillar- ies beneath. Try the hair often to determine when scalded sueeziently. Remove the hair from the feet and head with the hands or. with the "candlestick' '• scraper, and next from the body.. If proper/3r scalded it -will pull out by the roots. When the rough hair has been Ian:loved scrape the body clean and dress it up smoothly with a sharp knife. Raise the gambrel cords and hang up., Wash with hot water and serape, then rinse with cold water, and be sure that all scurf is scraped off. Open through the pelvic areh and cut around the rectum. Pull the intestines down and separate the connections near the kidneys, leav- ing the kidney fat intact. Remove a,n1d invariably sees their stables at- keep- ter the ehirtiet h. A dog remembered the paunch with the intestines, ing all clean so as to SONO the fat. the twentie-slath buried bone a short Cut around the diaphragm- and re- time after gigging up twenty -Sive. ' move the -lungs and heart together Birds canal; their one; magpies count ' with the windpipe. The breast bone only to four. The latter is true else should be split when the abdominal of monicOYS. cavit is opened. The tongue should 4 be removed and the mouth Propped ANGLO-jAPANESE. ALLIAN'Cla. open. to allow of free drainage. Then wash out the iaside of the carcass With cold water. In warm weather the spinal column should be split to allow of rapid cooling. It. possible the carcass' should be cooled without freezing for twenty-four hours, and in fact the best results in curing will, be obtained if not frozen. at. all. The most important point in eltassing hogs is to. get a good scald and with water .at the temperaturenam- ed and with SOME fOrni 'of lye in the water, this point Will be gained. Neatness and dispatch should always be practiced. ..FEEIDING THE CA -Lar. but not his shoulders: We then put the calf ia the stall and the pail of milk in the mauger. It was a pleas- ure to see the calf drink and a greater pleasure to see )sim butt avec the pail without, in the least, splaah- ing the milk. By adopting this ex- pedient any one in his best suit may feed the calf without danger to his clothes or his temper. CURING TEE SHYING rronsE. Shyingahorses are not cured of shying by the use of the whip as a _general rule, but they are often whipped unmercifully tor it all. the • same. The veterinariaa would ten you in most cases that the act was theteasult of defective vision; it is, therefore, cruelty to the poor crea- ture to castigate it. If steady, contitrual perseverance will not cure a balky horse, neither whip nor iigleted straw will. Such rebels should be relegated to hard work in a double team. and al whipping dispensed with. Shyers should have the bandere of the harnese bridle bound round so that the horses, especially those with defective eyesight, can see downward only, so as to know where to put the feet, but not ob- jects around. No one should over striae a horse x on the top of or side of the head, because the eyes may be injured. POULTRY. WISDOM, One of the worst things a neat poultry keeper caa do with the eggst is to wash them. The warra water •, opens the pores of the protecting ce shell, and the egg decays in a very a short time. 13etter dirty egg* than spoiled ones. But best of all, have a nest well-- filled with clean cut hay or straw,' The ideal nest is made by turning-, a keg or barrel on its side, partial- a ly •filling the bottom with hay and leaving it where the biddies can dis- cover its convenience - A contented hen is always " a . go o d egg producer, and anything that everries or frightens the inhab- itants of the poultry yard robs the egg basket. For this reason there should be shade trees in the yard where fowls are kept. The roosts in the poultry house should be low, so , that the fowls need not jump from any great , height, --which often causes bumble - foot -a swelling of the bottom and side of the foot. When bumblefoot appears we lance the bottom of the foot, and poultice it with bread crumbs soaked in milk PROFITS OF 'Italie BULL-IIING. The ernolnments of a Spanish ma- tador of the first rank appear to be quiteequal to those of an English. jothey of equal prominence. The fam- ous matador, Louis lVfazzantini, has jtes-t retired from the bull -ring after a professional career of twenty-three years. He is now only fifty years old. pis total proats, without in- cluairtg living expenses, have amount- ed to $800,000. Altogether Mazzan- tini has Relied in the ring 8,505 bulls ANIMALS THAT COUNT. Evidence that aninaals can coture has been collected by Signor Mancini. Horses in the collieries at Blainaule bave a, regular number of daily trip. So many people have been splash- ed with milk and so many pails of milk have been spilled by• the but- ting or the calf, while feeding that a simple expedieat to prevent both the splashing of clothes and the loes of milk inust be welcome. I-Tard words, also will be saved up for a more Serious and critical thee, The experience of the minister suggests this note. Ire was all ready for church. Hie broadcloth coat and doeskin pants were exceptional. AS he was leaving the house he asked his wife, "Have yoU fed the calf?" As she had not done so, he took off his coat, carried the pail to :the barn and set it before the calf, which, when he tasted the rich milk, butted the pail, after the manner of such creatures. The performance slopped the milk all over the minis- ter s trousers and vest and cuffs. To avoid the losS of Milk, clothe and temper WO hit upon the idea et Setting the pail in the maxiger of a vacant stall, nailing a vertical. pire parallel with the stachion, so that the calf could get his head through, Twenty months ago Japan and! England anti tbeir peoples did not kinove each other so well and so tetist- ingly as. they have since learned to resseect and befriend each other; and the authorities on both $ids aro not to be blamed. Por not having gone farther than they went at the time. But there is now need of revising tbe existing alliance into a strong wen-, Pan.-"Jiji," Tokio. COLDEST CITY. 'Jlic coldest city in the world ie Yakutsk, Siberia. It IS the great conemereial emporium of Bast Siber- ia and the capital of the provine.e of Yakutsk, which in most of its area of 1,517,0043 square miles itt a bare desert, the soil of which Is frame to a great depth. Yakutsk consiste of about 400 hoeses of European etruc- tare, etanolag, apart. The jitter -yen ing spaces are occupied by huts of the Northern nomads, witli earthen roofs, doors covered with hairy hiclee Mita wieclaws of ice, • Wilsone-"Here's a problem for yam , old man. donlcey was tied to a rope six feet long; eithteen feet, away there wag a bundle ,of Hay, and tilt 'donkey wanted' ‚to get to the hay. ' How 'did he manage Sharp - "011, T've liear'd that one before. Yon Want me to say, 41 give it tqi,' atiid you'll say, 'So did the o.tilidt Wen-- " Wilson -"Not .at it11:04 ShlarP;-"Then "tow 'ilia lie de Wilson -"just WatIced ttp to the hay' and ate S1fur4),-"But you said he was tied to a rolie sat feet long." Witeett-"Se was, y'cro so the rOvo wasn't tioil to any'ldiingi, Quite isn't it?"