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+D+ICF+o+cf+O+o+IOf+G+*+okti+O+O+O+o+a+o + +tR♦O+o+ 4 c.f the estitnate the author had'
made of Wivernsea out of the sea -
Eon. Castle builders could leave
their tools uncared for and find them
UNCLE DICK; when they returned. Not because
of a superabundance of honesty
around; rather because of the lack
?Qi of thieves.
O The castle creator continued her
♦ work ; the pail -shaped battlements
O increased in number. She handled
bucket and spade with the same
0
♦ earnestness, eagerness and engross -
Qi stent with which she had fingered
the pen.
Those were methods which ap-
I. I)c'aled to the story -creator. But
♦0+0+0+04.0E+**0+0+4+0+0 +*+0+0+0+*+*+.0:e*+O+G+, dust now as he was not working'
with his own accustomed engross-
ment, eagerness and earnestness.
A disturbing element had crept in.
From time to time he glanced to-
wards the other end of the seat.
'!'here the disturbing element lay ---
or rather sat. It seemed that there
was something magnetic about that
j resence there. He experienced a
difficulty in keeping his eyes away.
Meting the neatness of tho dress
worn by the woman, he could not
fail to note too its sombre hue -- -
r►,ourrting evidently. His 1i►cly hu-
nt cessary. But he had Grace to at enation was busily at work in a
re:icon with. moment.
The sharp eyes cef that four-year- I'or hint to weave a complete
cic little maid were furtively fixed st:►ry with such material, was an
on the magic pen. She a as trying easy task. A pretty girl ()camped
hard to fulfil the injunction ---to he the stellar part in it. He portray-
geod---froze► the adult, standpoint. r d her as a motherless girl forced
But gradually the admonition was to fta.c•e a shard, cold world. Depict -
fading from her mind -she was very e 1 her seeking a living in it as a
__ human. t;c•verness.
After a while- a eel:rage-`;sash- That imagination of his had a ha -
atoning period the little haucls ht of running away vitlt tern. Per-
wero laced behind her, and bodily haps that was a reason why his fic-
facing the owner of the attraction, tion had so good a run. His hooks
the little one addressed hire, in a were mostly all of the many -editions
kind of I dare you voice--- kind. So, neglecting his, own story
"I could write with a pen like for fiction of another kind, the time
that !" came of the going clown of the sun.
For a second time the child's 'I'he tint of the vastly -deep changed;
voice brought the man's attent len the sen grew greyer. His heroine
away from his work. Isresumptive closed her hook and
"Could you V' rose; cried -
He smiled as he spoke. Looked "Gracie!"
up from his book as he did so. Then Seeing that the child's attention
infusing a note of doubt in his voice had been attracted, she turned,
enquired - bowing slightly, smilingly wished
"Are you sure 1" Masters-- Masters---
'Y----yes. Quite!" "Good -day!"
Then, as an afterthought, psis- From the sands, the little girl
£ihly by way of redemption of the waved a vigorous cumbered -with -
hesitation, the child continued--- bucket -and -spade good-bye to him.
"If I had one:" She evidently preferred jumping the
Finding her first venture had not breakwaters on the way home to the
roused the lion, but fearing hint a n.ore easy path of the sea wall. The
little still, she went on defiantly-- two passed altogether from the au -
"I saw a man fill one once ''' thor's sight. Not altogether from
said- Such a statement as that surely h:s mind.
"Pray do not let me drive yon could not fail to crush a mere user Good -day! Yes, he felt it had
away' Possession may be nine cf the pen! Seeing that astonish- i been -distinctly good. Till he look -
points of the law, but we may con- nhent was expected of hinr Masters' eel at clean pages, where writing
Bider ourselves beyond the pale of assumed an appropriate look of sur- t
should have been. Even then, de-
lts practise here. If, as I hear- !-.rise. His wearing of it pleased her spite the unfinished chapter, he
from lips the truth of which it would mightily. made no alteration in his verdict.
Lc• absurd to doubt -that this is "Perhaps," he said, "you would It had been a good day.
ronsidered your seat" -his smile like to make quite sure you could (To be Continued.)
was not an unkeleasing one ---"1 write with one, eh 1 Would you _ .ts
should never forgive myself if tres- like to try with this l"
pass of aline interfered with the The blue eyes brightened ; she A STARTLING PROPHECY.
owner's use of it." was at his side in a moment. Shy- j
1[
"Is that pen you are using," in- nese is readily overcome when our may Transfer Vital Organs of Low'-
t,uired Gracie suddenly, a propos of summers have not numbered five. er Animate to 'flan.
nothing, "one of those you put the Trustfulness at that age has rarely According to Professor Simon
ink in at the wrung end, and trickle been shocked. Flexner, of the Rockefeller Insti-
it out of the other 1" Therein, perhaps, lay the secret tute for Medical Research, New
A softness blended with the smile nt the attraction children had for York, medical science soon is to
ol• Masters' face, merged into that Masters --the sweetness of their inn- , solve the problem of transferring
kindly expression of the strong for SL icionless existence. Viewed from sound vital organs from the lower
the weak. It was the successful the standpoint of the after life, animals to man.
catching of just such tenderness when -if we act up to the anxionis This prophecy was made in a pa -
which made Landseer's name figure of the world we live in --we trust per by Professor Flexner, read by
so prominently in the world of Art. n . Titan, it is apt to brush across I)r. Ludwig Hektoen before the
As the author looked down at the ur as refreshingly as a gust of ; l►hysiologieal section of the Ameri-
mite from his six -feet altitude, the { country air. can Association for the Advance -
leek on his face was an irresistible' Turning the leaves of his book inent of Science.
reminder of a fit. Bernard's kind- till he came to a blank page, Mas- "The technical surgical opera -
Less to a toy terrier. ters twisted and rested the ce►ver on tions involved in this kind of experi-
"You have accurately described )tis knee. So the open leaf was lov- mentation, on account of the ne-
it little woman," he answered. el with the intending -eyes-spark- ce•ssity of maintaining unimpaired
"But it docs not always trickle ling -with -excitement a niter. Then
Or, The Result of Diolomaey and Tact.
('HAPTER I.--(Cont'd).
Observation was a trick of Mas-
ters' trade. Tho practice of it en-
abled hire to paint a picture in a
paragraph. What he saw in one
glimpse o Miss Mivvins' face was
etequence itself. But of that gen-
tle, outward -going radiance in her
eyes the merest layman would have
been sentient. It was the kind of
which one felt even a blind man
must he conscious.
Details appealed to Masters' just
then. He happened to be engaged
at the moment on the description of
a heroine. When he saw Miss Miv-
ins his difficulty about shaping the
book -woman vanished. In flesh and
blood she stood before him. All he
needed was to describe what he
sow ; she would fit in all respects.
Save her name. He was not par-
ticularly struck with that.
which her hand went out. Again
she smiled. .'t moment's hcsitatiort
-then seated herself.
Froin a bag depending by silken
cords from her wrist elle drew a
hook. Having given the little girl
sundry dire_tie es as to the assimila-
tion of pr( t.srnatural virtue, the
woman commenced to read.
Masters resumed his place at the
other encs of the seat. Had bink
is hand too; manuscript bunk. He
had come out v► ith intent to Write ;
teeld himself that fulfilment was
CHAPTER II.
Proverbially worsen love men's
approbation. Something of the feel-
ing within hint must have evidenced
itself to Masters' eyes. His atten-
tive scrutiny -despite all there was
et respect in it ---did not, apparent-
ly, please Miss Mivvins. Possibly,
she was inclined to consider his ad-
miration rudeness. Anyway she
called--
' `('carne, Gracie!"
Taking the child's little hand in
her own neatly gloved one as she
spoke, the woman turned, evident-
ly intent on walking back in the di-
rection whence she had come.
That brought Masters to his feet
in a moment --cap in hand, and apo-
logy in Mouth. Full of crudities as
was his character, he possessed an
instinctive courtesy. In all the ar-
raignments for his breaches of So-
ciety's unwritten laws, impoliteness
Thad never figured. He spoke;
when you want it to --though it gen-
erally de es when you don't."
The child looked mystified ; evi-
dently deemed further explanation
necessary. Miss Mivvins was still to folios,.the movements of the
standing, waitin to go. Masters hand Icer intent was plain --- to
w rite her own name.
, the circulation of the blood, is
LIONS TURN MAN EATERS
he gave the child his pen. great, hint not impossible of
She drew a capital (t a bright at hievement, and no effort should
little point of tongue pretending t•(' spared to reach this goal," says
the while. The head, too, seemed Professor Flexner. "The functions
of t ransplantod organs are main-
tained by the method of preserva-
tion of the circulation. hence, it
now becomes possible to place sen-
sitive and important viscera under
r ew experimental conditions, which
nosy aim to resemble or produce
those believed to give rise to com-
mon pathological state in roan and
to observe the effects over a long
period of time.
"It is a matter of no small signi-
ficance, that arteries can be trans-
l•l:anted successfully from dog to
cat and vice versa, and from than
to dog, and that keeping extirpat-
ed arteries under sterile conditions
at refrigerator temperature for
twenty or thirty days or even long-
er, (toes not interfere with the re -
stilts of transplantation.
"There is something extremely
subtle in the conditions underlying
successful transplantation within
terse race. since it ►nay be determin-
ed by such minor factors as environ-
ment and mere quality (ef food. A
turner which grows in Danish white
trice may fail utterly to grow. in
Berlin white mice, and ono which
grows in Berlin white mice and un-
able to grow in Norwegian mice,
!nay lose its capacity to grow in
Berlin mice transported to Chris-
tiania and kept there for a period
h( fore inoculation."
UNPROFITABLE.
atsmak
HUNGER MAKES THEM PREY
UN AFRICAN NATIVES.
hesitated ; looked from one to the
other. Politeness made him say--
"`I ani leaving pray he seated."
But the woman saw through that. diture of concentrated energy -but
Would have been very high up the she got through with it at last.
fool grade indeed had she failed to Ther -e. figured en the paper the
dee so. It really was quite too trans- wr rds -
parent an utterance. When truth
is sacrificed on the altar of polite-
ness the ceretnouy needs skill, oth-
erwise the lie becomes ever more
cfTensive than the act it was to
c over.
His little speech induced her to
t::t:e a step forward ; made her
say -
"Oh. no' Do not let ole drier
sex' away .
She spoke impulsively : hurriedly.?.tasters thought with e►rrythhing in
the tone that was desirable in n
w•onlan•sc ►dire. lie smiled ;as he
expostulated --
-But v eu re/116'30her. surely --it is
hot malty 111' 11)1'ilts ago you were
(111ltc walling to allow ole to drive
veil away."
'!'hen she smiled too. Stni!es
w hie h bt•e,ng}tt into p!ay mouth and
eees sines the dilnpie5 in her cheeks.
From his .etst fence the gravity
5, 1,1.• t►eeple celled i! ah+e•terity - -
had already departed. Thera was keeping sour word, Gracie. You
I)eeuliarl% 'efter►ing 11) lu"ncr 1 rofcssed anxiety to finish yonr cal -
That was compassed. it took a
little time entailed a huge expen-
Gracie Seton -Carr.
The child's glance carte nff the
page ; '.hc moved away a pace.
I.ee,eked alp into his egos. her own
a
C sshing like diarnotsds(. Seel' little
things please in the t inti of hap-
piness when we ,l re little ellr•sel►es.
After drawing a long breath she
ejsci,lated t riurnphantly
['her•e'"
Once more Masters gladdened the
little one, by rae tins 1a'` he was ex-
p' et ed to act. `•e man on that
coast could have ►e. e•r 11 a larger -5i7
ed look of astonishment ; be cried
••\1'on --der---fill
1 /lapping of harness in her glee.
and the (hilt' danced aleeng to the
( user end of the scat.
•I'.e written my name with (enc
eef those funny splitter pens, Miss
Mivvins! What do sots think of
that 1"
•'1 think vele have a f:arny way of
tsbout Miss Mivvins. 1'erhare his
own relaxing was Cie result of that.
"It is ya long ...eat."
tie' Mill. at .'d 114 measurement
with a .'.weep e.f 1115 Mand as he
spoke • continue(!
' Let its length he our way out
.ef the ditiiculty it. is a long lane
that has no turning. How will it
1 o if we snake it large enough for
beth ?"it was a tentative !')rt of imita-
tion. An iavisc.bso (elite branch to
flee on the sands:. yet you are spend-
i.h�t your time cos the wall'"
• Oh -h -h''' -- prele,nged and
(!t•awl) nut 'T had forgotten all
aleout it!"
Attention *1i\ erted from the pen.ts.c child ran dean the steps on to
the beach. A few minutes after.
Masters, looking up, saw her busily.
�'. work with a vatic and pail. The
implements had evidently been left
there in the morning.
That rather proved the excellence
Scourge in British Colony of Nyasa-
land Due the Scarcity of
Game.
A new terror has befallen some
of the districts of N3asuland, the
British colony lying along the west-
( t•1► shore of Lake Nyasa. In this
legion game has never been Octal- in which it is useful declare that
fits and the supply has been Mill now they would not be without it.
further depleted by excessive }runt- As: a time saver and worry preven-
ing in the last few yeat-s. 'I'hc re- Live it is said to have no equal. It
is used fur washing dishes, peeling
potatoes, cutting cabbages and
ether vegetables, sharpening knives
and for many other purposes.
Small motors are attached to the
various Machines, and the work
which was went to take up much
► aluable time and cause the employ-
ment of persons to so spend their
time is accornplisrled in incredibly
:.mall space.
It is said by those who are sup-
pcsod to know that the electric
stove n' w being used in England is
one of the greatest triumphs of
electricity. That it reaches the
year the lions have become a zenith of perfection for ordinary
scourge. These natives have sur- cooking is asserted, there being no
rounded all their villages with heat, smell, or smoke.
stockades at least fifteen feet high, l;y the simple turning of a switch
the tops of which are thickly wov- an electric kettle can be brought to
ch, with thorns*.
Thee precautions seem to afford
ri a security. Lions have repeatedly
climbed over the stockades,
ELECTRICITY IN KITCN EN T r++++++++++++++++++I
jTheFrmj
PROMINENT FEATURE IN MANY
ENGLISH KITCHENS.
(looking, Washing Dishes, Prepar-
ing of Vegetables Done by
Electricity.
In Many up-to-date English kit-
chens electricity is the most prom-
inent feature, and those who have
adopted it in the numerous phaises
stilt is that the natural food of lions
s5 becoming scarce and they have
keen driven by hunger to prey up -
or the natives.
Feitunately lions are not so num-
erous there as they are in British
East Africa. But tate natives are
1 terror, owing to the fact that the
animals now loos. upon them as an
excellent sour:.•e of food supply.
The evil at present is greatest in the
district which lies between the Gov-
ernment stations of Ngara and Do -
►e -a in the high country west of Lake
Nyasa.
In this locality during the last
Kind Old Lady --Why, my deer
little boy, what la the use of crying
like that 1
Little Boy --'Taint no use. I've
L. Pn eryin' like this all mornin' an'
nobody ain't give inc a cent.
--� -
Potatoes, after being soaked in
acids and pressed hard, are now
being used for the manufacture of
billiard -balls.
BROKEN INTO THE IIUTS,
t►sually by tearing away the roof
thatch, and carried off natives.
Even those not attacked are usual-
ly too torrorstrickon to offer resist-
ance.
A party of whites travelling
through this region in May last ob-
served many small villages desert-
ed by their inhabitants, although
the huts were still quite new. On
asking thss reason the answer was
invariably the same:
"The people could no longer re-
main. The lions have become so
had that we are all afraid we will
it() killed."
At ono village three women had
been killed and eaten by these ani-
nails;
ni-
ir els; at another a man and two
girls, and so on.
The lions that are committing excellence of the food prepared on the rause velli ensue when butter will
these ravages are believed to have
been driven to prey upon humannest pay, and
brings only by hunger, for man-
eating lions have riot often terroriz-
e;t this region. Most lions are not
the ferocious beasts they have been
thought to be. They run off into
the jungle at the sight of a human
being and never attack a man un -
!esti wounded or hunted. But with
the rnan-eating lion it is different.
He lies in hiding all day, and at
night fires, guns and noise will not
keep hire off. He springs into
SVGUESTION FOR lis 'i'T}•:R-
M.1 K ER S .
Butter -making is the important
thing in dairying in the United
States. While a great deal of at-
tention has been given to this
Lral.ch of dairying in that country
there are many complaints as to the
o
quality of butter produced. Mani
suggestions for improvement hat e
Leen made. One of them is that
Lutter-makers should organize and
get together more than they dee.
Mr. ('. W. Pelton of Wisconsin.
writing to the Chicago Dairy Pse -
duce, on this point says:
'It is a well known fact that we
ate not making ae good butter as
et: did ten years ago and who is to
Hanle ? 1 say the hcltteriliakers,
why 1 Because they are not organ-
ized. There should be a Lutter-
makers' assoeiatien in every coun-
ty that w•oilld get. together as often
as twice a year and Leake rules and
each one positively refuse to tesla
(•reale more than three days old.w inter and slimmer.
''My rule has been three times a11
week isummer and 1whee a. week in
\••Inter, but 1113• experienee has been
boil in from five to eight minutes. I can mrtke Letter butt 'r lien:
A chop in an exceedingly short time cream delivered twice n week su
may be cooked to perfection in an summer than I can fi' ou errant de -
electric frying pan, while the elee livered twice a week in winter. in
t►ie oven will do a roast to a turn s,.,nlnler the cream is usually cooled
without any smell or annoyance of in water and kept where the air ie
burning.
KING EDWARD RESPONSIBLE.
Each shelf inside an electric
range can be heated separately, fere being taken to the creamery.
which makes it possible to bake two ' • Four of patrons quit and
different kinds of cake requiring tc•ok their ercai to a neighboring
two different temperatures at the creamery where they cook} go on:'c
same time. For grill work or raps- . r twice a week, but they got dis
ciity of heating the most intense satisfiedwict and sainted to know if I
l -eat can be obtained instantly by v►,;itld take their cream twice a week
the mere switching nn of more if they. returned. I declined, and
bower at a given point. tiles came La^k bringing their
When the cooking is over, another ,
cream three times a week until we
5v► itch 1S turned and the range in- hal the fir: -t cool milts and since
stands EdwardrPS cold. then I have seen thein but twice a
e
King started the range vv eek.
fever in England by installing an often hear of certain cows
electric stove in his new yacht and that do not give enough butterfat
(110 in his train. Kumors as to the to pHv fir their feed anti I believe
fresh ; but in winter it is left where
;t is most likely not to freeze, but
if it does freeze it is taken to the
kitchen stove and thawed out be -
A GROUP OF NATIVES
and carries one off before the others
have time to slake resistance.
Ho enters tenor without fear,
clawing away the fastenings. When
the man eaters attacked the labor-
ers on the Uganda railroad every-
body built platforms and slept on
them at least twenty feet from the
ground.
All that is neees�sar3• to turn an stakes everything easy. That's
ordinary lion into one of tho man
un -
what smiles are for. A good, un
eating sort is for hire to acquire a
feigned, sincere smile is a veritable
taste for human flesh. He may battering -rain to knock hard things
first feed on the remains of a hu- cut of the way. Sometimes I smile
man body that a man eater has left ('tit loud, all to thyself, when I 1'1111
and as soon as he learns that the against anything hard ; and the in-
human kind is easy to kill he i5 vitation is out to whoever enters shy
likely to attack then, woolen or door. I take it that pee )le will
smile as they read the card, and I siJs*1)1u►intlne•lt, ae. thee should.
children in preference to any of the want them to continue the act while (1e►e►el l:rycrs will :always be f•►ttlscl
gpine that has been his food. Then a„ ;rn►entt thc: I,nstlers. It' they :++'(• sac•
he becomes a roan eater,a terrible in here .
evil. He tells of a visitor who came to 1ive they ar=' ahti *s,t Inv;Iri:ahl3 heels
This is the rawest feature in the `ce him last winter a Hce)tchnt;tn, thy. Exercise create hl them an
who had served ing India in rise , appetite, ((".eloj)s bone and ►n►1:aIle,
present situatle►n in Nyasaland. The
lions are beingturned into roan army. "My dear sir," said the 1 stimulates health}' e tti'tt ition and
visitor, "I and greeting that legend 1 ronl.a/el digest hon.
eaters. Of course this state of af-
fairs has incited the colonial au- heartily. Many years ago, when the Make' arrangements for fatten111_'
thoritie5 to make ever effort to de plague was raging, I was in ('al- all birds. either coe•l.crels or el(!
y cotta, and sick. The hospitals were Lcne. before they are marketed. 1f
sires the lions. full, and with other patients I was you have not a feeding crater or 1wie
Bing in a shed, a very sick roan. tis; up an old pecking h,ex, or bet
Or. each 51(0 of mea poor (118p ter s.tt!1 have a good solid crate
card, when a elan came around ►v it h v.1eic a ►I ill last- you for years.
these stoves soon were broadcast, be s o cheap that the test cows will
with the result that many hotels,the farmers will be
those catering to the better class of forced out of tlhcv dairy business.
people, put them in their kitchens. and the Luttterinaker Inc,kuog for a
Small establishments gradually ;: fol- jos ill seine other line e,f work, un
-
lowed the lead, and now elect rir less we get together and correct our
stoves are to be found in even the faults."
smallest homes in England.
"JUST KEEP SMILING."
•
Treasurer of Banking Institution
Has Legend on Door.
On the door leading into the pri-
vate office of the treasurer of nor
of the Hartford (Connecticut) bank-
ing institutions may be seen by all
comers a plain white card, on which
are these two words: "Keep Smil-
ing."
Ask the treasurer the significance
of the placard, and he will say
simply: "Just keep smiling. That
POU LTItV NOTES.
Busy hens are not only the best
egg producers. but their eggs stem -
the best fertility. In order to keep
them at work strew the floor of t he
pen w Irl bay or straw and scene!
GREAT LETTER WRITER
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE
GERMAN EMPEROR.
Astonishing ilow 1Ie finds so Much
i'iurc to Write Ills Many
Priv ate Letters.
William 11. probably sates more
letters than ally other living mon-
arch. kronh the early morning,
when he goes over his mail and the
Statedespatches, snaking copious
marginal notes in pencil, until he
retires ler the night he is constant-
lyjotting down his thoughts, writ -
mg or dictating letters. er annotat-
t:ep• new books. Ile frequently is
seen at receptions or tutlitai y re-
views making a note on his shirt
c teff. Ile abhors fountain pens alai
�►„ears hy the old fashioned quill of
our grandfathers.
The Kaiser's handwriting is largo,
bold and flourishing, and. in a.-
eor(lane•e v.:th his habit of dashing
down his thoughts a : they come in-
to his head, often extremely illrs;-
ir►le. A. well-known Berlin artist-,
ti it 11 Will le t lin Emperor was fell
(ars in acti►0. correspondence,
gives
AN INTERESTING AC'C'OUNT.
e•f hint as a correspondent. Ho
says
It is really astonishing how the
Emperor. despite the amount
;:,,rk he has to get through. finds Al
much time to carry en his ex1e,ts
private correspondence. It is v
rare that he ever breaks off a let-
ter lie has once hrgs►11, nor is he
content, like the Emperor Francis
Joseph, fer instance, to hate his
letters written by a private secre-
tary according to his instructions,
hut writes personally every line
that has neat an offl(hL1 character.
"I have seen letters of the Eirtprr-
or on topics of history ''r art,
twelve to eighteen pages hong. It
is well known that the monarch. to
save time, always makes his notes
in shortened forst, leaving out the
' owel.- thus: 'iligdr Adlr' for 'flip -
gender Adler,' etc. In letters, how-
ever, Ise always tries; to abandon
this practice, chiefly because lin
a Ishii to be (suite clear, but 5UI►1('-
times in his haste he abbreviates
•111 the sang. The Emperor evert
::dc}resses his letters himself nearly
always, and absolutely in full ; the
Addressee never wants a title.
"One might say that, apart from
f;tt1►ily correspondence and short
ne res to the generals of leis suite,
the majority of the Kaiser's letters
:ire addressed to professors and
:'.1 rhitects, art Isla, sculptors, or
musicians. This is not sllrprissing
inview of all the predominant si►-
terest His Majesty takes it
.114T4 AESTHETIC QUI:ST[O\S.
in thele letters the Kaiser is wont
to express in short, pregnant'
words his views un some topic of
present -'lay interest. A. often 05
the grain in this.
Aneether word ab(►ut the chicks in r.ot his views, especially in arclli-
regard to early roosting. Jit.fc,t‘.thelz. I tectural quei7tions, are illslstrat `d
to roost as early as poswith luargit:al sketched of 3
riot stake rough roosting poles. technical character, rove at
The smoother they are the easier it ever) point the writer's to
is to keep theta free from lice. knowledge of the subject.
Chickens cannot be healthy that "Apart from letters, the sniper -
are cuddled up in a tiny bit of 1► or fredsiently sends solve artist
brood coop, sweltering in the heat friend of his a book which he has
of the atmosphere, as well as that marked with marginal mails, and
of their own bodies. Nothing will this is especially the ca -r with
er twice a week, hilt they got chic: works on naval topics. Illi versa -
Given good care, just sensible tility is simply marvellous. I Ilya►(:
Beare, as common sense will ordin seen sketehe:{ doele by the Emperor,
arily (he•tet° poultry will ret'lrn ;a the sheet simply ceveeecl in all di-
goocl profit on the tied and money rectionss with shipas parts, designs
expended thereon. Neglected, the 3 for the mechanism of autonle,bile:,
wilt produce nothing tut lona yat)(i 5nd plans fe'r the interiors and 4.x -
terrors (frteade etc ) of bhlildings.
1f ever the Emperor's letters aro
e 0)teeted and put 1t tu- l the% will
r•, r, a far better plc turc of hire
than any perseena1 rhos uctcrization
ee,isld d11. for his thirst for know-
ledge revealed therein is only equal-
led by the number of fruitful sug-
restions he himself makes.
HE KEPT AT IT.
A gentlemanly -looking pedler en-
tered a business man's Ake and
coughed slightly to attract atten-
tion. The occupant of the office
kept at his work until he reached
a convenient stopping -place, and
t.leen turned abruptly to his caller.
"Well,” he asked, "what can I do
for you 1"
"I ani introducing," the pedler
1•c•gan, "a patent electric hair -
1,1 ush--"
"What. do T want with a
brush t" growled the bossiness
"Can't yen 110' I'tn bald?"
"Your lady, perhaps--"
"Bales, too, except when she's
dressed tip.,'
"Yes, sir. Ttiit you may have at
hone a little child- -"
"«'e have. It's one month old
and quite bald."
''Of course, at that age,. said the
pcdler. ''But," he persisted, "tray-
t)e you keep it dog?"
''We do.' 4aid the business man.
A hairless Chinese dog."
The pedler dived into another
pocket.
"Allow me, be sail, to show
you the latest thing in fly -paper."
F igg- -''You have seen ,Toner's
wife. What is she like 1 Should
?oil call her pretty 1" Fogg - "I
might if I were talking to Jones."
one of the doctors to rtleytsnre the
bodies. As they finished the sec-
ond fellow's measurement they
looked at ore, and the man slid :
'Three of 'em, height' and whipped
out. his tape measure at my side. in
spite of all effort, I could only stare.
To save my life i couldn't speak or
move. All I could do was to smile.
and I just smiled. Instead of the
measuring line I was given better
attention and recovered. The smile
hair- din it : That's right : 'Keep smil-
man.
ing
le
i:MBAItR.1SSIN(I.
A colored woman of Alexandria, RUSSIAN EGGS._
Virginia, was on trial before a snag- France has always been a ghat
istrate of that town charged with producer of poultry and eggs, but
irleutnan treatment of her offspring. Intely initlions of eggs Baty, been
Evidence was clear that the WO- ineported from e,1 ler countries,
man had severely beaters the young- c: pecially for consumption in Paris.
ster, aged snob nine year`, who (tf t:sese importations by far the
was in e''tlrt to exhibit his battered largest proportion comes from l►us-
c.endition. tis. 1n 194); about 9,0tio,OO) pounds
Before imposing sentence. his of Iturssian eggs were eaten in Pari
better asked the woman whether Austria- Hungary in the same year
she lia•I anything to say. "Kin I fernisl►e(1 only about 1.'200.000
ask ye, hnnah a question 1.►inn!. -- pie:ln(lj, and ether ee►Intrie5 less.
ed the prisoner. AtnonR ihs'se lw�pt contr.leutr,d
The judge weldednliirmahvety. g3it,0 ') p i:n(1 leo matter what it is, he will i.1e• to
'•\%'ell, then, See' he,nah, 1'(1 1 ke - - + regret it. His Wife--"1)urieg .:Ir
to ask you' whether 3o' was e1er1.lON(i G1Iii,S. courtship se,sl used to steal kisses
the p;arient of a Uslffe qtly wt.:'1!, s '1 toes she k st're-.7 her to ta'1; to 1'' from 1110.Her 111*' .a: d V4'ctL
cullud chile." I '':.u, uc!y to talk about." sols bea.•d what I %aid,•'
(.ire the fowls plenty of fresh
‘vater. it is surprising how mw'11
fowls will drink if they tilt it. fmr hi
and where they know right where
to find it hene►er they Unlit it.
Tlhis ie especially true of the laying
hen Eight times nut of ten a hell
when coming e►ff the nest after lay
tnp will go direct to the water and
string long and deep. This thirst
produced by the muscular (West
rut forth in delivering eggs. Der
inp the effort great comhu',tien
take; place to produce the encrg3.
thus depleting the tissuee of water
So do not neglect the water.
\l:1NV .1 MON UMI:NTAE. WORK
,11 G.rtnsstly 04105 its construction
,le, him in realit;.. although honor
:r►(1 fawn were ac':•ordeel to the art -
i -t who carried out the idea.•'
when 1 he Kaiser is 1 ra► elling he
t; -es the t elegrrt i►h a great deal. of -
i1 15
f-
icn sending the I':nlpt•ese long ac-
e-, ants of Bir ad►Pntl:res in that
way. Such private letters natural -
Iv never t(ee through the post, but
ale seen to the Foreign (l'i'e cour-
ier in Germany (a lieutenant of the
chess -urn of the Guest!), to be eon-
v4•3e(1 to the capital with the dice
lomaCe correspondence.
Tile Emperor is vera- fond of pic-
t .1'.' pn'teard•, and when h:' ► in
s,'aying tit Highcliffe Inst ve•11• iia�I`l'
►•.ere numerous recipients (If 5u li
',lark 5 of in)perial consi(leration
among Berlin society. In his :study
I't ince Rulo'.v has a nurqbciip
iure pe:;steards v' }tie) his Imperial
master Rett him from foils upeen
which the Etnpereer hits scribbled in
T.encil such clhera'•teri4tic remarks
as: "Glorious ► sew ; "Splendid
weather," etc. 'file Kamer s note-
paper, which is white, is surnire:rnt-
(1 h3• a neat gold crown with the
lrnlserial arms, awl is sti ikingly
l;erge in shape, of a stout textut.t
lies Hie -hand "If it n141► le:alb,