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CHAPTER XXV.
Masters remained buried in
thought for a few moments. Tho
sudden opening of his eyes and
the refreshing news were almost
overpowering him.
Presently he looked up at his
companion, who was watching him
closely; said—
"You can't think, Dick, my dear
boy, what a big fool I have been
making of myself."
"No—I can't. If it was any fool-
ishness bigger than your present
size, it must have been simply co-
lossal!"
"You told your sister of mo in
your letter. 1)id you mention me
as Prince Charlie 1"
"Of course!"
"She'll know ! She'll guess! I
am glad. Thanks! Thanks!
Thanks!" •
He seized and wrung the hand
of the amazed Dick, utterly ignor-
ing his feelings. Only felt that
ho must do something to relieve
his own. He retained just suffici-
eat self-control tie .,iw^!'himsoli
'rem inerts~,, in a wild dance of
jubilation.
Dick affecting to nurse crushed
fingers, made an effort to get to
the bottom of things. Usually he
accepted circumstances without
inquiry as to their source; but su-
spicion of a kind that he wanted
to make into certainty; he said—
"A few minutes ago you express-
ed regret. that I had mentioned
you at all in the letter."
'I know ! But a few minutes ago
things were all gloomy and black
And ugly! Now they are all bright,
rose-colored and lovely. The sun
has risen! The pulse of day is be-
ginning to beat!"
"I say, old chap—how much a
thousand words do you get for that
kind of thing? You roll it off as
naturally as water rolls off a
duck's back."
"When do we reach London,
Dick 1"
' Reach London? Are you mad?
Why. we haven't turned round on
our homeward journey yet!"
"There's scene sort of overland
route, isn't there 1 We can get
back quicker?"
"Quicker ? You are mad I It
was only this very morning that
you were expressiQg regret that
the time of the trip wasn't going
to J e double the length!"
"This morning was then I Now
is now ! Oh, Dick, you stony-heart-
ed, wicked villain you!" He
sprang laughingly over to the boy
as he tpokc. "Why didn't you
sav bsfore--"
.11i.. es off!"
Diels dodging, picked up the
first Ilileee his hands rested on and
'assumed aburlesque attitude of
threat, as he continued—
"Assault me again with one of
:our hundred -ton affectionate
squeezes, and I'll blow your brains
out with this telescope. Throw up
'-our hands!"
"I surrender:"
Masters laughingly fell in with
the other's burlesque melodramatic
humor ; continued—
"I a.nc a bear, but a tallied ono.
1 haven't a squeeze left in me!"
"Perhaps your Royal Highness
is saving them up." suggested
Hick. his eyes twinkling as he
spoke. "I begin to have a grave
suspicion—garnered from sonic of
your rambling ravings—that you
have designs on my sister
"I have, Dick, I have!"
"Open confession ie good for the
soul: But you don't fool ate. I
houl(l be false to every sense of
rotherly duty if i failed to warn
er n ashst sour embraces. I shall
dear the marks of one of them—
on my shoulder—to the grave."
"Dear old Dick!"
Maters started forward impul-
sivels : "I auc ever so sorry that—"
"Keep off : Keep off ! if you
don't 1`i i' hectare for help:''
as(ers thoughts w tet off a
.\1C at
angent. Love is a leveller. Even
anthers, under the influence of
that other circumstance to which
4111 flesh is heir, are not superior
to a passion for the conjunction
of octavo sheets and pens. It
!found expression in Masters' ex-
elamation—
"The letters!"
Dick, inexperienced in 5111(11 mats
tem failed to understand. His
denseness was irritating. He was
aware of that, but only ejaeulat•
ed—
"Eh?"
"Tho letters! 1►.,n't you under-
altancl1 We ha(en't touched port
,•e.t--not near it.''
"Four hours off yet."
"Then I shall have time to write
to your sister ni}self."
"What --in four hours? Bold
adventurer! if at first you don't
aucccNI, try try, try again. Your
revery unlltans me! Excuse theists
ears:"
"(.Tear out of .his trabiu, 1)ick,
and leave me to myself. I want to
Write."
"What! For four hours? 111
the hanged if you du. Four hours
of letter from a inau in your con-
dition would prove deadly to the
woman receiving it. I won't. be
party to such inhumanity."
"Will you got out?"
"No, I won't ! I paid the ship
people for half this cabin, and I'm
going to assert my rights
Keep off, Prince Charlie. if you
put a finger on ino I'll have you
tried by court-martial, and sen-
tenced to walk the plank."
"Will you leave peaceably thou 1"
"No, I won't; keep off !''
Dick was thoroughly enjoying the
situation now; his face was one
huge beaming grin as ho con-
nuod—
"Besides, I am going to write a
letter myself. To my sister, warn-
ing her against tho introduction of
a lunatic into the fancily. She has
been good to me, and I. shall take
',unity of making some
return for it."
"You wrote your letter to her
this morning on deck with the stub
of a pencil. Go and write the
other the same way."
"Shan't! Can't: want ink.
Couldn't describe your vile char-
acter in pencil; such labor necos-
pitates ink: black ink."
"Out you go 1"
"Keep off I . If you evict me
from my cabin—I believe you are
a 'woild Oirish landlord in dis-
guise, you spalpeen'—I'll sue you
for damages, and have you'hanged
at the yardarm."
"Out you go !"
That time the boy's dodging end -
.ed in failure; his laughter rather
handicapped him. Tho other,
laughing triumphantly, caught.
struggled with and pushed him out
of %the cabin. Clapping the door
to, bolted it.
Then Masters sought again his
berth, intending to indulge in a
little castle -building: aerial kind.
(Dick's tattooing on the door -panels,
.with his fists eliciting no reply, he
,bent and shouted through the key-
hole—
"You bushranging brigand! You
buccaneering bandit! You blood-
thirsty old skull -and -cross -bones,
Item! I've just remembered that
•this is piracy ! Piracy on the high
'seas! I'm going straight to the
captain to get the handcuffs polish-
ed up. 1'11 make it my business to
see you go back to England in
irons. Put that in your pipe and
,smoke it."
With that ho retired—to the ac-
companiment of a shrilly whistled
"Rule, Britannia" and tramp of
soldiers. Masters was left the op-
portunity of writing his love -letter.
He came out of the land of
dreams. Sat down at tho table,
and drew paper and pen towards
hint, implements of his trade.
'Spent time in looking at the paper,
pen in hand, but no words were
formed.
It seemed strange that a ratan who
,for many years had gained a living
by dexterous juggling with words
should be unable to shape them
,now. But, they would not, conte,
to his satisfaction.
"What, can I say of paper," he
;thought, "which will exhibit my
awakened conscience? Will be
sufficiently contrite and penitent
to appeal to her 1 Nothing! Half
the meaning of a letter lies in the
reading of it. She would be justi-
fied, fully justified, from her pre-
sent point of view, if she were to
'throw it. into the tire without read-
ing it at all."
A look of gloom settled on his
countenance; he naked himself --
"What right have I to write to
her at all ?--after the way in which
I int:tilted d her? apologize '-
1'0 , t 1
np i g tc on
paper is the act of a coward. I
must go to her. and hear her con-
tempt of me. I deserve it."
He did not write his letter after
gall.
CHAPTEiR XXVI.
That determination of his, to
'wait, was a hard thing for Mas-
ters to adhere to. Ho knew it was
a wholesome resolve; at the same
time the pill was very bitter: un-
coat.c(1 kind.
It is so much easier to do things
on the spur of the momeut ; cour-
age is an unbidden lieutenant
then. Later on the aid must con-
sciously be gathered together.
Curiously enough, Masters ex-
perienced pleasure in making the
way hard for h./Itself; there was
no attempt to boil the peas before
putting them in his shoe. It. seem-
ed mere just to her whom he had
wronged, this penance: a flagella
,tion of his soul. as it were.
"She must witness my utter, ab-
ject humility," he reflected.
"Must hear my prayer of forgiie-
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•tress of my doubt of her. My sor-
row must bo seen; 1 can't paint
it in pen awl ink. 'Whatever 1,
wrote—oh, the voice is mightier
than the pen !—she night refuse
to forgive hie. Besides, if she is
forewarned, knows 1 intend suck-
ing her, she. may even refuse to
see me. 1 won't give her the
(chance; I won't write at all.''
That was his decision ; the result
•.,f half -an -hour's close thought
and the consumption of three pipes
of tobacco. Then he sought. his
companion on deck. Braced himself
up for the interview, rightly guess-
ing the manner in which he would
:bc assailed.
"Hullo!" I):ck grinned. "What
have you come up on deck for--in-
+spiration ? Think to infuse a sea -
kissed salty air in your correspon-
dence? I wouldn't lose any of that
.four hours if 1 were you. How
many quires of my superfine cream -
.laid vellum note paper have you
consumed so far 1 I know you
haven't got any of your own."
"Not a sheet."
"Eh?"
"I have changed my mind."
"I deny the possibility of that!
.You haven't. a mind to change!"
"I am not going to write a let-
ter at. all.''
"What ! After all this fuss too!
.Well, I am—there! After those
absolutely brutal and unprovoked
RIGH ENGLISH BARONET
SIR RICHARD SUTTON 1g ONLY
EIGHTEEN TEARS OF' AGE.
Value of His London Estate Has
Enormously l:n•reased of 1.ate
Years.
[Sir Richard Sutton, the richest
baronet in England, who is but
eighteen years of age, will shortly
become still more wealthy through
the falling in of the leases of many
of his houses in Stratton and Cur-
zon streets. Great rows of cham-
bers, flats and shops will undoubt-
edly replace tho existing small
dwellings and rental value will go
up with a bound as was the case
in Down street a few years ago.
For eighteen years Sir Richard's
enormous wealth has been growing
by acumulution. His wants have
been few and his expenditures but
a small fraction of his
IMMi.NSE ANNUAL INCOME.
He was a posthomas child, being
born two months after the death of
his father.
Just how tremendous his wealth
is nas probably been more nearly
assaults on me too! Truly has the'gauged by matchmaking mammas
with achoolroorn daughters than by
mountain labored anyone else, though anyone who
"What I have kr say shall be ut- has ever visited London can give
tered orally." a fair guess of its magnitude when
"I doubt that ! If my sister it is mentioned that to this youth
h akes the advice I have given her belong the north side of Piccadilly
in this letter, you'll never have a and nearly all the streets off it—
chance of getting within earshot.
I have told her that you are tho Sackville street, Vigo street, Bol -
host too street, C'large.s street, Half violent, headstrong, feroci- Moore street, pert of Curzon street.
mita, wrathful eat -age I ever mot; Lc fact, all fashionable Mayfair
that you aro coining home. 1 have which does not belong to the Duke
advised her to Ileo from the wrath which
Westminster is, with the excels -
"Yon
• tomo. tion of a small property which be-
longs to Lord Howe of the Penn -
"I like that! For pure and Curzon fancily, after whom Curzon
adulterated cheek that annexes street was nameu, owned by Sir
Huntley S Palmers' entire factory! Richard Sutton. There is also a
I am viciously assaulted by a cab- largo district of property north of
id lunatic. I am deprived of the Regent street which
use of ink and paper purchased STANDS IN HIS NAME.
.with my own hard coin. I ant When his father, Sir Richard
thrown out of my cabin. And the Sutton, died in February, 1891, the
man guilty of these foul crimeswith deceased's brother, Arthur Edwin,
coolly stands in [runt of me was t -ho heir, buts is was decided
a pipe and a jeering remark in his
mouth. Incorrigible !" that the title and heirship should
"My dear old Dick
remain in abeyance for a few
Masters commenced a speech so; months and when in tho following , are two or three two-year-old hei-
•putting his hand on the boy's April Lady Sutton gave birth to a, I fers each year, which I consider
shoulder affectionately. He was son it was to the tido and vast es- ` good representatives of the breed.
interrupted by the cry of— tates of his father that this little
"Hands off!" infant, succeeded whilst his uncle
Dick assumed an appearance of still kept his old role of prosump-
abject fear, shivering like a calves- tivo beir.
,foot jelly. It was belied by the (Whether this young boy will take
grin lie could not keep off his face aster his father is still a matter of nothing approaches dry earth. It
As be continued— conjecture. Although always rather is quite clean to handle and is
"No more of •our of , -- . I (delicate, ho is a fine -spirited lad easy to procure and store.
I++++++++++++++***+ -1 North American Life
ITFrn!
ANNUAL AIMING
REPORT ;OR THE YEAR 1908
Tie Twenty-eighth Annual Meet-
ing of the North :\uceriean Life
+++++++♦++♦+++++++++++, Assurance Company was held at
its Home Office in 'Toronto, on
TUE ONLY PROFIT.IBLE ('OW. Thursday, Jan. 28th, 1909, when
the following report of the business
I keep and milk nine or ten cows of the Company for the year ended
Dec. 31st, 1908, was presented:
seises Ix1'YWt.
The cash income for the year
from premiums, interest, etc., was
$1,897,078.28, showing the satisfac-
tory increase of !181,980.59.
REDI CTIO% 14 eireasE RATIO.
The business has been conducted
on a conservative basis. as is
a cow older than 10 years. fly, shown by a further reduction in
cows figure from $66 to $83 a head rho ratio of espouses to premium
per year, with their calves. I sell income, thereby placing the North
for weals and some to neighbors American Life in the front rank of
to raise. I have no silo, but 1 raise economically -managed Canadian
corn, oats and clover and timothy
hay. I buy about $15 worth of
grain per cow each year and feed
them some grain that. I raise.
I consider the Holstein cow the of this sum $368,831.76 represents
j only cow worth keeping for dairy payments for Dividends, Maturtxl
purposes, and they are largo, heal- Endowments and Investment Poli-
t.hy and great milkers, and their cies.
I calves makes the best vcals in the
world. Tho Holsteins are taking
the place of all other breeds hero
'in this great dairy section of the
country.
There is some complaint that the
Holstein milk is not rich enough,
'hut the dairymen here think it is
better milk than that of some other
breeds, and the Jerseys are going
out of the country because their
owners think ';hey are not profit-
able. When a Holstein cow is
ready to turn off she makes the
verb best of beef and is easily fat-
tened.
One thing against the Holstein
is that a good many people think
that anything black is a Holstein,
it it is not more than a quarter
blood and the other three quarters
just anything so it is a cow; but
the nearer we get them pure bred
of the right kind, the better cow
they are. It's a drawback to the
Holstein breed to call every grade,
'no matter how poor a cow she may
be, a Holstein. My Holsteins av-
'erago between 7,000 and 8,000
pounds of milk a year, and there
each year, writes Chas. Webb,
Kinsman, Ohio. About half of
them are pure breeds and the
others are high -grades. 1 have
used pure -brad Holstein bulls for
18 )cars. 1 raise my own cows,
raising two or three heifer calves
each year and selling two or three
cows. 1 have ivy heifers conte fresh
at 2 or 2; j years old. I don't keep
companies.
PAI11E%T1 TO POLII•TROLOEKS.
The amount paid on policy -hold-
ers' account was $654,991.05, and
FARM NOTES.
For poultry houses, privy vaults
and other places where deodoriz-
ers and absorbents are needed,
y with extremely warm blood attach-
_ to walk ashore. I don't w-nnt1
•
40 be carried on a stretcher,
.maimed for life."
Masters was in earnest; deadly
earnest. He wished lie could get
his companion to veer round from
his frivolous mood. There was a
slight frown on his face as he
p a id
"Will you be serious, Dick 1"
The boy was not insensible to
the intonation of the words. Look-
ed up, saying—
"Well, what is it 1"
"I want to talk to you about your
,;inter."
The opportunity was too good to
be missed; appealed irresistibly to
the humorous side of the listener;
frivolity gained the day. Dick's
nature was such that happiness
lever wanted to bubble up, and it
was so long since he had felt in-
vlined to give it a show. He emit-
ted a groan ; leaned back in the
neck chair and thrust his hands
into his pockets.
"I thought that," he said. `•I
guessed it! Existence aboard this
►ugger's going to bo made a curse
to me! I ant going to have her
drummed into my cars all the rest
of the voyage."
"Dick :"
menta.
FOR SLEEPY TRAVEi,LERS.
A French engineer, M. Edouard
Cros, has submitted to the French
railway companies an invention de-
signed to relieve drowsy travellers
of the fear of being carried past
their destination. The invention
consists of a slip of paper on which
is a dial. The passenger writes his
destination on the slip. marks the
time he is duo on the dial, and at-
taches the paper to a part of the
carriage whore is can be easily seen
by the railway servants, whose
duty it will be to tell the traveller
when he has arrived.
"Understand, Prince ('harleigli,
that. I know her. Have known tier
for nearly one -and -twenty years.
'By your own showing, you have
known her little more than a
month. . . Very well, two months
:then. It's out of your power to
present her in any Tight 111 which
1 haven't seen her. I k now the
color of her eyes, hair and teeth;
the tilt of her nose and the length
• f it ; how she looks when she's
doing this, and how she looks when
she's doing that. You understand?
e,.to
l m net binbebored r
dal]dn•
going1
long with your two -months' old de-
scription of her."
"My dear Dick !"
(To be continued.)
GROW TAIL IN THE COUNTRY.
According to the investigations of
Doctor Deniker, well-known for his
anthropologic studies, the influ-
ences of city life tend toward a de-
crease of human stature. It is
away from the large cities that the
beneficent effects of the general
amelioration of serial conditions
and improvements in hygiene of
mcdern times most clearly manifest
themselves by distinct increase of
stature. This increase has been
narked among .several of the Euro-
pean races during the last half -cen-
tury. Where the people are sub-
jected to urban influences the gain
is less notable.
.r�
" I can truthfully say
that I believe that, but for
the use of your Emu!sion
I would long since have
been in my grave. I was
past work—could not walk
up -hill without coughing
very hard."
THIS, and much more ss -as
written by Mr. G. W. Hower -
ton, Clark's Gap, W. Va. \Ve
would like to send you a full
copy of his letter, or you
might write him direct. His
case was really marvelous,
but is only one of the many
proofs that
Scott's
Emulsion
is the most strengthening
and revitalizing preparation
in the world. Even in that
most stubborn of all diseases
(consumption) it does won-
ders, and in less serious
troubles, such as anemia,
bronchitis, asthma, catarrh,
or lose of flesh from any
causc. the effect is much
quicker.
IM not .1. h.. (1. t t battle of A(�orr•4
see/emus s.-. .,r. ire 80017'8 • ed
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ALI, DRUGGISTS
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ani .,m• 1rt.•rat,re no (•omumre Ino.
Jna ...Pi ua a P.et (i.rd sod toeutlo•
this rarer.
SCOTT A BOWNE
124 Welliwitow St.. W. Tom*,
As man begins to use land, the
tendency is to decrease, by remov-
al, the st Trod fertility, and this The greatest oil fire in history is
depletion is more rapid with pro- supposed to have been the fire which
duction, stimulated by cultivation. pp
The cropping process steadily di-
minishes the supply of plant food,
and one or more of the elements,
Iess abundant at first, or most re-
quired by the crops, will be quite
used up, and the soil will then
reach the condition called exhaust-
ed
ASSETS.
Tho Assets increased during the
year by the suns of 8854,762.01, and
now amount to $9,590,638.09. The
Assets continue to be, as hereto-
fore, invested in the beat class of
securities available; a detailed list
of these will be published with the
Annual Report for distribution. .
NET tll'RPets.
After making ample provisions
for all liabilities and paying the
sum of $124,771.26 for dividends to
policy -holders, the net surplus was
increased to $876,214.15.
ISSLRAW E.
Tho policies issued during the
year, together with those revived,
amounted to the sum of $4,465,224.-
00, making the total insurance in
force $40,341,091.00.
AI'DIT.
A monthly examination of the
books of the Company was made
by the Auditors, and at the close
of the year they made a thorough
scrutiny of all the securities held
by the Company. A committee of
tho Board, consisting of two Di-
rectors, made an independent au-
dit of the securities each quarter.
L. GOLDMAN, J. L. BLAIKIE,
Managing Director. President.
The Annual Report containing a
detailed list of the securities will
be sent in due course to each
policy -holder.
BLAZE 1,800 FEET IIIGH.
And Above it a Column of Smoke
Rose to 9,000 Feet.
by a conservative estimate destroy-
ed more than 5,000,000 barrels of oil
last year in the San Geronimo field
near Tampico, Mexico.
Tho oil stratum was struck at a
depth of 1,840 feet in a six inch The round of court festivities now
cased well. The torrent of oil burst is in full swing in Berlin, and is
forth and was quickly followed by accompanied by display without a
SPEND MONEY ON DISPLAY
THESE ARE THE DAYS OF HIGH
LIVING IN EUROPE.
Londoners Lead in Luxury --Even
Poor ('lasses Alleluia to Imi-
tate 'Them.
The astonishing increase in It
ury which is so striking a featu
of the present day life was the sub-
ject of conversation the other even-
ing at a •small exclusive club fre-
quented by diplomats in London,
England. One member of the
British service spoke strongly of
the ruinous expense of English so-
cial life to -day.
"Up to a quarter of a century
ago," he said, "our habits were
aimplo; even the rich made no great
show. %When I began to stay in the
country houses in the seventies,
the way of living was plain and un-
pretentious.
OLD TIME FRUGALITY.
"Who nowadays would have the
courage to offer his guests boiled
eggs and cold barn for breakfast, on
a hot day, a dish of cold meats and
cheese for lunch and a dinner of
four or five courses all told" What
woman in society nowadays would
be content to allow herself $600 a
year dress allowance? An aunt of
mine, with one of the greatest titles,
and one time in Queen Victoria's
household, never exceeded that
amount.
"To the rich, it does not matter
what they spend on their personal
pleasures, but when you find men
earning from $5,000 to $10,000 a
year spending all in a mad endeavor
to do just as the rich do, to drive
motor cars, to eat at the most ex-
pensive restaurants, to keep a num-
ber of servants and consume the
most expensive wines and cigars,
then you may be sure the country
suffers.
ENGLISH WORST CF ALL.
"I don't believe," continued this
diplomat, who is familiar with the
social life of all great capitals,
"that in any other country you find
this tendency among the people of
moderate income so marked as he
In St. Petersburg the dissipat
among the upper classes is cart
to amazing lengths, and in
York the millionaires fly their mo
ey about as if it burnt their bands.
In Vienna there is a great deal of
gambling and wildness generally,
but only among the aristocracy.
In Paris there are plenty of chances
to live riotously, but you seldom
see the bourgoiso taking them."
The same story of extravagant
luxury comes from Berlin. Bile -
low's renewed warnings to the
Prussian diet against the evils of
extravagance came at a moment
when the German people were in-
dulging in perhaps the most lux-
urious week in their history.
IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
The deepest colored eggs aro a blowout of gas which opened a parallel in the German capital.
most sought and highest quoted in lug orifice in the earth's surface, The magnificent jewels and dresses
the Boston markets: the Leghorn ' swallowing up tote derrick and whole at the imperial drawing room re-
ahire eggs take the same promin- drilling outfit, including the engine present the high water mark era
once in the New York markets In and boiler. The gas and oil were of luxury towards which "New
a certain village, one retail gro- ignited from the fire under the Germany" has been advancing in
ccr among more than twenty al- boiler and the great fire was in this the past few years.
ways charges more for white eggs, manner started. The Chancellor's first appeal in
and his customers have become It burned for sixty-twodays. • The November last for simplicity and
educated to prefer them, while an- vortex or crater through which the economy fell on deaf cars. The
other as persistently insists upon oil poured was gradually enlarged wealthy classes prepared for the
tho superiority of the colored. until it was more than 500 feet current season on a scale unpreced-
There are never any mixed eggs wide. A rim of rocks and earth ented. Magnificent dinners and
in the stores, though they getter- was formed around its outer edge balls were arranged with disregard
resembling a volcano's crater. Ac- to expense.
ally keep loth sorts.
It is plain enough that if crop cording to the Technical World the MILLIONS SPENT IN JEWEL,
after crop be removed from the blaze extended to a height of from
land, the substances which enter 1,400 to 1,800 feet and the column The gowns are more costly than
y before worn in Germany. One
into their composition, both or- of black smoke rose above it to a an
game and inorganic, mainly deriv- height of about 9,000 feet. On top firm sold nearly half a million dol-
ed from the so►i, moat directly les- of the smoke rested a great white tars' worth of pearls alone in the
sen fertility. This may be less per- cloud of vapor which was estimate] past few weeks. Among them was
ceptible, and the depletion slower to extend skyward to an additional it single necklace costing $12,,000,
in the case of grass lands used for height of 7.000 feet. The blaze could which a Berlin tradesman bought
pasturage, but it is none the less extinguishing work.
true. Animals on grazing lend re -The great oil fico was extinfor his wife. Sums were spent on
guish_ luxuries of the table and aetnnl for -
turn to the soil in their excrements ed by means of six centrifugal tunes were lavished on dress. i en
part of the plant fire! consumes', pumps which were kept constantly ple who used to be satisfied with a
but even although kept long on the busy for two weeks throwing mud light supper costing five marks with
same land, they are finally remov- and water into the crater. Heavy a bottle or two of inexpensive sinoh
ed, and their bodies, which have discharges of dynamite around the now insist upon a meal of seven to
been built up from the grass eat rim of the orifice also Hided in the tell Courses, with wine of good
vi
nt
-
cn, are disposed ofelsewhere. Ita ti ashelngwerk.
may, therefore, be stated as a gen- Shortly after the flames were put age,costing2b to60 marksn cover,
the cigars selling at seven marks
oral truth, that it is only where out the oil burst forth again in ulii('cc are frequently called for.
land is abSoltlt.ely 11nused by man greater volume than ever and its GAMBLING CRAZE.
ccumula-
a
any
considerable
t .h1 t
1 nut was estimated a
tion of plant fold naturally ecenr9 output t 150.000
particularly in the surface soil. barrels n day. It has been a def.
ficult problem to care for the oil.
4 The Mexican Government sent
several hundred soldiers to the
scene to assist the owners of the
well in building earthen reservoirs
for temporary storage of the pro-
duct. The oil overflowed these re-
servoirs and large quantities es-
caped into the San Geronimo River
and Lake Tamiahua.
WHERE THEY COME FROM.
Rye came from Siberia.
Peas are of Egyptian origin.
The citron came from Greece.
The onion hailed from Egypt.
The chestnut came from Italy.
Celery originated in Germany.
Tho sunflower came from Peru.
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.
Oats originated in North Africa.
Parsley was first known in Sib-
eria.
Spinach was brought front
Arabia.
Cucumbers came from the East
Indies.
The mulberry -tree originated in
Persia.
The horsechestntit is a native
of Tibet.
The radish's hong w. s ('h:na and
Japan, thot's gone crazy wid the heat."
OTHERWISE OBJE('TIOX.\ iILE
A!gy--Myrtle, what arc your
objections to marring m<
Myrtle—I have only one objec-
tion, Algy, I'd have to live with
you.
"Can '.,n tell me what steam is ?''
asked the examiner. 'Why, sure,
sir." replied Patrick, a ,•,tidently.
"Steen] is—why—ere-it's wattle'.
Gambling in clubs and private
houses is said to be taking place for
incredibly high stakes. The desire
to spend money lavishly infects all
classes and the attempt to ape tho
extravagances of the rich is believ-
ed to be bringing thousands of mocl-
et•rtely well to do to the brink of
financial ruin, while scores of
w•er.lthicr citizens are said to be !W-
ing beyond their means.
HE WAS A WIDOWER.
Her—"The man i marry must
have a- family back of him."
Hint—"Be thiee! I have n lie -
titer, three girls and a little Lose"
THE LiMIT.
She --"Darling. do you love they'
He (kissing her reptnrously- and
repeatedly) ---''Do 1? i wise► yen
were a two -headed girl. That's
all 1 can say."