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and 'ex -
h an angry
sixteen, sir,
nocent, trusting and many of his live stock killed. He
her father into was captured, tried by court-martial,
Ions scoundrel like I t<entenced to lutrd labor for life m the
Siberian mines and placed in an exile
(gain with a lot of other prisoners.
In the sane ear with hire were sev-
eral political prisoners who aro always
objects of great sympathy in Itussia. At
a wry station the Iain was stopped
to allow it passenger train to go hy.
j While %veiling here, some people on the
e platform handed to the political prison-
ers, through the ear windows, several
Lig haves of rye bread, such as peasant
women in Russia bake for festivals. As
it i; n common thing for people to pro-
vide food for their exiled friends in this
fashk.n, while en route, the incident at-
tracted no attention frau the guards and
officials.
Cr
ord,
active
LITTLE CH ILDIl+4t*+14+~..elr ti
TheFrm
' EXILE Vs Ati TOItN TO
PIECES BY 1'I:A:.\s-N.
the Park of a Ila\ lull 11 here Ile Was
Hidden Ile Hlemek Boy for
a Policeman.
From a small %Mag.' in Little Russia
cone- a gruesome story of a prLsoners
escape from a Siberian exile train and
his subsequent horrible death at the
Lands of infuriated peasants.
\helmet Flolka had taken a promin-
ent part in sante agrarian riots in which
a landlord's house was burned down
his arms here and
and his wife, and the
full view, and he was
out to an appreciative
nfound such fathers, say
rdly seems to me that oh
the sort of man to fore
o anything."
11 1t cajoling,. 1l comes to the
g in the long run. That fel-
er virtually bought her. Row -
herd up, and literally acid the
I . the world knot•, s of it. she
rsl commanded. then entreated.
toed that her falhcr's ruin lay
er refi sal to wed the man, and—
was the end. The murder wns
omplished. For murder ft was ns
rely as my head rests on my shout•
rs."
"Is his drunkenness the only thing
• rm. as St. John abruptly
against 1 '" asked i
Against Vereker? No! fie is n bail
sort all through. You've heard of Black
Sandy, ch?'
"A notorious poacher hereabouts?
Well yes, casually."
"You'll probably form a closer ac-
quaintance with him as the young birds
disappear," said the Colonel grimly.
"Ile is called Black Sandy—a rather pe-
culiar sobriquet if you notice—because
Nature has endowed h"an with red hair
cn his head, and black eyes and black
beard, a rare conjunction!'
"Rare, certainly. But what of hint
and Vereker?''
"Black Sandy had a daughter, as
handsome as the father is ugly. Vere-
ker," he threw out his hands n bit, "ad-
mired her style. Need i go into It? And
it was after the sacrifice oflhat pretty
child too, and she, the wife, caste to
know it. it is a -miserable affair all
through for Cecil Vereker, believe me."
"She knowsr said St. John, who had
paled a little.
"Oh, yes! It was town talk; and you
know how pleased one's dearest friend
is to hurry home to one with ill -news.
She knows it. Poor, poor child. \Vhy
1 feel for her, sir, as though she were
my own. By Jove! if she were to
boll to -morrow I'd hardly lay a crumb
of biome at her door."
"Don't any that to her," said St.
fohn, sharply. "Such a step is always
immmatory for the woman."
Ile made a pretence of some sort, and
eft the colonel. Ile wandered listlessly
'or a while, pondering in n rather in-
tefinile way on what he had just heard,
vith such a slrange new sensation lug -
Ong at his heart, as not only aston-
shed but dis're-sed trim.
Finally. turning a corner of a yew
,edge cut into the shapes of an unliml-
ed number of cocks, he came upon
lorothy Aylmer, silting all alone.
He forgotto express surprise at this
nprecedented event. ile dropped upon
to garden chair of which she was part
wner, and looked fair at her.
"You were not altogether open with
re about Mrs. V'creker," he said nbruu'-
hardly caring what she might think.
(To be Continued.)
ItLtt\ti POi;H SOLD 1011 A SPitE1:.
•
'o alai y in !leaven" and the Bargain
\llade Concerning the \Ianiisrript.
fhnt poor Bobbie Burns wns o'er fond
n spree all the world knows, and not
few of his poems, descriptive of the
9's of convivialtly, have undoubtedly
educed a considerable increase in the
nsumption of Scotch whiskey. Rut his
aching lines addressed To Mary its
oven do not belong to the calcenry.
cy appeal to the tenderest emotions;
'y inspire sobriety of feeling. Yet by
r s!range Irony of fate, according to
evidence just given In a lawsuit, the
weeds of the sale of that beautiful
'u were to be devoted to a spree.
thn Savage, a fanner of Downpatrick,
land, was for many years in lire e►n-
y of n clergyman --the ilevcrend \Ir.
ton, a collector of lining relics. Ile
de Savage his residunry legatee. On
ng neer his papers Savage found an
rinse addressed to himself. contnin-
Ihe original rnonuscript of To Mary
['tenet) and a note nsking him to nc•
t il. Ito had no knowledge of its
le and showed it In a she N1ur1rhy,
), with his daughter, a schrolinis-
s of Troon. Aytehire. rhnnrcd to le
Zing him. In the course of the gen-
cotrversatien that ensued Miss
e hy, 11 is alleged, suggested Ilial as
lived in the Burns country she might
tole to sell It. She sold It for 8750.
nge surd her for half the amount,
9eteeg that the nlnnu=rript 1111(1 been
usttd (o Niles Murphy to sell on the
erslanding that the proceeds were
divided equally between Them.
/111;• Murphy emphatically denied,
!et tit:.t the only proviso trade
mr.rnn nil t was given her was
peeved s..luable Savage and
w. 1.' to have n spree mit of
etchrd. However, before the
nen In the jury it was agreed
o judge's suggeellon that
1 the nnot:cy after pny-
ahou!i1 be equally
riles to the snit.
lith 'int
LOAVES CONTAINED REVOLVERS.
But great was leiolka's surprise when t
be discovered that each loaf contained •
a revolver and several cartridges. Thus
provided with amts, the political psis- I
o►►ers fell on their guards during the
night while they were asleep, shot them
and jumped front the car while the
train was still moving, no very difficult
feat at the slow rale of speed at which
exile trains travel. Ftalka jumped with
them and made good his escape. Break-
ing away from the others, he returned
lo his home and crept unobserved into
his own hayloft, as night was falling,
two days later.
That sante evenhig it occurred to the
5!aroslo, the head of the village, that
Flolka had a fine axe, and, needing one,
bit sent his little son to get it, thinking
that it would be of no further use to
the rightful owner whorl he imagined
was well on his way to Siberia. As the
child had not returned at the end of an
hour, the father went to look for hint
and on entering the barn, to his horror,
he stumbled over the little one's dead
Sally at the foot of the ladder leading
In the loft. Itis head had been nearly
split in twain and as it was subsequent-
ly ascertained, by the axe which he had
Leen .sent to fetch. Mounting the Ind -
der, the stnrosta dirnly perceived a figure
crouched In the corner of the loft. De-
scending hastily he ran off as fast es
hie legs could carry him to the village
and told the people (lint there was a
devil in Flolko's barn and that the de -
vi' had killed Its child.
A large body of peasants returned
ilh him to the barn and discovered
olkn. Ile endeavored to explain to
em how he lied escaped from the exile
ala and had hidden for safety In the
yloft. Hearing someone mounting the
dder, he imagined It was some
�IIUH1'1i01P S FOit B:1By Bi{EF.
There is a method of making baby
beef which in some Cuunh•ies, and (Lose
countries, boo, where land is rapidly
increasing in value, is being tried .011.1
i•i many cases followed out with good
results, writes \Ir. A. L. Aures. 1 re-
fer to the fact that the Shorthorn cow
is a go. d milker and good butter maker
and is developing rapidly along Iles.'
lines; that she pays her way under r-
(irnery farm conditions by the sale of
the butter fat which she gives to her
owner. ThLs should amount to from
85t) to 860 a year, and you will still
have a calf. In a recent feeding test
0! a load of steers of This kind I have
thoroughly satisfied myself that such
proposition is absolutely feasible. E'er
illustration, 1 have just recently market-
ed a cur load of grade Shorthorn steers
raised from a little bunch of cows that
1 ain using for dairy purposes.
The majority of these cows are well
Fred Shorthorns such as 1 have picked
up in the neighborhood and Ihto calves
are the result of the cross of a pedi-
greed bull and tho grade Shorthorn
cows. !n some instances these cows
carry quite a little Jersey blood, but
Shorthorn predominates. These calves
ser fed from the liute of their birth un-
it an average age of about 20 months.
Ile first three weeks they were given
he whole milk from the cow. At that
ime 1 began to take out the whole
milk and add hand separator milk in
Ib; place until at the end of four weeks
they were on a ration of separator milk
entirely.
Many people say that It is necessary
to give any of the whole milk, but my
own experience has led Inc to believe
that it is profitable to use for a short
time at (east the mother's milk, es U
gets the calf over a very critical time
in its existence. After four weeks of
age you will find that these calves will
continence to eat a little hay and cob
n:eal, which I think is about the best
grain ration that you can give, and es
soon as the calves are eating the corn
you will find that it will supplement the
akin] milk and make it practically the
sem° as the whole milk That you have
robbed them of. 'this, 1 believe, is the
best way to balance up the skint milk
for calves of this age, and the cheapest
aS well.
These calves should be fed this ration
tc f skint milk up to the lime they are
well on to feed, probably four to six
months of age. 1 differ with a good
;zany people that 1 have heard talk c 1
this method of ratshng calves. Perhaps
1 0111 wrong. 1 nut not ready to say
that 1 0111 absolutely correct In my
theory, but my experience has led ane
lc believe that my cafes do better 1f I
will slack up on milk at the age of four
months rather than to feed skim milk
longer, and let them have a well bal-
anced grain ration, together with the
hest roughage 1 can secure for them.
These calves that f speak of were fed
through the first winter on as goof
roughage as 1 had with a little corn fod-
der added and about ten pounds of cob
meal at a feed. Early in the spring,
or es Forel as the snow went off they
were given access to a good blue grass
pasture or a pasture of mixed grass,
because Utero was clover and timothy
a:_ well as blue grass, and allowed the
same ration to continue. They naso
had access to the dry rough feed which
they had been In the habit of eating
during the winter. This ration was
continued in about this troy until three
months prior to the time when 1 ex-
pected to sell theta. or about August 1.
al which Ilnte 1 expected to have therm
on n full teed of grain. 1 found Ihnt
b, September 1, these calves were eat-
ing 20 potmds of cob meal and two
pounds cottonseed meal n day, had ac-
cess to pasture, and were eating at the
same time practically len pounds of as
good hay ns 1 lind to give them. This
rat`on they increased slightly from the
time until they were sold, which was
about the first of December.
tv
Fi
tut
tr
•Ira
la
SOLDIER 011 POLICEMAN
who had trucked lrian and wns bent in
'recapturing hits. As the head rose
above the Door, the failed to perceive
In the gloom that it was That of a child
and smote at it savagely with the axe.
13ut the peasnnts would pay no heed to
hint. In their rage, they could take
no other view of the matter than that
r foul murder had been committed
which demanded in.etaut vengeance.
Throwing themselves on Ficlka like a
pack of wolves, they literally tore him
to pieces. Not until he had been dead
Sonne time and 'they had cooled down,
did they conclude that he had told the
truth. According to the Itussinn code of
ethics, It is quite justifiable to kill en
emissary of the law to escape trnnsper-
tation to Siberia. and had they been In
a mood to consider the case calmly,
they would probably have agreed thnt
nc blame flinched to Flolka under the
circumstances because he had killed a
child when he had intended only to May
a policemen or a soldier.
The horning instinct is strong in es...
caped exiles. They nearly always re-
turn sooner or later In their districts,
when -recognition generally lends to 'e -
capture. If they remained away from
their ofd haunts, they would in most
cases retain their freedom beeauso in
these Iroublous litres, the police aro
too busy to take a special search for
therm.
h\ll I: 11 11011.US.
An 1inorri!tibll' Boy !infirm ed Ly
Operation.
:\ rcma. knble cnso of the ironsforma-
tion nf a bad boy info a good one by the
simple, surgical process of removing
adenoids --a spongy growth very emu -
mon In children—from the back of his
nose, Is testified to by Dr. \V. 11. Max-
well. city superintendent of schools in
New York, and I)r. J. Cronht, nssistnnl
chief medical inspector of the hoard of
Health.
'fho boy, who is the fourteen-yenreild
sem of poor parents, was Ineorrigilrle.
Ile smoked cigarettes almost incessant-
l- di'ployr'd a surly temper and in con-
tact with the other rinidren often devel-
oped a strain of ,marked viciousness.
After all altelnpts at correction had
fuile.1, a medical examination was made.
end it was discovered that he WAS suf-
fering from set ere adenoids, which. In
the doctors' opinion, were causing an
itril..liun of the nerve cells that was re-
tarding mental development.
An operation was performed, 811(1 the
adenoids rcntnved. The boy was then
sent back to school, mrd a curetul w nlch
was kept on This conduct.
Ile gradually became more rhrcrful,
stopped s►nekhig eigarellee. begun to
lake en interest im his sludiec,!ond very
p, iu,bend of being the worst boy in
1101)001, lie was a model pupil.
easier for n mein In r. ;. ,cg, a
n that he loves tier Man ,1 is
him to keep her eon ineed.
nn
AI this lime this Load averaged 100
pounds and sold for $5.75. 1 might
say, however, blit the bond Include:l
four animals which were added to make
shipping weights and that were not fed
in connection with this load of sleers,
tering short fed two -year-olds rat practi-
cally the sena weight. '('hese four steers
were allowed In remain with the eigh-
teen cattle That were fed together and
were sold with then, because in my
judgment 1 would receive n few dollars
more by leaving them in lhun by sep-
arating then and selling separate.
Had they been divided the 18 cattle
waked Ione sold for 56 on the market.
I'. •, I believe. is it fair rrlrescnta-
lion of what can be done with an aver-
age load et Shorthorn canes by an
uteiago man under general term condi-
tions. 'These calve, brought on an av-
t loge $t,) each when they were 20
!eoliths of age.
PEIt.SONAl. POINTE Its.
lulerestiup Gossip About Some Prom-
inetnl People.
The Emperor of Au-trla has only once
l:ecn known to don a frock -coat and
silk hat. 'I'hL; w"as in 1667, when he
vieited Paris for the Exhibition. Whe-
ther at home or lravalinH he invariably
wears uniform, except when he goee
r.ul shooting—of w!rirh he is particular-
ly fond—when he is to be seen in a
'1'yrule.e costume.
Dr. Zann•nhof, the inventor of Esper-
anto, the "universal language," w'ae
1. rn at Bialystok, a Polish town on the
borderland of Germany and Russia. Al
least four different languages ruse spoken
I y the various nationalities which cent -
pose its population—Russian, Polish.
Garman, and Yiddish. The babel t,f
tengucs seemed to Zutitenhof the primary
curse of mutual btckcrings, and ho set
himself to bring about unify. The re-
wns Esperanto.
Sir Edward Stone. who has recently
retired from the Chief Justiceship ..1
Western Australit., was a keen cricketer
In his youth, and saw the firer cricket
eleven from England play the Australians
now many years ago. Ile was aiso very
fund of boxing, and still remembers hav-
ing seen 'Pout Sayers at a boxing match
in Englund. Sir Edward Slone had
semo strange experiences of life in his
early days. Ile was a good amateur
actor, and was for a time the corner -ratan
in a troupe of Christy efinstrers.
The rice to tome of that brilliant
American novelist, Mr. Jack London,
was sensational. Tiring of life on nn
oyster -boat, he sat late 0110 night puz-
zling over his future career when his
eye caught an ntl-erllsement of a prize
ef several hundred dollars offered by a
paper far a short story. Ile began to
write at eleven o'clock; at four the next
morning he had IIuibhed the story of 811
episode which Ind occurred to him at
sea, and with this he won the piece
.More than that, his victory opened up a
new career ter hint; it dragged his tal-
ent from under the bushel where it tied
lain hidden so long.
Lord llalsbury, for so long Lord
Chancellor, who has just completed his
eighty-first year, was called to the Bar
filly -six years ago. !laving no influence
whatever. he had a terribly uphill fight
to get to the front. It wns the Tichbtorne
trial that was the turning -point in his
career. Such masterly ability did he
display in defending the notorious Clai-
mant that, although the verdict was
against him, he won praise from all
sids, and at once jumped into a tree
n;ondniu criminal practice. Amongst
his many curious experiences Lord
llalsbury includes that of bang shot at
by an insane clergyman at the Old
Bailey. Luckily the bullet that was dis-
charged al hire did no harm.
Commander Douglas -Douglas, R. N.,
has had a most adventurous career.
Heir -presumptive to a baronetcy, he en-
tered the Royal Navy In 1857, took part
in the suppression of the Taiping ie-
Lelllon, was mentioned in despatches
for gallantry at the storming of Ning-
I'o, and nitogether spent tour bustling
years in the Eastern seas. '?-hen he lett
the Navy to become a squatter 'n
Queensland, eventually receiving the ap-
pointment of Chief inspector of Police
In that tropical Australian State. In
this capacity he had a variety of fresh
adventures at new goldfields, pursuing
bush -rangers, cutting tracks through
dense scrub, piloting gold escorts, etc.
And now, after forty-three years ;f
variegated adventure, the commander
t.as gone hack to "settle down to a
quiet life" 1n the old land.
1t is fait l• well known that King Ed-
ward has a remarkably good memory
for n face or a voice, for he has given
evidence of This on many occasions. An
Instance which a Morienbad correspon-
dent gives Ls ns nitwit illustrative of his
dlplomalic friendliness, perhaps as of hes.
mental retentiveness. Ilia Majesty went
into the post -office there to dispatch a
Ieiegram. Behind the counter was .t
man w• in sainted respeelfrtl•. "Why.
exclaimed the Kang, looking up sudden-
ly, "it is I'nyne,” and he shook the hand
of the gratified official with every sign
of cordinllly. Twelve or fourteen -years
ago, It appears, the postal official was
u pogo nt Sandringham, and King Ed-
ward renewed the acquaintance delight-
edly. "Bring your wife In see Inc," amid
the King, when he learnt that his form-
er :Amelit was married, and he chatted
at some length before he left the ollice.
The young mon introduced his wife ac-
cordingly, and received from His Mn-
jeety a signed photograph.
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After n man Inns been married shout
is months he begins to notice how his
w ifo resembles her mother.
Grippe or Influenza, whichever you like
to call it, is one of the most weakening
diseases known.
Scott's Emulsion, which is Cod
Liver OJ and Hypophosphites in easily di-
gested form, is the greatest strength -builder
known to medical science.
It is so easily digested that it sinks into
the system, making new blood and new fat,
and strengthening nerves and muscles.
Use Scott',, Emulsion after
Influenza.
Iavahxable for Cosrsss sad Colli.
ALL DRUOOI!?• t 80o. AND .1.00.
FACTS ABOUT THE EMPIRE
0'1E11 ONE III'NDRCD 11VF5 'Anon/
1 HAN IY0'1NEIU..tsD.
Trade is Eight Billion Dollars—Coal.
uterte of Colonies Exceeds Three
Billion Dollars.
Many striking facts regarding Great
Ifrilain's 1nuneu,e Empire beyond the
srae nye contained in a Blue Book just
,s,ued in London.
The British Empire, excluding the
British Isles, comprises 11.193,000 squaro
miles --100 limes the size nf the Mother-
land. The popultttior, of this portb:n of
MO vast Empire is nearly 350,000,0e0.
Hew these peoples aro distributed is
hewn
in the following table':
India (Briliea ami feudatory) 300,000,000
nest of the Empire ;excluding
e British Isles) 50,000,000
1f India is excluded, the population of
the Empire averages four persons to the
equine mile, and it is therefore very
•,t idem that a considerable amount of
room is left for expansion. This is es-
pecially the case will, the greater colo-
elrs, as a glance at the following figures
will show :
Arca.
'Sq. miles. Pop.
Australia 2.973,573 3,900,000
Canada . 3,745,574 5,683,3418
Cape of Gond Hope 278,994 2,470.289
Thus Australia has only just over one
person to Uro square mile, while Canada
has only about one end three -quenelle
to the square mile. But there aro other
portions of the Empire where the popu-
lation 1s far more crowded. Here are a
few of thein :
Area.
Sq. miles. Pop.
Gibraltar 1% 19.100
Aden 80 43,947
St. Helena 47 3,b87
Muurltlus 705 377,558
Like the Motherland, these Stales of
the Empire have no compunction about
gelling Into debt. At the prese,it limo
their total debt amounts to over £700,-
000,000. Six years' growth in the debt of
the principal colonies and India is shown
in the following table:
1899. 1905.
India £21.'.166,000£:31,733.0(10
Australia 187,026 000 217,284,000
New Zealand 47.874,000 62.191,000
Canada 70.923,000 77,643.000
Cape .... 81.409,000 42,109.000
The Imports and exports of the Em-
pire outside of the United Kingdom
reach a total of £641.700,000, the im-
ports mounting to £309„100,000, and
the exports £332,600,000. Less than half
of this large volume of trade is alone
with the United Kingdom, although
nearly Iwo -thirds is kept within the Em-
pire. The exact figures of six years ago
are as follows :
invents.
From. 1800 1905.
United Kingdom £100.257.000£143.400,000
British Posses. 41,011.000 56.100,000
Foreign count. 76,324,000 109,600,000
Exports.
From. 1899 1905.
United Kingdom .C116,473.000 X14 3.800.000
British Posses. 41,169 001 58,500.000
Foreign Count. 91,512,000 130,200,000
The total trade of the Empire untounts
It over eight Millon dollars.
There aro 74,589 nnlle` of railway In
the oversea Empire, of which over 30,-
000 aro owned by the Governments con-
cerned.
r:anadn's acreage under wheat hos
grown from just over 2,000.000 acres In
11191 to nearly 5,000,000 in 1905, while her
pm -Auction has grown from 57,000,000
bushels in 1891 to over 106,000,000
bushels in 1905.
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HOUSE BUILT BY BLIND MEN.
Worked on filch Dark Nights as Well
as by Itoyliglil.
Two totally blind When have built a
house for themselves rat Berkeley, Cali-
fornia, doingall the curpented work
ev
Biein. eltes without any asi",
slanwh
ccat-
er
It is a coincidence that both (hese
;ten are named Joseph—Joseph Brown
and Joseph Martinez. The house, ac-
ce.rding to 1'opulnr Mechanics, is of the
popular bungalow type. one and a halt
Aeries high and eolith ucled entirely of
wood. Il Is 18 feet wide by 25 feel lung.
As the builders are sightle1s the work
necessarily progressed slowly. Front -
early morning until frcquenlry.long of -
let enn-et the Iwo ,nen felled patiently
al their task. The shades of night lid
not hinder the work, for noonday and
midnight are equally dark to tlieni and
out of the blackness carte the sung cif
Ilse saw and the blows of the hammer
to passersby, who heard but saw no
wen kinen.
Froin day to day the work has been
curiou-ly watched by crowds, Including
ninny carpenters. The general work Is
pronounped as good ns that performed
by ninny buil•Icrs who are blessed with
perfect eyesight.
Mown and Martinez were not blind
1 r►1 their birth, but were deprited
'!.,sir sight many year; ago. They were
door to door pedlers for ninny yenrs
and in naged In the course of lime to
accumulate smug sums of Honey Met
were wice1y deposited in bank. Al flee
lime of the great fire In San Froneikco
(hese ,nen lost everything save their
little bank accounts.
iVicenlly they pooled their holdings,
purchase:I n arnall lot in Berkeley and
,orate lumber. They then set to work
resolutely and have built themselves a
house.
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TO AR\ISt
\fr. Fre..hleigh - "Er— Miss Sweetland,
you have certainly a trim little waist,
'Lore's no gelling round 11."
Nas Sacetlend (onyly)—"Oh, There
insight be It the right man tried."
A woman deem 1 think much 0f a
n,an if she refuses to quarrel with him
rp a 'onally.
\kn who tont of their virtues woejel
f,r,.bab"y have ?Fore i0 Fay if the,
to'i nested bleu. lice',
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