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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-6-25, Page 2EEE EEEft2FEEEEEEEEEEEEEF EEEEEEE W EEEEEEfEEE(EEEEE' W.W twi RC Hcart Tale and tv le of ��r ec A W W A W Vr Wave Rolling W BlackArrow o g ` et,e4i 0eite e430D9›,n,33$3•e.>3'e e.›>• >PLet›Dees eeeT93+-e.e.30 picked up, which looks very much as CHAPTER XXL eCaptain Forrester's narrative con- tinued.) The horror of hearing that Aline was ill and that 'Zavertal had been called fn to attend her left me for a minute stunned . and helpless, but the shutting and locking of the sur- gery door, followed by the sound of a receding footstep, roused mo to action. The doctor was already starting to visit his patient. I sprang to the door of my cabin, only to find it locked but one of the sailors on guard opened it in answer to my appeal, standing in the entrance so as to block all pos- sible exit. From behind him the black -bearded face of his mate peered at me, and I saw that two of the most powerful seamen in the crew had been selected for the post of, inter to their late Captain. To make a rush for freedom could only end in discomfiture, "See hero, my men there's a hundred pounds apiece for you if you'll just forget to mind that door- way fora minute," I said, "and I will guarantee that you .shall never know what it is to want a good berth again." The foremost man made a wry face and gave a sea -scrape. "Very sorry, Captain," he said. "We might think of it, if so be it was going to do you any good. But what 'ud be the use on it ? You'd bo collared and brought back afore you'd got half the length of the ship." There was a good deal of rude sense in his way of looking at it. But I felt that at all hazards I must warn Mrs. Brinkworth against al- lowing Zavertal access to Aline, and accordingly altered my tactics. "Would you take a note for me— to one of the lady passengers ?" I asked, The man turned to whisper to his mate, but before they had come to any conclusion Kennard pushed his way past them into the cabin, and, in his character of a privileged visitor, shut the door in their faces. "It's all right," he said, seeing that I was about to fire up again. e'You ought to have trusted me sufficiently, Forrester, to know that I was only kidding when I was here an hour ago. There was a very good reason. Zavertal was watching us, and listening to every wordthat passed, from the surgery—just as I believe he took stock of you in Nathan's office through the Black Sea chart on the day they engaged you. X am not in the habit of sell- ing my friends." "You do well to blame me," I said, overjoyed at the discovery of my mistake, "but you must remem- ber what tortures of suspense I am undergoing, and forgive me. Why even now that villain has gone be- low to his deadly work." "It is of that that I come to tell you," he said. "Miss r hallenor is a brave and willing patient in his hands, with a full knowledge of his designs." And he went on to de- scribe the trap that he and Mrs. Brinkworth had laid, and to erne me that nothing would pass Alme's lips that could possibly harm her. "All I want is to get a sample of the doctor's medicine for analysis, and then my case against him and Vizard will be complete," he said. "I am a fairly good chemist, and as soon as my tests have found poison I shall go to McIntyre and lay the facts before him. Unless he Waste to risk being tried as an ac- cessory he will have those two raft under lock and key, and start horse with them without more ado. And now what really happened on the Miranda ? So far X only have Viz- ard's version, you know." I shortly recounted what had be- fallen since parting with him at Pisa, not forgetting to mention Viz- ard's triumphant assertion that he, Kennard, had been killed by him at Leghorn. He listened intently to the end, and then said : "He loft the Miranda in the com- pany of the Italian engineer, you say. He was alone in the boat when if ho haci two murders to account for during the last three days. He must have taken a short way of destroying evidence, I think, too, X can explain his supposition that he had done for mo. After changing back into my Waldo getup X gave the clothes in which he saw me 1n the train to a loafer on the beach, The poor beggar must have put them on and paid for them with Ms life. I chose him for the gift because he was about my height and build. But hush I—not a word—there is Zaver- tal back at the surgery," The sound of the next door being unlocked, opened, and relocked roach - ed us, and at the same moment Ken- nard ennard glided across the cabin to rho partition -wall. Running his hand deftly over the panelling, he stopped at a piece of carved fretwork over the washstand, examined it closely, and then taking a penknife from his pocket gently inserted the blade in one of the holes, to which at the same time he applied his eye. After a long gaze, apparently into the thickness of the partition, he turned, and with a finger on hie lips, beckoned mo to join him. Still keeping his knife in the hole, he motioned me to place my eye where his had been, and I immediately saw that the ornament simply covered an aperture into the surgery. its func- tion being concealed from any oc- cupant of my cabin by a piece of cloth, the color of the panels, which Kennard had raised slightly with bis knife. Zavertal was standing at the dispensary shelf, with leis back to us, manipulating the bottles. Kennard only allowed me a peep, and then drawing me aside resumed bis place at the' hole—watching in tontly for fully five minutes. At the end of that time he suddenly with- drew the knife, allowing the cloth veil to fall into position, and re- mained perfectly still. Listening breathlessly, wo heard Zavertal move across the surgery and go out, tak- ing his usual precaution of locking the door behind him. His footsteps died away in the direction of the companion -stairs, "He has gone below with the medi- cine," said Kennard, "but he. will not incur suspicion by personally ad- ministering it. Should he try to do so, Mrs, Brinkworth has her in- structions and is quite equal to the occasion." "Aline—Miss Challenor—is not still feigning unconsciousness '1" I asked, for the idea of my sweet girl being subjected to all this was horrible to me. "Oh, dear, no," replied Kennard ; "that would have been trying her too high. She partially 'recovered' before Zaver'tal's first visit, but she cleverly managed to look quite ill enough for the purpose." "Does she know that I am on board ?" "Yes, the news of your being picked up furnished an excellent excuse for the faint," said ICen nerd. "I havo no doubt that Za- vertal, having an opportunity ready made for him will reverse his intend- ed programme and devote his devil- ish cunning to her case before tak- ing on Lord Darranmore's—and yours, which he most certainly moans shall follow. Tho villains will never rest till you are as dead as I am supposed to be ; for then, with the exception of the man Dicey, they would be free, or believe themselves to be free, from all sources of ac- cusation." "They will probably settle Dicey too," said I, thinking of the disap- pearance of the Miranda's engineer. "That is quite on the cards," re- plied Kennard, "and I am keeping an anxious watch for his return to sense. The delirium is already abat- ing, and as soon as possible I shall try and frighten him into rounding on his employers. Now that Zaver- tal believes, from his observation through that fretwork, that 'Staido' is obnoxious to you, I can come and go anywhere on the ship without in- curring suspicion. After what pass- jim Dumps found Mrs. Dumps distressed About an unexpected guest. "There's nothing in the house to eat I" "There's something better far than meat." The guest endorsed Jim's view with vim When helped to "Forte" by "Sunny Jim." The ibandetteeerva LIMB ready for any emerjency. ]P rttnrre eta tenni' "Pewee:' "Tanks for 'Form! I Oat it three � e, deg. Yelled eels me y ,# snny a Tatl d to tee outteee Witte lit •11 tee the ora e�flP an Arta gee r , Mee. )�o � rte w "WM. Iimfs:M ed this morning, though, X must not negatiwo that impression by visiting You too frequently. Ilxpect eno when X have definite no wn and in th. e meanwhile don't be afraid of your food, They won't have two 'cases' on hand et once." Gripping me by the hand, which was more than X deserved after my mistrust, ho slipped out of the cabin, u and 1 was left alone to my tit o ght$. brighter than They were Urrg r far any I had had for days for though anxiety would last till those two fiends were openly moused, 1 could not help feel- ing confident that Kennard would beat them now. And yet, so long as there remained the possibility of d hitch in the arrangements—of some devilish trickery which should baffle Tsars. Brinkworth's watchfulness and the detective's foresight—my mind could not be but in a turmoil of impatience and dread. After a mid-day meal, which was served to me, as my breakfast had been, by one of the doorkeepers, I fell asleep, utterly wearied and worn out by the experience of the pre- vious night, For some time my brain enjoyed a respite of complete oblivion, but after a while I began to dream, and a vision of strange scenery and fantastic shapes formed before my sightless eyes. Gradually, net of the blackness, there grew the outline of a gigantic precipice running sheer down to a boiling sea studded with jagged fangs of rock. On the top of the cii1T, bunt inland by the force of a thousand gales, stood a solitary fir tree, and a -few feet from its base two men were locked together in deadly strug- gle, their bodies swaying hither and thither on the brink of the abyss. As the vision grew clearer, I saw that round the tree -trunk" was made fast a rope, one end of which dangled fifty feet down the side of the cliff, supporting the form of a woman. All at once a blood -red moon appeared in the sky and shed a lurid light on the struggling men, showing mo the faces of Zavertal and Kennard, Even as I looked, Zavertal seemed to prevail. and shaking Kennard free hurled him over the precipice, Then, as he sprang, knife. in hand, towards the straining rope, I recognized in the dangling figure—Aline. I awoke, with a cry of horror on my lips, to find McIntyre standing over me, a gravely sympathetic ex- pression on his rugged Scotch face. "I roused you too roughly," he said in a kindly tone. "I'm not thinking that you bear malice over this affair, so I just looked in to do you a turn unbelcnown to any- body. You have, maphap, heard that the young lady, Miss Ohallenor, is ill ?" McIntyre was right in supposing that I felt no resentment against him for his involuntary usurpation. And ho was ten years older than my- self, a married man and the father of a family, so that I could accept from him as friendly interest what X might have regarded as an im- impertinent suggestion from an- other. "Yes," I replied ; "I have heard of it. Is she worse ?" "It's just. that that brings mei" he said with increased solemnity. "Every one on the ship knows you were sweethearts, and I was think- ing it's not fair for you not to see her, and she so sick. So come along with me- and I'll take you to her." Greatly agitated I rose to follow him, - though as the good fellow was clearly acting on his own respon. sibility and in ignorance of the ruse that was being played. I could not believe that there was real cause, for alarm. Still, tho awful chance that vigilance had been eluded by professional cunning was over pre- sent, and as X passed out of the cabin with my conductor I :braced myself for what in any case must be an ordeal. That McIntyre was not yet in ICennard's confidence, and still thought me mad, was proved by the fact that tho two seamen fol- lowed us at a respectful distance, doubtless by his instructions. There were no passengers about, and the clock on the companion -stairs fur- nished tho reason by proclaiming that it was the saloon dinner -hour. At the foot of the stairs we turned aft into the corridor, and hero again there was no one to bo seen. Only from tho open door of Number 17 state -room came the sound 01 a woman's weeping. "I fear she is worse," said Mc- Intyre, hastening his steps. But tho sound of crying was too much for me, and springing past hint I rushed to the state -room door. Aline lay in her berth, her features serenely calm in waxen whitonoss, while Mrs. Brinkworth was en- deavoring hysterically to prevent Zavertal from approaching the bed. "You shall not touch her," she cried frantically. "My darling girl is dead, and no hands but ming shall tend her, Go away, X say, and leave me to close her eyes," "It is usual for the doctor to verify a decease, but I can see that there is no room for doubt in this case," Zavortal replied. "1 leave you, madam, with my deepest sym- pathy," Then he turned to come away, and saw me, Itis hand went to his breast pocket, but. X was too quick for hire, and clutching his collar X dragged him from that sacred pre- sence, to pin him by the throat to the corridor wall outside with fin- gers keen to strangle. As I gazed into his fast -purpling face, all the agony of knowing that ho had pre- vailed broke from me in tho ono hissed Word—"Murderer." (To he continued.) ,gy ►ir p„, 0N THEFRMI11 i fir' Zia v5 °ZG;69 IIUI'FALO GRM11 MARKETS. Buffalo, June 10, — Meer Steady. Wheat—Spring dull; No, 1 bard, Hoc; No. 1 northern, 86e win- ter dull and easy; No, 2 white 8a1o; efo 2 red 81c. Corn -Firm No, 2 yellow, 520; No, 8 ern, 51e. Oats.—Steady; 1'o, 8 white, Stec; Myo—No, 1 in Store, 550, Canal freights steady. HANDLING THE ITAY CROP, 1 As to MIT retired of larvesthl g, wo use a six-foot mower arrd 10t - foot self dump sulky rake, writes Mr. L. F. Maxey. We out hay and allow it to lie until thoroughly ow- ed es well underneath as on top, We always want timothy or tirnotllty and clover mixed, to cure thorough- ly, oven at the risk of having a rain upon it, The reason for our Cate as to curring so thoroughly is that several years ago wo had a barn containing 50 tons of timothy hay been and are certain that it was from spontaneous cornbusion. Also a stacks of clover hay when opened at another time was found to be charred in the center within 2 or 8 feet of the sides all around and the top. Air would have caused combustion, but access to air was, I think, prevented by the heavy board cover which came well down upon the sides. We make it a rule to cut timothy hay when the bloom has just about disappeared. Sometimes we begin just before if we are ready and efT- cumstanees are favorable. Wo cut clover when the top or bottom up- on the main stem is brown and the laterals of branches aro in full bloom. With mixed clover and bine othy we cut to favor whichever one predominates in the meadow, • Curing of clover is ono of the most delicate operations upon the farm, as weather must be right to secure the most satisfactory quality of fray. 'DM ground should be dry and the day sunny. Then, when there is no dew or external moisture the hay is ready to avow. As soon after cutting its the leaves are dry, or as soon as the breathing pores of the loaf structure have Veen de- stroyed by the sun's rays, so that the loaves no longer give oft the moisture contained in the plant, the hay can bo safely stored. Wo do not use a tedder, bht I believe that it is almost a necessity in a heavy crop of clover, if it is all to bo cured out at once. Of course, those are ideal conditions and cannot of- ten bo found, but taking chis plan as a general rule and varying ac- cording to circumstances of wea- ther, and those other incidents Which many times appear unfore- seen, a good quality of clover hay may be made under most circum- stances. Wo put up 75 to 150 acres of hay each season, depending upon cir- cumsta:nces. About ono -half of our land is in good grass at all times. We keep it in grass if we can from three to six years and pasture as much as wo can conveniently do so. When plowed again we raise corn not longer than it has been in grass. If clover is a good stand when seed- ed with oats, it is allowed to re- maini, and perhaps used as a hay crop. If only a partial stand is se- cured, we sow timothy updn the oat stubble in September and the two sowings usually make a stand suf- ticient either for pasture or hay the following season. We really like this way of sowing land to grass, generally speaking, and under most circumstances. Wo try to provide, sheds or other shel- ter for our hay. If it must be stacked, we leave it outsilde, hut just as soon tee it is' cured sufficient- ly, which is only four to six weeks at the longest, we bale enough out of the shed to ma,ko room for what was stacked and what was formerly loose in the shed, We always try to do this work before hay is darn - aged. ohicics, bout they do not glee as ratans a the i bubator end good esu s rt brooders. Several chicks have been Picked to death U Yhenar which nev- er occurs with the broader. If the 1aro kept i a able cs Pt rl a smc 1l yard until a week ten days old, or until able to hop over a 0 -inch foruco, there is no Munger of their straying about anti getting lost, When the chicks aro ablq to go without cony artificial Is akar o'ut of the taken heat, the iA.00det house, roots are put in and they aro kept there until placed in the laying houses in the fall, STooK FBrD•INaG: Those ,,'ilio are considered authori- ties on stock feeding repudiate feed. - ding by rule, The feeder Must give personal attention to the feeding manger and the eteineel feeding from it, and should also keep an oye open for the pro¢i.t side of the feeding. The balanced ration, important as it is, loses its valeta when it costa more than it rotor:ie. Tho feeder who secures nraricod success from his work has a keen pyo to note the resents from his feeding, anti takes those results as a guide to his ra- tions. Dr. Jordan well says that "it is doubtless true that feeding stnndands have prompted progress in the feeding of animals but on the other ltanld we have shdered more or less from unwise standards, and have at times held exaggerated es- timates of the economic importance of the nutritive ration," Thies here, as in every other farm operation, the mane in charge is called upon to exorcise intelligent attention to the charge in hand. EXERCISE AND CULTURE. Gardening) is One of The Best Pursuits. Fresh air, sunshine, and exercise will save many a doctor's bill. If only they can be utilized in a way to inform and develop the mind! This very desirable result can be se- cured in the pursuit of gardening, - according to the London Telegraph. How it is to be done the writer sug- gests in the following: "It has been wisely said that gar• dening is one of the best pursuits to follow for mental culture. It should bo a gardener's study to grow the choicest flowers and the finest vege- tables, and the successes ho scores af- ford him the greatest amount of pleasure. The garden is one of the bust places in which to develop bond and muscle. Let a man take a spade and try, or a lady a boo or rake, and it will not be long ere every muscle finds full exercise. It may tiro at first, but this feeling soon goos off. I should always dis- courage any one from taking to gardening unless he finds in himself a peculiar taste and fitness for the pursuit, and is not afraid of hard work or of meeting disappointments with good grace. Without some sharp of natural aptitude and taste all the romance and picturesqueness of the profession will bo lost. It is all very well to be among flowers and know a plant es a rose, but it should be a pleasure to delve deeper than this, and find out the name of the variety, the species that produc- ed it, or who originated it, and what improvements have been intro- duced. The possession of such knowledge is interesting, and is one of the greatest pleasures in garden- ing, but to gain this easily there must be love for the study. No forcing or training can otherwise ever make a man anything more than ono of those muddlers who can do only as they are told." FEEDING CHICKS. The fad among poultrymen at the present time is the dry system of feeding. It is not a now thing, as many suppose, but has been prac- ticed from time immemorial. The use of a mash has been advocated so long that poultry keepers have come to believe a departure from the use of it is something new. Thore is likely to bo as meth' dan- ger in going to one extrema with the dry food system as to tireother in using a numb, says Mr. E. 01, Powell. In feeding growing chicks, a com- bination of the two systems gives the most satisfactory results. My own plan is to feed the newly hatched younsters five to six times a day a mixture of chopped hard boiled eggs anti dry bread runt through a meat chopper. Tho sec- ond or third day pinhead oatmeal is gradually substituted for the bread, the amount of egg lessened, and one or two feeds a day given of some cooked material. Some of the pre- pared dry chick feeds, Which aro made of cracked grains, milled and other small sends, are given once or twice a day, 11185 at the end of the week the chicks get dnly chicken food and a cake made as follows: Equal parts by weigiht of corn meal, ground oats and tvuheat mid- dlings are mixed up with water, to which is added a little vinegar. A small amount of animal meal and saleratus is mixed with the feed be- fore rho water is added, Tide Is baked hard and crumbed at time of °roding, Tho above feed is given until the chicks aro five to six weelia old, when the chicken fend is dropped and cracked COM artid wheat substitu!tod, Then in place Of the baked food is given Ilio regular mash, which the older fowls receive once a day, The clucks have froo range, eo that it fa utt,neoessary to feed any green fold. They also pick up realm bugs tend Weeds Shout the orchard and plow- ed fields, Water is keptind,'fnking fountains inside their heloses, wh!ore it Is Uharled from the sun, and fahloy are likewise fed in tho Itauso for the fleet few Weeks. 108e individual brooder hoaxes 5 le7 feel; in slzo, in which is placed a broadax that will accommodate, 100 chicks, but I dim to keep not livor 50 or 60 In a licafel , 1 axe also usina hone fox sitting and brooding • RAILWAY JUGGERNAUT. Every day in the week, year in and year out, forty-two railway employes aro 1c111ed or injured. That, works out at tho rate of nearly two por hour.. According to the returns furnished by the railway companies to the Britidh Board of Trade, 150, 000 railway employes are killed or injured in Great Britain every • ten years. As some drivers of rho Royal Ar- tillery wore at riding -drill one day, one of the drivers' horses bolted with him and was making his way towards the stables when an effacor nuet thein, "Where are you going?" inquired the Officer."I don't know, sir!" shouted the driver, as he flow past. "Ask the itorsol" emmeeereessea 8,000,000 SOVEREIGN'S,, Output of Britain's Mint and How It is Cared For. The average 's butfai l T re a e o r•1 on r nt g � tY familiar with the delicate process of testing through which every coin of the realm, has to pees in the course of its existence, and which forms one of the most interesting. ceremonies in Connection with 0uA coinage, says London Tit -Bits. These tests aro necessary not only to insure every coin minted being up to the standard; but in order that the nation shall not bo putt to considerable cost by the lade of suflfoiont alloy in the money it spends, The mint turns out but 8,- 000,000 sovereigns a year, so it' will be seen that if a superabund- ance of gold woro mod (oven if it amounted to only a few grains in each sovereign) it would entail 0 loss of several thousands annually, Again, when a sovereign has depre- ciated 25. in value ie has to be re- called. In addition to the very critical tests to which every coin is sub- jected before leaving the mint, an examination of the coinage le held, usually in July, every year by a number of exports front the Gold- smiths' Company, who thus check the work of the officials at the mint, After having been struck a coin is first weighed in an automatic hal- ance which weighs twentyrthree pieces per minute, and which is cap- able of detecting a flaw down to the smallest fraction of a grain. This process over, the ooin is passed on to the "ringer," which individual spends his days in simply ringing new money, to discover such coins as may be rendered dumb by an air bubble in the metal. An export "ringer" will sound 50,000 pieces a day, and, naturally, his hearing must bo without blemisn. Coins which have passed this tept might bo considered accurate, but the "pyx meeting," which has been held annually by the Goldsmiths' Company sines 1870, reduces the chances of faulty coins being placed in circulation to a minimum. Such money as is to be submitted to this further test is selected at random from that which has been handed over to the Bank of England by the mint, and is kept locked and sealed in a largo, iron -bound chest until the assembly of the meeting, It is then first tested by weighing, and a record is kept of every coin. so treated, after which it is assayed to make certain that the proper pro- portions of gold or silver and alloy have been used, and, finally, sono of the money is melted down and tho component parts aro again checked. In this way every coin of the realm is bound to be up to the standard, but in circulation it de- preciates in value very quickly. Tho silver coins do so to a greater ex- tent than either gold or bronze, es- pecially sixpences, which rarely stand more than twenty years' hard wear. Coins to the face value of nearly two millions sterling aro withdrawn from circulation every year to be remelted, the actual loss on silver money being nearly £88,000. So the officials, besides testing the coins which leave the mint, have to be ever on the alert to detect deprecia- tion. Not only the gold and silver coinage, but the bronze, must be equally well -looked after, oven down. to the half farthing or "double," which circulates in the channel is- lands alone, v To prone to you theb Dr. Chase's Ointment la a certain and eabsolute eormouro ffor cock very Pitching, bleedingand protrudinpiles, the manufacturers -have guaranteed it. 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When the people find out the virtue of this great medicine they ten their neigh- bors about it, and so the good news ;spreads.Ta. NIr, mes Clark, Consecon, Prince 'Edward Co., Ont., states: "Eleven Years ago X was taken with pains in my back, settling in my hipe and extending up my spino. The pain was very Severe, and at times al» most unendurable, and many dame I was not able to do an hour el Work. My weight was reduced from 190 to 100 pounds, and though I had consulted many flret-class phy- sielene and tried several advertised nocitelnert, I Could get o relief. "Atd One tettirbtW l aw told me to try Dr. Chase's Kidney - Liver Pills, and said ho know they, would cure me, X secured a box, and great was my surprise: when I began to feel bettor after using only the one box, I continued their use un* to X had taken about four boxes, whiolt made me a sound loan, and I also regained my usual Weight, 100 pounds, X cannot say too mulch irl fever of Dr, Chase's Kidney -Livor Pills, which have done so much for mo. 1 have recommended them to a number of my friends, and have nev- er stet with, ono ease where they did not moot with good . success. ]sly daughter, Mrs. (ihas. Philips, has also boon cured of a severe stomach trouble by tho use of these pills." Dr. Qhaeo's Kidney -Liter 1'Ills, one pill a dose, 25 cents a box, 5 boxes for $1,00, At all dejilots, 9i Bid- meere051 Bates dt Co.., oi'gnto, t: protect you agA,ileat in411La,kns rho portrait and signature of Dr. A. 'fir# Chase, the famous receipt book ail• 010003 pori eery box of two roomdt. n • EDISON ,AND MARoozrx, Wizard Joins Hands With the Fa- tali n, Molls a. o I "9lhe conamereial utility of Wire- less telegraphy is an mewed faot. It will take time to adjuet it to the every day needs of the world, but rho ultirn18to result 18 a foregone concinusion," Edison In those oso words Thomas A, ith future roes s his confidence in the axil o ono of wireless tolograp'hy, "I helve made an alliance with Mr. Marconi," said the .great inventor, "solely because 1 believe in wire. less telegraphy and ate satisfied of its destiny, There is not a shaadow, of doubt in my mind that in a short; Limo wireless telegraphy will stand at the top of the list of practical utilities." "Now long a time will be required to perfect the system?" was asked. "Oh, 1 cannot fix a tanto limit in our preparatory work," ledison re- plfed. 'I know how slcoptical the pub'lie feels and I would have every- body understand that every great in- vention moves slowly in its prelimin- ary stage, Why, take the electric Motor, for example, now that the car is a recognized emcees. You will hardly credit the fact that it took mo years to awaken interest in it, After the mechanical di'liculties had been conquered, railroad men took three years to develop any in- terest in it. The same is true of al- most every new thing that marks a rtudical departure faun old ideas, old faiths," Y13AR OF HARD WORK. Asked to make a prediction as to the length of time that must elapse before the wireless telegraph will be ready for business in the full sense of the term, Edison smiled grimly, and answered: "X am not in the prediction busi- noat4, Nevertheless, X will say thee one year of hard work will probab- ly put wireless telegraphy in com- plete commercial harness. Mind you, I do not fix a time—I merely guess at ft, "Progress will bo far more rapid now," ho hurried on with growing animation. "The public must under- stand that up to this time Marconi has had all the work upon his own shoulders. Ills presence was vital- ly essential at every point, Nothing could be done anywhere save tinder his personal direction, But ,hero will be a division of labor hereafter. For years I have been working close to 18 hours a day, but I have seine - how got to increase the pressure. Now that I have gone into Mar- co:ni's company as one of the tech- nical directors. I shall do my full share of the work. I havo some in- ventions, or rather sone Ideas, which may ho successfully applied to wireless telegraphy. No, no; I re- ally cannot discuss the technical de- tail at this time," BUSINESS FOR ALL. "What about the cable and tele- graph companies?" was asked. "Will wireless telegraphy, when perfected, Piot them out of business?" 'X am glad that you put that question," came the reply, with an emphasis not used before during the interview. "Now I know somo- thingabout the effect of new inven- tions upon old methods, and X un- hositatingly denounce this idea as absued, Tho prru:tfcal operation of wireless telegraphy will not ruin the old wire companies. It will' prob- ably not hurt then, at all. There cis more than enough business for all; patrons enough to keep wins and air' waves alike in high pressure ac- tivity," LORD ZITCHENER'S ISLAND. Beautiful. Spot Near the First Cataract of the Nile, Is Lord Kitchener to turn Crusoo? The means for his doing so, should he desire, are available. Ho is the possessor of one of the loveliest lit- tle islands that .surfing from tho surface of the Nilo. In that stretch Of the great river which sweeps past Assouan aro two islands. The larger of these is the Island Elephantine, reaching along, approximately, the center of the river. Beyond, stretch- ing away toward the western shore, is an island which few will observe as such, Not out in a thousand sus- pects that this is the island home of Lord. Kitchener. Tho island forin9 an ideal spot in which to build oneself a retreat far from the madding crowd, Thirteen acres of paradise, where every prospect pleases, and whore wars and rumors of wars cannot enter, nor the tiresome continue to trouble. A pilo of ccelossal granito bowidors :forms tho uperiver extremity of tho island. From here the view is from the first cataract, with Philo() be- yond, one of the fairest scones the Nilo a'tfords, The luxuriant palms of Elephantine shut out all possibility of prying eyes from Assoiran. Blast and west there arises steeply the mountain that confines the river and fotins the cataract. Tho northern half is a, gorgeous Picture of pomegranates,, oranQe% , citron, oloandors,' roses and ovary conceivable growth of beauty, and.. sweet scent, flowering shrubs and rich fruit treea that flourishin this perfect climate. In the center of .the isltend is an arbor enveloped in a riot, of the pale blue blooms of it ,magnificent convolvulus. Mere stands a Greek pedestal of chaste and exquisite de - sigh. It tells a tale of a distant past, for it was Nand buried deep down in the soil overturned for tyro work that was in hand. A large portion of a center of the island is devoted to the growth of vegetables, hero aro peas, Froncli beans, lettuce, egg plants and. other such welcome foods, all of Which. fled a ready market in the luxurious hotels of Assoiran, This portion et the estate is not the least carefully cultivated, Nothing is loft to chance. Eight Br'itish inlllionateee died last year, The oombinod wealth wait D10,57i,255, The richest of titan Wee rho i\!fargr1e at Beta,, who lofte 4.1,s0,216,.