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CHAPTER, I.
Hector Chisholm Granit, 'journalist
fend dreaanor, stood at the door o!'
dolmson's Oollee-House in the Strand
and threw away the end of his cigar-
ette. Eastward, tho roadway was
watery Barrer, reflecting the flares
of Terry's Theatre, the hansom
lamps cluetering round the Gaiety,
the hovering lights of a hundred otn
eibusos, Westward, the Tivoli
blazed, a dila gleam of sheen came
fore the courtyard of the Cecil, and
again more hansom and omnibus
lights. It was a dreary night: all
the more dreary because the month
was August, when one looks for clear
skies and pleasant breezes, stars,
,and a summer moon.
Grant gazed out on the dripping
passers with a discontented frown.
Ere sbook his umbrella free from its
ring.
"I don't know who be was," he
muttered to himself, "but he was
fair to middling wise, the man who
said that 'Life is a habit—mostly a
damn bad one,' Mine's one of the
mostlies. • Get up at eight, tub,
shave, dress, breakfast, curse my
laundress, read the papers, curse
them. Office at ten, work till one.
Lunch alone or with some one—Gro-
ver, perhaps.: Hear from frim how
Red, White and Blue accepted a doz-
en articles a year ago—hasn't paid
for them yet. Same enlivening old
story. Same talk—eternal shop.
B'aek to office, Leave at five. Go
to Sloane Street, and fend° 1.111 sev-
en. Rimier at. eight and these till
ten. And then, back to dull cham-
bers, a dull dog, re dreary dog, to-
night a damp dog 1 Same every day
but Sunday—that's worse. Wah 1"
He opened his umbrella with a
Jerk, and made to step on to the
pavement. .A. voice at his elbow
caused him to stop and turn round.
"You go towards Temple Ilar,
Mr. Grant 2"
"Ah 1 Senor Bravo !" he cried, re-
cognizing the wide sombrero and all -
enveloping cloak of his late opponent
at chess.
"I go your way. We might tall(."
"I shall be glad of a chat. I tool
miserable. I suppose it's the weath-
er."
"Yes,' indeed, your London weath-
er depresses."
"I've just been cursing the mono-
tony of my existence. It's getting
on my nerves, this life that is the
same, day in, and day out."
They walked slowly eastward. The
rain had now ceased. Hector went
one
1 am a Scotsman, you know : «
Highlander,. rather. We are a race
of adventurous dreamers, Fighting
of some sort is the breath of our
nostrils : we must be hacking and
hewing. Otherwise—we sit still and
let our bones melt into melancholy.
As we say, it's a height or a howe
with us. Here's my six -foot -one of
frghting-stun sliding down impercep-
tibly into the „general slough of
flabbiness, and pobbiness, and greasy
content. we have round usevery-
where here."
"1s not tbo newspaper lite excit-
ing
xciting ?" asked Senor Bravo.
"Exciting enough." answered
Hector; "but one gots used to it.
We take the assassination of at Em-
peror, of the downfall of a Cabinet,
or the burning of Chicago, or a cab
accident in the Strand, all with the
same complacency. They are so far
away from one's stuffy office, and
the tape machine and the flimsy are
as impersonal as Fate or the Coun-
ty Catenate"
They had come to the corner of
Wellington Strout, and they stopped
for a moment to let pass some cabs
going northward from Waterloo.
I •have the desire to look upon
the river," said the old man simply.
"This Is the hour of its best."
So they turned towards the bridge,
end walked in silence until they came
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to the middle. They leaned on the
parapet in one of the embrasures,
and iodised up stream, hector, too,
loved alio river at night. Often •and
olten, during ltis savon years in
London, had he come hero and stood
for an hour at a time; geeing at the
glassy darkness of the flood, the
thousand broken lights, the slow
monster shadow's of barges, the
swallow -like dart of a police launch;
and listening to the lap -lap or the
swish -swish of tho water against the
buttresses.
The groat electric light in the tow-
er of the House shone high above
the night, telling the world that
cared—how small that world is !—
that the faithful Commons still
sat, debating and discussing, plann-
ing and scheming, rough -bowing and
french -polishing the destinies of the
Empire, generally with a righteous
British eye to their own immediate
advantage.
Senor Bravo stretched a skinny
hand towards the light.
"1 did use to think that the men
there were lovers of freedom, of lib-
erty. They have the Warne of it
yet. But I have male experience of
theins—of the greatest. There was
one who had the golden tongue: I
pleaded with him for my country.
He was a friend to Greece to Bul-
garia, to Armenia. I pleaded with
him. He spoke, and his words
warmed my heart. Ile wept, he
made me to weep. His sympathy
was rich and overflowing. He talked
to me for an hour, and yet tho
stream was not dry. I was tossed
high on the waves of his eloquence,
so high that I saw Hope shining on
the horizon."
He paused for a moment, and then
resumed with a contemptuous shrug..
"Ho was a politician; be Was a
statesman when he could not help
himself, and a lover of liberty and
right when it suited him. He was
one of the men you British love : the
ten letters of the word 'expediency'
were his Decalogne. I found myself
at the end of the hour standing on
that doorstep in Downing Street
which politician -feet have worn
down, that doorstep which pilgrims
in thousands comp to see, that door-
step which is not so hard as the
polltician-]leant, I stood there
stunned—with words. I had spent a
whole year and ranch money, schem-
'mg for an interview with bin. My
year was gond, my money was gone;
I had nothing but words to show for
them. No, I like not much this
side of the bridge. Let us go over."
Grant wondered greatly at the old
man's vehemence. Ilo knew, or
rather he felt, that there was some
mystery about this Senor Bravo,
who came regularly every evening to
,Tohnson's to piny chess for shill-
ings. The habitues of the chess -
room laughed tolerantly at the "old
Frenchman"—to them, all foreigners
were French—for they did not ap-
praise highly his skill as a player.
134 he was quint and harnLless, and
interfered with nobody. Grant had
pure '.tteuenbeil trig matt pe.frotd
often when their game was finished,
they had talked. Tho old man seem-
ed to be greatly interested in foreign
politics, and he generally managed
to turn the conversation on that
subject.
(To be Continued.)
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CHAPTER XX—(Continued.)
Down a long pathway that led
right into the heart of the woods,
Vivian Andel walked swiftly. The
path, curving with the curves of a
merry trout stream that ran beside
it, was narrow and dark oven in
noonday, with walls and roof of
dense foliage. Par off, seen now
and again through tate green gloom
of the wood, a glimpse of white
glanced before him, like a beckoning
hope.
I While yet a long way o0, she turn -
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Every muscle of the body controll-
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brain, and every museular action is
originated by nervous force, generat-
ed in the brain and 'transmitted'
along the nerves 'to the muscles.
When the nerves are injured or dis-
eased, when there is a deficiency in
the supply of nervous energy, pa'-
alysie, locomotor • ataxia or some
form of helplessness results because
the brain no longer lies control of
the muscles.
It may be bveat( heart action, inns
bllity td digest food, failure of the
lungs to .purity the blood or impair-
ocl action of any of the vital organs,,
butt the cause of trouble is with the
nerves. -
'i'he restorative action of Dr.
Chase's Nerve Food is 90(10 felt
throughout .the entire Vetere, be-
sauce it 1'estnros the vigor anti v1-
talfty of the nerves—fills thein with
tell' nerve force,tho vital power of
the body' Wea>k:nee, nervousness, it
ritability, sleeples8ncss and low spir-
its disappear and new energy and
strength take their place.
Mrs. C. Corkey, 82 Maine street,
St. Jelin, N.B., states :—"I had boon
in very poor health; and, in fact,
when I began using Ar. Chase's
Nerve Food I bad fust got hip from
a bed of eicicn0se, my nerves Were in
a bad state, I was weak: and could
not sloop. Now I alis getting up in
yea',6, aid, of course, toilld not look
for Immediate results, bet nasi say
that I have beats delighted with the
use of thie propeeetioe, as it has.
done ane a great deal of good. I rim
now able to sleep very. Melt bettor,
my nerves are steadier and my
strength is gradually Increasing."
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signature of br. A. W. ()Noe, the
famous receipt bgok authors aril. on
every, box,
cd, restlessly lmpalient of lien own
thoughts, Dimly hp saw her figure
ntoving swiftly toward hint through
the tong Vista of t1o shaded n,
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and know that rho supreme hour of
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his life was at band, and nerved
himself to meet it But his heart
beat fast and hard Me one who
pants in the close of a long struggle,
fearing defeat.
As they met, her sad face softened
to a pleasant smile, and, with 210(3
and weld of greeting, she Would
have passed. But he stood iu the
centro of the path, trombling, though
she slid not sho him tremble, and
held out a letter to ,her,
"For me ?" she asked, surprised.
"For you, Lucy," he said, and the
tone of his voice troubled her,
"How strangely you speak.. Is it
bad news?"
"I believe not. I most earnestly
hope you Will not think so. It's
very short. Bead it for yourself."
He watched her jealously while icor
eyes were on the letter. His whole
Saxe brightened when she looked up
from the reading with a sigh of re-
lief, but yet full of surprise.
"You knew what was 111 the let-
ter ?" sho asked.
)3e nodded. For a momont he 00uld
not trust himself to speaks
"Why did he leaee ?"
"Ho had no choice."
"You asked him to go."
"I forced him to go.'
"You 1" Her surprise mastered her
utterly.
"Ile was wholly unworthy of you,
Lucy—unworthy of any good wom-
an's love: a creature too bad and
vile for your very thoughts to touch.
I forced the confession et blank guilt
front his own lips. I ]told it hero,
written by his own hand."
There Was something in his voice
that thrilled her, strange yet lami-
nar.
"I feel 1 can trust you," she said
softly; "but hove did you know--
how could you know that I—that his
going or corning was anything to
mo 3"
"Do you forget ? You yourself
told me you wore pledged to marry
this man."
"I 1 I told you 1 I never spoke to
you about it. I couldn't. It only
happened yesterday, and I told no
one but Harry Trevor. I told him
because—I hardly know why—but you
most certainly I never told."
Yet even while she protested and
denied, there cause a curious doubt
upon. her that it was to this mall
and no other she had spoken.
"You told me with your own lips,
Lucy. 'You told me too you did
not love him I knew him utterly
unworthy of your love,
His words forced belief upon her in
spite of her own memory and senses.
amazement held her •numb•
They walked a little way in silence
and the bath led them out on the
open pleasure ground close to the
house.
"Lucy 1" lie said, with sudden
change to humble entreaty, "will
you turn and walk a little way with
me alone ?" and she turned without
a word. They were back an the
lonely pathway when he spoke again,
his voice so low she could hardly
catch his words : "1 have a confes-
sion to matte -a wild, strange, humil-
iating confession. I am sick with
roar and shame, but I must speak."
"But why to me ?"
"Because you must know me as I
am for goad or evil."
He walked close beside her in the
walk, gathering courage for the
straws° confession, and there was no
sound but the cool plash of the un-
seen water and the liutterings of
birds in the close leaves. Of a sud-
den that strange feeling cause upon
Lucy, that weird feeling every one
has known at some time of their
lives. She seemed to move as in a
dream, to re -live a portion of her
life, even to the most minute detail.
It was in that same soft twilight of
a dim past sho had walked before
with Vivian Andel, waiting for the
story of his life.
And when at last he spoke, tho
weird story that he told, strange
and wild as ever fell from man's lips
seemed curiously familiar as a half
remembered dream.
It did not need the quiet earnest-
ness of his voice to enforce belief.
She never doubted him from the
ilrst,
But sho grew pale, and trembled in
tho intensity of her excitement, as
one to whom a long -parted ghost
had suddenly appealed.
"I am frigt:toiled,'r she whispered
faintly, "Brdug me out of the dark;
bring me back into the sunlight."
She leant" on his arm, faint, half
conscious, ands the temptation was
strong in him to clasp her to lois
heart.. taut he put it sternly aside.
Half loading, half supporting her to
tho wood's edge be found her a seat.
on a mossy mound between two arch -
,ng roots of a hide -branching 'oak,
and stood Imelda her, waiting with
eyes averted from her face. Spread
out before them the vvihe scone lay
bathed in clear suelight. The giver
lako stretched smooth and bright as
a vast mirror framed with the gor-
geous colors of the autumnal woods.
"I have boort sorely punished,
Lucy," he said at last, "for my re-
bellion against God's wise decrees.
Remorse and sbam0 have poisoned
my stolen youth. When Firm died,
affronting death with such gentle
confidence, the life i' had so longed
for, I had so sinned for, had grown
almost unbearable. But he whom
most of all I wronged has forgiven
me. Can you forgivo'?"
"What have 2 to .forgive?" site
answered softly, se yet scarcely
trusting her own voice, "I tubo' 011'0'
ov'crything to you.'
"Forgive my eoWne lc0 arid my sin
begotten of Cowardice,
"But that haunting fear of which
yeti told m� it has ceased to
trouble ?"
h. f' perfect," "Love that s e 0 110 nnswer-
'L 1
od, "metal). out fear, I would no
'longer—if 1 uoild-ovadc the conimo0
fate of death; no longer forfeit the
higher hope. I talcs my stand with
my fellows. I desire to atone far
the years cry folly has wasted;, to
make the world better and happier
for the life 1 Mood lived in it. Will
you help mc, Lucy ?"
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"I wart r so e t a prove , .. I
Want your help—I wilt yourself. I
lova you, Lucy, I ea love you that
lies itself, the life I thought so poi
feet, is misery to ere without your
love,"
She turned her awoY•resting
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her wen on the arched tree root
that he 001.11(1 no longer see her face,
and was silent
'Is there any hopo for me ?"
Still no answer.
Her silolte° frightened him. I11 that
hour ho felt he had thrown av1'ay
the one supreme joy that life bolds:
the lova of t110 beloved. Ito looked
with passionate lunging at the slight,
figure and averted face of her who
for ]tire was the personation of
womanhood—beautiful, pure, and
true.
But le eervod himself to bear his
fate, t"ol'give me, Lucy," he said,
"that I have troubled your heart
with my audacious hopes, I will no
longer dream of what Might have
been were I more worthy; though
without you life Is misery, and death
release,"
But she arose as ho spoke and turn-
ed to ]tint. Iter cbeeks wore flushed;
her eyes bright with tears. Those
bravo true eyes looked straight in
his, and hi a moment he know.
No other answer was needed. He
caught hor to his heart, and with
love's shy joy she gave herself to his
embrace.
ace.
You love me, Lucy ?" he whisper-
ed;
hispeied; "give inc the joy of hearing it.
I can scarcely yet credit my own
happiness."
"I have loved you from the first,
Vdvian. Through all changes I
loved you—only you."
"And now ?"
"Now and always; to the hour of
my death."
"For love there is no death 1" he
answered.
(The End).
SLEEPING SICleNES$.
Parasite Found and It Ie Spread
by Flies.
The investigations by the British
governmental commission sent to
Uganda have resulted in the discov-
ery of the,causo of the sleeping sick-
ness, which has caused so many
thousand deaths among the natives.
Buvuma Island, which had a poputee
tion of 22,000, has now but 8,000.
The southern province of Busoge. has
been practically depopulated.
The forst step in the discovery was
the observation of trypanosomes in
the cerebro -spinal fluid insftvo cases of
the sleeping sickness. A further in-
vestigation showed the existence of
this parasite in the cerebro -spinal
fluid and in the circulating blood in
all of the cases. As it is closely ro-
tated to the disease of cattle caused
by the tsetse fly, it was suspected
that the stooping sickness was caused
in like manner by infection.
Along the lake shoo numbers of
species of the tsetse fly were found
Experiment demonstrated the fact
that these, when fed on sleeping sick-
ness cases, conveyed the disease to
healthy monkeys, It was also as-
certained that freshly caught flies
in the infected areas convoyed the
disease without any preliminary ar-
tificial feeding. Further investiga-
tion proved, that this fly, like the
tsetse of South Africa, is confined to
well defined areas which correspond
absolutely with the distribution of
the sleeping sickness.
The fly which convoys the fatal try-
panosoma is the Glossin palpalis,
The extinction of it, as of the mos-
quito in malaria, areas, together with
the discovery of a serum or trypan
osomacide, is now looked for to era-
dicate the disease.
ABOUT FEAR,
Often Conies From Lack of Right
Food.
Napoleon said that the best fed
soldiers were hie best soldiers, for
fear and nervousness come quickly
when the stomach is not nourished.
Nervous fear is a sump sign that the
body is not supplied with the right
food.
A Connecticut lady says.: "For
malty years I had been a sefferer
from indigestion and heart trouble
and in almost constant fear of sud-
den death, tho most acute suffering
possible. Bleting brought 011, Weak-
ness, ernmeation and nervous ex-
haustion and I was a complete wreck
phy'sdeafly and almost a wreck men-
tally.
"I tried many foods but could not
avoid the terrible nausea, followed
by vomiting that coarse after eating
until I tried Grape -Nuts. This food
agreed with my palato and stomach
from the start. This was about a
year ego. Steadily and surely a
change from sickness to health came
until now I have no symptoms of
dyspepsia and can walk 10 mites a
day without being greatly fatigued.
I have not taken a drop of Medicine
since I began the Ilse of Grape -Nuts
and people say I look many years
younger than I really ail,
"My poor olid sick body has been
made over and I fool as though my
heed ']las been too. Life is worth
living now and I expect to enjoy it
for many years to come if I can
keep away from bad foods and have
Grape -Nuts." Naine given by Pes-
ten Go., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason, •
Look in each package for a copy
of the famous tittle` book, "The'
Road to '1.4 ellvillo.
SINGING T,KSECTS.
Among the natural curiosities of
japan are its'sifging insects. The
most, pl'ized of these tfisy musicians
Is a, black beetle named "suet:mesh',"
which means "insect le'l," Tee
sound that it emits,1'eseinble8 that of
a little silver bell of tee SWCetest
and most delicate tonne,
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PRUNING TIM APPLE.
In pm:Meg a fruit -bearing plant
Biro the apple, attention must bo
given not only to the height and
formation of the hoed, but to the
rtunoval of wood as well, The ap-
ple boars 11.6 f1.udt on spurs which aro
themselves developed from wood 01)0
year Or more of ago. For that rea-
son therefore, the removal of wood
which carries fruit spurs reduced tho
crop tho tree is capable of biasing,
This then, is a practicable way of
thinning the fruit. Besides accom-
plishing this result, pruning can bo
used to lessen the annual growth turd
force the energy of the plant which
would naturally be used in making'
wood, into the fruit, thus increasing
its size or enabling rho tree to carry
a larger quantity than would bo
possible worn a normal wood growth
permitted.
FORMING THE HEAD.
Modern orchardists have conte to
look upon the low -leaded trio as
more desirable than those headed
]sigh. A head which is 2e to 3 foot
from the ground is at present con-
sidered more desirable than one
which is 6 feet or more from the
ground, The latter height was form-
erly frequently used. In forming the
head care should bo taken to have
the framework branches disposed at
different heights along tho body of
tho tree—say from 3 to 6 inches
apart, and distributed as evenly as
possibly around the body es a cen-
tral axis; that is, when viewed from
above the picture presented would
be that of a wheel, the hub being
the central axis of the tree and tho
framework branches ropresentiug the
spokes.
MAIN BRANCHES.
For an apple tree three branches
are considered the ideal number.
More may be left upon some varieties
particularly those which aro strong
growers, and upou trees which. have
a well-developed root system at
planting time. 11, however, the
roots have been badly mutilated in
removing the tree from the nursery,
it will be safer to reduce too number
to three rather that to maintain a
larger number. These main frame-
work branches upon the ordinary
first-class nursery tree should not be
more than 10 or 12 inches in length.
At the close of the first season's
growth after planting, each one of
these three framework branches
should bo considered as though it
were a separate nursery tree and
if possible three subdivisions of this
should be mairtainod for the wood
supply of the second year, the three
branches retained being cut back to
about the same length as those ori-
ginally held by the tree as planted
hi the 'drat place. This operation
should be repeated each succeeding
year. By so doing a symmetrical
development can be maintained and
by cutting to an outside or an in-
side bud the habit of the troo can
be modified so as to make it upright
or spreading in character. Some
trees aro normally upright in their
habit of growth, while others are
spreading. This must be 1)01110 . in
mind and the character of the variety
under treatmont must be taken into
consideration in cutting the branch-
es so that they will be upright or
spreading according to the desire of
the planter.
EFFECT OP CUTTING 13A015.
This frequent cutting back of the
branches of the tree while it is young
prevents the long bare branches
which are so characteristic of old
orchard trees. It also prevents the
tree from growing too tall—a condi-
tion which makes it difficult to . ga
ther tho fruit or to spray the tree.
With the low -head trees less prop-
ping is rleeessary than with trees
having long framework branches.
The load of fruit is carried nearer
the 'trunk, and the main structural
branches being larger in proportion
to their length are therefore bettor
able to carry any load of fruit which
the tree may develop.
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FRENCH 'PEOPLE I.tt BRITAIN,
Those are. 26,600 Pis:m 31 in Great
Bt'. tale and Ireland, mere than three-
fourths of the number beteg In Lon -
dole The'businces Most followed
anlang those le Cookery, As 13ttglislt
lettndresses are prized in Prance, 00,
Prooeh 00°10 are valued in Znettl:td,
ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL CROPS,
Judio!oes pruning, las has boon
pointed out, not only facilitates the
work of cultivation vat of and spraying,
but at the sane time determines to
a volt' considerable extant the fruit-
ing
ruiting habits of tho tree, that is the
quantity of 120tieing wood wh'iOh a,
tree carries can be modified by prun-
ing so that it Will .be practically im
possible for the tree to retain moro
fruit In any given season than the
scot is capable of supplying with
a proper amount of nouriehmont.
With, such a balance between tho
fruit -bearing hood of the tree and
its root-systom maintained, biennial
crops will bo less likely and ,annual
crops will bo more common. Orch-
sadists in general aro coming to be-
lieve that the reason for the biennial
crop in many orchards is duo tri the
fact that during the crop year tho
trees are allowed to ovo•bear, and
that their vitality is therefore so
mush rodi.tced that it is. impossible
foe diem to carry a satisfactory orop
the succoading year. The thinning
of the fruit with the result that a,
crop le borne each years, hes con-
vin0ed prettital growers that over-
bearing le the cause of the biennial
fruit peochwei0lt.
WINTER READING,
S:beet:lb° for several good papers
this; fall and keep with. the ti
p up, ries.:
7'lter^0 are many new 0.1011 valuable
tants discovered every week, All aro
not applicable to your; conditions,
bet maty` of thorn aro jest the thing
yeti need to know to enable you
to celePeto in. the ifduett'ial world
With rea90uable p1e9lreet9 Of BUeee99,
It is not necessary 'that yeti try all
of tho get -rich -quick schemes that
are suggested, but Ideas suggested
fexperiencero
CL Oril I mon a
to i n
by P o
Well worthy of your notice.rico.
When
501115 than claims lie has a variety of
grain which will yield more Por acro
than common grain, it is Worth
looking up, and whole you read in
the market report that some man
marketed a cat' lend of fat cattle at
e high price you might well consider
whether or not you could produce
that kind of cattle at a profit. To
bo sure, all farmers aro not so situ-
ated es to hermit of the same kind
of farming, but every farm is so
situated that with alio tastes -and.
the abilities of its present twiner,
s0mo irisin of farming Will be more
remunerative in enjoyment and ma-
teriel wealth than any other, and
until you have cli:moVt'rod that par-
ticular kind of farming and inaugur-
ated it Into your system you aro not
al: your best, Papers, magazines.
experiment station reports, farmers'
bulletins, Farmers' Instituto annuals,
convenns, mngs, a, and
above alltioobservatioeetin and etstrict ap-
plication to business, will help you
to decade what is really the best
plan for you to follow.
It is rather inconvenient to file pa-
pers to keep as reference, but it is 8
vary simple matter to clip out the
desirable parts or the thing in which
you aro most interested. Time clip-
pings may bo placed in large env°
opos, each class of information in a
separate envelope properly labeled
and filed; this will give you a quick
and convenient reference. Clippings
made in this way from a few good
papers, will in the course of a year
furnish a great source of information.
We have a long mentor before us
with many long evenings, which can
very prodtably be spent in reading
and studying.
By, reading and finding out what
other' people aro doing and thinking
about it one is consi:a ley brought
to see his conditions from different
points of view. This helps ono to
fully realize his position as to abil-
ity and opportunity, and must cer-
tainly help in making the final decis-
ions ns to what is best to do. Then
when one has decided what his cir-
cumstances and abilities best adapt
him to follow, he will find help in
accomplishing that which he has set
out to do by reading about and
studying methods pursued by others
who aro doing the same thing.
DON'T GET FRESH.
Salt makes animals more lively,
strong and capable of resisting dis-
ease. Their flesh. is harder for it,
and the functions of the body more
regular, Their digestion is bettor,
and they can feed on fodder that
otherwise might be Injurious to
health. Moreover, with the assist-
ance of salt they can extract more
nourishment from a given quantity
of fodder, since the flow of the di-
gestive liquids is more copious. Give
salt with food difficult to digest,
4
BOY KING'S PALACE,
Where Alfonso Lives and How
They Guard Him.
Tho Infanta. Isabella, aunt of the
king, a widow of 60 years of ago, or
so, and the most popular person in
Spain, formerly had a largo suite of
apartments on tho main floor of the
palace, but with her usual delicacy
and thoughtfulness she vacated 'chem
after the recent coronation in order
that they might be ready for the
Clueou mother incase the king should
marry. Isabella now lives in a psi-
veto palace within a few blocks of
the royal residence and is a daily
visitor there.
The young King and his mother
have largo suites on the front of the
palace facing the city, and the loca-
tion of their bedrooms is indicated
by the invariable palm leaves attach-
ed
ttached to tho balcony, according to the
Spanish custom. You 1vi11 sou shut-
ter palm loaves hanging to tho bal-
conies of nearly all the residences in
towu, those of the poor as woe as
the rich. A sheet of white paper
tied to tho iron railing means that
the room is for rent,, a palm leaf
means that it Is tho sleeping cham-
ber .of a pious. Catholic, who brought.
it home from church on the last Palm
Sunday and placed it there to keep
away evil spirits, diseases and mis-
fortunes. It remains thorn tho ens
tiro year until the next anniversary,
when a new palm, fresh from rho
blessing of the priest, is substituted,
The ICing has very comfortable
quarters, much more homelike than
aro usually found in royal palaces,
I3o has a series of drawing -rooms, a
dining room larger than that at the
White Rouse at Washington, a lib-
rary with about 6,000 volumes up-
on the shelves, mostly modern pub-
lications and current literature in all
the European languages; a music
froom, a smoking room, billiard
room, gym,hasitrm and study, which
is also used a8 en office,
IIis sleeping chamber is largo and
airy- and contains two beds„ one of
which is occupied by hieprivate sec-
i'otcu'y or one of his tutors, or aides,
as they are termed since the corona-
tion—Major Lorija, Major^ Castellon
or Count Arcdhto, Ile is never al-
lowed to sleep alone, and in an ad-
joining room sloops Pi'tidencio, his
venerable valet, while two of itis
bodyguards etre always in tho ante•
room which must bo passed before
his chamber is reached,
e 010 OCCtt i
Some of levee romps: s o u a ped
in common with the Queen mother,
but she hes hor own suite of five or
six rooms adjoining, vvith access to
the flat roof of a 10t>g wing which is
occupied by the guards and the in„
tendente, or superintendent of the
palace. `l'his is a rttlaged so that
awnings may be dropped in ]tett wea-
ther and is decorated With kalins and
other plants and floWor9. It also
gives the Ring ,and the Chicon an
opportunity for exorcise, the roof
being about 400 feet long and 'forty
Leet wide,
BOSS IN WORLD'S POLITICS
vE E IS
W RD IL IN
FL rrc
EU A v s
Y 'IED
NOW RECOt'$, I
His Social Visits With Other BLul.
ere Show Important
Results.
Ring Victor Enlnenuol and Queen
Helena 01 Italy wore received with
genuine cordiality iu England and
their departure has brought to a
close another of these incidents
whose importance is not to be ramie -
wed by merely social spectacular
standards. It would bo impossible
to estimate the future political ef-
fects of tiro exchange of visits Py the
chiefs of European Status in tho
past six dnouths.
It may be pardonable to repeat in
coenection with this the point made
by the present writer early in rho
spring, that the world was destined
to find a new master, who had begun
to shape the international rotations
of Europe, His handiwork is now
fully recognized, and his name is
Edward VII,
As a result of the conferences
which have boon bold in connection
with Icing Victor Ernmanuel's visit
the terms of an arbitration treaty
between Great Britain and Italy have
been agreed utpon. The scope of the
treaty is somowhat broader than the
recent Anglo-French agreement, The
ratifications will probably bo ex-
changed within. a fortnight.
It may bo said in general terms
that the reapproachmont now exist
ing between Italy and Great Britain
is much closer and more friendly
than that between Italy and the
other members of the Triple Alliance
although not imposing the same
teelmical treaty obligations. Tice
seine process of disintegration, if ono
may use that term, has taken place
in the French relations with Russia
to an extent much more serious
THAN IS YET APPARENT.
It would bo gross exaggeration to
say that the Franco-Russian Alliance
is in danger of dissolution in rho
near future, but it is true that the
bonds uniting the two countries have
already become more technical than
sentimental. There is an equal pro-
bability of divorce under such condi-
tions; is a national alliance as fn
matrimonial ones. It becomes clear
almost daily that as the Dual and
Triple alliance lose their most ha -
portant element of cohesion the tins
become stronger between Italy,
France and Great Britain,
This new unratified grouping of
Powers is partially offset by tie un-
derstanding between Russia and Ger-
many. It is argued by some who
have studied the rival interests of
tho two countries that it will be im-
possible for this combination to be-
como general or permanent, because
t110 conunorcial rolatlons of Russia
and Germany camnoy be harmonized.
The German agrarian conditions aro
almost as had as the Russian, and
it will be impossible to arrange a
commercial treaty between these two
Powers.
A curious incident Inas come to the
knowledge of a newspaper corres-
pondent which has perhaps sono
bearing on the great process of tho
regrouping of the Powers which is
now going on. Eavly in Septoother
Emperor William wrote a personal
letter to Icing Edward suggesting
that ho would like to visit him nil
England during the month of Novem-
ber. Tho writer does not pretend to
know what reply Ding Edward sent
to this communication, but, at .all
events, the Kaiser permitted it to
become known in certain diplomatic
circles through ono of his intimates
that ho had made this suggestion to
his royal anelo. It is possible that
tine Kaiser's recent illness accounts
for tho feet that he did not make
the visit,
4
TOURISTS IN SWITZERLAND).
Leave More Than $20,000,000 in
the Country Every Year.
A traveller writes from Geneva
that up to Sept, 15 last the number
of tourists who had this.. year regis-
tered at the hotels and ponsions of
Geneva was 171,639. The total
number of tourists in 1902 was 215,-
000 and it Was thought that the
total in 1908 would not equal that
of the preceding year.
IIe added' that tho hotels hi Swit-
zorlald take 1n annually from tour-
ists from. 518,500,000 to 814,900,-
000; the transportation companies
from 58,100,000 to 58,500,000; the
incidental expenditures of tourists
are from $1,500,000 to '52,100,000,
and the totaldisbursements disbursem n of visi-
tors to the country are from 518,-
100,000 to $20,500,000, without
taking into account the considerable
purchases in the stores.
The statistics of a long series of
years show that the exponditur'ee of
tourists vary greatly year to year.
The year 1893, for example, was a
romarkable season for travelling in
Switzerland and the tourists left
behind nearly double the usual
amount of money,
Thus Switzerland is able to count
her scenery' foremost arl0ng her
money -making .assets. Tho country
would'becomo very rich indeed from
the tourist trade, if it wore not drat
it is poorer in agricultural 1050ura08
than any other country int Europe
except Norway.
Only a sixth of 1110 loud can bo
tilled. The result is that enormous
quantities of food supplies must be
imported to gull to tourists. In the
tourist season of 1901, for example,
ovax20,000 tonsof vegetableses
and
000 beef lit i '.,
CO, lee! Cattle were e br0bg It
front the neighboring countries.
1
LJIIVQPXO1S TO COUNTRY.
Of Lord Derb 1s sons rix me
cars in in' the Array, mat tearer oro of
thele fought with distinction in
South Africa, while another sell is a
naval lieutenant, who has seen native
scrvire, and his only daughter is the
wife of a captain. lits iho Crcnadieu
Guards—n, family record rf a!ovoliotC
�to r01011ry *high it would bo difficult
t
to rival,