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AN UNSOUGHT WEALTH;
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Or The Mystery of a Brother's Legacy.
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'"•e .13tops of , the . Naval u,nd Military
se' • Mr, Percy Igebester stood on the
' Club, Mr. Leiceeter was one of the
; slevereet men 'in town, antis there are
so many clever men 'about just nOW.
He had been everything; taken all
the honors at .a,is university, or most
of therm streised his boat; Played in
the eleven; made a record at a hun-
dred yards; created Brutus in tee
A. D. In Ile had begun in the
church; he had graduatedin honors
there. Beginning as an evangelical,
•• he had passed on to Rome, and end- sbort, marching off lus victims in
exl by starting a creed 01 )ns own, that gentle, courteous won't-take-a-
d
he had written a novel to fully where nature has furnished the
denial way. of his which was char -
prove. Me had then gone into the acteristic of the man.
"I suspect Mr. Penton, that even' wrote down Mr. Panton's name. Mr.
inames of members of tho audience; he In,aecifssstaorya evOerirdyi ti S ;
limited extent. We
but this pre -
Penton scribbled some lines on a. must look to °thee means to supply
piece of paper, and, Without even. lacking •
moisture in the greatest
glancing at them, Sphinx produced
. part of the country.
them• on a sheet of paper too.
"Beggared if I know how it was We all know that when we plough
done!" dacha:Intl Mr. Pantou after- to the depth of say, eight inches,
wards. "They were written by a and there is a hard -pan -or unbroken
earth beneath, drying weather for a
chap I know at Sandhurst, an awful -
few days in succession will dry near-
ly clever chap; they were the chorus
l
of a comic song he wrote. Herey all. the moisture out down as
they are, I've got there in sny pocket deal" as ploughed. Crops cannot
now."• flourish on such land, for necessary
.He took a piece of paper from his matter is Ionising. Does not COM-
tiockot, and read the lines aloud to •mon sense teach nis that we should
an admiring group of friends, plougli deeper end larea.k up and
"I always get drunk of a SEtturclay fine that hard -pan ; then when a
night, ' heavy rain occurs water will des -
And larrup my.kiels o' Sunday! coral and moisten the entire MASS,
I always got drunk of a Saturday so that any ordinary dry spell can -
night, not dry it out. But for an extended
And whack any wife, o' Monday!"
"Funny, aren't they? Ile was a
chap for comic songs! You should
have heard him sing them., made you
die! But how that little beggar got
hold of them beats me; yet he'd got
them written down there as right as
ninepence!"
"Never saw anything like it in ray
life—never!" declared young Fan -
they were but tricks. They cbsclann- ton, who, for a modern young man,
ed all connection with hypnotism, was uncommonly enthusiastic.
thought -reading, spiritualism, and
all the other erazes; and .openly
avowed • that all they did belonged,
CHAPTER VIII.
verent way, began to wonder if he
was counting ell the brieks in the
wall. Suddenly. he turued With that
well-bred air of his, and slipped his,
arxri through Pautoe's.
"Como, Mr. Penton, we will see
'The Devil's Diamond' together, 1
ain sure, Dewsnap, you willecome
too."
So saying, he azulexed the Colonel
on the other side,
"I'm afraid, Leicester, I've an en-
gagement--" •
But Mr. Leicester calmly cut hira
like enough. to ghee One an idea. nTot-
the West amusing Part of it was,
that though Ms hands were Laces.
santly meving with abnost ineen-
eeivable rantrlitY, he sent Seemed
iga
belt asleep. lie did Amto be so
bared!
"Not so dusty," Willy Penton die
loWed, when M. Nurvetcliky bus res
tired, possibly to sleep it out be-
hind the scenes. "I shan't want my
fore bon back this time, anyhaer."
The next item on the programme
was simply entitled "The Sphinx."
When the curtain drew up a %mall
automatic figure, about eighteen
int:hos:in height, was discevered; •
was perched in a sitting Posture on
the. top of a plain, or -apparently
plain, glass tube, which was • about
six inches in diameter. Madame
Nurvotebny came on. She swept the
audience a charming curtsey. .
"That's a cunning pieces of goods,"
observed' Willy Penton, in that irre-
pressibly Vulgar way of his.
The wicked old Colonel leered.
"You must introduce me, Leicester,
after the performance."
"This is Sphinx," said Madame
Nurvetchky,.
Sphinx did many Wonderful things,
Ho discovered and wrote down the
. „„„ r4
AiziTir4P0
a.
neas011able and Prefitable s
"yr lints for the OUSY TalerS
of the soh. ,?
seeeteneseeesinfealaseenesleenetisaaiieneens
PRINCIPAL FACTORS IN P.A.RX-
LNG.
Moisture, helms, tillage, added
fertility—these aro the four principal
teeters, and.of Importance in the
orate- named, in the euccessful cul-
ture of the soil. Nothing can be
grown without moisture, as all
plea food must be in liquid form
to be absorbed and appreciated by
,the growing plants. But there must
not be too much moisture habitually
for that would defeat its primary
object. This can be obviated only
by a correct system of drainage,
But what shall be done when the
natural rainfall is insufficient to
furpish the required nioisture ? This
can be done by irrigation success -
army, figured well in at least one
campaign, and invented a new 'ma-
chine-gun. na,ving invented the gun,
he retired from the army and read
for the law, as he said, in order that natives some rather odd tales about
he. might obtain some faint insight a stone which they called, as We
into tha new Of his country on the might interpret it, the Devil's Dia -
subject of patents; but that was: a mond. I collide never come Eicross
joke of hie. Every ono knows that the stone, Myself. Perhaps it has
that portion of the system Of Bri- found its way across the black was
stish jdrisprudesen -which treats ' of ter. We shell see. In any case M.
patents and the rights of pateninee is and Madame Nurvetchlry are amuse
so perspicuous that he who tuns May ing, even when opo looks down upon
read. Just now he Was not exactly that sort of thing as beaeath one's
anything. He wrote a little; played, intellectual level."
a little — tennis, cricket, and on Yee It was nearly three o'clock wben.
rious, instalments; sang a little in a they reached' the Sphinx's Cave, and
really charming tenor; acted a little, the audience were already arranging
recited, painted; theorized a little on .themselsres for the performance to'be-
religlogs subjects; laid down laws for gin. It was a, new hall, the
:the social condect of the buman Sphinx's Cave. M. and Madame
race; was an excellent public speaker Nurvetchlry had been its first ten -
en all sorts of subjects, front every ants. It had been built, ruxnor said,
possible point of view; in Met, did specially for them. There was a
all things which a respectable man something about their entertainment
must do nowadays if ho does not 'which had made it, contrary to an -
want to be classed with the beets of ticipation, a, success — element of
the held. freshness, perhaps; an eleinent of
It was on ' the day that Madame frankness, perhaps, as well. While
Nurvetchky mot Mr. .nlookhate. at they claimed to do some remarkable
Mr.' Schwab's roouis' that Mr. Lei- things they frankly confessed that
cester 'stood on the steps of the Na-
val and Military Club. He was •not
alone; there were him Colonel Dews -
nap, who was a bad old boy, and
therefore popular, and young Wily
Penton, on whose commission the in some form or other, to that quick- playing on about a dozen of then at
ink was not yet dry.: Dewsnap and ness of the hand which deceives the once, and in the niost enchanting
Penton were smoking, but Mr. Le- eYe• Way, before retiring from the stage
cester was doing nothing, but stand- On the afternoon in question the he read° the following brief en-
ing with his hands behind Isis back, hall was well Died. Probably this
looking meditatively at the brick was owing to the intrinsic merit of
wall on either side of the courtyard. the entertainment itself., rather than
. "Think it's going to ram?" aeleed to any special attractive influence
old Devvsniap, looking up at the sky: attaching to the announcement of
Penton seemed to much engaged the new addition to the programme.
with his cigarette, and Leicester with At most, the announcement could
his thoughts. only have penetrated to a portion of
"Leicester," continued the Colonel, the town. London as a whole, even
evidently,caring nothing that he had that section of the whole which in -
received no information as to the terests itself in such things, could
prospects of the fine weather, "what not have been aware of the contem-
are you going to die with yourself?" plated change; though it is certain
Mr. Leicester answered in his clear, that some wore in that audience who
well-bred monotone, still staring at would not have been present had not
the brick wall which bounded his Madame Nurvetchky so hastily sent
loriion—• an army of sandwich -men marching
"I'm going to see the 'Devil's Dia- through the town.
mond.'
"Hello " cried young Penton.
"What's 'The Devil's Diamond'?"
"I'll let you know when I've seen
11."
"Is it a play?" inquired the Cole slip, on which it was stated, ender
.
onel. the beading "Important Notice,"
"No; I should say it was not a that "In the course of this after -
play." noon's entertainment M. and Mad -
"Is It a picture?" demanded Pan- eime Nurvetchky will introduce the
ton. IDevirs Diamond."
"No; I should say it was certain- "INIce sort of name!" commented
• ly not a picture." - the Colonel. "The Devil's Diamond!
"What' is it then?" asked the Col- I wonder they don't introduce, the
onel. "Is it a secret?" old gentleman. himself."
"Well, in a sense I suppose it is a "It's only sense rubbish or other,"
secret—at present. It's — mind, I
have no exact information on the
subject, but I imagine — it's a
trick."
"A trick? Is there a new conjurer
come to town?"
The Colonel's tone was a little su-
percilious. On at least that one
point, conjuring, his friead's tastes
and his were not identical.
"Not that I'm aware of. I pre-
sume' , that you 'would call neither
Monsieur nor Madame Nurvetchky
new conjurer, since they are three
months Old, at least. The fact is,
that as I was coming along Piece.-
you will • be amused. Dewsria,p,
will answer for you. When I was up
in the Indian hills I heard from the
After AL Nurvetchley had concluded
sonic 'very remEirkable feats with a
variety of inimical instruments,
The new feature had not even.
found its way to the programme it- among theta was Willy Penton.
self. When Mr. Leicester and his "Well, they're welcome to My five
friends had procured theirs they bol,!" The five shillings which he
found accompanying it a printed ' had expen.ded on the purchase of a
seat seemed to weigh upon his mind.
"If the Devil's Diamond ain't much
behind the rest I shall say that the
inoneyss been fairly earned."
Mr. Briggs made a very great
noise; but Willy Penton spoke in
such a loud, youthful tone of voice,
that Me. Schwabe, who was only
divided from him by about eighteen
inches of carpeted board, distinctly
heard what it was he said. So Mr.
remarked Willy Penton, with that ,Schwabe ventured on an observe. -
infinite wisdom which appertains to i tion.
youth. "It's only some flash name "1 think you will find that the
to draw the people — like the pie- Devil's Diamond is at least a, devil
tures outside the penny shows." of a diamond." ' • .
The performance began in the us- Mr. Penton stared; then, seeing
ual fashion, with a. pianoforte selec
_ that the speaker seemed to have the
tion — "Reminiscences of England, confidence of a decent tailor, he con -
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales," by descended to rosily.
a gentleman . named Briggs. And "What clo yon mean?"
that audience actually — thee° sort "Well, I've heard some rather queer
of people listen to everything; they stories about it, that's all." Mr.
would listen to tbe orchestra be- Schwabe glanced round upon the au-
tween the acts of a play. And when dience with an air .of grim enjoy-
Mr..Briggs had finished, they ap.. meat. Ire raised his palm and look -
pleaded quite as muen as they would ed at it, apparently in a casual kind
dilly I saw the announcement, on. a, applaud anything. 'Only Willie Pan- ef waSn There was a scar upon it,
lot of sandwich -men, that there ton was irreverent, indulging in that 1 ichich 141r. Penton might have seen,
would be "The Devil's Diamond' this
afternoon at three o'clock at .the vulgarity of speech which is so ter- a as though it had been. branded there
Sphinx's; Cave, mid to -night at rible a sign of the low standard of )quite recently. "I think that it may
contemporarn•morale surprise you, and perhaps some of
the other people too."
"I'm not easily surprised as a
rule, but I confess that I've been
surprised by some of the things I've
seen already — by that little beggar
they call Sphinx, for instance."
"Yes, I daresay; ' but the Devil's
Diamond will surprise you in rather
a different kind of way."
(To Be Continued).
nouncement, still seeming more than
half asleep, and unutterably bored:
• "Ladies and gentlemen, after a
brief interval, which Mr, *Briggs will
relieve by, music" (bowing to the
pianist), "Madame Nurvetcbley, „ and
I propose to introduce to you, for
the first time on any stage, the Dev-
il's Diamond."
Mr. Briggs "relieved" the interval
with some conipbsitions by a Rus-
sian composer, which almost shat-
tered the piano, too. Still a por-
tion of the audience appearedto lis-
ten, and it is certainly a fact that
some of them clapped their hands
when he had done; but it must be
allowed that, under cover of the
noise, some of the people talked, and
eight.That's all I know about it
up to now."
"Awful rot, that sort of thing."
Willy Penton was very young in-
deed; he had only been introduced to
Mr. Leicester a couple of days be- sport. I shall want my five bob
fore, or he would.scarcely have spoke back if they don't take care."
en quite so plainly. Music from piano, Mr. Briggs;
"What sort of thing?" inquired Mr. waltz, played in very slosi time, so
Leicester blandly. •as to knock all the dancing out of
"Conjuring, and all that sort of in and only leave occasional recol-
thing."
Mr. Leicester said nothing. He
only gazed abstractedly at the wall
across the way. But Mr. Penton
felt that something' was wrong.
. "Do anything in that line your-
self?" he asked, in that affable way
in which nowadays youngsters ad-
dress their fathers, and inferior peo-
ple generally.
But as Mr. Leicester still con-
tinued to say nothing, but only to
• gaze,. tho 'Colonel took upon himself
to answer.
• "I have always understood that
Mr, Leicester is the finest conjurer in
- the world, whether amateur or pro-
fessional, 1 believe, Leicester, that
YOU lia-ve ;made it the study of year
Yet Mr. Leicester was still' silent.
So Mr. Penton continued to blun-
der -- always after the manner of
youth,
"I hope 1 lave said nothing to
• hurt your feelings, Mr. Leicester.
Now and then I like to do a bit of
.conjuring myself,"
Stili perfeet peace' front Mr. Lei-
cester. HO continued to gaee lzt
front' or kim. so intently, and so
"Well done, old cock!" he observ-
ed. "Hit him again. What comes
next?" He examined the pro-
gramme. "Spoon -springing Extra-
ordinary. That sounds like pretty
lections of a plaintive air. The cur-
tain drew up. • A table discovered,
covered with electro -plated spoons of
every Sort and kind; saltspooes, egg -
spoons, teaspoons, dessert -spoons,
tablespoons, evon soup ladles of por-
tentous size. Music suddenly chang-
ed to "Johnny Comes' Marching
Home," Enter M. Nurvetchky wear-
ily, as though he wee more than
half asleep, and painfully bortici.
"Ladies "and gentlemen, 1 have here
upon this table some ordinary spoons
of different sizes; what I am about
to do with them you can all do too,
only it requires a great deal of prac-
tice."
Me began. • It cortaiely did require
a great deal of practice! though it
was distinctly a pretty performance,
On the whole. Manipulating the
Spoons with both his hands, by deft-
ly toesing them in • continuous
streams into the air, he formed all
kinds of 'figures — amens, tent -nice,
circles, globes, anchors. He made
running oomments by the way.
"A horse," he weuld say; and
straightway in inid-air, outlined by
the Shimmering spoons, Was the ilg-
ure of a horse. It was not very like
long, that Willy- Penton, in kis Jere- a horse, perhaps, but still it Was
SI To prove to you that Dr,
n one Chase's Ointment is a certain
telt3Z1;r1 ;)ornT. ?off =ant
bleeding and proa.tuling ones,
• the manufacturers hare guaranteed it. See tee.
timonials in the daily press and ask your neigh.
hors whatthey think oflt. You can uso it and
get your money back if not etre. 60c a box, at
endemism or EnmaNscrx,Iliorns &Co.,Torento,
DTq Ohase's Ointment
"I am afraid, Bobby," said his
mother, "that when I tell your
father wbat, a naughty boy you've
been he will • punish you soverely."
"Have you got to tell him ?" asked
Bobby, earnestly. "Oh, yes ; fshalI
tell him Immediately after dinner,"
The look of concern on Bobby's face
deepened. "Weil, mother," said he,
"give him a better dinner than
usual, You Might do that intich for
me,"
i•••••••••••••i,
Miss jellus—"Your bedroom naist
be a very healthy place, dear." Miss
Prottiface—"What makes you think
so ?" "Because I hew noticed that
when you are downstairs sometimes
you aro dreadfully pale ; but it you
go tip into your bedroom for a
short tittle you come down With a.
beautind eolorsq
•
Shr—Ain't ycmr little sister very small far h.er age ?
Re—§ho's jist er half sister.
TYPE OF DAIRY COW.
The specifications for a dairy cow
call for a treble wedge shape, Stand-
ing in front of the cow, .we observe
increasing width from front to rear:
From a side view there is increasing
depth from front to rear, and from
bolting down from above We ob-
serve sharp, thinwithers, dropping
ribs, but increasing the -thickness
downward. This applies to the
chest and abcloneu, but not lips meat is derived from expert sources;
and pelvis, At this point the slope 1. The consolidated debt of 'Pur-
ls reversed with broad hip bones, key' supposing the project Rouvier
cace
small thighs, the ham curved inwardarkled out, and leaving out of
instead of eat as in the 'beef type. count the loans 'provided for out of
In all cases the udder should be well the tribute of Egypt, amounts to
deve/oped ,and occupy extensive at -
$831,000,000, and represeuts $21
e Per lhead of population. .
dry spell more than this is required taclunent to the body. That is, th' The anmual burden
that
to ' retain sufficient moisture for udder should extend well forwardI• r
amounts to for interest and
growing crops. There is such a and upward behind. Another im clebt
- --- •sinking funds $15,000,000, and repre-
thing as capillarity. Moisture will 1portant indication of a good milker
dry out of loose earth very rapidly is the system of milk veins which Bents 85c per head of population.
in El hot sun, and drying winds. It run from the udder along thn belly. No budget is published, but it is
assumed by competent authorities
would nearly all dry out of loose When the cow is fresh these veins •
soil to the depth of twelve inches or should be prominent and the "mar': , that there is an annual deficit of at
least 56,700,000. But this suppose.s
even twenty inches/ well" near the diaphragm. The milk
IN A PROLONGED DROUTII. that all salaries are fully paid. In
veins are practically dormant when reality, however, only about eight
the cow is not giving milk, but the
It is just as natural for moisture to "milk wells," remain the same and monthssalaries b the year are
'
paid. The four months' salaries not
escape through loose 'soil upward by are a good eriteriou by which. to
paid may rePresent 53,750,000. Fur-
tapillary attraction as it is for wa- in•dge a good milker.
b a thee, incluided in the budgetary ax -
ter itself to escape downward
There is a general belief that a penditure is an amount of $3,600, -
loose soil. To illustrate this ca,pil- good dairy cow is rough and boneY0fde0Oabnu
larity, set a tumbler of water That her hip bones should stick out. 0 t by
yllpysp
purchases
sedtored
oftherucutimoiilo
against the side of a house and sus- so that you could hang your kat Debt Commissioners and the sinking
pond from above, and extending on them. The true conformation funds of various loans.
siclerable strip of old cotton cloth, more important than the rough functionaries
and Correlation of organs is fax It may appear very hstrd that the
into the tumbler of water a con -
then Watch the moisture ascend should only receive
and
boney exterior. Some of the most eight months' of salary instead of
the cloth. It is natural for mois-
ture tO .ascend in loose earth in useful cows are comparatively twelve in a. year, but it is to be re -
smooth ,and handsome. Some hold membered that the salaries of all
warm weather. It forms little tubes,
to the idea that the 'smoother, more impertart functionaries are flied at
to make the ascent easier. Now to
fleshy cows are more vigorous and a very high rate. Thus the salaries
prevent this escape of moisture in, fully as productive milkers as the of the metubers of the Legislative
planted flelds, pass over them with
the cultivator, letting it run ' rough ones and are now molding Council, who are numeroes and do
two
their :herds for that style. They cer- very little work, are about $10,000
or three Indies in depth. This come
tainly look better than the thin; a year. Receiving two-thirds ef
pletely obliterates
tubes, and the moisture cannot es- that annually they are still very
the moisture scrawny i
anmals.
Icirgely paid for the work they do.
cape freely until they are reformed. That part then of the budgetary de -
Then, in a week or less use the cul- Reit represented by salaries in ar-
tivator egain. This operation is di- rears does not press much upon the
rectly in line with nature, and for Treasury.
THE TURICISH DEBT.
--
Represents $21 Per Head of the
Population.
The question of the unincation of
the Turkish 'debt is again likely to
shortly come to the front, and itt
view of this ,fact it is desirable to
clearly outline the present position
of the finances of the Ottoman Em-
pire. The following general state -
CEILING HIS CONTRACTS.
The lecturer pleaded with the
the benefit of both soil and crop. crowd to "look up." In impassion- ---4.--.
Hae -e a deep, loose soil for the est tones he cried :
It is calculated that a, bee will
rains to fill with water, and then, "Fortune always helps the man vi
that looks up 1 Never look down sit from 80 to 100 heads ef clover
with much surface cultivation, the before getting a single load of honey.
necessary supply of moisture for in' friends, and do not waste too
growing is pretty well assured. This much time looking sideways. Look
for any so-called 'hard crops.' The up, and keep on looking up 1 I never "This isn't the first time you have
come in contact with the police 7'
Is there a man in this audience who
cereals take care of themselves, as lcnew a man to fail if he looked up.
their foliage soon covers the ground, said the lawyer to the witness. "No,
and the rays of the sun canuot can say that he always looks up ?" sir," was the reply. "What, may 1
reach to do much harm. Humus :
A seedy stranger arose in. the back ask, was the result of your former
,
has several uses. .It ameliorates and row to say encounter 7" "1 awoke him: He had
tion of moisture. It acts as a I bare steadily looked up for thirty
"I can say that I always look up. gone to sleep on his beat".
loosens the soil and aids the retell-
wocer,s47
sponge to take up water
and re_ years, and am no better off for it.
linguishes it gradually as needed. Looking up is my business." AustrEdiet and New Zealand have
"What do you do for a living, my 901 million. sheep, which is just one
11w:due being of vegetable origin, as
esene and a half times as many as the
it decays the 'moisture is pr good nian 2"
to prepare it to be absorbed by the "I'm a ceiling decorator." whole of the United States possess.
is The applause that greeted this The Portuguese attempted to es -
growing plants. In fact, no soilfertile without the admixture of a sally broke up the meeting. tablish cattle farming in. Newfound-
land in. 1558, but all traces of the
good proportion. of humus. Prof, se, animals they imported have been
L. II, Bailey made an old, worn-
lost.
out farm fertile by turnipg under A are in Londonderry completely
leguminoids and other crops pur- destroyed the extensive sawmills of
Melly Masher (to the photo-
posely to form humus. Ilumus is Keys Brothers., and seriously dam- grapher)—"13e sure and show the
the life of the soil and crops canuot !aged Miliilaad's biscuit factory, one collar and eye -glass --and don't for -
be grown without it. It furnishes of the largest in Ireland. • get to give the cane the correct
both moisture and plant freed. Farm:- Mr. John Roche, M. P., was con- pose." Photographer — "Certainly
iug cannot be conducted successfully vieted of an offers uneer the Crimes"
not. Now, hold steady. All right 1
without it, and the good farmer sup- Act. at Roscommon, mid rather than
It's done, sir." Cholly—"Done, is
plies it in abundance, enter into bail to be of good be- it ? Aro you quite sure you have
TILAGE IS SO IMpORTANT havior he went to prison for a taken the best side of my hea.ci ?"
month, Photographer—"Quite sure, sir. I
a factor in crop growing that the
old farmer was led to say to his
son : "Remember, my boy, that
tillage is 'manure," for he had ob-
served in his farming operations
that the more his soil was tilled the
better the succeeding crops were.
Tillage fines the soil, plant food is
released that is bound up in lumps
and clods that would Ohm -Wise re-
main locked up, and at the time not
be available to the growing plants.
So far as the plants are concerned,
it might as well be locked up in a
strong box. A lump of soil as big
aea pinhead might contain a par-
ticle of fertility. Good farming con-
sists in working all the land up fine;
then the sunlight, air and moisture
can reach every part to do their
fructifying work. A nine-aere field
was once harrowed fourteen days in
preparation for a crop, of wheat and
ts succeeding crop of clover. Both
were immense. No manuring could
have caused them to be so good. A
ybung farmer boasted ono spring
that he had just finished ploughing,
and sowing seventy-ilve acres of
-crops, no was told that if he had
put all that work on half the land
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IVIanyChillness 'Whereby Thex
Xiot Benefit Their Vol -
there is plenty of Neope foe sPending
lowrsen.
Mr. Carnegie says that a is "A diss
grace for.stny Mies to die ricie end
money.
fact that .the various great °berm -
For instance, it le well-knowe.
tones of the world do not agree as
to time., The differences art to be
counted only in fractions of a zecenci;
Greenwich and Paris., for instance,
may vary just under a fifth of a eece
'Dada But, as will be easily seen,
such a trifling erre- e,s this may
=omit to a great deal more low-
er latitudes, and, consequently, the
boundaries of Brazil, for instnnee.
May be miles wrong. Such blendere
'evolve a, risk of . war, and, there- .
fore,' astronemeis have for years pa,st
been busily engaged in trying to
reotify them. But this work 15 inn.
=tensely expensive. The instrtuneute
necessary cost thoneands of pomade
apiece. Pfere is a, chance for a mil-
lionaire to invest a mere lagndrei
thousand, and secure
THE WORLD'S PEACE.
.We have all heard how rapidly the
13r1tis1i coalrelds are being eel:meet-
ed. In little more than a generation
all the available coal to a depth of
four tbounan.d feet will be used up,
and below that depth the expense of
working is So great that our grand-
children will have to pay threq or
four pounds a ton for coal, There
axe two principal ways ,of guarding
against a. oalamity which will spell.
rub • for British ;manufacturers.
Either an, electric device must be
perfected for cutting coal at great
depths., or a means must be invented
of utilizieg our great tides for gen-
erating power. Engineers say that
a perfect tidal machine is only a
matter of time and money. The
millionaire who financed inventors
in thie• line, and at the same time
offered a prize; of, say, n50,000 for
such a machine, would deserve well
of his country.
A third way of dealing with the
roblem of the increasing cost of coal
is suggested by Sir John Wolfe
Barry, and the millionaire who took
it in hand would benefit the country,
Sir John's plan is to gather rain in
enormous reservoirs on 1301 Nevis
and other mountains. The hydrau-
lic pressure so obtained would be
easily convertible
INTO ELECTRIC ENERGY.
Science offers plentiful ilelds for the
expenditure of cash in avian -beg use-
ful knowledge. Supposing, for in-
stance, that we were able to foretell
droughts in India. and Australia.
Sir Norman Loels.yer considers that
proper observa,tionof sun -spots
would undoubtedly give us this
knowledge. But the general public
takes little interest in sun -spots, so
money to spend on observatories is
scarce. Let a rich man put down.
a million and establish fifty observ-
atories at £20,000 each, and in 20
years' time there is every reason to
believe that weather prediction -
might become an exact science. Such
knowledge would save at least a mil-
lion lives a year.
There is another way of 'improving
climate evhich a multi -millionaire
might tackle with every hope of
turning an honest pezmy as
well as of conferring an immense
benefit on drought-strick,?n countries.
He might transform deserts into
oceans by letting in the san through
big canals. The Sahara would offer
• aplendid field for such an experi-
ment except for the fact that the
countries of Southern Europe might
find their climates .affected for the
worse by such a change. There is,
however, no such objection to letting
the sea into the vast depression
which exists in Central Australia,
and so converting 700,000 square
miles of barren desert intoan in-
land ocean. The remaining land of
the island continent would be
TREBLED IN VALUE.
Mr. Baldwin is one of the few mil-
lionaires who are using their money
for the benefit of the world, He has
spent nearly £200,000 u.pon the per-
fectly fitted up expedition which is
at present endeavoring sto reach the
North Pole. Those re°rile who brie
a.gine that the struggle for the North
Pole, is an empty ambition may be
astonished to know that the value of
its discovery to the scientific world
will be almost bealcalable, and that
indirectly it will e the means —
through the improvement of our
knowledge of magnetism — of Salf-
ing many leves yearly at see
If the value of the discovery of the
North Pole is so great, think what
it would mean could the earth bo•
put into communication with Mars!
There is very small doubt but that
Mars is an abode of life. We can
pee the colors .shifting on its foliage
as the seasons change, and its ice-
caps melting and re-forming. Mars
is a, much older planet then this,
Therefore, it is to be imagined that
the inhabitants possess vast stores
of knowledge to which we have not
attained. It is supposed, indeed,
by sonic Of the greatest electricians
that they or the people of some oth-
er planet have long been tailing ust
by electric means which we are not
yet sufficiently advanced to compree
bend. Tenn, declares that it is only
A MATTER OF MONEY
to communicate with Mars. Scouting
the idea, of co-vering a lake with oil
and firing it, or of cutting league -
long letters in the Sahara, he bee
Heves that asi electric oscillator can
he constructed powerful enough to
send its quivers through the ether to
our neighboring planet. A million
so spent has possibilities before,
which imagination falter%
I n Britain 2,500 people per million
die yearly from consumption. Yet if
every consumptive could be isolated
there is no doubt but that the white
plague cosad be utterly stamped ut
Withih two geeerations, It ono of
our multi-millionairesgave five
lions, and a, bill could be got
through Parliament for the isolation
of our ooneunaptives, 13ritain at least
wolnd bo relieved of one isel 1t 'Wort
burdens.:—London 'Austrian&