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CHAPTER XXIX. had discovered the traces of that
At five o'clock that same after- 1tidlvous tragedy.
noon 1 alighted from a hansom be- And why have you come back
:fore the Langham Hotel, and pre- to me now 7" she inquired in e, low,
:senting my card at the bureau, ins strained voice.
.quirod for Miss Anson, The clerk 1 have striven long and diligent -
looked at the rather curious! 1 i; to find you," I answered frank-
-thought, glanced at the card, and ly, "because—because I wished to
.entering the telephone -box, spoke toll you how I lave you --that I have
some words into the instrument, loved you always—from the first
I was shown into a small room moment that We met,"
.on the first floor, where I waited A grave expression crossed her
.until a gentlemanly, middlo-aged, countenance,
fair -headed man entered; with n,y "And yet you forsook mo! You
card in his hand• calmly broke off the secret engage -
"Good afternoon," he said, greet ]tent that we had mutually made,
ing me rather stiffly, "Her High- and left mo without a single word.
peas is at You have married, she added re-
present out driving, is sentfully, "therefore it is scarcely
there anything i can clo 7 I am her fitting ithat you should coma here
socrotary,,,
"Her Highness?" I echoed, catch i psi a false declaration upon your
atake. 1 have called to seo Miss s smile. There meet be seam miss
"1t is no false declaration, I
swear,',' I cried. "As for my wife,
Mabel Anson." I knew her not, and she is now
He regarded me with some sur- dead."
prise. "Dead 1" she gasped. "You knew
"Are you, then, unaware that her not! I don't understand."
Anson is the name adopted by Her "I have loved you always — al -
Highness to preserve her incogni- ways, Princess—for I have only ten
Le ?" he asked, glancing at me in minutes ago ascertained your true
(elide suspicion, "Are you not ranker
t10 of her real rank and sta-
tion 'Mabel to you -as always," she
"No!" I cried, in blank amaze- sold, softly interrupting me.
meat. "This is indeed a revelation Ah, tl aki you for those words 1"
so me 1 I have known Miss Anson I. erred, taking her small gloved
intimately during the past six hand. "1 have Ioved you from the
years, What is her true rank?" first es,lmoment that a met at the
"The lady whom you know as that night? Colonel's, long ago you remember
Misa Anson is Her Imperial High-
fat-
ness the Archduchess Marie Eliza- T shall never forget it,"she beth Mabel, third daughter of His tend id that low tone as of old,
Majeety the Emperor Francis which was as sweetest music to my
Joseph of Austria." ears..
"Mabel 1 The daughter of an Em_ "And you remember that even-
ing when I dined with you at The
peror 1" I gasped involuntarily, !i
"]mpoll
"impossible!" oltons?" I said. "lnoomprchen-
e 1"
He shrugged d his shoulders. :Efe Bible though it may seem, I began
was a foreigner, although he spoke a new life from that night, and for
- ; English well—an Austrian most s5h whole years have existed in a
probably.
state of utter unconsciousness of all
"You are surprised," he laughed, the past. Will you consider me in -
"Many people have also been sur- sane if I tell you that I have no
prised, as the Archduchess living
in England nearly het vvhc'le life,
has frequently been taken for an
Englishwoman,"
"I can't believe it 1" I cried.
"Surely there musb be some miss
.• take 1"
I remembered those days of long
ago when we had wandered to-
gether in Kensington Gardens.
How charming and ingenuous she
was; haw sweet and unaffected by
.worldly vanities, bow trustful was
that look when she gazed into my
eyes 1. Her air was never that of
the daughter of the reigning House
of Hapsbourg-Lorraine. She had
possessed all the enchantment of
ideal grace without the dignity of
rank, and it seemed incredible that
elle was actually a princess whose
ha= was the mosb brilliant Court
of Europe.
"I can quite understand your
gni-prise, observed the secretary
• .•r "But what, is the nature of your
business, with Her Highness?"
"It is of a purely private na-
ture."
Fie glanced at the card.
"The Archduchess does not re-
ceive callers," he answered coldly.
"But ab least you will giveher
my name, and tell het that I have
something of urgent importance to
communicate "
'
t0hel
cried ed ea -
g
oily.
He hesitated. "If you are, as
you allege, an old friend, I will
iplace your card before her," he
said at last, with some hesitation.
"You may Ieave your address, and
) if I3er Highness consents to receive
you I will comniunicate'with you."
"No," 1 answered in despera-
tion; "I will remain and await her
return,,,
"That is impossible," he respond-
ed "She has many engagements,
and certainly cannot receive you
to -da .
y
I recollected that the letter I hail
found at Donbur•y made it' plain
that we had parted abruptly. If
this man gave her my card without
any word, it was more than likely
that she wonld refuse to see rte, '
Therefore 1 entered into argil -
meet with him, batt while I was
speaking the door opened suddenly,
1d
a Ill �
r love stood y oc before me.
She halted there, elegantly
dressed havingjest return
ilfr ,,y, ed from
her c •i
drive, and nor a moment we
faced cath other speechless, •
"Mr, Heaton 1" she cried, and
then, in breathless hurry arising.
from the sudden and joyful sur
prise, she d
forward. rd,
Our hands grasped. For the Mo-
ment I could utter no word. The
1 ' eacretary, noticing our mutual em
barrassment, dieeveetly withdrew,
closing the door after biro,
Once again 1 found myselfafter
those six lost years, alone with my
love,
"At last!" I cried, "At last I
have found you, after all these
menthe 1" I was earnestly gazing
into her greet dark eyes, She had
altered but little since that night
long ago ;it Tho Boltons, wlrerl I
the first," she faltered. "I hid
front you the /acrd of my birth,
and it was at my request Colonel
Uhanning—who, of course, knew
Inc well when he was British At-
tache et Vienna—refused to tell
you the truth. You wander, of
course, that I should live in Eng-
land incognita. Probably, howev-
er, you know that my mother, the
late Etnpress, loved England and
the English. She gavo Eno an Eng-
lish name et my baptism, and when
only Ave years of age 1 was sent
here to be educated. At seventeen
I returned to Vienna, but soon be-
came tired of the eternal glitter of
Palace life, and a year or two lat-
er, es soon as I was of age and my
awn mistress, I returned to Lon-
don, took into my service Mrs. An-
son, the widow of an English offi-
cer well known to my mother, and
in order to preserve my incognita
caused her to pass as my mother.
I took the house at The Boltons,
and only Colonel and Mrs. Chan-
ning knew my real station. I was
passionately fond of music, and.de- tens I have not seen her since,''
shad to complete my studies, be- 1 then related how for the past
sides which I am intensely fond of month I had been closely watching
London and of life unfettered by her, and repeated the conversation
the trammels which must hamper 1 bad overheard at Hull between
the daughter of an Emperor."
"You preferred a quiet, free life
in London to that at your father's
Court' 1"
"Exactly," she answered, "At come an agent of the Bulgarian
twenty-one I had hall my fill of life Government. She knows the truth,"
at Court, and found existence in she said decisively. "We must ob-
London, where I was unknown, far tain it from her,"
more pleasant, Besides Mrs. Ams "It was a woman who struck the
son, I had a companion a young young Prince down!" I exclaimed
Englishwoman who bad been gover- quickly. "Of that I am certain.'
ness in a well-known family in Vi- My love reflected for a brief in-
enna. Her name was Grainger." stant.
"Grainger?" I cried. `Edna "Perhaps," slie said. "The wo-
Grainger?" man was jealous of the attention ho
"The same. She was my compels- paid me."
ion. Well, after I had been estab- (To be Continued.)
lished at T -he Boltons nearly a
year I mot, while on a visit to acountry house,
with
who I becamea n ung
friendly THE TERRIBLE TYPHOON
terms—Prince Alexander, heir to
tate throne of Bulgaria. We met
often; and altthough I still passed
HAVOC OF LAST JULY'S STORM
as Mabel Anson, our acquaintance-
ship ripened into a mutual affee- IN CHINESE CITIES.
tion. With a disregard for the con-
veniences, T induced Mrs. Anson to
invite him on several. occasions to Destruction at Canton, Where f:
Tho Boltons. One morning, how- Flftli of the Population Lives
ever, I received a private message
5
from Count de Wl allcenstern-Tres- on River Craft.
thing, our oto
ambassador here, say-
ing that he had received a cipher As surely as the sun Deuce south
telegraphic despatch that my father, after the sumtner solstice the
the Emperor, was very unwell, and months of early auturu following
his Excellency suggested that I are months of terror for the people
should return to Vienna. This 1 of China and the insular chain
did, accompanied by Mrs. Anson, along the China Sea, The typhoon
knowledge whatever of meeting you and leaving the woman Grainger
blissful in all my life, and the
your love suddenly cooled. Ye
had embarked in financial schem
it: the City eyuu were liecoining e
ricked by some concessions in Bu
garia, it was whispered --but you
love for me slowly died, and yo
married a woman twice your eg
Can you imagine my feelings?
was heart -broken, Wilford -•titters
heart -broken,"
"But I knew not what I was do
ing 1" I hastened to declare,
loved you always --always.
M
brain had been injured by alta
blow, and all my tastes and feeling
thereby became inverted,"
"I remained in England a fo
weeks Ionger., wandered aimless
hither and thither, and then at las
returned to Vienna and plunged in
to the vortex of gaiety at Cour
in order to forget my sorrow."
"And that woman Grainger
What of her?"
"She left my service about
month after that night when you
met with your accident at The Bol
her and her visitors on the previ-
oats night.
"Tho woman, after leaving my
service, has, it seems, somehow be -
after that night, and only knew of to charge of the household as usual,
our engagement by c}iscovcringtltis 1 wrote to the young Prince from
letter among my private papers a Vienna, but received no reply, and
couple of months ago? and I drew when T returned a fortnight later
her letter from ely pocket. searched for him in vain. He had
"Your words sound most remark- mysteriously disappeared, A few
able," she said, deeply interested. days before, in my dreams, I had
"`Relate the whole of the facts to seen the fatal raven, the evil omen
Inc. But first comp along to my of my House and feared the worst.'
sitting -room. We niay, bo inter- "Then the elan who was rnurder-
rupted here." ed at The Boltons on that night
And she led the way to the end was none other than Prince Alex -
of the corridor, where wo entered ander, the heir to the throne of
an elegant little salon, ono of the Bulgaria!" I crier.!•
handsome suite of rooms she mu- "Without a doubt," she answer -
pied. ed: ',What you have just told me
She drew forth a chair for me, makes it all plain. You took from
and allowing a middle-aged gentle- the dead man's pocket a small gold
woman—her lady-in-waiting, 1, pre- pencil -case, and you will remember
sunle—to take her hat and gloves, that I rocognizod it as one that 1
we once more found ourselves had given him. It was that fact
alone, which caused me to suspect you."
How exquisitely beautiful she "Suspect me? Did you believe
was 1 Yet her royal birth, alas 1 mr•, guilty of murder 1"
placed her beyond my reach. AU my "I olid not then know that nrur-
hopes and aspirations had been in der had been committed. All that
an instant crushed by the know- was known was that the heir to the
ledge of her rank. I could only now throng hacl mysteriously disappear -
relate to her the truth, and seek ed. The terrible truth I have just
her forgiveness for what had seem- learnt from your lips. The discov-
eci a cruel injustice. Ery that the little gift 1: had made
I took her unresisting hand, and to him was, in your possession 1111 -
told her how long ago I had loved ed me with suspicion, and in order
her, not Glaring to expose to her the t,, 'solve the mystery I invoked the
great scorer; of my heart. If we had aid of the police -agent attached to
mutually decided ripen marriage, our Embassy, and invited both of
and I had deliberately deserted you to dine, in order that he might
her, it was, I declared, because of meet you. You will remember the
that remarkable unconsciousness man you met on that night?"
whioli had blotted out all knowledge "Hickman 1" I cried. g"Was Ile
of my life previous to that last really a police -agent?"
night when we had `lined together, "Yes. He induced you it a -
and I hacl accompanied the man pears, to go to it lodging she had
Rickman to his lodgings. taken for the purpose, and with -
"But tell me all, she urged, cut my knowledge gave you a drug -
"so that I can understand and gees cigar. You full unconscious,
judge acbordingly. and this enabled hitt to thoroughly
And then, beginning at the begin- overhaul your pockets, and also to
nit I recounted ecounted the. whole of the gn to .your chambers' during the
amazing facts'just ,as 1 hate tar- night, enter with your latch -key,
rated them -to the reader in these and make a complete search, the re -
foregoing chaptets: suit of which convinced las both that
I think the telling occupied most you had no hand in the missing
part of au hour; but she sat there, man's disappearance, in spite of the
her lovely eyes fixed upon me, her fact that his dress -stud and pencil.
month half open, held dumb and' case were in your possession. On
motionless by the strange story 1 the following morumg, however,
unfolded, Once or twice she gave when yen were bub half conscious—
vent to ejaculations .of surprise, and Hickman having then returned from
I saw that only by dint of supreme ,taking his search at Essex Street
effort did she succeed in preserving —you accidentally struck your head
her golf control. ,t told her overt' - 'a violent blow on the corner of the
thing, 1 did nob seek to conceal stone inantel-shelf, This blow, so
oro single fact, severe that they wore compelled to
"And ho was aotnally murdered remove you to the hospital, apper-
11 my, house? she erred, starting eptly affected your brain, for when
tip at last. "You were present 7" t met you again a month later you
1 0xplained to her in detail the seemed curiously vacant in mind,
events of that fateful night. and I1ad uo recollection whatever,
"Then at last the truth is plain 1" of the events thab had passed."
she exclaimed. "You have supplied "I had none,I assure" .
the key to the enigma for which said, yell, I
have been so long sn search 1" "It seemed marvellous that you
„Tell me, 1 sand, in breathlose should be utterly in ignorance of
earnestness. "Alt thesis years 1 what followed," she wont on, her
have been striving in vain to. solve sweet eyes still gazing deeply into
the problem• mine, "You told me how you e Ioved
She paused, her. dark, fathomless me end I loving g you in return;;
oyes fixed upon rte, as though we entered upon a clandestine.on-
lackrn oouee o' to g
g g tell zoo the o gagemapt that was to be secret fico
that comes whirling out of the In-
dian Ocean or the Formosan
Straits visits the entire coast from
Singapore to Vladivostok, leaving
behind a more or less serious re-
cord of destruction in towns swept
clown, junks sunk and villages
along the groat river deltas of
South China inundated.
On July 27 last the worst typhoon
that had visited Hongkong and Can-
ton in years raged through half the
hours of night and when morning
came there were milds of wreckage
to mark its path, a total of nearly
0 thousand deaths and a loss to
commerce that passed into the mil-
lions of dollars.
Canton and the swarluing river
population centered Upon the Can-
ton River and the great delta that
marks the passage of this and other
confluent streams into the China
Sea suffered the most. Hongkong,
situated away from the congested
Chinese river and land cities and
built by Europeans, felt the blow
only in its harbor, where heavy
steamers were driven on shore,
loaded lighters sunk like
PUNCTURED SHOE BOXES
and the Government craft tossed
indiscriminately against piers and
bulkheads.
The river steamer Ying Ring,
bound from Canton to Hongkong
and parrying 300 passeltgers, was
suck, only twelve of the entire list
c f passengers and crew escaping
with their lives, The British tor-
pedo boat Whiting was blown
ashore at Lyeemoott Pass, and two
lighters were jammed against her
stern so tighly that sho olid not even
list, although nearly above the
reach of the waves,.
More than a hundred sampans
and 'u
y nks ilia.# were in the swarm
of rivet• craft et Canton sank with
their Truman freight helpless,. At
Canton the P10110h gunboats Vigi-
lante and Argus were driven ashore
and the British gunboat Robin
Piled up on a mud bank.
The terrors of a typhoon can
itar•dly be appreciated outside of the
lands that are particularly ravaged
by thein., The China coast typhoon
is a West Indian cyclone, It jumps
across the yellow ocean between the
Malayy States and Japan with hard-
ier a chance for a six hour -advance
storm warning, and with a deluge
of rain and sea water sucked tip
from the ocean and an irresistible
upward force it sweeps a thousand
miles 'of coast.
]Solid structures of brick and
stone, s1ch 0$ the foreign built
hnildings of Hongkong and Shang-
hai, 31107 suffer nothing more than
the stripping off of their roofs, but
the flimsy bamboo and plaster house
oe of the Chinese coolies rand more
paflticularly their river boats aro
as jaolestraws in the
TEETH OF 'THI, STORM,
the last typhoon's damage mention-
ed the fast that among the river
boats in the vicinity of Clairton and
the delta the heaviest casualties
were recorded. Whorl ib is remem-
bered that almost ane -fifth of the
population of Canton is gathered on
the decks and in the hutches of all
manner of iloatieg craft in the
broad river that paRses the city
walls it can be understood what
terrific havoc a typhoon sweeping
across the river is capable of d
This city of boats on the C'a
River, line on line and tier on
of sampans, houseboats, duck f
ere' craft, Bower boats bee,
blossoms down from the fields
country, mandarins' floating
Ener houses and beggars' r
forms a black scum of craft on b
sides of the yellow river with
a narrow channel for the pass
of the steamers, tugs and ]aun
in the centre.
So thickly wedged one agains
other are these permanent d
dings of the riverfolk that a
may pass and the duck farmer
find himaelf next to the monde
umbrellas and the beggar
steps from boat to boat on
round for alms is neighbor to
gentleman pirate laid up fora
to escape the wrath of the local ta-
totai.
Let a typhoon come rearing
the river from the delta on so
afternoon when the burning sun
suddenly snuffed out by the clo
rack even before the river' folk h
time to slam the shutters of th
windows against the blast and
harvest of death and destruction
iuevi able. Boats grind agar
lighters and
LIGHTERS SWAMP SAMPAN
Th poor folic who jump into
river are crushed by the collisio
of the craft; those who stay si
with their homes when a Ivey
prow than theirs conies ranuni
down with the sweep of waves. 1'
often sweeps from end to end of t
tangs of river craft, and even t
stone abutments of the quays a
the iron warhouses along the sho
sometimes crumble before the a
lane of splintered wood and m
tal, representing the tangle
boats that is hurled against th
by the sudden onrush.
During the last typhoon, scan
ONTIIEFARMa
WEANING FOALS.
Foals, as a rule, .bud better h
weaned at tare to six months old
e
aing, They' should he used to being kept
eton in a box stall with the dam part o
tiex Y nn time bcfor
arrn-
ring
sunt- t t 11 h male is neede
afta, the loalltwr a or three tines a day
only and then less frequently each day,
ago thus drying, her gradually, or, as
oleos some prefer, the foal may be wean-
ed by taking it away from its dale
t rho at onto, foto good and all, provided
wen- it has previnlasly learned to eat and
year { rink, in kept case the etre
still, P far enough away to
x of prevent her hearing the foal call,
ivho and milked twice a day at first, and
his later once a day, to avoid trouble
the from mammitis, till she is suffioi-
pe11 ontly dry to be safe. If there are
two foals on the farm to be weaned,
it is better to'keep them together
u for company, as one is likely to
oro' worry from loneliness. After the
is sly season is over, it is good practice
ud to allow the foal the run of a yard
are r,x paddock daily Inc exercise, and
est it should be fed regularly a fairly
the liberal ration of a mixture of chop -
1 is ped oats and bran, and, if avail-
able, a carrot or two, in addition
to what good sweet clover hay it
will clean up between meals. This
S. treatment should be continued
the through the winter, the amount of
ns grain and other feed being gradu-
nk ally increased as the foal grows
ser older. Attention -should be given
ng to his hoofs, which will be liable to
ire grow long and unshapely unless
he trimmed and rasped occasionally to
he keep them in good shape.
nd
re FARM NOTES.
va-
of In filling walls with sawdust
em
each da. fur fame
weaning, and, while the mare i
tied, sumo chopped oats and bra
kept in a box or manger for the ion
onibbleat.the
cr ore, etre may bo returned t
I �
ash on
H Qiits,
9;"F irk H•1 i"a••deS ei ei.eteiel efel,:feleloot
1: Al)S ANI) FANCIES.
f The ribbon craze still increases,
e Taupe is the ruling shade in hats.
s Satin has the greatest vogue in
n. res history.
1 Pearl and crystal beads halo re-
d turned to favor.
o Half the new silks for general
wear are taffeta.
Now velvets show a tendency to.
ward fruit shades,
]yearly all winter coats show a
short waisted effect,.
Crepe de chine is one of the prin-
cipal fabrics of the year,
The full felt hat -is coming again
to its own for winter. wear.
Street skirts are but a trifle long.
0:than the summer dresses have
been.
Sleeves are longer and flatter and.
they closely follow the lines of the
arm.
The separate coat of velvet will
be one of the features of the win-
ter,
The plaid suit or kilted plaid
skirt has been adopted by leaders
of Paris fashion,
Unlined taffetas of standard col-
ors in good qualities are the ones
that bear washing.
Moire silk has appeared in the
market as the foundation of some
of the most exquisite hats.
Huge mercury wings, bowknots, ,
and enorinous Bowers are among
the new garnitures for the coiffure.
The season's trend of fashion in-
dicates that soft satin ribbon will
be used to a great extent.
Hat flowers, such as roses, pop-
pies, and pond lillies are made from
gauze, tissues, sattins, silks, and
velvets,
A color that is having a great
success is a beautiful light and rich
brown that is classed among the
suedes,
Dull colored linens with velvet,
silk, or kid collars and cuffs of
darker hue will be warn well into
the autumn.
Enoemous wings and feather
bands are in sharp competition
with the many ostrich and heron ef-
fects in millinery.
Most prominent among the new
weaves are cheviots, plain and
striped, diagonal and wide waled,
and the herringboned serges.
There is a fad for converting
crepe de chine into blouses Inc wear
with suits of same or kindred ma-
terial.
Cachemere, timidly introduced
last season, now promises to he one
of the favorites of the year far a
dress •material.
The main characteristic of the
gown of the present day rs the sil-
l'ouette of straight, slender proper -
ions and the high waist line,
Torohon, the reliable lace of our
mothers, is again strongly in fash-
on, and because of its indrsetruc-
ible qualities is in great favor.
An old time plan bock in fashion
s fur running the ruffle about four
aches up the sleeve, the scam of
chich is slit to accommodate the
unlink,
Fashion authorities declare that
he high pompadour is doomed and
hat side puffs with a parted front
nd low knot at the back will come
1, its place.
A long empire stole is made up of
bree rows of long ostrich barbs,
eparated by marabout and with
It
tag ends of the sane kind, and
ted with marabout.
Filet band embroideries are
loam in numbers for trimmings.
erhaps the greatest novelty is the
mite meshed string filet, which is
\tre111ely coarse indeed and is em-
rnidcred in cot's° crewels.
Popular runabout hats to be worn
ni of satin in
t umn st is are 5th autumn
•1ne shade of. brawn cllandrou,
ue, or gray, trimmed with hands
satin, velvet piped, and long
ills or plumes, but to be ultra.
lett these should be in one toile,
e
t
e
GH
The
h
e
t
ho
e
r
v
e
h
hers could see their way to safety.
When the storm ]lad ceased and
the indrivon waters of the river had
found channel the searchlights were
played upon the stranded heaps of
lhcover boats and other smaller river
craft that lay mixed with the ti
bens of the houses destroyed o
land. The work of rescue of t
ing tothe despatches, several for-
eign steamers moored at t
wharves at Canton, though in da
ger of being pounded to pie`
thorns Ives, did great service in tl
savingof lives by turning the
searchlights out into the blackne
of the sterni so that those who we
caughtin the swirling muck of tis
whether for silos, icehouses or root -
bins, the sawdust should be dry and
well packed down, or it will shrink
and settle and leave empty spaces.
There is such a thin as bei
g ng too
he economical about the expenditure of
n- money for farm tools. True, tools
es of all kinds cost. And yet, the man
1° who expects to keep up with the
It procession in those days of sharp
ss' competition must bo prepared with
to the latest improved farm imple
11- =tents to do his work promptly and
ir. season,
Rye can he sowed for a cover crop
as late as October, but the earlier
it. is sown the better growth it will
make and the more perfectly it will
cover the ground, When plowed
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was thus facilitated,
On the morning after the typhoon
-j under, rya adds nothing to the s
1 but organic matter trade from pia
food already in the soil. On t
other hand, crimson clover, bei
a legume, takes ]nitrogen from t
air and stores it up in the soil. F
cart after cart hearing the gre
wooden boxes that represent to
Chinese ideal in coffins was draw
to the river's side and the gandil
painted, clumsy chests were range
1n long rows. Then 11111 /0(5 o
]lien worked quickly, for ib is he
in Canton, burrowing through th
mass of timbers along shore i
search of the bodies of those wiles
lives had been snuffed out during
the night.
5.
WHATEll'1C.'6$.lNl)S ARE.
Sands from 11'hieh Water is Not
Drained Away.
Quicksand, i,e., moving or living
and, is ordinary sand so saturated
with water that it will not bear
ny considerable weight. Sand that
dry, or not very wet, becomes
't being pressed closely compacted
nd less yielding, but where there
sufficient water mixed with to
keep the grains apart, it does not
ohere, and yields to any weight.
Quicksands, then, aro sands from
Moll the water is not drained
w•ay, either because a constant
rrent pisses through thein, or
cause there is a dense substratum
clay er rook. They are common-
foundnear ea the mouths
of, large
vers, or where there aro springs
on flat beaches.
Probably 'those who fall into
is `sands would not bo engulfed,
they kepb quite quiet. As soon
the sand .reached their dun they
11111 be supported rather more
an if they were in ordinary water,
ing to the greater density of the
:dere of sand. and water i ater which
nstitutes a quicksand.
at I this reason it makes a far better
e. cover crop than rye.
'111 There is no labour more universal
y; among cultivators than the attelnp-
f'Led destruction of weeds and there
11 none which is commonly gone
e- about with more irregularity and
want of system. Weeds infest near.
11' lv all cultivated grounds, and their
e destruction le generally attempted
after they have grown a foot high,
more or less, either by laborious
!rand labor, or more rapidly but
more imperfectly with the work of
horses. In the garden, it is mostly
performed, if at all, by the hand;
an the large cornfield the plow and
cultivator turn over or teal' up the
largo weeds and leave many un-
touched. The true management
should he the contulenenlent of this
labor with the planting or sowing
of the crop.
REGULARITY IN' FEEDING.
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H6's quite a classical scholar,
't he?"
`Well, ice's backward in reading
brow,"
'You don't say) I thought he
s particularly good at that,"
So he is, but that's the way you
vo to read Hebrew,"
A DOWNHILL GAIT.
he Thin Man—You remind me of
or.
he Fat Man—Because why?
10 Thin Man—Because you can't
up1111,
ne trouble with the man wh
is out to kill time is that he
te lot of time belonging to busy
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Canton facile the typhoon ntot•o 0
than any other great city of Chita star
n11, r1 fow mutter menthe want because of it �n 1
I deceived you; Wilford, from by, heppy, joyous months, the most lunation, Tho dospatehea mouri!detailpc- ing keels
, pael
A. horse that'is fed regularly will
he. in better Condition on three mea-
sures of oats in the day than one
that is fed irregularly will be on
four, Ile knows exactly when his
attendant will feed slim, and does
not weary for his meals; whereas a
horse that is fed at any or all times
S
5, never really satisfied and will
a c w
worry while waiting for his care-
less attendant and his meals, Ir-
regularity in feeding is also a pro-
ductive cause of many stable vices.
No more straw or hay should be
placed before a horse in the morn-
ing than he will eat up cleanly in
en hour, a less quantity should be
given at midday, and in the even-
ing: she should never get any more
than will reasonably serve stint over
right. Regularity m feeding is im-
portant; in any class of live stock
us insuring the best results,
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS,
First Scholar—What's the 'lectri-
eian dorm' over at the schoolhouse1
Second Soho as Puttin' in a 'lee -
trio swite11,—
First Sch olat Gee mu11y1 If
hey's goin' ter do the Belt' by
loctriclty I quit,
SPREAD OF THE DOCTRINE.
Dingtlss are you ever going
CI pay me what you owe me?"
"You'll got it sono day, Shad-
elt, We're going to organize apo-
tiet,l party rvitria platform de-
manding, that the 'government shall
zInnre the payment of all private
AS T SOMETIMES,DOES.
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1 0r5.
SOaI 1 5
Siunkens--"ZWell, the 1lnexpected
hag happened,"
Timkcns-- '\What is it)" •
Sickens—"Short paid that bill I
have been expecting slim to pay for
ten years,"
A LOOK AHEAD,
0, listen to the little bird,
That singeth in the sun ;
It knoweth it can fly away
As soon as summer's clone
1''rom furnaces and slushy walks,
And stay away till spring,
So listen to the lucky bird—
No wonder it doth sing.
HER TRUE MEANING,
When a woman declares
She has nothing to wear,
. What she really 1ileans is
She has nothing to air.
Lawyer -•-"Are you sure that oc-
currence was on the 17±1 of,
tho 111ontir'1'' Wilnes--"Yes, it
was the 17th," Lawyer —"Now,
remember', you aro under .' oath,
I nw do y°ltyl�now it 1656 the 17th?"
Witness---" ( arise ,lay bcforo
that--" Lawyer's-- "Be earoful
what you say, nary, Go on," Wit-
noss " ---was the 18th, and the
day actor it was the 18±'i.'1