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°HAMER XXXL.—(Oentinued) surly -looking man—a Belgian, (iv -
dently, from hie acceet, Ilio made
ids purchases without Mere COM -
Mate than the oteaelon cionlancled ;
and le any one presemed to question
him atx to the number of the bause-
hold—U it ware madame or monsieur
whom they. had the honor of serving
—Ws reply was a gloomy suggestion
that the hiquireir should mind his
own affairs, -
Persons drew their own coaelusiora
Articles of every kind wore perches-
ed—books, ',epees, eigars, winea, old
cognae. 6.'her0 must thetainly be a
gentlemen living at, the chateau, and
a lady too; there was no znistake
about that. Gradually, however, all
euripsity ceased, for the simple rea
eon that it was never gratified, ad
ihe Chateau Maoris remained as
great a mystety us ever. But, after
a Gine, one of the inhabitants al the
old 'house issued from au seclusion.
She was a tall, dark, stately wo-
Man, with a strange beauty of her
own, A story of passion was writ-
ten on her face. The dark eyes
burned with almost lurid light, a
grand but distorted, darkened soul
looked out of them with proud, pain-
erl defiance,
Sho went frequently to St. Reilly;
eo one know whether she was wife
or Widow. She eevev spoke of hus-
band or children; but she wore a
wedding -ring, and called hereelf Ala -
dame Si. Ange, She alWayS wore
black, loose, gracefully -hanging gar-
ments that fell in statuesque folds
about aer; she walked with a proud
stately grace that was peculiar to
herself. Once, as she was passing
down the Rue d'Espagne, a pretty
little girl fell dowa a few yards in
advance of her, and hurt herself bad-
ly. The child's cries were piteous,
yet Madame St. Ague did not go up
to her, as any kind-hearted woman
would have done, and raise her from
the ground; she had no words of
sweet womanly compassion for her,
but stepped aside so that even her
dress should not touch the little one.
With a cry on her lips, the mother
came rushing out of her house, and
saw madarae passing by with raised
head, as though she neither saw nor
heard the child.
Lord Fielden's own idea Was that
Lola had taken refuge in Eranee; it
was most orobable for many peer
gone, wed he spent eome weekle 01
Parial. The Feels *MOMS began to
grow interested ixt the 'march; even
the Rlaleken deteetive service had
been draWn into the bueinees; and
110 11131VE1 'that the telegraphic wires
(meld have flashed frora one end of
the world to the ether would have
given greater satisfaction than the
intelligenee ' tbith, liYiflg or dead,
eomething was known of Lola de Fere
Tben Lord Fielden had another
idea, he believed that it was very
Prebable oho would be found in some
religioushouse, in ono of those in-
etitutione where wearied bearts find
rest. So in England and 'Franca
the strong arm of the law was
• brought into force; but the search in
• this direction was equally fueile, The
dark beautiful face which had
brought rulu and desolation to
. Scarsdale remained undiscovered.
It was almost pitiful to see how
Gertrude and Lord Fielden watched
the post—the sickness of hope deferr-
ed indeed made the young girl's
heart sink. Ono morning; a whole
bundle of letters came; none of thein
contained any news of particular in-
terest, but they occupied considerable
time in the reading and answering.
'7 wonder, Lord Fielden," said
Gertrude, wheu the last, envelope
was directed. "If ever there will
be an end to this quest of mine?"
"There is an end to everything,
Gertrude," he replied, thinking to
himself that the one exception was
his own great love for her. There
could never be any end to that—at
was impossible,
"I wonder," she continued, "what
I shall have to fill ray life and to in...
terest ine when this is over. I shall
be quite lost. Now every day brings
its own work, and that work occu-
Mee my whole time. I do not think
I could ever live without some real
employment again."
"You need not do so," said Lord
Fielden, with a quick throb at his
heart. "X know work that will just
suit you."
"What is it?" she asked, her blue
oyes fixed on the spreading- beeches.
"Women's rights?"
"Women's rights in one sense of
the word, Gertrude," he replied—"de-
cidedly not in the other. You ought
to have a husband who loves you,
not with a commonplace affection,
but with an unfathomable love."
"Ile has to be found," interrupted
Gertrude, with a. shy, sweet smile.
indeed, Ile leas not; ho is woman's shape and not a woman's
fouad." heart?"
But Gertrude would not listen. The dark face, lowered slightly
"I can think of nothing yet but now, flashed defiance at her.
"A woman's heart!" she replied.
With bitterest scorn. "A woman's
heart should always be mode of
stone! Mine is, thank Heaven!"
The fierce words and fierce look so
completely startled the woman that
she stepped aside and picked up her
injured child without saying another
word; but all day long she could not
forget what madame had said— "A
woman's heart should always be
made of stone! Mine is, thank
Heaven!"
"Pain!" laughed Mademe Si, Ange
to herself. "She calls that pain—
not look at him. She seemed to a broken limb, a wounded arm, a few
forget all about him in the thought bruises! Ah, Heaven, what do they
of answering his question. know of pain? 1 would endure the
"Yes," she replied; "I think 1 most terrible physical suffering if it
would.
Tie turned away with a deep sigh,
and without seeing the furtive glance
front Gertrude's blue eyes.
"I wonder," said Il'arry, with an
impatient stride across the room,
"if it would have been better for me
Who are you?" she cried, "that
you treat my pretty child as though
she were the dust under your feet?"
She had placed hersell so complete-
ly before the haughty lady that she
could not take another step forward.
"Your child is nothing to me; let
Inc pass," madame said haughtily;
and tbe mother almost forgot the
injured little one in her anger.
"Who are you?" she repeated, in a
shrill angry voice, ”who have a
finding my father," she said, gently.
Gertrude," he cried, '`suppose
that some man—we will presume that
he would be in every way eligible—
should. through his own exertions
and skill, bring to you certain proofs
of your father's innocence, the sure
solving of the mystery that sur-
rounds his name and Gait of Lola. de
Fares, would you, as a reward,
=wry him.?"
His heart beat so violently as he
asked the question that he was
afraid she would hear it; his sus-
pense was so great that he could
• hardly draw his breath. But she did
would hut raise me from my living
fleath."
After that the people hated her ;
they had heard the story of how she
had passed the injured child, without
even deigning to look at it.
So the years xolfrti on, and the
if I had never been, born? !evil reputation of the Chateau Fleur -
"I should say that it is manyl is remained. During all that time
years too late to answer the ques-' Ma.chune St. Ange had never Made
tion," observed Gertrude. one call, had never admitted one vis -
And so their conversation ended; itor, had never, so the postman said,
but he did not forget it. Lord leiel- received one letter, had never been
den felt convinced that the only way I seen inside a church, had done ap-
to win the prize of Gertrude's love parently no single thing that any
was by clearing up the mystery of !benevolent Christian lath, should do.
her father's disappearance; and that No man or woman ever asked her for
was the task ho set himself to per- charity, and in the whole of St.
form.
Remy there was not a living soul to
whom she had shown the least kind -
CHAPTER. X- XXII. ness.
Near the pretty town of St. Remy A large fair was held yearly at St.
In a remota corner of France, stands Remy, at which it was the custom
a chateau quite shut in from the for all the country -people to assem-
ble. Madame St, Ange detested this
world by the forest that surrounds
ft, To an imaginative person it fair, and denounced it in very
seemed as though an evil influence vigerous language, forbidding any
had passed over the place, a breath' 01 1251' household to attend it. When,
of tainted ale, a something vague'
from the pealing of all the bells of
and terrible that mettle this forest St. Remy and the distant music of
unlike any Other.
the hands, she found that the 00011-
There was E5 path cut straight try people were enjoying themselves,
, she would walk over to Hilaire -sur -
through it that led from the town
of St. Remy to Hilaire-sur-Illione ; Rhone, where no vulgar sounds of
and it chanced at times that some
.mti01 or woman hastening home was
caught by the fast -falling night and
belated in the forest. All such per -
eons had terrible tales to tell. They
spoke of strange unearthly sounds
that re-eehoed through the glades,
and of sights that froze the blood in
their veins, and their stateraeuts
Were most devoutly believed.
A brook which should have been a
laughing sunlit rivulet ran ;through
one part, but the waters were dark
and brackish; they gave forth e.
len murmur rather than a musical
ripple. If the surrounding's were
uncongenial, the interior of tbe cha-
teau was much worse, and strange
stories connected with it wore circul-
ated in the neighborhood—stories of
blood -stains on the floor of one of
• the upper rooms which nothing could
wash out, of mysterious noiSes lit
'Corridors and passages, of cries by
night and Veer rustlings by day,
now long the old house had stood
erapty no one knew; people hardly
knew indeed when it had been inbah-
Atha. The blue smoke had curled tip-
• ward from the thinnulye of the cha-
• teau mow long inonths before it was
noticed, and thee there was little or
• no intercourse betWeen tho occupants
Mid the villa -germ;
• Once every Week a oath was driven
frem the chat -au 10 81. Remy by a
pleasure came; for Hilaire was essen-
tially an aristocratie place, with
pretty scenery. Asgecat source of
attraction was a, mineral spring that
had been discovered some years be-
fore, and a fine building had been
erected in connection with it. There
were baths, a large assembly-room—
where dancing took place and grand
balls were given—and, last but not
least, there was a well-managed lib-
rary, which• was a boon to all the
inhabitants. It consisted of two
large rooms, one filled with well-
seleetecl books, the other furnished
With reading -tables and easy-ehairs.
Hare newspapers of all kinds, espec-
ially English, could be found. Tbe
Times, the Graphic, the Illustrated
Loudon News, and several of the so-
ciety Journals were among the num-
ber, probably because num;v of the
villtie were occupied by English peo-
ple,
tTo creature in Hilaire troubled hie
or her head about the Chateau Flour -
is. That ouch a place existed on the
other side of the forest they all
knave, but no one ever naked who
lived them. The librorian could
have given Etny one the address of
Maclaine St. Miro, for he very often
supplied her with boxes of books; but,
boyoad thet he knee, nothing ot her.
Ito did not knots, her by sight; the
eurly Belgian tvansacters all the nee-
emereitegivfl Alma or entitle/a (swamis thine) eusaeAlan, (teselle) AND
metors (warm) euetts eceeele AND SOANDINAVJA.'
°Eatery business, Madame' Ste. An
went 0C0asionally to rillaire-sur
Rhone: Paid the entrance fee to th
library, and read the papers; th
society journals especially she rea
with eager avidity, but generally MI
them down with n deep -drawn bitter
sigh. So 'many visitors came .and
went that she attracted no atten-
tion; certainly she seldom entered th
reading -rooms when any one was
there; she chose purposely the early
hours of the day and rainy days
when the English invalids solden
ventured out.
Yet she took up tha Time; it was
lying there in piles, every nenthei
for some weeks Past. The first thing
the saw was the advertisement al-
luding to herself. One hundred
pounds reward was offered to any
one who could give cextain informa-
tion as to Lola de Ferras' death; or,
if it could be proved that she was
still living, the amount would be
doubled. The color of her face
changed• as she read.
"Living . or dead—what can they
want with 1110 In either case?" she
said to herself. "I1 is, it must be
Dolores!" she cried. •
Then she looked eagerly at the ea-
dress—"Lord Fielden, or Mr. Shaw,
Waterloo Road, London."
"What can it mean? What can
have happened?" she asked herself.
"What can Lord Fielden have to do
with me? And who is Mr. Shaw?"
She looked through the file of the
Times and saw that every copy con-
tained the same advertisement; then
she examined the other English news-
papers, and found to her surprise
that there was a similar announce-
ment in each. She put her hand to
her head with a bewildered air.
'it's a ruse of Dolores'," she
thought. And yet she know that
Lady Allamnore had left England
long years before.
The first idea that occurred to her
was that some one who had known
her in the olden days had died and
left her some money.
• "I do not want it," she murmur-
ed; "all the money in the world
would not be the least use to
Me."
Yet, she reflected, it could hardly
he that. "Living or dead." What
could it mean? If Dolores had had
anything to say to her she would
have sought her long since. Per-
haps she was dead. Dolores dead 1
Deer face flushed hotly and lier eyes
gleamed fiercely.
"But the dead," she said to her-
self, "suffer no longer."
She looked carefully through the
list of "Deaths," but she did not
find Dolores' name there.
"I must have learned it in some
way had she died," she thought.
Why was search being made for
her after more than sixteen years
had elapsed? Night came, but she
could not sleep; the succeeding clay
brought no rest. Through the long
wakefel hours the question haunted
her, "Why do they want ine?" The
days grew into weeks, and her very
life seemed to be in danger from the
one strong desire to know what had
happened. She would not write, she
would never voluntarily let any of
her old friends know where she was
living. The only theme therefore
which remained for her was to go
over to England and ascertain for
herself what was the Meaning of
these mysterious advertisements.
!,isleosbcnieaeth the white wig that she
wvior
0! She had been somewhat seemd and
o bewildered, at her owe reflection in
• the glase. Of what use was beauty
d after all? There ems no trace of it
left with her white hair and eye-
brows, The shape of the forehead
was hidden by the low white front,
0,the expression of her face totelly al-
tered by the pallid grny coloring
with skillful lines upon it.
"Shall 1 ever look like that, real-
ly, • I wonder?" she said "Shall I
grow ugly, lthite tuicl withered ,as I
appear to be now? What will it
• matter? I have lived but for one
object, and that object I have gain-
ed."
It was a bright, beautiful morning
when Mnie. St. Ange loft the thea
tette. She would net look at the
• beautiful country through which she
was passing—the vineyards, the hills
crowned with myrtles, the laughing
streams, the quaint old towns with
gray church -towers. No beauty of
land or sky shoelcr Louth her heart.
She hardened herself against it.
Mutt if the birds sang, the flowers
blooxned, and the golden sunlight
flashed upon green meadows and sil-
ver streams? lt was all less than
nothing to her — a woman whets°
heart was hardened.
X'resently a sound roused her and
sent the color in a hot flush to her
ince. It was the noise of the waves
on the ehore. She opened her eyes
then, and in their depths there was
a look of keen pain.
A few minutes Intel. she was on
board the "Queen of the Seas." An
elderly lady, plainly dressed, she
passed unuoticed. How vivialy she
remembered the time. when, from the
moment she had stepped on board
until she had left the -steamer, she
had been the one groat attraction.
All that was ended now. She had,
as it were, been dead and buried all
these long years.
The white cliffs rose before her at
last. She aloee knew why it was
that she trembled and faltered when
her feet touched English ground.
On landing she took a, ticket to
London, intending, after resting one
night there, to go to Deeping 021
the morrow. Arrived in the metro-
polis, she went to an hotel that long
years before Male. de Forms had
made her home. It had changed
since those days, and the proprietor
had little time to spare for the plain-
ly -dressed elderly woman who asked
for a bedrooni and wanted nothing
more.
By the earliest train in the morn-
ing Anne. St. Alto went on to Deep-
ing. There was no closing of the
eyes now. She sat quite upright,
watching the familiar scenes. Sho
knew every field. every clump of
trees; she SOW 111 the distance the
Fadden woods, the gray towers of
Scarsdale, and the forest near Deep-
ing Hurst. She stepped at the sta-
tion, on the platform of which, with
her kindly keying mother, she had
been hundreds of times, cilways hap-
py, triumphant, blithe and gay.,
blow she came to it alone, unloved,
with the seeds of death and a life-
long hate in her heart.
There was an omnibus waiting to
take passengers to Deoping. The
conductor looked at her as the en-
tered,
"Where to, ma'am?" he said, with
a touch of his hat.
She remembered the name of only
one place.
"The Ithysworth Arms Hotel," she
answered; and her blood grew cold
as the littered the words.
At the Rhysworth Arms there wero.
new faces — 110 one recognized her.
She wanted a sitting -room and a
bedroom --she could not tell for how
Long. She was on her Way to the
North of England, but wanted a, rest
She might remain two or three days,
or a week—it was uncertain.
Those who attended upon Mine.
St. Ange noticed her curious man-
ner, her bewildered looks, her strange
face cuid 'wild burning eyes. Still
she seemed to have plenty of money,
and that was the chief considera-
tion.
(To be continued),
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Mine. St. Ange decided rapidly,
and. she 1.ost no time carrying out
her plans. It was many years since
she had left England, and one would
have imagined there would be but
little danger of her being recognized.
Yet, when she stood before a glass
that more than sixteen years before
had reflected her superb beauty, it
seemed to her that she was but little
changed. lt was true that the
bloom of her youth was dimmed, and
that sorrow had left its traces on
her face and somewhat marred its
loveliness. The light, too, of the
dark eyes had grown fierce, and the
Lams round the lips were cold and
cruel; indeed the whole expression
was ono of bitterness, defiance, pride,
and sullen gloom. But nothing
could rob her of her distinguished
bearing, of the proud graceful car-
riage of the head, the beautiful
curves of the neck, shoulders, and
figure; and her magnificent hab• had
lost none of its dusky beauty. Those
who had known her In her youth
would know her now,
There was nothing for it but dis-
guise. She weld see that, although
her proud heart revolted against it;
ahe hated the very thought of going
back to her old home, the place over
which she licul reigned as queen, in
an assumed character,
"1 shall have to sacrifice My beau-
ty," she thought; "but that need not
alarm me. 31 has not done Much
for me."
Hevieg come to this decision, Ma-
dame St. Ange made the nethesery
purchases to effect n, disguise; and
when, after 1e272) hours' seclusion, the
emerged from her room the transfer-
matich was enmplete. In her plata
stood a white-haired old wotean,
whese face, was lined and pale, It
had been 110 Small satellito to ma-
dame to cut off some of her luxur-
iant shl nliig lecke, • hutin no other
trey could she conceal her dark tree-,
CONSUMPTIVES A.RE BARRED.
Immigrants with 'tuberculosis of
the lungs hereafter will be debar-
red from all ports of the United
Slates regardless of boards of spec-
ial inquiry; which heretofore have
used their discretion in the matter.
The order, issued by Superintendent
o/ Immigration Powderly, is mantas -
tory. The Board of Special In-
quiry, at Ellis Island, after receiv-
ing the report on 0. ease of tubereue
lotile from Dr. G. IST, Stoller, chief of
the medical division of the immigra-
tion service at New Yoek, will mere-
ly halo to debae the immigrant, The
Supervising Suegeon-General 'of the
Marino Hospital Service, at Wash-
ington htts declared that "tubercu-
losis of the lungs it; now col -Macleod
11 dangerous contagious disease,
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A young gentleman the other day
flaked a reline lady what she
thought of the married state in gen-
eral. Not knowing, I can't toll, 2110.8
the rarity; but if you and I were. in
put our heeds together I could give
you a definite answer. ,
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A Visit to the
Sheep King
of Australia.
had a chat the other day with
the sheep king of Australia, the big-
gest eheep metier of this great elleep
contineet, says Frank 11. Oarpenter,
fietin Sydney, Auetiadia. Australia
is the 27001 coathe of the world, It,
haa 11101'0 than 100,000,000 thee))
caul it outs enough wool from their
becks to bring in $100,000,000 a
year, It has 803/10 of the largest
float; of sbeep over gathered togeth-
er, 11 ob'e eattle upo11 a thousand
hills cannot compare with them.
There are a blindred men in New
South Wales alone who each own
50,000 head; -there are inincireds
more who have 20,000, four hundred
who each have 10,000 and many who
own fames of a thousand and up-
ward.' There are twenty-one men in
this state who eech own 100,000
sheep, anci McCaughey, the king of
them all, has more than
0810 MILLION SIIICEP.
All these sheep are owned by Sam -
Vol McCaughey, an Irishman, who
canto to Australia, hi 1856 with
practically nothing. He failed at
first and started again with a small
flock, and from year to year has ad-
ded to his holdings until he has now
more sheep ,than any other man in
the world. Ifix has more acres of
land than sheep, aad his possessions
are in theebest parts of Australia, I
am told that ono of his farms on the
Darling 'Downs is thirty-six miles
long and forty miles wide. Ire has
other stations in New South Wales,
and altogether he owns more than a
million acres and leases about a mil-
lion or so more. Ins estates are
fenced off 'with wire into great pad-
docks, in which the sheep are kept.
He has sunk aetesian wells to sup-
ply there with water, and he im-
ports the finest of Vermont rains to
improve his stock. At one shearing
he sold a million and a quarter
pounds of wool, and at another the
product amounted to 12,000 bales.
Some of his ordinate, sheep have cut
CLS meth as twenty-two pounds of
wool, and at a meent shearing twen-
ty-flve averaged 'over sixteen pounds
each. One of his rams, which took
a premium at e recent sheep show,
had a fleece upon it which, he told
me, would out forty-five pounds, and
although he was offered $5,000 few
the sheep he refused it.
BIG PRICES E011 SHEEF.
It will surprise our farmers to
know that it is not an uncommon
thing in Australia for a blooded ram
to sell for $2,000 and upwards.
There are sheep sales hero every year
at which the hest stock is sold at
auction, and a. number of instances
have occurred in which rams have
sold for a thousand guineas, or more
than $5,000 each. I have before me
the highest prices of the sheep sales
during the past ten years. ' In 1900,
eight sheep were sold from $1,500
to $5,000 each. In 1901 the highest
price paid was $13,500, but in 1896
the ram "President," owned by
Jnenes Gibson, sold for $8,000,
while one of Mr. McCaughey's sheep
brought $2,500. In 1.897 W. II.
Gibson sold the ram "Royalist" for
$5,000, and in 1389 Thomas Gibson
sold "Admiral" for 1,500 guinerts,or
$7,500. At these sales hundreds of
sheep sold from $100 to $1,000, and
many sold for between $1,000 ancl
$5,000. In 1.896 Mr. Gibson got on
the average $880 for the sheep he
brought to the sale, and in 1390 Ids
average was $1,630, while In 1889
Ile received on the average 81,200
This will show you that it pays to
breed line sheep in Australia, and
will give you some idea of the enor-
mous value of Mr. McCaughey's
holdings, many of the sheep being
very fine.
Tn my chat with Mr. McGaughey
he told me that he ha.d been import-
ing Vermont rams for almost twenty
years. Said 1111
"I went to Vermont first he 1886
andpicked out 120 ewes and a0
rains. I sent them to Australia and
used them for breeding. The fo/low-
ing spring wont back and bought
102 more sheep, and .since then I
have bought quite a lot of Vermont
stock. My pure 'Vermont sheep now
number about two thousand, and I
have sold many during the last ten
Years."
"But is 112 11012 expeusive to get the
sheep ,here from Vermont?" I asked.
"Yes. lffy first importation, not
including the cost of the sheep, foot -
up to $15,000, but I think that
the results have fully justified the
expenditures. I value my Vermont
flock at 50 guineas a head, I have
sold some of them at 500 guineas or
$2,500,, T sold a ram today for $2,-
000, mid I have sold ewes as high ite
$750."
• IIOW A $5,000 SHEEP LOOICS.
I wish I could 51101V you some of
the sheep eihibited at the Sydney
sheep show. There were in all 700,
represereting every part of' Australia.
Four hundred of then Were Merinos,
being in the flne wool class, and SOO
were fat sheep entered in the compe-
tition in the class for frozen mutton.
Every sheep at the show w ts' worth
several hundred dollars, end some
several thousand dollars. , Among
the latter was Mr. McClung/ear's $5,-
000 ram, which took first adze. It
was it great oblong bundle of wool
with a, pair of big horns at one end.
of it. The wool lay on it in folds
and rolls, the skin apparently wrink-
ling ithell in order that it might
hold more, Its ears were entirely
hidden by the wool, The wool crane
out three , inchee over ite estes end
there were small holes in it through
which the eyes looked out. I stuek
Iny finger into the fleece and could
just touch the skin without putting
my whole flet into it, The tvool
hung down in great bunehes on the
belly end the lege were eirvered clear
to the Imola. On the outgale the
wool Was of 0 dirty color, but when
X pulled it Aside and looked in, IL
wee of a (.1011 araaray 'Mae. The
8125,0118 0! Woel were spiral and
springy anti very line,
The theep owners, 911 squatters, Ete
they are called, were all well dree-
Rod mill well educated meta There
wove hundreds 2)1 them at the show.
They looked nfore like 0, orowd of
sharp busleess • men than
anything else, and at the dinner
which was given they made if peochea
in response to toilets which tvere (18
good RS you will hear anywhere
They were all lendholdere and man
had farms width would be consicle!'-
ed principali Li es In America, but
27111011 are lookecl upon as quite
sthall here, • For' instaece, I asked
es to wbother the viecapresideat had
a, huge station, The reply 1170$ that
he had not, and that his possoseione
011 told comprised only about 65,-
000 acres of land. Another man was
pointed out who 027110C1 200,000
acres, and another who hach half a
million „acres, all under fence.
IN THE WOOL WAREHOUSES.
Sydney is the chief wool market of
Auetralia. It ships hundreds of mil-
lions of pounds of wool to Europe
every year and it has some of the
largest wool warehouses • in the
world. Lot us take a walk through
one of them. • We 11.10 111 11 great
room covering, many acres, It is
roofed with glass and Upon its floors
aro thousands of hales of wool
Each bale is as high as vette should.:
er. It is wrapped in yellow bagging,
but the top is open and the wool
seems to have burst forth mid to 110
Pouring out upon the floor. It is
marked from the station from where
it comes. In other parts of the
warehouse are mountains uf wool
nwlleiii.11.
1. 1have been -taken out of the
bales, and in other places the men
are repacking the wool for reship -
One of the curious features of Syd-
ney is its wool soles. Everything is
sold at auction. The sales take
place in November, December and
January, when buyers from England
and the continent, and from the
United States and Jamul come here
to bid. The buyers wear long over -
alis and linen (mats while examining
the wool. They go from hale to
bele, taking notes of each man'8.
stock, in order that they may know
how much to offer for it in the auc-
tion rooms. As many as0
. 10,00
dol -
bar. lsem
s aro sometimes sold in a day,
and single sales will foot up 0.5 much
as three-quarters of a million dol-
•
The prices of wool vary according
to quality. The coarse wool will
often bring only 13 or 14 vents,
while the fine brings as much as 30
and 85 cents. There are certain
brands of wool, known by the names
of their 02710318, whiah always bring
high prices. I have before me 12 Ilst
of some of the greasy wool sales of
last year, showing that certain cavil-
ers got as much as five cents a
pound more than the ordinary mar-
ket rates. There is also it difference
in the price according to what part
of the sheep the wool comes from.
Every sheep is divided up into sec-
tions, and after the fleece is taken
off the wool from the legs goes into
one place, and that from the bellies
into another, and so on, a dozen
scalastsifitei°.
ns being made from the
n0 srep
Sydney has its wool exchange,
where all the wool auctions two held.
'Phe exchange is situated near the
wharves in the heart of the city. It
is a long, narrow room. much like a
tha,pol, with an auctioneer's desk
like it pulpit in ono end of it,. The
various wholesale dealers or com-
mission merchants aro allotted dif-
ferent days on wbich they ,may auc-
tion off their stock, and on those
days the buyers come to bid. Cable
reports are received as to the prices
in the greet eveol markets over the
world, and the excitement rises and
falls with the quotations. The coin-
iniSsion merchante are only interest-
ed in getting as much as they can
for • their customers, and the wool
often brings more than it is worth.
After it ia sold the commission man
delivers lt to the steamer packed
ready for shipment.
COLLEGES FOR WOOL MEN.
ITere in AUStralia the government
has colleges for wool students. A
branch of the technical schools is de-
voted to night classes for sheep
breeders and wool deal eve . In
these schools the students are taught
all (stout sheep. The different tweeds
axe exbibited and their qualities
pointed out. The students have to
grade and classify Wool and hum-
cfrecis of bales from the station are
supplied to the school by wool deal -
ere for this purpose. Each. student,
wears an arwon and overalls to keep
the grettay stuff from soiling his
clothes while he goes through the
bales picking out the good and the
bad wool and sorting it according
to quality. He is taught how to
shear sheep and how to scour wool.
He is taken by the teachers into the
wool stores and is given the 'best of
practical instruction as to feeding,
shipping and marketing.
,There is Et regular profession of
wool sorting in Australia, and the
num. who knows all about wool mid
sloop Can get a high salttry as a
manager oe exper h. • Suppose a
squatter has 100,000 sheep and can
add ono pound per sheep to his crop
ef wool, the difference is 100,000
pounds per annum, which means a
fortune, It is so with the men own-
ing smaller fleas, and hence the
woot and sheep experte ttee sere "of
good wages.
Men from the woolen mills of Eng-
land are brought mit hero for this
purpose, mid every effort is made to I
produce the highest priced ivool.
RaISSTAlS PEVZ/ta/PMEET,
ea -e
MeachaxanlotreFalsienetm le SteadilY
• The cniormoge grolyth of the Tinniest
inercliant marine le a age indieation
01 11.01 vapid tlervelopinent,
A few years ago her menchant fleet
was made up of a very few eteamere
and eheat 200 Famish sailing allifst
employdWettest excluelltehy in he
Baltic wood trade, Today move •
theit 3,050 steamships, including
river steamers, are flying the Rue-
sian gag on their after-clecic thefts
The Government is fully altve to
the value of a merchant marine, and
only et:meetly enacted a, law limiting e
its Coast trade to its owet bottoms.
This ukase covers the trede bettecen
:European Russia and Asiatic Res -
sin., but, owing to the heavy war de-,
Maud in Asiatic U1100ta, that part of
tlterfYdsts e1li°z'ariY050)11942
iiijs;cieuLjusta:soonas
tletaia, itiece1•tainthatf
the exeination will be withdrawn
fis n Cs°tenall)ZrYs', aogfgrC72etnenhgagen. put
forced. Shortly before this decre
hip
went into ee
ffect, the Union Steam
- a
and the coast 'trade law strie:t118y,000n0.-
tons, under the Russian flag, these
being einployed in the Baltic and'
Black see trade.
Government aid is not confined to
such laws, For severaleyears Rus-
sia paid till the Suez Canal dues on
her bottoms bound from European
Russia to ports in Asiatic Russia,.
and on steamers bound to an As-
iatic foreign port the Government
pays two-thirds of the canal dues.
For it period of ten yem•s, com-
mencing July 1, 1898, anchors,
chains, wire cable, and sailing -ship
Itlaucskslim.eare admitted duty free Into
From January 1, 1899, foreign -
built iron vessels, ,impcirted in the
whole and intended for external na-
vigation, are duty free; likewise all
vessels M service on the Danube un-
der the Russian flag.
Foreign -built, ships, imported in
the whole put under the Russian
flag, and intended for service on the
lakes, rivers, Caspian Sea, and ports
on the Russian Pacific coast, pay the
following duty per ton. based on the
ship's carrying capacity:
On the first 100 tons 829.35
From 100 to 1,500 tons , 15.45
Above 1,500 tons 7.28
In* addition to the above fees, a,
duty of $2.e2 per square foot on the
boiler -making service is assessed.
The value of such government aid
is eery apparent. Many new steam-
ship companies Ewe springing into
existence; for instance, the Russian
Orient-Asintic Company, and the
Russian Steamship Company, which
is the most important, having a fleet
of 65 steazners. The Volunteer
Fleet is also an important company,
having six large express passengef
steamers and ten freighters, aggro,
gating 96,000 tons, and having ads
ded thereto within the last year a
14,000 -ton freight steamer.
MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA
- •
A Dangerous Medical Expedition
to the Tropics.
Perhaps the most remarkable ex-
periment over undertaken in the in-
terests of medical research is about
to be entered upon by Dr. Louis
Sambon and Dr. G. C. Low. These
two enthusiastic and courageous in-
vestigators, who have both ina.cle
special studies of tropical diseases,
have gone to the Roman Cal/magma
known as the deadliest spot on
earth, where no mali can stay on a
summer night without contracting
malarias and here they are to instal
themselves in a specially constructed
mosquito -proof house and spend the
summer. The object of the expedi-
tion, which has been sent out by the
British Colonial ofilce, is to prove
that malarial fever is directly attrib-
utable to mosquito bite, and that a,
person who never had the disease
can live with safety in a malarial
region, provided he be not biten by
these pests of the tropics. No worse
form of malaria is to bo found any-
where than that which exists in the
fever -stricken area selected for the
exper,ment. The Campagna is but
e—noiwighitche,itybz
t8le
eiveiNtvanlyi,leiai
ss rmrocatItyR°111e
and is a stretch of low country con-
sisting of a rolling WaSta of barren
soil clottech with occasional patches
of stubble, and with poois of stag-
nant water from the mountains and
volcanic hills round about. The ,
swampy district abounds with mos-
quitos. The house 111 Wiliah the
Placky pair win reside, is a portable
wooden building, with double case-
ments, all carefully covered with
sphcial zinc mosquito proof netting.
This material has also been placed
in the eaves of the roof, and all
other openings Etre elmilarly protect- *
ed, while there is (1, special systeln of
donble doors and curtains in the en-
trance poreh. • Tho house has two
bedrooms, a gifting -room, a kitchen,
and a lavatory, It will be leapt in
order by two Italian servants re-
cruited from the neighborhood. Pert
of the doctor's duties will be the
despatch, for experimental purposes,
of live mosquitos that have sucked
the blood from cases of benign tert-
ian fever (the mild form of the die-
c(1se). The men will take every pos-
sible precaution against getting bit-
ten, and it is 120 110 hoped that their
daring enterprise may be the means
of valuable lcnowledge being obtain- .
ad, that will enable oer medical men
to combat the dread disease which
works such havoc in scrizOlincrie,Aonil omuireTle,1,-
0033111Leisa, ATony
Do they allow swearing where you
1v0SI.Wku'Ing? They won't even let a
atan look as if 110 270114011 to swear,
NO DOUBT,.
Mistress—Did you 1 di the lady I
was out?
61.1S0eIrcynaewntyGoviri:::::,,ttm,a'am,
doubts about It?
Servant Girl—No, ma'am.; Ahe said
Mistress—Did sho seem to have any