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, Ihe kinc i j. ,unmi -^ >1 IV-/ I > l | A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIFI BY MAURICE | Coprrlcht, 18?2 and 1893 I CHAPTER XIV, CONTINUED. When General Andrew Jackson came to New Orleans, he came as a typical Anglo-American, a9 contradistinguished from the Latin creole. He i yas a man of iron, rough, resolute, I imperious, even impetuous, wnn xne training of an Indian fighter and border chieftain, who had never known defeat. But here in the far-famed L bity of romance, here in the warm, I fanguorous South, he found to his I Surprise that these pleasure-loving I Creoles, these descendants of princes I find of buccaneers, these vivacious, ' picturesquely handsome men with the k Boft voices and the courtly manners, B Aid not particularly admire and cer' 3 ?L e?- v.;,** T'Kotj rat.ViAr 9 [aimy UlU IlUt let" uiu. J.UVJ - K looked upon him as an interloper, f the up-country mon were not in good F bepute there, anyway. Burr and Wilkinson and Claiborne and a whole a* Dlan of lesser fellows had given these S fcreoles a great deal of trouble while tf breparing the way to lift them into the I great American Union, and now Jackpon was looked upon as the arch interloper. But not a fow of the inhabitants of New Orleans who called themselves French were in reality English, Irish, German, Scotch ot polish refugees; and at this particalar juncture, when the British army 1 1 4 "noonlf rrnfpa nf t.hfl WttB UUUUt IV aoonuio city, there were those among them who were glad to have the adamant of Jackson's will and the prestige of his oonrage and generalship thrnst between them and the ooming foe. One of these was Mr. Vernon. To him tho ^ thought of an English commander K getting control of New Orleans was V the vision of absolute ruin. Not only H .-would it be the end of all his wealth K and influence, but there would swiftly S follow a terrible visitation of so-called I justice upon his head. But for this B lie might have been indifferent, as [were many of the population, or he . might have preferred British succoss I . to the domination of men like Jackson I;: and Claiborne. f i He left the theatre on the night of r ' ' the alarm with a great burden of ; trouble oppressing him. Fairfax had observed before this that Colonel Lorlng seemed to exert a singular influ| > < tenoo over Mr. Yernon, orrather.it looked as if Mr. Yernon had some fieep interest in the welfare of that {lark, saturnine man who was, as he [ fltill believed, Pierre Rameau, the f, robber. Both Mrs. Vernon and Paul, * ine had noticed this remarkable intimaoy and had more than onoe won[v. , 3ered together regarding it. On a ; certain occasion, Pauline had accidentally overheard her father, when l ' Conferring alone with Loring, address 1 feim with impatience and speak as ! ihough chiding him for some fanlt. (' "By these rash acts," Mr. Vernon jspas saying to him, on the morning following the scenes recorded in our last chapter, "you have made it probably impossible for you to stay in this Ijp, country." I Thoy were sitting facing each other K In the library; Lorine had come into | Ihe house by a side entrance from a I {private alley. I l "Oh, well," was the careless anI, ewer, "if I can't stay I can go. There F Is Mexico; I can return to my mines." 1 | Mr. Vernon gazed steadily at him *rith eyes that burned half wistfully, half in anger. | "But," he presently said, "it is time for you to quit this roving life; get yourself under control, and make jthe most of your talents. You are I still young, just coming into the pime kg;-; ?flife." Ik' ^now?^'ve been thinking of it." I % F "But what doss thinking amount to r if you keep on? No man ever did | aots more absolutely unjustifiable or more desperately foolish than " I "Oh, certainly, there's no use telling me that; but I couldn't help it. The only wonder is that I ^didn't kill a~ them both; I usually do." } Loring spoke with an indescribable expression; it was if he felt no special Interest in what he was saying?as if jit were hollow mockery for him to jjpeak at all. His eyes, his lips, the lines of his face gave forth a hard, hopeless, unfeeling light which teemed to come out of a physioal Tather than a mental dilemma. I I ACT 1. ^ L f ? ??w no eiuuao wumever lur jum treatment of Ballancbe," said Mr. iVernon. "It looked like a piece of wanton vicionsness." i The old man's face had grown as gray as his beard, aud the -wrinkles deepened strangely. ) Loring sat upright, not rigidly, but , I (with a certain animal elasticity of (limb and body which suggested a surjplus of vital force. He made no rei sponse in words, and appeared to (throw off with some superficial effort (the whole burden of the subject. I j "Of course' it will be impossible for you to join Jackson now," Mr. ( -Vernon added, after a long Bilenoe. "I ohall probably go to the other J: Bide, said Loring, with a smile. "The other side!" I" "Why not? It's my best way to make it even." "But, in honor, you cannot do that." "Humph!" ? "Moreover yon know that for the .Euglisli to takeNew Orleans would be ?? rain tome." "Ob, yes; I know," Loring said. "Auct you " "You might not fare so badly. T?lte English commander has offered fine terms to Lafitte, and "Tn! I know. But even Latitte will not accept. He has reported to Clftiborne." fv'. ' \ ?4T> t" I viDiuuiuc; "Yes," Vernon affirmed. ' Loring turned his eyes toward the ceiling with a slow, thoughtful motion, us if revolving a new perplexity. "Who told you this?" he presently (demanded. "Vasseur." "Vasseurl" t J O F ' /r 5Y ISLAND ?: ? DURING THE WAR OF 1812, j WW THOMPSON. I by Robert Bonner's Sooa. "Yes, he is here. He aoted as gobetween in the matter. He brought Lafitte'a message to the governor." "And how came Vassenr here?" "Ta! I hadn't told you about his being robbed?" "No." ' 'Pierre Rameau and his gang robbed him of all his money and took his jewels." Loring laughed reflectively. "Poor little wretch!" he said. "That went hard with him, I know." "Yes. But he'll have his revenge. He his laying his plans well. Bameau is in the oity, he says, and the whole fraternity of freemen of color is sworn to kill him, They are drawing their lines close around him." Loring threw up his head, and his eyes became as two long, gleaming slits, while the angles of his jaws pretruded like a cat's. "But what are you going to do? It is time to act," Mr. Vernon inquired. "Not much of anything, probably ?report to Jackson with a gun, muzzle foremost, maybe." He arose as if to go, but Btood awile twirling his hat and looking straight into the old man's eyes. A 4-^,, rvf oAiY?afl?'nrf lilfft f.flnrlprnpflfl such a gleam as you Bee in a dog's eyes when he gazes at his master? came in his impenetrable,face, when, at last, he put forth his hand. ^Good-bye," he said. Mr. Vernon clutohed the hand and wrung it, but said nothing. As Loring went forth from the house, he met Vasseur coming in.' . The men glared at each other. Vasseur showed both terror and surprise, and was evidently glad that Loritxg was in the humor to pass him by, The latter did not swerve a i hair's breadth from his course, and the little Frenchman had to ?hy aside quiok ly to avoid Doing trampiea unaer ioos. "Is Pierre Rameau- yoW friend?" cried Vasseur, in Frehoh, as aoon a3 he came into Mr. Vernon's presenoe, his voice husky and rasping. 4 "Pierre. Rameau! What i do t you mean, yon little scamp?" "Did you not see him? He came out of here this moment! I met him at the gate!" "No?" _ . r "But yes, yes,' tLis minute?Pierre Ramean I" Vasseur was trembling violently,On the moment, there was a sudden whirl of thoughts in Mr. verpon b brain. Could it be? He grabbed his beard with one hand and, with the other pressed hard upon*his forehead, stood motionless, every feafcurf straining and every ,limb rigid. H{ was reflecting with the power and intensity of a sudden conviction. / After a little while, however, he mastered himself -and demanded Vas' seur's business. "I have not any business," faltered the little man. "I saw Pierre Bameau come in here and " "You are a liar!" Mr. Vernon held him by the throat and made him stand oa tiptoe. "You call my?m/ friend Pierre Bameau again, and I'll kill yon, you dotf!" It wsb the first tiaie in many years that he hud given %way to a rush of anger. Vasseur, unable to stand when jreleased, sank into f chair. "Forgive me, ~vrasseuic," said Mr. Vernon in the n?xt breath. "I did not mean to hurt you. I was angry. That man was ncc Pierre Rameau./ He was Colonel Lorfog." "Then you did\ot see the man I epeak of,"insitted T^sseur, doggedly. "I met Pierre RameaU coming out as I came f.n. I had traced him?followed him here. I saw him come in, and I waited long for to come out. I " Mr. Vernon interrupted him wiuT an impatient wave of the hand. "There ip some mistake!" Vasseur's ounning would not let him be deceived, bat be felt some dangerous mystery hovering close to him and did not care to take further risk in penetrating it. A mind like his is qniok, nimble, shifty, It must be in order to give it a fair chance. Moreover, it cuts straight through some difficulties that would be baffling to a higher intelleot. Just now he was living for but one objeot, and whatever did not bear upon his purpose was of no interest to him; but, in spite of this, there was something in Mr. Vernon's attitude that around strange and obscure doubts, suspicions, dreads in his mind, while at the same time he saw that there was a bond of sympathy and interest uniting Mr. Vernon and Pierre Rameau. He buspected, although the suspicion scarcely took full shape just then, that the two rvton lmrl v?a?n cnnnAnted tin llA and Rameau had, in some wild transactions, and were still necessary to each other, or would be at the crisis no^ sd near. Indeed, Vasseur knew more of Mr. Vernon's past than the latter would have believed?more than it would have been safe for the little fellow to acknowledge. When Vasseur had taken his leave, Mr. Vernon walked the floor, to and fro, his hands locked behind him, his heavy head and shoulders drooping and his eyes bent upon the carpet. He looked ten years older than ho bad looked three days before. His lips now and again moved silently, and, the musclcs of his neck and *ace twitched nervously. Presently he took his hat and his great-coat, for a drizzling rain was falling, and went out. He felt that he mnst see Loring once more before lio loff fVia 'Pr? Hiia on/? lie bent his steps toward the club-room of the Chata-IIuants which was over the back part of a low restaurant near the river. Chats-Huauts (screech-owl^) was the name of a mysterious organization which fell to pieces when, some timo after the War of lS^, the robbers of j Honey Island were routed and their I power destroyed. V J I " *SSki < ' ' ^ ' ; i : " W4 j$ I ? ^ What eeems most strange to one , who gains access to tho records is the fact that the Cbats-Huants, although their proceedings were veiled, did nut pretend to evade the authorities of Nevr Orleans. It is well known that they were in league with ' smugglers, bo-called "privateers;" but it was understood as well that they were "operated" outside of Louisiania, or, in other words, that they were "importers" of unlawful wares, and that all of their gains went to swell the wealth of the State and the city. , Mr. Vernon felt sure that, if Loring had been deceiving him, and had been all this time operating with the Honey Island outlaws instead of being in | Mexico?if Colonel Loring and Pierra , Rameau were indeed identical as both I Fairfax and Yasaenr had declared? then the rcoih of the Chats-Huants would be the place in which to look for him. On the way, as the rain softly fell ever hi?. slouch hat and high-collared topcoat, Mr. Vernon kept repeating the name, "Pierra Rameau," "Pierra Rameau," not aloud, not even by lipmovement, but inwardly; and it rang | and echoed in his consciousness, as a , lonely voice sometimes wanders back ! and forth and around in a wild moun- [ tain hollow. He felt that he was go- , ing to solve within the next half-hour | a question involving one of those j climaxes of experience from which no ; period of life is exempt?experiences j that shock .the very' centers of i ? l /*? 111 J L _ , ' strength,ana aueoitue ueepest auurues of feeling. The streets were slimy, the gutters ran full of muddy water, and a wind from the east had an edge of ice, albeit the roses were abloom along the walls. Mr. Vernon met few people, he woe not aware of meeting any, until a hand was laid on his arm, and a well-remembered voice Baid: "May I have a word with you? Do you know me?" He stopped shorl and faced the speaker. It was almost in front of the entrance to the grimy building in whioh the Chats-Huants had their meeting-plaoe. Not far away on one hand rolled the great yellow river with some vessels at anchor; on the other hahd the uneven houses zig- j zagged along, dripping and unsigntiy. Two or three reckleBs-Iooking fellows passed by and entered the restaurant. The Chats- Huants were mooting. ' CHAPTER XV. Ta scene on a woodland stage. The reader will reoolleot the heavy rain and the hurricane that came on immediately alter the shooting of Barns by Pierre Rameau. But for that cool deluge of water, the old man would have bled tigg^h^notmfcjL-. 1 |gl^?ucP?RS^?hich, , owing to the bullet's striking a large old silver watoh and glancing thence along a rib, was but a jagged rip in the flesh across the loft alope of the chest. As it was, the rain stanched the bleeding, and BurnB regained conscious- ' ness some time during the following,nigbt. ,. ' . { His Scotch vitality was not yet ex-'. hausted. He raised himself to a sit-* ting posture; bat the effort reminded him of his hart and the blood broke!' forth afresh, while a dull pain griped,1 his bi^ast. A roaring sound-came in-' to his head as he sank back again and/ relapsed into insensibility. It was but a swoon, however, followed presently "by a gradual recovery, during which his mind recalled, in apanoramio way, the whole of his long and fruitless i struggle in aearoh of Margaret. All }{ the terrible routd from Scotland zizzaggiug over almost half the earth, lay under his eyes as if mapped oat in the glare of a calcium light, ''He realized j how very old he was, and the nature j of his wound he well knew* having thrust his fingers into the gapiqgrent. Life shriveled under his gaze to the dimensions of scorched lteaf, and he saw his thousands of unanswered pray* ! %?* A /I /Q ? n n A/if n fa?A/\n CID Ijmg 111X9* uouu 1UOOUVO lugiwa. Soma of the tense strings of ^tis iaith were snapping tinder this strain. Numbly, blindly, he groped about in the davkness, the soaked earth uhder < him, the dripping, wind-stirred boughs . overhead. His long, gray hair fell/ across his drawn and sunken face, and/ his tumbled beard was separatad/lnto < clammy wisps. He thougjj&'he was ^wlking, but he was^?Ty wallowing' . onTfrir'gfCW&AT-fe'aching out his hands and feet. (xo be contikued.) F'wt Monty Ho Ever Earned. A /cw year& ago, a large party, headed by the Duke of Norfolk, went on a tour through the Continent. The uuae DUBjea Jiiinseii yery rnucu uu tlis journey in u kind hearted way ao jut tbo welfare ot every one in the party. Ac every station he udfed to get out and go round to oee if L<j could do anything for any, one. On* oid woinau, vbo did not know Liza, vhcn she arrived at last in XUine, tired and h?.?t, found great difncuity in getting a porter. So sbo aeiwed on the Duki?. "Xow, my good rnai:," sha said, "I've noticed you ut theso sutions /outing about. Just mak'.* yourself useful, for once iu vour life. Tak?? ?ay ba&* and find mo a cub." Th-; Dake mildiy did as he was bid, and -was rewarded with a sixponce. "Thank' you, madam.'' he said, "L ahali prizt; ihiu, indued! It is 'he-first; coin I iiaru ever earned in *?iy life." T**l:y 10CP if) Nt*t a Lenp Year.""^~"~' Many are puzzlftd by the fact that, alttci gh iae oia test "divide by four witu'v'j a remainder" applies to the pr;'^eul; year, yet 1900 is not a leap year. Jaiiv.3 Ctesar is responsible for the vari&tir-n. Finding that the solar ' 76111" occupied about 303J days, ho decided that it would be better to add .<?a ontiro day to the year iu every f Mirth revolution of the earth arouud the d.iu, but as tho "quarter" day was a?>prc xiinaro, being actually five hours ?ucl a little leas than forty-niue min1 uto^i. there would bo a gain in the course of a century of nearly a day. That being the case, ho further ordained that in trder to prevent the calendar year frjm getting too far in advance of the solar an occasional 1 jap year should be "skipped," and it ' is 1900's tarn. Now York time is four hours fifty, i nine minutes and nine seconds later | i than Lcixlon time, aud is nine hours ' forty five minutes and five seconds ; earlier than Yokohama time. j ^inaoioaQioiGiGaoioaoioi | Science Guards An Object Lesson to Young Care of the f w j That the nursing bottle, either directly or indirectly, is the cause of the majority of deaths of infants is the consensus of opinion among the best medical authorities. Much as has been written and prayed and preached against it, there are few mothers who regard the nursing bottle with the proper amount of fear which it inspires in the man of science. "Always remember that there is a risk?a groat risk?however careful you are, in bringing up your baby on the bottle," was the advice given a young mother the other day by Mrs. M. C. Dunpliy, the superintendent of Randall's Island, New York City. The young mother, the wife of a well-to-do Harlem tradesman, had gono over to the island to find out how milk and milk bottles and nursing nipples were really sterilized. She bad read in the papers and the magazines hundreds of. directions, and none of them seeued to agree, or else the directions were not worded plainly. Her three-months'-old baby was not thriving, and ^he very wisely determined'to have somebody show her exactly how to sterilize milk' and bottle and nursinor tiirmles . *< ' Like hundreds of other would-be scientific mothers, this one had been sterilizing" milk by simply immersing the bottles in water and allowing them to remain until the water reached the boiling point, and as a matter of fact the milk was thereby rendered even more dangerous than before it had been sterilized. The mother was t:hen shown by simplified process how she could prepare her baby's milk at home with the joyful, certainty that after sterilizing II was absolutely pure and germ proof. At Rand-all's .Island they have the most complete facilities for the sut cessful rearing of "bottle babies" 61 any place in the world. The first pro C3ss consists of straining the milk which is done by a patent separator for Randall's Island is raising jusl now lio babies on the bottle. The straining of,the milk is a mos1 Important feature, and can be done quite as well at home as at Randall's Island. Mrs. Dunphy showed the young mother how. Taking two yarclj of cheese cloth which had already beet boiled twenty minutes, she folded this Into a little bundle about eight Inches square, lafd it in an earthenware pic plate .and placed the plate in a hoi oven, where it, remained until the toi fold began to get brown. A coarst towel was also put In the oven at tht same time. , Nine littie squares were cut out ol ho nhnpsd .rOnth with hrisrhi clear scis fcors. .Three of these squares were tiec oyer a common milk strainer, the mill w,is poured through Into another simi lai* strainer, similarly fixed with steril ls&d "cheese cloth, and still through an 0$ther strainer. , Jit is appalling how mucfli dirt anc tfnst! there is eyen in the cleanest milk The milk was'then put into a Iarg( airtight bottle, and the bottle setlnfc Ice to get very cold, but not to freeze When sufficiently cold it was pourec Into an eight ounce nursing bottle^-iio one of the old-fashioned death-dealing horrors with d. long rubber tube, bui with just a single rubber nipple. Mrs. Dunphy filled ten bottles. th< requisite number for one baby. Th< uotties were inserted 111 oyunuei's bound together, for convenience by ? tin bund. These cylinders can bt made by any tinsmith for tweaty-flv< or thirty cents per set of ten. Th( bottles, corked up tightly, the cylin ! ' ^ fr. 1! " .X . ~~ PUTTING THE BOTTJ ders wore set in a porcelain kettle full of lukewarm water, just large enough to hold them without allowing tbem to wabble. The kettle wis placed on a cook stove and the wat^- allowed to ; Baby's Dinner. | Mothers Regarding the Proper ^ Cursing Bottle. bubble and boil around the bottles for not less than twenty minutes. Then it -was pronounced sterilized. Lifting thb cylinders out of the kettle, they were set in a sink and the cold water faucet turned on. It is very important that the milk should be thus cooled and in running water before being put ii the icebox; if put in the icebox immediately after taking from the boiling water the milk gets cold too quickly, and all the beneficial results of the sterilizing are neutralized. : THE COOLII i The milk must then be kept on Ice until time for feeding the baby, when the bottle Tis again immersed In hot water until the milk Is heated to 9$, degrees, or the warmth of moth^g mjlk. VV ^After feeding, just as quickies possible, .the bottle and nipglfr' must be rlnse'd in cold water, iliea'put In a ket. tie with a piece of ^b'orax and allowed to boll for twenjty^minutes. While the^fogttles were boiling Miss Margaref-JHcC&rtliy, the assistant super^jsfag nurse,, showed the young Toother how to sterilize the bottles and nipples after they came out .of the water! - ' "Never lay a bottle oia its side; but turn it up," said Mlfis McCarthy. "Many mothers imagine If they have boiled nipples and laid them on the \vindo.w sill to dry in the sun that all the germs are destroyed. That is all ! wrong/-, The waVin sunshine only . Warms the little stray germs Into life." Two folds of the sterilized chfeese , cloth were then laid on a piece of t clean, unpainted board?a kneading board is a good thingTrand the bottles, 11 DEAINING THE BOTTLES OX STERILIZED / CHEESE CLOTH. ^ j necks downward, were dropped Into the interstices of a wire rack and all lowed to drain on to> the cheesecloth. 1 The nipples were dried with a piece of f the same sterilized material and then t wrapped in cheesecloth. The remainder of the cheesecloth was folded up ; in the sterilized towel and put away ? until time to go through the same pro, cess in the evening. L The milk should he prepared twice a > day?mornings and evenings; that is, > enough should be prepared at one time ? in the morning to last all day, and in . the eveniug to last until next morn. * f w" \ jfljT MtaiJl ^*XL |3 "" LES INTO THE BOILER. | ing. More than that should never be sterilized, because, while the milk may I keep sweet a much longer time it loses much of its nutritive power if allowed j to grow the leas, bit stale. " V ; y-V If baby appears to be not thriving,! and the mother can determine this by! weighing it carefully every other day, then Its milk is not agreeing with It. and a physician should be consulted immediately. The healthy baby will increase In weight between certair ages, while at others it will remain al most uniform, but It will never los , weight. The falling off in weight ol even an ounce or two means something, and what this something is none but the physician should determine. In just what proportions to dilute the milk after it has ocen sterilized and bottles and nipples made germ proof, Is a question often asked by mothers through the columns of newsDaDers. No General rule can be formu lated to answer this question. Tfiat Is something which the physician alone can det?rmine. The formula that will agree perfectly with one baby often proves the death of another. Each ! baby requires individual attention,! <G PBOOESS. '/ 7 ^ and the wise mother will avoid anything exc$pt> professional advice regardlng fhe preparation of her baby's ?!!*= " If the mother at home \fill guard the nursing bottle for one' mite of a baby with as much rigor as Mirg.' Dunphy and her assistants look to the bottles for their 142 babies, the death rate among city children might be reduced to a minimum within the next two years. The Randall's Island babies, poor little waifs picked up In* doorways, railway Btations, deserted warehouses and, occasionally fished out of damp, leaky old scows or gqfbage cans, wax strong and flourish on a bottle diet, while the child of well-to-do parents, living In a comfortable home, often dies of neglect?that is, neglect of the milk bottle. The Randall's Island babies are invar'ably more dead than alive when they reach the hospital. Every so''often when ti-e shabby little bundle is unrolled on arrival it is discovered that the little feet are stiff and cold, and many a feeble life ebbs out ere the boat that* carries the frail burden iii mqored to the landing. - And still a larger percentage of these babies live and grow into strong, hearty children than any other class of bottle-fed' infa its, not because they ' are pampered and earjd for like hothouse flowers, for where there are 142 babies tlie-e is no time for pampering, but because the milk bottle is feared, as it must be by all conscientious mothers.?New York Herald. Man Superiority. One seei many curious phases of human nature in the safe deposit vaults of a banking institution ? from the women who never by any chance know where their keys are. and go through bag and pocketbook with reckless haste, to' the man who is not quite flint -ir> hna lnr'kf>d llis llO!C find returns to the vault three or four times, puts his key in the look, shakes it hard, and finally goes away convinced that "all is well." But in recent experience with a new customer to whom I was renting a box the climax was reached. When I handed him the keys and said: "Now, here are two keys. Separate them so that if you lose one you will have the other to admit you." He quickly replied: "Very well. I will put one on my key-rfng and lock the other up in my box." And yet they tell us that men are more logical than women.?The New | i,ippincoir. A Little Mistake In Medals. The chief officer of a Yorkshire yeo[ manry regiment, while congratulate | ing one of the troops on its appearance, made a stirring allusion to the medals worn by some army veterans ! in the ranks. One of the men, a nanffoi*Trni?H uronl I live VI TMimiUUlVi UHWIIHIM home In a very thoughtful frauie ol mind, and next morning he came on parade with several medals on his breast. Said the officer,"I didn't know ,you had been in the regulars." "No. I ain't," said the man. "Well, how about the medals, then, my good fellow? They can't be yours." The mar promptly answered: "Can't they! Aye. but they be. My old coo won 'em al! at Otley Show."?Upper Wharfdale An Kmpresg'H LeHson In Spelling;. When I was quite a little girl 1 used to hate "spoiling" more than anj other lesson. I remember once spelling Russia with a small "r," and my | governess said to me, "What woulc I the Emperor of Russia say if he kueu I that you spelt his country with a small *r?'" I replied haughtily: "I don'l care what he would say; I shall nevei i s?e the Emperor or his country during ; my lifetime, I dare say, so it doesn'l matter." * ? "Ah! how different ly do I think now," said ihp Empress smiling. "I spell llussia with a very very bis: 'R,' and the Emperor with s tremendous 'E.' "?Empress of Russit Quoted in London Gem. Fox. Hunting I'urnon*. There are still in England two rep I resentatives of the old-time fox-hunt ing parson. These are the Rev E ing parson. These are the Rev. E nolds, who are respectively master: J of the Cattistock and Couiston packs; < ' V "... -,t A UNIFORM FOR WOODMEN, . Dr??? y0r Cold Weather Adopted b| --u Montana Forester*. rrVir> f-nnflfinton/lfln+a nn/1 '! ' wc lUi to V JIAWUUVMUMVI ^2S woodsmen in Montana have recently ^ adopted a uniform, as shown in the accompanying photograph, which will ^ be worn by them while ranging in the ' '] public forest reservations in that State during the winter. These uniforms :t have been submitted to the Secretary | of the Interior and the Commissioner ;'J of the General Land Office, and efforts j .|l ' v 7k fill ^ M faTAN'A Wj^Qtn3fXj^--^' VT,,/^ may^g*fl^e to ba*<e all Government i<fte& efflilffes fjujoished with similar ^Hfese merl are exposed to ' mqd^al^eeather, ^^.jkifwitkble uni- ^ formes certainly ess?(|j& ;.ta their per- / forming their duties satisfactorily. Now < that the' forest reservations % have become'a Soiree of'revenue to the, Government, tfie duties of. the foregtarir^re more important, and'their j inamterttons are, more rigkt.^ 'In 1898. " | there'was cut and'sold about $300,OW , worth of timber from,.Western forest reserves.- With proper care of the for- . { ests alid'<a^.effldent corps, of Eden to , ^ ^ardragainst.^re?t Area, it i? ex-, pecte<j that thlfejtevenue will steadily Aj| increased /ijjfl Timber Ig'-il^eVery country an im- ^9 portant natural product, and in this coantry it has ,be^i especially pleqti- ^ ful. but ud to within fonr or flvayears 39 'the American forest^ .Were alUwrefl to run down and leftlni bad condition. ^ Since Commissioner iBlnger Herman > ^ became the official head controlling- il<$3 the foresta many schemes have, beenVy-'Il Instituted to repair the damage# for-* ests, and their present Improved con- '' Jj ditlon is largely due to his strenuous.., sfforts. One of bis most recent schemes is the telephone systein,; which was established in Californ^ last spring. This system was onlyan-'^^B experiment, but in all probability It frill eventually be extended to all 3St reserves in the United States.? New York Tribune. N k riihrfr Ricr.uiYfi ' The Shape in Which the Pars Product t jnj Is Shipped. 'r.^R Fine Tara rubber reaches the eoun-1[ -; JH try in the form of "biscuits,"- the ex-; -VH silence of this grade being $tae in |a'.: jfl large measure to the native#" metbods.VwB .if gathering and curing Ax, says theScientific American. iSiiey make a longitudinal gash in "flie bark of the Jju tree with a narrow hatchet, inserting ' ? i wedge to keep the a&sh open, and' placing a small earthefa 0r clay cup beneath the gash to c#tch the thick, ^ mklfa a!1tt linnlrl nrlii/IU flartro fvAitt* Ulllic V11J i'VjUiU ""?mu UU>YD VMf . tlae wound. In a few Sours the milk- , | ceases to flow, each vwound yielding rV:^ from three to five ti\bla^^)onfuls. The t Jsa 'Seringero," or gath^^H^ien empties. t 'M the contents of the cu^H^o an earthen vessel. As the milk soon Coagulates V r;>.4| the gathering Is quickly followed by /JjM the curing process, which Is doita by building a* Are of Urucuru nuts, rover ( V which is placed a bottomless eartutan jar or pot, the pungent fumes issuip^k through the small aperture at the top serving to "cure" the rubber, which Is *S| p:issed slowly through tlio hot smoke. To form the biscuits, the nativestake long stakes of wood, sometimes/o 'pointed at the end, and quite frequent-; ly shaped like a paddle, dip them Into :|9 the sap buckets or basins! holding \f 7? them in the smoke after each dipping \f %jS until the successive films of rubber ".>8 solidify around them. A biscuit of Para rubber, therefore, represents the J slow and laborious accumulation of hundreds of dippings, so that quite ? stretch of the imagination would be . necessary to arrive at the number dippings required to form the huge^^B Para biscuit Illustrated herewith,. * which weighs 1120 pounds, and meaa- <3 "ics four feet five inches iu height, RUBBER BISCUIT. three feet five indies iu diameter and nine feet four inches in circumference. ?3 Such immense masses of crude rubber ' are said to acuuuij rfjnesfui a loss 10 the grower. being used principally by; import rs for exhibition purposes.' . $ A married couple living near Throop, Penn., who were childless, have adopted fourteen children. ^