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THE-nYSTE e?" -?nrKnn>in>w" 'ASV^ pi""'" ~ ?\Y Florence V* Author of""The Mouse I Copyright, W. ' >" ' CHAPTER VIII. Now the intention of the two conspirators, who were conspiring, without Clifford's knowledge, to cure him of his infatuation, was to keep this luckless adventure from coming to his ears. But it leaked out in spite of them, and one evening, when they were enjoying their pipes in the rooms they shared together, they found themselves confronted with King himself, in a state of boiling indignation. It was in vain they tried to prove to him how laudable their intentions had been, how much for the good of the young lady herself it would have been if they could have cleared up the ugly mystery. "If you could have cleared It up, no one would have been more thankful, more grateful than I," retorted Clifford, whose face had grown haggard with anxiety, with unliappiness on Nell's account. "But to send a young fool, without tact, without deiicacy, like Lowndes, spying about, and making a thundering idiot of himself? why it was more what you would expect of a couple of schoolboys than of two full-grown men out of Hanwell!" "As to that," replied Conybeare, mildly, "I don't know that Lowndes has less tact than anybody else. I must say that, in the circumstances, I j should have acted very much as he did; at least as far as following the woman to the room and through the nrinflnTO -a.-aw rnnrprned. One doesn't I stand upon strict ceremony with a j thief, even a female one." "Nell Claris is not a thief!" cried Clifford, with excitement. "I would not believe it if all the judges and magistrates in England told me so!" "Ah, that's it! You will not believe. But, my dear fellow, do you think Lowndes had anything to gain by telling a story which showed him in such a ridiculous and undignified light?" "I think that if he had been a man of more judgment and tact he would have found out something worth finding out, and not have made an ass of himself during the proceedings." "Now, my dear Clifford, you are unreasonable, as all persons suffering from your ailment are," said Conybeare, rising, and standing in a judicial attitude in front of the fire. "Because you admire this young woman, you think she is incapable of a crime which has, in my opinion, been traced clearly home to her. If the woman whom Lowndes saw and followed was not Miss Claris, how was it that she made, when pursued, straight for Miss Claris's room? Could Miss Claris have a bedfellow?there was only one bed In the room?without knowing it? If she had a bedfellow, would not some person in the house have been acquainted with the fact, and would not %i_- if AUU m/vti tne suaaen aisappeuruine ui tuis i-icison arouse suspicion even in the innocent mind of Miss Claris?" "But I don't believe a word of the whole story. Lowndes had too much whisky before going to bed, and having his mind full of tales you had told him, he dreamed that he saw a woman in the room, and started in pursuit of a wholly imaginary figure. You know he admits he had nothing stolen. The only part of the story which I do believe is his own idiotic flight through a door and a window, and the bath in the river which sobered him." "All right," said Conybeare. "It's no business of mine whether you beliflvo T/iwndos nr not. L,et us droD the , Bubject." But to Clifford there was only one subject in the world, and as he could not talk about that he would not talk about anything. He sat moodily silent for ten minutes, paying no heed to the conversation of the other two, and then abruptly took his leave. As soon as he had gone Conybeare showed great excitement. "Look here," said he, with determination, "that fellow's Deing ruined by his infatuation for this little jade. If we don't manage to bring matters to a climax he'll be beforehand with us by going down and marrying her, or some such folly. We've tried sending down an amateur detective, and it's been a failure. Let's try a professional one." But Willie hung back. "I don't quite like to do that," objected he. "Supposing the girl didn't do it, after all, you know? It would make us feel rather small, wouldn't it? And then, of course, Clifford would be more madly infatuated than ever. He would rush down with a license in one pocket and a ring in the other, and she'd come back 'Mrs. King' in the twinkling of an eye." "Well, and why on earth shouldn't he, if the girl's all right?" said Conybeare, composedly. "I should have nothing to say against that." "But I should," persisted Willie. "If you hadn't persuaded me to think her a thief I should have liked her to be 'Mrs. Jordan.' And if she does turn out to be innocent " "She won't," replied Conybeare, placidly. "I am not in love with the girl, and I can see with clear eyes. But she's so preciously artful that it would take a clever chap to bring her to book. I shall call round at a detective agent's to-morrow." Now although both the friends were careful to keep the fact of this determination from Clifford's ears, the young burrister was shrewd enough to guess that, having gone so far unsuc-1 cessfully, they would feel bound to take some steps to vindicate their sagacity. So fully convinced was he that they would make some fresh attempt to fix the guilt of the robberies on Nell that lie went down to Courtstairs at the end of the week, and on the Sunday morning walked over to tne ?iue i^ion witli the intention of warning her that Bhe and her uncle would probably be subjected to more annoyance of the j fclnd from which they had recently muttered. 1 k'i . ' ? :FO>orTtte &2J*. ^airckn, on Ike Marsh," erc^j Robert Bonner's Sons.' His road lay past Shingle End, ant as he approached Colonel Costal'! house he overtook the old gentlemai and his daughter on their way bael from ehureh. The colonel, recognizing Clifford, as the latter merely raised his hat anc would have passed, called him to stop "No, no," said he, good-humoredly "we don't get so many visitors dowr from London at this til. e of year thai we can afford to let you go by lik< that." Miss Bostal, however, was less eor dial. She did not offer to shake handf with him, and she eyed his tweed suil and low-crowned hat with open dis favor. "1 am afraid," said Clifford, "thai Miss Bostal thinks I haven't broughi enough of London down with me." The colonel laughed, and said thej would overlook that. But the prim lit tie lady said icily: "I know that young men take things easily, nowadays. It is the fashion But it used to be thought rather shock ing to see a gentleman on Sundays without a frock coat and a tall hat. 1 am old-fashioned and prejudiced, 1 suppose, but?" Her father interrupted her. "Good gracious, Theodora, if you an old-fashioned, what ought I to be' And I should think Mr. King very fool ish to walk along a country road ir his Bond-street get-up on Sunday oi any other day." "Oh, it is I who am foolish!" retorted Miss Theodora. "I suppose the clergy man uiun i mina; ne gets 100 mua used to that sort of thing nowadays But in my young days a vicar would have felt himself insulted if any mem ber of the upper classes had appeared at service in such a costume." Even the colonel, who was presumably accustomed to his daughter's vagaries, was astonished at her acrimonious tones. Clifford, who was hardlj prepared with an answer, was much relieved when she made an excuse ol preparing dinner to leave him with her father. As the spare figure, with its curiously old-fashioned dress of fifteen years back, lifted up its skirts with both hands, in the ancient manner, and disappeared into the house, the colonel laughed silently. "I need not apologize for my daughter, I suppose," he said, with a twinkle in his eye. "Women fossilize more quickly than we do, you know." "I Teally began to feel rather frightened," said Clifford. "I was speculat ing as to what would happen if I should let slip the fact that I hadn't been to church at all this morning." "She knew that as well as we did, I imagine," said the colonel. "The vicar gave us an hour and ten minutes of it this morning, so I suppose she felt bitter." "I don't see why she should have vented her feelings on me," murmured Clifford. But the old gentleman suddenly stopped short. He had been walking on with Clifford in the direction of the Blue Lion. "I have it!" he exclaimed with conviction. "It's on account of Nell Claris, her little protege. My daughter is very indignant about the way in which the girl has been persecuted lately, and I suppose she thinks that you have had something to do with It." men luueeu hue is wroug; ur;eu Clifford, hotly. "Nobody is more angry that I am about it. And you -will believe me when I tell you that I have come down on purpose to ask Nell, and for the second time, to be my wife." The old gentleman listened with: vivid interest. "Come back with me; do come inside the house with me for one minute," he said, with as much excitement as the young man himself had shown. "Theodora will be ready to embrace you when she hears." But Clifford, who was in no hurry to be embraced by Theodora, excused himself. He had so little time, he said, he was afraid he should hardly be able to get back to Courtstairs before dark. "Tell Miss Theodora," said he, "that I am very grateful to her for believing in my darling girl. I call her mine, although she won't give me the right to do so. But I haven't given up hope, and I shall not do so, even if she re iuses mo again. Still it was with very little confidouce in his immediate chances of suecess that Clifford, after taking leave of the colonel, walked briskly on to the little inn. He had written tc Nell three or four times, without receiving a single line id answer. Slit had not returned his letters; she must have received and bad probably read them. If there was anything to hopi for in that fact, he might hug the thought to his heart; but, considering the terms in which he had written, the warmth with which he bogged hoi to let him come down and see her there was very little encouragement in that. He was luckier than ho had ventured tc expect. For as lie came over ili< little bridwhich spanned the rivei he saw Nell herself approaching tin house from the opposite direction. She h?*id her prayer-book in her hand, am' was evidently returning from St roan where she had been to church. She saw him as soon as he saw her stopped, turned pale, and ran a few steps to the left, evidently with the hope of escaping into the fields behind a group of cottages which stood be tween her and the inn. But Clifford was too 'luiek for her. She saw bj the pace liy which he approached thai it was useless to try to avoid him. sc she gave up tlie attempt, and eanu steadily on with her eyes on the ground. "Miss Claris! Nell!" said lie. in a low voice, as he came up to her. She raised her eves to Iiis face for a \ moment only, and he saw mat a great change had taken place in the girl since he had last seen her. There was in her face a sullen expression, as different as possible from the childlike openness of face and manner which 1 - "> ,^AnfAt4 ol.n ? m iiaU SUL'LUL'U IU Llllil lid gicuicoi Luaiuj. And his heart smote him as he thought that this change had been brought about, though unintentionally indeed, by him. "You are not glad to see me, I can see that," he went on, hurriedly, as he turned and kept pace with her. "Of course, I had no right to expect that you would be, but still I had hoped." She made no answer. "You got my letters?" 1 "Yes," answered Nell, in a tone in 3 which he was surprised to detect a tre1 mor. 1 "You know that I asked you to let me come down?" 3 "I?I did not write to say that you * might, though." But her tone was not angry, be thought. 1 "Well, I did wait as long as I could, t but, Nell, I was too miserable to wait 1 any longer. And now that I see you, and see that you look changed, and think that it is my fault, I feel as if 5 I could hang myself." t He hoped she would say something, but 6he did not. After a few moments' silence he saw that a tear was t falling down her cheek. ' "Oh, my darling!" broke out Clifford, unable to restrain himself any r longer, "won't you let me marry you aud take you away? You have known me long enough now, haven't you?" } But Nell shook her head. "I would never marry any one till this affair of the robberies was cleared ' up," answered she, firmly. t "And can't you help us to find it t out?" At this her face changed, She looked up at him with an expression J of angry defiance. ? "That is what you came down for, then?to see whether I could tell you i anything, and satisfy your curiosity ' without your having the trouble of sending any more detectives down!" I she cried, uttering the words with breathless rapidity, while her frame i shook from head to foot. "No, Mr. . King, I don't know anything, and if I I did I wouldn't tell you. You have be gun by prying into this business your I own way; you may Unish it you own way, too!" "Nell, surely you don't think I had anything to do with that wretched business!- You can't think so?you ' can't! Why. it is to warn you that I i have come?to warn you that some one else may be sent. Mind, I don't know i this; I only guess it, but I thought it right that you should know." But instead of seeming grateful for i the information, Nell evidently took it i as a fresh offense. "Why should you warn me?" she I asked, and the pallor of her face gave place suddenly to a red blush of anger. "Is It that I may put a check to ! my larcenous propensities until he has i gone away again?" "Nell, Nell, how can you? You . would not if you knew Low horribly . it makes me suffer!" "Suffer! Ah, it does matter when you ; suffer, doesn't it? But when it is only a country Innkeeper's niece who suffers, who cares? And yet one would have thought ? one would have ; thought " She broke down completely and burst into tears. Clifford was at least ( as unhappy as she, and there Avas moisture in his own eyes as he tried in vain to comfort her. He did succeed at last, however, in making her con; fess that she had never believed that he had any share in the sending from town of the amateur detective, Jack Lowndes. As for the fresh arrival which Clifford told her to expect she shrugged her shoulders about it when she had grown a little calmer. "Let them send him," she said, recklessly. "I shall not even advise my uncle to refuse to let him stay, even if I guessed who he is. It must all be found out some day, and the harder 'he? trv the snnner it will all be over." [ As she was now quite calm and dry-eyed, Clifford made one more attempt to get at her own real views of the mystery. She had grown kinder to him, and had acquitted him of all blame. For her own sake he must make use of the opportunity. And again when he put his question there came into the girl's face that curious look, as if a vague, haunting i memory had disturbed her mind. "I tell you solemnly, I have no more idea than you have yourself," said she. "I will confess now that I had a sort of horrible sort of half-idea bofore " To be Continued. Big Prices Fop l'et Cats. Siamese cats, with their curious markings and loud discordant voices, are now favorites with fashionable 1 women in England. In many respects they are unique among cats. They follow their owners as a dog would; they arc exceedingly affectionate, and insist upon being nursed, and they meow loudly ' and constantly, as if trying to talk, 1 and to a deaf person at that. ' They have more vivacity than usually falls to the lot of cats, and less ! dignity. In color they vary from pale fawn through shades of brown to chocolate. There are two varieties, the temple cats and the palace cats; ! about the only difference between the ' two varieties being that the palace 1 breed is darker in color. The only sacred temple cats that ' over left the land of their birth were ^ivpn to Dr. Nightingale as a mark of special favor by the King of Siam. I * They were named by their new owner ' IvOiuco and Juliet, and are now the property of Lady Marcus Beresford. They are very expensive, moderate specimens selling for $oG and liuely ' marked ones bringing from $75 lo $:J00. Now that many ladies of rank in > England have catteries, the price of high-Urea cars >s cousiuuu.t imicasing. Champion Lord Southampton, a ' white Persian owned l>y Mrs. fJreen' wood, was sold for $300 and $250 was ' refused for Zaida, a former eat show r champion. ^ And in America, of course, as high 1 prices as anywhere are obtained. ) Afternoon Nap Helps Sleep at Nipht. A nap of half an hour or so in the i afternoon after a meal is helpful and favors rather than hinders good sleep i at nieht.?Medical Record 1 LIFE DF THEODOi ^ A Busy Career as an ^ States Vfrf jP He is a New York< Theodore roosevelt, the twenty-sistli President of the United States, has for some years been one of the most Interesting figures in public life. He has been politician, statesman, author, soldier and public speaker. Mr. Roose li. unf thfi fnm veiL ueiuiigp tu uuc Hies in this country and for two centuries nine of the name and family have held prominent and important place in public life, philanthropy, finance, commerce and politics. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and was educated in private schools and at Harvard College. His father, whose name was the same, was a sugar refiner, a man of wealth and learning, but with little or no taste for public life. His mother was before her marriage a Miss Bullock, of Georgia, member of a famous family of Scotch descent. Her great-grandfather was the Revolutionary Governor of that State. As a boy Theodore Roosevelt was sickly, hollow chestcd and rather undersized, but he possessed enormous nervous energy and early in life determined to become physically strong. When he entered Harvard College he went in for athletics anS began a systematic course of training to build himself up. Soon after leaving Harvard Mr. | Roosevelt maue a long xnp mrougu Europe, where he proceeded to do things and see things in his own way. In 1881 Mr. Roosevelt returned to New York j.nd entered politics. lie was nominated and elected to the Assembly and was reflected for two additional terms. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884 and took a prominent part in the proceedings. In that year he retired THE PEESIDENT'S HOUSE AT OXSTEB BAY, LONG ISLAND. from active politics and, going West, bought a ranch on the Little Missouri River in Western Dakota. There he hunted big game, tried cattle raising and devoted his spare time to studying the country and the people and to literary work. From boyhood, Mr. Roosevelt had been a close and interested student of American history. In 1881, when he entered politics, he wrote a history of the naval war of 1812. This was followed duriug his public career by lives^of Thomas H. Benton and Gouverneur Morris, "Ranch Life and Hunting Trail," "Essays on Practical Politics," a "History of New York," "American Ideals," "The Wilderness Hunter," "Hero Tales from American History," "The Winning of the West," classed as his greatest literary work, and later a life of Oliver Cromwell. In addition to these books he wrote extensively and on a variety of topics for the leading magazines and reviews. V Mr. Roosevelt did not remain out of politics. In 1880 he was the unsuc/locofnl TfomiliHrnn ranfliflllto for Mayor of New York. After that ex- j perience he devoted himself for thr? years to ranch life, study and lite ture. In 1889 President Harrisc* appointed him a member of the national Civil Service Commission, a ppsition he held until May, 1895. In May, 1895, Mayor Strong appointed Mr. Roosevelt President of the Board of Police Commissioners of New York. In 1897 President McKinley appointed Mr. Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He provided shot and shell and enforced ceaseless practice and drill on the ships of the navy. Prom the time he entered the office he seemed to realize that war with Spain ETHEL, ALICE THEODO^t QUt PRESIDENT ROOSE was Inevitable, and he set himself to the task of getting the navy ready for that war. When war was declared Mr. Roosevelt promptly determined to reach the j front. He proposed to the President I ' to raise a regiment of mounted men ! ' . jl\ . V . .. l!v- ' . E KDOSEVELT. 1 i 1 Author, Soldier and ^ \ 1 man. w ( PK :r Boro and Bred. ^ ] 3^ to be composed of men who knew how j to ride and shoot His offer was ac- ] cepted, and at his suggestion. Dr. ] Leonard A. Wood, an army surgeon, was appointed Colonel of the regi- j PRESIDENT E Drswn for "Harper^ Weok ment with Roosevelt as Lieutenant- J Colonel. The Roosevelt Rough Rid- ] ers was the result He became Colonel I on the promotion of Wood to be a < Brigadier-General. < When he returned" with his regiment in August, 1898, the demand for his j nomination as a Republican candidate : for Governor was great He was < nominated on the first ballot by a vote ] of more than two-thirds of the dele- j gates of the convention and was elect ed. i When the Republican National Convention of 1900 met in Philadelphia, the demand for the nomination of Governor Roosevelt for Vice-President was irresistible. Throughout his public career, which in a few short years has been crowded with more stirring events than usually fall to the lot of one man in a lifetime, Mr. Roosevelt's chief and almost only boast with his friends has been that he was first and always a family man. President Roosevelt is happily married and his children not only love 8 ^ ai A Jnwint i him, but make him their playmate ( and companion whenever he is with { them, which 1b every moment that his , public duties will admit He lives in j a beautiful home just outside Oyster j Bay, L. I., and his home life is in every way ideal. In this home he has a splendul library and many rare trophies of the hunt. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of *be President, represents a high type of American womanhood. She was Miss Edith ^i Xfr.mjt -? ' I s rmtirtl "archibald. t IVELT'S CHILDREN. ( Kerrait Carow and was born in New York City, of a well-to-do family. As 1 a girl she knew young Theodore * Ilooscvelt. It has been said that a boy 1 and girl sentiment existed between 1 them before he went to college; but i soon after bis graduation from Har- ? V - * J* <ard he married Alloc Lee, of Boston, -fiss Carow went abroad to suppleoent her education by a course of tudy aad travel. When Roosevelt had lost his girl vlfe and was seeking solace In a EuroJean trip, he met Miss Carow. When ie returned to America they began a correspondence. Their engagement followed and they were married In L8S6. .Between Alice Roosevelt?tne onjy ?hild of the first mnrriage?and her 'ather's second wife there has always aeen the warmest affection; and her husband's sisters have been Mrs. Roosevelt's most intimate friends. Like her husband, Mrs. Roosevelt las a pronounced literary bent She LOOSEVELT. ;ly" by T. V. Cliomlnski. has nice brown eyes, and she wears her brown hair parted and carried back looselv from her temDles. She Iresses with a simplicity that is becoming. Mrs. Roosevelt will have the assistance'of a charming girl, Miss Alic* Roosevelt, when she takes up her social duties at the White House. Misa Roosevelt is about eighteen years old, She has been bridesmaid at the wed HBS. THEODORE BOOSE VELT. ling of a Boston cousin, and on severil other occasions has been seen In lociety, but she has not been Intro luced formally, mat proDauiy wm >e a Whit? House affair. President Roosevelt has two sisters vho will be prominent in the new Adninistration circle. The older one, Urs. Cowles, lives in Washington. 5he is the wife of Commander W. S. 3owles, of the American Navy. Mrs. Douglas Robinson, the other lister of President Roosevelt lives at 1o. 422 Madison avenue, York 3ity. Automatic Street Sweeper. Since asphalt has come to be the nost generally used pavement In the :ities it is a common practice for ;angs of men to be constantly at work vith brooms, shovels and barrows seeping the pavements clean, but the abor is slow and the territory covered jy one man comparatively small. To lecrease the labor and increase the imount of pavement to be cleaned by me man, Jesse M. Harr has designed :he machine fthich wo show in the ninfllM Tn fllTflPflttnn lui'uilljsuxijr JU? *** :he sweeper Is pushed along by the nan, the long brush revolving rapidly :o push the dirt ahead. The bucket iuspended in front of the brush is open it the rear, and 6tands still on the javement just long enough for the jrush to roll the dirt into it, when he rachot device on the large wheel )ulls the bucket up on the rope and Lutomatically dumps the contents into he large can. As soon as the dumpng is completed the bucket falls to he pavement again, the slotted guideI ~ ; JL " m? **?' tLEVATOB ANI) DUMP ON THE PAVEME"!. CLEANER. jar serving: to throw it out some (Usance in front of tbe brush, where H ests until the brush reaches it ant' wshes in tllc dirt again. Thus th? .weeper is always in motion, and nc line is lost except to empty the larg? :an when it becomes l'ull. To Improve Mexican Horses. The Mexican Government Is prepar? ng to take decided steps to improve he breed of horses in that country 3y a law which has just been passed President Diaz is empowered to entei nto contracts with persons who will establish horse-breediiwr farina. "I ' _ remarkable system of irrigation An Effective Method Long In Vo*na 1^Indte. In India a simple yet effective metlfr odof Irrigation has longbeen In vogne* but only recently has It attracted th? attention of foreigners. The apparatus consists of a lonft. clumsily fashioned, balancing pole^ which Is fastened at the middle to thef fork of a tree. At one end of thia| primitive balance, which is as stout aa an ordinary beam, is fixed another longr pole, the lower end of which is sunlo Into a well and carries a large yessejj made of baked clay. At the opposite* er>d of this pole are two coolies, who! are constantly In motion and thu? form a living counter balance. One after another they walk wltl| great slides over this narrow path* way, passing with a mechanical yet aj rhythmical and supple movement frons one end of the pole to the other, and hardly touching a slender bamboo balustrade, which Is within their reach) and which is intended to serve as aj guide. When they arrive at one ena and are bowed down beneath the weight they know that at the otbeir end the enormous vessel has been! filled with water and raised to thtf surface of the ground. Large notches cut in the-trees serve as a ladder for the barefooted Im dians, and render it easy for them toreach the tip of the pole at the moment when, having arrived at the end of ifo course, It is almost vertical. While they are making this ascent with in-< comparable agility another man emp< ties the water from the enormous ve*"j sel into trenches by simply oscillating the vessel, after which the manoeuvre 1 is repeated. , I I The work of the coolies is by act l mDona en nnprnns as It seems. fOtr ' pains are always taken to have the' | pole balanced correctly and of the proJ I per weight, and In.this way the taskl -I ' is much simplified. The weight of th< fl coolies themselves is also taken lntc I ' account, and there are cogs by mean! H > of which the balancing pole can b? I lengthened or shortened, as may be I ' desired. ffl _ "This method of irrigation," saya'Dr; I H. Sicard,' a traveler, "is not applicaj I ble everywhere, since it is essential I that the subsoil should be moist, ana M doubtless it is inferior to the method^ fl employed in Europe. On the otheij n hand, it has the advantage of being I entirely appropriate to the economic I and social conditions of India, for ma* B chinery there is scarce^ and expensive; H anu man, though poorly paid, is still I the most useful beast of burden."?! H New York Herald. ** 9 JEFFERSON'S MONUMENT. 1 Those His Own Bnrlal Place and Wrote- ' the Inscription For a Tablet. I The original monument, designed} H by Thomas Jefferson and erected overj H bis grave at Monticello,' now stands I apon the campus of the University ofiM Missouri at Columbia. It is a simple! H Dbelisk of granite, eight feet in heights H ind without the slightest attempt atl H idornment. The monument will formj ihe centre of the Missouri Univeraltjf I ?xhibit at the St Louis Exposition la B 1903. 3 On April 18,1882?in the birth-monthi I ?f Jefferson ? Congress appropriated! I JlO.OOO "for the erection of a suitablej I Inonument and to make other suitable' ;j ^ *\|1 fPUM II flcM 1! Wmifi&H f fixWs?. "J. ;ii7is,os.i ? JEFFEESON'S MONUMENT. 'The original stone, designed by Thomas H Jefferson, dow standing on the cam-(M pus of the University of Missouri.) B improvements ever the grave of fl Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, Vir ginia." When this new monument H was erected the original shal't was H presented by the Misses Randolph, H the residuary legatees of Thomas Jef- I ferson, through Dr. S. S. Laws, presi- H dent, and Dr. A. F. Fleet, professor ot fl Greek in the University of Missouri, H to that institution. It was shipped H from Montieello by Dr. Fleet on the I Fourth of July, 1883, and unveiled on H - -tnorr TLTI?_ tilC 4111 01 JUlie, loco, lipuu lw mm- k sourl University campus, with cere- H monies in which Senator Vest, Thomas H P. Bayard, then Secretary of State; m Senator Stephen B. Elkins and other eminent Americans pai'ticipated. NS Aside from this tablet the only in- H scription upon the obelisk is the sunk- H en figures showing the date of the H birth and death of Jefferson. Thfl H shaft proper is live and one-half feci H high and rests upon a base three feet H square. It had been chipped some- B what by relic hunters before Its remo M val from Virginia. The tablet is twc H feet by eighteen inches in size and of H highly-polished marble. The monu- H ment stands in a beautiful grass plot Hj on the east side of the quauraugle oi U the university campus. 9 The orange tree is very fruitful: a single tree will produce L'0,000 or-^H anges fit for use. A good tree^B ' will produce S000 lemons. V