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ttioldehht ay Ccpjrirtkt by B CHAPTER VL Continued. Luncheon over. I sought to create a diversion by reminding my uncle of bis engagement to examine the Holdenhurst deeds. He seemed very pleased with my attention to bis wishes, and at once followed me Into the library, my father and the other two guests adjourning to the drawing-room. It was then I learned that uncle Sam bad been in the library with my father In the morning, and had looked through some of the deeds. He spent the whole of the afternoon In com* nloHnv hla AT?inln*?tnn rtf thpm. tfllk log to me on various subjects meanwhile, and amusing me greatly with bis blunt candor and bis unsparing criticism of village communities in England. His strictures upon the Rev. Mr. Fuller were no less amusing than severe, and mj sides ached so much from continued laughter that I was much relieved when at last he rose and said: T rn #lr\r\A Po. A. uric* UJJ ?A/,? I * UU IV uvuv. *?V place them carefully where you took them from, until I send your father a steel safe worthy to contain them. They are very interesting and ought to be carefully preserved if only for their historical interest By-and-bye, your father told me just now that he has invited yet another parson to dine here this evening?the Vicar of Holdenhurst Minor. You know him, of course." I replied that I knew him very well Indeed. "I would rather be 91 war with twenty brokers, for a. vetr." continued ancle Sam. "than talk with a parson for an boor. In a small company It Is impossible to ignore an individual member of It, and I could never listen to anything from a parson without replying to it?except in cburcb; and I tune often been tempted to do so tb^re. I am afraid I shocked your father somewhat at luncheon; though. Goodness knows, I said nothing either untrue or unreasonable. I speak as I think, and hope always to do so. However. I Intend to be as reserved as my nature will permit at dinner to-day." This declaration waa a distinct relief to me. though in no case should I have much feared a meeting between my uncle and the Rev. Evan Price. The Vicar of Holdenburst Minor iraa a youthful bachelor, and enjoyed an Income of ?00 a year. There being no vicarage in the pariah, the reverend gentleman lodged 'with a farmer, wboae two daughter* made it the chief business of their Uvea to please him. Indeed, the competition among the female community of Hohlenburrt Minor and thereabout* for the smiles of the Rev. Evan Price was very keen, a condition of affair* to which til* rover. end gentleman owed many substantial benefits. Probably no man in England was better provided with slippers than the Rev. Evan Price; and there was a rumor tbat bis name was recorded in tbe last will and testament of at least one wealthy old maid. Tbe amallness of bis Income was balanced by his popularity, whlcb was based opon his fine atbletic appearance, bis affable manner, bis skill as a cricketer, and tbe brevity of bis sermons. He bad a great mjmy friends and no enemies, and on leva tbi:n a hundred a year contrived to live better than many another man with an income ten times as large. CHAITER VII. COBSTAXCK U\R&H. Tbe visit of my uncle and aunt to Holdenburst was soon ended. Uncle 8am tried bard to induce iny father and me to accompany Llm to London - for a few weeks, but fatl*er would not consent to such an arrangement. Several farms on the estate bad been for a iong time without tenants, and we were working them ourselves bj the aid of a steward. The tirst week or April bad now arrived, and my father did not feel himself justilied in leaving the place. He agreed, how ever, that 1 should go to Loudon witl my uncle and aunt and remain theii guest for three weeks, <t being furthei arranged that on the termination oi my stay in towu 1 was to take mj father's place at Holdenhurst, whih he, in his turn, visited his brother that our interests iu Suffolk migbi not "i>e left entirely to the care of Ue pendents. The liberality of uncle Sam aston Ished everybody with wboui he cutu< Into contact during his stay in Suf folk, and it would exceed the limit of this chapter to recite his benefactions. but It is essential to the purpos< of these memoirs to refer to a few o the more remarkable In addition to clearing off (he larp mortgage upon tbe HoJdenbnrst ei late be paid to tbe credit of toy fatb er*s banklug account do le?s a #uu tnan ?5000, "for presert use." as h said. He advocated tbe laying wast of every furiu in botb tbe Holdea bursts and cor verting tbe entire estat Into a lar^e park. "Tbat done," sail be. "and tue ball thoroughly repairei and partly refurnished, tbe place wll be worth living in for six or eigb weeks In each year." To tbe tfrst of these proposals m; iwwit ucuiui-u 10 ugrw, wuereupoi ancle Sam remarked that be c-onsld ered bim a fool, tot tbe proposal t ? renovate tbe ball wo accepted. An; antavorable impression which unci Sam migbt bare created on tbe mini of tbe Rev. Mr. Poller at tbeir firs meeting was speedily removed wbei next tbey met. and my ancle an Bounced bis intention, if permitted b; his brother, of restoring tbe chord of Holdenhurst Major, an ancient edi flee mocb decayed. Tbe necessar; permission being at once given, and flam said be would bate the cburd examined by an cctoclaailcaJ archi t i'cgfe-i'lHallj' I 8 ft NoorL D /ALTER* BLOOMFIELD o s r orxiT Boim'a So*?. a tect, and order the restoration to be p made at once. MI don't suppose the t i job will cost more than ?1000 or d ' ?1500," Mid he, whereat Mr. Fuller a dropped his lower jaw on his white s I tie. aghast at the presence of a man n I WOO COU1U IBIS SO m il J Ot BUUJ ?OiK? , sums of money. i Tbe moment of our departure having c : arrived onr comfortable old carriage, s drawn by a pair of greys, stood ready n at the door, old John?among wliosc p duties was numbered that of a coach* > man?sitting on the box. As uncle tl Sam, aunt Gertrude, my father and I I passed through the hall my uncle hes- !i itated and stopped. "Where are tbe b servants?" he asked, and being told a they were in the kitchen be desired e them to be called. Our entire domes- o tic establishment, consisting of four b women and a boy, responded to the in- n vltatlon. Hastily giving two sover- k elgns to each of the women and a half tl sovereign to the boy be stayed not to s bear their thanks, but banded bis wife n into the carriage. Uncle Sam and I e followed, the driver cracked his whip b and the horses walked slowly down e the path as we waved our hands to t my father, who stood outride the house in the porch. p Tf TP** iflmo mlnntea hpfnrc thp hall li was lost to our view, and to the last v moment It teemed to engage my on- C cle'a attention. "There, Gertie." said v the, pointing to the old house from s which we were now rapidly receding, p "to think that It was a mere accident t ?a woman's feeble will?that saved n me from spending my life In that o placer 11 I was surprised and not altogether v 'pleased at bearing my home?where li no effort had been spared to make our t guests comfortable?spoken of in this a contemptuous manner, but concluded from my uncle's munificence that he f was an* extraordinarily rich man. ac- a 1 customed to the best of everything t the world could supply, and conse- c quently quite out of his element In a h Suffolk village. r "Don't you think, Sam, the antl- v quated appearance of the old ball will d suffer from tbe repairs you are going a to maker asked aunt Gertrude. c "Not a bit In tbe world. The main li structure won't be Interfered with." a MI think I xrfluid prefer it at it is. If to lb were mine." "Ail old place* have to be repaired? 1 some of them pretty much and often." t: said uncle Sam. selecting a cigar from a his cats. MI don't doubt but Queen a Anne would have some difficulty In ? recognising Windsor Castle if that It lady could come to life again to look at it; it Is continually being patched, tl As for Westminster Abbey. I question c if a handful of the original structure f remains. A small snuff-box would g contain the -dust of all the Pharaohs. Everything substantial is transient <] and passes away. Human nature v alone is unaltered and uoalterable. u Consider that parson Fuller. Two i days ago he could hardly disguise his D horror of me; yet when I offered to re- c store Holdcnhurst Church did you no- a tice how bis tongue fell out of his 3 inoutb as if he wanted to lick ivy e boots on the spot? I suppose the poor v chap hopes for a commission from the j contractor. Well. I'll see that he'fi not n disappointed." " i. "8am, Sam. bow 70a <lo talk," said v his wife reprovingly; then turning to e me as I sat silent with folded arms. ^ "I am afraid. Ernest. It will take you T some time to understand your uncle. c He's awfully cynical, but those who n know him best like him best." s I forget what answer I made, but .. 1 certainly 1 was not disposed to converse much. The novel experiences of ^ the last few days, and speculations as ^ to my visit to London engrossed my { thoughts. Though I had more than completed nineteen years of life I bnd s'.'en little or nothing of tbe world. Eleven of those years bad been passed in a school at Bury St. Edmund's, with the exception of the Interval between Friday night and Monday morning ? each week, which was spent at home. During the school holidays my father ; had been accustomed to take me with j him to the seaside?Lowestoft. Yar- j mouth. Aldboroucb. or some other of j, the summer resorts on the east coast r -and occasionally to London. My ac- j quaintance with the world being c comnrised within these narrow limits. , f and tluj present being the first occa nion on wh|ch, In tbe ordinary sense of phrase. I bad left home. I was moved to contemplation. Particularly ! did I regret my defective education? defective because of the idleness of i lay nature and my love of reading poe try and fiction. I had been well and e carefully taught, but was never able f to acquire more than a smattering of Latin, lireek and French, insufficient tf to enable me to read with interest a r book io any of those languages. Engi lisb I bad mastered fairly well, and j developed some facility in its compoe sltion: while for mupic it was acknowle edged that 1 had move than ordinary i- ability. 1 was painfully conscious t e that my mental equipment was a very j J poor one. and wondered whether my j J uncle would keep much company dur- ( it in- 1.1? nfor In Vntflnml wKa* n/ 11 >Ufi UiO PM?/ *** MW^IHUU, nuai CVIi V* ^ t people Lis friends were. aud in "wbat j manner they would regard a young , f gentleman of aocb slender attainments j Q as mine. I- Both my uncle and aunt endeavored , o to make me talk, but they were not y very successful in their efforts, and j e little more was said before our car- , d riage passed rapidly through North- j t rate street, wary sl tumuau s, auu ( a dashed into the station yard there. , i- Uncle 8am was the first to alight , y "See to your aunt and the luggage b there, Ernest," he said, and lhcn ran , 1. np the stairs three steps at a time. j y "lie is always like this when we e start on a Journey." observed annt b Gertrude, aa I assisted her oat of the < U carriage. "We hare tern or twalv* ' ;s. "... . - statutes to spare, and during that tlms ie will despatch at least that number f telegrams. I bare never known blm o content himself so long without us in ess as during his stay at youi ouse." The luggage had been labeled and ?ut Into the brake, my aunt and I rere comfortably ensconced in oppo? ite corners of the first-class compartaent which had been specially re* erred for us, and the train began to aove out of the station before uncle am emerged from the telegraph ffice. But he was equal to the occa* ion. Jumping lightly into the carlage he shut the door with a slam, nd seated himself as far from us as , osafble. Begging his wife to enteraln me as well as she could, he prouced a^large pocketbook and pencil, nd at once became engrossed in some tudy, no* did" he again open his lips I iftll we reached London. The changeful weather?exhilarating unshlne alternating with gloomy loud* from which descended heavy bowers of rain ?greatly Interested iy aunt, who for my edification comared the climates of England and forth America as our train sped brougb the low-lying Essex meadows. ?lke most Americans vbo visit Engind she was uncomfortably affected y the chilly dampness of our climate, nd visibly shivered, though she was nveloped In a thick wool rug. Though ur acquaintance had been so brief, I j ad developed a very real regard for iy youthful American aunt, whose indly consideration and uniform genleness excited my admiration. As I crutinlzed her delicate features I ( oted their wistful expression, nnd 1 xperienced a feeling akin to pity for 1 er?for I Instinctively felt there could : xist no bond of sympathy between bis gentle lady and her husband. No other part of England is so deressing as the horrid region between tomford and Liverpool street through ! rhich the Great Eastern Hallway | Company conveys Its London-bound ictlms. Between those places the < enses of sight, hearing and smell are i TOMly outraged, and when the unorrunate traveler finds himself once lore on terra firma be staggers like ne awakened from a nightmare, his imbs stiffened by the close packing to rhlch they have been subjected, and is mind and stomach disgusted by he abominations he has seen and niffed. It was with great relief we alighted rom the train. A splendid carriage waited us, into which we at once enered, our luggage being piled u]x>n a ab which was to follow. Dark clouds ad gathered in all around, and the ain descended In torrents as to drove restward out of the city. At a few j linutcs past 5 p. m? nearly four hours f ter we left Uoldenburst Ilall?our ., arriage turned out of tbe main road , ato De Vere Gardens, Kensington, nd drew up In front of my uncle's louse there. , It was a targe bouse, furnished as uxuriouBly as possible, Illuminated ' brougbout by electricity, tbougb bere nd tbere was an oil lamp wblcb shed subdued tlgbt on the objects around. !very thing In tbe place seemed absoitely new?as 1 have no doubt It was -and tbe best of its kind obtainable, tie evidences of wealth on every band ontrasting strongly wfth my comortable but unpretentious home In Suffolk. The footman bad just closed the j oor after admitting us. and I was de- : outly hoping that I might neither see : or be seen by my aunt's sister before j had had an opportunity of making ; ayself tolerably presentable?which ould certainly not be the case with ; ny one Immediately after a seventy\e mile journey on the Gre# East- | rn Railway?w ben the younf^lady of ) rhom I was thinking tripped lightly i own me tunrs, auu iuru?mg ut-i | rins around my aunt, embraced ber .! j a manner which drove me wild I ritb envy. Tbe next minute, bow- i ver. Mira Afarsh was herself seized j y uncle Sam, who held ber gently but j nth an Iron grip while be gave ber | sore kisses tban 1 bad pretence of j .sind to count. Wben at length be de* | isted, be pointed at me. Faying, There, Connie, my pet; I have j rought you home tbe husband I prom* j ?cd you. Wbat do you think of him? | -ooks innocent, don't be, Con;" Then, ; urning to bis wife, "Suffolk boys aake (he best husbands In tbe world, j b, liertrude:" To be continued. _ , ^ Bow the Razor Should Do "Stroked." A Berlin cutler has Just put a four- ! ided "Chinese" razor-strop on the 1 market. Instructions for the use of | he strop are printed on the case in iluglisb. French and German. The I English "direction," as It is termed, i s not inelegantly phrased: "Stroke the azor by applying the back and edge latt. Is the razor yet a little sharp, in rder to give it a sharp edge stroke it >n side 4. when tbe razor gets blnuter, troko It G or S times on side 3, and hen as often on side 4. Is ibe razor juite blunt stroke it on side 2. G or 8 imes. and then as many times on sides > aud 4. Side 1 makes disappear the taps and notches. The sides 2 and 3 laving been used, then wipe of the azor clean, before stroking on side 4, is this side (No. 4) must be kept luite clean. That then the razor strop *? not blamed if It does not succeed o the desire by reason of faulty isage."?London News. Fran Station to Money. There Is. or rather was, years ago tills city, a gentleman who did a hriving business in mutton in the mar;et district, and was well known to lucdreds of |>eoj>le as a bright and >rijrinal sort of man. Another man, rho had not seen him for nearly tweny years met him a short time ago. ind after inquiries as to his health isked if be was in the same business. "Oh. no." was the reply. "I'm pretiding now.'' The man who was inquiring about Jim was realty pieaseu uy mm answer, ind remarked that he presumed It wa9 Ltis ignorance, bat he must admit ho lerlved bo idea of his business from the statement that the former martfet man "was presiding." "Why." he replied. 'T mean that I ltn a president?president of a bank in Cambridge."?Boston Itecord. The State wlilch produced the largest ?orn crop last year was Illinois, with M7.000.000 bushels. ' T i - I a . - * | Twentieth-Celtur WITH the achievements of ^ tbe nineteenth century jet e: fresh in mind, only the ex- o treme o? perversity would f 1m? npt to declare that anything is impossible in tbe prospective achieve- c mints of tbe twentieth. It is not alone that the logically Impracticable has been proved the actually feasible la instance after instance within our recollection. but that the process of elaborating and perfecting an Invention Is, in these days, so rapid that public interest is given no time to flag, from the moment when the theory is first promulgated until the thing itself Is an established fact An illustration of this rapidity of development is furnished by the wireless telegraphic system of Signor Marconi, the progress of whose experiments has been so steady and so speedy that, from first to last, he hns been almost continually in the public eye. At no stage of his proceedings have the scoffers been able to f?!rir intn nrint with their ridicule k V M anil hostility before his announcement of another proof of his theory's practicability. an additional experiment, or a further success. In quite another field of modern science, however?that of auto-locurootion?it must have appeared to casual observers that, in this country at least, the inventors have recently come to a practical standstill, with their task but Imperfectly done at best. There is. It may frankly be said, not a motor carriage in existence to-day which is not far from being a complete solution of tbe problem, nor has there been, during. say, tbe last two years, that advance in development which the possibilities of tbe time, as illustrated, in other directions, by the performances of Monsieur Santos-Dumont or Signor j * rOCBIXG-CARBIAOE FOB CSE 15 AFBICA. |, Marconi, would lead as to expect. But 3 these are surface iudicatious only. The 1 activity of inventioo Is there, below tj the surface, and great changes are 0 near. 0 What is difficult for au American to * understand Is that, for once. In a com- r< petition demanding a combination of e scientific research, mechanical skill 8 and practical ingenuity, tbe Yankee inventor bag been outstripped at, if not b absolutely from, tbe start, by alien 1 rivals. It is not often tbat tbe crow P of the French cock can drown tbe T scream of tbe American eagle, but, so far as auto-locomotion is concerned. v we have been fairly and squarely beat- e en. and may as well admit it grace- a fully, and turn our attention to what 0 the French are doing, with an idea of 0 profiting thereby, rather than to be 0 dying off at tangents without rhyme ~ or reason, oftentimes merely to repeat, it the cost of time, capital and labor, experiments which such men as De Dion. Panhard. Girnrdot. Fournier or Cbarron have proved impracticable. Tb' >ject of the French automobile . i.s commoner forms has been too exhaustively treated iu the American reviews to make it advisable to go into the question here. What is of | more interest at the moment is a brief comment upon the directions in which the fantastic, though far from unpractical, imagination of French inventors is turning, now that the perfection of the automobile, as a racing or road carriage, is. to all interns and purposes. merely a question of time. While Paris?and. for that matter. 1 practically all France?is on terms of but casual acquaintance with ice and snow, the present close relation of 1 French and Russians has naturally t turned the minds of Parisian inventors ? nrriril tho rules t inn nf nud I cuto-sleigbs. In a rudimentary form, tbe auto-sled has been for some time an actuality. It was a feature last winter on the Neva it St. Petersburg, but. it must be confessed, as j>oor an affair, when compared with the sleigh which lias been buiit by a French inventor for one of the Iti ss.an grand* dukes, as would have b?en Fulton's flr^ steamboat contrasted with a steam-yacht of to-:lay. The crandduke's auto-slcigh is an actuality as well, though not till now made public. It is a thins of beauty, too. designed 1 and executed in the style of Louis XV. 1 But tbe auto-sleigh is by no mer.ns < designed to be simply the toy of a ' grand-duke. If tbe IIou?e of Savoy < is not destined to bo crowned wiih 'be j i glory of the discovery of the north 1 pole, it will not be the fault of one of J its younger princes. That royalty is 1 i TttT GYPSY LITE ? CLD ANP NCW ?? only partially typical of conservatism < is evinced by the fact that in tne bands of the same French inventor the prince in question bae placed a snm too large for even An entbosiast to ' ^Automobiles^ : ) raste on a chimera, to be expended In xperiments and In the construction f an auto-sleigh to be used in a dash or the pole. But -while Italy is preparing to skim iver the ice-pack in a miraculously ' v . /yU: ' .4/.' ,V ///f ' av'- * ' / Z.{ wift and powerful machine. Fiance erself proposes to make the interior f Africa as accessible as her own ! iland towns, by means of huge tour:g-carriages, built of aluminum, baped like a submarine boat, water igat. ana a Die 10 uurigaiv ntcm ao eadily as to run on land. The ealcultions by which our French inventor rrives at the po:ential practicability f mch a machine, for use. Fay. in the ahara, are as ingenious as they are itricate, being based primarily on the reiglit of a camel and his burden comJned. per pound to the square centljetre of surface represented by the cro feet which, in walking, rest slmulineously on the ground. It Is. of ourse. common knowledge that hard r high-pressure tires assure greater peed as well as greater ease over firm 02H18, wnne SOU or ueuaieu urrs aic qually effective in traveling through and. A calculation proves that tlie our great tires of tbe (lexer: autoinoile, when deflated, give several times he area cf the camel's Icet, making osslhle a proportionate increase in the reight to be carried. This desert machine, as It will appear rben completed for the use of French xplorcrs and engineers, will be a huge ffair of tremendous power, capable f three separate and distinct methods f auto-locomo:ioD. In addition to tbe rdinary action of the motor upon the rofoszd acto-sleigh fop. the polar regions. lriving-wheels, there is a means of browing the power onto another lut eh, operating directly upon a profiler at the stern. The mac-bine, as ve bave said. Is water-tight, and the ront wheels differ from the ordinary n that the spokes arc replaced by llsks of aluminum. As a result, they jot only serve to steer the automobile vheu on laud. but provide an effective udder while alioat. There is. in addlion. a powerful sail, for use in a favorng wind; the wind is counted upon in be case of the arctic automobile as ivell, it being titled with a lee outright*. Finally, this desert-tour;ng machine jas a capstan in front, on which the Motor can at any monnnt be made operative. enabling it. with a chain and inchor. to lift the car up unusually steep inclines, or drag it. when in use is a boat, against the swiftest rapids. More than .'.uytbing else, if sounds like - ? f - / \f . i chapter rroin mc propuesn.* ui -?n. H. B. Wells. this prospect of aluminum A.* ? V ' l* r ?>,. ? , ? * *-\il i ^ r* i V. mtyy v<^. i,. caravans flying across the deserts, plunging over lakes and rivers, and bringing stores of gold, frankincense and myrrh, ivory, spices and scented wood* to the borders of civilization in leas time than a eamel reqolrec for i' single day's joarney. Indeed, the cam i ell and the borders of civilization alik? : will soon be things of the past, if aO I this be possible. And we are told no' I only that It la possible, bat that it ii , imminent, and these are no days it i which to doubt assertions of the kind j So long ago aa the French Automo j bile Show of 1900 there was exhibited j in the Grand Palais des Champs Ely j Fees, an enormous touring-car, with i j dinner table completely set for eight I persons. At the time it seemed a fan , /\EAVY- DRAUGMT AUTOMOBILE . *''-.? V*'? ^ <-* *r rv,v. .; I wt. 3. IVH 2si?3wv.? i ______^?_____1 . tactic affair, and. in all probability, I "for exhibition purposes only." Yet j now it is known that the King of the j Belgians already bas such an auto-car, I only on a scale even more elaborate- i a car with a state-room, saloon, kltcb- J cn and office. It is likely to be the , onJy one of its kind, for an appreciable ; time at least. As the builder said, bis : Majesty is not desirous, in the first ' year of possession, to mH others on j the road, no doubt filled with Ameri* j cans. Therefore, up to this time, the plans, even the appearance, of th? j King's car have been kept secret. Sucb are a few of the potentialities j AUTO SLEIGH BUILT FOB A KCSSIAH GBAND-DCKE. of tbe automobile. Tbe French In* ventor and manufacturer with whom we have been speaking is confessedly the final authority among bis compatriots, but. nevertheless, a man who believes that the motor vehicles of today are little more than baby-carriages. and that the immediate future will see some developments in autolocomotion beside which even autosleighs and desert-cars will be as negatively interesting as the ordinary automobiles now seen in our streets and park*. "For the time being." he adds, "we in France shall set the example, and the rest of the world will follow. But in the end you in America will outstrip us all."?Harper's Weekly. Prepare* Solid Foundations. It is not entirely new to render loose soil, such as sand and gravel, stable enough for building purposes by impregnating it with thin iluid cement, which binds with the sand and forms .1 sufficiently hard concrete mass to serve as a foundation: but this process is always dependent upou certain conditions. Thus, for instance, th* soil must contain no water, because the water tills out tin* interstices of the sand and renders tbo penetration of tbe cement very diflieult. and. in addiIMPREGNATISa WITH LIQUID CEMENT. ;ion to ibis. tbe water still further dilute* tbe ccu:ent. which is thin Haiti already, so that it is impossible fot tbe cement to bind and form a good foundation. Now conies a Russian in ventor with aii apparatus to exhaust th<* water from tbe soil simultaneously with tbe forcing iutu it of tbe liquid cement. This enables tbe cement tc be proi>erly distributed and also renders it possible to force it into tbe soil with less pressure tban when a single forcing tube was used. As seen in tbe drawing, tbe two smaller tubes pour tbe cement into tbe sand, wbilt tbe larger central pipe is connected with a suction pump or other exhaust apparatus. Tbis draws tbe water from tbe soil and allows tbe liquid cement indicator to show when the coil bat been Impregnated by drawing tbe ce ment into tbe tube afttr tbe watei Kaan <?vhntic(uil Thu t.iruio Imri; UU9 UVVU MM Uk ?vu. * uv I'ljrvo lit* V pointed Leads to aid iu their insertion in the earth. Nicolas ScbietkieW.c*. of St. Petersburg. Russia, has the patent on this apparatus. _ THE OLDEST WAGON* % - I Fotmi k i Pueblo Mw Village New Mexico. Picturesque among tbe relics of ancient Indian days, dating back to tbe Introduction of cattle in New Mexico, more than two hundred years ago. says the Detroit Free Press, is the carreta? or ox cart, shown in tbe illustration* which is probably the oldest vehicle of native American origin in tbe world* i**-- fnnntl In tin. nm. X Uf caurio n ao *vru??v? *u ?-v j--session of a native Indian In tbe an* cient pueblo village Rio Tesuque. situated about nine miles from Santa Fe* the capital of New Mexico. Tbe In* dian, who was eighty-five years /)ld, said it bad been tbe property of ill* great-grandfather, and the traditionsof Rio Tesuque, when taken in corre* lation with Known historical events* clearly establish tbe date of Its makin^ln tbe latter half of tbe seventeenth century. Tbe ancient vehicle shows the primN tlve conditions of past modes of travel* Tbe great wheels are made of the cross sections of the sycamore tree. Tb?hnbs are of one piecc with tbe body, of the wheels; they are secured bjf wooden pins driven through tbe axle* No iron or metal figures In tbe makei . 1 J - ft n I OLDEST WAGON IS AMERICA. op. wood and rawhide alone bclof Oftd in tbe coustructlon. The body of tbe carreta is an open* rack of cottonwood eight feet long. Upright slats four feet high form tbitrack. Tbe frame rests upon tbe axlennd tbe tongue. Tbe toDgue, twelve feet long, is a twisted and gnarled trunk of a me*quite tree. Tbe oxen wbicb drew thisancient cart pushed wiib their heads scrt of yoke in the shape of a bow of wood bound upon tbe boras with rawbide. wbicb may be seen to-day insome parts of France and Germany. A Track Barrow. * 1- intnn<t<ul tn fnba tKa A IIUVA UHIIVIT MM.wvu ?w ??<nv place of push-carts for running thematerial out of cut* in cleaning railway ditches has been devised by * Massachusetts luveutor. The wheelbarrow in question has a grooved wheel, with double flange, which holdsit firmly on the track, so that tbe per* son pushing It may walk on one sld* of the rail Instead of astride. In cod* nection with tbe barrow there Is alsoa device which enables it to be jvn on or off the rail without lifting, and another which enables it to be run. from one rail to another without lift* log. Aside from its special use. thebarrow may be run on the ground as well as on the rail like any other, wheelbarrow, thus enacting loe man wheeling tbe load to dump It at desired; A TRACK BABBOW. I ? I points away from tbe track, wberea? in unloading from a push-cart tbe material must be shoveled off and un I 'oaded near the track. XfW Lll? Buoy. A oew life buoj of an ingenious ! lipn is now being fitted to warships, lays tbe London Daily Graphic. Its 1 general appearance may" be judged J frcm tbe accompanying cut. It i? LIFE SCOT FOR ZXOLI8H VESSELS. ^ j stock oil each day with n ^unjilj- ofH I fre?b provisions?food nod dr.nk?audi 1 it carries lights wbicb appear auto-H ma r If :i JI y upon tin- buor toucbiDfr tbeH I trat?-r At present each ?bip .s to beH j provided with two of tbe new iifeH ; Lucjs. M t'naolmlty. I Fie wished to Ik? poetic, and it seetseAH : tft iiim h<> hail a cood simile. As be^| loaued toward her be produced a ring.H "My love for you." lit- said, "is hkefl I this ring. There is no end to it." H [ She (xnmiued the ring with iotereetS 1 and theo ha tided it hack. BR "My love for you." sbe said. 'Ms alsoB 1 like the ring. There is do hc?inning^| to it."?Chicago Evening Post. 9H The Soldier Population. HE Prance has oae soldier to every inhabitants; Ciermany. oue to eighty Kussia, ooe to 134. while England ha^B oue to every 100. wj It has been propocec to establish London a chain of "garages." ivbertflH autoniobihs may be cared for and opflj era tors secured. j England was the tirst Europetn coanBj | try to have a railwa; Serrii^B