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^ [f LUKE H. II THE 1 11 By Prof. Wm. Henry P II Aatbar of tfc* Stone-Cuii I cfUskm," Etc. iiuir u viw? vwtuv ?M ?? stormy night at Its back, and found him drinking brandy. A rare sign that be -was excited, and that his nerves wanted bracing. At 9.30 old Fan entered and placed a Bote in his hand. "The gent is In the rear parlor." said Fan. "He is disguised, but I know him." "Ton know him!" exclaimed Hammond, looking np sharply from the note, the decoy note be had written that morning. "Tes. It's Mr. James Greene." said Fan. "Where did yon ever see him?" asked DimnwinH "Saw him when be repaired that desk." said Fan, grinning. "Wanted bot water for his slue, and came to me in the kitchen. He said the work suited ft cabinet maker better than ? carpenter. I pretended I was deaf." "Yes." said Hammond. "Miss Elgin recommended blm. however. How djd you know him In disguise?" "He took It off as soon as he came In." said Fan. "Ah! very well Ton most forget \ him. There's a half-eagle to make you forget that you ever saw him," said Hammond. tossing a coin to her. "Did you speak to him?" "No. Mrs. Harker told me I was to be very deaf, stupid and half bllifll a year ago, to everybody that don't five la this bouse." "Right; so did I order you," said Hammond. "Now listen. You will go to him and give him this note." He wrote ss follows, forging, of course: "Dear James?Follow Fan. She will lead you to me. I dare cot meet you In Mm> nnrlnr u Mrs. Harker is suspicious of your coming, and will Interrupt or listen to us. Follow Fan?^febe knows What to do. Your Katy." "Cive.bim that" said Hammond. "He will read It. and yon will lead him through the dining room, through the hall, down to the baaement, and so on into the old storeroom near the eastern wla&." "The old storeroom Is heaped with am|ty boxes, barrels and the like," said Fan, > **1 made a passage," said Hammond, "straight as a dart on this side through to the door on the other. The barrels and boxes are heaped on either side, re feet high. The passage between is /our feet wide, the distance from door to door twenty of your longest paces. Lead iilm Into the passage ten pacescount them as you step?then halt and ay, 'Wait, 1 must get a key.' Yon will then iMTe him and go on to the other door. Do you understand?" Old Fan grew lltld and trembled tIo kntly. i "Mr Hammond," said she, "there Is ft trap door in the middle of that storeroom." "Well, what of thatr Tea mean to?" "Nerer mind what I mean to do," aid JL.uke. fiercely. "Do wh.U I tell yon. I shall keep yon In sight from the noaxnt I leave this room, and if I suspect treachery I will blow a ball through your old back?right between the sltoulders, Fan?with this. Fan." He drew a revolver from his bosom and cocked it "Pis wicked, I know I am wicked." said 'Pan, trembling at the fierceness of his look, as be glared at her over the levcl<;d weapon, "but I have never bad a baad in taking a human life! I've been tempted to do it in my anger often. hot I never did. I can't do it in cold blood?no, I dare not. Mr Hammend." "For every step yon -will count with James Greece by your side after you enter the storeroom," said Luke, "I will give you $10. Ten steps make $100. You do not know what I mean to do." 8be did know, but she was afraid to tell of it. "See! the gold!" said Luke, ccuating St down upon the table. Her eyes glistened as she gaxed. "Pay me half in advance," said Fan. "Take half," said Hammond, dividing the hen p. "The other shall be yours In half an hour." "Be bit> blood on your bead, net mine." said Fan, clutching the gold. "I told a friend of mine, the woman we buy milk of, that if ever old Fan was missing to look for cie in the well under the old storeroom." Hammond turned pale. Th? old woman s cunning had foiled half cf his purpose. He lueaut to sln.v victim lnd accomplice at the same instant. "You art* an Idiot!" lie exclaimed, coDctaliu; hi* emotion. "Yon are ton twefol tc me. Kan. I cauuot afford tv. lose .vou. Now away?James Greene mu*t l?e growing impatient." "Don't think I'm Jokir.g," salt! Fan as she took' tin- secoud decoy note "1 did tell my friend to look for me there, Mr. Hammond. For among wolves tool: oat for their fangs." "She lias saved her life this time." nattered Hauamond, as the cunning old woman departed, and as he stole aftei her. "S?c lire* to be a w.U.e*s assiaal *>XjT-n_n_n_gjui CUAribK AI. Continued. "Twenty years nave passed since we net;w muttered Hammond, leaning back in bis cbalr, "and be is twentyfour years of age. A magnificent man now. no doubt. I've educated bim in Europe, given bim every advantage. Be will be in my arms before midnigbt. Be can push bis suit with Catharine Elgin at once. He is a chip of the old Mock, too. I imagine." Six o'clock came, and found him still Busing of bis past, present and future. Then be dined as Innocently as if he was not to commit morder that night, visited his prisoners, and awaited 9 o'clock in his library. with a dork and AMMOND, |] MISER. 11 eck, I Copyright 1W6, 0 3 I hj Boscax Boson's Bout. | H B (All right* iwrni) J I me. She must die in ber bed. nud ber friends shall tiud her there, aud not in the well." Creeping after Fan, and unseen by her. Hammond saw her give tin* note to James Greene, who. all unsuspecting of assassination, read it with a smile. "Poor little Katy." murmured Jumes Greene, as be kissed th<> beloved name, "how she must suffer here. But I will soon make an end of her little anxieties. Lead on. Fan " Fan seemed half asleep. He shook ber and made a gesture toward the door. He thought she was deaf. Poor James Greene! Fan clasped bis warm and honest hand in ber cold, dry claws and led bim from tbe parlor into the pitchy darkness of the dining room. She knew that somewhere in tbe gloom a tierce aod desperate assassin held eye and ear ready to detect tbe slightest sign of treachery, and a sudden, gnawing pain seemed growing between her shoulders as she remembered Hammond's threat. She remembered, too. tbe reward she was to get?she felt half of that reward in her pocket. When in tbe basement, where burned a dim light, filling the place with gloom, she paused In terror. She hiui tii>r?r had a hand in murder, and she was sixty-seven years old. A very late age to commit so-dreadful a crime. As she paused, trembling, as James Greene imagined, with the palsy of old age. she beard tbe clicking of a pistol, 1 clear and sbarp, in tbe dense darkness ! behind ber. James Greene beard it. too. and be started. "What was that?" be said, close to Fan's ear. and grasping ber arm bard. "Something snapped." "A rat trap," said Fan. "We've caught a rat, 1 guess. Come on." She spoke loudly that some one else might hear. An explanation so simple at once disarmed the slight suspicion of unfair play in James Greene's mind, and smiling at his fears as be felt bis strong muscles subside from their sudden swell of alarm, be said to himself: '"I am as nervous as poor Katy was last night" They reached the entrance cf the storeroom and here old Fan paused to still the beatings of ber beart. Click! click! in tbe gloom again. "Come on!" said Fan, and pushed open tbe door. "There's old lumber piled up in here," sbe said. "I must step slow and careful, too, sir. Tbis way leads to a flight of stairs tbat goes up Into a hall where Miss Elgin practices music." "Lead on. Fan." said James, smiling at his strange situation, and wondering what Hammond would say to And blm there. Old Fan began to count ber steps, long and slow, feeling the floor with h^r feet before she rested ber full weight upon the floor. She was not sure tbat Hammond believed ber story about a woman friend. Ten steps! all taken with an Icy rweat deluging her face, neck and bosom. Ten steps! She knew she stood upon a trap door over a dark and noisome pit fully thirty feet deep! 8be halted. "Walt! I must get a key!" said she, and letting fall her victim's hand hurried straight on until she readied tbe other door. That instant Lake Hammond, who bad crept after them. turned on a jet of gas, till then burning a dim. almost unseen spark near tbe ceiling, and pistol in hand, appeared at tbe door through "which James Greene bad pasted. "Move a single step and I fire!" said Hammond, aiming bis -weapon at tbe bead of tbe lover. "Young man. you are caught!" James Greene was pale and motionless. and his eyes were fixed in surprise. not fear, upon Hammond. Luke Hammond held a pistol in bis right hand, while bis left grasped a rope which passed through a bole in the floor at his feet. That rope was made fast at tbe other end to a bolt, which was all that divided Greene from tbe well below. "If I shoot you. James Greene, you would die tbe deatb of i burglar caught lu tbe act," said Hammond. A gleam in tbe calm, brave eyes of James Greene warned tbe assassin tbat bis pistol wag about to be dared by a rapid spring. "You'll see your Katy no more!" exclaimed Hammond, jerking tbe cord witb all bis strength. A clasb, n sudden cry of despair, and then a dark, yawning cbasui remained where tbe young man Had stood! Tbe trap had fallen! James Greene had disappeared! "Tbe rat is caught!" said Hammond, with a bitter, exulting laugb. so (lendlike that old Fan almost screamed with horror. i "Pnll at that rope near you," said Hammond. "It lifts the trap back to Its place." He dared not. with all bis bardlboou. i gaze Town into the well. In bis brain i was a fearful picture of what was | there. Fan heaved at the rope to which he pointed, and the trap door i rose slowly to its level. Stepping brisk' l.v to it. then. Luke Hammond thrust liis hand through a hole in the floor I near tbe edge ?f the trap and Hliot tne ! oUslnininp bolt into its soc ket. (j "It is net now. for nuother. perhaps." , he said. "Now. Kan, follow me and . pocket your reward." Trembling and pale Fan obeyed and . in tbe library received her sold. [ As she placed it that night in ber , boarding sack she said: i "They are rpeckled?speckled red! Bnt they are mine, and the deed is ' Luke Hammond's. There should have | been a splash when James Greene fell. j There was uour. He may not have ;'dled--le may have)caught cn the way do*m?he'll get out! And I'll low my golden birds?lone my life." Tbe idea ?o preyed upon her mind that she watched her chance. and creeping dowu to the storeroom heaped heavy boxes upon the trap, got nails and nailed it fast and stroug. The murder begun, she feared it half done. But bruised, stunned, not dead. ( James Greene hung by his clothing j only ten feet from the trap, caught by ! i a broken bar that once crossed tbe j well. For a time we raust leave him there. CHAPTER XII. KANCY IIAHKER SPEAK*. Luke Hammond, having pa!d and ! dismissed Fan, sat down to review j what he bad done. His face was pale j and tierce, tor the deed was too freshly j doue to bring remorse, if ever indeed ; that feeling found a place in his evil j heart. " 'T.s done, and well done, and quick* ly. too." he muttered through his teytb. j "James Greene has now been removed, i and no man saw him enter this bouse, j He was a brave and dangerous obsta* cle in my path. Thank heaven! all's j well so far." Blasphemous villain! to thank heaven ! for the murderous deed! He set thinking of the work when Nancy Harker entered cautiously: She was pale and excited and whispered: "Is it all over?" "All. James Greene will trouble us no more." said Luke. "I met old Fan on the stairs." said Nancy, sitting down, "and she looked like a ghost. Did she see it done?" "Unfortunately, she did." replied [ Luke, smiting the table with hie palms. ! " 'Twas my purpose to have her go J down with Greene, but she has guard*! ?ri ngainst such a death." "She may betray you." said Nancy. "Betray me!" cried Luke. "Why should she?' She does nothing unless ' she is paid for doing it. Who is to give her gold for telling of what she must: appear as an accomplice in?" "Tfle uis:ip|H'nriiuce ui juiurs Greene." said Nancy, "will cause much : conjecture and suspicion among his \ friends. They or the authorities mny offer a reward for the discovery of his body; Fan may hear of it and betray you." "I can pay higher than any reward that bis friendu can offer." said Luke. "And if I ever suspect her fidelity she shall find that Luke Hammond's life is certain death to all who shall attack It" "Luke," said Nancy, drawing very near to him. and speaking very low, "has old Fan*s face?a tone in her voice, a something. I know not what? never reminded you of some one we ooce knew, years ago?" "Yes." said Luke, in a deep and husky whisper; "4nd I have tried in j vain to think who that somebody was." ! rn/tnika If hoa ni4**l<w1 mo " un 1/1 1 Xnuey. "But when I met ber just now, so white, so tottering, the evil of her face all gone, crushed down by terror, I remembered whom she looked like." "Well, let me bear, and then I may be as wise as Nancy Harker." sneered , Hammond, as she seemed to hesitate. "She reminded me," said Nancy, in a whisper so low that Hammond bent forward to catch the words?"she reminded me of our grandmother just , before tbe old woman died." They rose Lt once and stared at each other in horror. "Nancy," said Luke, going to the ' door and locking it, and then coming i back, "perhaps she is our mother!" I "It cannot be, it must not be!" said ' Nancy, sinking Into ber cbair and hid- ( ing her face. t "If it should be so." said Luke, swal-; lowing a great draught of brandy and ; trembling so as to let tbe glass fall at, bis feet, "would you suffer ber to know it?" "Neverf cried Nancy, "never! But this suspicion is horrible." "We must take measures to learn her | history, whoever the it." "How?" asked Nancy. "I have tried time and time again to extract Infor- j matlon from her of her past life. She j is suspicious. She has not so much as told me that she was ever married." "Daniel hired ber. I will summon him for questioulug." To be continued. G?n* In th* Congo. The natives are not heavy meat' eaters. Tbe domestic fowl?that marvelous combination of skin, bones and , feathers?tbe old friend of all African travelers, and tbe Inevitable bleating goat, are common to all district#, j There are also some sheep to be bad. ! But tbe darling pet of a Congo man is j bis pig. You can treat bit wife and : children as you like, but if you touch J his pig. beware! To kill a man's pig that breaks through your fence and | digs up your vegetable garden is to the unpardonable sin. and tbe ; owner never forgives you. Hog's flesh ! is equally dear to hlio. Game in some parts is plentiful, but more especially in Zombo. There we have several kinds of deer, autelopes aud wild hares; the only difficulty is to bag th<?m. Guinea fowls, partridges and pigeons abound, and there are some pheasants; and in the swampy valleys we And wild ducks and many other birds. Eagles, vultures and many other birds of prey are common and very annoying, while the wcads are resplendent with the gorgeous plumage of the birds. Elephauts, buffaloes and leopards are to be found, but must be sought for in the more sparsely populated districts. ? Geographical Journal. Some Very Early Settler*. The most recent flnds of human To* sils are those due to the exploration by the Prince of Monaco of caves at Baousse-Kousse. where skeletons have been unearthed by exca\~tions at a depth of uearly eight yards. Two skulls have been obtained along with fossilized portions of the skeletons, one being that of a young man aud the j other of an old woman. The shape of the skulls and the length of the aruia indicate a very early type of human being.?Kansas City Journal. A QuIck-CJrowioe Plant. The bamboo holds the record among plants for quick growth. It has been seen ?o grow two feet in twenty-four hours. Even the bald-headed man realize* , ibat there is plenty of room at lb< ;op -------- . I. UJE OF SPIDER'S WEB IN OPTICJ A. L. Clement, in Nature, Paris--Translated end Condensed For Ruble Opinion. It Is tbe extreme fineness of the splder'> web wblcb makes It very valua-. ble for tbe reticule? of astronomical in-! truraentp. In autumn tbe Bpider lays ' A great number of eggs wblcb it fur- J i "THE WORST BRIDGE IN TIIE Hi: AINEER8 HAVE BEEN KNOWN IN THE MIDDLE. rounds with a cocoon made of a thick and closely woven wadding of golden silk. Placed in boiling water containing gum and soap. this cocoon easily divide and gives a thread bo fine that 18.000 would make a strand no larger than ordinary sewing silk. If the silk of the cocoon is not to be bad, one may employ the threads of the cobweb which the spider places on the trees, or one may disturb the spider, catch the thread which it unrolls as it falls and by turning it on a pencil preserve it perfect I J. s r X/ ^ ^ 1.? METHOD Or PRESERVING WEB. 2. ?DIAPHRAGM WITH BETK3CLE. 3. ?SPIDER COCOON. When the thread has been procured a piece is detached and each end Is placed in a small hall of wax. iu the middle of which there has been previously phicrd shot. Then (he dinphrnpm which Is to have the reticule is taken from the telescope. This name Is given to a system of threads crossed at right angles which serve for the purpose of detercainlng the optical axis, the name in practice including the diaphragm itself with Its threads, the crossing of which should occur at its very centre. The diaphragm also has very fine lines which have been carefully engraved upon It and after cleaning them carefully the thread held by the balls of wax is placed on the diaphragm, where h is slid with the aid of a magnifying glas* until it is firmly fixed In the proper lines. Ordinary reticules are formed of two threads, but for observations of great precision reticules with many threads are employed. Old Man-oMVar I)l?coT?r?d. In the battle off Dungennes between Admiral Torrlngton's fieer and the French, in 1GOO, tlie uritisu seventygun ship of tlie line Anne was run on the sands and jcntled. She sank In tbe quicksands, where she has been burled until a few days ago. when he hulk appeared at low tide. It was found that many of her brass guns were still on board. How to Interest People. To interest a man tnlk about himself; to interest a woman talk atntut somebody she wishes were talking to her Instead of you.?New York Press. Germany's exports grew from $09,000.000 In 1001 to $114.40Ti.000 in 1002. # A View o sj y y , v . - ' . 1. ' i 'J&f j v - v Tliin illustration shows tin* xiuuni Lick Observatory. The photogrnph w *itk scow, although iu th* valleys belt -f "I \ \ , s A Remarkable Bridge. Tbe large balf-tone on this page shows a remarkable bridge over tbt River Indus at Rondu. In Northern Kashmir. Tbis frail-looking structure ?wbieh crosses a rocky gorge, tbrougti which tbe river runs at a tremendous rate?constat* of tbree ropes, one foot rope and two side ropes, joined to gether l?y short lengths of rope at In UALAYAS" - INTREPID MOUNTTO TURN SICK WITH TERROR ?From a Photo. tervalg of a few feet. The three mail ropes consist of long switches of brush Tvom! mnclilv hniiml tntfthpr thp tWt side strands being kept apart by forkec stake* at intervals of twenty feet Needless to say tbe crossing of thes< swinging, swaying structures is not f very pleasant experience, and Intrepid mountaineers have been known to turr sick with terror in tbe middle, althougt tbe native coolies cross most light heartedly with heavy loads. The bridge seen In tbe photo has been described at one of fho worst in the Ilimalayas.Wide World Magazine. SIDE SLIP PREVENTED, Non-Skidding Device For AutomoMk Wheels. An English invention to prevent "side slip" In an automobile, is shown in tbt /ill# A Stlf* ?A t tir II Vl'UIH I ?U ll%l i lull AVVUIU1U|| IV iu? London Engineer, the device itself, nl though capable of construction in num bcrless way*. consistg in its present form of two flexible wire hoops, one on eitfier side of the wheel?the hoops being connected together by steel chains passing zigzag from oue to th? other around the tire. The hoop on luside of the wheel is endless, while th* hoop outside has a right and left hand coupling, affording means for adjusting the device to the wheel. The diameter of the hoops is such that they cannot pa?s over the petiphery of the wheel in use, and the whole combination centres itself in running, and caunot come off even hi the case of deflated tire. The chains are each a separate piece, and after excessive wear any chaiu is easily sliped out and replaced by a new one iririuiiit disturbing the uon-skidder. The effect In running is said to he that Uie uon-skidder creeps nround the whee1, ho that recording for the moment one chain only, this would never press the tire in the name spot In two or three consecutive revolutions. With this end In view it is of the utmost Importance that, though the non-skldder should fit its tire looseiy. it must on na scoount be so tight as to cause visible iuinretfsloD on the tire by any chain. Corporation* In Germany. Tbe directors in Gertnun companies pet no salaries unless tbe nunual dividend eweeds fonr per cent., and the limit they uiny receive is $(J000 a year, The law forbids the manager of a company being a member of its board. Installed statements must be printed for stockholders prior to a stockholders' meeting. A Significant Sign. When a woman begins to praise her husband to her friends for his goodliest to her she has given up hope of everything else.?New York Press. f the Lick Ot % m p * - T \y: '* /;' it of .Mouct Hamilton, near San J?>s?\ C as taken in the winter, when the bight' >w o-uagis are riueuine and flowers hit AN INGENIOUS FOLDING GLASS , It Occupies No More Room Than a Pockctbook. i M. L. Petit has just Invented a very ' Ingenious glass. one that closer like an i ordinary pockctbook with a clasp and occupies no more room In the pocket. The uppnratu* is composed of a flat and light frame which has the eye i ENGLISH AUT ^ ' . ALovo are shown some beauties?not llsli beauties ready for the road. Both r ' Id biscuit, fawn, blue or black, which ex< pieces fixed to its upper portion. These eye-pieecs slide by means of a setting ocrew. On the lower portion of tbe frame are fixed the object glasse* mounted on a pivot, whitb follows tbe line passing through their centre*, thus allowing (Ilt'ill iu pm iii^ u i uuiiu tuv?* axes so tlint they inny Ih> brought to occupy a position that Is perpendicular to the plane of the frame, or. on tbe contrary, to place them in tbe plane of tbe frame, according as tbe glass is oprn or closed. Tbf cut gives a clear idea of tbe construction. ( old In lk? Anew. It is said tbat there ere some places on tbe Copper River where the snow, when melted and strained through a cloth leaves a small trace of gold deposit. No perfectly satisfactory ex, planatlon of this has been given, bnt some scientists say that tbe gold may > have been brought from the far North , by the htavy winter gales that sweep i over that part of the country. It is possible that if all tbe snow In tbat re> gion could be melted it would leave on i the ground millions of dollars in gold, dust, and yet no artificial way bus been found of making it yield In paying uuantity. I An ln>po?*lbl?> Task. The worst thing about making love in poetry to win a woman is the living up to it in prose after you have won her.?New York Press. ' TliC pOIIHK Ul li^uuuii^ ivuuunuu, ' the pointed leave# and spinet* of trees, are always radioactive. nnd It has beeu largely vhovn that frtslily fallen rain !n so. too. and retains this property for about an Lour. Ilunninc lessens the Mood supply in the leps. iservatory. ^ p 11 .. ? ' 4 ?.V ... 4 t SI * " i t ai.. ujhiu which is lot a IimI the I anions r altitudes of the mountain are covered < oniiog. NEW ELECTRJC LIGHT CONVENIENCES Lam Sua* Whkk WH Prove VduoM c For a Variety ot Purposes. The copyist at tbe typewriter finds that the best thing designed for tb? purpose of holding tbe cotes of mono* , COPTHOLDBR AND UMP FTAXO. 4^ script living copied it a stand which ?9 has a desk-life surface designed to hold . 1 tbe matter before the operator at ft J slight angle, and Just below tbe lerel ? , AM9 O HEADGEAR. .... . X . ?!"^?l tin- Sultan of Turkey's own, uui uXf* jj el's and hoods are in waterproof silk, 9 riudes wind, dust and rain. & of the eyes. This baa been In more or \ fl less general use for. some time, and jjfl in order that tbe light may fall proper* ifl ly on the work tbe combined lamp jl| stand and copy bolder shown in the IU accompanying cut has been designed. -;|D The desk is adjustable so that it <? B be raised and lowered to any deelra- n Ide point, aud tbe lamp, too, is mova- H tile within limited lines." Another lamp fl stnnd is also shown, which will be ?9 found useful for many pnrpoees where gH the current is available. It ia especial* JS ly desirable for an Invalid's room or foe fl the general reader who desires a light ffi wit limit thp inrvmvpninnw anr! hMt of oil or gas. H The copy bolder is twenty-five Iacbe? PORTABLE XLBCTBIO LAMP BTAKD. * H in bright, weigw-s Are pounds and H throws a light 011 tbo keyboard of tbe machine, as well as tbe copy being transcribed. The height of tbe floor &g bimp is three feet when not extended, Hj hut when raised the lamp is five feel from the floor. SB Want trued Paper Kmc*. S3 "I should like to get my bands on 9H the man who hegan to line tbe OP S dinary paper log of commerce with M waxed paper." said an up-town grocer. H "Women will not bare their orders flj sent home iu anything else now. Tbe H coarse brown paper bags that oar H mothers used to get are almost out of gfij business. If a woman wants to keep ' lj n tliinp dry she asks to l:ave it sent m in a waxed pai>er log. If she wants Hi to keep It moist she also wants a waxed flu popqr bag. Toa and eofree p> intf waxed paper to keep them dry and jgj A nil-A of lctflK o culls foT H wax ft! pajHT to keep It moist. Cakes, fl[ candle* a ml confectionery of all ports mlift Im> pin in wax pajH?r hajru. Sugar Ma ;gnl Hour are .1l >< *11 tlit* only tiling H for which we ran uxe th*? old-faub* ffi loned lia^s. It wh* ouce only a fad Id JjjH lh?? trade. calculated to plcmic home- SR what fastidious customer* who wanted Vj to carry a small parcel home without soiling their slovo*. Now it is a ?le> flflff mand In the husines*. oven for deliT? ^Dj cry order*."?Xew York Times. yjgft A tVi?n<l?rful Can*. HfS "Tropica! growth Is an endle** woo- ^Dj der." said Senator Depew to a bevy of Itis eolleajrues at tin* Metropolitan Club, ^R| Washington, "tin one of my visit* to tin* lower latitude* I saw a canc two miles lone." The company looked in* ^Efl credulous. "Perfectly true, I assure BgH you, jjentleinen." said our Ghauncejt^^Bn after a pause for cffect; "it was a bur^^^H ricaue."?New York Press. Mn iil