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The Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. Why Is a housefly, anyhow? The merciful man is now very merciful to his beast. We know of some cats that never lail to come back. The Moros seem to be less dangerous than ice cream cones. There are 130,000 foreign waiters In London, all with palms extended. How aeronauts have cities at their ^ mercy in mimic warfare is becoming amazing. With a new record every day It seems there is no limit to the powers of an aeroplane. The Chicago woman whose ear was bitten off by her husband, probably didn't feed him enough. There is a very bad $2 bill in circulation. Insist on getting your change in twenties and fifties. A Kansas judge rules that it is the duty of pedestrians to dodge automobiles. Also the necessity. Few horses are wearing bonnets this season, probably because bonnets are absolutely out of style. If you can't swim stay near the shore. If you can swim be satisfied to tell your friends about it Two Philadelphians have lost their lives running for trains. Such unusual haste was sure to be fatal in Philadel- < phla. J Just bottle up your weather grouch and strike a temperature average for the year on the 31st day of next December. It may soon be possible to telephone to England from the United States. Very well, but how about getting monf ey that way? Stlil there is an abiding of optimis- j tic faith that it will prove easier to . dodge an aeroplane than an automobile or motorcycle. r g It would seem that more people are ^ giving their lives to the perfection of j the aeroplane than to any former scientific achievement. E In twenty-seven years the Kimber- r ley diamond mines have yielded $420,- * 000,000 worth of diamonds. Still our s western cornfields do a lot better than s r that ^ The man who is earning his own llvlng In these days, however mildly he E may be going about it, is truly enough r earning his bread by the sweat of his F hrow. ? '.timorous males who are frightened * at the way women are invading men's occupations should take heart at the success some achieve in trimming j hats. J Going down to the sea in ships was the ancient idea of peril. But it was ' common place safety beside going up I In the air in the most modern style of ships. Ten or fifteen deaths among the comparatively few aeronauts and avia- 1 tors in the last few months are not only depleting their ranks but showing 1 up air flights as mighty dangerous * pastiming. 1" In printing the new passenger tick- 1 ets to be used on airship lines care c should be taken to have it specified 2 A ^ vllo rrcic m a xr Via hoH I xnai siuyuvci when necessary without the signature c of the conductor. s E Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold * In some of the drug stores in the east, * and the health authorities say it is ' very dangerous. Will it never be pos- J sible to get a good thing that the counterfeiters can't counterfeit? r Farmers after experiment report that the cows yteH their milk better *, >vhen the phonograph is kept going in the barn at milking time. This sreems to oifer a grand scheme of relief in * the form of moving all the phonographs to all the cow larns. The oil-burning torpedo boat, de- ' stroj'er Roe reached a speed of 31 , knots an hour in a test off the Dela- , vrare breakwater, although the con- ' tract requirement was only 2S knots, j and is now acknowledged to be the , fastest exclusively oil-burning torpedo j "heat destroyer in the United States navy. The American shipbuilder has the reputation of cultivating a margin ( of safety, anr] turning out boats which exceed the maximum requirements of contracts. When the automobile collides with the locomotive it is seldom that the latter has to go to the renaif shop. The work of a contributing editor is sometimes made difficult by the friends who insist on coming around during office hours to tn!k politics and 1 tell hunting stories. 1 t Having all the news about the hot ; spell that was fit to print, and some 1 that was not news, it seems that we 1 might have a litle cool1,, weather tor 1 variety in the news columns. ( ^ After planning, your Christmas shop- < ping better figure on how sanely you are going to spend the next fourth. < ] The prize cow at the Missouri agri- | cultural college prrdiuos 110 pounds t of milk a day. Hut with our cook or. i the job, lhere wculc'r.'t bo a half ounce ' of cream in it. . i If the anr. lysis of hcky-poky is correct we arc unable to understand how ! the /lies that ft.it her uftcn the cones : manage to stay so '-'-'g vithcut soeai* iss to be Bungling Diplomat O ^ j; IITASHIXGTON?Ignorance on the * if part of amateur diplomats con:erning the proper form of diplomatic :orrespondence nearly precipitated a s var scare In two nations not long iince. It was announced that the em- t: peror of Germany had deliberately F iffronted the United States govern- 11 nent by employing affectionate terms | n addressing President Madriz or L Nicaragua, whom our government had a efused to recognize. fl "Great and Good Friend," is the vay the kaiser's letter to Madriz was p lommenced. This had sinister sig- o lificance to the amateurs. Immedi- o itely the newspapers were filled with 1< stories that Germany had espoused the lause of Madriz; that the Monroe li loctrine had been thrown down and g repudiated by the warlike kaiser;; r ilso the emperor had been acting G iueerly of late and undoubtedly was k sent on making all the trouble he p :ould for the United States. After a 11 ittle inquiry the war scare faded v iway. b "In all probability," said a state de- d mrtment official, "the emperor never a Bad Land Tide A REPORT made to congress oy a i"1 commission appointed to examine P and titles in the District of Columbia n liscloses that many lots of land occu- d >ied by modern business houses and s< esidences in the national capital are n till owned by the government, not- I withstanding the present tenants be- c ieve they have a clear title to the U iroperty. n This question of land titles in the a lational capital is not a new one. Two r< cars ago congress created a cornmis- f< ion to study it. The commission con- tl isted of the attorney general, the sec- g etary of war, Senator Scott of West w Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of li ,lissouri, and one of the district com- p nissioners. The report reveals a hor- ti ible land tangle, which the courts will irobably never be able to straighten U ut. The tangle is the outcome of the p wild speculation in real estate that tl ook place for a good many years after lc he capital was laid out. rr Private lands were acquired in o Mow Planning a St [Q_ II II /PURN THAT) ^ RESTRICTIVE >< LAWo> V* o &y W|"MT I! IE ?JII dJULdUU s' V 3EER and elk preserves may play an 1* Important part In reducing the ligh cost of beef. According to gov- S srnment experts who have made an g nvestigation of the cost and methods n >f raising venison, declare that the n jame laws of the various states are g >reventing deer and elk farming and h lenying the country one of its chief tl sources of cheap and good meat. Deer a ind elk can be raised readily in near- a y every state in the "Union. They are t< 'asily controlled and cheaply fed. V rhe increase of elk under domestica- e ion is fully equal to that of cattle, c rney are hardier and more able to h ;tand exposure and the elk hide is T nore valuable than that of the steer, e Phe Virginia or whitetail deer, com- b non in most parts of the United e States, is not so hardy as the elk, but j a vith proper care can be raised with h profit. I l! The state and the government, h hrough its Yellowstone park officials, ti lave co-operated with Individual c anchmen in caring for the vast herds j is )f elk in the Jackson's Hole region in I A'yoming. It. is estimated that there j tl tre 30,000 elk in the Yellowstone park ! c cgion, constituting the only great i i! lerd left. For two or three winters r; hese elk have been fed, and have now f; :ome to look upon the feeding as a I n Government's Censui | i * : 13 EX the present census the govern- ' ? ment has made a great effort to ob- j jt :ain, through special agents, full and 1, luthentic data concerning the tribrt! n eiations of the Indians, as a dccade lence when the fourteenth census will j 1 je taken, it probably will be found ;t hat those Indians who are now de- jlender.t wards of the nation have be- cj :ome full-fledged citizens, w Tho inrii.-iii uonulation of the United <1 States decreased ir. the decade from " LS90 to 1900, from 27::,r>07 to 2GG.760. i" n 1SS0 the care of the Indians cost :he national government $5.20G,103; a n 1S>":? the cost had risen to $15,- T i24,K.2. ni(.ic than three times as it nuch. T!io total attendance of Inlinn children in schools conducted by a he government, or by missionary en- ?' :erprise is 25,777. In these schor.ls 1> !o effort is spared to teach the child b some industry by which he may sup- i* port himself when lie comes of age, w It :s Cause Trouble new that the note in question was ent It was a regular routine matter i the German foreign office and foljwed the stereotyped form. Nations are excessively polite to ne another in their interchange of ommunications. Every letter that oes out from the state department to foreign government has this cerelonial finish: "Accept, excellency, the renewed asurance of my highest consideration." The cermonail letters of all counries begin in about the same way. 'or instance, all of England's comlunications begin: "George V., by the Grace of God, of tie United Kingdom of Great Britain _.t l.l r?f tho na ireianu, King, ucicuuu aith, emperor of India, etc." "Nicholas, by the Grace of God, emeror autocrat of all the Russias, czar f Casan, czar of Astracan, etc., lord f Plescott and grand duke of Smosnski, etc." Germany's letters are very much ike those of Russia, in that they bein by announcing all the titles of the uling potentate. "William II., by tod's grace, emperor of Germany and ing of Prussia," etc., is the way the resent emperor addresses his cerelonial letters. The emperor writes rith a quill pen, and if one may judge y his signature on file in the state epartment, does not take much time bout it. angle Is Revealed Washington, in the early days, by a orv simnlA nrnoess. The territory not exceeding" ten miles square was ecled to the United States governieiic by Mary and and Virginia and laced under the authority of three ommissioners, appointed by the presient. They or any two of them were equired, under the direction of the resident, to survey and by proper letes and bounds define and limit a istrict of territory, and the territory o defined war. established as a permaent seat of the government of the nited States. Power was given the ommissioners to purchase or accept md on the eastern side of the Potolac, for the use of the United States, nd the commissioners were further ?quired to provide suitable buildings )r the accommodation of congress, .le president and public officers of the overnment of the United States. It as to raise money to erect the pubc buildings that the government lanned to sell its land to private pares. No sooner had the capital city been lid out than land speculators apeared on the scene, and as a result of leir operations, it is asserted, muoh tnd which belonged to the governlent illegally passed to individual wners. ibstituie for Beef latter of course, and State Game harden Nowlin of Wyoming, who has ?/l tHo foorJincr ovnorimontc; QRV9 thnt U lUV IVN-U.Ug, ?V - ie last of the great elk herds is beaming rapidly domesticated. Several inchmen in the Rocky mountain coun y have conducted private elk pre erves for years. Outside of the priate elk preserves there are few herds :ft in the west. narret Littlefield, who lives neaT later, has several hundred elk on his rent ranch. Every season he ships lany carcasses of elk to the Denver larket, besides supplying zoological ardcns throughout the country. He as found it profitable to raise elk for ie market?so profitable that he banuoned the cattle business years go and has devoted himself entirely 3 the raising of venison. There are ivo other elk preserves in northwestrn Colorado. J. B. Dawson, a Routt ounty pioneer, has several hundred ead of elk on his ranch ne?.r Hayden. 'he Glen Beulah deer preserve is an state of about 3.000 acres near Deeque, Col., and here one finds sevral hundred deer and elk roaming bout. Henry Binning, of Cora, Wyo., as a large herd of elk under enclosre, and in a report to the government e shows how easily elk yield to capivity when he states that the enIcsure in which lie keeps the animals s less than four feet high. In nearly every state in the Union ie killing of deer is forbidden exopting in the fall and during a limed period. If deer and elk are to be p.ised for the market the venison inner must be allowed to kill for the larket, whenever the demand is there. s of Indian Wards nd the Indians are gradually learnig to live by the swent of the brow i;on the product ol' their own selfL'ppcctir.g handiwork, rather than upn the bounty of the government. The Apache Indians employed on bo Roosevelt reclamation project un er the act of June 17, 1002, earned 2-1,000 hi ICOr1. and rendered eminentr satisfactory service in regions he re, en r.ccev.'iJ of the heat, a white lan could nor. have labored. Sheep erding has given profitable employment to many hundreds of Navajos nd Pueblos in the past year, and 'ima and Papago Indians, employed s navvies on the Southern Pacific ail way, earned many thousands of ollars. The Sioux farmers have done ell, though they are deficient in the uality of persistent patience that lakes the most successful sort of agicuitural laborer. Tiie Indians' worst foe at present. .'.id"1 from whisky, is tiib< ronl-.jsis. he investigation by the S!niii>;mi.i:i istiiulion in li'00 showed il'uit iibout r.e in lour of some 1,500 Indians exmined were suffering irom what has itherto b< r?.n Known as "the white lague." Sanatorium camps Lave now ecu established and the government ; exercising special cure over its aids. o toioioioioioioioiotoiojqi 7 ????<? <>??<? <> ? ? <? o 2 * Tl 0% ?| Road to Gr c <> o ? By Dorotht O ? ^ Author of "Georglc"I 0 ? ty Copyright, 100S,hi;J. 77. L1PPIXC05 2 ??? ? ? <?? ? >?? ? < o rcJioTcTi b*i r6~i b~i d 10101010101 CHAPTER III. 5 Continued. Tormentilla strode along the highroad with her arms swinging by her side, her square, boyish shoulders thrown back. She was not satisfied yet with the way Audrey was yielding to her influence. She was beginning to find that it was not nearly as easy to do good to people as she had at first supposed. It was extraordinary, wher you came to think of it. that peop'.e should show such absurd reluctance to being made gloriously happy. And she felt that she had come now to a deadlock. Nothing more could be done until she had made the acquaintance of Michael Kenworthy. Then perhaps she would be able to show him how easily he could save his beautiful, unhappy Audrey from his vegetarian rival People were strangely wanting in imagination sometimes. She found Lise alone in her cool green drawing-room, half asleep in a corner of a big, luxurious Chesterfield. She was really glad to see Tormentilla, and made the girl sit down beside her. It was refreshing to see I this frank, healthy young face and the clear eyes, and Lise dropped her i S!?.' ? i. mnnnav onrl Oil/! maiueruiiL, auiivj maiiuci ?uu vu%? denly determined to make herself agreeable. They talked amiably of nothing for some time until Tormentilla's passion for getting to the horses got the better of her. "You're a friend of Audrey Cogwheel's, aren't you?" said she abruptly. , Lise was silent for a minute, and her eyes darkened. "I used to be," she admitted. "She's very sweet, isn't she?" Tormentilla's tone was curiously at variance with her words. "Very sv/eet, indeed?oh, certainly she's very sweet." "It's a pity she's so unhappy, isn't it?" "Is she unhappy?" Lise asked coolly. She crouched in the corner of the sofa, and her little face looked just like the face of a spoilt and sulky child. Torrnentilla stared at her. "She tola me you Knew. "How long had Audrey known you when she opened her heart in this way?" Lise asked with a harsh laugh. "I'd seen her three times. It was rather quick, but then she's not like other girls, and her trouble is wearing her out. She's told me so several times." "She would," said Lise softly. "Do go on." "And, then, perhaps I'm rather outspoken myself," Tormentilla added doubtfully. Lise laughed a little. "No!" she said. "Well, do you know, I rather guessed that. Audrey' told you about poor Michael, I suppose?" "Yes. It is awful for them, isn't It?" Lise was silent. "You know," Tormentilla said earnestly, pushing back her hat and ruffling up her hair to meet Lise's eyes with a frankly troubled gaze, "I want to help those two, tremendously." Lise stared at her, still in amused silence. "I have a trouble of my own, you see," the girl went on earnestly, "and I'm most anxious to 'lrown it. I can't tell you how extremely anxious I am to drown it. And there can't be a better'way of drowning a selfish sorrow, can there, than by doing something to ma lie some one eise uctpiij . nci cheeks flushed; she seemed half ashamed of the sentiment as she uttered it. "It's a popular idea," said Lise wearily. "I don't know that it's much good practically. You see, generally things turn out so differently from what you expect, especially the things you do for other people. And perhaps what they think they want most isn't always what is most likely to make them happy. There are such a lot of points to consider before you embark on an altruistic career. I never got beyond the considering point myself, and I'm not qualified to advise the youthful enthusiast. But. my dear girl"?her voice changed with bewildering suddenness and became caressing and soft; her face lost its sulkiness, and her cynical smile grew quite tender?"my dear little girl, I am very sorry to hear that you aren't happy. At seventeen ?or is it eighteen??the world ought to be an enchanted garden, with a key of pure gold hidden in a place where you are quite sure to find it. By all the laws of fairyland?" "The world isn't fairyland, though, Is it?" said Tormentilia in regretful tones. "And I am nearly nineteen. I didn't know what unhappiness was till last year. Last year, you see?" The simile fascinated her, and she went on: "I found the garden and the key too, and then?" "Yes?" Use's voice was irresistible, her changed face extraordinarily sympathetic. Tormentilia went on: "I lost it again, I suppose. At least, a serpent came into the paradise and?and? and swallowed it." "It's wonderful, isn't it." Lise murmured, "how that serpent always manages to find the way?" iormenuim giaateu ui nci in nervous* silence. She had never told any one but Grcenie so far, and Groenlo had 1 ever nuite understood, although she hi:d of ionise been very kind and sympathetic. Li:-:o v.*o:;M understand i evcrythin.;. She knew that by her so:"t dark eyes ar.d lovely voice. "I hardly know you," she said doubtfnllv. "That i.sn't quite true." Lise didn't attempt to ir.i-.e her hand or to touch her. She had none of the usual I OIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIQ HE? II etna Green || I o la Deakin, $ ? i? 'he 71 ishing Ring," Etc. ? ~ \ 0 SI rr C0.VP.4Ar. All right* reserved, _/?|5 oio i o i o i o To PSToTd i o 16' i oTo tricks. She never asked for a confidence. If people insisted upon confiding in her, well and good; if not, she was not going to try to make them. Perhaps it was because of this that Tormentilla's love of reticence was suddenly lost in those dark eyes. "Last year," she said, "in town, you know, there was a?a person who was always coming to see my?my relations. Not me, of course, because I'm not out. I should have been this* year if? I've three sisters out, you see, and although two are engaged, neither of them is married. And Doreen's lovely?really lovely. She's rather like Audrey Cogwheel, only always pleased with herself. Every one in the house thought the person came to see her. No one found out for a long time that the?that the person was always losing the way and finding the school-room instead, and when they did find out there was a tremendous row, because he was + o n i m nnrfo n t norenn nnr? it had been decided by my?;my relations that I was to be kept back till Vic and Peggy and Dolly were settled. So they packed me off to the country with Greenie. And then the person found out where I was, just as easily as he had found the school-room, and he used to motor over to see me, and we?we got terribly fond of each other. It's extraordinary how fond you can get of a person, if you let yourself go." "Yes," said Lise. with her funny little grimacing smile, "isn't it?" "And we got engaged, of course, but quite secretly, beeause it was so much more fun, and we panted to en- j joy it thoroughly before there was a row. And then?Doreen?Dolly?" Her voice broke into a little angry sob. "Well?" "Dolly took matters into her own hands. You see, she's always been so much admired and petted that she thought it was enough to be seen and heard, to win anybody's undying affpptinn " "Did it put her on her mettle to find out that it wasn't enough?" Lise asked gravely. "Well, Dolly's fiendishly clever when she thinks anything's worth it, and she began to study his tastes. He's fond of outdoor things, you see, and Dolly began to pretend she was, too. She hardly ever rides, because she is so nervous, and her hair comes out of curl, and she doesn't care for motoring, because of her complexion, and she's afraid of getting fat. She says outdoor women get so hard and coarse-looking. But she deliberately went in then for everything he admired most. Ke only fell in love with me because I was a good sport. He always said so. I had no other?attractions." Her voice broke with a despairing little sob. Lise was watc^ ing her curiously. ! "And?and she's lovely to look W ?like porcelain: her eyes are blue, deep sea blue, like Audrey's. She's sweet, too, cloyingly sweet, like a pink fondant, the kind you tninK you'll like when you take it, and then you wish you hadnTt. Ke did, but it . was too late. He found himself engaged to her before he quite grasped it, and his engagement to me didn't matter at all, you see, because no one else knew of it. He's had so little experience. It all came of an accidental kiss when he was off his guard. He was miserable directly he realized what he'd let himself in for, and rushed to tell me and throw himself on my mercy. Of course I gave him his freedom like a shot when he told me, and I went away with Greenie to Provence ail the winter, and this sum-' mer I persuaded my?I persuaded my mother to let her bring me here." "I'm glad you came here," said Llse kindly. "Do you know," said Tornentilla seriously, "that I couldn't bear to look at Audrey at first, because she reminded me so of Dolly. It was only since I found out that she was unhappy that I changed. It makes me love people to find out that they are unhappy. Dolly never was. She had only to walk once round her bedroom ?it's perfectly lined with looking glasses, you see?to be absolutely radiant for the day. That's the worst of | it. She doesn't care for him; she only wants his money; and?"she stopped suddenly?"his money to spend on frills." "He's rich, then, your Prince Charming?" Lisc asked. Tormentilla opened her eyes. , "Why, he's the D?" She stopped in confusion. "He's a rort of a millionaire." she said feebly, "and to know that the ugly?or, rather, the lovely sister doesn't want him for himself alone only makes it all the harder for Cinderella, doesn't it? You see. she only wants him, and not his millions at all. Oh, you must admit that it was rough on Cinderella." CHAPTER IV. The Browning Society had related its brows and descended into the common world again while it had tea. Mrs. Cogwheel looked happier so, and Audrey and Mr. Bromsgrove waited upon the other guests with baskets of cake and elegant sandwiches. "I am always so hungry after Browning," poor Miss Cotton said eagerly. "It takes so ranch out of you, don't you find, Mrs. Flanelle?" "After that magnificent passage? you know the one I mean, because I could see a question trembling on the tip of your tongue, after that? I think it was the first longest in the pcem?I forgot everything. I could no more have told you what I had for lunch than I could have flown, Mrs. Cogwheel. Browning does inspire so at these moments, that I actually loathe the sight or * thought of mere food- Yes, I will have another sconce, Audrey, mj dear. No sugar, thank you, Mr Bromsgrove. Mrs. Cogwheel, who really is that girl with the interesting Spanish name?" "What I wonder," said Mrs. Hay firmly, "is whether she is quite a nice friend for our girls. Vera has taken to her in the most surprising way. She says she is so sincere." "But Vera always was very- original," Mrs. Flanelle said pleasantly; "such an uncommon girl, I always cay, and so unconventional. She ought to write. I always think she ought to write." "Sincere girls are generally disagreeable girls, aren't they?" Mrs. Cogwheel said mildl\\ "Not literally, I mean, but if you've ever had a candid friend, or what passes for one, j'ou'll know what I mean. Of course, sincerity in the abstract is a beautiful thing, but one can be too outspoken, don't you think? But I feel sure Tormentilla is an' excellent friend for Audrey. She is a relation of Sir Diggoryllrouse, I believe, and Audrey adores'ffer. don't you, darling?" "Sh^is so sweet," said Audrey softh? Quite by accidents she stood whenFthe golden light from the colorecr glass panes at the top of the casement windows fell upon her hair, and crowned her, as Mr. Bromsgrove said afterwards to her mother, "like an aureole." Her eyes, he remarked at the same time, were blue stars in her flower-like face. "And you know, dearest," her mother added as she repeated his remarks afterwards, with her usual good-night kiss, "he is not only a really good and pious man, but intellectual as well, which is so rare. And his taste is beyond all ?well, you heard him on Sordello, and one need say no more. A man who could see such things in that great poem?things you and I could never have dreamt possible for it to hold, sacred, beautiful, hidden meanings?Audrey, I ask you." "Yes, indeed," said Audrey, raising her flushed and lovely face from the pillow. "And do go, dearest, won't you? I am so sleepy." J3ut at the Browning tea. she had stood there in her childish, simple way, ignorant, of course, of the vi car s rapt gaze, wnne juise 111 iier | usual corner had watched her narrowly. "Tormentilla is so sympathetic," Audrey said, "And she has ideas as well, which makes it all the more wonderful. And she is so bright and encouraging. She gives one new heart with her courage." Here she looked away out of the window and sighed. "She almost makes one take one's courage in one's own hands and?" She stopped suddenly, met Mr. Bromsgrove's eyes, and blushed adorably. "So breezy, isn't she?" Miss Cotton murmured. "I always think she is so extraordinarily breezy for a young girl." Mr. Bromsgrove put his cup away and sat down heavily. "May I ask." he said slowly, "what you know of this breezy young lady's family and?er?antecedents?" "Oh, nothing whatever," Audrey replied promptly. "But that makes her all the more interesting, doesn't It?" "A touch of mystery gives a charm to anything," Mrs. Flanelle said, as she drew on her long gloves. "I quite agree with you there. I always say to cool: in the mornings, 'Cool:, I leave it to you. Don't, don't, let me ever guess at what we are to have for lunch, for it spoils everything so.' And when it so often turns out to , be chops. I think it is unreasonable and sordid of my husband to be annoyed, and I always tell him so. What would life be if there were no dark sccrets?" Lise giggled, but her temper, too, was rising. "Much better worth living, wouldn't it?" she said sharply. "And she is a dear child; a simple, unspoiled little school-girl. There is nothing mysterious about her. Miss Cotton has told us that her aunt is a cousin of Sir Diggory Grouse, and that Tormentilla is here for change of air after a rather severe auaciv 01 luuueuzu. one nv?s m London." Mr. Bromsgrove coughed. "I should advise you to make, careful inquiries about this young lady before you allow your daughter to become intimate with her," he said, smiling in his courtly way at Mrs. Cogwheel, and every one was much impressed, and more curious j than ever. j To be Continued. The Sour-Millc Fad. Since Lady Bancroft was made deathly sick by the sour-milk treat- j ment Europe is beginning to realize | what Tin said many moons ago?that it is a fad, pure and simple. Furthermore, there are many people who cannot continuously take sour milk without getting some irritation of the stomach, even gastritis. That is probably what ailed Lady Bancroft. There was nothing wrong with the milk, c::cept that her stomach could not take care of it.?New York Press. Libel on Shakespeare. "In getting up a good live advertisement the truth should always be adhered to, even in the most immaterial and unimportant points," said, at an advertisement writers' banquet, John C. Williamson, of Charleston. "I will rcrcret all my life how", in writing a medical advertisement, I once declared Shakespeare to be the author of the line: " 'The sun cannot shine through a torpid liver.' "?Washington Star. Female Doctors. At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Manchester Royal Infirmary it was decided by a large majority that women should not be resident physicians and surgeons. Bishop Welldcn argued that women doctors were not worth as much as men for the treatment of all cases, and most J patients disliked to be treated by women physicians. There is no such foolish prejudice here in New York. ?New Yorl: Press. The railroads of this country pay out $24,000,000 a year in freight claims. SOmlcoh^ KJM rfey WILBURD NLPBIT1 c^g" I. 4(i The dusty road lay long: and still To where It broke across the hill; The weary breeze would come and lift A puff of dust, and let It drift Against the haggard clover bloom That gave but shadows of perfume, And on the grass that was as gray As ever any dust that day. / The trees stood, thirsting, lank and lean. With famine-yellow In their green. u . ' With leaves as shriveled as the hand^ Of some old man who scarce can stand Because, of all the years he feels; The wagons moved wth rattling wheels; The bees with angry hums sailed by, The birds chirped to the empty sky. The twilight came without a breath Of wind, and was as still as death; And all the night the hot stars glowed While crickets clacked a crackly ode; The dawn woke white, and brought a sense Of the Sahara's heat Intense, Ana tne tmn aogs iay rounaaouui With their long, red tongues lolling oat. Then suddenly a breeze laughed by And tossed a haze against the sky, And runnning. racing down the hill Came raindrops, with a subtle thrill As when some rippling dance-notes surge Across the droning of a dirge. And brook and river, hill and plain Leaped up and sang: "The rain! The rain!" , < The Tussock Moth. The tussock moth is so called because of Its color, it being a fashionable shade of tussock. It flutters about upon the scented breeze, gaily laying an egg hither and yon in the foliage. Then it retires from circulation. After a time the eggs hatch out. If the moth had to sit on its eggs to hatch them it could not efTect such a complete distribution. One mosquito, for instance, will lay SO,000 eggs in a day, but most of them will produce mosauitoes that immediately go to some summer resort. The offspring of BE the tussock moth is the tussock cater- flj pillar, which is a slow traveler and a fg vegetarian. It is what entomologists H call a "beautiful specimen," but its 9K beauty is not even skin deep. n| The caterpillar locates In some town B where the city council does no* see n the need of gratifying the idle whims H of nature lovers. One caterpillar is assigned to each leaf of the vines and J9 trees that have been raised by hand. H A few days later there is no necessity BK of spraying the foliage, for It isn't WZ\ there. mjk The tussock moth Is our leading si anti-conservationist H Maud Missed the Trip. A charming young woman named Maud gH Was planning a. trip far abraud. Id She missed all that bother Bfl For one day her father H| In cornering wheat, dropped his waud. SM In Bad Odor. [B / JB-?,. \ KB "And so," grumbled the rich uncle, Mij "they say ray money Is tainted." HH "Yes, uncle," replied the diplomatic nephew, "but I always ask them what Bn they can expect of a fortune amassed mj through a corner on limburger H cheese." SB She Knew. SB "You are so proud of your new hat and dress." growled the husband,\"that ffl it is a wonder to rae you haven't left the price marks on them'.' 9B "What's the use?" gurgled the happy 33 wife. "Every woman I know has priccd them and given they up in de- EH spair." BH To S"ve Time. "They say the has been n nrried six SB f?r cirrhr tinios." 1.? rl-.r> rri"imont >? rta 8^1 beauteous lady sweeps down the fig dining hail with her latest husband. "Yes," is the reply.- "You know Ejfi she insists on using a!! the names Oi.' flfl all her hus bands on her cards." IN "Hyphenated, o: course." "Certainly, an.l instead of a ntriod 99 after the !::st n i.k\ she uses a hyphen, to the ccntinutiiion may be ?M accomplished without char.so in punctuation." 9fl i twmM u nc jr;j?t:uu J. HUH The editor cf tfce : :r.^n7.?r. / cpen3 KB the letter from the st:b?o:lb?'T. H9| "Dear Sir,'* the letters begins, "I wish to co::ir,!i;i:c::: yen 0:1 ycur Junk KH number." gfljfl "Junk ntiv.be/?" ivutsea t!v editor. jj| "He probably intended to write "June SBH number.' However, he may kci be far H| horn right. I snr.de T!i> vhru n.i..:'jcr 90 l'rom all the hoM-over nauuscriyt in HB the place." HW k '