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She Chotljam HccorbJ 4 Ijc Chatham; ;ttcccnrb. Oo square, one issertto - - $L,M One square, Ito insertions , ,n , f 1.69 One square, one month' J M For Larger Advertise mpntt 1 1hirfll C'frtmi- wxb Ml vv j I : will t- n la eS7A, LONDON, ft f' iVY" " iVfr'' Editor and Proprietor, r iTV I T I TY Y "nSs OF SUBSCRIPTION, . llAy nCVWMW . S1.50 Per Year. J . ;:i-Vi-a' Siricii , vuu AAV1J. t'l LlhKf )KCK CHATHAM HOTTNTTY N P. THTTRSn A V . 1 a n P V o ion vn or i SHoldenhdrit,llfaI!ll v: . . W-- 3 ' His resolution not to further engage yXf fZSSfStfRS TOmSsW. f: a - tar FUlliiIlfi..S& 1. fov Copyrislit 1S94 by EEUT B JKssa's fiOHS. CHAPTER XXXII. Continued. A deadly faintitess caaya over ''me, rml a sudden dimness of sight pre vested me from properly examining the letter. Without doubt my deai father was dead, and my one remain ing "Sh ceuld never be realized upon earth. I handed the letter to my wife, wno stood at my side, her little hand affectionately laid upon my shoulder, and motioned to her to read it, which she at once proceeded to do; and she had not read many words before our mutual fcai-5 vanished like a mist iti presence of the inorniag sun. Holdenhurst Hall, Bury St Edmund's, April 23, IS. My Dear Eoy Come home. I shall fcuow no rest until I see you here, and learn from your own lips that you are willing to forgive my errors of judgment. Consideration of the Grange circumstances in which those errors were made, if not of the fact that you are my son whoso welfare I have never ceased to desire should iuiiii.ee you to. afford me this gratifi cation. - The treasure for which you so indus triously sought in face of so much i;sccuc.'"2tuent has been accidentally discovered by your grandfather, minus oiIy the three sequins you used to Larry in your pocket; and not only this, but also a quantity of peculiar Turkish jewelry and precious stones of ;rreat value, Your grandfather and I have together carefully examined the Waole ef the vast treasure and have placed it ia safe keeoins. secuve from lurtiier accident, Lo awai't-.your return; j hv.i come heme to me, the disposal the treasure shkll rest entirely with yo:y You deserve' it, and I declare it ? oq yours, and yours only subject to vue oi condition, of your coming to Uoldeahurst to take possession of it., tome time ago your grandfather pro posed that the old gabled sranary at '-uvj caca. or tiie stables should be ! pnued dCTrn, and a more comaucdious granary buile in another piace. 1 agreed to the proposal, and last week the work of demolition was begun. At the north end of the loft, separated by a wooden partition from where the winter fodder has usually .been stored, the treasure 'was discovered. That it y&a stolen from the crypt and secreted 2n tbe granary by Adam's there can oe co doubt, for the Venetian coins tvfrro in the black chests which you toned empty in the crypt one memor able night. Believing, as I then did, that the treasure had been quite other wise abstracted, I ordered Adams to remove the empty chests from the crypt and use them for firewood, but instead of obeying me, he appears to have, conveyed them to his hiding Mace in the granary, and refilled them itfc the coins, which he' must have taken from them not long before. It 5s not unreasonable to suppose that the man with the lamp whom you saw in the crypt was Adams, and that the occasion was his visit for removing therefrom the last of . the coins. Amongst our discoveries in the gran ary a leather bag containing six hundred pounds odd in modern Eng lish money, which I am unable to ac count for exeep by supposing that it represents the lifelong savings of the extraordinary miser who was my servant. I address this letter to .your uncle's house, not knowing certainly that , it Will find you there. Let me beg of ?ou to take the first opportunity to acquaint my brother with the discov ery of the sequins. If you can con veniently do so perhaps you had bet ter show him this letter. "And in any case be sure to impress upon him my very great regret for what transpired whea he was last here, and what hap piness it would be for me if that in cident could be buried in oblivion. Your grandfather, who on the very day of his daughter's rash act re ceived from her a long letter taking upon herself great part of the blame of her past life, and entire responsi hility for her tragic death, has no longer any cause for contention with your uncle, who, were he to come here, would be received with unrestrained, friendship. Each member of our small family has been wonged by some other member; no one of us, stands blameless not even yourself. Shall recrimination end only with our lives? Is it presumptuous" to hope for peace, or must existing divisions b4 permitted to widen with the lapse of years? O Ernest, my boy, if only you could bring about the termination of feuds for which all concerned are the worse, and no one the better, you would then have found a greater treasure than that which awaits you at Holdenhurst! I have heard that you art hout to he married to Miss Marsh, b.t the in formation reaches me very indirectly, and I am not assured of its truth, Should such happily be the ca6e (for I have long perceived the disposition at your heart), I congratulate you, and with you and your intended bride all possible human happiness. Your affectionate father, i - I ' 1 , i -. . ,, , i - a sxoutu BY Walter bloomfield 'Hat exclaimed Uncle Sam bitter ly, as my wife replaced the letter in my hands, "if only these two men had developed their present senses a year ago!" "Oh, S&m, dear," cried aunt Gert rude, throwing her arms around her husband's neck, rwhat better news could you have than is contained in that letter?" "None, now," uncle Sara answered quietly. . "You will respond to your brother's message ih the spirit in which it is sent will you not, dear?" pleaded aum Gertrude, looking earnestly in br hus band's t-yes. "A vow- bf enmity made in anger is -always better broken than observed, and this manly apology comes from your brother, father of Connie's husband. Remember, Sam. what I have forgiven, and if only to gratify me, send your brother a tele gram that I will write:" My uncle remained silent for a few moments, his gaze used upon the floor. Presently he looked up and said. "Write what message you will tc those two men, Gertie, dear, and it shall be sent te them-. My enmity is deadv" t"6r this generous declaration aun Gertrude rewarded uncle Sam with a kiss, my wife followed suit, and 1 wrung his hand iu silent gratitude, almost overcome by the coioplctenes. of my geoi fortune. The telegram Indited by aunt Gert rude I have not seen, but its heaiiu effect is my constant daily experience, contributing I cannot estimate how largely to tue naupijiess of our re- united family. The telegram which my wife and t despatched to Holden hurst was a long one, consisting of no fewer than a hundred words. It ac quainted my father with our marriage, and promised that we would proceed to England after we had stayed at Saratoga one week, or a sixth part of the time which we had arranged to remain there. "You are a tardy bridegroom. Ern est," said undo Sam, consulting his watch, "and you have lost your train. It is now two o'clock, so you will no further delay your arrival at Saratoga by returning to the company for an hour" -a suggestion at once adopted, to the satisfaction of everybody ex cept my wife's maid, who marvelled greatly at being bidden to remove her mistress's hat, which had not long be fore been adjusted with infinite care and precision. The hour which the kindly fates baf so unexpectedly placed at our disposn. quickly passed, our assembled friends being infected with the great iucreasi of good humor apparent in host and hostess, bride and bridegroom. In deed, the universal jollity was so spon aneous and natural, and my satisfac- ion so unqualified, that I was aston ished when the carriage which was to convey my wife and'' me to the de pot was announced, so pleasantly am1 fieetly had the time sped. Our departure took place amid c chorus of good wishes and a showe. of rice, whereof a certain handful was brown by uncle Sam with such un erring dexterity that the greater par of It found Its way down the back of my collar, and tickled me horribly in he region of the vertebrae until aftei .ve reached Saratoga, CHAPTER XXXIII. COXCJjUSIOJT. It Is the quality of happiness to present little or nothing to chronicle. My full, perfect, and complete con centment In so far as such a desirab condition is ever permitted to a'morta begun with the events described ii the last chapter, and continues to thi day. Here, therefore, am I con strained to bring these memoirs to a lose; nd I do so with feelings ai once a relief and regret relief at th accomplishment of a task which .hough ' at first undertaken with in more serious intent than the beguile ment of a leisure hour, soon assumed proportions too large for such desul tory treatment, and regret (incidental, alas, to "all humanity!) at my depart ing, youth, in recalling the incidents of which I have in some sort livet) again. ' Uncle Sam has built for himself a palatial house in London, at- Queen't Gate, Hyde Park, where he spends about Pi months of each year, broken by frequent though brief visits to Suf folk, for he-and his brother are now closer friends than at any former per iod .'of.; : their lives. On such occasions he stajf with my father, or with Con stance and me f or the fine estate of Heronsmcre, adjoining Holdeaharst, for centuries the home of the Jarvis family, is now mine, bankrupt teaants and derelict farms having forced Sir Thomas Jarvis to sell his ancestral hall and acres. I am afraid very little of the purchase-money remained for the use of the unfortunate baronet after he had cleared off the mortgages with which his property was encum bered, but with the remainder, what ever it was, be has betaken himself to South Africa to repair his shat-. tered fortunes. Uncle Sam, who con ducted my V purchase of Hercnsnaere, ha prfitea that pfhpm ?m b ih England again in three jekik, returned empty," like a merchant' packing case. ', His resolution not to further engagS 4n business has been strictly-adhered to by uncle Sam, but his conduct Is very erratic, and he crosses and re crosses the Atlantic at the most un expeetS'd times, and has lost none of his old Interest in government loans, treasury bills, and company promo tion. Less rough in his allusions to subjects whlcll many people regard with reverence a change which some attribute to a more serious view of life induced by the" tragedy with which he was so nearly concerned, and yet others to his natural urbanity being improved by a larger acquaintance with English society uncie Sam is a great favorite, his company being at all times In great request, thouglx hardly more so than that of the gentle lady his wife, whose amiability, large- hearted charity, and noble protection of the brilliant young imp known as "the cardinal" (to whom whatever of mischief in or around Holdenhurst IS usuallyV attributed). Is the admiration of all who know her. About three months after my mar riage, ray wife aud I and aunt ,taSrt rude and. uncle Sara were enjoying a post-prandial stroll on the lawn at the rear of. my house, speculating as to the day and hour of arrival at Liver pool of the Majestic, which eteamer was to .'bring to England a party of our American friends ' ea roSte for KerCBsihere, when my father unex- pectedlj appeared Upon tire scene. Bushed by rapid walking, aud with an amused smile upon his face. "Have you heard the news?" asked my father unceremoniously,,. without even waiting tiJ greet the ladles pres ent. "Yes," said uncle Sam, although the inquiry was not particularly addressed to him. "I sent specially to Bury this afternoon for to-day's Times (I couldn't wait for It till tb-mbrrow; ahd have rccn it through, advertise ftehts riot excepted. The English peo ple have, certainly gone mad, and the House of Commons differs only from other asylums for the insane in re soect. of the ravings of its members being reported. Do you allude to the Saooml reading of the Bill for the Abolition of the Navy, or to the pro posed national endowment of a Tro- I fessorship of Anarchism at- the Uni versity of Oxford?'' "No. no," said icy father, "the ilev. Mi'. IMce is married." . "Pshaw r exclaimed uncie Sam, turning, on his heeL "Who Is the lady?" asked aunt Gert rude. . "MrF.;Buiierwell." ;The cigar I was smoking fell from my lip? and I indulged in a loud and prolonged laugh. "Isn't Mrs. Price much older than her husband?" Constance inquired. "Only." forty-seven years," replied my father. "Major Armstrong has just told me all about it. Everybody i3 full of the news. Mr. Price is now one of the richest men in the coun try." "Poor fellow!'' exclaimed uncle Sam, "he deserves to be! Let no man trouble to revenge himself upon his enemies; leave them to their own de vices, and they will themselves do all that is necessary.' After some harmless pleasantry at the expense of the Ilev. Mr. Price and his bride, we leisurely re-entered the house. "Come, dear." I whispered, as we crossed the threshold of our new home. "I have often heard that love in a cot tage is a failure, and I can well ap preciate love's difficulties in that state, 'rat although you iossessed not the worth of a dollar an;! I not the worth of a sequin, still I could be happy with you for my wife, labor for my Mortionj and one of those cottages in lie Jane for our home. In no clrcum fiances could I have done what Price has done. It is too horrible even to contemplate." "No, dear, I don't think you could," answered my faithful Connie; "but don't be too hard in your judgments. I rhaveieard that money is a terrible smntation to those who possess none. :tnd it ' has been your fate to acquire ucb 6t it in unusual ways. Only a ew men marry millionaire girls: and ewer still, I fear, discover sequins la - iuffoik." (The End.) Demand For Chicken Fa -rat. . Inspired by the high prices of eggs, i widow, who has been struggling for ears to maintain an establishment in he city aud to keep her son in boarding chool,';has decided to go to chicken arming. "I believe all the world is Seized with the same fancy." she as serts. "Such a time as 1 have had to iud a suitable place. All of the real state men told me the demand for hickenC- farms far exceeds the suppiy. lowever, I have hired a ten-acre place n a Jersey town, convenient to New VTork. "I am going to take my boy rom the boarding school, send him to he high school and have him help me etweeu times. My ardor ' has been -iightly . cooled by the discovery that most persons engaged lu the business a a small scale tlank-they are having great success if they get aaet profit of $500 a year. I have been making half that in a mouth iu the city, bat I am not discouraged. I believe I can do better than $500 a year, and in any ,-ase it will be some satisfaction to nake other persons pay the high pric? I have been giving1 for eggs.'New York Press. "My 2" exclaimed the good-natured housekeeper as she watched Weary Wraggles devour the food, "yon cer tainly do act as if you were hungry." .-Act!" he cried, between bites, "Gee whizz, lady, don't you know de differ ence between actin- an && real, ting? rPlrfladelph!a Pre. - Our Defective Koad Uwi; Since our National Government has shown such liberality in appropriating enormous sums of money for rivers, harbors, railroads and the building of country roads in our newly acquired possessions in which the masfers'have but little interest many are1 of the opinion that UncleSam might well af ford to lend sonie. assistance to our own people, who pay nil these ex penses, by co-operating with the State, county, township'-and individual con tributors in the improvement and main-: tenance of bur common highways. By this method the burden of expense would be more evenly distributed ami no one would be injured, but all mate rially benefited. To make this plan effective, much agitation and ednca tion among the t.eopie will be neces sary. Already considerable progress has been made along this line through the public press, the organization of good roads associations' and otherwise, and as an evidence of the increasing popularity of this plan, resolutions of approval are be)g adopted by many State Legislatures; political conven tions and by various industrial and la bor organizations in al! parts of the country. The result of this agitation and organization on the part of the farmers :and business men of the coun try has led to the more serious consid eration of this important question by the law making powers, not only of several States, but of the nation as well. Many States have already pro vided large, sums of money for the bet terment of their roads, and how the general Government is'being appealed to for assistance. About one dozen bills were introduced during the Fifty-eighth Congress, asking that one half of the cost for the improvement of the common roads of the country be paid from the National Treasury, so as to facilitate the delivery of the ru ral mails and the general traffic, and none are meeting with more popular favor than the one iulroduced by Sen ator A. C. Lalimer, or the Palmetto State; Mr; Lalimer is a good roads' enthusiast, and does not iutend to re lax his efforts and energies iu this di rection uutil something has been done by the National Governmeht to assist farmers in the improvement of the common roads of the country, ' Cot af Bad Koadt. Good roads enable' the farmer to haul more produce with the same ex penditure of horse power, aud also to horses and wagons. All abundance of surplus fruits and vegetables are an nually left on the farm to decay on ac count of impassable roads, Whereby both tho producer and the consumer are losers. Both pay the penalty for bad i-oadSi Such occurrences are by no means infrequent in all parts of the country; -36od roads also promote social intercourse cue bio the farmer to take his family to visit his neigh bors, attend church tand to keep his children in school during all seasons of the year; The inconvenience ex perienced from the lack of good roads is one of the reasons -why so many persons, particularly the young men, become discouraged with country life and leave for the cits, and why so few give up the city forthe country, ex cepting for a temporary sojourn at that season of the year,when nature is at her best in the country and worst in the city. With good roads neigh bors - would be more neighborly, churches more prosperous, and the 6Chool districts . would' be enlarged, so as to enable them to "have better school houses, -better school teachers and better schools. : - Now that these facts regarding bad roads exist, no person denies. And naturally the question arises, Can these conditions .be improved? There are many ways in which this can be done, but to do it right everybody ad mits that it can be done only by the expenditure of money fend, labor, as in all other Internal improvements. The most economical, plan ; is not always the best and wisest to pursue. The better highways the better services they render, and greater will become tho value of property adjacent there to. '- v- California Oiled Koa-ls. Within the last five years the Cal ifornia roadmakers have made rapid advancement froui the first period when oil was used simply to lay the dust to a second " and far more mo mentous one in which permanent roads are being constructed with it.. The oiled road costs about one and a half cent per square foot, while asphaltum costs fifteen cents, and a powdered granite road is nearly twice as expen sive as the oil, here there is the same relative situation as taTniaterial. Rub ber tires are not iujurfd by the oiled road, as was claimed at first, and the surface does not softlu as asphalt roads do, and is cot so easily cut up by wagon tires. leased, it is said that oiled roads are ijbe most important dis covery in roadnfaking for dusty coun tries that has ever been made. Where ' these conditions can be met a beautiful road may be oonstructed, differing but little in appearance from an asphal tum road, and. having : all its advan tages without any of Us-drawbaeks. At present thera are about 1000 miles of these roads in California. Couutry Life in America. The country in whie.i the Jarg3 towns are most equidistant is Holland. They are at an average distance of about twenty miles irons each other. WITHUMOU T .H E D A t Uy neiv alarm clock is a gem; It is a great invention. I make it ring at 6 a. in. ind then pay no attention. Washington Star, V Girls' Wyai Patience "Why did the girls at the beach laugh at Fred's whiskers?' Patrice--"Because they tickled theni ( suppose." Yonkers Statesman fetill It A Soini Bopei Chumpley (gloomily) "What make! jou, think there is hope for me?" Miss Kidder "She ' told me she wouldn't marry the best 3"au living." Philadelphia Ledger. That Compact Existence. 'You can always tell a New Yorker.' 'How?" "He always takes it for granted that i piece of furniture bigger thau'a writ ing desk is a folding bed." Washing ton Star; - - Nothing Iike Experience. Elderly Party "Don't j-ou think an tomobiling a poor form of exercise for. young men?" Miss Quickstep "I don't know. It- it seems to be good. for the jarms;"--Chicago Tribune. Shakeapeave Keviaed. 'He who steals my purse," quoth the famous actress, "steals trash, but he who robs me of my jewels " Here, she smiled significantly "Gets me a lot of free advertising in the gullible press." At (he Post. Hieks "Whatever else may be said of Beggerley, he's pretty well posted in social matters. Wicks "I should say so. He's post ed for debt in every "club he belongs to." Philadelphia Ledger.' Tax From It. Young Widow (to partner at ball)--"Mr. Crogan, I've made a wager of a pound of chocolates that you are a single man."' Mr. Crogan "i'ou've lost, ma'am. I'm one of triplets." Chicago Tribune. Kot Based on Experience. Askitt "I see you have written an article 6c how to succeed. Is it based on your own experience?" Rocksey "Oh, no. If I'd done as 1 advise, I would have been noble and honest, but I wouldn't have been rich." Town Topics. Grade of Ignorance. . "The trouble with the man who thinks he knows it all is that he really has only a little knowledge." "Yes, the trouble with the man who thinks he has a little knowledge is that be really has little knowledge." Phil adelphia Press Kotiiisg Jstii Toast. "Your wife has been boasting thai she can bake bread," said Marryat, "Can she really?" "Oh, yes," replied Newliwed; "she ican bake bread, I suppose, but she can't bake dough and make bread ot It." Philadelphia Press. Hit Prldt. - Mrs. Jones "Did Shartley give you1 that plugged dollar? Why don't you give it back- to hjm?" Jones'Tf t did he'd think it was be cause I couldn't pass, it off, and I don't want him to!in& tliat l'm not just as smart-as he iSvVrDetroit Free Press, 5 . :7 A Wounded Soldter. "My; good man," said the charitable lady,v?'why won't you work?" "afadanij I can't," replied Tired Tif fins. "I was wunst a corporal of in dustry." - "Yes?" "But X got wounded an disabled ear ly in de fray, mum, early in de fray." . Equally Ignorant. Bill Collector-"The boss wants to know when you're going to settle this account." Mr. SHngun de Munnaway "Please tell your boss his curiosity ia that di rection is no jjeater than mine. Kindly Refrain from slamming the door as you go out. It jars on my nerves." Chica go Tribune. Hard to Pleat. Friend "Well, how do you like run ning, for office as . far as you have gone?"; Candidate "I hardly know. Can't seem to please the opposition at all. They abused me for not talking, and aow that I've taken the stump, my speeches don't seem, to suit 'em any better than my silence." Boston Chronicle, v ... ?' " : Hi Wish. . ; Fond Mother" You will be five years old to-morrow, Willie, and I want to give you a real birthday treat. 'Tejl me what you would like better than any thing ete'i." I Wiljie (after thinking earnestly for Sve miDUtes)-"ripg me u whole box of ehocoiate creams, mother, and ask Tommy Smith to .come ia aad -watch -me eat 'em." Youth- 'V. A Bad Aim. Bilkins "Yes, sir, I was fired from the circus without a cent of pay aad not even a recommendation." Friend "What part did you take in the performance?" Bilkins "I've been playing the hu man frog." Friend "H'm. You must have made an awful bad jump to have landed so completely iu the soau:' Detroit Frea Pres. OBEYED ORDERS WITH ALACRITY II - How a Lieutenant's Sweetheart Inter preted the Colonel's Telegram. A smart young officer belonging to a cavalry corps in Iadia was sent on sick leave to a convalescent station ef Simla' and, while recovering his health among the hills there, was robbed of hi3 aeaft and in return captivated the charming thief. The young fellow proposed and was ac' cepted and with all possible dispatch the wedding day was fixed. But the colonel of the expectant bridegroom's regiment' was strongly opposed to the lieutenant marrying and telegraphed an unwelcome "Joia a onoe" to the amoro'is sub. The chagrined soldier handed tho peremptory message to his fair one. She glanced at it and then, with a becoming blush of sweet simplicity, remarked: "I am more than glad, dear, that your colonel 3D approves of your choice, but what a hurry he is In for the wedding. don't think I caa be ready quite so soon, but I'll try, for, of course, the colonel must be obeyed." "But you don't seem to understand the telegram, sweetheart," said the lieutenant, . "it upssts every plan we have made.- You see, he says, 'Join at once.' " ' . "Certain- he does dear," replied the lady, looking up with an arch smile, "but it is you who don't seem to understand it. When the colonel says, 'Join at once,' what does' he mean but get married immediately? What else, indeed, can ho possibly mean?" "What else, indeed, darling?" de lightedly exclaimed tfae ardent lover, rejoicing in the new reading, which he received with the utmost alacrity. So forty-eight hour3 had scarcely passed before the colonel received the following: "Your orders have been carried out. We were joined at once." Philadelphia Inquirer, Terse1 Truths Cynicism is moral dyspepsia, Those divorce canons seem to be made for the "big guns." Soon" autos will have to carry a separate tank filled with arnica and employ chauffeurs who have gradu ated from ambulance surgeons. After dealing with "bucket shops'' many a speculative wretch ends his earthly troubles by "kicking the bucket." Wonder if it consoles the woman forced into unpleasant notoriety to bo called by the newspapers, 'k pretty well dreEsed society woman of promi nence." Still, they all are. Conceit may puff up a man, but it isn't going to prop him there. Some men prefer to study article on "How to Succeed" to reading the help wanted" column. Some men are so lavishly praised after their death that it ai-ouses the suspicion that they are being praised for dying. After three years of married lifo the husband gets insulted If he catches bis wife reading a love story or reading his former fervent love letters. An Old Time Relic, The lighthouse keeper at Polnte-de-Monts, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while shooting recently, turned out of the sand an old-style sword with the date "1711- cn its : blade. This is doubtless a relic of the ill-fated expe dition of Admiral Walker, who sailed from England in 1711, "with elevea thousaad me"n and a large fleet to capture Quebec and . Montreal. A dense fog overtook him when off Sevea Islaads aad a great storm arose. The British ships were dash edr to pieces oa the rocks of Egg Is laad, aad the fo'.lowiag moraing aiae hundred bodies were lying there. The Coon Cat's Playmate. A. A. Giaa, of Prospect Ferry, has a fine yellow coon cat. One morning recently he did "not come in at the usual hour and oh looking around Captain Ginn discovered him in a field a few rods away piaying with a fox.' They played for some time. Then the cat started for we house, Realizing he was too near civilization the fox following fo? some distance, for his own good he turned and skip ped for the woods. This cat has been in the habit of spending some of his nights la the woods. It is to be pre sumed it is not their first meetiag. Making Artificial Butterflies. Th preparation of artificial butter flies mainly coaslsts ia spreading with a camel's 'hair brush very thin mucilage or paste over the wings of ordinary butterflies, and then sprink ling over this certaia delicate metallic powders of various colors. By this pro cess a very commoa butterfly can be transformed into one that is extreme ly rare. The fraud came to light through au alleged specimea of a red admiral, the fly eo widely noted for its brilliant red and white hues. Liv erpool Post. ; No Use For It. - The Ctar Vlskwitch! The Orderly -Your highness. "Go, aud take down that sign In the front parlor window." "Which sign, your highness?" "Boy wanted'." Clevelaad Plain Co-Operative Stores. Co-operative stores play a percepti ble part ia supplying tho-necessaries of life to the industrial classes inGer many, though they have not attained so large a development as in England, where they originated. W 'SCIENCE - iW The density of several frozen gases has been measured by Sir. James De war at temperatures' between thirteen' degrees and fourteen degrees C. abova absolute zero. He, finds that the spe cific gravity of solid, oxygen fs, 1.425; solid nitrogen,' 1.020V and solid hydro gen, 0.070. A curious, fact ia that if the elements, oxygen ! and .bydrogeU, occupied in water the space they do ia the solid state, a 'given weight f wa ter would have a volume nearly twics as great as it actually, docs- havov. A novel apparatus' for destroying iu Sects and larvae npou'the ground has been presented to the Odessa Techni cal Society by M, Lokuzejewski. A horse or motor wagon carries ftjmalt dynamo, which is geared to tbe.axlo and, is -connected withr.au Induction coil with a Webnelt '.interrupter. The negative pole of the eoil is connected with the iron framework to the earth, while the positive pole at Mgh-fetisioa! charges a series of metallic brooms be hind and under the vl wagon. These brooms, movable -vertlcallv emit a shower of sparks, ami any insects Within range are killed It is generally known that ngbtuSntf striking the ground gometini3 form tubes lined .With foed minerals,, but comparatively few persona- have ete7 Seen these phenomena lu April- 10O, during a thunderstorm in Eysex'Eng land, & bal) of fire, which seetoed to ,east darts iii att directions, was'fr&eu fo descend from the clouds; There was a --crashing explosion,-' atnl afterward, in an oat field, three distinct nfis ot holes, ranging -from nine inches' flowu to one inch iii ditimir'te'.v were- fourwl ia the ground. They were perfectly cir cular, diminishing iii si'AH as they went . deeper, and. were, cqf 'through the yel low clay as tflcan -as augur boiesr-1 Among, the exhibits at the .Royal Agricultural. Society : Fair, in fmdou recently,- Was the Just-Hatiaakcr ma chine for drying and. sterilizing milk. Two cylinders, an eighth, of . ait inch apart and warmed r by snperhatet steam within to a. surface temperature of 110 degrees C, are caused tr re volve inversely. IiKfi , passing , be tween the cylinders form a thin layer1 on each It is quickly evaporated to dryness, and then is stripped off n the, form of thin, solid sheets.. These a-re reduced to powder, which may bd compressed Into tablets. When mixej with Warm water the substance liamfc diately forms a liquid possessing all the properties of boiled milk. Under the discharge of d high Ie; eion electric current, a glass plate re mains apparently unchanged, but oa breathing upon it characteristic dis charge figures appear. These figures, however, disappear when the glasa is cleaned. Tho magic prints arc made permanent by Hans Axmaun, a Ger man physicist, by using an ludyctiow -apparatus giving sparks of about twen ty inches, and connecting one polo With the edges of the glass plate and the other pole with a soft metal elec trode of suitable shape held opon the glass by slight pressure. The experi menter has kept for. teu years plates on whlchy In spite of all cleaning- th discharge figme stand out clear and distinct whenever' Ctho breath con denses upon the gtess. . : : Knights of the GaH4 The fact that , the Archbishop of Canterbury, now on a visit to "Amer ica, was when Bishop of Winchester (1895-1903) "prelate' of tho Order of the Garter," draws attention to. the highest and most illustrious order 2 Knighthood in Great Britain. This order was fouaded,' says Selden, by King Edward III. on April 23, 1341. But some trace the origin of this order back to April 23, 1192, when Richard I. compelled twenty-six of his Knights to wear a tbons of blue leather oa the leg" when fighting with the infidels. The generally accepted tradition, hoW- ever, Is that King - Edward III. wast dancing at a ball with the Countess of Salisbury, when she dropped her gar ter, which the Sovereign picked up and at first tied about his own leg. Observing, howeveiy that this act ev cited a good deal of attention, lie handed it back to the fair owner Rwith the words: "Hon! soit qui mal y pense" "Evil to him' who evil thinks" words still used as the motto of the order. The King said further "that shortly they should see that garter advanced to so high an honor and re nowa as to account themselves happy to wear it." Harper's Weekly. Testing Cable hj Roentgen Kay. . A novel application 'of the Roentgen rays to the teEting of submarine cables has recently been made in Europe, and has been found useful la determining defects and imperfections which might cause a breakdown. o the cable and Involve considerable expense for re pair's. Tho apparatus consists of a floentgenray tube'above which, I fluorescent screen, while the cable t be tested ia passed through guides jut below, so that a shadow is cast oa the ecreen. The cable Is allowed to. ran througlj tUe testing apparatus, and the observer looks for any Indication of fault in the shadow. Foreign aob .stances, air bubbled, or bad joints in the rubber or gutta-percha Ingnla.tSoM are readily detected, and may be rem edied at the work. Imperfections of this kind can remain unnoticed by other tests, and a cable with suck' im perfections may bo laid on the pea bottom at great expense and operated for a number of yeara before It will tflll.-Harper't wetftlr; . "I' i. 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