Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1903 — Page 29

PART THREE. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1903. 0

CHAPTER XVI. WITH THE BARBARIC HOSTS. History repeats itself so cleverly, with a Variance of stage settings and accessories so cunning, that the repetition seldom boies, and 1j. Indeed, frequently undettSSgd Thus, the descent of the Barbarians upon a decadent people is a little tour de force that has been performed again and again since the oldest day. But because the assault nowadnys is made not with force f arms we are prone to believe it is no longer made at all as if human ways had changed a bit since those ugly, hairy tribes from the northern forests descended upon the Roman empire. And yet the mere difference that the assault is now made with force of money in no way alters the process nor does it permit the result to varj. On the surface all is cordiality and peaceful negotiation. Beneath is the same Immemorial strife. the life-an'l-tUath struggle pitiless, inexorable. What would have been a hostile bivouac within the city's gates, but for the matter of a few centuries, is now, to select an example which remotely concerns us. a noble structure on Riverside drive, facing the lordly Hudson and the m&jestie Palisades that form Hb farthc-r wall. And, for the horde of Goths and Visigoths, Huns aud Vandals, drunkenly reeling in the fitful light of campflres. chanting weird battle runes, flgntlng fnr captive vestals, and bickering In uncouth tongues over the golden spoils, what have we now to make the parallel convince? Why. the same Barbarians, actually; the same hairy rudeness, the same unrefined. all-conquering. animal force; a red-faced, big-handed lot. imbued with hearty good nature and an easy tolerance for the ways of those upon whom they hare descended. Here are chiefs of renown from the farthest fastnesses; thsy and their curious households: the ironmonger from Pittsburg, the goldminer from Dawson, the copper chief from Butie. the silver chief from Denver, the rattle chief from Oklahoma, lord of three hundred thousand good acres and thirty thousand cattle, the lumber prince from Michigan, the founder of a later dynasty in oil. from Texas. And, for the unaesthetic but effective Attila, an able fashioner of pork products from Chicago. Here they mako festival, carelessly, unafraid, unmolested. For. in the lapse of time, the older peoples have learned uot only the folly of resisting inevitables, but i the huge and hairy invaders may be treated and bartered with not unprofitably. Doubtless it. often results from this amity that the patrician strain is corrupted by the alien adnvxture but business has been business since rs many tv.o persous met on the face of the n w earth. For example, this particular shelter is builded upon land which one of the patrician families had held for a century solely because it could not be disposed of. Yet the tribesmen tQsjsja, clamoring for palaces, and now this same land, with some adjoining areas of trifling- extent, produces an Income that will suffice to maintain that family almost in its ancient and bent ting estate. In this mammoth pile, for the petty rental of ten or fifteen thousand dollars a yegr, many tribes of the invaders have futmd shelter and entertainment in apartments of many rooms. Outwardly, in details of ornamentation, the building is said to duplicate the Chateaux Blois, those splendid palaces of Francis 1. Inside are all the line and color and device of elegant opulence, modern to the last note. To this palace of an October evening comes the tribe of Bines, and many another such, for a triumphal feast in the a bod- of Barbarian Silas Higbee. The carriages pass through a pair of lordly iroa gates, swung from massive stone pillars, under an arch of wrought iron with its antique lamp, and Into the echoing courtyard flanked by trim hedges of box. Alighting, the barbaric guests of Higbee are ushered through a marble-walled vestibule, from which a wrought iron and bronse screen gives way to the main entrance hall. The calling here reproduces that of a feudal castle in Rouen, with some trifling and effective touches of decoration in blue, scarlet and gold. The walls are of white Caen stone, with ornate windows and balconies jutting out above. In one corner is a stately stone mantel with richly carved hood, bearing in its central panel the escutcheon of the gallant French monarch. Up a little flight of marble steps, guarded by its hand-rail of heavy metal, shod with crimson velvet, one reaches the elevator. This pretty inclosure of Iron and glass, of classic detail in the period of Henry II. of Circassian walnut trim, with crotch panels, has more the aspect of boudoir than elevatoi. The deep veal is of walnut., upholstered with fat t ushions of crimson velvet edged in dull gold galloon. Over the seat is a mirror cut Into small squares by wooden muatius. At each side ar Hc trie candies softened by red silk shades. One s last view before the door closes noiselessly Is of a bay window opposite, set with cathedral glass casement lights, which sheds soft colors upon the hall bench of carven atone and upon the tesselated floor. The door to the Higbee domain Is of polished mahogany, set between lights of antique verte Italian glass, and bearing an ancient brass knocker. From the reception voom, with its walls of green empire silk, cne passes through a foyer hall, of Coriova leather hangings, to the drawing room with its three broad windows. Opposite the entrance to this superb room Is a mantel of carved Caen stone, faced with golden Pavauazza marble, with old Roman andirons of gold ending in the fleur-de-lis. The walls are hung with blue Florentine silk, embossed in silver. Beyoud a bronse grill is the music room, a library done In Austrian oak with strained burlap paneled by dull-forged nails, a conservatory, a billiard room, a smoking room. This latter has walls of red damask and a mantel with "Post Tenebras Laix" cut Into one of its marble panels a legend at which the worthy lessee of all this splendor is wont often to glance with respectful interest. The admirable host If one be broadminded la now In the drawing room, seconding his worthy wife and pretty daughter who welcome the dinner guests. For a man who has a fad for ham and doesn t care who knows it, his bearing is all we have a right to expect that it should be. Among the group of arrivals, men of his own sort, he is speaking of the ever-shifting fashion In beards, to the evangel of a Texas oil field who flaunts to the world one of those heavy mustaches spuriously extended below the corners of the mouth by means of the chin growth of hair. Another, a worthy tribesman from Snohomish. Washington, wears a beard which, for a score of years, has been let to be its own trus sell, to express, fear

lessly, its own unique capacity for variation from type. These two have rallied their host upon his modishly trimmed side-whiskcrs. "You're right,' I ays Mr. Higbee. amiably, "I ain't stuck any myself on this way of trimming up a man's face, but the madam will have it this way says it looks more reiined and New Yorky. And now, do fm know, ever since I've wore em this way SSSf since I had em scraped from around under my neck here I have to go to Florida every winter. Come January or February. I get bronchitis every blamed year!-' Two of the guests only are alien to the barbaric throng. There Is the noble Baron Ronault De Palllac, decorated, reserved, observant almost wistful. For the moment he Is picturing dutifully the luxuries a certain marriage would enable him to procure for his noble father and his acd mother, who eagerly await the news of his quest for the golden tleece. For the baron contemplates, after the fashion of many conscientious explorers, a marriage with a native woman; though he permits h'mself to cherish the hope that it may not be conditioned upon his adopting the manners and customs of the particular tribe that he means to honor. Monsieur the baron has long since been obliged to confess that a suitable mesalliance is none too easy of achievement, and. in testimony of his vicissitudes, he has writteu for a Paris comic paper a series of grimly satiric essays upon New York society. Recently, moreover, ho has been upon the verge of accepting employment in the candy factory of a bourgeois compatriot. But hope has a little revived in the noble breast since chance brought him and his title under the scrutiny of the bewitching Miss Mlllicent Higbee and her appreciative mother. And to-night there is not only the pretty Miss Higbee, but the winning Miss Bines, whose dot, the baron has been led to undrstand. would permit his beloved father unlimited piquet at his club, to say nothing of regenerating the family chateau. Yet these are hardly matters to be gossiped of. It is enough to know that the Baron Ronault de Palllac when he discovers himself at table between Miss Bines and the adorable Miss Higbee. becomes less saturnine than has for some time been his wont. He does not forget previous disappointments, but desperately snaps his swarthy jaws In commendable superiority to any adverse fate. "Je ne donne pas un damn." he says to himself, and translates, as was his practice, to better his Euglish "I do not present a damn. I shall take what it is that it may be." The noble Baron Do Palliac at this feast of the tribesmen was like the captive patrician of old led in chains that galled. The other alien. Launton Oldaker, was present under terms of honorable truce, willingly and without ulterior motive saving as he confessed to himself a consuming desire to see "how the other half lives." He was no longer the hunted and dismayed being Percival had met in that faroff and impossible Montana; but was now untroubled, remembering, it is true, that this "slumming expedition," as he termed It. had taken him beyond the recognized bounds of his beloved New York, but serene in the consciousness that half an hour's drive would land him safely back at his club. Oldaker obserwd Miss Psyche Biues approvingly. "We are so glad to be in New York'. " she had confided to him. sitting at her right. "My dear young woman.' he warned her, "you haven't reacned New York yet." The talk being general and loud, he ventured further. "This is Pittsbuig, Chicago, Kansas City. Denver almost anything but New York.' "Of course 1 know these are not the swell old families." Oldaker sipped his glass of old Oloroso sherry aud discoursed. "And our prominent families, the ones whose uames you read, are not New York any more either. They are rather London and Paris. Their furniture, clothing, plate, pictures and servants come from one or the other. Yes, and their manners, too. their interests and sympathies and concerns, their fashious and sometimes, their er morals. They are assuredly uot New York any more than Gobelin tapestries and Fortuny pictures and Ixuis Seize chairs are New York. "How queerly you talk. Where is New York, then?" Oldaker sighed thoughtfully betweeu two spoonfuls of tortcre verte. claire. "Well, I suppose the truth is that there Isn't much of New York left in New York. As a matter of fact I think it died with the old volunteer fire department. Anyway the surviving remnant is coy. Real old New Yorkers like myself neither poor nor rich are swamped lu these days like those prehistoric animals whose bones we find. There comes a time when we can't live, and deposits form over us aud we're lost even to memory." But this talk was even harder for Miss Bines to understand than the English speech of the Baron Ronault de Palliac and she turnel to that noble gentleman as the turbot witn sauce Corail was served. The dining room, its wall wainscoted from floor to ceiling in Spanish oak, was flooded with soft light from the red silk dome that depended from Its crown of gold above the table. The laughter and talk were as little subdued as the scheme of the rooms. It was a-i atmosphere of prodigal and confident opulence. From the music room near by came the soft strains of a Haydn quartet, exquisitely performed by finished and expensive artists. "Say, Higbee!" it was the oil chief from Texas, "see if them fiddlers of yours can't play 'Ma Honolulu Lulu: " Oldaker, wincing and turuine: to Miss Bines for sympathy, heard her say: "Yes. do. Mr. Higbee: I do love those ragtime songs and then have them play Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" and the 'Intermezzo.He groaned in anguish. The talk ran mostly on practical affairs; the current values of the great staple com modi ties; why the corn crop had been light; what wheat promised to. bring; how young Burman of the Chicago Board of Trade had been pinched in his own wheat corner for four millions "put up" by his admiring father; what beef on the hoof commanded: how the Federal Oil Company would presently own the 8tate or Texas. Almost every Barbarian at the table had made his own fortune. Hardly one but could recall early days whe-i he tolled ou farm or In shop or forest, herded cattle, prospected, sought adventure in remote and hazardous wilds. " 'Tain t much llk them old days, eb, Higbee?" queried the Crown Prince of 'ripple Creek "when you aud me had to walk from Chicago to Green Bay. Wisconsin, because we dldu t have enough shill

ings for stage fare?" He gaxed about him suggestively. "Corn beef and cabbage was pretty good then, eh?" and with sure, vigorous strokes he fell to demolishing his filet de dinde a la Parigueux. while a butler refilled his glass with Chateau Malescot, 187S. "Well, It does beat the two rooms the madam and me started to keep house In when we was married." admitted the host. "That was on the banks of the Chicago river, and now we got the Hudson flowln' rignt through the front yard, you might say. right nast our own yacht landing." From old days of work and hardship they came to discuss the present and their immediate surroundings, social and financial. Their daughters, it appeared, were being sought in marriage by the sons of those among whom they sojourned. "Oh, they're a nice band of handshakers, all right, all right." asserted the gentleman from Kansas City. "One of 'em tried to keep company with our Caroline, but I wouldn't stand for it. He was a crackiu' good shinny player, and he could lead them cotillion dances blowin' a whistle and callin", 'AH right, Up;' or something like a car starter but, 'Tell mo something good about him." t says to an old friend of his family. Well, he hemmed and hawed he was a New York gentleman, and says he. I don't know whether I could make you understand or not.' he says, 'but he's got Family,' jest like that, bearin" down hard on 'Family' 'and you've got money," he says, 'and Money and Family BSSd each other badly in this town,' he says. 'Ye.-.' says I, 'I met up with a number of people here.' I says, 'but I ain't met none yet that you'd have to blindfold and back into a lot of money,' I says, 'family or no family.' I says. 'And that young man,' he says, 'is a pleasant, charming fellow; why,' he says, 'he's the best-coated man In New York, but he'll be the be3t-booted man in New York, too,' I says, 'if he comes around trying to spark Caroline any more or would be if I had my way. His chin's pushed too far back under his face,' I says, 'and besides,' 1 says, 'Caroline is being waited on by a youug hardware drummer, a good steady youug fellow traveling out of little old K. C.,' I say, 'and while he ain't much for fam'ly,' I says, 'he'll have oue of his own before he gets throtigh.' I says; 'we start fam'lies where I come from,' I says." "Good boy! Good for you," sheered the self-made Barbarians, and drank success to the absent disseminator of hardware. With much loud talk of this unedifying character the dinner progressed to an end; through seile d'agueau, floated in '84, champagne, terrapin convoyed by a special Madeira of 1850, and canvas-back duck with Romanee Conti, 1S63, to a triumphant finale of Turkish coffee and 111 brandy. After diuner the ladies gossiped of NewYork society, while the barbaric males smoked their big oily cigars and bandied reminiscences. Higbee showed them through every one of the apartment's twenty-two rooms, from reception hall to laundry, manipulating the electric lights witn the skill of a stage-manager. The evening ended with a cakewalk, for the musical artists had by rare wines been mellowed from their classic reserve into a mood of rag-time abaudon. And if Monsieur the B.irou with his ceremonious grace was less exuberant than the Crown Prince of Cripple Cretk, who sang as he stepped the sensuous measure, his pleasure was not less. He joyed to observe that these mea of incredible millions had no hauteur. "I do not," wrote the baron to his noble father the marquis, that night, "yet understand their joke; why should it be droll to wish that the man whose coat is of the best? but as for what they call une promenade de gateau. 1 find it very enjoyable. I have met a Mile. Bines to whom I shall at once pay my addresses. Unlike Mile. Higbee. sh has not the father from Chicago or elsewhere. Quel diable d'horame!'' ITo be Continued To-morrow. 1 School Board Worth Having. North Vernon (lud.) Republican. A school board that will volunteer its services, when the occasion arises, to pick up the hammer and saw and make "full hands" in preparing the rooms for the accommodation of the pupils manifests the proper spirit. North Vernon has such a board, and is Justly proud of it.

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Kl.l. li:KKS l THE "IWEK msTERIKV ;KETLY KXOIKAGED. lounir Piyclioiuetrist Makes Abounding Revelations Relics of an Ancient Soothsayer Vre round. Correspondent- of the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS. Sept. ly. Believers here in the inner mysteries and the peegde with whom such matters are merely a fad. are much exercised over the revelations made by a young psychometrist through the antiquarian researches of M. Gayet. It seems a long hark bark from the Paris of to-day to the time of Myrithes. the soothsayer of old Antlne, but the psychometric link has been established, according to the most incontrovertible evidence. Paris laughs, wonders aud looks serious by turns, for if communication can be effected with ancient Antlnoe, psychometrically. why uot similarly with modern Mars? Already the vendors of crystals are reap ing a large harvest from wealthy sr.idents of the mystic, but. alas, a genuine psychometrist is uot born every day. The facts in the case are that M. Qay et, an eminent French antiquarian, in the eourse of researches made in the ancient country of Antlnoe, discovered the tomb of the once famous soothsayer, Myrithes. In the tomb with the body were fotind a number of implements of the woman's craft. BStsMy a magic mirror and a quantity of cabalistic writings. The news of the discovery came to the ears of a certain extremely gifted young psychometrist, wno requested permission to handle the mirror. The privilege was accorded him by M. Gayet. with results which were decidedly astonishing to the latter. The psychometrist described to him faithfully the couutry of Antinoe and minute details of the costumes of the period in which the magician lived, although at the time when he took the mirror in his hand he knew nothing concerning them. M. Gayet was able to gather information from his statements which rendered all of his discoveries thoroughly intelligible. Finally the psychometrist called up such vivid pictures of slaughter and horrors that M. Gayet had to ask him to stop. The case, although by no means a solitary one, is considered the most remarkable on record. Physicians who examined the young man say that his extraordinary powers are due to the fact that his brain vibrates at one hundred pulsations, wh.;lst that of the ordinary man vibrates at fifty-four. In spite of scientific incredulity, psychometry is considered by many able minds to be quite a natural phenomenon. COULD "THINK" TO A STAR. Professor CfeSSkSl asserts that if a man could lift himself above the influence of terrestrial gravitation he could precipitate his thoughts through space to another man on any given star with force, accuracy and many times the speed of light. The stndy of brain waves, like the study of light waves, is yet in its infamy. The latter will be much advanced when we know more about radium. If radium can contain or absorb an endless quantity of light waves, why, then, cannot the mirror retain some of the brain waves reflected through it? If muscle reading be easy of explanation, nervous induction and brain waves are things which science has never been able to master. Yet they most certainly exist. The air is as full of brain waves as it is of sunbeams and starlight. They are sent abroad unconsciously und in almost all cases unconsciously received. Our mental apparatus for sending out brain waves is all right, but the mental apparatus for receiving them is in an exceedingly crude condition. Perhaps it is not intended that it should be fully developed in normal beings, but, in that case, one is inclined to ask "Why should it have been placed there at all?" In the opinion of many the day is coming when psychometry will be a branch of study in our colleges. It has already received considerable attention in some of them. In one of the scientific schools here a most inter Par (or. N Inexi'ensive hardwood for first floor. Tiled tti -plae. with pretty mantel. Hot-air heating and good, plain cpen plumbing: joreclaln enameled tub. The hall is a very larg.- one. and. If d sired, the lortlon of it which Is partly screened off by an o(eii (tartltlnn with columns, can be made another room, with sliding doors or opening for curtains onl; . The stairs arc very pretty; the back stairs totn them on the second landing. There Is a pretty parlor and a beautiful dining room, with a bay and corner china closets. An eaoallo! pantry connects this with the kitchen. whnh has. however, a sejmrste tntrsuce tu the bait. Tlur la a small laundry.

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esting attempt to fathom the mystery by mechanical means was made. One of the students was seated at a desk in the amphitheater ,of the school. In front of him was a small disc of copper, connected by a wire with the cellar, three floors below. There, opposite to another disc, sat one of the professors, whose brain wave was to Influence the student. The professor told two of hiscolleagues who were below with him that he intended to induce the student to rise from his seat, go to the chalk-box at the blackboard, get a piece of chalk and put it on his desk. TEST WAS SUCCESSFUL. Meanwhile, at his desk in the amphitheater, surrounded by his fellow-students, the pupil sat with his eyes closed in frout of the disc for fully ten minutes. Then he arose slow 1 . walked to the blackboard, picked up a iiiere of chalk aud placed it upon the professor's desk. When the professor entered the room and learned the result he was much surprised. It was asserted that the experiment would have been equally successful without the wire, but no further experiments seem to have htm conducted in that direction, as far as I know, at the school. The same professor was. however, very successful in his experiments in thought transference with his four children. Their ages ranged from ten to sixteen years. Each in turn went out of the room while the professor fixed his mind upon some object which they were to name upon returning to the room. The other children knew nothing of the object upon which the professor had fixed his thoughts. At first little success was met with, but after keeping it up night after night for months, success began to predominate over failures. At first the simplest objects in the room were Helected. Then the dates of months, names of people, names of towns, cards from a pack and Hues from different poems were chosen. After once getting en rapport, ;i it were, the children seldom made a mistake. One of the girls named seventeen cards from a pack in succession. Much seemed to depend upon the steadiness with which ideas were kept before the thinker. After experimenting for several weeks with his own children the professor tried the effect upon those of his neighbors with similarly successful results. It will be noted that in none of these cases was there any physical contact. ARTHUR FIELD.

SCARCITY OF VEGETABLES. But SW Yorkers Will Have Plenty of Oysters to Make I'p Deficiency. New York Letter. Commission merchants here assert that New York Is facing a winter vegetable famine. Potatoes, turnips, carrots aud things of that sort are scarcer than they have been for many years. There is no use looking to the West. They are just as badly off there as are residents in New York. The last crops of winter vegetables, to be brought iu next month, will command even higher prices thau those of the summer, which have been very hard on the economical housekeeper. Another factor in the case of living this winter will be increased rents. It seems that these are already high enough, but the demands for houses are reaching extraordinary proportions, and landlords are steadily lifting their figures. Were it not for the prospect of a relief from the congestion through the completion of an extensive rapid transit system, which will make the suburban home easier of access, the problem of living comfortably in the metropolis on a lim ited income would seem hopeless of solution. While vegetables will be high and scarce. there is some consolation in the prospect of an exceptionally plentiful supply of oysters. Experts here say that the stock is not only more plentiful, but the oysters are in finer condition aud more delicious than has been the case for at least six years. New York takes about 100,000.000 oysters a week to satisfy the local demand alone. In one way or another it takes 100,000 men to handle them. Of course, the waiters in oyster saloons are not included in that item. New Yorkers like the best oysters, and they sjet the best, but the old-fashioned saddle rock, that glory of boyhood days, Is not heard of now in New York. Iu Philadelphia you have them because Philadelphians excel in fried oysters, and a fine fried oyster must be large. By enlarging it somewhat the wheelroom" can be converted Intc an automobile house or It iaav be included iu the piazza. On the second floor there are four very nice i '-'Ii i in-, wit'i excellent closets, and a bathi mi,,, w.th .peii plumbing. There Is one room and storage space in the attic. The window effects on the second floor are very pretty, and BtSjtS can be put lu where desired. The heute looks particularly well stained all green, except the frieze, or a chestnut brown, with green or red roof. The ceilings are fest ii.l 3 feet C inches. Width IV feet Depth 4? itst-

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UIKt. THITK WIMMIM. MEMPHIS. 9Bli j ii h v in I siug au English Rothschild's SFOSS A scientific light; He gathers TWOs. including those That buzz, or ONK. or bite. The Arctic flea, though no great tfgfct, He greatly longed to Ml So here begins, with prospect. bright. The hunting of the flea. "A thousand pounds." the rumor goes. "Await the luckv wight Who briugs this TWO from mm horn snows;" So hundreds hear, and write. Fine native fleas they send, sealed tight. But somehow these get free. And all who see them Join, in fright. The hunting of the flea. His mail-box daily overflow.. While postal clerks must fight. With sulphur smoke, those lively to. And this is Rothschild's plight: "An Arctic whaler thought he might Secure him two Or three: Sixpence apiece was to requite The hunting of the flea." L'Envoi. Prince, anv Prince, or peer, or knight. Don't say "COMPLETE" to me: A sad. tru tale I here indite. The hunting of the flea. M. c. S. l!5. I II TAIL. ME VI'. Two demoiselles of station Have ONE it degradation. To ply the humble calling of a servant underpaid. Despite her wealth and hauteur, Each marriageable daughter. Anticipating Hymen, becomes a waiting maid. A. F. HOLT. !. I. IT K R A R Y ODDS AMI I M Four novelists of a past generation met and deplored the modern taste, and the way their works were being thrown aside. They then began to look over their books to see what articles were most likely to be thrown on to the junk pile. Said Scott, taking down a volume of his own, "Here (I) is some lumber and what these modern fops call a necktie." Dickens then pointed out in one of his books (2 a fruit, a vital organ, and some silk thread. Whereupon George Eliot owned that in one of her volumes 3 there was something without ends, a military movement, and an architectural feature. Trackeray admitted i4l an article now largely displaced which had been indispensable to him in writing the tale, a place where an ancient hero met some of the celebrities of his day, an Irishman and a termination. Next came Dickens with (5) a roadmakers' tool, something which set to burning would throw light on the whole matter, and some essays. Next was Scott with 6) a rope for steadying, an adult human being, a custom, and a piecs of jewelry. Dickens then added CI a good saint, a bad spirit, and a coin misspelled: and George Eliot (8) a water power and a couch. Then Scott threw down (?) a gay-( old 1 glove, and Dickens (10) a market, a craft. a metal, a bird and mental brightness. The next was from Thackeray, till a conveyance, conceit, a bazaar. Scott alao had (12) a conveyance, and a garden tool, while Dickens (SI) found an ancient singer, an old coin, and some enclosed land. George Eliot was next with (14) a small fraction of money, and some embroidery silk. Thackeray next admitted tl5) a great unclean beast, and a precious stone; while Scott had (16 a limb, a termination, an old tale, a THIS FARM AN EMPIRE. Wheal C ro and other Wonders of the "lOr Raneh. New York Commercial. It will be even surprising tu Oklahomans when they contemplate the fact that within the Territory's borders there is one farm so big that it is necessary to plant several varieties of wheat one of which ripens several days later than the others in order that all of them may be harvested at their prime. Ou this farm the wheat fields are of 1.000 acres each, the cattle pastures are of 1,000 to 1,500 acres each, aud pasture 6.000 head annually, the corn rows are one and a half miles long, requiring 500 mules and 300 men to handle the crop, and it takes thirty self-binders three weeks to cut the wheat crop and a dozen or more steam threshers forty days to thresh it. The above description only in part, however, telle the wonders of the "I'd " ranch, located in the heart of the Ponca Indian reservation, and established there in 1881 by George W. Miller, a Kentuckian. The recent death of Miller left the ranch of 50,000 acres in the hands of his sons Oeorge. Joseph and Zach who expect to continue It during their lifetimes. The ranch Is over twentytwo miles long, averagiug from seven to eight miles in width. Twenty-five thousand acres are in pasture, whereon grows the most luxuriant wild grass, capable of being pastured the entire year. Annually about two thousand acres are broken for other crops. The greater part of the "101 " ranch is Indian land, leased from the Ponca. Otoe and Missouri Indians with the approval of the Interior Department. Recent rules from that department allow the sale of lands belonging to dead Indians, and. taking advantage of these rulings, the Millers have recently purchased 4.000 acres. Thlr intention Is to add to their private holdings as rapidly as possible. As the ranch Is located in northern Oklahoma, the bst agricultural section, the land it occupies is easily worth $5n per acre and is increasing in value. The wheat crop on the "Wl" ranch this year occupied H.000 acres and the machines have just completed the forty days' threshing. As the wheat. If cut In Its prime, must be harvested within three weeks' time, forty self-binders were at work for that length of time cutting the 1903 crop, and an army of men are now at work preparing the ground for next year's crop. The entire acreage, to be put In wheat, will be ready for sowing early In September, and if as usual the rains come plentiful following the planting, within a few weeks the wheat will be ready for pasturing. Six thousand head of cattle are annually pastured on th wheat, which In Oklahoma grows to a luxuriant height during the fall and winter months and consequently must be pastured. With the exception of one month during the entire winter the wheat on the "101" ranch may be pastured and it is then necessary to corn-feed the cattle but a short time In order to place them on the market as "corn-fed Rotation In crops Is practiced annually. The same ground Is sown to wheat but two seasons; then after the wheat is harvest. tin larjd is sown to Knfflr corn, whit h gives the cattle pasture until time to plant Indian corn on the same land in the spring. If the corn land is needed for the wheat the corn is cut early, but If not, then the corn stands until thoroughly ripened and the land is planted to corn again the following spring. Nothing but the purest varieties are ever planted, for In farming such a big tract of land the Millers have two ideas cattle raising and selling sed corn, wheat and other cereals. One of the farms heaviest incomes annually is from the sale of ; e. il no uncommon tiling is it f'r th Santa Fe to haul from Bliss Station, near which the ranch is located, a trainload of seed. Travelers are well treated on the "101" ranch, much after the custom of plantation days in th South before ths war. One man is employed ul th- time by the Millers, whose only duty it is to drive travelers, free of charge, from Bliss to the ranch and back a Kui 1 1 whenever they have visited as long as they wish. The finest chefs the country produces are employed and owners, visitors and field hands are served with the best the land can grow. Each visitor la provided with a pony and he may spend as much time as he desires in traveling over

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mountain, and a flower. Diekens finished with (171 a slave holder, a flower, part of a camel, and a timepiece. DOROTHEA. 7. i:m(.n . We re a little band of brother. And we stay close by each other. When our leader goes, we go. Whether swift or whether slow. You may go by Botany bay. Or to Jeddo or Cathay. ' n a steamer if you like. On an auto or a bike. Wt will start the selfsame dsy And we'll go on foot alway. Wc 11 be there before you. though You with utmost speey) shall go Swift or slow, you'll surely find We will ne'er be left behind Though on foot we always go, Whether swift or whether alow. HAWKEYI HS. I LIDH(IK. Were I compelled to choose me boom Mythologised companion. I think that I would seek a home In Colorado Canyon. And though of nymphs and goddesses I might not long for any. If choose I must. I'd choose. I gueg. A r na.'. T. H. ilWI.-W M.R MV The writing of 1 WHOLE novels may b regarded AS RICH TOIL, but many succeed better in other employments. A friend of mine, whose 2i TOTAL was almost phenomenal, ROSE BY IT. economy. In.h.strv. and perseverance to a position of affluapc". though he was only an ordinary hanlc. It is a question, however, upon which there may be honest difference of opinion, whether or not he did Just right when he said to a 3 1 COMPLETE who had applied to him for help. "I AID NO S AMI' T. H. 7(MI.-KM(.MATI(AL CHARADE. Always lo.k d for. but not seen. All has really never been: Hoped for. planned for. in ach noma, Yet in time ALL S still FIRST come. Oft we fear what ALL may bring. Oft of joyous SECONDS sing. What we wish may come FIRST pass. What we dread befall, alas! Still COMPLETE, though ever nigh. Holds for us sum mystery. L. E. C. I'RIZK LITERATIRE. One of the books named will be presented the sender of the best list of answers to No. 6. The solutions are to be forwarded within one week, and in cases of doubt the winner will be decided by any special merit that may be noted in some of the nearest, complete li t - The prize for No. 663 Is taken by II. C. Wagner. Laporte. Ind. Other excellent solutions are acknowledged from: Anna Michelson. to 6t; A. D. F.. 60. 665. Emma L. Scott. 658. SO, 63; Maggie V. Butcher. 663; C. 11. Stahl. 6t3: Beatrice Quinn, 663; Edward K. Samaon. 663. 666: H. C. Wagner. 698, 660, 661, 665; Julia S. Manley. 660. SB, SB; r. W. B.. 663: Emma C. Humphreys, 6W. 660. 661. 662, 663. 664. 665; Melville 8tory. SB; J. H. Weymouth. MO, 163; Henry P. Pearson, 663: M. F. Dorman, 663; R. C. Rogers. 663; Edwin A. Cobb. 663: J. 8. Powell. 66t. SB. 666; Lucy R. Reade. 663; Mollle Carr, 663: Oft. Ida F. Millet. 661. 663; Howard A. Newsom. WC; C. D. Fitch. 663; Charles B. Lamb, 663. WSWERV 675. Dishonesty in politic p brings many evils. HT6 Mole. 677. Delaine?. Elaine, lain, sir 678. 1. Barberry- 2 Peach. 3. Pear. 4. Buckeye. 5. Strawberry. 6. Mango. I Chestnut. 8. Shaddock. S. Pineapple. M. Shellbark. 11. Gooseberry. 12. Orange. 679. Aphrodite. 6a0. Ray. ay. 681. 1. Prussia, Russia. 2. Paraguay. I'rnguay. 3. Thorn. Horn. 4. Baden. Aden. 6. Sorel. Oren. 6. Scsndia. Candia. SB. Men-i:--ier-mad. 683. Sec to Veda devotees. the farm and surrounding country, taking in the immense fields of corn and wheat, visiting with cowboys among the cattle or resting in the shade along Salt Fork, the stream which divides the ranch In two. The Indian also meets fair play at the hands of the Millers, who furnish beevea for barbecues, horses for racing and all the men needed for a roping and riding exhibition. In fact, during certain seasons of th- year the cowboys are given vacation that they may visit all such exhibitions and contest with others from all parts of the world for honors In breaking wild horses and roping cattle. out of thejrdin!by. A London papvr gives away the secret that Irishwomen's native shawls are wholly made In Scotland. The peat boga of Ireland could give an annual output of 100.000 electric horse power for the next 1.250 years. Great Britain spends $112.500,666 a year on the support of the poor. This does not include private charities. The t'nited States has 78.000 post offices; Germany is next, with 45,623, and Great Britain third, with 22.400. More than one-fourth of the inhabitants of Newfoundland are engaged in catching and curing fish for a livelihood. Seamen on native river craft in China get 33 a month, on seagoing Chinese vessels, 68. They furnish their own food. According to a recent census there are upward of u Chinese In Johannesburg, of whom 1 are in business. All are reported to do well. Kngland has nine submarine war vessels built or building, and France has flft Their presence la expected tc make blockades Impossible On the ground thst Utters patent have no intrinsic value a woman was acquitted of theft on her trial at Vienna for stealing Mich a document. The Farmers Anti-Automobile League has been organized in Illinois to stop scorching. which has resulted In many serious accidents to property and persons. Manila has a total population of something like 300.00T. about 10.000 being American and European born. The American population is estimated at about 6.000. A new rifle with which the United States army Is shortly to be equipped Is said te have an effective range- of five miles and to be the lightest rifle ever devised. It If upually imagined that the incandescent electric lights give out very little ueat. As a matter of fact, only 6 per cent, of Its energy goes to mske light, while S4 goes into heat. It is expected that the immigration Into the United States for the year ending this month will total H60.000. Two-thirds of the immigrants are from Russia Italy and Ans-tro-Hungar . The Kngllfch postofficc gives 20 per cent, better speed in delivering parcels than the private carriers, and at a cost of 6 cents for one pound. 8 cents for two pounds and 24 cents for eleven pounds. The Industrie Zeitung says that of all the countries producing steel In YZ the United States led. with an output of 15.000.660 tons. These figuren grow in importance when It Is remember that the world's production lu 1M was only 12.SSl.ono tons. Germany's production In 1!)2 was 7.780.600 tens, one-half that of the United States, while England's was only &.SM.000 tons, or one-third the production of the United States, The Official Gasette of Italy says thst hy a law of June 27, 1966. the exportation of antiquities found in excavations and thai have an archaeological and artistic value also articles of antiquity of artistic value In the possession of privat parties, regarded by the government as having greet value for historical and artistic purposes) Is forbidden. The law Is to be in force for two years. In Denmark a girl of twelve and a boy of fourteeu can marry. In most place tha limit for age is elghteeu for men and sixteen for women. In Germany a man ess only contract marriage before his twenty first year, when he Is specially declared of ige. and this can oal be dose when he has completed his eighteenth year The law of Franca is specially notable for stipulating about the legal rights of ach party, and the relations of each to the earnings of the other. The man who marries a Frenchwoman becomes by French law liable to be called on for the support of hi wife s uear relatives ir tney are in