Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Page 6

"BOOHt” Bo afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid nap, . ;»• SAnd sits like any monarch on his throne, in nurse’s lap, Xn some such wise my handkerchief I hold before my face, 'An! cautiously and quietly I more about the place; B’hou, with a cry, I suddenly expose my * face to view, And you should hear him laugh and crow when I say “Booh!” Sometimes the rascal tries to make believe that he is scared, And really, when I first began, he stared, and 6tared, and stared; And then his under li]j> came out and farther out it came, Till mamma and the nurse agreed it was a “cruel shame" — But bow, what does that same wee, toddling, lisping baby do But laugh and kick his little heels when I say “Booh!" Be laughs and kicks his little heels in rapturous glee, and then In shrill, despotic treble bids me “do it all aden!" And I—of course Ido it; for, as his progenitor. It Is such pretty, pleasant play as this that I am for! And it is, oh, such fun! and I am sure that we shall rue The time when we are both too old to play the game of “Booh!” —Eugene Field.

A ROUGH DIAMOND

X-X H, MISS ELSIE, Miss Elsie, ( J the bank has been robbed! •' Twenty thousand pounds gone, missie! and poor master away! Oh, dear! oh, dear!” Fully an hour ago had the above ■words been thrust on pretty little Elsie Maitland's bewildered hearing. She still sat In the exact spot where the bearer of the awful news had left her, too stunned and shocked even yet to properly realize all that the terrible tid togs' might mean. Twenty thousand pounds gone! And the bank In a somewhat embarrassed condition before! Worst of all, the banker himself—Elsie’s uncle was away! Elsie Maitland was a brave little woman, but somehow this last dreadful thing had well nigh robbed her of her bravery. A step behind her, and a low voice ■poke her name. She knew it at once; It was her good-for nothing brother’s. Why had he come here now, bringing fresh trouble.? For the first time in her life Elsie felt angry with him. “Why are you here again, Harold?" bhe cried, when lie was standing there jin front of her. “When I gave you that tast money you promised to stay away Altogether, and try and get something ko do. Yet here you are once more, And this time 1 cannot help you. Why, [Why do you come? Uncle John would be furious at finding you here.” “But he irf away, Elsie,” the young; tnan answered, breathlessly. “Girlie, ■you must help me, Just this once, I promise solemnly never to worry you ■galu!” “You have promised solemnly before, Jlarold,” his sister said, bitterly. “I icannot help you, 1 say. We are all ruined. The bank has been robbed." The startled look on liis white face Caused her to cease speaking. “Is It true, Elsie?" he asked, hoarsely. “Has the bank really been robbed?” She told him what she knew, he listening Impatiently, “I must have money, girlie!” he burst put. “I must have it! I must get away tfrorn here to-night, and I don’t possess p single farthing! Quick, dear. Uncle left you some for housekeeping. That ■will have to do." * “I don’t possess a single farthing, either," she persisted. “What Is the matiter, Harold? Why Is it so terribly necessary for you to leave Blaekmore to»ight?" Their eyes met—hers clear, straightforward, honest; liis weak and nervous. “Uncle will be coming back to see about the bank, Elsie," lie muttered, queorly. “He must not find me here.” No, It would only add to the bitterness of his return. But What could she do? “1 have It!” the desperate brother •uddenly exclaimed. “Elsie, this news about the bank robbery is still exclusive. The editor of the Blaekmore Times would give you any sum for It. He is enterprising, and always ready for something startling at first hand. This is our only chance, dear.” But JSlsie would not see It in that light for a long, long time. It was not until her brother had fully enlarged on the grim necessity of the case, not until he had forced her to plainly understand the consequences if lie did not have money at once, that she finally consented to go to the editor of the Blaekmore Times. Harold Maitland had a smart, cunning tongue; on this occasion he had Indeed used it well. Aa he prophesied, the editor literally grabbed at the “copy," especially after he had fairly convinced himself that his would be the first paper to publish the startling tewron the morrow. Elsie went wearily home with the much-needed money In her pocket. Harold was waiting in hiding for her, and pounced down eagerly on the gold. 11. An hour after his departure their unde’s manager came to the house, and ssked to see Elsie. When he was adsritted into her presence he noticed with a sharp pang how wan and desolate her little face had grown. Poor child I Such things as these were hard for her to bear. How be wished that he could save her an care ( and annoyance in the future! For with the whole of hia stout, loyal heart he

He showed her a telegram which he had received from her uncle. “Returning at once,” It said. “Keep news of robbery out of the papers at any price till I see you.” Elsie read the words, or, rather, they chased each other before her dizzy, aching eyes. She suddenly tottered forward and fell In a dead faint. Next morning huge posters appeared from the offices of the Blaekmore Times, making public the robbery. Newsboys shouted It frantically from one street to another. Soon a big crowd had gathered outside the bank, clamoring loudly for the doors to be opened. :* They wanted their money back, their hard-won earnings, and they meant to get It. That exclusive news sold by Elsie Maitland, on the previous evening to the edltqfcof the Blaekmore Times had caused an appalling run on her uncle's bank. The doors were opened at last; the crowd surged In, presenting checks to the full amount they bad deposited In the bank. They looked astonished when the gold same over the counter in their direction. Clearly they had expected to be turned away penniless. They thanked their stars for being the first. The bank could not go on paying out for long, of that they felt sure. At noon Elsie and her uncle drove up to the front entrance In an open carriage. He had insisted on her accompanying him, despite the fact that she looked wretchedly pale and 111. All the way along they had soon those hideous posters announcing the robbery. “How did they get the news?” John Rivers kept repeating. “Elsie, child, how did they get the news? It Is a mystery to me. If only it could have been kept from them another twentyfour hours I could have weathered the storm.” Poor Elsie’s heart ached. “I have done it!" she cried. “The fault is miner—mine! Oh, Harold, if only I could have foreseen all this! If only I could have foreseen it all!”

HI. As yet Elsie had not told her uncle who supplied the news to the paper. She prayed fervently that she might be able to keep the knowledge to herself forever, safely hidden from the fond old man who believed in her. Fate would decide. x For hours she sat in a little room over the bank, listening to the persistent clamorings below for gold. How much longer could it go on? “Not much longer!” John Rivers said dejectedly to his suffering niece. “Not 'much longer, Elsie, my girl. They must have paid It nearly all out by now. Soon they will have to close the doors. Don’t cry, child. It is the will of Providence, I suppose; but it’s hard to get such a blow as this at my time of life!”

Presently there wore sounds of cheering in the street. A well-known millionaire had driven up to the bank. “My God!" muttered the old banker. “This is the last straw! Reginald Fairfax lias turned agaiust me with the rest; when he has withdrawn his money there won’t be a penny left!” "Go aud see him, urcle,” Elsie pleaded. “He Is so rich he might be persuaded to leave it." “No, child. «I could not speak to him or anyone else to-day.” “Then I will, uncle. Oh, do go and send him here to me! I must see him! Reginald will save us!” John Rivers went blindly out, and Elsie waited for Reginald Fairfax to come to her. Twice this self-made man had asked her to marry him; twice she had refused. He was rich, but he was also coarse. Life with him would be a nightmare, she had always told herself. She did not love him. But now

ne was standing there in front of her, loudly dressed, and looking more commonplace and vulgar than ever. How could she appeal to tills boorish perveuu? She must, though; she had worked the mischief, and she must right It if possible. At the end of another five minutes she was telling him everything—all about her brother and her selling the news of the robbery to the editor. He listened In silence. She humbled herself to the dust before him, and begged him not to withdraw 7 his money from the bank. He smiled queerly. “Y’ou twice asked me to be your wife,” she wound up, feverishly, “and I refused you. Would you still marry me, Mr. Fairfax! Oh, do answer! If I said ‘yes,’ would you still marry me?” The smile broadened. “Am I to understand that you are proposing to me, Miss Maitland?” he asked. “Don’t seek to humble me any more; don’t, don’t!” she cried. “I have fallen far enough!” “Yes,” he said; “it must indeed be a terrible fall for the proud Miss Maitland to offer herself to me! Y’ou offer to become my wife if I will only leave my money In your uncle’s bank. Considering that | love you—and that you love someone else —it Is rather hard on me, isn’t it?” “Oh, don’t, don’t! If you only knew how 7 1 loathe myself for having said all this to you! You are quite right to refuse me. How dare 1 ask you—or any man—to take’ me under such conditions? You are quite right to refuse me.”

“I don’t know," he answered, slowly. “If you did not love another man already It might have been different. But as It Is—yes, I certainly won’t marry you, Miss Maitland; you havp humbled yourself to me unnecessarily. You cannot know me very well when you imagine that I had come to withdraw my support from your uncle at such a time as this. Instead, I had merely come to place the further sum of £50,000 to my account. The public knows It already,

and the-paylng Into the bank of such A large sum has restored confidence.” Ere she had time to speak he was gone. ' But the bank was saved! The bank was saved! A man she had always despised in her heart had come forward nnd saved It. Why—why had she never been able before to see the fine nature which lurked beneath a somewhat boorish erterior? The excitement of that day was followed by a long illness for her. When she returned to life once more it was to 'find her uncle In better spirits than she could ever remember him. “All the doing of Reginald Fairfax, Elsie, my girl!” the old banker said, gleefully. “He stuck to me right through, child, when everyone else failed me, and his example saved the bank.” He had further persuaded old John Rivers to make a partner of his longtrusteAmanager. He was therefore in a position at last to ask Elsie's hand In marriage. When he asked her she answered “Yes." Some months after their marriage Elsie received another visit from her brother Harold. He was altogether a different person. He was going to America, and bad come to make a confession to her. He had sold his knowledge of their uncle and the bank to a certain gang of thieves for a large sum of money. But he had never known a happy minute since, and he had never touehed a farthing of the ill-gotten cash. He was going to America now, to start life In earnest, and when his sister asked him where he had found the necessary funds he told her that the donor was Reginald Fairfax.—Chicago TimesHerald.

Natural History

The organs of smell in a vulture and a carrion crow are so keen that they can scent their food for a distance of forty miles. Hummingbirds are domesticated by placing in their cages a number of paper flow’ers of tubular form, containing a small quantity of sugar aud water, which must be frequently renewed. Of this liquid the birds partake and quickly become apparently contented with their captivity. The Uuitdfl States fisheries commission has investigated the Florida alligator and reported that unless steps are taken to protect this water animal from hunters it will soon be as completely exterminated as Is the American buffalo. The alligator is hunted for Its skin and for sport, and its combined enemies have greatly reduced the number of animals seen annually in the waters and marshes of Florida. It is estimated that not many years will pass before tho Florida alligator will disappear entirely, unless the government Interferes.

In the old days of wooden ships the boring insects which live in wood were their chief foee. Teakwood acquired Its reputation as a ship-building material because of its supposed immunity from these vermin. Steel ships suffer from barnacles, which foul their bottoms much more rapidly than they do wooden ones. These strange marine growths are sometimes as big as one’s fist aud adhere to the metal plates with tremendous force, and, liesides Impeding the ship themselves, they catch sea grass and other rubbish and drag it through the water. When a dry dock Is not awailnble metal ships have to have their bottoms cleaned by divers. When the battleship Massachusetts was recently cleaned barnacles and grass covered her hull to such an exteut that she could not have made more than ten and one-half knots an hour.

American Street Railways.

Street railway statistics of an. Interesting nature are given in the American Street Railway Directory. From thesq it appears that there is a total of 1,074 street railways in the United States, made up of 900 ele trie, 21 cable, 31 steam and 113 horse lines. These have a total capital stock of $975,625,827, and are bonded for $527,970,220. The total track mileage amounts to 10,406.78, of which 14,673.71 Is electric, 485.08 cable, 618.54 steam and 688.85 horse. In tlielr operation are required 48,209 cars, 32,696 of which are motor cars, 7,824 trailers, 2,920 cable, 1,887 steam and 2,882 horse. In addition there are 010 steam locomotives and 3,504 horses.

Knew Naught of Taxgather[?]rs.

Many an< strange are the discoveries which are occasionally made In the outlying districts of the dominions of the great white czar. But it is somewhat of a novelty that an entire village should recently have been discovered of the existence of which no one seems to have had any idea. Deep In the forests of the Ural the authorities have discovered a flourislilug village, the Inhabitants of which speak a curious language of their own and seem to form a sort of Ideal commonwealth, in which taxes and taxgatherers, among other troublesome things, are unheard of. This latter defect, however, Is now to be remedied.

Kitchener’s Railway.

English capitalists are already preparing to buy the railroad which Sir Herbert KJWhener has built in the wake of his army practically as far as Omdurman. The gauge Is the same as that of the line from Cape Town to Buluwayo, which before long will be extended to Lake Tanganyika. If a womln wears a black hat, she ought to dust It

THE FARM AND HOME

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Wheat la Kins—Hew to Destroy Grain Weevil—Smalt Farm* Are an Advan-tage-Set Out Frnit Trees in the Spring. You may tell of your armored cruisers, And your great ships of the line; And swift or slow may steamers go Across the biHowy brine. Like thunder may the cannon boom Jo greet their flags unfurled, Anuior an hour they have the power To rule the frightened world. From ocean to ocean shore Lie lines of gleaming steel, And night and day, we hear-alway The ring of rushing wheel; Though buffalo have left the plain, And Indian tents ar% furled, Nor steam nor hand at wealth’s command Can rule the busy world. But where the hillside rises fair In terraces of green, And on the plain, where wind and rain Sweep fields of golden sheen, Where sturdy yellow stalks arise, With bannered heads unfurled, Here you may greet the great King Wheat, The ruler of the world. Oh, hills may shake and vales resound Beneath the Hying car, And driven by steam and winds a-beam Our ships ride fast and far; Cities may crumble ’neath the guns Which guard our flag-qnfurled; Yet all shall greet—at last —King Wheat, For hunger rules the world. —Youth’s Companion.

The Grain Weevil. While there are several species of grain wevils, the same remedy will do for all. As these Insects penetrate aU through the entire bulk of grain, it is necessary to apply some substance that Is equally penetrating In its nature. This is found in carbon bisulphide, which may be had at any drug store. The vapor of this substance is very poisonous, and will destroy all insect life with which it comes in contact. This material is also very explosive when brought in contact with fire. Keeping these two points in mind, it may be handled with perfect safety. In applying the material it is well to keep in mind the fact that It wry volatile, and quickly passes into vapor, which diffuses Itself throughout the entire mass of grain, and as the vapor is heavier than air it will have a tendency to settle. But !n order to Insure perfect results it Is best to introduce the material well dows toward the middle of the mass of grain by means of a gas pipe with a screen over the lower end, which will prevent the grain filling the pipe, and through which the poison may be poured. The pipe is then withdrawn. One pound of the bisulphide Is sufficient for fifty bushels of grain. One application will be sufficient unless the grain is to be kept over winter, when a second application may be necessary. The material does no harm to the grain in any way, as the poisonous fumes all pass away as soon as brought in contact with the air outside.—lndiana Experiment Station. An Advantage in Small Farms. I have noticed that In the townships where the farms are small in area the people are happier and the children better bred. Smaller farms Increase the density of the population. This gives them better school facilities. The children feel the encouragement of numbers and are excited to greater efforts by the competition. Besides, their parents can afford to hire a better teacher and build for their use a better scboolhouse. Then, too, in a thickly settled region the roads are kept in better condition, for the land is of greater value aud stand taxing to improve the highways. The people are brought close together and have more of social advantages. And social advantages are a great thing. Give a farmer’s wife suitable company in the way of good neighbors and she will forget half of her troubles in talking with her neighbors. I believe there would be fewer disheartened women if they could have some chance to enjoy social life. I pity the women on the big farms, each a mile square, where the nearest neighbor is a mile away, and perhaps incougenlal. When neighbors are so few and so far away one can not choose one's company as one would if the farms were smaller and neighbors plentiful. —Mrs. J. S., in Farmers’ Review.

When to S'ct Out Fruit Trees. All things considered, we believe one of the best plans of management with fruit trees is to purchase them in the fall In good season, heel them In carefully aud then set them out in the spring. One of the principal objections to spring planting is that in a majority of cases the trees cannot be shipped from the nursery as early as is desirable for setting out. By securing them In the fall and heeling In, they are on hand ready for transplanting at the first opportunity. During the winter the ground may be plowed, and if necessary manured, stakes may be set where the trees are to be planted, so that when the soil Is In condition for work the planting may be pushed along as rapidly as possible. On the majority of farms work is always pressing in the spring, and it is an Item to make all preparations possible in advance. Trees heeled In will be growing fibrous roots through the winter, and In this respect at least will be all the better for the work. In heeling In care should be taken to dig the trench wide enough to admit of all the roots without bendjng or twisting and deep enough so that when covered well the roots will be safe from freezing. Better lay them In a slanting position mther than to stand them up straight.

See that the soil is fined and worked In thoroughly among the roots. This Is essential, as allowing the roots to become dry, Is certain death to the trees. Good drainage should be provided, as It is very detrimental to the health of the trees to allow water to stand around the roots. The tree should be secured sufficiently early so as to be heeled in properly before freezing weather sets in.— N. J. Shepherd, in Farmer’s Voice. Wooden Plow*. One of the last of the wooden plows which preceded those with Iron points is now exhibited with pardonable pride by a veteran farmer In Ashby, Mass. It was made by a Frenchman, who was one of the earliest settlers of that town. The plow Is in an exceUent state of preservation, though it shows that It has done service in plowing. All the parts of this old plow are wood, and wooden pegs rather than Iron bolts are used in joining them together. It Is pretty evident that such a plow Must be used carefully, and would be 111 adapted to any except level ground free from stones. Even the Iron-pointed plow has been superseded by steel, or at least Iron with steel surfaces, so as to be harder and less liable to clog In damp soil. If this old plow is preserved, It & likely to prove a greater curiosity than it Is now, as there are probably few of them remaining.—Exchange. Harvesting Parsnips. The parsnip Is usually grown on very rich ground, and when much manure has been used It qften has a rank taste when gathered early. It Is much better to let the parsnips stay In the ground until the soil around it has frozen once or twice. It may be gathered after the first thaw and housed, wYien It will be found that the rank flavor from the manure has passed awny, and the parsnip will be tender and sweet. Some people leave the parsnip in the ground all winter. It does not hurt it to freeze while In the ground, provided It Is thawed In contact with the soil. The greater danger in leaving parsnips out all winter Is that they will be forgotten In spring until the warm weather has started the shoots for seed bearing. Tlien the parsnip becomes poisonous. But if dug as soon in spring as the ground is thawed, the parsnip will be better than If dug In the fall and wintered in a cellar.— American Cultivator.

Peach Tree Borers. Dig away the earth around the peach trees to the depth of one foot and look carefully for borers. Then swab the trunk a foot below and above ground with thick whitewash, returning Qie soil to the tree and banking up six inches or a foot above the level of the ground, leaving the tree in that condition until next spring. As the moth lays her eggs near the level of the ground, she will begin where the earth is hanked up, and when the embankment is removed the work of destroying the borers will he easier. Whitewash may be beneficially used on all parts of the tree. i-'ced Corn. It Is a somewhat common practice to discard the tips and butts of the ears when shelling the seed for planting, but the practice is of doubtful benefit. A number of experiment stations In both the North and South have made repeated tests of the productiveness of seed from different parts of the ear, but these tests have shown no marked or constant differences in yield, even when the selections have been repeated through several generations.

Remedy for Cabbage Worms. One of the cheapest, best and safest remedies suggested to prevent the ravages of cabbage worms Is to dissolve one ounce of kalnit in a pint of water and sprinkle over the plants. This is at the rate of one pound of kainlt to a gallon of water, and it is said to be a remedy for cabbage maggots, green fly and plant lice. Farm Notes. After the first frost cut down the tops of asparagus and burn them on the bed, after which spread manure, about 3 or 4 Inches deep, on the bed and allow it to remain all winter. When foods are fed on the farm and sold in some other form the valuable elements of fertility are retained at home, and as long as this Is done the farm may be cultivated to its highest limit of capacity, and becomes more valuable every year. A gill of crude carbolic acid (which is much cheaper than the refined article} made into an emulsion with half a pint of strong soapsuds and a quart of cold water then added, will be sufficient for moistening a bushel of sawdust, which may be sprinkled in the stalls as a disinfectant.

Inexperienced persons who undertake the management of bees will find much to learn before succeed. The winter care is Important, for the bees must not be kept too warm, and If exposed they may perish. A special honse should be provided, whicb should be kept at a uniform temperature. Long articles have been written on the Importance of feeding liberally, but farmers are progressive and are disposed to go to extremes. It may be safely claimed that at the present day most farmers overfeed Instead of curtailing the supply, which accounts largely for milk fever In cows, weak litters of pigs and diseases of the bowels. There Is a right way to use blankets for horses. If the stable Is warm the best • covering for a horse Is a sheet made of coarse unbleached muslin to protect from dust, but when standing ouFside, where there Is no protection from winds, a horse blanket should be used, removing It and substituting the sheet after the animal reaches tho stable.

BROUGHT TO TERMS.

Teaching a Boorish Operator a Le** ■an. A lack of ordina.-y courtesy is one of the most troublesome things a traveler can encounter, and It would be well, perhaps, if all travelers were as pleasantly persistent in insisting upon their rights as the man In this story, which is taken from Every Where; A commercial traveler wanted to know if the train was late, and ventured to ask the operator in the' ticket office. “Dawnaw,” replied the gentleman of the keys, meaning, probably, ‘T don’t know.” “But I am told it Is an hour and a half late,” persisted tin* traveler, smiling. “You surely can teU me if that Is true.” “Dawnawnathawnboutut,” r e plied the knight of the sounding board, turning the back of his head to the questioner. “But it Is highly desirable that I should know,” said the gatherer of orders, still more pleasantly. “I can make three business calls in that hour and a half, and still have fifteen minutes’ margin. Don’t you think you had better find out for me? It will take you only a minute or two, you know.” “Flnownothn,” replied the lightning manipulator, probably meaning, "Find out nothing,” and he began reading the advertisement columns of a daily paper, paying no more attention to his questioner. “This Is a commercial as well ns a rniroad telegraph office?" asked the traveler. stUl in the blandest tones. “Yah,” replied the operator, meaning “Yes.” “A telegraph blank, please.” The document was half thrown at him. He wrote a message and handed it back, with money to pay for It. The operator commenced reading It, hitting the words one by one with his, pencU to count them. Before he was 1 half done he ceased hitting and looked up at the writer. “Good sakes, man, I can’t send this!” he exclaimed, giving this time each word its full sound. “I’d lose my position.” “And you’ll lose it if you don’t send It, I fear,” replied his amiable tormentor, syinpathizingly. “Y'ou have no right to hold it back a minute.” The operator read it over again. It ran; “Superintendent Railroad: Will you kindly teU me how many minutes late train No. - is? It is important that I should know, and your operator here refuses to inform me.” “Look here, now!” exclaimed the operator, ignoring his newspaper and everything else except the traveler. “I really wish you wouldn't insist on sending this. I think I must be somewhat in the wrong, and I—l—beg your pardon. I Can find out for you in two minutes.” “Yes; I thought perhaps you could,” replied the other, returning the money to his poeket and putting on the sweetest smile of the day, in which he was joined by several bystanders, while the operator fairly exuded information.

How a Dog Saved a Republic.

The Hon. Charles Francis Adams writes the Boston Herald as follows: “Most persons hare heard of tlhe great William of Orange, called 'The Silent.’ If the dog enemies will turn to Motley’s ‘History of the ltise of the Dutch Republic’ (vol. ii., page 198), they'U find this little incident related: On the night of Sept. 12,1572, a body of Alva's Spanish troops surprised Dutch William’s camp. And ‘for two long hours the Suaniards butchered their foes.’ Then Motley goes on to describe what happened: “ 'The boldest, led by Julian in person, made at once for the Prince’s tent. His guards and himself were in a profound sleep, but a small spaniel, which " always passed the night upon his bed, was & more faithful sentinel. “ *The little creature sprang forward, barking furiously at the sound of hostile footsteps, and scratching his master’s face wkh his paws. There was but just time for the Prince to mount a horse, which was ready saddled, and to effect his escape before his enemies sprang into the tent. “ 'His servants were cut down, and two of his secretaries, who gained their saddles a moment later, also lost their lives; and but for a little dog’s watchfulness Willianf of Orange, upon whose shoulders the whole weight of his country’s fortunes depended, would have ben led within a week to an ignominious death. To his dying day the Prince ' ever afterward kept a spaniel of the same race in his bed chamber.’ And in the church at Delft may be seen, to this day, at the foot of the recumbent statue A>f the great Hollander, a figure in stone of that ‘little spaniel.’ ”

Pope Leo’s Table.

The strictest ecooomy is practiced by Leo XIII., with regard to his own ta- < ble. This, however, is a small matter, for his tastes are simple. The Pontiff’s milk supply Is obtained from cows and goats kept In the Vatican gardens and his wine is the product of a vineyard he planted. The latter has, in the last year, yielded so abundantly that there Is a surplus for sale. Moreover, the Tope receives frequetft presents of the best French wines. His expenditures I on coffee, meat, pasta (of which Um soup, he Is fond), bread (one cent per day), and vegetables that cannot be grown in his own garden has been reduced to about $1.50 per day. The daily account is a very odd document, and is very carefully scrutinized by the Pontiff. A fashionable shoemaker says that women can endure pain better than men. The younger the woman, the higher she wears her collar.