Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 September 1906 — Page 3

The Trail of the Dead:

THE STRANGE EXER1ENCE OF DR. ROBERT GARLAND

By B. FLETCHER ROBINSON (Copyright 1905. by CHAPTER XII. We drew up swiftly four hundred .yards, three hundred yards, one hundred 1 1 And then, with a short, fierce bark of rage, the Fole dragged out his revolver and fired. As he did so, the sharp hum of a bullet, like the buzz of aa angry bee, fled over us. I ducked my head at the sound; but I give myself the credit of saying that I poked it up again the next moment. "May the fiend grip him, but he has a Mauser pistol!" cried R?ski, and I saw that the weapon in his own hand was -of the common bulldog make. "At this range I can do nothing against him. He lashed his horsjs, and they plunged gallantly forward. I could see that Marnac had stopped his sleigh and was cuddling his weapon with- a perfect coolness. Even at that distance I seemed to feel the goggling murder in his eyes. Zip! zip! He had missed a,ain! Thunji I saw one of the galloping horses sVgger, and then his head and shoulders teemed to fall away, as if he had dropped forward into a hole. There was a bumping and a twisting wrench, the snow by the roadside seemed to apring up at me, and the next instant I was struggling in cold, blinding darkness. I wriggled out from the drift, gasping, with the flakes in my mouth and eyes. The sleigh wts twisted across the road, half covering the dead horse. The other two had scrambled to their feet and now stood shivering, with drooping heads. The fall had knocked the heart clean out of them. Reski lay beside thezn. huddled where he had fallen. Eighty yards away Marnac had stopped and was watching us. He seemed satisfied with what he saw, for presently he turned and, lashin his team, trotted on down the road. I don't suppose it was more than a couple of minutes before Reski came round, though it seemed long enough to me. He had got a nasty thump on the head, but as a matter of fact his wrist turned out to be the more serious business, being very badly sprained indeed. I made a sling out of a neck wrap and fixed him up as well as I was able. The man had a remarkable vitality, besides brute courage, for, the moment I had finished, he walked over and examined the sleigh. It looked hopeless enough. One of the runners had been torn almost clean away, and the central part was bad.y cracked. The body of the poor lad Ivan lay on its back in the roadway, staring up at the sky. I threw a rug over it. "Well, we can't go on, that's certain." I said. v "Not in the sleigh, mein Herr,' he answered calmly. "And how else?" "Thre are the horses, one for each. When you have freed them of their harness, I will ask you to assist me to mount. There was no good arguing with him. and I was ashamed to-seem less eager than a man in his crippled condition. With his clasp knife I cut the twisted traces away and freed them of thir collars. At his direction I dragged the body of Ivan into the sleigh and left him there decently covered. Reski mounted from the stump of j tree, to which I led the Wronger of tb pair. ' I was a fairly good rider, but I was excessively stiff from my long drive, and :jot a little shaken by my falL My beast seemed to have the sharpest knifebonf of a back that Nature ever gave to horseflesh. But, after all. there was nothing to be gained by grumbling. Perhaps I was growing wiser by painful experience. A curious pair we must have looked that morning. Reski. with his arm in a üns1, and the butt of his revolver peepiag from his waist belt, would hare made as ,! a stage brigand as need be. For myself, I was iu too much of immediate pain from the jolting trot of the brute I rode to carry a formidable appearance. I could never have imagined that a horse lived with such adamantine fetlocks as mine seemed to possess. I have no exact record of the time, bat I should imagine that it was about "half an hour later that vre sighted Marnac again. He was then a good threequarters of a milo ahead, but traveling leisurely. Also, I was very glad to notice that we were free of the waste lands, and that the spire of a church was poking out amongst some poplars ahead of him. lie would never dare to use his revolver a second time when men were about. Also, we might procure another sleigh and team. Reski ent his heels Into his horse, und we quickened our pace, though the poor brutes were getting very done and drove heavily along with hanging heads. It was about then that I noticed a man behind us. We were topping a slight rise when I looked round. He was then some distance in our rear, but coming up fast. As fer as I could make out. he was in a sort of uniform and well mounted. The possibility of official help was very pleasant. We were gaining oa Marnac, who had not yet noticed us. With kicks and curses from Reski, and the application of a hazel branch from myself, we had squeezed a lumbering gallop out of our horses. The sleigh was not more than one hundred yards away. Reski gripped his reins in his teeth and drew his revolver. "Stop, there! Stop, I aay, ia the name of the law!" It was the man from behind who hailed us. but we rode on. "Stop, or I fire!" I pulled up. I don't think it was very eowardly when you think of it Besides, X was anxious to explain. Reski rode on. The man who had shouted flashed by me, traveling at an easy gallop. He wai dressed in a neat green uniform an-J carried a drawn revolver. Reski rode on. It was all over in a moment The itranjrer cried another warning, to which the Pole answered with a snarl over hi ihoulJer. The next Instrnt there was sharp report, and Reki'j horse pitche . forward, throwing his rider clear. lie wa3 then scarcelj tliirty yards from Maroac's sleigh. The Pole was not hurt apparently, for äespite his injured arm he scrambled to hisfeet in an instant. Rut he had lost his revolver in his fall and was helpless. He began a furious explanation in his national tongue, dropping the hated language of his Teuton conquerors. "Speak in German, you Polish dog!" jrowied his captor, and then turning on me as I rode up "Here, you," he said, "dismount and stand by your accomplice. If you resist. I shoot!" l obeyed. From his manner he was without doubt a policeman. Also I reipect the Jaw. ; "Now, you," he said, addressing me, "explain, if you can, who is that man you shot and left in the broken sleigh down yonder. Remember, it is against you that you have already tried to escape and refued to surrender." There K the murderer, mein Herr!" I cried, pointing to Marnac'a sleigh, now rapidly vanishing. "We were chasing him. Go after him at once, or he will st away." The policeman laughed long and loud. pretj fsjar faU ht "W f

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without doubt; and you, you who are" "An Englishman," I said proudly. "Aha! perhaps you thought you were once more murdering the helpless Boer. A Pole and an Englishman! Ah, me! it is no wonder that together they hatched some fiendish contrivance." It was no use to make a further appeal. Reski had seen that already. Side by side we tramped through the snow, with our captor and his ready pistol behind us. In half an hour we had reached the village we had seen ahead, and were lodged in a cell infamously damp and wld. All communication with our friends was refused till the arrival of some local magistrate. As eleven o'clock hammered from the steeple outside, Reski raised his head from his chest and glared across at me. "He will have arrived at Knesen," he said. "There is a great choice of train." It was true enough. Marnac had escaped us once again. IV. THE ANONYMOUS ARTICLE. In my narrative of the pursuit of Prof. Rudolf Marnac, it will have been observed that Fortune had been cold to us. In the incident which I now relate we were to some extent more favored; for though our supreme object was not achieved, we were yet enabled to save the life of her who is dearest to me in all the world. I hav-s told you of the homicidal mania which fell upon the professor, and of the series of events which caused my cousin. Sir Henry Graden, the eminent scientist and explorer, to be associated with a Heidelberg student, as I then was, in aa effort to contrive his capture. How we failed to bring about the murderer's arrest in Poland, through the stupidity of a forest guard, I have already explained. By the time I had obtained my release, Marnac had again disappeared. A linguist well provided with money, and on all points but one perfectly sane, had no difficulty in finding refuge in the cities of Europe. I have been in some doubt as to the best means of briefly describing the present irieident. Miss Mary Weston, with whom I discussed the matter, at once offered to place her diary at ray disposal. Upon its perusal I suggested that she should herself extract the necessary items, adding such introduction and explanatory notes as seemed necessary. To this she has very kindly consented; and the first portion of this remarkable story I therefore leave in her hands. MISS MARY WESTON'S NARRATIVE. CHAPTER XUI. It was ia the winter of 1S09 that my father's health began to fail. In the May of the following year I returned from my school near Paris, and instead of entering at Girton. as my father had previously arranged, I became his secretary. I was then just eighteen. I did the very best I could, and in his dear, kind way, he made me forget my miseries at v the endless blunders I committed. You see, there were only we two; for my mother died shortly after I was bora, and I was their only child. We saw few people at our little house, which was on tho Trumpington road, just outside Cambridge. Ladies I met would often pity me for the duil and lonely Jsf? I led, and that used to make me vty angry. We were never dull or lonely, my dear father and I. It may seem absurd that so d tinguihed a man as Dr. Weston, M. ' A.. I). Sc., F. R. S., the Regius Profissor of Physic at Cambridge, should hav-i relied on the help of a half-educated school girl. But he was always pleased to say that my love and sympathy were worth far more to him ia his work than if he had been served by the cleverest woman that ever headed an honor list. . I well remember the appearance of Prof. Marnac's book, "Science and Religion," which was published simultaneously in German and English at the beginning of the June of that year. My father was violently opposed to it, but I was far more concerned over the state into which it threw him than I was about the book, which, as a matter of fact. I ever read. He dictated to me a most fevere criticism, which at his instructions l seat to the editor of the University Review at 102A, Henrietta street, Covent Gtrden, London. The article was signed "Cantab," a pseudonym that my father often used, as he had the greatest objection to publicity. About ten days after the August University appeared that being the number which contained his article my father received an anonymous letter. It was my duty to open and sort his correspondence, and I was thus able to intercept it. It was addressed to "Cantab," and had been forwarded, unopened, by the editor of the review. The envelope bore a German stamp, but the post-mark had been smeared and was quite undistin guishable. The letter was neatly written m English. It consisted almost entirely of the nost violent personal threats against ny father. The writer declared that he would soon find out "Cantab's" real nar te, and would suitably repay him for his ' slanders against the greatest scientific work of the century. I was very frightened about it, but several friends to whom I showed the letter laughed away my fears, sc-ing it was undoubtedly the work of Hume madman, and advising me to burn it. This I did. I never mentioned the affair to my father, whose health was giving me great anxiety at the time. During September my father had taken a cottage on the Cornish coast, and when the end of the Long Vacation came, the doctors forbade his return to Cambridge. I had hard work to persuade him that it was best to obey their orders; but at last he gave in, and we settled down for the- winter. The cottage was built at the foot of a low hill strewn with boulders and torn by the autumn rains. Upon its summit the chimney of an abandoned tin mine ruse against the sky like . a vast flagpole, with roofless buildings grouped mod it in melancholy decay. It was ays a depressing spot to me, and I arely visited it t-iough the view was splendid. About half a mile before the cottage the moorland ended abruptly In a line of glorious cliffs, two hundred and fifty feet of granite and shining porphyry from brow to breaker. This was my farofita walk. I loved to crawl to the edg. tiat I might peer övar at the reefs that sprang out from 'the tumbled rocks at the eff foot like the bones of a giant's hand. I have lain thus for hours watching the great rollers advancing in that stately, inexorable march of theirs, rank following rank, until they burst in thunderous green fountains of foam. Fome'Tmes, when a fierce wind blew fr'.rn the nithwest, the spray they hurled into the air would wet my face, even where t lay so infinitely far above them. Between the cottage and the cliff the ground dipped iato a little glen, or goyal, as the country folks called it, choked with storm-twisted trees and deep with gorse and f.irns. Through it ran our cart track, winding down to the fishing village of Poüeven, where the tiny, stoneroofed houses clung to a gap in the cliff wall like barnacles on a rock. Besides my father and myself, Marjory, our cook-housekeeper, who had been with ua ever since I could remember, was the ealy other inhabitant of the cottage. Oa Tuesdays and Thursdays a

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markable powers of breaking crockery, came to help from Polleven. So were we living on Nov. 27. From that date I will chiefly rely upon my diary for the details of my terrible experience. Please do not laugh at the form in which I wrote it. Mr. Harland has asked. me to make no alterations, and so here it is. (To be continued.)

GUATEMALA GUARDS FORESTS. Hardwood Concession Granted for Short Period Itallroad to Open. Nearly all the northern and eastern parts of the republic of Guatemala are covered witii dense tropical forests, consisting of mahogany, different kinds of cedar, chicle and other hardwoods, ?ajs the New York Tribune. Along the st earns down which logs can be floated much of the mahogany has already been cut but as yet very few of the ether hardwoods have been marketed. This is especially true of the departments of Peten, Alta Verapez and IzaMost of the forests still belong to the government and the usual method of securing the timber is by concession, ander which a number of trees are cut at a given price a tree, or a stipulated sum is paid for the timber on a given tract It is not an easy matter to get titles to large tracts of land in Guatemala, as it is discouraged by the gov'irment Concessions are not usually granted for a longer period than five yea is. Sometimes it is stipulated that If a certain number of trees are cut during that time they must be renewed by the planting of new ones. The pine forests are limited in extent being principally la tho mountainous districts and almost Inaccessible. Most of the lumber used in the republic Is imported from the United States, chiefly from California. The forests are generally so Inaccessible that the railroad companies import nearly all their ties, and even Import coal, because it Is so difficult to secure enough lirewood. One of the promoters of the Guatemala railroad and the general manager, whose office is In New York, Lave recently been in Guatemala looking over the work and they announce that the road will be In working order by the end of this year from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City. This will mean much for American exporters, for It will bring New York, Chicago and St Louis !n as ciose touch with the republic as they are now with California, Oregon and Washington. It is proposed, when the railroad is completed, to put on a direct line of steamers from Puerto Barrios to New Orleans that will make the voyage in less than three days. Extensive banana plantations are to be put under cultivation in the near future along the line of the Guatemala railroad, within 100 miles of Puerto Barrios. One company Is under contract to furnish 1,200,000 bunche3 of bananas for shipment each year and is soon to begin planting. The climate and soil are well adapted to this Industry and it is expected that many private persons will take up the cultivation of bananas and that the 2,000,000 mark will be reached from Puerto Barrios soon after the railroad is finished. This field -will be within three days of New Orleans. There are now about 500,000 bunches annually shipped from the Atlantic coast of Guatemala to the United Staies. Cheer for John Banyan. Even the unemployed do not begrude recognition of merit where It ia deserved. At least so it would seem by a story told in the London Dally Mall. A stalwart Bedford police constable was escorting a small army of men who were out of work, the other day, seeing them safely 'off the premises, as It were. "This Is John Bunyan's house we're coming to," lie said. "Who's 'e?" roared a dozen men from the ranks. "W'y," ventured one man, M 'e wor a tinker, worn't 'e?" "Ay," chorused a dozen more. "W'y, wot's the extry .special 'bout being a tinker?' queried a discontented individual. "I be a tinker, too, but nobody's a-coomlng around looking at my 'ouse." "For two good reasons, 'Arry." "Wot be them?" "You ain't got no 'ouse to begin with, and you ain't John Bunran, ayther." Loud laughter greeted this sally. "But wot else did this 'ere Bunyao do asides tinkering?" "W'y, ye chump, 'e wrote a book called 'Pilgrim's. Progress, or sumtnat" "W'y, then, that be all areet for us We be pilgrims sure enough, and we b making progress, so three cheers for owd John Bunyanl" The hundred and fifty of the unemployed burst into ringing cheers and resumed their march. Not to De Trailed. After a wordy argument ia which neither scored two Irishmen decided tc fight It out It was agreed that when either said "I've enough" the tight should cease. After they had been at it for about ten minutes one of them fell and Immediately yelled: "Enough I I've enough!" But his opponent kept on pounding him until a man who was watching said: "Why don't you let him up? He says he's got enough." MI know he says so," said the Tlctor, between punches, "but he'a such a liar you can't believe a word be says." Washington Post Rival News Interest. Towne So Greathead is dying, ehl Is be resigned? BrowneYes, he Is now, but the excitement over the San Francisco dl aster had him worried for a time. Towne Why, how? Browne It occupied so much space In the newspapers he was afraid his obituary would be slighted. Philadelphia Press. Masculine View. Mrs. Newpop Mrs. Stringer is th most candid woman I ever met Sh frankly admits that her baby is not as smart as ours. Newpop Candid fiddlesticks! That woman is a base hypocrite. "o Pretense. "So you want to work?" "Pleaso don't misunderstand me. 1 don't want to work, but I've got to." Philadelphia Ledger. All Had a Hand. "Who scored that new opera?" "About all the critics, I believe," Baltimore American,' Within the Antarctic circle there has never been found a flowering plant In the Arctic region there are 7G2 different species of flowers. Russia has elghty-slx general holiday! ä Jeary

Under the Yoke. New occupations for American women are frequently described in the household magazines. Meantime many women of the Old World steadfastly cling to their old tasks. A traveler with good eyes may see in a single summer day In Belgium enough to make him wonder what are really the boundaries of "woman's sphere." At five o'clock in the morning he may se a red-cheeked old woman, a rude harness over her shoulders, pulling, with a b!g dog for helper, a heavy cart of vegetables three miles from garden to market The cart holds several bushels of potatoes, carrots, cabbages, topped by a great bundle of dewsprinkled roses; and before the woman and the dog trudge home with it again, everything will have been sold. Our traveler may come upon two muscular women transferring a-load of coal from sidewalk to cellar, shoulderIn,' the baskets as easily as men would do. If he lingers to watch them finish their task, he will see a girl of sixteen swing a wooden yoke over her shoulders, and carry pall after pail of water from the town pump, two squares hway, for the scrubbing clean of the dusty sidewalk. Three women toss bundles of oats upon a high cart, and themselves drag it up from the field to the yard, where the grain Is to be threshed, and where later they will build the straw Into symmetrical stacks. A great herd of cows cluster round the milkers In the field, and from the group the talk and laughter of girls mingles with the sharp whistle of the milk in the pails. So, in the little kingdom of Belgium where wages are low and taxes are high women toll at what we have come to consider work fit only for men. But it must be said that they do not look unhappy under the yoke. Perhaps the freedom of farm and market and street Is really better for their peace of mind than the "too much kitchen" which often makes our more fortunate women weary In body and depressed In spirit Youth's Companion. Stylish Vlsltlns- Totlettes. jr Light brown etamlne Is used for the gown at the left. The top of the princess skirt Is plaited. The lower edge Is cut in larg& scallops, trimmed with silk braid. From under the plaits fall three shaped rufiles of the material. The eton is boiplalted and triimneJ with the braid. The round collar Is bordered with braid and a frill of cream taftcta, and over this Is a turnback collar of the cream silk, embroidered in brown. The elbow sleeves are gathered Into straight cuffs, trimmed with braid, and finished with ruhlc3 of the taffeta. The guimpe Is of Valenciennes. Tbe cravat Is of cream taffeta. The gown at the right Is made of white cloth. The front of the princess skirt forms an Inverted box plait. On each side are stitched bauds, passing through slashes cut In the skirt, and ornamented with embroidery. A shaped flounce finishes the foot. The plaited blouse is of white silk, trimmed with cluiy insertion and np-.row rutDe of mousscline de sole. The high stock Is fagoted. The collar is of the lace-edged, with two ruffies of the moussellne, and It Is ornamented with rosettes and plaitJngs of the silk. A band of Insertion trims the box plait on tho outside of the sleeves. The deep cuff Is made of the lace. IVeddlne Superstitions. The brldgroom who carries a miniature horseshoe in his pocket will always be lucky. The bride who dreams of fairies on the night before her wedding will be thrice, blessed. Never give a telegram to a bride or bridegroom on the way to church. It Is a sure omen of evil. Marriages on board ship are considered unlucky. If you can't be married on dry land remain unwed, says Home CLct. The finding of a spider ot, the wedding gown by the bride is cotsidered a sure token of happiness to caue. When Men Wore Bustles. "Bustles were ridiculous," said an antiquarian. "Do you rememlier the bustle of 1S83? It shot straight out from the waist ; a broad seat on which, honestly, an adult could have sat. "Yes, bustles were ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than the tournures of Francis II. The tournures were worn by men. They were bustles front instead of rear ones. Yes, ln the time of Francis II. portliness was considered stately and men tlod on tournures or false stoma, -hs In order to achieve an air of dignity." Love Lanunage of Fruit. Bananas "There's many a slip." reaches "The frost didn't touch me." Grapes "You are a seedy bunch. V'. Green apples "You give me a palu' Iiaisins "You're coming up." Tears "Name the day." Pineapples "I am lonesome." Currants "You shock me." Lemons "Not on jvur tintype." Dates "It's your move." Toledo Blade. Amerlenn Girls I.Ike Power. The reason why so many girls with money prefer to marry Englishmen, says an Eastern writer, is because the money means so much more in the life of a public man abroad. 'Had Lady ift'on ed n husband who won1 high

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place here, her wealth would not have served him or gained political promotion as it did in England. He would still have been, whatever his place, holding only for a term of years, subject to the recurrent choice of a body of democratic equals. Only on these terms could he share In the exciting task of government." For a decade she drunk of the best of life's cup. No marriage in this country could have given her a life as vivid, as spectacular, as br' iant or as conspicuous." For little Girls.

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The pretty dress at the left is made of white embroidered batiste. Valenciennes Insertion Is set into the skirt to form panels, in which are large embroidered motifs. Narrow ruflies of plain batiste finish the skirt and form the epaulets, which are headed by bands of English embroidery and connected by loops and rosettes of pale blue ribbon. The round neck is edged with the Valenciennes insertion. The short puff Is finished with a band and bow of blue ribbon and a ruQe of the batiste. The dress at the right Ms made of Mue pongee. The skirt Is trimmed with three rows of Valenciennes Insertion, and finished with a ruffle of the same lace. Two rows of the Insertion are set into the lower part of the waist which Is plaited Into a yoke of madeira embroidery, bordered with the lace ruffle. The elbow sleeve U trimmed with Insertion and gathered Into a band of Insertion, edged with lace. The sash Is of white ribbon, tied at the side. Health nnd Ileaury Hints. If the hands are rubbed on a stick of celery after peeling onions the smell will be entirely removed. Tp stop nosebleed chew a piece of paper or bathe the back of the bead and neck with cold water. To make the eyebrows grow: Four ounces of alcohol, two ounces of castor oil, fifteen drops of the oil of bergamot. Apply with a tiny brush night and morning. For hands that are rough and sensitive nothing better can be found than two ounces of listerlne combined with glycerin. The surface will soon become smooth and less sensitive. The quick beauty bath every morning with tepid water, a handful of salt and a good flesh brush will Injure no woman's health, but will Instead make her .feel bright, rested and refreshed. There Is no ugeat so effective In aiding the whole structure of the skin to perform its work and to become less sensitive than the careful cleansing at nltht with hot water and a pure Mh'.te soap and a complexion brush. Uiuse ln warm water and apply a skin food or a good cold cream.

Ten on the Porch. Tea on the veranda, or tea on the lawn, is always more dainty than indoors. But there is always trouble with the alcohol lamp if the wind blows. It has a wayward fashion of throwing Its flame anywhere, but under the kettle, so that with guests waiting for the Indispensable puff of steam It seems that the kettle will never boll. Some one has Invented a pretty remedy for this Inconvenience, a way of thwarting the puffs of the malicious zephyr. It is a screen, a folding screen of glass, which is adjusted around the kettle and keeps it cozy, not shutting off the view of the flame or of the bolllug, which constitutes half the fun of having tea. To Make Tea. The best way to make tea is to take a clean earthenware pot, make it thoroughly hot, then place the tea ln it, n teaspoonful forach person. The water to be used should boll, then be Immediately be poured on the tea. If allowed to boll over, the peculiar property of boiling water which acts upon tea evaporates and eventually disappears. The tea should be allowed to draw six minutes and then be poured out, as ln this way you gain the full flavor, quality and strength without extracting the tannin, which Is so Injurious to the digestive organs. rteady-to-Use Ifat Elastic. A good many mothers already use tfe automatically adjusted hat elastic, but a good many more ought to know about It, as It obviates all the bother of sewing elastic Into Children's hats, and Jf shortening It as it stretches. Tne ready-to-use piece of rubber comes iu the proper length for a hat, fitted at each end with two Jlttle sharp wire prongs. You push these through the side of the hat. and spread them open. When the stretching process begins, you can shorten the elastic at will by means of a small, adjustable slide. The price of the contrivance I3 10 cents. A afother's Awful Moment. How much agony can a person endure ln a moment and yet survive? It is a thing immeasurable. A few days ago Mrs. John II. Bahs, of Milwaukee, and her three children were crossing the maze of tracks used by the St Faul Itallroad in the city when the foot of ber baby daughter, Elsie, became caught between the rail and crossing in such a manner it could not be extricated or pulled from the shoe. A fast freight ; train was upqp theßi, rushv " " -- -i iVtftrir

lng the other two children to one side, the frantic mother caught Elsie and dragged her body to one side, throwing herself upon the child to hold her down. It was all over in a minute. The ponderous engine snapped off the child's foot When rescuers arrived, both mother and child had fainted, one from horror and the other from pain. Little Elsie's life had been saved, but oh, the price paid in that awful moment!

As to Short Sleeves. The short sleeve Is not likely to be quite so universal as it has been. It has had a fairly long run, and, now that its novelty is exhausted, it has not much that is sensible to recommend it. They need endless new frllllngs and a good deal of care, for crushed or soiled rutfles aVe not to be borne, and whereas a long sleeve can, and nearly always does, go quietly on to the wrist and there as quietly stop, the short sleeve cannot leave off so easily. It must 6top short with an outbreak of lawn or lace or net For general wear, therefore, the long sleeve will probably be among us very soon again; but afternoon dresses are likely to keep to the short sleeve right up to the cold weather, and also for wear ln the South. They are undoubtedly smart They also give an opportunity for the display of bracelets, which the long sleeves nearly ! always hide. . Besides, they are horrible as worn by the masses, either the gloves being poor or the bare hand and arm ugly. To Clean Hard Wood. Spread parraflln oil on the soiled woodwork and let it stand for an hour or more to r-often the dirt, then wash with soap and varm water and wipe dry. Next rub on a mixture of paraffin oil and turpcutlne one-third turpentine and two-thirds oil. Polish with soft old flannel. Let it rest an hour or two. then polish with soft old linen. If the surface is very dull, dirty and scratched, Instead of washing with soap and water, add more oil and sprinkle powdered rotten stone over It Bub gently and regularly, first with a circular motion and then with the grain of the wood. When the surface Is smooth and bright wipe off the rotten 6tone and finish as you would after washing with soap and water. School Frocks. White or colored mohair is singularly appropriate for these between seasons' dresses, as It has just sufficient warmth for safety and not enough to promote discomfiture. Then, too, so many of the pretty trimmings which give to linen frocks their style and daintiness can be used with it and the same effect be gained. For every-day wear serge is a standby, especially for the cotintry,' where the school is at a distance. Navy blue, red or tan are admirable. With all embroidered white linen Eton collar and cuffs are attractive, and soft silk ties. With the red. a black tie and belt look best, and with the blue a red tie can alternate with the black. Dlonse for Afternoon Wear. Among the multitude of shirtwaists that my lady provides she must Include some which are suitable for afternoons, or for dressy occasions when a plain blouse will not answer. The soft Inexpensive thin silks are charming for this u?e, as Is shown by the dainty model sketched here. Pale mauve dots are sprinkled over on Ivory grouud'and this bit of color is still more accented by using mauve trimming bands. A chemisette of fine Ivory white all over lace fills in the round ne?k, and frills of the same lace edge the short sleeves. In the back two box plaits are tapered from stoulder to belt to Increase the apparent slenderness of the waist The front is cut in a novel and artistic style, giving the blouse an attractive Individuality. The little extension tabs are fared and caught down with buttons of gold and white enamel. The model is made over a lining, but thU may be omitted. There are Innumerable pretty materials suitable for these dressy little blouses. Women Have No Reverence. Bishop Cranston says that women have no bump of reverence and can not differentiate the essentials of religion. In illustration he tells of a woman In Maryland who prayed that her hair might grow thick, and declared that it grew thinner all the time until she stopped praying, when she noticed a change. The woman was a good church member, too. The Tall Woman Queens It. The Queen of Denmark towers above her spouse, and King Alfonso Is several inches shorter than his wife. The Czarina is a head taller than her husband and the proud Kaiser must look up to his -'wife. Queen Helena Is head and shoulders taller than the King of Italy and the Trince of Wales Is four Inches shorter than the princess. A New Profession for Women. A new profession for women Is that of teaching men and women to make nfter-dinner speeches. A lady in New York who makes such speeches herself when required makes a bit of money by writing such "impromptu" after-dinner and other speeches for social occasions. Dinner Table Talk. We have shown a lamentable disposition of late b discuss across our dinner tables such topics as do not make for mirth and cheerfulness, and in consequence, says the Lady's Pictorial, the digestive 1 aggh, is, but seldomeard,

CANADA WHEAT CROP.

ALL REPORTS INDICATE A BIG YIELD. Great Harvests ln the Canadian Northwest Bring Unparalleled Prosperity- to the Farmers of That Region. Winnipeg correspondence : For the past four or five weeks the result of the harvest in the Canadian West has been an absorbing topic, not only with the Canadian people, but with a large and interested number of Americans millers, grain dealers and fanners particularly. To such an extent has this interest in the Canadian grain crop been manifested that, when the Northwest Grain Dealers' Association left for their trip of insoection, they were accompanied by a number of American grain dealers who felt it neces&aiy to have a personal knowledge of the subject. Two or three weeks ago a public statement was made by Mr. Itoblin, Premier of Manitoba, in effect that the wheat crop would reach 113,000,000, and that there would be fully 100,000,000 for export, aiü at that time there were many who believed that Mr. Roblin's estimate was weil within the mark ; but since then conditions have changed, and other estimates hsvc been made. Every possible effort to get accurate knowledge of the crop has been put forth in many quarters. The Winnipeg Free Press put a corps HARVESTING WHEAT NEAR o correspondents in the wheat field for twenty consecutive days. In this way thousands of miles were traveled by trainthrough the wheat district, over 1,400 miles were driven through growing wheat, and 03 pivotal points were visited and observations made. As a result of the work a straight announcement is made that the wheat acreage is 4,700,000; that the average yield is 10 bushels to the acre; and that the aggregate crop will reach !X,230,000. Bank statements regarding crops are usually of a dependable character, and the figures furnished by the Canadian Rank of Commerce more than endorse those given by the Free Press. The bank estimate places the figures at: Wheat, 01.815.000; oats, 80,S34,CSO; barley, 17,733,700. Wherever a good wheat section exists in Western Canada there is an elevator (or elevators) and a good shipping point ; and where there is a good shipping point, a thriving bank (or banks) will be sure to be in the midst of it; and the local manager of the bank, who has the most accurate knowledge of the farming conditions and crop results, is the man who usually does the business. Hence the necessity for careful crop compilation. ' Then, there are others who watch the growing crop with a careful eye the grain dealers and shippers, for instance, Winnipeg has a Northwest Grain Dealers' Association which is so much interested in the crop return that this year, accompanied by the city bankers and a numlwr of American grain dealers, they made a tour of inspection through the principal grain areas by special train. The V i ä.

THRESHING NEAR THORNIIILL, MANITOBA.

bulletin of the association sizes up the situation as follows: Wheat, S7,203,00O bushels ; oats, 73,723,G00 bushels ; barley, 10,731,333. This is a lower estimate than either of the others, but we must consider that it is a railway-tour estimate, whilst the others were made by men in the wheat field, so to speak; and the circumstances somewhat favor the correspondt-nt and the local Ibank manager, respectively, in his estimate. But there is one roint upon which all agree, and that is that the wheat crop of 1000 is of excellent quality throughout, that it is characteristic of Western Canada's grain and will grade high all along the line. On this point American grain men such as J. F. Whallon of Minneapolis, Finlay Barral of Chicago, Sheriff Brainerd of Springfield, 111., and others, are particularly explicit in their statements. A careful examination of all the figures at present available would lead us to believe that the yield will probably be about 90,000,000 bushels. These figures may seem disappointing to -many who believed that the increased acreage under First Hint of the Truth. "When did you first become acquainted with your husband?" "The first time I asked him for money after we were married." Los liigeles, Cal., News. Belief and Understanding. "Doe3 that man really believe all he ays?" "Believe It!" echoed Senator Sorghum, 'why he doesn't even understand It" Washington Star. Oetttntc Even. Mildred Congratulate mo, dear. I'm engaged to Mr. De Siuytlic. Clarice Oh, I'm so glad you are going to marry him I Mildred Really? , Clarice Yes. I hate him! Feminine Way. Mayme But why did you encourage young Greene If you intended to reject him? Edyth Why, I had to encourage him in order to enable me to carry out my Intentions. Couldn't Keep a Secret. Mother (impatiently) You have been very naughty to-day, Juanita. I shall have to tell your father when he comes home. Juanita (aged 7) That's the woman of It! You never can keep anything to yourrcif. Too Bad. 'I swear to you I cannot live without my wife." "You love her so?" "Well, not exactly that Yc a see, ghe tm the money."- , , u

J crop tills year would bare yielded a larzer

percentage of increase on the returns of 3003, but there are several causes that have contributed to keep down the average yield. The greater the number of new settlers the greater the chance of ;nvxperienced and less profitable farming. It is the newer settler, as a rule, woo. 'a his anxiety to break new land, hus sowu on this year's stubble, and a good average yield cannot be expected on this land. But, be that as it may, a crop of 90,000,-" 000 bushels in the Canadian West is not to be looked at lightly. Allowing 20,000,000 bubheis for home consumption and seeding purposes, 78,000,000 bushels will represent the export trade, and this quantity at a little better than 70 cent per bushel, will represent a distribution of nearly $3C,0X),tKK) for wheat alone, between Winnipeg and the foothills; and this large amount of money U altogether independent of the rost of freighting this vast quant' ty of grain from the western elevators to tidewater. The income of the Western Canadian fanners this year will be further augmented by the returns which they will receive from the excellent crop of oats and, the good crop of barley which is thir ,xrtion. Of oats aione over 73.000,000 bushels are claimed, and barley brings to market over 17,000.000 bushels. An additional $23,000,000 from these crop added to the $30,000.000 from Wheat, and the proceeds from dairying and mixed farming, will contribute very materially to making agriculture ia Western Canada. :. very dependable business. A drawback to the tnore successful carrying oa of fanning operation in th Canadian West for some years back hq '.-mtnti ' ' . KILLARNEY, MANITOBA. been the difficulty of obtaining needed help at harvest time. As each yar an additional area has been put under crop this scarcity of hlp has been accentuated, ?nd during the present harvest the cry all along the line has been "Harvesters Wanted.' The work of preparation and seeding is spread over several months, but the ingathering of the harvest has to be done in a few weeks ; hence the necessity for additional assistance at that particular time. The crop of 1903 required 1S.000 harvesters froi outside, and this year it has been estimated that from 22.000 to 23,000 will be required to supplement the work of the farmers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Aloerta. The demand for harvest hands Is n permanent, the work for which they come lasting only from early in August until the end of the throshiag reason. Many of those who cciue to work in the giain hY'ds, however, remain and b-reome grain growers themselves, creating additional demand for the same class of help, and thus the problem becomes more acute every succeeding year. Tlie tun wwhen a sufficient uuaOer of harvest hands could easily ba obtained from Ontario, but in recent years 'Jje area taken in by the harvest excursion has btn extended and in 100 and 1W it reach?! clear i'own to Nova Jcoti;i n the call for men tn work in the fertile 'fields of the West.; This year the limit has been further ex-! tended, and a new niQveinent of British farm laborers has keen inaugurate!, which will be of incalculable benefit to the pifcirif? country, giving a stimulus to immigration, and disseminating among the agricultural classes in Britain a knowledge of the life, conditions and opportunities in the three prairie province that should jreatly quicken the stream of settlement from the rural districts of Britain to Canada. , From the Western State, too, valuable assistance has been received in the work of harvesting the crop this jvar, and somof the finest fields ia SaskaJch?w&n and Alberta have been worked ulmost exclusively by Americans. So successful ha been the settler from the Western States, usually, that he .s invariably the forerunner of a colony froan that portion of the State whence he came, and, through the new provinces particularly, there is a very strong representation Srom Norih and South Dakota, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa. Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and other State of the Union. These are amongst th most progressive settlers, as they come well provided with money, completely equipped with stock and machinery, and possessed of knowledge of western farming, which cannot possibly be possessed at frst hand by the settler from beyond tLe ocean. Some Advantage at Least. She I can nevr marry you, but' wft can at least a'ways be friends. He I suppose that 19 one of the advantages of not getting married. Philadelphia Record. Hopes. Tess Mr. Mogley has actually asked Miss Passay If be might call upon her. Jess You don't say? I'll bet she's got her bridesmaid ricked out ahady. Philadelphia Press. Xothtna- Doln. "Why don't you go to work?" queried the kind lady. "A rolling stone Esthers no moss, you know." "Dat's all right ma'am," answered the husLy hobo, "but I ain't got no ambishun t be a mossback. nohow." The Otilr War. Miss Eldcrleigh I wa surprised to see young Iluggins kiss you. I wouldn't thing of letting a mau kfss me. Miss Plumpleigb Nor I. It's 90 much more satisfactory to let him Co It unthinkingly. x Beauty's Weaui, A girl who did not lack for beaux Assumed quite an indignant peaux And cried: "What's this! Some one stole a kiss, And it happened right under -jiy neacx." Truth Comes Out. Him They fay that kissing a man without a mustache Is like eating aa egg without salt Do you believe it? Her Really, I don't know. You ree, I never Him Be careful, now. Don't ttlf a fib. Her I never ate au egg witLout cA j