Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 September 1910 — Page 3

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n n Et n FRANCIS U Copyritht. 1906, by n CHAPTER XX When Tom. seated on Saladln. overtook Ardea on the morning after the night of offenses, she greeted him quite as if nothing: had happened, challenging: him gaily to a gallop with the valley head for Its goal, and refusing to be drawn into anything more seriou than Joyous persiflage until they were returning at a walk down a boulderstrewn wood road at the back of the Dabney horse pasture. Then, and not till then, was the question of Nancy Bryerson's future suffered to present Itself. I thought of It last n!ht." said Ardea, nodding toward a cabin near the Major's kennels. "It Is Just the place for Nancy, if she can not. or will nor, go back to her father. After breakfast, I shall send Dinah and man up to set thlng-s In order, and she can come as soon as she likes. She won't mind the loneliness. Japheth will go after her when we are ready; and If you ar prudently wise you will havebuslness in South Tredegar for the next few days." ' "That looks like dodging; and I don't like to dodgf." "You will havs to do many things you don't like," the remarked. "But you shall be permitted to carry your full share of the burden. I mean to let you give me tome money, if you can afford It, and I'll spend It for you." "Charity Itself couldn't be kinder," he asseverated. "And, luckily, I can afford IL But He was looking at her wistfully, and the old longing for sympathy, for the sympathy which has been quite to the bottom of the well where truth lies, was about to cry out against this riveting of the fetters of misunderstanding and false accusation. "But you would rather spend It yourself?" she broke In, fancying she had divined his thought. "That can not be. The one condition on which I shall consent to help is the completest Isolation for Nan. You must promise me you will not try to see her. I am hoping against hope that none of the Mountain View avenue people will find out what you did last night." "Til keep out of her way. If you can keep her out of mine. AU I care Is to know that she is comfortably provld d for." In the comment of the slmpler-mlnd-d Gordonia folk, the Iron-master's son had finally "made it up" with Nancy, And here the note of approval was aot wholly lacking. There were goodhearted souls to say that boys will bs boys, and to express the hope that Tom would go on from this beginning and make an honest woman of Nancy by marrying her. But Tom did not know of It He ras In the crucial month of the panic, year, striving desperately to maintain the foothold given to him by Lhe plpacastlng invention, and he had little time for the amenities. So it came about that he escaped for the moment; or. which was quite the same, he did not know he was pursued. Another Northern city, with it3 full complement of grafting officials, was in the market for some train-loads of watermains, and again Thomas Jefferson was fighting the old battle of conscience against expediency, this time m the evil-smelling ditches where the dead and wounded lie. "You are sure you went Into it thoroughly, Norman?" Ka demanded of his lieutenant, when the latter returned from a personal reconnaissance of the field. "The break they are making at us seems almost too rank to be taken at Its face value." "Oh. yes; I dug It up from the bottorn." said the henchman. "It's rotten and riotous. The political machine runs the town, and the bosses own the machine. So much to this one. so much to that, so much to half a dozen others, and we get the contract. "That comes straight, does it?" "As straight as a shot out of a gun. They got together on it, eight of the big bosses, called me in and told me flat-footed what we had to do," said the salesman. "Oh. I tell you. those fellows are on to their Job." "No chance to go behind the returns and stir up popular Indignation, as we did In Indiana?" suggested Tom. "No show on top of earth. The ring owns or controls two of the dailies, and has the other two scared. Besides, they've Just had their municipal election." To prepare for the new exigency, Tom took the afternoon local to South Tredegar. The lump sum required for the bribery was considerably in excess of his balance In bank. Notwithstanding the stringency of the times, he made sure he could borrow; but It was in some vague hope that the moral chasm might be widened to Impassibility, or decently bridged for him, that he was moved to state the case in detail to President Henniker of the Iron City National. Mr. Vancourt Henniker could dig ditches, on occasion, making them too vast for the boldest borrower to cross; but Tom's credit was giltedged, and in the present instance the president chose rather to build bridges. ""We have to shut our eyes to a good many disagreeable things In business. Mr. Gordon." he said, genially didactic. "Our problem in this day and generation Is so to draw the line of distinction that these necessary concessions to human frailty will not debauch us; may be made without prejudice to that high sense of personal honor and Integrity which must be the corner-stone of any successful business career. This state of affairs which you describe Is deplorable most deplorable; but well, we may think of such obstacles as we do of toll-gates on the highway. The road is a public utility, and it should be free; but we pay the toll, under protest, and pass on." Mr. Henniker was a large man, benign and full-favored, not to say unc tuous: and his manner In delivering an opinion was blandly impressive, and convincing to many. Yet Tom was not convinced. "Of course, I came to ask for the loan, and not specially to Justify it," he said. In mild irony which was quite lost on the philosopher In the president's chair. "I wasn't sure Just how you would regard it If you should know the object for which we are borrowing, and this high sense of personal honor you speak of Impelled me to be altogether frank with you." "Quite right; you were quite right. Mr. Gordon." said the banker, urbanely. "You are young In business, but yoa have learned the first lesson Jn the book of success to be perfectly open and outspoken with your banker. As I have said, the venality of these men with whom you are dealing Ls most deplorable, but " There was some further glozlng over ' of the putrid fact, a pood bit of It. and Tom sat back in hi chair and listened, outwardly respectful. Inwardly hothearted and Contemptuous. Was this smooth-spoken, oracular prince of the market-place a predetermined hypocrite, shaping his words to fit the raon-ey-gather!nv end without regard to their demoralizing effect? Or was ho only a subconscious Pharisee, self-deceived and complacent? Tom's thought ran llghtnir.g-like over the long list of the Vancourt Hennikers: men of the business world successful to the Croe-

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n n n n n LYNDE Francis Lynd n sus mark, large and liberal benefactors, founders of colleges, libraries and hospitals, gift-givers to their fellow men, irreproachable in private life, and yet apparently stone blind on the side of the larger equities. Could it be possible that such men deliberately admitted and accepted the doublt standard In morals? It seems fairly incredible. and yet their lives appeared to proclaim it. Having obtained the sinews of war, Tom kept the appointment with Norman, and their Joint discussion of the business situation made him too lata for the early dinner at Woodlawn. To complete the delay, the evening train lost half an hot.r with a hot loz at a point a mile short of Gordonia. Two tilings came of these combined tlmekilllngs: a man in a slouched hat and the brown Jeans of the mountaineers, who had been watching the Woodlawn gates since dusk from his hiding-place behind the field wall across the pike, got up stiffly and went away; and Tom reached home Just In time to Intercept Ardea on the steps of the picturesque veranda. "Been visiting the little mother?" he asked, when she paused on the step above him. "Ye3 no; I ran over to tell you that we moved Nancy to-day." "Oh! Well, that's comfortable. Sho was willing?" "Y-es: almost, at first; and altogether willing when I told her that I that she " There was an embarrassed moment and then the truth came out "Perhaps I should have asked you first: but she was quite satisfied when I told her that she owed her changed condition to the person whose duty It was to provide for her. You don't mind, do you?" "No, I don't mind," he said, absently, and the under-thought dealt savagely with Nan with a woman who, for tha sake of the loaves and the fishes, and the shielding of the real offender, would suffer an Innocent man o go to the social gallows for lack of the word which would have cleared him. He laughed rather bitterly and added, out of the heart of the under-thought: "I'm glai I'm not naturally inclined to be pessimistic." I "What makes you say that?" "Because, after hearing" he changed his mind suddenly, and transferred the hard word from Nan to Mr. Vancourt Herniker "after what I've been hearing this afternoon I find myself more in the notion of weeping with the angel than of laughing with the devils." "What has happened?" she asked, sympathetically alive to his need In one breath, and keenly apprehensive for her own peace of mind In the next. "An exceedingly small thing, as the world's measurements go. I was in town, and made a business call on Mr. Henniker. He's a member of your church, lsn t heT I needed some money to bribe a lot of political grafters in a Pennsylvania city where I'm trying to sell a bill of water-pipe. I went to Mr. Henniker to borrow it." "And, of course, he wouldn't let you have It for any such wretched purpose!" she flamed out. "No, you are mistaken; it's Just the other way around. I told him what it was for, hoping rather vaguely, I think, that he'd sit on me and make the crime impossible. But he didn't. He took the trouble to try to explain away my scruples: made It seem quite a virtuous thing before he got through. You wouldn't believe It now, would you?" "But Tom! you didn't take the money?" "How could I refuse so good a man? Norman is on his way to Pennsylvania at this present moment, with a letter of credit in his pocket big enough to make the mouth of even a professional grafter water. At least, I hope It ls big enough." She was hurt, shocked, horrified, and he knew it and found pleasure of a certain sort in the knowledge. When a man has done violence to his own best Impulses, the thing that somes nearest to the holy Joy of penitence is the unholy Jo of making somebody else sorry for him. There were unmistakable tears In her voice when she said: "Tot-, why have you told me this this u -akatle thing?" "Wl -I guess it was because I wante .- ask you how you supposed the Mr. Henniker kind of men square such things with their .conscience; or don't they have any conscience." "What can I say to help you, Tom? I would do anything that a truo friend may be!" "There might have been a thing; but you have made It Impossible. No, don't freeze me again it's the last time. If I could have won your love but what Is the use of trying to put It In words; you know you have- always known. And now it Is too late." For a single Instant Vincent Farley's chance of marrying the Deer Trace coal lands trembled In the balance. Ardea forgot him. forgot Nan. thought of nothing but the passionate yearning that was - drawing her like gripping hands toward the man who had bared his inmost heart to her. "It is not too late for you to be a man, noble, upright, honorable. Let the world find that for which It ls looking, my friend my brother: the strong man armed who can stand where others faint and fall. Oh, I wish I knew how to say the word that would make you the man you were meant to be!" When it was said, she was gone and the sound of the closing door was In his ears when he turned and went slowly down the driveway and out on the white pike, lying like a snowy ribboa under the December stars. On the hlt'hwjy he hung undecided for a moment; out an hour later, William Layne, firiving homeward . from South Tredegar, overtook him plodding slowly southward far beyond the head of Paradise: and It was ncarlng midnight when he wen back, pacing steadily past the Deer Trace and Woodlawn gates and holding his way down the pike to Gordonia. The railway station was his goal; and when he had aroused the sleepy night operator and gained admittance, he sat at the telegraph table to write a message. It was to Norman, addressed to Intercept the salesman at the breakfart stop. "Cancel Pennsylvania date and come In at once to take managership of plant," was the wording of it; and at the breakfast -table the following morning Tom announced his Intention of leaving the industrial plow In the furrow while he should go to Boston to complete his course in the technicil school. To be continued.) EaglMU AVomaa Visiter. An English visitor In this country Is Lady Coleridge, widow of the late lord chief justice of England, who died In 1834. She was Mi3s Aaiy Augusta Jackson Lawford, and she was intruded to his care returning home la England after a isit in this country. Tha fell in love with one another on th trip across the ocean and the marriage resulted. She has not vlsitei the counI try since.

2HEAP TROUGH FOR POULTRY Illustration and Directions Putting Together Necessary Utensil. for A is the barrel with water. Be is the pipe through which the a'r enters the barrel. C is the pipe through which the v;ater flows into the trough D, which must set level, and E is the plug that closes the opening with which the barrel is filled, says Farm Press. The water will run out of C into the trough until it reaches B and soon as it does, it shuts off the air and the water ceases to flow from the barrel until it ls drunk out b-jlow the mouth of B. When filling the barrel Poultry Trough. take out plug E and Insert Into the end of pipe C and when the barrel is full replace. A funnel is usually put in the opening on the top to mako filling quick and easy. PREPARE DUCKS FOR MARKET Number of Things to Be Carefully Observed In Order to Get Birds in Excellent Shape. (By W. It. GILBERT.) It should be the aim of those who require early ducklings for the market to have stock birds in full lay by the end of October or the first of November that is, before the severe weather sets in! In order to accomplish this the feeding during September and October must be carefully attended to and the nutritious rather than fattening food be provided for the birds. By this time last year's duck3 should have quite overcome the molt and should have their full complement of feathers. As far as possible an abundance of exercise should be allowed the birds, and this can only satisfactorily be arranged when a free range is provided. The chief danger of confining them is that under such conditions they are liable to add on flesh too quickly, and on no account should stock ducks be fat. The difficulty can, of course, be overcome by feeding sparingly upon somewhat bulky foods. Two meals a day will be found quite sufficient, one the first thing in the morning and the other about 3:30 or 4 in the afternoon. Soft food should be provided for the morning meal and a mixture during this and the succeeding momh which we have employed with success is two parts of the middlings, one of the barley meal, one of bran und one of brewers' grains. At first there may be a slight difficulty In persuading the birds to eat the last mentioned, but they speedily become accustomed to the flavor and eat it readily. A mixture such as this will keep the ducks In good store condition and will assist egg production at the proper time. No hard or fast rule can be laid down as to the actual amount of food to be supplied, as this varies with the breed and the conditions under which the birds are being kept and with the season. The only thing to do is to periodically examine them, and if too fat reduce the quantity of food; If too lean Increase it. The mash should be given to the birds not in a sloppy but a crumbly, moist condition. It the former state too much unnecessary water has to be taken Into the system. The soft food should always be supplied warm. For the afternoon feeding either bard grain or mash may be supplied. Personally I prefer the latter, but many breeders are in favor of the former. Should grain be provided oats are the best for the purpose, which should be scattered upon the drinking water. Good sample oats much be used, as otherwise there is too much husk. If sash is employed and the two may be !cd on alternate days the same mixlure as that for the morning feed will answer well. If the birds are becoming rather too !at, the proportion of bran should bo increased and the barley meal decreased. The soft food should always be fed from a trough, otherwise so much is v.rampled on and made unfit for conlumption. Diseases of Fowls. A large proportion of the diseases to which fowls are subject are related to the respiratory orgaus. Fowls give off in breathing the moisture which other animals excrete through the skin and kidneys. Consequently it Is the lungs that frequently go wrong when a bird falls ill. The two commonest complaints and also the most deadly (with the exception of cholera), are roip and liver disease or consumption. Roup usually arises from a neglected cold, liver disease from inbreeding and close confinement. It is not fowls alone that are subject to consumption as it is the most fruitful cause of death among all wild animals kept In captivity, and domestic animals in close confinement. Cogs From Early Maturing Stock. Try to secure eggs from early ma-'t-.ring stock as the chicks will make .,ter growth, will not eat any more, V. therefore will not only make more r:t out of the food consumed, but be on the market when prices are . ; .icr. The American breeds are genially considerel the best for broilers. Separate Best Females. Select a small pen of our best females and keep them separate from the laying hens in winter. Feed them rather light so they will aot lay much and you will get better results from them .s breeders. Buy the best cockerel you cen get to mato with them and Tireed good ones. Mineral Food for Chickens. No one food contains all the necessary mineral elements to supply the demands of the growing chick or thj laying hen. A variety 13 necessi7.

HANDY DRIVER FOR POULTRY

Useful and Convenient Implement to Have Around Chicken YardSaves Temper. The art of handling chickens, and especially the growing stock, is a matter of no small concern nor of easy accomplishment. The vicious practice of "shooing" with arms gesticulating is not only trying to the nerves of both bird and operator, but it often leads to a loss of temper and severe words. The aim should be to quietly The Handy Poultry Driver. drive the birds, so as not to fret them. As a means to an end the illustration' shown herewith pictures a simple contrivance, the materials of which are to be had for the mere trouble of gathering. Take an ordinary leaf of the fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) wired to a long stick. Used gently, the young chicks may be easily guided in any direction, and are not so apt to be frightened as by "shooing" with a woman flapping an apron up and down much like the four arms of an old Dutch windmill. Try it LICE-PROOF POULTRY ROOST Device Shown in Illustration Easily Constructed From Concrete and Is Cheap. Prevention is worth many pounds of cure when applied ,to the lice problem In the poultry house; if a roost i3 used that absolutely prevents them from reaching the fowls, there will be little trouble In this regard, says Homestead. The device shown in the illustration is one that is easily made and requires simply the molding of a light concrete wall to support the roosts, in the top of same a hollow or recess is molded by imbedding a board into the concrete while "green" and then removing same when the con- . . . . Lice-Proof Roost for Poultry. crete has cured; a block of wood ls placed in this recess to carry the roost; this should be high enough to bring the rcost laid upon same about one inch above the top of wall. The recess is filled around the blocks with oil or any solution you use to prevent the lice from reaching the roost. Gapes in Poultry. The gape or gasp 13 caused by a worm or a number of them attached to the Inner membrane of the wind pipe, and the chick gasps for a larger supply of fresh air. Some relief may be obtained by putting the chicks In a box, covering It with thin muslin, then by sprinkling fine lime on the muslin and tapping on it with a stick the lime sifts dawn upon the chicka, causing them to sneeze. In this way many of the worms will" be dislodged and thrown off. Turpentine is very offensive to the gape worms. A feather dipped in turpentine and gently pushed downN the windpipe (not the throat) will generally dislodge them. A few drops of turpentine In th drinking water, or bathing the throat externally with a weak solution of the same often gives relief. Shipping Live Poultry. Two things should be observed In shipping live poultry. First, the birds should have plenty of room, and, second, plenty of air. The crates should be large and partitioned so the birds will not all be thrown into one end. The slats on the crate should be only close enough together to prevent the birds from escaping. , Fossilized Egg. An egg has been found in the Gila river in Arizona four and one-half inches in diameter. It ls entirely fossilized and scientists estimate that It was laid thousands of years ago. Charcoal for Chickens. If fowls or chicks have access to charcoal they will never be troubled with intestinal worms. The more active the hens the core water they will drink. There i3 no posslblo way of determining the sexof eggs. In killing and dressing plgeona, handle them gently to avoid bruising. Don't neglect to give the hens plenty of clear, cold water at this time of the year. A healthy hen Is always ready for her meals, and is the one that fills the egg basket. Rightly handled leshorns are magnificent layers, but iu some respecU are rather obstinate. Squabs may be dressed when wanted for food and may always be had ir. a fresh and wholesome condition. The young turkeys that have been iblo to reach the first of this month in a good, healthy condition, are per fectly safe. In one night rats will destroy enough chicks to pay for many a rod of first-class fine-meshed wire. No one ever saw a hen refuse tc eat sweet corn. A handful now and then is a luxury, or so it appears fron? the way the fowls cat it. Feld peas coarsely ground added tc ground feed for fowls, or small quanti ties ground with the food so prepared is said to be a valuable addition. Turn the hens into the alfalfa field. They will pick up lots of insects, be sides weed seeds, and the alfalfa wll' supply their steady diet day after day and they will never tire of it In a market fowl the breast 13 the main thing, but in order to obtain a desirable breast it is necessary tc have a good body first. It will be time well spent to whitewash the interior of each house so as to have the building sweet and purl for the coming cold weather. If ducks are raised lor market rur poses they will bring as much when they are ten or twelve weeks old as at any other time. Ducks and geese should be killed by bleeding in the mouth or opening the V3lns of the neck. The best markets Idenar.d this method of killing.,

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FOR centuries the thoroughfares of Constantinople have been the abode of hordes of dogs, which In these enlightened days have been declared a nuisance. They are being deported to an island, and under natural conditions, are to be allowed to die out The illustration shows the method employed to capture the dogs on the street of the Turkish capital. NEWGUW POWERFUL

Weapon Could Wipe Out Whole Army in a Jiffy. Machine Invented by Swiss Fires Million Bullets an Hour Without Use of Powder, So Press Agent Claims. New York. A gun that, its Inventor says, can shoot 1,000,000 bullets an hour at a cost of $20; that uses neither powder nor compressed air, and that fires bulleta that do not require shells, was shot for tho enlightenment of a delegation of New York reporters the other day. They saw the gun shoot, but they were not permitted to see that part of the gun out of which the little steel bullets came with such rapidity. A Swiss named Bangerter was introduced as the inventor, and the press agent who staged the exhibition stated that Bangerter used to make watches. The reporters asked nearly as many questions as the number of bullets this terrible weapon is said to be able to discharge; but there was no information coming as to what made, the gun so lavish in the distribution of Its little steel missiles. In order that the secret should be maintained that part of the mechanism that it is said causes the rapid shooting was covered with oilcloth. Only the motor that operates the gun and the little bucketlike receptacles into which the bullets are poured by the quart were visible to the reporters. The exhibition was on the third floor of the building at 79 Broad street, Stapleton, S. I. In a little room adjoining that in which were placed tho reporters was the gun. There were targets made of a series of big boards arranged in box fashion, each plank about a foot behind the one in FAT MAN IN STOLEN CLOTHES Police Stop Man of Enormous Proportions and Find Him Arrayed in Many Suits. New York. "That fellow Just ahead is a lot too fat for his height," said Acting Captain McLaughlin of the Alexander avenue police station to Patrolman Foster as the two were strolling along Third avenue. "lie does seem about as broad as he's long," assented Foster. "Let's follow him,- said McLaughlin. So the policemen trailed the fat person to the bridge at One hundred and Thirty-fourth street and Third avenue and there stopped him. Inspection showed that he was wearing an unusual amount of clothing. "What's the matter with you?" asked McLaughlin. "I was sick and afraid I'd take cold,", was the reply. The walking clothing store was peeled in the poi lice station. The police say he wore twelve coats, six pairs of trousers, an waistcoat, and one unfinished skirt of the hobble variety. He did not exactly wear the skirt. It was strapped around his waist The prisoner said he was William Young, twenty-four years, a plasterer, with no home except when he lived with his sister at Paterson, N. J. Mc Laughlln Bays Young admitted that he broke into a tailor's shop at Glover and Westchester avenues and took the clothing. Introduce Falconry. New York. Seven trained falcuns, in charge of an expert falconer, arrived here from England, for hunting on the Long Island estate of Paul Rainey. They are believed to be the first ever brought to this country for work in the field. The trainer said that the mediaeval sport of falconry is being revived abroad and that Mr. Rainey was not the first American sportsman to show a sympathetic Interest. Pure Copper In Streets. Reno, Nev. Street workmen In the center of Reno uncovered p ten-foot ledge of almost pure copper. The lodge is apparently permanent. ' It ies ten foet under the surface.

HISTORIC SPOT IS DOOMED

Old Mansions of Lincoln's Inn Fields Are to Be Pulled Down Famous Men Lived There. London. The march of that vandal, "Progress," which la gradually clearing London of its ancient, historic landmarks, has now reached Lincoln' Tnn Fields, the largest and most be iful square that is left.v Two ries ago, and down to the hM ;corgian period, Lincoln's Inn Fid'v. as the abode of many distinguish C men. Then came the days of degeneration, when society went westward, and in recent times the historic man slons have been used as chambers for professional men, chiefly lawyers. The whole. of the west side is now doomed. The house occur-icd by the duchess cf Portsmouth, one of the favorites of the "Mcrrie Monarch," was demolished several years ago, bo that a new Sardinia street might be formed. No. G2. wlme Thomas Can:j,oll occupied chamKers after the death f hi wife, has been pulled down, and J

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front of it. There were four boards In each target. At four p. m. the shooting began. The first of the targets were dragged Into position. A moment later the motor started up. Then the bullets started to fly. They riddled the target into a pile of splinters a foot high, and they did it in less than a minute. All in all, it was estimated that no less than 15,000 bullets pierced the target. Not only the first of the big boards was riddled Into a shapeless mass, but each, of the other three as well. There was hardly enough left of the target to make a dozen decent sized safety matches. The reporters were permitted then to enter the gunroom. They saw a motor, from the wheel of which a belt was operated. The belt connected the motor with another wheel, which was a part of the mechanism on the top of which was the oilcloth-covered weapon out of which the bullets came. They also sa w the little buckets, on either side of the gun. Into which the bullets are poured as they are needed. The reporters asked to see the gun la operation. Mr. Bangerter ordered another target swung into position. There was another whirl and a second storm of bullets struck the target. The fusilade lasted about ten seconds. Again was the target demolished. But Mr. Bangerter and his associates refused to say anything about what was under the oilcloth in the little gunroom. They did give out a typewritten statement, however, saying that one of these guns "could face an army of thirty regiments of soldiers or 30,000 men, and could mow down that entire body of men as easy as a knife cuts the grass. There is no earthly possibility for any army to successfully face the fire from a gun of this kind, which pours a veritable hailstorm of bullets Into the attacking forces, who must either sacrifice their lives or turn in retreat.

RUSSIAN STURGEON IN GULF

Big Fish, Which Provide World's Supply of Caviar, Migrating From Europe. New Orleans. Russian sturgeons, the fish which have been the source of millions in revenue to the Russian empire on account of the eggs, or roe, which provide the world's market rvith caviar, are migrating to the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of them are reported to be along the gulf coast, and there ls in the possession of the state game commission a specimen caught In Barataria bay which weighed 167 pounds. This was the largest sturgeon ever captured in these waters and is preserved for exhibition purposes by the game commission. It was purchased by President P. M. Miller for $35 from the fisherman who captured It in his nets. The meat of the fish is said to be the finest known and brings about 23 cents a pound wholesale. The fish caught had almost sixty pounds of roe, which is worth $1.75 a pound. The meat and roe was sold to a local rcstauranteur, where the caviar waa ferved as a great delicacy. Assistant Secretary Henry Jacobs of the game commission says that the Russian sturgeon's habitat is in the Caspian and Black seas, where hundreds of persons make a livelihood capturing and preservng them. This industry has been in progress for many decades, and the caviar has been shipped to every part of the world, netting millions to the corporations engaged in the pursuit. The fish is migratory, however, when closely pursued and it is said that for years they have been moving towards the Atlantic. They are becoming almost extinct in Russian waters, but it is said it will not be long before great fisheries for the sturgeon can "be established along the gulf coast. On account of the scarcity of the sturgeon roe In Russia the roe of the spoonbill catfish, which has Its habitat In the Atchafalaya river, has been shipped for months to Russia. , The meat of the Louisiana spoonbill catfish sells for 17 cents a pound and tho roe for $1.50. It is caught only in the Atchafalaya river, and in on the site an imposing block of commercial buildings is. raising its head. Alfred Tennyson when a young man occupied chambers at No. 55, and it was there that he used to meet his friend Hallam of the "In Memoriam." Thi3 house is to be pulled down very ' ortly, and so is No. 5S, with which connected mmy Dickens associa.5. The mansion wis occupied by a Forster, author of the "Life of kens," and in "Weak House" it is iorred to as Fulkington House. It : s there that Charles Dickens in read "The Chimes" In the preserve of a distinguished company of I. 'lends. Probably the mcst notable mansion of tl-c lot to be demolished shortly Is Xo. C7 Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Newcastle House, which stands at the northwest corner, rnd which is enriched with the crests and shields in colors of three or four noblemen. It takes Its name from the Duke of New--."Ptle, who was prime minister In the reign of George II.

ODD FISH FROM SEA DEPTHS

Brought to the Surface by Repairing Government Cables Along the Pacific Coast. Seattle, Wash. Strange monsters the like of which have seldom been seen by man were dragged from a depth of 8.500 feet by the crew of the cable ship Burnslde whenf they repaired the Alaska cable off Mount St Ellas last month. The Burnside ls moored at its buoy in Elliott bay after two months of repairing and relaying the cables of the United States army and signal corps system. On board were a score of huge flasks filled with alcohol. In them floated strange shapes which it was hard to believe were once living creatures. Bails of red hair which looked like tousled human heads proved upon dissection to be a strange kind of deep water crab. Flesh colored round masses were found clinging to the cable by minute tentacles. One creature ls shaped like the dlablo toy, narrow In the middle with big concave white disks at either end by which it catches bold of any object The sailors on board the Burnside have named it the spool. Another' strange marine creature ls shaped like an octopus but has at least two dozen tentacles Instead of eight. Many octopuses were found clinging to the cable, but they were thought too common to preserve. Whole sections of the cable pulled up for inspection were found covered several feet deep with strange plants and animal life. Seaweed, black instead of green, sponges and sea urchins predominated. Probably the strangest creature found on the cable was a flesh colored fish not more than four feet long which was found enveloped in the ten tacles of a young octopus. When brought to the surface its body was swollen like a balloon. Dr. J. E. Maloney, the ship's surgeon, who examined it, said he believed the fish was choked by the hold of the octopus. The section of the cable upon which all this strange life was found had been down ten years at a depth of a milo and a half. The specimens which have been preserved and which are now on board the Burnside are to be handed over to the Smithsonian Institution for scientific study. GIRLS TAKE UP HOMESTEADS Young Wornen In Colorado Prepare to Teach School and Also Prove Claims. Greeley, Col. Teaching school and homesteading land will be the com bined Industries of some fifty young eastern girls In Weld county this school year. Recently these teachers have been busy building their claim , shanties, and in many cases the girls have done the work themselves. Whenever possible four girls have taken up adjoining quarter sections, and hare erected a common home at the point where the four claims meet the house being so arranged that one room is located on each claim. Each young woman will occupy the room on her own land, thus fulfilling the requirement of the homestead law which demands that the person taking up the land live on it for a certain period of the year. order to protect the fish and propa gate It more rapidly a fishery ls to be established by the game commis sion somewhere along that 6tream. LIFE IS CHEAP IN EUROPE Dr. Lobdell So Declares After Passing Four -Months Abroad Frenchmen Inferior. Chicago. Human life ls the cheap est thing in Europe, according to Dr. Effie Lobdell, who has Just returned to her home in Chicago after passing four months In various parts of Eu rope. "There is a lack of system in the fighting of disease In the countries across the water," said the doctor, "and as a result typhoid fever and cholera are killing thousands. The doctors there receive only 20 to 40 cents a visit, yet they do the best thf y can with the facilities at hand. "Americans especially are subject tc the prevailing disease across the water continued the doctor, "on account of their carelessness in eating and drinking." Doctor LobdeH's admiration for the average Frenchman was not Increased by her visit to that country. She de clares the men are far inferior to the women In general business and management, being content to let the women do the work, while they fill the positions usually filled by sixteen year-old girls in this country. One thing that impressed the doctor forcibly in Europe was the remarkable cheapness of labor, and the fact that several persons are required, as a rule, to perform the same task that one person performs in the United States. Fish Thief Had Wings. York, Pa. The disappearance of some of the finest fish from a private pond owned by Price Whitaker, at Delta, led him to keep watch with his shotgun for the poaching fisherman. He was greatly surprised to see great blue heron flap down and beghj stabbing the fish with Its beak. Whlttaker shot the heron, which stood 5 feet high and measured 5 feet 10 Inches from tip to tip of Its wings. UNUSED TO FASHION'S WAYS Pittsburg Family Calls Physician When Maid Eats Bath Tablets Through Ignorance. Pittsburg. Mary Rojesvesky. a Polish girl employed by a wealthy east end family, is dangerously ill, the result of eating bath tablets. Mary has been In the country only a few months, and in that time has been solving the intricacies of the American lady's toilet. The other day she purchased some bath perfume tablets. Pefore retiring at night she stepped into the bath tub and then swallowed two of the tablets. Several hours later the family hurriedly called a physician for the girl. Slick. "Doesnt it give you horrors when you think of all the slimy germs on money?" "How do you know that they are slimy?" "Judging from the way money slips through my fingers they must be.

DOCTORS ALTER THEIR VIEWS Where Moderation Was Permitted Few Years Ago Total Abstinence Now Recommended. i The bishop of Durham said recentlyi in a public sermon: "We find now. the constant andJ agreement of doctors on the iubjecü of alcohol to a vast degree going in ai direction opposite to that which theyi took in 1859. Then their opinion might? he summed up thus: "A little wine or beer or a verymoderate amount of spirits ls good foT most people, but there are some whoj can do without it, and some who would be much better without It "Their opinion summed up now would be something like this: j " 'For the vast majority of the hoi :man racd nothing of the kind Is the1 best rule; there are a few exceptions! for whom it is either good or give no harm J" It has been many years since those who spoke of the dangers lurking Inj the use of alcohol were scoffed at a ignorant and prejudiced, and theyj were told: "Hear what the doctor say in favor of alcohol as both food! and medicine." Some of the doctors took It uponj themselves to cover with abuse alj those who favored abstinence, espe cially among their own number. Some) regarded a physician as being un-j -scientific if h? did not order It Soma of us laymen remember well how he&tr ed some of the doctors became In their condemnation of the "fanatics as they stigmatized those who urged abstinence. Now a great change has come and. it is indicated in such statements zA the following: Dr. Howard A. Kelley, of Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, at the Wash ington meeting of the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Habits, speaking, "as a physician with 32 years experience," said: "I began my practise in private life by prescribing alcohol in its various forms as an easily diffusible stimulant in cases of periodic weakness, In lo fevers, and exhaustion, in accordance with th common custom of a generation agix ... My experience has told mo that the effect is temporary; evanescent; that the drug (for such it is) does no real good, and that a dangerous habit ls thus easily endan dercd which may be most difficult to eradicate, a habit that may utterly ruin the patient's body, soul, and spirit." Dr. W. II. Waugh, editor of Clinical Medicine, Chicago, said in a paper read at the same meeting: "Personally I stand ready to use alcohol any time when I believe it to be to the best interests of my patient, but I do not know a solitary use or a solitary .case occurring in the widest range of medicine practise In which alcohol is the best remedy that can be applied." Concerning the use of alcohol in pneumonia. Dr. A. A. Hill says: I rely cn digitalis, strychnine, careful feeding, and absolute rest, but always refuse at the critical period when the overburdened and dilated right heart has almost reached the breaking point, to help my patient over the precipice by prescribing the so-called stimulant that must often by its paralyzing effect on the cardiac nerves take away his last chance of recovery. 'Lobar pneumonia, cardiac failure' so runs the usual certificate, and the cause of the cardiac failure in 95 cases out of '100, 1p alcohol." v Dr. Stille, a German health officer, replied recently to a brother practi tloner who had said that an abstaining physician has no right to impose his views upon his patient and deny him alcoholic .drinks, when he needs them to relieve depression. Dr. Stille said that only a very small part of the al cohol consumed can be said to afford pleasure in any true sense, and that is. so infinitesimal compared with the 'misery it causes that he should consider himself inexcusable if he did not do all in his power to combat alcohol' He thinks that If any one is not convinced, of the general Injuriouness o! alcohol it can only be because he has not made a sufficient study of the subject. t . A book on "Vital Economy; or How to Conserve Your Strength," by John ,H. Clark, M. D., Just ppublished in London (1909), contains this statement: "The doctor is certainly responsible for a large share of the drinking customs of the present day. He gives Indiscriminate or indefinite advice to take a little whisky with lunch and dinner,' or burgundy, or claret or port, as the case may be, and the patient is pretty certain to carry out the prescriptionIn all probability to the end of his days." Burned Husband's Leg. A woman was arrested in Wllkesbarro for burning her husband's leg. It was a wooden one. "It was the only way to keep him home. He would go to the saloons every Saturday night and get drunk. So I burned his leg" The alderman dismissed the case, advising the man that If he got drunk he and get drunk. So I burned his leg." and would not need the wooden one. The advice was not very clear, but the case was dropped and the man will have to stay at home for a while anyhow. Drunkenness and Divorce. United States census returns show that drunkenness figured as a direct, and contributing cause in 19 per cent.) of all divorces from 1887 to 1906 in! the United States. According to the census figures, liquor was the sole cause of divorce in 13,516 cases, and the cause in combination with some other in 17,763 cases. In addition to this, there were 130.2S7 In which drunkness was an indirect or contributory cause. Progress. A positiv advance today is found in our appreciation of peace after war, fare. No parades of victors bearing the scalps and spoils, or captives taken, would be tolerated. Instead, great! commemoration ls made annually of, peace proclamations. Rev. Charles E. Perkins, Presbyterian, Salt Lake Cityj To do good, which Is really good, r man must act from the love of goodL and not with a view to reward. Tern-