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~~K~~r TA Abho - JO3.Fp1CL11cO~z CyJWhittaklr z' Place Capin Enri, Etc. muatrt i.m by E llsworth Young Csyriwar.l, by hAninw Cma.p uy S SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Keziah ('omin. supposed widow. is arranglng to n.,ove from Trumet to Bos ton. following the death of her brother. for whom she had kept house. Kyan Pepper. widower, offers marriage. and Is Indignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah I)an Lsis. leader of the Regular church. off.rs elatih a place as housekeeper for the hew mintiter, and she decides to remain In Trumet. Kezlah takes charge of Rev. John Ellery, the new minister, and gives himn advice as to his conduct toward members of the parish. Ellery causes a sensation by attending a "Come-outer" meeting. Ellery's presence is bitterly re sented by Eben Hammond. leader of the meeting Grace apologizes for her guardian and Ellery escorts her home in the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond. Eben's son, becomes a hero by bringing the packet into port safely through fog and lorm. Ellery finds Keziah writing a let e5r to some one, inclosing money in re mse to a demand. She is curiously led when informed of the arr!val of t. Nat calls on Keziah. and it devel p that they have been lovers stnce th. Daniels remonstrates with Ellery attending "Come-outer" meeting. El it caught by the tide and is rescued Nat. They become friends. Ellery Meets Grace while walking In the fields. ad larns that she walks there every Snday. The clergyman takes dinner Lmgdays with the Daniels. Annabel. the eaptain's daughter, exerts herself to es an impression on him. She no with vexation his desire to get away ws Sunday at a certain time. She ter him through a spy glass. Nat aimportunes Kediah to marry him. ayrs he has had a quarrel with his iu w. who wants him to marry Grace. Iry asks Grace to marry him. She m messee that .she loves him, but says lbe fears to displease her guardian. El Daniels tells Eben about.the meet ' etween Ellery and Grace. Eben SeSlares he will make Grace choose be him and the preacher. Grace finds In a taint, following the excitement Elkanah's visit. Just before he dies Seacts a promise from Nat and that they will marry. Kesah the news to Ellery and later he "ived a note fron Grace saying she is a marry Nat. and asking him not to try Sse her again. Keslah tells the story her own marriage with a man who I out to be a good-for-nothing. and was reported to have been lost at Iand of her love for N at. whom she alarry because the husband is Captain Nat sails for Manila to 5. arse 8 two years. He says he and have decided not to marry until . . turn- . Nat is overdue, and it is gets a letter from her husband he is coming back. Grace goes on - to relatives of the Hammonds. A tying distresas signals is discovered te coaset Ellery goes with party to the vessel. A man is found suf from smallpox, the rest of the ving deserted. He is taken to an shack on shore and Elery aurse him. Before he dies it is dis that he is Kstah's husband. El left alone in quarantine. is found in a dellrious condition by takes him back to the and for help. Kesiah and amrse Ellery. who Is suffering from iever. The doctor and Keslah report that Orace and Ellery are News rcomes that Nat has safely in Bostom. The story of week of Nat's vessel comes out and . Is arranged. Nat falls to k Intercepts Nat on his journey and tells him of love for Etlery. He releases b-en her promise to him. (* APTIR XIX.-(Cantlnued.) ;z5 rsM' the matter?" asked the ry did not answer. He read the *0 through and then, without a ,in, handed it to his friend. t note was as follows: John: la going away. as I told you I K he came. He is coming. I got a lettr from him. It at Kingston, Jamaica, al three mouths ago. I can't think I haven't got it sooner, but sup It was given to some one to and forgotten. In It he msaid he of going to sea and was com. )eme to me. I had money, he sad we could get along. He had aboard a brig bound for 8S jiah, and from there he was going "*Oy7 tor a berth on a Boston-bound 8i. So I am going away and not blim8 back. I could not stand the r dllse and I could not see him. You r Orace won't need me any more a U. Doa't worry about me. I can " Asys ears a living while I have my ih gth. Please don't worry. If he 0Mms tell him I have gone you do et know where. That will be true, • r you don't. I hope you will be S'7 happy. I do hope so. Oh, John, Ism dea't know how I hate to do this, -hnt I must. Don't tell Nat He would Ssomething terrible to him if he and Nat knew. Just say I have S alled away and may be back Stime. Perhaps I may. Love to i, Good-by. Yours truly, "lEZIAH COITIN." The captain stared at the note. Theo threw It to the loor and started the door. The minister sprang his chatr and called to him. Nat," he cried. "Nat! 8topl where Lua'?" he growled. "Gon'? I'mra Sto id ber, arst o all. Then cm s'n' back to wailt for blm." :"ut you won't have to wait. He'll ome. He's ded." Deid? Dead? By the everlutian'! hs been too much for you. I to have knowsn It. I11 send the here right of. I can't stay I'e got to go. Bnut--" !e listen to me! Ansel Cot 'bdem, I tell you. I know it I all about it. That was what I to see you about. Did Keliah ee of the Sin Jose and the sailor died of smallpox In this very ? In that room there?" :es. John, you---" _. not raving It's the truth. That was Ansel Coin. I watched Shim and one ntight, the night he diled, he spoke Kesiah's He spoke of New Bedford and b. met and of her. over and over I was sure who he was then, galled in Ebeneser Capen, who to know Coaln in New Bedford. he mecognied him. Nat, as smre 'I and I are here this' minte, G0n, Ausnt Keish's Lushend. - a the 'Trmet metery." CHAPTUR xx Wib Mr. washes Hism ' ~erw Am, os e abip a - dlers, with a place of business on Commercial street in Boston, and a bank account which commanded re spect throughout the city. was feel ing rather irritable and out of sorts. Poor relations are always a nuisance. Mr. Stone had "washed his hands" of his cousin, Keziah Coffin, or thought he had. After her brother Solomon died she had written to him, asking him to find her a position of some kind in Boston. "I don't want money. I don't want charity." wrote Keziah. "What I want is work. Can you get it for me. Abner? I write because father used to tell of what you said to him about gratitude and how you would never rest until you had done something in return for what he did for you." Captain Ben Hall's kindness was the one thing Mr. Stone forgot when he said no one had ever helped him. He disliked to be reminded of it. It was a long while ago and the captain was dead. However, being reminded, he had called upon a friend in the tailor ing line and had obtained for Keziah the place of sewing woman. She de cided to become housekeeper at the Trumet parsonage and so notified him. Then he washed his hands of her. But now he was compelled to soil them again. Keziah had appeared at his office, without warning, and de manded that he find her a position. "Demanded" was the proper word. Certainly she had not begged. She seemed to feel that her demand was right and proper, and his acceding to it the least he could do. "What a fine place you've got here, Abner!" she said, inspecting the office and store. "I declare it's finer than the one you had when you first went into business, afore you failed. I wish father could have lived to see it. He'd have realized that his judgment was good, even though his investment wasn't." Captain Hall had invested largely in that first business, the one which failed. Mr. Stone changed the sub ject. Later in the day he again sought his friend, the tailor, and Keziah was installed in the loft of the latter's Washington street shop, beside the other women and girls who sewed and sewed from seven in the morning un til six at night. Mr. Stone had left her there and come away, feeling that an unpleasant matter was disposed of. He had made some inquiries as to where she intended staying, even add ed a half-hearted invitation to dinner that evening at his home. But she declined. "No. thank you. Abner." she said, "I'm goin' to find a boardin' place and I'd just as soon nobody knew where I was for the present. And there's one thing I want to ask you: don't tell a soul I am here. Not a soul If anyone should come askin' for me, don't give 'em any satisfaction. I'll tell you why some day, perhaps. I can't now." This was what troubled Mr. Stone as he sat in his office. Why should this woman wish to have her where abouts kept a secret? There was a reason for this, of course. Was it a respectable reason, or the other kind? If the latter, his own name might be associated with the scandal. He wish ed, for the fiftieth time, that there were no poor relations. A boy came into the offce. "There is some one here to see you. Mr. Stone." he said. "Who is it?" "I don't know, sir. Looks like a seafaring man, a sea captain, I should say--but he won't give his name. Says it's Important and nobody but you'll do." "Humph! All right Tell him to wait. I'll be out in a minute." Sea captains and ship owners were Stone & Barker's best customers. The senior partner emerged from the of licee with a smile on his face. "Ah!" he said, extending his hand. "Glad to see you, Captain---er--" "Hammond," replied the visitor. "Same to you, Mr. Stone." "Fine weather for this time of Syear." "Fine enough, Mr. Stone." "Well, Captain Hammond, what can we do for you? Going to sail soon?" "Not right away. Just made port, les'n a week ago. Home looks good to me, for a spell, anyhow." "8o? Yes, I have no doubt. Let me see---where is your home, esp tain? I should remember, of course, but-" "Don't know why you should. This is my first trip in your latitude. I guess. My home's at Trumet." "Trumet"' Mr. Stone's tone chang ed. "Yes. Trumet, down on the Cape. Ever been there? We think it's about as good a place uas there is." "Hu-u-m! Trnmet? Well. Captain Hammond, you wished to see me, I understand." "Yes. Fact is, Mr. Stone, I want to ask you where I can find Mrs. Ke ziah Coffin. She's a relation of yours, I blleve, and she's come to Boston lately. Only yesteirday or the day afore. Can you tell me where she is?" "Why do you wish to see her?" "Oh. for treasos, personal ones. She's a friend of mine." "I see. No, captain, I can't tell you where ahe is. Good morning." Captalin Nat was greSatly disapponat "Hold on there, Just a mintae," he basegad. This is important, you un derstand Mr. tone. rm migsty sax Iose to find Iesi-Mrs. CoI. We Itheasht. sm et her ftemhs ad L that mee l lt esud bkew wher hewas. tamt yes ivea ah*elp at ma Jms't eAm ht e ast" "Good morning. Captain Hammond. You must excuse me, I'm busy." He went into the office and closed the door. Captain Nat rubbed his torehead desperately. He had been almost sure that Abner Stone would put him on Keziah's track. Grace had thought so, too. She remembered what the housekeeper had told con c(erning her Boston cousin and how the latter had found 'employment for her when she contemplated leaving Trumet, after her brother's death. Grace believed that Keziah would go to him at once. Nat walked to the door and stood there, trying to think what to do 'next. .$ smart young person, wearing a con spicuous suit of clothes, aided and abetted by a vivid waistcoat and a pair of youthful but promising side whiskers, came briskly along the side walk and stopped in front of him. "Well, sir?" observed this person, with cheerful condesctn.ion. "'Any thing I can do for you?" Captain Nat turned his gaze upon the side whiskers and the waistcoat. "Hley?" he queried. "'I say, is there anything I can do for you?" 'The captain shook his head. S"No-oo," he drawled dryly, "I'm afraid not, son. I admit that don't seem scarcely possible, but I am afraid it's so." "Looking for something in our line, was you?" "Well, I don't know. What might be on your line-clothes?" The bewhiskered ond drew himself up. "I am connected with Stone & Barker," he said sharply. "And, see ing you standing in our doorway, I thought possibly-" "Yes, yes. Beg your pardon, I'm sure. No, I don't want to buy any thing. I come to see Mr. Stone on a personal matter." "lie's busy, I suppose." "So he says." The young man smiled with serene satisfaction. "I'm not surprised," he observed complacently. "We are a busy house, Mr.-er- " "Hammond's my name. Are you Mr. Barker?" "No-o, my name is Prince." "So? Silent partner in the firm, hey?" "No-o, not exactly." Mr. Prince was slightly embarrassed. "No, I am a a salesman-at present. Was the mat I ter you wished to see Mr. Stone about a very private one?" "Middlin'." "Well, I asked because Mr. Stone is a busy man and we like to save him all the-the----" "Trouble you can, hey? That's nice of you, you must save him a lot, Mr -er-King, was it?" SNo, Prince." "Sure and sartin', Prince, of course. I knew 'twas connected with the roy al family. Well, Mr. Prince, I'm afraid even you can't help me nor him out this time. I'm lookin' up a friend of mine, a widow lady from down the Cape. She's a relation of Mr. Stone's, and she's come to Boston during the last day or so. I thought likely he might khow where she was, that's all. That would be a little out of yopr latitude, hey?' "I don't know. Her name wasn't Coffin, was !t.' Captain Nat started. "It certainly was," he answered eagerly. "How'd you know that?" Mr. Prince's complacence was su I perb. "Oh," he answered with con I descension, "Mr. Stone trusts me with a good many of his personal affairs." "I should think likely he would. But about Mrs. Coffn? You was goin' I to say?" "She is with James Hallett & Co,. the tailors, on Washington street. Mr. I Stone found a place for her there, I believe. I--er- -superintended the carrying of her valise and- What?" "Nothin', nothin'. Hum! Hallett & "Listonl Listen to Mel Anael Comin Is head." i Co., tailors? What number Washin' ton street did you say?"' SMr. Prince gave the number. "Thank you a lot," said Captain N, at, with terror. "Good-by, Mr. Prince. Hope the next time I come you'll be I n the firm Good day, sir." S"Good day. Nothing else I can do? And you won't wait for Mr. Stone? Very good: Is there any message for him that you would like to leave?" "Hey?" Nat had started to go, but Snow he paused and turned. There was a grim twinkle In his eye. "Message" Ihe repeated. "Why, yo-es. I don't know but there is. Tou just give Mr. Stone Cap'n Hammond's compliments i and tell him rm lookin' forward to Sinterviewin' him some time. Just tell him that, will you?" S"I'll tell him. Glad to have met Vyou, Captain Hammoad." In the workshop of Hallet & Co., Kesiah sat sewing busily. Thebo win dow near her was closed, stock fast, and through the dingy panes shbe could see only roots and chimneys. BThe other women and girls near her chatted and Iaushed, but she was si lent. She did not feel lik talkin, certainly not like Ilauighi The ps Imeat she was at work Oc was a coat, a wedditn coat, o the foreman had told her, with a smile; therefore she mast he very partisnular. The marrow statrwaC leadia up to the worha op e Isl an a Utile teas-ea reme where the saleis gmemaS wwe elnM _ emait the wmeal smis lhm b hind the closed door of this room came the sound of voices, apparently in heated argument. One of these voices was that of Larry, the errand boy. Larry was speaking shrilly and with emphasis. The other voice was lower in key and the words were in audible. "No, sir, you can't," declared Larry. "You can't, I tell you. The boss don't let nobody in there and- Hold on! Hold on!" The other voice made a short but evidently earnest answer. Larry again expostulated. The workers looked up from their sewirg. The door opened and Larry appeared, flushed and ex cited "Where's Mr. Ulpham?" he demand ed. "Mr. I'pham!" Upham was the foreman of the workroom. At the mnoment he was downstairs in convern tion with the head of the house. A half dozen gave this information. "What's the matter? Who is it" asked several. "I don't know who tis. It's a man and he's crazy. I think. I told him he couldn't come in here, but he just keeps a'comin'. lie wants to see some body named C'ofin and there ain't no CoffP.ins here." Kezlah's nearest neighbor leaned toward her. "I guess it's somebody to see you," she said. "Your name is Coffin, ain't it?" "No. no. That Is, it can't be any body to see me. I don't want to see anybody. Tell him so, whoever it is I can't see anybody. 1-Nat." "Keziah," he said, "come here. I want you. I'll tell you why in a min ute. Come!" tTO BE CONTINt'ED.) NEED OF CARPETS FOR ROADS English Expert Recommends Use of an "Elastic Skin" on the Highways. A lecture was recently delivered by a member of the board before the Royal Institute of London on "The Road-Past, Present and Future," ac cording to Consular and Trade Re ports. The lecturer said the problem was to find the best mode by which a road should be constructed so that its surface wouid not be broken by traf fic. so that the transit might be easier for both passengers and goods, a road which would form neither puddle holes nor exude mud from vehicles and create no dust when the weather was dry. One thing was universally recogt fltzed, that the road of the future should be a truly bound road in which, whatever kind of stone was used, the stone should be held together so that it would form a crust. The lecturer suggested that what he called a car pet or an elastic skin should 'e adopt t ed as the covering. f The carpet, he thought, should be e made of bituminous material mixed , with sand and placed on the roats in e various thicknesses, according to the s nature of the traffic. It should go on i. in liquid form, solidifying quickly, but r always remaining resilient and com pressible, and so integrating with the t crust of the surface below. The advantage of such a carpet, it V was said, would be to permanently I protect the crust, and, just as a carpet on the foor softens the step, so would - this carpet for the roads silence the noise and reduce the shock of rolling I vehicles. It was admitted that the or iginal cost of a road so laid would be I. more than that of a mud bound road, ' but spreading the cost over a series of years it would probably not be eo great, since the crust of the road it self would not have to be renewed. e Sadly Disillusioned. A certain young man of tender heart khas lost his faith in mankind. Some years ago he did a favor for a friend, who, to show his appreciation, present ed him with a pipe of meerschaum persuasion, wonderfully and marvel ously wrought and bearing date of a hundred years before. The young mas treasured this pipe, which was to him a masterpiece. And whenever the blue smoke curled upward from its bowl his heart swelled with the thought of the generosity and goodnesas of the human race, for he had been told when the pipe was handed to him that a pawnbroker would advance three dollars on it, thus proving it to be worth at least a ten-spot Doing fa vors, he thought, surely turnished ree ompease. And then one day be broke the stem. He took it to a tobacco nist with whom he was well acquaint ) ed and asked to have it mended. "It's such a treasure," he explained, "Notice the work'on it and the date." The to baceconist smiled. "My boy," he re marked, "they turn these out by the barrel and sell them for tea cents." Newab Sultan Jahan egam. F Ho, ye women sufragists! Did yes ever heer of Bhopal, Bjopal in thin land6 of the Hindus? Bhopal is a native province of India, ruled by its own princely famlly. Itis one of the most flourishling and most enlightened of all the native states. STime was when its inhabitants, who were warlike, had little time for any thing but fighting the Marathas and other fierce tribes by whom they wes surrounde. r Then came old Nawab Elkander Beo gaim-a woman ruler-ad everything it was changed. The arts of war made way for the arts of peace- im was succeeded on the throne by a daugh tero and she in turn by the woman Swhose emphonlous name heads this editorial. SThe Influence of these three women I rulers has been beyond estimate. Bhopal has been at peace. Her pe Sple have devloped their industries aad their arts. They have flourished and Spoverty has been decreased. ' Hurrah for Jahan Begami Lag Smay she reign!--Albany Time-Union SPolih Woman Barrister. SMlle. Mtropolakdy is the beet hmnown Sof the women barrlster of aee. * She is of Polish origin, but was born tin Paris. he took her degree tIn phl L osophy at the age of 16, was ad l milttd to the bar five years ag, and Swon her rst case befeore ahe was V twenty-oe Childre's eaorts and the p diverse esurt be cousider as salles a els fer the woman s eoutA and -she flsmlm s d = PANAMA CANAL AS A MECCA FOR TOURISTS ,, .:i :.· ,.. c ;~2"~ L~CL~ ·· .. ;~p~- ~~GL-iiFI ,j~c. CCli ·/r 4 '';u' ~p?. ·, ·' igbbli ·. .~ s ~C~Jc;;;~b~:~L:-~-·r"*e*1L u u~· ~e i·-+2~,~ -'..F CY:~f~r. ~J~7f r·r. 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Coin cidentally, the rumor conies from the south that the revolutionary pot is on the fire in six South American re publics. That may have something to do with Garibaldi's presence here and it may not. In any event, Gari baldi is one of the free lances of for tune one reads about and rarely sees. He has just returned from the war in Bulgaria. where he had an indepen dent command. Before that he was Madero's chief of staff in Mexico having fought his way to that pLe'i tion by metaphorically tweaking th,0 nose of Bandit Orozco. the most dan gerous foe 1- established order-any established order-that Mexico holds. Before that he sat in a black cell in Porto Cabella for seven months. at Gen. Castro's order, while he filed at his manacles with the bit of tin that had once been the top of a can of beans. And before that But that's the story that must be. taken up item by item. Garibaldi is the grandson of the great Garibaldi. the liberator. Fighting runs in the Garibaldi blood. No doubt the Garl haldis are in earnest in their wish to free the world from the bonds of tyranny. There is little question that none of the Garibaldis likes any of the ruling families, and that all the ruling families would be grateful if General Orozco. some one would push the Garibaldis off a dock into particularly deep wa ter. But mostly this Garibaldi fights because he likes fighting. Inciden tally he has been rich from time to time. Money never lasted long. Also, when the map of the world seems sure of surreptitious alteration GarI baldi ts one of those whose where aboits are pegged by various secret police. The map is gradually chang ing color these days. Garibaldi of fered to land 20,000 Italians in Trip eli at their own expense, armed and 'quipped and guaranteed fighting men. The Italian government re fused the offer. The government needed men mighty badly. but it didn't care for any Garibaldis tie took 600 Greeks from New York to 'he war in the east at their own cost. \'ow he's back In New York What ct's on the fire' He's only a youncster in years-a ·cant thirty-three Put he has been it war for the past s~eventoon y-ars Between times he has filled in with HANGS HEAD DOWN 2 HOURS n Odd Position Wcodchopper Fires Revolver and Aid Finally Comes Newton. N. i.-Hanging head down ith his leg caught in the crotch of tree twenty feet above the ground. ha Finnan. a farms hand. spent two iurs of agony The leg which bas tnght tin the tree was broken FImam had ehopped dowa a tree or treweed, lit La Iallag its brch di; 'm'tip arid i'' i,,,,I ti.sionns I, !?'i an eye for re\o!uition like a hawk in the sky Just after the ill-fated Mad,-ro raised his batnner of revolt -.a s:: t P'ortirio Diaz. Garibaldi ap p.aired with eight comrades on the border and offer, d his services to Orozco. the bandit leader. "I'l1 have none of you." growled Oroz-o. "You're too clean." That's an insult to a soldier on the desert l!ut the eight started a revo lution of their own-against Diaz. a"ainst .Madero. against Orozeo. Soon they were strong enough to make terms. Garibaldi took Juarez. and Madero made him his chief of staff. "lack Felix Diaz and Fluerta against a wall." Garibaldi advised "Kill them now-to prevent the deaths of hundreds later on." But Madero would not. He might have saved himself and his adminis tration if he had taken the soldier'" advice instead of listening to the dic tates of his own gentle heart. Then Garibaldi went on to Tripoli and Bulgaria and where not-and now he's back in town. Six republics wonder why. SAVING LEADS TO WEALTH Henry E. Huntington, Ship Builder. Asserts Young Men Should Invest to Compel Thrift. Los Angeles.--Henry E. Hunt!ng ton, of New York and Los Angeles who at the age of sixty-three is retir ing from business as rapidly as pos sible, but whose fortune of forty or fifty million dollars will keep right on working for him, said that the habit of saving paves the road to wealth. Mr. Huntington believes that this is an age of great opportunity for young men and this is his recipe for suc cess: "Save a little every week. When you get an increase of wages or sal PAYS DEBT OF GRATITUDE Lawyer. Whose Life Was Saved Forty o Years Ago by Defendant's Father, V Reciprocates. y d Kansas City. Mo.-The trial of for- p mer State Senator Ernest D. Mar tin for alleged misuse of the mails in b the promotion of an electric railway has one romantic feature of which judge, jury and spectators are in ig norance. By the side of the accused man in the federal court there sits E daily a keen-eyed, stout, gray-haired man, with a "fighter's jaw," his chief counsel. That man !s Jacob I. Shep herd of Fort Scott, Kan., an4 he is paying a debt of gratitude of 40 years' o standing. t it was 40 years ago that Dr. Solon a Martin of Marshall, Mo., while driving s along a country road came upon a s tent where a woman sat beside a sick e child. . e "LDo you know where we can find ala doctor?' 'asked the woman. "My son C is dying." c "I am a physician," said Dr. Martin. 1 "We'll do what we can. But you'll - have to get him out of this tent and e into a house, where he can have con stant care," he added after an exami nation of the child I "We're driving .hrough the country o t.; Kansas," said the woman. "We t have no house and no means." p "I11 take care of the boy," said Doc- I tor Martin. "You go ahead, and well : send him to you well in a month or so.' The boy was taken to the home of the physician and kept until he had e recovered. Then he was sent to his s parents, who were making themselves t a home in Kansas i Shortly after the former state sena tor had been charged with misusing t the mails he received a letter bearing a Fort Scott postmark. "Forty years ago," the letter ran, t S"your father put me under a great a es caught in those of another tree. In t ;an effort by Finnan to get the tree a free it fell and his leg was caught and a broken t Flnnan managed to reach his revol ver and he fired its contents to at tract attention. The man , ho first responded had to call help and then a block and fall had to be rigged in the tree above Finnan and his weight placed sn it before the leg could be freed. The trunk of the tree was not largoe emesgh for a third mas to weat sOls. ( rn ý :it':i na it llte t, I the for If a : l h;, it diflihilt :o s.ave go :n di r ir I tn. or uidrtak' some oher cbh,.atio i it the we y of invest mnt'i that w lIl cto:nipl you to save" Mr. Huntingtou declares he hat. al re:tdy prattica!lly re tirld from busi "I hl:all givet lt I .l personal atten tion to iiy inlvestmentllst her., nor to those in the east, which are nracti cally tas l.arg'e a my illlterets here." laid hIi. "F'or illustration. I scarcely b;ther nly head 'even now about the ship ht iling iplant at N. wplort News. Alnereth,'r I have habout 6.000 em fi HenPy E. Huntington. ployes in my eastern enterprise,. but when I am in New York I do not spend more than an hour a day in la office." Mr. Huntington's famous palit Ings, rare objects of art and almost priceless volumes have all bees bought by himself and In New York. either as offered for sale there or brought over under options subject to his approval when he saw them. He has never depended on agents, and he will not in Europe if the bhuyag fever seizes him. obligation which I could not fully 1e pay during his lifetime. I beg of you Dermit me now to discharge that debt by acting as your counsel in the present matter." The letter was signed "J. L Shep herd." ITS AGE IS TWO CENTURIES Eliot School. Boston, Mass., Cele. brates 200th Birthday--Has Occ pled Four Buildings on Site. Boston.-The Eliot Grammar school of Boston held exercises in celebra tion of the rounding out of the seea and century of its existence. The school was founded in 1712, when the sturdy fathers of colonial Boston vot ed to establish a school at the north end of the town to accommodate the growing population in that section. One year later the little ediice was completed and its doors thrown open. The school is the oldest elementary school in the city and the second old est free school of any kind. The original building lasted through the period of the rlvolution and was not torn down until 1792. The sea ond building lasted until 1837 end the third persisted until 1860, when the present edifice was erected. All have occupied the same site, which is with In a stone's throw of Christ's churoh, where Paul Revere's lanterns were hung. Many famous men received their el Iementary education at the old Eliot school, among them Edward Everett, the famous statesman and orator, and Rev. Samuel S. Smith, author of "America." The last quarter of a cen tury has seen great changes in the section of the city where the wchool is located, and today 90 per cent. of the pupils are the children of italian and Jewish immigrants. so one had to do all the climbing and rigging. Meanwhile Flnnan's poa sition was eased as much as possible by another man standing below him and holding up on his shoulders. When finally lowered Flnnan was in a faint and he remained unconscious for hours, but will recover. Skin Severed With Fine Scales. Cincinnati.-A woman whose shtn Is covered with seales similar to those of a fsh was shown before the Aced 1em of Modlelo.a