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THE HOCK ISLAND AIIGUS, TUESDAY, JIIXE g, TOT. I' i i ) M i i 7 THE ARGUS. il" pobi:shed dally at 1!4 Sseond . Rock Island. 111. (Enter J at the t-: rottoflie as second-class msttsr.) -n-k lalaa VraWf of tke .associated r : -."' ,' BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Ten cents per week by cr- w "tr. In Rock Island: tS per yesr by raatl ,ln advance. A Complaints cf delivery service should t made to the circulation department hlcb should !ro be notified In erery jntancs where It Is desired to hare TPr discontinued, as carriers bay no uthortty la the premises. All communications of srg-umentstlvs Edison Is said to amount to about $10.' 000 a week. Besides fuch really lncomprehensl- ble figures, Nome and Ballarat and Kimberley seem like Incidents. And tho figure for 1911 were less than half those above, so the future has some what the bewildering aspect of the astronomer's staggering picture of the so!ar system. THE WOMAN FARMER The New York State college of agri culture made a study of all the farms owned by women In four towns In Tompkins county to analyze the con ditlons. It Is Impossible to make ac curate reports on all phases of the In dustry because of the fact that many of the women farmers interviewed Character, political or re.tglous. must ( rent fueir farms and do not operate hare real name attached for publlca ; tlon. No such articles will be printed oysr fictitious signatures. ' - Telephones In all departments. Cen- tra Union. Rock Island 145. 114S and - .114$. Tuesday, June 2, 1914. 1 them. ine women owned 8,077 acres, an average of 194 acres each. The total property amounted to $398,152. the largest farm owned by one woman Be Ing 409 acres. The average Invest ment of those women who operate their own farms was $4,922; those who rent, and therefore pwn less stock and machinery, averaged $4,225; the larg est individual investment was $16,075. Thirty-two of these women gave complete records of a year's business, says The Mother's Magazine. The av erage farm income was $423. This If conditions in Mexico are as bad j amount with garden and other food as Medl'l MrCormkk claims to be And f jlns; them there ontlit to be a fair rhance to pet a third party oa its feet ' .flown there. t ' 1 "Cemeteries present beautiful ap - pearance," says a newspaper head l line. Even so there are not many of ; ta who are ready to take up our per y .manent residence there. j ." Instead of using liar and grafter, the , Suffragists and their sisters opposing ". . t.he cause are applying to each other such endearing terms as "polecat," .ftc. Please pass the smelling salts. " It Is remarkable." walls an Iowa paper, "how many of our modern re ' publican statesmen are Inclined to sup port some other party rather tlian their , twn." This raises the question: What I. is a modern republican statesman and 1 Low long does he remain sucli after he l.as begun supporting some other party? Acting ft.i the advice of his allies who declared that political capital ; 'could be made by it. the colonel made ?:aste to "criticise Wilson." but he saw " to it that he was well on his way to "Europe before his statement was print- ed. Evidently he figures that he who . f ghts and runs away may live to run li again. products, house, and most of the fuel. is at least a comfortable living In come in the country. The 409-acre farm, valued complete at $16,075, is produced a net income of $1,774. Another of 136 acres gave an Income of $1,108 after paying all expenses. One of 240 acres netted the neat income of $2,155. A dairy farm of 50 acres paid its owner $603. And i so it goes. Among women, lust as among men, skill and good judgment make big returns. The woman farmer Is here, and she is here to stay. Her calling Is ancient and honorable. If offers independence. iiKniia ana nappiness. Does anyone doubt that she will make the utmost of such splendid opportunities? Capital Comment BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER Congressman from the Fourteenth District. (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) Washington, May 30. Two govern ment departments the department of labor and the post- office are to co- operate -this year in rurmsning nar- vest bands far the wheat and corn fields of the mid dle west, and IncI dentally provide work for unem ployed men In the cities. Responding to the appeal of the state labor com mlssioner of Okla homa. - Secretary Wilson of the de partment of labor has devised an em ployment method which, with the co operation of Post master General Burleson, is to be put in force at once. Accordingly. It has been arranged to post notices In 10,000 city, town and village postofllees of the I'nlted States to the effect that harvest hands are needed in Oklahoma. The state needs from 12,000 to 15,000 harvest hands. Employment will last from four to six months, and the pay will be 42 and $2.50 per day and upwards. Those willing to take this work must, how ever, pay their own railroad expenses to Oklahoma. The work of distribut ing laborers within the state is being organized, and full Instructions of how IT MM iT-h. H ST 4r gVj-Tpv'i I r' CLYDE H. TAVENNER to get one of the Jobs are printed on the notices In the poitoflices. So certain are the cabinet heads that the plan will be successful that Sec retary Wilson Is asking labor comm's sloners of other states to snd him an estimate of their needs in farm labor this year. Thus the department of labor will undertake to be a huge em ployment agency for farm labor. A similar purpose Is carried in Rep resentative Victor Murdock's hill to establish a bureau of employment in the department of labor. The plan is to set up a permanent bureau which Is to be given power to operate free labor exchanges at important commercial and industrial centers. This bureau will keep general tab on labor condi tions throughout the United States. their bulletins showing where labor is scarce and where the labor market is overfull. The bureau will operate with state, municipal and private employ ment agencies. The house committe on labor has be gun consideration of the Murdock bill. Labor Pleased With Trust' Bill. Organized labor has announced that It is satisfied with the manner in which the trust bills have been amended In the house. President Samuel Gompers has evidently won his fight for exemp tion of labor unions from prosecutions as trusts. Specific amendments have been added to the effect that nothing In the bills shall be construed as pre venting the organization and operation of labor unions on the ground that they exist In violation of the Sherman law. The battle will now be transferred to the senate. XJMmw HEMTT HOW LAND The Daily Story His One Useful Act By Esther 'Vandeveer. Copyrighted. 1914. by Associated Literary bureau. PRINTERS IMC "Spartacus." a gorgeous production. 'ifcWUli operatic orchestral accompani ment, failed in one of Chicago's finest theatres because of lack of patronage. A few blocks away, at another theatre, people who berate theatrical managers iff. toot serving tlte better things are mgnuy thronging we floors to nee a "jfonian who i:iad a reputation on her -'chape-diving off the rocks Into the tea. Threa -.commissions are conducting inquiries to determine the cause of the collision tiiat sent t! Empress of Ire land to the -bottom of the St. Iawrence with 1,000 souls. The old btory again of locking the stable ufter the horse lias gone. The verdict will not bring back the deed; neither will it give comfort to thoee who havt lost their loved ones. There are laws governing navigation of the r-as that would make Impossible fcuch disasters as befell the I .'i press of Ireland and the Titanic if - they were enforced. ' The Issuo of falfhfulnesj -to party ap pears to have been the leading one in the contest which was settled at the primaries yesterday between Congress man Maurice Connolly of Dubuque and E. T. Meredith, of Les Molnos for the democratic Domination for senator from the state of Iowa. There were many years when there could have been no occasion for such, a campaign Ja the Hawkeye etate, but now It means something to be able to truth fully say, ia the words of the late David ii. Hill, "I am a democrat." . The IlMuoM board of health has un covered a peculiar cat.e of merged Identity at Peoria, l:(;re one F. C. Nichols has been arrested for practic ing medicine without a license. Nichols claims that Le, and his cousin. Forest C Nichols, whom h resembles strong passed through Rush Medical col t . lege on one tuition, attending in alter Bate 30-day periods, lloth graduated jln'1894 but here thlr trouble begaa. They could get only one license. This '' vm issued to Forest C. Nichols and been serving both practitioners " till tl is time. Now the question is hich of the two. if either, is entitled io practice. I THE MOVIES. It Is a wonderful story of a vast ;;tew industry, this an Industry r springing up over night as it were. Little wonder that it has begun to re . somble a Klondike rush, and that new companies are popping up on all sides like mushroom. The total business of the whole In j !ustry last year was more than $300, , 000.000 which Is said to make it the 7. fourth largest in the United States; nd at least thirty brand new mHilon- lres have been added to the roster by It. There were 5.000,000,000 paid ad missions In 1913 to our more than 20. 000 moving picture theatres which show te.QOO.000 feet of film each night, i and literally speckle the whole coun try. A single motion picture may 'reach 15 million spectators more -than a company could play to in a 'legitimate' production if it toured " eiteidUy tor twenty years, writes Ifen TJ Lanier la Too World's Work. J American film makers will export tills year probably 25,000 miles of pic tures; and the royalty paid to Mr. CONSERVING THE PISH. The manner with which Americans have wasted exhaustible natural re sources with which this continent was endowed is exemplified In a report of the bureau of fisheries on a bill Intro duced by Congressman Linthicum of Maryland for the conservation of the fish supply. The wild pigeon has been extermin ated by the greedy hunters. The buf falo was killed out within a compara tively short space of time. Several valuable species of fur-bearing animals are almost extinct. The rapid destruc tion cf the great numbers of wild ducks, teese and other game birds nnal.y resulted in thj passage of the .McLean law. the tlrsr statute which alms at federal control of the game supply. And now Congressman Unthlcum proposes federal regulation of the catching or fish, on the ground that they, too. are migratory, and hence and not within the exclusive Jurisdic tion of any one state. The report of tiie bureau of fisheries demonstrates that .-some of the commonest varie ties of edible fish are going the same way of the wil.1 pigeon and the beaver under the present reckless custom of permitting catches to be unlimited, and tho failure to provide safety zones whero the fish can breed without mo lestation. ihe sturgeon wag once an Impor tant American food fish. Now it has almost completely disappeared. Amerl can caviar will soon become an un known dish, and the price of this dell cacy is now bo high as to exclude it from the tab.es of all but the rich. Yet tot so many years ago sturgeon were eo plentiful as to be almost a nul sauce. For many years they were not known to be edible, and the prepara tion of their roe, as caviar, was an un known culinary process in this ooun try. The big powerful sturgeon made trouble for the fishermen, tangling and tearing their nets. Consequently, whenever they were captured they were promptly killed and thrown buck Into the water. Then the edibility of the sturgeon and its roe was discovered. Fleber mon began taking them in great num bers for the market. There was no reckoning for the future, no closing season, no protection for the fish at all. Soon the eupply began diminish ing. Then It was discovered that the sturgeon was a variety of fish easily killed off. The scientists began study ing its habits of life, and to this day they have failed to find out how to increase the sturgeon supply by arti ficial propagation. The roe of other fish can be hatched In tanks, and the small fish can be distributed in the waters of the country, but artificial propagation of sturgeon has not yet oeT) learned. But that made no difference to the fishermen. The price of sturgeon and caviar mounted, stimulating the catch rrs w more aingence. Fifteen years ago the catch of sturgeon on the At lantic coast was 7,000.000 pounds. Last year, with even greater effo.ts on the part of fishermen. It was less than 1.000.000. In 18 years the sturgeon catch in the Great Lakes declined So per cent. The fish is becoming. ex tir.ct. Even the more prolific varieties f fish are suffering the same fate. Shad is becoming a luxury. A few years ago more shad were taken In a day's fishing than are now caught in an en tire season. The Important mechad den, a non-edible fish, but one which furnishes a food supply for the great food fisheries of the Atlantic coast, formerly swarmed by the trillions. It was not Infrequent that several tons of (hem were caught In a single sweep cf a net. They are used in making fertiliser, and the supply has now visi bly decreased. GRASS STIMULANT FOR LAWNS IN LATE SPRING Why does the mai den day by day So eauerly keep proctiHlnK? From all thlng-s else she turn away And tries her, best to larn to sing. Is It because she hopes some time To cause her hear ers to rejoice? Will she r6Hrd It as sublime To merely gladden with her voice? Nay. there Is one thought In her mind What time she warbles without stint: It In that she may some day find Her name in print. Why does the young: man dally daub And live upon a rrust of bread? Is It because he loves his job. And has he taken Art to wed? Docs lie believe, down In his heart. That commerce and that trade are vile?: tlaa he convinced himself that art And art alone Is worth his while? Kay. though lie labors eagerly In laying- on each shade and tint. It 1st that he may some day see His name In print. Why does the man who sells or buys Vhlle lm. j are forming on his face Crowd back the weaker one who tries To be a winner in the race? Is it because he thinks the rich Alone may sit among the high? Or is hff made for pleasures whlca The money that he socks will buy? Xsy, wet and dry and warm and col He keeps on wich a heart of flint So that some day he may behold His name In print. One day Edward Carr, who was al ways on the lookout for odd articles, attended an auction of furniture in the house of a man who had recently died. An antique desk, said to be 130 years old. was put up, and Carr resolved to buy It If he could secure it at a rea sonable price. Among the bidders was a young lady of attractive appearance who seemed to be very desirous of buying the desk, but when the price was run tip over $50 she dropped out and with evident disappointment The desk was finally knocked down to Carr for $100. One of the pigeonholes he nsed for pencils, erasers, penholders and other small articles. At times when he brought some little instrument from his -workshop that he didn't care to (From 17. S. Department of Agricul ture, Uwn Series.) In the late spring, about a month after active grass growth has com menced on the lawn, it is desirable to apply a grass stimulant to keep the lawn in first class condition. Nitrate of soda is a good fertilizer, and will make the grass grow thickly with a rich dark green color that will show itself promptly after the application. The landscape gardener of the United States department of agriculture ad vises that those who use nitrate of soda should apply It at the rate of 50 pounds per acre once a month through out the summer beginning about the middle of May in the latitude of Wash. ington, D. C. me nitrate or soda should be ap piled just before a rain or a sprinkling with the hose. Under ordinary condi tions it wilj keep the lawn a vivid green during the period when the vi tality of the p!ant is low. The appli actlon of this fertilizer combined with careful , watering (described in a pre vious article) will prevent the parched appearance of the lawn during the dry hot summer season. When nitrate Is applied during any dry period it should be used carefully. It can, however, be applied at any time If the nitrate of soda Is powdered up fine before using, but It is safest to dissolve it in water, liecause of a generally prevailing fear that this fer tilizer may ruin a lawn if used care lessly, the department has been experi menting to see Just how much nitrate of soda would have to be used in order to kill grass. These experiments seem to show tbat nitrate of soda can be used fairly extensively withoui caus ing injury, for attempts to kill grass, with it were unsuccessful except when such large quantities as 400 pounds tu an acre were used. Although fertilization is a splendid thing for the tip-keep of a lawn, it will never entirely make up for a lawn soil that was poorly prepared in tne beginning. It is xtnly when a lawn 6oil is properly prepared in the first place and enriched with stable manure, lime, and bone phosphate, that a lawn may be maintained in the best condi tion. I'nrotted stable manure should be kept away from a lawn at all times, the opinion of many to the contrary notwithstanding. Stable manure con tains weed seeds and particularly alter the early growth of grass these weed seeds will be encouraged to sprout, for Why He Hesitated. "Why don't you jump in and try to save him?" asked one of the people who had hurried to the spot where ef forts were being made to resuscitate the drowned man. "They say you were standing here on the shore at the time and saw him struggling." "Yes, I was here." "Well, did you suppose he was mere ly fooling In the water?" "No, I could see from the first that he was In danger." "Why in the world, then, did you do nothing to save him? Can't you swim?" - "Oh, yes, I'm a good swimmer; but" "Then It must have been cowardice that kept you from going to his res cue." "No, sir! I resent any such insinua- at tills time the grass is weakened by ! tion. I didn't go to his assistance be- itd spring growth and the weeds have additional impetus to spread. A weed has been defined as a "plant out of place." Weeds are certainly out of place on a well-kept lawn. Fertilizing materials have a great advantage over stable manure aa they contain no weed-seeds. There are other fertilizers beside ni trate of soda that are most valuable for the lawn, but their use is more es pecially adapted to the fall. Lattr the department will issue advice regatding the application of such materials as ground bone, phosphate rock, potash, dried blood, fish scrap, and sterilized sheep manure. The phospnare rock In particular should not be used in the spring. cause I could not get satisfactory an swers from him when I asked whether he subscribed to the articles of my re ligious faith or belonged to the politi cal party whose ticket I have always voted straight." WHAT HE SAID. The cigaret habit is growing to an alarming extent among the women of I the better class at Ottawa, Canada. "Did I under stand you to say that you consid ered a common school education ! sufficient "or your son?" "No, I didn't say that exactly. 1 eaid I wanted him to learn to spell and write, even if he had to stay in the grammar , grades until be was grown up." 1 i as Bed Time Tales By Clara Ingram Judson. A Blackbird Fight 0 NE pleasant spring day a black- he felt that the little lady blackbird had. -ira new flown irom a tree to eaten up the hnest worm ol the season.) grub for worms around a rose And still the lailvliWe hlacL-hird went- bush. on digging and digging, and didn't find It wasn't a big, cross looking black- a single worm, bird, as many of them are no indeed. At last the big blackbird could stand I his was a nice, slim, ladylike black- it no longer. bird, who didn't look one bit quarrel- He swooped down from the tree. He some or fussy. ruffled his feathers and blew out his "I don't feel really hungry," she as- chest till he looked twice his usual sured herrlf, "yet an extra worm or size. two wouldn't taste amiss: I think I'll Then he stormed at the industrious Wise Father. Father has to weir his whiskers Ju: mother tells him to; Father's can't buy clothes while mother thinks his !at year's suit will do; Not till ma consents can father have a necktie that Is new. Mother never thinks of asking father how to wear her hair: Fhe Rets dresses when she wants them and decides what kind to wear; Iad Is wise and knows it wouldn't do him any good to care. cratch a little here. So she pecked and he scratched and she flecked away the dirt with her glossy black bilL Not very far away a big. squawlcy. bossy blackbird stood watching pro ceedings'. "If that little blackbird down there digs up any good worms," he said to ! himself. "I'll be ready. I'll dart down and gobble them up in a hurry." So he watched very carefully Now of course the ladylike blackbird (didn't know about being watched or if she did, she pretended she didn't, which is nearly the same thing. So she 'went on diggmg and digging. and didn t find a single worm. "This is very stupid," she said to her self, "I wonder if I better look else where." She cocked her head and thought a mirMite. "No, I believe I'll tay right here, maybe there are good worms further down ; I'll just try a bit deeper." So she went on digging nd digging, and didn't find a single worm. Now, the blackbird tip in the tree bird. What Hs Would Do. "What would you do," asked the lieutenant who was instructing the class In aviation, "if you were up a thousand feet in the air and the steer ing gear should go wrong w the en gine should fall?" "I'd hit the earth In about twinty seconds, I'm thlnkin'," replied Ser geant McXfanus. Generous of Father. "Has your father said anything about the wedding present he intends to give us?" "Yes. I heard him telling mother yesterday that he thought it would be nice to give ue the piano he bought for me a couple of months ago on the installment plan, and let you make the future payrornts." "Get out cf here, -anil you.'" he squaivked at her. he 'Get out of here, will vou !" saw lier diligently oigging,. saw her stop squawked at her. lont you rat up and look into the ground a minute and all those fine worms! I mean to feast then resume her digging. on those myself." "What can it be she has found?" he The Indvlike Macl.-hird turned around aid to himself. "She would never dig and looked at him. then he f-Hruped as long as that unless she knew some- her shoulders as plain a-; a bird can, and thing very fine was to be found." said, "Oh, very well, if that's the way lie cocked hi head on-one side and you feel about it," and flrvv awav. 'watched her shrewdly. The big. bossv llarkhird started dig- I "I wonder if the has found a worm gif'g. digit:g and digging, and didn't and eaten it up right -.let my nose?" find a single worm. The more he thought about it the angrier he grew and the more certain Tomorrow A Moonlight Party. Reasonable Suspicion. "1 don't know what to think of my husband." "Why?" "He seems almost too good lately to be true. When I got him to help trie rearrange eome of the furniture yesterday ho skinned his knuckles ind didn't hiamo it on me." New Wise Precaution. "Have you ever found that Torlt was impolite?" "No; I've always made it a rule to get ut cf the town before ail of my money was gone." "Smyrne a. Co. nre going to erect a five story building." "Will it pay?" "That's nnother story." Philadelphia Ledger. He thnr blows upon dust this hu eyes with it Danish. Trovero. . OUT CAMS THE DRAWER WITH THE PAPERS. carry back at once he would toss It into this pigeonhole. One day he put a pocket compass In there. In tak ing it out he noticed that the nee dle was deflected. There was not a bit of metal near enough to affect it sensibly, and Carr was at a loss to un derstand the deflection. The young man moved the compass to the right and to the left, the needle holding the same position toward the pigeonhole. Putting his hand into the latter, he discovered that it did not extend the full depth of the desk. But on examining the other pigeonholes in line with it he found that none of them extended farther back. He tried the magnet on them all, but without any noticeable effect except on the one in question. Xow, what Edward Carr did not know abont old desks was not worth knowing. lie was aware that many of them contained secret drawers. He was also aware that some of these drawers instead of being made of wood were made of metal. He believed that the needle of his compass was attract ed by a metal drawer. At any rate, there was some metal substance there that influenced It. Taking up a pen holder, he began to poke about on the back of the pigeonhole. After doing this for some time he struck the upper right hand corner, and the whole sur face comprising the end of the com partment pressed forward against his penholder. When it had come as far as it could he took it out and found it to be a drawer made of steel. It was filled with papers yellow with age. Carr fell to examining the contents. The first paper he opened contained a flower that had evidently been there for many years. Carr wondered what the story was connected with it and passed on to the next It was a let ter from a son to his father promising, if forgiven for past sins, to mend his ways. ' On striking the next document Carr assumed that he had come upon some thing of importance. It was the will of one Teter Carson, executed fifty years before, making a few small be quests and leaving the rest of his es tate to Emily Marston. Here was n will that had been locked up for half a century. Doubtless the testator had died long ago and the es tate had gone to the heirs at law, the renl heir getting nothing. Possibly there was a 'later will. If so this one was of no value. Quite likely the prop erty involved had passed into certain hands, and would It not be better that the will should be destroyed? Might it not be better that the possessors should not be disturbed? Then suddeuly the remembrance of j to pay the debt she owed, she finally ! Nicholas' Carson legally dad, and tlx property was turned over to her. Tin report made no mention of Eni!i Marston, but upon inquiry Carr lears. ed that she was a yoncg woman win had taken care of Carson, who wj old and feeble. At the time of death surprise was manifested that at bad made no provision for her. Of all these persons th last nam4 was the one in which Edward Cart was most interested, thongh it appear ed that at Peter Carson's death sh was given no special importance. H learned that ten years after bis de cease she had married. She, too, bad died, leaving one child, a daughter, who would now be about twenty yean' of age. On learning this Carr was at ones struck with the idea tbat the girl wnc had tried to bey the desk might hi this daughter of Emily Marston anj the real beir to Peter Carson's estate, which bad been considerable at hit death and in the forty-six years that had elapsed since had doubled. Itwat now in possession of Mary Cowdry, an old woman and still unmarried. To look for the girl who had bid aa the desk would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but it was not difficult to get the name of Emily Marston's daughter, and it was found to be Emily Peck. Her address was obtained from a directory. One afternoon Miss Peck, who was a schoolteacher, had Just returned from school when a maid brought her the card of Edward G. Carr. Xerer having heard of Mr. Carr, she thought there must be some mistake, but west down Into the parlor. Carr saw before him the girl who had tried to buy the desk. She did not recognize him, though he recognte. ed her at once. "I think I have seen you before," hs said. "Indeed! Where?" "At an auction where I bought a desk." "Oh, you bought that desk, did yonT "Yes. May I ask you why you wish, ed itr "The desk belonged to an old gentle man, Peter Carson. My mother, a a young girl, took care of him. He told . her tbat be had provided for her in his. will, but no will was found. Sh ex pected to find It in his desk, but it was not there. v The desk was bought by the person whose effects were sold at the auction I attended. I recognized it from my mother's description of it and thought I would like to buy it since my mother told me she believed there was a secret drawer in it and that secret drawer might contain a will." "I should be happy to assist yon in examining the desk," said Carr, who had a scheme of bis own for impart ing the Information he bad for ber. "I am living with my mother, and if yon will come to our home we will make an investigation." The young lady brightened up and assented joyfully. Carr kept her talk ing about the situation till her dioher was announced, when he left ber. The next day 6he called at the Carrs', was received by Mrs. Carr and taken to Edward's room, where stood the desk. Carr began to tap here and there for a secret spring, but, gaining no result, took up his pocket compass. Then be showed his visitor that the needle was deflected and told her that there was metal near it. Following this up with the poking as he had done when be made the discovery, out ca me the draw er with the papers in It just as he had found them. Handing the drawer to the excited girl, she ran over the papers till she found the will and opened it and saw that she was the possessor of a splendid estate. Then she fell back in a state of col lapse. Mary Cowdry was not especially sor ry that an heir had been found. The estate was of no especial use to her, and she had no one to whom to leare it. She agreed, in consideration of Miss Peck's settling an annuity upon her sufficient for her support, to turn the property over without any rroces of law. This arrangemeut was carried out, and Emily Marston's daughter stepped from the position of school teacher to millionairess. When the beneficiary came to ask Edward Carr what she could do for him to show ber appreciation of what he had done for her be said that she had done a great deal all she could do already. He had been told and baa believed that he would be nothing but a putterer and would never be of usa to himself or any oue else. He bad the satisfaction of having brought rightful heir to her estate, ami tbat was quite enough for a man of whom nothing whatever had been expected. Whether or not the heiress was caught by this frank modesty, whether s considered that there was but one war the youns woman who had bid on the desk nnd seemed greatly disappoint ed at not getting it popped up before Carr's mind's eye. Might "she not be Emily Marston? He smiled as it oc curred to him that Emily Marston could not be less than fifty years old. Hut the girl and the desk and the will all got tansled up In Parr's brain and he could not separate them. Carr waa not long in deciding on the right way to treat this case. He went to a lawyer and asked him to look un the estate of Peter Carson. It waa found that Peter Carson had died forty years before without a will. The heir lit law was a son. Xicaa Carann who had gone to the bad. An effort had leeu made to find him at the time of bis father's death, but it had been unavailing. There being no proof of Nicholas Car- sou's death, the estate had remained in cbaucery for ten years, when the r.ext and ouly heir at law. Marv Oow- tfry. spinster daughter of Peter Car son's sister, succeeded in obtaining from thjjourta.a, document declarJag 1 discharged it bv giving herself to tw man who had made her rich. Sb takes great pleasure in humoring husband's taste for old things, and. as for the desk In which the will wsa found, she has had it Inlaid with gold June 2 in American History. 1778 General John Sullivan asaomea command of all the American Rev olutionary forces operating on tba Canadian border. 1S18 John Godfrey Saxe, humorous poet, born: died 1SS7. 1S0O Matt Morgan, noted cartoonist, died; born 1844. Near a Dsslina, Tin rather afraid OJara--Ter d Vere is going Into a decline." "Why do you think sor" Ton going to propose -o .lr:u' renin g It J- get atMne.S-Jud2-" o