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nX?MK.^x^x.<.*.xK?x~XK-x~x~x~x-x^x??*?X'<:?***?>**<fr<,<>,fr*&*^< | WE CLOSE AT 5 P.M. SATURDAYS AT I P.M. ?j | A Mammoth August j ! f i f ? I i Will ho inaugurated by us tomorrow ami will be continued dur ing the entire month?in order to make room for our incoming fall stock. 1 Jig money-saving opportunities in every department, and with this there is Credit for Every Oflie* Terms arranged to suit your personal means without any ex tra charge. Mattings. Refrigerators and Ice Chests. We are quoting exceptionally low prices 011 all Refrigerators and Ice Chests. The backwardness of the sum mer season has left us with too large a stock of these goods for this time of the year, and we must reduce our stock to make room for incoming fall goods. We have all sizes and styles, of sev 1254c., 25c., 18c., cral reliable makes, with zinc, porcelain and enamel linings. Big* assortment of China and Japan Mattings; im mense variety of patterns; good wearing qualities. 20c., 25c. per yard up. I 2 liig bargains In (Jo-Carts and Itaby Carri.-.ges; also special re duced pr- es on all separate Lace Covers and Parasols. Handsome Go-Cart, exactly like illustration; close woven body, with heavy roll on each side. best gearing, only. $7. I'phnlst^red Corner Chair, ma hogany finish frame, cov ered with fancy damask. .$2.< This solid oak Extension Table, neatly carved legs, very (C Qg good finish, for 3-fold Screens, solid oak frames, silkoline, tilling, only Hardwood Lawn Swing, rt? ?J jjg very substanUal, only Solid Oak Sideboard, at carv ings. good finish, only. French plate mirror, neat carv- $12.25 Handsome Oak Chiffonier; flvo roomy drawers; French plate mirror, and well finished, only $7.95 CasSi or Credit. Complete Homefurnsshers. House <& Herrmann, Seventh and I (Eye) Streets N.W. 11 KEEPING BEES IN LONDON. Cost of Maintaining a Hive in the English Metropolis. From the I>>dU*?u M.i 11, The pleasures of life In I-ondon seem des tined to he augmented. Judging by the num ber of Inquiries respecting the cost of keep ing bees within the metropolitan urea. Timid householders, whose only knowledge of agriculture 1s that the bee stings are un pleasant will And ltttr? comfort In the fact that bees do not come under the cate gory of legal "nuisances," and that their neighbors may keep as many as they please wherever they like. Moreover, the cost is encouragingly small. For about 3'>s, one may start a business like hive, containing three pounds of bees, there lieing 4..H?? bees to the pound. A tritilnn: sum Invested with the British Bee keepers' Association Insures the owner HK-iltist any personal or material damage that the b?-es may cause. A few days ago the association paid for a foal which was Worried to death by a member's bees. Kdwln Young, the secretary, relates how A swarm of bees, finding a defective bung In a cask of sugar weighing pounds, ate the whole contents. On another occasion the light of a railway signal attracted a swarm, which invaded the lamp !n such numbers that an approaching express train was pulled up, the driver being In doubt as to whether the signal showed rod or green. In consonance with the prevailing spirit of International amity, queen bees are being Imported from Italy, and their "princesses" will this month mate with British drones. Nearly all' the English queens have been dethroned by alien pretenders, and It Is es timated that in u short time there will re main few bees In England that have not foreign blood In their veins. The. again, fJermany is sending to this country larger quantities of honey, and In many ways the busy British bee is feeling the universal pinch of foreign competition. FEW ORDERS FOR SHIPS. No Contract Let for Foreign Trade In Two Years. The New York Tribune says: I.lttle of an encouraging nature concerning ship build ing or the American merchant marine In the foreign trade of the United States is to be noted in this z ear's blue book of Amer ican shipping, which is Just from the press. Rather, Indeed. Is foreign shipping still dwindling, stnce no new vessels have been ordered for this service. The blue book, Issued annually by the Marine Review of Cleveland, contains us an introduction a careful review of conditions prevailing in these lines. GENERAL CMARLE5 KING, >\uthor.oe.A DAUGHTER oft*e -510UX CHAPTER XI. A Stop by Wire. Three days later the Infantry guard of the garrison were in sole charge. \\ ren and Sanders, with nearly fifty troopers apiece. had taken the field In compliance with telegraphic orders from Frescott. The general had established field headquarters temporarily at Camp .McDowell, down the Venle valley, and under h:s somewhat dis tant supervision four or five little columns of horse. In single file, were boring Into the fastne&en of the Mogollon and the Tonto basin. The runners had been unsuccessful. The renegades would not return. Half a dozen little nomad bands, forever out from the reservation, had eagerly welcomed these malcontents and the news they bore thnt two of their young braves had been murdered while striving to defend Natzle and I<ola. It furnished all that was needed as exi uue for instant descent upon the set tlers In the deep valleys north of thcS It o Balado. and. ail unsuspecting, all unpre pared. several of these hud met their doom. Relentless war was already l>egun, and the general lost no time In starting his horse men after the hostlles. Meantime the In fantr.v companies at the scattered posts and camps were left to "hold the fort." to protect the women, children and property, and Nell Blakely, a sore-hearted man be cause forbidden by the surgeon to attompt to go. was chafing, fuming and retarding his recovery at his lonely quarters. The men whom he most l.ked were gone, and the few among the women who might have been his friends seemed now to stand afar off. Something, he knew not what, had turned garrison sentiment against him. For a day or two, *o absorbed was he In his chagrin over Graham's verdict and the general's telegraphic orders In the case, Mr Blakely never knew or noticed that anything else was amiss. Then, too, there had been no opportunity of meeting garri son folk except the few officers who drop ped In to Inquire civilly how ho was pro gressing xiie bandages were off, but the plaster still disfigured one side of his face and neck. He could not go forth and seek society There was really only one girl at the post whose society he cared to seek. He had his books and his bugs, and that, said Mrs. Mrldger. was "all he domanded and more than he deserved." To think that the very room so recently sacred to the son and heir should be transformed Into what that Irate little woman called a "beetle ?hop!" It was one of Mr. Iflakely's unpar donable sins In the eyes of the sex that be found bo much to Interest him In a pur suit that neither Interested nor Included them. A man with brain and a bank ac count had no right to live alone, Bald Mrs. Sanders, she having a daughter of mar riageable nge. If only moderately preposs essing All this had the women to complain of In him before the cataclysm that, for the time at least, had played havoo with his good looks. All this he knew and bore with philosophic and whimsical stoicism. But all this and more could not account for the phenomenon of averted eyes and constrain ed. If not freezing, manner when. In the dusk of the late autumn evening. Issuing suddenly from his quarters, he came face to face with a party of four young women under escorj of the post adjutant?Mrs. Brldger and Mrs. Truman foremost of tho four and 11 rut to receive ills courteous, yet half embarrassed, greeting. They had to stop for half a second, as they later said, because really he confronted them, all un Musimcted. liut the other two, Kate San ders and Mlna Westervelt, with bowed heads and without a word, scurried by lilm and passed on down the line. Doty ex plained hurriedly that they had been over to the post hospital to Inquire for Mulllns and were duo at the Sanders' now for music, whereupon Blakely begged pardon for even the brief detention, and, raising his cap, went on out to the sentry post of No. 4 to study the dark and distant upheavals In tho Ked Rock country, where, almost every night of late, the signal tires of the Apa ches were reported. Not until he was again alone did he realize that he had been al most frigidly greeted by those who spoke at all. It Bet him to thinking. Mrs. Plume was still confined to her room. The major had returned from Pres cott and. despite the fact that the regiment was afield and a clash with the hostiles Imminent, waB packing up preparatory to a move. Hooks, papers and pictures were being stored In chests, big and little, that he had had made for such emergencies. It was evident that he was expecting or ders for change of station or extended leave, and they who went bo far as to ques tion tho grave-faced soldier, who seemed to have grown ten years older In the last ten days, had to be content with the brief, guarded reply that Mr a. Plume had n<>ver been well since she set foot tn Arizona, and even though he returned, she would not. He was taking her, he said, to San Fran cisco. Of this unhappy woman's nocturnal expedition the others seldom spoke now and only with bated breath. "Sleep-walking, of course!" said everybody, no matter what everybody might thlna. But, now that Major Plume knew that In her sleep his wife had wandered up the row to tha very SLANG OF THE AEMT TERMS GENTS RALLY UNKNOWN OUTSIDE THE RANKS. Trumpeters Are "Wind Jammers"? When You Enlist You "Take a Blanket." Fort Lwireoworth Corr. Kansas City Stsr. "Shiver my timbers." "cut my barkstays," "douse my topgallant lights" and similar slang expressions of the sailor that smack of the salt water are met with frequently In reading, not only in the novels of Coop er and Russell and other writers of sea life, but In lighter stories of the sea, which appear in magazines and the press. "Why is It that similar expressions used by the brother of the Bailor, the soldier, are so seldom met with? Certainly not because the soldier has not a "patter" of his own, for there are to be fou.id in the daily tallc of the "wearer of the army blue" (or rath er the wearer of the olive drab," since the color of the uniform has been changed) many expressions that to the uninitiated would need an interpreter. Few Writers Use These Terms. Probably with the exception of the writ ings of Capt. King, whose stories of army life are widely read, there is not a writer who makes use of any of the odd expres sions used by the soldier. Many of these terms are not "parlor talk." Some are so old that when one tries to trace up their origin the old grayheaded soldier will tell you that tho expression was In use when he took his "first blanket." which, being trans lated. means when he first enlisted. Some of the terms have a logical meaning: others, if they ever had any, cannot be traced now. When a man "takes a blanket he has enlisted for the regular term of ser vice. The government gives to each man a blanket in his clothing allowance when he enlists. If he "takes on" again he "takes another blanket." The youngest man in the company is "the kid.? ,?Ju est "dad." The first sergaent is called the top." Tho captain, if ho Is liked, is called the "old man." no matter what his age. What he is called if he is not liked, that is among tho men in tho privacy of the bar racks. can be better Imagined than print ed. Potatoes Are "Spuds." Irish stew, which the men get quite often, is termed "slum;" potatoes, "spuds." Many officers get the men of their companies to do a little work about the house, such as attending to the furnace, watering the grass and going to the quartermaster's for supplies, for which work these men are paid. Many men are desirous of getting this extra money, which they earn outside of their regular soldier duty. These men used to be called "dog robbers." This term originated in tho early days of tho army, when such men were looked down upon by their fellow soldiers, as they were supposed to rob the dop of what came off the table, such men getting many a nice meal in tho kitchen of the officer they worked for. The term now more generally used is "striker. Until a new man hits passed out of tho "awkward squad" into the company he is called a "rookie," and woo unto tho "rookie" who tries to talk too much and to get Into discussion too soon with the old men of the company. One of the first things that will be told him Is "to shut up till your name is drv on your enlistment paper." Kach man signs to the oath administered when he is sworn Into the service. Two men who are chums are called "bunkles." This term originated in tho olden days of the army when the hunks occupied by the enlisted men were double ones. Two men slept side by side. Now each man has a separate bunk, but the term still stays and Is often used by men whose bunks are side by side. "Bunkies" alway3 have a pipeful of tobacco for each other when a moment before they may have told some other fel low that they had not enough tobacco "to put under your nail." What one has the other sliares. A Deserter "A Skipper." A man who enlists in the winter for a home and deserts in the spring is called a "snowbird." Any deserter is "a skipper." The guard house la called "the mill. ' This term must have been first applied by some men who thought that the mill of Justice ground very slowly as his term of confine ment went on. If a man is sentenced by a court-martial to a forfeiture of one month's pay and 10 be confined In the guard house for a month, his sentence is termed "a month and a month." Trumpeters are called "wind jammers." and when a man is told by a non-commls sioned officer to "get your blanket" he knows he is going "to the mill." When a guard tour has been completed the men say. "One more shingle on the White House." What this term means or where it originated cannot be ascertained from the oldest man In tho army. It has been used for generations. A dishonorably discharged man Is termed "a bobtail." In past years there was only one kind of a discharge blank. At the bottom of the dis charge Is a blank space under the word "character." where the company com mander wrote Jthe character of the man during his fern* of service. If this had been dishonorable' that pnrt of the dis charge blank *arf Cut off; hence a "bob tall." Now ther*' urt different styles of discharge for different vases, but the "bob tail" still stays. Al. A Year rim* "A Butt." In counting the ^gjiji of time left before a man's time of>.service will expire any time under a year- ir- called "a butt." You will hear a man saV. ''I have a year and a butt yet." or "I only a butt left to put In." Some n>4n njuke it a business of lending money to others. This business is not countenanced;, but is carried on Just the same. The twm* are Shylock to an extreme. For example. If a man borrows a dollar he pays back two on pay day. This Is called "cent per cent." In many posts where there are quarters for some of the married soldiers, such .lien are allowed to have their wives live ca the reservation in the quarters set aside for them in one part of the post. Such wives wash for the men. This collection of quar ters is called "Sudsville." And so on tills list of odd terms might be continued, but enough have been given to show that the soldier is as good at making up a "patter" of his own as Is his brother who sails the briny daep with a thought that he may end his days in "Davy Jones' locker." ILL-TREATED TREES. Ideas Held by New Yorkers on the Subject of Arboriculture. Prom the New York Tribune. Some otherwise intelligent people seem to have queer notions about trees. We are not sure whether they think trees require for their welfare treatment identical with that of lamp posts and telegraph poles, or that they regard a tree In a city street as a public enemy which should be de stroyed. They surely must hold one or the other of these views, or else their actions grossly belie their beliefs. Here are some examples of the treatment given to trees in a choice residence streot In one of the best parts of the city: A few of the trees have each as much as a couple of square yards of soil about them, grass less, of course, and packed as hard and made as impervious to water as so much well-puddled clay. In some cases the open squares originally left about the trees have been carefully filled In with bits of flagging, close up to the trees all around. In some cases the squares have been carefully filled with concrete or artificial stone, fitting water tight. If not airtight, around the trees. In some cases the large true trunks have carefully been trimmed square with a broadax, so that the straight edges of flag stones may tit closely against them. It may be added that these are all fine speci mens of elm. linden and other trees. Be fore the sidewalks were thus adjusted to their trunks they were thriving almost as luxuriantly as though they were in their native forests. Now they are beginning to die and the people are removing some of them, saying that "there's no use in trying to grow trees in the city, anyway." Perhaps they are right. Perhaps a city ought to be an unbroken expanse of ma sonry and asphalt, with not a tree nor a shrub nor a blade of grass within its bounds. The parks should be cleared off and covered with asphalt for roller skating rinks. It would cost a great deal less to maintain them in that condition. Perhaps the people, too, might be varnished or coat ed from head to foot with some waterproof and alrproof preparation. Then they would not need air or water, but would die as theso trees are dyiug. and it would cost a great deal less to keep them so. AN" ODD COLLECTION. Why a Book Lover Buys Old Bibles and Hymn Books. From the Detroit Free Press. "All book collectors have their weak nesses," remarked a man who is often seen poring over the sidewalk counters of sec ond-hand book shops, "and mine, I confess, runs in the line of old Bibles and hymn books. Not particularly because they are Bibles and hymn books, but because I simply can't stand it to see such books tossed about as dusty, almost worthless second hand goods. Except In the case of rare old Bibles or quite ancient hymn books, such books cost but a aide. Religious books, as a rule, are almost unsalable In a second hand shop, and I buy a great many, only, however, such as contain family names and Inscriptions of a pathetlo character. "My first purchase of the kind was an Episcopal prayer book, battered and torn, with the name of an old friend of mine In gilt on the cover. It gave me a shock to find it on a second-hand counter, so I paid the required dime and carried It home. The man is dead and his children are living In other cities, well-to-do. I have no Idea how ills prayer book became public prop erty. People are queer. I offered It to a remote relative of the former owner, but she said she didn't care about it. Since then I have bought in other old family Bibles and hymn books which belonged to people I had known or which contained in teresting written matter. It is pitiful to see a Bible Inscribed To my dear son Henry, from his devoted mother." or 'Eliza beth. from a loving father,' or 'IJttle Wil liam's birthday gift to Uncle William.' "When these books come into my hands I erase or tear out the inscriptions, and If my shelf of old Bibles and hymn books ever gets started out again as 'religious Junk' it will he anonymous and wanting In that distressing quality which has made me, perhaps, absurdly sentimental over It." HE MADE A START MAY mattb A RAILROAD PRESI DENT SOME TIME. He Had a College Education, but He Took an Office Boy's Place. From the Atlanta Constitution. It all occurred In the Atlanta railroad world, and It bo happened that the Con stitution man was In on the first chapter. It was this ways One of the officials of the road sat in his chair dictating to a young man tho while he sorted with skillful hands and a quick eye certain typewritten sheets of brownish paper that in the railroad world mean orders. "It will be impossible to hold IK> for the time you suggest, but II you can guarantee l'io we will run a sec ond section that will make the eastern con nections." The dry monotono of the dic tator was broken by the appearance of a clerk in the doorway who, with the pause, announced a waiting visitor. The face of the official wore a bored expression as he finished the letter and then touched an electric button for the caller to be shown in. "How are yon?" he said affably as he greeted the first of the two personages; "what's the good word?" "Why, I've got a boy here who wants to be a railroad president," was the re sponse, "and I want you to make one out of him." "By appointment or promotion: asked the railroad official, trying hard to look pleasant no matter how painful. Material a Little Raw. "Well, the material's a little raw for the flrst," the father laughed, "and I reckon the sudden change would be a little stiff on Willy. Shake hands with him, any way." Tho official and the raw material got to gether as directed and the former slxed up the latter from his patents to the well deflned part that ran through the center of his hair with the quick, scutinlaing glance that comes with a long practical training in the railroad world. lie paused for a moment at the crimson tie that was backed up against a pink shirt waist. "Don't appear to bo much sign of oil or cinders," he commented. "Where did you work last?" "Never have worked,_ sir. I ve Just left college about a month." "Don't let that discourage you." returned the official. "We have men on the road who have succeeded in spite of college training. What can you do?" "Nothing more than try." The official turned to the father. l suppose he has always shown a wonder ful love for railroads. Used to beg his nurse to take him where he could see the wheels go round and knows the number or at least three of the trains on the main line. They all do that." said the official, and to the close observer it was evident that there was a tired If not sarcastic tone In his voice like that which comes at the end of a long day of dictating orders and letters. , "No," answered the father. I don t re member ever hearing anything of the kind. Willy has made considerable mistakes ofi and on. but I never heard him accused of being a genius. How about it, son? "Not on purpose, dad. I've been reading law lately, and It has taken me Just 0110 month to find out that I n&v^r was Intended for a lawyer." Offered Office Boy's Place. "Well, if you're looking for something easy, It won't take you two days to learn that railroading ia about as near ihe hard est work in the world with a sick headache thrown In that you have yet missed In your search for employment. I don't know that we can do anything for you. anyway. You see, the president of this corporation Is not only giving excellent satisfaction to the directors, but is enjoying excellent health, and that position is not vacant. In fact I don't know of a single opening unless it is that of office boy. Our present incumbent is off on his vacation, and his substitute refused to clean up a muss I carelessly made, on the ground that he ' did not break Into fhe railroad business to Income a nigger porter. The result was that I had to let this Napoleon of tho future seek new fields to conqner, while I did the work he refused to do. When it conies to work you ^rill find that railroad men are Just about as common as the rock ballast used on heavy grades, and there's a deal more have graduated from overalls and Jumpers than have got degrees, al though I don't deny that the theoretical training is a great thing to refer to after you have forgotten some of the unnecessary information acquired. A college education Is a good deal like a good woman, she may make a great appearance while you are engaged, but you never know how much she Is really worth in a practical way until long after you've been married. Now, If you wanted to take that office boy's place, it may be I could get you a Job as a section hand or perhaps as a flagman by the time the regular boy cornea back?that Is. if you want to learn the railroad business." "I'll take It and thank you, sir." The official looked up. and although he may have been astonished, he did not show It. It's another characteristic of the rail road man that he wears the same mask In times of great pleasure, tragic excite ment, and dally duty. Started in at Once. "When can you start In?" he asked. "I'm ready right now. If you're without a boy, I at len#t know the way to the post office, and I dare say carrying the mall is one of his duties. I don't know at all that I'll be rerjr quick to learn, but I'm not afraid to do any kind of sweeping or clean ing up. I reckon that'll Just about tit my measure, and If there is a chance as a flagman, I'd thank you If you would keep me In mind. Can I start in now?" The official called In one of tho clerks outside and told him to break the new boy In. After he had left he turned to the father and said: "That boy's got a mind Just sudden enough to make a railroad man, and if he always backs up his Judg ment with as quick action as in this par ticular case, he'll do. That Is, if he sticks. I had no mor? Idea of his taking the Job than anything In the world. It's ratlwr re freshing to Imj disappointed that way now and then. Most of the applicants talk a lot about the beginning at the bottom and work up system, but what they really are after Is an appointment to something easy. And they always find that we're out of easy things. If you'll wait a few minutes while I open the way for a party of Masons in the south to travel to some seashore re sort In the east without having to change cars more than once or wait anywhere for more than thirty minutes between connec tions I'll take you up to the Transporta tion Club for lunch." Several days later the railroad man for The Constitution found Willy still In the office as proof that he had stuck. More than that, he learned that he had? But that Is quite a different story. FISH CLIMB TO REACH WATER. Old Angler Tells Story to Prove Pisca torial Reasoning Power. From th? New Orleans TlraeaDemorat. "Fishes have more sense than they are credited with having," said an old angler, "and my experience has taught me not to put much faith In the statement that they only know things from the vibration due to concussion. I think they reason In some way or other. I don't know Just how It Is. I am satisfied that nature has not been particularly extravagant In the matter of giving fish Intelligence. Besides, I know that their eyes are 'flat,' and they can see but very little. I suppose the eye of the flsh Is worse. If anything, than the eye of the reptile. But taking all these things Into consideration. I am convinced from little things I have observed that the flsh Is a pretty wise member and that he at least knows what Is good for him when ho Is confronted by tho blunt Issue of surviving or not surviving. Why is It that a flsli al ways flounders toward tho water? That's the point I have in mind, and It Is the one fact above all others that has convinced me that the flsh has more sense than we think. I have never seen a fish that would not flounder toward tho water. "I know two answers will be made to this suggestion. Ono is that there Is generally a slope toward the water, and that hence tho force of gravity determines the direc tion of the fish's movement. And the other Is a primary reason?the matter of Instinct, as distinguished from reason. These ex planations do not satisfy me. In the first place I reject the theory whir-h makes a difference between Instinct and reason. I cannot tell the difference between the at tributes. so much are they alike. In the second place. I want to tell you that I have seen flsh floundering up hill. Why? Simply because they were forced to flounder up hill In order to get back Into tho water. Does a flsh know anything about direction and distance? I think so. I have seen them Jump and flounder up hill. Inch after Inch, until they got back to the edge of the stream out of which they had been Jerked. It may bo what some of the writers call 'Instinct,' but to save my soul I can't call 'Instinct' from what we are accustomed to regard as reason In higher forms of life." Up-to-Date Smugglers. From the London Graphic. The latest use to which the high-speed automobile has been put in France Is smuggling. A few days ago a motor car with a large quantity of tobacco on board rushed past the custom house station at Hazelruck at sixty miles an hour, and had disappeared before the astonished custom house officers had realized what had hap pened. The smugglers had covered ths au tomobile with a sacking, so that it was Impossible to telegraph Its number or de scription to the authorities farther on. As the custom house offices were con vinced that tho smugglers would repeat their exploit they prepared to arrest their progress by holding a length of wire rope In readiness to bar the route. Their ex pectations were realized. On Monday last the same automobile was seen coming down the road like a whllrwind. The custom house officers brought out their wlro rope, but showed it too soon. The smuggler chauffeurs noticed It, wheeled to the right, ran alongside the railway, then shot across the line at a lever crossing, and disap peared on French territory in a cloud of dust. 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LATEST ABOUT BRAINS. Observations on the Relation of SkullS to the Mental Powers. From the l-omlon Kipma. Man's curiosity Is naturally boundless concern'njr tils brain, which Is believed to bo the seat and the token of that mental power which makes hlm the undisputed king of the earth. If the brain were really such a box of drawers as Home phrenolo gists have assumed, with everything In its place and all possible faculties accounted for. human heads could be classified as readily as plants, and nobody could fall to distinguish between them any more than one can fall to select roses from lilies. One might predict absolutely from a glance at his head that a given young man must become a great financier or a poet or a philosopher with no more danger of a mistake than In asserting that one treo will produce acorns and another apples. Hut the shrewder sort of phrenolog sea tliat this will not do. and so they endeavor to modify the liases of their science to suit the Infinitely varied facts of human nature and development. The real progress In brain-study Is made by those who undertake the work as far as possible, without any preconceived and p re perfected theory to lead or mislead them. Dr. If. Mantlegka has recently published I11 the "Proceedings of the lloyal Sc'enliflo Society of Bohemia" some remarkable ob servations on the relations of the weight of the brain and the size and shape of the skull to the mental powers of man. Those Investigations show the Importance of good feeding to brain development. The brain cannot do its work without an abund ant supply of pure, well-nourished blood. Other things being enual. a heavier brain implies greater mental power, and I>r. Man tlegka finds that persons employed In in dustries where the nourishment of the body Is apt to be insufficient and the muscular exercise slight, snow, as a rule, higher brains than do more favorably circum stanced persons. Blacksmiths and metal workers In gen eral have heavier brains than coachmen: but the latter exceed carpenters In brain weight, and carpenters exceed persons em ployed In clothing industries, while at the bottom of his scale stand those who are engaged In the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks, who are apt to do more or less drinking themselves. It would also appear that the weight of the brain may be increased by the d rect exercise of its own function, men of mental training showing, as a rule, greater bra n weight than others. It should be remem bered that the size of the head cannot be taken as a trustworthy Index of the weight of the brain. The organic quality is the main thing. In Temperance Town. From the Chicago News. "That drug clerk Is a chump. I kept winking my eye for a "stick" In the soda," ""Did he give it to you?" "No. He sajd there must be something the matter with my eyes and directed ine to the optical department." Bacon?"We've formed a life-saving corps in our town." Egbert?"What are you talking about! There Isn't any water within ten miles o? your town!" "I know it; but there are lots of auto mobiles coming out that way."?Yonkers Statesman. CUT THIS OUT AND KEEP IT. YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS 5T0RY LATER IF NOT NOW. door?the back door?of Mr. Blakely's quar ters, was It not strange that he had taken no pains to prevent a recurrence of so com promising an excursion, for strange stories were afloat. Sentry No. 4 had heard and told of a feminine voice, "somebody cryin' like." in the darkness of midnight about Blakely's and Norah Shaughnessy?re turned to her duties at the Trumans. yet worrying over the critical condition of her trooper lover, and losing thereby muc-h needed Bleep?had gained some new and startling Information. One night she had heard, another night she had dimly seen, a visitor received at Blakely's back door, and that visitor a woman, with a shawl about her head. Norah told her mistress, who very properly bade her never refer to it again to a soul, and very promptly re ferred to It herself to several souls, one of them Janet Wren. Janet, still virtuously averse to Blakely, laid the story before her brother the very day he started on the war path. and Janet was startled to see that she was telling him no news whatever. "Then, indeed." said she. "it Is high time the major took his wife away," and Wren sternly bade her hold her peace, she knew not what she was saying! But, said Camp Sandy, who could It have been but Mrs. Piume or, possibly, Elise? Once or twice In Its checkered past Camp Sandy had had Its romance, Its mystery. Indeed Its s&ndals, but this was something that put In the shado all previous episodes; this shook San dy to its very foundation, and this, despite her brother's prohibition, Janet Wren felt It her duty to detail In full to Angela. To do her Justice, It should be said that Miss Wren had striven valiantly against the impulse?had Indeed mastered It for several hours?but the sight of the vivid blush, the eager Joy in the sweet young face when Blakely's new "striker" handed In a note addressed to Miss Angela Wren, proved far too potent a factor In the un doing of that magnanimous resolve. The girl fled with her prize, lnstanter, to her room, and thither, as she did not reappear, the aunt betook herself within the hour. The note itself was nelthor long nor effusive ?merely a bright, cordial, friendly missive, protesting against the Idea that any apolo gy had been due. There was but one line which could be considered even mildly sig nificant. "The little net," wrote Blakely, "has now a value that It never had before." Yet Angela was snuggling that otherwise unimportant billet to her cheek when the creaking stairway told her portentously of a solemn coming. Ten minutes more and the note was lying neglected on the bureau, and Angela stood at her window, gazing out over dreary miles of almost desert landscape, of rock and shale and sand and cactus, with eyes from which the light had fled, and a new. strange trouble biting at her girlish heart. Confound No. 4?and Norah Shaughnessyi It had been arranged that when the Plumes were ready to start Mrs. Daly and her daughter, the newly widowed and the fatherless, should be sent up to Prescott and thence across the desert to Ehrenberg. on the Colorado. While no hostile Apaches had been seen west of the Verde valley, there were traces that told that they were watching the road as far at least as the Agua Frla, and a sergeant and six men had been chosen to go as escort to the little convoy. It had been supposed that Plume would prefer to start In the morning and go as far as Stemmer's ranch, la the Agua Frla valley, and there rest his Invalid wire until another day, thus breaking the fifty mile stage through the mountains. To the surprise of everybody, the Dalys were warned to be In readiness to start at five In the morning, and to go through to Prescott that day. At five In the morning, therefore, the quartermaster's ambulance was at the post trader's house, where the recently be reaved ones had l?een harbored since poor Daly's death, and there, with their generous host, was the widow's former patient. Blakely, full of sympathy and solicitude, come to say good-bye. Plume's own Con cord appeared almost at the instant In front of his quarters, and presently Mrs. Plume, veiled and obviously far from strong, came forth leaning on her husband's arm, and closely followed by Ellse. Then, despite the early hour, and to the dismay of Plume, who had planned to start without farewell demonstration of any kind, lights were blinking in almost every house along the row, and a flock of women, some tender and sympathetic some morbidly curious, had gathered to wish the major's wife a pleasant Journey and a speedy re covery. They loved her not at all. and liked her none too well, but she was 111 and sor rowing, so that was enough. Ellse theycould not bear, yet even Ellse came In for a kind ly word or two. Mrs. Graham was there, big-hearted and brimming over with helpful suggestion, burdened also with a basket of dainties. Captain and Mrs. Cutler, Captain and Mrs. Westerven. the Trumans both. Doty, the young adjutant, Janet Wren, of course, and the ladlps of the cavalry, the major's rerlment, without exception, were on hand to bid tha major and his wife good bye. Angela Wren was not feeling well, explained her aunt, and Mr. Nell Blakely was conspicuous by his absence. It had been observed that, during those few days of hurried,packing and prepara tion, Major Plume had not once gone to Blakely's quarters. True, he had visited only Dr. Grahamr and had begged him to explain that anxiety on account of Mrs. Plume prevented tils making the round of farewell calls; but that he was thoughful of others to th& latft was shown in this: Plume had asked Captain Cutler, com mander of the post, to order the release of that wretch Donna. "He has been pun Ushed quite sufficiently, I think," said Plume, "and as I was Instrumental In his arrest I ask his liberation." At tattoo, therefore, the previous evening "the wretch" had been returned to duty, and at five in the morning was found hovering about the major's quarters. When invited by the Bergeant of the guard to explain, he replied, quite civilly for him, that it was to say good-bye to Ellse. "Me and her," said he, "has been good friends-" Presumably he had had his opportunity at the kitchen door before the start, but still he lingered, feigning professional interest in the condition of the sleek mules that were to haul the Concord over fifty miles of rugged road, up hill and down dale, before the setting of the sun. Then, while the officers and ladles clustered thick on one side of the black vehicle. Downs sidled to the other, and the big black eyes of the Er.enchwoman peered down at him a mo ment as she leaned toward him, and, with a whispered word, slyly dropped a little folded packet into his waiting palm. Then, as though impatient. Plume shouted "All right. Go on!" The Concord whirled away, and something like a sigh of relief went up from assembled Sandy, as the first kiss of the rising sun lighted on the bald pate of Squaw Peak, hugn sentinel of the. valley, looming from the darkness and shadows and the mists of the shallow stream that slept In many a silent pool along Its mas sive, rocky base. With but a few hurried, embarrassed words. Clarice Plume had B:iid adieu to Sandy, thinking never to see It again. They stood and watched her past the one unlighted house, the northern most along the row. They know not that Mr. Blakely was at the moment bidding adieu to others In far humbler station. They only noted that, even at the last, he was not there to wave a good-bye to the woman who had once so Influenced his life. Slowly then the little group dissolved and drifted away. She had gone unchallenged ol any authority, though the fate of Mulllns still hung In the balance. Obviously, then, It was not she whom Byrne's report had Im plicated, If indeed that report had named anybody. There had been no occasion for a coroner and jury. There would have been neither coroner nor Jury to serve had they been called for. Camp Sandy stood In a little world of Its own, the only civil functionary within forty miles being a ranchman dwelling seven miles down stream, who held some territorial warrant as a Justice of the peace. But Norah Shaughnessy. from the gable window of the Trumans' quarters, shook a hard-clinching Irish fist and showered male diction after the swiftly speeding ambu lance. "Wan o' ye," she sobbed, "dealt Pat Mulllns a coward and cruel blow, and I'll know which, as soon as ever that poor bye can spake the truth." She would have said it to that hated French woman herself, had not mother and mistress both forbade her leaving the room until the Plumes wore gone. Three trunks had been stacked up and se cured on the hanging rack at the rear of the Concord. Others, with certain chests and boxes, had been loaded Into one big wagon and sent ahead. The ambulance, with the Dalys and the little escort of seven horsemen, awaited the rest of the convoy on the northward flats, and the cloud of their combined dust hung long on the scar red flanks as the first rays of the rising sun came gilding the rocks at Boulder Point, and what was left of the garrison at Sandy turned out for reveille. That evening, for the first time since his Injury, Mr. Blakely took his horse and rode away southward In the soft moonlight, and had not returned when tattoo sounded. The post trader, coming up with the latest San Francisco papers, said he had stopped a moment to ask at the store whether Schan deln, the ranchman Justice of the peace be fore referred to, had recently visited the post That evening, too, for the first time since his dangerous wound. Trooper Mulllns awoke from his long delirium, weak as a Uttle child; asked for Norah, and what tn the world was the matter with him?in bed and bandages, and Dr. Oraham, look ing into the poor lad's dim, half-opening eyes, sent a messenger to Captain Cutler's quarters to ask would the captain come at once to hospital. This was at 9 o'clock. Less than two hours later a mounte I or derly set forth with dispatches from the temporary post commander to Oatonel Byrne at Prescott. A wire from that point about sundown had announced the safe arrival oX the party from Camp Sandy. The answer, sent at 10 o'clock, broke up the game of whist at the quar ters of the Inspector general. Byrne, the recipient, gravely read It. backed from the table, and vainly strove not to see the anxious Inquiry In the eyes of Major Plume. Ills guest. But Plume cornered him. "From Sandy." he asked. "May I read It?" Byri.e 1-^sltated Just one moment, then Pi" ? paper in his Junior's hand. P' u e i 1. turned very white, and the piper fe;l "rim his trembling fingers. The message mctely said: "Mullins recovering and quite rational, though very weak. He says two women were his assailants. Courier with dis patches at once. (Signed) "CUTLER, Commanding." "It was not so much his wounds as his weakness," Dr. Graham was saying, later still that autumn night, "that led to my declaring Blakely unfit to take the field. He would have gone now in spite of me, but for the general's order. He has gone now In spite of me, and no one knows where." It was then nearly 12 o'clock, and "the bugologist" was still abroad. Dinner, as usual since his mishap, had been sent over to him from the officers' mess soon after auiuset. His horse, or rather the troop horso designated for his use, had been fed and groomed In the late afternoon, and then saddled at 7 o'clock and brought over to the rear of the quarters by a stable or derly. There had been some demur at longer sending Blakely's meals from mess, now reduced to an actual membership of two. Sandy was a "much-married" post In the latter half of the 70's. the bachelors of the commissioned list being only three, all told?Blakely and Duane of the horse, and Doty of the foot. With these was Heartburn, the contract doctor, and now Duane and the doctor were out tn the mountains rind Blakely on sick report, yet able to be about. Doty thought him able to come to mess. Blakely, thinking he looked much worse than he felt, thanks to his plastered Jowl, stood on his rights In the matter and would not go. There had been some demur on part of the stable ser geant of Wren's troop as to sending over the horse. Few officers brought eastern bred horses to Arizona In those days. The bronco was best suited to the work. An officer on duty could take out the troop horse assigned to his use any hour before taps and no questions asked; but the ser geant told Mr. Blakely's messenger that the lieutenant wasn't for duty, and It might make trouble. It did. Captain Cut ler sent for old Murray, the veteran ser geant, and asked him did he not know his orders. He had allowed a horse to be sent to a sick man?an officer not on duty? and one the doctor had warned against ex ercise for quite a time, at least. And now the officer was gone, so was the horse, and Cutler, being sorely torn up by the rev elations of the evening and dread of 111 be falling Blakely, was so Injudicious as to hint to a soldier who had worn chevrons much longer than he, Cutler, had worn shoulder straps, that the next thing to go would probably be his sergeant's bant whereat Murray went red to the roots of his hair?which "continued the march" of the color?and said, with a snap of his Jaws, that he got those chevrons, as ha did his orders, from his troop commander. A court might order them stricken off. but a captain couldn't, other than his own. For which piece of Impudence the veteran went straightway to Sudsvllle In close ar rest. Corporal Bolt was ordered to taka over his keys and the charge of the stahlea until the return of Captain '.Vren. also this order?that no government horso should bo sent to Lieutenant Blakely hereafter un til the lieutenant waa declared by the post surgeon fit for duty. There were left at the post, of each of the two cavalry trops, about a dozen men to care for the stables, the barracks and property. Seven of tlese had gone with the convoy to Prescott and, when Cutler ordered half a dozen horsemen out at mid night to follow Blakely's trail and try to tlnd him, they had to draw on both troop stables, and one of the designated men was the wretch Downs?and Downs waa not in his bunk?not anywhere about the quarters or corrals. It was nearly ono by the time the partly started down the sandy road to the south. Hart and his buck board and a sturdy brace of mules Join ing them as they passed the store. ''w? may need to bring him back in this," said he, to Corporal Quirk. "An" what did ye fetch to bring him to wldT" asked the corporal. Hart touched lightly the breast of his coat, then clucked to his team. "Faith, there's more than wan way of tappln' it then," said Qulrlc, but the cavalcade moved on. The crescent moon had lone since sunk behind the westward range, and trailing was something far too slow and tedious. The- spurred, therefore, for the nearest rar.'h, five miles down stream, making their first Inquiry there. The inmates were slow 11 arise, but quick to answer. Blakely had ? lelther been seen nor heard of. Downs they didn't wish to know at all. Indiana hadn't been near the lower valley since the "break" at the post the previous week. One of the inmates declared he had ridden alone from Camp McDowell within three daya and there wasn't a 'Patchle west of tha Matlzal. Hart did all the questioning. He was a business man and a brother. Sol diers, the ranchmen didn't like?soldiers set too much value on government property. The trail ran but a few hundred yarda east of the stream, and close to the adobe walla of the ranch. Strom, the proprietor, got out his lantern and searched below the point where the little troop had turned off. No recent hoof track, southbound, waa visible. "He couldn't have come this far," said be. "Better put back!" Put back they did, and by the aid of Hart's lantern found the fresh trail of a government-shod horse, turning to the east nearly two miles to ward home. Quirk said a bad word or two; borrowed the lantern and thoughtfully in cluded the flask; bade his men follow 10 file and plunged through the underbrush in dogged pursuit. Hart and his team now could not follow. They waited over hall an hour without sign or sound from the trailers, then drove swiftly back to the post. There was a light in the telegraph office, and thither Hart went in a hurry. Lieut. Doty, combining the duties of ad jutant and officer of the day, was up and malting the rounds. The sentries haa Just called off 3 o'clock. (To be continued townow.J