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A MEDIAEVAL
STRUGGLE
That Took Place In the Twen
tieth Century.
By F. A. I E
[Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
The Loutons of St. Louis during the
winter of 19—. after a summer spent
in Switzerland, took a palace in Flor
ence. That they could thus suddenly
pick up a palace, that they could af
ford to hire a palace, is not so startling
as might at first appear. Time was
when all fine houses iu Europe were
called palaces. Nevertheless the palace
occupied by the Loutous had been dur
ing the middle ages the abode of one
of those princes among whom Italy
was then divided. It stands on one of
the many vias, or streets, of Florence,
not far from the cathedral called the
Duorao. In Florence are various col
lections of mediae* til weapons, and ou
the ground floor of the Palazzio V.
occupied by the Loutons is a room full
of blunderbusses, swords, crossbows,
pikes, shields, battleaxes and parts of
armor.
The Loutons beina wealthy and
Jeaunette Lonton being but twenty
years old and prettj. there sprang up
at once among certain Italian gentle
men with a great deal of rank and
a correspondingly small amount of
money a spirited contest for her hand
Among these were Princes Visconti
and Strozzi. whose families had strug
gled with each other se\eral centuries
as Visconti was forty, tall. thin,
bald and wore glasses, being very
nearsighted Strozzi was thirty-two.
short, fat, high shouldered and wore
his hair pompadour and his mustaches
turned up at their waxed points a la
Mephistopbeles.
The two princes vied with each oth
er in recounting to her the glorious
deeds of their respective ancestors
True, they made no mention of the va
rious instances in which they had re
sorted to hired assassination. But
what they failed to give Jeannette
read in history and learned of thecow
ardly as well as brave deeds of those
warlike people. Gradually she came
under the influence of mediaeval
"CAN YOU BLAME ME FOR NOT BEING
ABLE TO CHOOSE?'
times. She wished she might hear the
bell clang in the campanile, calling the
citizens ot 1 lorence into the Piazza
Senora ior one of tuuie free tights
that in b.\goue dajs had strewn the
pavement with corpses, if she saw a
crowd gathered about a fallen horse
her fancy pictured a Visconti and a
Strozzi had met and fought.
Mouths passed without either of the
two suitors gaining any advantage
over the other. .Meanwhile each had
made inquiries through his bankers of
the financial standing in America of
John Louton, and the report came
back Al. When the meaning of this
was explained 10 them their love wax
ed exceedingly strong. Consequently
their rivalry grew hot and their hatred
of each other even hotter
There are people who do queer
things, whose rnotn is unintelligible
to any one else, and often they are ig
norant of it themsehes. On the one
hand, Jeannette Loutou had come uu
der the influence of fourteenth century
Florentine life: ou the other, she was
American thiougb and through. There
was a bit of spice in her makeup. Her
Italian suitors were so wrapped up in
the importance of that past from
which they derived their own impor
tance that when some ludicrous
thought concerning it came to them
from Jeannette they did not dream
that it could be interpreted save with
profound respect for the Viscontis or
the Strozzis of old.
In Jeannette there must have been a
mingling of currents, on the one band
the mediaeval stream, on the other
that up to date American stream so
unintelligible to Europeans. At any
rate, she went back into mediaevalism
in a remarkable fashion and returned
to the twentieth century very much
alarmed. The feuds of the Guelpbs
and the Ghebelines were renewed in
the two princes. When they met on
the banks of the Arno or in the Bo
boll gardens they would glare at each
other and give a hereditary twitch of
the right arm that came from those
who. thus meeting centuries before,
seized the hilts of their swords.
One morning each received a note
from Jeannette Louton inviting bim
to call at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
of a certain day. At the appointed
hour Visconti appeared, and Strozzi
was admitted a few minutes later.
They were received in the cabinet of
inns Each started as he saw the
other, glared and awaited develop
ments.
"Your highness," said Jeannette.
"you have both done_ me the honor to
propose for my hand. From both I
have listened to accounts of the prow
ess of your ancestors. You have trans
ported me to those romantic times and
kept me there till I almost feel that
I am a part of them. As I under
stand it. the families you represent
took an equally important part in Ital
ian history. You are both fine repre
sentatives of a splendid race. Few
women have been honored by a choice
between two such offers. Can you
blame me for not being able to choose
between the two? 1 must ask you to
decide which shall defer to the other.
1 will leave you in this room and ask
you. when you have decided, to let me
know."
She went out of the cabinet and shut
the door.
For a few minutes there were low
voices, gradually rising till they rang
»ut in trumpet tones.
Meanwhile Ned Sackett. a young St.
Louisan. who had been courting Jean
nette Louton for several years, fearing
that among the princes and dukes
abroad she might slip away from him.
had decided to follow her, arriving in
Florence on the very day the young
lady had suggested to the two princes
to settle between themselves which
should give way to the other.
The same afternoon -fie sauntered up
to the Palazzio V. He was admitted
to a surprise. The door to the cabinet'
of arms was open, and two men were
fightiug with swords* as long as the
antagonists themselves, while Jean
nette was making frantic efforts to in
duce them to desist. The two princes
had come from words to blows, and
each had caught up a weapon. Prince
Viseouti. having been hurt in the head,
seized a helmet and put it on. Prince
Strozzi. seeing a piece of armor of the
thirteenth century, in order to get
even with his enemy caught it up and
got it partly on his thorax. Visconti
picked up a shield used in the cru
sades. Strozzi defending himself with
an andiron 700 years old. but as Sack
ett entered he dropped it and replaced
it with an immense iron punch bowl
that had belonged to a Visconti
To add to the terror of the scene,
Visconti's face was bloody and Strozzi
limped from a wound in the leg. Vis
conti holding the longer sword, his en
emy dropped his own and grabbed a
pike. This gave him such an advan
tage that it enabled him to he his
enemy into a corner. But near Vis
conti in a rack was a gun with a barrel
nearly as long as the pike. Seizing it
and deriving an advantage owing to
his own superior length, he began to
poke his adversary with it ou some
thing like equal terms. In this way
the cornered man gradually forced his
adversary to the middle of the room.
These changes in the situation re
quired but very little time. It required
more time by far for Sackett to re
cover from his astonishment at this
mediaeval struggle in the opening of
the twentieth century. He didn't know
whether to be the more amused or
astonished The scene may have been
absurd, but there was no time for
laughter. Jeannette gave Sackett an
imploring look. Seizing a battleax. he
ran up to the combatants and began to
beat down their weapons. He was
not so furious as they, and this ab
sence of anger gave him a decided ad
vantage. Finally he secured a position
between the two.
"Gentlemen." he said, "what means
this unseemly row in the home of a
lady?"
"They don't understand English."
said Jeannette. In a word she ex
plained the situation.
Sackett understood no Italian, but
he was capital at pantomime. Putting
his left arm about Jeannette. he waved
his right in the air. while a sublime
look rested on his face, as much as to
say: "I am the victor in this case
The lady falls to me."
Jeannette, fearful that if she denied
his right to her the two princes would
renew the fray and kill each other,
denied nothing. Indeed, she clung to
the party of the third part as her only
refuse.
"Senorina." said Visconti. "do we
understand that this gentleman is your
betrothed V"
This being in Italian. Sackett did
not understand a word of it. and the
lady was free to say what she liked.
"1 have loved him since I was a lit
tle girl." she declared.
"Then, senorina." interposed Strozzi.
"may I ask what is the use of this
combat?"
"No use whatever, I assure you."
Both men had words of reproach on
their lips but. to do them justice,
they were too gallant to speak them.
They threw down their weapons,
threw off their accouterments and.
making a bow to the lady, in which
fhey nearly bumped their heads
against the floor, turned and marched
out with all the precision, stiffness
and seriousness one sees in the por
traits of their ancestors in the Petti
gallery.
Ned Sackett asked Jeannette what
had passed between her and her suit
ors after he had separated them. She
said she had told them that Ned was
her brother and would kill both of
them unless they kept the peace.
Sackett took her back with him as
his wife all the same.
A Royal Exile's Reception.
In the memoirs of Princess Murat
there is an indignant description of
the reception accorded Napoleon III.
in England in 1871:
"When the emperor went to Wind
sor by the queen's invitation, accom
panied by the Duo de Bassano and
the officers of his suit, he found that
only a small pony carriage had been
sent to meet him—all that was thought
necessary for a fallen sovereign. The
empress was loud in expressing her
outraged feelings. Lord Gran
ville and Mr. Gladstone were, I know,
horrified when they heard of the blun
der. I think that an apology was sent
to his majesty, blaming some official
of the court for the tactless incivility."
Forehanded.
One noon Charlie informed his par
ents that he felt too ill to return to
school.
"Hadn't I better send for the doc
tor?" asked his mother, hoping to test
the genuineness of his illness.
"Oh, no you don't need to," replied
Charlie. "He'll be up pretty soon. I
just stopped in his office on the way
home and told him to come up to see
me."—Delineator.
4»
The general scarcity of hay, and
the high price of other feeds, combined
with the fact that the backwardness of
the corn crop indicates that much of
it must in any event be cut at a
stage somewhat short of full maturity,
would seem to clothe the coming win
ter with conditions provocative of a
general feeding of bundle corn in fat
tening beeves tor the market The
practical experience of stockmen who
have tried this method of feeding—
notably that of Mr. W. F. Hubbard, of
Warsaw, Minn., related in the Minne
sota Farmers' Institute Annual for
1908, and quoted by Professor A. D.
Wilson, in an address before the Min
nesota Conservation congress last
March—would seem to point to bun
dle feeding as the plan best adapted
to the utilization of every particle of
value in the corn, as well as the plan
most economical in the handling of
the crop in feeding fattening cattle.
It does away with all expenditure for
labor in husking, and in stacking the
cornstalks in field or barn. The corn
is fed in bundles direct from shock to
feed-rack, thus requiring only a sin
gle handling after it has been placed
in the shock. Mr. Hubbard cuts his
corn as soon as most of the ears are
dented, and sets it up in tightly-com
pressed shocks, thirty to thirty-five
bundles in each. It is declared that
nowhere does corn keep so well as in
such a shock.
AJVIIImiar
Feeding Bundle Corn
an Economical Plan,
Utilizes Every Particle of Value
in the Product.
By Mr. Hubbard's plan steers are
bought, for fattening, a little more
than a yeai before they are to go into
the feed-lot They are carried through
the first winter by allowing them to
clean up the stalks left by the feed
ing steers preceding them, with an
additional ration of from three pints
to three quarts of shelled corn per
day, or its equivalent in bundle corn.
FEED RACK
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CATTLE.
A convenient feed rack used by Mr.
Hubbard and by the Minnesota Ex
periment Station for feeding rough
age to stock in the yard.
This little feed not only maintains
their strength, but prepares the way
for their ready acceptance of the
kind of teed they will have when they
go into the feed-lot the next winter.
They are pastured through the sum
mer and fall, receiving, atter the corn
is cut, a light additional feed of fall
en ears, picked up and scattered from
the wagon on the pasture Pigs run
with the cattle in the feed-yard, so
there is no waste. When the fallen
corn is gone, the steers are fed, on
the pasture, bundle corn at the rate of
one bundle per steer per day.
About Dec. 1 they go into the feed
lot, which they never leave until they
go to market. At first they are fed
twice a day from the lightest bundles
of corn. Not until the first of Feb
ruary are they placed upon full feed
It is the aim to keep on the safe side,
and never over-feed.
Concerning the value of bundle
corn, Mr. Hubbard expresses himself
as follows: "I consider it by far the
best and cheapest feed known, possi
bly excepting ensilage, with which I
have had no experience. I know noth
ing about chemical analysis, but I do
know that bundle corn seems to fur
nish a complete and perfect ration
from start to finish. Steers never tire
of it, nor seem to-prefer a single bite
of any other feed. With it, my cattle
always put on a finish that lands them
near the top of the market. Grain,
cob, husk, fodder and all are eaten to
gether. The grain is all bolted and
chewed over in the cud, which makes
digestion so complete that there is no
danger that a hog will get over-fat
following a steer. I never had a case
of scours, nor a steer seriously over
fed."
Thirty-eight acres of corn, ordinary
in quantity and quality, in 1907, did
this for Mr. Hubbard: It full-fed, un
til May 12, twenty-three steers, for
the feed and labor expended on which
he received $1,150. It full-fed for the
iame period, three cows, at a profit
of $55, and their milk up to the day
they were shipped. It furnished all
the rough feed, except five loads of
barley straw, for twenty seven head
of two-year-old steers. It furnished
most of the feed for twenty-four good
sized sows, which followed the steers
and came out in the pink of condition
It furnished all the feed for 100 hens,
which stole their living and kept as
fat as cubs. The steers sold straight,
in South St. Paul, within 10 cents per
hundred weight of the top of the mar
ket for the season, having been fed
nothing but bundle corn From Oct 1
to May 1 Mr. Hubbard did all his work
alone, except hauling manure and
straw, for which he paid $13 50.
Best Substitute for Hay.
Cornstalks are the best substitute
for hay. and the Minnesota Experi
ment Station urges farmers to take
extraordinary pains to preserve their
cornstalks, this fall, for winter rough
age.
ANALYSIS OF SOILS.
Method of Making Selections for a
Proper Test.
The Minnesota Experiment Station
will analyze soils tor the farmers
when It is selected as follows:
If the soil to be analyzed is sod,
remove a sod about a foot square,
shake the dirt back into the hole, and
take out all the surface soil to the
depth of nine inches, but if the sur
face soil is not nine inches deep take
it out to the bottom of the plow line,
or to where such soil begins. Thor
oughly mix the soil, and put about two
pounds in a tight bag. Label it "sur
face soil."
Then, after removing all the surface
soil from the hole, take a sample of
the subsoil to a depth of nine inches.
If the surface soil is several feet deep,
the subsoil may be taken at the depth
of from nine to eighteen inches. Thor
oughly mix the subsoil, and place in a
tight bag, labelled "subsoil."
Take three soils from three places
at least one hundred feet apart. If
the land is hilly and broken, select
five places a similar distance from
each other and place in bags as above
directed. Take samples in the same
manner from other parts of the field.
Use Home Products
PRIMP and PINMEY'S BEST FLOURS
Unexcelled as to quality
Your dealer prefers to sell the HOME FLOUR
Use the flour that pays the home
taxes and employs the home labor
Place all surface soil samples in one
larger bag, labelled "surface soil," and
all subsoil bags in a larger bag, la
belled "subsoil." The total weight of
each bag should be about ten pounds.
Put the two large bags in a box, or
strong bag, and ship, freight prepaid,
to Division of Soils, Experiment Sta
tion, Minnesota Transfer, St. Anthony
Park, Minnesota.
Further directions, for record pur
poses, will be furnished free on appli
cation to thp Division, and they should
be in the hands of the farmer before
he takes his samples from the ground.
*I* 4*4*°!* •$•
Tile drainage, it has been con
clusively shown by engineers
and by the experience of farm
ers, makes the wet soil several
degrees warmer in spring Such
is the experience at the Min
nesota Experiment Station. R.
M. Dolve, of the North Dakota
Experiment Station, says that
it effectively lengthens the
growing season and assures a
crop of corn, and similar crops,
in Northern latitudes.
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MORE BUSHELS LESS ACRE
AGE.
Better Tillage and Rotation of Crops
Will Increase Yield.
England's average of over thirty
two bushels of wheat per acre, and
Germany's average of 21.1 bushels per
acre, compared with America's aver
age of fourteen bushels per acre,
should suggest to Northwestern farm
ers something of the possible achieve
ments within their reach by the use
of better and carefully bred and se
lected seed, and by attention to proper
cultivation, fertilization of the soil and
rotation of crops. It is a "condition,"
not a "theory," that confronts farmers.
More bushels from less acres than at
present must be the aim, and the Min
nesota Agricultural Extension Division
is endeavoring to awaken them to the
importance of attempting to farm ni
more land than they can handle well.
The division believes that, with opt
ter tillage and a judicious rotation of
crops, together with an equipment of
live stock to supply fertilizer, the out
put of Northwestern farmers can be in
creased, and the fertility of the soil
restored to, and maintained at, its
original strength.
Farmers intending to sow
winter wheat should lose no
time in plowing their land
They should then protect their
soil from being lobbed of its
moisture by the winds, by 1m
mediately harrowing it Don't
"plow more in one day than can
be conveniently and thoroughly
harrowed before night Pul
verize the surface at once. It
will be of service in establish
ing a good physical condition
of the soil as well as in pre
seiving the moisture which
would otherwise be taken out
by tbe wind
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HOG CHOLERA VACCINE.
Only One Successful Method of Pre
venting Disease
Dr Niles, of the United States Bu
reau of Animal Industry, says that a
large number of nostrums have beer
advertised as "sure cures" for hog
cholera, but that not one has stood
the test Some have occasionally beet
used with seemingly good results but
when tested farther they have failed
No drug so far has been discovered
which will cure or prevent hog chol
era The only successful method of
prevention is the use of hyper-immune
serum, through hypodermic injection
This was first used, the doctor says, at
the Iowa Experiment Station, in an
experimental way with such favorable
results as to warrant a continuance of
expeumentation These experiments
have been continued -with such suc
cess that the serum has come to he
regarded as almost a specific in the
prevention of the disease. Also in
many cases it works a cure when a
mild form of the disease is present
But the doctor does not as a rule rec
ommend the use of hyper-immune
serum when the hog is sick.
HOW ITWAS DONE
A Story of the Safe Removal of
Gold Dust.
By WINFIELD R. GARRISON.
(Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Having been sent out to examine and
report on some new gold mines that
had been discovered in the west. 1
went as far as I could by rail, then
took a stage to Punkerville. a little
town from which I must proceed on
horse or mule back. 1 reached Pun
kerville in the evening and the next
morning, hiring a horse, started to fol
low a stony road up to the mines.
1 had been climbing—or rather my
horse had—for a couple of hours when
I met a young man descending with
a load of wood, drawn by a pair of
oxen He was cracking a large whip
about the steers' heads, shouting gee
and haw. with sufficient persistency to
drive a human animal crazy. But the
brutes either had no nerves or. if they
had. kept them under control, wending
their way downward without the
slightest change of gait.
."Mornin*. stranger." said the man,
looking up at me through a pair of
handsome brown eyes that were hard
'I SAW HEK BEFORE SHE SAW ME
ly in keeping with his vocation. "Reck
on y* didn't meet up with any one on
the road down thar, did y'?"
"I don't remember having met a sin
gle person. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, nothin* particular. My wife's
with me. She made a short cut a spell
ago, thinkin' she'd- come out ahead o'
me. Reckon she got fooled. Ef y'
meet up with her y' moight tell her
whar 1 am."
"I shall certainly do so."
With that I continued on my way,
while the young man recommenced
cracking his whip and yelling at his
oxen.
1 had not gone far before I met a
young woman coming down. She wore
clothes corresponding to those of the
ox driver, and 1 presumed she was the
wife he had spoken of. 1 saw her
before she saw me She was lean
ing over a rock, looking intently down
on the zigzag road below, shading her
eyes with her hand. When she dis
covered me she started. Coming up
with her, 1 spoke to her politely, which
seemed to reassure her.
"Are you the woodcutter's wife?" I
asked.
"Sartin
"You'll find him just around the next
turn
"Much obieeged Hev y' met up with
any one?"
"Only your husband. You both seem
to be on the lookout. Are you afraid
of being robbed?"
"Robbed! Who'd want to rob us?
We're uothin* but poor woodcutters."
At that moment 1 looked up on a
rise beside me and espied three men
coming down. As soon as they reached
Us they asked where we hailed from.
I told them 1 was a mining engineer
going up to inspect the new mines,
which seemed to satisfy them. The.
young woman told them that she was
going down to the town to buy some
things at the store. I noticed she made
no mention of her husband. The men
debated whether they should go up or
down and finally agreed that they
would separate, a part going one way
and a part the other. As soon as they
had gone the woman showed greater
anxiety than before. Turning to me,
she said, dropping the lingo of a coun
trywoman:
"They're road agents. They're look,
ing for a shipment of gold dust that
they have beeu informed is going
down to Punkerville I wish you
would wait a bit. VVt might require
your help. You are armed. I see."
"Yes, I'm well armed, but what has
a poor woodcutter to fear from road
agents?"
"They'll think we're carrying the
dust."
"What will they do?"
"They'll find my husband below and
search him and the wood, thinking to
find gold dust concealed. They would
have gone for me. but they saw that
I couldn't carry enough of it to pay
them to bother with me."
"Well. I don't understand why their
searching your load should trouble you
or how I can serve you."
"I wish you'd go back with me. I
know a cut by which we can reach
my husband as soon as they. It is
only a short distance."
She looked at me so beseechingly
that consented. I dismounted and
led my horse. She hurried on before
me. reaching her husband when 1 was
still some distance away, and 1 saw
her talking to him excitedly. 1 deter
mined to conceal myself behind a rock
and observe what might take place.
The wife had not been with her hus
band live minutes before I beard a
shot. Not seeing any one hurt. I con
cluded that it was a signal. Then 1
saw a man moving down on the wood-
cutter. Taking a position above him,
he called on the woodman to stop. The
latter baited his oxen and sat down on
a bowlder beside the road. His wife
walked nervously about. Within ten
minutes the other two men came
down, and all three moved on the
woodcutter.
I had a short rifle slung to my sad
dle and a revolver at each hip. I re
solved to keep the men covered and
if I saw any attempt to kill would be
in a position to render assistance. The
woman kept looking up my way. as if
she wished 1 would join them. I
feared she would call their attention
to me. but fortunately she failed to do
so.
The men made a search of the load
on the cart, throwing off every stick
of wood and ripping up the floor. But
not a sack of dust was to be found.
They withdrew for consultation, then
returned, and one of the men put a re
volver to the head of the woodman,
and I could hear him threaten to shoot
him if be didu't tell where the dust
was Suddenly the woman drew a
revolver and phot the robber dead.
Each of the other two men drew their
weapons to finish the woodman and
his ife
I now thought it high time to in
terfere I fired at one of the men and
diopped him. This startled his com
panion, who looked about wildly for
the unseen enemy. While he was do
ing so the woodcutter, whom the rob
bers had not disarmed, put a bullet in
his brain
The toad aaents now all being dis
posed of, I descended. The woman
had fainted in her husband's arms.
The wood was scattered on the road
beside the cart The dumb brutes were
standing patiently waiting for the
crack of the whip to move on. Hear
ing steps abo\e him. the woodman
looked up and saw me descending. At
thar moment his wife regained con
sciousness, and by the time I joined
them both had recovered something of
their equanimity
Talk of gratitude! There was grati
tude enough in that young woman's
eyes to thank an army for the relief
of a beleaguered city.
"I thought you had deserted us,"
she said
"If I had come on you wTould both
have been dead by this time and I
as well probably."
"That's true," said the man. "We're
onlj here by a miracle."
As soon as the pair had recovered
from the shock the man began to re
place the wood on his cart. I turned
in and helped him. As soon as we had
finished the job and tbe couple were
ready to proceed on their journey he
said to me:
"I don't think we'll have any more
trouble, but 1 don't know."
"If you're not certain I shall go back
with jou. I don't like leaving a man
and I won't leave a woman in dan
ger."
The wife gave me a look that set
tled me. I turned back with them,
intending to take a fresh start the
next day.
"Now. if you don't mind." I said. "I
would like an explanation as to why
the robbers suspected you of carrying
gold or of knowing who wras carrying
it
"It is better." said the man. "that
you shouldn't know till we're out of
danger. Not knowing, no one can
force jou to tell. Wait till we get to
Punkerville. then I'll toll you all about
it."
Tu this I assented, aud we continued
our journey to within a few miles of
the town, when, unable to keep the
slow pace ot the oseu, 1 showed signs
of impatience.
"If you don't mind." said the wood
man, who since the fracas had dropped
his iingo, "you might ride ahead and
send out a wagon."
1 did so after having accepted an in
vitation from the man to call that
evening at his house.
When I stood before the door of his
duelling I looked upon the best house
in the town. I found the woodman
dressed like a gentleman and his wife
dressed like a lady
"Permit me to introduce myself," he
said, "as the owner of a newly dis
covered mine up iu the canyon. Last
night I got wind of a proposed attack
by road agents to carry off our stock
of accumulated ore. We are defense
less up there, and I determined to bring
it down here, my wife, who was with
me. agreeing to act as vedette. Had
we not met you"—
"Pardon me. I think I have curbed
my curiosity sufficiently as to where
this gold dust was. Will you kindly
tell me in what shape you have
brought it?"
"1 will show jou."
Ooinjj out of the room, he returned
with a log of wood and with his knife
fiJi'd up a small part of the bark.
Having exposed the wood under it, he
loosened a round wooden plug that
stopped i\ bole and removed it. Then
from the hole he poured into his hand
a small quantity of gold dust.
"That will do." I said. "I under
stand perfectly."
The next day I renewed my journey
to the mines made my examination
and returned.
Curious Bibles.
Among the curious Bibles is the
"Persecuting Printer's Bible, contain
ing the phrase, "Printers have perse
cuted me without cause" (Psalm cxix,
161). The substitution of the word
"printers" for "princes" is responsible
for the giving of this name to this
Bible. All we know of this edition is
stated by Stevens in his catalogue of
the Caxton exhibition of Bibles. This
authority tells us that these words
were put into a Bible printed before
1702.
There is also the "Ears to Ear" Bible,
in which occurs the expression "Whoso
hath ears to ear, let him hear" (Mat
thew xii. 43). This adaptation to cock
ney usage is found in an octavio Bible
published by the Oxford Press in 1810.
Winning Both Ways.
The Zulu young lady, when suitors
are not forthcoming, takes the matter
in hand herself. She leaves home,
takes a discreet friend of her own sex
and presents herself at the home of
her favored swain. If he regards her
with satisfaction his parents receive
her as his future bride. Should he,
however, be unwilling to accept her
he makes her a handsome present in
stead
s^s^s*
A Bold Suitor
By KATE ELDRIDGE
Copyright, 1910. by American Press
Association.
In Switzerland there is a little body
©f water called Thunder lake, and in a
little town at one end, called Thunder,
there is a Thunder hotel. There is
also in this modest city with so terri
ble a name a kursall (casino), where an
orchestra discourses in the afternoon,
to which people listen and drink beer.
One afternoon Herr Streilitz, his
wife and daughter Lena, the last
named aged twenty, were seated at a
table in the kursall. Papa Streilitz
smoking his pipe. Mamma Streilitz
munching crackers and Swiss cheese,
while Lena Streilitz was sipping an ice
with a spoon.
At another table sat a young gentle
man tapping his boot with a cane,
wThile on the table beside him was a
half emptied glass of Munich beer. He
was looking at Frauiein Lena very
hard, and Lena was conscious that she
had excited the young man's attention
Presently he arose, went to the table
where the Streilitzes sat. made a pro
found bow with his hat under his arm
and addressed Herr Streilitz:
"Herr, I dare say that I shall sur
prise you. I have a confession to
make. 1 have several times seen you
here with your family. I have con
ceived a passion for the young lady
and beg your permission to pay my ad
dresses to her. I am aware that such
a request may seem remarkable, but I
am ready to convince you that I bear
a good reputation, that I am of an ex
cellent family and abundantly able to
support a wife. Here is ray card."
He produced a pasteboard on which
was engraved the name, "Alphonse de
la Tour, Dijon, France."
Herr Streilitz puffed, fumed and
scowled. Frau Streilitz looked non
committal, while Frauiein Lena looked
very much pleased. The father was
about to make an angry reply when
the mother forestalled him by saying:
"Believe me. sir. we are not at all
offended that you should have given
way to a natural impulse. We shall
at least accord what is due you by per
mitting you to produce your creden
tials."
"That Is all I ask. madame. I may
have to put you to some trouble, for
a De la Tour could not ask any one to
vouch for him. Besides it would be
easy for an imposter to furnish fraud
ulent credentials. Nothing will satis
fy me but your going to my home in
Dijon, visiting my ancestral estate,
making the acquaintanc of my parents,
by brothers and sisters, and thus sat
isfying yourselves that I am what I
pretend to be."
"That would be incontestable proof,"
said the lady. "Will you join our par
ty, M. de la Tour?"
The young man sat down. Papa
Streilitz maintained a stubborn silence
Lena, of course, could say not a word,
while Frau Streilitz took the burden
of entertaining the stranger upon h^r
own shoulders. The four sat togeth
er for an hour, at the end of which
time M. de la Tour received an invita
tion to call.
A few days later Frau and Frau
iein Streilitz took the train for Dijon
At the railway station M. de la Tour
came up to them, bearing a bouquet
of flowers. wrhich. with a look of in
tense devotion, he handed to Lena.
"It is for you." he said, "to satisfy
yourselves Here are your tickets
first class, including a return."
Frau Streilitz accepted the tickets
without a qualm, while Lena blushed
and exclaimed:
"Oh, mamma!"
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a glance of mingled reproof and ten
derness His last word« were to her:
"I beg you to give the flowers to my
dear mother, who, with others of our
family, will meet you at the station."
The journey was not interrupted ex
cept for half an hour on the border be
tween Switzerland and France, where
the train stopped for the custom ex
aminations. Tbe frauiein opened to
them her belongings and permitted an
inspector to get a whiff of the per
fume of her flowers. When the ordeal
was over the train went on.
At Dijon a young man on the watch
for them announced himself as Gaston
de la Tour and introduced a white
haired lady as his mother. Lena at
once handed her the bouquet.
"This way to the carriage." said M.
Gaston, and the frau and the frauiein
were hurried out of the station, put
in a cab and driveu away.
That was the last they ever saw of
any of the De la Tours. They returned
the next day to the unsympathetic hus
band and father.
"Well." said Papa Streilitz, "what
did you discover?"
Train No. Arrives Leaves Bound For
3—From St. Paul 2:05 a. 2:10 a. Seattle
4—From Seattle 3:20 a. 3:25 a. -St. Paul
9—From St. Paul 11:10 11-15 p. Grand Forks
10—From Fargo, Grand Forks. 4:10 a. 4:15 a. St. Paul
IS—From St. Paul 1:30 p. 2-25 p. FargO
1*—From Fargo 1:40 p. 2:30 p. St. Paul
21—From St. Paul 9:00 p.
22—To St. Paul 7:00 a
31—From St. Cloud, Duluth 1:45 p. 2:00 p. Sioux City"
32—From Sioux City 2:00 p. 2:35 p. St. Cloud & Duluth
51—For Sioux City, Yankton 12:01 a.
02—From Sioux City, Yankton 3:45 a.
Lena put her handkerchief to her
eyes, and her mother made no reply.
Her brow was very dark. After awhile
she gave her experience to her hus
band, ending as follows:
"The driver drove us some distance
and stopped before a large dwelling
house. Wondering why these people
had left us. we went to the front door
and knocked. A maid came to the
door, and when we asked if the De
la Tours lived there she said 'No' and
shut the door in our faces."
What was the object of thus mis
leading the^e jrood people was not for
a long time developed Then one day
a smuggler was* arrested for carrying
Swiss, ?iooa% across the border into
France without payins duty. At hi3
trial it came out that the bouquet
Frauiein Streilitz carried contained
50,000 franc worth of watch springs.
Cruel.
First Debutante—I suppose you are
going with Mi«s Wellborn's party to
Cairo? $
Second Debutante—H'm! No I
haven't received an invitation.
First Debutante Indeed! That's
very strange! I'm going.
Second Debutante—Ah, I understand
now! I was told she had at last found
a chaperon.—New York Journal.
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