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THE YALE EXrOSITOH FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 190G. C V ; mm THE BELU ZfrBAVID GRAHAM PIULLIRS, Author of "THFOQSCMc CHAPTER VIII, Continued. I had been at his house once be fore; I knew he occupied the left Bide the whole of the second floor, bo Bhut off that It not only had a separate entrance, but also could not be reached by those In the right side of the house without descending to the entrance hall and ascending the left stairway. "Just take my card to hla private secretary, to Mr. Rathburn," said I. "Mr. Langdon has doubtless left a message for me." The butler hesitated, yielded, showed me into the reception room off the entrance hall. I waited a few sec onds, then adventured the stairway to the left, up which he had disappeared. I entered the small salon in which Langdon had received me on my other visit. From the direction of an open door, I heard his voice he was say ing: "I am not at home. There's no message." And still I did not realize that it was I he was avoldins! "It's no use now, Langdon," I called cheerfully. "Heg pardon for seeming to Intrude. I misunderstood or didn't hear where the servant said I was to wait. However, no harm done. So long! I'm off" l?ut I made no move toward the door by which I had en tered; instead, I advanced a few feet nearer the door from which his voice had come. After a brief a very brief pause, there came In Langdon's voice laugh ing, not a trace of annoyance: "I might have known! Come in, Matt!" IX. LANGDON AT HOME. I entered, with an amused glance at .he butler, who was giving over his heavy countenance to a delightful ex hibition of disgust and discomfiture. It was Langdon's sitting room. He had had the carved antique oak in terior of a room in an old French pal ace torn out and transported to New York and set up for him. I had made a study of that sort of thing, and at Dawn Hill had done something toward realizing my own Ideas of the splen did. Hut a glance showed me that I was far surpassed. What I had done Beemed in comparison like the compo sition of a school boy beside an essay by Goldsmith or Hazlltt. And in the midst of this quiet splen dor sat, or rather lounged, Langdon, reading the newspapers. Ho was dressed in a dark blue velvet house suit with facings and cords of blue Bilk a shade or so lighter than the suit. I had always thought him hand some; he looked now like a god. He was smoking a cigarette in an orien tal holder nearly a foot long; but the air of the room, so perfect was the Ventilation, Instead of being scented With tobacco, had the odor of Borne fresh, clean, slightly saline perfume. I think what was in my mind must have shown in my face, must have subtly flattered him, for, when I looked at him, he was giving mo a look of genuine friendly kindliness. "This Is perfect, Langdon," said I. And I think I'm a judge." "Glad you like it," r.aid he, trying to dissemble his satisfaction in so strong ly Impressing me. "You must take me through your house sometime," I went on. "I'm go ing to build soon. No don't be afraid I'll Imitate. I'm too vain for that. But I want suggestions. I'm not ashamed to go to school to a master to any body, for that matter." "Why do you build?" said he. "A town house is a nuisance. If I could Induce my wife to take the children to the country to live, I'd dispose of this." "That's it the wife," Bald I. "But you have no wife. s At least " "No," I replied with a laugh. "Not yet. But I'm going to have." Suddenly my mind reverted to my business. "How do you account for the steadiness of textile, Langdon?" I asked, returning to the carved sitting room and trying to put those sur roundings out of my mind. "I don't account for it," was his languid, uninterested reply. "Any of your people under the mar ket?" "It Isn't to my Interest to have ft supported, is it?" he replied. "I know that," I admitted. "But why doesn't it drop?" "Those letters of yours may have overeducated the public in confi dence,' suggested he. "Your follow ers have the habit of believing Implic itly whatever you say." "Yes, but I haven't written a line about textile for nearly a month now," I pretended to object, my vanity fairly purring with pleasure. "That's the only reason I can give," said he. "You are Bure none of your people Is supporting the stock?" I asked, as a form and not for information; for I thought I knew they weren't I trust ed him to have seen to that "I'd like to get my holdings back said he. "I can't buy until it's down. And I know none of my people would dare support It." "Well, then, the price, must break." said I. "It won't be many days be fore the public begins to realize that there isn't anybody under textile." "No sharp break!" he said careless ly. "No 'panic!" "I'll see to that," replied I, with not a shadow of a notion of the subtlety behind his warning. I hope it will break soon," he then said, adding in his friendliest voice with what I now know was malignant treachery: "You owe it to me to bring it down." That meant that he wished me to increase my already far too heavy and dangerous line of shorts. Just then a voice a woman's voice came from the salon. "May I come in? Do I Interrupt?" it said, and its tone Btruck me as having in it tome thing of plaintive appeal. "Excuse me a minute Blacklock," said he, rising with what was for him haste. But he was too late. The woman entered, searching the room with a piercing, suspicious gze. At once I saw, behind that look, a jealousy thai pounced on every subject that came lwv Mm 'AND IN THE MIDST OF THIS QUIET SPLENDOR SAT, OR RATHER, LOUNGED, LANGDON." into its view, and studied It with a hope that feared and a fearthathoped. When her eyes had toured the room, they paused upon him, seemed to be saying: "You've baffled me again, but I'm not discouraged. I shall catch you yet." "Well, my dear?" said Langdon, whom she seemed faintly to amuse. "It's only Mr. Blacklock. Mr. Black lock, my wife." I bowed; she looked coldly at me, and her slight nod was more than a hint that she wished to be left alone with her husband. I said to him: "Well, I'll be off. Thank you for " "One moment," he Interrupted. Then to his wife: "Anything special?" She flushed. "No nothing special. I Just came to Bee you. But If I am disturbing you as usual " "Not at all," said he. "When Black lock and I have finished, I'll come to you. It won't be longer than an hour or bo." When we were seated again, Lang don, after a few reflective puffs at his cigarette, said: "So you're about to marry?" "I hope so," said I. "But as I haven't asked her yet I can't be sure." For obvious reasons I wasn't so enam ored of the Idea of matrimony as I had been a few moments before. "I trust you're making a ' sensible marriage," said he. "If the part that may be glamour should by chance rub clean away, there ought to be some thing to make one feel he wasn't wholly an ass." "Very sensible," I replied with em phasis. "I want the woman. I need her." He Inspected the coal of his cigar ette, lifting his eyebrows at It Pres ently he said: "And she?" "I don't know how she feels about it aj I told you," I replied curtly. In spite of myself, my eyes Bhlfled and my skin began to burn. "By the way, Langdon, what's the name of your architect?" "Wilder and Marcy," said he. "They're fairly satisfactory, if you tell 'em exactly what you want and watch 'em all the time. They're perfectly conventional and bo can't distinguish between originality that's artiftic and originality that's only bizarre. They're like most people they keep to the beaten track and fight tooth and nail against being drawn out of It and against those who do ko out of it." "I'll have a talk with Marcy this very day," Bald I. "Oh, you're in a hurry!" He laughed. "And you haven't asked her. You re mind me of that Greek philosopher who was in love with Lais. They asked him: 'But does she love you?' And he said: 'One does not inquire of the fish one likes whether It likes one.' " I flushed. "You'll pardon me, Lang don," said I, "but I don't like that. It isn't my attitude at all toward the right sort of women." He looked half-quizzical, half-apologetic. "Ah, to be sure;" said he. "I forgot you weren't a married man." And bo I left him, with a look in his eyes that came back to me long afterward when I realized the full meaning of that apparently almost commonplace interview. The same day I began to plunge on textile, watching the market closely, that I might go more slowly should there be signs of a dangerous break for no more than Langdon did I want a sudden panicky Blum p. The price held steady, however, but I, fool that I was, certain the fall must come, plunged on, digging the pit for my own destruction deeper and deeper. TWO "PILLARS OF SOCIETY. I was neither Beeing nor hearing from the Ellerslys, father or son, but as I knew why, I was not disquieted. I had made them temporarily easy in their finances Just before that dinner, and they, being fatuous, Incurable op timists, were probably imagining they would never need me again. I did not disturb them until Monson and I had got my education so well under way that even I, always severe in self criticism and now merciless, was com pelled to admit to myself a distinct change for the better. When my education seemed far enough advanced, I sent for Sam. He, after his footless ' fashion, didn't bother to acknowledge my note. His margin account with me was at the moment straight; I turned to his father. I had my cashier Bend him a formal, type-written letter signed Blacklock & Co., informing him that his account was overdrawn and that we "would be obliged if he would give the matter his immediate attention.' The note must have reached him the following morning, but he did not come until, after waiting three days, "we" sent him a sharp demand for a check for the balance due us. A pleasing, aristocratic-looking fig ure he made as he entered my office, with his air of the man whose hands have never known the stains of toil, with his manner of having always re ceive deferential treatment There was no pretense in my curt greeting, my tone of "debpatch your business, sir, and be gone;" for I was both busy and much irritated against him. "I guess you want to see our cashier," said I, after giving him a hasty, absent-minded hand-shake. "My boy out there will take you to him." The old do-nothing's face lost Its confident, condescending expression. His lip quivered, and I think there were tears In his bad, dim, gray-gren eyes. I suppose he thought his a pro foundly pathetic case; no doubt he hadn't the remotest conception what he really was and no doubt, also, there are many who would honestly take his view. As If the fact that he was born with all possible advantages did not make him and his plight inex cusable. "No, my dear Blacklock," said he, cringing now as easily as he had con descended how to cringe and bow to condescend are taught at the same school, the one he had gone to all his life. "It Is you I want to talk with. And, first, I owe you my apologies. I know you'll make allowances for one who was never trained to business methods I've always been like a child in those matters." "You frighten me," said I. "The last 'gentleman' who came throwing me off my guard with that plea was shrewd enough to get away with a very large sum of my hard-earned money Besides" and I was laugh ing, though cot too good-naturedly "I've noticed that you 'gentlemen' be come vague about business only when the balance is against you. When It's in your favor, you manage to get your minds on business long enough to col lect to the last fraction of a cent." He heartily echoed my laugh. "I only wish I were clever," said he. "However, I've come to ask your in dulgence. I'd have been here before, but those who owe me have been put ting me off. And they're of the sort of people whom it's impossible to press." "I'd like to accommodate you fur ther," said I, shedding that last little hint as a cliff sheds rain, "but your account has been in an unsatisfactory state for nearly a month now." "I'm sure you'll give me a few days longer," was his easy reply, as If we were discussing a trifle. "By the way, you haven't been to see ns yet Only this morning my wife was wondering when you'd come. You quite capti vated her, Blacklock. Can't yon dine with us to-morrow night no, 8unday at eight? We're having In a few people I think you'd like to meet" "Glad to come," said I, wishing to be rid of bin, now that my point was gained. "We'll let the account stand open for the present I rather think your stocks are going up. Give my re gards to the ladles, please, especially to Miss Anita." He winced, but thanked me grac iously; gave me his soft, fine hand to shake and departed, as eager to be off as I to be rid of him. "Sunday next at eight," were his last words. "Don't fail us" that in the tone of a king ad dressing Borne obscure person whom he had commanded to court. It may be that old Ellersly was wholly uncon scious of his superciliousness, fancied he was treating me as if I were al most an equal; but I suspect he rather accentuated his natural manner, with the idea of impressing upon me that in our deal he was giving at least as much as I. My petty and Inevitable success with that helpless creature added amazingly, ludicrously, to that dan gerous elation which, as I can now see, had been growing in me ever since the day Roebuck yielded so read ily to my demands as to National coal. The whole trouble with me was that up to that time I had won all my vic tories by the plainest kind of straight away hard work. I was imagining my self victor in contests of wit against wit, when, in fact, no one with any especial eqipmeht of brains had ever opposed me; all the really strong men had been helping me because they found me useful. But for -my self hypnotism In Uie case of Roebuck, I find no excue whatever for myself. He sent fr me and told me what share in National coal they had de cided, to give 'me for my Manasquale mines. "Langdon and Melville," said he, "think me too liberal; far too lib eral, my boy. But I insisted in your case I felt we could afford to be gen erous as well as Just" All this with an air that was a combination of the pastor and the parent. ' I can't even offer the excuse of not having seen that he was a hypocrite. I felt his hypocrisy at once, and my first Impulse was to jump for my breastworks. But instantly my vanity got behind me, held me in the open, pushed me on toward him. If you will notice, almost all "confidence" games rely for'BUCcess chiefly upon enlisting a man's vanity to play the traitor to his Judgment So. instead of reading his liberahty as ? 'aln proof of Intend ed treachery, I read it as plain proof of my own greatness, and or the fear it had Inspired in old Roebuck. Laugh with mo if you like, but before you laugh at me, think carefully those of you who have ever put yourselves to the test on the field of action think carefully whether you have never found that your head decoration which you thought a crown was In reality the peaked and belled cap of the fool (To be Continued.) Wisdom. "That man is so wise he cn talk by the hour." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "But he Isn't wise enough to keep still five minutes." Washington Star. A Nice Place. First Girl (in an Intelligence office) D'ye think that leddy will be aisy to git along wid? Second Girl Yis, she's a regular fool. N. Y. Weekly. CHEAP HOUSE OF PIANO BOXES How They Can Easily Be Converted Into Serviceable Chicken House. Piano boxes can easily be procured at a low cost and cheaply converted Into good houses for email flocks. The cut shows two styles of houses. The one at the right of the picture is made of two boxes set back' to back. The top and back of each are taken off and will give enough material to close In the ends and roof, also the floor. The top of one can be cut TTl tori Piano Box Poultry House. 3own for a door and the houses should be set the distance apart of the width of the door. In the other end place a window, or the same may be put In the front To make the house warmer rover with roofing paper. This makes an ideal colony house for 10 hens, or individual brooder house. Another plan of construction Is shown at the left of the cut This is a smaller house, built of one box. The front is removed and extended In height For brooder house for small chicks the plan may be reversed, says the Farm and Home, and the front of the house made the height of the back of the box. Two small sash and a door complete the arrangement KEEPING OUT MITES. How the Poultry Raiser Can Keep His Hen House Clean. The successful poultry raiser has learned how to keep out mites. It may well be doubted if any successful poultry raiser can be found whose houses are teeming with mites. Among the ways of keeping off the mites are the following: Have a house, that Is light and large enough for the flock, and see to it that it is well ventilated. Have the roosts, nests, dropping boards and all fixtures removable, so they can bo cleaned perfectly, easily and often. Do not permit filth of any kind to accumulate in this house, but make sure that it is cleaned often. The advice given by some Is to treat the house once in two weeks to a dusting with air-slaked lime and sul phur. The boxes for the sitting hens should be washed In kerosene or crude petroleum before being used In the hatching operations The straw In such boxes should be burned after the hen is through sitting. Lastly, watch the entire poultry es tablishment to make sure that mites do not get a start Hay for Poultry. The suggestion that hay makes a good winter food for poultry would have been ridiculed a few years ago, but experiments have proved that clover hay Is now almost a necessary portion of a hen's cold weather diet. Clover hay for fowls should be cut very fine, not over half an Inch in length, steamed and scalded and fed once a day. A small quantity of corn meal and bran sprinkled over the cut hay will Improve it. One reason clover is such an excellent food for hens is that It Is rich in lime, a substance the hens require in providing the shells for eggs. It is about equal to corn as a flesh producer and contains near ly 30 times as much lime. It Is plenti ful on all farms and requires but little time In preparation. After the green food Is gone it will keep the hens In laying condition and Increase the pro duction of eggs. Poultry and Bee Notes. Carelessness In handling poultry will ruin the finest flock In a short time. Nitrogen may be the costliest or the cheapest element of fertility, as you like it C. E. T. Paint the poultry house and have It an addition to the looks of the farm rather than something that detracts from the appearances. Scratchivity Is a virtue to be en couraged In the hen because upon It largely depends layity, and that is what most of us want If a cellar stands too near the freez ing point for the bees, bring the tem perature up by making the cellar closer; but there will be better venti lation and better air by bringing the temperature up at such times by means of as mall fire. Our Domestic Turkey. While there are differences of opin ion regarding the origin of our domes tic turkey, it Is currently believed that It came directly from the wild turkey of the United States and Canada. One writer expresses the opinion that the original variety Imported Into Eng land In 1520 came from a variety that formerly existed in tho West Indies and was afterwards exterminated by the natives. This is guesswork. There is apparently no good reason for go ing out of the way to hunt for any other origin than that currently ac cepted. What Is known as the domes tic turkey crosses freely with fhe wild variety, thus establishing a close rela tionship as having existed ia the past . SQUAB FARMING TRUTHS. Fcts Gleaned from Thirty Years' Ex perlence. Squab farming has developed in the last ten years into an Industry of con siderable importance, and bo far there is no "trust" connected with it It Is Important, before going into the Industry, that a fair statement be made of what the financial returns may be. For while the work among the birds may to many people be the most delightful and fascinating of all rural occupations, still serious disap pointment will be met if only the glowing promises of the boomers are read. ' Much of the squab farming litera ture disseminated by those having breeding birds to sell would Indicate that to obtain one of their beautifully Illustrated booklets and to buy some birds from them, is all that is re quired to assure complete success and large profits. That Is very far from the truth. If one is fond enough of the work really to give the closest attention to his birds until he knows they are properly mated (and this requires a great deal of time and patience even from the most experienced), and then will dally continue to give them the most careful attention and see that all their requirements are met (and this Is essential), such a one will run a good chance of raising an average of three to five pairs of marketable squabs per pair of breeders per annum In the northern states. He will, how ever, raise three to four pairs very much oftener than five. Presuming that the flock consists of Homers, the squabs produced should be mostly eight pounds to the dozen, says Howard Butcher, in Farm Journal. There might be a few weigh ing nine pounds to the dozen, and an occasional one a littlo heavier; but there will also be a few weighing as low as six to seven pound3 to the dozen, and once in a while a cull. Any body in tho last 12 months who ob tained an average of three dollars per dozen for squabs from such a flock, got about the highest wholesale mar ket price. It must be borne in mind that while squabs command fancy prices in winter, that season Is the time when comparatively few are pro duced; the greatest production is in tho summer when the prices are the lowest. There Is an opportunity some times to sell young birds for breeding purposes and thus get a better price for them than by killing for squabs, but, as a rule, squab farmers have to depend upon sending the birds to market AVOID NOSTRUMS. Unwise to Go Doping Your Chickens for Ailments. A nostrum Is, commonly speaking, a quack medicine. Poultry raisers as well as others have to face the prob lems of using or not using such things. A great many medicines are put up for the use of poultry raisers, and the manufacturers advocate them for well birds and for sick ones. Usu ally thyy are worthless and some times they arc positively dangerous. One correspondent writes the Farm ers' Review that he fed his fowls a patent worm remedy, to keep them in condition. All the fowls that received the remedy, with one exception, died from its effects. Healthy hens do not need medicine any more than do healthy people. To keep them in good condition it is only necessary to give them good food, pure water, pure air, sanitary surroundings and opportuni ties for exercise. BEE-BRUSHES OF BURLAP. Better Than the Brush Made of Bris tles Because Softer. The inclosed drawing Illustrates my beo-brush which I have used several years, which is the cheapest, simplest and best brush that I ever used. It is made of burlap, writes a correspond ent of Gleanings in Bee Culture. The one I send you is a narrow one, the Burlap Bee Brushes. - one I made first. I now use a wider one. You can make them the whole width of the frame If you wish. We believe that these brushes would be very satisfactory, especially as the burlap would not be as Irritating to the bees as the stiff brustles la an ordinary brush.. Uses Water Glass. Most of my stock is sold for breed ing or exhibition purposes and my eggs old for hatching. Such cull stock and market eggs as I sell rnakf. up so small a part of my business th I have never made the effort to sell 10 private customers, writes a corres pondent of the Farmer's Review. The eggs furnished to me by my flock oat side of the hatching season I preserve in water glass, and sell to our grocers here when the price suits me. Humanity in shipping live poultry Is just s necessary and profitable as in shipping cattle or horses. THE FARMER IN WESTERN CANADA. The Quality of No. 1 Hard Wheat Cannot Be Beaten. The Canadian West In the past five or ten years has given a set back to the theory that large cities are the backbone of a country and a cation's best asset Here we have a country where no city exceeds 100,000, and where only one comes within easy distance of that figure according to the census just taken and where no other city reaches a population ex ceeding 15,000. The places with a population over G.000 can be counted upon the fingers of one hand, and yet the prosperity that prevails Is some thing unprecedented In the history of all countries past or present The reason for this marvelous prosperity Is not hard to seek. Tho large majority -of the 810,000 people who Inhabit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, have gone on to the farm, and have betaken themselves to tho task of not only feeding and clothing themselves, but of raising food for others less happily circumstanced. The crop of 1906, although not ab normal. Is an eye-opener to many who previously had given little thought to the subject Ninety million bushels of wheat at 70 cents per bushel $63,000, 000; 76,000,000 bushels of oats at 30 cents per bushel $22,800,000; 17,000, 000 bushels of barley at 40 cents per bushel $6,800,000; makes a total of $92,600,000. This is altogether outside the root products; dairy produce, and the returns from the cattle trade; the beet sugar Industry and the various other by-products of mixed farming. . When such returns are obtainable from the soil It Is not to be wondered at that many are leaving the congest ed districts of the eayst, to take upon themselves the life of the prairie farm and the labor of the housbandman. With the construction of additional railroads new avenues, for agricultur al enterprise are opening up, and im proved opportunities are offered to the settler who understands prairie farm ing, and is willing to do his part in building up the new country. This is the theme that Mr. J. J. Hill, the veteran railroad builder In the West, has laid before the people In a series of addresses which he has given at various points during the past few months, and, having been for so long identified with the devel opment of the West, there are few men better qualified than he to ex press an opinion upon it Take care of tho country, says he, and the cities will take care of themselves. The farmers of the Western States and the Canadian West, are more prosperous than ever before, and when it comes to measuring up re sults, the Canadian appears to have somewhat the better of it Ills land Is cheaper In fact, the government continues to give free homesteads to settlers, and the returns per acre are heavier when the crop Is harvested. Farming land In the Western States runs from $C0 to $150 an acre and up, whereas equally good soil may be pur chased In Canada for $8 to $15 per acre, within easy reach of a shipping point, and much of this is available for free homestead Ing. The quality of the Canadian No. 1 hard wheat can not be beaten, and the returns to the acre are several bushels better than on this side of the line; the soil and climate of that country being peculiar ly adapted to wheat growing. The fact is evidently appreciated by the large number of American farmers who have In the past two or three years settled In the Canadian West Tho agents of the Canadian Government, whose address will be found elsewhere, advise us that for the fiscal year 1004-5, the records show that 43,543 Americans settled In Canada, and in 1903-6 the number reached 57,796. Froi all of which, it appears that at present there Is a good thing in farming In Western Canada, and that the American farm er Is not slow to avail himself of it Origin of Term "Grocer. According to etymology, a "retail grocer" is as absolute an impossibility as a "weekly Journal." A grocer, or "grosser" as It used to be spelled, is really a trader "in .gross" that is to say, in large quantities, wholesale. Englishmen ef other days spoke of "grossers of fish" and "grossers of wine," and an act of Edward III. ex pressly mentions that "grossers" dealt la all manner nf goods. In those days "spicer" was the word for "grocer" In the modern sense. But It happened that the Grocers' company, founded in the fourteenth century, specialized In splcery and so "grocer" gradually tool! the place of "spicer." Deafness Cannot Bo Cured by local applications m ther cannot reah. the rftt. eaed portion of the ear. There I only one way to cure deaf neia.aad that It by constitutional remejlee. Deafnea la caued bran Inflamed condltl .n of the fnueeua lining of the Eustachian Tube. When tbte tubele Inflamed y. mi have a ruinMIn aound r Im perfect beerlnjr, and when It t entirely eloaed. Deaf-n-te It the result, and unlet tbe Inflammation can he taken out and thlt tube reatored to lie normal condi tion, bearing will be destroyed f jreer; nine raee out of ten are canted by Catarrh, which I uothln bat ea Inflamed condition of the timeout aurfnee. We win rle One Hundred LMiara for tnr cae of Dea'ne.t caued by catarrh) that ceanot be cured bj Hall t Catarrh Cure. n.l for clrcnlart, free. fold by PrnritltU, 7e. Take Ueli'a 1 ainllr mu for coat ttpulon. "I gave yon a dime yesterday, re marked the philanthropic female, "and I saw you go lato one of those low saloons." "Yes, mum, replied the weary wayfarer, "a fellow wid on'y a dime ain't got no call to go into dem high-toned ones." Philadelphia Re ord. National Pure Food and Drugs Act The Garfield Remedies meet with the highest requirements of the new Law. Take Garfield Tea for constipation. About the only difference between a family jar and a family row la that the jar Is a trifle amallec