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I had tossed it when we sat down. and hur-
riedly placed it on my head.
"Goodl You are ready to CO."
And, father, wherever she is and what
ever she is, when you see her you shall say
that have been thus ready to go to her any
time this dozen years. Yes, yes, am ready
to go. Begging pardon for this seeming
breach of hospitality, L tell you that the
olives will not suffer tor want of care. NY
people are not unused to these sudden de.
partures. 1 am a scribe, as you know, q
servant and a soldier in the army of the
press. 1 am ready to go, quite ready to CO."
Very good; we will go now"
MY horses were soon at the door, and as
we were driven to the station he asked
whether would prefer voyage by sea and
then gallop for days over the deserts, or q
ride by rail and then a voyage through the
air.
'T am well used to seas and deserts, but I
know nothing about balloons; so if you
please horses back is good enough for me-"
The same serene and restful good nature
possessed him still, Notwithstanding my half
hidden doubt about the possibility Of his
proposed voyage through the air, and he
only said quietly, as we stood at the station
window TOR our tickets: Eyes, the solid
earth is safest; but we have never yet had an
accident in all the years that our air line
has been in operation" As we took our
seats in the railway car he continued: "Of
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rail. steamer; the first journey had made
for more than ten years. And was so glad
to find you, too, that I almost forgot my
manners"
"And your manner" I added, a little
severely.
''My name! All, yes, my name is Father
Blank. I am, or rather was, priest, you
see"
1t so chanced that had only few days
before been reading list of those who had
disappeared mysteriously in the dozen pre-
ceding years, all of whom had been, in some
sort, people of distinction in the fields of
thought and intellectual toll; and it sud-
denly came to me that this name, Father
Blank, of the city of Blank, was among
them. Let me omit the real name of this
real character and the details of his dis
appearance. To give his name aad the
name of the city from which he disappeared
after half lifetime of eminent and splendid
toll would only excite comment and possi-
bly, cause pain to some.
''You are not then Father Blank, of. the
city of Blank, who was supposed to have
been murdered by one OF the Irish factions
because of the liberality OF his tenets in
Christian teachingf"
"The same unworthy servant Of the
people. ne 6alG s0lemnly.
There was long and awkward pause, in
which his profound soul seemed to drift back
and take up for the time the broken threads
Of his illustrious life of long ago.
At length. by way of calling him back to
the present, I said, half laughing:
well, Father Blank, I now know that
you must be very tired, indeed, for you have
lost whole dav in the calendar of your USE
full life. Yesterday was Friday, this is Sat-
urday; and so you see you ate meat on Fri
He looked at me kindly, and coming back
out OF the past he merely said in soft and
dreamful voice:
mo, I have not lost day; and did not
eat meat on Friday. did not eat meat to-
day, and shall not eat meat tomorrow"
I began to like the man, to love him. I
leaned forward to his side and said:
Father Blank, you will rest with me to-
morrow, and the day after tomorrow, and
many days to come"
'To-morrow," he began earnestly, and
pulling himself resolutely together, 81 will
be on my way back to the city in the desert,
and you will be with me-"
Ny heart beat like battle drum when
leading charge.
"Who-who-who is 1t? Where Is the city
of the desert?"
"She sent me to you"
He paused, looking me calmly and steadi-
ly in the face for long time, and then let
ting his voice fall. he added in o voice
scarcely audible: ''The builder OF the city in
the desert" kN
/ arose frou1 my place, drew long breath
of fullest sstisfaction and threw my two
arms about his neck. Then, stepping back,
! took my hat from . big esas chair where
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SALT IN THE STREETS
WIN Increase the Liability to Pneumonia
Besides Being a Nuisance.

VIII Increase the Liability to Pneumonia
Besides Being a Nuisance.
Salt sprinkled along the car tracks by the
street railroad companies, besides being a
nuisance, is certainly injurious to the health
of the people, for it gives them to breathe
that which nature never intended they
should breathe, says Dr.. Cyrus Edison in the
New York World. There is likelihood,
too, that the breathing of this air disposes
one to the development of the germs which
cause pneumonia. The mixture of salt and
snow has also bad effect on the hoofs of
horses. 1t causes them to soften.
DR.. August Siebert has studied the sub
ject of the increased number Of cases of
pneumonia and has discovered that the dis
ease is more prevalent when humidity ap-
proaches the point of saturation. Now, the
atmospheric conditions producing the
maximum amountof pneumonia appear to
be when q maximum degree OF cold is COM
bined with maximum degree of humidity.
1t follows from this that the predisposing
causes OF pneumonia are found in conditions
produced by the use of salt in snow. It is
certainly not necessary evil, and 1t would
appear that 1t increases the pneumonia
death rate.
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FIGURES In ICE CREAM.

How the Molds Are Made and How the
Dealers Use Them.
Suppose I wanted a design for an ice
cream mold" says a confectioner in the
New York Herald, II should send for an
artist. There is one man in this city who is
the ice cream sculptor. He would model in
clay the suggested design. From this, by
well-known processes, would in the end
obtain lead mold, divided into two parts
ana hinged. The first of these molds would
cost from $50 to $150. The duplicates would
only cost from S6 to SIS dozen. have
several thousand dollars worth of such
molds.
'Of course, have to have more than one
mold of q design, because it would other
wise take altogether too long to fill an order.
Sometimes have 200 aud sometimes more
molds of one design all ordered in single
day. Consequently 1 must have large
supply of molds constantly on hand. These
molds vary in size from that which is large
enough to contain score of portions to that
intended only for single person, and not all
of them are made for cream. Some are for
candy, which now forms q large part Of
every elaborate design.
''The cream is put into each half of the
mould by an expert workman, who sepa-
rates the colors and puts each in its proper
place. When the two halves are Joined to-
gether and the lead mould removed, another
workman goes over the work, smoothing 1t,
touching up the colors and penciling the
eyebrows and reddening the lips. After the
cream is removed it is put into the freezing
box and kept until 1t is served. I usually
send man with our icebox who serves the
cream when the proper time arrives. We
get our black from chocolate, our red from
strawberry, green from pistacke and brown
from coffee. These are some of the in
gradients of our paint box"
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CHAPTER VII.


My serene and ruddy-faced visitor seemed
loath to rise from the table even after a very
long and elaborate repast. True, he had
not tasted meat, but he had slipped his wine
and broken his bread and still ate the fruit
OF my high and stony hill with such COM
posure and satisfaction that began to grow
bit vexed and to almost doubt in my own
mind whether it was he or myself that was
master OF the house. But then, had he not
come from her? And had not waited for
years and for years, ransacked the whole
world to find news Of her? Well, 1 then
could and would wait, even If it took q
whole week and o whole case of wine to
open his lips with his message from my
Madonna.
Late in the afternoon he drew out his
watch.
'You will forgive me-" he began quietly,
"but think we worked quite two hours in
the olive grove. That was quite enough for
one day, eh p"
"Quite enough, if you say so, Mr.. =,
Mr.. -?
my name? Hal hal Well, ono. more I
must beg your pardon. But the truth Is 1
was weary. 1t is long journey; airship,
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CELERY Is BEING ABUSED,
The Story That 1t Is Laden With Typhoid
Fever Germs Is False.

The Story That 1t Is Laden With Typhoid
Fever Germs Is False.
The latest place where disease germs are
said to exist is in celery, saws DR. ii. Jacob
son in the St Louis Globe Democrat. This
is an exceptionally harmless plant or
vegetable; it is nutritious and palatable.
and is known to possess curative powers in
cases of Rheumatism and brain fag. But 1t
is now said there is danger OF its containing
typhoid bacilli owing to the quantity OF
manure Of all kinds used in its cultivation.
If celery is eaten both uncooked and un-
washed there may be danger of eating some
thing that is injurious, but so far as the
plant itself is concerned the danger is imag-
mary.
Corn and vegetables grown on sewage
farms have never been condemned as un-
wholesome, and it is generally agreed that
the juices OF plants do not absorb manure or
any kind of germ at all. A man might
choke by trying to swallow too large a piece
OF celery, but he would fndsit hard matter
to kill himself by aid of it in any other way.
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course, the air ship in cities or in wooded
countries where the currnts OF air music
be narrow and often contradictory is impos-
sible. This sailing through the air would
be quite pitiful piece of work, save by the
mountains and the sea, as compared with
sailing over the level deserts. For there we
have room and the atmosphere is always
even and the currents come at their regular
hours and seasons, like the rising Of the sun
or moon"
And much more be said; much more that
L ought to remember and write down. But
was on my way to her. And where was she
now? And what was she now2 did not
want to hear. l wanted to think. ! wanted
to think of her, and OF nothing but her; and
to hope; to hope all things. Still, az time
went by and we sped on our way the good
man, remember, would talk little now
and then. Yet can recall but a fragment
here and there OF what he sait. Among other
things 1 remember we'll his denunciation Of
the cruelty and the crime of modern cities.
They have no right to exist" he said,
these lighthouses of pestilence and deprav-
ity as they now exist. Of old time there
were walls to keep out wild beasts and
wilder men. This made it necessary some
times to put one house on top of another TO
ind room for the inhabitants. And 70 it
was that We began to have two, three end
four-story houses; and women began to spend
their time and strength climbing stairs. But
here, to-day, in America, with half conti-
nent still wilderness waiting to be built
upon, what excuse, save that Of the money
grabber, can there be for crovding people
like rats in ten-story houses?
"And now let me tell you what may easi-
ly happen TO these grand 10 and history
houses and their proud and penurious own
ers, the good priest went on. "Some day
the people will move out Of them and leave
them emptied of all but their misery and
the rats and the fevers and the malaria.
Yes, this may easily happen any day after
our great cities are near completion
and the people have tine to sit down for a
day and think. Bear in mind, this same
thing happened in Rome more than 1000
years ago, and with far less cause for action
and with forty fold more danger to the people
than could follow now. For the barbarian,
the barb, the savage, the fearful man with
beard, was waiting outside the walls with
sword and fire. To be without the
walls was to be fare, de la mura, or fare,
a foreigner. BUT nothing of that sort can
overtake the people OF this era when they
weary of their wealthy masters. And when
they do rise mp and 90 outside the city,
where will their wealthy masters find man
with influence enough to bring them back
simply by the recital Of a fable?"
After a time he continued: ST see YOU
look upon the idea of the people moving
bodily out of cities owned by monopolists as
sensational. Well, then let rs look at il
from strictly business point and from a
shrewd rich mans point of view. Let us
leave the people out entirely and look &C
It from rich monopolisfs stsndpeiat Les
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back to the reservation, and having found a
large, thick shingle, he applied it in a man.
ner to make little Johnny regret the tenacity
with which his natural protector had ad-
hered to the bottom of the bucket. Mean
while little Tommy picked up the remainder
of the gingerbread and devoured it.
Uncle Benjamin played the part of the
Great White Father at Washington until
little Johnny wished that he was cherub
with no necessity for sitting down and moth
ing to do it with, if the occasion should pre-
sent itself. Then Uncle Benjamin settled
the Indian question by saying: eff YOU
ever act like that again I'll whale ye within
an inch O. yer life"
HOWARD FIELDING,
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sHOEING THE BULLoCKS.

The Corean Blacksmith Sees the Beast Is
Securely Bound.
New York Tribune.l
The magnificent: bullocks are one of the
features of Corea. 1t would do Brahmin's 5
heart good to see them, although he would
doubtless take exception to the ring through
the nose and the load on the back. The
method of shoeing bullocks is cruel in the
extreme. The feet are firmly roped together
and the bullock is cast on his side; then
the head is pulled around until it lies fat
along the side, and in this painful attitude
he has to lie until the slow Corean black
smith concludes the torture.
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unes had hapuened on the boundless prai
RES Then Tommy made up large quan.
tlty of hard snOwballs, and PLAYED that he
was company of cavalry attacking an In.
dian village. Young Man. Not-Afraid-of
Rat-PoIson hurled his tomahawk, but as be
could not go to get it again and the attack.
ing force would not come within reach q
his scalping knife, he was thereafter de-
ienseless, and was massacred several times.
Little Tommy taught him how to sing the
death song, and insisted upon his bearing
torture without tears
About Time for Rations.
Then little Johnny shrewdly suggested a
change in the game.
'Don't the agency furnish the Iniuus
with rations?" he asked. Fat-Man-With
BOodle-in- His Clothes admitted that there
were treaties to that effect.
well, you go in and got ma to give us
some gingerbread" I" said Johnny. ard do
il myself If 1 wasn't frozen to this blamed
bucket"
So little Tommy went into the house and
explained to little Johnny's mother the
nature OF the game they were playing. On
behalf OF the poor Indian who was obliged
to pitch his wigwam on the northeast corner
OF the barn, he begged a piece of ginger
bread. As for himself, he did not care for
gingerbread. 1t made his stomach ache
But Houng-Man-Not-A Rat-Poison
was hungry Tor it.
Ihereupon, Tommy's aunt broke off a
large piece of gingerbread from a great
Drown sheet that was cooling in the wood
shed, and she remarked that it was yerv dis
interested OF Tommy to intercede for his
cousin: AS Tommy himself did not like
gingerbread he might have raspberry tart
Iommy got outside of the tart and then
took the gingerbread to the Reservation.
johnny was still sitting on the bucket and
lie seemed likely to remain there till the
January thaw set in. His knees Knocked
together with the cold and he was endsavor-
ing to arrange his torn blanket with the
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holes all on the lee side, so that there
wouldn't be SO much draught through it.
Like the Regulation Agent.

Like the Regulation Agent.
When he saw the smoking piece of ginger
bread, tears of rapturous anticipation
washed gullies in his war paint
Get some warm water and pour on the
bottom of this bucket" said he, ''and the
Great Chief will come to the agency for his
rations.''
SIT will not be necessary" said the agent.
Let the red man hunt the buffalo and
coyote. The agent will take care of the
rations.''
Then he divided the gingerbread into two
equal parts, one of which he bit with the
right side of his mouth and the other with
his left.
when does the Great Chief come IMP"
asked Young Man Not Afraid Of Rat
Poison.
He doesn't come in," retorted the Pale
Face; she stays on the reservation"
The spectacle of the vanishing ginger
bread was too much for little Johnny. He
had not realized before how hungry he was;
but now every time the agent took a bite,
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Suddenly little Tommy exclaimed; LETS
play Indian!''
Bully" said little Johnny, "and Pll be
the great chief of the Sioux, Young-Man'
oi-AfraiG-of-Rat-Poiso
Liked the Heavy Role.
Tommy offered no objection, and the
simple country lad thought it was very
kind of his cousin to yield up the principal
role without protest. He quickly armed
himself with a wooden tomahawk, got some
red ochre 1or war paint, levied on the
rooster tor feathers, and made scalping
knife out of the handle of tin dipper, after
which he said, "Whoop! Let the pale face
beware, for Young-Man-Not-A -Afraid-of-Ra
Poison is on the warpath."
''I'n be the agent" said Tommy, "aud
YOU must call me in the Indian tongue Fat
Man-with- -Bcodle-in-H His-Clothes.
We'll play that this is the reservation, -
SAID Johnny, pointing to a sunny spot; "it S
( good snowballing here, which will be handy
when l get ready TO make an attack on the
agency"
"Oh, no." said Tommy, "the reservation
is on the other side. This is the agency"
Theu he led Johnny to the northeast corner
Of the barn where it was colder than Siberia
and made him sit down on the bottom of a
bucket which was frozen into the ground
The wintry wind whistled through little
Johnny's hair and he remarked: "Say, if
this is goin' to be the reservation. there'n be
an attack on the agency in about a quarter
of a minute"
'-Oh, that's all right" replied Fat-Man-
With -Boodle-in-His-Cl Clothes, sit is the duty
o. the government to furnish blankets for
the redskin."
The Supply of Blankets.
So little Tommy went into the barn and
got two blankets, fine large one for him.
self, and a thin one full of holes for the
poor Iniun. Young Man Not-Afraid, etc.
kicked very hard at this distribution; and
he wound up with loud war-whoop and
the announcement that the attack on the
agency was about to begin. But when he
would have arisen to execute vengeance, he
discovered that he was immovably attached
TO the bucket. He was frozen upon the
reservation.
When little Tommy perceived this condi-
ton of affairs, he at once pointed out the
fact that it was all in the game He be-
heved in playing games right down to the
cold facts, and be mad read of manv cases
where similar but more extensive misfort-
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LITTLE TOM PLAYS AGENT
And His Country Cousin Gets the
Worst of 1t as Big Injun.
STARVED AND FROZEN INTO A ROW
And Then Numerically Walloped by the
Great White Father.
ATALE WITH AMORAL BY MR.. FIELDING
WRITTEN FOB THE p1sPArcH.l !

TITLE TOMMY had
gone out into the coun-
try to spend a few days
at the house of his Un-
Gle Benjamin, and to
furnish cheerful COM
panionship for Ben's
youngest boy, Johnny.
His rustic relations re-
ceived Tommy kindly,
little Johnny showed
him all the sights of the
farm, and taught him
many innocent games.
On the afternoon of
the second day the two
boys stood in the lee of
the barn throwing snow
balls at Uncle Benja-
minis hens. 1t was q
verv chilly afternoon,
esneciallY for the hens.
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How to Wear Diamonds.
New York Tribune.1

The handsomest diamond ornaments now
worn are in sun or star forms, and are set in
platinum to show as little metal as possible.
When worn as pendant they are hung on
a strong but almost invisible chain OF plat
mum and gold. A renaissance scroll IL an
other pattern Of these diamond ornaments,
which may be worn as brooch, pendant or
jeveled hairpin; this il made up solidly Of
diamonds in invisible setting.
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Boston's Great Act.

Mayor Hart takes great pride in the fact
that during his administration the city of
Boston has not paid for single bottle Of
wine.
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ROMANCE OF LIFE AS IT MAY BE MADE.
By JOAQUIN NH
Author "Songs of the Sterras" Lands'
Among the Modocs," and Other Poems
and Stories.
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH1
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

s
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ness within him growing vaster. When he
shivered the front part of his body Tapped
against his spine like the fore-course of a
ship in calm roll. 1t was unbearable.
The Indian War Begins.
With wild war whoop, he sprang to his
feet, leaving a liberal square OF his trousers
in the lev grasp Of the bucket and clasping
his scalping knife with deadly ferbcitS he
bounded upon the unsuspecting agent. The
battle was sharp, but victory quickly
perched upon the standard of the Red Man.
In about a minute the agent lay on his back
in the wet snow, and Young -Man-Not
Misunderstanding -His-Pantaloons sat astride
of him, trying to saw off handful of hair
with the tin scalping knife.
"1f the Fat-Man- v 'th- His Mouth -Full-o'-
Gingerbread desires 10 save his hair" said
the savage, '1et him make restitution. Give
up that gingerbread or I'll saw your head
OFF,
Under the circumstances Fat-Man had no
choice. He gave up the gingerbread, and
was afterward tied to the hitching post
where an imaginary fire was built around
him, and he was subjected to various tor
lures, some of which were not so imaginary
as the fire. 1t was his turn to sing the death
song, and he did it so Justify that Uncle
Benjamin heard him, and came to the res
cue.
Uncle Sam Makes War.
The situation quickly changed in favor of
the Pale Face. Uncle Ben took the offender
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stumbled is the word. I did stumble. To
be exact I did more than stumble-I fell.
This is how it happened:
was dashing down the street in my
American breakneek fashion, when sud-
denly bumped against man, who caught
hold of me to save himself and thereby
steadied US both. This man was his Gracious
and Exalted Majesty, King Humberto, son
of the hero, Victor Emanuelo IL, father of
that promising young dude. the Prince of
Naples. Yes, this was the King. And 1
all but knocked him down. He took it in
good part, however. Smiled, bowed, asked
me in French if had hurt myself, and
behaved altogether like the son of a hero
that he is. 1t all turned out happily
enough, and if had only curled my bangs
properly the evening before I shouldn't
have minded at all.
Not Presentable, of Course.
As matter of fact 1 looked a perfect
fright. My hair was skinned back from my
hyperian brow in q pealed-onion fashion
altogether unDecoming to my style ofbesuty.
Butthese little details somehow or other never
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BUMPED INTO A KING.
Lillian Spencer Has Thrilling Ex-
perience in Sunny Italy.
ALMOST KNOCKS HUMBERTO DuwN
Her Impressions Of That Picturesque Young
DRde, the Prince.
A BRISK ENCOUNTER WITH FLEAS

rcoRREsPoNDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
FropENCE Dec. q.
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S 1 said, I've
just stumbled
over the King
tof Italy.
1 m a 6 / n e
whether I am
excited or not!
A king-fancy
it! A real live
flesh and blood
kingi I say
stumbled over
7 mean stum-
bled into. Yes,