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OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.

GRAIN GOSSIP Gossip By private
wire to c. H. F. Smith y Co, st. Paul,
members of the New York stock eX hange
and Chicago board of trade.,-Prime
says: Reports from elevators along the
line of the Union Pacific road IN Ne
braska show that corn is now being gen
orally cultivated. Fields are fairly clean,
average height of corn about four inches
From Southern Inliana the weather IS
intensely hot and It will ripen the grain
prenlaturely what IS left of 1t. Mills Will
require the cro1, and mo e, tao, for grind
ing purposes. Very full reports covering
all the border counties in e lstern Kan
week has been very fine and pushed
everything along. Corn is all the way
from just coming up to twenty-four
inches high Southern Indiana re-
ripening prematurely. New YORK: Liv-
erpool sends. some selling, orders and re-
ports Is,T rains n S IN Southern R I o,n
16 bb!s; exports 92S bis; quiet and ell
orally weaker, except for spring bakers;
winter patents, So SjG4; winte. st aieh.s,
winter extras, g 6y03.lO. Rye flour quist.
Wheat-Receipts, l3,40 b.; exports, a rs
bu; sales, 4,2l5OOO blu futures, 56C, 90 blu
spot; spot dull; No. 2 red, S25kc spot and
to arrive, f. o. b., a1oat; No 2 red, S07sc
elevator; No. 1 northern, Duluth, $3.50
S31sc f. o. b., af1oat, t. arrive; No.
spot; options opened weak and received
little or no support all day. They were
depressed by further liqui 1ation, coupled
with weak cables, prospective new wheat
arrivals in the Southwest heavy st.
Louis selling and light c'earings, COS d
weak at 13s@2Ac net decline; July, 81 BIG
@S1Ac, closed at SJ3sc; Sept. mber, SEQ
81 5l6c, closed at SQ1ac; December, Sic.
Corn-Receipts, $3.50 bI: exp4rts, ;6j605
bu spot steady: No. ., 40040sc f. o. b.,
spot and to arrive; options opened easy
with wheat, developed subsequent
ceipts and covering; closed steady at I'M
changed prices; July, 1850; Sept smber,
3e12c; December, 3S1aG3S &c. Oats-Re-
ceipts, 5000 bu; exports, 1900 bu; spot
32c; track mixed Western, 3oaS2c; track
white, 3l@37c; options quiet.
GRAIN AVAILABLE SUPPLIES-New
York, June Especial cable and tele
graphic dispatches to Bradstreet's i:d-
cate the following changes in avail able
States and Canada, east of the Rockies,
increase LIS, 600 bu; afioat for and in Eu-
rope, increase 100000 bu; total supply in
crease, $4,000 bI. Corn--United States
and Canada, east of the Rockies, increase
342, GOO bu Oats-United States and Can
blu. Among the more important decreases
reported to BradStCeets not giVel in the
official visible supply statement are tho sc
of 100000 at Forts William and Keewatin;
10000 bu at Manitoba storage points and
125,000 bu at Northwestern interior eleva-
tors. The principal increases are those Of
112,G0 bu at Chicago private elevators;
80, 600 bu at Joliet; SO 900 bu at Cleveland,
and $1,000 bu at Omaha. The aggregate
stock of wheat held at Portland, Or, aud
practically. unchanged from last week.
Aggregate of wheat and comparisons:
June l, May l, June l,
1889 1899. 1885,
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WHEAT RULED WEAK
ACTIVE OPTION LOST FULLY ONE
DURING THE SESSION
WAS WEAK at OPENING

Much Grain OTcred Owing to the
Favorable Crop Conditions Pre-
vaiIing-EarIy News All Against
Advance in Prfces-NO-thWest Re-
ceipts Continued Heavy-Corn
Remarkably Firm.
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Other Grains-No. 3 corn. Z; no grade
grade oats, /; No. 1 max, 9. Cars Inspectad
Out--Wheat-No. northern IS: No.
Northern, IL; No. 8. 8; rejected, o; no
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Quotations: Prime butcher steers, $4.75
@5.25; common to good, &.25@4.60 choice
cows and heifers, $4@4.59; common to good,
So. 25@3 TO-. Gamers, s2@2.75; best feeding
steers, $494.40 common and off-colored,
SO. 25@3 10; best stock heifers, $375@4; com
cows, s2.75@3 20; best stock calves, s4.659
8; common, $4@4.5O; best yearlings and
twos, $4@4.40; medium, $3.5O@3.75; fat
bulls, So. S5@3,S5; common and killing bulls,
$275Q3.2 %; stock bulls, $2.75@3.65; veal
calves, $4.5006.50; mixers and springers,
$25045.
The run of cattle was a little heavier
than last week and a few head short of
the same day a year ago. Butcher stuff
was in strong demand and sold strong
with only a few loads in. Best fat heifers
sold up to $3.50; COWS, $4.25, and steers
from S. to $525. The stock cattle market
was active with steer calves selling a lit
tie stronger and other kinds fully steady.
Mixers and springers were active at
steady prices. Representative sales:
Butcher Cows and Heifers-
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Cheap Excursions to the East

The Wisconsin Central Lines VIII mn
a series of cheap excursions during Jl1ne
to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cana
dian and New. England points, at very
ulars, call at City Ticket Office. SIS Rob
ert street, st. Paul
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Austin. Faribault, Owatonna and
NorthAeId PeouIa

VIII be able to leave their homes early
In the morning for st. Paul and Minneap-
oils and return in the evening. spending
q full day In the Twin Cities, by taking
the new train via the Chicago, Miiwau-
kee q. St. Paul. which viii be put on
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BOSTON MINING SHARES.
NEW YORK MINING SHARES.

WALL STREET GOssIP-New York
stock gossip, reported by II. Hobart q
Street, National German-American Bank
building, st. Paul: Strong, Sturgis 4
Co. wire us: We have SO little OF In
terest to tel, you that this letter tocks WIN have We
just swung to and fro with the tide OF
local trading, lsome dealers being bulllsh
and others bearish Fluctua att ms = nave ave
dency of shares other than traction and
electric, with perhaps sugar, etc, mas
been to rather better quotation. In sugar
great uncertainty seems to exist to the
payment of the next dividend. The more
general judgment is that the usual divi-
dend, will be paid this quarter. leaving g
good for the best bonds, and this class
of purchases bids fair to spread to, good
dividend paying stocks. From railways
ferred stocks of many. of these. enter
prises are excellent, and will in time de-
veiop their desirability for investment
purposes. US
= Barrett, Farnum & Co., Chicago, tels-
graphed the following to Edwards & Be
dell, stock brokers and commission mer-
Mimi: Liverpool was lower in sym
patty with US. Moderate cash demand and
Gable from BigsfbooI says,nothing about
Russian news keeps bad, the important
cable, this morning says: Russian
drough damages daily increasing. Situa-
ton In CFemea becoming bad" The at
tempt to break stocks by breaking Peo-
pies Gas and metropolitan, was unsuc-
eessful, Talk of divident of American
steel and wire being declared June %.
Only problem is what rate. Bears on
stock say diyidend will be postponed be-
yond June %.
ton, June, s. Today's statement of the
condition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance, $26S,757,91s; gold re-
New YORK MoNEY.-New York,
June 6.-Money on call, steady, 2@2h, last
loan 2; prime merchantile paper, 312G4
per cent Sterling exchange firm, with
for demand, and at $4.S52@ SO for sixty
days; posted rates. S4.S61s@487; CONNER
cial bills, $485A@4. S512; silver certificates,
close; bar silver, 6014c; Mexican dollars,
48Ac.
FOREIGN. FINANCIAL, June 6.-The
cial cablegram says: In the markets
here today Business. was quiet and the
tone is regular but the closing was hope
full on favorable expectations of the
TranSvaal conference. Americans open
ed steady, Chesapeake & Ohio and Louis
VILE. & Nashville went shade above
parity, then weakened, New York came
better, but there was a reaction, and the
closing was at about the weakest
SPANISH FOURS-Madrid, June G.
Spanish As closed today al $500. Gold was
quoted at $1,000.
BANK CLEARINGS.
= ST. Paul, 1904, 946.5S.
Minneapolis, 81 .667 999.
Chicago, $21, AS, 442.
New York, $219, 767, 1889.
Boston, 1888, 62S.
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A Full Day

May be spent in st. Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
by people OF Austin, Owatonna, Northfeid
s saa sae III tSs bY sEns the
established June 9Th. )" -. W
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Quotations: Butchers, $355QD3.70; pack
ersx $3.35; rough, $1.5OQ2; pigs, 1925.
The run of hogs was a little short of
last week and 800 more than the same day
last year. THE quality was only fair.
Prices paid at the opening were TIC high
err, while the close was strong to a shade
higher than the opening. The bulk of the
butchers sold at 1921, with a range of
So. 55 to $685.. Pigs and packers sold
steady: Representative sales:
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Europe anu
af1oat $50. Il, 100000 6j,50),0 900 1920 000
United States
and Canada. 1872, 900 51,73,OO1 80, 715,o0O
Australia 80. $4,000 10000 4,60J0(o

Totals 80. .123, ~ OCO 123, or, OO] 102, 49, eco
LIVERPOOL, June 6.-Wheat-Spot
firm; futures dull; July, IS 11Md; Septem-
Der, IS 5sd. Corn-Spot American mixed
new quiet, IS SD American mixed old
quiet, IS sgd; futures quiet; June, nom
inal; July, IS SID; September, IS Cd. Re-
ceipts of wheat during the past three
days $4,000 centals, including $4,000 Amer
lean. Receipts of American corn during
the past three days 12S,70O centals
Weather warm and clear.
steady. Wheat lower: - No. / northern, Is
@761ac; No. northern, 75c. Oats lower
at 25AQ2Sc; Rye lower; No. ], CSC. Bar
ley lower; No. 2, 4oc; sample 3j@40c.
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Quotations: Good sheep. 81 25G45O: year
lings, $4.25@4.75; good lambs, Sl75a5. Is:
bucks, $3Q3.75 spring lambs. $5@6
The market was active, with a fair run
IN. Prices paid for sheep were steady
and lambs were q shade lower and not
In good demand. Several good punches
were sold from the feeding pens Rep
resentatiYe sales:
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STOCK SALES SLOW
BUSINESS ON TOO SMALL A SCALE
TO PERMIT OF THE DRAWING
OF CONCLUSIONS
RAILROADS RULED STRONG
Distrust of the IndustriaIs Seems to
Be the Most Important Element
In the Present Dizziness and
Heaviness of the Market-AnOther
Shipment of Gold Abroad Had ITS
Effect Upon Trading.

Close. Day.
Call money, New York. .2@212 2hQ3
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS
HOGS WE'RE ACTIVE, WITH PRICES
FULLY u TO 10 CENTS
ts.s
BUTCHER CATTLE SOLD STRONG

Only "a Few Loads of Fat Stun Were
Prices Were Paid for Everything
GOOd-StOck Cattle Were Active
at Strong Prices-Sheep Steady
and Lambs Weak.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, June 6.-The re-
ceipts at the Union stock yards today
were: Cattle, 535; calves, 365; hogs, 1885,
sheep, 49,
The receipts by cars over the various
railroads were as follows:
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BUILDING PERMITS.

The following building permits were is
sued yesterday:
John North, bnerstory fame DWELL
Ing, Minnehaha street, between
Hamline and Albert. 81, 200
Five minor permits. 725
Total, six permits................ .s25
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MINNEAPOLIS.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 6-Wheat OPEN
ed lower
July wheat opened at 7s%c.. against
hrmed up to 741sc, dropped to 73hc and
gained &c by noon.
September wheat opened at 74%c against
and advanced to 73c by noon
The cash wheat market was strong,
with a good demand from all quarters
July wheat closed at 72isc and September
at n%Qn%c
Open High Low Closing.
Wheat ing. est. est. Tues Mon
SSa 5S -: -: :: !$H So S. 7i% sc z49s4
er On Ira IEack n hard &G No north
257sc; June corn, 3O6sc; fiaXseed. 9.1bc
curb on July wheat ..... 72sL IL
Futs on July wheat .................. 7zs
FLOUR
The flour market is strong at lO@15c and
sometimes zoe over quotations
First patents ...............,S3 75O2 o.
Second patents ..............3 4 az s.
s First clears 7cg5 50
The aIket is very firm at the aavan-e g.
sacks IS and 49 lbs:
Rye flour, per Dbl, pure . 80 90
Rye ofiur, per bb! Xxx ..........2 90
Rye flour, per bib, standard .......... 2 81
GIdHdIn hour, per Dbl .........,...... 9 t5
In wood, zoe extra is charged
-BRAN,sHORTS AND COARSE GRAINS
Bran, in bulk ...... 80 .5s6 5o
Shorts, in bulk ............t: 9.25G1 Q II
Middlings, in bulk ......... II 50S1f1 *
Red dog, in 1z0-lb sacks IA Ot1GT15 co
Feed in 2OO-lb sacks, $3.50 Nothing what
ever ever doing long in the West. Good demand
and Pennsylvania Good export inquiry.
Very strong undertone.
Corn-Very firm; No. yellow. BIC:
No 8, 31c; No. t. 30c; no sales reported
Oats-No. oats, 26%t@27c; No. white
27I2712c.
Rye-No, 2 rye, 55c; no sales.
Trade diminishing somewhat as sum-
mer advances, but is good for this sea
son OF the year.
Coarse cornmeal and cracked
corn in sacks, per ton, sacks
extra, to jobbers only .Sl2 f5SO12 IN
No ground feed, 2-3 corn 1-3
oats, S0-lb sacks, sacks extra 13 25013 so
No ground feed, Y corn y
oats, bib sacks, sacks extra IA 256514 IN
No. ground feed 2-3 oats 75-
lb sacks, sacks extra. Is 256D15 30
SOME SAMPLE SALES.
30 l northern, Sc cars, 74c.
No l northern, cars, 74Ac
NO northern, cars, choice TIC
No. | northern, cars, choice, 74%c.
No NO MORT n0r thern car. choice 74Ac.
NO. northern, 200 blu 735sc
No. northern, 1,200 bu 74c.
NO. northern, 900 blu, 741ac
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION
Railroads. No1Hd No No. . No2. Nos Rel Cd Cd
II II. : = S. t. & h. ?: q 4 g : i :
500 Line .:..... =. Is 2 ..
Ss s.:S5F: %k 60: ''S g g j : :
q
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Mich Cow Exchange-The market was
more active than for a number of DAYS
The demand was good and the supply
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STOCKS.

Furnished ny Charles H. F. Smith &
Co, members Of the New York stock ex-
change, Pioneer Press building, who have
special wires to Chicago and New York.
Closing prices are bid:
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FAMOUS BANDMAsTERS.
Five of Them Who Are Known All
Over the World.

New York June 9.-There are bandmas-
ters and bandmasters, pretty well the
world over About the most famous of
them is Lieut. Dan" Godfrey. supreme
over the band of the Grenadier Guards.
Himself the son and grandson of bandmas-
ters, he has passed the talent on. His
three sons are likewise bandmasters. The
original Godfrey, Charles by name, led
the band of the Coldstream Guards in
the days before Waterloo, and welded
the baton a matter of forty years. His
son and successor Frederick conducted for
something like twenty years. The third
Godfrey. Dan" was the first bandmaster
to receive a commission. He took charge
of the Grenadier Guards band in 1856, re-
ceiving the appointment through the in
huence of the Prince Consort. 1t is an
appointment of peculiar prestige, since the
Guards is the only regiment in which the
Prince of Wales ever served as a soldier.
Though Dan" Godfrey has never gone to
the wars, he is starred and medailed like
a veteran, with the trophies of peace.
Next 10 him stood the late Thomas John
Harper who died a little while back, aged
So He had been sergeant trumpeter to
the Queen, throughout her reign, and for
fifry-odd years trumpeter to the
Lord Mayor of London. He sound
cd the trumpet when William
~ was crowned, also at the cor
onation of Queen Victoria, at the birth of
all her children, at the weddings of the
Princess Royal Empress Fredericl), and
the Prince of Wales; indeed at all the
royal weddings. OF course. he had many
decorations. among them the jubilee medal,
bestowed by the Queen herself.
Where many are superlatively excellent
1t Is hard to choose, yet among German
military bands the first place must be
awarded 10 the band of the First Grena-
der Guards. whose conductor is the ne
gro. Sabac- El-Cher. He is German-born,
complexion to the contrary notwith-
standing. His father, native of lower
Egypt came from Carlo in the suite of
Prince Aibrecht, brother TO old Emperor
William. The son. born in 1861, was
musical prodigy. At 8 he played in pub
lie on the violin. Before he was 20 he was
in the regimental bands, playing on oboe
and trombone. In 1895 he became band
master, and in the post has won ever-in-
creasing fame.
Viennas favorite band is that of the
Fourth Infantry, known otherwise as the
Imperial Austrian band, which Americans
heard at the Worlds fair. Ii is not gem
orally know that its leader, Ziehrer. was
courfmartialed when he got home for
overstaying his leave, seduced thereunto
by the cllnk of good American dollars. He
has, however. been reinstated. He has
many friends and patrons at court.
though none now living is so much the
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friend and so little the patron. as was the
luckless Crown Prince Rudolf
When the Dutch crowned their fine
young Queen, of course Hollands premier
band, thar of the Greuadier Yagers, was
very much IN evidence Its leader is n
A. Bowman, a musician of the younger
school, who had control not only of his
band but Of all the coronation music.
No hght task you viii admit when you
near that he had in charge over 1900 mill
itary musicians. some 1900 trained singers
male ard female, and a grand chorus of
1900 children. All these he kept well in
hand, rendering serenandes and choruses
both in Amsterdam and The Hague and
accompanying the voices with his own
band as though it was but a single Won
derfully varied instrument. Not satisfied
with that, he composed two marches, one
military, one triumphant, both of which,
it is needless 70 add, are dedicated to the
young Queen of Orange-Nassau.
1t may surprise>many to learn that John
Philip Sousa is an American, born, of all
places in the city of Washington, some
thing more than 40 years ago. Almost by
the time he could talk he began making
music. At 10 he conducted an orchestra;
before he was 20 he played as first violin
in the famous orchestra which Jacques
Offenbach took all over the country. In
1880. unsolicited, there came to him an
offer of leadership in the United States
marine band. He accepted the offer and
soon made it rank among the finest mill
tary bands in the world. After ten years
he left the government service to organ
ize a band after ideas of his own. Every
body knows the result-how he has In
vaded every province of harmony, and
brought strings, brass and wood 10 sound
in the finest accord. He has composed
tuneful operas. but the title of March
King fits him best His marches are now
played by above 1900 bands; they timed
the motion of the jubilee procession
through London streets, and were played
by the massed Turkish bands when Gen.
Miles reviewed the Turkish army.
Fritz Morris.
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Women
W0Ufes SURG
~ TRY HIS.
PERSEgssasss'S
kgedHcEgse ST
They Only
Knswy Says
MFSs King

and received benefit from it at onco
l have taken it ever since and now
have no backache, no pain in INV
side and my stomach and bowels ars
perfectly well. can honestly saw +tae
there is nothing like it. IfIcould ONLY
tell every woman how much good Won.
medicine has done me, thew wo,,IS
surely try it. MARTHA M. KING. NopT-
ATTLEBoRo, MASS.
The way women trife with health
shows a degree of indifference that
misunderstanding. Happiness anduse'
fulness depend on physical health. 90
does good disposition. Disease mal,aS
women nervous, irritable and snon
pish. The very effort of ailing women
to be good-natured makes them nor
vous. Write to Mrs. Pinkham. she VII,
help you to health and happiness
Itcostsnothing toget Mrs. Pinkbam,s
advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass
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gauge chicken skin and parchment WITH
scenes from famous fairy tales.
Elaborate Lingerie

gauze. chicken skin and parchment with
scenes from famous fairy tales
Elaborate Lingerie.
Nowadays the artists in lingerie an
nounce three seasons of suitable under
wear. The first winter woods. flannel
skirts ana tufted combing Jackets, tine sec
ond or spring glories of lace and the sheer
cotton goods while the third season ush-
ers in the soothing silk garments and the
remarkably lovely new chemise and night.
dresses made of goods so fine and so in
wrought with lace that IL is essential to
wear with them all under garments of
pale tinted silky stuff.
The very latest nighties have their
sleeves and waists made almost wholly of
lace, then by a lace girdle, interviewer
with ribbon, the fun skirt of sheerest
handkerchief linen is put on quite full
Under 50 diaphanOus. a robe goes a per-
fectly plain slip of the thinnest pink blue,
green or yellow wash silk made and the
effect is becoming to the last degree.
Little girls in imitation of the women of
larger growth are reveling this summer in
crisp white muslin with Valenciennes
tiounces and insertions All their pretty
crisp suits so suggestive of the pure fresh
ness Of childhood. are worn over white,
with white muslin sashes, where sashes
are used and with hats having crowns of
gauzed muslin and brims formed of many
wide muslin hounces edged with lace and
strings Of muslin also garnished with lace.
Girls until their eighth year wear black
half hose and fiat slippers, strapped on
The instep with white suits, while after
that age black Isle long hose and French
kid oxford ties are in more dignified keep
ing Mary Dean.
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THE DUCHESS AND HER EE,.,o

The Way Her Grace of MnrI,,
Is rroNi"'nS " PrinceIy Treasure
New York, June s.-The Duchess
Marlborough has two very pronounce,
tastes-fne jewels and rare lace M
fondness which her grace displays Us
doubtless inherited from her nom. WIS
O. H. p Belmont, who is evtr,I,a.,,.- Mrs.
Iona or costly lace. and from the in 10y
Tie Consuelo, me present Duchess III ~
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though I must
tell about it. A
year ago I was
taken very sick.
DoctorscouldG 60
me no good onlv
to deaden the
pain which 7
had almost con
stantly. I got
some of your
Compound and
took one bottle
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a LETTER TO MRS. PISKHAx NO. Q4,g1
liam so grateful to you for wb.4
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable c.
pound has done for me that I feel -
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Far IN on the road to Peitlpaug a for
lorn little figure trudged over the sand
hills, with WEAKNESS in every limb but
desperation in the frightened little heart.
Probably never again would Merwin
Higgins feel that sorrow Of half-compre-
hended danger and absolute helplessness
which now engulfed his childish soul. The
Hin boys had been duly dispatched TO the
scene of trouble, but he dared not go
back with them. SO he set his face TO-
wards pa ma and Pettipaug and hurried
on.
Up at Pettipaus the Higgins family were
enjoying a mildly festive treat" Of cake
and lemonade before going 10 bed. Aunt
Loizy was just filing Henry's glass and
saying that the water from their pump
never tasted quite so good as that she
used 10 drink at home, when the outer
door swung OPEN on che threshold stood
a dusty little lad so utterly wearied that
he gave his message with Spartan calm
ness. "Gramma 5 Grounded in the we'll"
Half an hour later Merwin was seated
by his father in the buggy retracting his
afternoons journey His explanations
had been vague and unsatisfactory. but
their melancholy burden "Gramma .