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might prove of interest, and to these
Hunter listened in spite of himself.
First she read of the political news :;
then the doings of great dignitaries,
foreign and domestic, and then came
accidents by flood and field and another
railway hold up on small scale, To all
these he lent but languid ear. He was
watching with eager eyes the move
ments of those soft, sensitive, curved
red lips. He hardly paid even faint at
tention to what she was saying until
something III the names struck him as
familiar. All the foremost part Of tho
paragraph had passed unhcard, unheed.
ed but now-now only by strong effort
could he restrain himself from sitting
bolt upright in bed and reaching out
and seizing the paper and reading for
himself, for what she read, when once
again he became conscious of her words,
was this:
1.-The overturned yacht now lies in 40
feet of water, her taper masts and upper
rigging all that remain visible Mr..
Hunter is doing we'll, carefully attended
by DR. Lambert at the Hotel des Am.
bassadeurs. The bodies Of Mrs. Hunter
and her unfortunate friends will doubt
less be recovered this morning The la
dies were caught in the cabin when the
Amorita was struck, and escape was
impossible. She went to the bottom like
a shot. English and American residents
are in deep grief. The ballroom at the
Casino last night was almost deserted.
Many New York and Philadelphia fam
! lilies arS at Nice for the winter, and the
/ tragic fate of Mrs. Hunter has cast a
gloom over the community. Mr. Hunter
had greatly improved in health but 1t
/ is feared this bereavement may again
PROSTATE him. They have no children. y
The Amorita? That yacht was owned
| by wealthy English admirer Of his
| uncle's wife. For more reasons than
one Hunter Gray had never fancied
him, and even his easy going uncle seem
ed to hold aloof. But Mrs. Hunter, SC
much her husbands junior in years,
loved society adorcd yachting and
what was more necessary for her below
ed invalid's recovery than the soft sea
breezes Of the Riviera and the idylliC
dolce far niente days and nights under
those Incompatible Mediterranean skies
and on the Amorita's dainty deck
There was late supper going on one
joyous night aboard, just as she wa
coming i'll from a days dancing ovel
the blue waters. There was misunder
standing between her skipper and thai
of steamer over the right of way-sig
nails or God knows what-for when tn,
Amorita rounded to the cruel black prov
struck her amidships aud ground he
underneath the iron keel. Through th
devotion of the crew Mr.. Hunter ant
one or two friends with him were res
cued. They were on deck. But nothing
could save the hapless banqueters still
below. Darcy Hunter had survived TIL
wreck of his business, the wreck of tn
Arnorita-had survived even his young
light hearted wife, with whose remains
said the paper, he would return t.
America at once.
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James Russell Lowell said, "All deacons
are good but there are odds in dcacons, +"
and it may be added that there are odds
in other varieties of men.
Squire Blank, according to Harper S
Bazaar, was not only the richest man in
his village, but the stingicst as well
Nothing gave him such keen delight as to
get something for nothing.
One day he and several of his neighbors
had been in conference with manufac-
turcr who contemplated establishing a
mill in the town, The conference was held
in the one store of the village, and at its
close the manufacturer stepped up to II
showcase containing cigars and said:
"llnve cigar gentlemen.
All the men selected ia cigar except
Squire Blank He did not smoke. There
fore he said:
"Thank you, sir, but ! don't smoke.
But as the cigars are "a dime apiecc III
take IA dimes worth o mustard il you say
so.
OF course the astonishcd gentleman
said So, and the squire went home juhi-
liant over "a hull half pound o. mustard
that never cost me "A red cent"
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An Ey-Queen's Prison.

A correspondent of the Leeds Mcrcurts
who recently inspected the prison it
Algicrs which France has provided for tho
ex-queen on Madagascar, describes ths
place as luxurious abode, in which even
"A retired sovereign should feel at home.
The house commands superb view of the
sea and is in the midst of n large garden,
In which semitropical plants and trcci
grow to perfection. The queen, ms she
passed from room to room, showed the de-
light of child with new toy. She was
particularly pleased when told that the
furniture in her own suit of apartments
belonged to NAPOLEON and the Empress
Josephine at La Malmaison
Her majesty has for near neighbor the
exiled King Nam Chi of Anam, with
whom, however, she is not on visiting
terms. The ex -queen easily adaptS herself
to circumstances and as she is not of a
worrying disposition there is no reason
why she should not end her days happily
enough. She proposes to entertain on a
large scale, and no doubt high society at
Algiers isa anticipating some pleasant visits
to the royal residence.
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CHAPTER MI.

That evening when the surgeon was
making his visit to the hospital the
steward told him Trooper Hunter desir-
ed to speak with him, and, halting
somewhat in his gait and looking very
pal;id still, but otherwise little the
worse for wear, the tall soldier was
ushered into the dispensary.
The Junior medical officer, for reasons
the senior could not quite fathom, had
on several occasions recently asked the
senior If he did not think Hunter fit to
return to light duty and gave his opin-
ion that he was getting soft and lazy
there The post surgeon, for reasons the
junior could not fathom at all, replied
that he thought it might be several days
before he should permit Hunter to re-
turn to his troop. This III nowise added
to Jayue's good will toward his gentle
manly and attractive patient. Hunter
was fortunate i'll having won the sym
pathy of the senior. Tonight he won
something more.
Standing bolt upright at the door, he
said
MAY speak one moment with the
colonel in private?'
The surgeon almost blushed as he
whirled toward the speaker. All through
the war of the rebellion he had served,
a gallant skillful, devoted officer, ever
seeking duty at the front, ever ready
night or day to brave peril, hardship or
fatigue to go with his regiment into
action. Time and again he had dashed
with them into battle. More than once
he had cheercd them in headlong charge
until recalled to himself and duties that
babe him sheathe the sword for the
scalpel. Scoring to leave his wounded,
he had fallen with them into the hands
of the enemy and had starved with
them at Andersonvile, Once he had
been seriously wounded as he knelt be-
side "a stricken cnmrade on the battle
line. Twice he had been offered hos
pital duty at Annapolis and Washing
ton and declined. From one end Of the
war to the other he had been known
among the men as the fighting doctor,
and the fame had followed him to the
far frontier, where in one long and
HciOo S"iiHeiSH "S"ihH' ''o HiOuA az
had spared himself no hardship that the
humblest soldier had to endure, and the
cavalry swore by him-aye, and tht
lnhe, sinewy, hard marching, hare
fighting dOughboys, too-and loved hin
for the love he bore them. With all hC
was student of his trade aud glorieC
in it, but most he gloried that he was {
soldier. He looked it, lived it, deserved
it and everything the name implied
but he had one weakness, if weakness,
honest glory in ones profession coult
he called. 1--we been soldier 20 year.
of my life. I've won tho brevets o.
major and lieutenant colonel on the
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MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF.
Commander Powell Won the Admiration
of His Cantor.


Sand always commands respect and con-
sideration from those who are themselves
bravo men Captain Jones, who was in
command Of the Florida troops when they
took the United States arsenal mt Apa-
lachicola, always delighted in telling this
Incident:
Commander Powell was in charge of
the arsenal" related the captain. He
had been IN the service Tor 90 years and he
made gallant defense against oyerwhclm-
ing numbers. To be accurate, he did about
all the fighting himself and gave Us the
impression that he had quite IL respectable
force bnck of him. When we entered, the
grim old warrior turned and addressed us
thus:
" Five minutes ago | was commander
of this arsenal; but, in consequence of the
weakness OF my command, | was obliged
to surrender an act which | have never
hitherto rad to do during my entire mill
tary career. If | had IA force equal TO or
even half the strength of your own, | II he
id if you should have entered that gate
until you walked over my dead body
You see, | have but three men. If they
were soldiers instead Of common laborcrs,
We would be fighting yet. | now consider
myself prisoner of war. Take my sword,
Captain Jones.
Il did take it mechanically and under
the spell of his outburst, but Immediately
returned it and told him he WAS too brave
man to disarm. spontaneously the en-
tire command gave lhrec cheers for Powell
and there was not one Of us who did not
feel proud that he was an American citi-
zen. Detroit Free Press
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Among these i0U Trooper Hunter"
vine the harrack squad and Sudstown
people would retire, and she could then
devote another hour to lighter reading
for the benefit of her patients exclusive
ly, some of whom were still in the ward
with the graver cases.
And among these latter, with band
aged eyes and burned and blistered
face and hands, an unrecOgnizable bun
die of bandages, lay Trooper Hunter
over whose head, unseen, unknown,
there was hanging sword.
For some days and nights conclusion
of the brain was feared. The magazine
had been blown into thousand frag-
ments, and how many of these, beams
or bricks, had felled him, no one ever
knew. He was hauled out of the stream,
feet first, like poor Pat Shea, bleeding,
burned and senseless. He began to mend
in few days, however, and by the Sth
of December was occasionally sitting up
in an invalid chair, his eyes and cheeks
still under cover. But from the time his
convalescence began Trooper Hunter
had spent two hours each morning lis
tening to the voice of the charmer who
charmed so wisely, and there came "a
day when she bent over his couch and
laid her cool soft white hand on his
forehead and asked him if there were
nothing she could do, no friends or rela-
tives to whom he would like her to
write, and he murmured that he
couldn't think of any just then, but
might if she'd come again to ask him
on the morrow. She came, and on the
next and the next day, too, marveling
not little at the. voice. the Intelligence,
the language of this particular patient.
She strove to study his features, but
without success, for when the doctor
thought to remove the bandages the pa
tient declared the morning light was
altogether too much for his weakened
eyes He would be bandaged in the
morning, though the afternoon sunshine
was really more brilliant, and he didn I
st m to mind it then. Miss Leroy took
to sitting by Hunters bedside as much
as 10 minutes at first; then the 10 be-
gan to lengthen to 10 and even 20, ano
other patients waxed impatient and sale
things about Hunter and thought things
about her that proved how jealous is the
human heart, even when 1T beats be
meath "a flannel shirt. The surgeon sale
Hunter could soon return to his troop
as far as his health was concerned, but
there were reasons to fear his health
might suffer after he got there for ia
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they had begun lrdlking to and fro again.
and as full of promise when she began
W hen she finished, 1t was heartbroken,
strident II had been torn in two by the
conflicting clements of misery and re-
volt "
Il don't understand, began Priscil-
la family
Stornmouth turned and confronted
her stcrnly Listen, he urged.
/ Don't try to understand. Don't try,
There Is no slaughter of the innocents
known today so inhuman, so utterly
worthy of counter woman S movement,
cmancipatcd or otherwise, as that
slaughter of American song birds abroad
4 who think-God help them that the
world is not full enough of birds with
out them.
Il would like to try" said Priscilla
firmly.
StornmOuth eyed her narrowly.
"Try what" he demanded
, Try to sing -
''If you sing" he said, "you will
forget to laugh. Why not do both and
remain at homeE'
Priscila's eyes filled with tears
"Thcy would all be so disappointed, ;"
she murmured, "all my friends. "
Stornmouth laid firm hand upon
her wrist "You are thinking" he
urged, THAT others have succeeded,
You are thinking that courage is your
portion; that Immortality is your birth
right; that broader field stretches be-
fore you on the boards than off them.
Remember what l tell you ten years
from now, when your illusions have
vanished. Vanity lies at the root of
your desire. You will lose woman 5
best opportunity, wifehood and mother
hood, chasing IA chimcra. You will give
your bloom for disappointment, your
freshness for unattained opportunity.
your youth for mediocre notoriety.
Count on your fingers today the Ameri
can girls who have succeeded ON the
,tage Of the Grand Opera. Ask them if
their life. is not Calvary" lie stopped,
breathing heavily
"Tho girl you speak Of" Priscilla
questioned gently, her eyes still moist
and her lips quite ashen-"who was
she?''
"She was my sister" said Storm.
mouth.
did she sing at the Grand Opera?"
mo" answered Stornmouth, "a
thousand times no, She spent money
strength, time, youth and patience
waiting, Then she came home, crept
like tired bird to my heart, and-you
know the rest A" His voice was husky
He drew one strong hand across his eyes
Thank you, said Priscilla very
softly.
shall we walk little more?" she
suggested after a few moments stroll
up and down the deck. 1T is nearly
luncheon time. | am cold 4"
Not word of this to any one, " said
Stornmouth, Then, you will not re-
nounce your plan?'
Priscilla shook her head. Il mean to
succeed, " said she.
Stornmouth held out his hand, 1t was
large and firm and warm. 1t had grip
like iron, Promise " he said, that il
what say proves true you will recede
before it is too late; you will choose
obscurity instead of unworthy notorie-
ty."
81 will promise, answered Priscilla,
with light little pressure Of her hand,
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charge, sir, and is not restored to health
or duty as yet, Iprotest
"Oh, you needn't protest. I'm done
for the present, I'm giving way to ev-
erybody this evening, all on your ac-
count. Here the surgeon signaled sig
nificantly to the soldier and, silent.
ly, wonderingly, Hunter withdrew.
'Tisn't only Truscott. My wifo's
jumped on me with both feet; says l'vo
insulted you-done nothing hut make
enemies ever since came into the -th.
Why, I've been catching it right and
left, doc-colonel haven't had mo-
ment's peace. What d'you think that
dash dashed long legged lath of a man
Blake says to me not an hour ago, begad?
asked him if he thought you had any
right to feel offended, and he said il
you didn't it was only because every
body agreed that no notice was TO bo
taken Of anything ever said. never
know whether he's in earnest or joking.
If | thought he meant what he said, by
God, he'd be in arrest this minute.
Again the post surgeon held up a
warning hand. pray do not speak
quite so loud, Mainwaring, said he.
"Some of my patients are trying to
sleep, beg you will think no more Of
this mornings incident. What you
have said is more than sufficient. am
possibly representative. "
And then ii WAS the doctors turn to
he abruptly silonced. Fora second time
the outer door was hurriedly opened,
silvery voices and soft laughter were
heard III the corridor, and then, mar
shaded by Blake, there at the entrance
stood Mrs. Mainwarlng, and behind her,
silent and tritie pale and anxious
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-04
ODD NUMBERS IN PRICES.
Fascination of the Bargain Counters
Nine Cent Goods Sell Better Than Eight

Nlht Sent t'ouN sell
In speaking of special sales the other
day and of the figures that seem TO attract
the public the most, rs well as the class of
customers who frequent these sales, an old
and successful merchant said:
There is u fascination in odd numbers
that always draw, purchasers. Now |
will call your attention to some of the
marked down articles that are being sold
on our bargain counter. Notice those
ncckties tina. arc marked at 81 , cents,
three for 81. 1t is an actual fact that we
sold twice as many of them at 81 . cents
as VIC would sell at 30, and we sell rs
many again by allowing three for ST..
When "A man secs them selling at 81 y
cents, ne naturally imagincs that they arc
30 cent goods and he reasons that he can
get three cheaper than he can one, so he
takes three. He really docs get bargain,
but he would not take it Mt "a less attract
i've figure
Speaking - odd numbers, it is curl
Gus fact that some are much nore attract.
i've than others Nine cents, for intanrc,
il one of the most attractive figures and
sells more goods than 5 cents would.
Thirteen and II cents are by no means SO
good as 10 cents for running off an extra
line, while 81 and 90 are comparatively
poor scllors. Thirty seven and u half cents
is great favorito ana better than SO by
far Forty mine used to be much better
than it is now. | attribute the fact that
it is less popular to the number of jokes
that have been made upon it,
"When you get above 30 cents, people
commence to look more at the real valu,
of thing and less at the price charged.
SEVENTY nine cents is "A great faNOritp. and
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\ MENTAL RESERVATION.

when | went over to France | couldn't
make nuy body understand me, and yet
my French teacher had told me | spoke
the language like a native"
did he say Ncu spoke 1t like native
Of France"
NJ no. Chicago Tribune
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-18
Ear Earlx Plants.

The hotbed should be located in
some sheltered place protected from
the chilly winds and where there is
plenty of sunshine. Good sash will be
needed to protect the plants from cold
The frame for the hotbed may be
made about four feet wide and as long
as desired. The best heating material
is strawy horse manure. This should
be placed at the bottom of the frame
from one 90 three feet deep, according
to the amount OF heat required. This
should be packed down and covered
with several inches Of good soil from
the woods. After the hotbed Is thor
oughly warm and the heat begins to
subside 1t is ready for the seeds. we
have had tomato plants appear above
ground In just three days after sowing
the seed with the Thermometer at 1913
degrees, but there is danger Of burn.
ing the seed at this temperature: 10
degrees Is about the proper tempera-
ture to maintain for the best results.
With a little experience one can soon
learn to handle a hotbed successfully.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-18
FLOORS IN BEE HIVES.
A Method That Combines Economy and
Great Convenience.

Some hives have the floor boards OF
bottoms fast, and some have them
loose. There are times when one kind
is better, and times when the other Is
better. In view Of these facts, DR.. q.
G. Miller gives the following informa:
ton in the National Stockman and
Farmer.
In the spring of the year it is often
desirable to clean the dead bees and
filth off the hive. At such times, II
the bottom is nailed on, there is no
way of making a clean job Of 1t but to
take all the bees and combs out of the
hive, a troublesome job and sometimes
resulting in injury to colony, especially
if the weather be cold. If the floor
board be loose, it is an easy thing to
raise the hive and put clean floor
board in place of the dirty one, then
after the dirty one IS cleaned II can be
given to another hive, and SO on. The
practice of tiering up hives, having
them two or more stories high, is be-
coming more and more common all the
time, and there is no possibility of DO
ing this unless the floor board bs
separate from the hive.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-18
HOW NUGGETS GROW.
a Chemist Shows That Gold Exists in a
Soluble Form.


It is generally supposed that the mug
gets which are found in the river gray
els of Klondike and other auriferous
regions have been brought down by the
rivers direct from the reefs in which
the gold originally lay.
Many practical miners and scientific
men, however, have long been of opin-
ion that this cannot be the case, for no
masses of gold of SO large a size were
ever found in the reefs themselves.
They believe, on the other hand, that
the nuggets have grown where they are
now found, just as a crystal of salt will
grow in a strong brine; but with so
insoluble a substance as gold it was
difficult to understand how such
growth could take place. Experiments
carried out in Australia have shown
that decaying vegetable matter will
cause the deposition of gold from solu-
tons of gold salts, but these salts are
not known to occur in reefs.
The mystery is now solved. A SIa-
vonic chemist named zzigmedy has
Just shown that gold itself can exist in
a soluble form. By acting on slightly
alkaline solution of a gold salt with
formaldehyde and submitting the prod
uet to dialysis, he has succeeded in OBJ
tanning gold in a colloidal condition, in
which state it is soluble in water and
may be preeipitated by the addition of
common salt,
1t is probable that some of the gold
in quartz feels exists in this condition.
It is washed out by the rain, carried
away in solution by the rivers, and
deposited in the river gravels wherever
there is anything containing salt to
cause its precipitation. In the course
of ages a large nugget may in this
way be formed.
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There are, however, times when It IL
very desirable to have the floor boards
secured to the hive. Those who haul
hives to and from out-apiaries must
have the floor fast to the hive, so there
is no danger of bees getting out. There
may be other times when it is neces-
sary to have the floor fast to the hive,
but most of the time l would rather
have the floor separate.
It is not very hard thing to have
hives so made that the floors shall be
loose most of the time, but fastened
securely to the hive when needed. For.
merly fastened the floors TO my hives
with screws when I wanted to haul
them, then took the screws out when
they were not needed. But l found
out better and less expensive way.
now fasten them with staples which
can be bought for 10 cents pound or
less. The staples are what are some
times called tobacco staples, and some.
times they go by other names. They
are the same as double pointed tacks,
only on larger scale. The staples
use are rs inches wide, and the two
legs are seyen-etghts Of an inch long.
Of course, a size a little different from
this would answer. When u staple Is
driven in. one leg in the hive and one
in the floor board, It holds as firmly as
a nail driven In, perhaps more so. It
is driven IN not quite full depth, and
then it is very easily drawn out. For
hauling, four staples are used TO fasten
the floor to the hive, but for a hive that
is merely to be carried into the cellar
two will do, one about the middle at
each side.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-18

Since the United States government
was formed 900 white men, women
and children have been slain in Indian
wars and ARRAYS and about 10000 In
dams, at an expense to our govern
ment Of 1907 .658. To this immense
sum must be added the civil expendi-
ture of the government on behalf of the
Indians, which, between 1776 and 1890.
amounted to 1858, 944, O82, making to-
tai of 81 ,067 017,74O for civil and mill
tary expenses In connection with the
noble red man.