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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15
CHAPTER XII,

81 ask him! Do you dream for one
moment that l shall ask him for it?'
Evelyn opened her eyes in amazement
She began to think she had perhaps
made a mistake in pretending she had
been an interested listener to the re-
cent conversation.
Certainly! Did you not understand
me? You have merely to say you
wish for the check in order to COM
pare it with your own signature, and
the rest becomes easy. Lady Howard,
you quite agree with me?"
"And do you suppose that Major
Browns suspicious will not. be aroused
at once?" exclaimed Evelyn, caring
nothing either for her aunt's or for
Falkland's opinion upon the subject.
Not is ridiculous! 1t would be
worse than useless!"
But, Eve dear, surely Mr.. Falk-
land must know better than you"
HE may, of course; but, for all that,
I should not like to be the one to
make the attempt. If you think your
plan will answer, though, why not ask
Major Brown yourself?" she added,
turning somewhat indignant look
upon Gilbert Falkland. You have al
ways disliked him; so you ought to
be satisfied now if there is a chance
OF convicting him Of forgery"
Eyes, Miss Luttrell, you are right
I had my suspicious Of him from the
culiar expression coming into his face.
81 never dreamed, however, that they
would be so speedily realized. But, as
to your suggestion. would willingly
follow it if l could, only it is ten to
one that where he would most prob
ably comply with one of your requests
mine would absolutely fail. But think
it over to yourself for half an hour.
Anyhow, we must do something to-
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suddenly dropped the parasol which
she was swinging slowly to and fro
in her hand.
"The check" she gasped, gazing
wildly round.
There was no need to wonder any
longer what the unusual affability
meant. The Major had not been pro-
claimed innocent of the forgery, as
she in a vague sense of despair had
almost imagined. 1t was clear why he
had been welcomed so warmly into
their private room; and yet, as her
eyes rested for one brief moment upon
the accused as he stood talking to
her aunt, handsome, wonderfully dis
Notwithstanding man in his fault
less evening dress, all her old feel
ings of incredulity came back to her
as forcibly as ever. She forgot any
doubts and suspicious that she had,
never for an instant remembered the
episode of the birthday book and the
strange manoeuvres he had adopted
to secure a specimen of her writing
and her signature, and with a decided
shake of her head put an immediate
veto upon Falkland's carefully work.
ed out plan.
Then you refuse to do anything in
the matter? Really, Miss Luttrell, you
astonish mel" observed Falkland, a
cynical smile curling his lips. "But you
have a tender heart, l suppose, and
dislike the thought of your elegant
friend being provided with suit of
broad arrows at the nations ex-
pense."
Il refuse" returned Evelyn, her
head erect, her eyes flashing, simply
because am certain that Major Brown
is as innocent of forging that check
as"-pausing to add greater emphasis
to her words-"as you are!"
"Oh, very well-there is nothing
more to be said, 1 supposed" was Falk-
lands calm reply as he turned away
and. without even attempting to argue
the point further, walked across to the
other side of the room.
Evelyn looked after him with an air
of satisfaction, and then drew a sigh
of relief. She was agreeably surprised
BY the way in which he had received
her refusal; knowing that he owed
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Metropolitan Beggars' Trust.

The New York police have recently
made the discovery that most Of the
successful beggars in the city belong
to a trust. The beggars' trust is said
to own large house in Brooklyn,
which provides every description of
beggars' supplies, including bogus
wooden arms, legs, hump backs, pitiful
placards for alleged blind men and
cripples, etc. The beggars pay the
trust certain percentage of their earn
ings, and the trust regulates the hours
OF their labor, selects the districts, fur
nlshes list OF charitably disposed peo-
pie. and looks after members when i'll.
The police say that several wealthy
and cultured mendicants belonging to
the trust live in fashionable flats. Sew
eral attended the grand opera last sea-
son, and one rides in his own carriage.
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the Major grudge from the very first,
she had felt that, II he could annoy
him over anything he would assur-
eddy avail himself of the earliest OPP
portunity. But what was the mean
ing of this alteration Of his manner,
considering how determined he had
been a short time ago to secure that
check without an instant's delay? He
was taking her decided refusal to help
him in his scheme with wonderful
placidity. Yes-he was too calm-far
too calm. He must have some other
plan in his head. Some other plan?
Clearly he was not the kind OF man
to be so plainly baked.
The entrance of one of the walters
with a tray of coffee cups diverted her
thoughts for moment. Moving SLOW
ly towards the window again, she stood
gazing out on the starlit night. Lady
Howard, engrossed in an interesting
conversation with Major Brown, turn
ed with a slight start at her approach.
us that the coffee at last, Evelyn?
You might bring it to us out hero
the air is SO pleasant this evening"
Miss Luttrell drew faint sigh. Re-
turning to the small table where the
tray had been placed, she found Falk-
land lowering over the cups and saul
GERS somewhat uneasily, sugar basin
in his hand.
LET me see, Miss Luttrell-will you
make your aunt's coffee? l believe
you generally do"
"Yes-I will make it," replied Eve
Ign, taking up the half-filled cup OF
coffee which was nearest to her, fill
ing it with cream, and then carrying
it off to Lady Howard without Offering
as much as a glance in Falkland's d.
rection.
She wished he would not thrust his
company so persistently upon her. AS
he knew how detestable his presence
was to her, she wondered he had not
the delicacy of feeling to remain on
the veranda or to absent himself en-
tirely from her aunt's room for the
rest of the evening. But not SEEM
ed as though he took delight in tor
menting her this evening, for, look
ing around again, she saw him still
standing by the table contemplating
the coffee cups in the most meaning
less fashion.
Evelyn gave little gesture of i'm
patience and marched boldly past him;
even If Falkland was annoying her, 1t
would never do for Major Brown to
suffer in consequence. With this OBJ
ject in view, she took up the cream
jug, and was trying to reach another
cup of coffee, when Falkland stretched
out his arm before her and placed one
into her hand
For Major Brown, I suppose?" he
Intercepted, with unusual Difference
Evelyn murmured some word Of
thanks and turned away. But what
was it that arrested her attention?
What was it that made her start, bend
hastily towards the cup, and then,
growing whittier than ashes, look round
at Falkland?
"By fair means" or "any means"
Those were the words he had uttered;
and now back in her ears they were
ringing, back in her ears she could
hear them changing, clashing, whilst
a horrible idea struck her-an idea
which seemed almost to paralyze her.
ITO be continued)
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Irish Repartee.

From the New York Gael: Many
good stories are told in legal circles in
Ireland of encounters between lawyers
and judges in court. John Philpot Cur
ran, in the early days OF his struggle
at the bar, appeared in a case before
Lord Chancellor Clare. and laid down
some points in law which did not find
favor in the mind of the judge. ''If
that be law, may as well burn my
books" said Lord Clare. Better
read them. my lord" replied Curran.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15

Bonedust for Young Stcck.-Trials
of feeding bonedust to young stock
have been made in France. Four
ounces daily fed to a calf gave an
increase of thirty pounds in twenty
four days beyond the previous twenty
four days increase on the same ration.
Thus five and one half pounds ground
bone. costing 3lkd. made overweight
increase of thirty pounds. The bone
dust is said to promote assimilation OF
the food. tending to the formation OF
fesb.-Ex.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15

Poultry feed is easier secured than
feed Of larger farm stock. Almost
everything that is a, all edible can be-.
made into food for poultry.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15

There is no use in praying to God
for blessings. unless we are conform
ing our lives to his word.-Rey. A. C.
Peytop-
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Az the meeting of state dairy ana
food departments held In Chicago re-
Gently Mr. Levi Wells dairy and food
commissioner OF Pennsylvania, exhiD-
tied meat preservatives which are used
to both preserve and color. He said:
1.-THE color in this sample is an aniline
dive. The preservative Is generally
boracic acid or something Of a similar
nature. We have here another coal
tar dye that is extensively sold TO
butchers. This is to be used as an out
side color. In purchasing shoulders,
bacon, hams, etc., 1t is generally sup
posed they have been smoked. That
is not the case at all. A solution OF
this gives the desired color, making
a ham have the appearance of being
nicely smoked. ] think there are very,
few corncobs or hickory timber con-
sumed in smoking meats. In Pitts
burg we brought number OF cases
against butchers for the use OF these
preservatives. They are used mostly
by butchers. The meat hangs about
the shop until it turns dark colored
and is liable to spoil. The butcher
then usually runs it through machine
and cuts it up. He adds some Of this
preservative. which brightens 1t up
and makes it have an attractive color.
and 1t will keep indefinitely. There Is
no danger of his ever losing any meat.
There has been a great deal written
and said about chemically preserved
meats. We had several prosecutions
in Pittsburg, and convictions were OBJ
tanned in all cases brought. The goods
were put up principally in Chicago and
bought and sold by retailers in our
state. Boracic acid was the preserva-
tive, and the expert evidence given at
the trial by physicians and scientists
who had made the matter study was
that it was an unfit article for food"
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Advantages of Growers Association.
A communication to the Farmers
Review from the California Raisin
Growers Association says: The great
value of associations to farmers and
growers Of special products, organized
for the purpose Of properly marketing
their crops and maintaining reasonable
prices is shown most forcefully in the
experience Of the raisin growers this
year as compared with the prune grow
ers. Through effective association the
raisin grower has marketed his crop at
full prices, as fast as the raisins could
be delivered and packed and with posi-
tive knowledge that not car will be
carried over into another season, so
freely have eastern dealers placed or
ders for the crop. On the other
hand the prune growers, who have an
equally desirable product. find it ex-
tremely difficult to sell their crop even
at prices which are but little more
than half the true value of the prod
uct, as compared with other fruits.
Dealers in buying and handling raislns
have perfect confidence in the ability
of the raisin growers association to
maintain prices at all hazards, and
therefore has no hesitancy in ordering
freely In handling prunes the dealers
realize that the growers are without
organization and consequently are I'M
able to regulate prices, and If liberal
purchases of prunes were made, the
price might drop from an eighth to
quarter cent the next day. They are
therefore timid about handling prunes
at all and buy at as low price as pos
sihle
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Fall Work in the Orchard.-After
the fruit is all picked and packed and
the leaves are off the trees, time should
be taken before it gets cold weather
to 60 through the orchards and trim
out all dead limbs and such as have
been broken or injured during the
picking. We do not mean regular
pruning, though if this is done every
fall it will not be much work to re-
move the superfluous branches at the
same time. The grapevines should be
trimmed and laid down for protection
II they need it this month, and bush
fruits properly carried away and
burned, and if the leaves also are raked
up and burned it will help to destroy
many injurious insects and their eggs.
But If the leaves are put in the hem
house or used as bedding in the stables
and go from thence to the manure
heap, the fermentation there may Surn
up the pupa and eggs as surely as fire
would do it.-American Cultivator.
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Ground Bone FertiliZer.-Ground
bones usually furnish an excellent ap-
plication for grass lands, since they
are rich in phosphoric acid and also
contain some nitrogen. When applied
they should be finely ground and from
100 to 200 pounds used per acre. In
some instances larger quantities may
be used. They ere sown by hand or
may be deposited by an implement
used in sowing fertilizer. When ground
in the fresh form they should be ap-
plied in the early spring. When APP
piled in the form of bore ash they
may be sown in the fall, as then there
is no nitrogen to lose through leach
ing before growth begins in the spring.
When the bones are treated, that Is,
made into superphosphate, the re-
Spouse in growth will be much quicker
than when applied in the uptreated
form, but it will not be so lasting.
Mineral superphosphates may be best
applied in the fall, and for the same
reason that bone ash may be thus best
applied.-Ex.
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DRAMATIC CRITICISM.
"East Lynne" rs Reviewed h,
Wild and WooIIy Topeka
Reporter.

The reports from those who attended d.
production of East Lynne" in all Its u ~
geous misconception the other night ,, ~,
in pronouneing it a little the Worst 10
that has ever cracked IA square yar3s !,
plastering of the ceiling OF the opera bo,o,
in this city. Lady Isabel was about a. si T.
witching as a sun-kissed maiden of S.r.
gambia, and a man who would fall in IN.
with her would fall into a coal bit throf,.
A two-inch guard rail. When she retur1s.
from the mountains of Germany as NJ
Vane to play the nursery maid to her -,
she looked as though she had played hooks-
from a smallpox graveyard. The spec,
scenery where she met Sir Francis Lewis,
and made a post-mortem contract to M,
away with him looked like a cross betwss.
the malaria-smeared hills of Arkansas and
diseased vermiform appendix.
Mr.. Carlyle had voice which had to b.
raised with derrick in order for the peopts
in the back part of the audience to hearit
and then when it was at its highest pitch H.
tackle would break or some one would kDoet
the blocking from under it and it would All
like the price of steers during democrstr
administration. Barbara Hare looked a,
though she had been left over from bargair
sale and didn't care much whether her lnsur
ance ran out or not. Aunt Cornelia had +,
voice that sounded ike cross between an
army mule with ringworm and a cross.cu.
saw, and was built good dea like an Okl1.
homa cyclone on stills. The only good thin,
about the entire show that good deal Al
it was left out and it could have been in
proved upon by taking a meat ak and cut.
ting out the rest of it and turning the actor
into the cornfields and kitchens where they
belong.-Topeka Journal.
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WHAT is GOOD MEAT.
u Has Rot LittIe Odor aud hears
Cooking without Mach
shrInkaRe.

Poisoning by alimentary substances
Is so frequent, and the grave symptoms
following the ngestion OF tainted food
are often so transitory, that their causes
elude detection. Recently IL has been
proposed TO make use of the dumping
reactions, made familiar by the Vidal
test, TO determine the bacillaemic quail
tiles of meat, and IL would seem that the
method promises much. IL may be wise
10 recall a few OF the characteristics OF
sound meat. Good. wholesome meat is
neither of pale pinkish nor Of deep
purple tint. II has a marbled appear
anee. from the ramifieations of little
veins or intercellular fat; the fat of the
internal organs especially is firm, hard
and suety. and Is never wet; whereas
that of diseased animals is often soft
and watery. Good meat has but little
otor. whereas diseased meat smells
faint and eadayerous. Good meat bears
cooking without much shrinking or los
ing much of it's weight, but bad meat
shriyels up and boils 60 pieces this be-
ing due to the larger proportion of wa
terry and gelatinous material and the
absence of true muscular substance.
Under the microscope the fiber should
be clear and well defined and free from
intusorial animaleulae, while that OF
diseased meat is sodden, as il IL had
been soaked in water. the transverse
streaks are indistinct and wide apart.
and animalculae abound in it.-Sani-
tary Record.
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the end. That was my brush. and by
lying fiat on the ladder l managed to
do n very decent piece of work; at
least, you could read it like a book
from below, and that was the thing
we wanted. When the railroad people
found out what had done they were
as mad as blazes, especially the chief
engineer. who was an aesthetic sort
of a gent from Boston, and he tried
for nearly n month 10 get IL off, let
ting down Cinnamon with scrubbing
brushes on poles, but they only made
II all the brighter. At last he got
some brown paint, about the color of
the rocks, and smeared il out, but il
took at least dozen coats and cost
a heap of money. If they had only let
that sign stand IL would have been q
great addition 10 the canyon"
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portance. as to their influence over their
own eountry's population, with other
first-elass continental newspaper
with the best productions of Austria.
Russia. or even Italy, says a writer in
the Pail Mall Gazette. OF the Spanish
papers probably the impartial has the
greatest sale among the people of
Madrid, but the chief paper for In
fiuence among the better classes is La
Epoea. which is a conservative journal
of very old repute. having been estab-
lished for over half century.
La Epoca has never supported any
other party in Spain but the high con
servativeS. Its present circulation may
be taken as being about 1900 daily,
and il is edited by Marquis de Val
diglesias. who is also one of IT'S pro-
prietors- II is a four-page journal.
whose columns are principally given
over TO news from Spanish sources, and
It's supply of foreign matter and doings.
as we know them In this country, is but
ssanty. There is generally a leading
article OF importance in its FIRST column.
aud the latter half Of its fourth page
Is given to sAe serial" which is az
much in 1gus in Spain as elsewhere or
the sentiment.
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SIGN PAINTERS TRIUMPH
wrote MS aAd.v an the Grand can-
xou Rscks with q sponge and
Tive FIshDoIcS.

What was the hardest job ! ever
tackled, did you ask" said the sign
painter TO a New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat reporter. 1T was an 'ad. for
smoking tobacco / painted on the side
Of the Grand canyon on the line of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. ! was
working for Buffalo concern that
had a contract to put up 5000 land
scape signs for n tobacco company,
and gang of us travelled over the
country looking for good, effective To-
cation. This place in the canyon was
Ms tough proposition as any sign
writer ever went up against. The side
there went straight up about 200 feet,
and at the top there was big. over
hanging ledge. 1t was easy enough to
let down ladder from above, but on
account of the ledge it hung at least
40 feet out from the face If the rock.
after studying IL over for awhile
I spliced a couple of fishing poles to-
gether and fastened a soft sponge to
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The cotton shirt waist has come tc
stay, all winter, possibly. Pique is the
favorite material, and quantities of ii
are being made into shirts for the win
ter season. The colorS are light. al
though the material is heavy. White
is most popular The new designs are
very stunning, They come in ribbed,
cross.bar and dainty flower effects, all
woven in white. The autumn stocks
show only slight variation from those
of summer. They are for the most part
long. narrow ties of wash silk or ribbon.
which wind about the throat twice and
tie in bow at the chin. The ends are
somewhat longer and more spreading
than heretofore. ~. u. World.
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few minutes later as she appeared muf.
fed from head to foot, I'm going down
TO the village. I hate TO leave you,
though there isn't uything TO hurt you.
| will hurry back as quick as ! can, and
you kindIe a fire in the kitchen stove"
The child. dumb with establishment,
could only gasp: "Yes'm." She stood
watching the resolute figure until 1t
was lost tovicw. and.turned away with
SILVER as she thought Of the distance
TO the village. She knew nothing Of
the interview with Mr.. Stanton. She
understood, however, that only some
stern duty or pressing necessity could
take Aunt Sarah from home so late and
on such stormy evening.
Notwithstanding her promise to re-
turn promptly. II was nearly two hours
before Aunt Sarah threw the doors Of
her sitting-room invitingly open.
'come right in" she said, cheerily,
every one OF you, just as fast as you
can"
Susie Belle, who had fallen asleep
after a weary watch, started at the
sound of Aunt sarah's voice. She fell
back a few steps and began to rub her
eyes. What could II meant She was
surely dreaming. Pouring into the room
were rough men and miserable,
drencbed women, many of whom were
carrying small children.
Here, child! These poor people have
had their homes washed away. Show
the men into the kitchen while | get
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A Most Extraordinary Club.

Mrs. Ada Brown Talbot, of New York. d.
itor OF the Clubwoman, says that then most
extraordinary club she ever ran acres +,
conducted by a demure and dignified F,
woman of seven, the daughter OF a cas
president. The editor called one day, al
was received by her little friend with opa
arms.
''At last I've got chair" she said.
Il am very glad" my dear" said the Cd
itor. Il hope it is comfortable and pretty
''Oh, it is not for me; it is for my club
81 didn't know you had club"
'Of course ! have-just like mamma NJ
dolly is president, and | got the chair f,i
her. You see," she explained, in a whi,
per, there's only dolhes in it, and the doll
that makes the most noise is president
just like mammals club. That's my doy
She talks when you push her back.
broked the spring, and now she talks Ii.
she is ruined down. So she's president
Don't you think that's nicer"
And Mrs. Talbot said she did.-Philade!
phia Saturday Evening Post.