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was not contemplated that they would be
frequently used otherwise than as working
from a fixed base. Experience however
has shown that vessels with greater sea-
keeping power are required for service with
fleets and accordingly the board has de-
cided both materially to strengthen tho
type of future destroyers and also to create
a new class altogether. to which the name
Scout has been given. 1t is proposed not to
initiate a design for this class at the
admiralty. but to invite the private ship
builders OF the country to give the navy
the benefit Of their creative ingenuity by
submitting designs to fulfill certain stated
conditions.
1t is now announced that from the Clyde.
and probably also from the Yarrow and
Thorndyke shipyards designs and tenders
have been submitted for these new boats.
The necessity for a sitter class OF torpedo
vessel was revealed by the Investigations
OF an admiralty committee which was APP
pointed after the disaster to the Cobra
The new scouts are to be much longer
and stronger than any "destroyers' hith-
erto built. vessels which will be able to
remain at sea in ordinary weather for more
protracted periods than either '-destroyers'-
or torpedo boats. 1t was at first feared
that the increase in the size and strength
would lead to a great falling off in speed
but there is reason to believe. from the
opinions of skilled engineers. that the
scouts will have a reliable rate approach
for the present year only G29 435 has been
taken by the admiralty for the four craft
Of this type included in the program of con-
struction. but at Glasgow il is stated that
the construction of ten is now contem-
plated,
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CHAPTER III.
John Law Of Lauriston.

Unconsciously the coachman obeyed the
unvoiced command of this man, who step
ped out from the shelter of the hedge
Travel-stained, just awakened from sleep,
disheveled, with dress disordered, there was
none the less abundant holiness In his mien
as he came forward. yet withal the grace
and Difference of the courtier. 1t was a
good figure he made as he stepped down
hand. the sun. now rising to the top Of the
hedge. lighting up his face and showing his
bold profile. his open and straight blue eye
Ladies'" he said. as he reached the road,
II crave your pardon humbly. This. think,
is the coach Of my lord. the Earl of Ban
bury. Mayhap this is the Lady Cathartne
Knollys to whom l speak?"
The lady addressed still gazed at him.
though she drew up with dignity.
You have quite the advantage Of u.s."
said she. She glanced uneasiiy at the
goodman, but the order to go forward did
not quite leave her lips.
II am not aware-I do not know" she
began, afraid of her adventure now 1t had
come, after the way Of all dreaming maids
who prate of men and conquests.
II should be dull Of eye did not see the
Knollys arms" said the stranger. smiling
vised of the families of England did not
know that the daughter of Knollys. the sis
ter of the Earl of Banbury, Is the LADY
Catharine, and most charming also. This
1 might say, though tits true. 1 never was
in London or in England until now"
The speech. given with all respectfulness.
did not fail of fiattery. Again the order to
drive on remained unspoken. This speaker.
whose foot was now close to the carria ge
step. and whose head. gravely bowed a.
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CHAPTER II.
At Sadler's Wells.

Sadler's Wells, on this mild and CHEEKY
spring morning, was scene of fashion and
of folly Hther came the elite of London
after the custom of the day, to seek rem
edy in the reputed qualities of the springs
for the WEAKNESS and iassitude resultant
upon the long season of polite dissipation
which society demanded of her votaries.
Bewigged dandies. their leng coats of colors
well displayed as they strutted about il
the open paid court, there, as they did
within the city gates. to the powdered and
painted beauties who sat in their coaches
waiting for their servants to bring out to
them the draft of which they craved heal
ing for crows feet and hollow eyes. Here
and there travelling merchants called
their wares, jugglers spread their car
pets, bear dancers gave their little
spectacles, and jockeys conferred as to
the merits of horse or hound. Hawk-nosed
Jews passed among the vehicles, cursed
or kicked by the young gallants who stood
about, hat in hand, at the steps of their
idols carriages.
Buy my silks, pretty lady, buy my silks!
Fresh from the Turkey walk on the ex-
change, and cheaper than you can buy their
like in all the city-buy my silks, LADY,"
Thus the peddler, with his little pack of
finery.
My philter. lady, cried the gypsy wo-
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man. who had left her, donkey cart outside
the line. My philter! Twill keep-a your
eyes bright and Your cheeks red for ave
Secret of the Pharaohsi lady; and but
shilling" 81
Have We a parrot. ma'amo Have We
never a parrot to keep We free and give We
laughter every hour? Buy my parrot, lady.
Just from the Gold Coast. He'll talk We
Spanish. Flemish or good city tongue. Buy
my parrot at ten crowns, and so chean
LADY," So spoke the ear-ringed sailor. who
might never have seen a salter water thar
the Thames.
"Powder-puffs for the face: lady" whis-
pered a lean and weazen-faced hawker
slipping among the crowd with secrecy
See my puff, made from the foot of En-.
glish hares. Rubs out all wrinkles. lady
and keeps we young as when We were
lass. But shilling. shilling Seer And
with the pretense of secrecy the seller would
sidle up to a carriage of some dame. slim to
her the hares foot and take the shilling
with an air as though no one could see what
none could fail to notice.
Above these mingled cries of the hangers
on of this crowd of nobility and genfI,s
rose the blare of crude music, and cries far
off and confused. Above 1t all shone the
May sun. brighter here than lower toward
the Thames. In the edge Of London town
1t was. all this little pageant, and from he
residence squares below and far to the west
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glass. Each dish was on a metal leaf
hinged to wheel AS the money drops
Into the slot the wheel begins to turn, and
a moment later one of the leaves reaches
the place where 1t drops. and slides the
dish Of ice cream down to you. The ice
cream is in plain sight and you can see
what you are going to get before you put
your money in.
Then there are sandwich-slot machines
and cake-slot machines. 1 counted a dozen
of these. which will furnish you sandwiches
OF caviare, ham, tongue, salmon or of pate
de foie gras, as we'll as cakes of different
kinds. These are like the ice-cream ma
chimes. the sandwiches being on tin shelves.
which drop after the money is put in.
This place was full during my stay and
the customers were all served with the
ststance of a boy, girl and a man who
acted as cashier or change maker. I talked
to the cashier about the institution and was
told that ii paid very well. 1 see no reason
why one should not do likewise in an Amer
lean city. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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brand. Il was none the less once a good
servant of Louis in New France for that
l found many new tribe and many a bale
of furs that else had never come to the
mountain for the robbery of the lying of
ficers who claim the robe of Louis. l was
a soldier for the king as well as a traveller
of the forest. Was | not with the LIE
Moynes and the band that crossed the icy
north and destroyed your robbing English
fur posts on the Bay of Hudson? 1 fought
there and helped blow down your barriers.
l packed my own robe my back, and
walked for the king, till the raquette thongs
cut my ankles to the bone. For what?
When L came ack to the settlements at
Quebec l was seized for a coureur de bois,
free trader. 1 was herded like a criminal
into a French ship. sent over seas to a
French prison. branded with French iron,
and set like brute to pull without reason
at bar of wood in the kings galleys-the
kings helli''
And yet you are a Frenchman," sneered
Wilson.
Yet am I not a Frenchman." cried the
other. Nor am | an Engiishman, am
no man of a world of galleys and brands |
am a man of America
'Tis true what he says" spoke Penn
broke ''Tis said the minister of Louis
was feared to keep these men in the galleys,
lest their fellows in New France should
become too bitter, and should join the saw
ages in their inroads on the starving set
Elements of Quebec and Montreal"
True" exclaimed Du Mesne. 1.-The
coureurS care naught Tor the law and lit
tie for the king. AS for a ruler. we have
discovered that man makes most excel
lent sovereign for himself"
And excellent said cried Castleton
None of ye know the west" went on the
coureur. Your Virginia. we know we'll
of it-a collection of beggars, prostitutes
and thieves. Your New EngIand-a lot of
od-fishing, starving snivelers, who are
most concerned how to keep life in their
bodies from year to year. New France her
self, sitting ever the edge of an icy
death, with naught but chickering's at Que
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bee and naught but reluctant compliance
from Paris-what hath she to hope? l tell
we. gentlemen. tits beyond, in the land of
the Messasebe. where l shall for my part
seek out my home; and no man shall set
iron on my soul again.
He spoke bitterly. The group about him.
half amused, half cynical and all ignorant,
as were their kind al this time of the reign
of William, were none the less impressed
and thoughtful. Yet once more the sneer-
ing voice of Wilson broke in.
"A strange land. my friend" said he.
'monstrous strange Your unicorns are
great. and your women are little. Methinks
to give thy tale proportion thou shouldst
have shown shoon somewhat larger"
Peace Beau" said Castleton, quickly
LAS for the size of the human foot-gad,
I'll lay roll of louis dor that there's one
dame here in London TOWN can wear this
slipper of New France
."Done! cried Wilson. Name the one"
None other than the pretty Lawrence
whom thou hast had under thine ancient
wing for the past two seasons"
The face of Wilson gathered into a sud-
den frown at this speech. What doth it
matter'-he began.
Have done. fellowsr' cried Pembroke
with some asperity Lay wagers more fit
at best. and let us have no more of this
umb-biting. Cad the first we know. we'll
be Up Tor fighting among ourselves. and we
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tioneers knock down the goods rapidly. 1t
to kes half minute to sell crate of suck
ing pigs and less still for selling chickens
or ducks.
Millions Of Eggs.
Butter and eggs are sold in the same mar
let. The eggs are sold by the thousand.
They are packed in great boxes which are
stacked on the floor. Each box had 1850 or
more and all told, they contain millions
upon millions of eggs. 1 stop at one of the
stands and ask what the eggs are worth
and am told they sell wholesale for so per
thousand or for two cents apiece and that
the seller gets commission of three per
cent for his trouble. The French know how
to use eggs perhaps better than any other
people. They cook them in all sorts OF
ways and from them make delicious dishes
which are ha rdly known in America. AS
result the egg consumption of Paris is enor-
nous and they come here from all parts OF
france. They are usually fresh. have
yet to get bad one at any of the hotels
and their reputation Is what tina. of every
egg should be, like that Of Caesars wife
above suspicion.
1t is the same with the butter. 1t Is made
without salt and must therefore be very
good to keep any length of time. 1t is sold
in the markets in balls weighing about
twenty-five pounds each.
Among the Cheeses.
But what is that smell that comes to us
from over the way! 1t is of a cheesy ma
ture, although not of the rank Limberger
kind. Let US cross over. We do so and en-
ter another great pavilion in which hun
dreds of men and women are buying and
selling. The auctioneers are handling
cheeses of every description, from the little
rolls of "fromages de Suisse to the great
wagon wheel sections of Gruyere, and the
round balls of Edam cheeses from Holland.
Leaving the cheese markets We take a
walk among the fishwives There is
pavilion that is devoted to them. Each fish
woman has marble counters about her on
which are displayed almost everything that
swims the sea and not few reptiles that
crawl the land. Some of the women have
watts of running water in which cells are
squirming about If you want to buy one
they will dip out a handful in a net and
let you take your choice. They have beau
tiful salmon, which sell for almost their
weight in silver. well founders skates
and dogfish, which go for little or nothing.
Snails and Frogs.
But what is that which that old woman is
selling? / mean the one who has boxes and
baskets piled high on her counters. She
seems to be ladling out pints of gray mar
bles, and she has wooden skewers of bits of
meat lying beside her Those skewers are
filled with frog legs. which sell for few
cents per dozen, and which | can assure
you taste sweet as spring chicken if
properly cooked. Those marbles are snai1s
which the French esteem especially de-
licious. They sell for cents a pint The
large white snails in the boxes cost more
They are the best of their kind and are
worth more than terrapin or porterhouse
steak.
See, there is Frenchman buying some
now He picks up a couple and looks them
carefully over and then orders a hundred
The woman scoops the crawling. Shiny
things out in her hand and counts them.
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May Furnish a Field for the
American Invasion.
HALLES CEN TRALES
AS YET WE SUPPLY BUT LITTLE
FooDSTUFF.
How France Feeds Her People-A
Visit to Some of the
Restaurants.
Copyright, 1902, by F. G. Carpenter.)

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, France.
1 expected to tell you how America feeds
Paris but l find that Paris is feeding her
self She has the greatest and best markets
of the world and the most of the goods
sold in them are raised in France. The
country about Paris is one vast garden,
which produces as much to the acre per-
haps as any other land in the world. Some
of the farms rent for as high as $50 per
acre and it is estimated that there are
POCO acres of this kind about the city, which
not only supply Paris with enough vegeta-
bes, but furnish large amount for export
to London. The same productiveness exists
in the farms. 1t is only in bad years that
France has to import wheat. and her scien-
lists claim that within another decade she
will not only be raising all her own food,
but will export more than 100000 tons OF
wheat per annum.
But let me give you some idea of wha.
the French eat! We shall find out by TAX
ing a walk through the Halles Centrales.
These are the chief markets of Paris and
they are by far the biggest markets of the
world. Covent Garden. London, does not
cover half so much ground and the markets
of Berlin, Vienna and New York are small
in comparison And still these not the
only markets of Paris. There are smaller
ones scattered here and there over the city,
each of which has its own trade.
The Halles Centrales are right in the
heart of Paris. They are ten minutes walk
from the Opera House, not far from the
Seine and within about a stones throw of
the Louvre. They consist of ten great
pavilons made of iron and glass, each large
enough for an exposition building They
cover, all told more than twenty-five acres
and have about three thousand different
stalls. About them, during the day, 1900
market wagons are to be seen. and at the
wholesale auctions more than $1,000
worth Of goods are daily sold. The daily
sales of bread. wine and meat at retail and
wholesale are more than 5000 600 and the
sales per annum are considerably over $780,
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SCOUTS FOR BRITISH NAVY.
New Type of Warship to Be Added to
King Edwards Fleets.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
Another type of warship is about to be
added to the fighting squadrons of the en-
pire. Its particular function is revealed by
its name-the Scout. Every year the spe-
cializatfon of war duties in the navy In
creases. This remark applies equally to
officers and men and to the material they
control In the old days all officers re-
ceived the same training: they were all sea-
dogs, and they sailed in line-of- battle ships.
frigates and sloops. Now navigation. gun
merry, the torpedo engineering. electricity
wireless biography or signaling claim care
full and to some extent exclusive, study
by those who go down to the great waters
in the kings ships. Is it realized how this
tendency Is adding to the long array of
ships, with different powers and different
duties, which are included in his majesty's
fleet? We have now battle ships Of various
types, coast-defense ships (old). armored
cruisers, protected cruisers, unprotected
cruisers (old). sloops, gunboats, torpedo
gunboats torpedo boats, torpedo ram, tor
pedo-boat deStroyerS, submarines, dispatch
vessels, etc.
There is also a fast-growing list of aux
iliary ships-colliers. hospitals, repairing
vessels, torpedo depot ships and distilling
ships-all specifically fitted for the peculiar
work expected from each kind. The last
new craft is child of the Whitehead tor
pedo, a weapon which when first intro
duced had a speed Of seven and one-half
knots, could travel LOCO yards. had a
charge of sixty seven pounds of gun cotton
and was uncertain and unreliable. In
quarter of century it has been gradually
developed into dependable weapon, which
travels 1900 yards after discharge at a
speed of thirty knots, with burden of 200
pounds of gun cotton. The gyroscope guides
this awe-inspiring mother of so many spe-
cial craft with accuracy. Until the latest
development came the destroyer" was the
baby of the family Of torpedo ships. but 1t
was too frail for work in open seas away
from a base. AS the Earl of Selborne has
explained:
When destroyers were first designed it
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Munito.



The Learned Dog
To be seen every day at Mr. Laxton'a
Rooms. No % New Bond street.
At the Hours of 3 and
Precisely
London: T. Madam
1917.
In this curious little book 1t Is claimed
for this dog by its trainer Sgnor Cos
teli that lit understands the alphabet.
can read. copy words and cast accounts
He knows all the playing cards. and will
select out of pack cards which any Of
the spectators may be pleased to ask for
He plays at dominos: is acquainted with the
principles of botany Oct Lord Avebury mark
that and geography. This match
less dog understands equally we'll the En-
glish, French and Italian languages. He
works out problems asked by the audience)
OF arithmetic. addition, subtra and
multiplication, and if asked (by a spectator)
to point out any town (named) on a large
map of Europe spread out before him, he
puts paw on it|' Truly, a most learned
dog.
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A Dinner for Three Francs.

all know how the new court doth look on
that"
Come away" laughed Castleton, gaily.
I'm for a pint of ale and an apple; and
then beware, 'Tis always my fortune, when
| come to this country drink. to win like 4
very countryman. I need revenge upon
Lady Betty and her lap dog. I've lost since
ever l saw them last"
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The Most Learned Dog.
from the Pail Mall Gazette.

Il f"II tHe MI HHII Naztttt.
Lord Avebury has been explaining In a
magazine how he taught his poodle dog
Van to read" This is not the first dog of
that breed that has been taught not only
to read" but also to do arithmetic sums.
play cards. point out places on a map il
named to him, and so on. Some years ago
was presented with an old book of eight
pages, six inches by four inches, having a
portrait of this learned dog" and bearing
the following title:
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There was an ice-cream slot, the cream
being kept in little round dishes under
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-26
HOG SAFES
C7ttIa

The business in the cattle section for
the week closing last night was one OF
the most satisfactory in the history Of
this market. Receipts were much larger
than heretofore, and there were buyers
for everything that came. Wichita is
recognized as a feeder and stocker mar
ket, and large number Of this class Of
cattle were sent 70 different sections Of
the country. The market yesterday was
generally quoted steady, but the report
that a large number Of stockers and
feeders were held over in Kansas City
and St Joseph, caused buyers 10 be
little more cautious and less anxious 70
pay what they considered extreme prices.
Butcher cattle sold Wei during the en-
tire week. when good. and it is expected
that this class OF stock viii be more IN
demand on account Of the trade calling
for q better class Of beef. Kansas City
has been sending in cheaper beef than
the local butchers could furnish. bat the
quality is not proving satisfactory in a
good many cases.
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have expanded g. 1880. The influence OF
this showing is emphasized by the con-
pilztion o. the annual showing aI tie
New York Trust companies The loans
on collateral by these Institutions on'De-
cember 81. were So 2-S. 30, compared with
3s7.stiEi 4 year before. They renor.
cash on hand CT only 50 SIS ~ o. cash
on DEPOSITS they report S1ii,1S7,o9i. but
these deposits are mostly with New Torl,
clearing house banks and figure in their
reserves as against outstanding loans and
obligations by those institutions The
market closed active ard easy at about
the low point.
The business in the bond market has
been larger in proportion than in stocks
and many long dormant issues have be-
come active at advancing prices. United
States refunding 2's. the IS registered
and the new IS advanced =; the ID IS
= Per cent. The United States registered
declined i and do coupon =, from the
closing call OF last week.
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