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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-06-27
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The following were admitted TO tire
Naval Academy today: Walter VI.
Perkins, san Francisco, Cal: How
ard Bode, Cincinnati, o.; William
-. Chandler, Jr., Concord, y. II. (;
Carroll w. Wright, Jr., Philadelphia,
Ia.
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s~We will again offer you
pretty Dish or Austrian China
Dinner Plate, free, with a pur-
chase of $500 or over on Satur-
day. ROGERS & CO., 2o7 Main ST.
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4. It f. undigested food that causes
sournces and painful indigestion. KO-
dol For Indigestion should be used for
relief. Kodol Is solution ~ vegetable
acids. IL dIgests what you cat, J
corrects the deficiencies Of digestion.
Kodol conforms 10 the National PIrt
Food and Drug Law. Sold here by
Feldmeycr BrOs. Druggists.
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Commander 4. w. Grant. &. :. X,
who resides Al No. Sampson Row,
Naval Academy, is acting comman-
daDt ~ midsbipfDeD, pending the ar
rival about July ~ Captain Ben
son, the new cOmmaDdaut.
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PERSONAL MENTIONS

IFeTaOUa VINO have NIen0a ~ gufHtf aUd
desire the publication Of the same Will please
end their names 10 ibis 0fiee.-EDTT0E.I
Miss Buscb, 81 Baltimore, IT. visiting
Mrs.. John II. Busch, Charles street
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rnp STORY or 4 WISCONSIN,
MAN IN WESTERN CANADA
Three Years Ago Worth Only $4,000
To-Day IL Worth $4,000

The following is . copy Of letter.
Of which the Agents OF the Canaoian
Government throughout the United
States receive similar ones many
times during the year:
Cayley, Alta, Dec. Z. lsuo.
Agent Canadian Government
WATERFOWL. s. D.
Dear Sir:
Your letter dated Nov. 9th at hama
and was very glad to hear from you.
/ see that you are still at work per-
suading people to move into the Cana
dian Northwest. ! must tell you that
owe you many thanks for persuading
me to come out here, am only sorry
that l wasn't persuaded sooner, and
there is still plenty of good chances
for many more right at the present
time. hope that you win be able to
induce more to make q start out to
this part of the country.
Now / must tell you what have
accomplished since came out hero
and 1t won't be three years till the lse
of July. l shall shortly receive my
patent for my homestead, the home
stead cost me $1,000 in all, to-day 1t IL
worth $4,000 per acre, but 1t is not for
sale. Then year ago last May l
bought 800 acres at 800 per acre and
| sold this fall for $4,000 per acre and
cleared a profit of $4,000. How ia
| that for the Northwest? now have
| $40 acres Of land and all paid for, Ii.
head of horses. 30 head Of cattle. "a
pigs, 2 sheep and about $50 chickens
and other poultry, and all new ma
chinery and everything is paid for.
We also bought 8 lots In Calgary and
z in High River. We gave $470 for
the is lots and they are paid for. AT
present 1 consider myself worth $751;
10000, and when left Wisconsin less
than three years ago had about
100000. This year threshed little
over 1000 bushels of grain, have
about one thousand bushels Of fine
potatoes and about five hundred bush
| els OF turnips. Mrs. Beisiegel sold
about 5000 worth Of garden truck and
poultry this fall. Now there are lots
of others in this community who did
as well as did In the same length OF
time.
II The family and myself are all well
, at this writing and hope this letter
J will find you the same.
Yours very truly,
Il (Signed) PHILIP BEISIEGEL.
Cayley. Alta, Canada.
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step. Il Il true that the divine mad
ness too soon passes; the reaction
comes; one is restored sharply to the
normal poise by the rude awakening
that comes with failure or with SELL
consciousness. But sometimes conse-
ouences are already set in motion,
and It is too late to draw back; there
is nothing for it but to be borne on
ward with the tide.
So II was with me. / might return
to America-take up the threads Oh
life where / had left them-laugh at
the newspaper accounts of the tragedy
deny them, or at least live them
down. If I did that, I should know
exactly what would happen to me. l
could count upon just how much hap
piness would come to my life, how
much interest routine and duty would
yield me.
But my imagination had been SCI
afiame. A world of chivalry and TO
nance beckoned to me alluringly
And II trod the mazes Of that fairy
world, there would be none to ridicule
for there would be none to know tha
I had set out to find it. II it proved
to be only world of dreams and fan
tasy, l should at least have had TIT
delicious excitement Of seeking 1t. o
. playing make-believe-the most m
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saIIoonists in the Sea.

It is not little remarkable that al
though scores of balloons have been
driven out to sea cases in which this
misadventure has ended fatally are
few.
More than century ago, when Maj.
Money made an ascent from Norwich,
England, he was compelled to descend
in the sea, where he remained for
seven hours until his plight was seen
and he was rescued by the crew OF
revenue cutter. Some years later, In
1872, James Sadler narrowly escaped
drowning in an attempt to cross the
Irish channel; his balloon dropped
into the water some miles OF Liver
pool and he was on the point of sue
cumbing when rescue came in the form
of fishing boat.
In a similar attempt Mr.. Crosbie
was saved when almost In extremis
many miles from the English coast.
Lunardi, in 1885. nearly lost his life In
the sea on Edinburgh, and In the same
year two aeronauts, In an attempt to
cross the English channel, had also
narrow escape.
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VIII making often affords q man an
unrivaled opportunity of paying on
old scores and speaking his mind
without any fear of unpleasant conse-
quences to himself.
The great duke of Marlborough ,evf-
IDENTIFY could not resist the tempta-
ton of farewell slap" at his duch-
ess when he left her 10000 where
with to spoil Blenheim in her own
way and a15,O00 to keep clean and to
go to law with"
There is also a distinct note Of
spitefulness in the extract from the
testament of Mr.. Kerr, who, after
declaring that he would probably have
left his widow 10000 If she had al
lowed him to read his evening paper
in peace, adds: But you must re-
member, my dear, that whenever
commenced reading you started play.
ing and singing. You must therefore
take the consequences. / leave you
E1,O00"-Grand Magazine.
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cinating game, after all is said. tor
boy or man.
had come to Europe secretly
cherisbing the hope that just sucn an
adventure would come to me as had
happened tonight The SS years OF
nv life had been passed In an atmo-
sphere unusually dead and prosaic.
When I had left the university, J.
had acted as secretary to an uncle, =
multimillionaire who lived In an OBJ
scure town of the middle West. had
trudged the dreary and stupid circle
of business routine, my eyes bent SOM
berly to earth. Success had come, or
what world calls success-money and
a measure of respect that is given 70
one with a substantial bank account
But that is not life.
And then one day I awoke. real
lied with a start that life was slip
ping away from me; and with ths
hours the golden aspirations and de
lights that make life worth while.
was simply a machine, rather a col
in the huge machine of business.
rebelled. In one day / broke tn
shackles that bound me. was free
NV life was at last my very own.
could do with It what | pleased.
could 60 where wished.
And so I had come to Europe.
had Rugged to my breast the comme
: but pathetic delusion that across IN
, seas I should find something-jus
what lid not know-something ths
would make life more joyous. give
' 1t charm and interest.
, I had searched diligently for n
! magic talisman In strange cities, an
; of course had not found it. The blu
Z flower is not to be plucked so easil
4 Instead of happiness and diversion
disgrace and misery had come. Shou
! !; return home, then. imbittered. aver
l. ing the eyes? Or should | avail m
o self of the way Of escape which tn
n woman had lightly suggested?
q And If chose to consider Il que
It a challenge, there was none, not ev'
Ie she. to forbid, though she, of all .
paos,e in the world. wcnld be the 10
\ IN consider It such Anc II forfu
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the woman at the open WINDOW. LIE
fiance Tor was 1t sheer anxietyD
flashed from the burning depths OF
these eyes that held me fascinated.
She stirred. / saw her toss the pa
per lightly to the table. Then she dis
appeared.
/ entered the hotel. l paused I'M
certainly in the hall, then walked
swiftly into the reading room. APP
parently it was deserted.
reached for the paper; tore out
the page In which my photograph ap-
peared; 1 crushed it savagely in my
hand.
There was a light, mocking laugh.
| / locked up. startled. 1t was the
woman again.
| She stood almost in shadow. One
bare arm was placed lightly on her
hips; the other stretched its white
length on the low mantel and sup
ported her.
There was something oriental in her
magnificent costume. The dress was
black velvet. About her neck hung a
narrow stole of Eastern embroidery
studded at intervals with turquoises
From the extended arm draDed scarf
of shinmering gold thread. About the
left arm. both at the wrist and above
the elbow, were several bracelets o
bizarre design. The corsage,. too
flashed with gems as she breathet
slowly and deeply. Her pose. as he
costume, had something almost bar
barrie in its sensuous extravaganza
Ae small head. exquisitely coiffured
, was turned slightly, thrown back 9
i that her white throat cleaned out o
, the shadow. The lips were parted
still smiling; and more sensuous, NOR
brilliant, more devourins than tn
! CLEAN of the jewels about her person
! | was the flame that burned in he
: eyes.
a She laughed again. It was imposs
BILE not to know that she was cha
4 ierging me- The pose, the look, tt
q laugh-all were challenge. But
= was in no mind to accept 1t, ar
II glanced Idly at the papers on the I
: BILE. Presently walked toward u
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s,aoA ms, ~ It aids most e9vonto10s
aouls. uoeld seek her out, though
1 searched the wide wsriG ior ner'
And then, perhaps
crushed in my hand the pro
xramme of music that lay on the "a
BILE. Pshaw, it was the woman, men,
that gave to this fantastic mission lts
vague thrill; not the idea OF the mis-
sion itself. 1t was the woman whom
I had wronged, and who nated me-
that called. She sat in the lists' IN
her hands was the laurel wreath; LOT
her I would endure the shock OF Dat
L tie.
/ sat quietly. still staring out sneo
the night. The lights OF green anu
rcd and blue had burned away long
ago. The lake, rocked in its craoie
of shadowy mountains, stirred gentiy
under the moon. The terrace was al
most deserted, and still fingered
Disillusionment must come TOO soon
and with the morrow inevitable oe
preston.
Suddenly became i'll at ease.
turned slowly in my seat. l looked
furtively about me. 1t was as II
had spoken a secret thought aloud
and one were listening, watching.
was watched. and with curloul
intentness that was almost savage
woman was seated at the window o
the writing room. She held rigidiy u
both hands the English journal Il
which my photograph had appeared
Our eyes met gazed at her stane
| ing perfectly still. 1t was not embal
rassment or anger that held me;
, was rather wonder. For on the rae
. of this woman was the same inten
curious surprise that had astonlshe
= me SO much earlier in the evenini
when first met Mrs. Brett and ne
I daughter.
4 A measure of surprise is natur'
!. enough, when the original OF plot
q graph unexpectedly appears De1ol
= one. But / knew that this fact aloI
= did not explain the strained look
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CHAPTER VII.
Countess sarahotf Wins and Loses.

Countess sarahoff Wins and Loses.
The next morning, when first
awoke, I wondered vaguely why this
dav seemed to be so different from
the long and dreary succession OF
yesterdays-why it promised eager
homes and eager interests to be fui
filled. Then remembered. and my
pulses beat faster. Yesterday de-
spairAd; to-day hoped.
A woman had come into my life
a goddess-Diana Of the silver bow.
Cbaste and cold as the SHOWS on the
Alpine heights could not see from
nv window in the blue distance. yet
she had called, she had spoken to me
Then. disdainfully cruel. she had gone
as she had come. But ] was to pur
sue
The very audacity Of my resolution
gave to it its charm. was not TO res
until had accomplished my uncertain
mission. That It was by its very ma
ture 80 incredibly dtfacult did no
daunt me. But how was to Sc
about it? A life for life. To saw
to the world strong and buoyan
soul for the strong and buoyant SOU
that had persisted because OF my he'll
| lessuess and my weakness. Howeve
romantic, 1t was, a tangible enoug
ideal.
But was to wander about, like
knight of MEDIEVAL times, seeking I
!. succor one in peril and distress
} rescue beautiful maidens from gril
ogres and terrible dragons? ! smile
at the absurd resemblance Of mr. u
certain task to theirs
81 xo m CoNTXsfuEAl
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Edison's courtshIp.

Mr.. T. A. Edison's courtship was
characteristic of the great inventor.
The first Mrs. Edison was. previous
to her marriage, telegraph operator
in his employ. One day, while stand
ing behind her, watching her at work,
Edison, who had long admired the
young lady, was surprised when she
turned around and said: Mr.. Edison.
l can always tell when you are neal
me-" "How do you account for that?'-
returned Edison. ct don't know" re.
sponded the young lady, but 1t 10
a fact, and said: I've been thinking
considerably about you of late, and
IL you are willing to marry me
would like to marry YOU" A month
later they were married, the union
proving very happy one.
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insects VIII All Go to Their oeath IN
. jug Of Hot Water.

sAfost people think of hornets and
yellow Jackets as strictly country
products, but as fact the big vege'
table gardens in the southwestern
part of the city are very well sup
Piled with BOTH" says q st. LOUIS
truck farmer.
"Of course at this season OF the yea
they give very little trouble, but In
the autumn, when fall blowing is In
progress, it is a very common thing
to turn up a nest of ground wasps.
and then there is generally runaway
in two directions, for the wasps are
ill-tempered when disturbed ana at
tack both the farmer and his horse;
the latter takes one direction and the
farmer tracks In another.
TT Is a very easy matter to exter-
inmate the wasps before beginning to
plow. so when q gardener notices
there IL q nest of them anywhere on
his land he prepares for them before
he plows. He takes common earth
enware jug half full Of very hot water.
sets it down close to the mouth OF
| the wasps' nest, puts on PAR Oh
| gloves, covers his head and neck with
a handkerchief under his hat, gives
| the nest poke with long pole, and
runs. The angry wasps come out by
hundreds, and. seeing nothing un'
usual but the jug, they attack It with
might and main, diving down through
the narrow neck, apparently under
the impression that their enemy Is
hidden inside.
"The hot water kills them, but those
that are not Immediately drowned
keep up a tremendous buzzing, which
seems to exasperate still further al
the wasps within hearing, and 1t looks
as though they can't get into the jul
fast enough. / have several time'
taken more than thousand drowned
wasps out of the jug after a raid, 10
so long as wasp is left he make
for the mouth of the jug. and tn
whole nest can be exterminated i
this way. 1t is queer illustration
stupidity on the part of an otherwis
intelligent insect, but the trick neve
fails"
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CHAPTER VI.
The Other Woman.

There is no enemy that the aver
Are man must crush more ruthlessly
beneath the iron heel than his imagin-
stion. The ties of home, of society,
che necessity Of earring his daily
bread-these are barriers that hem
rim in the narrow rIt Of routine and
6utv. He dare not look over the TO
nance that beckon allurinsly. Or. If
he dare, he must throw prudence and
sometimes conscience to the wind.
But occasionally cataclysm. bots
physical and mental. thrusts one WIN
out the familiar landmarks. The
tab,ts ef a lifetime are forgotten
then 1t IS then that one dares the
impossible, and refuses to see to what
sx.r,yagant and fantastic extremes ns
= recklessly plusginS
Frcso drearaln9 to action y p@
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MAN AND HIS WAYS.
fertlle Brain Has Evolved . NsNs
style Of Cradle

A now cradle has been invented
and BY q man. Which latter state
ment Il q dedundancy-for no up-to-
date woman would really ever think
OF inventine anything 80 pernicious to
her infants welfare. Has she not be-
come enlightened to the dreadful ills
of that time-honored institution OF
our ancestors? Dare she imperil the
intellect that IL to sway the TWEEN.
tieth century by untimely Juggling
in its embryo stage? Poor modern
babe! When colic's gripes assail. It
may not know the luxury Of steady
tramp swung across fathers shout
der-strange to say. men do not jeer
1t this dictum Of the new mother
hood-much less viii 1t experience the
bliss Of being lulled to rest in .
wooden-sla cradle or fiuffy bassi-
net, swayed by the foot OF . won
drous being who swings and croons.
swings and croons. till baby woes are
merged in blessed sleep. Its maker
claims that sideways rocking IL. in
deed, injurious to babykins. but to his
eyes, not his brain. Therefore has he
constructed q cradle that swings
lengthwise. and Is shaped like q boati
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Breathless. they stood at last upon
the towering Adirondack peak.
There" she said angrily. we have
climbed all this distance to admire
the beauties Of nature, and We left
the glass at home"
TRANQUILITY smiling, he shifted the
lunch basket to the other arm.
Never mind, DEAR" he said. 1T
won't hurt us, just this once. to drink
out of the bottle
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A newly arrived westerner was con-
fronted in street of New York late
at night by a ruffian with leveled re-
volver. who made the stereotyped de-
mand: Give me your money or I'll
blow your brains out
BLOW away" said the westerner.
you can live in New York without
brains, but not without money"
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well" yawned the sage of the park
bench, this business of chasing dogs
around the town and taking them to
the pound may be all right In some
ways, but 1t certainly is wasting . lot
of valuable power"
"Power?" calculated the park po-
liceman In surprise.
Yes. power. When 3 dog. is in q
good humor he wass his tail. doesn't
he?
Believe he does"
well. now. II we could keep all the
stray dogs in good humor and stand
them in a row and let them wag their
tails from morn till night, why, man.
there would be enough power generat-
ed to run trolley line. Niagara
wouldn't be in 1t. Wonder to mo
some genius don't try to harness.
those wags."
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EneetuaIIy Disguised.

Tess-There goes Bess Mugsley.
Jess-Yes, she played the part OF
the heroine in the private theatre Gals
at our church
Tess-The idea! Did she have the
face to play the heroine?
Jess-.No; but the costumer dxed
one up for her.-Philadelphia Press.
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THE NEW DWELLING SCHOOL IN
PARIS.

1t seems that after all the absurd
so-called "duels" which we read
about as having taken place in
France, Germany and Italy, may
really in the near future turn out to
be very lethal affairs indeed. Hith-
erto, if an officer, a lawyer, a journal
list, or other insulted a colleague, sec
onds exchanged visits, a meeting was
arranged and shots fired with, quite
farcical results as a general rule, for
ordinarily the average professional
man, ever in a military nation like
France, is a deplorably bad shot, and
there was usually no more visible re-
suit after the so-called "duel" than
an amusing paragraph in the papers.
That the French mean business in
the near future, however, in this mat
ter, will be see from the fact that
regular dueling schools have just
been established in Paris, as we'll as
in Rome and Berlin and Vienna-not
merely for workmanship alone, but
for regular practice with the long
barreled dueling pistol. The princi-
pals wear long padded overalls, and
curious masks, like those of the deep
sea diver, with a very thick glass
plaque in front of the face.
The bullets" used are pellets Of
clay, which, however, might do very
serious damage to he.pupils in these
remarkable academies were it not for
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The Meat-C

The crater has a black eye in
h~ouse-wifely favor. In its place the
m%eat-chopper has sprung into popu-
larity. Many of the things for which
the former was exclusively used are
now done more quickly, and with
greater ease by the latter.
The me~at-shopper is a godsend to
one woman, who makes chow-chow
so appetizing that she is forced to do
it by the job lot. Formerly she cut
the different ingredients separately,
until one day the brilliant idea struck
her-why not put everything through
the chopper? In went tomatoes, pep
pers, cucumbers and pickles, one at
a time, and all the former work of
two days was done in a morning.
Apples, pears and ounces for but
tiers, are also put through the meat
chopper, with great saving of time
and temper. Being cut much smaller.
moreover, than they would otherwise
be, they boil down more easily.
All the juice from fruits prepared
in this way must be carefully caught.
The chopper itself should be scrupul-
ously clean to remove all taste of
meat. Boiling the parts in soda
water insures perfect cleanliness.
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A Prerogatiye of the Pulpit.

DR.. Bacon, a New England clergy
ma Of long ago, was reproached by
a friend with some pronunciation
which was not according to Web
ster."
Webster lived in his parish, and
the douty old divine was not dis
posed to be snubbed with the die
tionary.
what right has Webster to die
tate my pronunciation" he demand
ed, haughtily. He is n of my par
ishiouers, and ought to get his pro-
n%unciation from me, and not I from
him."-Youth's Companion.