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Floyd often stopped a week at
Twrstmont. It was a rest from town,
rhere there Is no rest, and It was
t Mt difficult to get to, which was
M of its charms, and tho fishing was
;ood.
But the Crusaders' Arms was the
trong point an undeveloped Inn
rtth a rustic garden and veranda, to
ay nothing of excellent cooking and
quiet, far-away touch about It
blch was balm llko and soothing
fter the fever and Tiurry of the city.
But when Floyd arrived, unan
nounced, In Juno, the landlord threw
to bis handB In dismay.
"No room?" exclaimed Floyd.
"Very sorry, sir," said the land
ord. "If you had only written! But
boy might put you up at the Sheaves
;ept by a lady Miss Charterls."
"Ah, I will try there," and John
odyd drove, away down the village
treet and Into th country again, for
he flyman to pull up at a pretty
ose and clematis covered cottage.
"The 8heaves is not an Inn, sir,"
ld the flyman, as he got down; "but
'.believe It's all right."
And then, a few minutes later, the
'Isltor found himself inside the
'touse, ho realized that the driver
'poke the truth.
Miss Charterls Interested him ex
tremely, but v.hy she took in board
tra puzzled him.
"You must be rather lonely, here,"
said.
"No," she answered, "there Is
.ijenty to Interest me."
He nodded shortly.
"No doubt. But is there anything
-rchaeological? We Americans are
! bat way, you know."
"There la the abbey," she said.
"May one go there?"
The girl hesitated.
"I mean with permission, of
turee. It is not inhabited?"
"No o, it is not inhabited," she
id, slowly.
"You take a great Interest In it?"
b said.
"Yes, and I fear the Goths and
ftndala."
"The Goths and Vandals?"
"You see, the abbey Is all I have,"
fee said wistfully. "It used to be
tas; to my family all this part, and
Ii the only bit left."
"And It's a ruin," he put in'
noughtfully, and at that minute as
looked at her he unconsciously
ft glad that he liked fishing, and
bat the proclivity had led hla steps
0 that out-of-the-way corner of the
emrld.
"Yea," she murmured, "It is a
nin, but a very beautiful ruin. If
.(u like I could show you It; they
rould let me."
The young man wondered who the
xiythlcal "they" might be aa he ac
ttmpanied her into the Bilent pth--ays
of the ancient stronghold, mon--stic
In its solemnity now.
"The staircase is very old and
worn," he said.
"Yes," she answered, "the Crusad.
rs did chip the steps a good deal
1 tramping up and down."
Re looked up at her, but said not
i word.
He could not sleep that night. He
ose at last and dressed; and then,
'list as he opened the door, he saw In
' 'ie dusky corridor a figure a phan-
im of the night. There was a move
i lent below and he descended to fol
3W her into the silent country lane,
ut into the woodland clearing,
hence into the forest, finally into
he courtyard of the old chateau,
'hlch Just then looked more dream
like still.
He lost sight of her in that maze
t moss covered, ivy wreathed arch
vays, where the moonlight fell In
liver patches, and he stopped to
'hlnk before pursuing hla way, ac
tuated now principally by Insight and
admiration for what he saw, and re--.
lizlng that he stood very little
nance of finding his involuntary
uide, familiar as she seemed to be
vlth the Intricacies of the place. He
lounted stairway after stairway, at
ingth coming to a wing of the castle
'here ruin was not so plainly mark
d. Here music came faintly to the
ar, and he stopped to listen before
.ursulng his way, hesitating finally
n the threshold of a large chamber
hose walls were still partially drap
. d with torn tapestry; and at the far
. nd be saw the girl who was his
1 osteBs at The Sheaves, sitting be
re an old-time musical Instrument
laying a forgotten air. '
There was something hard In his
' ;ft boo, on the following morning,
nd he took it off and shook it, find
ng inside what was evidently the
ead of a hatpin a little Jewel with
i tiny coat of arms. "Strange!" he
muttered; and after breakfast, when
te saw her at the entrance to the
garden, he spoke to her about it
"la this yours?" he said.
She took the jewel and examined
t attentively and then blushed to
.be roots of her hair.
"Yea." she said, "yes; it's mine,
Ynnette, the maid, must have drop
ped It."
Floyd eyed her suspiciously
"Yea," he said: "Annette or an
other." She turned quickly away,
"See here, Miss Charterls," be said
on the following night, "I want to
buy that place."
''What place?" she asked julckly.
"Why Hurst Abbey."
"But It is not for sale."
"Oh, any place Is for sale If enough
la offered."
"But " she began.
"Don't worry about It," he Inter
rupted her; "I have written to the
lawyers. By the way, you don't
know who owns it?"
"I seem to have heard," she
aald, "onco; but," she went on, as if
trying to remember, "1 am afraid
I can't tell you the name. But why
do you want to buy It?"
"Make It useful," he said shortly.
"But how?"
"Pull it down."
"Oh!"
"Turn it into a sugar refinery."
"You dare not!" she cried indig
nantly. "I dare," he retorted.
"It Is abominable!"
"Well, it'a no use at present."
"No use! 1 I " She said no
more, but whisked out of the room
and shut the door with a bang.
"Spirit!" muttered Floyd, aa he
looked at the door as though his eyes
were Roentgen rays; and he lit a
cigar. "I like spirit."
He did not wait for the post on
the following morning, but crept
early into the silent sunbeam-habited
house, where the air seemed to He in
luminous strata.
"Ought to be somewhere here," he
said quietly, and he walked noiseless
ly into the kitchen, where the cat
rose, yawned, and looked at him,
then at the boots he held in his hand.
"Ah, here we are!" he exclaimed
at last, as be descended a step into
a little brick-floored room. The
bump his head made in the white
washed ceiling is there to this day.
"Brushes blacking. Clean my own
boots? Of course! Well" brush,
rub, brush "I wouldn't at the Carl
ton; but I don't like to have Jeweled
knobs in my boots. Confound it! It
hurts. Hullo, puss!" he went on, as
he saw the cat sitting on the thres
hold gazing at him.
Bang went down one boot, and be
picked up the other.
"Mr. Floyd!"
"Madam?" And he bowed to her
profoundly, boot in hand.
"What are you doing?"
"Dirty work makes clean boota."
"But t won't have it."
"Oh, yes, you will, Miss Cbarterls,
till Annette "
"There isn't any Annette," she
said' excitedly, and ahe took a step
forward.
"Thought as much," he aald grim
ly: "But- " she began, and then
he turned away sharply for tbere
eame a rat-tat- at the outer door.
"Postman," be said. "Shall I go."
No, of course not!" And aba dart
ed off, to return in a minute, bear
ing a letter In her hand.
'You don't trust me," he aald as
he took it '
"Why should I?" ahe exclaimed.
"Oh Just because you should."
He read that letter, and then read
It again. It began: "Dear Sir in
answer to yours " end evidently
It was not quite satisfactory, since
soon after breakfast he started off
for the country town whence It came,
to return only at nightfall.
"They tell me " he said.
"Who tell you?"
He looked at her quite calmly.
"The lawyers who have charge of
the abbey. They say that it is not
to be sold."
'No more it Is."
But " he continued. "There,
please sit down, because I have a lot
I want to say." And she obeyed his
wish, subsiding Into the lounge chair
in the corner of the veranda.
"What do you wish to ay?"
"I want " he cried. "I want
to buy that place."
-"To make it a sugar refinery?" she
asked, and there was a suspicion of
a smile at the corners of her mouth.
"No, no; I want to hear you play
the spinet again, I want you, and the
place would be yours, and the land
which used to belong, don't you see?
And you could repair where you
chose and leave the rest. What have
I made all my money for out there,
where everything Is bo confoundedly
new, If T can't do this for you?
Miss Charterls Ethel I am only a
rough 'un; but could you not take
me for the sake of the abbey?"
She turned her head sideways a
little and looked at him.
"PerhapB," she said softly; "per
haps I could."
And though the spinet of the olden
days was far away, he felt that there
was music Just then which made Its
cadence dull.
Indelible Ink Required.
By the laws of England and of
France, legal documents are required
to be written In ink made from galls,
such Ink having proved to be practic
ally Indelible. The mixture is of
bruised galU with sulphate of Iron
and gum arable. This legal Ink, at
once the best and oldest in existence,
entirely depends on a disease to
which the oak tree is subject, and
which is caused by a fly known as the
gall-fly. Tne gall-fly belongs to the
same order as the bees and wasps
and when it is ready to lay its egg,
it cuts away tne outer bark of an
oak tree twig and deposits its eggs
In the hole. From some unknown
cause the tree Immediately begins to
enlarge about the egg, and a gall,
or oak-apple, as It is usually called
Is formed.
When You Feel "Blue."
Determine not to be "blue" and
make It a rule to go to see a friend
and to cheer him up every day. In
j ddentally you will cheer yourself
j up
. TUFT TALKS
Ha Exerted Unmeasured Influ
ence on Civilization and Could
Not Be Dispensed With
ALL RELIGIONS ON AN EQUALITY
8ay He Has' Been Able to Study
Many Different Phasese of Civiliza
tion, Especially In the Matter of
Church Influence.
Augusta, Ga. To a delegation of
Protestant ministers Tuesday after
noon President-elect Taft made a
lengthy address, In which he ex
pressed hla views regarding the Influ
ence of the church upon civilization
and its usefulness in aiding govern
mental development.
The party Included Dr. Heldt, pre
siding elder of the Augusta district,
and about twenty of the leading Pro
testant ministers of the tlty.
Mr. Taft referred to the "moral
awakening" during the past four
years, as an indication of the health
ful state of our civilization.
In his experiences IV the North and
South, and in the Philippines, Mr.
Taft said he had been able to study
many different phases of civilization,
especially in the matter of church in
fluence. "Leaving out the sectional distinc
tions," he continued, "the indispensa
ble presence of church influence in
the Improvement of our civilization
no ope can be blind to who has shared
in the slightest the responsibility for
government ana the responsibility for
Improvement in a people, as I have.
That was responsibility in respect to
a race that is now in a state of Chrla
tlan tutelage, and must be uplifted, in
my Judgment, by us, and through our
guidance before we shall have dis
charged the obligation that Providence
has thrust upon us. An In the study
of the development it has been made
known to me the enormous influence
that the church must exercise in or
der to make our progress there effec
tive.
"The Roman Catholic church was
there iior years, and preserved that
atate of Christian tutelage to which I
have referred.
"Now, the ban has been removed
from other denominations, and they
are all In there on an equality in the
spirit of Christian emulation, attempt
ing to uplift those people, and we, for
the government, by a system of secu
lar education, are aiding that uplift
ing; but without the moral influence
of the churches there, we could not
accomplish anything. It is that sort
of experience by which there Is borne
In upon us the Importance cf the main
tenance of a church and its influence
at all hazards.
"It Is difficult sometimes to explain
to one who has been used to the close
union of church and state, such as
we preserved In Spain, such as is pre
served In some other countries, the
real attitude of the American govern
ment toward the church. We assumes
that If we separate the church from
the state It means that th state does
not favor the church. I had the hon-
or to represent this country in a trans
action of a business character with
Leo XIII, at the vattcpih, and there
pointed out to him, wfth all the em
phasis possible, .hat the separation of
church and state was Ri the Interest
of the church, anfi that .'n America he
could count on the suiRaining of the
rights of the church al with encour
agement by every legitimate means,
on me part of the people, without its
assuming any governmental "function,
or having any governmental, right,
such as it has in othqff countries."
PREHISTORIC ARIiONA CANAL.
Ancient Builders Ha An Irrigation
Method That Is Mystery.
Tucson, Ariz. It ha been discov
ered that irrigation wtf-ks existed in
Arizona long before Columbus discov
ered America. An iifestlgatlon by
the Geological Survey las brought to
Hgni ine ruins of an ftnclent canal,
twenty feet below the Dresent aur-
face, constructed in prehistoric times,
ana in oraer to prevent the scorch
ing climate from drink.ug up the wa
ter before it could be distributed over
the fields, the canal ld been lined
with some kind of cennt which has
withstood the- ajementr for centuries.
To-day in tht same, cCAintry,- in the
vicinity of Pl'oenlx ale, there are
more than 5(f) miles of canals and
ditches and wore than 300.000 acres
of cultivated fields, producing cereals
ana grasses o every kind, and even
tropical products for luxury as well
as necessity. But the secret of the
ancient canal Builders who construct
ed their ditch so as to save the last
drop of water still remains unsolved.
A 8trange Indiana Well.
Logansport, ind. A' strange well
exUta at Riverside Park. An 8-lnch
pipe was first sunk about 80 feet, and
inside it a 5-lnch pipe was carried
down lower. Fresh water from a
limestone stratum comes up between
the two pipes, while water which
tastes and smells strongly of hydro
gen sulphide comes up through the 6-
inch pipe from a lower stratum. The
nlphur water flows at the rate of a
gallon a minute from the drinking
fountain over the well, while the fresh
water flower with a somewhat small
er volume from a pipe about SO feet
distant
RELIGION
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THE FAMOUS SWAN DINNER.
Given by the Father-ln-Law of the New
German Ambassador.
The appointment of Count John
Bernstoff as German Ambassador to
this country recalls the famous swan
dinner which was given at Del I m on 1
oo's in the early '80s by the late Mr.
Luckemeyer, his father-in-law.
This gentleman was a wealthy Im
porter and he received from the Unit
ed States Government tho sum of
$10,000 ns a refund of excessive duties
exacted from Mm on importations.
He dedicated this sum to a gastro
nomic monument, and never in the
history of New York restaurants, says
Town and Country, has such a gor
geous entertainment for a limited
number of guests been rivalled.
Seventy-two friends were asked.
There was one table covered with
flowers, excepting a space in the cen
tre, left for a lake and a border around
the tablo for the plates. This hike
was an oval pond, thirty feet in length
by nearly the width of the table, en
closed by a delicate golden wire net
work reaching from tnble to celling,
making the whole one grand cage.
In the lake swam four swans.
brought from Central Park, surround
ed by high banks of flowers, which
prevented them from splashing tho
water on the table. Golden cages
with canaries were hung from the
celling and the entire room was one
mss of flowers. It was a dinner at
which all the most fashionable women
of that day were present,
The menu was done In gold and
was long and elaborate, after the fash
Ion of that period. The hors d'oeuvre
was timbale a la Conde, and there
were two soups, a releve, three en
trees, a sorbet, truffled chickens and
saddle of mutton for the roasts, two
vegetables, a number of sweets and
ices.
Where the Apple Came From.
There are two varieties of apples
found wild in Europe, but the region
adjacent to the Caspian Sea seems to
had been the origin of the apple as
known In the East Charred pieces
of apples are found in the heaps of
refuse left by the Lawe Dwellers, who
occupied portions of Europe before
any of the present races. These peo
ple lived on platforms laid over piles
driven into the water probably to
protect themselves from animals, in
aa era before metal weapons were
known. These specimens of apples
are generally carbonized by heat, but
they show perfectly the internal struc
ture of the fruit.
There are five types of Native
American apples, all of thein crabs.
John Smith wrote from Virginia that
he had found "some new crabapples,
but they were small and bitter." New
Englanders made the same report
The Soulard has the reputation of
being the largest and best of these
natives. Sorts of this variety, ' like
the Matthews, are improved in size
and quality. Selections might proba
bly be made from western thickets of
even better sorts than are now known.
I believe the blood of the wild crab is
In some of our best orchard apples.
Easy Charity. 1
Frederick Townsend Martin was
discussing at a dinner tne fund that
he is raising for the great campaign
against tuberculosis.
"Now, as Christmas approaches,"
said Mr. Martin, "my fund will grow
fast Christmas opens all hearts and
pockets. It finds few Americans like
like the Spaniard."
He shook his head and smiled.
"A man once solicited for a charity
in St. Sebastian," he said. "He asked
a nobleman to subscribe. The noble
man shook his head and said haught
ily:
"'I only give, Sir, to the genuine
deserving poor.'
" 'And whom do you call tho genu
ine deserving poor?' the other asked.
" 'The genuine deserving poor,' ex
plained the nobleman, "are those who
are too proud .to accept charity."
Tiger Terrorized Corean Village.
A man eating tiger is terrorizing
the outskirts of Seoul and parties are
out with guns in the hope of finding
blsu in his lair.
Last week Kim Sin, a wife of Mini
Tu-eun, living at their home, situated
on the mountain slope about five
miles northwest 6i a town called
Sangko-no-ong, was attacked by a tiger
when she went out to shut the front
gate of the house at about 9 p. m. She
was killed by the animal and was car
ried away into the adjoining moun
tain. It is Bald that lately tigers have
appeared at several places in the town
and near about and inflicted damage
on people as well as on the cattle.
It Was Fun for the Bear.
Treed by a 200-pound bear after It
had hugged him, torn off his clothes
and chased him a half mile, William
Temple, of Emmons, Pa., was forced
to sit In the bitter cold on a small
branch for nearly four hours Mon
day, until a companion, searching toi
him, came upon the bear and shot it
Temple had three deep scratches In
the face, his clothes were badly torn
in the encounter, and he was scared
out of about a year's growth.
No Use.
"Anything I can show you, sir?"
"Yes, I want to get some kind ol
toy for my 8-year-old boy. Have you
anything that's indestructible? Some
thing he can't break the first time he
plays with It?"
"I think so. We have some toy flat
irons." 'Have they got handles on them?"
"Of course."
"Well, they won't last him five min.
utes. Show me something else."
DESHABILLE SCENE
Pale Herman Summ Peeped at
Twenty-Two Chambermaid
All in Nighties
WILL HAVE TO FACE ALL IN COURT
An Unusual Display of Over-poworlng
Attraction Breaks Padlock on Iron
Door and Goes Up on Fire Escape
to Dormitory.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Herman Summ, a
pale-haired little man with a nervous
manner, who Is a clerk In tho Gun
nery Department of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard and on Instructor In the
Italian settlement school on First
street, Brooklyn, wns arraigned In
the Adams Street Court, charged with
"peeping."
Dancing up and down in a very
fidgety manner, Mr. Summ, who has a
wife and three children In a cozy lit
tle home at No. C20 Linden street, de
manded an immediate trial. It was
true that he had been caught peeping
at twenty-two chainbermulds as said
chambermaids were In the act of go
ing to bed in the big dormitory of the
Hotel Mnrgaret Annex on Columbia
Heights. Some insensate passion had
provoked Mr. Summ to scale three
levels of fire-escapes and then glue
his nose to a window pane.
According to Policeman German
hauser, who made tho arrest, little
Mr. Summ has been "peeping" in on
the chambermaids as a regular thing
lor the last week or so. His pale hair,
his pale eyes and his pale face have
gleamed ghostlike on the dormitory
window pane at least half a dozen
times, torturing the modest chamber
maids into hysterics.
"He scared them women sumpln'
cruel," said Gernianhauser, to-day,
"an' I guess six of 'em faints. They
think he's a ghost or a burglar or
sunthin', and I guess you could bear
'em holler back of Cauarsie.
"But he keeps on comln' back and
look In some more. Jest as if he'd nev
er seen a female in a nighty before In
his life. When the girls reported him,
Watklns, the porter, puts a padlock
where the fire-escape Is, an' we're all
layln' for him last night
"He's got bis nerve with him, too,
for he busts off that padlock, goes
right on into the yard and up them
fire-escape ladders. He goes up jest
as eager as if he thought there was
gol' an' diamonds on that top landln'.
He was in a hurry, 'cause he was a
bit late an' didn't want them chamber
maids to get into bed before be got a
look.
"An so far as their beln up was
concerned he wasn't disappointed.
Fact is, they were waitln' for him.
When he shows his face, ten pairs of
shoes goes out through the window,
an' some o' them shoes wasn't so
small.
"He came uown the fire-escape
mostly slidln', leavln' his coat and
parts of his trousers on the differ
ent landin's. Then, with a little
scream, he faints in my arms and I
carries him off to the Jug. Say, I'm
sorry for a guy like that!"
Mr. Summ was sorry for himself,
too, and his lamentations were pa
thetic. DRUMMED OUT OF NAVY-YARD.
Band Plays "Rogues' March" While
Bogus Workman Leaves.
Brooklyn, N. Y. With the military
band playing the "Rogues' March,"
and with an escort of police, a man
who masqueraded under the name of
James Mallen was marched through
the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday
afternoon to the Sands street gate and
literally kicked out amid the Jeers
of a crowd that had gathered. Then
the naval constructor in charge closed
the gates upon him and the impostor
went out, barred forever from employ
ment in Government work. It was
the first case of Its kind at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard.
His offense was that he represented
himself to Naval Constructor Baxter
as James Mallen, who had previously
worked in the navy yard and who had
been laid off but later received notice
to report for duty again. A few days
ago the genuine James Mallen sent a
note to the naval constructor that he
had obtained more remunerative em
ployment elsewhere.
When the bogus Mallen appeared
yesterday the naval constructor let
him get on his working clothes and
assort his tools, and then, with a hol
low square of baud and police, In
which the faker formed the centre
piece, he had him marched to the
gate and turned out The impostor's
name is not known.
KILLS TWENTY W0LVE8.
One of the Few Old-Time Trappers In
.Michigan Wins Fame and Bounties.
L-Anse, Mich. Tom Hazel, formerly
a rider and a rifle shot in nufrnin
Bill's Wild West Show, is winning
iume in upper Michigan aa a wolf
slayer and trapper. Making his head
quarters in the wilds out from L'Anse
he has killed no less than twenty
wolves In Baraga and Houghton coun
ties since July last, and in addition he
has bagged a number of wildcats and
lynx as well as trapped five black ofc.
ters and other fur-bearing animals.
His bounties alone have netted him
hundreds of dollars.
MS
ATTRACTIVE
H ' UnU LUUIJIHIIrt lllUIHlia
, in it'll t Custom ) That . ' Pausing
Itiipldly Away.
The first tribe I succeeded In lo
cating were the Chltlmacha, says a
writer lu the Southern Workman,
ilie old Chltlmacha language, whlck
is still spoken by a few, has a pe
culiar sound to the unaccustomed ear
ou account of the largo number of
"eh" sounds. It Is especially inter
esting, however, because it has na
known adulations, Is Has no other
Ii it lu ii language and bo forms a lin
guistic slock all to Itself. French U
spoken by all the tribe now, and as
It hits become the language of com
mon use tho Indian tongue will soon,
lie lost forever. The old dance and
customs huvo already become obso
lete, although still remembered by
the older people; and tho Indlam
live ns do their FVench neighbors.
Uno old art, and one only, 1b still
Lent up in something like Its original
purity, the art of making ft no baskets
ot enno - baskets whose fadeless
colors are a Joy to all lovers of In
dian handiwork. The Chltlmacha are
compelled nowadays to travel twenty
or thirty miles to get their cane .or
luf kcts whose fai eless colors are a
Joy to all lovers of Indian handi
work. The Chilimacha are com
pelled to travel twenty or thirty
null's to get their cane for basket
making. Once gathureC and brought,
home, it is carefully split and labori
ously scraped until only the hard
outer Bhell of the stalk la left, when
It Is ready for coloring and use. The
black color seen In Chilimacha bask
ets is made with Mack walnut shells,
which are boiled with tho bundles of
cane Bplluts eight or ten days before
the color is sufficiently sot. The yel
low Is secured by soaking the cane
splints eight days In lime water
made with burned bliel - of the fresh
water mussel; the red is produced
by boiling the cane, already dyed
yellow with lime, lu a mash made of
the roots of a wood called "po-asb."
ine baskets are made in many
shapes and sizes, many of them
double two complete baskets,
one Inside the other, united at the
edges. Many patterns are used, to
which are given Buch names as
"worm," "snake," "alligator en
trails," "perch," "bear's earring."
"blackbird's eye'' and "muscadine
peeling." Blowguns, band made pot
tery vessels and silver ornaments
had been used within the memory of
all the older people, but none could
be found at the time ot my visit
1 found a fossil shea thought to
have the power ot making rain. Th
method of use was' to place the
"aash," as it was called, in a bowl
of water, which would be promptly
absorbed Into the stone. A storm
was supposed to begin within a short
time after this was done, the fury
of which was bound to increase un
til the charm was removed from the
water and an appropriate formula
repeated. When 1 found the "raia
Btone" it was swathed in a large
white cloth to keep it dry, and I oulr
succeeded in buying it by promising
to keep it away from WLter.
I'be Houma tribe, near Houma,
Terrebonne parish, is now nearly
extluct, only two or three persona
being found who can claim pure In
dian blood. The Houma language,
which belongs to the Muakogeaa
stock and Is closely related to the
Choctaw, is remembered to-day by
two old women only and one of the
bus forgotten much of what sh
kuew of the Indian tongue. Strange
to say, this very woman remember
some characteristic Indian songs.
French is the prevailing language to
ilay. and the Houma live like the
white people about them. Even Um
art Qf basketry has been lost.
Machine with -alns.
such marvels among ;resent-day
mechanical wonders as adding ma
cniues, magazine folders and th
railway ticket printing machines
may be described not Inaptly -as "ma
chines with brains."
Every tne is more or less familiar
with the wonderful feats accom
plished by the calculating machine.
Ask one to divide 877,406 by 0,
and by a manipulation which sat
cnild can perform it will give oae
the correct answer in a fa- - momeuta.
Indeed, this little machine will un
dertake almost any calculation, from,
additions running up to millions t
i.ie ascertainment of cube and -'uare
roots. One kind will solve the most
laborious of arithmetical problem,
aiiw will work out results even to
tifteen placeB of decimals.
At the mints are mach'nes of al
most human intelligence that weigh
coins. In one of these machines
there may be seen what resembles a
small brass box no larger than tbo
pendulum ot an eight-day clock. Th
coins that are ti bo tested front a.
tube on .to the balance, and accord
ing as the coin la full weight or
light it is struck by one of two lit
tle hammers Into its proper receiver,
the coins being weighed and thelc
rate of forty per minute. But the
operation does not end hc-e. With,
swift and infallible movements the
machine consigns the coins each to
one of three receptacles, e tor
those too light, and the third for
11)0-5 of proper weight.
Grandma Was Iteiuembered.
it was a minister's small so a.
.whose habit was to ask God to bless
each member of the family after hi
prayer. Having been p to bed on
night In a hurry, he forgot one of
them. Kneeling again with hands
clasped and eyes closed, he address-
the Lord thus. ' Oh, Lord, wouldaX
that kill you? i forgot grandmai
Uod bless grandma. Amen.'