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John J. Ames, American multi-millionaire,
president of three trusts and
a director In four others, was angry.
His daughter, the beautiful "Billy"
Ames, had accepted the count, hla
wife, Mrs. "Jack" Ames, had approved
of her daughter's acceptance of the,
count, while, John J. Air.es, president
cf three trusts and a director of four
others, had given in to the urglngs of
li!s wife and daughter and admitted
t'-.at a count for a son-in-law would
: n be so bad after r.ll.
Hut at the t'.mo of 1:1s r;o:ng in to
1 tvITo and daughter, J oh a J. Aaies
'i.r.u hr.d no definite idea of the dollar
v. '.ue of a count. Nor.e of hia trusts
'.calt in counts, duke?; lords, or nobll
..f at nil, but only in the products of
xood American soil ;;nd water pure
ly rommercial commodities like pig
iron and canned salmon. Nobility was
something about which he had read
little and knew nothing definitely.
"I reckon a million in ptg-iron stock
and a couple o' thousand a year ought
to r.nke the count feel his oats." was
the way that John J. Ames had sized
up the situation at Its beginning, but
now he was a much better Informed
man and the information he had ac
quired of experience had made him
rather angry.
Tor after the beautiful "Billy" Ames
had accepted the count, the latter had
come to John J. Ames and Informed
that rroud parent of his proposed al
liance with the Ames family an alii
rnre to bo consummated as soon as
the count's lawyers approved of the
roach and had arranged the financial
Oct?.!!:: cf l'.c dcjlrtu alliance.
John J. Ames r hook the hand of his
Tro ectlve son-in-law. 'Very well,
coutk, I'll step around and have a
talk with your lawyers." Whereupon
Amos called upon the count's lawyers
to go over with them the financial bud
trot of the alliance.
Then it was that John J. Ames, In
Lis own opinion, had cause enough to
set ant;ry. A million dollars in pig
Iron stock and $200,000 a year would
never do, so the lawyers informed
him. The count's blood was much too
blue for that trifling pum.
Ames angrily quit the lawyers, vow
ing if the count wanted his daughter
"Billy" he, John J. Ames, would give
the pair his blessing, a million in
pig-iron stock and $200,000 a year,
but he'd be blessed or something
stronger If he would pay off a $3,000,-
000 mortgage on the count.
So John J. Ames returned to hla
'fe and daughter and Informed them
i he had put down his foot on the
;:r.t proposition and would keep It
jv. n-so hard that no pansles would
cr blossom there.
At this "Eilly" dried her young.
1 '.ve romantic eyes, wondering If dear
old Tom, back In New York, waa still
the same loving, eligible bachelor that
he had been on a certain memorable
eve, while Mrs. "Jack" Ames straight
way set a silken trap to snare for a
eon-in-law one of the nobility whose
price did not come too high for her
husband's O. K.
She succeeded very Quickly In hei1
purpose, or rather the beauty and re
ported wealth of "Billy," like a gold
en shaft, soon brought down a duke,
"towering like a falcon In his pride of
place"; and a few days later John J.
Ames was referred by the duke to the
latter's lawyers, who would arrange
the financial end of the proposed al
liance of the duke with the beautiful
"Billy."
They were the same lawyers to
whom Ames had been referred by the
count, consequently It was with sortie
111 trace that the millionaire called
around to see these legal gentlemen.
He found them doing business at
the same Paris address, but found two
other Americans ahead of him, watt
ing to Interview the lawyers.
John J. Amea personally knew both
of these Americans, and knew each
to have a beautiful eligible daughter,
at which Ames decided in his blunt
way that they too had been referred
to the lawyers by certain prospective
sons-in-law.
He questioned them on the point
and found that such waa the fact
This waa enough light on the subject
for John J. Amea to see a greater dis
tance than beyond his nose, and when
he waa shown Into the presence of the
duke's lawyera he bluntly charged
them with being a syndicate that had
cornered the market of eligible blue
blood and waa forcing np the price of
noble sons-in-law on American mil
lionaire fathers.
The lawyera assured him that such
was practically the truth. They rep
resented the Rex Title-Trust of Eu
rope and Asia, and the dominions be
yond the seas, with branches from
London to Bagdad, and while there
were other trusts engaged In a similar
business, they were not worth serious
consideration, controlling, as they did,
merely a few minor German barons
and French and Spanish nobles of a
pretending line, and one epileptic
king.
"A trust of titled husbands for
American girls selling lords and
dukes like so much canned salmon I
Well, what next for the American
millionaire to go up against T" Ten
strides took John J. Ames from the
offices of the Rex-Tltle-Trust, and the
next train took him and "Billy" and
Mrs. "Jack" on their way back to the
United States.
. But "Billy's" blue, romantlo eyes
were quite dry before the ship came
ii sight of the American shore. They
i ven danced, as "Billy" told herself
Low glad Tom would be that she bad
not married a titled foreigner, or mar
ried at all. And "Billy's" eyes eould
danoe maddeningly, when her heart
too. OLA V. GOULD.
I Agricultural
Maintaining the Dairy Herd.
A dairy herd may be maintained In
two ways: First, by continued pur
chase of mature animals to replace
those whose period of usefulness has
parsed. There are many conditions
under which this may be a wise prac
tice. If it 13 desirable to have the
whole herd composed of cows In their
full productive capacity; If there Is
abundant opportunity for selection
ar.d purchase near at hand; If there
13 reasonable good market for cows
that are undesirable, and If one has
rcvonable skill in selecting and good
ability In bargaining, a herd of high
rroductlre capacity may be more eas
ily and more cheaply maintained In
this way by attempting to raise young
unimala to replace those that are
worn out
The other method of maintaining
the herd Is, of course, by raising
calves to supply the place of old cows
that are no longer profitable. Such a
herd will always contain a considera
ble number of young animals that
have not yet reached full develop
ment, and therefore, such a herd will
seldom equal in average production j
per animal a herd that Is wholly main
tained by purchase. At the same time
a greater degree of uniformity of type
may be maintained where the animals
ere raised. If land Is abundant and
cheap the cost of raising a calf, up to
the time that she becomes a fully de
veloped cow, will be less than that of
purchasing a similar animal outright.
Through force of circumstances by
far the greater number of dairymen
must rely on raising the calves neces
sary to maintain the herd. This be
ing the case the ordinary dairyman
will need to provide himself with the
services of a bull suitable to produce
useful dairy cows. In moat cases he
will need to own this bull, so that the
cuestlon of selection and care of the
breeding bull has an Important bear
ing upon the maintenance of the dairy
herd.
Hog House.
A" movable house for a brood sow
Is a necessity. She must be given
shelter away from all annoyance and
one that can be kept clean. The wig
warn style Is Just the thing, for It af
fords protection to the pigs so sow
cannot lie on them by crowding
against the wall, and can be easily
moved to a clean, dry spot.
. 'Where brood sows are not given
separate lots these houses can be
used. When a sow makes her nest
In a house, she and her litter will keep
It and keep Intruders out
Fig. 1 shows the skeleton frame,
which consists of 2x4s. The bottom Is
8 feet square and likewise the two
sides. Fig. 2 shows the house com
plete with boards and batten strips.
A slide window Is In rear gable not
shpwn. The bottom 2x4 m front end
Is laid flat so pigs can more easily
get over It
It Is easy to tip the house up and
whitewash the interior frequently.
The Individual house for brood sows
is the thing. The best breeders care
for their sows in this way, while they
run with the pigs.
Remove Dead Bees.
The dead bees that accumulate on
the bottom boards should be removed
about once each month, and the hives
be kept sweet and clean by doing so.
When the bees are wintered In the
cellar, the hives and cellar floor
should be kept cleared of dead bees,
and If signs of mice are found, traps
should be set, and the mice caught. It
la only a few hours work each month
that Is needed to keep the hives and
surroundings clear.
Make Hives In Winter.
Hives, If to be made, can be put up
at the winter time of the year, honey
sections and cases put together and
bo out of the way when the busy
Kprlng time arrives. As work Is not
crowding at the cold time of the year,
nnd our evenings are long, considera
ble time should be given to the lay.
Ins of plans and reading up in our
pursuit
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Help In Every Way.
Good roads help In every wan they
promote sociability by making friends
and relatives accessible, and by means
of them It Is easier to reach the
school and churches, and to generaV
ly do and enjoy those things which
mske life really worth lhring.
Prevents Tainted Milk.
The separator cannot be kept too
clean. -
BIRDSHOT WITH EVERY FOWL
Pouitryman's Bargain Makes His Cus
tomers Angry When the Crops
Were Examined.
Newark, N. J. Chickens sell In the
local market from twenty-two to thir
ty cents a pound, while gunahot may
be purchased almost for the price of
lead a pound. Bear those figures In
mind. They have an Important bear
ing on the distressed condition of
Henry Gerbarlng. a poultry dealer in
this city.
When Gerbarlng opened hla store
the other morning he discovered his
iceboxes were empty of chickens. He
waa wondering how quickly he could
get a supply when a farmer's wagon
drove up and a rotighly dressed man
entered. He asked Gerbarlng If ho
wanted any chickens. Gerbarlng ask
ed him how' mnuy he had for sale. The
man said there were 120 in the wagon.
Gerbarlng went out to the wagon
and looked at the chickens. They
had been picked clean and seemed to
be In the best of condition.
"Ill take tne whole lot," he said.
"Bring them in and we'll weigh them."
Without further preliminaries the
deal was closed, Gerbarlng agreeing
to pay twenty cents a pound for the
fowl. As fast as they were weighed
he placed them In his Icebox. When
the cash had ben paid, the man
Jumped in his wagon and drove away.
Not long afterward Gerbarlng began
selling the chickens and congratulat
ing himself that he was making a
nice profit.
He was in the midst of his sales
when a red-faced and panting woman
who had purchased one of the chick
ens an hour before rushed Into 'his
store and, In the presence of many
customers, denounced him as a fraud.
Gerbarlng asked her what she meant
by making such an accusation against
li'.ai. In reply she poured out of a
bag about a pound and a half of bird
shot. "That's what you nre selling to me
for chicken, la it?" the woman in
quired angrily.
"I don't understand you yet,
madam." Gerbaring replied, showing
plainly he was mystified.
"Perhaps you'll understand when I
tell you that after I took that chicken
home I proceeded to dress It. I no
ticed that the crop felt unusually
heavy and cut It open. Inside I found
nil that shot. It's a pretty way for
you to treat old customers, Isn't it?"
Other purchasers who were in the
store also began feeling the crops of
their chickens, and they, too, joined
in the denunciation. Gerbaring was
in a bad fix. He cut Into the crops of
all the chickens purchased by the cus
tomers present and discovered that
they had been loaded heavily with
shot. Nothing remained for him to
do except to make explanation and re
stitution. Before nightfall he had more than
120 pounds of blrdshot in a keg and
more of It waa coming in from out
side all the time.
l EVELYN THAW AS
SHE APPEARS TO-DAY.
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw as she looked
In Court when testifying of the
threats against her life made by Har
ry K. Thaw, her husband.
REAL WAR DOGS THESE.
But They Only Hunt for Wounded on
Field of Battle.
Paris, France. The use of dogs In
war to seek wounded soldiers is being
studied by the French Army, and ex
periments have proved their value.
At Nancy supposedly wounded sol
diers were placed in obscure places
over a large area covered with thick
underbrush and marked by deep ra
vines encumbered with fallen stone,
rock and soil, and often most difficult
of access. A dozen dogs were sent
away on the search, and five proved
so adept they were given blue rib
bons and regularly placed in the medi
cal corps.
The dog policeman already ia a
valued member of the police force of
Paris and other European cities, but
this is his first appearance as a com
ponent part of the medical corps of
the army.
200 Varieties of Birds' Eggs.
Montclalr, K. J. Harry Trippett,
Town Clerk of Montclalr, has present
ed to the Board of Education a col
lection of 200 varieties of birds' eggs.
The collection represents Mr. Trip
pett's labors as a naturalist and orni
thologist, and practically all the eggs
are from blrda which either remain
In' New Jersey all the year or make
this State their summer nesting place.
The gift is intended to be part of an
educational collection Intended as a
memorial for the late Auguste Smith,
librarian in the free public library
here.
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SAKTOKIAL CKXSOIL
London Hotel I'.iilo That Only Per
sons in Kvrnlng Drew be Admitted
Something of a hubbub has been
raised In London by the rcfutat of
the directors of the Savoy Hotel to
rescind tr.elr rule that only person
In evening Jrens shall be allowed to
dine in the restaurant. This hct'l
Is tr.e last In London rigidly to en-
forre this rule, and (lie recent re
fusal of the management to allow a
distinguished earl and his wife to
enter 'ha restaurant In ordinary
street clothes has aroused considera
ble protest. The directors have
maintained their position but have
begun a post-card canvass of their
regular patrons . to pet their views
as to the continuation of their Iron
clad law of clothes. They argue that
to relax the rule means that til litis
in ordinary tourist costume will mix
with those In evening dress and nw.r
"tlie harmony and brilliancy" of t'.io
scene.
It would seem that under sensible
standards the purpose of the hotel is
to furnish lading, food and drink,
real solid ccrafort, to Its ruests. nnd
j not harmony and brilliancy; that a ry
man decently clad and decently be
haved, with the money to ay for
the nervlce should be admitted to all
the precincts given over to the use
of guests; that the manager urn ex
ercising their powers when they l.e
B'n to ordain wha. shall be worn l.i
their dining room. But it l.i
both In law and popular opinion taut
harmony and brllllar.cy ure iwfiitlitl
to a hotel dining room alons w'.th
food and drink, If they earnestly seek
to have In their halls that Bartoil.il
harmony which Is in perfect atvjrJ
with the mural decoratloua mid tli?
music, then they must post soi.ie
Bea" Brummel a, the door to see
that no discord Is admitted In tile
way of a man with diamond studs
To the eye sensitive to tho niceties of
masculine attire nothing is more of
fensive than a group of Indiscrimi
nately selected men In evening
clothes. The average man wear his
old office coat with more grace tlnn
hl3 hammerclaw, and as Inebriation
reveals hia true character, eo evening
dress reveals his breeding. The
swallow-tail Is one of the most hid
eous garments ever devised by tall
ors. and It Is not given to nioro than
one man In a hundred to wear it with
perfect harmony and a correct ac
companiment of shirt, ties and shoes.
Look around any of our great New
York restaurants at night and you
will find a hundred men dresed to
the Savoy standard and yet hardly
more than a handful properly attired
nccording to the requirements of per
fect taste and correct form. Bril
liancy there may be, but harmony
never. Here la a one with a dinner
Jacket and a white tie; there another
with a soft pleated shirt front and
diamond studs blinding us with their
garish light; another with a waist
coat cut shockingly high and heavy
fe-toons of gold chain across It.
So zetlmes even a tan shoe will poke
out from the white folds of the table
cloth. Drive out the sartorial goats
and hardly enough sheep will remain
to raise an audable baa.
A far more harmonious clothes-picture
is found In our quick lunch res
taurant at noon than In the evening
in the palatial caravansaries of the
avenue. The average man when he
seeks to beautify himself for dinner
goes far astray artistically.
Mnrul Tr.le from Shaw.
Hou. Leslie M. Shaw, the former
Secretary of the Treasury, Is a rs
nownod story teller and It Is his boast
that his tales always point a moral.
One day Mr. Shaw was entertalnins
some callers. II 3 was rather nettled
because certain tilings had gone awry
and might have lost hid temper had
not hia memory been the stronger.
"I never got Into a hurry and
rushed at anything that 1 did not
have cause to regret it." said the cx
Secretary. "Go (slow, I ay to my
self, forty times a day. Why, 1 got
Into one of the worst scrapes of my
married life. Just because I acted
first and did my thinking afterward.
It waa when my son was about ten
years old, and we were living in Den
Ison. My wife was then an enthus
iast on poultry raising, and the child-en,
as well as myself, talked chick
ens, read farmyard literature, and.
exhibited all the signs of the fad vic
tim. We boasted of our early broil
ers and our plentiful supply of eggs,
and no distance or expense was too
great to prevent our adding a new
variety to our chicken family.
"We also had a cat, sleek and fat,
and Quite a household favorite. But
a 'biddy' used to disappear every now
and then, and suspicion fell on the
feline pet. The children were set
to watch, and a reward waa offered
the one who found the marauder.
One morning I had Just filled my
shaving mug with warm water, pre
paratory to begininng a part of my
day's duties, when my son called out
from downstairs that the cat had
caught a small chicken and was eat
ing it. 1 looked, and Bure enough
there was the cat slinking across the
yard with something In her mouth.
My blood was up and I took aim with
my shaving mug. a heavy commodity,
in plated silver, and fired. But the
cat dodged with that uncanny Intelli
gence of her kind. The weapon
aped on, however, and caught the
mother of our finest brood, straight
In the head and laid her lifeless
among the orphaned children. When
tho smoke of battle had cleared away
our son found thnt the beloved tabble
had ca.itursl a mule tho real crl;r.l
na. In the r-.se -r'l -rs q ;!e!ly eat
ing the far-- rn t'r.o back porch."
Wrehlngto:) :ie:;,id.
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An Asphyxiated Cow.
Unlike some people, a cow can
not live on natural gas. A cow
belonging to James Tome, of the
Tidewater pump station, at Slate
Run, Lycoming comity, was pas
turing near the gas engine exhaust
pipe the other clay. She inhaled
sufficient gas to render her hors du.
combat, and the next thing the
men working around the station
knew the cow was laid out limp.
It took five of them to drag the
animal out of the realm of the gas
fumes, and for several hours it was
nip and tuck as to whether the
cow would die or recover. At last
she began to get better and is now
fully recovered. The theory of the
men is that the cow, finding no
flies in the vicinity.of the gas pipe,
made free with this immunity from
torment to bask under the influence
of even a deadlier enemy.
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