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COULD YOU GUESS?
When your arms were full of blossoms
We had plucked beside the way,
That winds 'roand beside the river
Where the sunlit ripples play—
When your am* were full of blossoms.
And the light was on vouv hair,
Could you gucsf that ne/er, never,
Held the worUi ouu half so fair?
When your arm* were full of blossoms.
And you stepped Into the road
From the fields where rippling billows
Of delightful blossoms Slowed,
Running after, tfter, aft*r,
Just to crowd about your feet.
Did you know it—that the wide world
Held no other half so sweet?
*
When your arms were full of blossoms,
And you bent until your hair
Mingled with their perfumed sweetness.
And your brow so broad and fair
Felt their timid swift caresses.
Dear, dear heart, were you acquaint
With the tact that never artist
Such a faoene as that could paint?
When your arms were full of blossoms
Did you catch the sudden hush?
Know the river ceased its singing?
Know the thralldom of the thrush?
Know all nature hung in rapture
On the necromantic spell
Of your purity and beauty?
Did you know it? Could you tell?
—J. M. Lewis, in Houston l'ost.
Scoundrels4Co.
ByCOULSON KERNAHAN
Author of "Captain Shannon," "A Book ol
Stranfe Sins," "A Dead Man'i Diary," Etc.
HI ■ M——■■ ll—lllll I
Copyright, iSgg, by Herbert S. Stoue & Co.
CHAPTER I.
I SEE A STRANGE SIGHT IN THE
CABIN OK THE SEA SWALLOW.
It was getting dark when 1 arrived
at Southend, whither I had journeyed
to join a friend who was on board his
yacht. I had unluckily missed the
train by which I was expected, so there
was no one to meet me at the station,
but. knowing that my friend's little
craft was to be some few hundred
yards off the pier-liead, I made *ny
way to the beach, and hailing a water
man who had just come ashore in 'ais
skiff, 1 asked him if he knew Mr Ar
thur Duncan's yacht by sight.
"No, sir," he said. "I don't kf 4 ow
Mr. Duncan, nor his boat. What's aer
name?"
"Ah! That I can't tell you," i re
plied. "1 know she's a ten-tonner and
a yawl, and that she was to be oft the
pier-head, but her name I don't know."
"That's all right, sir," said the man
reassuringly. "She's there yet. The
tide's just on the turn. If you'll jump
in I can put you alongside o' lie/ in
twenty minutes."
He was as good as his word, but
though as soon as we were within ear
shot of the yacht I hailed her with
a lusty "Duncan, ahoy!" no one came
on deck in response to my summons.
"I suppose my friend has gone ashore
—perhaps to look for' me—and has
taken his skipper with him. He must
have done so, because I see tnat the
dinghy's gone. Never mind, I'll go
aboard and wait for him." Saying
which I scrambled from the skiff upon
the yacht's deck, paid the waterman,
and dismissed him.
As I had been up very late the night
before, and the strong air of South
end had made me sleepy, I decided to
go below and have a nap. My first idea
was to make myself comfortable upon
one of the cushioned lockers in the
cabin, but, thinking to play a practical
joke upon Duncan, I disposed myself,
instead, in the empty space under the
sleeping berth in the fo'castle, covering
myself with some old tarpaulins which
had been bundled there —I suppose to
be out of the way. The cabin was cur
tained off from the fo'castle by heavy
plush hangings, but I managed to
arrange the tarpaulins and the hang
ings so that I should be able to see
what took place when Duncan entered.
That done, I settled myself for a sleep.
Trom which I was aroused by the bump
ing of a boat against the yacht's side.
There was a scuffling sound, as of
somebody clambering on board. A
voice which I did not recognize said,
"Here you are, boatman," und grulf
"Tank'ee, sir," was followed by,
"Wish you good-night," as the boat
was shoved off.
The dip of the oars had scarcely
died away before another voice, which
was unknown to me, hailed us from
the water: "Sea Swallow, ahoy!"
"Sea Swallow, it is," said the man
on deck, and soon a second boat grated
against the yacht's side and put a pas
senger on board.
I was now beginning to feel rather
uncomfortable. Should it turn out that
the yacht on which I had so foolishly
concealed myself was not my friend's
craft, after all, I should look extremely
silly when called onto account for my
presence there. Hence I need scarcely
say that I awaited the advent of the
new-comers with considerable anxiety
—anxiety which was not relieved by
the fact that, instead of coming below,
they remained on deck talking together
in tones so low that I could not catch
their words.
By-and-by one of the two said,
"Here's another dinghy," and soon a
third boat ran alongside of us, followed
not long after by a fourth and fifth,
which arrived simultaneously.
Then when a sixth, and finally a
seventh, had put a passenger on board,
a voice which I had not before heard,
sai 1:
"Come, gentlemen; let us get be
low." The tone in which the words
were spoken seemed to imply a com
mand rather than a request, and was
certainly not that in which n host
would address his guests.
But whatever might be the relations
between the speaker and the rest the
company, the simultaneous shuffling of
feet overhead told uie that the proposal
to adjourn to the cabin hai received
the assent of the meeting.
As the cabin was lighted by a swing
ing oil lamp, and the fo'castle, where
1 was concealed, was entirely in dark
ness, Iran very lit«'le risk of discovery;
but all the same —when I hearJ the
first step upon the companion ladder
which led from the deck —1 instinctive
ly drew back my head under the tar
paulins, where 1 could neither see nor
be seen.
After about half a minute I made
bold to advance my head again, so as
to get a sight of what was going on.
And such a sight!
For the first moment I could not be
lieve my eyes, but was persuaded that
1 was still sleeping. How else was I
to account for the sight I saw, except
by supposing that the whole business
of the seven boats, each carrying a
mysterious passenger, was a dream of
which the present scene was a con
tinuation.
Standing around the table were seven
men, all so exactly alike that I should
not baM> been surprised had I been told
that I was looking at one man sur
rounded by six facsimiles of himself.
No one who had seen that sight,
under such circumstances as I saw it,
would have wondered that I could not
believe the evidence of my senses, but
lay there open-mouthed and scarce
daring to breathe, my eyes journey
ing in a circle from face to face and
from figure to figure, till I was dazed
and drunken with imbecile astonish
ment.
All the seven were of swarthy com
plexion. All had bushy brown hair,
with brown beards, trimmed in the
same manner. All wore glasses, and
all were dressed exactly alike in blue
serge suits, with turn-down collars,
blue and white spotted sailor scarfs,
and black bowler hats of similar shape.
While I was gaping at this singular
spectacle, one of the seven took the
seat at the head of the table with his
back to me, motioning to the others
to seat themselves, which they did,
three on each side, leaving the space
at the foot of the table unoccupied.
Then the chairman struck the table
sharply with his open hand.
"Let the candidate for the seventh
place on the council stand forward,"
he said.
For the space of three of four sec
onds nobody stirred. Then a man,
who was sitting near the entrance to
the cabin, shot to his feet as if taken
by surprise, squared his shoulders, with
his arms lying stiff at his side, and
stood in the attitude which in the
drillyard is known as "at attention.''
I could npt see the face of the man
at the head of the table, but I knew
instinctively that the two eyes of hfm
were covering the candidate, like twin
guns in a battery screwed up to cover
a target. Though his back was to me,
I seemed in some way to feel the pene
trating intentness of his eyes, and to
share the discomposure which the ob
ject of h!s scrutiny was evidently ex
periencing. The military stiffness of
the upstander's hearing seemed to ooze
out of his fingertips. His shoulders
contracted, and his head, which at
first was well thrown back, came for
ward, and into his eyes stole a sheep
ish, furtive look which but ill became
him.
All this was not lost upon the man
at the head of the table. It seemed to
me that his voice took on an added
sharpness as, with the single word
"There," he pointed with his pen to
the foot of the table where the candi
date would be facing the company. The
man moved to the position indicated,
and then the chairman addressed him
in a hard, cold voice—
"You have come here as a candidate
for the seventh place on the council?
Is that so?"
"That is so," replied the other sul
lenly.
"I need not tell you that you have
not been invited here to-night without
due consideration as to your ability for
the post you seek to fill. I may tell
you too that you have been a 'marked
man' for some months past. If l
mistake not, you have suspected the
position of affairs in regard to this
council for a long time, and we decided
that one of two things must happen—
either that your undoubted ability must
be enlisted on the side of the council,
or else —well —that the council must
be protected from any injury you
have it in your power to do us. What
the latter alternative would necessitate
need not now, fortunately, be dwelt
upon. You have, I believe, been
'"sounded —carefully, of course—in re
gard to your readiness to undertake
the responsibilities of the post. Am
I right in supposing that you do not
come here altogether ignorant of what
these responsibilities mean?"
"I do not," said the candidate.
"You are aware that once having
joined us there is no going back, and
that for the man who plays us false
there is only one penalty?"
The fellow nodded.
"Very good. And, on the other hand,
you are probably not unaware that
there are certain advantages accruing
to a seat on the council which are
not altogether to be despised?"
"'I had surmised as much," said the
candidate, almost insolently, and with
a greedy glitter in his small eyes.
"Very good," with an inclination of
the head. "Is it your will, brothers,
that this man be elected to the council
in place of Councillor Number Seven,
whose name we have decided to re
move?"
He looked inquiringly at his six col
leagues, some of whom responded with
"Yes," while others merely nodded
suisent.
"Very well. You are elected, and
will be known henceforth as Councillor
Number Seven. You may perhaps
think, considering the importance to
yourself, and to us, and to others, of
the post you now occupy, that our
ceremony of election is somewhat in
formal. But. we are men, and in ear
n&st; not children playing at being ceiv-
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1903
splrators. Hence we go through no
melodramatic form of 'initiation,' and
exact, from you no harrowing vow. We,
who constitute the council, are united
by the strongest of all bonds—self-in
terest. That is a bond which binds
men more closely than any oath. Sit
down. Councillor Number Seven. Now
that you are one of us, it is right that
jou should be taken into our confi
denc3 to some extent. You are no
doubt aware that most of us here are
more or less officially connected with
certain organizations and societies,
some of which are secret, and some of
which are not?"
"Quite aware," was the prompt re
sponse.
"All of which are of a political na
ture?"
"That I understand, too."
"Very well. Just now there Is a
big public that is in favor of agita
tion of every sort—of leagues, asso
ciations and unions—and we have
practically got the management of
such matters into our own hands.
Then, as yon know, there are seme
secret societies which are not un
generously supported in this coun
try and in America, and these, too,
we may be said to control. In fact,
if I may use such a term, we who con
stitute this council form a sort of
syndicate for the taking over and
COUNCILLOR NUMBER SEVEN.
carrying of everything in the way of
agitation and revolt, from a secret so
ciety for.the assassination of crowned
heads and tyrants, down to an agita
tion against an unpopular landlord, a
political meeting, or a strike. Do I
make myself understood?"
"Perfectly."
"You have perhaps, however, sur
mised that, although we fully approve
the patriotic and commendable senti
ments which inspire so many thou
sands in England and America to sub
scribe their money for the carrying
on of the work, we ourselves are not
inclined to give our services entirely
gratuitously?"
He paused and looked curiously at
the new councillor, who nodded his
entire consent and hearty approval of
this statement of the case.
"In fact, you will not be surprised to
learn that—like statesmen and patri
ots, who devote their time to the pub
lic service because they find that by
doing so they can best forward their
private interests; like clergymen and
ministers, who so long as people are
willing to pay for religion are quite
ready to preach it; and, in short, like
every one else who is not absolutely a
fool—our first consideration, in the
conduct of whatever business the pub
lic think lit to entrust to us, is, not
to put too fine a point upon it, to
feather our own nests. It is quite true
that there are many men and women
working in connection with these as
sociations and societies who, therj is
no denying, are honest and disinter
ested; and very good decoy ducks they
are too, to bring the money in. But
such men and women, though they do
not suspect it, are simply our tools.
We are not, of course, such fools as
to spoil our own game by killing tho
goose that lays the golden eggs. But
in our case the game is a very easy
one to play. If an attempt—success
ful or unsuccessful—upon the life of
some hated monarch or unpopular
statesman, the blowing up of a palace
or prison, or similar demonstration,
did not occur every now and then, our
subscribers would begin to think that
they were getting nothing for their
money, and supplies would cease. But
though much of the enormous power
which is given to us by the complete
control of all these societies, leagues,
associations and unions is used by us
for political purposes, we do not hesi
tate to use this same power in the
interests of our own pockets. For in
stance, if we heard that large sums
of money or other valuables were be
ing conveyed from one place to an
other, or were secreted in any partic
ular building, and we could avail our
selves of the power which we have
at our control to secure that sum of
money for ourselves, we should not
hesitate about putting the machinery
into motion. Do you remember the
mysterious robbery at the duchess of
Doncaster's?"
"Why, yes!" gasped Number Seven,
for once genuinely surprised. "One
hundred thousand pounds in jewels
and hard cash disappeared, no one
knew where."
"Precisely," said the chairman cool
ly. "They did not realize so ouch as
that, however, although, owing to the
fact that wo have agents in most of
the continental cities, we have ex
ceptional facilities for the disposal of
valuables.
"That now, as a case tn point, could
never have been negotiated success
fully but for the intricate machinery
which we have it in our power to set in
motion. No ordinary 'conveyor'—if I
may use the term —could have carried
that bit of business through to a suc
cessful issue, even with the assist
auce of skilful confederates."
"And the proc<«Ob of that haul, do
I understand that they were divided
among the seven councillors?" asked
Councillor Number Seven, with glitter
ing eyes.
"Precisely. It was a benefit perform
ance. You are still desirous of assum
ing the —shall we say—responsibilities
of councillorship?"
"Need you ask?"
"And when would you like to com
mence the duties?"
"This minute."
"Good. Well, as I have told you, we
do not, when we elect a new member
to the council, exact any solemn oath
of secrecy from him. The rule —the
invariable rule —which we have adopt
ed in place of any such meaningless
exaction is this. Whenever a new
member is elected, that member has
to qualify himself, so to speak, by
carrying out personally the first 're
moval' which may be decreed by th<
council. We do this as much for 0111
own protection as for any other reason.
The fact that a memlirr is equally
'committed' with ourselves and has
rendered himself liable to the same
legal penalties, is the best guarantee
of his loyalty that we could possibly
have. Do you follow?"
"I follow," replied the new council
lor, doggedly.
"Well, this is the situation. We re
cently elected to a place on the council
—to the very place you now fill —a
new member. He had taken life on
moro than one occasion, and wo
thought we were sure of our man, or
we should not have invited him to
join us. But we have since discovered
—it Is the one and only mistake of the
sort we have made —that we have been
mlyled in him. Not that he is not fully
as eager to accept responsibility—even
the most dangerous responsibility—
as any of us. On that ground we have
no cause for complaint. But the fact
ic that when he joined us he was under
the impression that our motives were
entirely disinterested and patriotic.
The discovery that we were not al
together uninfluenced by personal
considerations was a shock to him,
and produced so great a revulsion of
feeling that —as we have ascertained
—he is in communication with the po
lice, in order that he may serve the
cause about which he is so infatuated
by ridding it of the men —ouiselves—
who in his opinion are its betrayer»
and enemies. He is at this moment
alone on board the little yacht which
lies in a stiaight line a couple of
hundred yards further out at sea than
this vessel. At present the police
knew nothing of what he has to tell
them. Th« matter has not gone far
enough for titat. All that he has done
is to send word to a certain detective
that he lia-j an important communica
tion to make. He has asked that de
tective —Deductive Marten —to join him
at 12 o'clock to-night on board the
yacht to receive the communication.
His reason for so doing is as follows:
The council was to meet on board this
yacht not to-night, but to-morrow
night. This man who intends betraying
us does not know that we are aware
of his intended treachery and that wo
have altered our date of meeting. He
thinks it is to-morrow that we are to
assemble, and after he has made known
our plans to the detective he will pro
pose that our meeting be allowed to
take place, and that then, when we
are gathered together here like rats
in a trap, the police shall surround
the yacht and make the whole of us
prisoners. It is a prettily enough
arranged programme, but the poor fool
has underrated our abilities and our
resources for obtaining information."'
[To Be Continued.l
WHY SHE WAS FROSTY.
And When He Leuriieil the
Heudoii He Kelt Thut
She Win JuNtifletl.
A young gentleman, whose gallantry
was largely in excess of his pecuniary
means, sought to remedy this defect
and save the money required for the
purchase of expensive flowers by ar
ranging with a gardener to let him
have a bouquet from time to time in
return for his cast-off clothes, relates
London Tit-Bits.
It thus happened one day that he re
ceived a bunch of the most beautiful
roses, which he at once sent off to his
lady-love. In sure anticipation of a
friendly welcome he called at the
house of the lady the same evening,
and was not a little surprised at the
frosty reception he met with.
"You sent me a note to-day," the
young lady remarked, after a pause,
in the most frigid tones.
"I—a note?" he inquired, in blank
astonishment.
"Certainly, along with a nosegay."
"To be sure I sent you a nosegay."
"And there was a note inside—do
you still mean to deny it?"
With these words she handed the
dumfounded swain a scrap of paper,
on which the following words were
written: "Don't forget the old trousers
you promised me the other day."
A More During Kxploit-
Admiral Clark, the famous com
mander of the United States battleship
Oregon, passed some of his early year*
in Greenfield, Mass. Therw in the
winter he coasted down Burniston
mountain, a hair-raising experience,
and one dearly prized by the youth of
the village, for it meant much to
teach the bottom in safety.
Shortly after the Oregon's remark
able voyage in the Spanish-American
war, one of the commander's boyhood
friends wrote to him. It was not just
an ordinary letter of congratulation,
but a handsome and sincere tribute
to splendid seamanship and personal
bravery, such as any man would be
proud to rea.4 aloud to his wife before
mailing. Indue course the answer
came.
"Dear Old Man,"it ran."lt really
wasn't much —after taking a double
runner down BurnirUja mountain."—
Youth » Comjaaio®.
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
Bulgarian Amazons Not Afraid of
Turkish Bullets.
Join the Insuritent Armj to Premerv*
Their lloiaci-Hoiikaiice of Krln
tlnu l'etkova, u Woman Sol
dier of lteuown.
In the desultory warfare which is
being carried on against the Turk in
the Balkans women ftave come to the
front again as soldiers. Among the
Bulgarian insurgents who invade Ma
cedonia and raid villages are a number
of amazons who are sure of foot in
mountain climbing and sure of aim in
the fighting which is carried on in the
village and on the mountain side.
These women, unlike others who
have enlisted in the ranks of armies,
do not attempt to conceal the fact that
they are women. Some of them wear
their hair hanging free to display the
fact that they are amazons.
For a civilized or supposedly civi
lized country, the woman soldier is an
almost unknown quantity, and for that
reason the fair soldiers of Bulgaria
who are risking the perils of an un
recognized warfare against the Turk
are attracting attention.
Kristina Petkova is one of these sol
diers. The uniform she wears is dis
tinctly a serviceable one—strapped leg
gins, coarse woolen trousers, and loose
fitting blouse, with cartridge belt
around the waist and around the shoul
ders, musket strapped to the back and
saber at the side.
There is a romance connected with
her service in the Bulgarian ranks of
the Macedonian army. Her fiance is
a young officer in the same army. Dur
ing one of the mountain climbing raids
vhich are undertaken to drive the Ma
cedonian peasants into revolt against
the Turks he led a detachment against
a village where the Turkish forces
were found in unexpected numbers. A
quick retreat was all that saved the
Bulgarian soldiers, but in this flight
the young officer was captured, being
in the rear of the retiring Bulgarians.
His comrades, having escaped to the
mountains, carried the news of his cap-
■
KRISTINA PETKOVA.
(Bulgarian Amazon with an Intensely Ro
niuntic History.)
ture to Kristina. In her despair, know
ing that there was little chance of any
thing but death for him, she gathered
about her a number of insurgents for
an attempt at rescue.
They retraced their way down the
mountain to the village and were plan
ning a night attack when the young
officer suddenly appeared among them.
He had succeeding in eluding the guard
placed over him and had made his es
cape.
The young girl, however, had cast
her lot with the Bulgarian cause, and
to be with her lover during the cam
paigns she decided to enlist as a sol
dier. He protested at first, but finally
relented, being willing to allow her to
brave the dangers since she showed
the spirit necessary for it.
Among the other women who are
seeing service in the Bulgarian army
in Macedonia are some who are offi
cers, most of them being noncommis
sioned. Arnoudova is a sergeant, but,
unlike Kristina, she is desirous of ap
pearing as a man. In her costume she
appears to be a sturdy and good-look
ing youth of 21.
The character of the warfare being
carried on in the Balkans Is of a kind
which would attract women to the ser
vice. At lea3t, it is a repetition of the
kind which has attracted them in
times past—a repetition of the desul
tory, but fierce struggles which have
been waged with all the greater fero
city because they have been unorgan
ized.
Religion and race prejudices are
among the causes which make the Bul
garian and Macedonian troops the nat
vra'i enemies of the Turks. It is a
struggle for homes and churches, and
such a struggle always has claimed the
most active interest on the part of
women.
When foreign policies cause a wai
it is seldom that women get closely ir
touch with it, but as soon as homes
are threatened they will be found
identified with the men. Frontier life
in America demanded that the women
be as ready with a rifle as the men,
and the condition in the Balkans now
presents a similar problem to the Bul
garian women.
Ilia Mnnln 1» Invention.
The greatest number of patents
taken out by one man have been granted
to Frank Schonkee, of Vir.cennes, Ind.
He has patented 0,024 devices of various
kinds, and claims to be the most prolific
Inventor in the country. None of his
Inventions, however, have brought him
a fortune, afthcugh he draws a moduate
lo:oca- irom some of them. —— _ .
HERR RICHARD STRAUSS.
Worlfl-SlnrtlliiK <«errjnn Coin pose*
Aow C'oii «t in* I In K II Own Muftle
lu 'l'llis Country.
Richard Strauss, the most talked
about, most abused and most praised
composer of the present day, is said to
be more interested in his coming Amer
ican tour for his wife's sake than for
his own. She is going along to sing her
husband's intricate songs. Frau Pauline
was his "discovery" from a musical
point of view, and he expects still great
er things of her in the future than she
has even hitherto accomplished.
The composer of "Guntram," "Till Eu
lenspiegel" and so many other puzzling
combinations of pure beauty and hide
ous noise is not yet 40 years old, and his
romantic marriage with Frau Strauss
took place ten years ago. She was his
little singing pupil at the age of 15, and
married the musician much against the
will of her father, a general in the Ba
varian army and a man of high social
rank as well. Frau Strauss now singa
nothing in public but her husband's
RICHARD STRAUSS.
CNoted German Composer Who Is Visiting
This Country.)
songs, and the song recitals in America
will include no other vocal composi
tions.
Herr Strauss is not taking his own or
chestra with him, but will find the Amer»
ican orchestras ready for him as he
passes from city to city. He is an ad
mirable conductor —which is a lucky
thing for his music, for there are very
few other wielders of the baton who can
show how effective his strange and ter
rifically up-to-date compositions are
when once you get the idea of them. The
first impression it makes on those who
are not skilled musicians is that the man
Has undertaken to set German grammar
t<> music, but a second or third hearing
or it captures the hearer or else makes
hitn an enemy for life.
Personally, Herr Strauss —who is not
related to the Viennese Strausses of
wa'tz fame —is a simple, earnest-minded
man, who has no affectations, wears his
hair short, and believes sincerely that
music can be made to express the most
complex problems of the deepest mind.
WILL ON CABIN DOOR.
Mlnrr Disponed of IIIH KnrTlilr POII
HCNNIOIIN Without tlie I.emit Loaa
of l'nper mul Words,
There Is fortunately no provision in
the law as to the txact nature of the
"parchment" on which a will should be
written. It has frequently happened
that property worth large sums of
money has been distributed in accord
ance with the wish of the former owner
as a result of directions left in the mott
accidental manner. Wills that have
proven valid have been found carved on
the trunks of trees, scratched upon
stones, written on the soles of shoes.
One of the most remarkable of thrse
freak wills was that scrawled on the
door of a miner's shanty in British Co
lumbia. '1 he accompanying illustration
gives the entire will which, with the
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WILL ON CABIN DOOR
(Shows How an Arctic Miner Disposed of
His Modest Estate.)
signature, comprised only 14 words.
Tim Merrick, who willed his estate in
this highly original manner, was a min
er living near the town of Golden. Since
coming to the district, in 1863, he had
worked steadily, and, it was supposed,
with great success.
One day. In 1886, he was found by one
of the mounted police lying dead in his
little cabin. The place was starched
for papers, but none of any special value
were found. Merrick's will was discov
ered, however, written with chalk on
the inside of the door of the cottage. It
read: "The state may have all they
find. I've got no heirs."
The authorities made a hasty Investi
gation of the premises, but without dis
covering anything, and the search, as
far as they were concerned, was aban
doned.
Why Roman* Were Hearrtles*.
The ancient Romans considered it ef
feminate to wear beards. All their busts,
representing the famous men ot olcica
times, are without beards.