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Gypsies, or Bohemians, as they were
called in early days, made their first
appearance in France in 1427. During
the reign of ‘Louis XIV. the criminal
acts of these itinerants assumed suc h
intolerable proportions that the King
issued an edict commanding that all
male members of their bands be arrest-
ed and sent to the galleys and the wo-
men and children consigned to the
poorhouses. The execution of the or-
der was committed to the famous La
Reynie, the first lieutenant-general of
police.
It was the custom in France at that
period, when men and women of noble
birth were involved in criminal acts
outside of affairs of state, to indicate
.them in police reports only by the first
initial of their ‘surnames. Those in-
terested "in learning the identity of
the Count de B , one of the princi-
pal actors of the incident about to be
related, may discover it by referring to
“La Correspondance de Mme. la Duc b-
esse d’Orleans (Charlotte of Bavaria).’
His name frequently occurs in her let-
ters in connection with that of her
husband.
This Count de B was a high fav-
orite at court, but was violent,
unscrupulous and quarrelsome, and of
a reputation so bad that he was sus-
pected of having had a hand in the
poisoning of a dearly loved Princess,
Henrietta of England, sister of Charles
11. and first wife of the Duke of Or-
leans.
A rich relative, M. de Saintaine, who
lived in a country house buried in the
woods of Berri, had promised to make
he Count his heir should he die un-
married. As the income from his es-
fate was 100,000 francs and his per-
sonal property amounted to 1,200,000
francs, the cupidity of the Count was
aroused and he proceeded to put ma-
chinery in motion for the early assimi-
lation of his relative’s assets.
M. de Saintaine was a bachelor at his
fiftieth year and the chances of his
marrying seemed small. He was pious
to excess, was greatly esteemed in his
neighborhood. He maintained his es-
tablishment Javishly; had dogs and
horses and hunted closely his vast es-
tate, but he persisted in managing his
own financial affairs, and according-
ly attended neighboring fairs, where
he disposed in person of the products
of his various farms. One of these
fairs was held annually at Chatre, a
nearby town. There M. de Saintaine
appeared as usual in charge of a large
herd of cattle and a great store of
wheat, from the sale of which he real-
eed 20,000 francs. This money he put
n a portmanteau strapped to his sad-
dle bags and late in the day started
for his home, a journey of five leagues,
which could only be accomplished be-
fore night by rapid travel.
When he had gone to the fair at
Chatre he was followed by a priest of
his neighborhood, a man reputed to be
associated with a band of robbers, and
by two companion rogues. On his
way home M. de Saintaine was joined
by the priest, who urged him to sup
and pass the night at his parsonage,
but the other politely refused and on-
ly urged his horses to a more rapid
trot. When, however, two of the
horses feil dead and both thighs of a
servant riding one of them were brok-
en, nothing remained for him but to
accept the hospitality of the priest.
The parsonage was a very ancient
building, part of a seigniorial castle,
constructed at the time of the Crusad-
ers. One wing only had been rebuilt,
but it communicated with the remains
of the original structure by subterran-
ean passages. The chapel of the castle
had beconie the parish church and was
connected with some of the rooms of
the parsonage. .An abutting cemetery
occupied the space of the former gar-
den of the castle. What was formerly
a ditch protecting its approach had
been filled with water. A wooden
bridge crossing this led to the entrance
to the parsonage. On the other side
was a great forest which in former
times constituted the baronial park.
Opposite the church and cemetery was
the priest's garden.
The house was in charge of a niece
of the priest, a girl of modest demean-
or and very beautiful, Julienne by
name. At the sight of a stranger she
became confused, her face changed
from white to red, and her eyes filled
with tears at the brutal command of
her uncle te entertain his guest.
A servant entered and made a sig-
nal to the priest, which De Saintaine
saw reflected in a mirror. The priest
arose and excused himself, saying that
he was called to the bedside of a sick
man. “But, uncle, who is ill?” asked
the niece. “Big Peter.” “I have just
seen him pass by.” “You aré mistaken,”
replied the uncle sharply.””**John has
just told me, and he is better inform-
ed than you.” The tone of the priest's
voice was so harsh and it was so clear
he was lying that De Saintaine re-
gretted he had accepted the hospital-
jty of such a man. ;
The moon was rising. De Saintaine
walked to a window to look at’ the
Jandscape. To his astonishment he
saw the priest walking to and fro in
front of the house e ged in animated
talk with two othe Suddenly
one of them took from his pocket three
a
men
knives, giving one te the priest,
other to hi ) and putting
the third in t 3
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Louis XIV. and the Gypsies.
A Strange Story of the Reason for His Sweeping Edict Against Them.
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servant. When the
maid at last fell into a doze De Saint-
aine took advantage of this to converse
with the niece. At his approach she
jected to by the
that he was in peril, and that she was
determined to save him, but to accom-
plish it he must obey her implicitly.
When the priest returned he remar k-
ed casually that one Jacome, a bour-
geois of ‘Beurges, who was at the fair
at la Chatre, avould be, with the per-
mission of De Saintaine, a guest’ at
supper. Fey
This second visitor proved to be
Combons, the man who distributed the
xnives. His appearance in, the house
confirmed De Saintajne in-the opinion
that he had been caught in a trap.
When De Saintaine was shown to his
‘in anticipation of .the supper
*Jillienne ‘managed to whisper “to
nim to ‘bolt the door ard expect fur-
ther news from her. About twenty
minutes after he heard a slight noise
above his head, a little trap opened in
the ceiling, a white hand appeared and
a paper was dropped therefrom, con-
taining these word:
They are determined to kill and rob
you. At supper they will offer you
drugged wine. This will throw you
into a deep sleep, when you will be
killed. John, the groom, and I will
save you and myself at the same time.
Show no fear to your companions;
they will not kill you until you are
asleep. When you return to your room
wait patiently our arrival and above
all do not be alarmed if we enter the
room in an unusual way. Burn this
note and pull back the bolt on the
door.
‘The supper was uncommonly good
and general gayety prevailed. A sign
from John and Julienne indicated ‘to
De Saintaine the drugged bottle. He
made a pretence of drinking the wine.
During a pause in the conversation De
Saintaine pretended to be sleepy and
asked permission of his host to retire
at about 11 o'clock.
To assure himself against surprise,
he tried to push the bolts of the door;
but they were not in place, having
evidently been removed while he was
at supper. All he could do was to
close the door and barricade it with
a heavy bureau. This was barely done
when a light noise attracted his at-
tention in a part of the room near the
bed. He walked there, taking the pre-
caution fo arm himself with his
sword and pistols. - They were useless,
for while at supper the charge in each
had been drawn. Near the bed in a
panel in the wall, masked by a por-
trait, was pushed back. In the open-
ing stood John and Julienne, each
holding a dark lantern.
They signalled him to approach. As
he joined them the sound of a key be-
ing turned in the lock of the barri-
caded door attracted his attention. An
attempt to open it was prevented by
the furniture placed against it.
There was “no time to lose; the -en-
emy was at hand. John took De Sain-
taine by the hand, with the valuable
portmanteau in the grip of the other,
and led him into the mysterious pas-
sage ‘by which they had reached the
panel, which consisted of a large sheet
of iron. They hurried their flight
through a number of subterranean
la#es, from which they emerged into
the open country at least a mile from
the parsonage and on the opposite
side of the canal. There two horses
were tethered; John mounted the one
and De Saintaine the other; with Ju-
lienne on a-pillion behind him. As
they rode on through the forest, the
moon, lighting the side of a hill visi-
ble through a clearing.disclosed a hody
of men, members, no doubt of the band
of brigande of which the priest was the |
chief. At daybreak they reached. De
Saintaine’s house. .Later in the morn-
ing they set out for Bourges, where
Julienne was placed in temporary
charge of the sisters of a religious re-
treat.
The priest, furious at the escape of
his guest and the loss of his expected
booty, hastened to anticipate an ac-
cusation against him by lodging a com-
plaint against De Sajntaine for the ab-
duction of a minor and the ruin: of
her reputation so that marriage for her
had become impossible.
The priest, however, counted without
his host. De Saintaine had fallen in
love with the girl, and although tremb-
ling at the wrath of the terrible Count
de B——, he married her.
When six months after the news of
this event reached the Count there
came with it a suggesticn of the pos-
sibility of an heir to inherit the great
fortune of De Saintaine. The Count’s
rage exceeded all bounds, and because
of his threats and persecutions De
Saintaine’ died shortly after the birth
of a son, leaving the widow and boy
in possession of all of his property.
Three years had passed. The young
Louis brought up by his mother -as ‘he
fitted the inheritor of such great
wealth. was living with her in .a house
near one of the gates of the city of
.s. when a band of Gypsies who
been encamped between St. Ger-
n and Versailles established them-
es in the immediate neighborhood.
ne men and women who made
. band one day engaged in what
ypeared to be a violent qua rel in
presence of a considerable
and a man ong. woman
= spectators,
r
| remaining in the
| Bourges denied
x
cagup,
ter.
The same evening young Louis de
Saintaine disappeared from his home
and all trace of him was lost. His in-
consolable mother expended great sums
of money and employed an army of
together with their little daughs!
agents in search of him, but with no.
success,
inion that the Gypsies were concerned
in the kidnapping. Those of the band
neighborhood of
participation in the
5 ] . | crime, and asserted that the man and
lifted her head and indicated rapidly
ition
‘and wife, the Count agreeing to care
woman whom they had expelled were
the culprits.
mainder deft the neighborhood.
Four years later a priest of Bourges
returning from Rome, reported that he
had met with this same ‘community of
Gypsies encamped in the" neighborhood |
of Sienne, that hé ‘had lea®ned that
the couple driven from the ‘tribe when
at Bourges were in reality what were
called the king and queen,
apparent expulsion, was a. rause.to di-
vert, suspicion from the. other members
of the band, and that the couple ex-
pelled were, in reality, the abductors
of youn De Saintaine. =~ ~*~
At this juncture Mme. de Saiptaine
died. Ten days later the Count de
B—— demanded letters of administra-
upon the estate of the husband
for the property, while enjoying the
income, until the fate of young De
Saintaine should be definitely estab-
lished. Other relatives opposed this
application, but the influence of the
Count de B—— at court was so for-
midable that he was placed in posses-
sion of the great wealth.
The affair slumbered for several
years, when one day in 1681 Mme. de
Maintenon, who was caring in secret
for te children of Mme. de Montes-
pon, was surprised to see the Duke du
Maine, the latter's eldest son, enter
her room leading by the hand a hand-
some lad of about his own age, clothed
in rags. Following them was a young
Gypsy woman 18 or 20 years old, who
explained ‘that the Count de B—— had
bribed her father and mother to kidnap
the lad. Both of her parents had died
at Venice. hut hefore dving they had
made deposition before the Venetian
authorities to that effect. Moreover,
she had with her two letters written
by the Count de B—— to her father,
arranging with him that their tribe
should make way with young De Sain-
taine. : = .
Nothing could give Mme. de Main-
tencn more pleasure than these reve-
lations. It enabled her to annoy the
Duchess of Orleans, a bitter enemy,
and the special protectress of the
Count de B——. She made this affair
her own; she spoke to the king in re-
lation to it and inquiries were imme-
diately instituted to disentangle the
plot. The identity of young De Sain-
taine was established without trouble,
and the Count de B was forced to
relinquish the riches he had come to
regard as his beyond possibility of
alienation. All that saved him from
the gallows was the powerful protec-
tion of the Duke of Orleans. :
On account of the part this band of
Gypsies had taken in the abduction of
young De Saintaine, in July, 1682,
Louis XIV. issued the severe edict
which he made applicable to eyery one
of the race as if all were concerned
in. the particular crime.—New York
Sun. ’
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Korean widows. are not allowed to
remarry.
There are only about ninety daily
papers in Russia.
Alaska is more than five hundred and
fifty times the area of Rhode Island.
The City cf Glasgow makes $7500 a
year profit out of waste paper collected
in the streets.
The cost of the English navy
amounts to $22 a year for every fam-
ily in Great Britain.
Iowa is about.to enact a law making
it is a misdemeanor for anable-bodied
man who is able to work to refuse a
job. : Fouiy 2%
The children of, Spanish residents in
Mexico are less, energetic than their
parents, and the change becomes more
noticeable With every generation.
Manchester, England, sacrifices from
£12,000 to £15,000 every year by de-
clining to have advertisements on its
cars, which are operated by the city.
Of this year’s graduating class at
Yale, numbering 313, 112 will go into
business, 85 into law, 24 into medicine,
25 into teaching, 9 into the ministry,
and 26 will do special work.
Spruce gum is becoming scarce and
harder to get in the Maine woods, and
school girls who chew that sort will
have to pay mcre for it hereafter. The
gum now costs $1.35 a pound. >
Abyssinia produces the finest ostrich
feathers, the price tbere being $1.44 to
$2.31 per dozen for the best white, 96
cents to $1.93 a dozen for black, and
half as much for gray feathers.
An Arabian woman who is in mourn-
ing for a near relative abstains from
drinking milk for eight days, on the
theory that the cclor cf the liquid does
not harmonize with her mental form.
In Dresden, Germany, there has been
1 otive ap-
an appor-
ty for specie yt e even-
n the week
though it was the general op-
|
that .their, |.
The Reason.
Grandma Gruff said a curious thing,
“Boys may whistle, but girls must
>
sing.
That's the v ery thing I heard her say
To Kate, no longer than yesterday.
“Boys oy whistle.” Of course, they
After a month the re-| If pes. Pucker their lips the proper
’
But ih A life of me I can ’t see
Why Kate can’t whistle as well as me.
Boys, Lie whistle, but girls must
How'd Y oat that a curious thing.
IT boys tin whistle, w hy can’t girls, too?
It's the edsiest thing i in the world to do.
So, if the boys can whistle and do it
a welljey
shy can not Edis will somebody tell ?
hy ¢ ant they do whit a boy can do?
That is. the thing I sheuld like to know.
I went, to father and asked him why
Girls ¢ couldn’ t whistle as well a
And | fie said, ‘‘Thereason that irl must
site
Is because a girl’s a sing-ular thing.’
And grandma laughed till I knew she'd
ache
Ww hen Isaid 1 thought it all a mistak
“N ever Inna, little man,” I heard her
“They ei male you whistle enough
some day.’
“New Orleans Picayune.
A Quick Reply.
Alice was very fond of molasses.
One day she was corrected for calling
it ’lasses, and told that she ought to
say molasses, to which she made in-
stant reply, “Oh, yes, more ’lasses,
more ’lasses,—that is just what I
want.” :
Fish Fed by Hand
Experiments made in a large aquar-
rian ‘have proved that fish may be
easily tamed and trained. This is par-
ticularly true of blue perch. They
socn consent to taking their food
—ulva, a green, lettuce-like weed—
from the hand, and do not at all ob-
ject to being handled. A huge kelp
cod, a splendid specimen of rich blue
green hues, that was kept in the same
tank with the perch, readily learned to
feed from. the hand, and seemed to
enjoy being scratched and rubbed.
Sea slugs, too—singular, shelless
things pcssessing the faculty of secret-
ing a purple fluid which they throw
out in self-defence—took their regular
meal of seaweed from their feeder’s
fingers without the slightest fear.
Sticklebacks, perch, bass and catfish
are among the most easily tamed
fish, and the story is told of an old
fisherman who day after day fed a
large horse mackerel in the open sea
with pieces of the fish he cleaned. It
gradually got into the habit of ccming
nearer and nearer to where the boat
was tethered until, finally convinced
that it would not be harmed, it con-
sented to take its daily meal directly
from the fisherman’s hand.
Pushball.
Do you know how to play pushball?
It is.a great game, and thcse who have
tried it once are keen for more of the
sport. In some ways it resembles foot-
ball, but it requires a much larger ball.
The weight of the bail is more than
50 pounds and it measures almost 6
feet in diameter. It is made of can-
vas, with leather seams and,is inflated |
by means of a rubber bladder. Eight
players make a team and there are two
goals. Each team tries to push its
opponents towards the gcal. Instead
of using the feet the hands are brought
inte active play. It is a hard thing
to get the ball started in the right di-
rection, but it is harder to get it stop-
ped when it once has started.
The game is played in four periods
of 10 minutes each, with intervals of
three minutes.
the goal-line counts two pcints and
pushing it over the gcal-line and be-
tween goal-posts counts three points.
The captain cf the team winning
the toss before the game begins de-
cides whether his team shall push oft
+ defend. The bail is placed in the
center of the field for the pushoff, the
defending team lining up against it.
The team that pushes off may start the
scrimmage at once er make a sort cf
flying wedge. When both sides touch
it the ball is in play. If a team ad-
vances the ball in three pushes 10
yards or more they get three addition-
al pushes, and do not give up posses-
sion of the ball unless the opposing
team confines the total advance to !
three yards. When a goal is scored the {
teams change ends.
The positicns are outside left, out- |
side right, front rushline, inside left,
inside right, outside left, outside right,
rear rushline, inside left, inside right.
A New Game.
Here is a game that is fun when yon
are all sitting quietly some afternoon
on the piazza. The game is called
“What will you take to the picnic?”
and is played in the following man-
ner.
TO begin with,
let into the secret,
would be no fun. Suppose th
is ithe one familiar with
She‘ithen commences by announcing
that¥khe proposes to give a picnic,
and that it depends upon what her
guests bring whether they will be al-
lowed to come or not. Each must
furnish two articles of food.
She then asks the person
her: “What will ycu bring to the pic-
1¢ hestess
the game.
nic?” If the name of neither of the
articles the player mentions com-
her Christian or surname, the hostess
says the player can not go, and imme-
diately puts the question tc the next
person, and then ale the way round,
3 asking each: What ill you bri ing to
! the picnic?”
For example, suppos one girl's
name is Mary Smith, and that her do
| pation is candy and bread. Then she
| cannot go, fer neither of her names
| commences with C or B; but if she
| took sandwiches ard macaroons she
wculd be doubly welcome, for M and
S are both her initials. Should she
take sugar and crackers she could go,
for one of her names commences with
Continue tc ask the question until
everybody finally understands why
they may either go ar stay home from
the picnic. It is very amusing when
all but one or two have found out,
and they sometimes have to be asked
over and over again. until they finally
discover why they are not wanted.
Bird Politeness.
We may all learn something from
the birds. 1 gc to my barn in the
morning to feed my chickens. The
cockerel is as hungry as the hens, yet
if I give him a choice bit he calls his
family and gives it to the first to re-
spond to his call. Put down food for
ail and he will eat. I have seen the
males of some species of birds carry
food to the nests of their setting mates.
Some will cecupy the nest and let their
mates go bugging; and the male rose:
breasted grosbtak never sings else
where so softly and sweetly. One pair
1 watched many hours at a distance
of twelve feet, became very tame, com-
ing to me for dainties I carried. At
such times the male would seem to
say, ‘Now hear me sing to my sweet-
heart; and put my song in your book.”
¥. C. Kirkwoed was a careful abserver,
and he writes:
_ ‘Several years ago it was my for-
tune to capture two young eagles of
the bald-head species. When meat was
thrown into the room where they were
cenfined the male showed plainly how
great was his desire to pounce upon
it, but a glance from his sister was
sufficient to keep him rocted to the
perch until she had finished. When
beef or other similar meals were given
them this easy victory for the fair sex
was the rule, but when a fish was
introduced it was only after a fierce
fight that the female succeeded in re
minding her brother of the respect due
her.
“A pair of young great-horned owls,
which I iat one time had, also display-
ed this female domination. I fed them
principally cn live rats, and when they
were turned loose in the room the male
retained a stolid and indifferent pose
upon his perch until the female had
satisfied her hunger, after which he
would despatch what was left. Many
other are the instances among the
eagles, hawks ang owls in which the
female bird it is the master of the sit
uation.”
An Ungrateful Lad.
Last week a boy was brought up be-
fore the judge of the Children’s Court
to answer to a charge cf theft. The cir-
cumstances connected with the crime
showed such a spirit of ingratitude in
the boy as is seldom met with. Kind:
ness and love touch almost every boy's
or girl’s heart, but this poor lad had
been brought up in such hard and un:
lovely surroundings that when Sym-
pathy and help were given him his
heart faiied to respond.
One bitterly cold night Jakey crept
inte, the hall of a tenement house in
one of the poorest quarters of a big
city. He was cold and hungry, and
sleepy too, but he had no home. His
Pushing the ball over |
only one should be :
as if all knew, it |
nearest
father and mother were dead and his
elder brother had turned him out, say-
ing that he was “no good.” Even a
“no good” boy has feelings, however,
and Jakey was thinking bad thoughts
against the world in general. Just then
a woman with a shawl over her head
and a basket of provisions on her arm
came into the hail and saw Jakey. She
asked him a few questions, then told
him to get up and follow her upstairs.
On the fourth ficor she opened a.door
and Jakey found bimself in a warm
room and got a whiff of soup simmer-
| ing on the stove. My, but he felt fine
now! And after be had had a hot
supper the only thing he wanted was
to lie down in the warm place and go
to sleep.
Now, the kind woman who had be-
friended Jakey had four children of
her own to take care of, and had little
money besides the few dollars that her
fifteen-year-old Bertha brought home
every week. Of course, there were no
extra beds, so she made up a bed on
the floor for Jakey, and gave him a
shawl fqr covering. Day after day he
| stayed ifthe house eating the potatces
| bread and soup,
| of which there was
| none too much.
Jakey was sixteen
| Years old, a big, strong boy, but he was
| too lazy to work. One night the kind
| mother and her daughter held a con-
| sultation as to what they should do
| with Jakey. The ungrateful boy was
| even then lying in his corner and plan-
ning mischief, and the next morning
| when all the family was away he slip-
ped into the tiny hall bedroom and,
{ opening the bureau drawer, took out
i some pretty little trinkets that Bertha
| owned and loved. Then, hiding them
{ in his clothes, he went out cf the
house to a pawnbroker’s and with the
few pennies that they brought he start-
ed out once more into the world. He
had counted a bit too much on the
| kindness that had been shown him, and
| the day after he was confronted by
a policeman, who placed him under ar-
rest. Now, too late, Jakey remembers
the saying “Do unto cthers as you
would have them de unto you.”—New
i York Tribune.
Bridgegroom’s Imagination.
i A Berlin bridegroom reported
that he had swallowed his wed-
ling ring, says the London Daily Mail.
d intense agonles, and vow-
d bh dying, until his pockets
sre searched for money to pay for a
, when the ring was found in
of his w He be-
aisteoat.
in a few minutes.
SC!ENCE NOTES.
Tattocing is now done with a nee-
dle driven by electricity.
A shaving, of wood curls up owing
to contraction on one side and ex-
pansion on the other. This expan-
sion is accelerated by what is known
as the “back iron” or “cap iron” which
is used in most planes.
Crane and Friedlander, who have
experimented on its bactericidal prop-
erties, find that roasted coffee is a de-
cidedly active agent in the destruc-
tion of germs, including some of the
more serious and important ones.
. —
The total length of the navigable
waterways of Belgium amounts to
1360 miles. As the total area of the
country is 11.373 square miles, there
is one mile of waterway to every 8 1-2
square miles of territory; 85 percent
of the navigable waterways is under
the control of the state.
The Belgian authorities have decid-
ed to add three, instead of one, tur-
bine mail packets to their Dover-Os-
tend service. The turbine engines
and machinery are to be constructed
in England and the vessels in Belgi-
um. The vessels are to do the pass-
age of 62 knots in about two hours
and 20 minutes.
The first railway in Iceland will pre-
bably socn be begun by an English
company recently formed for the pur-
pose of working the sulphur mines at
Theisstareykir, in the north of Ice-
land, says The Times correspondent at
Copenhagen. The mines are about 17
miles from Hupavik, the nearest har-
bor to which the progosed railway will
run.
The Western Society of Engineehs,
at Chicago, Ill, recently heard a pa-
per read by John M. Sweeney, cn pul-
verized coal for combustion under
steam boilers. Results of compari-
tive trials showed that 9.4 pounds of
water, equivalant evaporation from
and at 212 degrees Fahr. were real-
ized per pound of fuel with the pul-
verized coal, and 7.5 pounds per pound
of fuel with hand firing. .On the ba-
sis of combustible the equivalent
evaporation in the'two cases was 10.47
and 8.4 pounds, respectively.
The first section of the Piraeus-La-
rissa railway was declared open re-
cently. The chairman of the railway
company, after the opening ceremony,
pointed out the advantages to be de
rived, not only by Greece, but by in-
ternational traffic, when the line was
completed, and connected with the
Turkish railway system; and he stat-
ed that within two months it would be
open as far as Livadia, thus bringing
the fertile district of Boeotia into rail-
way communication with the sea, both
at Chalcis and at the Piraeus.
An excellent illustration of how elec-
tricity is superseding steam in many
quarters is found in a contract recent-
ly awarded by. a shipbuilding company
of Buffalo. The company has decided
to install electric power to pump out
its floating dry docks in the Erie basin.
The motors to be constructed will work
the pumps much faster than the steam
engines formerly in use, it being esti-
mated that the docks can be cleared
in two and one-half hours less time.
To accomplish this a 35-horsepower
motor will be located on each side of
the two docks, and the electricity will
be supplied by a cable laid along the
bottom of the basin.
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SCIENCE SAVES ovsSTERG
Impoverished Beds Greatly Improved
by Artificial Means.
Jt has been observed that oysters
grow much slower on some beds than
on others; that in certain places they
fail to fatten, writes Barton W. Ever-
man in The National Geographical
Magazine. These places were usual
ly on overcrowded beds, and some-
times good results could be secured
by transplanting or thinning out.
Qualitative and quantitative study of
the diatoms (which constitute the food
of oysters) on beds where the oysters
fatten well, and on other beds where
they fatten poorly, showed that the
number of diatoms per liter of water
was very much greater in the former
than in the latter.
It was, therefore, believed that if
the supply of diatoms could be in-
creased on the unprodactive beds the
oysters on them would grow and fat
ten. Experiments along these lines
were recently inaugurated at Lynn-
haven, Va., under the immediate di-
rection of Dr. H. F. Moore of the
bureau of fisheries. A small cove
was selected where the bottom ‘and
the salinity of the water were fav-
orable, but where diatoms were scarce.
Commercial ° fertilizers of - certain
kinds were used to furnish food for
the diatoms, and it was very soon
found that the latter greatly increas-
ed in abundance, and lean oysters
transferred to this cove fattened
rapidly. Details of the process need
not be given here, but it is believed
that the experiments will demonstrate
the entire practibility of the artifi-
cial feeding and fattening of oysters
on a commercial basis.
Reunited After Many Years.
Capt. and Mrs. C. G. Thompson “of
Arkansas City were first married more
than 50 years ago. After 25 years
they were divorced, the wife alleging
desertion. In the 25 years which fol-
lowed Mrs. Thompson was married
twice and buried both husbands, and
Capt. Thompson was married ence
and divorced. Recently the pair came
together by chance at Wichita, where
both had gone to visit their daughter.
f A recor tion was fixed up and
| their marriage foilowed.—Wichita
Eagle
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