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The overwhelming success of Ameri
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Fearing the encroachments of Rus
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writing, came to the conclusion that
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companions of La Salle in 1087. One
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India is rapidly becoming an Impor
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In France horsi s caused 907 accidents,
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| Tlie Darls:. Room. |
BY EDWARD ELLIOTT.
Every room in Harley Hall was oc
cupied; omnibus, brougham and lug
gage cart had been to and from the
station so often that Mr. Binder, the
head of the stable department, had
been heard to murmur something not
very complimentary about people who
went about with "trunks as big as 'ay
stacks," and who expected to find
"carriages aud 'osses awaiting for 'em
everywhere to drag 'em up the 'ills."
Men were glad to be bidden to liar
ley; they found they could kill time
and pheasant more pleasantly there
than at other places; and besides well
stocked coverts there was a peculiar
ly attractive stretch of lowland,
through which a small river ran. which
produced a great variety of feathered
fowl, and which enabled a man keen
about sport to get away occasionally
from the everlasting bang, bang and
barn door fowl business.
Among the latest arrivals were
two young men who were as unlike
each other in every respect as two
young men could be. Gilbert Hurst
was a barrister, whose father owned
a certain number of acres of land in
the country, and who found like many
other fathers of the present day that
farming your own land and feeding,
clothing and educating a family were
pursuits that led to a small balance
at your banker's and many sleepless
nights. Gilbert was doing fairly well
at the Bar, and was a steady, right
minded, level-headed young man, with
a pair of honest gray eyes that told
the story of a frank and honest na
ture. John Beasley, his companion
on arriving, was tall, fair, narrow
shouldered, well groomed and very
rich. His father had made a large
fortune out of small beer and was
therefore ripe for the peerage. Moth
ers smiled on John Beasley, but John
1 easley smiled mostly (when he had
tie chance) on a certain enterprising
V/idow at South Kensinyion, who gave
charming little dinner parties in a
louse so draped with art silks that it
vas called "Liberty Hall," the only
cbject in the house that was not over
craped being the widow herself.
Beasley senior had heard something
about this lady, and had lectured his
lion, and advised him to marry as
noon as possible, and if possible to
"marry money."
As Gilbert entered the drawing-room
his heart gave a mighty leap when he
saw that Dorothy Lane, whom he had
been for two years desperately in
love with, was helping Lady Harley
with the distribution of teacups. He
had met Dorothy often in London,
and to make her his wife was the
cherished dream of his life, but he
feared she would think he cared for
the thousand a year which she was
supposed to possess, that he was not
well off eneugh to marry, and more
than all. he feared she did not care
for him.
John saw her. too. His heart gave
no leap—it was not of the leaping
kind; but he thought he had never
seen her to such advantage as now,
as she stood in the soft light of the
shaded lamps, her dark red dress
edged with sable at the throat and
wrists, fitting her to perfection, and
showing every curve of her graceful
figure. John remembered his father's
advice, and, like a dutiful son, prompt
ly rushed into conversation with a
Miss Green, who was among the
guests assembled, and who was fav
ored by a fortune to the extent of SSOOO
a year, and who thought John one of
the most charming men of her ac
quaintance.
He was not. pleased later in the
evening to find himself next Dorothy
at dinner, while opposite him sat Gil
bert Hurst, who already seemed on
the very best terms with his neighbor,
Miss Green. After answering some
question of Lady Harley's respecting
his journey he looked across the table
and said:
"By the way. Hurst, I did not see
you in the train. Did you get in at
Euston?"
"Yes," answered Gilbert. "I came
by tho two-10. and was close to you
on the platform some time."
"Oh, yes, I remember now. I
saw you get into a third-class car
riage with my servant."
Lady Hartley looked up, and won
dered why her husband had asked
John Beasley to stay with him. But
John did not wonder at all. and he
felt a glow of satisfaction when his
servant opened the shutters of his
bedroom next morning and his eyes
lighted on his coronet worked in red
wool on the blankets, and he thought
of tho societly he was going to dis
tinguish himself in during the next
10 days. In the half hour devoted to
his toilet he made three resolves—
first, that he would make himself so
agreeable to every one that he would
be asked again to stay at Harley; sec
ondly, that ho would "make the run
ning" with Miss Green, with a view
to matrimony and the possession of
SSOOO a year, at the same time amus
ing himself with Dorothy, whose looks
pleased him mightily: thirdly, that he
would write to tho South Kensington
widow, omitting in his letter any men
tion of either Dorothy or Miss Green.
He attired himself with great care,
In shooting clothes that wore a great
deal too now. and a sou peon of scent
hung about him as he walked with a
self-satisfied air into tho breakfast
room. He east a sharp critical eve
over Gilbert, hoping to find that want
of moans or want of taste would be
tray itself; but not a fault could lie
found with the shooting, suit that
looked worn, but was well worn, and
John realized as..he looked that there
was an indescribable something about
the wearer that he. John, could never
arrive at.
He played his cards very well, he
thought, during the days that followed
—days in which Gilbert had plenty of
opportunities for finding himself with
a bad headache* as he watched John
making secret love to the girl he cared
for so much.
The men started early one morn
ing for an outlying cover that was
generally supposed to produce rock
eters, and that was kept as a bonne
bouche for the end of the week's
shoot. The ladies were to drive out
to lunch, and Dorothy and Miss Green,
who were rival photographers, were
to send their cameras out in the lun
cheon carts.
On arriving at. the side of the wood,
Mr. Ridge, the head keeper had a few
minutes' conservation with Lord Har
ley, and then set about placing their
guns.
"Will you get through that gate, if
you please. Mr. Beasiey, and stand
at the end of that hedge; and you, Mr.
Hurst, if you please, will you stop
about where you are now?" and Ridge
hurried off 10 place the great men
of the party at the corner of the co
vert, at which point the birds were
expected to break. Lord Harley taking
a middle place.
Soon silence reigned in the ranks;
it was a perfect early winter day and
as Gilbert turned his head and looked
away over the beautiful English land
scape his thoughts were far more of
Dorothy than of pheasants, and it was
not until a great hare had come lop
ing out of the covert and had run al
most between the feet of the keeper's
son, who. weighed down with impor
tance and cartridges, was acting .as a
loader, that he turned his thoughts
to the business before him. Soon
something more than the "tap-tap" of
the "stops" could be heard, and a
sound as though Bedlam was let loose
gave the pheasants and the guns an
idea that it was time to be up and
doing.
A few shots at some stray birds,
then a muttered "Here they come"
from Lord Harley. and soon every one
was blazing away.
Contrary to Ridge's expectation, the
birds broke John Bear,ley's end of the
covert, and not only did that gentle
man let fly at everything that came
his way. but he had a turn at every
thing that was rightly Gilbert's —a
more sysomatic robbery was never
perpetrated; and Lord Harley, who was
not getting much shooting, had plenty
of time to see what was going 011. and
to wonder* as Lady Harley had won
dered, why he had asked John to
stay with them.
Gilbert, though a very good shot,
had lest his temper and had shot
badly; ho swore at the lad for not be
ing quicker with the cartridges, and
could have kicked Beasiey when he
sauntered up to him after the beaters
were through, and remarked:
"Not quite up to the mark today.
Hurst; you let a lot of these birds get
away. Heavily handicapped, not hav
ing a good loader; my man is a capi
tal chan. was with Lord Greystone,
you know, six years, and has been
two with me—ought to know some
thing about it."
"I am afraid you were not very
well placed Hurst." said Lord Harley,
coming up and casting a glance full
of meaning at John; "we must look
after you better next time;" and there
was a kindly ring in the old man's
voice that did much to soothe Gil
bert's rufiled temper.
Dorothy and Miss Green came out
before lunch to enable them to see
a drive down in the low ground. As
the guns were placed behind a high,
straggling hedgerow John was sorely
tempted to ask Dorothy to stand by
him to witness his skill and prowess,
but prudence conquered, and Miss
Green was selected as his companion.
"Will you stand by rae, Miss Lane?"
asked Gilbert. "I am afraid you will
not see any brilliant shooting, but I
will do my best. Let me unroll your
waterproof and I can make you a com
fortable seat here in these dry leaves,
and you will be sheltered from the
wind."
"I am so afraid." said Dorothy,
scanning the sky that had become
somewhat overcast since morning,
"that it will bo too dark for photog
raphy. and I wanted so to get a
group; it is getting late, too. and the
beaters seem a long time getting into
line."
She knelt down in the leaves that
carpeted the side of the hedge, and
peered through a small opening.
"Oh, I can see them now quite
plainly. Just 100k —they are down by
the osiers, and will soon be here."
Gilbert knelt by her side, and held
back some brambles that intercepted
his view, his heart beating furiously
and his hands trembling as he found
his face so dangerously near to Dor
othy's.
A sudden peal of laughter, and John
Bcasley's voice calling out. —
"Are you two saying your prayers?"
brought Oilbo-t to his feet and the
blood to Dorothy's face.
Angry words sprang to his lips, but
he was silenced by an appeal from a
pair of very soft brown eyes and turn
ing toward Dorothy ho &ald:
"Yes, I was kneeling by your side;
can't you guess what "
"Look out. sir. there's a lot of duck
coming over." This from tne loader
who had been munching twigs in a
ruminative manner.
Gilbert picked up his gun, but it
was too late, and he knew that Beas
ley would have another chance of
saying something unpleasant about
his shooting. After that there was
no time for talking; it was hot work
for 10 minutes and a big mixed bag
was the result.
Before lunch was over Dorothy set
tled to go home by a returning dog
cart that had come out with a fresh
supply of cartridges, and as she was
leaving she saw Miss Green preparing
her camera for action, a young man
in attendance busy with the tripod
and the legs.
John helped her with her wraps,
saying as he did so:
"I am sorry you are going home,
Miss Lane. 1 wanted you to be in the
group;" and then in a lower voice,
"you know very well I shall not care
to have a copy unless you are in it."
"Never mind. Miss Green will be
there," said Dorothy, as she clam
bered up into the dog cart.
John made a pretense of settling
the rugs around her feet, and whis
pered :
"Thank goodness she will be busy
with her camera; I have had enough
of Miss Green's society for one day,
and you know very well that at all
times I infinitely prefer yours." See
ing a doubting look in Dorothy's face,
he added. "You do not believe me,
Dorothy, but it is true. I swcp.r I will
not go near Miss Green today."
The cart moved off and Dorothy had
plenty to think of during her home
ward drive. She knew very well that
she cared for Gilbert Hurst, and that
she had cared for him ever since she
met him on the river two years ago;
they had often met since, and now
had been for a week together under
the same roof. Surely he must have
meant something just now—or was ho
only amusing himself, and did John
really care more for her than Gilbert
did?
After dinner that evening she was
playing some dreamy German music
that seemed to have a particularly
soothing effect on Lord Harley, who
was half buried and half asleep in a
big arm-chair before the fire, when
John came up and leaned over her
shoulder till his lips almost touched
her hair, and said in a low voice:
"I kept my word this afternoon;
what is to be my reward?"
"That you shall be allowed to turn
over the next two pages of music for
me," she answered. "And this, after,"
she added, nodding toward a gardenia
that she had left with her gloves and
fan on the piano.
Gilbert's jealous ears heard the an
swer and he went off with a rage at
his heart to the billiard room.
The following day it rained in tor
rents. Miss Green and several of the
guests were leaving, and Dorothy went
off to the dark room at the far end of
the house to develop some negatives
that she had taken of a ruined castle
in the neighborhood.
She found all in order as she had
left it and soon had everything ready
for business, developing solution,
alum, kpyo, all in their respective
places, the red lamp lighted, the
matches close at hand and the candle
blown out. She reached up to the
shelf for the slide, took out the nega
tive, and slipped it quickly into the
developing tray for the preliminary
wash, and then poured the solution
over its surface. She gently rocked
the tray to and fro in the dim red
light, and saw the high lights make
their appearance one by one. She
searched in vain for the turrets of
the ruined castle, and for the high
belt of trees on the hill beyond, and
began to fear she had taken two pic
tures on the same plate. Presently
odd shapes and strange figures be
gan to appear which, after a little
fresh developer had been poured over
them, took the form of folding chairs
and benches, and Dorothy saw the
shooting party at lunch before her.
Her hand groped about for the match
box, but the thought struck her that
the negative was not hers and must
not be wasted, so it was left in the
alum a few minutes and after a wash
was left in the hypo bath; but her
quick eyes had seen enough to tell
her that John Beasley had lied to
her, for fixed in her memory as sure
ly as it was now being fixed on the
plate was the picture of that young
man sitting by the side of Miss Green,
his head turned toward her. his hand
almost touching hers. She sat think
ing for some time, and was only
aroused by hearing footsteps in the
passage, followed by a knock at the
door.
"Yes, who Is It?"
"It is I." answered Gilbert's voice.
"They are trying some new music in
the drawing-room, and Lady Harley
wants your help. May I come in?"
"Yes; the negative is fixed now. the
light will not hurt it. You can come
in."
Gilbert groped his way into the
room, and found Dorothy seated at the
developing tabic.
"May I see the photograph you have
taken? Has the old castle come out
well?"
She lifted the plate from under the
running water tap, and held it up be
fore the rod lamp for him to see. She
turned her head, and their eyes met
for a second as he leaned over her
shoulder, but before he could say a
word of surprise thero was a sudden
flare, a snap and a gurgling sound,
and with one wild flicker the lamp
went out and they were in darkness.
"Where is the door? I know I shall
tumble over something and do some
damage. Will you lead me? You
know this room better than I do."
A small soft hand was slipped into
his, and though Dorothy did know that
room quite well they wor? a.very long
time finding the door, but then, you
see, the rOom was very dark, and be
fore they left It Dorothy Dane had
promised to become Gilbert Hurst's
wife.—Wavorley Magazine.
RLEiiCE OF THE ANGORA.
MILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY PRO
DUCED IN THE UNITED STATES-
A Statement Tinned by tlie Department of
Agriculture l{epectin& G rati en and Val
ue* _ Goat Meat In Much Better l oot!
Tlian Mutton Tattea Like Venison.
The department of agriculture an
nually receives thousands of letters of
inquiry concerning Angora goats, and
in view of the interest taken in the
subject Mr. D. E. Salmon, chief of
the bureau of animal industry, recent
ly made some investigations on the
subject. It is estimated, he says, that
there are about 400,000 Angora goats
in the United States, and that their
annual production of fleece is over a
million pounds.
The history of the Angora goat in
the United States. Mr. Salmon says,
has been marred by the carelessness
or indifference of occasional writers
for the press, who have often been in
accurate as to dates or facts, and also
by others whose interests have doubt
less led them into exaggerations. The
real facts of its history, however, are
so few and so simple as to prompt
that venerable breeder. William M.
Landrum, to say that they would make
but a very small book. During the ad
ministration of president Polk the Sul
tan of Turkey rccuested of him that
he recommend some one who would
experiment in the culture of cotton in
Turkey. Accordingly, Dr. James B.
Davis of Columbia. S. C., was rec
ommended, and he received the ap
pointment. The work done by Dr.
Davis appeared to be highly gratify
ing to the Sultan, and so, upon his re
turn, in 1849, the Sultan, desiring to
reciprocate the courtesy of the Presi
dent. presented him with nine of the
choicest goats in his dominion. Col.
Richard Peters, writing in 187G, says
of these animals: "These doubtless
were selected from the herds of An
gora. a district of country lying among
the Taurus mountains, which trav
erse Asiatic Turkey, and which do
rives its name from its principal city,
situated about 200 miles east of Con
stantinople." It docrfcnot seem, there
fore. that Dr. Davis encountered any
great difficulty in securing this first im
portation of Angora goats into this
country.
"Of the nine Angoras imported by
Dr. Davis, seven were does and two
were bucks. Besides these, according
to Col. Peters, there came in the same
lot one pure-bred Thibet doe, several
head of crosses between the Angora
and Thibet goats, and quite a number
of grade does bred from the common
short-haired ewes of the country and
his Angora bucks.
"Tho soft undercoat of the Cash
mere is known as 'pashum.' and is the
product from which the famous Cash
mere shawl was made. Mr. Wm. M.
Landrum, who was probably the first
in this country to discover that our
so-called Cashmere goat was the An
gora instead, through investigation
made about J SGI. also states that there
Is a difference between the Cashmere
shawl and tho Paisley shawl. These
are often referred to as being the
same shawl. While the filling of both
shawls was of pashum. thechain ofthe
latter was made from the kid fleece
of the Angora. Pashum is combed
out in the spring, and is worth, when
cleaned, in the country where it is
produced, from $1.50 to $2 per pound.
"A large class of people in some
Way have become possessed of tho
opinion that tho goat is practically a
useless animal. They do not reach
conclusions upon investigations, how
ever. and do net discriminate between
tho different breeds. To them a goat
is a 'goat.' and there the argument
ends. Investigations prove that the
Angora goats are not only classed
among the most useful of the domestic
animals, and have been so classed for
thousands of years, but their useful
ness is manifested in a variety of
ways. The fleece, called 'mohair,' fur
nishes seme of the finest of fabrics
among ladies' goods and is used in
various other manufactures: their
habit of browsing enables the farmer
in a wooded locality to use them to
help In subjugating the forest; their
flesh is exceedingly delicate and nutri
tious; the milk, though not so abun
dant as with the milcli breed of goats.
Is richer than cow's milk; their tanned
skins, though inferior in quality to the
skins of the common goat, are used
for leather; their pelts make the neat
est of rugs and robes; they are excel
lent pets for children: a few of them in
a flock of sheep are a protection from
wolves and dogs; their manure is no
ticeably helpful to the grass which
follows them after they have cleaned
away the underbrush. These are all
vital subjects of varying degrees of im
portance, and will be considered here
under appropriate heads.
"In those localities where valuable
land is completely subdued by brush
the goats are considered of more value
for tho purpose of clearing it than for
their mohair or meat. They thus be
come one of tho farmer's important
tools. Their value in this respect must
be measured by the value of the land
which they will render cultivable. It
is said that in Oregon, where China
men had been paid as high as S2O an
acre for clearing off brush goats had
done the work even better. Sprouts
will spring up behind men's work, hut
goats will keep them down until they
ccaso to appear. True, the goats re
quire more time than men. but their
work is better.
"One of the first questions to be
considered by a man vho is about to
embark in stock raising of any kind
is the markets for his surnlus. This
question in first because It is the prin
cipal one and all important. The one
wh ,. efo begill wjth a flo< , k n(
thoroughbred or high-grade Angoras, j
such as will yield merchantable mo
hair, will not need to consider mar
bets, as the increase will be employed
to produce mohair; but a large num
ber of flocks will be built up in the
future, as they have been in the past,
by the use of does of the common
breed. It will be ascertained that the
fleece of low grades is barely worth
Lhe cost of clipping it; that the skin
is not so valuable for leather as that
of the common goat; and that, as a
rug or robe, the pelts are not so val
uable as those of the higher grades.
Therefore, if there is to be any profit
from this part of a flock, there must
bo a market for the meat.
"The reason goats are not seen
oftener in the market reports of re
ceipts and shipments is that they pass
as sheep. It is stated, however, that
increasing numbers are seen in the ,
larger markets. In the Union stock "v
yards of Chicago as many as SOOO were
received in one week last year. V.'hile
the goats pass as sheep, they are also
sold to consumers as sheep. The dif
ference is very slight in some places.
In Kansas City, for instance, the sheep
bring about one-half a cent per pound
more than goats. The packers buy
them as goats and sell them as sheep
in the form of dressed meat or
canned."
In one week recently SOOO goats
were received at the Union stock
yards in Chicago. They were slaugh
tered and sold, and yet no butcher
bought anything but "sheep" and no
housewife served anything at dinner
but lamb or mutton.
The agricultural department wrote
to many goat raisers and asked them
it they had any difficulty at all in
selling goats for food. No joke for
which Billy was ever the butt had
more genuine humor than had this ex
tract from a letter written in answer
to the question by Thomas H. Mastin
of Kansas City:
"You ask if I have any difficulty in
disposing of goats for meat. None at
all. The packers buy goats as well
as sheep. They make a differem o of
about half a cent a pound in favor of
sheep when buying, and as they never
sell goats they save that difference in
selling."
The government's goat expert de
clares that goat, meat Is much better
food than mutton, and that nothing
except the prejudice against the goat
born of the paragraphers' jokes pre
vents there being a demand for goat's
flesh as food and a willingness to pay
a higher price for it than for mutton.
If this publication of Uncle Sam,
which really should bo called "In
Praise of the Goat," is widely read and
believed in there doubtless will soon
be an extraordinary demand for goat
flesh and no one need yearn in vain
at any time of the year for a hit of
venison. It is the opinion of half a
dozen goat authorities quoted that
Billy's flesh, when Billy is properly
fed, cannot be distinguished from ven
ison. In fact, some of the enthusiasts
say that goat is gamier and better
than deer, provided the animal gets
its entire subsistence by browsing.
One correspondent of the agricul
tural department living in New Mexico
tells of a certain St. Louis community
which ate Angora "venison"' and
never knew that it was killed by the
knife of a butcher instead of by a rifle
ball of the hunter.
Another correspondent tells of a
woman who kept a boarding-house in
the country for summer sojourners
from New York, and who fed them
regularly twice a week on goat meat
and was complimented by her board
ers on the prime quality of her mut
ton.
One Texas enthusiast says: "Any
body who ha:; ever tasted a roasted
or barbecued piece of Angora mutton
will find It better than any moat he
ever before ate."
Still another goat advocate says
that the flesh Is 50 percent better than
mutton, and yet it sells to the butchers
for less money. So much for preju
dice.
In view of these encomiums it is not
so hard to forgive one's butcher for
delivering an occasional bit of Billy in
lieu of a ram.
Artiflciul Fertilization by Chemical*.
The American Journal of Physiology
contains an account of the progress
of Prof. I.oeb's experiments in artifi
cial parthenogenesis. He has been
able to develop eggs of chaetopterus,
an annelid or species of worm, into
free swimming larvae, by placing
them in solutions which caused them
to lose water. Chloride of potassium
solutions and hydrochloric acid, when
added to he sea water, are effective in
causing the eggs to develop. The ar
tificially developed larvae do not differ
from those produced by natural fertili
zation, and it was concluded that the
processes of segmentation are a func
tion of the constitution of sea water.
Observations were also made in the
production of giant embryos by tho
fusion of two or more eggs. Those
experiments have an important bear
ing on the theory of fertilization and
other phenomena of life.
A Feat Itcynm! llim.
A Scottish prison chaplain, recently
appointed, entered one of the cells on
his first round of inspection, and with
much pomposity thus addressed the
prisoner who occupied it: "Well, my
man, do you know who I am?" "No,
nor I dinna care!" was the noncha
lant reply. "Well, I'm your new chap
lain." "Oh, ye are? Then I hae heard
o' ye before!" "And what did you
hear?" returned the chaplain, his cu
riosity getting the better or his dig
nity. "Well, I heard that tho last twa
kirks ye were in ye preached them
baith empty: but ye willna find it such
an easy matter to do the same wi' this
one."—Tho King.