~"---nY THH DUCHESS. "
I:- CHAPTER VI.--(Conttnued.) ' to be in love with two sisters at once:"
little, I confess. A strange ac-
you will say for a man
has spent his seasons regularly
for a number of years; but
It is. Circumstances alter cases,
know, and I have a fancy to see
Mabel and Miss Sylverton, and--
in ball costume."
cannot Imagine anyone half zo
as I look in mine," said Miss
with gay audacity; "in fact
other two you mentioned are ,no-
when I appear. And, if you
t't believe this statement, you may
for yourself the night after next.
is why you are thinking a lit-
about it--eh ?"
would think a great deal about
I dared. For instance. I would
cease dreaming of it from the
until then, If you would only
me the first waltz."
at that rate, consider how stu-
insipid you would be for the next
days. I would not have it on my
to be the means of reducing
! to such a state of imbecility. And,
4de, you don't deserve anything at
hands, as you have not told me the
else' you spoke of when
first met at the cottage."
if I told you you would be
he said,
"I don't understand you," said Mil-
dred.
"Don't you? I should have thought
hls infatuation for another member of
this household was pretty apparent; by
this time."
"I hope he is not iu love w~th me,
if that is what you meau," Mildrcd ex-
claimed, with some show of Irritation.
"~Vhy?" demanded Mabel.
"Because. should he ask me to marry
him~which is a most unlikely thing to
occur," said Mildred in a low voice--
"I should refuse."
"Well, I think you might do a great
deal worse than marry him," "the
queen" declared, emphatically. "And
how you could compare him for one
moment with that insipid earl I can-
not lmagine----a creature who dreams
of nothing, I do believe, from morning
to night beyond his horses and the cor-
rect treatment of his pug. Now D~n-
zll, on-the contrary, though quite as
much up in horseflesh as my lord is,
has the good breeding to suppress his
knowledge--in the drawing-room at all
events."
"There, there--if it has come to
'breeding,' we won't follow up the
subject," interrupted Miss Trevanion,
impatiently. "I don't find it sufficient-
ly interesting to care to watch for
should
to caqse me anger?" she
just a degree of the
buoyancy that had been animat~
her voice ever since they began
walk faded out of it, and did not
"Well, then, as I stood at the cottage
before entering I heard Mrs,
tell you of a report she had
report that gave you in mar-
to Lord Lyndon. I was thinking
when you first spoke to me, and
He stopped abruptly,
turning looked at her with eyes
wild entreaty. "Tell me" he
almost fiercely, "is it true?"
were inside the gates of King's
_ by this time and were rapidly
Ill,lilting the house. Already the grand,
l~'ii~autiful Old mansion appeared at In-
[~/i~rVais, gray and stately, through the
--~.~i !~tersecting branches Of the lime trees
~-~_][' ~neath which they walked Miss Tre-
i/:~.~raalon's face had subsided from its
i~presslon of gay insouciance into its
i:~uaI settled look of haughty
~~.~,bility and, gazing at her, impene'Denzil
![~!~lt his heart grow cold and dead with-
hls breast, as hope fled and dull
' crept into fill its vacant place.
what right do you dare to ques-
on such a subject?" she asked,
low but quick with anger.
he answered, with ~ad truthful-
none~ I have no right."
After which they continued their
in utter silence until the hall
was reached, when, drawing back
allow her free entrance, he said,
a faint trembling in his tones:
about that waltz, Miss Tre-
have it?"
answered with cold dis-
'~ have almost promised it
another," and went past him into
house without further look or
CHAPTER VII.
The ball was over and Mabel had
sister's room to discuss the
of the evening.
was a delicious evening, wasn't
began Mabel, enthusiaztically set-
herself comfortably opposite her
fire.
like all balls, I think," Miss
answered--"a mixture of
dancing, unhealthy eating, and
little sweet-
and no end of biitterness."
"Then you didn't enjoy yourself?"
said Mabel, with disappointment in
her tone,~
"Oh, yes, I did, immensely. Can
anything be pleasanter, more heart-
stirring, than to hear your own prais-
~s ~Otmded until long after midnight,
all in the same drowsy tone?"
"O
f course, you refer to Lord Lyn-
don. Then why did you dance so
him ?"
much of h/m I could on-
how much wretched dane-
and idiotic non~ense I could put up
~lth during o~evening, I suppose.
~eSldes"--with a mocking laugh--
~l~e you forgotten, my dear Mabel,
@hat an excellent thing it would be if
Lord Lyhdon should be graciously
l~l~Ued to bestow upon me his hand
a~d--ahI~-fortune ? Jus~ fancy what
:~lt would be to the family--
[live lord as son-in-law, brother-
husband !
~. °'Nonsense, MiIdred; don't talk like
~4tt.. I hate to hear such speeches. A
tltleis all very well, but it doesn t
for everything; and YOU
be the last girl in the world to
to any man."
last perhaps; but who ean
say wl~at may happen?" Miss Tre.
dreamily.
you would be," Mabel
cheerily. "And now, talk-
it is mo~t unfair of
,to stigmatize all the dancing to-
bad. Why, Densil Younge is
dancer."
with him," Mildred
and then, after a slight
"He is not In love With you
all, Mabel ?"
me!" echoed Mabel.
that's the calmest thing I have
Surely, my dear Mildred.
require any POOr ma~
there be in your daylight over it. Are you going to sit
up until dawn, Mabel? Because I am
not; and so I should advise you to
get to bed at once, unless you wish to
look like a ghost in the morning.
By the bye, that good-looking new ad-
mirer of yours, Mr. Roy Blount. ~,aid
something to mamma about calling to-
morrow, did he not?"
"Yes---I don't know• It is cruel of
me to keep you up like this," stam-
mered Mabel, with a faint blush, start-
ing to her feet as she spoke; "you are
looking quite pale and wan. I am
afraid, after all, Milly, you found the
ball a bore; and here have I been
teasing you about it. Good-night."
"Good-night, my darling," returned
Miss Trevanion, suddenly, kissing aer
wlth rapid, unexpected warmth.
After this they separated for the
night and got to bed, and dreamed
their several dreams of Joy or sorrow,
as the case might be.
$ $ $ ~ $ $
Sir George and his wife, in their
room, at about the same time as the
foregoing conversation had been held,
were having a few words together On
the same subject.
"Well, Carry." said Sir George, "you
were wro~g, I think, my love; I don't
believe Denzil Younge Is as much
taken with Mabel as you gave me to
understand, eh?"
• ~o, but he is dreadfully in love with
Mildred," his wife said.
"Well, nothing could be better."
"Nothing could be worse, you mean."
"Why?"
"Because she will refuse him."
"'In the name of patience, for what?"
demanded Sir George, explosively. "Is
it because he is rich, handsome, and
prosperous ?"
"No; but simplT because his father
has sold cotton."
"Fiddle-de-dee !" exclaimed Sir
George, with great exasperation, and
he strode up and down the room twice
with rapid, hasty footsteps. "Look
here, Carry," he then said, "sorest]Ping
must be done. My affairs altogether
are in a very critical state; Bolton told
me so In as many words the other day.
He~said that I could no~ weather the
storm much longer--that I had not, in
fact, a leg to stand on (these were his
own words, I assure YOU)~that money
must be got somehow, and so on, And
where the deuce am I to get ready
money, do you suppose? Every method
of procuring it that I know of has been
used up long ago. I see nothing but
absolute ruin staring me in the face,
And here is this willful girl actually
throwing away fifty thousand pounds
a year---every penny of it!"
By this time Sir George was greatly
excited, and was pacing up the carpet
and down again. Lady Caroline had
subsided into silent weeping.
"Well, well, there is no use in an-
ticipating evils," continued her hus-
band, presently; "perhaps--who
knows?--affalrs may brighten."
"If she would even encourage Lord
Lyndon." said Lady Caroline.
"Ay, Just so," returned Sir George;
"bt~t how she could throw over Younge
for such a heavy substitute as Lyndon
passes my comprehension. Besides,
Lyndon's rent-roll is barely twenty
thousand a year--not even half the
other's."
"Still, I think that would do very
nicely," put in Lady Caroline, meekly.
"If she could only be induced to look
kindly on any one, I should be sat[S-
fled.".
"So should I, so long as the 'some
one' had Denzll's money," observed Sir
George, and went back to his dressin~
room.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Younges' visit was drawing to
a close. Nearly a month had elapsed
since their arrival, and Mrs. Younge
began to speak seriously of the day
that should see them depart. This she
mentioned with regret--a regret audi-
bly shared in by most of the young
Trevanions; with whom the elder pair
and Denzil were immense favorit~.
Sir George, too, seemed sorry at the
prospect of so soon losing his old
schoolfellow, whl!q Lad~ Caroline,
glancing at the son-in-law whom she
would so gladly have welcomed, sighed
a disappointed sigh with all sincerity.
"We must give a ball. or something,
before their departure." whispered Sir
George to his Wife; and, after much
arguing, the "something," in the shape
of tableaux vivants, with a dance after-
ward. won the day.
When at length the night arrived,
King's Abbott was Ina state of con-
fusion impossible and hopeless to de-
scribe, the most remarkable feature in
the whole case being that nobody
seemed in a proper frame of mind, the
spirits of all being either too high or
too low to suit the part allotted them,
so that a sensation of mingled terror
and delight prevailed through every
dressing room in the house.
There had been numerous meetings
and rehearsals, for the most part pleas-
urable, although here and there dis-
putes had arisen about trifles light as
air, and everything had been arranged
on the most approved principles.
The guests were assembled in the
drawing-room, facing the folding-
doors, behind which, in a small back
apartment, the stage had been erected.
Already were the younger members of
the audience showing evident signs of
impatience, when the doors -were
thrown open, the curtain rose, and in
the center of the stage Mildred Tre-
vanlon as Marguerite stood revealed.
Denzil--who begged hard to be al-
lowed to withdraw from the entire
thing, but whose petition had been
scoffed at by Mabel and Miss Sylverton
--as Faust, and Lord Lyndon as Me-
phistopheles, enlivened the back-
ground. Mildred herself, with ~er long
fair hair, plaited and falling far below
her waist, with the inevitable flower
in her hand with w~hich she vainly
seeks to learn her fate, and with a soft
/nnocent smile of expectation on her
lips, formed a picture at once tender
and perfect in every detail. At least
so thought the spectators, who, as the
curtain fell, concealing her from their
view, applauded long and heartily.
After this followed Miss Sylverton
and Charlie in the "BIack Brunswick-
or," and Mabel and Roy Blount as
Lancelot and Elaine, which also were
much admired and applauded.
Then came "The United Kingdom,"
when Frances Sylverton, as "Ire-
land," undoubtedly carried off the
crpwn of victory. Perhaps altogether
Miss Sylverton might have been termed
the great success of the evening.
The t~bleau terminated with a scene
from the court'of Louis XIV, the dress-
es for which, as for most of the others,
were sent from London.
After the tableaux followed a ball,
to effect a change of raiment for which
soon caused the rapid emptying of the
impromptu theater.
Denzil, who scarcely felt in humor
for balls or any other sort of amuse-
ment just then, passed through the
llbrary door which opened off the late
scene of merriment, and sunk wearily
into an arm-cha/r.
He was feeling sadly dispirited and
out of place amidst all the gayety sur-
rounding him; a sense of miserable
depression was weighing him down.
His one thought was Mildred; his one
deep abiding pain, the fear of hearing
her engagement to Lyndon openly ac-
knowledged.
For the past week this Pain had been
growing almost past endurance, as he
witnessed the apparently satisfied man-
ner in which she accepted his lord-
ship's marked attentions. He hated
himself for this fatuity--this ,mean-
heSS, as it appeared to him--that com-
pelled him to love and long for a wom-
an who showed him plainly every hour
of the day how little she valued either
him or his devotion. Still he could
not conquer it.
As these thoughts rose once more
unbidden to his mind and took posses-
sion of him. he roused himself deter-
minedly, and getting up from his chair
threw out his arms with a quick Im-
pulse from him, as though resolved
upon the moment to be free.
(To be continued.)
FUTURK SEAS SPElgD.
]¢~lcleney of St, ram ~Poweg" ~fford~d by
the Turbine SYStem.
l~of. Thurston, the greatest living
authority on the steam engine, has re-
cently given it forth as his opinion
that the steam turbine of the Parsons
or De Level type combines within it-
self the greatest siml~licity and the
highest thermal efficiency of any form
of steam power. Such a statement as
this from an authority of £he weight
of Prof. Thurston must be somewhat
disconcerting to Mr. Thorneycroft and
others, Who have staked their reputa-
tion on the inherent superiority of the
reciprocatiu~~ engine. When we add
to PrOf. Thurs~on's declaration the fact
that the Parsons Marine Steam Tur-
bine company has contracted for a riv-
er steamer 250 feet long for Clyde ser-
vice, and that they are contemplating
the construction of a large deep-sea
boat, the prospect of the new means
of marine propulsion exemplified in the
Turbinia and the ViPer would seem t~
have a brilliant future. But there m
another side of the picture. Supposing
that, in face of a multitude bf current
predictions, an oceanic turbine vessel
would be so economical as to have
room for cargo during her voyage, as
well as coal, and be able to thrash
her way across the Atlantic at the
speed threatened us In 'the near future,
wduld the rivets of the veesd~ stand tits
strain of the concurs[re force implied
tn forcing a vessel through seas at the
rate of even thirty knots an hour? Ex-
eerienced marine sages say that no
vessel could be built that would hold,
together trader such ¢ondition~--l~.
don Express.
Laztmm~ begitm with cobwebs ~n~
ends in ~hain~
PLANS FOR THE
DENVER FESTIVAL
The ,Board of Direction of the Moun.
tain and Plain Festival has addressed
the following letter to all the board~
of county commissioners in Colorado:
Gentlemen--~ne Board of Direction
of the Festival of Mountain and Plain,
which will be held at Denver October
1, 2, 3, 190I, desires to extend to your
county a cordial invitation to be rep-
resented therein. It ls the intention
to hold throughout the Festival an ex-
position of the special resources, man.
ufactures, products, etc., of each and
every county of the state which may
elect to be represented, arranged and
placed In such artlstle style and taste
as the interested county ltself may be
pleased to adopt. The various dis-
plays will be made under the super-
vision and' management of the proper
bodies, such as the State Board of Ag-
riculture, etc. The Board of Direction
of the Festival is very desirous that
your county shall be represented in
the exposition and respectfullyre- -
quests your honorable board to un-
dertake the matter. Low rares on all
railway lines extending to the lakes,
lnsurea vast throng of visitors to
view a display of the resources of CoL
orado. The great advantage of plat.
tng an exhibit of the products and re-
sources of your county before these
throngs of people will be manifest to
*you.
In view of the above predominating
feature of the week it is also intended
that there shall be a Queen of the Fes.
tlval. E~ch county is respectfully in-
vited to select a Maid ~f Honor to at.
tend the Queen. In discussing this
subjec~ the Board of Direction has
decided that in order to avoid any
confusion It is proper that the manner
ef electing such Maids of Honor
should be laid down in detail by thls
board, so that all counties may elect
under the same rules or regulations.
Therefore our board has adopted the
following plan:
There shall be elected in each county
of the state of Colorado one Maid of
Honor to attend upon the Queen of
the Festiva~ of Mountain and Plain
during the Festival of 1901. The man-
ner of voting for said Maid of Honor
shall be by newspaper ballot. ~ald
ballot must be clipped from a regu-
larly issued newspaper published any-
where wlthln the limits of the county,
provided that but one such ballot shall
be printed in or upon each individual
paper. Ballots printed in sheets or
columns of ballots, or in greater num-
bers than one in each paper shall be
void. Any person of any age may east
as many ballots as pleasure may dic-
tate. The lady receiving the highest
number of votes cast shall be declared
duly elected Maid of Honor for her
county. The board of county commls-
sioners of each and every county shall
act as judges of election, and all mat-
ters connected with such election shall
be referred to them for final arbitra-
tion and decision. The county clerk of
each county shall issue to the win-
ning candidate, In accordance with the
decision of the board of county com-
missioners, a certificate of election,
which must be filed with the Board of
Direction of the Festival of Mountain
and Plain not later than September
15, 1901. This certificate of election
will be honored by the Board of DI-
rection of the Festival without ques-
tlon.
Each Maid of Honor will be pro.
vided by thls board with transporta-
tion to Denver and return from her
nearest railway station. During the
Festival of Mountain and Plain, that
is to say, from her arrival upon Mon-
day until her departure on Friday
morning, her hotel expenses in the city
will be furnished. Each Maid of Hen-
Count Alexander Louis St Ouen de taking out a celebrated dwarf O~a,
Plerrecourt, who died the other day at another occasion he scared a police-~
Rouen, leaving a huge fortune, the in-
come of which is to be distributed
~mong young giants who marry and
have chil.
dren,it lsnot
likely to re-
..~:.,.~.. generate the
,~..~:~ human race
in that way,
• as he fond-
, ,~.,,% . ly imagined.
As a matter
of fact the
children of
giants are
usually less
than normal
both in phy-
sical stature
a n d mental
equl p m ent,
while giants
are, as a rule
the children
of people of
no morethan
uaeo£ the Giant Guaras a ve r a g e
of Frederick the height.
Great. The plan
of rearing a race of giants has
been tried before now and on a tre-
mendous scale. It failed then in spite
of the fact that old King Frederdick
Wilhelm of Prussia and his greater
son, Frederick the Great, both exerted
all their power to make it succeed. And
the almost universal testimony of peo-
ple who have studied the subject
makes it almost certain that it will fail
again.
King Frederick Wilhelm, and King
Frederick after him, sent their Prus-
sian recruiting officers abroad in every
civilized country, and wherever they
found a man of gigantic stature he was
either persuaded to Join the celebrated
regiment of giants, the Potsdam
Grenadiers, or he was carried off by
force and compelled to Join it. At any
time they had gathered together no
less than 2,400 giants, the shortest of
whom towered up close to seven feet,
while some of them were more than
eight feet in hight. Most of these
giants were married by the king, with
little ceremony, to the tallest and
strongest young women he could find,
but did not succeed in founding a race
of giants. On the contrary, the child-
ren of these giants were as often as
not below the average in strength and
stature. Today It Is said that among
the descendants of these tremendous
soldiers, gathered together from all
parts of the world, many of whom
still live in the vicinity of Potsdam,
there are not to be. found more than
an average number of tall men and
women.
One day, It is" related Frederick the
Great had his giant guards pass in re-
view before the ambassadors of the
foreign powers.
man by taking off the top of a streett
lamp and lighting his pipe at the
flame. Another celebrated Irish giant
was Charles Byrne, who was 8 feet g'
inches tail, and who died at the age
of 22 as a result of dissipation. His
skeleton is still preserved in the mu-
seum of the College of Surgeons in,
London. Hm parents were~of less than,
average size.
The French people have always been~
greatly interested in tall people. As
long ago as 1718 M. Her[on. a member
of the French Academy, published &
curious paper in which he advanced'
the theory that the stature of the hu-'
man race has been steadily decreasing,
since the time of Adam. The first an-,
measured 20'
feet • n d
Moses seven
Modern Effigy of the feet less.
Great Charlemagne, 8 The stor-
Feet. ies of the:
giants of by-gone days are
chiefly based on thefinding of
gigantic bones, which may or may not
be the remains of h41man beings. Tra-
dition also ascribes tremendous hlgh~:
to many of the great kings and emper-
ors of the early a~ges. Thus Charle-
magne Is described as standing 8 feet
in hight. The Emperor Maxlminus
was a foot taller, if the fables are to
be believed, and could easily walk ol~
with a load which two oxen could not,
move. He was accustomed to eat for-;
ty pounds of meat a day and six gb~-~
lens of wine was his daily tipple. It is
probable that the enormous size of
these and other imperial giants was
the creations of the imaginations of
those who looked upon them with feae
and "trembling.
One of the most curious and persiSt-
ent of delusions in regard to the ex-
Istence of a race of giants ls that
which prevailed for years as to the
size of the natives of Patagonia. Be-
ginning as
far back as .... -~
coster of all
men, M. He-
rion declares
was no less
than 123 feet
9 inches tall,
while Eve
was exactly
five feet~
shorter. By
the time of
the flood the{
process o fl
degeneration
had gone so
far that poor
old Noah
was a mere
dwarf, 2T
feet, while
Abraham
or will be expected to include in her "Would an equal number of soldiers
wardrobe white dress and whi~e par. of your country stand any chance of
asol. conquering this regiment?" he asked
The Queen's committee is composed
of Mess~. A. D. Lewis, C. F. Wilson
und~lL E. MacCracken.
The Board of Direction sincerely
hopes and expects that each and ev-
ery county in the state will be repre-
sented In the exposition of resources,
as well as by sending a Maid of Hon-
or. The exposition will be a grand suc.
cess, and will demonstrate the great
wealth and future in store for Colo-
rado. The self-Interest of every coun-
ty demands that it be represented.
An early reply from your honorable
body will be highly appreciated. Very
respectfully,
CHAS. H. REYNOLDS, President,
JNO. McNAMARA, Secretary.
BELICOSE SENATORS
ASKED TO RECONSIDER
Columbia, S. C., June L--Governor
MeSweeney has rejected the reerlgna-
tlons of Senatom ,TUlman and MeLau-
rin, to give them time to reconsider
their action.
In returning the resignations Gover.
nor McSwecney, in part, writes:
"I respectfully return your reelgna-
tions, that you may have time for se-
rious consideration of the effect upon
the ,people of this state of this action
on your part, The commission which
you hold is the highest compliment
and testimonial wMch the people of
this state can pay to one of its citi.
zens. It Is possible that you have
taken this step hastily, in the heal of
debate, and without ,d~e xeflectiou on
the consequences to 'the People who
have so signaIly honored you,
l"It was o~y last.,y~av ~.hat our pee-
p e had the excitement and~turmo/l in-
cident to a campaign, and in another
year we will be in the midst of fur-
thor political strife. The people are
entitled to one year of peace and free-
dom from political battles and bitter.
hesS. The indications are that a cam-
paign such as would be ,1)recipitated
by vacancies in these two exalted po-
sit, one would be a very acrlmonlona
one, and personal, rather thane dis-
~ussion of issues, and from such a
canvass our peopi~e should be spared.
In fact, it would be a calamity to the
state to be ter~ asunder by a heated
canvass in this 'Off year' in politics.
There can be no possible gee4 to come
of it.
"Hoidlng these views and loq~ing to
the ii~teresta of tl~e people ~f ~ls
state--their' peace, prosperity, U(~ hap.
pineal, I respectfully decline to accept
your resignation~ And beg ~ ,tetra
proudly of each of the ambassadors in
turn.
"Sire," replied the ambassador of
Great Britain, "I would not say that an
equal number of the soldiers of my
country could conquer your regiment,
but I dare say that half their number
would try it."
Gloats as a rule do not llve to be
more than 40 or 45 years old. Few of
them show much sign of intellectual
capacity, and they are especially sus-
cep~tlble to consumption.
.~Imost without exception the fa-
mous giants of history have been the
children of
people of
normal Size.
One of the
most famous
was Patrick
O'Brlen, son
of an Irish
p • asant,
who exhibit-
ed himself
in London s
little more
than a hun-
dred years
ago. He Was
thin ~md
sickly and
steed'8
feet and 7
inches 1 n
height. H e
~L '. | . -
was so weak .......
t h a t ; he Patrick O'Brien. Greatest
could o n I y of t~nglish Giants.
walk by supporting himself on the
shoulders of two strong men walk-
in front of him, resting a hand on the
shoulder of each. One eVening at a
dinner O'Brlen startled the company
by putting his hand in his pocket and
~ya~ g~blldl~n 'rl,ulgtrt Trades,
~rhe life of Queen Alexandria was
befor~ her marriage one of great slm~
p~lcity, knd. indeed, the Danish court
Is, perhaps, the most "homely" in
Europe. But it is news to most people
to, hut that it is customary for Dan-
ish men royalties to be taught a trade
--and, what[smote,to be made thor-
oughly masters of it. The occupation to
whic~ Prince Oeorge~now king of
Greece--wu bound was practical farm-
ing; a~d it is maid that even now.
whenever he gets a~chance, there is
• ~ ~reatlo~ he so much enjoys
[escribing the
tie begin-
ning of the
sixteenth
centurya
cries of cir-
c u mstantial
stories
were printed
P atagonlans
as measur-
ing from 7 to
12 feet In
height.
Thesestories
were backed
up by the
s t a tements A G~nt Patagonian.
of actual travelers who had visited
Patagonta and ~laimed to have
actually measured . some of the
tall men of the country. The Annual
Register, printed in London, in 1768.
declares that there ts hardly a man
Iess than 8 feet in height, while the
women run from 7~ to 8 feet.'" An-"
other "authority" declares that the
Patagonians have a body of soldiers.
consisting of 400 men, who measure
from 9 to 11 feet in height. Later and
more reliable traYelers, who have been
less frightened by the terrifying e@-
parance of the savages, are now ready
to demonstrate that. under the tape.
the Patagonians average perhaps 5 feet
10 inches and that a man of 6~ feet is
rare.
These widely varying estimates ahow
how easy it is for a man or a nation ~o
get a reputation for gigantic ataturo
which he does not deserVe~
Jenkinson--"Yes~ I'm ~olng" to be
married on Tuesday. Why, do yo~
think that unluckY? Slnnickson--
"Of course," Jenskinson--"WeU, theu~
what is the lucky day to be marrted
on?" Slnniekson--"It hasn't been in-
vented yet.'~Philadelphia Pre~.
that of a little quiet plow[at harrow-
ing or even rooting about with a hoe
or a' garden rake. Queen Abounds"
is said to be an adept at butter-making
and has quite a littia dairy of her own
at Sandringham.
There was a time when it was
thought lust as proper to own nlava~
a~ to own a herse or a cow. The tim~
is coming when it will be a crima t~
own laud.
SaUsage caeinp are tmported
this o~lntry in ,larg~ qmmtRle~
N*w~la~td.
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