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AS GOOD AS GOLD. CHAPTER VII (CONTINUED.) 'To America â€" well, well," said Bcn- aard, In a tone of dwappomtment, so trans as to make Itself felt like a damp j .tmoephsre. "And yet I could have worn you. were the man I" Tl» Scotchman murmured another le^ative, and there was a sUonce, till flenchard reaumed: "Then I am truly f.nd sincerely obliged to you for the lew words you wrote oa that paper." "It waa nothdng." "Well, it ha« a great Importance for ne just now. This row alx>ut my jrown wheat, which I declare to heav- en 1 didn't know to be bad till the people came complaining, has put me to my wita' end. I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it whole- •ome, why you can see wha.t a quag 'twould get me out of. I saw in a mom- ent there might be truth Ln iti But I should like to have it proved; and of course you don't oare to tell the steps of the prooees sufficiently for me to do that, without my paying ye weJl for't first." The young man reflected a moment or two. "I don't know that I have any objection," he said. "I'm going to an- other country, and curing bad corn la Dot the line I'll take up there. Yea, I'll tell ye the whole of itâ€" you'll make more of it here than I will in a foreign eoouitry. Just look bore a minute, sir. I can show you by a sample in my carp- et-bag." The click of a lock followed, and there waa !i sifting and rustling; then a dis- suasion about ao many ounces to the bushel, and drying, and refrigerating, •ad so cm. "Theee few grains will be aufficient U> show ye with," came in the young fellow's voice; and after a pause, during which some operation seemed to be in- tently watched by them both, he ei- llalmed, "There, now do you taste that." "It's completel â€" quite restored, orâ€" well â€" nearly." "Quite enough restored to make good â- eoonds out of it," said the Scotchman. "To fetch it luck emlirely is impossible; Nature won't stand so much as that, but h<»rt! you go a great way towards It. Well air, Itiat's the proces.s.; I doD't value it, for it can be hut of lit- tle use in coantrii^s where the weath- er ia mure settled than in ours; and I'll Ije only too glad if it's of service to you." "But, hearken to me," pleaded Hen- chard. "My buaiineaa, you know, is in com and in hay, but I was brought up as a hay-trusser simply, and hay is what I understand Iwst, though I now do more in corn than in the other. If you'll accept the Bituation, you shall manage the corn branch entirely, and receive a oommiastion in addition to sal- ary." "It ia lilicral â€" very liberal; but no, no I cannct 1" tlwi young man still re- plied with some distress in bis accents. "So be it I" aaid lienuhard concliusivc- l(y. "Nowâ€" to change the sul)j«H'tâ€" one good turn de«>rv«;« another; don't stay to flnbth that nii.s<!ral)U>, supiMT^ t'orae to luy houtie; I cjui find soniflhing Ijet- t«r for ye th/m cold ham and ale." Donakl Farfrae was grateful â€" .said ho feared he miurt declineâ€" that he wished to leave early next day. "Very wcM," said llfnolvird quickly, "plnaae yourself. Hut 1 tell you,youiig man, if tisU holds gtwd fur the bulk, as it has done for the sampli', yuu have eared my credit, stranger though you »». Whit BhaJli I iKiy you for this knowledffe t" "Nothuig at all, nothing at all. It may not prove nece,s.sary to ye to use It often, and I don't value it at all. I thought 1 might just n.s weM let ye know, as you were in a difficulty, and (Jiev were very Ivarrd uixjin ye." Ueochard pau.sed."! Hlia'n't aoon for- get thia," he said. "And from astrang- erl. . .1 couldn't lielieve you were not the tnan I had engagedl Says I to myseW, 'He knows who I am, and re- commends himsnK by this stroke' And yet it turns out. after all, that you are not the man wlio answer<?d nay adver- llaenif>nt, l)ut a stranger I" "Ay, ay; 'tis ao," said the young man. Henchard again ausiiended his words, and then his voice came thou^fblfuHy; "Your forehead, Karfriie, i.s soiiielhing Hke my poor brol hcr'sâ€" now dead and B«nc; and the none, too. Isn't unlike his. You mint Lie whatâ€" live foot nine, I rrckonf, I am six foot one and a half out t>f my shoes. Hut « li:it of that? In my Imslnoss, 'tis true thut strength and bustle build up a firm. But judg- ment and knmvU'dge are what keep it sstabllBlied. Unluckily 1 am (bad at scUvnce, Karfrae IkkI at figures â€" a rule o'thumb Bort of mnnj You are Just the reverseâ€" I caji see thatj I have boi'n looking for such aa you these two year and yet you are not for mo. Well, be- fore I go, let me lusk this; Though you are not th« young man I tbouglit you were, whnt's the difference? Can't ye slay just the saiiie?- Have you really made up your niimd about this Ameri- can notion? I won't mince iiiatlera. I feel you would 1» invalualile to raoâ€" that needn't l» saidâ€" and it you wiltl stay and lie my manager I willl make it worth your whiln!." "My plnn.s are fixed," said tlie young man in negative ttmea; "I have form- ed a scheme, and there can be no more words alxjut it. But wilil you not drink with »ne, air? I find this Casterbrldgo ale warreming to tlie stomachâ€" ay, as Pre.sby(erlan cream." "No, no; I fain would, but I can't," said lienchard graveh', the scraping of hla clialr informing the listeners that M waa rising to leave. "When I was a young man I went in for that sort of thing too strongâ€" tar too strongâ€" and waa weH-righ ruined liy it I I did a deed on account of it wluc.b I shall be aabamed of to my dying day. It made such an irapn-ssion on me that I â- wore, there and then, that I'd drink notbiag stronger than tea for aa many rean aa I was old that day.i I have mpt my oatb; and though Farfrae, I am sometimes that Hty ia the dog days that I could drink a quarter-barrel to the pitching, I think o my oatb, and touch no strong drink at aJl." "I won't press ye, sirâ€" I won't piesa ye. I respect yoiu- vow." "Well, I shill get a manager aome- where, no doubt," said Henchard, with strong feeling Ln his toneaj "But it will lie long liefore I see one that would suit me so welll" The young man appeared much moved by Henchard'a warm convictions of his value. He wa.s silent till they reach- ed Mie door. "I wish I could stayâ€" ainr cerely wish it," he replied. "But no â€" it cannet lie! it cannetl I want to see the warrld." CHAPTER Vm. Thus they parted; and Elizabeth-Jane and her mother remained each in her thoughts over their meal, the mother's faoebeing strangely bright ever since Henchard's avowal of shame fer a post action. The quivering of the partition to its core prescTitly denoted that Don- ald Farfrae had again rimg hia l)ell, no doubt to have his supper removed; tor humming a tune, and walking up and down, he seemed to be attracted by the lively bursts of conversation and mel- o<ly from the general company below. He sauntered out upon the landing, and descended the staircase. When Klizabeth-Jane had carried down his supper-tray, and also that us- ed by her mother and herself, she found the bustle of serving to be at its height below, as it always was at this hour. The youn^ woman shrank from hav- ing anything to do with the groimd- floor nerving, and crept silently about oljwerving the pceneâ€" so new to her, fresh from the seclusion of a sea-sLde cottage. In the general parlor, which was large, she remarked the two or three dozen strong-lKicked chairs that stood round against the wall, each fit- ted with its genuil occupantâ€" the sand- ed floorâ€" the black settle, which, pro- jecting endwise from the wall within the door permitted Elizabeth to be a spectator of all that went, on, without herself Ix'ing particularly seen. The young Scotchman had just join- ed the guests. These, in addition to the resi>ectai)le master-tradesmen, occupy- ing I h« seats of privilege in the bow- window and its neighl)orhood, included an inferior set as the unlighted end, whose s^ats were mere benches against the waH, and who drank from cups in- stead of from glasses. Among the lat- ter she noticed some of those [lerson- agee who had stood outside the windows of t he Golden Crown. Behind (heir backs wasasmaU win- dow, with a wheel ventilator in one of the panes, which would suddenly start off spinning with a jingling sound, as suddenly stop, and aa suddenly start again. While thus furtively making her sur- vey, the opening words of a song greet- ed her easn from Iwhind the settle, in a melody and accent of ix'.culiar charm. There had lieen some singing before she came down; and now th- .Scotchman had made him.self so soon at home that, at the request of some of the master- tradesmen, he too was favouring the nxnij with n. song. Klizalieth-Jane was fond of music; she could not help pausing to listen; and the long«)r Bhe listened, the more she was enraptured.. She had never heard any sinking like (his; id it was evident that the majority oi thi' audience had not heard such frequent-Iy, for they were attentive to a much greaier (Itâ€" gree t han ordinary. They neither whis- pered, nor drank, nor dipped their pipe- stems in their ale to moisten them, nor pu.shed the mug to their neighbours. The singiT hijiisejif grew emotional, till she couid imagine a tear in his eye as the wtJfda went on :â€" "It's bame and it's hame, hame fain would I >», O bame, hame, hame to my aln coun- treel There's an eye that ever weeps and a fair f.ico will 1«! fain, As I pass through Annan Water with my bonnie bands again; When the flower is in the bud, and the leaf u\Mm I ho tree, The lark tdiall sing me hame to my ain countree I" There was a burst of applause, and a deep silence which was even more elo- quent than the applauseJ It was of such a kind that the snapping of a pi|M>-stem too long for him by old Sol- omon Longways, who Wits one of those gathered at the shady end of the room, seemed a harsh (ind irreverent act. Then Iho ventilator in the windmv- pane spasraodicallly .started off for a new spin, and the natlKJs of Donald's song was temijorarily effaced. "'TwM not amissâ€" not at alil amisal" muttered Chriatopher Coney, who was nl.so present. And removing his pipe a finger-lireadlh from his lipa, he said aloud, "Draw an with the next verae young genlleinan, please." â- 'Y'ea. Let's have it again, stranger," said the glazWr, a stout, tiucket-hcaded man, with a white apr<ni rolled up round his waist .i "Folks don't lift up their he.irts like that in this part of the world." Anil turning :uside he said in undertones, "Wluo is the young man ?â€" Scotch, d^'e say ?" "^'<V8 straight from the mountains of Scotland, 1 t)elieve," replied Coney. Young Farfrae re|)eated the last verse. It was plain that nothing .so at be tic had liee.n heard at the King of The Priiss'ui for a cHUi.siderable time difference of accent, the excitability of I lie singer, the intense local fceling,and I he et;riousness wit h which he worked hlinaeif up to a climax, surprised thia set of worthies, who were only too prone to Hhut up their emotions withoaustio worda. "Danged if our country down here is worth singing about like Ihatl" con- tinued the glazier, as tht Scotcbman apain nieUxlisod with a (iying tall 'my am count reel' "When you take away from among ua the fools and the rogues and the lummiginrs, and the wanton nus- sies and the slatterns, and auob like, there's oust tew left to ornament a song with in Coatorbridgo, or t.he country round." "True," said Buzzford. the dealer, looking at the grain of the table. "Cos- terliritlge is a old, Iwary jilace o' wick- edness, by aH account. 'Tia recorded in history tJiat we relielled against the King one or two hundred years ago, in the time of the Hoinans, and that lots of us wa Hhomged on (ial'lowa Hill, and quartered, and our different jinta sent about the country like butcher's meat; and for my naxt I can well l)elleve it." "What (tldf you oome awa^ from yer own country for, young maister, if ye l)e so wownded lihout St ?" inquired Cbriatoihher Oon<\y, from the baokgroond with the tone of a man who preferred the original subject. "Faith, it wasn't worth yo'ir while on our account, for aa Maister BiMy Wills aaya, we 'be bruckle folk here â€" the 'beat o' us hiirdlv honest aometiraes, what with hard wlntera, and so many mouths to till, and Goda'miphty senaing Hia lit- tle taties so terrible small to fill 'em with. We don't think about flowers and fair faces, not we â€" except in the shape o' cauliflowers and pigs' chaps." "but no ?" said Donald Farfrae, gaz- ing round into their faces with earnest concern, "the best of ye hardly boneat â€"not aurely! None of ye ha« lieen stealing what didn't belong to him? "No, no. God forbid I" said Solomon Longways. "'That's only hia random way o' speaking. 'A was always such a man of under-thoughta." (And reprov- ingly towards Christopher): "Don't ye lie 80 over-familiar with a gentleman that ye know nothing ofâ€" and that's travelled a'most from the Nofth Pole." Christopher Coney was silenced and aa he could get no public sympathy he mumbled his feelings to himself: "Be dazed, if I loved my country half aa well as the young feller do, I'd live by claning my neighbour's pigsties afoie I'd go away I For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay." "Come." said Longways; "let the young man draw onward with his bal- let, or we shall be here all night." "That's all of it," said the singer apologetically. "Soul of my body, then we'll have another I" said the general dealer. "Can you turn a strain to the ladies, .sir?" inquired a fat woman with a figured purple apron, the waist-string of which was overhung so far by her sides .OS to be invisilde. "Let him breathe â€" let him breathe. Mother Cuxsom. He hain't got his second wind yet," said the master gla- zier. "Oh yee, but I have I" exclaimed the young man ; and he at once rendered "Oh Nannie" with faultless modula- tions, and another or two of the like â- sentiment, winding up at their earnest request with "Auld Lang Syne." By this time he had completely taken possession of _ the hearts of the King of Prussia's inmates, including even old Coney. Notwithstanding an occa- sional oddity which awoke their sense of the ludicrous for the moment, they l)egan to view him through a golden haze which the tone of hia mind seemed to raise around him. Casterbridge had sentiment â€" Casterbridge had romance ; but this atranger'u sentiment was of differing quality. Or rather, perhaps, the difference wiis mainly 8up«!rticial ; he was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who ia not really new. but is the first to articulate what all bus lis- teners hive felt, though but dumbly till then. The silent landlord came and leant over the settle while the young man sang; and even Mrs. Stannidge manag- ed to unstick herself from the frame- work of her chair in the Imr, and get aa far as the door-pet which movement she .accomplished by rolling herself round :ia a cask is trundled on the chine by a drayman without losing the per- pendicular. "And are you going to bide in Cas- terbridge. sir ?" she asked. "Ahâ€" no I" aaid the Scotchman, with melancholy fatality in his voice; "I'm â€"only (xitwing thirrough. I am on my way to Bristol, and thence to foreign p-irts." "We be truly sorry to hear it," said Solomon Longways. "We ran ill af- ford to losti tuneful wynd-pi|ies like yours when they fall among ua. And verily, to mak' acquaintance with a man a come from so far, from the land o' peri)etual snow aa we may .say, where U(]|vw anil wild boars and other dan- geiim.s animalcules be as common as blackbirds lureabouts â€" why, 'tis a thing we cm'i Mo every day and there's good .sound information "for bido-at- homen like wo when such a man opens his mouth." "Nay, but ye mistake my country," .said the young man. looking round up- on thi'in Willi tragic fixity; till hia eye lighted up and his cheek kindled with a sudden enthusiasm to ri^ht their errors. "I'here are not perpetual snow and wolves at all in it Iâ€" except snow in winter, andâ€" wellâ€" a little m .summer just Hometimes. and a "gal)er- lunzie" or two .stalking about here and there, if yo ni.iy cjill them dangerous. Oh, but men, you should tike a .sum- mer jerreny to Kdinlmro', and Arthur's Seat, and all around, and then go on to the Lochfl, and all the Highland scen- eryâ€" in May and Juneâ€" and you would never say 'tis the land of wolvea and p<'ri)etual snow I" '/Of course notâ€" it standa to reason," -said Buzzford. '"Tia barren ignorance that loads to such words. He's a simple hiimo-vspun man, that never was fit for good companyâ€" think nothing of him, sir." ''And do ye carry your flock Ixid, and your quilt, and your crock and your bit of chiney ; or do ye go in Iwrebonea, as 1 may say?" inquired ChrLstopher Coney. , "I've sent on my luggageâ€" though it Isn't much ; lor llio voyage is long." Donald's eye.s dropped into a remote Sazo OS he added: ''But I said to myself, ever a one of the prizes of life will 1 como by unless I undertake it I' and I decided to go." A general sense of regret, in which Klizal)eth-.Iane shared not least, made it.solf apparent in the company. Aashe looked at Farfrae from the l)ack of the setllo she decided that his statements diowod him to lie no le.s.s thoughtful than lii-s fascinating melodies revealed him to Im cordial and impassioned. She admired the serious light in which he looked at serious things. He had .seen no .jest in ambiguities and roguery, oa the Casterbridge toss-pots had done.; and right ly notâ€" there was none. She disliked these wretched humours of Christopher Coney and his Irilxj; and he did not appreciate them. He seem- ed to feel exactly as ahe felt about life and ita surroundingsâ€" that they were a tragical, rather than a comical, thing; that though one could lie gay on occa- sion, moments of gaiety were inter- ludes, and no part of the actual drama. It waa extraordinary how similat their views wore. Though It was atill early, the young Scotchman expreased hla wi.sh to retire, whereupon the 'landlady whiaiwred to Klizalwth to run upstairs and turn down hia 1>ed. She took a candleatick and proceeded on her mission, which was the act of a few momenta only. When, candle in band, she reached the top of the stairs on her way down again. Mr. Farfrae was at the foot com- ing up. She could not very well re- treat ; they met and passed In the turn of the ataireaae. She must have appeared interesting In some way- notwltuitanding her plain dressâ€" or ralJier, possibly, in coase- quence of it, for she waa a girl char- acterised by earnestness anil .solierness of mien, with which simple draiwry ac- corded well. Her face tlushed, too. at the slight awk-wardneas of the meet- ing, and she piLssed him with her eye^ bent on the candle-flame that she car- ried just lielow her nose. Thus it hap- pened that when confronting her he smiled ; and then with the manner of a temporarily light-hearted man. who has stated himself on a flight of .song whose momentum he cannot readily check, he softly tuned an old ditty that she seemed to suggest: "As I came in by my bower door, Aa day was waxin' wearie, O wha came tripping down the Btair But bonnie Peg my dearie." Elizabeth-Jane, rather disconcerted, has- tened on ; and the Scotchman's voice died away, humming more of the same with- in the closed door of his room. Here the scene and sentiment ended for the present. When, soon after, the girl rejoined her mother, the latter waa still in thought â€" on quite another mat- ter than a young man's aong. "We've made a mistake," ahe whisper- ed (that the Scotchman might not overhear). "On no account ought ye to have served here to-night. Not be- cause of ourselves, but for the .sake of him. If he should befriend us, and take us up, and then find out what you did when staying here, 'twould grieve and wound hia natural pride aa Mayor of the town." Elizabeth, who would perhaps have been more alarmed at this than her mother had she known the real rela- tionship, was not much disturbed about it as things stood. Her "he" was an- other man than her poor mother's. "For myself." she said, "I didn't at ail mind w.aiting a little upon him. He's so re- spectable, and educatedâ€" tar above the rest of 'em in the inn. They thought him very simple not to know their grim broad way ol talking about themselves here. But of course he didn't know â€" he was too refined in his mind to know such things!" 'Thus .she earne-stly plead- ed. _ Meanwhile the "he" of her mother waa not so far away as even they thought. After leaving the' King of Prussia he had sauntered up and down the empty High Street, passing and rejpassing the inn in his promenade. Wnen tne Scotchman sang, his voice had reached Henchard's ears through the heart-shaped hole-s in the window- shutters, and liad led him to pause out- side then a long while. "To l)e sure, to be sure, how that fellow dot>.s dra-w me I" he had said to himself. "1 suppose 'tis l>ec;iuse I'm so lonely. I'd have given him a third share to have staye^l" (To be Continued.) A PITIFUL ACCIDENT. Two rblldrrn Bimhed Alniont to Death lo .llret Thetr Father. One of the saddest accidents which has ever occurred in the Windsor sta- tion of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, took place on Saturday evening. It caused inten.se excitement and roused such interest in the minds of the people generally that even next day hundreds vi.sited the station to look at the scene of the trouble. Mrs. Barber, of 2015 Notre Dame street, arrived at the station on the 6.30 train from a three months' absence. With her were her two children, a boy of eight and a girl of ten. Her husl>and. Mr. G. Barber, a well-known local elec- trician, waa there to meet his family. He waa standing outside the grating which separatea the train platform from the general waiting room. He waa leaning against the fence which bars the general putilic from the baggage elevator and preventa them reaching the train platform across it. He saw his little ones come rushing from the train searching for him. Aa they got near the grating be called them. They recognized the voice and in.stead of going through the gate turn- ed to the right and ran acrocss the bag- g;;go elevator which waa in place and with the automatic gate ojwn. I'hat was all right, but the children and Mr. Bar- lier both failed to notice a gap of eleven inches across which sepirateil the edge of the bag)^age elevator from the fence againat which their father was leaning. In their eagerne«s they .sprang forward, just touched bis hands and the next moment had disapjieared to l>e dashed againat the hard cement flooring fully lliirly feet below. The anguish of the father and mother, the excitement of the passengers with which the station was crowded, and the waila of the in- jured children made a scene which Mr. Evans, the station agent, says he will never forget as long aa ho lives. Willing hands picked up the little ones. 'Ihe boy was unconscious and auffering from serious external and in- ternal injuries. The little girl had ap- Diirently cscapeil without aerious hurt, but that will not pcwilively be known before many d.-iys. Her brother waa taken to the Montreal General Hospi- tal and she was thought to be able to l)e taken home and there ahe ia now. At last accounts both the boy and girl are doing well and hopes are en- tertained of the recovery of l)oth of them. 'I'he C.P.R. officials did all they riuld to assuage the grief of the parents and eeo to the comfort of the two lit- tle ones. INDIAN'S OPINION OF CYCLING. The Western Indians, although not fond of work, do not approve of indoli- ent white men< The "heap good white man," in their estimation, is the white man who works bard, and to sit liy him and watch him aa he toils st^ema to af- ford them never-failing pleasure. Some young warriors of the Blackfoot tribe sat In the shade one (hiy watching a group of laliorers who were construct' ing a grade for a branch railroad in Montana . They were oommenting up- on the workmen and their work, when a Incyoliat, the first that they had ev- er KH*n, came riding along the newlv coropleted Srradej He had got off the train at the last station, and was go- inc to tJie fort a little further on. 'fho Innlans watnhed the wheelman without a word ujitil he passed Iteyond a knoll, which hid him from viewâ€" then they expressed their sentiments concerning "No good white man I" one remark- ed. "No," an.swered another, with great acorn, "heap lazy white manâ€" sita down to walk." 11 H 1 IS m ITEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT THB BUSY YANKEE. .Seighborly Interest la HU Dolngaâ€" Mattav* ol Moment and Hlrtb Oatherwl from Hla Dally Record. In eight days a New York letter to delivered in Panama. In three days a letter from Havana will reach New York. Mail between New Y'ork and Auck- land is 26 days In passage. In twelve days a letter from Cadix win be delivered in New York. Ten days are required to carry a l«t» t«r from New York to Berlin. In the United States about 18 per cent, of married women are widows. The Louisiana Legislature baa paaa- ed a bill to license pool rooms at (1,000 a year. Only eleven days are required to transport a letter from Florence to New York. There is but one Garibaldi and ons Shakespeare, Pennsylvania having the honour of owning the latter. Deluar, Md., bad a mad dog scars last week, and thirty-eight dogs wer« killed by the town authorities. Lord Byron was once a great fad in Ajnerica and his reward ia 24 town* bearing his name, either by itself ot as a prefix. There were many more native t>orn soldiers in the Union armiea during the civil war than there were foreign born soldiers. ' Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore, the editor and publisher of the Duluth Press, a weekly paper, is said to be s sister oa "Buffalo Bill." Napoleon and Kossuth are outdistan- ced by Bismarck, tor there are but ten Napoleons and om Napoleonville and seven Kossuths. The great Climo ranch, in Southern California, composing 40,000 acres ol land, is to be sold to a London ayndL- cate for |2,000,00a During 1895 nearly six hundred wo- men made application for patenta in the United Kingdom. In the United States tlie number is larger. The oldest apple tree of Georgia ia on the farm of John R. Wilson, ol Wrightsvi;ie. It was planted long be- fore Georgia was a state. Dr. J. M. Toner, the SmithsonLan writer and expert, who died recently waa never married. He occupied a large house in Washington alone. Old English names are frequent enough in Winthrop, Me., so that on three shores aide by side appear In^ bam, Oldham and Dillingham. The Rev. William Cullan Hicka, a widely Imown revivalist of Kentucky can repeat from memory every word in the Bible except the Book of Psahns, The favorite team of the Emperor of Germany, is a pair of ch.-stnuts, one of which was raised in Susquehanna, Pa. The other come from Bingbamton, N.y. Frederick Lockwood, of Bridgeport, Conn., has Iiequeathed $20,000 toaboya* club, providing a similar amount ia raised from other sources within five years. A great-grandfather, grandfather, tt^ ther and son, all working together dig- ging a cellar, was a rather unusual fa- mily gathering in Kastport, Me., one day last week. At Muwie, Ind.. a young woman com- mitted suicide after quarrelling witU her sister-in-law on the point whether green corn should be cooked on the cob or not. The new friction wheels invented by W. J. llolman, which it is expected will increase the speed of locomotives to 1100 miles an hour, are being tested at Caiw May, N.J. The September crop bulletin of the State Board of Agriculture credits Do- niphan County, Kas., with the highest average corn yield in the State â€" forty- eight bushels an acre. Miss Rose Kellogg, for the past two years a resident of Spokane, AV ash., has decided to liecome a lady travelling man and she is now on the road for onel (of New York's largest music stores. Cy. Phipps, the giant of Penobscot county, is the strongest man In Maine to-day, and he ia willing to prove bis right to that title. He has lifted and moved a whole house one end at a time. When Abram Hewitt's family go to Europe for the summer they sail on dif- ferent steamers, meeting on the other side. If one steamer should go down part only of the Hewitt flock would be lost. Charles Lester, 75 years old, who died the other day in Beroa, Ky., w:us one ot the founders of Berea College, the first institution established in the south for the co-education of the whites and blacks. William J. Gilmore, who died in Col- umbus, 0., the other day at the a^e at 73 years, was one of the most widely known lawyers in the State and waa at one time a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. The silver sp;ide u.sed by tJie Marquia of Normandy, t hen (iovernor of Queens- land in turning the first sod ot the Brislwno and Ipswich railway in 1873, was Ixiught at a Bowery pavi-n shop in New York the other day. Chairman Jones told New England ! free silver men who wanted an active oauipaign in their own States that the nutiomu free silver ooaumittee would Inot try to carry any State north of the Potomao or ea«t of the Alleghivnies. Albert Cooper, tlie Newark, N. J. motorman who saved the life of a little child by jumitlng over the dasbboora ot his oar as the child was rolling from the fender after being struck, received a cheque for (50 from the trolley com- pany. Unscrewing the cover from an <Jd l«>,ked melotleon, that the instrument might aid the choir at the funeral of a childless New England widow who died recently, the descendant's relatives came upon $12,000 in ITnited States bonda i stowed away inside. I In the vililage of Pwufret, a few milee i from Putnam, Conn., lives the only sur- viving great great granddavighter ot tJeneral Israel Putnam. It is here that the celebrated wolf's den is located and the home of Mrs. Mary Putnam Sharpe, who 18 84 years old. Her grandmothot was General Putnam's favorite dauglt' ter.