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\ ^. r â- A . THE MTSTEBIODS KEY OR, PLANNING FOE THE FUrUUE. I her to; she's dead discouraged with I "'Oh, yris, I'll marry him,' she ! th« grind she's had ever since her ' said sharply, 'id marry almost a.. y other dned-up, old bachelor for the sake of getting out of such a hole as this, and having all the money I want to spend. Uood gracious! if sR«m8 almost too good to be true, though !' "lliey went to Ded soon after that," KUen resumed, "and 1 was mighty glad of it, for 1 a<;hed m (JUAi'lKK VI. t'Kllenl" exclaimed Lady Brom- ley, somewhat sternly, although ehe was herself not a little startled by the girl's wild manner, her strange and incoherent language, "get up from the flcor at onoo, and sit upon this chair. There!" aa her young servant obeved her ; shocked into a semblance of compo- sure by her mistress' unusual toQ«, "how collect your, thoughts and tell me what all this excited mumb- ling means. What is that you koow't Why were you so startled w,hen 1 spoke of Mr. Hubbai-a '( What is it that you are going to tell, even at the supposed risk of your life'( ' ' "Uh, it is a queer story, marm, and 1 didn't understand what it a!! Bieant at the time ; but now 1 see ! pow 1 see!" , "Hush I be quiet! don't excite yourself again!" interposed Laoy 'Bromley. "Do you know Mr. Jo':u •±lubbard(" • "iJon't 1 know him I I shou'd • think so; he kicked me once," said . the girl vindictively. "Kicked you'{" "Yes; 1 was letting him in one ' day, and not meaning to, I knocked his hat, and it got jammed. Then he sworo, and gave me a kick." "You were letting him in â€" .where 'I" "Into our house." "What was he doing at your house '{ Was he in the habit of'cai img there '( 1 thought your aunt was very poor." "Yea, .10 she was; but we lived in a tenement that belonged to M'.v Uubbard, and he used to come every month for his reut. After ft while he and aunt Lu got very thick over something they were planning between them. I couldn't make head nor tail out of it, though 1 used to listen when I could, said I'Ulen, as innocently as if lists- -eumg were the most proper thing in the world to do. "But one day i heard huu te'l her that if she'd help him out, he'd make her a rich woman, and she'd never have to sew another stitch for her living ; ho said he'd coino the ne.xt night ftud explain the whole thing to her. The thought of being rich almost took my breath away. I got all stirred up over it. 1 thought of no- thing else a.U that day and next, .and finally made up my mind that 1 would know what was going on if 1 could manage it. There was an <ld-!aBhioned "ofa in our sitting- room; it had a valance around it, to hide the legs, and it popped into my head that if 1 could slip undcr- ttieath It, 1 cou'd easily hear all that was said. Bo 1 pretended to have a toothache, so I could make ftD excuse to go to bed right after supper " "Uh, Ellen I" said Lady Brom- ley regretfully, at this point. "Uh, of course, 1 know that a iady like you, orâ€" her," glancing ftt Allison's picture, "wouldn't do anything like that; but you just try being as poor and abused as I've been, and sco if you wouldn't get to lying after a while; it's a good school for liais," said th^ girl half-detiantly. "Well," she re- sumed, "1 just watched my chance, while Aunt Lu was in the bedroom changing her dress. Anna had gone out " "8top a moment, Ellen," her ladyship here interrupted; "who is Anna (' ' "Bhe's my cousin; Aunt Lu's daughter." "Yes, yes, 1 see; now go on,' said her mistress eagerly, and ting- ling in every nerve as she began to grasp certain important points ib this remarkable story. "As 1 was saying," Ellen resum- ed, "1 watched my chance, crawled under the sofa, and lay flat on the iloor. It wasn't very comfortable, •specially after that man came and plumped himself down right over me, for 1 didn't dare to move so much as a finger â€" hardly to breathe full and strong." "Mow, wait just a minute. Kl- len," Lady Bromley here interpos- ed. "When was this â€" how long ago was it when Mr. Uubbard paid this visit to your aunt'C "Uhâ€" let me see," said the girl reflectively; "it must have been somewhere about the last of July. It was on Tuesday night â€" the next day 1 went to Doctor Ashmore to have the splints taken off my arm. Ihat was the time I fainted, and he told me 1 might go t olive with him. it was the second day after that i went, and i have never seen either Aunt Lu or Anna since." "But if there was a prospect of your aunt becoming rich, why did you wish to run away 1 You might have fared better if you bad re- mained with her," her ladyship ob- served. "You'll see why, when I've told you what 1 heard that night," El- len replied, with a shiver. " 'Wall, Mrs. Brown,' Mr. Uubbard said, as tie sat down â€" " repeated Lady Broiu- "Brown 1 ley. "Yes, that was Aunt Lu's name â€" she married my uncle, Alaa Brown." "Ah!" " 'Well,' he said, 'I guess i'vo got everything fixed just as I want it at last, and you can change your name and position just as soon as you chooseâ€" t'lat is, it you think you've got grit enough to carry out this plan of mine.' " 'i've got grit enough for any- thing on earth that will get me o-it of this terrible grind,' said Aur.t Lu. 'Have you been to New Ha- ven yet, to look at those records!' " "'Yes,' ho saia, 'and, as luck would have it, 1 found them exactly as you said. Brewster was mar- ried on the same day you wero ; how did you happen to know about it i' " 'Why, Alan was one of the jani- tors at the college, and knew young Brewster well; and when he went for our license, he met tiie swell just coming out of the city cU rk's ot- lioe. Ho thought 'twas queer, but the book was lying open on the desk, and he saw uis name and his girl sâ€" Miriam Harrisâ€" and under- stood what was up,' Aunt Lu ex- 1 father died. J '11 do my best to per- ! Buade her. Uh, I'd almost give my ] eyes to see her wearing velvets and I diamonds,' Aunt Lu said, almost I -ready to cry again. I " 'it would be the most comfor- I table way to settle matters, for all i parties,' he rud; 'but what will ' you do with that little fool of a niece of yours'/' "i tell you, marm, I was nearly choked again with the jump my heart gave at this," Ellen here ob- served, her face growing very pale with the remembrance of the ex- perience; "It told me right oil tnat The men who are counting the costs are endeavoring to increase the profits as well as to cut out the losses. There is no incentive to increased activity all along the line equal to an array of figures showing the ctjst of farm opora- tieus. I am aware that the argument will be brought up by many that all this keeping of accounts and every bone from lying still so long , figuring, means a lot of labor and upon the floor. Then, as sn jn as j that the practical man cannot they settled themselves to sleep, i afford it. Now the fact is that th^ crept out from under the sofa and ! man who does not know where he slipped away to my room. lis, is not practical at all. He cun "But 1 didn't get much sleep tliat| better afford to do this than auy- nightâ€" i kept thinking over and thing else ha does. Many men im- i wasn't expected trhavran7Bhare',^^""/^''''*'^ ^ had heard, and, be- wittingly lose enough each year to in the good time that was coming. f^I^'J !"'IJ^'^ .."'f""f^ *°*^ P t ^""^ ^'^l toward paying a ...,,, ,, . , through, to Know that when i a bookkeeper. But a bookkeeper is bhe isn t any niece of mine, been doing all the drudgery in me I not needed. A little careful figur- and Id hav- been mighty glad to ] ^ouse for years. Aunt Lu had noiing will demonstrate the facts of get rid of her long ago, if 1 hadn t â-  notion of letting me share the easy | farm operations in such a way as needed her in the kitchen, she told time and good things that were | U. be a revelation to the ordinary him, m a spiteful way that made me coming to her. i'd have been glad \ farmer. To fail to figure on theso just ache to strangle her. "Uh, hush! Ellen," reprovingly breathed her companion. "i know It's wicked," said the jf i could have stopped their game | operations is penny wise and pound foolish." Take time enough to count the cost. then and there, just out of spite, but i didn't understand it very well, so didu't know just how to go girl stoically, "but poverty is the ! to work. devil's training-school, and it hn- "The most i could get through ishes off more devils than anything my brain was that by some kind of else." trick they were going to get a lot "My child, you must not talk so, " of money, but Mr. Hubbard was a said her mistress authoritatively. great lawj'er, and i thought nobody "But it stirs up all the bad there] would believe me if i tried to give IS in me, whenever 1 look back and i them away, and i might only get think of how that woman treated j myself put in jail for meddling. 1 i u -n r l me," was the sullen reply. | suppose i could have told chat ] "^ered that the milk of the average "V*ell, go on and get through j Aunt Lu's name had always been | "ow is much richer in fa^ than that with your story as soon as you can, I Brown, and she was only playing at i *" mare, and "" then we will try to find something ] being Mrs. Brewster, if i had wait- better to think about," responded i ed until they sprang their trap; but Lady Bromley, in a gentle bone. | I was afraid of them all, and i knew ''You were saying that Mrs. Brown | they'd be just about ready to kill wanted to get rid of you." i me if they should find out all that FEEDING THE OIlPHiVN FOAL. In the event of tlie death of the dam at foaling time, the youngster may, by judicious- management, be successfully raised by hand. The best .substitute for mare'.s milk is cow's milk, but it must be remem- Yes, and he answered, sharp | i had learned of what they were and quick, 'We must get rid of her j up to. At any rate, it was plain now ; she'd make it very hot tor ' enough that they meant to get rid plained. 'But as he was a rich chap ^ ^g ,f ^,g j^gp^ [jer „„ jhg string; s.ie I of me by sending me off to some and not through college, Alan knew | ^<jui^ be sure to blurt out, some ! horrid place, so when I fainted that h€ had done it on the sly, and that ^^y^ that your name was once Mrs. \ next day in Doctor Ashmore's of- i-- would be for his interest to kCep mum ; he never said a word about It; he didn't tell even me until years afterward. How queer things do come about,' she said; 'i knew Miriam Hams, and she wasn't a.iy better off than 1, even if her father was a musician, and mine a journey- man tailor ; they were as prou as Lucifer, and as poor as church mic«, and now here you propose j ^.^^ n,,yself that neither of them Brown, and then our fat would au pe in the fire' " But what can I do with here Aunt Lu asked. " 'i thuik i know of a â€" a school, in a certain town out West, where I "And you have never seen either she could be sent, and would never | your aunt or cousin since (" in- be likely to trouble us again,' Mr. I quired Lady Bromley. Hubbaj-d told her, in a voice that! "^^o, and 1 don't want to," said made me creep all over. But I said Ellen sharply; "1 want to give is deficient in sugar. To correct theso conditions, the milk of a fresbly-calv<>d cow should be us€>d ; always the milk of the same cow, and, if practicable, of a cow whose milk is not rich in ifat, and to this add one-fifth of warm water, adding to each pint of that a heaping tablespoon of white granulated sugar, and be al- wa3"3 sura to feed it at blood heat. The colt should be fed little and often. If we study the colt when with its mother, we will find that it sucks from ten to a dozen times a that i step right into the shoes that were intended for her 1' " 'You think you can keep a stiff upper lip'C said Mr. Hubbard. " 'You bet,' said Aunt Lu. " 'Well, get me your certificate,' he told her, 'and I'll fix it u^ for would have a chance to work me on â-  in that way â€" that i should light out I all of a sudden, and then, if 1 ever saw my way clear to give them tcie I grand "bounce for their golden stilts, \ I I'd do it. At first i thought I'd go j j that very night, after the house got | you.' quiet; but a few minutes afterward I "Aunt Lu took a paper from her ,^^ j.^^,^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ might take a, few days to ti.« things up before he could bring them to a â€" a pocket, and handed it to him. 1 couldn't sec what it was, but it rat- tled like ietter-paper. "'Ha!' i heard him laugh, its a piece of real luck to have every- thing turn out so cleverly; when i found out that your husband's name was Alan orowu, it struck 'Crisis 'I" suggf-sted her ladyship, a«> Ellen appeared unable to think ol the word she wanted. "Yes, that was it. So I told my- self that i needn't be in any great i hurry, i could look about a bit lor me that it might very easily be made . ^ ^^^^.^ i |,ad that tea dollars that over into Adam Browstor. , gjje," with another fond look at the ^f reckoning the cost of keeping a " 'i don't see how you are going , photograph across the room, "gave ' cow per year. Mr. Potter produces .J, ;^ - .,,.1 A.,n* I... i,prv«ii«lv. ^^ ^^^j ^ ^^^^ J needn't suher ; i some very good arguments ia sup- 1 could r-ike care of myself for a ' port of his views, but I believe that while, even if i ran away before 1 his method of calculation is not the Before Mr. tice, and he said i might go to live with him, i made up my mind right off what i would do. i made up my ! , mi c • u- u i- bundle that night and skipped out ^^'^-^'^ Therefore, give him hall a the next morning, as I've told you. teacupful every hour at first, and gradually increase the quantity, while feeding less frequently, until be is fed six times a day, and then •four times. The best way to teach the foal to drink is by means of a rubber nipple on the spout of a teapot. If scours occur, a little lime-water, warmed, should be ad- ded to the milk. To prepare lime- water, slake a lump of lime by pour- ing a little water on it ; then add water and stir. Let this settle for several hours, and the clear water en top 13 the lime-water to be used. The foal should be kept in a loose box, well bedded, and may bo taught to drink from a pail when a month old, and to eat ground oats and bran. When let out to pas- ture, it should be stabled at night, c«i protected from rains. them a wide berth, and hope they'll do the same by nie." (To be continued.) l*-t ♦•♦â- â- â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦-♦â- â- â™¦ -t- ♦ -t-t- 1 -t- -r ♦♦• -♦•â- f t ': About the Farm ': lA-f â- f>-f -f •♦â-  -f -f -f ♦ ♦ -♦ -f ♦ ♦ -f â- â™¦ -f -f-f * COST OF KEEPLNG A COW. In Hoard's Dairyman, Burton W. Potter gives his idea on the method tc do it,' said Aunt Lu nervously. •1 don't want to get caught in any law scrape.' " 'See here,' he said, and then he showed her how he could make an 'i' into a 'd,' andâ€" oh, 1 cant remember all the rest; but when he got through explaining, she seemed satisfied and well pleased. " 'Yes, yes,' she said, '1 believe you can do it ; and if I do my part, you swear that you will hand over a lot of money to me'!' " 'Mrs. Brown,' he said, 8pe,<»k- ing very slow and positive, "you 11 fiever need to do another day's work as long as you live.' " Uhl what a blessed relief that will be,' she told him, and just ready to cry. '1 don't think I could have stood it much longer without going mad. i'v© been more'n half- tempted to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East Kiver many a timeâ€" guess i should if it hadn i been for Anna; 1 thought it would be cruel to leave her to struggle on alone.' " "Uh !" here breathed Lady Brom- ley, with a shiver, "what misery there is in the world ! To what des- perate deeds poverty drives man- kind !" "'Yes' said Mr. Hubbard," -.i- len went on, without heeding the interruption of her mistress, " 'An- na is too fine a girl to be left to hoe her own row alone. What have you to say to that other plan which I hinted at a few days ago'!' "'What'! About your marrying ,\nna!' said Aunt Lu, when my heart gave such a jump that i came near crying out, 1 was so stirred up. But 1 caught myself just in time, and shut my teeth together hard. "'Yes,' that man said, as if he thought he was the Great Mogul, 'don't you think it would be a rare chance for her'!' " 'i know it would, of course,' she answered, 'but I can't tell how she may feel about it. I haven't said anything to her yet; but I'm of the opinion that she'll be ready for almost anything that will im- prove her condition.' "'Well, it strikes me that w© had better all cast our lots into one box together, and have a good time for the rest of our lives,' he went on. '1 will settle a handsome income on you the day she marries me, then 1 will take her all over the world, and she shall have ev- erything she wants. She'll make a handsome woman dressed in her satins and diamonds.' " 1 don't believe there's a bit of doubt about h«r doing as you want found anything to do. Hubbard left he told Aunt Lu tnat in a week or so, he should want her and Anfia to move into a bet- ter place, and they must have some good clothes to wear â€" they mustn t get anything swell or showy at first, but a few nice things to make them look ladylike and respectable. He was going to bievi Haven the next day, 'to tile the records,' and when ho came back he'd be ready to push matters, and would give her some lessons on law points, and what she'd have to say and stick to in court ; for he expected there might bo some tough fighting, as there was somebody else who would try tc get the Brewster fortune." "Did he say who â€" did he men- tion any names'/" inquirea Lady Bromley. "ISo; and he didn't talk as if he had any fear of them. Aunt Lu said she'd do whatever he told her â€"she was ready to swear to any- thing, for the sake of having an easy time for the rest of her life. He went away then, and a little while after Anna came in. Aunt Lu told her all about Mr. Hub- bard's call, and when she came to what he had Eaid about marrying herâ€" Annaâ€" she laughed until I thought she'd burst a blood-ves- S6l'> ' ' " 'Uh, he's a clever one, mother,' she said, when she could get her breath. " 'What do you mean 'I' Aunt Lu asked. " 'He means to nail everything, so there will be no fear of ever los- ing his grip on that money, said Anna. " 'i don't understand you,' her mother told her. " 'Why, i should think you'd have seen through his game from the first,' Anna snapped. 'Of course, John Hubbard meant to have the lion's share of this feast, under any circumstances ; but he was keen enough to see that it wouldn't do to leave any loophole for us to go back on him; so if he married me, our interests would be so mixed up with his that we couldn't blow on him or be grinding more money out of him all the time.' "'Yes, i see,' said her mother; then she went on anxiously, 'But i hope you will marry hini, .vniiaâ€" he can't be such a great deal older than you ; girls often marry men older than he. Then just think of the good times .you'll have - the travel, nic© clothes, and jewelsâ€"' GREAT TREASURE HUNT SYNDICATE EXPECTS TO GET OVER £20,000,009 Galloons Lost in Bay ot Yigo in 1802 Hare Been Localed by (he Hydroscopc. best one to follow. By his splan the profit or loss ot the entire farm is carried down and- placed to the account of the dairy herd. It is a fact that on no farm are profits the «aine on the various lines of work. Perhaps there are not many farms so opcr- Tales of hidden hoards of pir- at-ed as not to have a loss on some ates and of treasure cargoes stored things. By the plan outlined by far beneath the waves in sunken Mr. Potter, it is impossible to know ; galleons have in all ages bad a pe- exactly which things are producing culiar fascination for men, and profit and which loss. many a life has been lost and many A man may be a very successful ' a dollar expended in the search grower of grain and forage crops I for wealth that never existed, it and yet a poor dairyman. His farm I has remained, however, for men of operations as a whole may be the twentieth century to place Irca- yielding a profit, but the dairy herd I sure-hunting on a sound bu-siness may not be contributing to that ba.sis, and Ui equip it with the ma- profit. On the other hand, the eliinery necessary to its success. herd may be the source of profit, Within a few weeks the greatest and the other operations of the | treasure hunt ever organized will farm, of loss. Hence it is essential tf know, at least approximately, the cost of producing the various products that make up the output of a dairy farm. No line of animal husbandry that will not pay market value iov the lood consum- e« should be followed. Essential as is manure to maintenance of soil fertility, we should not bo obliged t< take it into account in or<ler to get market price for our grain and forage. The succe.'^sful dairy farmer must be a broad guagcd man. He must begin in the Bay of Vigo, where it is estimated that witliiu a compara- tively small area, minted gold and silver to the value of between twenty and thirty million pounds sterling lie. THE BATTLE OF VIGO. In tliL' golden age ot Spain's his- U)ry she drew from her mines in the West Indies gold and silver worth mure than £9.000,000 a year. Ill 1702 a (loot of galleons brought home the accumulated treasure of three years, a.moiiutiiig to some be as skillful at maintaining the I £2H, 000, 000, togethor with precious fertility of his soil .and producing i 'norchandise almost equ;>.lly vahi- boiinteous crops of feed stuffs as able. Arrived safely at Vigo, tlic ht is at breeding, feeding or caring' seventeenth Spanish galloons were for the dairy herd. This makes i attacked by the combined British ;t necessary tor him to be a student^ and Dutch fleets, under Admiral o* all the various branches of i Sir George Kooke. The galleons, fanning ; and the best incentive to which were men-of-war, carrying study is a calculation of profit and ; from twenty to toily guns apieoc. loss. Hence the best method is to ', were assisted in the engag<»mcnt by charge the cow for what she 21 French ships of th*- linf. Thi- consumes at market price. This others were niui.li .stronger, and is easy enouflth on hay and grain gained an o\ ei-whehiiing victory. It but more difficult with ensilage. ! was to save the treasure fj'.lling iii- However, by making an cstiiiinlc' to their haiid^ that th<> gnllcoiis of the yield of corn per acre, one were sunk. It is proved beyond can come reasonably close to the doubt that only a very small jiait value of the crop. i or the treasure bfloiigii;g to the Cost of production should be' King was lan<l<'d luli-re the b.iMlo; determined, for all farm i)i<idiicts. fi'iiti'in|i( rar.v official docuMicnl.-, It is not enough t-o kiKiw that we show ii to iia\e been 1.":;, 0*1. IM . iiixl have a margin of profit on our thr allies secured as booty no more farm work as a whole. To be most t'mn '.;t;M,78». Som^ of this ,i<o!d successful we should kiiow what is, and sihfr was depiiiied ti> the na- paying and what is not. It is ii,e|tioual i-urvcney in I'li.iflaiid, a-^d a only ground upon which \vc con number of tk-'iiini'tiKirablc i!;u<';i's base calculation.'" A knowledge also v.ore struck frmi the tuiJturrd that we are Uising on a certain gold l.v < ider of Qucpii \uuo. operation will lead to hette, i.,g the \ ,..^,j.^i ^-^ TKK A.Sf UK HUNTS^. methods eiuployeo or dropp;;ig, that particular biaach out entirely. .^l:f.,->i>t m sooik ju the battle oiiu- ed attempts wors mao^x., ish Government to t'Or^« Span- treasure. They were unsu^ th« and later th» Government^;*«l, tit grant special charters to priv!?^ companies. A succession of at- tempts was made, the Government at first demanding as much as 98 per cent, of all treasure that might be raised from the bay. In ITSS a wealthy Brenchman, Alexandra Goubert, almost succeeded in bring- ing one of the sunken vessels o« shore, hut it proved to b© a Frencli warship that had been sunk dur- ing the battle of Vigo. An English expedition, umler William Evans, worked for a year from the end ol 1825, and succeeded with a primitive diving bell in rescuing small amounts of silver, cannons, balla and other objects. The American Vigo Company followed, after aa interval ot years, and succeeded in lifting one of the ships, which, how- e\ er, went to pieces before it reach- ed the surfjice. as it had not boonr properly strengthened. THE HYDROSCOPE. No other concessions were grant- ed until the present concessionaires appeared on the scene, and secured from the Spanish Government the sole right of working in Vigo Bay until 1915. The Spanish Govern- ment is to receive 20 per cent, ol the value of the objects recovered. Dr. C. L. Iberti is at the head of the enterprise, while the engineer if Guiseppe Pino, an Italian. Pino has invented a-nd patented a num- ber of ship-salviug instruments, specially adapted for finding and lifting the lost galleons. Chief of his inventions is the hydroscope, which may be described aa a tele- scope for use under water. Through the hydroscope objects can be seen under water almost as clearly aa objects in the air can be seen through field .glasses. The top ot th« apparatus is a, floating platform, on which twenty men can stand. From its centre descends a powerful tele- scopic steel tube, at the end of which is an optical chamber, a kind of camera, provided with mechani- cal arms, and containing powerful lenses. The system ot lenses and reflectors is so arranged that ob- jects surrour.ding the base may be seen from above to a distance of about 2,000 square yards. The hydroscope is provided also with electric lamps of great power. PNEUMATIC ELEVATORS. Another of the clever Italian's in- ventions is a submarine boat, wliich was used by the Japanese to raise the sunken Russian warships ab Port Artlmr. It is shaped like a torpedo, and is screw-driven ; it ia also fitted with wheels, and can ; move along the sea-bed ; it can rest immovable in the water at any depth, and has mechanical arms which may be worked with a precis- ion almost oqual to that of liumanj hands. Among the other inventions, are the elevators, consisting of cy-i I liuders made of rubbered canvas, ^ into which compressed air Is pump-' ed. Each cylinder is capable of, raising 40 tons out of the water,/ si. that it is only a question of mul- tiplying tlio number of cylinders, whatever the weight may be. The elevator has mechanical arms to embrace the hull which is to ba salved, or cables may be passed be- neath a keel wlieu the wreck ia weak. THE GA LLKOXS LOCATED. The bed of Vigo Bay has already been examined with the hydrtiscopa I and the ships, which for more than j two centunes had rested pcaceful- I ly in the depth of the ocean, hava i been located. By way of experi- , ment several cannons were raised to the surfa-;c, and a quantity ol wood was n.'covercd. so well pre- served as to resemble stone. Th« wood of which the sunken gelle- one were built i.s alone a treasure that would repay years of work spent on its recovery. The geiK-rtil cargo brouglit hom» by the traiif'ports included pearls, emeralds and ametliysts, amber and precious voods from the South -American forests. It is known that there wero numerous works of art in gold, silver and bronze, to say nothing of 1,541 cannon, and in- numerablo articles of value belong-- ing to officers and seamen. When, in a tow weeks' time^, work is bpguu in Vigo Bay, attcnipti will first be made on tho Santa Cruz, o;;-? of tho laraiest of the gal- leons, which carried 34 guns. It is hoped t!ial .she will come up whole, for. from appearance."*, she has been, wonderfully preserved. * THE OPTIMIST. W^b.91! iu the dentist's chair, I do oot raise a fuss ; I thank my lucky stars I'm not .'\ hippopotamus. \Vh»a baggngemeu destroy my trunk, I do not rave and rant ; But meuially say I'm glad I'm not an elephant. Whon !!iy shoes arc hard and tight. And painful ly inipede My walk, 1 smile and think 'tia well I'll! not a cPiitiiiede. 'Jo!^t musitiait.s dispense music by the Uicas; re, but liie bflss drummer y,-.;«« i-i<l of hi.'« by the pound. C)n«-e in p great while we i:>eei a ii'a'1 V' ho is \vi»e crioutth to know whe.i he has enough bvtore he geta L. -i-w