Cape May Herald, 16 March 1901 IIIF issue link — Page 5

•wake,

And wnu.'rrtl joy for more Uun tot-

tom'* ukr—

Steailftit and tender In the boor

n the boor of need,

—uvolont in deed. * looks hare power to maka dltscn-

lion ceaw ,

Whuec amllei are pleasant, and wboaa words are peace.

Jfait and ti Gentle dn tboosht. beuvolent ii

Whose looks hare p

THE CLOCK

AND A HERO. J

tj Char It Dt.aH Hmckaj.

TtSih Dean was ticket agent and telfrgraph operator for the Union PaclUc at Wells riUe, a settiement of not more than a few doson sAuered bouses, the most pretentious of which was the "Ho-, tel and Lunch Room." About* hundred yards down the track from this popular reeort at "train time." stood a low. one-roomed building, the station— Tom's St Helena To an energetic, ambitious young man. socially inclined. WeUsrille was well nigh Intolerable; but Tom bad hopes and made the best of It He bad removed bis belongings from the hotel to Mr*. Jordan's cosy little cottage.' whare he made himself at home. He found Hiss Jordan a charming companion and "year* ahead , of the Tille in every way." Nevertheless, the uneventful days would drag, and nights— well, after the 8.60 "a« modation” pulled out until 11.10, when the west .bound “express" dashed past one might as well have been stationed In the middle ot the Great Sahara—at Mast; so Tom said many timi One raw. gusty December night Just before the holidays. Tom'with much pleasure plied the three cases billed through to Omaha on the truck and ran them down the track, ready to be hauled bboard the baggage car of the coming train. He was not over fond of work, but this meant the,stopping of the express, the latest newspapers, and good roadlng for several days. To signal the express was nn event Taking a last lodk at the lights, be entered the station and slammed the door after him, as If to bar out the loneliness of the dripping outside world. The last light in the hotel bad gone out long before, the wind howled In the wires, the red light blinked and flickered. "Well, of ail the forsakenTbe door opened suddenly, and two men stepped Into the room, followed b7.a third. "Hands up—quick!" the foremost

eried.

In less than two minutes Tom was bound, gagged, and lying helpless be--hlnd the partit^m in. the baggage end ,o< the room. ^ “He's safe. *Where'i JlmT' asked the man who had spoken before. "Down to th' sidin'." came the answer. "Set the white light." The door closed quickly after them. Out of Tom’s bewilderment and confusion came the question, what did It mean? Robbery? .There was nothing , worth the risk at the station, and the men had gone. "Set the white light." That meant the express would not stop. - “Down to th' sidin'." The blind siding. an eighth of a mile beyond the station by the sand hill! It ended In the gravel bank. The terrible truth flashed across his mind. He turned cold—great beads of moisture stood out upon bis forehead; •“26." with its living freight, was to be switched oh to the siding at full

As the horror of itntshod upon him, Tom strained at the cords that bound him hand and fodt with a strength he ue»er dreamed he possessed. It was | useless—the work had been dcflM well. | He looked quickly at the clock-^0.41— | in 29 minutes more the Gain would be | due. As he turned the knots of the gag pressed Into the back of bis head. ' Bearing heavily upon tbeth, unmindful ^ of the pain, be moved bis bead, forcing his chin downward. They g»ve— they moved! Again he tried, and again . until at last the handkei^hief slipped to bis neck. ' ' “Help! Help! Townsend! Bill! j Help!" he cried. But his •*5TA was lost in the mocking howl of the wind and be realized that the effort was strength wasted and tjme lost. Again he looked at tha^clock—only j 26 minutes remained. Hob' fast the . seconds flew! 26— The eharp click, cltrk, click from the other side of the partition caught his ear—a telegraphic oesuge. " "Zr 20 minutes late.” “Thank God, a delay!" Forty-four minutes now—a gain of 20. The train, due at 11.10, would not arrive until 11.20. Tewn|end relieved him at 12. "Too late! Too late!" rushed through his mind as he glared at the clock. Tbep the light of hope fairly biased in his eyas.' The summer before, when be had long, weary night watches, twice he overslept because his alarm had failed Hhad

k to

a bell in his room at the hotel Rj an Ingenious connection, when the hands marked 11.U the ringing of the bell brought him violently out of the land of dreams* When Tom was promoted jo the shorter watch, add want to live at Mrs- Jordan’* Bill Town* send, who succeeded him. fell heir to his room and "the devil's own," as Tom called the bell. The Hock wss aa imitation of the old-fashtoaed. big-

I?

The hour hand was l«s than two inches from the connection, but ^ow slowly It crept! If he could only mors that hand! Ills knees were free. H« drew them up toward his chin, shot out Us legs and came to a sitting position; then, by e series of short jumps and bumps, be reached the wall, braced hie back against It, and with great difficulty worked himself to his feet. The' pendulum swung close to his ear, but bow, could he reach the hand? Was he to fall now? His eyes quldcly'searched the room. A few feet to the right was the window. heavily barred, the torn shade partly down. Hla glance rested on-the stick that weighted the latter—Just ,Wt>at he needed. New hope gave him new strength. Inch by inch he edged himself along the wall to the shade, caught the stick between hla teeth and sank quickly to the floor. He had succeeded—the stick was torn loose from Its flimsy fastenings. Back again, up and along the wall be worked, until he stood nearly under the dock. He turned sidewise, raised his head until the stick pointed at the hand, made a terrific effort to reach It, tailed, lost bis balance and fell heavily to the

floor.

The bodily pain was nothing to him, but be groaned in anguish at the loss of time. He looked up—the clock had stopped! The hands marked 11. He could reach the pendulum. It must be started. There was still a chance of more delay. Again the struggle to regain bis

feet ! Ing w

crept

his he

"My

didn't still hi disk a teeth.

of hls'grow id nearer h«

cried, "why «? Is there ) heavy brass dulum In his tnd detached

follow see It It was was. gi and rt

ANTS OF WICKED WAYS

.SOME TOO LAZY TO MOVE AND MANY ARE SLAVEHOLDERS.

Bird* a Caltlval

envy weight, forward. 1mat a greatly

eyes were

d. He could

hand? Yes.

im's strength to-Jils knee* loor. but his

eyes were flxed on that hand. How long would It take to reach 1L46?!C1os-

w It touched aoved slowly een sounded,

es more be- tender stems so fiercely that they will H°_ | become almost globular and distil a

•7 Kaka af Slavai - Thilr imaallc Aalmali •» OrrUlda 7 Ant»—Hint Agricaliaral

■aliaca—Hava a Kaowladga of X-Itaya. Bclaoce is after all your real Iconoclast Not content with toppling the busy little bee off bar pinnacle of virtues. It goes on to attack the ant for so long held a pattern and moral of thrift, says the New York Sun. AnU. say the wise men. have about every bad trait of humanity—they are Usy. greedy, tyrannous, given to conquesti and coveting the territory of their neighbors. Along with the territory they oftener than not Uke the neighbor* themselves, bolding them

ever after In slavery.

Just how this comm to pass U something of s puzzle. There are 700 odd species of ants duly classified. Several of these species, say observers, must possess hypnotic power, since they attack,'subjugate and reduce to slavery other species which are much bigger, stronger and more populous In the After they have got their slaves many other queer things happen. The slaves in some nests are classified, so many told off as soldiers to defend the gates, so many for domestic duties, foraging, the care of eggs and so on. The soldier anty are further subdivided. The larger number by constant exercise develop fierce nipping Jaws and poison stings. The others in some curious fashion Increase the size of their heads, especially If they happen to be considerably bigger than their master*. The big heads enable them to block a passageway against an in-

vading foe.

Exceptionally elastic slaves are

transformed Into living honey bottles. They are found/Wlth abdomens distended, and full of the boney dew the working slaves bring In. Honey dew. be It said, is a secretion of the aphides, or plant lice, which the ant swarms

keep In herds within the'nest. Ants are passionately fond of boney

—Indeed, of all sw^et Juices. They are, further, fond of mushroom and grow them within their nests. They also cultivate certain species of orchids, and bring about distinct modifications of the plant form, stinging the young

the in past it but Jh fare E

an to cotoi too ellgtiu—t .onoO- | ^u^h^rnTlTlco, •Mok'lto

the noise of the storm was all that he

could

| ants no doubt regard as rare wine.

Old

strum* “26" b 12 mil be 1L! time s wild r of mad arrive

from the inn Maysrille. aysvllle was It must now lalculate the ted on their was a . chaos BUI did not lied over on

his face and waited for the a The door burst open.

“Hel

tello, where are you?" It a voice. .

"Stot

—get i

The

s Bill's

tyke's siding

i gone. ■

p the track, grinding of wheels and many Jolts, came to a stop. A posse was hastily formed, but when the siding was reached nothing was found but the open switch that meant death and destruction. The passenger* and crew tried to make Tom believe that he wka.a hero, but he only pointed to the clock and

said:

.

The Persian's Imagination Is one of his strongest characteristics, and It has found full play In his' religion. "fVhcn he split with his Turkish brother over who should be successor to Mohammed, ho did It with the fanatical enthusiasm with which he does everything—except tell the truth. The offspring of Fatima were henceforth sacred embodiment* tb him. and when the Turks and Arabs with almost

schism was seen Shiite »r all time, 'o this day. m the sects, greater rlrmnl than a ms, and hla ther in war at value be

polite ! com pie and St It has in perk the Pei too to whole i «mduc or bual holds t The cultivation of this religious tension. century after century, has wrought upon the Persian temperajnent like a corrosive add. To the original formulae be has tacked oh horrors and deprivation, hunger and laceration, enough to make an ordinary savage turn pale. I have seen gentlemen cf Indian, tribes, shaken by spiritual grief, cry Uke Intents over the atonement service at the burning of.the White Do*, and listened to » touching ululations at ceremonials In the uplands of Mexico. Even the colored camp-meeting has its tearful hide; but the Persians' doinri in memory of what happened to the Imams make these seem like children'* trouble*.—Harper’s Weekly.

One particular species of orchid. Indeed is so Infested with a virulent stinging ant that the collection of it la very dangerous. . The minute the plant Is touched all the ante swarming over it such to the point of attack. That, Is. however, less enrious than the fact* that the orchid will dot flourish without the ante, but withers away after a<aeble. straggling year's growth. Some few among slave-holding ante remafn capable. The most part become utterly demoralized. They can-

when the slaves have chosen and built a new nest ride to It upon a slave's back. One species Is noteworthy for having only alavee for workers; yet never containing within the nest any alave eggs or young. As with bees, the queen «ht is the mother of the swarm. Unlike bees, however, there are often several queeni In the same swam. The workers an rudimentary fejnklba In slave making the victors .kilt all the perfect ants and take home the others. Perfect males and females hare wings, which they drop as soon as the marriage fight is over. Worker ants have no wings. Worker ants, or rather slaves, and the aphlscows. by means exhaust the list of ant dependents. They keep various smaller Insects as men keep domei Jnst why U not yet clear. The fact remains, though, that in the of tome neets herds of a thoi most invisible small creatures have

been found.

A year is the average span of ant life, but some species live five year*.

harrestlnx ants go even beyond that They clear dinks several yards across round about tbelr nests of all ma: of vegetation, then plant the disks with ant rice, which they watch and tend until It ripens, leLUnl no vagrant or

alien twig show Its head.

Ante are entitledtoregard themselves as early discoverers of the X-ray and Its mysterious powers. Sir John Lubbock experimented exhaustively as to the effect of colored light upon ants in captivity. He laid stripe ot colored glass over the neets, first putting the ant egg* all under one special color. In the end he.determined that the sate did not much -mlnd_red light, that green was, in a' measure. !nnocuoua, but that Invariably the eggs were lied from under the vlolK rays. I case was more than a single egg left there at the end of two hours, and oftener. than not the.remoral was act pushed within lees than an hour.

HE KEEPS UP THE STOCK. While HU Wife Travel* with a De* Show,

B* Doe* th* Tralalag

"Speaking of queer ways of making a living." said a popular character actor who was in this city last week. "I am reminded of a quaint little experience of my own a few days before our company started out on the road. I had set out to see a friend who runs a vaudeville agency the other side of Madison square." he continued, "and not finding him ou the premier I sat down In his private office to waltTPresently a broad-shouldered, swarth’

fflee. Naturally we fell

itlon, a

he was a professional dog trainer for vaudeville cntertelnmenU. 'My wife and brother-in-law does the exhibiting.’ be said, mentioning a 'team' chat 1 remembered having seen on variety bills, 'and I does the educating. When they are on the road I always have at least two hew dogs In hand, so If anything happens to the old ones we wouldn't run short of stocks.' That struck me as being a very curious vocation and I asked the trainer a good many questions. In reply he gave me a lot of Interesting details of the busi-ness--how the dogs of the same specie! will differ widely In Intelligence; how tricks are impressed on their memory by a series of cue*, and how the best of them will sometimes forget their entire repertoire for an evening at a time and cover the showman with, shame. I remarked incidentally that 1 would Imagine the animals would be most apt to obey the man who trained them, and asked whether It wouldn't be an advantage for him to take them on the road himself. ’My wife understands ’em all right enough.’ he said, ‘and I want to stay at home and keep up the stock. I was In the profession once/ he added gloomily, and I got enough of It- This racing up and down over the country don't suit me.' "Just then my friend came 1c and ms the trainer turned to greet him I got a good look at his face for the first time. He bad been sitting with his back to the light and I only knew in a general way that he was very swarthy.

bnt I now saw, to my surprise, that his cheeks and forehead and even his nose ere heavily pitted with black spots.

and. exceptional individuals as much as seven. All species show the livi

their eggs, lugging

them np into sunshine upon fair days and scuttling back with them the minute the sky is overcast Upon a flckli April day the eggs may be moved s half dozen times. They are nearly as regardful of.the apis eggs. Indeed,

throughout, they protect their milch kine, shelter them pell, and take pains

In rearing their young.

Hospitality Is not unknown among ants. A stranger guest receives dl% tinguiahed consideration. But woe to Abe stranger ant who comes uninvited. He Is hustled and pummeled. and finally hurt mortally unless be eaves himself by showing superior fighting power or 1s possessed of a clean pair of heels. After be to down a mere squirming trunlf. bereft of legs, unable to bite, the elavee lay hold on him. and drag him outbids the nest to die. Possibly tt to an ant superstition that had luck follow* a stranger's death in the house. Formic add, the distinctive ant-

one of the greatest vegeta-

..JlPlrSHSsS-S

dike those mads by a powder explosion. \Yho to that man?’ I asked, after he had secured some mall ^nd departed. 'Why, that's ,' said my friend, 'the greatest trick dog trainer in the business. He picked it np himself a few years ago. and now he's getting rich/ 'He seems to have met with some accident/ said I. ‘What is the matter with his facer 'Oh. that's tpttooing!' replied my friend. 'He used to be a tattooed man in a museum and was fool enough to, have the stuff put all over his face. Since he's set up as a trainer he has tried every way in the world to get It out. but has only succeeded in spreading the marks.' This struck me as being by long odds the moat astonishing combination of occupations 1 ever heard of. Tattooed man end proprietor of trick dogs—two excellent ways of living without wore. I'm going to cultivate that gentleman when I return," said the actor thoughtfully. “He must be a remarkable character.' —New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.

II Was a Good Old ParaseL

A draper’s assistant was showing t le lady some parasols. The assistant a - had a good command of language, auO knew how to expatiate on the good qualities and show the best points ol goods. As be picked up a parasol frotr the lot on the counter and opened 11 he etrnck an attitude of admiration and. holding It up to the best light

that could be had. said: *

"Now, there. Isn’t It lovely? Loo) at that silk. Particularly observe thf quality, the finish, the general effect Feel ft. Pass yonr hand over It. Nc nonsense about that paraaol. Is there?' hA-sald,-a* hs" handed It over to th*

'AlnT it a beauty r

FLEECE OF THE ANGORA.

MILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES-

A Statemaat Tuned by tb* l>«p*L*ta>*at of Africaner* BetpectIn* fired** and Vala** —Goat Heat.!* Mach Better »ood Than Mutton — Tatte* Like VenUon. The department of agriculture annually receives thousands of letters of

Ing Angora gi Interest take

subject Mr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal Industry, recently made some investigations on the subject It to estimated, he says, that there are about 400.000 Angora goat* in the United States, and that their annual-production of fleece to over a million pounds. , The history of the Angora goat In the United Slates. Mr. Salmon says, has been marred by the carelessness or Indifference of occasional - writers for the press, who have often been Inaccurate a* to dates or facte, and also by others whose Interests have doubtleu led them Into exaggerations. The real facte of Its Ugtory. however, are so few and so rimple as to prompt that venerable 'breeder. William M. Landrum, to «y that they would make but a very small book. During the administration of President Polk the Sulten of Turkey requested of him that he recommend some one who would experiment In tho culture of cotton in Turkey. Accordingly, Dr. James B. Davis of dolumble. 8. C- was recommended. and he received the appointment. The work done by Dr. DavU appeared to be highly gratifying to the Sultan, and so. upon his return. in 1849. the Sultan, desiring to reciprocate the courtesy of the President. presented him with nine of the choicest coate In his dominion. Col. Richard Peters, writing-in 1876. says of these animals: "These doubtless were selected from the herd* of Angora. a district of country lying among the Taurus mountains, which traverse Asiatic Turkey, and which derives Its name from its principal city, eltuatcd about 200 miles east of Constantinople." It does,hot seem, therefore, that Dr. Davis encountered any great difficultyJnjMcurtng this first lmportetlon of Angora goats Into this

country. -'

“Of tho 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 doc, several head of crosses between the Angora and Thibet goats, and quite a number of grade does bred from the common short-haired ewe* of the country and

his Angora bucks.

"The soft undercoat of the Cashmere to known as 'poehum' and to the product from which the famous Cashmere 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 Angora instead, through Investigation mode about 1861, also states, that there Is a difference between the Cashmere shawl and tho Paisley shawl. These arc often referred to as being the same shawl. While the filling oPboth shawls was of pa*hum. the chain of the latter was made from the kid fleece of the Arigora. Pashum Is combed out in the spring, and is worth, when cleaned. In the country where It Is produced, from tL50 to $2 per pound. "A large class of people in some way have become possessed of the

opinion t|i$t goat

animal. They do not

Tons upon investigations, however. and do not discriminate between the different breeds. To them a goat

and there the argument

ends. Investigations prove that the Angara coats are not only classed among the most useful of the domestic animals, and have been so classed for thousand* of year*, but their usefull is manifested In a variety of a The fleece, called ‘mohair/ furnishes Borne of the finest of fabrics adles" 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 foreat; their flesh Is exceedingly delleate and nutritious; the milk, though not so abundant as with tho milch breed of goats. 1* richer than cow's milk; their tanned aklns, though Inferior in quality to the skins of the common goat, are nsed for leather; their pelts make the nest-

is practically a y do not reach

thoroughbred or higb-Kradc Angoras, such as will yield me-rhaniable mo hair, will not need to consider markets. n« the Increase- will be employed to produce mohair; but a Ibrg-: i imber of flock* will be built up in the future, as they have been In the past, by the use of doe* of the common breed. It will be ascertained that tho fleece of low grades is barely worth tbe cost'of dipping It; that tho 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 valuable aa those of the higher grade*. Therefore, If there Is to be any profit from this pert of a flock, there must

be a markot for the meat.

"The reason goats are not seen oftener In the market reports of ro-

an d shipments Is that they pass

leep. It is slated, however, that Increasing numbers arc seen In the larger markets. In tbe Union stock yards of Chicago an many as 8000 were received In ono week last year. While the goats pass as sheep, they arc also sold to consumers as sheep. The difference Is very slight In some place*. In Kansas City, for Instance, tbe sheep

per pound ckers buy

them -ns goats and sell them as sheep In the form of dressed meat or

canned.”

In one week recently 8000 goats were - received at the Union stock rands in Chicago. They were slaughtered and sold, and yet no butcher bought anything but "sheep" and no leg at dinner

clpts a 9 shee

bought anything but "sbe( housewife served anythlnj

but lamb" or mutton.'

The agricultural department wrote to many goat raisers and asked them if -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 extract from a letter written In answer to tjic question by Thomas H. Mas tin of Kansas City: “You ask if 1 have any difficulty In disposing of Boats for meat. None at all. The packers buy goats as well as sheep. They make a difference 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 declares that goat moat is much better food than mutton, and th»t nothing except the prejudice against the' goat born of the paragrapbers’ jokes prevents there being a demand for gcat’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 be 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 Ume of the year for a bit of venison. It Is the opinion of half a dozcp goat authorities quoted that Billy's flesh, when Billy is properly fed, cannot be distinguished from venison. In fact'some ot the enthusiasts say that goat is gamier and better than deer, provided the animal gets its entire subsistence by browsing. One correspondent of the agricultural department living In New Mexico tells cf a certain St Louis community which ate Angora "venison"' and never knew that it was killed by the knife of a batcher Instead of by n riflo 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 boarders on the prime quality of her mut-

ton.

One Texas enthusiast says: "Anybody who has ever tasted a roasted barbecued piece of Angora mutton will find it better than any meat bo ever before ate." Still another Boat advocate says that the flesh Is 50 percent better th*n mutton, and yet It sells to the butchers for les» money. So muen 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 r, run.

"3

one—I Just laid It down here."—Pun

The country papers have claiming that Syracuse has the largest apple tree In the state. The Syracuse tree to of the Vandeveer pippin variety and to In a healthy growing condition. It measnrea 108 inches In diameter According to the best Information ot> tamable the trte <to about 60 years old. Aa apple tree in Bourbon. In*, was planted by William Carter la 1648 and to now owned by John Baxter, tt measure* 11 feet seven tech** in drcumfereacc at the^grpuad aad eight

teat ala inches six — — top, to

a 64 feet la d

ter. U feet high aad M bushel* of Vaadevaar pfpptea wake gathered from H to aa* taaaoa-I-ladUnapalto

■ p, ■

a flock of sheep are a protection from wolves and dogs; their manure is noticeably helpful to the grass which follows them after they have cleaned away the undrfbrusb. These are all vital subjects of varying degree* of Importance. and will be considered here

under appropriate heads.

"In those localities where valuable land la completely subdued b^ brush the goats are considered of more value for-the purpose of clearing it than for their mohair or meat. They thus become one of th* farmer'* Important tools. Their value In this respect must be measured by tbe value of the Upd which they will render cultivable. It' Is said that to Oregon, where Chinahad been paid as high as 620 an

off brush goats had

• for Hearing c * the work en

will spring up behind men’s work, but goats will keep them down until they cease to appear. True, the goats require more time than men. bat their

work to better.

"Owe of the first curat lens to he cpnqiderod by- a man .who to shoot to

to the markets tor his surplus. This quest ton la flrrt because It to the principal «* aad all important. The one Fhe pwpeeet to begin wtth * flock of

Artificial Frrtlllsello* by Cliraicml*. The American Journal of Physiology contains an account of the progress ot Prof. Loeb's experiments In artificial parthenogenesis. He has been abje to develop eggs of chactopterus, an annelid or species of worm, slnto free, swimming larvae, by ''placing them in solutions which caused them to lose water. Chloride of potassium solutions aad hydrochloric acid, when added to he sea water, are effective In causing the egg* to develop. The artificially developed larva* do not differ from those produced by natural fertilisation. and )t waa concluded that the processes of segmentation are a function of the constitution.of sea water. Observations were also made' in the production of riant embryos by the fusion of two or more eggs., These experiments have an important hear

ig on the theory of fertl ther phenomena of life.

1

iaoner who occupied it: “Well, my in. do you know who-Korn?" “No, r.I dlnna care!" was th* noachaipl/- “Well. I'm your new chnp“Oh. ye are? The* I hae heard

i. ye i

ye befoir! ' car?" returned the

L dM yon

^ I heard that Ue h kirks ye wmr* in ye preaehea mam haUL empty - hat y* willaa flad It aaeh, aa easy matter to «a the aame'wl' this oah/'-TV K tog.