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ltMWtyWwWyWwWtyWwWfyVwWlJWM12V GOOD WINDMILL FOR FARM. iy l i u DARKEST BV II. OK ATT AN DONNELLY. Copyright, ISM, by Street K Smith, All rights reserved. $frfbMlb4Ih9Ib99 CHAPTER XI Continued. Olga sighed. She was deeply touched by the words of Alexis. After an effort she spoke again. "I have not told you all," she said, and there was a pause as if for strength. Then after a moment she added: "I am no longer Olga Karsicheff I am Olga Barosky, We were marriedly secretly three days ago. Alexis sat gazing at the girl in amazement. He had never dreamed that it had gone as far as this. "You will keep our secret?" pleaded Olga. "Sacredly," said Alexis. Then, as the thought occurred to him, he add ed, "Does the countess, your mother, suspect that your affections wero gien elsewhere?" "My mother suspect? No! If she did she would kill me." Then, as the peril of her position again occurred to her she turned pleadingly to Aleiis. "What can we do?" she asked; "what must he done?" Alexis sat deep in thought for a moment. "There is one thing that must be done, and at once," at length he said. "I will write a letter to the coun tess, releasing you from our engage ment." "But the cause?" eagerly asked Olga. "I will say that my affections are cenjered on another." "Oh, Alexis!" exclaimed Olga, her face brightening for the first tlmo since she spoke. "You have antici pated my wish. That will save mo from my mother. Oh, Alexis, how can I thank you you good, noble, gen ous fellow!" Ilda had told the story of the at tack on Alexis in her own way, and as Ivan listened his face deepened into a frown of anger. "Oh, fools, fools!" he exclaimed. "Cowards that they were. And these are the men with whom I am compelled to associ ate in the effort to free our beloved Russia." During the time when she was speaking, Ilda kept her eyes fixed on Alexis and Olga, and then, wonder ingly, she looked to Ivan for an ex planation of the presence of ' the stranger. In a few hurried words, promising to tell her at length In the future, Ivan explained all, and as ho finished Alexis and Olga came and joined them. The meeting between the two girls was marked with mutual affection. Their interview was necessarily brief. "And you will love me as a sister?" said Olga, after they had been speak ing. "With all my heart," was Ilda's re ply as she embraced her. In the meantime Ivan and Alexis had gone apart and Alexis had lis tened to Ivan's passionate disavowal of the aims and actions of Oramlnsky and his followers. "I leave them to night and forever," said Ivan. "But tho letter to the countess." "I will write it at the earliest mo ment," said Alexis. Ivan urged that there be no delay, and producing pen and ink he handed a sheet of paper to Alexis, begging him to write at once, so that the letter would be in the hands of tho countess before Olga's return home. Alexis consented, and, sitting down at once, wrote to tho countess a for mal renunciation of Olga's hand: "My affections being Irrevocably given to another," ran the letter, "I must de cline the honor of an alliance with Mile. Kar.sicheff, for whom, while en tertaining sentiments of the most pro lound regard and esteem, I have at no tlmo felt the love that a man should have for tho woman he asks to become his wife." , Alexis signed the letter, and hand ing it open to Ivan, rejoined Ilda, while Olga was made acquainted with tho terms of tho letter to her mother. In Impassioned words he poured ZOKFS1Z7TJO forth his gratitude to Ilda, and begged her to become his wife. "I offer you my love, my name, the life you have saved. This place, these surround ings, fill me with horror at finding you, by whatever circumstance, here. Give mo the right to cherish, to pro tect you let there ha no further do lay be mine my wife!" Before Ilda could reply, Ivan said that the tlmo had come to leave the place, and beforo they could antici pate his action he had given the sig nal thai summoned tho conspirators. Slowly tho doors revolved, and Ora mlnsky and his people came . forth. They took their places about the room, waiting, wondering at Ivan's strange display of bravado. -" ' .snal. m RUSSIA Ivan was very pale. Ho first called one of tho men, to whom ho gave tho letter addressed to tho countess. The man departed, and tho door was again fastened. Then Ivnn spoke in low, qarnest tones: "Do you think," he said, "that I, who havo dono so much for the causo of Russia, could stoop so low as to bring hero n spy? Shame upon you, Oramlnsky. You should havo known mo better; you should have trusted mo more!" Oramlnsky was silent. Among the others there was an ominous murmur. "You should havo told us we knew nothing." Ivan turned like a flash in tho di rection In which tho voice came. "I am a leader; you should havo faith in your leader. But chough. To-night's work ends my connection with you forever. Henceforth I am no longer a member of tho revolutionary body to which you glvo allegiance." "Yqu must satisfy us that your friend Is not here to betray us. Wo tun no risks," said Oramlnsky. "I will answer for his honor. He is my friend my brother." "Our brother too?" asked somebody, with a sneer. "God forbid!" said Alexis. Then turning to Ivan: "Let us go." "Watt!" Tho voice was that of Or amlnsky; tho word was given in a tone of peremptory command. "You cannot leave hero until you havo sworn secrecy!" "That is right!" came tho simul taneous expressions of Oraralnsky's followers. Ivan spoko: "Ono moment! Hear mo! Colonel Nazimoft is here as my friend. I am responsible for his ac tions with my life, if need be. But as ho is here, I recognize that you havo a right to exact a promise from him that ho will not reveal anything of what ho has seen to-night. You will glvo that promise?" asked Ivan, turning to Alexis. "Since you deslro it yes. I am a soldier of Russia, owing allegiance to our Imperial master, tho czar."' There was a murmur of dissent. Alexis continued: "But I am no spy, and while I know what you are, It is not my business to betray you. I will not divulge what I havo seen to-night." "I answer for his truth and honor," said Ivan. "And I too, if necessary," said Ilda, moving toward tho door. "It is not enough he must be sworn!" The words camo with omin ous solemnity from tho lips of Ora mlnsky, and at a signal from him two or three of tho conspirators placed themselves near tho foot of tho stairs. "You havo his word he Is a soldier of Russia ho wears tho uniform of the fatherland ho need not bo sworn," said Ivan. "He wears tho livery of tho tyrant!" said another. "Come," interrupted Ivan, giving his arm to Olga, who stood pale and trembling, throughout tho scene. "Come, wo havo had enough of this!" Then turning to Alexis, who had thrown ono arm protectingly around Ilda, ho added: "Come, wo havo fin ished!" Oramlnsky stepped beforo Ivan. "But we havo not!" ho said. There was an unmistakable menace in tho tone. "You havo brought strangers here here within a place sacred to our cause, known only to ourselves. Wo know them not. All else here are sworn members of our order all else here aro of us, and with us. Your friend your brother, as you call him, has refused to tako tho oath of se crecy. Very well! Ho must do more than that; our safety demands it. He must become a member a sworn member of our brotherhood and so," pointing to Olga, "and so must she." "Never! by Heaven, never!" It was tho voice of Alexis, and It rang out like tho notes of a trumpet. "They must not leave here alive!" said Hersy. "Lot us havo their blood!" The word again wrought up tho con spirators to frenzy. "Blood!" and the word ran through their ranks. "Stand together!" said Alexis, draw ing his sword. Ivan drew a plBtol. "I will put a bullet through tho brain of tho first of you who advances A single step;" and ho leveled the weapon. There was a pause, a painful si lence for a second. Tho conspirators wero evidently collecting their strength and preparing for a rush. "Down with them all!" shouted Or amlnsky as ho gathered himself for a spring. "Down with tho traitors, all!" and tho words rang out. Ivan had tho pistol leveled, finger on trigger. Alexis had his sword drawn. Suddenly thero was a tremendous crash. Tho door burst open by a blow from a sledgo hammer, stood quivering in splintered ruins on its broken hinges. Tho wooden shutters fell crashing from the windows into tho cellar below. Soldiers soldiers with rifles lev eled, covering all in tho room, ap peared at doors and windows! And thero, commanding them all, waB an officer in tho full uniform of the dreaded police. Ho uttered but ono sentonce: "Surronder, traitors. In tho name of tho czar!" CHAPTER XII. The Results of the Letter. General Karsicheff. minister of po- cltemcnt, and feverish with expecta tlon. Ho hnd struck tho blow! Ho haa at last "dono something." From early dawn troops of soldiers, guarding tho vans in which wero bo Ing conveyed tho suspects cnught the night before, wero galloping MP and down tho city, and St. Petersburg awoko to find that by a concerted movement somo hundreds of thoso suspected of being concerned in the Nihilist conspiracy had been arrested and wero either on their way to, or securoly within, tho grim and gloomy walls of tho great prison which frowns on tho Nova. For In making tho ar rests tho polico had orders not to confine themselves to tho list of tho ono hundred and slxty-threo friends of Russia, which, by great good for tune, hud fallen no ono suspected how Into tho hands of tho polico au thorities. No matter whero they wero found, those nearest and dearest to tho suspected Nihilists wero caught in tho samo net. For Karsicheff know thnt tho num ber on tho list was but a small frac tion of tho whole, nnd ho had made lice, in tho full uniform of his rank, strodo up nnd down the apartment in his mansion sacred to affairs of his official duty. Ho was flushed with ex. "....Be mine my wife!" up his mind to Impress upon all con cerned the strength and vigor nnd thoroughness of his purpose by fill ing tho prisons at ono fell swoop. So It was that old and young, rich and poor, guilty and innocent were aliko Included, and that all St. Petersburg was awe-struck by tho magnitude of the police raid. People whispered of It to each other, but every man was careful that ho know tho opinions of his neighbor beforo ho ventured an expression of his own. Tho prIsotfB wero crowded; and un til further accommodations could be secured, many of those arrested were held under guard in their own houses by troops or police, until tho vans camo to take them away to a place of confinement. Reports from trusted agents were coming to Knrslcheff every few min utes, and his face lighted up with Joy as ho heard that the number of those already In the tolls was rapidly rising to a thousand. But the culmination of his delight was reached when he received the nows that tho headquar ters of tho Nihilists had been discov ered, and that tho police had found a printing press with tho sheets of a revolutionary proclamation which foreshadowed tho death of tho czar. They had found, moreover, a tunnel along which was a wire, and tho bat teries and dynamite bombs all ready for an explosion, that would havo killed tho czar had ho passed on his way to the railway Btatlon on that day, according to tho programme of his intentions announced tho day be fore. (To be continued.) Met His Match. The clever Dr. Ritchie of Edinburgh met "with his match while examining a student. Ho said: "And you nttended the class for mathematics?" "Yes." "How many sldf 3 has a circle?" "Two," said tho student. "What are they?" What r. laugh in the class tho stu dent's answer produced when he said: "An inside and an outside." But this was nothing compared with what followed. Tho doctor said to tho student: "And you attend tho moral philosophy class also?" "Yes." "Well, you would hear lectures on various subjects. Did you ever hear ono on cause and effect?" "Yes." "Does an effect over go beforo a cause?" "Yes." "Glvo mo an Instance." "A man wheeling a barrow." Tho doctor then sat down rind pro posed no moro questions. Trials of the Thespian. "Yes, Bllklns and tho rest of the company walked all tho way on the railroad track from BIngvllle to Osh koah with tho thermomotor at four below." . "It must have been an eventful trip." "Yes, it was. And peculiar, too. Tho leading man was always at tho ond of the straggling line, tho villain proved the most unselfish in tho bunch, the first walking gentleman had to be carried, tho heavy trage dian was tho lifo of the party, and tho first comedian grew so dismal that he tried to commit suicide." Number of Cars in Use. This country's traffic makes use of 37,000 passenger cars nnd 1.G00.000 for freight. X lNVSNTIL Novel Umbrella Support. Tho man who braves all tho sar casm about the suburbanite and set tles himself In n quiet country homo Boon finds thnt tho pleasure to bo had In tho open air, with ptiro wator, and fresh vegetables from his own gar den, repay him for the rido bnck and forth to his work in tho city ovory day,, and comparatively few who mako tho experiment aro content to settlo down to city lifo again, especially In tho summer time. In tho winter and In stormy weather the country resi dent llndB life not so cnjoyablo, and many a jest mado at his expenso comes homo to his mind as ho trudges Designed for the Suburbanite, along through tho rain or snow, with his arms full of purchases ho has mndo In town. This seems to bo tho plight of tho man in tho picture. At first glnnco ono would pick him out for a resident of tho Buburbs, from his load and gen eral appearance. But this man should havo cause to rejoice, even In tho storm, for ho is not troubled with bin umbrella. It is difficult to say what ho would do with It, wero it not for the arrangement with which ho Is provided to support it for him, ns both his hands aro already In ubo. It is so ofton'tho case that tho suburb anite finds himself thuB loaded that his umbrella holder may bo destined to becomo ono of his constant com panions. In this devico thero is no central ring ns on tho ordinary um brella, but two vertical supports aro provided, having silts for tho passago of tho braces. These supports aro strapped to the body, and hold tho framowork rigidly In position, and wHen not in uso occupy no moro space than tho ordinary handle. William A. Feazell of Ferrum, Vn is tho patentee. Iron Turned Into Copper. A curious find was recently mado in ono "of tho copper mines at El Cobre, Cuba. These mlnos, onco among tho richest in tho world, havo boon abandoned for over thirty years because during tho Cuban insurrec tion of 18G3 tho coal supply was cut off by tho insurgents, and consequent ly pumping became impossible, so ftiat tho mines filled with wator. After tho Spanish war an American com pany bought tho mines and proceeded to pump out tho water. In ono of tho shafts thus mado accessible was found what onco represented an iron picknxo as well as some crowbars. Tho metal In theso Implements had, however, turned to coppor. Wonderful as this may appear, there Is a simple scientific explana tion. The water filtering through tho rocks and tho copper ore voins dis solved some of tho copper, tho solu tion containing sulphato of copper. As soon as tho sulphuric acid in this solution touched the iron It at onco dissolved that metal and depoeltcd copper in its place, for sulphuric acid has a greater affinity for Iron than for copperv In tho process certain im purities which had existed in the iron were left behind undisturbed. Tho wooden handle of the axe was in good condition. The metal waB porous nnd irregular in shape, but in the general outlines preserved tho form of tho axe somewhat enlarged in size. To Lessen Smoke Nuisance. Prevention of the smoke which pours out of chimneys at each "firing up" Is mado practicable by In recent simple invention attached to tho door of tho firebox, Opening the door to add fuel moves a lever raLsing a weighted pis ton in an auxiliary Bteam cylinder, al lowing steam to be sprayed into tho furnace. It also allows air to pass from tho ashpit up over tho top of tho fire, thuB giving both steam and heat ed air to assist in burning tho gases coming from tho fresh coal. Tho drop ping of tho piston, slowly falling of its own weight, gradually shuts off both steam and air openings, so that whon tho combustion of tho smoke from tho fresh coal is completed tho draft is suited to the depth of flro un der ordinary conditions. Are Soils Exhausted or Poisoned? Horticulturists and fruit growers have long known that grasses aro in jurious to young apple trees, but It seems that they wero wrong in at tributing tho injury to Interference with tho air, tho water and tho food supply of tho treoa. Carefully con ducted experiments and observation at tho Wodburn experimental farm, In England, havo shown, however, that thero is somo direct or indirect product of grass growth that has an actively poisonous effect on tho roots of the trees. It Is suggested that tho so-called exhaustion of tho soil by cor taln plants, preventing tho subse quent growth of other plants In the same ground, may bo duo really to some poisonous product left by tho flrst plants. MW IP Recommended by Authorities of tho University of Nebraska, Tho windmill represented in tho ac companying illustration is described in bulletin No. C9, Issued by tho Uni versity of Nobraska. It is known as tho Dutch or Holland mill. Tho wind mill of this form is used to pump water for a town herd of cows vary ing from CO to 100 hend near Grand Island, Neb. Mills of this stylo aro mounted on tall Blonder towers or upon milk houses, sheds or barns. For tho four faiiB covered with duck, aro often nubstltutcd bIx Tans of thin lumber. Tho smallest of them aro ton to twelve foot In diameter, tho largest being about thlrty-slx fool A Dutch Windmill, across. Tho canvas sails aro fitted with braBS eyelets and fastened on with rope. Tho sails aro removed or furled when In disuso. Re-Soeding Sod Land. D. A. S. I wish to break up a five- aero field of gravelly soil, which has grown hay for a number of ycarB, and seed It down afresh. What would bo tho best fertilizer to uso? What gravelly soli is mos,t n need of Is humus, and to produce this a green crop should bo grown nnd plowed down. As oarrly as posslblo after tho hay is taken off the sod should bo plowed and well harrowed. It should then bo seeded with a quick growing crop, such as rapo or buck wheat. If rapo is chosen, about five pounds of seed should be applied. While tho crop Is growing tho sod will bo rotting, and by autumn tho green crop should bo plowed under. If a light dressing of stnblo mauuro could bo plowed In along with tho green crop so much tho better. Next spring tho field should be sown with barley or a light strawed varloy of oats, and seeded with rod clovor and timothy. Tho grain should ho sown not thicker than flvo pecks por acre. Tho grass and clover seed should bo sown at the rato of about six pounds of each por acre. When tho grain Is harvested n fairly long Btubble should bo left and no stock should bo al lowed to grazo in the field after har vest Growing Tulips From Seed. W. S. Tulips are producing seed, which I shall allow to ripen. How should the seed bo planted and treat ed afterwards? You may sow tho tulip seed aB Boon as ripe In shallow boxes, using soil containing a large proportion of pharp sand and covering tho seed to the depth of ono inch. Theso boxes should bo placed In frames or otherwise pro tected in order that they do not be como dry. If tho seed germinates quickly, tho boxes will requlro good protection next winter and through tho following summer. Tho small bulbs may bo planted out In tho fall, tno ground around them mulched with coarso litter and cultivation given each Bummer until thoy bloom, which will bo from five to six years from tlmo of sowing seed. Tulip bulbs aro usually very cheap and except foi "the fun of tho thing" it does not pay to raise thom from seed. C E. II. Soiling or Pasturing Cows. F. H. H. I havo two acres of a small kind of clpver and one-quarter of an aero of winter rye. Would It be better to pasture tho cows on these plots, or keep them in tho stablo and cut tho Iced for them? Provided tho clover is not too short to mow, soiling would no doubt bo tho more economical, as Injury to the crop by tramping would bo avoided. By the time tho rye Is used tho clover will be about roady to cut; tho ryo would then produco a light second growth, which would provldo a change of food while the last of the clover Is being fed. It would bo well to allow the cows a fow hours of exercise in the open air oach day or night. It would bo advisablo to cut the ryo for tho cows In any case, as If it is pas tured a good deal of tho feed would bo wasted. Destroying Porcupines. R. A. C. How can I destroy porcu pines? They oat young grafts ono and two years old In the orchard. I havo had no oxporlonce with this troublo, but should think traps at the foot of tho troos would answer tho purpose, or perhaps It would be eas ier to shoot them, as they aro slow moving animals and do not seem to tako much trouble to get out of one's way. Skill In Draining Land. It Is only in modern times that land drainage has been roduccd to a sclonco nnd tho dralnago engineer ha9 put in an appearance. Previously to this tlmo It was thought that any fool know enough to dig a ditch in tho Boll nnd lino It withntoncs or drain plpo and fix it so the wator would run through it. This was vory nearly truo In sections of Now England whon land drainage came into voguo, for tho rea son that tho ditch dug waB largo and tho drain was mado of stones. Tho flat ones wero laid for a cover ovor tho wall of smallor ones, and frequent ly tho drain itself was a foot wide and moro than that high. It was dif ficult to stop up a drain like that by tho sediment that ordinarily camo in with tho dralnago water. Thon, too, tho fall was gonorally so groat that tho wator would push itself through anyway, carrying tho sediment along with it. But when ngriculturo ox tended to tho plains of the west tho proposition was a different one. Tho ?rcnt prairies wero so fiat that it was ilfllcult often to discover in which way tho natural fall lay. Then, too, tho stones wero absont and tho drain tilo bad to bo mado out of clay. This gavo rlso to a business that was now to tho country, that of making drain file. Tho farmers, of course, did not ivant to buy drain tilo a foot In diam eter on account of tho cost. So tho imallcr sizes wero used, and at ono (imo tho practtco was to put in tile inly two and a half Inches in diam eter. This has now increased again :o four inches, which Is gonerally con ;cdod to bo small enough for tho de sired results, when properly laid. But with tilo camo a now problom, that of making the ditch so perfect that tho tilo would Ho even every where. Tho flow of tho wator being languid required to bo unobstructed. Tho current In tho tilo would seldom havo enough forco to wash out tho sodlmont and If thero was a low placo In tho whole longth of tilo that would soon becomo Btopped up. Tho novico tried to lay somo of these drains and did so. But In a fow years many of theso dralna bocamo stopped up, so that they ceasod to work. Thoy had then to bo dug up or tho land loft in tho condition it waB In boforo tho tilo was put In. After a good many oxpcnslvo experiences of this kind tho farmers began to employ civil en gineers to run their lines and super intend tho laying of tho tilo. This has beon found to bo tho only safo way In tho prairio states. There aro somo farmers now that think thoy aro smart enough to do their own drain ago work, but tho attempt often proves very costly and will contlnuo to do so at times. Wo cannot advlso this sort of oconomy. It is cheaper to pay a dralnago engineer to do tho work properly than It Is to havo a dralnago system that will not work or one that has to be dug out and reconstructed. Wheat Scab. From tho Farmers' Review; Wo en closo two heads of wheat gatherod in this county. They show blasted spots upon thom. Tho farmors In tho west ern half of tho county aro complain ing that their wheat crops aro badly damaged in this way. What is tho causo of this? Sallco Brothers, Pulas ki County, Kentucky. Wo submitted tho heads of wheat to Professor Garman of tho Kentucky station, who replied as follows: Tho heads of wheat enclosed by your correspondents aro affected with what is known as wheat scab, a dis ease due to tho attacks of a pinkish or yellowish fungus, described long ago by an English botanist under tho namo Fuslsporium culmorum. Tho dls easo has at times been complained of by Indiana and Ohio .farmers, but is not common in Kentucky, this being tho first complaint that has come to mo from this state. Tho rather cold, damp spring Just closing has encour aged such diseases and probably other Kentucky farmers havo suffered from the samo troublo, but failed to recog nize it. The fungus attacks tho chaff and seed from tho outside, causing them to chango In color, and tho seed final ly shrivels. Often only the terminal portion of a head is affected, but fre quently tho Injury begins at tho mid dlo, whero It may at first affect only a single seed and Its glumes. It Is doubtful If any treatment that can bo considered practicable would help tho affected wheat, and it seems probablo anyway that tho disease is ono of thoso that aro not to bo con trolled, bocauso very largely tho re sult of weather conditions. Many a farmer applies tho wrong kind of fertilizer to his fields and loses tho uso of tho monoy so spent. What Is tho uso of adding to an ele ment that may bo bo abundant in tho soil that it will last for hundreds of years? Agriculture is becoming very popu lar with tho people in tho cities, and a large number or well-to-do men aro preparing their sons to enter tho agri cultural colleges of the country. A continual weeding out should be practiced in tho dairy. Successful farming Is largely the keeping of weeds out of the growing crops. Suc cessful dairying is keeping the poor cows out of the dairy herd. Thero are other things to be done, but this is ono of the more important m