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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1901)
1 1 Mildred J* 1 S ^ Zzre'Vanion I BY THE DVCHESS. ^ wA_» >.1. . 4. *_A_r . ^ lLi ..1/ wAj w4w v4^ w4^ w4^ wirf w4^ v4< v4^ v4^ w4w wij ^A. ■ *-« w4v wAj w4j ^4# CHAPTER XIX.—(Continued.) “You should not hit a man when he 1s down,” he said, reproachfully. “I don’t think you will be long down,” returned Blount with an en couraging nod that somehow made Denzil’s heart beat high, though he did not dare to take the words in their under meaning. “And now I must be off. No, thank you, my dear—I can not stay to dinner; I have so many things to attend to before seven. But tell Sir George I will look him up again in the morning. And give my love to the girls; and tell Mildred that I know, and she knows, there is but one man in the world can ever make i her happy.” ■ He looked kindly at Denzil as he * spoke, but the latter would not accept the insinuation conveyed in his words. Mrs. Younge, however, noticed both i the glance and the significant tone, and a light broke in upon her. When Lady Caroline had followed Dick Blount out of the room she went over and knelt down by her son. “Denzil,” she said, lovingly, “I know it all now. But am I never to speak of it?” And he answered as he kissed her: “Do not let us ever mention it again —there’s a darling mother.” But all that night Mrs. Younge gazed at the girl and wondered, pon dering many things and blaming, wom an-like, yet feeling in her heart the while that the choice her son had made was indeed a perfect one. After this Denzil made rapid strides toward recovery, growing stronger, gayer and more like the Denzil they had known in the first days of their acquaintance than he had been for some time before his illness. He could now walk from room to room and take long drives, though Stubber still In sisted on some hours in the day being spent on the sofa. Miss Trevanion Denzil saw daily, though seldom alone •—and who shall say how much this conducted toward the renewing of his IL strength? It wanted but a fortnight of Charlie's wedding day, and Denzil, who was feel ing a little tired, and was anxious to ^ attain perfect health before the event came off—having promised to attend in the character of “best man”—was lying on the lounge in the library when Mildred came in. “I did not know you were in from your drive,” she said. There was less constraint between them now than there had ever been. “Did you enjoy it?” “Very much indeed.” “So you ought,” she said. “Could there be a more beautiful day?” She threw up the low window as she spoke and leaned out. “The air reminds me of summer, and the flowers are becom ing quite plentiful, instead of being sought longingly one by one.” “Yes,” returned Denzil, vaguely, thinking all the time what an exquisite picture she made, framed in by the window and its wreaths of hanging ivy. “By the bye, did you like the bunch I gathered for you this m lrning? See —there they are over there.” “Were they for me?” asked Denzil, looking pleased. “I did not flatter my self that they were.” "Well, yes, I think they were chiefly meant for you,” returned Mildred, carelessly. “Invalids are supposed to get every choice thing going—are they not?—though indeed you can scarcely come under that head now.” She threw down the window again, and came back toward the center of the room. "Mildred,” said Denzil suddenly—he had risen on her first entering, and stood leaning against the chimney piece—“there is something connected with my illness, a dream it must have been, that, whenever I see you, preys *■ upon my mind. May I tell it to you? The vivid impression it made might perhaps leave me if I did.” “Of course you may,” answered Mil dred, growing a shade paler. “Come over here then and sit down; I can not speak to you so far away.” She approached the hearth rug and stood there. “I will warm my hands while you tell me,” she said, determined that, i should it prove to be what she half-, » dreaded to hear, he should not see her face during the recital. “Well, then,” he began, “I thought that, as I lay in bed one evening, the door opened, and you came into the room, and, walking softly over to my bedside, stood there very sorrowfully looking down upon me. We were alone, I think”—passing his hand in a puzzled manner over his forehead, as though endeavoring vainly to recollect something—“at least I can remember no one else but us two, and it seemed to me that presently you began to cry and stooped over me, whispering some thing, I forget what, and I took your hands like this”—suiting the action to the word—“and then some figures came toward us, but I waved them back, holding you tightly all the time; and”—here he paused, his eyes fixed earnestly upon the opposite wall, as though there he saw reacting all that was struggling for clearness in his brain—“and I asked you to do some thing for me then—something that would aid my recovery more than all the doctor’s stuff—and you-” “No, no, I did not!” cried Mildred, vehemently, unable longer to restrain her fear of his next words, and trying passionately to withdraw her hands. ‘‘Yes, you did!” exclaimed Denzil, excitedly; “I know it now. It was not fancy—how could I ever think it was? —it was reality. Oh, Mildred, you kissed me.” “How dare you?” cried Miss Trevan ion, bursting into tears. "You know I did not; it is untrue—a fevered dream —anything but the truth.” ‘‘Do you say that?” ho said, releas ing her. “Of course, then, it was mere imagination. Forgive me; I should not have said it, but the remembrance of it haunts me night and day. This room, too, fosters all memories. Here for the first time I told you. how I loved you; and here, too, you refused me, letting me see how wild and unfounded had been my hope that you also loved me in return. Do you remember?” “Yes, yes, I remember,” Mildred answered, faintly, turning her face away. “Over there"—pointing to a distant couch—“we met again, after weeks of separation and oblivion—since you say that past thought of mine was but a dream—and I felt when you entered the room how undying a thing is love. You see this place is fraught with pain to me, and yet I like it. I like to sit here and think, and picture to myself those old scenes again, only giving them a kindlier ending." “Do you still care to recall them?” she asked In a low, broken voice. “I shall always care to recall any thing connected with you,” he answer ed, simply; then—"Did I ever thank you, Mildred, for coming to my assist ance on that last hunting day? I think not. I have no recollection of all that occurred, but they told me how good to me you were.” “It was the very commonest .human ity,” she said. “Of course that was all. You would have done the same for anyone. I know that. Still I am grateful to you.” Then suddenly, “Why did you break off with Lyndon?” “You have asked me that question before,” she said. "I know I have, and I know also how rude a question it is to ask; and still I cannot help wishing to learn the an swer. Will you tell me?” She hesitated and then said, slewly: “He discovered, or fancied, that I did not care sufficiently for him; and he was too honorable to marry a wom an who did not accept him willingly of her own accord.” “When did he make that discovery?” “We ended our engagement the even ing of your accident,” she answered, evasively, and with evident reluctance. “Mildred, if I thought,” he began, passionately, trying to read her face, “if I dared to believe what your words appear to imply I might be mad enough again to say to you words that have ever fallen coldly on your ear. 1 would again confess how fondly I love you—how faithfully during all these wretched months I have clung to the sweet memories of you that ever linger in my heart.” sne snrunK away a mue ana covered her face with her hands. “Do you still turn from me, Mildred? Am I distressing you? Darling, I will say no more. It Is indeed for the last time in all my life that I have now spoken. Forgive me. Mildred; I am less than a man to pain you in this way; but, oh, my dearest, do not shrink from me, whatever you do; do not let me think I have taught you to hate me by my persistence. See, I am going, and for the future do not be afraid that I shall ever again allude to this subject.” He drew near her and gently kissed her hair. “Good-by,” he said, once more, and then, slowly al most feebly, walked down the room toward the door. Miss Trevanion stood gazing after him, her blue eyes large and bright with fear; she had an intense longing to say she knew not what. Oh, for words to express ail that was in her heart! Her hands were closely clasped to gether; her lips, pale and still, refused to move. It was the last time—he had said so; if she let him go now it was a parting that must be forever; , and yet she could not speak. Her love, her life was going, and she could not utter the word that would recall him. Al ready he had turned the handle of the door; the last moment had indeed come —would he not turn? “Denzil!" she cried, desperately, breaking down by one passionate effort the barrier that had stood so long be tween them, and held out her hands to him. “My love!” he said, turning. And then in another moment she was in his arms and all the world was forgotten. (The End.) A Good Cook. To be a good cook means the know ledge of all fruits, herbs, balms and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves, and savory in meats. It means careful ness, inventiveness, watchfulness, wil lingness and readiness of appliance. It means the economy of our great grandmothers and the science of mod ern chemists. It means much tast ing and no wasting. It means English thoroughness, French art, and Ara bian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to be perfectly and al ways ladies (loafglvers), and are to see that everybody has something nice to eat.—Ruskin. PRODUCER AND USER. THEY ARE INTERDEPENDENT UPON EACH OTHER. How the Practical Operation of tha Protective Principle Meeta the Re quirement of Legtelatlon for the Great eet Good of the Greatest Number. J. D. Wilson of Randolph, Mo., re cently addressed the following to the editor of the American Economist: Conceding that the tariff on wool makes the grower money, who pays it in the end, the man who wears the woolt or who? Seems to me that legis lation should be for the greatest good to the greatest number. In other words, don't more people wear wool than grow it?” Answer: Questions of this sort the Free Traders have been asking for many, many years, always answering them to their own complete satisfac tion. In their way of looking at it protection benefits the few at the ex pense of the many. Our western friend has got it all figured out in the same way. Pity it is that his talents should be wasted away out in "Darkest Mlz ioury!” He should have been a col lege professor. But we shall take him as he is and endeavor to solve his conundrum. Conceding, as he says—and this is an important concession—that the tariff on wool makes money for the wool grower, who pays it.? Principally the foreign wool grower, who is compelled to accept a lower price for his product in order to sell it in the United States after the duty has been added. Possib ly the man who wears clothing made of wool pays some of the tariff, but not much. Clothing is little or no higher in price than it was in days of non protected wool under the Wilson tariff law. If a suit of clothes could be bought a trifle cheaper, then the wage earner and the farmer were none the better off on that account, because neither the wage earner nor the farm er had nearly so much money to buy clothes with as they have now. If you could buy an overcoat for a dollar and didn’t have the dollar to pay for it, you woudn’t be anything like so wen off as though overcoats were selling at $10 apiece and you had $16 in your pocket with which to buy. But the pivotal thought—the great Free Trade conception—of our Mis souri friend is to be found in his con cluding proposition that ‘‘Legislation should be for the great est good of the greatest number. In other words, don’t more people wear wool than grow it?” iviusi assureuiy legisiuuuu auuuiu >'* for the greatest good of the greatest number. Most assuredly more wear wool than grow It. Right here Is the strength of protec tion and weakness of Free Trade. Not only does protection call for legisla tion that involves the greatest good to the greatest number; it legislates for the greatest good of the whole number. There is today in this coun try no individual—not one—who is not in some way distinctly the gainer by the policy of protection. Even the importer or the American agent for foreign merchandise is the beneficiary of a state of prosperity "which has in creased the demand and likewise the purchasing power of the most liberal body of purchasers and consumers the world has ever known. The use in the United States of foreign made articles of art, luxury and fashion was never so great as now, lyhile the production and consumption of domestic articles of all sorts (that is to say, the gross volume of internal trade) and the sales to for eigners of articles of domestic produc tion are so much greater than ever be fore that for the first time in its his tory the United States has become the leading nation of the world alike In domestic and foreign trade, and, in stead of being in debt to the money centers of Europe, is now a creditor nation. The economic policy that has brought all this to pass may surely be considered as productive of the greatest good to the greatest number. But our Missouri friend needs some light on the question, "Don’t more peo ple wear wool than grow it?" As we have said, this question must be an swered in the affirmative. So do more people eat wheat and corn and beef and mutton and pork than raise those articles. A thousand times more peo ple use nails than those who make nails. So with every article of use and consumption. The users and con sumers outnumber the producers many times over. Protection takes account of this condition and by diversifying production alike in the factory and on the farm calls into being a tremendous army whose needs and requirements are mutual and interdependent. It in sures to the American farmer a profit able market for his wool by insuring a steady demand on the part of per sons who wear but do not grow wool, and by taking care that the cheaper wools of foreign countries shall not come in and break down the price of home grown wools. Otherwise the American wool grower would have to go out of business, as so many thous ands did when wool was deprived of protection in the Free Trade tariff law of 1894-1897. Is it not a wise tariff pol icy that diversifies industry in agricul ture and enables the farmer to profit ably produce articles which he could not otherwise produce except at a loss, and that by creating and furnishing employment for a vast aggregate of busy and well paid wage earners in sures to the farmer a near by, close-to ht>me demand at profitable prices for his products? OUTLOOK FOR FLAX AND LINEN Last year there gfere 2,300,000 acres given over to the rising of flax in the three states of North find South Dako ta and Minnesota; and It Is reported i that this year’s sowing will show an Increase of 200,000 acres over the fig ures for last year. The flax industry is one more to be added to the list of In dustries which owe their establishment in this country directly to our protec tective tariff policy. It. along with the silk industry, the tin plate Industry, the steel Industry, and a host of others In their turn, has been belittled and' sneered at by the free traders and the protection given to It has been opposed with violence. It Is In a fair way now, however, toward attaining such pro portions that these followers of Cob den will be obliged. In order to retain any reputation, even a somewhat shaky one, for truthfulness, to drop their cry of “bogus Industry,” so far as flax-ratslng Is concerned; and the time is not very far distant when the United States will be able to entirely supply its people with linen of home manufacture, as well as with native woolens and cottons and silks. HIS ATTITUDE. Prmtdant McKinley Not In Sympathy with Free-Tradc Innovation*. There is good reason to believe that the well-informed Washington corre spondent of the Philadelphia Press speaks with knowledge and authority when he asserts that President McKin ley Is opposed alike to tariff revision and to the Kasson plan of reducing tariff rates by special trade treaties. The president, it is said, deprecates the opening up of the tariff question as disturbing and Injurious to business interests, and the Babcock folly of slaughtering the minor concerns by re moving all protective duties from for eign products competing with the pro ducts of the steel trust will receive no encouragement from the administra tion. With equal positiveness It is affirmed that President McKinley has not only exerted no pressure for the ratifi cation of the French reciprocity treaty, but, on the contrary, has been in full sympathy with the protectionist op position to that ill-advised and mis chievous instrument. According to the Press correspondent the president did not examine the French treaty be fore submitting It to the senate for ap proval, and hence was not aware that Commissioner Kasson bad agreed upon a draft distinctly designed to benefit certain industries by withdrawing needed protection from other indus tries. With equal reason it may be taken for granted that the president had not investigated the scope and operation of the proposed Argentina treaty, which provided for a reduction of 20 per cent from the duties on wool pro vided for in the Dingley tariff law. Undoubtedly the president is in favor of reciprocal trade arrangements that shall enlarge the foreign demand for American products, but It is real and not bogus reciprocity that he fa vors—the reciprocity authorized by the Republican national platform of 1900, in “what we do not ourselves pro duce.” Those who Imagine that Presi dent McKinley is today anything less than the sound and consistent protec tionist that he always was are nursing a vain delusion. The president is a friend of American labor and industry. Make no mistake about that! They Never Reflect. Philadelphia Record managers and other free traders, whose main politi cal policy Is, “Anything to deprive American wage earners of em ployment and wages and enrich foreign monopoly by giving them our home market while we pay the taxes,” are still battling for a return to the robber Wilson tariff which swindled, accord ing to Samuel Gompers, two and one half millions breadwinners out of their jobs. Do these enemies of the com mon people ever reflect that the Ruler of nations is also the God of the poor, and that His justice is merely delayed? HE WILL NOT SUCCEED. Reciprocity the Wrong Way* Let us have no tampering in the way of reciprocating treaties that do recip rocating the wrong way. To be sure such treaties carefully constructed as sist American industries but they do so, as the patterns rejected show, at the expense of certain other American industries. This, then, is not reciproc ity, but simply nothing more or less than the English tariff Idea of fair trade.—Racine (Wis.) Journal. What Dom He Want? Babcock, of Wisconsin, continues to remark that the Republicans of the West are in favor of a reduction of 'duties on articles which can be pro duced here more cheaply than else where, and his listeners continue to wonder whether he wants the Rpubli can party to be a party of tariff re form.—Syracuse Post-Standard. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some rp-to-nate Hints About Caltlfa* tlon of tb« Soli and Yields Thereof— Horticulture^ Viticulture and Vlortoul tlNt Manuring Wheat. In a recent bulletin on the manuring of soil. Prof. John Fields of the Okla homa Experiment Station says: In seasons when there Is an abund ant summer rainfall, manure plowed under will decay and settle down. On the other hand, In dry seasons, and especially If the soil Is not well culti vated soon after plowing, manure which is plowed under will keep the soil open and make it dry out easily. The seed then goes into a dry soil, germinates poorly giving a thin stand, and starts off the wheat In a weakened couditlon. This makes the manuring of land sown continuously to wheat difficult, and in such cases, it would appear that a top-dressing, well worked into the surface of the soil, would be the best and safest practice. Attempts to follow Kafir corn or sorghum with wheat have very often resulted in failure. "Kafir corn ruins the land” is an expression frequently heard in conversation with farmers. When the matter Is studied, it is found that, after all, it is largely a question of the supply of moisture in the soil. Kafir corn grows a large mass of for age and uses the soil moisture up until the time of wheat seeding, and the wheat goes into a soil without suffi cient moisture for the germination of the seeds and the growth of the plants. Early plowing of land for wheat does little but prepare the soil so that it will take in water and keep it Working the soil, keeping the surface loose, helps out a dry season by hold ing the water in the soil. Cultivation at the proper times as much to be pre ferred to manuring when there is no opportunity for the soil to fill with moisture before a crop is to be planted. The effect of a given crop on the moisture content of the soil has more to do with the yield of the next crop than does the amount of plant-food removed from the soil. Cultivation and manuring—as much as possible of each—and study and knowledge of the true effect of differ ent crops on available soil moisture are essential to a profitable and im proving system of farming. The day of crop failures, worn out farms, and purchase of fertilizers should be put off by the use of things at hand that cost only energy, time, and labor to utilize and possess. Marketing Small Fruit*. Berry growers should soon purchase their supply of berry boxes and bask ets In which they expect to market their fruit the coming season, says a communication from the Oklahoma Experiment Station. The tub or large bucket and quart cup are the packages that have been in most common use in the berry market in Oklahoma, but are giving away to neat woouen quart boxes and crates. The cost of the boxes and crates is very small and it greatly improves the appearance of the fruit. The berries should be put in the baskets Just as they are gathered. This prevents the necessity of further handling, crushing and soiling the fruit. It can then be delivered in bet ter condition and is worth more in dollars and cents to the consumer. Berries that are placed In small bask ets as fast us they are gathered will keep fresh much longer and will sell for a higher price than the berries that were of the same quality when gath ered but have been handled in bulk. The increase in price of the berries will much more than pay for the boxes and crates. The ease with which crated berries can be sold is often of great importance especially in a full market. The claim Is often made that fruit is so cheap that it will not pay for the boxes. This is sometimes true but the difference in price of the crated and uncrated berries is often the difference between a profit and a loss in favor of the crated fruit. There are several kinds of boxes and crates used for small fruits any of which answers the purpose very well. A quart package is the most common size used for berries. These boxes are made of wood or paste-board and are always given with the fruit. The crates are made of wooden slats and usually hold 35 quart, boxes. These can be used during the entire season when the berries are sold in the home market, but if shipped new boxes can be bought cheaper than the old ones can be returned. The pack ages should be clean and bright and the packing done in good form. It is often the package and packing that sell the fruit as much as the merits of the fruit itself. Fruit In Missouri. A report Just issued by the Missouri State Horticultural Society states that the strawberry crop in the southern part of that state is being cut short by dry weather; that raspberry vines are badly injured by anthracnose and that the crop will be light; that growers are having trouble in some parts of the state with canker worm and in others with the leaf roller, in still others with the dropping of the apple and peach and with the peach leaf curl, but that good crops of the tree fruits last named are promised never theless. Averages for the northwest ern division of the state, embracing nineteen counties, are as follows: Apples 75, pears 70, peaches 90, plums 90, cherries 95, strawberries 95, rasp berries 65, blackberries 80 and grapes 85. The averages for the twenty-five counties embraced in the northeast di vision are given as follows: Apples 80, pears 75, peaches 90, plums, 85, cherries 65, strawberries 70, raspber ries 60, blackberries 75, grapes 85. In the southeast division (32 coun ties) the following averages were ob tained: Apples 85, pears 60, peaches and plums 95, cherries 85, strawber ries 90, raspberries 70, blackberries 90, grapes 90. The averages for the southwest di vision which embraccu 38 counties are as follows: Apples 90, pears 76,' peaches 95, plums 90, cherries 75, strawberries 80, raspberries 50, black berries 95, grapes 85. - ■ \"h\ Agricultural Notes. Formaldehyd Is a colorless, pungent gas obtainable from wood alcohol and readily soluble in water. It may be purchased at drug stores In liquid form, that is, dissolved in water. Its property of destroying the spores of fungi was discovered by the German scientist Loew, In 1888. It Is not pois onous in moderate amounts, even when taken Internally. In 1895 Prof. H. L. Bolley, then of Indiana but now of the North Dakota Experiment Station, be gan making experiments with a solu tion of formaldehyd for the prevention of grain smuts, and potato scab. His results were so satisfactory that the formaldehyd treatment has come to be regarded as the standard preventive for these diseases. ... Smooth brome-grass will withstand extreme changes In the temperature without injury. Its ability to produce good pasture during long periods of drought far exceeds that of any other cultivated variety. In Canada where It had been exposed to a temperature of several degrees below sero and not covered by snow it was entirely un injured. The yield of hay from smooth brome-grass varies from one to four and a half tons per acre according to climatic conditions, method of seed ing, and fertility of soil. The quality of the hay Is excellent, fully equaling that of timothy in palatablllty and nutritive qualities. ... In experiments with hairy vetch at the Mississippi station the yield was Increased 64.6 per cent by scattering Inoculated soli in the drills with the seed, and 84 per cent by soaking the seed in water containing the tubercle germs. The amount of nitrogen was also considerably increased by inocu lation. The Inoculated soil used was obtained from a field bearing hairy vetch which had an abundance of nodules. • • • Have you tested the clover seed? It pays to do so. The origin of clover seed is of much Importance, but receives little atten tion from farmers, who buy their seed without ever attempting to ascertain Its place of origin. Yet scientists that have looked into the matter believe that, as a general rule, seed grown in northern latitudes will produce hardier plants than seed grown in the South, ... Maryland has made considerable ad vancement In the study of the surface soils of the state, and colored maps them. Horticultural Observation..1 Prof. E. S. Goff says: The Wiscon sin oat crop of 1898 was estimated by the United States Department of Ag riculture at 64,000,000 bushels, valued at 815,500,000. Allowing an average of five per cent, which is probably n" an excessive estimate, the smut tax 1898 in our state amounted to about 8775,000. In plants like the apple, which are widely dispersed by means of graftage, there Is more or less departure from the original type. The Newtown Pip pin, which originated in Long Island, baa varied in Virginia into the Albe marle Pippin, a poorer keeper than the original. In the Northwest it has va ried into a form which has five ridges at the apex, while in Australia it is so different as to huve been renamed the Five Crowned Pippin. • * a All plants are made up of a succes sion or colony of shoots, originating in buds. These shoots show as much tendency to vary as do seedlings. The degree of variation is not usually as great, since the latter unite the quali ties of two parents, while the former are the product of one parent. Never theless, sudden and marked bud varia tions are not uncommon. As a mat ter of fact, many of our cultivated va rieties have originated from bud sports. The nectarine came from a branch of the peach. A French horti culturist gave, in 1865, a list of 151 commercial varieties which had origi nated by bud variation, while Prof. Bailey estimates that there are over 300 such sorts grown at present in our own country. Illinois Annual Corn Crop. Illinois' annual corn crop, about 240.000. 000 bushels, is raised on nearly 8.000. 000 acres of land. It requires about 1,000,000 bushels of seed corn to plant the cornPflelds of this state. If the character of the seed has any considerable influence upon the crop produced then the production and use of the _best possible seed corn becomes a matter of tremendous importance.— Bulletin 63, University of Illinois. According to J. D. Smith, state en tomologist of New Jersey, who has spent three months examining the fruit industry of Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Hungary, Ger many offers the most promising field for American fruit. He thinks France is unfavorable and says that Europe has very little to teach U3 in the treat ment of insect enemies, for the con clusive reason that pests are less troublesome there than in this coun try.