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    THE MASTER OF APPLEBY
' 1——— ■ - ■—- By Francis Lynda. ■-. '-'-a1..-: ■'■'■■-■■■ ■ a
CHARTER XXII.—Continued.
Tte effect of this fierce tirade, poured
Wt to a torrent of hot words, was less
■■■bill upon his helpless capttve than
■paai her four would-be defenders. It
us variously, each after his
nevertheless, I think the
thought lighted Instantly
each of us. Though we
not reach and rescue her. her
v fibtepsst peril would be blunted upon
MM quieting of this flend-ln-chlef.
■a Kphralm Yeates stretched himself
bass downward in the damp grass and
baaoffbt his long rifle to bear, while the
fiafitaa sprang up and poised his hatch
tt tor the throw; but neither lead nor
■teal was loosed because the light was
pass, and a halr's-breadth swerving
■wt tbs aim might spare the man and
day toe woman. As for the two of us
ateo asust needs come within stabbing
fitatance, the same thought set us both
to stripping coats and foot-clogs for
• parage Into the barrier torrent. liut
whra we would have broken cover, the
•M borderer dropped his weapon and
grtraid us with a hand for each.
“1*0, no; none o’ that!" he whls
psood. hoarsely. “Ye'd drown like rats,
sad we can't afford no sech foolish
aahetflees on the altar o’ Baal. Hunker
toast and lie dost; if there’s any dying
to be done, ye've got a good half o' the
atebd ahead of ye, and there’s all o' to
■pnv that ain’t teched yet.”
K takes a pitiless avalanche of words
to apread these Interlinear doings out
tor you; but you are to conceive that
tea pause Is mine and not the action’s.
WMte the old man was yet pulling us
Sown, my fearless little lady had drawn
bate a pace and was giving the villain
tea answer.
“t am glad I know you now for what
yaai are. Captain Falconnet," she said,
asMMr* And then: "You can take me
you, If you choose, having the
strength to make good so much
r threat. But that Is all. You
take for yourself what I have
to another."
“Osanot, you say?" He dapped his
tart on smartly and whistled for his
torao-hclder; and when the man was
para to fetch the mounts for the wom
a«h hs finished out the sentence. ‘‘Llst
aa yra, In your turn, Mistress Spitfire.
< sfeafi take what I list, and before you
aaa your father’s house again, you'll
fiflffte* on your knees, as other women
terra, to marry you for very shame's
>l was then that Unoanoola did the
toBMost bit of Jugglery It has ever
bate aay lot to witness. Posturing like
raa at those old Grecian dlscus-throw
a% be .sent his scalplng-knlfe handle
toMBSOBt to glide snake-like through
tea grass to stop at Margery's feet.
Tbswgb I think she knew not how It
gat there, she saw it, and the courage
illta sight helped her to say. quickly:
“When It comes to that, sir, I shall
fcsow bow to keep faith with honor.”
His laugh was the harshest mockery
wt artrth. "You will keep faith with
•mm, bear lady; do you hear? Other
Ba turned to take the black mare
bam his man. At this my brave one
set her foot upon the weapon In the
*1 have no faith to keep with you,
Captain Falconnet," she said.
Ba struck back viciously. "Then, by
heaven, you’d beat make the occasion.
31 taw happened, ere this, that a lady
sa Painty as you are lias become a
plaything for an Indian camp. It Ilea
»ta| n«, to save you from that, my
Bha stooped to gather her skirts for
mooting, and In the act secured and
hM tee knife. So her answer had In It
tes fine steadfastness of one who may
make desperate terms with death for
haras's sake.
“I thank you for the warning, Cap
Data Falconnet,” she said, facing him
■ravaly to the last. "When the time
amass, mayhap the dear God will give
ass Isa re to die as my mother’s daugh
ter ahouM."
“tosh!” said he; and with that he
wMstlsd for his troopers; and while
•a tasked, my dear lady and her tlre
wanan were helped upon their horses,
ata! at the leader’s word of command
tea aacart formed upon the captives as
a center. A moment later the little
•tafia, with the smoldering embers of,
tea lodge fire to prick out Its limits
‘ty red, was empty, and on the
it stillness of the forest the
ig hoofbeats of the horses came
and fainter till the distance
red them.
tt was that my poor lad, fam
I and frenzied, rose up to
me bitterly.
“Haw may all the devils In hell drag
Cfiown to everlasting torments,
Ireton, for your cold-hearted
that made us lose when we had
hope to win!” he cried. “One
hear I begged for, and that hour
•ought her battle and set her free.
Bad aow—"
Ba broke off in the midst, choking
wOth what miserable despair I knew,
and shared as well; and throwing hltn
mfif fiown in the wet grass, he would
'tea Mt the bitter words with such rav
tagaand sobbings as bubble up In sheer
abandonment of rage and misery.
XXIII.
«OW WE KEPT THE FEAST OF
BITTER HERBS.
Too may be sure that Richard Jen
nifer's bitter reproachtngs came home
k> me in sharpest fashion, the more
ateM now I saw how we had lost our
ulsara by neglecting the commonest
jprecautions. Having determined to at
tack. the merest novice of a general
wwold have moved his forces to the
mnareot point; would have had his
its search out the ford beforehand;
above all. would never have de
the blow beyond the earliest
ait of the enemy’s unwatchfulness.
8% now, when all was lost, I fell to
Jtoatdrng out this sodden dough of aft
arwit with Ephraim Yeates; but when
8 aw«M to carry off the blame as mine
by right, the old borderer would not
ghre me leave.
"■kirflnd easy, Cap’n John; fair and
mmtrT be protested. "Let’s give that
aW aarpent, which is the devil and
Satan, his dues. Ez 1 allow, there wus
afee wbole enduring passel of us to
ntoaBect all them things. To be sure,
WW bad our warnings, mistrusting all
tataag that this here dad-blame’ hoss
egptaln bad his finger in the pie. But.
hrarmte! we had ne’er a man o’ God
"hsaagat us to rise up and prophesy
wbat was a-golng to happen If we
llbfl ,tet up and scratch gravel im
mMr. If not sooner; though I won’t
-ahsay that Cap’n Dick did try hi3 hand
tbnt-away."
""True; and I would now we had
; Mflfcned to him," said 1, gloomily
“We have lost our chance,
knows if we shall ever have
Falconnet must have half a
men. red and white. In the
train; and by this time he has
from the Indian who recon
us on the mountain that we
within striking distance. With the
forewarned, as he Is, we might
well try to cut the women out of my
' Cornwallis’s headquarters.”
The old man chuckled his dry little
laugh, though what food for merriment
he could find In the hopeless prospect
was more than I could understand.
"Ho! ho! Cap'n John; I reckon e»
how ye're a-taklng that word from
yonder down-hearted boy of our'n.
Walt a spell till ye're ez old ez I be;
then you'll never say die till ye’re
; plumb dead."
Now, truly, though I was dismally
disheartened, I could reassure him on
the point of perserverence. 'Tla an
Ireton falling to lose heart and hope
when the skies are dark; but this Is
counterbalanced In some of us by a
certain quality of unreasoning persist
ence which will go on running long aft- !
er the race Is well lost. My father had
this stubborn virtue to the full; and so
had that old'Ironstde Ireton from whom
we are descended.
’’That’s the kind o’ talk!” was the old
man's comment. "Now we’ll set to
work In sure-enough arnest. Ez I said
a spell back, my stummlck Is crying
cupboard till I can’t make out to hear
my brain a-slzzllng. Maybe you took i
notice o' me a-praylng down yonder j
that the good Lord’d vouchsafe to give
us scalps and provender. For our on
falthfulness He’s seed fit to withhold i
the one; but maybe we’ll find a raven '
’r two, or a wldder's mite 'r meal-bar'l, !
somewheres In this howling wilderness,
ylt."
So saying, he summoned the Catnw- I
ba with a low whistle, and when Un- !
canoola Joined us, told him to stay
with Jennifer whilst we should make
another effort to find the ford.
"There’s nobody like an Injun for a
nuss when a man’s chin-deep Into
trouble," quoth this wise old woodsman,
when we were feeling our way cau
tiously along the margin of the swift
little river. "If Cap’n Dick rips and
tears and pulls the grass up by the
roots, the chief’ll only suy, ’Wahl’ If
he sits up and cusses til! he’s black In
the face, the chief'll say, ‘Ugh!’ And
that's Just about all a man hankers
for when his sore's a-runnlng In the
night season, and all Thy waters have
gone over his head. Selah!"
Now you are to remember the sky
was overcast and the night was pitchy
dark, and how the old borderer could
read a sign of any sort was far beyond
my comprehension. Yet when we had ,
gone a scant half-mile along the river i
brink he stopped short, sniffed the air
and stooped to feel and grope on the
ground like a blind man seeking for
something he had lost. ,
"Right about here-away Is where
they made out to cross," he announced;
“the whole enduring passel of ’em, ez
I reckon—our seven varmints and the ,
hoss-captaln’s powder train. Give me .
the heft o’ your shoulder till we take :
the water and projec’ ’round a spell
on t’other side.”
We squared ourselves, wholly by the
sense of touch, with the river's edge,
locked arms for the better bracing
against the swift current, and so es
sayed the ford. It was no more than
thigh deep, and though the water
lashed and foamed over the shoal like ,
a torrent In flood, there was a clean
bottom and goo(W footing. Once safe
across, we turnecf our faces down
stream, and In a little time came to the
deserted glade with the embers of the
kldnnpers' Are glowing dully In the
midst.
Here a sign of some later visitants
than Falconnet's horsemen set us war
ily on our guard. The tepee-lodge of
dressed skins, which had been left un
disturbed by the sham rescuers, had ;
vanished.
"Umph! The redskins have been
back to make sure o’ what they left be
hind," snid Yeates, In a whisper. "I i
Jlng! that’s Jest the one thing I was i
a-hoptng they'd forget to do. I reckon
ez how that spiles our last living
•hance o’ finding anything that mought
help slack off on the belly-pinch.”
So he said, but for this once his wis
dom was at fault and tricky fortune
favored us. When we had found the
covert in the bushes where the two
horses had been concealed we lighted
upon a precious prize. ’Twas a bag
of parched corn In the grain; some
share of the provision of the captive
party overlooked by those who had
returned to gather up the leavings.
With this treasure-trove we made all
haste to rejoin our companions. And
now behold what a miracle of reanlma
tlon may be wrought by a few hand- <
fuls of bread grain! In a thrice the , :
Catawba had found a water-worn
stone to serve for a mortar, and an
other for a pestle. These and the bag
of corn were carried back to a shel
tered ravine which we had crossed on
our late advance; and here the Indian
fell to work to grind the corn into
coarse meal, whilst Yeates and I kin
dled a Are to heat the baking-stones.
In these preparations for the break
ing «f our long fast even Richard be
stirred himself to help; and when the
cakes were baked and eaten—with
what zestful sharp-sauce of appetite
none but the famished may ever know
—we were all in better heart, and bet
ter able to face the new and far more
desperate plight In which our lack of
common foresight had entangled us.
For now, since we knew the fult ,
measure of the peril menacing our dear
lady, there was need for swift deter
mination and a blow as swift and sure; |
a coup de main which should atone In
one shrewd push for the sleeveless
failure of the night. So we would grip j
hands around, even to the stolid Indian, ;
and swear a solemn oath to cut the j
women out or else leave our bones to ,
whiten In the forest wilderness.
You'll laugh at all these vowings and
handstriklngs, I dare say, and protest
there was a deal of such fustian he
roics In your doddering old chronicler’s '
day.
Mayhap there was. But, my dears, I
I would you might remember as you j
laugh that we of that simple-hearted
elder time lived by some half-century
nearer to that age of chivalry you dote
on—in the story books. Also, I would
you might mingle with your merriment
a little of the saving grace of char
ity; letting it hint that, perchance,
these you call "heroics" were but the
free, untrainmeled folk-speech of that
slncerer natural heart which you have
learned to silence and suppress. For
I dare affirm that now, as then and al
ways, there will be some spark of the
Promethean fire In every heart of man
or maid, else this would indeed be a
sorry world to live In.
So, a&. I say, we four struck hands
anew Mi the desperate venture; and,
after carefully burying the Are to the
end that it might not betray us while
we slept, we burrowed in the nearest
leaf bed to snatch an hour or two of
rest before the tolls and hazards of
the chase should begin afresh.
In the thick darkness following hard
upon the doutlng of the Are. I saw not
who my nearest bedfellow might be.
But ere I slept & band was laid on my
shoulder, and a voice that I knew well,
said: “Are you waking yet. Jack?”
I said I was; and at that my poor
lad would blurt out all hts sorrow and '
shame for the mad At of despair that .
had set him on to rail and curse |
"you will say with good reason that
I am but a sorry Jockey for a friend—
to fly out at you like a madman as I
did.” he added, by way of fitting epi
logue; and to this I gave him the an
swer he wished, bidding him never lei
a thought of It spoil him of the rest hi
needed.
"The debt of obligation and forgive
ness Is all upon the other side, as you
will some day know. Dick, my lad,*
said I. hovering, as a coward alway.
will, upon the lnuendo-edge of the con
fession he will never make.
He mistook the pointing of this pro
test, as he was bound to.
"Never say that, Jack. ’Twould bi
a dog-ln-the-manger trick In me t*t
blame you for loving her. And slnci
you speak of debts, I do protest I owi
you somewhat, too. With so fair a
chMnce to cut” a clean swath In that
fair-weather month at Appleby Hun
dred. another man would have left ms
scant gleanings In the field, I'll bs
bound; whereas—”
"Damn you!” I broke In roughly,
"will you never have done and go to
sleep?" And so, taking surly harsh
ness for a mask when my heart was
nigh bursting with shame and grief, I
turned my back and cut him off.
XXIV.
HOW WE FOUND THE SUNKEN
VALLEY.
Looking back upon the hazards and
chance-takings of our adventure in the
wilderness, I recall no more promising
risk than that we ran by sleeping un
sentrled within rifle shof, for aught we
knew, of the camp of the enemy.
But touching this, ’tls only on the
mimic stage of the romances that the
players rise to the plane of superhuman
sagacity and angel-wlt, never faltering
In their lines nor betraying by slip or
tongue-trip their kinship with common
humankind. Being mere mortals, we
were not so endowed; we were but four
JUtwearled men, well spent In the long
vhase, with never a leg among us fit
to pace a sentry beat nor a decent
wakeful eye to keep It company. So,
is I have said, we took the risk and
ilept; would have slept as soundly, I
lare say, had the risk been twice as
treat.
We were astir at the earliest graying
>f the dawn, Richard and I, and were
the laggards of the company at that,
ilnce the old hunter was already out
ind away, and the Indian had kindled
i Are and was grinding more of the
larched corn for the morning meal.
Dick sat up in his leaf litter, yawning
Ike a sleepy giant.
‘ Lord, Jack,” said he, "If ever we win
>ut of this coll with a full day to spare,
i mean to sleep the clock hands twice
iround at a stretch, I promise you.
Twas but a catch, this cat-nap; no
nore than enough to leave a bad taste
n the mouth."
“Aye, but the taste may be washed
>ut,” said I. "I am for a dip In the
•Iver; what say you?”
He took me at the word, and we had
in eye-opening plunge In the spring
mid flood of the swift little river at the
nouth of our ravine. 'Twas most mar
velous refreshing, and with appetites
iharp set and whetted by the stripping
tnd plunging we were back at the Are
n time to give good day to Ephraim
Ifeates, at that moment returned with
he hindquarters of a fine yearling
nick, fresh killed, across his shoulders.
Seeing the deer’s meat, we would
hlnk the old hunter’s thrift of the
lawn sufficiently accounted for, but
when the cuts were a-broil we were
nade to know that the buck was mere
y a lucky incident In the early morn
ng scouting.
Taking time by the forelock, the old
jorderer had swept a circle of recon
naissance around our halting place, “to
fet the p'lnts of the compass,” as he
would say. Ills first discovery was
hat the ford we had found In the dark
less served as the river crossing of an
indent and well used Indian trace.
Uong this trace from the eastward the
lowder train had come, no longer ago
han mid-afternoon of yesterday, and
irguing from this that the night camp
>f the band would be but it short march
0 the westward, Yeates had pushed on
:o feel out the enemy’s position.
For a mile or more beyond the ford
le had trailed the convoy easily. The
:nd!an trace or path, well trampled by
he numerous horses of the cavalcade,
lollowed the up-stream windings of the
iwift river straight Into the eye of the
western mountains. But In the eye it
lelf, a rocky defile where the slopes
in each hand became frowning battle
nents to narrow valley and stream, the
me to a darkling gorge, the other to
1 thundering torrent, the trail was lost
is completely as If the powder con
voy had vanished Into thin air.
Here was a fresh complication, and
>ne that called for Instant action. We
lad counted upon a battle royal In any
ittempt to rescue the women, but that
v'alconnet, Impeded as he was by the
flow movements of the powder cargo,
vould slip away, was a contingency for
which we were wholly unprepared.
So, as you would guess, the hunter
jreakfast was hurriedly dispatched,
ind by the time the sun was shoulder
nigh over the eastern hills we had bro
ken camp and crossed the river, and
were pressing forward to the gorge of
Reappearance.
(Continued Next Week.)
What a Square-Jawed Man Is Doing.
New York Telegram to the Pittsburg
Gazette: It takes power and englneei
ing skill to raise a row of ten houses at
me operation and to throw them high
enough to build stores under them. This
Is the undertaking begun today In
Harlem. Engineers and contractors
who are watching the Job declare It
will be impossible, but the men bossing
the performance say they will get the
houses up in the way Intended or
"bust.” To add to the remarkable
character of the whole affair all the
families in the houses continue to live
In them. The raising process will bo
done only a fraction of an Inch at a
time, and it is thought it will be ac
complished without damage of any
kind. When the block has been put up
about fifteen feet on stilts, stores will
be built under them, and the former
habitue of the neighborhood who has
been away a few weeks will not rec
ognize the street when he comes back.
That is the promise of the contractor,
and he- is a square-jawed, sturdy fellow,
who seems to understand his business.
A Yankee Trick in Matches.
New' York Times: "Will you let me
have a few matches?” asked the cigar
et smoker at a bar up in Connecticut
the other day. and the bartender passed
out a long box containing matches
twice the usual length.
"What are these big sticks for?" ask
ed the youth.
"To make the maches awkward to
carry away,” explained the bartender.
"Every smoker who spends a nickel for
a drink used to fill his vest pocket with
matches, and it cost me a prettv penny.
I tried 'safety matches,' and each one
would take a box of them. Then I
caught on to this Yankee trick. These
matches won’t go into a vest pocket,
and a box of them lasts as long as a
gross of the others. My match bill
amounts to almost nothing now.”
Resignation.
Yonkers Statesman: Th» Waiter—How
will you have your steak today?
The Crank—Oh, 1 suppose burned, as
usual.
PECULIAR METHODS j
OF SETTLING DISPUTES:
Fantastic Contests That Have ^
Tried Men’s Nerve and
Courage.
FRENCH ARE MOST WARY
They Generally Devise Some Scheme
to Avoid All Possibility of Meet
ing with Any Personal
Injury.
Tit-Bits: Two heavy weights suspend
ed from a beam by slender cords were
the weapons chosen by two Parisians
named Durier and Volson to terminate
their rivalry for the hand of a pretty
actress. Beneath a weight each took
his stand, there to remain until the
breaking of one or the other of the
cords should decide hls fate. For more
than four hours they remained motion
less, when the cord attached to Durier’s
weight snapped, and the ponderous
mass of metal, falling upon the man be.
neath, struck him to the ground. For
tunately, however, It Just missed his
head, and he escaped with no worse
damage than a severe shock and a
broken collar bone.
Somewhat prolonged was the duel
waged a few years back at a well
known Yorkshire seaside resort to de
cide which of two young men should
surrender his claim to the hand of a
local publican’s daughter. The rivals
both prided themselves upon their nata
tory prowess, so It was agreed that he
who should first miss hls morning's
swim In the open should withdraw hls
pretension to the lady's hand. For nine
months and more each took hls matu^
tlnal swim, but at length there came a
Jay of such furious storm that one
‘.urned faint-hearted and refused to
Jare the tempestuous billows. The oth
er, however, at considerable risk,
dashed Into the roaming sea, and, al
though he was badly cut and bruised,
emerged a triumphant wooer.
Another aqueous duel occurred two
years sines, the location being the Lake
it Geneva, and the contestants a Swiss
named Zellner and Lenoir, a French
man, agreed that he who could remain
the longest beneath the surface of the
water should without Interruption or hin
drance from the other be permitted to pay
hls addresses to the daughter of a wealthy
tradesman. The rivals dived simultan
eously, and more than two minutes elapsed
ere Zellner's head appeared above the'sur
face. There was no sign, however, of hls
rival, after whom, when yet another two
minutes had sped, a couple of onlookers
dived and succeeded In recovering hls
senseless body. Restoratives were suc
cessfully applied, and on Lenoir's recov
ering consciousness he was acclaimed the
victor.
At the time of Succl's forty-day fast at
the Westminister aquarium, some years
ago, a couple of young Mancunians agreed
by emulating hls example, to decide which
of them should first propose for the hand
of a girl who had hitherto regarded them
;with a seemingly Impartial affection. Four
days was sufficient ordeal for one, who,
refusing any longer to abstain from food,
Igft the field clear to his rival, whose pro
posal, however, met with scant consider
ation from the lady, who declared that she
would not Intrust her future to the keep
ing of such a fool as he had proved him
self. Needless to say hls rival's reception
was equally glacial.
During a very severe winter In the for
ties a couple of Germans, natives of Dres
den, resolved, for love of a woman, to
fight a duel to the death. Without pro
vision of any kind and clad only In the
lightest of clothes, they went out Into
the country., there to remain without
shelter until one of the other of them
should succumb to the cold. Three days
after their departure a wretched object
crawled back Into the town; ten miles
distant hls rival, frozen to death, lay be.
neath the falling enow.
Trade Condition* in Morocco.
Ion Perdicarla In International Quar
terly: What critics Ignorant of trade
conditions In Morocco do not realize is
that the entire trade, both Imports and
exports, amounts only to about $15.
000,000 per annum, and that the ful
fillment of government orders for pub
lic works required to develop trans
port and other resources constitutes
the only Important financial operation
of the immediate future. If France
were -willing to assume the responsi
bility or expense of maintaining order,
she might have been entitled to reserve
for French syndicates alone such ad
vantages; but as It is, the kaiser Is
simply Justified It) Insisting that Ger
man merchants shall have a share In
placing tenders for these Moorish or
ders, tenders or bids which, unless thus
especially protected, would be defeated
by the predominant Influence which the
French profess the right to assert by
rlrtue of the Anglo-French agreement
of April, 1904, and the subsequent
Franco-Spanish agreement. The only
way to secure this right to a share
In such enterprises Is for the various
governments represented at the Madrid
•onferenee In 1880 to hold the sultan
o that agreement, and to refuse to
recognize any right on the part of
France, England or Spain to guarantee
to France or to any power an exclusive
or predominating Influence in Morocco.
The authorities at Washington who
scored brilliantly by the energy they
displayed In securing the release of
Ralsuli's hostages from so painful a
predicament have now, also, taken up
a position which. In view of this lat
er and still more dramatic Incident of
the sudden appearance of William of
Hohenzollern on the Tangier stage,
would seem equally well considered
and advantageous. The department of
state asserts that should France an
nex Morocco the government of the
United States might accept without de
mur an effective occupation of the sul
tan's dominions assumed in the Inter
est of law and order, which It has
seemed of late beyond the sultan’s own
unaided power to maintain efficiently;
yet, falling such effective annexation,
the United States, as one of the sign
ers of the Madrid convention, must
look to the sultan himself to guarantee
the rights and liberty of American
Citizens throughout the territory over
which Mulal-Abd-el-Azlz, or his Mek
tiazen claims Jurisdiction.
A Shampoo for Dry Scalp.
A splendid tonic shampoo for a dry
scalp can be made as follows: Taka
two ounces of white castile soap, one
half an ounce of potassium carbonate,
eight ounces of alcohol, two ounces of
tincture of quillaija, twenty drops of
oil of lavender and eight ounces of
water. Dissolve In the water the potas
sium carbonate and soap, then add the
other Ingredients. Rub well into the
roots of the hair and then rinse well
In several waters. Dry, If possible, in
the sun, never In front of a Are, aa
this will make the hair brittle.
France Imitates in Shoes.
From United States Consul Ridgely,
Nantes, France: Among the features
of 1904 has been the general appear
ance of shoes closely resembling In
form anl style those made in the Uni
ted States.
The clumsy, ungainly and heavy
French shapes ear gradually disappear
ing. In their stead are coming grace
fully cut and finely finished shoes of
a decided American appearance. The
fact Is, however, that It Is rather our
shoe-making machines than the shoes
themselves that have come to France.
In any event, the American-appearlng
shoes which are now quite generally
seen In this city and elsewhere In the
provinces are made principally In Paris
with machinery Imported from the
United States.
This does not alter the fact that
some bona-fide American shoes are on
sale here, but they are much dearer
than the French made articles, and It
Is not likely that they will make head
way against the strong combination
which Is represented by cheap French
labor and prolific American machin
ery.
A Worried Debtor.
Kansas City Journal: Ned—I’m
dreadfully worried about my debts.
Jack—It must be very annoying to be
continually dunned.
Ned—Oh, hang the duns! What wor
ries me Is the fact that I can’t get
any more credit.
Relieved.
Chicago Record-Herald: "Ah!" she
said with a sigh ot relief as the flames
licked up the last bit of what had once
been her happy home, "that old Bible
with the date of my birth In It Is gone,
anyway."
His Reputation.
Judge: Jim Jackson—I undahstan’
yo’ve bin glvln’ folks de impression dat
I'm a liar.
Mose Possum—Nonsense! I allers
says yo's pufflc’ly honest.
Jim Jackson—Yes; but eberybody
knows yo’ nevah tells de trufe about
nuffln’.
M. Delcasse, former French Minister
of foreign affairs. Is now In his flfty
thlrd year, and is described as being
wiry and tough, with a round head,
closely cropped, a bristly mustache and
a locked mouth, Indicating a man cap
able of much toll.
Sound aa a Dollar.
Monticello, Minn., Aug. 7.—Mr, J.
W. Moore of this place stands as a liv
ing proof of the fact that Bright’s Dis
ease, even in the last stages, may ba
perfectly and permanently cured by
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Mr. Moore says: “In 1898, three rep
utable physicians after a careful ex
amination told me that I would die
with Bright’s Disease inside of a year.
My feet and ankles and legs were bad
ly swollen; I could hardly stand on my
feet and had given up all hopes of
getting cured, when a traveling sales
man told me that he himself had been
cured of Bright’s Disease two years
before.
“He said he had taken to his bed
and expected to die with it, but that
he had been cured by a remedy called
Dodd’s Kidney Pills.
“I commenced taking them at once
and I am thankful to say that they
saved my life. After a short treat
ment I was completely restored to good
health and I am now as sound as a
dollar.”
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HOW TO FIND GROUSE.
Uncertain Birds to Which Rules Do
Not Always Apply.
Outing: The ruffled grouse Is one of the
uncertain birds to which no hard and fast
rules will apply, yet he has a few small
peculiarities of which advantage may be
taken. In wild, heavy w'oodland, his orig
inal haunt, ho has a weakness for two
things—an old tote-road, or any seldom
used road, and the bank of a stream. A
man trying a bit of woods with which he
is unacquainted probably will see more
grouse near an old road than anywhere
else. In hilly country, the lower slopes
of the ravines are apt to be the best of
ground. In level country, the long strips
of thicket bordering large blocks of stand
ing timber are Ideal places, and if the
thicket happens to mark the edge of a
clover field, so much the better. Never
pass even a small thicket which stands
out in a clover field with a wood upon any
side. Grouse are fond of clover, and un
til winter sets In are apt to be In any fair
shelter near the field. Later, In snowtime,
the borders and Interior of large woodland
swamps are the chosen places. If there
be a region of thick, low-lying forest, hav
ing close-grown beech ridges here and
there, these surely will repay the labor
of beating them, for they are almost cer
tal nto be the strongholds of all the ruf
fled grouse of the neighborhood. Old wind
falls and slashings are good because they
afford acres of the stort of shelter the
birds prefer In cold weather. Should a
single bird flush, proceed warily and ready
for instant action, for a second and per
haps a three or four stragglers may be
within gunshot of the spot. Ground good
for one bird may be as attractive to three
or four, although each Individual remains
some slight distance from the others.
When beating border thickets with a com
rade, I prefer to work in the cover about
along the line where thicket and forest
join. Most men will choose the outside,
but ruffled grouse almost invariably dash
for the w’ood, hence across the line of
fire of the inside man. Such shots arc
none too easy and trees have a knack of
getting in the way, yet as a general thing,
tli eoutside position means the most fun.
BABY’S INSTINCT
Shows He Knew What Food to Stick To.
Forwarding a photo of a splendidly
handsome and healthy young boy, a
happy mother writes from an Ohio
town:
"The enclosed picture shows my 4
year-old Grape-Nuts boy.
■•Siuee he was 2 years old he has
eaten nothing but Grape-Nuts. He de
mands and gets this food three times
n day. This may seem rather unusual,
but he does not care for anything else
after he has eaten his Grape-Nuts,
which he uses with milk or cream, and
then he is through with his meal. Even
on Thanksgiving Day he refused tur
key and all the good things that make
up that great dinner, and ate his dish
of Grape-Nuts and cream with the best
results and none of the evils that the
other foolish members of the family
experienced.
"He is never sick, has a beautiful
complexion, and is considered n very
handsome boy. May the Postum Com
pany prosper and long continue to fur
nish their wholesome food!” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville,” in ev
ery pkg.
NOTES ON SILAGE
By W. J. Fraser.
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An example of great loss owing to
the form and faulty construction came
under the writer’s notice a few days
ago, when a square silo, with a capac
ity of fifty tons was built, with air
tight, but rigid walls. Simply the
springing of the sides of the silo al
lowed the air to gain access to the
silage to such an extent that the en
tire fifty tons spoiled completely. Since,
for mechanical reasons, it is practically
Impossible to build a square wood silo
with perfectly rigid walls, the round
silo is the only proper form.
* • tfi
To obtain satisfactory results silage
must be in perfect condition when fed.
Since fermentation soon takes place
when silage is exposed to the air, the
silo should not be of too great diameter.
Not more than eight square feet of sur
face should be allowed for each cow in
winter; then, when feeding forty
pounds of silage per cow, a layer l1/*
Inches deep would be fed off daily.
When silage is fed in summer, it is ad
visable that the exposed area be not
over half this size, so that a layer three
Inches deep may be used daily. How
ever, much stock is to be fed, a silo
20 to 22 feet in diameter is as large
as should be built. If a silo is of great
er diameter than this, much of the sil
age is at too great distance from the
door, Increasing the labor of removal.
* • •
The deeper the silo the greater the
pressure and the more compactly will
the silage be pressed together, hence
the larger the amount that can be
stored per cubic foot. For example, a
silo twenty feet in diameter and forty
feet deep will hold twice as much as
one of the same diameter and twenty
live feet deep. This shows the ecdnomy
of reasonably deep silos. To be well
proportioned the height should not be
more than twice the diameter. No silo
should be less than thirty feet deep and
to get sufficient depth for a silo not.
over twelve feet in diameter, it may
be placed four or five feet into the
ground.
* • •
The number of tons of silage needed
san readily be estimated from the size
of the herd and the amount to be fed
dally. Even when it is desired to feed
is much silage as possible, not more
than forty pounds per cow should b«
fed dally. In Illinois silage will usually
be needed from about October 20 to
May 10, or 200 days. Each cow should
have an allowance then of 200 times
forty pounds, which is 8,000 pounds of
silage, or four tons per cow for the
year. A herd of ten cows will require
i silo holding forty tons; a herd of
thirty cows, 120 tons; fifty cows, 200
tons, and 100 cows, 400 tons. Where
young stock is raised an allowance
should be made for them.
HARVESTING CORN.
The time to cut com that is raised
for both fodder and grain is as soon
as the ears are nearly all dented. If
It is raised for fodder principally, it
may be cut while the ears are in the
milk If there Is danger of frost. Cut
all corn before frost if it is ripe
enough, as a frost reduces the value
of the fodder. If a killing frost should
come early, cut the corn and put in
shock as quickly as possible.
A corn binder that will cut and bind
thick com that is planted one bushel
or so on an acre, on rich mellow soil,
without clogging, and bind field corn
without knocking off the ears, is the
one to use, says R. J. Brooks in the
Northwestern Agriculturist. Use either
two or four horses on the harvester,
as three horses abreast tramp the bun
dles too much. Cut as near the ground
as you can so stubble won't bother
plow. Shock the corn just as fast as
it is cut, never leave it to lie on the
ground over night or through a rain
storm, if you can possibly avoid it.
It needs two men to shock to advan
tage using a shock horse, so that you
can see through the shock one foot
from the ground after it is finished,
thus allowing the air to blow through.
Every shock should be tied with
binding twine before you move the
shock horse. Use a three-fourths inch
rope with a knot in each end to tight
en; put the rope around the shock
about two feet from top. Let each
man pull at an end as they stand fac
ing each other on opposite sides, and
pull hard. Then one man takes hold
of the ropes where they cross and
holds tight while the other ties the
twine. Don’t use a rope with a ring
or pulley in one end and pull from one
end in tightening shock, or every
shock will be twisted and more liable
to go down before stacking time. Set
the shockrow in a straight line so a
team can follow It more easily in
stacking time.
Stack the corn as soon as thorough
ly dry, in small round stacks, keeping
the middle of the stack real full and
solid from the ground to tip so that
the stack will always turn rain if it
should come either when you are
stacking or feeding it out. Build one
stack in a place, so you can get at it
on either side when feeding it out. If
you are going to thra3h or shred don’t
put more than two small stacks in a
setting, as a very large stack of shred
ded fodder won’t keep as well.
Don’t tramp the fodder any more
than you can possibly help after it is
thrashed or shredded, as it is more
liable to heat and spoil, the more solid
it is packed.
Don't put shredded or thrashed fod
der by means of a blower into a barn
that is partly full of horse hay, as it
fills the hay with dirt more than it
would if a carrier were used.
Don't put any quantity of shelled
corn as it comes from the machine in
to a tight bin, or it will surely spoil;
rather spread it thin on a large floor
so it may be shoveled over and aired.
And last, but not least, don’t let tha
corn stand in the shock till winter, so
you will have to shovel it out of th«
snow and chop it loose from tha
ground. These don'ts all save dollars
in handling corn.
SHABBY FARMING.
About the shabbiest piece of farming
I have seen In many a day was a ry*
field, where the corn stalks from Iasi
year’s crop were standing. The owner
was trying to cut that rye, and the
trouble he had with the stalks will
keep him in ugly temper for the bal
ance of the season. But the lesson
has been a good one, even if it was
costly. I will venture that the next
time that man sows rye in standing
corn he will get the stalk3 down before
harvest time.
Brother Clarke finds his discourage
ments among his bees and we have
ours In the poultry business. We keep
a few bees as well and find what he
says is true. Our bees have loafed a
good deal this spring.
Russian officers In camp receive
money to pay for their meals, but In
many cases they keep this for other
purposes, and eat with the common
soldiers. _
Tired of bad treatment, the nursing
sisters employed at San Isidro, Spain,
went on strike, wrecked one of the
wings of a hospital and made a bonfire
of the medical supplies.