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Mistress Rosemary Allyn
By MILL.ICENT
Copyright, 190L by mCAS
CHAPTER IV.
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I Discover a Loss.
hied me home. I would dawdle
lessly no "more about Castle Drout;
riore lie on the heath making idle
'aius. as I bad been doing since my
ting with Mistress Rosemary Al
'Iv blood ran like fire through
B- veins as though I had drunk a
lilisni full of fiery Chianti. such as
i good old Knights of Long Haut
pt lor their guests. I was drunk
th enthusiasm and desire for Lon
n. Aye. London London was the
:lch before which my eyes were set
adoration. London the place
iere I had for the moment forgot
n a a bride awaited me an I
o?e.
I was so 'taken with these amorous
oushts that I heeded not where I
iS going, uiu u i i iuiu ""
as coming round the Manor wing.
30 suddenness of the collision near-
knocked us both over.
Well!" I exclaimed as he caught
e roughly by the shoulder.
"Aii, you!" he laughingly said as
I loosened me. "Better look where
are going methinks "
-Itetter look yourself, methinks," I
ocktagiy retorted.
"Lord Waters wishes to see you,"
; .said, now poberiy.
"You have neivs for me?" I asked
But with iu
I thought so bad news follows
uick apace ; one smells it in the very
iryoo and I are to go to London,"
admitted
To "London! Bad news! You have
ade-a mistake in the word, old fel
w, I repnei wiui a iauga ai ma
ace. Things were coming my way
ftliout the lifting of a finger good
nough.
I ahay? say what I mean and
lean niiai i iny. uun auu sec, uu
turned.
You are jealous jealous because
on are to be separated from the old
fcrd. and Noel no doubt left at home
i mtv him, whilst you follow the
iran fortunes of the young lord," 1
aid with mock humility.
Jealous of Noel?" he shouted back.
Not 1. Lord Waters knows that my
iglit arm is abler than Noel's in the
eliiiiK f young lords out of scrapes
-trust my lord for remembering his
vn joutii. 'Sdeath! Noel would be
ist in London I say it takes a man
f strength, strength of muscle and
f head, U tread that hell-raky place.
on! Waters would have kept me at
iime an he uau needed me. wuy,
amine! I served him when a slip ot
ljy, like you. I no better before he
nt-nt to Granada. Aye, 1 served him
.efoie h woman made a mess of his
ife. although, thank God! I was not !
'You have news
Ilh Vim tit the time, being called j
Li-me by a dying father. I could
iviiy a rale relato an I would." He
fuucliidcd. and as was usual with
!Lu when he touched upou any inci
dent in my father's life lie shut up
st Uriit us an oyster in its shell.
it was ttrange to be called a slip
f a boy by Gil. True as years went
I u-at- wIumi compared with him, but
six feet two and corresponding
Icoadih and muscle count for some
ttting. Gil was dwarfish in stature, with
srs2 to long they almost swept the
crouTid when he walked stooping
sightly forward. The strength in his
anus and hands was something pro
pitious. He could hang trom the limb
pf a tree and swing far out by rocking
kr body, propel himself into another
Tree, there catching a nranch as eas
ily as a monkey might. This strength
atnl aziHty bad earned him the name
el The ape" when a youth.
His head was massive and set low
toc on a bulky body. His face was
covered with hair, and bis mustachio
fcsd epiug ends elaborately curled
upward. Thi
tyle he had caught J
"m a Hidalgo when in fcpain. i&
yes new grey with infinitesimal
l''J?:ls I need not tell you that his
?i?U was the keenest. He was of
Sktss extraction, and had come to
London when a boy to seek a fortune.
Then bavins saved his life, my fath
er l"uund him to him by the closest
tie that can be knotted, the tie of
3?iitud.
We were a striking contrast. I was
ta?. asd muscular: not an ounce of
I suprSwous flesh upon me. I wore
o hair upon my face: it seemed a
n'thy habit to me and emanated from
a Kirg or fashion leader no doubt,
fcs had an imperfection to hide, as
zos? of our fashions.
'"Come." I said. "I'll to Lord Wa
ters to find out his disposition re
sar&n; the journey while you see
ila-'r-r Basii about the arrangements.
V '. man alive! 1 should think you
s'-.tii.i welcome the change you are
"airly rusty with inaction. You are
t'f:r::rans to shake, you are getting so
pi!cy. I'll venture to say that now
"o-:'dinjt be able to make that spring
frr.ta the trysting place across the
'rook, into the linden tree as you ence
eie."
Ves, that is my one consolation,"
te said, with no lightening of the ej-e.
kut T knrjr that he was as delighted ,
and excited as I was myself, despite
is years. "I shall slip off some fifty
Sounds or more. There is nothing so .
fcOpd for limbering up a fat man as
tfc& l.ooklng after young sparks."
'.'I'll try to help you to ease your
self, to the best of my ability," I re
turned graciously. "There may be a
1'uie pleasureable excitement for you
?en wjth young lords."
E. MANN
- LIXCOLX CO.
"Pleasureable!" he echoed. "That's
how one looks at it. I doubt me not
but that where there are swasning
petticoats there will be mischief
enough brewed to suit even the blase
palates of the young."
"Yes, no doubt this will bring us
some excitement," I said with a
chuckle, as I put my hand into my
pocket to produce the slip of paper
I had earned at the gambling table.
I intended to recall to his mind that
the few words inscribed there should
give us endless sport. My pocket was
empty! The paper was gone!
"What is the matter?"
"Matter matter enough," I replied
as I searched through my pockets,
strewing the ground with their con
tents. "Evidently," he said. "You look as
if you had lost a father or an equally
near relative."
"I have," I acknowledged with a
grim chuckle, "a nearer a wife."
No doubt my ruddy color did
change I was startled at first and
then vexed as I saw my frolic in
London dwindle away.
"What!" he yelled. "You have lost
the paper won at Arnold Lodge?"
"I have," I again admitted slowly.
"But you need not shout it to the
world besides Lord Felton is a gen
tleman of honor."
"Gentlemen of honor are rare birds
these days," he interrupted.
"And why need he know that I
have it not?" I finished my sentence.
"That I take it those Londoners will
not be lone in finding out," he said.
While Gil tramped up and down, I
sat down on a bench and tried to
think. I had not lost it upon the ride
homeward, of that I was certain; for
when I went to pay the maid for the
slipper at Castle Drout I had felt it
in my pocket. No doubt it had fallen
out on the floor when I had thrown
my coat upon the chair after stripping
for the duel, or it might be that the
thieving maid had picked my pocket
I cared not a jot for it did not a
pair of blue eyes hold me? Yet. it
was my letter of credit; with it I
could levy for pleasure and excite
ment where I pleased among those
gilded youths. Without it London
would be tame indeed.
"Gil. an you love me hasten to Cas
tle Drout," I said, "there you will
find the paper either on the floor or
in the possession of a black-eyed
maid. Get it from her by crook or
hook, for if it reaches London in her
keeping well, good-bye to a wife
the belle of Loudon town.
I kissed my hand airily.
"I see." he began slowiy. "A black
eyed maid a pale blue satin slipper"
he pointed to it on the ground, "a
bleeding shoulder a
duel without
for me?" t asked.
doubt." he now pointed to my shoul
der, "the play opens at Long Haut."
He chuckled dryly.
"Yes, a duel," I admitted with a
grin. "I bid you keep away from a
slender youth. He's an adept with
the rapier."
"If he has bested you. well I may,'
he said. "As for the thieving jade.
I'll throttle her."
Get the paper from her before you
succumb to her charms," I called
after him.
He sniffed disdainfully at that and
strode off, resoluteness in his eye
CHAPTER V.
Lord Waters' Message.
I went into the house and down a
long corridor until I reached the nook
known as the library. Here my fath
er was wont to spend most of his
time. A quiet "herein" came in re
sponse to my resounding' knock. It
dampened my ardor so still was it in
contract to my impetuousity, and re
called most vividly what was on the
verce of slipping my mind, that Lord
-aters was a wretchedly sick man.
His life, as Gil had said, had been
ruined by a woman his first wife.
From a gay cavalier about that un
fortunate King Charles 1. court, he
had become a morose Roundhead. A
Roundhead for a short time only, but
a morose man ever afterward.
It is a matter of history how after
leaving the King's side and serving
Cromwell at both the battles of
Winceby and Marsden, he had as sud
iioniv rRiETid from the army and
I gone to his estate afc Long Haut in
Sussex county. There he mamea.
having previously obtained a divorce
from his first wife, a squire's daughter
who brought him much land and gold.
What could have induced him to
marry again after such a dire failure
I know not. Men are inscrutable crea
tures; no doubt a woman's tender
glances made him for the time forget
his former disappointment.
I was the issue of this second mar
ntlP creature '
nue creature.,
i nage
My mother, a g
dying in child birth, left Lord Waters
to again face an existence which had
slight charm for him.
Long Haut was not so many miles
from London as the crow flies, but
separated from it by sloughs, rocky
hills and morasses.
The Manor House was built on a
steep hill of bowlders taken from the
rocky hillside. It was well nigh im
pregnable, and that perhaps was why
in the many changes of Parliament it
had been left to the indisputable
rights of its original owners, when
many other estates changed hands.
Only one horse road led to it. It
was a road that in fair weather was
only fair, but in foul an nnapproach
The wagon must be of
abl" way.
strong timber that could even etoab
to where the bridle path began; but
let it rain, and It rained often in that
region by the sea. the road became a
river of mud. A cart trying to ascend
then would be burled up to the hubs
and needs be forced to stay there un
til spring dried up the slough.
The Manor was surrounded by
many acres of forest, fen, fell and
some tillable land. A village which
was held in fief of some hundred
souls was huddled at its purlieu and
gave Lord Waters little obligation.
They seemingly rendered him. scant
service, except at the planting in the
spring time, and in the autumn there
gathered together a motley, half-savage
crowd consisting of men, wom
en and children and they all fell to
work at the husking and flailing of
the corn.
When the work was done, riotous
fun began. Flaming torches of tarred
pine were placed at intervals in the
open to give light and to piece out
the harvest moon. These lent a welM L
aspect to the glen.
A long board was spread with
trenchons of steaming beef, huge plies
of black bread and other edibles, and
about this the people were benched.
It did not take them long to lighten
the table of its weight of plenty.
Hogsheads of strong home-brewed ale
helped wash and pack down the bee!
in the bellies of the men. till they
were like taut drawn drum heads that
a touch might burst.
(To be continued.)
DALY READY WITH IMPROMPTU.
Wit of Pooular Comedian Shown
in
Bad Situation.
A theatrical manager of New York
was talking the other day at the
Players about the late Dan Daly.
"No man." he said, "ever had a
stronger, finer sense of humor than
Daly. In the second act of an old
melodrama Daly, in the role of a
poacher, was supposed to be killed. A
rival poacher, after shooting him, ran
off. and the curtain descended on the
dead man lying alone in the center
of the stage.
"The piece was playing in a small
town. At the end of the second act
Daly was duly shot, and the murderer
duly made his esacape. Something,
however, went wrong with the curtain
and it did not descend.
"It came down to within seven feet
or so of the stage, and there it stuck.
Then hoarse whispers and frantic or
ders, given in low, hoarse voices,
sounded in the wings. The audience
tittered.
"Suddenly the dead man rose. He
rose wearily. He advanced to the foot
lights. "'No rest even in the grave,' he
said, in a sepulchral tone.
"Then with his long, thin arms he
reached up and pulled the curtain
down."
Two Tales of Dan Leno.
"M. A. P." tells among other stories
about the late Dan Leno, London
famous music hall comedian:
One evening Leno. walking along
the Strand, stopped in front of a
street musician. "What are you doing
singing in the streets? said Leno;
"you oughtn't to be doing that, you
know. The bewildered minstrel could
only stammer forth: "Well, guv'nor,
I've got to do suthin' for a livin'."
Nonsense," said Dan. "Here, take
this." and he put a five pound note
in the astonished man's hand. The
man looked at it for one bewildering
moment and then bolted as fast as his
legs could carry him.
Recently he visited his club. Ad
dressing an old waiter, he said: "Mau
rice, how long have you been working
for this club?" "Ever since it wa
started. Mr. Leno." "And what was.
the biggest tip you ever received?"
"Two sovereigns." "Well, my boy."
said Leno. "I'll make that fellow look
foolish. Here is a fiver for you. And.
by the way, Maurice, what was the"
name of the fellow who gave you twe
pounds?" "Well. Mr. Leno." said Mau
rice, "it was yourself, sir."
Christian Names Not for Horses.
The practice of naming horses aftet
eminent persons is common in Eng
land and France, but In Russia it it
considered disrespectful by some
judges of manners. A Russian sports
man has named a promising filly Elea
nora Duse. as a mark of his esteem foi
the celebrated actress. He is severely
rebuked in the Russian papers. "If
this should be tolerated," they say.
"we shall be having horses called
after Tolstoi and other national
worthies. Nay. Kourapatkin himself
will be saddled or turned out to grass
The censor ought to stop the abuse
of the names of Christians. Is the
holy synod asleep?" A Russian may
call his dog Caesar, of Pompey, fot
they were pagans, and their memory
is not revered by members of the
orthodox church. But suppose some
reckless subject of the czar should
call his dog or horse Pobiedonostzeff.
what would the holy synod say then?
London Chronicle.
Turned Down by Government.
"Poor Brown has given up all hope
of a government position."
-My. my! How did that happen?"
"Well, they took him before the civil
service folks, an' just because he
failed on geography, an spellin'. and
'rithmetic. an' sick, they ackchully
turned him down!"
"An what's he goin to do now?"
"Lord knows! If he dont run for
hieh sheriff I reckon he'll have to go
to teachin' school." Atlanta Constitu
tion. Brewing in Austria-Hungary.
The Brewer's Annual publishes fig
ures as to the total amount of beer
brewed in the twelvemonth ending
Aug. 31, in Austria. Bosnia and- Her,
zegowina (excluding Hungary). The
total amount is 19.899.174 hectolitres,
or 600.000 rectolitres more than dur
ing the preceding year. Thetax paid
for . brewing rose from 73,500,000
crowns to 76.000.000 crowns: 2,500.000
hectolitres were consumed as bottled
beer, the rest from the cask.
Not a Champion.
A party of friends sitting on the
t)i3zza in a neighboring town -were
discussing the propriety of playing
..j. After- n
certain games uu ouuuo. ..,-. -while
Mr. Lighthead asked:
"Do you think it wrong to play golf
on Sunday?"
"Well." quickly replied a real friend.
"I think it wrong to play such a game
as you do on any day of the week!"
Prices on Ocean Liners.
The tendency of prices on Atlantic
liners is to decrease the cost for those
who travel by steerage and to increase
the cost to those who make the voy
age first cabin.
Our grand business undoubtedly Is.
rot to see what lies dimly at a dis
tance, but to do what lies clearly at
i hand. Carlyle.
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BULBS FOR THE HOUSE.
For blooming in the house there are
no bulbs more reliable than those of
Roman Hvacinth or Polyanthus Nar
cissus, states Park's Magazine. They
may be grown in glasses or dishes of
water or in pots of earth, and in either
way can be depended upon for a fine
display of flowers during the winter
months.
Get large, well-matured bulbs, even
if you have to pay a little more for
them, for there is no economy in
growing the small-sized bulbs in the
house. The larger bulbs will not only
be sure to bloom, but each bulb will
produce more and larger flowers. A
large bulb of Roman Hyacinth will oft
en produce several fine trusses, while
one of the Narcissus will throw up a
number of thrifty flower scapes.
To grow the bulbs in water place
them so that the base of the bulb will
barely touch the water, and after the
roots push out the bulb may be raised
a trifle above the water. This is im
portant, as the water sometimes
causes the bulb to decay when partly
immersed. Secure them to their po
sition by twine or pebbles. Some
pieces of charcoal in the water will
promote its purity. After the bulbs
are placed set the vessels in a dark
place till the roots are well developed,
when light and moderate heat should
be given to develop the flowers.
To grow In earth use a compost of
rich garden soil, sand and leaf-mould.
well firmed in the pot. Maye a hole
large enough to sink the bulb half its
length, and press the earth well about
the bulb after placing, then water
freely. Set the pot away in a dark,
rather warm closet, till roots form,
then bring gradually to the light. If
you wish flowers to develop quickly
give more heat and sunshine. The
flowers are mostly finer, however, if
brought out slowly, in a cool atmos
phere and with not much direct sun
light There is more danger from
heat than cold. Start the bulbs in
December, if not already started. The
later plantings are not always suc
cessful. Would you get the best possible re
sults from the farm? Then never lose
sight of the necessity of closely iden
tifying yourself with your business in
all its principal details. There are oc
casional accidental successes with
which the person most benefited
seems connected only by proxy. But
these are only occasional and only ac
cidental. Close personal application
is essential to success in all lines of
business, and to the farmer this
means, as much as to any other man,
that it is his own hand that must
guide if he would achieve the most
good.
EVERGREEN TREES.
Evergreens are a class of indis
pensable trees which fill a very im
portant place in landscape work. bat
tree can take the place of an ever
green in the winter, when all other
trees are leafless and stand out naked
and cheerless against the cold ele
ments? In reply to a question some
times asked, "Are evergreens going
out of fashion?" I say most assured
ly, no, and I do not think they ever
will as long as mankind is capable of
appreciating the useful and beautiful
in nature. From the time these trees
are several Inches high in the nursery
row they are attractive and beauti
ful, and when they reach their full
growth they are magnificent. Nothing
gives a home a more cheerful and
trim appearance than well planted
hedges and groups of evergreens, and
the value of a farm is greatly en
hanced by the location of belts, groves
and hedges. The steady demand for
these trees proves conclusively that
their popularity is not decreasing and
that they are wanted not only on
farms, but on public grounds and
large private estates where the best
things are needed. Evergreens were
created ever green for a pur
pose, and no other tree or' invention
can supplement them. They are a
beautiful tree, and animals and fowls
will seek their shelter in winter or
.summer. Let every farmer arrange to
plant out a windbreak of these if he
has not already. Plant Scotch pine,
white pine, Norway spruce, etc.
Eighteen by twenty-four inch trees
are best, and ones that have been
grown in a nursery.
- All vegetables keep better at a low
temperature and. excepting in the se
verest weather, the cellar window
may be kept open during the day, at
least, if It Is on the south side. It
also helps to keep the cellar sweet
and fresh. We know there is no need
of an ill-smelling cellar. Vegetables
properly buried and an open window
in all suitable weather will prevent
unsavory odors. Have a regular time
for closing the window, as you do for
any other "chore," and all will be
well.
A BUTCHERING PLACE.
Every farmer needs a building
where there can be a fire to do the
butchering work. It is a cold ajd
disagreeable task to cut the lard and
sausage and do other work outside,
and it makes a muss to take such
work into the kitchen.
Some farmers use the washhouse
for this purpose. We know of one
farmer who neglected to put windows
in the room used for work of this
kind, and the door must be kept open
to give light. This is not much better
than outdoors.
Try to have everything warm, com
fortable and handy as possible when
you call in the neighbors to help you
with your butchering wofk.
If potatoes are stored where the
sun can shine upon them they should
be covered with old sackings, straw or
something that will keep the light off
them, for green potatoes are not sal
able Satan's hands are seldom idle, but he
Ukes to catch yours out of a job.
Ot I
OUR AGRICULTURAL EXPERI
MENT STATIONS.
"The experiment stations In the dif
ferent states are doing a great work
for the American farmers. They have
already repaid their cost many times
over, and their services have only be
gun. They are doing for the farmers,
things which need to be done, but
which the farmers are unable to do.
The average farmer has neither the
time, the money, the patience, nor the
ability to conduct original researches.
But it is necessary that sucn re
searches be made and for this purpose
the stations were established. Conse
quently they reserve the support and
the co-operation of every farmer.
There are often many ways in which
the farmers could be of service to
their station and through it to the pro
fession as a whole. Every such oppor
tunity should be improved. The farm
ers should also see that their state
legislatures aid the stations to the ex
tent of their ability. Money thus
spent is not wasted, but is invested
where It will give large returns. The
f armors should also Droflt by the
labors of the station to a much great
er extent than they do now. Every
farmer should secure the bulletins of
his station, and also such publications
of the United States Department of
Agriculture as will be useful to him.
and study and preserve them. By so
doing he will soon have a library of
the best agricultural thought at al
most no cost.
"It would make an army mule leagh
over his oats to hear some people tell
how they do not believe there is any
money in keeping chickens, or else
tell how this or that breed Is the best,
and then go on and tell of the superior
merits of the Shanghais or Cochin
Chinas of years ago. Surely the world
does move and some people get left
behind."
COMFORT ME WITH APPLES.
Comfort me with apples!
Rrir.iT th rim mellow fruit from
the
early Sweet Bough.
(Is the tree that we used to climb grow
ing there now?) . , ,. .
And Russets, whose cheeks are as frecKled
and dun . ,
As the cheeks of the children that play
in the sun. . ,
' Comfort me with apples.
Comfort me with apples!
Gather those streaked with red that we
named Morning Light. ,.,..,
Our good father set. when his hair had
grown white. ,
TIr- tree, though he said, when he planted
"The hands" of another shall gather the
fruit." . , , ,
Comfort me with apples!
Comfort me with apples!
Go down to the end of the orchard, and
1)11 II ff
The fair Lady Fingers that grew by the
spring: . ,, ,
Pale Kell-llowers and Pippins all burn
ished with gold.
Like the fiuit of the Hesperus guarded
of old. . . , ,
Comfort me with apples.
Comfort me with apples!
C-t the sweet Junietta so loved by tlie
bees.
And the Pearmain that grew on the queen
of the trees:
And. close by the brook, where they hang
ripe and lusli.
Go shake down the best of them
Maiden's I'.lush.
Comfort me with apples!
all.
Comfort me with apples.
For lo. I am Mck. I am sad and opprcst;
I come Kick to the place where, a child.
I was blest.
Hope i false, love is vain, for the old
sights I sigh:
And if these cannot comfort me, then
I must die! . ,
Comfoit me with apples!
Phoebe Cary.
The railroads, the banks and the
merchants are looking out for young
men who drink. They will have noth
ing to do with them. Young man,
drink not or you will be sure to be left
in the race of life. No doubt about it.
Touch not.
WINTER SPRAYING.
The spraying of fruit trees during
the winter should not be neglected,
says American Cultivator. Before the
leaves start the trunk and every
branch of the tree should be well
sprayed with a solution of one pound
of copper sulphate in twenty-five gal
lons of water to check scab, coddling
moth, bird moth, tent caterpillar, can
ker worm, plum curculic and San Jose
scale on apple trees, to be followed
up after the blossoms fall by the regu
lar bordeaux mixture of four pounds
each of sulphate of copper and lime
to fifty gallons of water. Some prefer
to use six pounds sulphate of copper
instead of four pounds, but we are not
sure that this is any better than the
other, while for peach trees that have
put out their leaves the use of three
pounds of sulphate of copper to six
or nine pounds of lime is thought
strong enough for fifty gallons of
water. But we are now speaking of
a winter spray before the leaves come
out. The mixture of fifty pounds
each of lime, salt and flowers of sul
phur is used on the Pacific coast for
San Jose scale, but in our Eastern
climate it does not seem to be as ef
fectual, as the frequent rains wash it
off. A mixture of pure lime made as
a thin whitewash and used on peach
trees two or three times in the winter
has been recommended as a spray
that will keep the leaves and buds
from starting early enough to be kill
ed by the spring frosts.
The soil settles around the roots of
fall-set trees during the winter, and
will be full of moisture In the spring,
and the trees will be ready to start
into a full and rapid growth as soon
as warm weather comes.
RAISE THINGS.
One way to keep up an interest in
farming is to be constantly producing
new jenerations of animals and
plants. Do not depend on buying all
the animals needed, but learn to raise
them on the farm. So, too. of orchard
tr and the small fruits; buy a few
to get a start and then increase by
propagation. The animals and plants
of most value are those raised and
watched while they are growing.
Of flowering plants and shrubs too,
we should be on the lookout to have
some new ones started, by division or
otherwise, to give to friends or to ex
change with neighbors.
Open the front cellar windows on
cold nights; keep shut on warm days;
this advice will be worth while, if
heeded.
BEN
SWINE NOTES.
It is best to bring the pigs up rath
er slowly until six to seven months
old, then if designed for the butcher
crowd them forward for forty to sixty
days.
Many farmers boast of being good
feeders. There are other things bet
ter for stock than continual stuffing.
Uncomfortable quarters and filth will
develop disease.
Even the hog enjoys being clean.
The hog is the farmer's friend and his
best money-making investment, there
fore deserves a clean feeding place
and more comfortable sleeping quar
ters than the warm side of a wire
fence.
When pigs are on a full grain ra
tion it is well to give what pumpkins,
beets, cooked potatoes, etc., they will
eat after having received their full
ration of grain. These foode have
somewhat the same value as bran in
equalizing a concentrated ration and
in keeping the bowels free and the
system cool. If fed before the grain
to fattening animals, they will be un
able to take concentrates enough to
make rapid gains, as foods of this
character do not cause the rapid ac
cumulation of fat.
If bran is used in making slop for
hogs add a little oil meal.
The pens should be cleaned every
day and plenty of litter furnished for
a warm bed.
The floors should be tight so no
drafts of cold air can creep in.
The house should be well ventilated
and still be kept above the freezing
point.
Use corn sparingly for brood sows.
Depend on peas. oats, shorts, barley,
roots and clover. Give them exer
cise. Feed the soft and imperfect corn
first. There must be a gradual in
crease in the quality and quantity ot
the foods, rather than the reverse.
Improved labor saving machinery is
a boon only to the man whose crops
are large enough to warrant the pur
chase. Stop and consider whether
you will save actual cash by buying
it or oniT lessen your own labor.
These are times for rigid economy in
everything but thinking.
KEEPING SEED POTATOES.
The success of the potato crop de
pends upon the vigor and condition of
the seed potatoes. Some growers
have adopted the following practice
with excellent results: When the pota
toes are dug. those which are to be
used for seed are stored in a dry, dark
shed or barn until about the 10th of
November. Just before freezing
weather sets in the potatoes are care
fully sorted, and those which show
the slightest signs of decay are re
jected. A layer of straw from eight
to ten inches thick is spread on the
ground and the tubers placed upon
this straw. The piles should not be
made loo large. The best results are
usually obtained from mounds three
feet wide at the base and piled up in
ridges as high as convenient. A cov
ering of straw is placed over the pota
toes, and this is followed by a layei
of soil from six to eight inches thick,
but before severo weather sets in
more soil is added, and when the
severest weather Is at hand more
straw or strawy barn manure is added.
The aim is to cover gradually as the
cold increases. This method of stor
ing potatoes seems to winter them
much better for seed than when they
are placed in root cellars or when they
are stored in mounus immeuiaieij
after they are dug.
Horseradish is just as palatable in
December and January as in April
and May. Dig some and bury it in
sand and get out a root occasionally
through the winter, and see how nice
fresh-grated horseradish goes.
HINTS ABOUT PAINTING.
Now is the time to paint the barn
and other outbuildings, as well as the
tools.
A cheap and durable paint is made
of Venetian red, linseed oil and lac
quer. Lacquer is a liquid drier, and
is used for the purpose of not only
making a better paint, but for caus
ing the paint to dry more readily.
The more lacquer put into paint the
sooner It will dry.
Paint all the buildings and tools,
and thus keep out the moisture and
double the life of the woodwork.
When you get a new brush hold it
with the hair end up and the handle
down, spread the bristles and pour in
a spoonful of good varnish, allowing
it to become dry. This has a ten
dency to prevent the brush shedding
its bristles when it is used and also
keeps it from shrinking and falling to
pieces.
As soon as you are through painting
wipe the brush clean and wrap it in
a paper. Then hang it in a small deep
vessel containing linseed oil.' In this
way it will keep clean and always be
ready for use. It is a mistake to keep
brushes in water, as it will not pre
serve them so well as in oil, and does
not keep them soft and pliable.
If your neighbor is of the kind that
always volunteers advice, just treat-i
him kindly, and accept or reject it
after he is gone.j Ten chances to one
it is the advice he badly needs him
self. DAIRY AND STOCK.
Shelter your manure.
There's more money for the farmer
in fast walkers than in fast trotters.
The worst thing for the training of
anv animal, human or other, is a
stick.
All who breed horses are not quali
fied to train them. The trainer re
quires a large degree of good sense
and natural tact.
We just suspect that some people
have stable floors that are not com
fortable for their horses at night and
not good for their health at any time.
Where cold storage cannot be had
one of the best ways to keep apples
fin rotting is to place them in open
barrels in a cool cellar that is of free
access to a troop of growing boys
J cr girls.
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Harvard to Study Stars f
BLiar-JtxAg1 3au
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W JffTp T I
Preparations are being made at the
Harvard observatory for the emplace
ment of the largest practical reflector
telescope in the world. There is a
larger one in Ireland, but It is said to
be unsatisfactory. The Lick and
Yerkes telescopes are big and power
ful, but they are refracting telescopes,
the distinction between the two being
that there is no lense at the receiving
end of a reflector for the light to pass
through.
This new engine for pulling secrets
down from the heavens will be estab
lished at Harvard out of doors, the
telescope being encased in a long
square casing of metal to protect it
LAWSON A TROUBLE MAKER.
Characteristic Incident in Career of
Boston Financier.
Arnold Lawson, son of Thomas W.,
tells a story in which the owner of
racing yachts and fast horses and a
strenuous pen is shown in a light that
must be called unusual even If it
seem to some to be characteristic.
Almost exactly across the way from
Mr. Lawson's Boston offices stands a
church, on whose broad steps there
gather each noon all the workmen
who may be employed in the neigh
borhood that day. Sometimes in that
al fresco luncheon room a hundred
laborers rub knees and exchange gos
sip. One day, when a good-sized
crowd was seated there eating, one
big Irishman suddenly clapped his
hand to his cheek, let out a yelp of
pain, and then swung his first into the
face of his neighbor on that side.
By the time they were nicely mixed
up another workman squealed, grab
bed his ear and punched the man be
hind him whom he suspected. That
was two fights under way, and in five
minutes there were seven, with a
crowd of two thousand looking on and
a policeman wildly telephoning for the
reserves.
"I ran up to father's private office."
says Mr. Lawson. Jr., "to get a better
view of things from his front win
dows, and what do you think I found?
There, behind the shutters, stood
father, convulsed with laughter, but
every now and then recovering
enough to take another shot through
the slats with a good stout blow pipe
and some bird shot." New York
Times.
Didn't Think Much of the Lot.
Representative Brownlow looks like
the Tennessee mountaineer that he is.
Stocky and broad, he tips the scales
at considerably over 200. as does
Representative Sims, to whom he was
talking yesterday.
"When I first ran for Congress."
said he. "there were several candi
dates in the race. We had all assem
bled at a certain town, and were on
one platform at a public meeting.
There was a rough old fellow in the
audience, who was looking the aspir
ants over with a critical eye. One of
them had done him several favors,
and he felt in duty bound to vote for
that man. who, however, he had never
seen before.
"'Not a very promising lot. are
they?' observed this mountaineer
philosopher after a while. 'Them's
only the kind we used to run for con
stable when I was a boy. Thar's my
candidate. I've got ter vote for him.
I'd given $10 if I hadn't seen him
first.' "Washington Post.
On Lack of Harmony.
Secretary Morton of the navy in
extending his congratulations to the
naval engineers on the harmony
which marked their recent meeting
Torsook the beaten path. "I have
been greatly pleased." he said, "to
note that you conducted your business
along well organized lines and under
recognized rules. Most scientific bod
ies are all too prone to pull in oppo
site directions, every member think
ing that he is carrying the whole
weight of the deliberations upon his
own shoulders.
"I have seen a great number or
scientific gatherings In my life." he
concluded, "and this is one of the first
which did not remind me of a short
story I once heard. A lot o'f water
bugs once assembled for the purpose
of making a trip down the Mississippi
on a log. The trip was .never taken
because every one of the bugs thought
he ought to do me iwiuB.
York Times.
"New-
"Wise" From the Bible.
A minister of New York had oc
casion to attend an out of town meet
ing one day. and had told his wife that
he would be home the same night.
As he was a man of his word, and
knew that his wife would become
alarmed should he stay away, he
wired her as follows when he found
that he could not get home:
Mrs. A. B. C. New York-Psalm V..
3 See first clause of verse.
A. B. C.
The mystified wife turned to the
verse and read: "My voice shalt thou
hear in the morning."
Profit in Diversified Crops.
It takes a hard blow at the pocket
book, such as a crop failure, to show
some people the advantages of divers
ified farming. Every poor wheat year
has been followed by the greatest at
tention to other crops in the localities
where the fai'lure was most felt. These
experiences have taught the farmers
that wheat land will do splendidly for
other thinigs besides wheat, and that
some of the other crops bring more re
liable returns. Minneapolis Journal.
Leek
When Completed,
from the weather. It will be hinged
on a float which will be buoyed la a
tank of water let into the earth. Th
tank will be of concrete and cement.
Work is now in progress, and when
all is finished, observers operating this
great reflector will find star and
planet study in cold weather much
more comfortable than similar quest
ing with refracting telescopes.
Why? Well, with the refracting kiai
of instruments it being necessary
that all telescopes should be operated
in the same temperature as the
warmth or chill outside the operator
must, of course, do his observing ia
the cold if a good night for star study
should happen to be frosty. These
telescopes are mounted Indoors, aad
the mechanism which swings the
great cylinder to keep the glass on the
object also swings the observer.
The reflector telescope may be
mounted outside and be operated from
inside. This is made possible by a
system of mirrors which enables the
operator, in a fixed position indoors,
to keep the object in view while the
telescope swings to keep in touch with,
the object.
SNva
DRESS OF JUNGLE WOMEN.
Costumer's Bills Not a Heavy Burden
on Husbands.
The low caste Siamese of the jungle
have few wants, and live like animals,
eating chiefly wild fruits and rice,
which they raise in small, cleared
spots, wherever they happen to tem
porarily settle. Like Karens, the Jun
gle people of Burmah, they are always
on the move, and in common with all
low caste Siamese are petty thieves of
an incurable propensity. Yet they ar
obedient Servile to an unpleasant de
gree for whito blood.
They manufacture nothing save
crudest household necessities and per
sonal ornaments from bamboo. Clothe
are of slight consequence. On the
jungle edge they go uncovered, men
and women, above the waist, the
panung reaching within four inches of
tho knee; but deep in the jungle they
are practically naked. Their single
implement is a long bladed. butcher
like knife used as a path maker, as
weapon( together with a wood spear)
and industrially in fashioning out of
tho ubiquitous bamboo their orna
ments, their buckets, their rope. their
string, their houses and the food re
ceptacles which take the place of pots
and pans and plates.
Nearly all of the jungle folk on both
sides of the Siam Burmah line tattoo
the thigh, sometimes from knee to
hip, more often from the knee to only
six inches above. The design may be a
turtle, or the much-dreaded tiger done
elaborately, but the one most frequent
ly seen, and the simplest is a sort of a
lace or fringe patterns in the middle
of the thigh, or just below the knee,
like a garter. The women do not tat
too, believing in beauty unadorned.
The Dirigible Torpedo.
An invention which, if the weather
be in its favor is extremely deadly is
the dirigible torpedo, controlled by
wireless electricity from ship or shore.
It is merely the ordinary torpedo,
loaded with its big charge of gun cot
ton and a firing pin the head to ex
plode the torpedo when it strikes, fit
ted with double rudders, one horizon
tal blade to steer up or down, one of
vertical to steer right or left: a stor
age battery for ordinary use and pro
pulsion, a wireless current transmitter
and motor for dirigible propulsion,
and an elevated tube to discharge a
small jet of sea water forced through
it by an electric pump.
An observer completely sheltered be
hind earthworks could send out such
a torpedo from shore, make it go miles
out to sea, wait for a battle ship of
the enemy, swim around it. dive under
it. and with certainty ram its armored
bottom with the flring-pm head. One
such station could defend the Sandy
Hook entrance to New York harbor
if the weather were always good.
Everybody's Magazine.
Sad Bereavement.
At the time of Mrs. Cleveland's
residence in Washington Leo Wheat
was her pet pianist. She rarely gave
an entertainment at which he did not
play.
One day she met him on the street,
and saw that he looked very sari.
"What is it. .Mr. Wheat?" she asked.
in accents of concern.
Leo drew his hand across his eyes.
"I am sad, Mrs. Cleveland," he re
plied. "Very, very sad. As a matter
cf fact. I have lost my wife."
"I am sorry." said Mrs. Cleveland,
somewhat surprised that he was not
in mourning. "When did it happen?"
Mr. Wheat sighed heavily.
"My wife got a divorce a year ago
from me." he explained, "and I have
only just heard of it." New York
Times. .
Carnegie Balked at $20,000.
Some citizens of Enid, Okla.. asked
Andrew Carnegie for money with
which to build a library and he offered
to give $10,000 if the town would raise
$1,000 a year for its support. But
Enid told Mr. Carnegie that $20,000
would be about the right sum. His
private secretary replied: "Mr. Car
negie notes that one mill on the valua
tion bings in $87'J. which you have been
spending in support of your library,
alto that the library facilities given
have been one room 18x20. He con
siders that a jump from an 18x20 to a
$10,000 building might suffice for some
time." Chicago Chronicle.
Religious Services in Hotels.
Rev. Henry Marsh Warren has be
gun the holding of religious services
,n New York hotels every Sunday
and is meeing with great success. He
uses the dining-rooms, which on all
occasions are crowded. Having shown"
that his idea is feasible and popular;
he is about to arrange a regular schedr
ule of services among the hotels. Mr.
Warren at one time was pastor of tk
Fifth Avenue Baptist church.
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