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COLUMBUS.
NEB.
Unburying a City.
HercHtenewn; the rich mad splendid
city that was buried, along with Pom
r,aeRnaadr8tabIae, by the eruption of
Vesuvius in A. D. 7t, U to, be 'dug
tress the mass ef tufa which covered
ft, and ita buildings are to be dis
doaed to view. Prof. Waldsteln of
Cambridge university has induced the
Italian government to consent to the
work, on condition that it be officially
directed by Italians, and that .the as
sistance of foreigners, financially and
otherwise, shall be unofficial Should
the enterprise be carried out, we
shall soon kave much light thrown
oa the manner of life of the Romans
of the first century- Herculaneum,
far more than Pompeii, was the rest-
of wealthy aad cultivated citi
Their houses were filled with
artistic objects and their libraries
contained the best literature of the
period. In a partial excavation nearly
2,000 manuscript rolls were found in
eae house. Pompeii was covered with
assail stones and soft ashes from the
volcano. Herculaneum was buried
beneath a torrent of mud to the depth
ef from 30 to 120 feet On top of it
two large modern villages have been
built General excavation has not
been undertaken, lest the stability of
the villages should be threatened.
Plans now making provide for tearing
down these villages, so far as neecs
aary, to get at the city beneath. In
he comparatively near future, says
Youth's Companion, we may expect
to hear reports of the uncovering of
fine bronze and marble statuary, of
beautiful mansions, of libraries filled
with ancient books, some of them fox
centuries known by tradition only.
In short, it will be as if we were
taken back more than eighteen hun
dred years, and were able to look
upon the city as its inhabitants sud
denly left it when Vesuvius poured
forth 'the flood of mud, molten rock
and scalding water upon the towns of
its seaward slope.
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that they don't enjoy my funeral." "
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A New War on Opium.
The Chinese government has fol
lowed its recent edict against opium
by stringent regulations which seem
to show a sincere purpose to do all
that can be done to suppress the use
of the dreg in the empire. The regu
lations provide that not only the cul
tivation of the poppy but the use of
opium shall cease within ten years.
No new ground can be placed under
cultivation for opium production, and
the ground now under cultivation for'
that purpose must be reduced one
tenth annually under penalty of con
fiscation. Persons already addicted to
the use of the drug are required to
use, an annually diminishing quantity,
and aU persona are forbidden to begin
its iise. Officials are especially en
joined to set an example of absti
nence. The importation of morphine
is prohibited, and measures are to be
taken to end the opium trade within
ten years. These governmental regu
lations, remarks Youth's Companion,
will be strengthened by a growing
pablic sentiment against the use of
the drug, which finds frequent ex
pression in the Chinese press.
A corollary to the efforts at en
forcing respect for the United States
army and navy uniform ia furnished
in a suit began at Leavenworth, Kan.,
against second-hand clothing dealers
'charged with purchasing uniforms
and equipment from soldiers. In all
cities near army posts the officers
have more or less trouble with per
sons engaging in such traffic, and
there is a strong suspicion that un
scrupulous dealers incite the soldiers
to this form of robbery of the govern
ment In the Leavenworth cases
laes of $1,000 were imposed on deal
ers found guilty, and the soldiers im
plicated are also likely to be pun
ished. The uniform is to be respect
ed when worthily worn, remarks the
New York' Post, and those who
offend by stealing it must be dealt
with accordingly, in the government
view, which is correct
Franz Josef, the emperor of Aus
tria, has a fad for collecting menu
cards, and as his stock is contributed
to by ther monarebs it Is a truly
wonderful one. His choicest speci
men is one used at the dinner given
by the czar to President Faure. This
-card" is a block of the rarest black
marble beautifully painted by a fa
mous French artist the names of the
various dishes being lettered in white
Ivory.
The Nashville (Tenn.) American
thinks that a man who mortgages his
house to pay for his automobile has
wheels In his head. This is the sub
stance of what that paper says. We
wish, says the Brooklyn Eagle, we
had room for the many wise words
which it employs to say just about
that
Kentacky's man and woman who
kept a plighted troth for 44 years
would not require a trial marriage to
determine their felicity-
Scholars are inclined to scout the
Idea that an eatirely new language
has been discovered in Africa. Per
haps, says Washington Herald, the al
leged discoverer simply ran afoul of
a baseball extra somewhere ia the
dark continent
The St Louis four-year-old who
twice saved his father's house Is a
real candidate for the Carnegie hero
lecauee he was perfectly inno.
it of any attempt at
XV.
TRAPPED AND TRIMMED.
There are two kinds of dangerous
temptations those that tempt us, and
those that don't Those that don't,
give us a false notion of oar resisting
power, and so make us easy victims
of the others. I thought I knew my
self pretty thoroughly, and I believed
there was nothing that could tempt
me to neglect my business. With this
delusion of my strength firmly In
mind, when Anita became a tempta
tion to neglect business, I said to my
self: "To go up town during business
hours for long lunches, to spend the
mornings selecting flowers and pres
ents for her these things look like
neglect of business, aad would be so
in some men. But I couldn't neglect
business. I do them because my af
fairs are so well ordered that a few
hours of absence now and then make
ao difference probably send me back
fresher and clearer."
When I left the office at half-past
twelve on that fateful Wednesday in
June, my business was never in better
shape. Textile common had dropped
a point and a quarter In two days
evidently it was at last on its way
Rlnwlv down toward where I could
free myself and take profits. As for
the coal enterprise nothing could pos
sibly happen to disturb it; I was all
ready for the first of July announce
ment and boom. Never did I have a
lighter heart than when I Joined Anita
and her friends at Sherry's. It seemed
to me her friendliness was less per
functory, less a matter of appearances.
And the sun was bright the air deli
cious, my health perfect It took all
the strength of all the straps Monson
had put on my natural spirits to keep
me from being exuberant
I had finally intended to be back at
my office half an hour before the ex
change closed this in addition to the
obvious precaution of leaving orders
that they were to telephone me if any
thing should occur about which they
had the least doubt But so comfort
able did my vanity make me that I
forgot to look at my watch until a
Quarter to three. I had a momentary
qualm; then, reassured, I asked Anita
to take a walk with me. Before we
set out I telephoned my right-hand
man and partner. Ball. As I had
thought everything was quiet; the
exchange was closing with textile slug
gish and down a quarter. Anita and
I took a car to the park.
We walked for an hour, talking with
less constraint and more friendliness
than ever before, and when I left her
I. for the first time, felt that I had
left a good impression.
When I entered my offices, I, from
force of habit mechanically went di
rect to the ticker and dropped all In
an instant from the pinnacle of
heaven into a boiling inferno. For the
ticker was Just spelling out these
words: "Mowbray Langdon. president
of the Textile association, sailed un
expectedly on the Kaiser Wilhelm at
noon. A 2 per cent-raise of the divi
dend rate of textile common, from
the present 4 per cent to 6 has been
determined upon."
And I had staked up to, perhaps be
yond my limit of safety that textile
nnM fallt
Ball was watching narrowly for
some sign that the news was as bad
as he feared. But it cost me no effort
to keep my face expressionless; I was
like a man who has been killed by
lightning and lies dead with-the took
on his face that he had just before
the bolt struck him.
"Why didn't you tell me this," said
I to Ball, "when I had you on the
phoner My tone waa quiet enough,
but the very question ought to have
shown him that my brain was like a
schooner in a cyclone.
"We heard it just after you rang
off." was his reply. "We've been try
ing to get you ever since. I've gone
everywhere after textile stock. Very
few will sell, or even lend, and they
ask the best price was ten points
above today's closing. A strong' tip's
out that textiles are to be rocketed."
Ten points up already on the mere
rumor! Already tea dollars to pay on
every share I was "short" aad I abort
more than two hundred thousand! I
felt the claws of the fiend Ruin sink
into the flesh of my shoulders. "Ball
doesnt know how I'm fixed," I remem
ber I thought "and he mustn't know."
I lit a dgar with a steady hand and
waited for Joe's next words.
"I went to see Jenkins at once," he
west on. Jenkins waa then first vice
president of the textile 'trust "He's
all cut up because the news got out
s&ys Langdon and he were the only
ones who knew, so he supposed says
the announcement wasn't to have
been made for a month not till Lang
don returned. He has had to confirm
it though. That was .the only way to
free his crowd from suspicion of in
tending to rig the market"
"All right." said I.
"Have you seen the afternoon pa
per?" he asked. As he held it oat to
me. my eye caught big textile head
lines, then flashed to some others
something about my going to marry
Miss Ellersly.
"All right" said I. and with the
paper in my hand, went to my outside
office. I kept on toward my inner of
fice, saying over my .shoulder to the
stenographer: "Don't let anybody in
terrupt me." Behind the closed and
locked door my body ventured to come
to 'site again and my face to reflect
as ntech as it could of the chaos that
was heaving in me like ten thousand
warring devils.
Three months before, in the same
sitaa;ia, -y gambler's instinct would
probably have helped me out For I
had not been gambUng in the great
American Monte Carlo all those years
without getting need to the downs aa
well aa to the ups. I had not and
have not anything of the business
man in my composition. To me. it waa
wholly finance, wholly a game, with
excitement the chief factor and the
sure winning, whether the little baU
rolled my way or not I was the
financier, the gambler and adven
turer; and that had been my principal
asset, For, the man who wins in the
long run at any, of the great games
of life and they are all alike Is the
man with the cool head; and the only
man whose head ia cool Is he who
plays for the game's sake, not caring
greatly whether he wins or loses oa
any one play, because he feels that if
he wins to-day, he will lose to-morrow.
But now a new factor had come
Into the game. I spread out the paper
and stared at the headlines: "Black
Matt To Wed Society Belle The
Bucket-Shop King Will Lead Anita El
lersly To The Altar." I tried to read
the vulgar article under whose vulgar
lines, but I could not I was sick,
sick in body and in mind. My "nerve"
was gone. I was no longer the free
lance; I had responsibilities.
That thought dragged another in its
train, an ugly, grinning imp that
leered at me and sneered: "But she
won't have you now!"
"She will! She must!" I cried
XVI.
A GENTEEL "HOLD-UP."
la my childhood at home, my father
of tea away for a week or longer.
working or looking for work. My
mother had a notion that a boy should
be punished only by his father; so,'
whenever she caught me la what ahe
regarded aa a serious transgression,
she used to say: "Yon will get a good
whipping for this, when your father
cornea home." At first I used to wait;
passively, suffering the torments of
tea thrashinga before the "good whip
ping" came to pass. But soon my
mind began to employ the Interval
more profitably. I would scheme to
escape execution of sentence; and.
though my mother waa a determined
woman, manya the time I contrived to
change Jier mind. I am not recom
mending to parents the system of de
lay in execution of sentence; but 1
must say that in my case it was re
sponsible for an invaluable discip
line. For example, the textile tangle.
I knew I was in all human proba
bility doomed to go down before the
stock exchange had been open an hour
the next morning. All textile stocks
must start many points higher than
they had been at the close, must go
steadily and swiftly up. Entangled as
my reserve resources were in the
coal deal, I should have no chance to
cover my shorts on any terms less
than the' loss of all I had. At most 1
could hope only to save myself from
criminal bankruptcy.
There waa no signal of distress la
my voice as I .telephoned Corey, presi
dent of the Interstate Trust' company,
to stay at his office until I came; there
was no signal of distress in my man
ner as I sallied forth and went down
to the Power Trust building; nor did
I show or suggest that I had heard
the "shot-at-sunrlse" sentence, as 1
strode into Roebuck's presence and
greeted him. I was assuming, by way
of precaution, that some rumor about
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aloud, starting up. And, then the
storm burst I raged up and down the
floor, shaking my clenched fists,
gnashing my teeth, muttering all
kinds of furious commands and
threats a truly ridiculous exhibition
of impotent rage. For through it all I
saw clearly enough that she wouldn't
have me. that all these people I'd been
trying to climb up among would kick
loose my clinging hands and laugh as
they watched me disappear. They
who were none too gentle and slow
in disengaging themselves from those
of their own lifelong associates who
had reverses of fortune what consid
eration could "Black Matt" expect
from them? And she the necessity
and the ability to deceive myself had
gone, now tnat i couiu not pay me
purchase price for her. The full hid
eousness of my bargain for her
dropped ita veil and stood naked be
fore me.
At last disgusted and exhausted. I
flung myself down again, and dumbly
and helplessly inspected the ruins of
my projects or, rather, the ruin of
the one project upon which I had my
heart set I had known I cared for
her. but it had seemed to me she was
simply one more,, the latest of the
objects on which Iwwas in the habit
of fixing my will from time to time to
make the game more deeply interest
ing. I now saw that never before bad
I really been in earnest about any
thing, that oa winning her I had
staked myself, and that myself waa a
wholly different person from what I
had' been imagining. In a word, I sat
face to face with that unfathomable
mystery of sex-affinity that every man
laughs at and mocks another man for
believing in, until he has himself felt
it drawing him against will, against
reason, and sense, and interest over
the brink of destruction yawning be
fore his eyes drawing him aa 'the
magnet-mountain drew Sindbad and
his ship.
But it is not in me to despair.
There never .yet was an impenetrable
siege line; to escape, it is only acces
sary by craft or by chance to hit upon
the moment and the spot for the sor
tie. "Ruined!" I said aloud. "Trapped
aad trimmed like the stupidest sucker,
A SICKLY WHITE."
me either had reached him or would
soon reach him. I knew he had an
eye in every secret of finance and in
dustry, and, while I believed my secret
waa wholly my own, I had too much
at stake with him to bank on that
when I could, as I 'thought no easily
reassure him.
"I've come to suggest Mr. Roe
buck," said I, "that you let my house
Blacklock and company announce
the coal reorganization plan. It would
give me a great lift and Melville and
his bank don't need prestige. My daily
letters to the public on investments
have, as you know, got me' a big fol
lowing that would help me make the
flotation an even bigger success than
SMAJSm WMAULM IM
jury caught up from the sttremely
humble level of-: reputed bucket aasp
dealer Iato the highest heaven oralgh
finance, that I be made the official
spokesmaa of the financial gods, ate
expresaioa was so ludicrous that I almost-lost
my gravity. I susneet'for a
moment he thooeht I had aoae mad.'
Hs manner, when he recovered hlat
self sufficiently to speak; waa ceir
tainly not unlike what it would have
een-had he'fouad himself alone be
fore a dangerous lunatic who waa
armed with a bomb.
"You know how anxious I am to
help you, to further your interests,
Matthew." said he wheedlingly. "I
know' no man who has a brighter fu
ture. But not so fast not so fast
young man. Of course, yon will ap
pear aa one of the reorganizing com
mittee out we could not afford to
have the announcement come through
any less strong; aad old established
house than the National 'Industrial
bank."
"At least yon can make me joint
announcer with them," I urged.
"Perhaps yes possibly well
see," said he soothingly. "There is
plenty of time."
"Plenty of time." I assented, as K
quite content "I only wanted to put
the matter before you." And I arose
to go.
VHave yon heard the news of textile
common?" he asked.
"Yes." said I carelessly.. Then, all
in an instant a plan took shape in my
mind. "I own a good deal of the
stock, and 'I must say. I don't lieu
this raise."
"Why?" he inquired.
"Because I'm sure it's a stock-jobbing
scheme." replied I boldly. "I
know the dividend wasn't earned. I
don't like that sort of thing. Mr. Roe
buck. Not because it's unlawful the
laws are so clumsy that a practical
man often must disregard them. But
because it is tampering with the repu
tation and the 'stability of a great en
terprise for the sake of a few millions
of dishonest profit I'm surprised at
Langdon."
"I hope you're wrong. Matthew."
was Roebucks only comment He
questioned me no further, and I went
away, confident that when the crash
came in the morning, if cornea it must,
there would be no more astonished
man in Wall street than Henry J. Roe
buck. How he must have laughed; or,
rather, would have laughed, if his sort
of human hyena expressed its emo
tions in the human way.
From him. straight to my lawyers.
Whltehouse & Fisher, in the Mills
building.
"I want you to send for the news
paper reporters at once." said I to
Fisher, "and tell them that in my be
half you are going to apply for an in
junction against the textile trust tor
bidding them to take any .further
steps. toward that increase of divi
dend. Tell them I. as a large stock
holder, and representing a group of
large stockholders, purpose to stop
the paying of unearned dividends."
Fisher knew how closely connected
my house and the textile trust had
been; but he showed, and probably
felt no astonishment He was too ex
perienced in the ways of finance and
financiers. It was a matter of in
difference to him whether I was trying
to assassinate my friend and ally, or
was feinting at Langdon, to lure the
public within reach so that we might
together, fall upon it and make a
battue.
Not without some regret did I thus
arrange to attack my friend in his ab
sence, "till," I reasoned, "his blun
der in trusting some leaky person
with his secret is the cause of my
peril and I'll not have to justify my
self to him for trying to save myself."
What effect my injunction would have
I could not foresee. Certainly it could
not save me from the loss of my for
tune; but possibly, it might check the
upward course of the stock long
enough to enable me to snatch myself
from ruin, and to cling to firm ground
until the coal deal drew me up to
safety.
My next call was at the Interstate
Trust company. ,1 found Corey wait
ing for me in a nost uneasy state of
mind.
"Is there any truth in this story
about you?" waa the question he
plumped at me.
"What story?" said I. and a hard
fight I had to keep my confusion and
alarm from the surface. For. appar
ently, my secret was out
"That you're on the wrong side of
the textile."
So it was out! "Some truth." I ad
mitted, since denial would have been
useless here. "And I've come to you
for the money to tide me over."
He grew white, a sickly white, and
into his eyes came a horrible, drown
ing look.
(To be Continued.)
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heeded to make th ashes sweet
Broad headed horses are the clever
est A farm without small fruits what
a barren, uninviting place it ia
A hole in the stable soon wears a
hole ia your pocketbock.
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pork cannot he grown
remember that
yearu work.
How would you Mae to
morning till night without water,
especially when working hard? R
member it is-Jeet as hard er evel
harder for the hemes. Water
la the middle of the day. evaa
it fa a Uttle extra trouble.
Look "out for dirty wheat
lags. Only the nee ef a microscope
will detect the dodder aad other aea
tone wheat seeds. Cleaa mill seat
can be used with preat by farmers,
but they should be sure cf the qual
ity of wheat they. are. haying.
Comer stoaea of
lag are. healthy hard;
care aad rigid selection ef
avoidance of uaaei
taminatioa; ability to make flaw
dairy products and to dispose ef them
ia the heat markets.
The pig must he a good mathemati
ciaa, for he la good at square root
It ia aa old saylag that the "Sheep
aever dies ia debt to ita owaer." and
the same may be said of manycowa
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A breeder has made the statement
that there are ao dun horses among
thoroughbreds.
Good ventilation win solve the
dampness problem ia the poultry
house to large extent
It Is claimed that grapes at two
fienta a pound are more profitable
than wheat at one dollar a bushel.
Hard work can be given the wen-
bred, well-cared-fof horse earlier than
to the other kind.
Study aad know your horse, his
strength, his speed, and never force
him beyond the limit
Cool the milk quickly aad thorough
ly, and the butter win keep -much bet
ter and longer.
Where corn stalks Is the main feed
the sheep should be given some
grata aad roots to balance the ration.
It la well to remember during these
cold windy days never to leave the
horse tied with his head to the
wind.
Heavy wooled sheep should not be
allowed to get wet, as the weight of
water is sufficient sometimes to pre
vent the animals from rising.
Some of those sweet apples you
don't know what to do with will be
a regular treat to the hogs, aad they
make good flavored pork.
Many a cow is encouraged to kick
by the rough, hasty manner of taking
hold of her teats at the beginning of
the milking operation.
The best milking machine which
man has yet been able to devise is
the four finger and the thumb com
bination.
Sometimes the obstruction in the
throat of cattle cannot be dislodged
aad relief may be found in pouring
down their throats Unseed oil or
warmed lard or tallow.
Green food is particularly advan
tageous to animals that are fed
largely on corn' in the winter. Cab
bage, sugar beets, turnips, carrots,
end the like are much appreciated.
Give the horse a dry bed to sleep
on. Clean his stable- every day. Sep
arate the wet bedding from the dry.
The wet that is not too much soiled
may be dried and used again.
The tops of sugar beets make ex
cellent feed for stock, and may be
well preserved in a silo. Sometimes
they are left on the field and the
Mock turned in to eat
Help is scarce in the south. Only
M per cent of the cotton machinery
is running,' as competent help can
nat be secured to run the other 20
per cent
What kind of care dees your stow
get? When through with It for the
season or even for a few days, al
ways cover the share and moMaoard
thoroughly with linseed oU. It wlR
keep it free from rue
wanted for use a little kc
aad a Uttle brisk rubbing will put it
In prime condition fer the werh.
When the Ice gets thick enough is
the time to begin ice cutting. Delay
may lose you your opportunity and
there have been 'seasons, yon know,
when the first chance has been the
last
One way in which farmers
to get good quaUty ef aeeda Is to in
form the seedsmen at the time ef
asking for samples that both the sam
ple aad the seed when received wifl
be sent to either the seed laboratory
of the agricultural department er
the state experiment station fer ea
amiaatloa. Oae lesson for the farmer which
they may learn from the railroads
that are discarding the small engines
and InstaUing the great moguls that
can pull 40 to CO cars each, is that
it is high time they discarded the
light horses and bronchos aad se
cured the big stout horses capable
of puUing a 16-inch to 24-inch plow.
An experiment tried oa a farm la
England recently shows that fields
can be so lUnmlnated by acetylene"
gaa that harvesUag may be easily
carried on at night In the test made
two mowers, each cutting a six feet
swath, were employed ia a field ef
15 acres, which was mowed in 3
hours and 35 minutes. The power
was furnished by a gasoline tracUea
engine.
Many farmers are workiag toe
much laad. They spread their ener
gies oat over so much space that
their efforts do not bring In the net
returns they, should. A good author
ity has stated that If the average '
farm of the central states, which
ranges from 100 to 150 acres, waa
cut into two farms, the owners would
prosper just as weU upon the smaU
farm without so much labor.
Make a working map of the farm,
noting on each section or plot of
ground the crop grown last the
changes that would be advisable ia
rotation, the plots most in need, of
fertilizer, where repairs are most
needed or special work must be done
during the winter and early spriag.
In this way the work on the fans
will be kept well ia band aad yoa
will remember some things that
would otherwise be forgotten.
A German professor named Ferdi
nand Luerick has gone to Colorado,
where dry farming is practiced, with
a chemical compound of Ida owa In
vention which he claims win whea
applied to the land mature oats aad
wheat from a month to six weeks
sooner than is now possible. The
compound he uses resembles sand,
and is made ap of tiny fakes, which
are drilled into the ground with the
grain when it is planted. If he
make good his claims it will be
great thing for the semi-arid
tions.
Anyway, the Man Who Wrote the
Story Says He Saw the Eggs.
Colonel Adoniram Van Rensselaer,
Mrs. Colonel Adoniram, Van Rens
salaer and daughters, .Miss Angelina
Clementina, and Miss - Dorothea Dul
clnea of Mocking Bird ranch, Screech
Owl township, came to town in the
cool of the morning in their forty
horse power auto to do a little trad
ing, the colonel and the Mrs. Colonel
calUng to see us. as everybody does.
It seems that Miss Angelina Clemen-,
tina'a French maid has a great liking'
for poultry, and to please her fancy
the colonel imported a setting of
high-priced French eggs.
In the poultry yard is a low, swampy
spot that seems to be the home of the
firefly, or lightning bug, and one par
ticular helpful hen stays out late of
evenings to catch them. She gorges
herself oa fireflies every evening, be
fore going to roost, and it was dis
covered a few weeks ago that the
egga laid by this helpful hen are noc
turnally luminous, that each egg is
of the brightness of an electric bulb
of a thousand international ohms, or
electro-magnetic unite, and that by
coating them with aa impervious
preparation they retain their bril
liancy for aa 'indefinite period. So
Miss AageUaa. aad Mtasy' Dorothea
painted the eggs with all the colors
of the rainbow blue lights for the
blue rooms, red for the red rooms,
white lights for the rooms done in
white, green lights for the hay mow,
always observing the proper effects.
The seventeen rooms of the home,
the barn and outbuildings are all bril
liantly lighted with these eggs, so.
the buildings, which occupy a prom
inent tree-embowered and vine-entangled
hill, can be seen for miles.
We accompanied Colonel Van Rens
selaer to the city garage, where his
forty-horse power auto was. Each
headlight of the machine carried an
egg instead of a lamp. Taking one
of the eggs into a dark room, the light
thrown off from it was of the bright
ness of the sun. and we were at once
convinced of the truthfulness of the
story. T. B. Murdock.
Comparatively few people know
that ringing a bell ruins it That Is.
a bell has a definite length of life,
and after .so many blows will break.
A 900 pound bell, struck blows of 17S
foot pounds of force, broke after 11,
000 blows. A 4,000 pound beU broke
after 18,000 blows of 350 foot pounds
force. A steel composition bell
weighing 1,000 sounds broke after 24
stows of 150 fsot pounds, but ita
maker said it waa calculated for a
lighter blow.
It is a good thing for the horse's
hoofs to throw the manure or wet
straw under so he can stand upon it
and keep his hoofs moist, but don't
let the soft manure get packed in the
shoe and stay there.
A farm for boarding horses Is re
munerative if one has good stables
end skillful attendants. You must
be able to return the horse to its
owner in a condition that will speak
well of the lied and care he Las re
ceived. Farmers' institutes should make it
a point to hae a Babcock milk test
er demonstrated at their sessions, as
there are many dairymen who do not
know how to use them. A good plan
is to invite farmers to bring samples
of their milk znd have them tested.
Experiments continuing for three
years at the Irdlana experiment sta
tion irith barnyard manure as a fer
tilizer for corz. showed that while
three tons to tie acre increased the
yield to 14.9 imhels per acre, six
tons made an Increase of but 16.2
per acre. Than the addition of the
second three tas of barnyard ma
nure, estimated having a value of
two do3srs per -an as a fertilizer, or
six dtdlsfu for She three tons, la-
yJK only 1 A hushela m
The experiment statioa at Stilli
ter, Okla.. is advertising its third
nual course in stock judging aad
selection January 7-12. 1907, anuoune
iog the purpose of the course to be
to enable the "fanners to get into
closer touch with the experiment sta
tion and the work It Is doing for Ok
lahoma fanners in the way of improv
ing agricultural conditions." Such
specialists as John Hamilton aad A.
D. Shamel, of the agricultural de
partment; Joseph Wing. A. P. Grout,
will deliver lectures, and there win
bo a fine display of German coach
and Belgian draft horses.
The following good story is told by
a fanner, which Illustrates the splen
did profit there is in successful breed
ing: This farmer's sister possessed
a quarter which she wished to invest
With it she bought a runty pig from
a neighbor. As the family lived ia
town this pig received all the slops
from tho house as well as from the
neighbors. When the pig was fat
tened she sold it for ten dollars. This
she invested in two sheep, which she
cave to her uncle, who lived on a
farm, to raise on shares. The profits
v.-ere put back into the flock the next
year. Gradually the flock so increased
that in a fow years the girl sold out
to her uncle for $540.
Xo sooner does science conquer
one insect enemy of the farmer than
another intrudes its unwelcome pres
ence upon the plant world. The cow
tinual expansion of the means of in
tercommunication between different
countries Is no doubt responsible for
much of this. The Paris Academy of
Sciences has just reported that a
kind of fly. Ceratitis capitata. has re
cently made its appearance in great
numbers in the environs of the
French capital, where it threatens
great damage of apricots and peaches.
With a view to combating it. success
fully, the French entomologists are
called to arms, aad the study of the
biology of this fly amid its aew en
vironment la France la already
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