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COEVAIililS,' BENTON COTmTI, OEEGON, TUESDAX, SEPTEMBER 23, 1902.
VOI. III. NO. 22.
A STUDY
IN
BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
CHAPTER VII Continued.
Mr. Gregson, -who had listened to
this address with considerable impa
tience, could contain -himself no longer.
"Look here, Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
he said, "we are all ready to acknowl
edge that you are a smart man, and
that you have your own methods of
working. We want something more
than mere theory and preaching now,
though. It is a case of taking the
man. I have made my case out, and
it seems I was wrong. Toung Char
pentier could not have been engaged in
this second affair. Lestrade went after
his man, Stangerson, and it appears
that he was wrong, too. You have
thrown out hints here and hints there,
and seem to know more than we do,
but the time has come when we feel
that we have a right to ask you
straight how much you do know of
the business. Can you name the man
who did it?"
"I cannot help feeling that Gregson
is right, sir," remarked Lestrade. "We
have both tried, and we have both
failed. You have remarked more than
once since I have been in the room
that you had all the evidence which
you require. Surely you will not with
hold it any longer?"
"Any delay in arresting the assas
sin," I observed, "might give him time
to perpetrate same fresh atrocity."
Thus pressed by us all, Holmes
showed signs of irresolution
He continued to walk up and down
the room with his head sunk on his
chest and his brows drawn down, as
was his habit when lost in thought.
"There will be no more murders," he
said, at last, stopping abruptly and fac
ing us. "You can put that considera
tion out of the question. You have
asked me if I know the name of the
assassin. I do. The- mere knowing of
his name is a small thing, however
compared with the power of laying our
hands upon him. This I expect very
shortly to do. I have good hopes of
managing it through my own arrange
ments; but It is a thing which needs
delicate handling, for we have a
shrewd 'and desperate .man to deal
with, who is supported, as I have had
occasion to prove, by another who is as
clever as himself. As long as this man
has no idea that any one can have a
clew, there is some chance of securing
him; but if he had the slightest sus
picion, he would change his name, and
vanish in an instant among the four
million inhabitants of this great city.
Without meaning to hurt either of your
feelings. I am bound to say that I con-
match for the official force, and that is
why I have not asked your assistance.
TP T foil T choll nf tAHFOa inMil fill tllO
11 A lull 1 Dual', v vuuiuvf suu. - -
blame due to this omission; but that 1
am prepared for. At present I am
ready to promise that the instant
I can communicate with you without
endangering my own combinations I
shall do so."
Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be
far from satisfied by this assurance, or
by the deprecating allusion to the de
tective police.
The former had flushed up to the
roots of his flaxen hair, while the
other's beady eyes glistened with curi
osity and resentment.
Neither of them had time to speak,
however, before there was a tap at the
door and the spokesman of the street
arab, young Wiggins, introduced his
insignificant and unsavory person.
"Please, sir," he said, touching his
forelock, "I have the cab down stairs."
"Good boy," said Holmes, blandly.
"Why don't ydu introduce this pattern
at Scotland Yard?" he continued, tak
ing a pair of steel handcuffs from a
drawer. "See how beautifully the
srrlng works. They fasten in an in
stant." "The old pattern is good enough,"
remarked Lestrade, "if we can find the
man to put them on."
"Very good, very good," said Holmes,
smiling. "The cabman may as well
help me with my boxes. Just ask him
to step up, Wiggins."
I was surprised to find my compan
ion speaking as though we were about
to start out on a journey, since he had
not said nothing to me about it.
There was a small portmanteau in
the room, and this he pulled out and
began to strap.
He was busily engaged at it when
the cabman entered the room.
"Just give me a help - with this
buckle, cabman," he said, kneeling
over his task, and never turning hia
head.
The fellow came forward with a
somewhat sullen defiant air, and put
down his hands to assist
At that instant there was a sharp
click, the jangling of metal, and Sher
lock Holmes sprang to his feet again.
"Gentlemen," he cried, with flashing
eyes, "let me introduce to you Mr Jef
ferson Hope, the murderer of Enoch
Drebber and Joseph Stangerson.
The whole thing occurred in a mo
ment so quickly that I had no time to
realize it.
I have a vivid recollection of that in
stant, of Holmes' triumphant expres
sion and the ring of his voice, of the
cabman's dazed, savage face, as he
glared at the glistening handcuffs,
which had appeared as if by magic
upon his wrists.
For a second or two we might have
b6en a group of statues. Then, with
an inarticulate roar of fury, the pris
oner wrenched himself free from
Holmes' grasp, and hurled himself
through the window.
Woodwork and glass gave way be
fore him; but before he got quite
through Gregson, Lestrade and Holmes
sprang upon him like so many stag
hounds. He was dragged back into the room,
and then commenced a terrific conflict.
So powerful and so fierce was he
that the four of us were shaken off
again and again. He appeared to have
the convulsive strength of a man in
an epileptic fit.
His face and hands were terribly
mangled by the passage through the
glass, but loss of blood had no effect
in diminishing his resistance.
It was not until Lestrade euccee'de
SCARLET
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in getting his hand inside his neck-J
ciotn ana half strangling him tnat we
made him realize that his struggles
were of no -avail; and even then we
felt no security until we had pinioned
his feet as well as his hands. That
done, we rose to our feet, breathless
and panting.
"We have his cab," said Sherlock
Holmes "It will serve to take him to
Scotland Yard. And now, gentlemen,"
he continued, with a pleasant smile,
"we have reached the end of our little
mystery. You are very welcome to
put any questions that you like to me
now, and there is no danger that I will
refuse to answer them."
PART n.
The Country of the Saint.
CHAPTER I.
In the central portion of the great
North American Continent there lies
an arid and repulsive desert, which for
.many a long year served as a barrier
against the advance of civilization.
From the Sierra Nevada to Ne
braska, and from the Yellowstone riv
er in the north to the Colorado upon
the south, Is a region of desolation and
silence.
Nor is nature always in one mood
throughout this grim district. It com
prises snow-capped and lofty moun
tains and dark gloomy valleys.
There are swiftly-flowing rivers
which dash through jagged canyons;
and there are enormous plains, which
in winter are white with snow, and in
summer are gray with the saline alkali
dust. They all preserve, however, the
common characteristic of barrenness,
inhospitality and misery.
There are no inhabitants of this land
of despair.
A band of Pawnees or of Blackfeet
may occasionally traverse it in order
to reach other hunting-grounds, but the
hardiest of the braves are glad to lose
sight of those awesome plains and to
find themselves once more upon their
prairies.
The coyote skulks among the scrub,
the buzzard flaps heavily through the
air, and the clumsy grizzly bear lum
bers through the dark ravines, and
picks up such sustenance as it can
among the rocks. These are the sole
dwellers in the wilderness.
In the whole world there can be no
more dreary view than that from the
northern slope of the Sierra Blanco...
As far as the eye can reach stretch
es the great flat plainland, all dusted
over with patches of alkali, and inter
sected by clumps of the, dwarf ishchag
arral bushes. '
On the extreme verge of the horizon
lie a long chain of mountain peaks,
with their rugged summits flecked with
snow. In this great stretch of coun
try there is no sign of life, nor of any
thing appertaining to life.
There is no bird in the steel-blue
heaven, no movement upon the dull,
gray earth above all there is abso
lute silence. Listen as one .may, there
is no shadow of ar sound in all that
mighty wilderness; nothing but silence
complete and heart-subduing silence.
It has been said there is nothing ap
pertaining to life upon the bToad plain.
That is hardly true.
Looking down from the Sierra Blan
co, one. sees a pathway traced out
across the-desert, which winds away
and id lost in the extreme distance.
It is rutted with wheels and trodden
down by the feet of many adventurers.
Here and there are scattered white
objects which glisten in the sun and
stand out against the dull deposit Of
alkali.
Approach and examine themT They
are bones; some large and coarse,
others smaller and more delicate. The
former have belonged to oxen, the
latter to men.
For fifteen hundred miles one may
trace this ghastly caravan route by
these scattered remains of those who.
had fallen by the wayside.
Looking down on this very scene,
there stood upon the 4th of May, 1847,
a solitary traveler.
His appearance was such that he
might have been the very genius or
demon of the region. An observer
would have found it difficult to say
whether he was nearer to forty or to
sixty.
His face was lean and haggard, and
the brown, parchment-like skin was.
drawn tightly over the projecting
bones; his long, brown hair and beard
were all flecked and dashed with
white; his eyes were sunken in his
head, and burned with an unnatural
luster, while the hand which grasped
his rifle was hardly more fleshy than
that of a skeleton.
As he stood, he leaned upon his
weapon for support, and yet his tall
figure and the massive framework of
his bones suggested a wiry and vigor
ous constitution.
His gaunt face, however, and his
clothes, which hung so baggily over
his shriveled limbs, proclaimed what
it was that gave him that senile and
decrepit appearance.
The man was dying dying from
hunger and from thirst.
He had toiled painfully down the ra
vine, and on to this little elevation,
m the vain hope of seeing some signs
of water.
Now the great salt plain stretched
before his eyes, and the distant belt
of savage mountains, without a sign
anywhere of plant or tree which might
indicate the presence of moisture.
In all that broad landscape there
was no gleam of hope. North, and
east, and west he looked with wild,
questioning eyes, and then he realized
that his wanderings had came to an
end, and that there, on that barren
crag, he was about to die.
"Why not here, as well as in a feath
er bed, twenty years hence." he mut
tered, as he seated himself in the shel
ter of a bowlder.
Before sitting down, he had depos
ited upon the ground nis useless rifle,
and also a large bundle tied up in a
gray shawl, which he had carried slung
over his right shoulder.
It appeared to be somewhat too
heavy for his strength, for, in lowering
it. it came down on the ground with
some little violence.
Instantly there broke from, the gray
parcel a little moaning cry, and from
it there protruded a small, scared face,
with very bright, brown eyes, and two
little speckled, dimpled flstt. V f .
. "You've hurt me! p said a childish
voice, reproachfully. . .-.
"Have L though?" . the man - an
swered, penitently; "I didnt go for to
do it." : : - ;V.
As he spoke, he unwrapped the gray
shawl and extricated a pretty little
girl of about five years, of age, whose
dainty shoes and smart pink frock,
with its little linen apron, all bespoke
a mother's care. ; - - '
The child was pale and wan, but her
healthy arms and legs showed that she
had suffered less than her companion.
"How is it now?" he answered, anx
iously for she was still rubbing the
towsy-golden curls which covered the
back of her head.
"Kiss it and make it well," she said,
with perfect gravity, shoving the in
jured part up to him. "That's what
mother used to do. Where's mother?"
"Mother's gone. . I guess you'll see
her before long."
"Gone, eh?" said: the little girl.
"Funny, she didnt say good-bye; she
most always did if she was just goin
over to auntie's for tea, and now she's
been away for three days. Say, it's
awful drv. ain't it? Ain't there no
water nor nothing to eat?"
"No, there ain't notnmg, aeane.
You'll just nee dto be patient awhile,
and then you'll be all risht. Put your
head up agin me, like that, and then
you'll feel better. It ain't easy to talk
when your lips are like leather, but I
guess I'd best let you know , how the
cards lie. What's that you've got?"
"Pretty things! fine things!" cried
the little girl, ethuisastically. holding
up two glittering fragments of mica.
"When we goes back to home I'll give
them to brother Bob." : -
"You'll see prettier thlnps than them
soon," said the man, confidently. "You
just wait a bit. I was going to tell
you, though you remember when we
left the river?" -
"Well, we reckoned we strike an
other river soon, d'ye see. But there
was somethin' wrong; compasses or
map, or somethin, and it didnt turn
p. 'Water ran out. Just except a M
tle drop for the likes of you and
and" ' -'.'-
"And you couldn't wash yourself," in
terrupted his companion, gravely, star
ing up at his grimy visage. -
"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he
was the first to go, and then Indian
Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and
then Johnny Hones,nd then, dearie,
your mother." -
"Then mother's a deader too," cried
the little girl, dropping her face in her
pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
"Yes; they all went except you and
me. Then I thought there was some
chance of water in this direction, so
I ieaved you oti my shoulder and we
tramped it together. It don't seem as
though we've improved matters.
There's an almighty small chance for
us now!" r ""
""Do yMm"eari threvrergoifo
die, too?" asked the child, checking
her sobs, and raising her tear-stained
face.
"I puesa that's about the size of it.
"Why didn't you sy so before?" she
said, lausrhing gleefully. "You gave me
such a fright. Why, of course, now as
long as we die we'll be with mother
again." .
"Yes, you will, dearie."
"And you, too. I'll tell her Jiow
awful good you've been. I'll bet she
meets us at the door of heaven with
a big pitcher of water, and a lot of
buckwheat cakes, hot,. and toasted on
both sides, like Bob 8nd me was fond
of. How long will it be first?"
"I don't know not very long."
The man's eyes were fixed on the
northern horizon. In the blue vault of
the heaven there appeared three little
specks which increased in size every
moment, so rapidly did they approach.
They speedily resolved themselves
into three large brown birds, which cir
cled over the heads of the two wan
derer, and then settled upoff some
rocks which overlooked them.
They were buzzards, the vultures of
the West, whose coming is the fore
runner of death.
(To be continued.)
WENT HIM SOME BETTER.
Girl Improved on Excuse Offered by Her
Little Brother.
Annie was late, and like a sensible
child, she recognized the fact and stop
ped running. Not so Johnnie. He
belonged to the class that never knows
when it has enough of either, joy or
trouble, so he kept up his laborious
trot until the school door was reached.
There he leaned dejectedly and breath
ed heavily. Annie eyed him with a
scorn that grew as she looked. Later
on they stood in the office looking like
a set of illustrations for a new version
of the "Lives of the Hunted," and
Johnny was talking. "I couldn't
mean it," he sobbed. 'It wuz me big
sister Katie's fault. She made me eat
three eggs, an' me mudder says I can't
hold that much till I'm nine years old,
and " He would have babbled on
indefinitely, the tears rolling off his
fat, foolish little face, but the principal
handed him his admission slip and
turned to Annie. That young lady
had a passion for acquisition, so with
out further ado she acquired Johnnie's
excuse.
"I ate too many eggs, too, and it
made me late," she explained.
"Indeed," said the principal, "and
how many did you eat?"
Annie's lips curled scornfully as she
remembered Johnny and his miserable
little three eggs.
"I ate eeventy-four," she replied,
blandly. New York Evening Sun.
What Alligators Eat.
More than once curious things have
been found in the stomach of a shark,
but never has such an extraordinary
collection been found as was discovered
recently in the stomach of an alligator.
This alligator was killed in the Soudan,
and was more than 12 feet in length.
In its stcmach were discovered eighty
five stones, several birds' claws, two
human finger nails and three hoofs of a
donkey, to one of which a piece of rope
was attached.
Tbe Douirnnut Menagerie.
Grandma used to fry the little pieces
she cat out of doughnuts, and she would
give them to us children all smoking
hot, and we'd stick toothpicks in for
necks, legs, tails, horns, or any other
parts of animals we wished to make.
One - day Rob and I together bad
made a chicken, a rooster, a cow, a pig,
a dog, a buffalo and an elephant, and
we were just making pens for them
out of sticks of wood, arid were going
to; play that we had a menagerie like
the'one in Central Park;;, when in came
Rover, grandpa's big dog, and almost
at one mouthful ate up all our menag
erie, toothpicks and all.! Rob, who was
younger than I,, began Ito cry because
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he thought all', our fun was spoiled,
but. I was really troubled for fear poor
old Rover would choke and die because
he'd eaten all those toothpicks. Grand
ma only laughed and. said that a dog
that could chew up bones wouldn't be
hurt by those'Httle toothpicks. And
then she gave us some more, little
doughnuts, and we made another and
better menagerie, and - played " that
there had been a big earthquake that
had swallowed up alt1 our. first one.
Youth's Companion. . ;J ;
Rhyme of Table Manners.
Attend my words, toy .gentle knave.
And you shall learn from me
How boys, at dinner may behave "
' With due propriety. J K - .'x
been . i -:
Unfitly used by. some; '
The trencher for a tambourine,
The table for a drum.
We could not lead a pleasant life,
And 'twould be finished soon, .
If peas were eatpn With the knife, - "
And gravy Vith the- spoon.
Eat slowly; only men in rags
And gluttons old in sin
Mistake themselves for carpet bags
And tumble victuals-in. .
The private pinch the whispered tease,
- Hie wild, unseemly yell
When children do such things as these;
We say, "It is not well."
Endure your mother's timely stare,
Your father's righteous ire,
And do not wriggle on your chair,
Like flannel in the fire.
Be silent; you may chatter loud
When you are fully grown,
Surrounded by a silent crowd
Of children of your own.
If you should suddenly feel bored
And much inclined to yawning, ,.
Your little hand will best afford
A modest, useful awning.
Think highly of the cat; and yet
You need not therefore think
That portly strangers like your pet
To share their meat and drink.
The end of dinner comes ere long,
When, once more full and free,
You cheerfully may bide the gong
That calls you to your tea.
Walter Raleigh.
Who Wn William Tell?
At one time the stpfy of William Tell
was regarded as actual history, but
later critics have shown it to be only
a legend common among the nations
of the Aryan race. And. the story of
the Swiss patriot is simply the. old le-.
gend changed to suit Swiss circum
stances, and thus represent the spirit
of freedom as. manifested in Swltzer-.
land. " . " - y
According to this legend, William
Tell was a mighty marksman with the
bow and arrow, who lived in peace
and happiness with his family at Bur
gelen, in the cauton of Uri. At that
time, about the year 1307, Switzerland
was a province of Austria; but the peo
ple had already begun a struggle for
freedom, and William Tell was one of
their ablest leaders.
Gessler, the Austrian bailiff at Kuss
nacht, wishing to show his authority
and humiliate tbe Swiss, raised his cap
on a pole In the market-place of Altorf,
and ordered all passers-by to uncover
and bow down to it in token of submis
sion. Tell refused to comply" "with the
arrogant order, and in consequence
was condemned to death. Gessler, how
ever, upon learning of Tell's remark
able skill with the bow, offered to re
lease and pardon him if he Would agree
to shoot an apple from the head of his
own son.- Tell accepted the alterna
tive, but determined that If "he failed,
or In any injured his little boy, the
bailiff should suffer for it. . - "
When the appointed time came, Tell
ventured the shot, and sent an arrow
whizzing through the center of the ap
ple, while his son remained uninjured.
In the meantime the bailiff had noticed
that TerL had put two. arrows In Ais)
Quiver and asked why he had done so.
To kiU thee with, if I had harmed
my son," answered TelL
. For this bold avowal Tell was. put In
chains and taken on board the bailiff's
boat, to be brought to Kussnacht.
While crossing the lake the boat was
overtaken by a fearful storm, and the
crew, alarmed for their" safety, ' ilm-
plored the, bailiff to release TelL who
was an expert pilot, and let him steer
the vessel, . The request Vas finally
granted, and as they n eared a certain
point now known as "Tell's Leap," Tell
leaped ashore and escaped. .
The storm had now abated, and the
crew brought the vessel safely to
shore. Meanwhile, Tell concealed him
self In a narrow defile through which
the bailiff had to pass, and mortally
wounded him with an arrow. The fall
of the tyrannical Gessler was occasion
for a general uprising in the canton,
and the Austrlans were driven from
the country. In all of these move
ments William TelL by his own heroic
example, inspired the Swiss people
with hope.
It Is said that Tell was drowned in
the Schachen, while heroically trying
to rescue a boy.
A Larjte Bee Farm.
Mayor Swink, of Rocky Ford, Colo.,
Who has perhaps the largest bee plant
in America, is going to take his bees
to the world's fair at St Louis, and
they .will work there from the time the
exposition opens until it closes. Mr.
Swink is willing to construct of bee
hives a miniature of the Colorado State
house at Denver. This will require
about 640 hives, and In it about 5,500,-,
000 bees will work. Colorado is r. a:
great honey-producing State. One Colo
rado apiarist keeps his bees busy col
lecting honey all tbe year around by
turning them loose in his alfalfa fields
In the summer and in winter ship
ping them to a plantation in Florida.
A Goad Ihing; to Write.
"What shall I write on my slate?"
said Harry to himself. He could not.
write very well, but he sat down.and
wrote," "A good boy." Then he took it
and showed it to his mother.
"That is a good thing to write, w- she
said. "I hope you will write It on
your life as well as on your slate."
"How cau I write it on my life,
mother?" said Harry,
"By being a good boy every day and
every hour of your life. Then you will
write it on your face, too, for the face
of a good boy alwaya tells its own
sweet story. It looks bright and hap
py." Olive Plants.
Fishing for Sponges.
' Sponges are gathered by means of a
tang pole-wltb. a. hook attached to the.
lower end, with which -the sponge fish
erman is very expert. He lies upon hia
stomach in the stern of a boat looking
through an ordinary water bucket. with
a glass bottom, which does away with
the glare from the water and allows
him to survey the bottom leisurely
while the boatman rows or sculls the
boat. A schooner lies at anchor near
by, from which a half dozen or more
of these small boats "fish. It returns
when it is loaded or at night, as the
case may be.
Presidncy "Would Have to Wait.
"How would you like to be President
of the United States, Johnnie?" asked
the visitor- of a bright 5-year-old.
"Well," replied the- little fellow, "I
might take the job after I get too old
to be a base-ball pitcher."
The First Meal.
"Now, Harry," asked the teacher of
the juvenile class, "what is the meal
we eat in the morning called?" "Oat
meal," was the little fellow's prompt
reply.
KELVIN'S ODD EXPERIMENTS.
How He Made Use of Familiar Objects
. . to Illustrate His Lectures.
Lord Kelvin, during his long occu
pancy of the chair of natural philoso
phy In the University of Glasgow, made
use of many simple and familiar ob
jects to illustrate his lectures. Eggs,
jellies, shoemaker's wax, tops, globes
and bottles were among the most com
mon. One of his favorite demonstra
tions was to aim and fire a rifle at a
pendulum bob, measuring the displace
ment of the latter to show the velocity
of the bullet Before the smoke had
disappeared he was at the blackboard,
figuring out the solution.
A more significant and perhaps a more
popular experiment was spinning an egg
which was suspended in air. If this
was hard boiled it would whirl a long
time; if not H would soon cease, owing
to the friction between the contents
and the shelL His inference was that
the Interior of the earth cannot be
fluid, or the globe's rate of rotation
would have been checked long ago. It
is related that the students once cn
spired to change the eggs which had
been supplied for this illustration. Not
one would spin properly, and the lec
turer easily guessed the reason.
"None of them boiled!" was the only
comment of the lecturer.
So profound was the admiration of
the students in his learning, originality,
enthusiasm and amiability that they
rarely indulged in mischievous pranks.
It-is related, though that ooxopgrfo
caslon, 'while his back was turned, he
was struck On the head with a big pa
per wad. On this occasion, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, he betrayed heat that
was highly exceptional with him.
Facing about with eyes aflame, he
shouted:
"If I knew who dared throw that pel
let by heavens, I would crucify him!"
. As Explained.
Judee Why didn't you go to the as
slstance of the defendant In the fight?
n c?.... ,' c AArS
ST UUvCUiau huu&c, Wl usuu ,
know which av thlm wuz goin to be
th' deflndant yer honor.
- Mome-Made Milk-Cooler. "
Where one does not have sufficient
milk to have an elaborate method of
keeping it cool, or where such a plan
Is not warranted, a substitute may be
found in the homemade cooler shown,
this week. Secure a strong box, large
enough to bold three or four cans, and
line K with zinc to make It water-tight
Have the box high enough so that the
water may come to within six Inches of
the neck of the cans. A rack made of
strong strips an inch" thick and two
inches wide (see Figure 3) is fitted In
the bottom of the box, and another rack
(see Figure 2) is fitted to the top of the
box to prevent the cans from slipping
over or upsetting when the box is full
of water or when one or more cans are
removed. The detail shown at Figure
2 shows how this top rack is braced at
the corners, Indianapolis News.
Mounting a Grindstone.
For ordinary stones, says a Farm
and - Home - correspondent the frame
should be built 18 inches wide, 30
inches high and 36 inches long. Make
the ends of 3 by 8-inch" stuff and the.
sides of 2 by 8 Inch. 'Plane It up nice
ly, bolt it securely together and give
it a good coat of paint " '
.One ..can- buy very.-- good, .'sets of
grindstone irons now Tor 50 cents," in
cluding a. mandrel roller, bearings and
crank. I have one very serious objec
tion to the common grindstone man
drel, and that Is that the crank does
not screw on, but has a square end,
on which the crank does not fit but
flops about "any old way" and very
often causes the one who is furnishing
the power to bruise or skin his knuckle
against the frame.
The first thing I would do with such
a mandrel would be to take it tothe
nearest blacksmith shop, saw the
square end off with a "hack saw, run
a drill through the square hole in the
crank and make It round,, run a tap
through the crank and thread; the end
of the mandrel. By so doing yon, have
a good, steady, easy-going crank, 'with
out any backlash. Fit a piece of wbod
in the square hole in the stone, find
the exact center with your dividers;
then bore a hole the size of the mandrel
FRAME FOB GBINDSTONE.
through the block. Use a piece of thick
pasteboard on each side of the stone
between the iron washer and the stone.
Put the stone on the mandrel, observ
ing to use the washers . as above, and
screw the nut up hard and fast
Treatment of Celery.
The first thing to do is to prevent rust
and blight which is readily done by
spraying, and this should be done when
the plants -are not more -than two or
three inches high. ' Use bordeaux mix
tures applied gently while the plants
are small, and make a second applica
tion when the plants are six inches
high; If a third application is needed,
give it regardless of the size of the
plants. After the care In spraying or
rather along with it comes the culti
vation and this, must be done, at least
In part, by hand, for the weeds must be
kept out of the rows at all cost.
Blanching is next in order, and the
board process is by far the best for
t enables thevplants-to get plenty of
light so as to keep up their growth.
Place the boards close to . the rows of
plants holding them . in . place with
stakes. After the plants grow above
the height of the boards, bring the lat
ter close together at the top, without
bruising the plants, so that the apace is
I dark and the plants will continue to
grow. ;
Raspberry and Blackberry.
Upon the care given the plantations
Af nucnberrv and blackberrv Dlants af-
tar fniltlni larcplv rionends the crona
- - o o m
of the next season. Cultivation of the
space between, the rows and around
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the plants should be thorxHJgh.so that
the weeds may be kept in subjection
and the moisture in the soil conserved
that tbe canes . may make all the
growth" possible.-- It Is necessary to ob
tain strong, healthy and well ripened '
lateral growths during the growing sea
son' if the plants are to give a full -crop
the next season.- By keeping up i
the cultivation the. plant Is kept grow
ing and the foliage clings until cut
oftVby the frosts in the fair; if cultlva- r'
tion Is not done the plant weakened
perhaps by heavy fruiting, Is likely to .
shed its leaves and. the new growth of
vine is subjected to the warm weather '
of the late summer. ; - .j
. '.. Broom Corn.
Almost every family has one or more
brooms in the house, and very few have r
any Idea where the broom corn comes
from, or how It came to be grown here. ,
We may have told before, but it will 5
bear to be repeated, that Benjamin
Franklin picked the first seed that
were ever planted here from an import- v
ed broom, and sent them to a lady
friend to be planted. In 1899 tbe State
of -Illinois bad 95,137 acres In broom1
corn, and produced 60,665,520 pounds,
valued at $2,357,066 in the hands of the ;
growers. Kansas had 34,383. acres, and
the product was 11,813,310 pounds, f
worth f 458,481. Oklahoma had 12.366
acres and a crop of 3,418,490 pounds, .
worth $129,813, and Missouri with 10,- t
219 acres had 3.693,930 pounds, worth ;
$159,990. It will be seen that the larg-
est acreage' does not always' .produce ;t
the largest crop or the -most money.
Texas had 3,743 acres and a crop of 1,- '
638,150 pounds, worth $60,313; Arkan- ,
sas 879 acres', producing 304,609, worth '
$12,558, and Indian Territory, 397 acres, r!
with' 147,02flft pounds. - worth $7,018.
There are amounts grown In other
States that bring the total crop up to ;
90,947,370 pounds in 1899, and that was , ,
thought a short year, though the yield i
was probably less in 1900. California, ,
Iowa, Nebraska ' and Tennessee are
among the other States producing
broom corn. The value of the broom
corn crop averages about $80 per ton,
or $20 an acre. - '
Low Farm Wagons.,
An enormous amount of ; force is .'
wasted in loading material 'into high ,
farm wagons. It Is fortunate that this j
truth Is being discovered and lower ;
gears are put Unto use. This sketch c
shows a convenient low farm wagon, '
commodious and light but strong -enough
to make loading a very easy ;.
matter. The long body has a truss un- .
being attached well under the body at
the front, to avoid the wheels in turn-
Ing. Side and end pieces can be put . -upon
such a body and a wagon box
HOME-MADE LOW-DOWN WAGOIC.
made if needed. Let the wheels be not
only low, but let them have broad rims,
so they will not cut Into the land when
hauling across the fields. M. D. Em
erson, in Farm and Home.
Government Whitewash.
The United States government uses a
whitewash mainly on lighthouses, that
is brilliant and durable. Considerable
whitewash ought to be used on the
farm. Poultry houses may be covered
.with it inside and out, and it may be
used to advantage on fences. The rec
ipe is as follows: Slake one-half bush
el of quicklime with boiling water, cov
erlngjt.as soon as the water is applied.
When slaked strain it and add a peck
of salt dissolved, in warm water, three
pounds of ground rice that has pre
viously been boiled in boiling water to
a thin paste, half a pound of Spanish
whiting and one pound of clean glue,
which has been dissolved In, warm wa
ter, mix well together and let stand for i
several days. The wash should be ap
plied hot, using a brush or making it
sufficiently thin so that it may be ap
plied by a spraying pump. -
To Stop a Sucking Cow.
To stop a sucking cow take a piece
of half inch basswood six inches long 1
and four inches wide and cut Into the
shape shown In
picture. Put this
in her nose. If
put sharp nails GJJ
in, as indicated
by dots. If. she
is cute enough
to milk herself aittisuckinq board. .
with the nails in, then put on a .hal
ter and a surcingle. Fasten a stiff
hardwood stick ori each Bide from hal-,
ter io surcingle, placing the surcingle
of course justback of the fore legs.
If she Is so determined to suck herself :
that she- will throw herself with this
harness, I should feed, her abundantly
upon fat forming foods and visit the
butcher. Rural New Yorker.
Garden Hints.
When getting the window boxes and
garden urns ready-use good, fresh soiL .
Nothing is gained, andmuch may be
lost by economizing InHhe matter of :
earth. '"-i
If the violets and ptfier spring and
autumn bloomers show signs of mildew
or mold because of too "much rain, cut
off close to the ground immediately.
The plants will find it easier to make :
renewed growth than to recover from
this creeping and insidious disease.
After aH, the scarlet geranium can
scarcely be surpassed as a garden
standard. It can be set out at any time,
and a number of good geraniums will
yet save the summer's happiness for
the flower lovers whose treasures have
suffered from the unusual weather. Let
them buy red geraniums and be com
forted with vivid bloom
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