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7-c 9( GAZE IF Jo SEMI-WEEKLY. COKVAIiLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1902. VOIi. III. NO. 28. 1TWTOW Katafe. Jul V. 1897 . (Consolidated Feb., 1899. OAZETTJt Kstab. !. 186 A STUDY IN SCARLET BY A. CONAN DOYLE. 2 CHAPTER VI. Our prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently Indicate any fe rocity In" his disposition toward our selves, for on findng himself power - less he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle.' "I guess you're going to take me to the police station," he remarked . to Sherlock Holmes. "My cab's at the door. If you'll loose my legs I'll walk down to it. I'm not so light to -lift as I used to be." He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure himself that they were free once more. "If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you are tho man for it " he. Raid, eazing with undisguised admiration at my fellow- lodger. "The way you Kept on my trail was a caution." "You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives. "I can drive you," said Lestrade. "Good! and Gregson- can come in- side with me. You, too, doctor; you have taken an Interest in the case, and may an well stick to us." I assented eladly. and we all de scended together. Our prisoner made no attemDt to escape, but stepped calmly into the cab which hurl hoon hla and we followed him. Lestrade mounted the bos, whipped ii n the horse and brought us in a verv short time to our destination. We were ushered Into a small chamber, where a police inspector noted down our prisoner's name and ' the names of the men with whose murHpr ha had been charcred. The official was a white-faced, un- - emotional man, who went through hla duties in a dull, mechanical way "The prisoner will be put before the magistrates In the course of the week," he said; "In the meantime. Mr. Jefferson Hope, have you any thing that vou wish to say? I must warn you that your words will be taken down and may be used against you." "I've got a good deal to say." our nrlnoner said, slowly. "I want to tall von eentlemen all about it." "Hadn't you better reserve that for your trial?" asked the inspector. - "I may never be tried," he an awered. "You needn't look startled it isn't Ruiclde I am thinking of. Are von a doctor?" He turned his fierce dark eyes upon me as he asked this last question "Yes, I am, i answerea. "Then put your hand here," he said, with a smile, motioning with his manacled wrists. toward his chest. I did so, and became at once con scious of an extraordinary throbbing and commotion which was going on Inside. In the silence of the room I could hear a dull humming and buzzing which proceeded from the same source." - "Why," I cried, "you have an aor tic aneurism!" "That's what they call it," he -said, placidly. "I went to a doctor last week about it, and he told me that it was bound to burst before many days passed. It has been getting worse for years. I got it from over-exposure and under-feeding in the Salt Lake mountains. I've done my work now, and I don't care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of th business behind me. I don't want to be re membered as a common cut-throat." The inspector and the two detec tives had a hurried discussion as to the advisability of allowing him to tell his story. "Do you consider, doctor, that there is immediate danger?" the former "Most certainly there is," I an swered, i "In that case, it Is clearly our duty, In the interests of justice, to take his statement," said the inspector. "You are at liberty, sir, to give your ac count, which I again warn you will be taken down." "I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting the action to the word. "This aneurism of mine makes me easily tired, and the tus Ble we had half an hour ago has not mended matters. I'm on the brink of the grave, and I am not likely to lie to you. Every word I say is the ab solute truth, and how you use It is a matter of no consequence to me." With these words, Jefferson Hope leaned back In his chair and began the following remarkable statement: t ran vouch for the accuracv of the ' subjoined account, for I have had ac cess to Lestraaes noteoooK, in which the prisoner's words were tak- en down exactly as tney were . ut tered. "It doesn't much matter to you wW i hated these men." he said: ir onoueh that they were guilty of ; the death of two human beings a father and a daughter and that they had therefore, forfeited their own lives. After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, It was impossible for me to secure a convic tion asrainst them In any court. "That elrl that J spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago She was forced Into marrying that same Drebber, and broke her heart over it. "I took the marriage ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his dy . inr eves Rhould rest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts should be of the crime ror which ne was pun . lshed. "I have carried it about with me. and have followed him and his ac- comnllce over two continents until I aneht them. They thought to tire ma nut. but thev could not do it. If I die tomorrow, as is likely enough, I die knowing that my work In thts world is done, and well done. They Vi nertsheri. and bv BIT hand. There is nothing left for me to hope for or to desire. "They were rich and I was poor. mn that it was no easy matter for me in follow them. When I got to Lou- 2 , dnn mv Trrlr of wna nhont emntv. and I found that I must turn my hand to something for my living. "Driving and riding are as natural to me as walkiner. so I aDDlied at 3, cab owner's office, and soon got em niovment. I wan to brine a certain sum a week to the owner, and what ever was over that I anight keep for mvself. "There was seldom much over, Dut I managed to scrape along somehow. The hardest Job was to learn my way shout for I reckon that of all the mazes that ever were contrived, this citv ia the moat confusing. "They were at a boarding house at Cumberland, over on the other side of the river. When once I found them out I knew that I had them at my mercy. "I had grown my beard, and there was no chance of their recognizing mo "I would dog them and follow them until I saw my opportunity. I was de termined that they should not escape ma ap-nin "Sometimes I followed them on my cab, and sometimes on root, Dut tne former was the best, for then they could not get away from me. "Tt waa onlv earlv in the morning or late at night that I could earn any thing, so that I began to get behind hand with my employer. "During two weeks I drove behind them every day, and never once saw them Rpnarate. Drebber himself was drunk half the time, but Stangerson was -not to De cau,gni napping. "I watched them late and early. ut never saw the ghost of a chance; but ?was not discouraged, for something told me that the hour had almost come. My only fear was that this thing In my chest might burst a little too soon and leave my work undone. "At last one evening. I was driving ,,n and down Tormiav Terrace, as the ctroDt waa called In which thev board ed, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. . "fresentlv some liiee-ae-e was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling ill at ease, for I feared that they' were go ing to shirt tneir quarters. "At Euston. station they got out, and I left a bov to hold my horse and fol lowed them on to the platform. I heard them ask for the Liverpool train and tha enard answer that one had just gone, and that there would not be another for some-time. "Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was ratnet ' pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the Dustie close to tnem in me uusub uim could hear every word that passed be- that ii tween them "Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstratea witn him. and reminded him that they had resolved to stick together. Dreb ber answered that the matter was a delicate one, and that he must go a lone. "I could not catch what Staneer- son said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not" pre sume to dictate to mm. r V n tltA uannaloPV CTOVA lilt m - T- 1 I a8...a .Daa 7.ua. "f ""6tt"c" Hi he"1 shridVjoinrHam- day's private hotel; to which Drebber answerea mat ne wouia ue uacis uu the platform before eleven, and made his way out 01 tne station. Wmoment for which I had wait- ed so long naa at last come. 1 naa mv enemies within my power. To- aether thev could nrotect each other, o- -1 ' - hut slns-iv thev were at my mercy. I did not act however, with undue Dre cipitation. My plans were aireaay formed. There is no satisfaction In ven- had mv nlans arranged by which I should have the opportunity of mak incr the man wnn naa wron?ea me un derstand that his old sin had found him out "It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had Deen engagea u lsnlrlncr over com a houses in the Brixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage, it was claimed that same evening ana re turned. But in the interval I had tak en a molding of it, and had a dupli rata constructed "By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from in terruption. How to get DreDDer to that house was the difficult proDiem which I had now to Boive. "He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. W 11 till imj cauio uui ue dc&& -yi In his wall?, and was evidently pretty When he came out he staggered well on. There was a hansom just in front of mn and'hft hailed it. "I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole WAT "We rattled across Waterloo Bridge and through miles or streets unui, 10 my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the terrace in which he had boarded. 1 couia not imagine wum uis luu- tion was in returning there, but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. He en- tered it and his hansom drove away. ntvA me a o-lnaa of water, if VOU I could not Imagine what his Inten please; my mouth gets dry with the J u.v O - talking." That'll better." he said. "Well. I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when suddenly, there came a noise like people struggling to enter the house. Next moment the - door was flung open and two men ap peared, one of whom was Drebber and the other vas a young chap whom 1 "Tnere IS no sausiacuon. in veil- " and nnttine it to a geance unless the offender has time to diking JaK!SLht with realize who it is that strikes hin and Z& DbET JonS whv retribution had come upon mm. 1 had never seen before. "fhl fellow had Drebber bv the collar, and -when they came to the head of the steps he gave him a shove and a kick which sent him nau across the road. - - ""Vnn hnnniH' ho cried. ahakinST hlS stick at him. 'I'll teach you to insult an nonest gin: "He was so hot that I thin ne would have thrashed Drebber with, his cudgel, only that the. cur staggered away down the road as fast- as his legs would carry him. He ran as iar as the corner, and then, seeing' my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. Drive ane to uainaay s private hotel,' said he. "When T had him fairlv inside my cab my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. "I drove along siowiy, weigmng in my own mind what it was best to do. I might take him right out into the coimtrv and there . in eome deserted lane have my last interview with him. I had almost decided on this wnen ne solved, the problem for me. "The craze for drink had seized him again and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin place, tie went in, leav ing word that I should wait for him. There he remained until closing time, and when he came out he was so iar gone that I knew the game was in my own hands. 'Don't imagine that I mtenaea to till him in cold blood. It would only have been rigid justice if I had done so, but I could not bring myself to do it. I had long determined that he should have a show for his life if he chose to take advantage of it. the manv billets which I have filled in America during my wan dering life, I was once a janitor ana sweeper out of the laboratory at York College. "One day the professor was lectur ing on poisons, and he showed his stu dents some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some Smith American arrow poison ana , . . iV i00t which was so Powerful that the least grain meant instant death. I spotted the bottle in which thta pr ePtIon was kept and en.ymwf a" gone I helped myself to a ( little of it. t "I was a f f "ESm J? I fked this alkaloid tat o small soluble pills, and ea Pj P" box with a similar pill made without poison. I determined at the time that. when t nan mv chance, my senuemeu should each have a araw out 01 one ui these boxes, while I eat the pin mat romalnArl x "It would be quite as deadly, ana a good deal less noisy, than nring across o hnndVorohief. From that day I had always my pill boxes with me, and the time had now come wnen i waa r nea them x "it was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents, uismai as it was outside,.! j was. glad ..witnin.T-rSO glad that I could have shouted out from nuro eYllltatlon "If any of you' gentlemen have ever nined for a thine and longed for it ? . - . j ii, during twenty long years, uu suddenly iouna it wnuiu iu, 7- "T lighted a clear and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were trembling and my tempies wrguumg with excitement. "As I drove I could, see old John iiirrior and sweet Lucv looking at me out qf the darkness and smiling at me, 1ot an nlnin aa I see you all in this room. All the way they were ahead of me, and one on each siae 01 tne norse, until I pulled up at the house in the Drlrtnn rond "There was not a soul to De seen, nor a sound to be neara, exceyt wu nt the rain. When I looked a i. f "e v , in o tho window, I found DreDber all huddled together In a drunken sleep. T erinnlr him DV tne arm. It S uaie w pti nut I 'gala ".in riht rabbv.' said he 'iWpose' gJfS? to the lTTo&LXlt , . m ar(1(,n and flowed own to vrtn. J ha waa ctlll a little to "555 j id him into the door I opened it and led Mm into the front room, x give you all the way, the father and daughter were walking in iront 01 us. - "'It's -infernally dark saia ne, stamping about. ..,. We'll soon have a ugnx, 1 tam, a ' t,.rninr to him and holding the light to my own face, 'who am I? (To be continued.) ONE CROWN AT A TIME. Why King Edward Did Not Take Flying Ship Trip. irinff Reward VII. as is well known. is much interested in an iuaun IngTo flying ships, and especially is he interested in antoa-uumont ana me efforts. A few weeks before the coro- nation it was extensively rumored that the 'king had quite made up his mind j to accompany the clever young tsrasn to accompany uio ciooi ! :' hia oerial flivhts? that lie lBII 111 V. i ' av. .m. 7 - . . . 1 1 fA. had, in tact, maae au arraugemouio iut nis travel tuiuuu mo m. . .a11 Vnnirn scientific Tteer asked his flCJl w w - j- . AAnm affai rlirtnctr majesty una wvum& whether the rumor concerning the royal i . . . aerial voyage was really true. 'Now. Tird " answered King Ed ward, laughingly, "is it likely that I would take this flying ship trip?- The coronation has not yet taken place, and I can assure that 1 wian to wear my earthly crown before 1 put on the other.!" A Funny Moon. One summer evening a little girl was . - . out doors washing hex feet. After a while she happened to look at the moon, just under a cloud. She jumped up and ran into the house as fastas she u mSJ. I nimu, AUU Tm not point? to stay out there and that moon slipp'n' and slid'n' 'round like thai." Impossible. Brown Do you think she la a clever girl? Smith TTm-m! Rather too cood 1 looking, don't you think? Second Table. Some boys' are mad when comp'ny comes to stay for meals. They hate To have the other people eat, while boys must wait and wait; But I've about made up my mind I'm dif ferent from the rest. For, as for me, I b'lieve I like the second ' table best." j To eat along with comp'ny is so trying, for it's tough J : ." To sit and watch the victuals when you , dassent touch the stuff; . You see your father serving out .. the dark meat and the light, Until a boy is sure he 11 .starve before he trpts a bite. And when he asks you what you'll have . you've heard it all before " You know you'll get just what you get, and won't get nothing more; For, when you want another piece, your mother winks her eye, And so you say, "I've plenty, please!" and tell a whODDinfiT lie. When comp'ny is a watching you, you've " got to be pome, And eat your victuals with a fork, and take a little bite:' ' ' " You can't have nothing till you're asked. and 'cause a boy is small Folks think he isn't hungry, and he's never aRked at all. Since I can first remember I've been told that when the cake Is passed around, the proper thing is for a hov to take " The piece that's nearest to him, and so all I ever got, When comp'ny's been to our house, was . the smallest in the lot. It worries'boys like everything to have " the comp'ny stay . A-setting round the table; like they couldn't get away; But when they've gone and left the whole hler ahrtrttinir mntch to me. Say, ain't it fun to just wade in and help myself? Oh, geel With no one round to notice what you're dninc het Tour life! Boys don't use forks to eat with when they d rather use a knife; Nor take such little bites as when they're entincr with the rest. And so, for lots of things, I like the jc- ond table the best. tu A. W. .Bulletin. The Hack-Driver's Little Girl. Six little eirls In Miss Kexf ord's school were about the same age--Cora, Ethel, Sally, Edith. Jenny and Ruth. Five' of them - were generally to be seen together, at reeesa and going and returning from school; but the sixth one, Ethel Stedman, was not apt to be included in the good times tfl the others. E; This was not because Ethel was not as pretty or as bright or as pleasant as the rest of them, or be cause she did not wear as dainty frocks. -No, it was all on account of her father's being a hack driver Sallv's father was a doctor, Edith's was a clergyman, Cora's was a law yer. Ruth's painted pictures, while Jenny's father kept a book-store. These little girls did not realize that a man who drove a hack for a living could be just as good as if he went around selling books, or even preached ser mons in a big church. So" Ethel was made to feel in some way she was not quite their "equal, though she didn't understand what the reason was. It would never have occurred to her that her dear, kind father was the cause of all this snubbing. Dav after day Ethel went to BchooL wishing she could do something to make the girls Uke her better. Finally her chance came. It was warm and sunshiny when school opened one afternoon; but be fore long it grew cloudy, and, when the children were let out, the weather was so threatening that the five friends hurried along hoping to reach their homes before the shower. They had only srone a few blocks, however. when great drops began to fall; and in a minute it was pouring. There was no way but to scamper up on the stens of a house, to wait till the rain should cease; but the question that troubled them was how soon would it stop. It might keep on all night, and thev all lived a long walk away. It thundered and lightened a little, and Cora and Jenny began to cry. It grew darker, and rain came down in such sheets that the girls could hardly see across the street. Then a hack came 1 . , . - f Zi" , - Girls! girls!" called a familiar voice, "don't you want to ride home?" Before one-Of them could answer Ethel's father had jumped from his . - hiirh seat and had poor little frighten- c ' - 1 Ta.t In ila arma TTa dmrtafAvl ( cu neimjr m Vu - - door, and in a minute or two .the five 1 r all Viava halt Ian cTi tn r holt1 mw. t ncic au auv vij- ing, and being whirled along- toward home. . "Father came after me, but you had started on ahead, or I should have ask ed you to ride then," explained Ethel, J and the nve eouian 1 neip reeling - a little bit ashamed to see the eagerness with which the girl whom they had all slisrhted was ready to do them a fa vor. As for Ethel herself, she almost wished a shower would come up every day, it was such a delight to be right among the girls, and be one or them. "How did you get home?" asked Edith's father that night "Mr. Stedman brought me In his hack. Ethel asked us all to ride." And Edith related the circumstances. "Mr. Stedman is a nice man," said the clergyman, reflectively. "I- told some one the other day I didn't believe there was a better man in this town than Erastus Stedman. And be has a good wife, too. I am glad that Ethel is one of your mates, lou d better ' invite her to spend some Saturday 'Kith you." . " v . .. ' - -Edith told the other- eirls what her father had said; and they agreed that they had made a great mistake, ana that they would do their best to recti fy It. After that there' was no lack of 'good times" for Ethel Stedman. Zion's Herald. ' Child Telesrraph Operator.' William McKlnlev Enscore. of ; Men ard, is the youngest telegraph opera tor In Illinois. He is now only 10 years old, and is able to send and receive messages on main line wires with the accuracy of an adult operator. His sister Lena, Who Is 11 years old. Is an equally .'- skilled operator. Both children were taught tel ' - egraphy at home Their father, R. L. ENSCORE. by their mother. Enscore. for thirteen years was sta tion agent and operator at Galatla, 111., for the Cairo Short Line Kaiiroaa. tie has now moved to Menard, I1L, having been appointed, to an Important posi tion at the Southern. Illinois peniten tiary at Chester. Both children, though they have sDent considerable time "in the telegraph office, have always been regular in their attendance at school, and are "well advanced in their studies. Chicago Inter Ocean. - Baby Wanted Teeth. Dentist Well, little girl, what can I do tor you? Little Girl (aged 4) I want to get some teeth for our baby. He just came yesterday and he ain't got any, so I want to get some like mamma got here, only smaller." , Use for a Barrel. ' ' Small German Boy Please, mister, give me an empty barrel of flour? Grocer What do you want it for? S. G. B. I want it to make a chicken coop for my dog, already. ' A Little Boy's Idea. 'Where do we get our most valuable furs?" asked the teacher. " "From the fir tree." replied the boy at the pedal extremity of the class. HOMES LACKING TASTE. Beanty and Reatfnlneaa Sacrificed to Useless Thins and Bric-a-Brac The art of house furnishing Is little known In this country, especially among the vulgar rich, says a woman whose "home Is" 'inownTSSTltS eautjf and restfulness. - The last thing that seems to be considered in their ar rangement is the convenience of the occupants. To Judge merely from ap pearances, one would think that they were designed to serve as showrooms for furniture and bric-a-brac and fancy work, and that the inmates were only there on sufferance, because they had to have some refuge from the wind and weather and no other domicile could be found "Most women," our authority observes, "treat their homes as storehouses or museums, and the more things they can crowd into them the hetter thev are nl eased. Thev nre- fer to have the things where they can be seen, if possible, but when no more snace is left and not a corner Is avail able for even a photograph or a china dog they will pack them away In chests and closets and go on accumulating. They may have no time for reading or recreation or even for the proper care of their own persons, but tnat tact never deters them from adding to the number of their household gods and to the already intolerable task or tamng care of them. 1 Mrs. Oliphant, in one of her stories, tells of a vuhrar rich man who liked to have costly and useless things about him. He saw no beauty in the Turner which adorned his drawing room, but it was sweet to him to think that he wis able to bane no thousands of pounds, so to speak, upon his walls. It Is perhaps something 01 this feeling that makes women turn their homes into museums. In a country where so many neoDle have become suddenly rich or have been raised from poverty to comparative affluence, possession is such an unfamiliar thing that it seems to nlease in itself, apart from any val ue In the articles possessed, and people who cannot have the satisfaction of possessing costly and useless things find some consolation in an innumera ble number of cheap and useless, if not cheap and nasty, articles, in older countries, where rapid changes of In come are not so frequent, one sees less of this desire for displayTand in En glish homes, for Instance, there Is a comfort and restfulness. and conse quently a beauty, even In the midst of ahabblness, which Is little known In America." Chicago Chronicle. , Miles or Crystallized Salt. Tn the midst of the Colorado desert a little to the north of the Mexican bor der and 264 feet below the level of the sea, lies a field of crystallized salt more than 1,000 acres In extent, presenting a surface as white as snow, and beneath the noonday glare of the sun bo daz zling that the naked eye cannot stand its radiance. It stretches away for miles and miles about Salton, Colo., an ocean of blazing, blistering white. Cnnldn't HelD. Mamma When that bad boy threw stones at you why didn't you come in and tell me instead of throwing stones nt him? Tommle (aged 6) Pshaw; that wouldn't have helped any. You couldn't hit the side of a barn. Buf falo News. - . The neatest mistake the . average man makes Is in allowing himself to make so many fool mistakes. Proper Way to Store Ice. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker explains the method he uses to store tee. The illustration shows a cross section of his Icehouse, with boards nailed horizontally on the in side of the poles. From twelve to fif teen inches should be left between the ice. cakes and the walls. Locate the icehouse where good natural drainage may be secured. Tile may be laid, as indicated at A, to secure more ade quate drainage if needed. Cut the cakes so as to break joints, say 18 by 36 inches or 15 by 30, as conditions may require. It will be Impossible to make the cakes fit together perfectly, no matter how expert the saw manipu lator may be. On this account we put in one layer, fit closely as possible, PKOPEBt-Y PACKED ICE. then shave over the upper surface of all the cakes with a carpenter's adze. The shaviiurs of Ice are swept into the rvWs.between kesyWWfcen, .frees ing cold, a little water is sprinkled over the whole surface to cement the layer solidly toeether. As each layer is completed the saw dust should be filled In around the sides level with the top and solidly tamped down. Allow no sawdust to 1 hremaln on top of the various layers until the icehouse is filled. Ice Is pre served bv being packed away from the air. As hot weather comes on the Ice will settle some. Be sure to keep the sawdust tamped down around the sides frequently during early summer and see that no airholes form. When the ice is all packed in, cover with ten to fifteen inches of sawdust. Shredded Fodder. - Many tests have shown that the shredded . corn fodder needs after shredding to be put where it will be kent dry. All attempts to stack it have given unfavorable results. It has heat ed and spoiled, and those who tried It In this way have been ready to con demn it. This is not so much because it does not pack closely in the stack, for the bulk of the long fodder seems to be reduced by the shredding pro cess, but it Is so fine that the rain penetrates easily when dry, and when wet It swells and becomes so compact that the air does not enter it to dry it out The long fodder with Its -flinty casing (literally flinty because it is largely silicate of potash on the out side) does not absorb water excepting at the ends or places where the stalk is broken, and then it does not pass farther than to the joints each side. Those who try .shredding fodder should do so when it is perfectly dry, and then put it where it will keep dry. If not so, the porous center of the stalk ab sorbs moisture, then swells so as to re fuse the admission of air to dry it out, and then the next thing Is heating or fermentation, to be quickly followed by mould, and a food that is unfit for cat tle and especially for milch cows, and dangerous to the health of young ani mals New England Farmer. Kar RnHttinar Wood. Rolittfns wood is often attended with some danger, especially with small, round sticks. The following device is DEVICE FOB HOLDING WOOD. simnle and very useful in the wood yard Saw from a small log about ten Inches in diameter, two pieces each two feet lone. Nail boards on the ends as represented. A is the stick of wood to be split Willard Sheaf, In Farm and Home. Wheiit in Corn Stubble. It has become an almost universal custom to sow wheat in the corn stub ble, but as the results are not always all that could be wished, it is evident that; in some cases at least, there is something wrong with the plan. Wheat growers know well that the grain re- quires soil rich in fertility, and they also know that corn drains the fertil ity of the soil sadly, hence it follows that the soil must be strong in fertil ity to give both the corn and the wheat . crop. ' If the soil ia not strnnsr then the only nossihle advantage in usinsr the corn r field is in the fact that it has been well cultivated during the growing sea son, and consequently is in good shape, without much labor for the wheat seed. It Is quite probable that any fairly fer tile son plowed early ana well prepared for the seed bed would produce quite as good results in the wheat crop as the corn stubble field unless the soli . of the latter was stronar in fertility. In dianapolis News. Concerning Bees. There is a fault often unknown and not suspected in the late swarms. which is that the queens which go out with them may not be fertile, and if they come out after the drones have been killed off they cannot-lay fertile esrsrs. bnt only- sur-h aa nroduce drones. She cannot be distinguished from a fer tile queen, but the drone cells -can be distinguished from worker cells by the rounded appearance of the cap over them. If only such are found, destroy the queen at once, and either give the colony another queen or divide the : bees that remain and the honey among other colonies, destroying the drone brood by uncapping It and shaking put the larva. If In cells or the woi Ker- bee size, it may be useful to put in other hives next spring, but If in the regular cell of the drone bee, it is best to make wax of it, unless some may be saved to put in the frames of the best colonies that one may want to raise male bees from. American Culti vator. , Valuable New Tomato. Early varieties of tomatoes are espe cially valuable to market gardeners, and are always welcome for planting in the home garden. The Earliana, il lustrated from life, has been tested in various sections for several years, al though but recently offered to the pub lic. Under "test"' if has" proved earlier than any desirable sort by from a week to ten days, according to locality. The plant is a strong grower and the fruit is set in great abundance. In size it may be termed medium rather than large, but the form is that most desir- THE EAKLIANA TOMATO. able of all shapes, round, while the bright red color will make it attractive to the consumer. The flavor is very fine, a point particularly desirable for those who cater to the select city trade. Unlike most early sorts, this variety is solid, and has as yet shown no dispo sition to crack. ; Poultry Raising Pays cn a Farm. There are many reasons why poultry- raising can be made profitable son a farm. One very important reason is that all the food necessary to raise chickens is grown on the farm,, ready for use. A great part of the living of a chicken can be picked up by himself; especially is this true where cattle are fed extensively. Much of the chick en's living is made from things that would otherwise go to waste. The in sects that might be bothei-sonie indeed serve for old Biddy's relish. ; All farm animals, to thrive well, needv some shelter from winter's storms and sum mer's heat This is one of this most expensive items in the care of; horses or dairy animass, but with ail Kinas of poultry a very small shelter will accommodate a large number. Just along the same line comes the thought of incisures. All other farm -animals have to be fenced in to keep" them home or in the right place at-home, while the poultry roam over the whole farm. Green's Fruit Grower, f. Farm Notes. . " ,'' Increase the food of the cow; as long as the milk flow increases. Fowls having a free run will find their own feather-making food. Cedar, brush hung inside the poultry house will eradicate chicken lice. Skilled buttermakers are in greater demand to-day than ever before: j A change of food is appetizing aud the more food a cow eats the mor': milk and butter she will yield. f ; Carelessness juad neglect, moye- than ignorance, are responsible for most of the failures in the sheep business. . While improvements can be hastened by proper selection in breeding, im proved breeding can never make, up for poor feeding. '."?..' A large number of cockerels . it the yards with hens and pullets are "a nuis ance, and should be thinned out quickly as possible.