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UWIOW Katab. July, 1897. OAZETTC Katsb. lec. 1862. Consolidated Feb., 1899. COEVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGOK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1902. VOIi. III. KO. 29. ! A STUDIN SCARLET If BY A. CONAN DOYLE. ; WWW W V V V V V "Sk" "J." PART II Chapter VI Continued "He gazed at me with bleared drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse his whole features, which ; snowed me that he knew me. ' ' I had always known that ven geance would be sweet, but had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me. "'You dog! I Bald, 'I have hunted. you from Salt Lake City to St. Pet ersburg, and you have always escaped me. Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see tomorrow's sun rise.' "He shrank still further away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad. So I was . for the time. The pulses in my tern pies beat like sledgehammers, and believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me, "He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration-break out upon his brow, while his teeth chat tered. At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long, " 'What do you think of Lucy Fer- rier now?' I cried, locking the door and shaking the key in his face. 'Pun ishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.' "I saw his coward lips tremble as spoke. He would have begged for his life, but he knew well that it was use less, '"Would you murder me?' he stam mered " 'There Is no murder,' I answered 'Who talks of murdering a mad dog? What mercy had you upon my poor darling when you dragged her from her slaughtered father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem?' " 'It was not I who killed her father,' he cried, " 'But it was you who broke her in nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting the box before him. 'Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave, Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.' "He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me, "Then I swanowed the other, and we stood facing each other in silence . for a minute or more, waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. "Shall I ever forget the look which came over his face when the first warning pangs told him that the pois on was in his system? I laughed as I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage ring In front of his eyes, "It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, staggered and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor. "I turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no movement. He was dead ! "The blood had been streaming from my nose, but I had taken no no tice of it. I don't know what it was that put it into my head to write up on the wall with it. "Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of putting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light hearted and cheerful. I remembered a Ger man being found in New York with 'rache' written up above him, and it was argued at the time in the news papers that the secret societies must have done it. "I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Lon doners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a conven ient place on the wall. "Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody abdht, and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some dis tance, when I put my nand into the pocket in which I usually kept Lucy'i ring, and found that it was not there. "I was thunderstruck at this, for it was the only memento that I had f her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Dreb- ber's body, I drove back, and leaving my cab in a side street, I went boldly up to the house for I was ready to dare anything rather than lose the ring. "When J arrived there I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming: out, and only man aged to disarm his suspicions by pro tending to be hopelessly drunk. "That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier's debt. "I knew that he was staying at Hal liday's private hotel, and I hung about all day but he never came out, I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to put in an ap pearance. "He was cunning, was Stangerson, and always on his guard. It he thought he could keep me off by stay ing in doors he was very much mis taken. I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were lying in the lane behind the hotel, and so made my way into his room in the gray of the dawn. "I woke him up and told him that the hour had come when he was to answer for the life he uad taken so long before. I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the Bame choice of the poisoned pills. Instead Of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat. In self-defense I stabbed him to the heart. It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but uie poison. i V V V V VW V V vvwwvw "l have little more to say, and it as well, for I am about done up, went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I couli save enough to take me " back to America. "I was standing in the -yard when ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 221B Baker street. "I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this youn man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life. "That's the whole of my story, gen tlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer, but I hold that I am just as much an officer of justice as you are, So thrilling had. the man's narra tive been, and his manner was bo im pressive, that we had sat silent and absorbed "There is only one point on which I should like a little more informa tion," Sherlock Holmes said at last. "Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?" The prisoner Winked at my friend jocosely. "I can tell my own secrets," he said, "but I don't get other people in to trouble. I saw your advertisement, and I thought it might be a plant, or it mignt be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and Bee. think you'll own he did it smartly, Not a doubt of that," said Holmes, heartily. . Now, gentlemen," he inspector re marked, gravely, "the forms of the law must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your at tendance will be required. Until then I will be responsible for him." CHAPTER VII. We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came mere was no occasion for our testimony. A higher judge had taken the mat ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would be meted out to him. On the very night after his capture the -aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, -with a-placid smile upon his face, as though Ae, had been able in his dying momfcais to look back upon a useful life, and on work wen done. "Gregson and Les trade will be Wild about his death," Holmes remarked, as we chatted it over next morning. "Where will their grand advertise ment be now?" "I don't see that they had very much to do with his capture," I an swered. wnat you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The ques tion is, what can you make people believe that you have done? Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause, "I would not have missed the investigation for anything. There has been no better case with in my recollection. Simple as it was, there were several most instructive points -about it." "I have already explained to you that what is out of the common 1b us ually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful ac complishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it- much. Ir. the every day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected, There are fifty who" can reason syn thetically for one who can reason an alytically." Now, this was a case in which you were given the result and had to find everything else for yourself. Now, let me endeavor to show you the dif ferent steps in my reasoning. To be gin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions. I naturally begun by examining the roadway, and there, as have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks of a cab, which. ascertained by inquiry, must have been made there during the night. I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels. . The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman s brougham. That was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the garden path, which happened to he. composed of a clay soil, peculiarly 'suitable for taking impressions. No doubt it ap peared to you to be a mere trampled lire of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning. I saw the heavy footmarks of the constables, but I saw also the tracks of the two men who had first passed through the garden. It was easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated' by the others coming upon the top of them. On entering the house this last in ference was confirmed. My well-boot ed man lay before me. The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was. There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease or any sudden natural cause never by any 'chance exhibit agitation upon their features. "Having sniffed the dead man's lips, detected a slightly sour smell, and came td the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him. Again argued that it had been forced upon him. from the hatred and fear ex pressed upon his face. By the method of exclusion I ar rived at this result, for no other hy pothesis would meet the facta. Do not imagine that it was a very unheard-of idea. The forcible adminis tration of poison is by no -means a new thing in criminal annals. ; The cases of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of Leturier, in Montpelier, will occur at once to any tbxicologist. "And now came the great question as to the reason why. Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken. Was it politics, then, or was it a woman? - "It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription was discovered upon the wall I was more , inclined -than ever to my opinion. - - "The thing was too evidently a blind. When the ring was found, however, it settled the question. Clearly the murderer has used it ro remind his victim of some dead or ab sent woman. : - - " - "I had already come to the conclu sion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murder's nose in his excitement. - "I could perceive that the track of blood coincided .with the track of his feet.' It is seldom that any man, un less he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a .robust and ruddy faced man. - Events proved that I judged correctly. '- Having left the house. I proceeded to do what Gregson had neglected. 1 telegraphed to the head of the Police at Cleveland, limiting my ..inquiry to the circumstances connected with- the marriage jf Enoch Drebber. The answer-was .conclusive. It told me that Drebber had an- plied fop the protection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clew to the mystery in my hand, and all that re mained was to secure the murderer. I had already determined in my own mind that the man who - had walked into the house with Drebber was none other than the man who had driven the cab. ' "The marks in the road showed me that the horse had wandered on in a way which would have been impossi ble had there been any one in" charge of it. - "Where, then, could the driver be. unless he were inside the house? Again, it is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry out a de liberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him. .-. Lastly, supposing one man wished to dog another through, London, what better means could be adopted than turn cab driver? All these considera tions led me to the irresistible conclu sion that Jefferson Hope was to De found among the jarveys of the me tropolis. -' j If he had been" one there was no reason to' believe that he had ceased to be. On the contrary. from his point of view, any sudden change would be likely to draw attention to himself. He would probably, for a time at least, continue to perform his duties. There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name. why should he change his name in country where no one "knew his original one? I therefore organized my street arab detective corps,"' and sent them systematically to every cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. "How well they succeeded and how quickly I took advantage of it are still fresh in your recollection. The mur der of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented. Through it, as you know, I came into possession of the pills, the exist ence of which I had already surmised. You see, the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break or flaw." , It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account of the case. 'If you wont, I will for you." You may do what you like, doctor " he answered. "See here!" he con tinued, handing a paper over to me; look at this!" It was the Echo for the day, and the paragraph to which he pointed was devoted to the case in question. "The public," it said, " have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was sus pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stanger son. The details of the case will prob ably never be known now, though we are informed upon food authority that the crime was the result of an old-standing and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part. v .. . "It seems that both the victims be longed, in their younger days, to the Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the de ceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case had had no other effect, it at least brings out in the most striking manner the effic iency of our detective force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil. It is an open secret that the' credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard of ficials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sher lock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such In structors, may hope in time to attain some degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services." "Didn't I tell you so when we start ed?" cried Sherlock Holmes, with a laugh. "That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet to get them a testi monial!" Never mind," I answered; "I have all the facts in my journal, and tho public shall know them. In the mean time you must make yourself con tented by the consciousness of suc cess, like the Roman miser 'Populus me sibilat, at mlhi plaudo Ipse domi sinul ac nummos con templar in area." THE END. What the Fairiea Did. Stargleam and Moonbeam were very hnRv ovpr their work when RncrmvrtlfiL tho Rmwoi. finrMw in r,t nt them and said- I know what I would do if I were yon two fairies." -: V" .j" What would. yoa do?" inquired both fairies together. ---. : . -"" "Well, I would just go with - Bog- myrtle, and have a game, of hide-and-seek " among the flowers," 1 said - the Brownie. - 11 , "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" sighed Star- gleam, "it would be .nice if we could !"' But lt'sno use we can't," said Moonbeam, "for we have got all these pocket handkerchiefs to wash and iron before we can do as we like. ' Oh, dear! oh, dear!" .. . - - "That -difficulty can soon be over come," said Bogmyrtle, "If yon will take my, hd vice.- There is a little girl called Kathleen atthe house over there, and she is havinga washing-day, and washing all her dollies' clothes so if von were to take" those Docket handker- yon were to taae tnose pocKet nanaKer- chiefs and put them into her basket when she isn't looking, she will be sure BOGMYBTLE, TEE BBOVNIE, STOOD BE- FOBI THEM,' to wash them, too, for she is enjoying herself ever so much -and won't mind a few extra things to wash, I'm sure." The fairies thought Bogmyrtle's sug- gestlon a capital one, and acted upon it I 4 at once, and very soon they were having such fun among the flowers. "I wonder how' all these rose leaves got among my dollies' clothes," exclaim ed Kathleen. 1 am sure I didn't put them, there myself i" and she ' picked them out, and threw them away, little dreaming that' they were "the fairies' JKCketJWwerIefg So when. Stargleam, and Moonbeam came, hoping to find them washed and ironed, they were not there, of course: and as they knew that the Queen would I be very angry when she heard . what I had happened, they were obliged to go In search of new ones. But the roses were nearly over, so they had to prom ise to give the rose bushes who sold the rose-leaf pocket handkerchiefs ever so many dewdrops as payment, and they both determined not to take Bogmyr tle's advice any : more, but when they had any work to do Jto stick to it until It was finished, and. play ifterward. Tommx's Surprise. One nicht after Tommy was ready for bed and had on his clean, white niffhtirown. he climbed up in mamma's lap and asked for Just one story more. Mamma drew her chair up by the grate and held Tommy close in her arms, and he reached out his two little bare feet to theflre. The big coals shone out and made the room warm and light, and Tommy was very fcappy, and waited as still ai a mouse for the story to begin. "A very long, long time ago," said mamma, "there was a beautiful, grove of big, big trees. Their tops reached no higher than any trees you ever saw. and their branches reached out farth- er. Every day they drank in the sun- shine and grew bigger and bigger. Everything all around them was very ! brteht and pretty. . "But one day the wind beean to blow, and the rain came down more m7 mena naa meant . 'Not strong.' I and more, till the lakes and rivers strongly enjoined him to reserve his spread over everywhere and covered English henceforth for use In the val- the trees all up; and It kept thundering leys." , - - and lightning, and the ground shook so Cricket-Fighting. hard that some mountains were shaken The Chinese are Inveterate gamblers, all to pieces and great big stones sent and never lose an opportunity to bet, flying into the air. no matter how trivial the cause may "The grove of big trees had all been be. One of their great institutions is blown down, and a great mountain of- crlcket-flghting, the crickets being dirt was heaped up over them. How caught, fed and trained as carefully do you suppose the trees felt? They as is a blooded horse. There is a fixed were jammed in tight, and squeezed diet for them, part of their food con hard -Tinder the big mountain, and it slating of honey, and boiled chestnuts, was dark, very dark in there. And I if they get sick, they are fed with mos suppose they thought, 'We can never quttoes. Prior to fighting, their weight work any more; we will never see the js ascertained and duly recorded, there sunshine again.' ' being a fixed regulation as to their "And there the trees stood tob years Bize ana weight. On the door of the and years and years oh, a great deal house In which the fight is to take longer than any one who lives upon place Fec0rd of each cricket is past this earth can remember. But one day, e(j nPf and the owner of the winner gets way down in the ground under the 10 p. cent of all bets. The crick mountain, came a great crashing, turn- et plt a jow tnb placed on the table, bling, rumbling, grumbling noise, and and, after weIghingr ThemiWtBifs next there was a big hole in the moun- are put ta It and tickled with straws tain that reached clear down to where nH, fh Pnsh each other with loud the trees were, and the sun could shine in on them once more! "But If you had looked in there for ue trees juu never cuuiu nave louna them, for they had all been broken up and lammed tisrht together and turned black and hard till they looked more like a big black rock. And when the men who made the hole saw the shin- ing stuff, they said: "Here It is, here It Is!" "And the black, shining stuff said: "What's that? what's that? Oh, light! It's daylight! My! Who ever thought we'd see daylight again? Why, we've been shut in here years : and years and years! We want to get out and look around.' "But when it went to move It was very hard and stiff, not atNill as it was when It was tall -greeff trees and waved In the wind. - ' r "Then the men took their big Iron tools and began breaking ' It up into pieces.-': They loaded it Into little carts and drew it oat Into the bright sun shine. The black, smiling stuff looked at the men and said: .V ' " 'See those 'trees growing, there on the mountain! .They look like bushes. When we were trees we used to reach ever 80 tch higher than they do. Oh, ""e everymuig is-xcept tne uiiuui& xnai iooks just as It used to. But we want to do some work again. "An ' ., bousrht It TTo hrnrht . w i it here on the cars for xa to burn In our grate." Then Tommy opened his eyes and said: ' yf .- j - . "Mamma, was it coal T : : - And mamma said: - "Yefc. And when turns red hot it , is giving back the sunshine it drank in so long, long ago, when it was tall green trees." Youth's Com panion. . ; . Whistle Awa-r. I Whistle away,- my merry boy,' Wl? haJ?p7 face and heart ot Jy5 " p y u to C? Btron . , , t,a J.une when thulg8 wronv Ani whi8tiing lightens it for you. If e'er your task is hard to do. Whether it be sowing the. seeds, : -Hoeing the corn or pulling weeds. Gathering fruit or raking hay, v " Or driving cows, whistle away. Whistle a tune if you cant simr. And that should seem the next best thniff That you can do; perhaps 'twill cheer The hearts of some who chance to hear. Better to whistle than to pout And scold and fret, no one can doubt. oo Keep a merry heart,' my- lad. - . And thus make other people glad; Do all the good you can each day. And as you toil whistle away. Toronto Truth. Uncle Bob's Impoiiteaes. ' Uncle Bob How old is your dolL Nel lie?, j Nellie (aged fi) Why, Uncle Bob, I'm surprised at you! : Uncle Bob Why are yoa surprised, dear? : Nellie Because this Is" a lady doll, and it's awfully rude of a man to ask a lady's age. The Dome tic Bervice Problem.' "I wonder why it is," queried small Tommy, "that-women are always' com plaining about their hired girls "Oh," replied his 6-year-old sister, "they do it so other women will know I they can afford to keep 'em." . Tosamr Made a Dlattactloo. Mamma You must not play with those naughty boys, Tommy. They are rough and rude. Tommy All right, mamma. But you don't mind if I fight them, do you? Corker for Papa. Papa Willie, don't you know it is wrong to tell stories like that? I never told stories when I was a little boy. Willie When did you begin, papa? ' What He Meant. Slight mistakes In speaking a for eign language or in understanding it when some one else speaks it are com monly nothing more than amusing, but a member of the Alpine Club mentions following instance, which might nav na serious results: He was climbing one of the Alps wltn a guide, who persisted in talking bad English Instead of Indifferent French. ' "J guide," he says, "had Just crossed a snow bridge over a wide crevasse, and turned to await me on 016 farther side. I asked him if it was weak. He answered 'No strong. "Naturally I attempted to walk across It instead of crawling. I had almo8t reached the other side when 010 bridge gave way, and, after a de- Hrlous scramble to save myself, I sub- sided helplessly into the crevasse. - iiowever, i-aia not go far, and w-en 1 natt crawled out, with snow aown my iiecK ana np my arms and m al my pocitets, 1 aiscovered that chirrupa flght until one of them is miri n fio-htino- ortobota vahiable are often sold for large Revised from Mother Goose. There was an old magnate who lived a stew So wealthy that he didn't know what to do. He bought a few statues ' He dabbled in art And soon he was back to his penniless start. : Baltimore American. A Warm One. Gerald It was a hot game. Geraldine Naturally; it was .played on a gridiron. -J! i W Rhadtnar the Stable. Where It Is the custom to keep the horses and cows In the stables at night. - ana aiso ror a portion or tne day some provision Should be made for shade as weU aa tor keeping out flies. The; plan shown In the illustration has the merit of being simple as well as effectual. Cover the opening with fine wire net ting, placing it so that it will not inter fere with the management of the glass window from the inside. Then make a frame with light strips of lumber, of the form shown, and cover it with can vas, or with a strip of unbleached mus linr bracing it at either corner as shown. This device Is readily made and' will add greatly to the comfort of - the animals in the . stable. The u,ir,,..ll.lWi A STABLE PROTECTION. same arrangement could be applied to the window spaces of the poultry house and in such a position it would not be necessary to use the fine wire screen for the wire netting of ordinary mesh would keep out intruders.-. . Illinois Apple Orchards. Emerson Babcock gives Green's Fruit Grower Information In regard to orcharding in Illinois as follows: " An apple orchard syndicate In Clay and Richland Counties has sold the apples of its orchards, .which aggregate three hundred and twenty acres,-for $11,500. This fruit is from young orchards just coming' into bearing.' ' There are .one hundred and twenty acres planted with 3,300 Jonathan apple trees. '"Jonathan is ihighly prized for Its hardiness, pro ductiveness and the fine quality of its fruit. . The best apple orchards of Illi nois are on the southern border, em bracing seventy-five thousand acres of apple orchards, mostly planted during the past ten or twelve years.. This is the first general crop from, these orch ards. One thousand acres of apple orchards may be seen near Flora, 111., and the trees there are heavily laden with fine fruit this season. Ben Da vis is the variety-.most largely grown. The problem now-is to get enough la borers to harvest the fruit from such a vast acreage of apple orchards, and to secure apple barf els for such big orch ards. ; Three hundred and Hhirty car loads of empty -apple barrels have re cently been shipped into this locality, and nine large evaporators have been built near Flora, witih a capacity for each of one hundred and fifty bush els of fruit per day. A cold storage house, with a capacity of 45,000 bar rels of apples, has been built at Flora this year. Prr Brushlni Frnit. The fruit -brusher is a comparative newcomer except In California. The necessity of clean, polished oranges and the expense of brushing by hand brought it into being there. . Now, brushing, which - has already been a habit with some packers, is becoming more necessary on account of the wide spread of white fly and other insects causing smut. It is not only expensive, but difficult, to get at short notice the number of men necessary to hand brush a car of oranges. With a brush er, It. Is claimed, one man can do the work of several. Florida Agricultur ist. - e Economical Pork Prod action. Economical pork production Is based largely on the selection of good breed ing stock from year to year. This must' be combined with intelligent feeding. The most common error is that of neglecting little pigs at time of weaning. Pigs stunted at this time of life never make profitable pork. One should handle his hogs so as to have them ready for market at from six to eight months, weighing at this time from 200 to 225 pounds. In spite of the fact that corn is frequently de nounced as a hog food, it cannot be denied that it is the best and cheapest food that is available on Western farms. Green feed, such as rape, clo ver and alfalfa, are not sufficiently used as foods for growing hogs.. These foods not only supply nutrients that are highly important, but they serve A raUIT BBU82IEB. to gtre variety to the ration, a factor that Is very important and one Jhat is frequently, overlooked. . As one writer puts it, squealing 'hogs are not profit-' able hogs. Iowa Homestead. " .K-,:.-:;i i- K 1 Value of Small Frelts. , Not all farmers seem to know the value of small fruits- to a family when grown Jn their own gardens. You com mence with strawberries; they continue about a month.. You pick perhaps from six to twelve quarts a day. You have thenr on the table, If you please,1 at breakfast, dinner and teai and : you want little else except bread and but ter. In one way or another the family consumes about eight quarts a day, and while they last no medicines .for bodily ailments' ire required, as a quart of strawberries 'daily will generally dis pel all ordinary diseases not perman ently in the system.. : After strawber ries come raspberries, and they last about three, weeks. Then we have blackberries, the cultivated . varieties. Next currants ripen, and they remain until early grapes mature. f So, taking the season through any family with half an acre of land in a garden can grow small fruits that make country life delightful and at the same time save hundreds of dollars In table sup- nome ana u arm. v - -' , " In Place of a Silo. .. ' Not every farmer has a stlo or a corn shredding machine. They cost too much for the man who has but two or three cows, a But he can pick the ears from his corn stover anil have the grain ground, and the cob, too, if he so wishes, then have the stover well cured In the field, and when he takes It to. the barn, have it cut Into pieces not more than a half Inch long and shorter if possible. Then moisten It with warm water if such Is conven ient to the cow stables and cover It up to steam for twenty-four hours at least before feeding. Put bn. each cow's ration as much and such grain' as her condition calls for, and If she does not do as well as she would on ensilage she will do better than on dry corn stover. If obliged to wet it with cold water, it will be better for stand ing forty-eight hours, to germinate a little heat by fermentation. American Cultivator. A Handy Folder Stack. How best to- stack corn fodder " tn keep 'and be handiest In getting' at wrien reeamg is often a question given much thought by the farmer. Thia method possesses manv adv&ntam that will recommend It above others: Set two posts twelve or, sixteen feet apart where you wish, the stack to be. Across from one to the other, four and a naif or -five feet fwim- in--immnfl - spike a'iT"byT'sb"'the' fodder against this with the butts on the ground ami the smaller ends coming together at the top. - There should be a space of two or three feet at the Yfot-. torn. This will give the rat, dog and cat. an opportunity to keep the stack clear of miw Thla af-asb- urlll Yum the rain and snow of winter, will keep dry and bright and when used will not be opened to the weather, na nn stalks are - left exposed by removing the top. Farm Journal. Iowa Horse Bales. - ? At the big sale of range horses at Sioux City good prices were obtained. The top .figure was $00.50, which was paid for a load of good, heavy, blocky geldings and mares of all colors. The draft horses ranged from $50 to $60, -general purpose horses from $35 to $45.50, yearlings and 2-year-olds from $12.50 to $26, aud sucking colts from $6 to $11. National Stockman."" Prevention of Frnit Rot. As a precaution against the fruit rot of peaches all mummified fruits should be gathered and destroyed in the win ter or early spring, and at picking" sea son no decayed fruit .should be allowed to remain on the trees or on the ground in the orchard, but it should be gath ered and burned as soon as noticed. ""- Farm Notes. Skimmilk for hogs and the big profit in it is all' the talk now; , Xhlo Is a clover growing State. It Is also" becoming"" an alfalfa growing State. The market fer coarse flax fiber ,is almost unlimited, according to a West ern grower. ' ' ' r. A recent circular of the United States Department of Agriculture defines the laws regulating interstate shipment of birds and game. The agricultural building of the St. Louis world's -fair is reported as plan ned to cover twenty-two acres and the palace of horticulture seven and a . half acres. . The attendant' who enters the stable to milk a cow with a pipe in bis mouth is not the proper man to perform that duty. Milking' should be regarded as the cleanest and most important work on a dairy farm, as milk not only ab sorbs odors, but Is also quickly af fected by any foreign substance. Hundreds of horses are ruined every year because they are not given water -t when they require It. There may be ' regular, times for watering, but rules cannot safely be made to govern the duty. On warm days, when the horses perspire freely, they give off from their bodies large quantities of moist ure, and should be watered often even : If allowed but a small quantity at a time. The young animal pays more than " the adult because it grows and in creases rapidly; the younger the ani mal the lower the cost of 'production. A pig farrowed in early spring and marketed late In the fall will give a ; much larger profit thn will one kept through the winter. There is also a j great demand, with better prices, for ' a small carcass, a weight not exceed ing 150 pounds being preferred to an animal that Is heavier.