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f bftt7d bf a Spell l r Q ' ' ' , ; CHAPTER XVIII. fContinued.) While he spoke, he wag writing on a lip of paper, which he folded and hand ed to the visitor. "Shall I not require the document I gave you as an introduction to the pap ty?" insinuated the gentleman. "Not at all. - The paper you have in your hand will be sufficient introduction. Good morning!" In another minute Mr. Montgomery was descending the dingy stairc:ise. "Just the same as of old," he muttered; "hard ns nails not to be moved. Awk ward their sticking to that bit of pnper not that it is ever likely to be found out. They did not half believe in it. But, cunning as they are, they are done they did not suspect me. How famil iar this old ramshackle place looks to me, although 'tis many a year since I saw it last. Its mouldy walls suggest no very agreeable retrospect." While he was ' thus muttering his thoughts, he left the building and passed out of the court into the open thorough fare.. Then he opened the paper that the lawyer had given him and read the ad dress. The words were, "Madame Berne, Ivy Cottage, Ivy Road, Highbury." Had that paper informed him that he wasto die within the hour, its pe rusal could not have cast upon his face a more marked expression of dismay. For a moment he stood rooted to the spot; and when jostled by a rough passer by, went back into the conrt to stare at the writing and recover from the shock. "Great heavens!" he ejaculated. "Is it possible What can this mean? Who is this Silas Carston, then? Can this wom an be She must. The name is un common; and the same lawyers, too. But why has she left The Willows? I must fathom this mystery." He stood musing silently for some moments, and gradually an expression of dark determination settled upon his face. . . "I'll do it!" he muttered again. "I'll face her once more, ' although I would as soon face a tiger in her den!" He buttoned his coat across his breast with a jerk, drew on his gloves and walk ed rapidly on, with the air of a man thoroughly resolved. Ivy Cottage was a small, gloomy -look-.Ing' house, covered with the dark leaves of the plant from which it took its name; a shrivelled holly tree, and a large, un trimmed lime, threw a yet deeper shad ow upon the -building. It was a rem nant of bygone days, when Highbury was a country place; and it looked like a meanly dressed, old-fashioned woman, in a gay crowd, amidst the glaring stucco and white paint of the new villas that were dotted on each side of it. Mr. Montgomery pulled up short, as Iia rbw "In Cottaere" inscribed urton the gate post of this shabby looking dwelling. He felt more nervous than ever. Me drew out his handkerchief, took off his hat, wiped his f ace and , fidgeted with his coat. At last he made the plunge, opened the garden . gate, walked up the path and rang the house bell. . His summons was answered by a sol ' emu looking servanut. Madame Berne was at home: but she could not see strangers. Would he send in his busi ness? He desired her to say that he. came from Messrs. Fogle & Quick, of Gray's Inn, and that his business related to a certain advertisement which had appear ed in the morning newspapers. The woman shut the door in his face and left him standing upon the steps while she delivered his message. . Any person who had stood beside him might have heard the thumping of his heart against his side. Again he took out his handkerchief, and wiped away the perspiration 'hat stood in large beads upon his face; yet the morning was raw and cold. After the lapse of about a minute, the .-Iai. i.AnAi-tnl .1 ,n . . . 1 1 .1 uvui iruiiirucii, mm lie w lis lliurttliuueu by the solemn servant into the front par lor, there to await Madame Berne's ap pearance. It was a gloomy. room, the walls were covered with a dingy, dark paper, - the furniture was old-fashioned in form, and mostly of oak. The trees in front threw in a black shadow, and obscured the daylight. Mr. Montgomery seated himself with his back to the win dow, and in that position his features were indistinct to any person coming Into the room. CHAPTER XIX. Five minutes passed, and then the han dle of the door was turned, nnd there appeared upon the threshold an elderly woman, tall, big boned, thin, white lips; a nose like a parrot's beak; light gray eyes as cold as stone. She Wore a front of dark brown hair, dressed in small fiat curls, and bound i-mind the forehead by a band of narrow black vel vet. She was dressed in black silk, and wore a kerchief of white muslin crossed upon her bosom. Mr. Montgom ery rose and bowed, still carefully keep ing his face from the light. "You have brought me intelligence of the boy, Silas Carston she said, in a hard, cold voice, and standing only just within tha doorway. He tried to speak, but his mouth was too parched, and his voice failed him, so he politely moved a chair a little to wards her; but she still remained stand ing on the same spot, not recognizing his civility. "My time is precious," she said, yet more coldly, "Will you please to state your business? "Stony as ever!" he said, within hinv elf: "impervious to politeness or blan dishments. The fight must come; the .sooner the better!' - - "I am Silas Carston's representative,' he said, in voic that would shake in spite of him. "I called upon Messrs. Fogle & Quick In the matter of this ad vertisement" producing the newspaper "they referred me to you, madame. now wait your communication."- At the first sound of his voice, the iron features relaxed into an expression of doubt, gradually changing into one of astonishment, as she fixed her eyes upon the speaker. "Edward Morant," she said, "what have you to do with Sila Canton, and how dare you set foot within my house?" Hardly as she tried to speak in a tone of calm sternness, there was an anxious troubled ring in her voice, and an anx ious look in hep face, as she waited his answer. - Xow that the ice was broken, all his nervousness vanished. Fearless and bitter as" herself, he confronted her. . For a mo ment they stood eying "each other, like two wrestlers about to engage in a dead ly struggle. In her face was a look of . . i " , intense loathing; in his, a look of tigrish , . , . hatred. "Why have you come here?" she stern ly asked. "I have told you, to inquire, on behalf of Silas Carston, the meaning of this ad ertisement" "What is "Silas Carston to you, that yon should come here upon such an er rand? I refuse to make any communi cation to you. Let him come himself if he wishes to know anything. This is my house, and I will not endure cur presence in it," " "Suppose I insist upon remaining until you answer my questions?" "I shall have you expelled by a con stable, and sworn over to keep the peace towards me." "It would scarcely be agreeable to my father, outcast as I am, to have his name branded in a police court, even to secure your safety." - He spoke in a voice of cold irony;- but the blood' was winging in his ears, and seething in his veins with passion.. - "What have the dead to do with the petty vanities of earthly fame?" she asked, sternly. "The dead!" he whispered; the hot blood changed to a stream of ice, and rushed back (upon his heart, and he stared at her, pale and aghast. "The dead!" she reiterated, in the same tone. She looked steadily in his face, as though doubting the truth of his astonishment. It was too terribly real to be doubted even by her. But it could not excite, one touch of pity in her stony heart; for she added, in a voice of bitter irony, -"A terrible com mentary upon your life, Edward Mo rant. Your father has been dead three months, and you do not kuow it." He had sunk into a chair, and was staring into vacancy, repeating the wcrd "Dead!" over and over again. Sudden ly he asked, in a low, anxious tone, "Did he ask for me? Did he wish to see me before he died ?" "He had broken with all earthly ties months before he died; his thoughts and words were given to heaven alone." - Eagerly the man waited for the cruel answer; and when it came, he covered his face with his hands and sobbed until the tears dropped between his finger on to the ground. Still cold and pitiless f,s an iron statue, the woman looked dowu upon him with out a shadow of sympathy in her rigid face. After a minute's pause, she spid, "It is useless to . prolong ! this scene. You can now see that all ties are brok en between us. I trust I shall never look upon- your face again. As for Silas Carston, if he wishes to know anything, I repeat, he must come to me himself. - I take no interest in him. I simply desire to do a duty which I have pledged myself te perform." "Why, then, was he sent to such a place as Tabernacle House?" he de manded. "Kept in ignorance of his par ents put to menial work? Do you know into what keeping you consigned him? This man this Rev. Mr. Porter, as he calls himself,"- he went on "I remem ber as a vagabond a companion of mine. You will say he is a converted sinner. I tell you this man is the vilest of hypocrites; a trader upon cant, whom to-morrow I will expose in the- midst of his congregation, and drive out of the town. His daughter was once for two years clairvoyant in a traveling mes merism show. . hat do you think now of the guardian of your precious charge?" Leave this house, and never darken it with your presence again." The weapons had pierced deep,- and her voice was faint and husky. Although you . may never see me again, you shall feel me, he went on, with momentary increasing passion. Listen, woman, to the last words sou may ever hear me speak! I have never injured, nor sought to injure you. From the moment you first saw meV you h'jted me because 1 would not cant and whine and .because I passed a few boyish jests upon your doctrines, you vowed my de struction; you turned my father's heart against me, and had me expelled from my home, turned adrift upon the world. That act fell back upon yourself in a terrible retribution; but while its couBe- nuences glanced off your steel heart and If ft no lasting wound, they handed ine over body' and soul to Satan himself! When, homeless and starving, I have written to my father for money to luy bread, the letters were returned unopened not by his hands, but by yours; and eveu on his deathbed you embittered his heart with enmity against his only child! For the sake of one dear memory, I have borne all this. But there is a limit to all human endurance, and that limit is passed with me. It seems you have one being still in whom you take some interest that 'you have one vulnerable point, and through that I'll strike you! There is no revenge, however fiendish, that I will pause at. ; I will never cross your threshold again, but my shadow shall be upon you to the last hour of your life" As ha spoke, he drew close to her, foaming with passion, and wildly gesticu lating, as though he would strike her. But not. one step did she move, but looked him full and fearlessly in the face, though her own grew a shade paler. The solemn servant, attracted by the noise, stood terror-stricken in the doorway. As he spoke the last words, ha pushed her aside, and rushed out of the house, with Madame Berne's voice ringing In his ears, "Beware what you do, lest the ven geance fall npon your own head! Left alone, . her nerve gave way, and she sank back trembling, and almost fainting, upon the sofa. An honr afterwards, she was on her way to Gray's Inn. When she arrived, Jhf office ..was "closed. Early on .Monday morning she 'sought it again. ' But the A h " CHAPTER XX. . '. fOn Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Porter had just sat down to his early dinner,' when , the sour, puritanical looking servant who . had succeeded Martha came into the din-' lug room to announce that a -gentleiuan ! wished to see him. Thinking that this "Visit related, perhaps, to the advertise ment he had inserted, and supposing for a moment that it might be Silas him self frightened into returning, he eagerly bade the woman ask the gentleman's name. ' : . "I'll save "you the trouble, Sarah Jane!" cried a voice. "I'll "take it in myself;" and the next moment Mr. Mont gomery presented himself in the parlor. There was something about the self assured air and insolent tone of the in truder that inspired Mr. Porter with anything- but satisfaction. - You can leave the room, mjr dear," said the Professor, turning to the ser- NB"1U ''""" lul ; vant; what I have to say to your mas- ter is very confidential and strictly pri vate." "Pardon me, sir," said Mr. Porter, as suming his devotional whine; "I never transact any unusual business on the Sabbath day, but " "Don't come this humbug with me, Bill Stokes!" interrupted Montgomery, contemptuously as soon as the servant had left the room. At that name, the Reverend Obadiah and Judith started. "Do you mean to say that you don't ' rtmember me ?" - "I do," said Judith quietly. "Ahhl thought the wonderful eyes of Mile. Zenobia would find me out," Mont gomery returned. A look of recognition began to dawn in M.T. Porter's face. " "Is it the Pro fessor he said. . , Yes ; it's the Professor," answered Montgomery. He had thrown himself back in a chair, and, with his hands in his trousers' pockets, and his legs stretch ed out, was enjoying, with an air of in solent satisfaction, the dismay depicted upon his quondam associate's face. But Judith sat calm and unmoved, watch ing the enemy as keenly as though he had been a wild beast, whose spring she momentarily expected, but of whom she was not the least afraid. "I am very glad to see you, Profes sor, said her ratner, trying to assume an air of easy hospitality. "Don't tell lies! You cannot be glad to see a man who knows as much about you as I do, and whom you treated so infamously." Well, Professor, is there anything I cau do for you?" asked Mr. Porter, in his most fawning accents. You did enough for me years ago. after I had saved you from starvation. Do you know that two days back, when I first determined to pay you a visit, I swore that I would not leave the town until I had exposed you in the middle of your congregation?" But you have changed your mind since then, . said Judith, calmly, speak ing for the first time. "How do you know that?" asked Montgomery, sharply, ; "If you had still intended to do that, you would not have troubled yourself to take a walk of two miles first." "I am sure the Professor would not think it a trouble to walk two miles to see old friends who are so glad to see him," snujBed her father. Uease that humbug! cried Mont gomery, nut you certainly have jolly snug quarters here; and as you are so very pressing," he added, with a ma licious grin, "I think a month or two down here, to a man who has been smoke-dried in the city, would be a won derful health improver. Mr. Porter turned pale at this popo- sition. Will you take some dinner with us. Professor? Come, father, it is getting cold." Judith spoke in " the same calm, unmoved tone as before. (To be continued.! CAN NO T COMPETE WITH RUSSIA Standard Oil Company Has Found Its Waterloo in the Csar's Country. It may be interesting to know that within Russia's domain the Standard Oil Company Is meeting some of the most serious opposition of its long life of plunder. This giant trust supplies over 90 per cent of the foreign demand for oil. It has competed with the large oil interests of Russia, which are con trolled by the Rothschilds and the No bel - brothers,, but it has never over powered them. This is due to the Rus- slan laws regulating foreign trade in terests. The Standard . Oil Company controls- the export price everywhere in the world except within the limits of Russian territory, where competi tion " has not been stifled. Russia is just as rich In petroleum products as Is the United States, and but for the power of the Standard Oil Company they would be supplied to America by Russian producers. Russia protects her oil industry by a 200 per cent tariff; the United States puts oil on the free list. The Czar Is not responsible for this state of affairs. The power of the Rothschilds carried it Into effect These astute financiers pictured to. the .bureaucracy the infinite horror of an American trust slowly eating Its way into the very center of public recogni tion by supplying a staple commodity at a fluctuating price. - The Roths childs told the bureaucrats that if the Standard Oil Company Should become as powerful in Russia as in America it would only add to the ever-burning fires of internal mistrust and rebellion in one way or another. For that rea son the Russian government created the high tariff and permitted the Rothschilds and the Nobel brothers to almost monopolize Its oil industry.. Success. ' There is an elm in the department of Ardeche, France, which is vigorous and flourishing, though it has attained the patriarchal age of 793 years. Ac cording to official documents it was planted on the grave of a nobleman in the reign of King Philip. II., about 1202. . ' - '-' A man who Is unscrupulous to a cer tain extent is always uncertain to a large extent. A Good Extension Ladder. A Jointed lalder in three or four parts, or as many as desired. The first section or bottom one Is made 2 feet 6 inches wide, from outside to outside, and 10 feet long; point both ends to prevent from slipping; rounds 1 feet apart; begin to measure from top for rounds; allow 3 inches for slot or crotch, then -13 inches, or as you please, to the next round; let top round project from either side 1xk inches for a shoulder for the next edi tion to rest on; put a Bolt through each end, of 2x4, to prevent splitting. Second part 8 feet long, 2 feet wide, inside measure, or same width from inside as the first section is on top outside, so the' second part can slip down oyer the first part, letting the bracing part together; the second part should be 2 feet outside . measure, al lowance to be siade at both ends for crotch, and at either end a projecting round. The idea of the coupling part is this the top section slips down over the bottom part until the crotch Alt EXTENSION LADDER. reaches the projecting round of the bottom section; also the bottom part comes in contact with the first round of section above, as seen in illustration below. You can have a ladder, 10 feet long, 18 feet long, . 24 feet long; or as long as you may want it, and be easily handled. - Ten feet, length of first ladder; (a) width at, bottom, 2 feet; (b) width at. top, 2 feet; (e) slot to admit bottom round of second part; (d) distance between slot and round, 16 Inches, 8 feet length of second or third parts; Xa) width at bottom inside, 2 feet; (b) at top, 2 feet outside. St. Louis Republic. A Margin of Dairy Profit. The canvass of forty-eight creamery patrons sending milk to an establish ment in Fond du Lac County, Wis., shows a total of 637 cows. The aver age cost of feed per cow was $29.88 and the average returns for butter from the creamery per cow was $35.82. The cows averaged 4,204 quarts by the years, yielding 185 pounds of butter, which sold to return the patrons $19.27 per pound. Each dollar's worth of feed produced only $1.20 in butter, and the total profit per cow over cost of feed was $4.94 for the year. But an additional profit from skim milk at twenty cents per hundred amounts to $8.20, making a total profit per cow of $14.34. This skim milk profit Is really the most striking result of the canvass. It shows that while with average cows the butter - returned but little more than enough to pay for the feed, the value of the skim milk increased the net profit two hundred per cent. The statement does not, of course, cover the whole story, since the cost of labor is not reckoned, and on the other hand the value of manure and of the calves is not estimated. These last items would be considered to largely offset the labor. American Cultivator. Belgian Hares. Passing a Chicago jneat market re cently, the writer-noticed a sign that read: "Two Belgian Hares for 25 Cents." It was above a great pile of the animals. This points a lesson. - A few years ago the exploiters of the Belgian hares at fancy prices were de claring that the time would not come when Belgian hares would not bring several dollars each. Multitudes of people went into the raising of the ani mals with the belief that all they pro duced could be sold at high figures. In vain their friends warned them that in the natural course of events Belgian hare meat would come down to the level of other ..edible .meat At that time no argument was effective. Mil lions of the animals were raised and little by little appeared on the mar kets, where the producers found that they had to sell them at about the price of "rabbit." No boom of any kind of stock can last indefinitely. The high prices themselves stimulate the producing of enough animals to bring down the prices to the level prevailing in other lines. This fact should be remembered in the producing of any kind of live stock. Farmers' Review. Volume of Butter Industry. , In an address delivered at the meet ing of the National Buttermakers' As sociation at the St Louis Fair, M. M. Wentworth of State Center, Iowa, in giving some figures of the magnitude of the" dairy and creamery interest, said that the 'production of butter last year in . the United , States would amount to 1,500,000,000 pounds. The value of the output, exclusive of Sun days and holidays, was, he said, $1, 000,000 daily. To move the year's pro duction of butter would require 43,750 cars, each containing 20.000 pounds. ThTs succession of cars would extend B30 miles if placed end to end, or from V -PARTS. 1 W me Worid'i Fair ground to a point forty miles beyond Chicago, if placed in sections of twMtty-fiva cars, 1,760 locomotive would be required to haul the butter output, and It would take 8,750 trainmen to operate the trains. If sections were placed sic miles apart. the first section would be whistling in Manila, Philippine islands, before the last section left the World's Fair grounds. The Wool of the World, Russia has more sheep than any other country in Europe. South Amer ica has the largest flocks, this side of the Atlantic, Australia has more sheep than any other country in the world. The United States have about 62,- 000,000 sheep, Canada . and Mexico about 15,000,000 head, Australia about 125,000,000, South America something like 90,000,000, the Central American Republic 10,000,000, Europe 220,000, 000, Asia 80,000,000 and Africa about 62,000,000. The world's flock totals something like 664,000,000 sheep. The goats of some countries go in as sheep. As statistics are not infallible, especially in Asia, -this goat fact will probably not affect the situation. As these sheep will produce four pounds of wool per head on the average, the sheep of the world shear 2,646,000,000 pounds of scoured wool. The looms of the United . States need nearly 20 per cent of the total. The bulk, of this Is sheared at homeT' because our sheep are large and shear a heavier fleece than the major ity of the world's sheep. Great Britain gets most of her wool from Australia. Britain probably uses more sheep wool than any other coun try In the world, while Belgium uses the most llama and coarse animal hair, and Russia more goat floss than any other nation. - Some Bales Abont Incubators. First comply with the manufactur er's directions, as you can be sure that he will give the best advice possible as to the running of a machine that he has probably studied over for years," says the Feather. Then be sure that you have placed the machine perfectly level. Keep the lamps well trimmed and use the best oil you can get. Remove all infertile eggs on about the eighth day and on the fifteenth retest them. Commencing with the second day, turn the eggs night and morning until the eighteenth day. Do not open the machine while the chicks are hatching. It is a good thing to let the chicks remain In the incubator for a day at a temperature of about 92 degrees. Give them their first feed when re moved to the brooders. Give them for a few days fine gravel, stale bread crumbs and hard boiled eggs, after that boiled vege tables, cracked wheat, meat, bran and green clover cut fine. As they grow they can be fed whole meat and oats. Green cut bone and milk also is good for them. ' Never feed wet, sloppy food. Bulletin and Mail Box. A subscriber of the Farm Journal sends an illustration of a handy com bined bulletin and MB L4WN tfwi smith -wwr mail box which ex plains' itself. ' " There Is no kind of adver tising that can equal this plan, which ad vertises things fot sale and for that which one would buy. It is a sure sign a man is up to date when a bulletin board like the one illustrated is seen before his door. A board of this kind also shows the residence of ownei which is desired by passersby. Agricultural Atoms. New York has 30,000,000 grape vines growing on .60,000 acres of land. - During December eggs retailed on the New York market as high as 60 cents a dozen An English agricultural journal de scribes Secretary Wilson's annual re port as "a perfect paean over the pros perity of the farmers of his country.' - A Kansas farmer, 40 years old, who has already made a success of farming, Das rented nis rarm ana win take a course in scientific farming at the State agricultural college. .. The model Poland-China hog, accord ing to Prof. John A. Craig, director of the Texas experiment station, should weigh not less than 160 pounds when It Is six months old. Keeping Birds from Cherries. A Maryland orchardist has found an effective way. of keeping the birds away from his cherry trees while the fruit is attaining that degree of ripe ness necessary to a profitable market All that he has done has been to plant a few mulberry trees scatterlngly in his orchard and as , the latter berry ripens about the' same time or a little earlier than the cherry, and the birds are more fond of them than of the stone-bearted fruit, they obligingly keep away from the farmer's stock. Bnormous Cherry Tree. A huge black Tartarian cherry tree near Newcastle, Cal., last year pro duced 3,100 pounds of salable cherries, for which the owner received $500. The tree is over 100 feet high.. Its trunk is 10 feet In circumference. Across the branches from tip to tip the distance is 85 feet Ladders are built In the tree for the pickers, so that they can pick" every cherry.- - - The Feeding Proolem. , . The nutriments of food are made tip of albuminoids, carbohydrates, fat and minerals. The -first goes to form lean meat and may be used to form Tat, or to be converted into- heet or force. Al buminoids are almost Identical with protein, and the names are sometimes ' used indiscriminately. The second goes mainly to produce heat and foree and is a source of fat The third, or fats, is a source of fat, heat and force. The minerals form the bone. The propor tion of these needed by animals varies with age, purpose for which they are kept, and the class to which they be long. This feeding problem is one of tha most Important that the farmer, stock raiser and feeder has to consider, and npon how well be has mastered it will greatly depend the success of his la bors. If the stock be young and he is going to keep it until It fully matures as to sbse. then he must feed a ration rich in protein, so as to develop a strong, muscular body; if for baby meat then a ration for fattening pur poses, then one that will . develon strong, bony structure, etc. The farm- can no longer feed any wav and any feed if he expects to realize nil that Is possible from his business. The young farmer and feeder having learn ed the elements of nutrition and the use of each in building up the body of the animal, should send to the station and get an analysis of feeds, and then stuay it careruny, untn ne knows what feed to feed to accomplish the end that he has in view. Vicissitudes rr Great Pictures. Many and strange have been the vicissitudes of some of the world's greatest pictures, and a fine painting which now graces Lord Leigh's resi dence in Warwickshire, England, has an interesting history. This remark able picture, which for some years consisted of a painting of flowers, was pronounced by . an art dealer to ht merely a mask for some other picture. and on receiving permission he grad ually cleaned off the flowers, diseover ing underneath a very fine portrait of Charles I., by Vandyke. It is supposed that the portrait was thus disguised in order to save it from destruction by the Roundheads at the time of the commonwealth. Told by Truthful James. A more or less truthful Australian relates that he put an unusually large porcelain egg in the nest of a hen and found that the next eggs she laid were- of increased size. Then he put a goose egg in the nest. The hen laid an egg just as large. He was so pleased with the scheme that he put a whitewashed football in the nest. When he went the next time to search for eggs he found one as big as a football, but no hen in sight. Securing the egg, he saw engraved on it, by hen photography, these words: "I'm no ostrich, but I've done my best." Later he found the hen inside the egg. Honrs the Same. . Miss Budd When a man's engaged to a girl his idea of "good hours" is to stay from 8 o'clock until any time after midnight. Miss Oldun Yes, and even after marriage the hours are the same. Miss Budd Indeed! Mrs. Oldun Yes; the only difference is that in one case they're hours "with her," and In the other "away from her." Catholic Standard. Reserve is the truest expression of re spect toward those who are its objects. De Quincy. $25 Per Day - CAN BE MADE WITH Austin Well Drills Made in all sizes and styles Write ior Catalogs and races BE&LL ft Go. Gen. Acts. 313 Comml Elk Portland, Ore. To Convince You THAT THE CHATHAM Is the BEST INCUBATOR on the market, I will send you one, freight prepaid, and' wait for my pay until October 1, 1!)05. . It was given the highest award at the Oregon State Fair, held at - Salem last fall. Write for our Descriptive Catalogue of Incuba tors and Brooders a4 oar time proposition. GEO. W. FOOTT. Dept. 12 Portland, Oregon Tsl CURES WHERE All tLSI FAILS. Cl III Bast Ooocu Byrap. TwteOooL Das iff fTj - Inttma. Sold br dnw-gtow. fl