THE END Of THE
FEUD &
By NELLIE CRAVEY CILLMORE
Copyright, VU&, by Homer Spragae
The Longwoods had just moved to
Gleudale after generations of residence
in Lexington. When Miss Mathilde
found ont that tbsy were there and not
ou.'y g:i::g to live in the same town
with herself, but as close neighbors,
she bcyan to bustle about and make
hospitable .preparations for receiving
them in her own home.
Twenty years ago, when Mathilde
Westley was a girl in her teens, she,
too, with her mother, father, sisters
and brother, had lived in Lexington,
and the Longwoods and Westleys were
like twin families. Cut one by one the
parents and sisters had passed away,
leaving Miss Mathilde and her brother
sole survivors. After a few years of
dreary lingering In the old home they
bad drifted to Glendale, where Jake
Westley had built up a flourishing lit
tle mercantile business.
A little later had come also the Pea
bodys and pitched their tent just across
the street f mm the Westleys' pretty,
P03e sheathed cottage. But for this cir
cumstance Miss Mathilde might have
been contented, even fairly happy. Her
life was full of congenial, healthy tasks
which she performed with as much
cheerfuiness as she did thoroughness,
each day standing forth as its own
bright monument of reward.
If only there had never been a Rus
sell Peabody! Every day for fourteen
years she had been foreed to see him
three times, four, sometimes five, as he
passed in and out of the gate across
the way going back and forth to his
work.
For just a little while many years
ago the sun of happiness had shone
upon Miss Mathilde's life. It was in
the days when she was a Vassar girl
and he a student at Harvard. They
Lad met, fallen desperately in love, ex
changed vows and rings, only to find
on their return from college that a bit
ter feud had existed between the West
leys and the Peabodys for scores of
years back. That marked the end of
Mathilde Weatley's brief love dream.
A LOOK OF SURPRISE CAME INTO HIS FACE
f AT SIGHT OF TUB MAT1.
and Russell Peabody settled down as
an old bachelor almost before he was a
man. Thus the years drifted.
This morning Miss Mathilde was
busy with her dust cloth, interrupting
herself every little while In the clean
ing to run back to the kitchen and
glance at the preserves sizzling in a
big copper kettle. The new maid was
tending them, and Miss Mathilde, after
stirring them vigorously for a moment'
and pronouncing them done, pushed
back the little damp ringlet that in
sisted upon escaping from the soft
knot on top of her dainty head, while a
sudden look of Inspiration glowed in
her face. She took a deep old fash
ioned dish out of the cupboard and
filled It with the fragrant steaming
preserves.
"Put on a fresh white apron right
away, Kitty, and take this over to the
little brown house on the other corner,
where the Longwoods live. Tell them
that Miss Mathilde sent It for 'Auld
Lang Syne.' Can you remember that?"
Then she added to herself:
"They've just moved in, and I know
they haven't got everything fixed up
yet, so the peaches will come In handy."
Now, there were two little brown
houses across the way, and each of
them stood on a corner. Also Kitty
was a new maid, and it was not unnat
ural that she should have selected the
wrong place. Miss Mathilde was so
deeply engrossed In the bottling proc
ess that she did not even look up as
the girl went out of the gate.
Russell Peabody by some peculiar
circumstance sat In his study looking
over the contents of an old cabinet
drawer he had not opened for many
years. He held in his hand a faded
knot of pink ribbon one that she had
'worn that night of their betrothal and
his face was less ruddy than its wont
as he recalled the sweet memories of
their short lived happiness and the bit
ter thoughts of all the drab years that
followed.
The sharp peal of the doorbell
brought him to his feet All of them
were away for the summer; not even ft
servant was In the house, and he an
swered the ring himself.
A look of surprise came into bis face
at sight of the trim strange maid, but
he took the dish from her hands with
a smile of appreciation. Probably some
neighborly friend of the family, pity
ing his bachelorhood, bad sent It over.
"From Miss Westley Miss Mathilde,
sir for the sakef 'Anld Lang Syne, "
she said. A moment later Kitty was
out of the gate, and Rnssell Peabody
stood staring Into the space through
which she had disappeared, and as he
stared a radiant hope awoke In his
eyes. For one second he knew what
Is termed "mad, delirious bliss." What
if she had meant that there was no
past that she wanted him again as he
used to be at her side; that she cared,
even as he had, more and more through
all the lonely' years that had divided
them? Was she clearing the road for
him at last, the road for which he
longed, but lacked the courage to take?
After awhile he closed the door and
went back into his study. With trem
bling hands he gathered up all his
treasures and locked them back in the
cabinet all but the faded knot of rib
bon. This he wrapped carefully in a
piece of paper and wrote across the
back of it:
"Will you wear it this evening for
- 'Auld Lang Syne?' "
Afterward he went out In the street
and stopped a boy who was coming
along with some papers. He gave him
the package, thrust a half dollar into
his hand and pointed the way to Miss
Mathilde's cottage.
The day hung heavy on Russell Pea
body's hands. Would she wear the
pink ribbon, or was her overture of
the morning simply an act of neigh
borly kindness? When night came, he
dressed himself more carefully than he
had done for a score of years. He
discarded the usual black tie for one
of less sober hue and flicked Imaginary
specks of dust from his broadcloth
lapels at least a dozen times. He
looked at himself a bit uncertainly in
the glass; but, after all, forty-three
was not so very old, and time had
traced no unflattering lines on his
keen, good looking face.
At 8 o'clock he left the house and
walked rapidly, without looking up, till
he came to Miss Mathilde's gate. The
high fence was tangled. In clematis,
and be did not see her at all till his
hand rested on the latch. She was
dressed all over in white. With a
white rose nestling at her throat'
above a faded knot of pink ribbon.
"Mathilde!" A vivid light leaped to
his face, illumining it.
She answered by a quick flash of her
eyes, and he, reading love's language
in them, held out his arms.
She went to him with a little some
thing between a sob and a laugh, and
he kissed her softly under the twin
kling November stars.
Whose Was Itf
In a certain Denver church one Sun
day a bright new half dollar was no
ticed in the aisle by ajwoman in one
of the pews. She was wondering how
she'd get it, and In glancing around to
see if her discovery had been noticed
she saw a woman directly behind her
looking at the coin. The first woman
feared the second would "beat her to
it," so she put her hand over her
mouth and whispered:
"How shall I get that half dollar I
just dropped?"
"You didn't drop that I dropped
it" replied the other.
The women were both wondering
how to get the half dollar when a man
came along with the contribution box.
As he offered her the box a woman
across the aisle from the other two
said to him:
"I just dropped a half dollar on the
floor. Would you be so kind as to
hand it to me?"
The man picked it op and gave It to
her. The other two women, although
they are neighbors, haven't spoken to
each other since. Denver Post.
Land Craba of the West Indies.
In the West Indies is found a species
of land crab which lives a considerable
distance from water, but once a year
migrates to the seashore In order to
pawn. As soon as the crab reaches
the beach it eagerly goes to the edge
of the water and lets the waves roll
over its body to wash off the spawn.
The eggs are hatched under the sand,
and soon after millions of the newborn
crabs are seen quitting the shore and
slowly traveling up the mountains. The
yearly migrations of the old crabs are
among the wonders of animal life. In
going down the crabs of a large region
seem to select a certain rendezvous,
and there they gather in countless
numbers. The procession, which is
commonly divided Into battalions, with
the . strongest in front, sets forward
with the precision of an army. In trav
eling they turn neither to the right nor
left Even if they meet a house they
will try to scale it The night is their
chief time of traveling, but if it rains
by day they improve that occasion.
When the West Was Unknown.
"Between 'the Missouri and the Pa
cific," said a member of congress, "save
a strip of culturable prairie not above
200 or 300 miles wide, the region Is
waste and sterile, no better than the
desert of Sahara and quite as danger
ous to cross." The author of these
words was Edward Bates of Missouri,
whom Horace Greeley long afterward
boomed for the presidency In the New
Tork Tribune and in the Chicago Re
publican canvention of 1830, and who
became attorney general In Lincoln's
cabinet This was in the session of
congress of 1829. As late as 1843 Mc
Duffie of South Carolina in a speech in
the senate, which was applauded by
many persons In and out of that cham
ber, declared that for agricultural pur
poses be would "not give a pinch of
snuff for the whole territory" west
of the Rocky mountains. Putnam's
Monthly.
NATIVE DRUG PLANT.
The Valuable Caseara Saarada Is
Rapidly Disappearing.
An examination of the official list of
crude drugs of plant origin develops
the fact that a large proportion of the
species represented is found growing
in the United States. Many of them
are weeds, often classed as noxious by
the farmers; others are simply wild
plants of the fields and forests of dif
ferent parts of the country.
The domestication and cultivation of
those valuable wild plants that are
CASCABA SAGRADA.
most seriously threatened have appeared
a necessity to the government bureau
of plant industry if the products are
not to disappear from the materia
medica. One of the most interesting
among a number of plants recently re
ported upon Is Caseara sagrada. Dr.
True of the bureau mentioned says
that the cultivation of the Caseara
sagrada tree (Rhamnus purshiqnus)
has been made a subject of study for
about two years. The tree producing
I his useful bark, known as Caseara sa
grada, is a native of the upper Pacific
coast region, where it chooses moist
situations in the mountains. This usu
ally small tree grows readily from seed
sown in rich wood soil and makes a
fair growth the first year. It is under
observation both at Washington and at
Ebenezer, S. C. In both places it seems
thus far to do well. Professor C. S.
Sargent of Harvard university states
that at the Arnold arboretum, near
Boston, the tree maintains an existence
for some years after transplanting, but
eventually dies. So far both the seed
lings grown at Washington and the
transplanted' trees sent in from the Pa
cific coast have made a good growth
and look well. It is very desirable that
'.he cultivation of this tree on an exper
imental scale should be taken up in the
country to which it is native. The de
mand for this bark is great not only in
America, but to an increasing degree
in foreign lands, and since the amount
it available material wherewith to
supply this demand is decreasing rap
idly and considerable time is required
to grow trees large enough to peel It is
apparent that In the not very distant
future a shortage is Inevitable.
Warm Quarters For Hogs.
Hogs need warm, comfortable quar
ters in cold weather more than horses
or cattle because their hair is coarser
and thinner, says a writer in Ohio
Farmer. Our best breeds of hogs have
very little hair. The higher their im
provement for pork production has
been carried the thinner has become
the covering of their bodies. Animals
that were designed to endure the rigors
of winter without shelter are covered
with a coat of warm, thick wool or
hair. The wild hog has long, thick
hair, with a finer furry covering under
it next the skin. The man who has his
horses clipped must keep them blan
keted even In the stable during cold
weather. The men who keep the hogs
which have had their thick coating of
hair bred off must have warm pens for
keeping them comfortable in wintry
weather.
To Handle a Vielons He.
An easy way for one man to handle
a large, vicious hog Is by means of a
five-eighths Inch rope ten feet long,
says a writer in Indiana Farmer. Cut
off three feet and tie a loop in each
end, as shown In
the cut Now tie
the remaining sev
en feet to the cen
ter of the short
A rope midway be
tween the loops.
Pass the loops over
hind feet of hog;
BOPE DEVICE.
then draw long rope between front
feet and over nose, then back again
over short rope; pull forward over nose
and back again as before and tie. With
this arrangement the hog is in com
plete controL
Winter Pruning-.
Pruning can be done at any time, at
the convenience of the owner, in the
winter. Good judgment Is needed In
this work or the Injury may overbal
ance the benefits from it
Card the Cows.
Farmers will find it profitable to
sard their cows regularly. The cattle
enjoy It and it does them good when
confined in the stable during a long
winter.
0
CORN ROOT WORM.
ifUIr Controlled hr Following
Crop Rotation.
. The beetle may be readily distin
guished from the southern corn root
worm by its color, which Is nearly uni
form, pale, but usually distinctly grass
green or greenish yellow. It is about
the same size as the striped cucumber
beetle, one-fifth of an inch long or a
little more. It is a little more slender
! and less pear shaped. The larvae
i when fully mature attain lengths of
! only four-tenths of an inch.
It occurs from Jova Scotia to Kan
sas and Nebraska, but injurious occur
rences are limited to Illinois, where it
is most troublesome; Indiana, Iowa.
Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and Missouri.
Corn is the only known host plant of
the larvae. The beetles show a dispo
sition to feed on a variety of plants,
but are more choice of the southern'
species. They are naturally pollen feed
ers, are partial to the blossoms of this
tle, sunflower and golden rod and are
seldom found on cucurbits. Probably
they do some damage to corn by eating
the pollen and gnawing the silk and
tassels, thus preventing cross fertiliza
tion and causing a partial blasting of
ears.
The species is said to be single brood
ed. The beetles occur normally in the
field until November and in open win
ter have been noted abroad as late as
the middle of December. Eggs so far
as known are deposited in cornfields
late in the season and hatch the follow
ing spring. Larvae have been seen in
central Illinois the second week in
June, and the beetles have been report
ed in southeastern Iowa toward the
end of June. Eight or nine weeks is
required for a generation to mature.
The eggs hatch from about May 15 to
July 15 or a little later. Eggs are de
posited In the earth in more or less
scattered clusters of three to ten at a
depth of one to six inches, all being
placed about the roots in a space of a
few inches around each hill, the larvae
feeding on the roots, which they mine.
They seem able to travel from one root
to another. Pupation takes place un
derground. When the beetles begin to
issue, toward the latter part of August,
they are first noticeably abundant on
thistle blossoms and afterward on oth
er plants blooming at this season.
This species is readily controlled sim
ply by following crop rotation. Since
the insect as far as observed feeds in
Its ' larval condition only on corn, the
planting of infested land to any other
crop leads to the starvation of the
ryoung when they hatch in the spring.
This is no mere inference, but has
been tested time and again. In . Illinois
It is ordinarily safe to plant corn in
fields or meadows in which the beetle
has been observed in great abundance
on clover and various weeds in late
October the previous year. One other
measure, to be recommended as a
general farm practice, consists in the
maintenance of the fertility of the soil
by the use of manures and other fer
tilizers. Although this does not dimin
ish attack, It sometimes enables the
plants to withstand injury. F. H. Chit
tenden, United States Department of
Agriculture.
CURING A KICKER.
Harness Arrangement to Restrain a
Horse.
An arrangement such as shown in
the cut has been suggested as effective
to cure a horse which kicks in harness.
A heavy strap (P) Is attached to the
KICKING PREVENTED.
collar and extends back under the sur
cingle, where it is attached to a heavy
ring.
Through this ring is passed a rope or
strap (M), which is attached to straps
on the hind hocks at S. This is made
loose enough so that the animal may
walk comfortably, but too tight to al
low the animal to kick. After wearing
this harness awhile the horse will cease
to try to kick in harness and may be
driven without, difficulty. Farm and
Home.
Host Cholera.
For fourteen years we lived In a
sandy portion of northern Nebraska,
At that time we all confidently con
gratulated ourselves on the fact that
hog cholera would never gain much
headway on that kind of soil. All the
time we lived there we never lost a
hog with cholera. This year reports
from there indicate the loss of a large
per cent of the crop raised, with the
disease still unchecked. It seems, after
all, that hog cholera is no-respecter of
soil or climate. No one had better brag
on his herd having been free from the
disease 'or the first thing he knows he
will lose about nine-tenths of them.
H. H. in Iowa Homestead.
Apple Boxes.
This is my third season in what may
be termed experimenting with boxes
for shipping apples. Have shipped to
commission houses in Pittsburg, Cleve
land and other points, and without ex
ception the fruit in boxes has netted
20 per cent more than when shipped in
barrels and from 20 to 35 per cent
more than when sold to local dealers.
The box used is made up of 12 by 14
inch elm head and one-half inch No. 2
pine, the length (inside) sixteen inches.
Three boxes cost less than one barrel.
E. H. B. In Farm and Fireside.
A Serial Story Entitled
"LI
LOVE AffAIRS"
Will Seen be Published in the Gazette
This entrancing
by
ARB HILL LAEV10N
's
Mr. Lenten was the author of "Un
eofrc's Ecyhccd," a serial published
in Ilia Gazette a year ago ....
"Lincoln's Love Affairs" affords a
vivid insight of the life and beautiful
womanly attributes of Miss Ann Kut
ledge, the object of Lincoln's first great
affection, and unhappy mental condition
on her death. His short courtship of
Miss Mary Owens creates intense in
terest and is historically correct.
Final Courtship and Marriage of
MISS MARY TODD
Lincoln'sJ early experiences as a law
maker and other interesting incidents
in the life of the great emancipator.
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