The ffcdemptiot?
2! ?)&vid orsot?
By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS
Copjrltht, IOOO, by The Bowrn-Mc rill Company.
CHAPTER XIII.
After wandering aimlessly about the
city for & while the half-crazed gam
bler turned his footsteps toward home.
He entered, both hoping and fearing
that Pepeeta would be asleep. He had
vague presentiment that he was on
the verge of some great event. The
anility secret so long hidden in the
depths of his soul seemed to have fes
tered Us way dangerously near to the
urface, and he felt that If anything
more should happen to Irritate him he
might do something desperate.
So quiet had been his movements
that he stood at Pepeeta's door before
he knew that he had entered the
house, and when he saw her kneeling
by her bedside he stamped his foot In
rage. The worshiper, startled by the
Interruption, although she was mo
mentarily expecting It. hastily arose.
She smiled him a welcome which re
vealed her love, but did not conceal
her sadness nor her suffering, and, ap
proaching him, extended her hands for
n embrace. He pushed her aside and
Cung himself heavily Into a chair.
"You are tired," she said soothingly,
nd stroked his hair.
He did not answer, and her caress
both tranqulllzed and frenzied htm.
f?he placed before him the little lunch
which she always prepared with her
own hands and kept in readiness for
his returned.
'"Take it away. How often have I
told you never to let me find you on
your knees when I come home?" he
asked, brutally.
"Oh! my beloved." she exclaimed,
"you will at least permit me to kneel
to you! See! I am here In an atti
tude of supplication! Listen to me?
Answer me! What is the matter? Do
you not love me any more? Tell me!
Will you never love me Rgain?"
With a violent and convulsive ef
fort he pushed her away and excltim
d fiercely, "Leave me! Do not touch
me! I hate you!"
"Hate me?" she cried, "hate me? Oh,
Tavid. You cannot mean It. You can
not mean that you hate me?"
"But I do!" he exclaimed, bitterly.
T hate you. You have ruined me, and
now you cfess it. From the time
that I first saw you I have never had
a moment's peace. Why did you ever
cross my path? Could you not have
left me alone In my happiness and In
nocence? Look at me now. See what
you have brought me to. I am ruined!
But I am not alone. Y'ou have pulled
yourself down with me. What will
.you say when I tell you that you are
Involved in a crime that must drag us
both down?"
"A crime?" she cried, clasping her
hands In terror.
"Yes, a crime. You need not look
so Innocent You are as guilty as I.
-or at least you are as deeply involved.
"We are bound together in misery. We
are doomed."
"Doomed! Doomed! What do you
mean? Tell me, I implore you do not
speak in riddles!"
"Tell you? Do you wish to know?
Are you In earnest? Then I will! You
are not my wife! There! It is out at
last!"
Pepeeta sprang to her feet and stood
taring at him in horror.
"I deceived you. Y'ou were married
to your beast of a husband lawfully
nough; but as you would not leave
him willingly, I determined that you
should leave him any way. And so I
bribed the Justice to deceive you."
"You-bribed-the-justice-to - deeei ve
me?" "Yes, bribed him. Do you under
stand? You se now what your beauty
has brought you to?"
She stood before him white and si
lent. He had risen, and they were
confronting each other with their sins
mnd sorrows between them.
"This, then," she said, "is the clue
to all this mystery. The tangled thread
has begun to unravel. Many times
this suspicion has forced itself upon
my mind; but it was too terrible to
believe! And yet I, who could not
endure the suspicion, must now sup
port the reality."
"Well," he said, "what are you go
ing to do about It?"
'Dor1 she said, do? Must I do
something? Y'es. you are right. We
-annot go on as we are. Something
must be done. But what? Is it possi
ble that I must return to my husband?
How can I do that I who cannot think
of him without loathing! What t the
matter? Why do you tremble so? Is
It then as terrible to you as to me? I
ee from your emotion that I am right.
And yet I cannot see what good It will
do! How can It unrio the wrong? It
will be a certain sort of reparation,
but It cannot bring him happiness, for
I cannot give him back my heart. Oh!
Javld, why have you done this? And
yet I see my duty! If he is my hus
band, I must go back to him. A wife's
place is by her husband's id". I do
not see how I can do it. but I must.
How hard It Is! I cannot realize it.
The very thought of seHng him aerain
makes me shudder! And jet I must
ro!"
"It Is impossible," gasped the trem
bling creature to whom she looked for
confirmation.
"Why Impossible?"
"Beca u se, beoa use he Is dead."
he whisprd. through his dry lips.
"Df-ad? Did you s-- dead?" Pepee
ta cried. "When did h die? How did
be die?"
"I killed him." he sho'ited. springing
to his fe-t and waving his hands wild
ly. "There! It has told ltsHf. I knew
Jt would. It has h-en eating its way
ti-jt of my h-art for months. I should
bave died if I had kept it secret for
another moment. I feel relieved al
ready. You do not know what It
muatis to guard a secret night and day
All Rights RpsrrTfd
for years, do you? Oh, how sweet It Is
to tell it at last. I killed him! I killed
him! I struck him with a stone. I
crushed his skull and turned him face
downward In the road and left him
there so that when they found him
they would think that he had fallen
from his horse. It was well done, for
one who had had no training In crime!
N'o one has suspected It. I am In no
danger. And yet I could not keep the
secret any longer. And now that I
have told it, I feel so much happier. I
am like myself again. I feel as If I
should never be unkind or Irritable any
more. The load has fallen from my
heart. Come, now, and kiss me."
Extending his hands, he approached
her. As he did so, the look of horror
with which she had regarded him In
tensified and she retreated before him
until she reached the wall, looking like
a seablrd hurled against a precipice
by a storm. Such dread was on her
face that he dared not touch her.
"What is the matter?" he said. "Are
you afralfl of me?"
"Korglve me." she said, "for seeming
even for a moment to despise and ab
hor you. It was all so sudden. I do
not mean to condemn you. I do not
mean to act or feel as If I were any
less guilty than you are in all this
wrong. But when one has to face
something awful without preparation,
It is very hard. No wonder that we
do not know what to do. We are both
guilty, David. I think that It is be
cause I have had so large a share in
all the rest that has been wrong that
I cannot now feel towards you as I
think I ought. It Is true that you
have injured me terribly and irretriev
ably. It is true that your hands are
stained with blood, and yet I love you!
My heart yearns for you this moment
as never before since we have known
each other. But there Is a voice with
in my soul that tells me that we must
part. We could not respect and there
fore we could not truly love each oth
er. Into every moment of our lives
this guilty secret would intrude. No,
it is impossible. I see It clearly. Ev
ery passing moment only makes it
more plain.'.'
"We shall not part!" he cried,
springing towards her and seizing her
by the wrist. "We are as firmly linked
by vice as by virtue. This secret will
draw us together! We cannot keep
away from each other. Let the dead
past bury its dead! Let us be hap
py." "N'o," she answered, calmly, "it la
impossible. Y'ou need not argue. You
cannot change my mind. I see It all
too clearly. We must part.'
"Oh! pity me," he cried, falling on
his knees. "What shall I do? I can
not bear this burden alone. It will
crush me. Have mercy, Pepeeta. Do
not drive me away. I cannot entire
to go forth with this brand of Ca' up
on my forehead and realize that I
shall never hear from your lips an
other word of love or comfort. Pity
me."
"But, my beloved, I am not acting
for myself. It Is not mymlnd or heart
that speaks. It Is God speaking
through me. I feel myself to be acting
under an influence apart from myself.
We have resisted these voices and this
influence too long. Now we must obey
them."
"But, Pepeeta," he continued, "you
do not really think that you have the
power to suppress the love you feel
for me?"
"I shall not try," she answered.
She smiled on him with unutterable
tenderness, and with her eyes still
fixed upon his haggard face began to
move slowly toward the door. He did
not stir; he could not move, but re
mained upon his knees with his hands
extended towards her In supplication.
Like some exalted figure in a dream
he saw her vanish from his sight; the
world became empty and dark; his
powers of endurance had been over
taxed; he lost all consciousness, and
fell forward on the floor.
CHAPTER XIV.
A month of dangerous and almost
fatal sickness followed. When at last,
through the care of a faithful negro
"mammy," the much-enduring man
crept out from the valley of the shad
ow of death, he learned that Pepeeta
had secured a little room in a tene
ment house and was supporting her
self with her needle, In the use of
which she had become an expert In
those glad hours when she made her
baby's clothes, and those sad ones
when she sat far into the night await
ing David's return. On the morning of
the first day in which he was permit
ted to leave the house he made his way
to Pepeeta's new quarters.
"And so this is to be her home," he
said with a shudder as he looked up
to the attic window. Every day this
pale young man was seen, by the cu
rious neighbors, hovering about the
place. As for the object of his love
and solicitude, she began at once to
be a bread-winner. The delicate girl
who never In her life until now had
experienced a care about the necessi
ties of existence began to struggle for
bread In company with the thousands
of poor and needy creatures by whom
she found herself surrounded. The
only hunger she experienced was that
of the heart. She soon became con
scious of David's presence, and de
rived from It a pleasure which only
added to her pain. She avoided him
as best she could, and her determina
tion and her sanctity prevented him
from approaching her.
He wrote her a letter In which, after
passionately pleading for her love, he
asked her to glvs him a sign of wil
lingness to take him ones more back
into her life. "If I may cherish hope
of )-ur ultimate relenting." he wrote.
"place jrour candle on the win' sin.
I will wait until midnight, and If you
extinguish It then, I shall accept jrour
decision as final, and you will b re
sponsible for what follows. I nm a
desperate man, and life without you
has become Intolerable."
Having thrust the letter under he
door, David fled hastily down the
stairway and Into the street, where he
began to pace back and forth like a
sentry on his beat. Never did a con
demned felon In a cell watch for the
coming of a messenger of pardon with
more wildly beating heart than his as
he gazed at that window up in the
wall of the gloomy tenement house.
Never did a mariner on a storm -tossed
vessel keep his eye more resolutely
fixed on beams from a distant Hgt
house. Finally, and after what , seem un
counted ages, the great cock struck
the hour of midnight. One, two, three
he stood like a man rooted to the
ground four, five, six his heart beat
louder than the bell seven, eight, nine
the blood seemed bursting through
Is temples ten, eleven, twelve! the
light went out! The universe seemed to
have been Instantaneously swallowed
up In darkness. He could not see the
figure that crept to the window and
gazed down upon him from behind the
drapery of the curtains. He did not
know that Pepeeta had fall- her
knees in an agony deeper than his own,
and was gazing down at him through
streaming tears. In those few succeed
ing moments the sense of his personal
loss was displaced by a sudden and
overpowering sense of his personal
guilt. The full consciousness of his sin
burst upon him. He saw the selfish-
ness of his love and his wickedness in
a light brighter than day.
"What next?" he said aloud, as '
speaking to some one else. Receiving
no answer, he turned Instinctively to
ward his gambling house, and went
stumbling along through the deserted
streets. What Is a man, after all, but
a stumbling machine? Progress is
made by falling forward over obsta-
'ces! The poor stumbler tottered across
his own threshold into that brilliant
room where he had always received an
enthusiastic welcome, but which he had
not visited since his sickness. If ever
a man needed kindness and encourage
ment It was he; but his sensitive spir
it Instantly discovered that" all was
His superstitious companions had j '.rodur-e two police dogs. They chase
not forgotten the broken glass, and the villain up and down, across and
had heard of his subsequent calami- J under the stage, and finally capture
ties. With them the lucky alone were ! the bad man. The dogs enter so heart
the adorable! The gods of the temples lly lnt0 wnat tney seem to consider a
of fortunes are easily and quickly de- ; ,apk thnt th nnrnrtnnuf, villain
. 1 , i - 1 l. J 1
tnronea ana uie wursmpera imu
ready prostrated
other shrines.
themselves
The coldness of his greeting sent a
chill to his already benumbed heart
and increased his desperation. He. was
nervous, excited, depressed, and feel
ing the need of something to distract
his thought from his troubles, he sat
down and began to play; but from the
first deal he lost lost steadily and
heavily. Within a few short hours
he had staked his entire fortune and
lost it. It had gone as easily and as
quickly as It had come.
"I guess that is about all." he said,
pushing himself wearily back from th
table at which he had Just parted with
the title to his desolated home.
The sun was Just rising. The first
faint stir of life was perceptible in the
city streets; the green-grocers were
coming in with their fresh vegetables;
the office boys were opening the doors
and putting away the shutters; there
was a bright, morning look on the
faces which peered into the haggard
countenance of the gambler as he
crept aimlessly along, but the fresh,
sweet light gave him neither bright
ness nor Joy. His heart was cold and
dead; he had not even formed a pur-,
pose.
And so he drifted aimlessly until the
current that was setting toward the
levee caught him and bore him on
with it. The sight of a vessel Just
putting out to sea communicated to
his spirit its first definite impulse and
he ascended the gang-plank without
even inquiring Its destination.
In a few moments the boat swung
loose and turned Its prow down the
river. ' The bustle of the embarkation
distracted him. He watched the hur
rying sailors, gazed at the piles of
merchandise, walked up and down the
deck, listened to the fresh breeze that
began to play upon the great, sonor
ous harp of the shrouds and the masts,
and when at last the vessel glided out
Into the waters of the gulf he lay down
In a hammock and fell Into a long and
dreamless sleep.
(To be continued.)
Mandarin.
Mandarin is not, as is generally sup
posed, a Chinese word, but one given
by the Portuguese colonists at Macao
to the officials of the Flowery King
dom. It Is from the verb "mandar"
(to command). There are nine ranks
of the mandarins, distinguished by the
buttons in their caps first, ruby; sec
ond, coral; third, sapphire; fourth, an
6paque blue stone; fifth, crystal; sixth,
an opaque white shell; seventh,
wrought gold; eighth, plain gold;
ninth, silver.
Bees.
Bees were unknown to the Indians,
but they were brought over from Eng
land only a few years after the land
ing of the Pilgrim fathers. It was
more than two centuries after the first
white invasion of New England, how
ever, before modern beekeeping began.
The industry of the present day dates
from the invention of the movable
frame hive by Langstreth In 1852.
Storks of Emrpt.
Were It not for the multitude o.
storks that throng Egypt every win
ter there would be no living In some
parts of the country, for after every
Inundation frogs appear In devastating
swarms.
Took IMra at Ills Word.
Blobbs What's the matter with
HenpeckeT He seems quite depressed.
Blobbs Oh, I made the mistake of
telling him to make himself feel quite
at home. Philadelphia Record,
SOMETHING TOE EVERYBODY
The soil of Siberia Is In many re
gions as rich and fertile as that of
Canada.
Nineteen States have naval militia
England sends many of her orphan
and deserted children to Canada.
Within five years Uruguay will have
140,000 olive trees, capable of produc
ing two million pounds of olives and
fifty thousand gallons of oil.
District after district in China is
raising money toward the endowment
fund of Hong-Kong University. Can
ton district has given (43,750.
The new bridge over the Ganges
River at Sara, India, for the Eastern
Bengal Railway, is to cost (6,500,000.
It will replace the ferry now In use.
It will be over a mile long.
In eighteen months there will be
direct railway communication between
Buenos Aires and Asuncion, the cap
ital of Paraguay. The railway has al
ready reached the Bolivian frontier.
By a traveler In Italy the Rubicon,
the famous river crossed by Julius
Caesar, is described as "the merest
trickle of a stream, in which It would
be quite impossible for a man to drown
himself."
Great Britain sent Canada 100,129
immigrants in the twelve months end-
! ed July, 1909, a decrease' of 25,809
j f rom 1908 and of 73,869 from 1907. It
h8 the lowest record since 1904. About
i three-fourths were English and Scotch.
Only 3,799 were Irish.
Two children,, age about six and
eight, wandered into the receiving
ward at a London hospital. The elder
handed the doctor in charge the fol
lowing note from Its mother: "They
have awful cauf.. I think it is whoop
ing cauf. You wait a mlnit and hear
them cauf." She was right.
In Alexandre Bisson's new play,
which will be performed at Paris for
the first time next week, an additional
scene has been created in order to In-
. (w u tyat th nav
O
1 may be short-lived.
j The reappearance of Halley's comet
j na8 revised the old calumny that Pope
calixtus III. launched a bull against
the comet In his day. Historical facts
In this case show that he ordered pub
lic prayers that, If evils were impend
ing' God would turn all upon the
Turks, then fighting the Christian
armies. No bull of exorcism is men
tioned against either the comet or the
Turks in authentic documents of the
-period. Catholic Truth.
It Is expected that aluminum coins
of low value will be In circulation In
France by the end of this year. It is
interesting to note, in this connection,
that the adoption of M. Naquet's prop
osition for an aluminum coinage in
1871 would have resulted in a heavy
loss to the French treasury. Although
experts declared it to be Impossible
that the value of the metal should de
crease, it has now fallen to nearly half
the price ruling at that time.
Maisle, a poor young woman of Lon
don, was being entertained by a "pa
troness." During tea the girl led the
conversation into personal channels.
"If your husband In work?" she asked
ber hostess. "Yes" and raised her
eyebrows. "How many children have
you?" "Two" and an astonished
smile. "Does your husband drink?"
"Why, my dear, what put all this into
your head?" "Mother said I was to
talk like a lady, and that's how they
talk to her."
Corvlcts who are sent to the French
penal colony In French Guiana are
punished in exactly Inverse ratio to
their crimes. The murderers and the
mobt dangerous convicts are sent to
the Island of Salvation, where they
lead lazy and healthy lives, but the
men convicted of lesser offenses work
and die in a terrible climate on the
coast. I" the settlement of St. Jean
de Maroni the mortality Is from 40 to
50 per cent. The average life of a
convict is two years.
Princes Patricia of Connaught, who
has been exhibiting some of her artis
tic work at the East Berks art exhibi
tion, Is one of the most versatile of
Europe's royal ladles, and, besides oe
ing a painter of great merit. Is a
noted sportswoman, being almost
equally proficient in tennis,, hockey,
golf and horseridlng. One of her fa
vorite hobbles Is the collection of un
cut gems, of which she has a magnifi
cent assortment. The princess is very
democratic In her Ideas, and she once
remarked to a friend: "Mamma says
that we can forget about the royalty
if we only remember that we are la
dles. M. A. P.
The English courts are taking strong
action to catch and send up rascally
bird dealers who for years have been
systematically blinding Bong birds
which they put on the market under
the popular impression that blind
birds sing best. .The fearfully painful
methods of blinding these beautiful
little Innocent tufts of color and song
la to stick a needle In behind the eye
ball and tear the nerve of sight In two
with the point of a needle. 8uch birds
look and behave like other birds, and
can find their water and seed la their
cages after recovery from pain. It
seems this brutal world ever needs re
turning reincarnations of the spirit
of Victor Hugo to remind It of Its
coldness, cruelty and brutality. New
Tort Press.
Stable Ventilation.
Some year3 ago Prof. F. 11. King,
of Wisconsin,' made an experimental
study of the effex't of ample and de
ficient ventilation upon twenty milch
lows. The experiment was made In
1 half-basement stable, represented in
accompanying figure, having three out
side doors, thirteen large windows and
a door leading by a stairway to the
floor above. The celling was nine feet
above the floor and the stable con
tained 960 cubic feet of space per cow.
Leading upward from the celling were
two hay chutes two by three feet In
cross sections, twenty feet high, which
could be opened or closed at will, and
a ventilating shaft terminating near
the ridge of the roof Inside.
During the trial the cows were kept
continuously in the stable with the
hay chutes closed during two days and
then with them open two days, the
trials being repeated four times. Fol
lowing these four trials the hay chutes
were left closed during three consecu
tive days for poor ventilation and left
open the following three, making four
teen days In all.
It was found that measurably the
same amount of feed was eaten under
both conditions of ventilation. But
during the days of insufficient ven
tilation the cows drank, on the aver
age, 11.4 pounds more water each
day and yet lost in weight an aver
age of 10.7 pounds at the end of each
period, regaining this again when good
ventilation was restored, and this, too.
when they were drinking less water.
During the good ventilation days, too,
for each and every period, the cows
gave more milk, the average being
.55 pounds per head per day.
At the end of the fourteen days the
rows were turned Into the yard and
exhibited an intense rfpsire to lick
their sides and limbs, doing so in
many cases till the hair was stained
with blood.
Examination showed that during the
Interval a rash had developed which
-ould be felt by the hand. In the form
jt hard raised points, and the rasping
-vf these off caused the bleeding.
Sell I-n Wheat Abroad.
The calendar year 1909 will show a
jmaller exportation of wheat than any
year in the last decade, and an In
creased home consumption, both in
amount and per capita average, says
a report of the Bureau of Statistics on
wheat production, exportation and con
sumption of the United States.
The continued decline In exports of
breadstufls lends interest to the state
ment. The exportation of wheat for
the nine months ending with Septem
ber amounted to only 27,768,901 bush
els, against 68,178,933 bushels in the
same month of 1908; flour exports were
S.288,283 barrels, against 9,428,347.
This reduction in exports of wheat
leems to be due to increased consump
tion at home rather than at any de
cline in production. The average an
nual production for the last five years
has exceeded any earlier five-year
period.
Skim Milk for Urns.
In some tests by the Virginia experi
ment station skim milk has been
proved a valuable food for laying hens.
In a test of 122 days 22 hens were fed
skim milk, laying 1,244 eggs, as
against 996 laid by 22 hens fed a wet
mash with water. In a test covering
37 days 30 hens laid 862 eggs on a
skim milk diet, while a like number
fed no skim milk laid 632 eggs. Other
experiments conducted recorded simi
lar results. The station, from these
tests, estimates that when eggs are
worth 20 to 25 cents per dozen skim
milk has a feeding value of 1 14 to 2
cents a quart.
Asrlraltnrstl Statistics.
At the approaching census special
attention will be given to the gather
ing of agricultural statistics. Farmers
will be asked for Information which
might be regarded as of a very per
sonal nature concerning their opera
tions, but they will be assured that the
tacts will be held sacred.
Rami Delivery and Roads.
The Postofflce Department at Wash
ington has again sent out orders that
rural mail delivery Is to be discontin
ued on routes not properly maintained
by mail patrons, who are supposed to
keep the roads In good condition. In
many parts of the country the roads
are maintained and kept In fairly good
condition, but thousands of miles of
roadways traversed every day by the
carriers are wretched, and later In the
year will become next to Impassable.
Were It a matter of great expense or
effort to keep country roads In good
condition it might be something of a
hardship to farmers, but the Intelli
gent use of the split-log drag has prac
tically solved the problem of country,
road making and road maintenance,
and people need to get busy In em
ploying them on the highways. In
many parts of the country, especially
In Iowa and Missouri, hundreds of
miles of roads are kept In passable
condition the year around by means of
this cheap and Inexpensive implement.
When once a highway Is placed In
good condition any farmer can keep up
one mile of road the year around by
dragging It a few times a month after
rain has fallen, a work that will take
the time of a man and team less than
a half a day all told. Denver Field
and Farm.
F.zprrletiee with Alfalfa.
In the first place, I .made two mis
takes in sowing with grain and of
course made two failures in getting a
stand that suited me. For my third
endeavor I selected a piece of ground
which had been in hoed crops for a
number of years and heavily manured
each year, plowing it In April and
keeping it cultivated till July, when
r seeded it at the rate of 20 pounds
per acre.
On the night following my sowing
we got a very heavy shower, and I
got a magnificent stand. On part of
the field I had sown wheat and red
plover the fall before. So that in the
fall after sowing my alfalfa the red
clover was knee high and In full
bloom, and as I did not wish It to tro
! to seed I turned my cattle and sheejv
into It, thinking they would not trou
ble the alfalfa, but I found that I had
! made a great mistake, as they foil
upon the alfalfa and eat It nearly Into
the ground. I gave it up, thinkiu?
it was entirely ruined, but the next
spring it came up as green as a bed
of lettuce, and since then, now five
years ago, I have mown from two to
three crops each year, of the very
finest of hay, and the stand of alfalfa
is now as good as ever, and all with
out beins manured or fertilized in
any way. A. C. Oowdy, In Michigan
Farmer.
;la Wall for Krolt Tree.
An interesting experiment in fruli
growing has been recently carried out
by the Count de Choiseul and de
scribed In Cosmos. When a south wall
is used for fruit trees the north side
of the wall Is practically wasted as far
as fruit is concerned. Count de
Choiseul has used a glass wall, and
grown fruit trees on both sides. The
produce on the north side is little in
ferior to that on the south. A photo
graph shows heavily fruited pear trees
on both sides of the wall. The wall.
60 feet long and 6"i feet high, had fif
teen pear trees planted on each side.
In 1907 134 pears, weighing 91 pounds,
were gathered on the south side of the
wall, and 109, weighing 77 pounds, on
the north side. The variety grown
was the Doyenne L'lliver.
Fruit Stones for Spring- Planting-
Peach, cherry and plum stones
should be spread thin on high, dry
ground In narrow rows, and then cov
ered with about 6 Inches of fine earth,
with a little trench on each side of
the row to draw off the surface water.
After the ground freezes a little fine
horse manure may be spread over the
frozen ground, just enough to cover the
ground. If too much is used It will
make a harbor for mice and rata.
Apple seed may be sown In the same
way, but will need a heavier covering.
These seed will sprout and take root
as soon as the weather turns mild,
when they should be taken up and.
planted out In rows.
A Skilled Estimate.
Richard Pybus. of the Old Lodge,
Derby, Pa., at the local agricultural
show In 1906. guessed the exact weight
of a live bullock 854 pounds. In 1907
his estimate was only 1 pound out, and
this year he was within 14 pounds of
the correct weight