Heppner gazette., June 23, 1910, Image 2

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Wand
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of Sleep
The Devil-Stick
By th Author of
"Tha Myry of Hanaom Cab,
B. I 1
CHAPTER XXI.
Great was the astonishment through
ut the neighborhood when It became
known that Dr. Etwald, the clever phy
Biclan, of Deanminster. had been ar
rested on the doublt charge of murder
and theft of a dead body. Major Jen
worked hard to procure evidence
against the prisoner, and David Sarby
worked Just as hard to obtain material
for the defence. The attitude taken
up by the young barrister astonished
everyone, and was universally con
demned.
After that memorable Interview In
the library, when Etwald was accused
and arrested, Arkel took away his pris
oner in custody by virtue of the war
rant, and left Major Jen alone with the
counsel for the defence. When the
Bound of Etwald's carriage had died
away In the distance, Jen, who had
hitherto kept silence, raised his head
and looked at David.
vell, sir!" he said, In an Icy tone
to his adopted son. "I am waiting tor
you to explain this very extraordinary
conduct"
"Major Jen, I have no explanation
to give you.1
'What!" cried his guardian, rising.
"Do you dare to sit there and tell me
that you are a traitor, a coward, an
ungrateful man? What will every one
eay, when they learn that you Intend
to defend Etwald?'
"They will say almost as cruel things
as you have said," returned David, still
composed. "But I do not care for the
opinion of the public. I act according
to the dictates of my own conscience.
I have an excellent excuse."
"What is it, if I may be so bold as
to ask?"
"I refuse to tell you at present.1
"Indeed: and am I ever to learn the
reason of your extraordinary beha
vior?" "Yes, Major. You shall learn my
reason at the trial. I shall explain
It when I make my speech for the de
fence." "David, there is something very ex
traordinary in your gehavlor, and you
refuse to give me your reasons there
for. If I wait until the trial, will you
explain?"
"Yes. I have already told you so.
In my speech for the defence you will
be fully satisfied that I have good cause
to act as I am doing."
"Very good," replied Jen, calmly.
-"Then I shall say nothing to anyone
.-about your very curious behavior. I
.shall work hard to secure the condem
nation of this scoundreL You can do
;your best to save him. But against
Stone yourelf. If you adore It so
much?" cried Mrs. Dallas, exasperated
jy this obstinacy.
"Ah. If I hab dat Voodoo Stone, I be
?reat; great de queen ob the debbles.
But he no let It go!"
"Go and see Dr. Etwald, and tell him
you will give evidence against him un
less he gives you the stone."
This suggestion came from Isabella,
but of it Dido took no notice. Without
i word to mother or daughter, who
were both in tears, she left the room.
In the afternoon she was nowhere to
be found, and both Mrs. Dallas and Isa
bella came to the conclusion that she
had fled to avoid being forced Into giv
ing Incriminating evidence. They fell
into one another's arms, and were be
side themselves with terror. All the
evil done by Dido and Etwald seemed
likely to fall upon their Innocent heads.
Still, there is hope," said Isabella.
"We will speak to Major Jen, and ask
him to send the police after this
wreached woman."
This opinion was at once acted upon.
and a messenger was sent to "Ashan-
tee;" but Major Jen was from home.
and it was not till 6 o'clock that he
presented himself at "The Wigwam"
and heard the story of Dido's flight
But she can't be very far away,"
said Jen, hopefully. "Isaw her Sn
Deanminster, and thought she had
gone there with a message from you.
But even If we had forced her Into
court, she would not have given evi
dence against the holder of the Voodoo
Stone."
Dat so!" said a hoarse voice at the
door.
The three people turned, and saw
Dido, with an expression of triumph
on her dark face, enter the room.
'Dido!" cried Isabella. "You did not
run away?"
No, missy, I tell de truth against
dat man."
But the Voodoo StomV said Jen,
wondering what she meant.
Dido opened her clenched fist The
Voodoo Stone lay In the palm of her
hand.
"you, or, for you, I shall not open my
mouthy- At the trial I shall expect an
explanation."
"You shall have ."
"But" 'added Jen, "as until that ex
planation we are enemies although not
openly so I shall require you to leave
jny house."
JI expected that you would do so,"
rejoined David, bowing his head. "In
deed, you can act In no other way. To
day I shall take lodgings In Deanmin
ster and wait for the trial. I shall de
fend Etwald to the best of my abil
ity; and then you can decide whether
I am fit to re-enter this house."
Arkel had sought out as witnesses
BgMnst Etwald seven persons. Firstly,
Mrs. Dallas, who was to prove that she
was hypnotized frequently by Dido.
Secondly, Isabella, who was to depose
that before the murder her mother had
been sent by Dido to "Ashantee" to
Bteal the devil-Hick, which under the
Influence of hypnotism. Thirdly, Bat
tersea, who was to give evidence that
he had found the devil-stick within the
grounds of Mrs. Dallas. Fourthly, Meg,
who was to prove the offer of Batter
sea to sell her the stick. Fifthly, Major
Jen, who could explain the engagement
of the dead man to Miss Dallas, and
the rivalry 'of his assassin. Sixthly,
Jaggard, whose evidence would tend to
show that Dido had drugged him for
the purpose of stealing the body. And
seventhly, the most Important witness
of all, Dido, who was to depose to the
manufacture of the poison, the re-flll-lng
of the devil-stick, and the giving
of It to Dr. Etwald, so that he might
perpetrate the crime. With these seven
witnesses Jen did not see how Etwald
could escape the gallows.
"Are you sure that all these people
will speak out?" asked the Major of
Arkel when the list was submitted to
him.
"I am certain of all save one," re
plied Arkel, in a dissatisfied tone, "and
the worst of it is that Dido is the one."
"Does she refuse to give evidence
against Etwald?"
"I should think so. Simply because
he is the holder of the Voodoo Stone.
The only change of getting the negress
to confess the whole truth Is for either
von or I to gain possession of that
stone."
"Where is It?"
"Etwald carries it on his watch
chain. I saw him the other day In
prison, and he showed it to me. A
common little black stone it Is, but
Dido would kill him with pleasure to
get It"
"Kill Etwald!" ejaculated Jen. Then,
after a pause, he added: "I believe you
are right Arkel. for it is not the man
himself she cares about but the stone.
However, I'll see Isabella and make her
persuade Dido to speak against Et
wald." The Major went at once to "The
Wigwam," but notwithstanding all his
eloquence, in spite of the tears and im
ploring of Isabella, the negress posi
tively declined to say a word against
the Great Master.
"While dat big man hab de Voodoo
Btone, I do nothln' nothln'," she said.
And from this obstinate position they
II failed to move ber.
"Why don't rou et the Voodoo
How she became possessed of the
Voodoo Stone, Dido refused to say.
Jen had learned from Inspector Arkel
that Etwald wore the talisman on his
watch-charm, and he wondered in what
fashion Dido had contrived to penetrate
Into the prison and to obtain it from
the doctor. The whole result of the
trial depended upon the transfer of the
stone. If Etwald kept it Dido would
not dare to give evidence against him,
and so, in the absence of Incriminating
details, he would go free. As it was,
the stone was now In the possession of
Dido, and for some reason, which Jen
as unable to fathom, she was quite
content to betray her share in the plot.
By changing hands the Voodoo Stone
had transformed Dido Into a traitress.
However, as the advantage derived
from the transfer was all on the side
of the prosecuptlon, Jen did not think
it wise to inquire too closely into the ,
means which Dido had employed to re
gain the talisman. He saw nothing of
David, who pointedly kept out of his
way. He made no Inquiries of Dido,
and simply Informed the Inspector that
the negress was ready to explain Et
wald's secrets, without telling him why
he was willing to do so.
When the trial came on, and after
the evidence had been given, everyone,
without exception, looked upon the
prisoner as guilty, and they considered
it futile when David Sarby rose to de
liver his speech for the defence. The
young man was even paler than usual,
and when he rose laid down the devil
stick, at which he had been looking.
When on his feet he glanced round the
court and caught the gaze of Isabella,
who was staring eagerly at him. Then
he turned to his client. Dr. Etwald
smiled coldly on his counsel. David
shuddered, and picking up the devil
stick, spoke sharply and to the point.
"My lord, and gentlemen of the Jury
You have heard the evidence, which
makes out that my client is guilty.
That evidence is wrong, as can be
proved by one witness. I am the wit
ness. In my rooms there Is lying a
confession, signed and witnessed,
which sets forth that I am the guilty
person. It was I, not Etwald, who
murdered Maurice Aylmer. Yes. I
was In love with Miss Dallas, and
therefore was jealous of Maurice. I
knew that Dido possessed the devil
stick and I bribed her to give it to
me. I pretended to go to the city on
the night of the murder, but Instead
of doing so, I remained In the grounds
of Mrs. Dallas, where I obtained tho
devil-stick from Dido. I saw Maurice
meet with Miss Dallas. I saw them
kiss and part Inflamed by Jealousy,
I rushed after him and met him on the
road. He turned In surprise, and flung
out his arms to keep me oft. The devil-stick,
with its poison-fang protrud
ing, was in my grasp, and in throwing
out his arm I wounded him in the palm
of the hand, thus "
David took the devil-stick firmly In
his grasp and compressed the hand'.e.
At once the iron tongue, with its drop
of venom, appeared. With the sharp
point he made an Irregular wound ")n
the palm of his hand, and cast th
devll-stick on the table before him. A
moment afterwards, amid the silent
horror of the crowded court, he fell
down dead.
CHAPTER XXIL
Naturally, the tragic end of the
counsel for the defence created a great
sensation. The trial was brought to an
abrupt conclusion, the court was
cleared, and the body of the dead man
taken to the residence of Major Jen.
In his rooms at Deanminster was found
the confession signed by him , and
which was substantially the same as
that which be had made in court. At
once Dr. Etwald was set at liberty
the charge of murder.
Whereupon he returned to his house
as though nothing had happened. Mrs.
Dallas and Isabella came back to "The
Wigwam," but without Dido, On the
day when the trial terminated in so
tragic a manner the negress disappear
ed, and with her the famous Voodoo
Stone.-
I wish I could have caught her."
said Arkel to Major Jen. "She com
mitted perjury In order to get Dr. Et
wald hanged, and she ought to have
been punished for her wickedness. It
has been a terrible affair, Major.
Jen, who was now looking old and
broken down, agreed with a sad shake
of his grey head.
"My poor lads," said he, In a voice
full of pathos. "First one and then
the other- to lose them both in this
awful fashion."
"What!" cried Arkel, in surprise.
'Do you pity Mr. Sarby?"
Why not?" answered the Major,
quietly. "To my mind he needs more
pity that poor Maurice. The lad was
driven mad by jealousy and he was
worked on by Dido to commit the
crime. The cause of all these troubles,
Mr. Inspector, is not Dr. Etwald, ut
that black witch. I wish site could be
caught."
uiao was never caught. She was
too clever to give the police a chance
of laying hands on her. Like a stone
cast into a wide ocean she disappeared
from Deanminster, and, possessed .
the Voodoo Stone, possibly took her
way to her native Ashantee, there to
become the high priestess in the hor
rible fetish-worship of Africa.
For the next two days Major Jen
stayed In the house and watched ov-sr
the corpse of David. The whole scene
was but a repetition of that which had
taken place when Maurice had died.
Both young men had perished from the
effects of the Infernal African poison.
Both had perished in the bloom of
youth; and on the right hand of each
was the fatal wound which had cor
rupted the blood. But the corpse of
David was here. The corpse of Mau
rice, where? Only Dr. Etwald could
answer the question, and he, releasd
on the charge of murder, was now ut
on bail for the theft of the corpse.
While the Major was wondering what
would be the outcome of all the terri
ble events which had filled the last few
weeks, Jaggard entered the library.
and announced that Mrs. Dallas and
her daughter wishes to see him. Al
though he was unwilling to speak to
those who had caused these troubles,
Jen had no reasonable grounds for re
fusing an interview. Therefore he gave
orders that the ladies should be shown
into the drawing-room. When he re
paired thither, however, he found to
his surprise that Mrs. Dallas only was
waiting for him.
"I could not get Isabella further than
the door of your house?" exclaimed
Mrs. Dallas, who was in deep mourn
ing, whether for Maurice or David, or
for the loss of Dido, it is impossible to
say.
"Why did she not come in?" asked
Jen, coldly, for he did not feel very
amiably disposed towards the widow.
"I don't know. She is a strange girl,
Major, and the events of the last fiw
weeks have shaken her nerves."
"They have shaken mine," retorted
Jen, grimly. "But we need not discuss
these things, Mrs. Dallas. May I ask
why you have paid me this visit?"
"To tell you that we are going away.
Back to Barbadoes," replied Mrs. Dal
las, with a sigh. "Yes, Major, after
what has taken place here, I can stay
no longer In America. I shall sell my
house and leave for the West Indies
with my daughter within the month.
"I think It is the best thing you can
do," said Jen, brusquely.
. (To be continued.)
m ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
Every man thinks bis brutality Ii
"tact."
Fishing seema to be the favorite
form of loafing.
Any woman closely associated with
a man can make or break him.
Nona of us realize how much peo
ple talk about us behind our backs.
Every shiftless man Is a liar; he
acquired the habit in giving excuses.
We despise a man who doesn't ap
preciate a friend; friends are so rare
Talk with any man lire minutes, and
he will say the trouble with him Is,
he Is too meek.
Out of one hundred people who try
to save money, ninety-five will make
the attempt very feebly.
Even when times are very good,
things will not come your way unless
you carefully start them.
There are so many kinds of mean
Bess that people now talk about the
meanest kind of meanness.
People nearly always predict disas
ter for their own town, and tell how
well other towns are . doing.
It Is easy to say to a man, "De
sensible." But half the time a man
does not kno what Is sensible.
An Eastern man Is teaching people
how to kiss by means of a correspond
ence course. As though everyone does
not know!
Much of the clamoring now going
on has a tendency to make industry
and honorable achievements almost
disreputable.
Our experience Is that an artist who
is not appreciated is Just about as
disagreeable as It is possible for a
human to be.
FASHION HINTS
Her Hired Help.
At Cumberland, Md., the colored
servants, as a rule, go to their own
homes at night. The cook in the fam
ily of the Episcopalian clergyman not
only does this, but of late has fre
quently arrived at the rectory too late
to cook breakfast. Hence her mistress
lately told her that for each breakfast
missed there would be a reduction in
her wages. Dinah passively assented
to this, but next day the mistress
heard the maid next door say to her:
" 'Pears to me you get to work
mighty late." IB
"I get to work when I gets ready,'
was the reply.
"How 'do you manage 'bout the brek-
fus?"
The back view of this little dress Is so
attractive that it deserves a word all by
itself.
The iacketv tab at the waist, and the
cute little knot of the girdle that crushes
up to it, are very distinctive.
In front, the overskut finishes in
deep point.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY-
NEWS OptflCENT JWOpt
ELECTBJCAX BOTES.
London has a trackless trolley.
Monorail systems have proven suc
cessful In India.
The old horse car lines of St. Peters
burg, Russia, are to be electrified.
Buenos Aires has authorized the con-
"Oh, I pays the missus to cook de struction of an electric subway under
brekfus." Harper's Magazine.
Ken I'ae for Baked 11 can a.
A neatly dressed woman rushed into
a Euclid avenue grocery yesterday and
priced the different sizes of pots of
baked beans that the grocery keeps
put up hot ready to take home and
serve.
"I guess the small size will do," she
said, hesitating.
"How many do you desire to serveT"
inquired the clerk, ready to advise.
"Oh, I'm not buying them to serve,"
the customer replied. "Of course I
shall use them, but I'm getting them
to keep my hands warm on the car. I
came away from home without either
muff or mittens." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Proved 111 Innocence.
"He proved his client's innocence
of burglary by producing an alibi."
"Then the prisoner didn't commit
the theft as charged?"
"No. His lawyer established the
fact that the accused was in jail tor
highway robbery at the time the af
fair happened." St. Louis Star.
What Me All Think.
Prospective Patient What are your
charges, doctor?
Doctor Half a crown a visit
Prospective Patient Ah, but w
don't want you to come on a visit; we
only want you to stay ten or fifteen
minutes. The Sketch.
A Sharp Dos;.
Penley I only want to live nntQ I
become famous.
Miss Keen Ah, but we don't hare
Methuselahs nowadays, Mr. Penley.
Boston TranscrloC
the city.
Wireless telegraph apparatus la pro
hibited In British India except upon
government license.
Ozone generators are advocated for
the subway cars in New York to In
crease the oxygen In the air.
A French syndicate has contracted
to develop the water powers in Uru
guay to furnish light and power to the
inland towns.
The City Council of Cincinnati is
planning a subway to connect the busi
ness section of the city with the out
lying residential sections.
Lightning will strike more than once
In the same place. A transmission line
in Colorado was recently struck five
times In the same place.
Cincinnati boasts the only church
on wheels. It is a large electric bus
which ! loaded with singers and
speakers and invades the slums every
Sunday.
The development of the water pow
ers in California has helped boom the
state by bringing new industries and
helping old industries with plenty of
heap electric power available.
Tkt Car.
"My doctor ordered a trip to Europe
'or ma."
"And you took It?"
"No; be presented his bill and took
n trip to Eurot hlzneal"
He Klnn.
"That pretty girl when she cries is
a very affecting sight. She Is a regu
lar picture."
'Tea, wbat one might call a moving
picture." Baltimore American.
Carnegie says he has made forty-two
men millionaires.
Wood fibers are strongest near the
center of the limb or tree trunk.
The salary of lieutenant general of
the United States army is $11,000.
Sleeping sickness has been known la
West Africa for one hundred years.
In Norway the average length of life
is greater than In any other country.
It Is estimated that 60,000-horse pow
er can be easily developed from the
St. Lawrence river.
An Alabama man, ninety-seven years
of age, says he has eaten hot biscuits
regularly all his life.
The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her
ring season has yielded 800,000,000 her
rings, which sold for $5,000,000.
. Formaldehyde is used in meat ex
ported to England, and the government
is making Investigations as to its ef
fect on the health of consumers.
Yale students are teaching more than
one hundred New Haven boys in
classes under the direction of the
Young Men's Christian Association.
Rice stands first in the list of Slam's
agricultural products. The average
yearly export of rice for the last five
years has amounted to 948,389 tons.
The Belgian minister of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Congo to study sleeping
sickness and to seek means to cure it.
Mrs. Cornelius Zabrlskie is chairman
of the committee which proposes to
build a woman's clubhouse In Brook
lyn at a cost of $100,000. At a mass
meeting held the other day In the
chapel of Packer institute stock sub
scriptions to the amount of $20,000
were received. The largest single con
tribution was that of the Brooklyn
Women's Club, which guaranteed
$7,500. The building will not be start
ed until the committee has the full
$100,000.
One of the marvels of the age is the
extreme cheapness of ocean carriage.
The modern tramp steamer could car
ry her cargo one thousand miles for
9d a ton and make a profit of 10 per
cent. A modern tramp steamer could
leave England and go around the world
by the two capes, and even then carry
cargo at 2 8s a ton. These are mar
velous figures, and they show to what
extent the world is indebted to the
carrying trade. Cassier'a Magazine
for May.
The population of southern Califor
nia, according to Colonel Drake, who
Is the world's foremost statistician in
such matters, can not fait, in a very
short time, to exceed twenty million
souls, for there is a human breed tbere
which multiplies with the miraculous
rapidity of Belgian hares. When Long
Beach had a population of only a little
more than a thousand there sprang up
In a few months, from the smallest
beginnings, more than nine hundred
real estate agents. '
As a specimen of how practical the
Japanese are with their knowledge of
western science and determination to
deal with disease, they have levied a
tax on every household to produce two
rats every month. A fine is imposed
If the rats are not caught and pro
duced at the time of Inspection.
Every rat is examined, and if found
to be plague Infected the house from
bich It came is to be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. .Twice a year
every house and shop has to disgorge
all its effects and be completely cleaned
out. The things only go back after
sanitary inspection. Java Times.
Perhaps the reason the English are
so far behind in flying is because they
worked the whole thing out long ago,
and are sick and tired of it, for John
Milton, in "Britain to the Conquest,"
says that the youth King Harold, last
of the Saxons, strangely aspiring, had
made and fitted wings to his hands
and feet. With these, on the top of a
tower, spread out to gather air, he
flew more than a furlong; but, the
wind being too high, he came flutter
ing to the ground, maiming all his
limbs; yet so conceited was he of his
art that the cause of his fall was
attributed to the want of a tall, as
birds have, which he forgot to make.
At the banquet given in her honor
after the Nobel prize had been award
ed to her Miss Selma Lagerlof, the
Swedish author, spoke of the pleasure
such a festival would have given Fred-
rika Bremer. She said all old maids
should shower blessings on the mem
ory of Miss Bremer for showing them
how to attain an independent place
in the world and an object in life.
She then pointed out the change which
had taken place In public opinion since
the days of Miss Bremer. Women were
no longer set aside and looked down
upon, but had gained for themselves
education and standing. Among women
nowadays were found graduates of universities,-
doctors of philosophy and
medicine and heads of great business
houses, hospitals and schools.
It Is probable that no other commod
ity ever came into such varied use
within so short a period as India rub
ber. First employed practically for
footwear and other waterproof apparel,
rubber has come to be employed In
electrical insulation, hose pipes for the
conveyance of water, steam, air, and
so on; pneumatic and other tires for
all sorts of wheeled vehicles, balloons
and the planes of aerial machines, in
numerable articles for the comfort of
invalids, household conveniences, and
what not. Thus far, rubber has never
come Into use to an Important extent
for any given purpose to which It Is
not still devoted; in other words, Its
advantages are so marked In many
uses that, when oace introduced, no
substitute can be found for It, Cu
ller's Magaslse.
Arthur Racktiam's fall Illustrations
will Include pictures for "Rhlnegold"
and "The Valkyrie," translated by Mar
garet Armour from the Wagner li
bretti. Among early novels will be a new
book by Edward C. Booth, author of
"The Poet Girl." It also Is a story of
life and love In the author's native
Yorkshire country, and it will appear
under the title of "The Doctor's Lass."
A novelist of a generation ago, Mrs.
Marie Walsh, has Just died in New
York. She was the author of "Wife of
Two Husbands," "The Lost Paradise"
and "The Romance of a Dry Gooda
Drummer." She dramatized Misa Brad
don's novel "Three Times Dead."
Why do women writers favor the
pseudonym "George?" There were
"George Eliot" and "George Sand," and
at present there is "George Fleming,"
Julia Constance Fletcher. "Georg
Schock," a Harper writer, completes
the "four Georges." But there Is now
room for a George V.
Under the will of Mark Twain, Clara
Langdon Clemens, wife of Ossip Ga
brllowltsch, sole surviving daughter,
Inherits his home at Redding, Conn.,
and all other real and personal estate. '
This she will enjoy "without power of
anticipation and free from any control
or interference of any husband ahe
may have."
Waiter Pulitzer; son of Albert Pulit
zer, formerly proprietor of the New
York Journal, whose death was some
month ago recorded, announces that
he will take up his father's "Memolra"
where the latter laid oft and Incorpor
ate them in a biography of the journal
ist and an account of the progress of
journalism in his day.
Mra. Humphry Ward has not scored
an English success with "Lady Mer
ton, Colonist." The Saturday Review
thinks the story very thin and thread
bare. "We never read a novel of Mrs.
Humphry Ward In which, the charac
ters were so sketchily outlined and
so uninteresting. But the book will
be popular because It Idealizes the cant
of the hour."
The publication of the complete edi
tion of the works and correspondence
of Galileo, undertaken by the Italian
government in 1890, is at an end, the
concluding volume having just been
Issued. It is the twentieth. It con
tains indexes to the whole set and an
"Indice biograflco" of Galileo's contem
poraries. The edition is published at
Florence, where Galileo died. Its full
title Is "Le Opere di Galileo Galilei:
Edlzione Nationale sotto gli auspicll dl
Sua Magasta 11 Re d'lUUa."
FATE OF AIT ORCHARD.
Hm
A Tragedy- in Kansas That
Pathetle Side.
A tragedy was enacted in Kansas
the other day, namely, the deliberate
burning of 800 acres of trees. It was
not the sort of destruction that is so
harrowing to the soul of Gifford Pin
chotr it was worse than that, for the
trees burned were not those of the for
est, but of an orchard. They were
apple trees 65,000 of them or there
abouts. These trees were planted twenty-five
years ago, and were In the very prime
of life at the time of their destruction.
The man who placed them there looked
forward to the time when the fruit
from their branches would bring him
a fortune, and he cultivated and cared
for them to the best of his ability.
They grew and flourished for a few
years, but when the time came for
bearing they produced little or no .
fruit. Then the soil was examined
a proceeding that had been overlooked
In the beginning and it was found
not to be adapted to apple growing.
The subsoil into which the roots of the
trees penetrated did not supply the ele
ments necessary to the formation of
fruit. The owner experimented a
while longer, hoping to furnish the
needed elements through fertilizers,
but to no effect. Ocaslonally there
would be a light crop of apples, but
the orchard as a whole wae a failure;
finally he gave up In discouragement
and sold it to a man who proceeded
to burn up the trees and turn the 800
acres into a cornfield.
The man who had planted the or
chard looked on and felt sorrow at see
ing those trees burn, though he knew
It was the proper course. But they
were trees that represented hope and
labor and satisfaction In their growth.
And they were living, and in going
down by the ax and by fire they
seemed to reproach him, for no one
with Imagination can work with trees
and plants without feeling that they
all have a certain sentient life. It
was a real tragedy, the burning of
that orchard, and the one consoling
reflection la that possibly the apples.
It might have grown were Ben
Darises. Terre Haute (Ind.) Star.
A Frank Anawer.
"John Jones," said the magistrate,
with severity, "you are charged with
habitual drunkenness. What have
you to offer In excuse for your of
fense 7"
'Habitual thirst, your honor."
Keep Ont of Debt. '
Think not your estate your own
while any man can call upon you for
money which you cannot pay,
When a man sits and looks absently
out of the window, his wife steps soft
ly up and looks over his shoulder to
see wbat woman he is looking at now.