1 Andy Meleen was dying, and chiefly ried an’ had a son. But I’ve forgotten TRAP FOR KILLING INSECTS FASHION A Restroom. of that most incurable of diseases, old her husband's name if I Iver kneuKtt. __ 1 11V71 M knen^dt. A room the woman of the house I age, while bis vast wealth must de­ Ha’n’t seen her since she wuz a slip Novel Method of Destroying Moth* axils the “restroom" Is papered tn scend to an heir whom be had never i of a girl. 'Course, she may be dead, sifft gray and has green hangings. The and Other Insects Which Are seen. an' the boy, too, though she wuz fwniture is light oak with green sofa Harmful to Grapevines. Upon a curious contrivance of do­ 1 younger’n me by four or five year; but pillows here and there, and the big mestic devising, half bedstead, half re­ you've got to try an' find ’em." A novel method of killing moths and sofa is upholstered In green. The clining chair, set upon casters so that “You never saw your sister after ' i other Insects which are harmful to window shadeB are dark enough it could readily be wheeled indoors she arrived in this country, and held grapevines has been adopted near to subdue the light. Thus the room is and out, lay the old millionaire. Each no communication whatever?" asked Rhelms. Posts supporting five-candle- In the most admirable taste and livelong day, from sunrise to sunset, I the lawyer, making notes. power electric lamps were placed in soothes the nerves. When the woman I he insisted on being placed in his Meleen shook his bead. "I wuz the vineyards, and from each post a of the house is tired she runs to the wide porch, whence he could still mighty poor «nyself in those days, Car­ dish containing water, with a top layer rest room for a few minutes and gets oversee his beloved town, and gaze boy, an’—oh, well, I'd troubles of my of petroleum, was suspended. During her mental balance. at the noble prospect, with its con­ own, an’ then I drifted west ao’ out the first night these traps were placed stantly shifting panorama of lights here.” Popular Chinese Fruit in three parallel rows at distances of and shadows. Only nightfall drove "Where was this sister living when A fruit popular in North China, and about 200 feet from each other, the bim within doors. you last heard of her?” which is most excellent for the table, distance between each lamp being Rugged and gnarled as his own na­ “N” York." either stewed or as jam, is in appear­ about 75 feet. On the first clear tive hills, originally of great girth and “How many years ago would that ance like a crabapple. The flesh is evening the current was turned on mignty in stature, he was now shrunk­ be?" pinkish in color, and when served at about eight o ’ clock and the lamps re en to mere skin and bone. All the “ 'Bout 20, 1 reckon." table it has the color of cranb"rry malned burning until an hour or so By" Frederick Recidale life and virility of the man seemed to “And her son, if living, is to have after midnight. Soon after the lamps sauce. The taste is pleasant, with a cAuthor |T’ have retreated to the massive head, everything?” subacid flavor, and very refreshing. “The Other ¿Man” were lighted the insects swarmed as beleaguered forces take refuge in “That’s it!” was the emphatic reply. The Chinese call It "hung kuo" (pro­ etc. toward them and were rapidly killed, some strong keep for a last desperate “Gosh! I'll bet he’ll b .■ astonished nounced hoongkwa), which moans either by the fumes of the petroleum rally. From beneath a square fore­ wherever and whoever he Is!” "red fruit.” or by the petroleum itself. The same head and a thatch of grizzled eye­ “Doubtless!” was Carboy’s dry com­ operation was resumed the next clear brows a pair of piercing gray-blue ment. “But had you no other kin, Mr. Illustrations by Ray Walters night, but the lamps of the two eyes flashed Imperiously, while from Meleen?” side rows -were placed about 25 the heaving chest there still issued “Nary a kin,” was the reply. “There tones surprisingly strong for one so was on’y me an' Mattie, an’ we wuz closer to those of the center row, (Copyrigiil, by J. B. L.ppiucutt Co.) evidently near his end. There was left orphans when I wuz no bigger’n this was repeated on each of five I sequent clear nights, so as finally tc no sign of senility when he shot a a shovel." CHAPTER I. bring the three rows within about 5( curt query at his only servant, an old “No cousins, for instance?” per­ feet of each other. During the sue The westering sun was casting pioneer like himself, who sat in the sisted Mr. Carboy. ceedlng six or seven clear nights the Dark green cloth is used for this froclt. "Nary a cousin.” lengthy shadows among the gaunt doorway stolidly cleaning a rifle, out movement was reversed, in the same of sight but within call. It is attractively trimmed in black velvet, the “Were you ever married yourself?” manner, so as to return the lamps to pines and sturdy aspens along the “Putty nigh time that lawyer fellow was the next query. Simple and nec­ wide shawl collar being an especially pretty eteep upward slope of a certain wild was here, eh?” said Andy over his essary as it was under the circum- their position of the first night. As to feature. canyon in the Nevada Sierras. the position of the lamps, numerous Five hundred feet below the dry shoulder, striving vainly to raise his stances, and put in a colorless, matter- experiments were made during these floor of the gulch, which here widened head from the high-heaped cushions, of-fact manner, its effect on the re- trials, and it was proved that the EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. to a narrow valley, was filled from but only succeeding in moving it from cumbent figure of old Andy Meleen greatest number of insects were killed side to side. was like that of a galvanic battery ap­ wall to wall with a motley huddle of There has recently come under the Evan rose and went to the railing plied to a corpse. His nervous and when the petroleum dish was only a rough cabins, jigsaw cottages, a observation of the Washington Experi­ few Inches above the ground. glaring red brick opera bouse, hotel, of the veranda, whence one could see shrunken frame twitched and qulv- ment Station at Pullman, a “borer,’’ and bank all in one, and a pair of the winding road, scarcely more than I ered; the once mighty chest heaved present chiefly in the timbered dis­ a well-trodden trail, which led from as though it would burst asunder; clapboarded, whitewashed churches. tricts where it has i ttacked the young MUSIC AS A LIFE-SAVER the town to the house on the hill. great beads of sweat broke out on orchards. Describing this pest and pre Upon the sultry and drowsy air of Shading his eyes from the blinding lace and forehead, and his strong scribing treatment, Prof. A. L. Me­ a summer afternoon there arose the Tale From the Vasty Deep That lander of the Washington experiment confused hum and the hoarse murmur glare of the nearly level sun rays, he mouth and chin trembled with emo­ Proves Truth of Song Warbled station says: worthy oi your contidence of strenuous Industry, above which, I peered downward for some moments tions entirely apart from causes due by Poet. “This pest is produced by a black­ like the footsteps of the animated before responding. Then, saying la- to age and weakness. Mr. Carboy in cases of Poor Appetite, conically: ish beetle about one-half an inch in was genuinely distressed at the ef­ stone statue in “Don Juan," the in­ Indigestion, Dy s p e p s i a, Up from the vasty deep comes a length that flies during the latter part re- “ Jest coinin' up the rise," he fect he had so unwittingly produced. sistent note of the busy “stamps.” at tale that proves the truth of what the of the summer. An egg is placed on each Colds, Grippe and Malaria. turned to his seat and his task. Something in the question had work night and day. three “shifts” in Shortly there became audible the touched Andy on the raw. In halting poet sang when he warbled to the tree, the borer hatching from it in time each 24 hours, dominated al) other effect that “music hath charms to killing the young trees. These borers It has given satisfaction soft thud of hoof-beatB and the creak­ and fragmentary phrases he said: Sounds probably live several years in the trees for over 57 years. sooth the savage breast.” Try a ing of straining leather, punctured by "God forgive me. Carboy, I wuz mar­ This was the little mining town of and the larger ones, at least, will enter The story has been delivered in the cracking of a whip and the en­ ried. an' to the sweetest little woman bottle and be convinced. into the heart wood to pass the winter. Meleen, named In honor of Its found­ couraging “cluck-cluck” of the driver. that ever trod God A’mighty’s foot­ New York by the crew of the bark If the trees are small, there is little er, who was likewise the discoverer, The road curved behind the house, stool! 1 wuz a man full grown then Pallas, which was wrecked on Grand hope of their recovery, and the trees manipulator, and chief owner of the Cayman island in the Caribbean sea may as well be reset. The pest is na­ and as the sounds drew away Meleen —45 years old—old 'nuff to know bet­ rich Peacock lode, which gave employ­ Prosperous Outlook. followed them with a hearkening, ter! I wuz workin’ in the Pennsyl­ during the recent tropical hurricane. tive to our pine timber, but seems to be ment to 300 men and netted over a “Since bein’ in the city,” the Blll- When the vessel struck it was in the also fond of young orchards. ' " rolling motion of the head infinitely The best vania coal mines. A month after the night, and in order to cheer up their treatment is in the way of prevention, ville man wrote to hts home folks, .“I million a year for its stockholders. pathetic in its yearning helplessness weddin’ we had a main bitter quarrel. comrades during the hours before day Spray a thorough coating of sulphur have been hit by three automobiles, Rough and ready. Ignorant and and impotence. There kem a strike, an’ I went out light, two of the crew, who happened lime containing an excess of lime on and ef my lawyer tells me true, I’ll shrewd. • was old Andrew Meleen. Soon there was the sound of foot­ Originally a Welsh miner in Cardiff steps within the house, and there ap­ along o’ the rest o' the boys. Minna to be musicians, ground out tunes on the lower trunks of the trees next get enough money In damages to fetch i and later in the Pennsylvania coal peared upon the veranda the long-ex­ didn’t like my bein’ out o' work, an" a fiddle and accordion. That the per June, repeating this, if necessary, so the whole family for a good long stay, fields, he by turns had been volunteer pected arrival, Phineas Carboy, a well- told me so. There wuz hot words, an’ formers escaped to tell the tale must as to keep the trunks coated through­ an’ ef the balance of you kin continue soldier, pioneer, prospector, and final­ known San Francisco practitioner In in a blindin’ rage I struck her an’ left be put down as a remarkable evidence out the summer. The sulphur acts as to git run over we’ll be able to buy a ly many times a millionaire, after the law, whose firm had transacted the house, swearin’ I’d never go back! of the fortitude and forgiveness on the a deterrent and seems to protect the big farm an’ live happy ever after­ weary years of fortune-chasing up and most of Andrew Meleen's affairs since Then, like a fule, I went an' 'listed for part of the men w’ho were facing trees from the egg laying habit of the ward.”—Atlanta Constitution. beetle. ’’ Uncle Sam. At the fightin’ in th’ death In watery graves. down the gold and silver country of Wilderness, my fust battle, I got hit for Any Disease or Injury to the great west. However, no murder was done, and A pest of threatened prevalence in in three or four places, an’ th’ am- when day broke the natives of flie the wheat zone is the wire worm, num­ the eye, use PETTIT’S EYE SALVE, For the crude affairs of this typical bylances left me on the field for dead. island were seen hurrying to the res­ erous reports of its presence having absolutely harmless, acts quickly. Al) .’raw western camp, with its bizarre ad­ But an old farmer picked me up, an’ cue in such boats as they could com­ been received at the Washington ex­ druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, mixture of civilization and savagery, ________________ after putting in a year o’ hospital I mand. They explained that they had periment station during the past sum N. Y. we have only a passing Interest tn kem out putty nigh as fit as ever. heard the music and had come down mer. In a brief report upon this pest, »that it Is the starting point of the Goethe's Voluminous Product. Th' war wuz over, an’ then I heerd to investigate the strange occurrence. Professor Melander says: .-story in hand. Our present and most Besides the books which are best “ Treatment fox this pest is very dif ­ that my wife, my Minna, had died in "Vividly human concern is with the The whole lot of shipwrecked men, as known to English readers, “Faust," her time o' trouble an" her girl baby well as some chickens and a pig were ficult and never shre of results. The "Wilhelm Meister," etc., Goethe is the Creator of ail this Industry and po- best treatment is gradually to work with her. As heaven’s my witness, taken ashore, and a gfand barbecue tential weplth—and he lay a-dying. the pests out of the soil by repeated author of 44 dramas, melodramas and I’ve niver squared myself with myself with fiddle and concertina accompani­ fall plowing. Each year that you fall farces, and any amount of travel and Far up the eastern hillside com­ for leavin' her alone at such a time. I manding the town, whence one could ment, celebrated the rescue. plow you destroy some of the worms, criticism, and even his poetical writ­ tramped west—niver showed my ugly almost fancy he was looking over the All of which points to the moral but not all of them. When this is kept ings constitute a sort of enormous face east ag’in—an’ you know the that when one goes down to the sea up for year after year for a long pe­ dumpling, with very few currants in­ next divide to where the flaming sun rest.” • tn a ship he should carry some pro­ riod, the worms ougl I to become less deed in proportion to the dough.-— was setting amid cloudy bi'lows in “Forgive me for arousing such pain­ ducer of sweet sounds—even If noth­ and less in number. There is no prac­ Buchanan. the wide Pacific miles beyond, on a ful memories, Mr. Meleen,” said Car­ ing more than a jewsharp—along as a tical treatment of t-.e seed that has sort of bench or plateau ail acre in yet been discovered t iat will keep off boy, "but the inquiry was inevitable; life preserver. extent, stood a curious and rambling A ^.ar. the wire worms; nor can you poison we must know where we stand.” woodt n structure, in triple part log The poet, Malherbe, the founder ot them by any sort of trap. I Would sug­ cabin, hunting ranch, and modern Old Andy signified that he heard gest that, as an experiment, seed be the purity of th^French language, was Ship Narrowly Escaped Meteorite. country house. and appreciated. The strain of this washed with a tobacco liquid. Steep very sensitive on the score of diction. The Hull trawler, which recently tip a pound of tobacco in a gallon or When, during his last moments, his This unique huddle of divers styles long recital had come mighty near to of pioneer architecture really repre­ parting his mortal coil then and there, recorded that during its voyage in two of water and sprinkle that over the confessor, by* way of encouraging him, sented as many different periods in and he lay as one indeed very near to the North sea a meteor fell a few seed. I would not promise that this will began to enlarge on the joys of para­ — it ■ may help some at dise. “Stop,” cried Malherbe. "Your the fortunes of Its eccentric owner. death. Mr. Carboy waited a few min­ yards away from the vessel, shaking be effective. But The rough, unbnrked logs of the orig- ungrammatical style is giving me a utes—he was not yet done with his t from stem to stern and rendering least. “Mice can be routed by _ placing distaste for them!” which he had been wealthy enough to afford probings into the past. At length Its compass useless, was not the first Inal eingle-roomed cabin runways or by strewing traps in their formed a prom'nent wing or angle the luxury of eminent legal advice. Meleen opened his eyes once more vessel to have narrowly escaped dis- bits of poisoned fruit where they are Mother« win find Mr». Winslow’s Soothing marked tha poor-prospector stage; Never in his life had he needed it and turned them mutely on his in- user by the fall of a meteorite. Syrup the best remedy to use tot their euUdreo more than now. The African Frlnce of the Prince apt to run. If you take raisins and in­ luring the teething period. then, with more prosperous times, quisitor, who interpreted that as a sert in eaqji a small crystal of strych ­ His eyes flashed with feverish im­ sign for him to proceed. Line was nearly engulfed in the At- nine. and place these poisoned raisins in came an addition framed by a wander­ ing Yankee carpenter and sheathed patience as he responded to the law­ "1 presume these matters can be antic from a similar cause in Octo­ the burrows of the mice, you will de­ Dreaa or uutaoor Air. witli boards of red wood, now beauti- yer's formal greetings. Hardly was verified—the time and place of your ber, 1906, and the captain on reach­ stroy a very great many of them. You Why Is there such a dread of outdo« he seated, note book in hand, than the fully weathered to a rich mahogany marriage and the date of demise of ing Liverpool gave an interesting ac­ must be careful, however, not to let air In the sleeping room? Science has count of the escape. He and the sec­ children or chickens get at the poisoned made great advances In hygiene. In hue; finally, as If to mark the ultimate dying man rapped out curtly: your wife and child?" “Are y' ready?” rise to affluence of the occupant, a For answer the old miner produced ond officer were on the bridge when raisins. Prunes or bits of carrots would many hospitals children suffering from “Quite so. Mr. Meleen,” was the a well-worn leather wallet from under he bolt fell from the blue and it seem­ also answer. ’’ two-story structure had been added, diseases of the respiratory system are The grain weevil of warehouses can ed to them as it entered the water ahingled as to walls and roof, while response; knowing his man, Mr. Car- the blanket which covered him. taken up to cots on roofs and there at­ be checked by fumigation, says Prof. upon three sides a covered veranda boy wasted no words on formal con- "You’ll find th’ dates an' names close to the ship, to be a huge mass Melander: tended by nurses in ulsters. Open air wide enough for n fnshlouable cotillon, dolences or tame civilities. there," he said faintly, "Anythin’ of molten metal poured out of the “The only sure treatment is fumiga­ and tent life are part of the recog­ "Un’crstand what 1 want done?" more y’ want t' know?" sky. “Had it struck us,” said Capt. tion. To fumigate you must have your nized treatment of tuberculosis now» approached by generous steps and a peaked porch, gave comfortable as- was the next question. "One other point must be settled: Anderson, "we would have been to- bins perfectly tight and then fumigate days. “Your telegram intimated that you Suppose this nephew of yours is dead, a’ly annihllatetd without a doubt— them either with carbon disulphide or •urance of cool shade and a constant desired to give me instructions for or cannot be found—who is to inherit mother mysterious loss of a vessel in potassium cyanide. If you have but a breeze shifting with the sun It Surely Is. 'very way fitted to undertake a voy- small bin I would suggest that you place Around and above porch and cabin your last will and testament." in that case?" Pure buckwheat flour, “set" the "Instructions—yes—ye'll get enough your grain in it and then put a saucer night before with yeast mixed with a there clambered festoons of grape Another spasm contorted Andy ige. "I am of opinion," he added, "that or plate on top of the grain, pouring in pinch of salt and enough water to Vines and wild creepers, the dark- of them!" with a grim smile; "but I rugged features. green leaves lending a deeper tinge to want the thing fixed up this blessed “It goes to the state, 1 s'pose; that's o some such cause must be attrlb- ■rnnie carbon disulphide, close up the bin make batter, and finally supplied with ited losses so mysterious that neither over night, and this will destroy the a tablespoon of molasses to Insure the the background of cedar and redwood night. My time's short, as y' see, Can the law, ain't it?” seamanship, engineering nor ordinary pest. The fumes of the sulphide are inviting shade of brown that affords y' do it—will It stand?" posts and walls. Carboy nodded. Mr. Carboy nodded gravely, and theories can explain them.”'—London heavy and will penetrate through the the visual delight Inseparable from all From this eyrie the old man who (TO BE CONTINUED.) feed. -After airing, the fumes pass away ex- with pen ready poised looked Daily News. was its chief occupant could easily entirely, and your feed will be as good perfect buckwheat cakes—this Is a toss a lump of his own shining ore pectantly at his client, But the I at- as ever. If your bins are empty, you combination and a cake Indeed. The Ultimate Alm. on the roofs of the little town be- ter's next words were not exactly can fumigate with potassium cyanide. Life is given us primarily to develop Marriage and Liberty. neath; viewed by day, the smoke of those he anticipated. Do this with one ounce of cyanide to If Abe Martin Has No Objection. Liberty comes in such different every 113 cubic feet of spaee to be fumi­ "How much sit'd you say I wuz character, to unfold and evolve the Its furnaces went winding away In Link Gillenwater says no man kin soul, and the physical organism, our ways! For women it comes most oft- gated. To generate the gas vou add one long spirals and ribbons of vapor; at wuth, Carboy, if everything wuz be religious when he's breakin’ In a body, is the testing ground and gym­ sn through marriage. and one-half ounces of sulphi ric acid pair o’ new shoes. More'n half o’ the night, the spurts of colored flame cleaned up an’ turned into cash?" in­ nasium for its development, says the Nine women in ten have more space with two and one fourth ounces of wa cocoanute ain’t wot they’re cracked from the chimneys of retort house quired the old man. The legal mind Philadelphia Record. liter they are married for the exercise ter for every ounce of the cyanide. It up to be. and smelter lit up the opposite sides hesitated, but only for an instant. The ultimate aim, then, of living of their wills than they had before; is well to wrap the cyanide in loose pa­ "Twenty-five or thirty million dol­ of the canyon In fitful flashes of should be making the life beautiful therefore we can all see more clearly per and throw it into a tin can contain­ murky red, or paled to an orange glow lars at the very least,” was the quiet within, which always insures loveli­ what they really are. The most ty- ing the dilute sulphuric acid. You must reply. under the wan light of the moon, remember that the gas formed is deadly "1 guess that's about It," sighed ness without—the masterful conquest annlcal huBbnnd cannot rob a woman poison and must not at all be breathed. The solitary dweller on the hillside of the lower nature, the willing re ­ □f her authority over her children and never wearied of the changing pic- Andy Meleen. “Now, man, stick a pin nunciation of trilling and unnecessary her household. The good woman I; The next day you can air out the bins and after thorough airing you can use Cure. It was his; he had called into through this: I'm going to leave all habits; iut-v of the true and perfect better, the hard woman is harder, the them for your flour. Bear in mind that being the town and Its throbbing In- that I'm wuth to a feller l'»e niver and avoidance of the untrue and im­ nean woman is meaner than ever she carbon disulphide is as explosive as gas­ dustrles; he loved It with the pas­ seen!” oline,’’ He shot a keen glance at Mr. Car­ perfect; a realization that whatever •vas. E l sionate, yearning love of a wifeless else others may do or be, that our con­ No Criterion. Usually a married woman has a and childless old man. For him the boy to judge of the effect of this some­ scious universe will be made for and more strongly marked character than Once during the progress of a cer­ 1 want any person who suffers with biliousness cities of the coast—Los Angeles or what startling announcement, but the by ourselves. The key of life and her unmarried sister. Her friends tain case Sir Charles Darling remon­ constipation, ind westion cr any liver or blood afl- San Francisco, Portland or Seattle— lawyer was too well trained to show the art of living ars expressed in the find it more easy to call up her men­ strated with a barrister for the way wnt, to try my Paw-Paw Liver Pills. I ruaraa- possessed few charms. They only any mark of surprise beyond a slight words mastery and attainment This tal face; they are more sure how she in which he was arguing a point. contracting and lifting of the eye ­ tee they will purify ths blood and put the liver served to bank his constantly increas­ can be done by right thinking, by will act in given circumsances. Mar­ “You will pardon me, I my lord,” and stomach into a healthful condition and will ing millions. The rough little town, brows. “You know his name, I presume, finding our soul center. We will claim riage Is almost always fraught with said the latter, ’’but perhaps I may re­ positively curs bOhxumesa and constipation, or 1 with its amaxing monthly output of our divine birthright our royal privi­ some surprises to the student of char- mind you that you argued a case tn a will refund your money—MUN YON. gold and silver and copper, stood to and where he can be found?" lege of standing erect and free with icter. "No, 1 don't!" was the reply snapped These surprises are loosely similar way yourself when you were bim in place of wife and child; the brow bared to the white light of truth, described as changes; but change in back; "that ’ s for you t" find out. This queer old ranch overlooking it all at the bar.” veritable sons and daughters of God. ■haracter is so rare an occurrence, was his real home—his pride, his pas­ is the way o( it: 1 had an only sister "Yes, I admit it,” replied hls lbrd- over there in th' old country named more especially in women, that It ship, with a quiet smile, "but that was sion, his delight. Don't overdo a thing unless you should never be regarded as an ex­ the fault of the judge who allowed And now the time was come when Mattle. She kem t' Ameriky ten year planation unless all others falL be must leave it all and go hence, tor after 1 did, an' 1 heard she wus mar- are also prepared to do it over. It"—London Tit-Bits. 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