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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1906)
I - - ' . , . . I trll IT 1(1 1 xx THE IRON PIRATE A Fct7i fac of Strange Happenings on the Sea By MAX FEMBERTON oco- ril-M'TKU IV. -i Continued.) The helm went over, and the yacht loomed up black, ns our own light died awav; a ml passed us with.u n cable's length. What lift of tli-' night there xv.-is allowed u her decks again; but r. were not deserted, tor n otic or iwo iiio.ini rt great cry, I saw (he white mid horridly distorted fa,v of nun who rln ns to tlic main shrou N and ho alone ws t!n guardian of tin' wanderer. That vision of tin' m.in I had left well and hopefuj nml stroiic not tlmv day (lin.v wns t.TriliK' to mo. A Uravo man lia.l ko"1' llis i"; 1 1- lt to wlnt a ri,'a:h, if tint aconi.'.l f.i'V nnl ,,..:ort.-.l tis.i).v N-tok.Mi.vl aiicht '. Ami 1 li ul !roin Js,.,l to ai.l him. ami was drifting thoro i:h the si-'aoom-r, ra.siug uo luunl to iv 'SkinjHT." I orioj. "tin tinn' wo'll rik p(-:ti;i- a !.. t o;T; I'm piu5 a!oarl tliat o-.s,'l now, if 1 ilrown loforo 1 rotnrn." Tli.'i) 1 turno,l to tin' mou ami a:J : "Von f.iw ill" y.u'.it na-s jnt uow. aiul ovi aw thai man ah.ur.l lu-r 'a."'s my frionJ. Binl I'm uoins to :V;.-li h;:n." As tho ;;oo,l fallows g:ivo way ami our boat r.K' easily U'foro the w .ml. 1 no tioo.l for the tirst timo that tlu' clomls nvot scatt.'ntij; : ami h.J not ma l,' nnoth.T cable's lenpth wheu a kr-at cloiul ebove us showed silver at it el.--es. and .iiiicly white in its center. throa-h which the tnxin siione. Anon it dissolv ed, and the transformation ou the surface of the water was a transformation from ho dark of storm to the chrome lijjht of r summer nnvm. The deserted yacht was beat in; ujj to us, and we stood riht In her track. "tii't prarnel forward, and b k out th-'re," cried the man in command. As if to help us, the wind fell away as Che schooner came up. and sae U-;an to Fhnke her sails. Sud.i-r.ly there was the found as of fierce contest, of the burs;in,' cf wood, and the p:v.id of t'.a-ie: and in that instant the .! ks of the yacht w-tv ripped up. and sh ets of lire rose from them to the riscins al've. "(Jive way." roared lan ncaia. for the men sat motionless with terror. "Are you go in;: to let him burn?" The words awed them. They shot the lonj; boat forward: and I si.xxl in her Stern to observe, if I could, what passed on the burning decks. And I saw a sljr'.it the like to which I pray that I may never see again. Martin Hall stood at the main shrouds, motionless, volumes of flame around him. his figure clear to be viewed by that awful beacon. "Why doesn't he jump it?" I called Bloud. But Martin Hall never moved, bis gaunt figure was motionless the flames beat upon it. it did not stir: and we drew near enough anon and knew the worst. ). '"He's lashed there and he's dead," aid Dan. "Easy! for a parcel of stark fools'. Would you run alongside her'" There they lay. for any nearer ap proach would have been perilous, and even In that place where we were, twenty feet on the windward side, the heat was nigh unbearable. So near were we that I l njk ed close as it might be into the d.-ad face of Martin Hall, anl siw that the fiends who had lashed him there had done their nvork too well. Uut I hojx-d in my heart (hat he had been dead when the end of the ship had begun to come, and that it were no reproach to me that he had it Ished ; for to save his body from that holocaust was work no man might do. So did we watch the mounting fire, and the last tack of the yacht La France. tSaucily she raised her had to a new breeze, shook her gTeat sail of flame in the night, and scattered red light about Ler. Then she dipped her burning jib as if in salute, and there was darkness. As we neared our own ship Hoderiek took my hand, giving it a great grip. Then we came aboard, where Mary wailed for tis with a white face, and the others stood silent ; but we said nothing to them, going below. There I lo'ke.J myself in my own cabin, and though fatigue lay heavy on me, I took Martin Hall's paix rs from my locker and lighted the lamp to read them through. Hut not without awe, for they were a message from the dead. CIIAI'T-KK V. The manuscript, which was sealed on Its cover in many places, consisted of several pages of close writing, and of sketches and scraps from newspapers Italian, r rencn arm i-.ngiisii. i ne skci -nes 1 looked at first, and was not a little surprised to see that one of theni was tie Iiortrait of the man known as "Uoariiu John," and there was wit h'.iiis a blur red and fiiint outline of the feature's of I he seaman called "Four-Kyes." JSut vhii t, perhaps, was even more difficult t tiinlerstund was the picture of the great bull of what I judged to be a warshi; tdiowing her a-building, with the work yet jirogressing on her decks. The newspaper rutting 1 deemed to be in some part an explanation of these sketches, for one of them gave a description of a very note worthy battleship, constructed for i Houth American republic, but in much secrecy. All this reading remained enigmatical, of course, and as I could make nothing of It to connect it with the events I have narrated, I went on to the writing, which wus fine and small, as the writing of an exact man. And the words upon tne head of it were these : HUME ACCOUNT OF A NAMELESS WAUSHIF. Ok II eb Cbew, and Htu Puufosk. Written for the tyct of Mark Rtrong, ly Martin Hull, tometime hit frimd. From that place the story was in great j.art autobiographical. It was, as you chilli , the simple narration of u mini iiinvre in his dreaming, if lie Uifl dream; logical in his niadnesu, if hu were mad. And this was his story as first I read it: "I was boru la Liverpool thirty-three r- T-v .-s"vw.wvx X v xs .x a, S! XX! XX 'N' XX Si xx n V s. s. -s 31 years ago, ami was educated for a few years at the well known insi.iiile in that city. They tniu-ht me there that con sciousness of icnoran.v which is half an education: and being the son of n man who starved on a tine ability for model ling things in clay, and plaster moulding, 1 went out presently to make my living. First to Amefi.M, to get the ovporiemv of coming home again; then to the Capo, to watch other men dig diamonds; to Ko;ie, to Naples, to Cenoa, tuat I might know w hat it w as to want f .vd ; to South America as an able seaman; to Aus'ralia in the stokehole of n South Sea liner; homo again to my poor father, who lay dead when I reached l.icrp.vl. "I was twenty-two years old then, amj, glutted with life. H what chance it was I cannot tell, but 1 drifted l.ke a living log into the detective force of my city, and after working up for a few years through the grades, they put m on the landing-stag,' at Liverpool, to watch for men who wished to emigrate. It was mis erable employment, but educating, for it ta.uhr me to read fa.vs that were dis guised. old men be.vm.' Ivardless, young men made old. 1 suppose I had more than common success, for when I had b.-en so employed for five years 1 was sent to London by our peopl", and there commanded to go to the Admiralty and get new instructions. Kegard this, please, as the tirst mark in this record I am mak ing. Of my work for our own people I may not tell even you. since I engaged upon it under solemn Ihui.1 of secrecy : but I can indicate that I was sent to Italy to pick up facts in the dock yards there, and that our people reli.sl on my gifts of disguise, and on my knowledge of Ital ian. In hort, I was expected to provide plans and novunts of many things mate rial to our own s. rvi.v, and I entered on the business with a'.aor.ty, gained admit tance to the public dock yards, and knew in a ;w el e:u..nth all that any man c e:ld leam who had his wits only to guide him. It was in Italy during my second year of work that I had cause to be at Sp.zia. inspecting there ft new tyie of gunboat aUut which there was much talk and many opinions. It was an evening late in the year, and the sun was just sett. tig. I watched the changing hues of the ieaks as the light spread from point to point upon the castle r-of, upon the steel hulls of great ships. And then I saw a s:ratig tiling, for amongst all the vesels I saw one that stood out beyond them all, a gr.t globe, not of silver, but of golden fire. There w as no doubt about it at all ; I rubind my eyes, I used the glass I al ways carried with nie ; I viewed the hull I saw lying there fntn half a dozen heights: and I was sure that what I siw was no effect of evening light or strange refraction. The ship I looked on was built either of brass, or of some alloy of brass, as it seemed to nie, for the notion that she could plated with gold was preposterous; and yet the more I exam ined her. the more clearly did I make out that le-r hull was construct.- 1 of a metal i::!i:iitely gold-like, and of so beautiful a ulor in the reddened stream which shorn' utou it that the whole ship had the nsp.-ct of a mirror of the purest gold I had ever seen. The dark fell. I returned to the town quickly. I went straight to the sea front and began, if I could, to tin I where the water lav wherein this extraordinary steamer was docked. I had taken the (arings of it from the hills, and I was very quickly at that spot where I thought to have seen the strange vessel. There, truly enough, was a dock in which two small coasting stamers were moored, but of a sign of that which I sought there was none. I should have had the matter out there and rln-n, s-arching the place to its extremity; but I had not been at rnv work ten minutes when I knew that 1 was watched. A man. dressed as a rough sailor, nn l remarkable for the hid.-oiisnews of his face and a curious malformation of one tooth, lurked behind the heaps of sea lumber, and followed me from point to point. I returned in a good disguise of a common English s ntnan on the follow ing evening, aiel again entered the do k yard. The same man was watching, but lie hail no suspicion of me. "'Any job going';' I ask"d, and the; (pies-ion seemed to !nfer"st him. " "I reckon that depends on the man.' ho replied, sticking his hands deep into his p.ekets. 'What's a little wizen chap like you goixl for, except to get yer neck broken V "'All in my lin".' I answered jauntily, having fixed my plan; 'I'm starving amongst these cutthroats here, arid I'm ready for nriy'hing.' I chatted with bi n. and later on with liis companions, about i's fin,- a dozen of elf-stampeil rnsMls ns ever I wish to see. Next day, I clime again to the dock yards, convinced that I was at the foot of a mystery, and. to my delight, I got em ployment from the chief of the gang, named 'Itoaring .John' by his friends; and wiis soon at work on the simple and mat-ter-of fact business of cutting planks. This gave me an entry to the dock yard all I wished at the moment. "I had got admission to th dock, but had learnt nothing of the vessel. I was admitted only to the outer basin, where the coasting steamers lay, nd. 'Roaring John' threatem-d me if I passed the gate which opened into the dock beyond. Min ute by minute and hour by hour, I wait ed my opportunity. It came to me on the morning of the eighth day, when I readied the yard at four o'clock; and the gate being uiiopen, I lurked in hiding until the first mail should come. He was no other than the one who hail engaged me; and when lie had gone in lie did not close the second door after him, there being no men then at their work. I need not tell you that I used my eyes well in those minute. There, sure enough, lay the most remarkable warship I had ever beheld a great, well-armed cruiser, whose deck were bright with quick-firing guns, whose lilies showed novelty in every inch of them. More remarkable than anything, liowexnr, wis t!i onnhnn it I i of that which 1 Iki.I vi.cn fr...n the lull. Tin' ship, seemingly, was I'i'ill of ihc purest gold. Tti i h. of .Mills,', I knew .."lit,! t.t be ; hut in tin- miu .,, l' 'I'l l l''i fell oil III.' essel, I I'l'MulH Out I had II, M'f seen II m V." glol'i.MH sight. Sll, shone with tin- tvfuiont 1v.mii y of a thousand mirror : twery fool of hr deck, of li.T turrets, of her upper house made n sheen of ,la!ing tii ; tin' po.nts of li.r ,1c, k lights wore as bea.vns, nil lurid and .. ...,l.l S.i n.ll'cl!,lls. tt'lllv. KM lli'f IU t. tut I lorgoi ; 1 1 else but il. and s;.sl .iitian.vd. mancMins. lotgetnii oi n. self and pui'i-ve. The Hash of a knilV in the air brought me to my senses to know that I was in the grasp of the man Roaring John.' l,.i. I .it, l.efell me. The best of my disguise was the thick, bushy black hut- I wore about my fa, v. As the ruffian went to take a tinner bold of my collar, lie pulled aside a portion of my beard, and left my chin clean shaen beneath as nat urally it was. The intense surprise of this (iis.snery s.s'nied to hit biui like a blow. He stepped back with a murderous lock in his ees. I'c.K I ehcited him. and. turning on my h.vl. 1 tied with nil the speed I possessed, and got into the street with twenty ruthans at my heels, ami a hue and cry such as 1 hope never to hear again. "The escape was clever. I reached tin no:.!. I was sure that I hid cut olT all hope of returning to the yard: and what information 1 was to get must come by other m.stcs. The nature of these 1 knew not, but I was determined to el out upon n v s:t to Signer Ve:;a, who was the builder to whom the docks wherein I worked belonged. To him 1 came as the preten.l".l agent of a shipping firm in New York, with wh.cn I had some little ac quaintance, and he gave tee an lience readily. He was very willing to hoar me when h. learned that I was in quest of a builder to lay down steamers for the American trade with Italy; and some while we ixiss.sl in great cord ality. so I entured the other business. "Mty the by. Signer '.'7ria. that's n marvellous Imt'.leship oii hue in your seisind d.x-k : 1 have never seen anything like her before." "I sjs'ke the words, and read him ns one reads a barometer. 11-' shrank visibly into his bulb, and the ton of his .smver sation marked a storm. 1 heard him mut ter under his breath, afid then the ui-r-cur of his convert it .on mounted quickly. "'Yes. yes; n curious vessel, quite a Fpeeial thing, for a South Am.ri.Mti re public, an idea of theirs but you will .Mend me the favor of your pardon. I am busy' -and in his excitement he put bis spectacles off and on. and called "Oi van n i. I Jiovanni '.' to his head clerk, who made business to fie rid of me. 1 mouut.sl to my hill top again : and spent the morning looking down upon th- golden ship which was built for 'a South Atnerb-an repub lic' That tale 1 never b.liev.-d. for the man's fa.v marked it a !: as he gave if to tne. I n dved in that hour to devote myself heart and soul to the work of un ravelling the slender threads, even if I lost my common employment in the bust- ness. The reverie held nie long. I was roused from it by the sight of a dull va- J p(.r mounting from the funnel ,,f the. nameless ship. She was going to sail Chen at the next ti.le she might leave Sp.zia, and there would be no more hope. I hurried to my hotel. "Here was a problem at this stage as it then appeared to me: Item M), A ship built of some metal I had no knowledge of. Item I'J), A ship that shone like a rich sunset on a garden lake. Item (.'', i, A ship that was armed to the full, as a casual glance told me. with ev ry kind of qul k-firirig gun, and with two tcn-im-h guns in her turret. Item 111. A rulliati- ly blackguard, to whom th ltting of a throat seemed meat and drink, with ton other rogues no less deserving, from a murderous point of view, put to watch about the ship that no strange eve might look ii"n her. Item !."i. The confusion qf Signor Yezzia, who made a fine tale and said at the same time with bis eyes, 'This is a lie. and bail one; I'm sorry that I have nothing better ready.' Item Oil, My own adamantine conviction that I stood near by some mystery, which was about to le a big mystery, and which would pay me to pursue. Instinct told me to go on in this work, if I lost all other, if I starved, if I drowned, if I d.ed at it. And-to go on I m-ant. ( To be cont inued. ) The "MaLlim-l p" i'ruvvmm. "Milking up" always excites the eti riosity of tbe matinee gill, and she wonders bow It is done. NVhile tbe au dience is gathering; downstairs and looking over the program, the actors are scattered throughout their ilress rooms going through the mysterious lil-cress by which they shake off the attributes of rliihlrcii of earth and be come the dazzling, the intangible spirit1 f-dk "f the genii land. The first pint of tin? process, suppos ing you nie n young woman, necessi tates the removal of your outer gar ments, and the donning of saoqiio or kiiimiio; then the binding of your hair tightly iiwn.v from your f.n-e, ti ml an iippliratiili of eold rrcam to your fea lures. It is impossible for nnyoiie to be eili passably good looking at tills stage. There lire various rules about the application f inukc-iip to narrow and broad faced persons, low lllid blgli-forelieadi-d ones, which I should not attempt to go into even If I knew l hem. Hut the general idea Is to put the "red" on nfler tbe cold rream, blend it In with the liare'a foot and then put ( II the powder. I forget whether you "do" your eyes, before or after this; nt miy rate, when you do that you make various lines- mid hIiihIowh ntnl niiike nil effort to be us beautiful ns possible. There are Infinite little touches of the blue iiml white ntnl red by which the make -up iirtist i-nu produce any effect slut wishes upon her fine. To quote one of the actresses, "making up Js really painting u picture on your fare." The Housekeeper. Years ago the French government of fered ."oo.ixx) frmies ($';o,xiO) to uny one who would give u remedy for the phylloxera, but the prize has never been awarded, because, no remedy has been discovered. It Is easy enough to kill tle pest with a polcoiious spray, hut that buiuu bpiuy kill the grup UlbO. - .1 -r Vri " ' .... . - , . ' ' ll,.tii..-Mn.le Prill. Ou our farm wo tune a shop for n pairing machinery. It Is an essential factor In farm iiuitiagenio'it to be able ti repair breakages mid keep Hie mil ehlnery In good working condition, writes a coiitilbiitcf In Oiniigc Judd la ruicr. Tbe iKvs'mpany Ing Illustration shows a drill inii.li' to drill holes for (.pall ing pnt'ixises. This uiaclilno will drill a b. lie through steel of wrought Iron as quickly as n drill we have Hint oost several dollars. The main piece iism which the drill rests Is a by I 'J feci i Inches long in. united upon four legs made of oak '1 lv I materials. The legs arc worked down to two In, lies square at the bottom to secure neatness and make the drill in light II. sisslble. The main standard Is w by I two fc.q high mortised Into tbe main I by I The stub standard Is also a ' by I .' gbt Inch- h'gli and mortise.! In tbe same I by I an Inch from tbe end and :.i and a half Inches from the main stvn'.ird. The shaft t which the large wheel Is n'tacheil Is n three quarter It.ch bolt fifteen Inches long. At the head a hole Is drilled Into the Ndf. boa'. c. and then squared 1" order that the tiniE-l auk tmilt. drill may be securely held. To feed the drill a steel spring sixteen Itc hes long is boltisl in the top of the main stand ard ami attached to the drill ldt by n slot in the spring. Tin' small w Ins l nt tacheil to a threaded Isilt docs tbe feed ing. The piece up.. II which the pressure Is put while drilling Is a I by 4 mor tised Into the main by I In the form of a sliding si t In order that any dis tance can be procured acis.rdlng tn the size of Hie Iron Intended to ! drilled. A bolt passes through this piece from underneath the 4 by 1. Ry loosening Hie Imlt It run le moved to any I'e- juircii instance. Hrat ot to Sell llnrly. For years farmers have lusui gro-.v-lng sheep In a small way. and general ly have sold their lamb w hen they weigh Mi to "II JHiullds for from $1' to $".nij each. I'.ven at these prices one makes a nice profit out of hl.s sheep. It has cost little to grow them ami so he is well paid, but it In possible to do U-tti-r. For several yearn Western lambs weighing from .Ml to K pounds have Hold at from fJ to ?'J..Ml, and aft -r being; Ted lxty or ninety days, or up to Hi to Ixi pounds, they sell for almost twice ns much. As u rule thi- farmers who sell tin; young lambs have feed enough to finish them and got the additional price. Although this extra feed had to be bought at market prices there would he no loss, for feeders are buying both sheep and feed and making; a profit. More profit Is made from farm products when ani mals are properly finished, and lambs are In thlH class. I lie ;eiieritl I'urpone Farm llorc. Wry many of our farmers got the Idea that all they have to do Is to breed their nondescript mares to the leggy, i-oarsi; tviie oi no canen coacu uoisen being peddled through the country to get the general purpose farm horse. I have seen hundreds of colls from this kind d' breeding and must say that not .1 per rent of them are even fair Kpeol InetlS of the (general purpose horse, while per cent or more are failures from every point of view. I have wen much better results where tint roach stallion has been u liner ami morn compactly built one or whore a hackney or American trotter of a compart, smooth, muscular type has Ihhmi tin; sire. Those observations have led mo to the conclusion that this latter plan Is the surest one to hrltiK some measure of success In producltuj the general purpose farm horse. (Jeo. McKerrow, Wisconsin. Il!lllle l'uriii. The hill lands of (icoi-glii are not per mitted to wash away down the sleep hillsides. Around such hills there are hands or terraces thrown up with great 'are to stop the downward rush of wa ter, and thus the washing tendency Is checked lis soon as begun. Those belts it linn soil land are most effective. J'hey rise olio alsvi; the other In stops f live or eight feet 111 vertical height. I'lm rows bend around the hill, cou i'orinlng strictly to these terraces. This is a most excellent system and one bad ly needed ou many farms of the new goutliwi'Ht. Fxc-hungc. mmi m, i L ' kjiii What arc Hi w s wmlli that pro ,li 1 1 HI i.oiiii.U 1 .11 1 l.r ml' II 1 1 llll III luce liKI l... iiii, Is i.f butler pel' milium Hole I am going In III al,c a si a I clucnl ami MM. Id lake to proxe It col lect, s . s n wilier In Successful I '.inning. When a inn (lull piodii.cs Jni pounds id bill ler per annum ill n I I cost of Vi'd ami a lalmr c..s ,.f jr.'. Mi Is woilb $t'- I i the ii.w thi! produces l i pounds oT , Is of butler ow nor II 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 Is well Ml H', llllil l ne can uiak I more I'r.uii her nl'ter pn I n: Interest on the $ Iihi Iban be can I'roin lb w s t tint piodini- J"i iHUiuds of h ultcr. There Is no more labor connected with the I''" pound cow s (ban there Is v ltd I be "nl id ii.ws. Th,. price at w lilch butler bat I i credited, namely , "jn .-cuts a 'iind. Is the net price liom the cieiinciy nft-r Ibc making has been paid lor. In Ibis herd the Increased cosl if ..sm for the It h i pound cows was more than offset by the Increased mil, unit ( sl.lm mllU. so we bine Ibc ''"ii pounds Increase of butler as pel profit hut Ibc .''' pound iinv. Two him I red pounds of butter at 'Jn cents Is n. We have Jl'"' Invested In these cws. which nt '' per cent In ti res s J.'l, w tr.'h we w HI .! III -t from Ibe $b. and we line b-lT $U' to . Ibc credit of the l"H pound cnw. 'I lie I nil I'l.o.liiit. I be qui n of tall plow tug Is n do billable one In Hie minds of most farm l is. The practice seems to grow more iniiiiiinii n'ii trial In wuiie neighbor I , si, Is and tn fall into almost total dis r,lnr 111 nlher sc, llolis. l'H. the loll lug lands which are m cninnioti there Is little qileMlnii that it Is Justly .sui deiniled. If. Indeed. It Is gimil priotbv anywhere, says an exchange. Some loss of plant f.sid rmm washing and blow Ing of the surface soil upon fall plowed cr, .mid Is ini. Itobic. uilhoii-th 111 nu' I oh.Hiloal tiin, J 1 1 ., , may be Inipl'n.-d "-iincwliat by Hie ii.tmii of the Host IIUI Hie fleshly plowed ground. If course, the .noli! bill of Hie laUir inn kit alfects the .'.mount "f lull plow.ng undertaken ir no nuip lsbi',1 In a ei V .s,ts!,, fable ih'glec. hll' llldcpl'lldeMHy of any and all ..!' the factors miMitlmi ed. fall plowing may I xpo.llotit mi s.ime cases. Ibe writer lias done iery little fall plowing durii.g recent oa.-s, but Ibis year the plnw w ill be kept go lug as long as the weather will penult after tin' crops arc all secured. I'nifW In itili. NVIth thi- passing e.us there eo-ns tn be a nmre Imperative necessity '..r Impressing, the fact iq-.u tbe apple gmwi'Ts that tlu-y uiilsl luuc a clcirer J cnucepl Inn i.f higher Ideals. No matter how abundant or cheap the prices of apples may be In the inarl.it, there Is nlwiiys the unbound,'. ! assurance that lit st class, fancy apples will bring t be Ust of prbes. and there Is no danger whatever of m ei-stoek lug Hie market with such fruit. Sin h a class f ..p. i pics w III ni t- ii I! rcid.lv at Ji'i ami $ a barrel, when the poorer grades cuuhl hardly be Keti away. Apple Sx-.-.i-lst. inlfliiK llif llullrr. Fur those who prefer to salt out of the churn the following Is the ls-st method: Uelnove the butter when III the granular stale, weigh It and place It upon the worker, spread evenly and salt to suit the taste. Sift the s ilt evenly over the butter, pass the work er over It, then run the butter and work again or until the salt Is thor oughly worked In. It may then Is- set away for a few hours, after which it should be given a second working;. Ann rb-iiii 'ultlvator. I.rrlll llenrlll of l'nl. The tirst jear of the colt's life U very Important, therefore keep him growing the llrst year, keep lilm griev ing the si ml year, keep biui growing the third year, and kisp hlni growing the fourth year, and In the same year, If you are going to put lilm on the mar ket In the II ft 1 1 year, feed him up audi get lilm fat. Fat covers a lot of de fects with horses. I don't want lilm too fat If I keep lilm at work, but when Ihej oilier fellow wants him, ho wauls him fat. liellilflll X ceil Killer. A chemical weed killer has been de veloped or tested by the Wisconsin ex periment station in nt tempts to kill wild mustard, roiklebiir, yellow dock, etc. Tin' peculiar thing claimed for this poison Is that when sprayed on a grow ing grain crop Infested by xveeds It kills the weeds without Injury to the cultivated crop. The solution used ronslsts of lMI pounds of Iron sulphate dissolved in llfty four gallons of water, which amount will spray an acre. Out for 1 1 ! Oats inny be a portion of it ration for hogs, but they are much more satisfac tory If they are ground. Mixed with corn, oats and shorts, they add materi ally to the value of any hoj; feisl. 'They should not constitute more than one fourth of the grain ration. A mixture, of oats and peas ground and fed as il swill Is exceedingly valuable. Ameri can Agriculturist. To KriiillrulH lluralork. If merely cut off at or near tho Bur face, burdocks will sprout again. The only suro way to get rid of theni for ever Is to pull tliein up, roots and all, or to ent them off near tin ground and pour a small quantity of kerosene, tur pentine or sulphuric acid iijiou tho root left In the ground Tilt: MAMINC9. Null I'hiihmis I tin i I The s i lug Is mice, I M I III cr II .1 . cll It .i M"' marines" p , I bo n 1 1 1 It.ir of I bo famous In li.nr I Han," and II li m. 1 1 . 1 by lilm 1 1 v: 1 1 1 m I 1 wlili rii.iiliH l of lluej.iu I II '" bi Tell, as tbe M.'i y ..cs, ibut bis light hearled ma ci v. with nil cxcceillni'ly holed expression nil bis swilllhv race, was Mlmlllng in (be shade Willi Ibe luceiil. .us Mr. V.s. secrelaiy In Ibe II . 1 1 1 1 i I a 1 1 V " lui, I s Il cl.-r e cu III I epl ,,.rd." said Ml' I'.'py". "w "Il the i up lulu of Ibe I iT mice, w b i hntli but lalely relumed fmill Ibe Indies Mild u 1 1( . 1,1 no' Ibe IWn lie. si wnll. lei llll i things bat ever I Ihlnl. I Hi. I near .III my life." Nulling Ibe ninth's lo, Were of ll-h tl log In Ibe Mil" " I Isll 'lUlng In the nlr." exclaimed bis ma ,est.. "Hit! Ini! II quaint conceit. I w hlch 'Iwi re Ion g I In -'H I' keel. Ing' NN hat Im ! hit" lie lurue.l and beckoned the colonel. Sir N iir.ani hllllgiew i.f tlii' few ly raised marl Cone ri'gl I nielli oil fool . w Im W MS fol InWltlg III iiui r With ) nil clement. c Inse Yolk mi a coin el' "We mailer It loll W II II t III ..III I ills, .Oil's.. Ion bing y n u r NNh.it i.iv swears In nlr." Mil-1 IV, r s i ! i q I , s, .11 1 bel li you, ' balli .1 I, to seen ll-!l. I mail W lin I llv III I'm " ' I sll. sea soldi.' sa led In li! 1 1 it i iv 1 the I he man hath I '. .f w lu ll curie. I nie plelltly o'eletxe I I 1 1 1- Hi. in th" l.l.cf ' I II l IT-' iW I V M t w ea t b. I beaten li I," turned to bit oil!- IIHI esl 's hy,', lies lb tber of late I did fir lllnle ll Ihg tl-.ll In one ha ts ..f iiii la nd lii nu "IPs majesty glance the cloiiel's fraiil., face. Then with a Ian, Hie se. Tel. try. " ' N r I "epy s," sa Id be, et-y naMtre of lb. Ir . illln our sii i . ec s can bin c so w fi.iiu 0n ; no class of Lie a know I edge of seas and men i.f and lands as t he nib, el S our n 1 1 mai lt I nu' i i-gl nieiil dniiMs Im "I w en s'f.irl h oi a lab' will tirst ever we cast la. I.etb llki ll 11 tn Ibe mil- Hint tell rin I lllimlc Mil. I i iinau III H Inn. illily II few years ago nlie sulTerllut fl'oiu cniisiimplloii was thniigbt tn bt iii.-iinibly 111, and ilo,,incd In a dentil which, although -rhaps slow, was In- e liable. Model II s. lellt. lb' kllnwledgil has hang.sl all thai. It Is imw klmwu that tuberculosis taken In lime Is ipillo amenable to treatment, ami Indis-d of ten gi-ts well i.f Itself without any ', rial effort on the part of patient or physician. The modern treatment Is mainly cli matic, that U to say. a reuniwil. If pos sible, to some part of the world where the climatic coiiditloiis are such Ihat the patient can pass most of his tliim In the ommi nlr. Hut If this were all that Is needed the quest!.. Il would m much more slmpl io than It really s t H ,,. 1. main, but Hot tho ony tiling. j Jt H desirable also Hint the place of residence ..f Ibe consumptive shall ls .jrv. sunny, ami free frmn high w Im'.n and dust. W bet lu-r It shall be III Hut mountains or near sea level. In the so called temperate .one or In the tropics. Is a matter to be determined by clr cumstniu'es. Some persons prefer warm nlr to cold; others suffer from heat and feel well only In cold weather. Nat urally the patient's Inclinations are to l consulted In such n ease, for It wouhl be ( ruel ainl disastrous to send a lover of the tropics to winter In Minnesota, ami equally cruel to compel a snowbird to live 111 the NV'e.-t Indies. A clluiate that will be beiielhlnl In one stage of the disease may hi' I Ml rill -ful In another. Flevalcd regions, for example, are suitable as a rule only for cases of consumption In Ibe early stages, mid may aggravate the i-ondl- 1 1 1 1 1 at a later stage, when the patient lias nail one or more iieuioi r iingcs. At a very advanced stage no climate, how ever Ideal, will compensate for tbe fa tigue mid dangers of a long Journey, and home Is I be only place. Kill after all Hint can hi- said for the climatic treatment of consumption, tint main thing Is tin- open air, and ( that one can get without the trouble mid ex pense of travel, by simply keeping win dows os-ii day and night. It Is harder to follow out the open air treatment In a !argi cll.V than It Is lu Colorado or southern California or Jamaica, but It can be done, and no one need forego Its heuellts while there are windows In walls, i.r while there Is spare In which to pitch n tent. Youths Companion. ShIV from the Viiiiilnla, "Hilly, what In the world are you digging that hide lu the lawn fur?" asked the 4 year-old's mother. "I'm hiding the lird's prayer when Oeorge llernard Shaw can't Mud It." answered tin' young philosopher, bring ing up another spadeful of loess. St Louis l'ost .-lMspateh. What has heroine of the old fash ioned man who thought It all right to cat cheese with skippers lu, so "lonjf ns they didn't bile back." When a man is poky, old fashioned people say: "lie is too slow to euteh u, cold."