I The Firm of
M estone
A. C O N A N DOYLE
C H A P T E R II.— (Continued.)
“ V tr j well,” the merchant «aid coldly.
•‘ If you insist on it, it must be done. Buc,
of course, it would make a great difference
In your salary."
••Eh?"
"You are at present getting fifteen
pounds a month, and five per cent com
mission. These are exceptional terms In
consideration of any risk that you may
run. We shall dry dock the Black Eagle,
and your salary is now ten pounds a
month and two and a half commission.'
"Belay, there, belay !” Che sailor shout
ed. His coppery face was a limde darker
than usual, and his bilious eyes had a
venomous gle&m in them. "Don't you
best me dowu !" he hissed, advancing to
the table and leaning his bauds upon it
while he pushed his angry face forward
until it was within a foot of that of Che
luerrhauL "Don't you try Chat game on.
mate, for I am a freeborn British seu-
mao, and I am under the thumb of no
man.
You’d reduce my salary, would
>e?” roared Captain Hamilton
Miggs.
working himself into a fury. "M e thm
has worked for ye, and slaved ftr ye. and
risked my life for ye. You try it on.
guv'nor, just you try it on ! Suppose 1
let out that little atory o' the painting
out o* the marks— where would the firm
of Oirdlestone be then?
I guess you'd
rather double my wage Chan nave that
yarn goin' about."
"W hat do you moan?"
"W hat do I mean? You don’t kn >w
what I mean, do you? Of course not. It
wasn't you as set us on to go at night
and paint out the government Plims-dl
marks and paint ’em in agaiu higher up.
so as to be able to overload. That wasn’t
you. was it?"
"I>o you mean to assert that if was?"
"In course 1 do,” thundered the angry
•eanmu.
The senior partner struck the gong
which stood upon the table. “ Oilray,” he
said quietly, "go out and bring in a po
liceman.”
Captain Hamilton Miggs seemed to b*
somewhat startled by this sudden move
of his antagonist. "Steady your helm,
governor,” he said. "W hat are ye up to
now?”
" I ’m going to give you in charge.”
"W hat for?”
"F or intimidating and using threaten
ing language, and endeavoring to extort
money under false pretenses.”
"There’s no witnesses,” the railor said
in a half-cringing, half-defiant manner.
“ Oh, yes, there are,” Ezra Girdlestone
remarked, coming into the room. He had
been standing between the two doors
which led to the counting house, and hid
overheard the latter portion of the con
versation. "Don’t let me interrupt you.
You were saying that you would blacken
my father's character uuleas he increased
your salary."
" I 0idn’£ mean no harm,’’ said Capfa n
Hamilton Miggs, glancing nervously fro u
the one to the other. He hod been fairly
well known to the law in his younger
days, and had no desire to renew the ac
quaintance.
"W ho painted out those I'limscll
marks?’’ asked the merchant.
" I t was me."
"D id any one suggest it to you?"
"N o.”
"Shall I send in the policeman, str?"
asked Oilray, opening the door.
"Ask him to wait for a moment.” Oir
dlestone answered. "And now, captain,
to return to the original point, shall we
dry dock the Black Eagle and reduce the
salary, or do you see your w iv to going
back in her on the same terms?"
•'I’ll go back,” said the captain reck
lessly. “ When d’ye want uie to start?”
"When ihe’s unloaded and loaded up
again. Three weeks or a mouth yet. I
expect that Spender will have come in
with the Maid of Athens by taut time.”
“ Unless some accident happens on the
way,” said Captain Hamilton Miggs. w*th
a leer. “ He was at Sierra Leone when
we came up the coast. I say,” he contin
ued, giving his employer a confidential
nudge with his elbow, “ *upptw* we’d gone
down in Che bay this last time, you’d hn’
been a bit out in your reckoning—eli,
what?”
"W hy so?”
"W ell, we were over-insured on our out
ward passage. An accident tnen might
ha’ put thousands In your pocket I know.
Coming back, thoi^h. the cargo was
worth more Chan the insurance, I reqkon.
You’d ha’ been out o’ pocket if we’d foun
dered."
"W e take our chance of the««* things.”
the merchant said with dignity.
"W ell, good morning, guv’ner,” Cap
tain Hamilton Miggs said brusquely.
As hs passed out through the office,
E»ra rejoined his father.
"H e ’s a rum chap," he remarked, jerk
ing his head in the direction welch Miggs
had taken. " A useful servsiir. though."
"The fellow’s half a savage himself,"
his father aaid. "H e ’s In his element
among them. That’a why he gets on so
well with them.’’
"H e doesn t seem much the worse foi
the climate, either."
“ His body does not. but his ideas are
•hocklngly immoral! However, to return
to business. I wish you to see the un
derwriters and pay the premium of the
Black Eagle. If you see your way to it.
Increase the policy, but do It carefully.
Ears, and with tact. She will start about
tha time of the equinoctial gales. I f any
thing should happen to her. it would be
<%» well that the firm should have a mar
gin an the right side."
C H A P T E R III .
1%s residence of Major Tobias Ulnr-
fcartuck was not known to any of hie
' frtends. It Is true that at times he al
luded in a modest way to his "little
place,” and even went the length of re
marking airily to new acquaintances that
he hoped they would look him up any
j time they happened to be in his direr
tion. As he carefully refraiued, however,
from ever giving the slightest indication
of which d.rection that might be, his in
vitations never led to any practical re
sults. Still, they had the effect of filling
j the recipient with a vague sen** of proi-
; fered hospitality, and occasionally led to
more substantial kindness in return.
The gallant major’s figure was a famil
iar one in the card room of tho “ Rag and
Bobtail,” or at the bow window of the
j Jeunesse Doree. Tall and pompous, with
| a portly frame and a puffy clean-shaven
face which peered over an abnormally
high o lla r and old fashioned linen cra
vat, he stood as a very type and emblem
of staid middle-aged respectability. The
major’s hat was always of the glossiest,
the major’s coat was without a wrinkle,
and, in short, from the summit of tne
major’s bald head to his bulbous finger
tips and his gouty toes, there was not a
flaw which the most severe critic o f de
portment could have detected. I vet us aJd
that the conversation of the major was
as irreproachable as his person— that lie
was a distinguished soldier and an accom
plished traveler, with a retentive memory
and a mind stuffed with the good things
of a lifetime. Combine all these qua’ i-
ties, and one would naturally regard the
major as a most desirable sequaintanee.
Standing at the head of the broad stone
steps which lead up to the palatial edi
fice which ita occupiers irreverently term
the "R a g and Bobtail," he was explain
ing to a bull-necked, olive-comp1 exioned
young man, tha series of marriages and
inter-inarriages which had culminated in
the production of his own portly stiff-
backed figure. His companion, who wns
none other than Ezra Girdlestoue of th«*
great African firm of that name, leaned
against one of the pillars of the porticu
and listened gloomily to the major’s fam
ily reminiscences, giving an occasional
yawn which he made no attempt to con
ceal.
“ It’s as plain as the fingers of
hand,” the old soldier said in a wheexv
muffled brogue as if he were speaking
from under a feather bed.
“ See hero
now, Oirdlestone—this is Miss oetitia
Snackles. of Snackleton, a cousin of oU
Sir Joseph.”
The major tapped his
thumb with the silver head of his wala-
ing stick
to represent the maiden
Snackles. "She marries C’rawlord, of tee
Blues—one o’ the Warwickshire ( ’raw-
fords; that’s him"— here he elevated his
stubby forefinger— "and here’s tneir throe
children, Jemima, Harold and John.” I'p
went three other fingers.# “ Jemima (Craw
ford grows up, and then Charley Clutter-
buck runs away with her. This other
thumb o’ mine will stand for that young
divll Charley, and then ray fingers----- ”
"Oh, hang your fingers,” Girdlestone ex
claimed with emphasis. “ It’s very inter
esting. major, blit it would l»e more In
telligible if you wrote it out."
“ And so 1 shall, me boy!” the major
cried enthusiastically, by no in ans abash
ed at the sudden interruption. " I ’ll draw
it up on a bit of foolscap paper. Iyer’s
see, Fenchurch street, eh? Address to the
offices, of course. Though for that mat
ter, ‘Girdlestoue, Ivoudon,’ would foind
you. I was spakir’ of ye to Sir Mus-
grave Moore, of the Rifles th«‘ other day.
and he knew you at once. ‘Gird^ston*?’
say8 he. *The same,’ says I. ‘ A mer
chant prince?’ says he. ‘The same,’ says
I. ‘ I ’d be proud to meet him,’ says ho.
‘And you shall,’ says I.
He’s the best
blood of county Waterford.”
“ More blood than money, I suppose,’*
the young man said. “ I’m due in the city.
'The governor leaves at four. Good-by;
shall I see you to-night?"
"Card room, as per usual,” quoth the
clean-shaven warrior.
He >ooked after
the retreating figure of his lare com par-
ion with anything but a pleasant expres
sion upon his face. The young man hap
pened to glance round as he w ai half way
down the street, on which the major smil
ed after him paternally, and gave a merry
flourish with his stick.
A t last he hailed a passing bus, into
which he sprang. After a drive which
brought him to the other side of the city,
he got out in a broad, busy thoroughfare,
lined with large shop«. Down a somber
avenue the major strutted witn all his
wonted pomposity, until about half way
down he reached a
tall
grim-looking
house, with many notices of “ apartments"
glaring from the windows.
The malor
walked briskly up the stone steps, ai d
pushing open the great splotchy door,
which bore upon it a brass plate indicat
ing that the establishment was kept by
a Mrs. Robins, he walked nto the hall
with the air of one who treads familxir
ground. Up one flight of stairr, up two
flights of stairs, and up three flights of
stairs did he climb, until on the fourth
landing he pushed open a door and found
h;mself in a small room, wh.ch form J
for rhe nonce the “ little place” about
which he was wont at the club to make
depreciatory allusions, so skilfu lly intro
duced that the listener was left in doubt
as to whether the major was the happy
possessor of a country house and groun 1?,
or whether he merely owned a large su^
urban villa. Even this modest sanctum
was not entirely the major’s own as wns
shown by the presence of a ruddy-facwl
man with a long, tawny beard, who sit
on one side of the empty fireplace. As
the other entered .the man Ln .he chair
gave vent to aguttural grunt, and Major
Clutterbuck returned the greet ng with an
off-handed nod. His next proceeding w m
to take off his flossy hat. and pack it
away ln a hat box. He then removed his
coat, his collar, his tie and his gaiters
with equal solicitude, and put them in a
place of safety. After which ne donned
a long purple dreasing gown and a smok
ing cap. in which garb he performed the
first steps of a mazurka as \ sign of the
additional ease which he exp»rleneed.
"N ot much to dance about either, me
boy,” the old soldier said, seating biros*!f
in a camp chair and putting his feet upon
another one. "W e ’re all on rhe verge.
Unless luck takes a turn there’s no saying
what may become of us.”
“ W e have been badder than this before
now many a time," said the yellow beard
ed man. in an accent which proclaim«!
him to be a German. "M y money v 11
come, or something will arrive to set all
things right."
Siglsmond von Banmser was a politic«:
refugee from the Fatherlani who l i d
managed to become foreign clerk in a
small Ivondon firm, an occupation which
Just enabled h n to keep body and sm I
1 together. He and the major nad lodged
in different rooms in another establish
ment rntil some common leaven of Bohc-
mianf.m had brought
them
together.
When circumstances had driven »toem o«>t
of their former abode It had occurred 'o
the major that by sharing hi* rooms with
Von Baumser he would diminish his own
expenses, and at the same time secure a.i
agreeable companion, for the veteran was
a sociable soul in his unofficial hours, a id
had all the Hibernian dislike to solitu le.
The arrangement commended itself to
the German, for he had a prolound ad
miration for the other’s versatile talents
and varied experiences, so he grunted an
P la u n ln g (h e H o ra e «ro u n d s.
Acquiescence and the thing 'vr»a done.
Because o f the permanency o f habi
When the major’s luck was good there tation on a farm the greatest care
were brave times in the little fourth
needs to be taken ln deciding upoo
floor back. On the other baud. If any
slice of good fortune came In the Ger plans fo r dwellings, bams, lanes and
man’s way, the major had a tair share of tree planting. Unlike the town resident
the prosperity,
[hiring the hard times 1 who is here to-day and away to-mor
which intervened between those gleams of row the owner o f a farm becomes at-
opulence, the pair roughed it uncomplain i tached to his home and can look for
ingly as best they might.
ward confidently to leaving It to his
“ Have you had your letter?" the major , sons and grandsons afte r him.
The
asked. The German was expecting his site for the house having been fixed the
quarterly remittance from his riends at
other buildings w ill group themselves
home, and they were
both anxiously
to the side or In the rear. It Is not to
awaiting it.
be expected that
*he first few years
Von Banmser shook his head.
“ They should have sent a wake ago.“ after taking up a homestead that the
"B ut you— how do you stand fof
money ?”
Major Clutterbuck took ten sovereigns
out o f his trousers pocket and placed
them upon the table.
"You know me
law,” he said, “ I never on any considera
tion break into these. You can’ ; sit down
to play cards for high stakes with less
in your purse, and if 1 was to change one
they'd all go like a whiff o' smoke. Bar
this money I ’ ve hardly a penny.”
“ Nor me,” said Von Baumser, despond
ently.
“ I say, Baumser, I can’ t stand that
young fellow Girdlestone.
I ’ll have to
chuck him up. He's a cold-blooded, flinty-
hearted, calculating sort of a cnap."
gardens, driveways, lawns and shrub
"W hat for did you make him your
bery should be completed In all their
friend, then?”
Indeed for best results it Is
"W ell,” the old soldier confessed, “ it details.
seemed to me that if he wanted to fool well that most o f this work be done
b!s money away at cards, Tobias Clut gradually though having all the time
terbuck might as well have the handling a fixed plan in view. Land Is not so
of it as any one else. He plays a safe valuable that an acre or two cannot be
game for low stakes, and never throw* devoted to artificial adornment.
away a chance. I think I ’ ve been a loser
It is the rule o f life to provide first
in pocket by knowing him, wnile as to fo r necessities, then fo r com forts and
me character, I ’m very sure I ’m the worse
finally for pleasures. Most o f our coun
there.”
try Is too new to perm it o f much atten
"V a t’s the matter mit him?"
“ What’s not the matter with him? It tion being given to landscape garden
The efforts o f the people have
he’s agreeable he’s not natural, and if he’s ing.
natural he’s not agreeable. I don’t pre been directed to the acquiring o f lands
tend to be a saint. I ’ ve seen some fun and buildings. The Illustrations given
in my day, and hope to see some mors herewith are Intended to offer sugges
before I die, but there are 6ome things tions for Improving the appearance o f
that I wouldn’t do. I f I live be cards the farm home without any consider
it’s all fair and above board. I never able expense. The first shows a farm
play anything but games o’ skill, and I
home well sheltered by surrounding
reckon on me skill bringing me out on the
right side, taking one night with another trees. The space immediately around
through the year. Again, at billiards I the house Is clear to allow o f circula
may not always play me best, but that’s tion o f the air. T h e view from the
generalship.
You don’ t want a whole fro n t o f the house Is unobstructed. The
room to know to a point what your game second Is an example o f what may be
is. I ’m the last inan to preach, but I done In planning the home grounds—
don't like that chap, and I don’t like that
handsome brazen face of his. I ’ve epeut
the greater part of my life reading folks'
faces, and never very far out, either.”
‘‘ Vat did you say his name was?” Voa
Baumser asked, suddenly.
“ Girdlestone."
“ Is his father a merchant? One who
trades with the Afrikaner?"
“ The same."
Von Baumser took a bulky pocketbooh
from his inside pocket and scanned a loug
list of names therein. “ Ah, It is the
same,” he cried at last triumphant>y,
shutting up the book and replacing It,
“ Girdlestone A Co.. Africau merchants
— Fenchurch street. City.”
not a model to be follow ed ln detail,
"Those are they.”
but embodying some general principles
"And you say they are rch?"
that may be adopted.
"Yes. Very rich.”
Straight lines and square plots so
“ Very rich! Ho. ho! Very rich !" he
laughed. *‘ I know dem, not as friends, desirable ln the laying out o f fields are
but I know dem and their affairs"
not the most desirable fo r the home
“ What are you driving at? ivet’s have grounds. Curved lines especially for
it. Out with it, man.”
the drivew ays take away the stiffness
" I tell you,” said the German, sudden and add naturalness to the scene. In
ly becoming supernaturally solemn and
the Illustration the double drivew ay ln
sawing his hand up and down in the air
to emphasize his remarks, “ in three or fron t makes too complicated a plan for
four months, or a year at the most, there the ordinary farm. A variety o f trees
will be no firm of Girdlestone. They are and shrubs should be used around the
rotten, useless— whoo !’’ He blew an Im house without having them too close
aginary feather up into the air to demon to allow free circulation o f the air and
strate the extreme fragility of the house a view o f the roadway In fr o n t— Mon-
in question.
real Star.
(T o be continued.)
H ibern ation
S tu m ble«
on
M any
W ords.
A certain business man in Seattle
wns married recently to a girl who
a fte r a few weeks o f wedded life be
gan to fear that her husband Indulged
too freely in the cup that cheers. She
determined to find out beyond doubt
whether her suspicions were well found
ed. From a friend she learned that a
man even slightly Intoxicated cannot
pronounce words o f any iength. Where
upon the w ife decided that she would
try this test.
When next the friend met the lattsi
she asked i f her suspicious had been
verified. The w ife burst Into tears and
said they had. “ I handed him this
list,’’ she said, between sobs, bringing
from her pocket a paper she gave to
her friend, and which contained the fo l
lowing w o rd s; “ Phthisis, photochromy,
gnmonology, hypochondriasis,
phleg
masia, dotens, cy neat ego rerna tic, antl-
nornlanlsra. pseudoathesla.”
"A n d.” she continued while her
friend read the list, "he missed nearly
h alf o f them.” — Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer.
F e m in in e
R enw onln*.
Husband i a* they arrive at the a t»
tlon a minute too la te )— I f you hadn't
taken no much time with your tollat.
w e wouldn't have been fro late.
W ife — And If yon hadn’t made me
run. we wouldn't have to wait ao long
fo r the next tra in !— Translated fo r
Transatlantic Talea from Meggeudorfa*
Blatter.
A
no
Customer— T ell me. truly, which os
these two hats Is more becoming?
M illiner— This one.
See!
It oou-
oeiils your face more.— Brooklyn Life.
A good carriage horse in Australia
coats $200, or four times as much as
the cost fifteen years agu.
of
D o ll
W eevils.
A T E M PER AN C E WORKER
Says P c - t i h m a a Valuable Nerve and
Blood Remedy.
K ro .c n
M ilk .
Whenever m ilk Is scarce In the cities
somebody cornea forward and suggests
thut it be shipped from distant points
ln a frozen condition.
T h is Idea has been frequently sug
gested during the past years, but It does
not seem to be coming Into practical
use. The latest suggestion is that the
fresh uillk should be frozen by sub
merging the sealed cans In brine chilled
far below the melting point o f Ice. The
milk would not only be frozen, but
would be cooled still further to a hard,
dry Ice, which, It is claimed, would re
main ln the solid form after removal
for a day or two before the entire
mass would rise to a melting point,
the keeping qualities being much su
perior to that o f milk which is merely
frozen at common temperature.
T h e operating plan would be to es
tablish a freezing plant at the cream
eries and milk stations, the
frozen
product to be shipped In ordinary cans,
thus doing away with the present high
M IS S BE SSIE F A K R E L L
cost o f refrigerating cars.
Mies Bessie Farrell, 1011 Third A v e .,
It Is claimed that frozen m ilk kept
over a month in a refrigerato r room Brooklyn, N. Y ., is president of the
showed no change ln taste on thawdng, Youn g People’s Christian Temperance
Association. Hhe writes:
and that the cream remained evenly
“ I’ eruna is certainly a valuable nerve
mixed throughout the solid mass, not
and blood remedy, calculated to build
rising, ns It would when milk Is merely
up the broken down health of worn oat
kept liquid at low temperature. Milk
,
.
.
.
i women. I have found by personal ex-
for freezing would need to 1« in fresh .' p erieDoe that it act* .4 a wonderful re-
olenn condition when-1 frozen, else It* gtorer o f loet etiength, aadstlng the
keeping period would be very short stomach to aealmitgte and digest the
afte r melting. I f this plan ever com es; food, and building op worn out tleeuee.
Into favor, It would greatly Increase In m y work I have had occasion to re-
the competition ln the business o f sup commend it freely, especially to wo
plying milk ln the great cities.
men.
‘ ‘ I know o f nothing which i* better
S h ip p in g C oop«.
to bnild up the strength of a young
T o r shipping live poultry to market mother, in fact all the ailm ents pecu
the follow in g sizes o f coops are moft liar to woman, ao I am pleased to give
generally used lu the W es t: Coops It my hearty endorsem ent."
Dr. Hartman has prescribed Peruna
should he 48 Inches long. 30 Inches
wide, 12 Inches high for chickens for many thousand women, slid he
and
ducks,
and
IB
Inches
high never (ails to receive a multitude of
for turkeys and geese. Use lumber letters Ilka the above, thankiug him
as fo llo w s : T w o by two fo r cor (or the wonderful benefits received.
ner posts, or 1x2 w ill answer. I f you
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative
cannot get them, get 1x4 and rip them
O v e r d i d tt.
In two. Cut alx pieces 30 Inches long
Hospital Physician (to reassure him)
and nine pieces 12 or 15 Inches long for
each coop. N a ll the short pieces one at — That snake you see is not a real one.
you know.
each .n il and one ln the center o f the
Delirium Tremens Patient— You tee it
long ones, using ten-penny wrought too, do you, doc? Ah, ha !
nalla. Make three o f these frames, one
for each end and center. F or the bot
Only One ‘ ‘ BROMO QUININE."
tom use half-inch boards or lath, make Th at is L A X A T IV E BROMO Q U IN IN E . Look
for
the
signature of E. W. GROVE.
Uaed the
the bottom tight, using six-penny nnlls.
W orld over to Cure a Cold In One Day. 25c.
Use %x2-lnch strips o f lath fo r aides,
ends and top, put them 1V6 Inches
H er Lo vin g
Friends.
a p a r t; the width o f lath Is about right.
Nan— Where do poor, dear L il and the
Leave tw o laths loose on top in center, husband she has managed to get at last
or make a door o f them to open, ln expect to spend their honeymoon?
Fan— There won’t be any honeymoon.
order to put poultry In and take It out.
Now nail a lath around the coopa, each She’s a wa«r>.
end and the center, outside, the three
Mo hers w ill nna Mrs. W inslow's Soothing
framea made first. This w ill keep the Byrup the b. st rem edy to use for their children
lath from coming o ff and make the during the teething period.
coops stronger. For broilers the coops
H a d None.
can be made 10 Inches high and 24 Inch
"G oing to w rite a book, eh?"
es wide. This w ill make a good, s '- " 'a
"Yep, thought 1 would.”
light coop.— P. II. Sprague.
"Gong to tell about your early strur*
gles?’*
W i n t e r Form er,
"N o p e ; never had no early stru ggle«;
T h e question o f w inter forage and didn’t get married till I was past 40.“
pasturage la one o f the greatest Im — Houston Post.
portance In the Southern States, and
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
Carletou R. Ball, o f the Bureau o f
Plan t Industry, was sent by the De by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion o f the ear. '1 here is o n ly one
partment o f Agriculture early In the w ay to cure deafues», and that is by constitu
year to make an Investigation In sev tion a l remedies. Deafnens is canned by an in
flam ed cond ition o f the mucous lin in g o f the
eral o f the G u lf States. In his report Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflam ed
Mr. Ball rays, amongst other th in gs: '
J
“ T h e production
o f f Southern hay \ has the result, and unless the inflam m ation can be
taken ou t and this tube restored to its norm al
been a question long under discussion. condition,
hearing
b«' dostroved forever;
The amount produced and the yield per nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition ol
acre have both Increased steadily and the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
encouragingly during the last
few
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
years. On every hand It is admitted not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
that it 1* both possible and necessary circulars, free. F J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O
Sold bv Druggists. 75c.
to raise all thAt Is needed fo r home
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
consumption. A lfa lfa , Bermuda grass,
Johnson grass, crabgrass and cowpeas
N o t s ('trc n m a ta n c e .
furnish an abundance o f hay o f the
Enthusiastic Auditor (at the o p e ra )-*
very best quality. This hay can be pro Didn’t she do that aria divinely !
Boarding House Miss— Huh !
You
duced much more cheaply than an
equal q u illty can be shipped In from ought to hear that ev our graphophoae!
win
I t haa been often noticed that ln a
wooded country boll weevils appear
first ln spring along the borders o f
delds uext to the woods and gradually
work (aw ard from the edges, ao that It
seems probable that in a wooded coun Northern and Western States.
W ith
try most o f them hibernate In wood better transportation facilities and an
WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE
land. Around outbuildings and barns
From October to May. colds are the most frequent
increasing demand, the production w ill cause
o f hradache. L A X A T IV E BROMO QUI.
also are found favorable places, as
become more and more profitable. A t N IN E removes cause. E. W. Grove on box. 25c-
there are always more or less rubbish
the same time, with hay raised on the
and protection In ouch situations. In home plantations, and hence cheaply A p p s a i l n g m T h i r s t f o r K n o w l e d g e .
Caller— I wish you would tell me whal
1003 more than five times as many wee
and readily available, larger quantities the real difference is between a Stradiva
v il* were found In a piece o f cotton
are being used ln feeding the planta* rius and any other violin.
near the Texas State College barn,
Information Editor— Well, sometimes
tlon stock.
where cotton had been grown the pre
It is me much as $.*>.000.
vious year, than were found In any
R rarnlar F f c d l n g a n d V a rie ty *
other locality in that neighborhood. It
T w o things «re essential to the th rift
Is slao noticeable that weevils are a l o f animals— s variety ln their food and
ways more numerous near gins than at regularity In Its re ce ip t One article
a distance from them. Unfortunately, o f food cannot supply all the necessary
where much rubbish and grass are sustenance, because It may lack some
present snd where the soil remains o f the essential elements, and la almost
loose ami Is not packed by rains, large sure to have some Insufficient quanti appeal to the W ell-Inform ed In e v e ry
numbers o f the weevils winter In the ties.
Animals do not th rive as well walk o f life and are eaaential to per
cotton fie ld »
when fed Irregularly as when they get manent aucceas and creditable stand
Accordingly, it ta not claim ed
their food at certain seasons.
The ing.
F a r m e r 's B atb.
A ll farm ers do not feel able to a f more regular the food Is supplied tbs that Syrup o f Flga and E lixir o f
Senna la the only remedy o f known
ford a bathroom and furnishings. But better the results.
what class o f people need an evening j
value, but one o f many reason« w hy
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Take coal tar and s ift coal ashes l *
day In the dusty fields? A good bath
laxatives is the fact that It cleanses,
at [fight should be a necessity that until the thickness o f stiff mortar. Plas sweetens and relieve* the Internal
oug4it not to be neglected, and hus ter It around leaks. I f used on slate
organa on which It acta without any
band and hands should hare a bath roofs tho MMU and rain cannot blow .
every night during hot months. But In. Thla cement w ill harden like a j deblI1Utln* after e le c ta and without
how? W ell, get some empty oil bar atone and la apparently a t Indeatruett- having to Increase the quantity fron
rels. knock out one end and let oil bla. It anawera adm irably fo r paper -im e to time.
evaporate, and your bath barrel
le room« and If properly pnt on It seem.
Tt acts pleasantly and naturally and
ready. F ill barrels at noon (h a lf or to be there forever.
truly aa a laxative, and Ita com ponent
m ore) with water, let set In sun; at
parts a-e known to and approved by
F a rm Notes.
night put a gallon o f hot water ln each
physlctana, aa tt ta free from a ll
The
crusade
against
tuberculosis
lu
barrel and when darkness haa fallen
objectionable substances. T o get Ita
cattle
may
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to
colder
then take a bath, and with thin gauxe
beneficial effects alw ays purchase tha
undershirt and d raw er* they are ready ■tables and blankets on tbe cattle.
fo r bed. T h eir sleep w ill be sweeter
Feed floor* for hog« aava feed, keep genuine— manufactured by the Cali
and the work lighter on the poor wash tbe animals healthier and make it poe- fornia F ig Syrup Co., only, and toa
«a le by all leading druggist«.
e iM . to keep the qu arter« c le a n *»
erwoman.
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