Cottage Grove leader., April 10, 1908, Image 6

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\ The Firm of
Girdlestone
A CONAN
D O Y LE
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C H A P T E R V I I I . — (Continued.)
The meeting just described took pla *e
upon a Tuesday, early in November. On
the Saturday Ezra Girdlestone had fully
made up his mind to turn his back upon
the diggings and begin
his homeward
Journey.
He was pining for the pleas­
ures of his old London life, and was
weary o»f. the perpetual glare of the South
African sun. His task was done, too, and
It would be well for him to be at a d:&-
tance before the diggers discovered the
manner in which they had been hoaxed,
lie began to pack his boxes, therefore, and
to make every preparation for his depart­
ure.
He was busily engaged in this employ­
ment upon the Wednesday evening when
there was a tap at the door and Farin-
tosb walked in. accompanied by Burt and
Williams.
Girdlestone glanced
up at
them, and greeted them briefly. He was
not surprints! at their visit, for they had
come together several times before to re­
port progress or make arrangements. F a r­
intosh bowed as he entered the room, Burt
nodded, and Williams rubbed his hands
together and looked amiably bilious.
“ W e looked In, Mr. Griddlestone," Far-
lotosh began, “to learn if you had any
commands for us.“
“ I told you before that I had not,“
Ezra said curtly. “ I am going on Satur­
day. I have made a mistake in speculat­
ing on those diamonds. Prices are sink­
ing lower and lower.“
“ I am sorry to hear that,” said Farin-
tosh, sympathetically. “ Maybe the mar­
ket will take a turn.“
“ Let us hope so,” the merchant answer­
ed. “ It doesn’t look like it.”
Quick as a flash Burt «prang upon him
and struck him down with a life-preserv­
er. W ith a gasping cry and a heavy thud
Ezra fell face downwards upon the floor,
a great gash in his head.
“ Very neat-—very pretty Indeed!” cried
the ex-parson, in a quiet tone of critical
satisfaction, as a connoisseur might speak
of a specimen which interested him. He
was already busy at the door of the safe.
“ Well done, Mr. Burt, well done !” cried
W illiams in a quivering voice.
“ Here1 are the stones,” said Farintosh,
In the same quiet voice. “ Here are some
notes and gold.
W e may as well have
them, too.
Now, tie the bag carefully.
That's the way.
If we meet any one on
the stairs, take it coolly. Turn that lamp
out, Williams, so that If any one looks
In he’ll see nothin. Come along!” The
guilty trio stole out of the room, bearing
their plunder with
them, and
walked
down the stairs of the hotel unmolested
and unharmed.
The moon ns It rose over the veldt that
night shone on three horsemen spurring
It along the Capetown road an though
their very lives depended upon their speed.
Its calm, clear rays streamed over the si­
lent roofs of Kimberley and in through a
particular window of the Oriental Hotel,
throwing silvery patches upon the carpet
and casting strange shadows from the fig­
ure which lay us It had fallen huddled
In an ungainly heap upon the floor.
C H A P T E R IX .
Ezra was endowed with rare vitality,
which enabled him not only to shake off
the effects of his mishap, hut to do so
In an extraordinary short space of time.
There was a groan from the prostrate fig­
ure, then a feeble movement, then another
and a louder groan.
Gradually raising
himself upon his elbow, he looked around
him in a bewildered way, with his other
hand pressed to the wound at the ba-’k
of his head, from which a few narrow lit­
tle rivulets of blood were still meander­
ing.
Ills glance wandered vaguely over
th» table and the chairs and the walls, un­
til It rested upon the safe. He could w»e
In the moonlight that it was open, and
•mpty.
In a moment the whole circum­
stances of the ease came back to him, and
he staggered to the hell with a hoarse cry
%f rage and of despair.
Whatever Kara’s faults may have been,
Iv resolution or want of courage were not
among them.
In a moment he grasDed
the aituation, and realised that it was ab­
solutely essential that he should act, and
at once. The stones must be recover»*!,
or utter and irretrievable min stAred hhr.
In the face. At his cries and ringing the
landlord and several attendants, white
nn»l black, came rushing into the room.
“ I ’ve been robbed and assaulted,” Ez***
«aid, steadying himself against the man­
telpiece, for he was still weak and giddr.
“ Don’t all start cackling, but do what 1
ask you. Light the lam p !“
The lamp was lit, and there was a mur­
mur from the little knot of employes, re­
enforced by some late loungers at the bar,
as they saw the disordered room and iho
great crimson patch upon the carpet.
"T h e thieves called at nine,” said Ezra,
talking rapidly, but collectedly.
"Their
names were Karin tosh. Burt and W il­
liams.
It is now half-past ten, so they
have no very great start. You, Jamieson,
and you Van Muller, run out and find if
three men have been seen getting away.
Perhaps they took a buggy. Go up and
down, and ask all you see. You, Jones, go
a* hard as you can to Inspector Ainslie.
Tell him there has been robbery and at­
tempted murder, and say that I want
half a dozen of his best mounted men —
not his best men. yon understand, but hla
best horses.
I shall see that hs is no
loser if he is ianart.
Where’s my ser­
vant?
Pete, get my horse saddled and
bring her round.
8he ought to be able
to catch anything In Griqualand.
As Ezra gave hla orders the men hur­
ried off in different directions to carry
them out. Ha, himself, commenced to ar­
range hla dresa and tied a handkerchief
tightly round his
“ Surely you are not going, sir?“ tbs
landlord said. “ You are not fit.”
“ Fit or not, I am going,” Ezra said
resolutely. “ I f I have to be strapped to
my horse I ’ll go.”
A great concourse of people had as­
sembled by this time, attracted by the re-
j pert of the robbery. The whole square
I in front of the hotel was crowded with
diggers and storekeepers and iuuumeri-
! bio Kaffir*, all pre«sing up to the portico
in the hope of bearding some fresh details.
There was a buzz of excitement among
th»> crowd when Ezra appeared on the
steps of the hotel, looking a9 white as a
sheet, with a handkerchief bound round
his head and his collar all crusted with
blood. As he mounted his horse one of
h.s emissaries rushed to him.
“ If you please, sir,” he said, “they have
taken the Capetown road. A dozen people
saw them. Their horses were not up to
much, for I know the man they got them
from. You are sure to catch them.”
A smile played over Ezra’s pale face,
which boded little good for the fugitives.
“Those police,” he cried, “are they never
going to come!“
“ Here they are !” said the landlord, and
sure enough, with a jingling of arms and
a clatter of hoofs, half a dozen of the
Cape Mounted police trotted through the
crowd and drew up in front of the steps.
They were smart, active young fellows,
armed with carbine and saber, and their
horses were tough brutes, uncomely to
look at, but with wonderful staying pow­
er.
Ezra noted the fact with satisfac­
tion as he rode up to the grizzled sergeant
iu command.
“There’s not a moment to be lost, ser­
geant,” he said. “They have an hour md
a half’s start, but their cattle are not
up to much. Come on! It’s the Capetown
road.
A hundred pounds if we catrh
them !”
For the first few miles the party gal­
loped in silence. The moon was still shin­
ing brilliantly, and they could see the
white line of the road stretching out in
front of them and winding away over the
undulating veldt. To right and left spread
a broad expanse of wiry grass stretching
to the horizon, with low bushes and scrub
scattered over it in patches.
Out once more upon the Capetown road
it was a clear race between the pursuers
and the pursued. The former knew that
the fugitives, were it daytime, would pos­
sibly be within sight of them, and the
thought gave them additional ardor. The
sergeant having a fresh horse rode in
front, his head down and his body for­
ward, getting every possible inch of pace
out of the animal.
At hla heels came
Ezra, on his gallant grey, the blood-stain­
ed handkerchief fluttering from his head.
He was sitting very straight in his saddle
with a set, stern smile upon his lips, lo
his right hand he held a cocked revolver.
A hundred yards or so behind them the
two remaining troopers came toiling along
upon their weary nags, working hard with
whip and spur to stimulate them to fur­
ther exertions. Away in the east a long
rosy streak law low upon the horizon,
which showed that dawn was approach­
ing, and a grey light stole over the land­
scape. Suddenly the sergeant pulled h s
horse up. “There’s some one coming to­
wards us,” he cried.
Ezra and the troopers halted their pant­
ing steeds. Through the uncertain light
they saw a solitary horseman riding down
the road. At first they had thought that
it might possibly be one of the fugitives
who had turned, but as he came nearer
they perceived that it was a stranger.
His clothes were so dusty and his horse
so foam-flecked and weary that it was
evident thAt he also had left many a long
mile of road behind him.
“ Have you seen three men on horse-
beck?” cried Ezra, as he approached.
“ I spoke to them,” the traveler an­
swered.
“They are about half a mile
ahead?"
“ Come on ! Come on !“ Ezra shouted.
“ I am bringing news from Jagersfon-
tein-------” the man said.
“Come on 1” Ezra interrupted, furious­
ly, and the horses stretched their stiff
limbs into a feeble, lumbering gallop. Ezra
and the sergeant shot to the front, md
the others followed as best they might.
Suddenly in the stillness they heard far
away a dull rattliug sound like the cat-
ter of distant castanets.
“ It’s their
horses' hoofs!“ cried Ezra, and the troop­
ers behiud raised a cheer to show that
they, too, understood the significance of
the sound.
It was a wid, lonely spot, where the
plain was bare even of the scanty foliage
which usually covered It. Here and there
great granite rocks protruded from the
brown soil as though Nature’s covering
had in bygone days been rent until her
gaunt
bones
protruded
through
the
wound. As Ezra and the sergeant swept
round a sharp turn in the road they saw
some little way ahead of them the three
fugitives, enveloped In a cloud of dust.
Almost at the same moment they heard a
shout and crash behind them, and, look­
ing round, saw a confused heap upon the
ground. The horse of the leading trooper
had fallen from pure fatigue, and had
rolled over upon its rider.
The other
trooper had dismounted, and was endea­
voring to extricate hi* companion.
“ Let us see if he is hurt,” the sergeant
cried.
“On ! on !” shouted Ezra, whose passion
was increased by the sight of the thieves.
“ Not a foot back.”
“ He may have broken his neck,” grum­
bled the sergeant, unalinging his carbine.
“ Have your pistol ready, sir. W e shall
he up with them in a few minutes, and
they j^ iy show fight.”
They were up with them rather sooner
than the policeman expected. Farintosh,
finding that speed was of no avail, m d
that the number of his pursuers was now
reduced to two, had recourse to strategy.
There was a sharp turn in the road a hun­
dred yards ahead, and on reaching it the
three flung themselves off their horses and
lay down behind cover. As Ezra and the
sergeant, the grey horse and the bay, came
thundering round the curve, there was a
fierce splutter of pistol shots from
amongst the bushes, and the - grey sank
down npon its knees with a sobbing moan,
struck mortally in the head. Ezra sprang
to his feet, and rushed at the ambuscade,
while the sergeant, who had been grazed
on the cheek by the first volley, jumped
from his horse and followed him. Burt
and Farintosh met them foot to foot with
all the Saxon gallantry which underlies
the Saxon brntality.
Burt stabbed at
the sergeant and struck him through the
muscle of the neck. Farintosh fired at
the policeman, and was himaelf shot down
by Ezra. Burt, seeing hla companion fall,
■•rang past hla two assailants w ith a
▼Mono side blow at th« merchant, and
throwing himself upon tho sergeant.'a
horse, regardless of a bullet from the lat*
ts rs carbine, he galloped away and w m
from the beginning of the skirmish, he
had lain face downward* upon the ground,
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W h o A r e A b l e to S w in d le
I n s u r a n c e C o m p a n ie s .
th e
“ Accident Insurance companies are
very suspicious of all accidents involv­
ing Injury to the knee, for It la on hla
knee that the accident fak ir m ainly
rellea.”
T he speaker, a surgeon, frow ned and
went o n :
“T here are ’ men w ho make a living
out o f fake accidents. They travel from
city to city; they Insure In every com­
pany that issues accident policies;
then, with a fake Injury, they proceed
to collect dues.
“ An accident fak ir— fo r ao we call
these men— has usually a knee that he
can slip out at will.
H e purposely
stumbles over an open trap or some
hard, sharp obstacle, puts hls knee out
deftly, raises a big holler so as to se­
cure a lot of witnesses and then hob­
bles home.
“ H e doesn’t notify hls Insurance com­
panies until the next day.
B y then
his knee Is so swollen that an accurate
exam ination of it Is Impossible.
We
cannot tell wheQier It Is one of those
fake, self-slipping knees or not. So w e
pay the man his money, and he seeka
new pastures.
“T h ere w as one man— he Is In Jal.
now— w h o In nine years collected over
$11,000 In accident policies with the
help o f a knee that he could slip out
ns easily as I slip ray hand out o f my
glove.”— N ew Orleans Tim es-D em ocrat
L ot «
I s D e a f.
"A n d yon mean to any that football
player klaaed you?" exclaimed the Irate
mother.
"Yea.
m i."
replied
the blushing
daughter.
“ W hy, the Idea ! D id n ’t I tell you If
he tried to klaa you to yell ’8topI’ aa
loud aa you could?"
" I — I did. ma, but he had on hla e a r
guards and couldn't hear me.”
P r o .e d < o rree i.
M lggles— T h ere’s more truth
than
poetry In that old saw, "W h e re there
It smoke there It Are."
W ig gle »- W h a t do you know about
It?
M lgglee— It w as against the rule* to
smoke In the office where I w as em­
ployed. I lit a cigarette and w ae fired.
H I.
M o tto .
T r e e « A r e B lo w n
O ver.
Should excessive w inds blow the top
o f a tree out of shape, which often oc­
curs. cut It out, leaving a nearly erect
southwest branch to become the new
central stem. Shallow, loosely planted
trees sometimes blow over. They may
be put back by excavating on the op­
posite side and pushing the tree back,
tamping the earth as firmly as possible
on the side tow ard which It leaned.
C are should be taken not to wrench
the roots loose In this operation.
C a ttin g
B ack
T r e e ..
In highly Interesting experim ents' at
the W oburn (E n g la n d ) experimental
fruit farm In cutting back apple trees
when planted the ultimate result w as
found to be that trees not cut back un­
til tlie end of the first year continued
to form wood In subsequent yeara, and
the crop borne by them d urin g the first
ten yeara w a s only one-third o f tbst
borne by those which w ere cut back
when planted.
A B a la n c e d R a t i o n .
In the ration-fed farm anim als either
a lfa lfa or clover should be given to
balance the corn. Either one o f these
legumes w ill likewise
be
needed to
“b alan ce" the effects o f corn on the
soli.
Considerable plant food,
espe
d a lly nitrogen. Is removed from the
soli by corn, w hile a lfa lfa or clover
gathers a great deal o f nitrogen from
the a ir and places It back In the soil.
W la c n
H o r n e « A r e In C o n d itio n .
A bright, clear eye. a b rilliant coat,
high spirit and mettle, are good signs
o f iierfect condition In the horse. To
this might be added sufficient flesh thor­
oughly to “round him out,” but
not
enough to Interfere In the slightest de­
gree with hls natural action, which on
no account must be impeded.
In trim m ing trees the wound made
oy cutting off a lim b
close to ihe
trunk w ill soon heal over, w h ile the
wound m ade by cutting off the lim b
two or three Inches from the trunk
to decay and sometime, causes
the ultim ate loss o f the tree Itself.
S aw du st
aa
F u r l.
Sawdust Is turned Into transportable
fuel In Germ any by a very simple pro­
cess.
It Is heated under high steam
pressure until the resinous Ingredients
become sticky, when It Is pressed Into
bricks.
Q n l c k * G r o w l i i « S re d .
"M y motto,” said the obese pa
A turnip seed Increases
Its
own
w ith the multi-colored tie, "la. T h e re 's
weight fifteen times In s minute. On
alw a ys room st the top.’ "
l>est grounds turnips have been found
"W h a t 's your line?” asked the hard­
to Increase by grow th 15,909 times the
w a re drummer.
weight o f their seed eact^day they stood
“ I m anufacture a h air touIV* ex­
upon the soU
plained tha hsavywalghs.
V e la *
of
lla m a ..
1. Hum us Is decaying vegetable m at
ter In the toll.
2. It la the storehouse of nitrogen,
the most expensive and the must net*
eaaary of all plant foods.
3. It contains the food npon which
the soil organism s live, whose func­
tion Is to convert organic nitrogen into
nitrates In order to be available for
the use o f plants.
It m aterially as­
sists In decomposing the m ineral con­
stituents o f the toll, such as potash
and phosphoric a d d ,
making
them
available fo r the use o f plants.
4.
It Increases the power o f the
soil to hold w a ter without becoming
water-logged.
5.
It makes clay soil more open
and friable.
It serves to
compact
sandy soli and Increases Its drouth-re­
sisting power.
<1. It prevents w ashing to a great
extent: thereby dim inishing the loss of
fertility by thnt cause.
7. Soil filled with humus more read ­
ily admits the a ir bo necessary to all
useful plnnt growth.
8.
T here appears to be a distinct
relationship between the amount o f hu­
mus In the soil and the amount of
available nitrogen therein. It has been
observed that when It la absent from
the soil there Is a distinct reduction
o f the ability of that soil
to grow
crops.
Hence In practice In order to
obtain the best crops w e have to re­
sort to barnyard manure rather than
the use of concentrated fertilisers.—
R u ral W orld.
G r a d ln f
A p p t ...
Some apple grow ers have been using
the grading board shown In the fig­
ure.
A common board or piece of
pasteboard la hung
up
before
the
wiper.
In this board holes are cut
the size of various tiers, auch as three,
three and on e-balf and four tier, eta
A s the applet are wiped they are prop-
erly tiered.
T h e advantage o f this
method la that the packera have the
apples practically graded and can do
O U IE T
Lira.
N t p h U n g . l c . mart F o w l
I'o u u tr y
mm
"i** - ,
of fear, and howling for mercy.
rl A » 1 m W ( ^ /\
MH * ’| gone,” Kara said, ruefully, gaz­
ing after the fugitive. “ W e have nothing
to go after him with.“
“ I ’m well nigh gone myself,” said the
policeman, mopping up the blood from his
stab, which was more painful than dan­
gerous. “He has given me a nasty prod.”
“ Never mind, my friend, yon shall 10 1
bo the loser. Get up”— this to Williams,
who was still writhing himself into the
most extraordinary attitudes.
“Oh, please, Mr. Girdlestone,” he cried,
clutching at Ezra's boots with his long,
thin fingers, “ it wasn’t me that bit you.
It was Mr. Burt.
I had nothing to do
with robbing you, either. That was Mr.
C o n v e n ie n t H a r r o w .
Farintosh.
I wouldn't have gone with
A fter working several years among
him only I knew that he was a clergy mu it.
s o l e x a c t e d ! » hannT I a ilu rp 'r'iie d at
■tump«, g ru b , and young or-
you, M r. Farintoeh, I really am. I ’m very chards. I learned I needed a special
h arrow
fo r the
glad that Mr. Girdlestone has shot you.”
The ex-parson was sitting with his back
work.
1 could
against a gnarled stump, which gave him
find none to suit
some support. He had his hand to his
m e ; so studied
chest, and as he breathed a ghastly whist­
and planned and
ling sound came from the wound, and
made one l a s t
spurts of blood rushed from his mouth.
spring,
which
His glazed eyes were fixed upon the man
does even better
who had shot him, and a curious smile j
GOOD H ARRO W
than 1 expected.
played about his thin lips.
“ Come here, Mr. Girdlestone,” he croak­ The cut w ill to some extent explain
how it Is made. I made mine o f oak
ed, “come here.”
Ezra strode over to him with a face timber 2V4 Inches by 3*4 inches, 4 feet
as inexorable as fate.
| long and G feet 3 Inches wide.
It Is
“ You’ve done for me,” said Farintosh composed o f a middle section and two
faintly.
“ It’s a queer end for the best w in g^ the latter fastened to the mid­
man of his year at Trinity master of
8eC(iOIi by % 1 q C| i bolts 8*4 inches
arts, .lr, and Jackson.an priaeman. Not ,
ou ffb|r|| tb
w„
fo]d
much worth now, is it?
W h o d have
?
..
.
thought then that I should hare died lik.
T he
» * re
over
a dog in thi. wilderness?
W h a fs tho ,ho harrow * » that tb*J * re 0 " lphea or
odds how a man dies, though? If I had t“ ‘<™ «l>*<’t. a '» l yet n it every 3 Inches,
kept myself straight I should hava gona and are placed in tho h arrow sloping
off a few years later In a feather bed a* back, about 20 to 25 degrees from a
the Dean of St. Patrick’s maybe. W het perpendicular. They cut Just as well
will that matter? I’ve enjoyed m y s e lf - and do not catch ua If placed In per-
the dying man', eyea glistened at tha pendiculur, and are easier on man and
thought of past dissipations. " I f I had taam
, hnTa heddlea to the middle
my time to do over again," ha continued. |
of mln, and a rope froIU each
I ’d enjoy myself the same way.
I ’m
heddle to the outside corner o f each
not penitent, sir. No deathbed sniveling
wing, ao aa to lift It conveniently and
about me, or short cuts into heaven.
I can pass readily between
That’s not what I wanted to say, though. quickly.
I have a choking in the throat, but I dare­ trees or stumps leas than 3 feet apart.
say you can hear what I am driving at. It la Juat the thing for orchards and
You met a man driving towards Jacob*- rough ground, w hile on clean smooth
ground It w orks Just ns w ell as any
dal, did you not?”
Eara nodded sullenly.
other smoothing h arrow .— A. J. Dm
“ You didn’t speak to him? Too busy holts.
trying to catch yours truly, eh? W ill you
C h e e s e U n d e r F a ls e C o lo r s .
have your stones back, for they are in the
According to a recent consular re­
bag by my side, but they’ll not be very
much good to you. The little spec won't port about 2,000 Imported empty Ca-
come off this time. You don’t know what membert cheese boxes, bearing
the
the news was that the man was bring­ names o f well-known French cheeses,
ing r
were Imported at N ew York on one
A vague feeling of Impending mlsfor-
steamer recently. D uty had to be paid
tune stole over Ezra. H e shook hls head.
on the printed matter on their 2,000
“ H is news was,” said Farintosh, lean­
ing up upon his hand, “ that fresh dia­ labels and another duty on the Import­
According to a N ew York
mond fields have Been discovered at Ja- ed boxes.
gcrafontcin, in the Orange Free State trade Journal, these boxes are distrib­
So Russia or no Russia, stones will not uted- In N ew York State, filled and sold
rise. H a ! h a ! will not rise. Look at U!s In this country, and represented as
face!
It’s whiter than mine. H a l 1 m ! being m ade abroad.
It Is said that
h a !“
W ith the laugh upon hls lips, a many dealers claim that their domestic
great flow of blood stopped the clergy­
cheeses when put up In the Imported
man’s utterance, and he rolled slowly over
boxes, can not be told from the Import­
upon his side, a dead man.
ed brands except by experts.
(T o be continued.)
A C C ID E N T F A K IB S .
LONDON FO B A
Too
M ake
N oisy.
I T here la only one spot on earth w h en
, the Jaded spirit, w eary of the rush and
noise and hustle of modern life, can
find true peace and perfect quiet. It la
known aa London Town.
W h at with
cows, dogs, poultry, motor cars
and
nightingales the country nowadays la
such an uproarious pandemonium that
only a d e a f man or an artillerist can
live there In comfort, aaya the London
D aily News.
Such w ere the arguments which Dt.
Robinson, town clerk o f Shoreditch, a d ­
vanced when O. 8. D. M u rray conclud­
ed bis Inquiry on behalf uf the charity
commissioners Into the application of
the Ironm ongers' company to remove
their almshouses from K lngslund road,
, Shoreditch.
It has been suggested. Dr. Robinson
■aid, that tbs old ladles In tha alma-
j houses w ere disturbed by the nolae In
tha district, but probably the alts w as
alw a ys noisy.
T he coaches going to
I York In the old days made quite aa
much noise as any London county coun­
cil tram car did to-day. I f the old la-
! dies thought they were going ^o escape
noise by removing to the country they
1 would be bitterly disappointed.
H e lived In the country him self and
he w as often awakened at 1 o’clock In
the morning by the passing o f an old
wheezing, croaking motor ear belong-
j lug to his m ajesty’s postofliee. I f peo­
ple wanted to know w h at dust aud
noise and stink meant, let them go Into
the country, where there w as no po­
lice commissioner to stop motor omni­
buses from carrying on their Infernal
traffic.
T o take only one night of hls life,
there w as a corncrake rasping outside
hls door till 10 o’clock. Then he w as
awakened by a
nightingale—«
bird
which made music fo r a quarter o f an
hour, but became troublesome when It
sung for two hours. W hen that ceased
s cow began bellowing and then a dog
heard the
local
policeman
w alking
down the street end barked for a «
hour. A t d aw n the birds began again.
London w as the one place where p»s-
pie could get rest from euch noise«.
j
There are forty-five
ties Jn N ew York City.
medical
so d *.
"A m erican b u tter' la the name given
In Syria to oleomargarine.
An Iow a mau hue Invented a m a­
chine for paraffining butter tuba and
boxee
much more work In a day, and after
the first h alf d ay the w ipers can usu­
ally accomplish fully ng much as with
the old method.— D enver Farm .
N itra te .
T he estimated value o f d airy prod
acta for 1007 w as $800.000.000, and that
of poultry $000,000,000.
Rears are liable to taxation In some
Japanese v illa g e «
T he origin o f this
curious custom la unknown.
In pnrcbaslng nitrate o f soda, the
T he paper caps used on milk bottles
most quickly avallnble source o f nitro­ are made a t the rate of 000,000 a day,
gen for plants, buyers should Bteer and one man operatea fire m achine«
clear o f low grad e nitrate. T h e more
Im ports Into C anada In 1907 (esti­
usual adulterants are common salt, and m ated) from the United States w ill
salt cake from the m anufacture of : amount to $1G5,000,000, against
only
acids, both worthless ns fertilizers and , $78,000,000 from G reat Britain.
containing no plant food.
N itrate of
C an ada’s government revenue from
soda now cornea In original bags, which
! A ll sources this year w i l l be more than
now contain about 200 pounds.
The
$100,000,000. In the first seven months
old 310-pound bag w as very clumsy.
the customs receipts Increased $0,500,-
W a te r in g
th e H o ra e.
A successful horse raiser sa y s: "1
count the sw allow s my horses
take
while drinking a pailful.
Some take
larger sw allow s than others, but I know
them uii. I f I urn out on the road and
come to a trough, I get oat an d count
while my horse drinks, so that he will
not take too much at once. I give watet
often, and ao keep my horses free from
bowel trouble caused by overdrinking."
W ood
A «h e s .
It Is seldom that a farm er can ac­
cumulate a sufficient amount o f wood
ashes fo r a large field, but on farm s
where wood Is used there It a limited
supply which can be put to good us«
on the garden or on the young clover.
Ashes are excellent al^o on all grass
lauds and In o rc h a rd «
T hey are ap­
plied broadcast. In any quantity de­
sired. as many as 100 bushels per acre
having been used on certain s o il«
M a k in g S w a m p L a n d T illa b le .
A drainage ditch twenty-four and
one-quarter miles long that w ill drain
85,000 acres o f Iow a land Is fairly
tinder w ay in Monona and H arrison
O op n tle«
It w ill coat about $750,000,
and w ill empty Into the Missouri River
just a little above the town o f Little
Slonx. The sw am p land reblalmed will
make some of the most valuable farm
land In the State.
000 .
A few dayB ago D av id Plngroe, of
Salem. Mass., bought several hundred
thousand acres of the ‘‘w ild lauds” of
Maine, thereby becoming possessor of a
tract o f land larger than the entire
State o f Rhode Island. It Is the best
hunting ground In the eastern part o f
the United States.
A cosmopolitan citizen says that the
foreigners, artists, philanthropists, edi­
tors, scientists and sociologists who go
to N ew Y ork City to study Am erica
are likely to be led into all aorta of
errors if they confine their studies and
observations to the metropolis, fo r N ew
York City Is less typical o f Am erica
than any other part o f the country.
T he linen Industry Is the greatest
m anufacturing Industry Irelan d
pos­
sesses. T h ere la Invested In It some­
thing like fifteen and a h n'f million
p ou n d « and It give* employment to
70,000 people. It la a matter for much
uneasiness that year « R e r year for a
considerable time has m
arked a decline
ntor
in the area under flag In I r e la n d .^
Northern W hig.
F ew people w ill have had the cour­
age to sit dow n thirteen at table for the
greetings o f a new year. But flve-and-
flfty years ago L ord R oberts w as one
o f thirteen who sat d ow n to dinner on
N e w Y e a r's day at Pesh aw ar. Eleven
years later— though most o f them had
been through the Indian mutiny and
( a r e fo r H oop.
h alf o f them had been wounded— they
A recommended roup cure fo r chick­ were a ll alive. A n d L o rd Roberta Is
ens Is to take two parts sweet oil, still very much alive.— London Chron­
one part gum camphor, one p art tur- icle.
licntlne. T o each ounce o f this m ixture
T h a c k e r a y * . P o e t.,
add ten grains menthol and one tea-
T h ackeray's
favorite poets
w ere
spoonful listerine. Take a small drop
syringe or oil ran and pnt this remedy Goldsm ith and the “sweet lyric sing­
Into the roof o f the mouth and in tbs e r « ” Prior, whom he thought the easi­
est, the richest, the most charm ingly
nostrils twice a day.
hnmorous o f English lyrical p o e t« and
F a rm
X o te «.
Gay, the force of whose simple melody
M any orchardlsta make a great m l» and artless ringing laughter he appre­
ciated.
He
adm ired
Pope, to o; but
take planting trees too deep.
Hogging down corn has a great deal w h ile adm itting M ilton's greatness,
In Its favor, but the bogging process thought him “auch a bore that no one
should be finished before heavy snows ( could re ad him.” It ts not surprising,
therefore, that Th ackeray never es­
come.
at
The advantage o f testing each e ar o» sayed the "b ig bow -w ow kind”
seed corn separately la that nearly all poetry.
I
the poor seed can be thrown o u t
If
only one e ar In each bnsbel la found ts
be i m p * - * » * U w ill pay to do the tea»
is »
W hen your ship comes In. If you a r*
like most people, lnstesd o f being
thankful, you w ill find fa u lt w ith thg
captain fo r the delay.
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