Cottage Grove leader., May 15, 1908, Image 6

I this «treary abo«le? She knew Ezra well, but It waa a useless attempt. Tier 1!p*
aud was sure that he was not a man to trembled, her eye* filled, and with a cry
alter his way* of life or suffer dia«-omfort of grief and despair which might have
of any kind without »«»uie very definite ob­ moved a wild beast, she fled to her room,
ject. It si-emed to her that this was a aud, throwing herself upon her bed. burst
new in*wh iu the net which was being I into such scalding tears as few women
are ever called upon to shed
1 drawn round her.
Wheu her guardian had left the room
Kate uske«l Mrs. Jorrock* for a sheet of
C H A P T E R X V I.
“ Boy In Black Hand Peril,” »ays tne
I mi per. The crone «hook her head aud
It would be impossible to describe th*
headlines. Never knew one that was
i wagged her pendulous lip in derision.
suspense in which Tom Dimsdale lived
“ Mister Girdlestone thought as you during these weeks. In vain he tried in
not.
would
be
after
that."
she
said.
"There
every manner to find some way of tracing
The extension o f the higher education
(Setting out o f bed In the morning for women ha& been so rapid that a
! ain’t no pai>er here, nor pens, neither, nor the fugitives.
He wandered aimlessly
ink. neither.”
about Ixjndon from one inquiry office to
la often the hardest part oC a day’» college course is now virtu ally as open
K a k t n v B a l t e r o n th e F a r m .
“ What, none! Dear Mrs. Jorrooks. do auother, telling his story and appealing
work.
to girls as to boys. T h irty year* ago a
There are two prime essentials In
have pity on me, and get me a sheet, how­ for assistance. lie advertised in papers
girl who was studying Greek or trigo­
making
butter on the farm a profitable
ever old and soiled. See. here is some and cross-questionetl every one who might
There are lawyers In Congress who
nometry was a sort o f natural curiosity.
A. C O N A N DOYLE
silver!
You are very welcome to it if know anything of the matter.
There business. In the first place, one must
will continue to sacrifice their business
Now out o f forty-six June graduates o f
you will give me the material* for writing wire none, however, who could help him. have plenty o f pure, cold water, and
for $7,500 a year.
the Boston G irls’ Latin School, forty-
one letter.”
or throw any light upon the mystery. No then a good enough grade must be
one are going to college, and they w ill
Mrs. Jorrooks looked longingly with one at the offi«*e knew anything of the turned out to make and hold custom­
“ Miss Helen Could is closing up some
he- bleared eyes at the few shillings which movements of the senior partner. T o all ers. The trouble with nine out o f every
find there two-thirds o f their friends.
of her favorite charities." Why doesn’t
the girl held out to her. but she shook her inquiries Ezra replied thfct he had been
At a certain table In the dining-room
teu farm homes Is they are not equipped
she begin with some she doesn’t like so
head. “ I duran’ t do it,” she said. “ It’s ordered by the doctors to seek complete
o f an ocean steamer there were recently
C H A P T E R X V.
to take care o f milk and cream. When
much?
repose in the country.
When supper was over the crone, who as much as my place is worth."
assembled, by mere chance, seven wom­
to
make
"Then I shall walk down to Bedaworth
His father became seriously anxioui one goes into this work
was addressed by GiriHestone as Jorrooks,
en
belonging
to
four
different
parties.
As to the startling rumor that the
myself,” said Kate angrily. “ 1 have no about the young fellow’s health. He ate money, better put up a milk room,
led
the
way
upstairs
and
showed
Kate
where pure water may be had from
north pole is moviug southward, in O f these seven women, six were college
to her room. I f the furniture of the din­ doubt that the people in the postoffice wilj nothing, and his sleep was much broken.
Both the old people tried to inculcate pa­ pumping or from a spring. Concrete
what other direction could It possibly graduates, and the seventh had entered ing room had been Spartan in Its simplic­ let me sit there and write it.”
Vassar college with its earliest class,
The old hag laugh«»«! hoarsely to her­ tience and moderation.
floor aud walls may now be built as
move?
ity. this was even more so, for there was
and studied there two years. During
"That fellow, Ezra GiriHestone, kpows cheaply as with lumber, and It Is a
nothing in it save a small iron bedstead, self until the scraggy sinews of her with­
W hat Is this country coming to, any­ the voyage they made one another’s ac­ much rusted from want of use, and a high ered neck stood out like whipcord. She where they are,’’ Tom would cry, striding great deal bett«»r than lumber. Don’t
way? Down at Washington somebody quaintance, and compared experiences, wooden box on which stood the simplest was still chuckling and coughing when the wildly up and down the room with un- stop here. A barrel churn and a butter
k< nipt hair and clenched hands. “ I will maker w ill be necessary In turning out
has accused postmasters o f not earning which covered a wide range, from this toilet rei]uisites. In spite of the poverty merchant caine hack into the room.
“ What then?” he asked sternly, looking have his secret, if 1 have to tear it out
time o f carefully
arranged, uniform of the apartment Kate had never been
their salaries.
a uniform product.
It looks easy—
from
one
to
the
other.
lie
was
himself
of
him."
written entrance examinations for wom­ more glad to enter her luxurious chamber
simply separating the cream, churning
constitutionally
averse
to
merriment,
and
"Steady,
lad.
steady!”
the
«ioctor
re­
A war cloud has appeared over Cen­ en’s colleges, held each year at stated at home. The little carpetless room waa h* was irritated by it in others. “ Why
plied to one of these outbursts. "There ttll the butter comes, and salting, and
tral America, this being the regular times In scores o f towns all over the a haven of rest where she would be left, are you laughing, Mrs. Jorrixks?”
is nothing to he gained by violence. They the trick is done. T h a t Is where st>
time, according to the schedule fo r a land, backward to the day when the for one night at least, to her own
“ I was a-laughing at her,” the woman are on the right side of the law at pres­ many fail. The cream must be churned
thoughts. As she lay in bed, however, she
candidates for admission to the first
war cloud to appear there.
could hear far away the subdued murmur wheezed, pointing with tremulous fingers. ent and you will be on the wrong if you at the right tem perature; It must be
"She
was askin’ me for paper, and sa'yin’ do anything rash. The girl could have neither t«>o sweet nor too sour. W ork­
class at Vassar college, gathered In one of Girdlestone’8 voice and the shrill tones
I f Evelyn can have her name changed room, answered In concert questions In of the old woman. They were in deep a* she would go and write a letter at the written if she were uncomfortable.”
ing and salting butter to secure uni­
"Ah, so she could. She must have for­ form color and flavor Is a very nice art.
back to Nesbit she will, to that extent Latin and mathematics and history. and animated converse. Though they were Bedaworth postoffice."
"You
must
understand
once
for
all,"
gotten
us.
Ilow
could
she,
after
all
that
at least, earn our thanks ns a people Getting into college forty years ago too far distant for her to distinguish a
Don’t try to learn to do It infallibly
Girdlestone roared, turning savagely upon has passed?"
for lessening the number o f Thaws.
was easier than It Is now. so fa r as word, something told her that their talk
In two or three weeks, but by all means
the girl, “ that you are cut off entirely
"L
e
t
us
hope
for
the
best,
let
us
hope
was
about
herself,
and
the
same
instinct
Intellectual requirements were concern­
from the outer world. I shall give you no for the best," the doctor would say sooth­ don’t practice on your customers. That
assured
her
that
it
boded
her
little
good.
Probably Kaiser Wilhelm has mil ed. But It took moral courage o f a high
means loss. It Is better to w ait tw o or
When Kate awoke in the morning it loophole which you may utilize to con­ ingly. Yet it must be confessed that he
lions o f loyal subjects who would be order to break away from all traditions
tinue your intimacy with undesirable peo­ was considerably staggered by the turn three months before you seek custom­
was
some
little
time
before
she
could
re­
w illing to take his Job and try to wor­ o f a society which
regarded a blue­
Anil, lx»f«>re you ship, find out
alize where she was, or recall the events ple. I have given orders that you should which things had taken. He had seen so ers.
ry along uncomplainingly ou $4,000,000 stocking as both tiresome and danger­
which had made such a sudden change in not be provided with either paper or ink." much of the world iu his professional ca­ how your commission man or private
a year.
Poor Kate’s last hoi>e seemed to be fad­ pacity that he had become a very reliable customers prefer to have their butter
ous, and restricted feminine acquire­ her life. The small window of her apart­
ments to enough arithmetic fo r keeping ment was covered by a dirty muslin blind. ing away. Her heart sank within her, judge of character. A ll his instincts told I put up. Sometimes the pneknge means
Secretary Straus Is fostering the ex
the household accounts, and enough She rose, aud, drawing it aside, looked but she kept a brave face, for she did not him that Kate llnrtson was a true-heart­ . a difference o f two or three cents a
port o f one article In which a balance French to read “ Corinne.” But the new eagerly out. From what she had seen wish him to see how his words had strick­ ed and well-principled girl. It was not in pound.
en her. She had a desperate plan in her
o f trade favorable to the United States
generation will have to beware lest, the night before she had hoped that this head, which would be more likely to be her nature to leave London and never to
Is exceedingly Important and has never
send a single line to her friends to tell
prison
to
which
she
had
been
conveyed
A n A ttra c tiv e G n tew ay.
while many new regions are open to
might make amends for its loneliness by successful could she hut put him off his them where or why she had gone. There
existed. This article Is anarchists.
This rustic gateway, which was built
them, the old gracious fields and pas­
guard.
must, he was sure, be some good reason at a small cost, may lie worth Imitating,
some degree of natural beauty. The scene
tures fall Into neglect. It was not well
She spent the morning in her own little foi her silence, and this reason resolved
which now met her eyes soon dispelled
The German emperor hints that he
In the old days that a woman should any expectations of the sort. The avenue room. About one o’clock she heard the itself into one of two things— either she modifli*d, o f course, to fit the surround­
would like to have Ills salary as K ing
ings. This one is
have a heart and a conscience, but no with its trees lay on the other side of the clatter o f hoofs and the sound of wheels was ill and unable to hold a pen, or she
of Prussia Increased; but there seems
between two cedar
head to rule the one or to enlighten the house. From her window nothing was on the drive. Going down she found that had lost her freedom and was restrained
to be no probability that he will go on
trees, an«! from It
other. It would be even worse If the visible but a dreary expanse of bogland it was a cart which had come from Beds- from writing to them. The last suppo­
strike In case his demand Is refused.
a
winding
path
day should come when she had a head and mudbanks, stretching down to the sea. worth with furniture. There were car­ sition seemed to the doctor to be the more
leads to a pretty
without a heart to quicken It or a con­ At high tide this enormous waste of pets, a chest of drawers, tables, and sev­ serious of the two.
Up to date It is estimated that Count
eral
other
articles,
which
the
driver
pro-
dreariness and filth was covered by the
rustic
cottage.
Had he known the instability o f tht>
science to restrain It.
Boni de Castellane lias set the Gould
water, bur at present it lay before her in ceedtnl to carry upstairs, helped by John Girdlestone firm, an«l the necessity they
Such a gate would
fam ily back about $.1,000,000. Consid­
all its naked hideousnesss, the very type Girdlestone. The old woman was in the were under of getting ready money, he
be entirely out of
FO R B E A U T IF U L C IT Y Y A R D S .
of dullness and of «lesolation. Here and upper room. It seeiue«! to Kate that she would* at once have held the key to the
ered as an Investment, Count Bonl Is
place at the en
might
never
again
have
such
an
opportu­
there
a
few
scattered
reeds,
or
an
un­
the most unprofitable one the Goulds
enigma. He had no idea o f that, but in
trance to a stately
A r t o f L a n d n c a p e G a r d e n in g N o t'Y e t
healthy greenish scum upon the mud, gave nity of carrying out the resolve which she spite of his ignorance he was de«»ply dis­
ever made.
or formal building.
F u lly A p p re c ia te d in A m e ric a .
B U S TIC GATE.
a touch of color to the scene, but for the had formed. She put on her bonnet and trustful of both father and son. He knew
The cuts give an
It Is commonly assumed that land­ most part the great plain was all of the began to stroll listlessly about in front and had often deplored the clause in John
Ships a thousand feet long are prom­
Idea as to how the gate Is made. The
ised yrlthln a few years. A firm of scape gardening has to do only with seme somber mud tint, with its monot­ of the door, picking a few straggling Harston’s will by which the ward’s money
leaves from the neglected lawn. Gradually reverted to the guardian. Forty thousand two uprights and the cross-piece on the
Irish ship-builders Is making prepara­ large areas; that you cannot afford to ony broken only by the white flecks where
th* swarms of gulls and kittiewakes had she sauntered away in this manner to the pounds was a bait which might tempt top are o f locust. A ll the rest Is of
tions to lay the keel o f such a vessel engage a first-class landscape designer
eedar. Parts o f the smaller branches
settled in the hope of picking up what­ head of the avenue, and then taking one even a wealthy man into crooked paths.
next year.
The biggest ships now fo r a city lot, and that there is no sense ever had been left by the receding tide. swift, timid glance around, she slipped in
have been left on the pieces that go to
(T o be continued.)
in
spending
more
than
$100
on
a
back
ailoat are less than eight hundred
Away across the broad surface a line of among the trees, and made the best of her
fill up tjie gate. A gateway like this
yard,
says
a
w
riter
In
Country
L
ife
In
feet long.
sparkling foam marked the fringe of the way, half-walking, half-running, down the
would not prove effective against pigs
T
H
E
Y
R
E
G
U
L
A
T
E
T
H
E
C
L
IM
A
T
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.
America.
ocean, which stretched away to the hori­ dark winding drive.
or chickens, blit would turn larger ani­
On the contrary, I maintain that 5 zon.
“ Southern women,“ says John
D.
Oh, the joy of the moment when the M a r v e l o u s M a c h i n e * B e l o w G r o u n d mals. It is not only cheap and dur­
Rockefeller, “ are the handsomest In per cent o f the entire cost o f a house
A mile or two to the eastward of her great white house which had already be­
in th e («ren t M e tr o p o lita n H o tel*.
able. but decidedly attractive, because
the world.” * John I). proposes to spend and lot ought to be spent on the Kate saw some sign of houses, and a blue come so hateful to her was obscured
A ll the modern hotel buildings In
among
the
trees
behind
h
er!
She
had
grounds,
and
I
believe
that
you
cannot
most o f his time in the South after
stroke which flickered up into the air.
New York have marvelous subterranean
this, and It appears that In addition have an appropriate graden for less. This she guessed to he the fishing village some idea of the road which she had trav­ departments, says the Hrondwny Maga­
to the ability he has as a financier he O f course, you can get a lot 100 by 150 of Lea Claxton, which the driver had ersed the night before. Behind her were zine. The rooms In all o f them nowa­
In front the avenue
She felt all her troubles.
feet planned and plunted for $100 by mentioned the night before.
Is a good deal o f a diplomat.
gate, Bedsworth and freedom. She would days are cleaned by pneumatic flexible
a first-class nursery that has a land­ as she gazed at the little hamlet, and the
send both a telegram and a letter to I)r. pljies attached to an outlet found ill
In a case In which a suit for damages scape department, and the effect may masts o f the boats' in front of it, that she Dimsdale, and explain to him her exact
every room or hall and connecting by
was not alone in the world, and that even
was brought against u corporation for be neat and pleasing, but your garden
situation.
I f the kind-hearted and ener­ u series o f pipes with vacuum pumps,
in this strange and desolate place there
It Is not were honest hearts to whom as a last re­ getic physician once knew of it. lie would
negligence resulting In the death o f a will not have personality.
which suck the impurities to the base­
child, a New York Jury determined enough that a place shall respect the source she could appeal.
take care that no harm befell her. She
ment, where they are properly disposed
u|»n Its verdict by tossing up a coin. laws o f landscape art and have plenty
She was still standing at the window could return then, aud face with a light of.
For this travesty o f the duties o f Judg­ >f flowers throughout the season. It when there came a knocking at the door, heart the worst which her guardian could
it is In the underground hotel world,
Here was the avenue *»n-
ment Imposed on them the Judge fined ought to be dominated by the spirit and she heard the voice of the old woman do to her.
too, that a step has been taken toward
the jurors fifty dollars each.
>f a cultured personality, so that your asking if she were awake. “ Breakfast trnnee now, the high lichen-eaten stone
pillars, with the battered device upon the the goal which H ow ell's “ T raveler from so perfectly in harmony with Its sur­
Isitors shall exclaim, “ W hat an alto­ is ready," she said, “ and the master is a-
top. The iron gate between was open. A ltru rln " long ago saw as attainable—
wondering why you bean’t down."
roundings.— E. E. Miller, iu Farm and
gether
lovely
garden
!
And
isn’t
it
just
It Is a fine bit o f chivalrous senti­
On this summons Kate hastened her With a glad cry she quickened her pace, the regulation o f the temperature, the Home.
ment which leads President Roosevelt like Its o w n e r!”
and
in
anqther
moment
would
have
been
toilet and made her way down the old
control o f the climate. In the basement
No m atter how cultured your person
to decide that the next new battle
winding stair to the room in which they in the high road, when-----
C ' o l o r o f H*rix* a n A * * e t .
stories o f these new palaces for tran­
“ Now then, where are you a-«'omin*
ship In the United States navy shall lx* ality may be you cannot express that had supped the night before. Surely Gir­
One o f the most potent factors, per­
sients you may see the thing in its ini­
named the "F orkla.”
Young Senator personality perfectly through the ine- dlestone must have had a heart of flint to?" cried a gruff voice from among the
tial operation H ere is a net work o f haps, that should be considered when
Bryan roqnrstwl this action a few days iium o f trees anil shrubs aud flowers not to be melted by the sight of that fair, bushes which flanked the gate.
coils and ducts, and beyond them the selecting a breed for producing eggs
The
girl
stopp<*<7
all
in
a
tremble.
In
before his fatal Illness, and the Presi­ unless you have given years o f study fresh face. 11 is f«*ntures set as hard as
the shallow of the trees there was a camp mouth o f a giant air shaft. From 4d0 for market Is the demand o f the mar­
dent could have found no more fitting to these materials o f landscape art and adamant as she entered the room, and he
stool, and on the camp stool sat a sav­ above the surface o f the street, high ket at which the eggs nre to he dis­
way In which to honor the memory of to the art Itself. Landscape gardening looked at her with eyes which were puck­ age looking man, dressed in a dark cor­
high alHive the dust nnd the germ line, posed of, says The Outing Magazine.
is the eighth o f the fine arts, differing ered and angry.
his brief career at Washington.
duroy suit, with a blackened clay pipe the air Is forced into that shaft. On the Some markets, notably New York City
“ You are late,” he said coldly. “ You
from the classical seven only in pre­
stuck in the corner of his mouth. His way down It encounters a room full o f and cities Immediately adjacent, pre­
must remember that you are not in Eccle-
Boys all over the country will envy senting the actual living things, where­ ston square. You are here to be disci­ weather-beaten mahogany face was plen­
Iron colls filled with a freezing brine. fer white-shelled eggs, and the best
as
the
others
represent
life.
There
Is
tifully covered with smallpox markR. and
the pupils o f a n«‘ w school that has
plined, and disciplined you shall be."
This icy stream runs steadily. Its tem­ trade In these markets w ill accept none
one
of
his
eyes
was
sightless
and
white
no
short
cut
to
the
fine
arts.
The
only
other. Boston prefers brown eggs, and
been opened In New York. The teacher
“ I am sorry," she answered. “ I think
from the effects of the same disease. He perature maintained by the ammonia pays a substantial premium for th em ;
Is the clown o f a large variety theater, wnv In which you can express your I must have been tire«l by our journey."
refrigeratin
g
plnnt.
which
Is
also
the
rose
now,
and
interposed
himself
between
and, taking the country over, the pref­
The vast room looked even more com­
who teaches professional clowning to personality perfectly In any o f these
center o f the hotel's cold-storage sys­
her and the gate.
bright boj's ami girls who are ready to urts Is to get a great artist to help you. fortless and bleak than on the preceding
"M y good man." she said in a trembling tem. Illown through these frigid colls, erence Is for brown eggs by a large
majority. However. In many markets
study hard. Tw o hundred and fifty That way always comes high, and It evening. On the table was a plate of ham voi«*e, for his appoarani'e was far from
the Iilr is then sifted through filtering
and eggs. John GiriHestone served out a
children are enrolled. The clown Is so ought to.
n assuring, “ I wish to go past and to get screens o f very line cheesecloth, nrrntig- uo preference at all is expressed; in
The reason wby American gardening portion, and pushed it in her direction. to Bedsworth. Here is a shilling, and I
fact, those just mentioned are practic­
busy that he has to conduct his school
od in racks which form a continuous V-
She sat down on one of the rough wooden
ally the only markets in which the
bi»g that you will not detain me.”
by lorreapondeiuv. hut he expects to has not yet come up to the standard
chairs and ale listlessly, wondering how
slinpcd
series.
These
the
air
strikes
Her companion stretched ou a very
color of the egg receives attention to
have a “ graduation" and Addrcsa the >f the Euroj>ean is simply that we do ail this was going to end.
dirty hand, took the coin, spun it up obliquely and rims chilled and purified the extent o f Influencing pri«*es. Where
successful pupils. Meanwhile amateur not pay enough. W e employ Incompetent
After breakfast Girdlestone ordered the
is conducted through large closed canals
there is a preference, and whichever
clowning thrives In all the schools of landscape designers or none; we boat old woman out of the room, ami, standing in the air, caught it, bit it. and finally
plunged it into the depths of his trouser Into smaller ones. Thence It Is fanned
the nurseryman down on his plan s; we
the world.
in front of the fire with his long legs ¡HM'kets. "N o road this way. missy," he to the floors above, being there admit­ the preference Is, one should keep a va­
are not w illin g to pay a first-class gar­ apart and his hands behind his back, he
riety o f fow ls that lay eggs o f the pre­
said. " I ’ve given my word to the guv’- ted to the rooms. On the roof o f the
Employers’ liability, under English dener what he is worth. Yet we are told her in harsh concise language what
ferred color.
nor, and I can’t go hack from it.”
building another fan sucks out the vi­
t*w, is a serious matter.
When n “ «lead gam e" when it comes to yachts, his intentions were.
"You Have no right to detain me,” Kate
M e itM iirln ir I,an «l b y W e i g h t .
tiated air.
workman Is Injured, even if the "a«*- automobiles, horses, dogs and houses.
" I hail long determined,” he said, “ that cried angrily. " I have good friends in
The area of any piece o f land, no
These wonderful floors below
the
cldent" may be parity his own fault, W hy should not our wealthy men be if yov ran counter to my wishes, and per­ London who will make you suffer for
street In nil the new ^.otels. would fill matter how Irregulnr the boundary
ho is entitled to receive a specified sum, equally w illin g to pay for good gar­ sisted in your infatuated affection for that this."
based on his average earnings. I f he dens?
She was only a dozen yards from the the average housewife's heart with w ild lines, may be accurately ascertained by
scapegrace, I should remove you to some
means o f a delicate balance ns follow s:
dies as the result o f hU injury, his de-
I believe they will. These things are secluded spot where you might reconsider lane which led to freedom, so she made admiration and despair. Here are m ar­
(e»ndenti receive as much as he would all parts o f the same outdoor life. The your conduct and form better resolutions a quick little feminine rush in the hope ble floors, here are tiled ceilings nnd Make a draw ing o f the plat o f ground
earn In three years. The question what more self-respect a man has, the more fo*- the future. This country house an­ of avoiding this dreadful sentinel which walls, here nre glass nnd marble tables, on pasteboard to a given scale, say 4
barred her passage. He caught her round here nre galvnnlsed-lron plate warmers, square rods to 1 inch. Cut from mime
an* s man’s earnings was lately de­ he values his fam ily life, and the more swered the purpose admirably, and as an
the waist, however, and hurled her back
wonderful machines for washing nnd part o f the sheet of pasteboard a piece
rided by the English oourt of api>eal. w illin g lie Is to spend as much on his old servant o f mine, Mrs. Jorrooks, chanc­
ed to resi«le in the neighborhood, I had with such violence that she staggered
drying
dishes, other wonderful
ma­ exactly 1 Inch aqua re, which repre­
A waiter In a restaurant car on a rail­ outdoor livin g room as on one o f his
warned her that at any time I might come across the path and would have fallen had
sent» one acre, or 4 square rod». Also
way was actually paid by his employ­ Indoor rooms.
chines
for
keeping
silver
speckles«,
spe­
down and should expect to find things she not struck violently against a tree.
cut out the plat a* drawn. Weigh the
ers twenty-five shillings a week, hut
Kate turned and retraced her steps cial dumb waiters connecting with the
ready. Your rash and heartless conduct
square and the pint. The number o f
T h e T n rrp t H a ttfry ,
he usually received ten or twelve still
has, however, precipitated matters, and slowly and sadly up the avenue. As she dining rooms o f the various private
times the weight o f the nqnare 1» con­
bugs a week more as “ tips." The
Karly in the nineteenth century, in we have arrived before her preparations glance«! back she saw a gaunt, hard-fea­ suites, nil sorts o f fires for all sorts o f
court decided that His tip* were a part 1812, Colonel John Stevens corn'dved were complete. Our future arrangements tured woman trudging up the lane with a work, from charcoal broilers to gas tained in the weight o f the plat Indi­
o f his earning*, although they did not the Idea o f the construction o f an Iron will therefore be less primitive than they tin can in her hand. Lonely and forjorn. 1 »lle rs .
everyth in g Is ns beautifully cate» the area o f the land. For exam­
omne from his employers, who must pay plated venae! o f war with a saucer are at present. Here you shall remain, but not yet quite destitute o f hope, she clean ns Is the operating wards o f the ple, If the nqnare which repreaenta one
turned to the right among the trees, and
acre weighs 20 grain», and the plat
to the dead waiter’* heir one hundred *hai>ed hull, propelled by screw « so a r­ young lady, until you show signs of re- ■
pushed her way through bushes and bram­ best hospitals. The cooks' white uni­ weigh» 240 grains, then the plat con­
and fifty-six times all that he earned In ranged as to give a rotary motion to pentance. and of a willingness to undo
forms
ace
as
shining
ns
the
nurse's
bles
to
the
boundary
of
the
Priory
the harm yon have done.”
tains tw elve acre».— Scientific Am eri­
« week— about fourteen hundred dol­ the structure. The battery was to h»*
“ I f you mean until I i-onsent to marry grounds. It was a lofty wall, at least crisp ones In well-kept wards. A ll this
lars In all.
o f the heaviest ordnance o f the time your son, then I shall live and «lie here,” i nim feet in height, with a coping that is enough to send the average women to can.
bristled with jagge<l pieces o f glass. Kate her home In a mood to regard her own
and the plating heavy enough to resist the girl said bravely.
T hp for«® of W eed*.
In a meeting o f a prominent woman’s the shot o f sim ilar guns at short range
"That rests with yourself. As 1 said j walked along the base o it. her fair skin kitchen ns the lim it o f dirt, disorder,
It is for the conservation o f moisture
club, »mo of the members made a hu­ The main purpose o f the craft was before, you are under diwipline here, and' all torn and bleeding with scratches from inconvenience nnd unhygienic. She.
that we keep up the initiation o f the
morous criticism on the character and harbor defense, and the plan o f sethm you may not find «*xisten«-e sti«*h a bed of the briars, until she sntisfi«*«! herself that poor thing, has no refrigeratin g plnnt: crops in the summer, but the evapora­
there
was
no
break
in
it.
There
was
I
I*»rionnan<'e* of man, who, she said. was to moor the vessel by a chain lead­ r«>se* a* it was in Eivleston square.”
she must take the ice which the tee tion which enn be <*hecked by this
“ Can I have my maid?" Kate asked. " I one small wooden door on the siile which |
Significantly, was created immediately ing down through the bottom o f the
company elects to give her. pure o r Im­ means Is small when compared with
after the brutes. And in Current Liter­ ship at Its center and to spin It around can hardly stay here with no one but the ! was skirted by the railway line, but it |
was locked and impasaabie. The only pure. She or her cook or bor maid the amount o f water taken up from the
ature f«w April titers was a symposium this «-enter, firing gun a fte r gun as it old woman in the house."
“ Rebecca is coming down. I had a tele- | oi«ening through \vhi«‘h a human being must paticntlk wash dishes nnd scour soil by an ordinary growth o f weeds.
by a lot of anonymous philosophers, came In the line o f fire, thus anticipat­
gram from Err* to that effect, and he will | coaid pass was that which was guarded silver nnd mix bread by hand. A visit W e cau hardly estimate the Import­
such as a “atrest ear conductor.’* “ a ten­ ing the later Tlm by turret, which In himself join us for a day or two in each j in the manner she had seen. The sicken­
to this part o f any one o f the great ho­ ance o f killing the weeds.
ement house commissioner,’’ and “ a turn was the germ o f the modern mon­ weak.**
ing convtetion took possession of her mind tels would he likely to convert h alf the
To Cool Ihe M a n u re H eap.
udge"— they were afraid or ashamed to itor arniordad. Such a vessel was ac­
that
without
wings
it
was
an
utter
impos­
"Ezra here!” Kate cried in horror. Her
home-keeping women o f New York to
When manure becomes heated and
give their names— who cheerfully ex­ tually built half a century later by the chief consolation through all her trou­ sibility either to get away or to give the
an
advocacy
o
f
hotel
life.
the odor o f ammonia is noticed there Is
press the opinion that women, as a sex, Russian government ami was a good bles had been that there seemed to be least information to any one in the world
then a loss o f valuable fertilizin g sub­
are wholly destitute of “honor." It is representative o f the first Stevens bat­ some ehnn«*e of getting rid of her terrible as to where she was or what might be­
T
o
n
i
,
n
o
T
i
c
k
T
a
l
k
e
r
s
.
s\» 1 tor.
fall her.
stance— nitrogen. I f the heat Is very
a singular freak of human nature that tery.—Gassier’* Magazine.
H ow many educated people there ara
"And why not?" the old man asked an­
When she came back to the house, tire«!
high force a crowbar down In the heap
whenever a person become* Irritated
who
have
no
more
than
a
peasant's
grily. "A re you so bitter against the lad and disheveled after her journey o f ex­
In several places and pour cold water
by the character or conduct of another
B u d to L e a n On.
as to grudge him the society of hia own ploration, Girdlestone waa standing by vocabulary.
T h ey do not use the
in to reduce the temperature.
person the fault Is ultimately attributed A ll those who borrow have been shown
father?”
the d«x>r to receive her with a sardonic words that « peasant uses, but they
It seldom recompensed them
to the offending person's religion, na­
Kate was saved from further reproaches smile upon his thin lip*. "H o w do you do not Improve upou them. T h ey still
I f the cow Is not by nature s heavy
tionality or sex. This blundering con­ And that *tis hard to stand alons
by the entrance of the old woman to clean like the grounds, then?” he asked, with go on saying. “ Ilo w am using!- "H o w
When there’s a lien against them. -
clusion may be the result of prejudice
fhe table. The last item of intelligence, the nearest approach to hilarity which she lo v e ly !” “Jlow n ice!” to the end o f the and rich milker, all the balanced ra­
tions one can prepare w ill not make her
however, had given her a terrible shock, had ever heard from him. "And the or­
against a certain religion, nationality or — Kansas City Times.
chapter.
Nobody can be Interesting such. So with the hen. She w ill only
aex. or it may be the effect of sheer
There are mighty few people who and at the same time had filled her with namental fencing? and the lodge keeper? who Is alw ays working a limited v r
return for food and attention up to her
astonishment. What eon id the fast-living, How did you like tkem all?” Kate tried
^-U o w ueas and Ignorance. But if It don’t occasionally tell stories.
comfort seeking mao about to w i want In for a moment to make soma brava retort. c a h a la ry .-B ritis h Weekly.
original capacity.
la not the result o f prejudice it Is sure
to beget It. The harsh criticisms o f
women by men ami men by women are
to be viewed in this light. They betray
an utter absence o f close observation
and reasoning.
And where the c riti­
cisms are not Jocose they are to be dep­
recated. as tending to prodiu * wbst are
called “ men haters’’ and "women hat*
era," and to give false Ideas o f life.
i The Firm of
Girdlestone
L a b o r o f tho Horaa.
Rome one has figured out that It costs
on the average only one-half as much
to feed a horse as It does to feed ft
m an ; and thut the horse will do ten
times the amount o f work that It is
possible for the man to do.
I f this
estimate is correct, then a dollar’s
worth o f f«x)d given the h«»rse w ill pro­
duce twenty times as much results as
the same amount o f money w ill If ex-
pendcil In feed for a man. Therefore,
when man domesticated the horse he
immensely Increased his own power of
securing results. When much farm work
Is to be done there should alw ays he
enough horses to do It. Farmers try
to economize on the number o f horses
and have to leave much work undone.
In the event o f hired help being s«*arce.
It Is sometimes possible to offset this
lack by Increasing the number o f horses
kept. In some parts o f the West and
Northwest, declares the Farmers’ Re­
view, the s«*arclty o f help has result'd
In more horses being used. Five are
httehe«] to a double plow, and one d riv­
er Is thus enabled to turn two furrows
at a time ami practically double the
work that one man bus to do. This Is
the result o f the complete utilization o f
horseflesh.
G u id e
f o r D raj*
Saw#.
A very simple method by which one
man can manipulate a drag saw to cut
down trees has been devised by a west­
ern timber man. In
using these saws
two m e n h a v e
heretofore
been
uecessa ry, one a t
each end o f the
saw.
According to the»
new i n v e n t i o n ,
t h e r e Is rested
against a tree a,
rod from which Is
O N E -M A N SA W .
suspended a cord.
At the end o f the cord is an adjust­
able clamp, to which one end o f the
saw Is secured. A t the other end o f
the saw is a handle. In operating the
saw to cut the tree,-the end opposite the
handle Is supported by the cord In the
same position as If operated by hand.
W ith the employment o f this guide tin*
necessity o f an extra man to manage
one end o f the saw is eliminated.
I,on* o f
F e r tility
by
L e ac h ln ff.
Laud kept constantly as a garden
loses much o f its fertility by leaching.
A clover rotation Is the best preventive
o f this. There should be at least tw o
or three garden spots on each farm
kept rich enough so that one year’s ex­
tra manuring will bring It into the
finest possible condition for
garden
truck. I f farmers could alw ays plant
gardens on two-year clover sod they
would raise better crops and with less
stable manure and other
fertilizers
than they now require.
The clover
do<‘8 much more than furnish green
manure to ferm ent In the soil.
Its
roots reach down Into the subsoil, thus
not only saving and bringing to the
surface plant food that would other­
wise be wasted, but also by enlivening
the subsoil, allow ing the roots of crops
to go deeper. Clover si>d to begin with.
If well enriched. Is liest for such crops
as cucumbers and melons, that are al­
ways most likely to suffer from
drought. It is quite impossible to make
a good garden crop unless the land has
previously been enriched by a series o f
heavy manurlngs. The fertility lost by
leaching must he constantly renewed.
A
Feed
C o m b in e.
Feedlqg sheep ami lambs for the
market is very much o f av lottery at
best. It Is the purpose o f the feeder
to buy thin stock and, after feeding it
from sixty to ninety days, return it to
market at a profit. T h is Is the hope
that Impels him to put in his time ami
labor, else he would not do It. There
are three important factors that enter
into the operation. The cost o f the
sheep or lambs on the market, the price
o f the feed that is to make them fat,
and the condition o f the market when
they are returned for slaughter. The
first element is a known quantity, but
the second and third
are often a
chance. They have proved to he very
much o f a chance this season.
The
original cost o f the feeders was the
greatest on record, feed was high and
market conditions have not punned out
as g«K)d as generally expected.— D rov­
ers’ Journal.
Idaho
M an
F in d *
N ew
W h eat.
A new variety o f wheat ha» been dis­
covered by a farm er living near .Juli­
etta, Idaho. He say» he found a few
kernels o f the wheat grow ing wild in
Alaska, and being struck with their
plumpness, hardness and other appar­
ent good qualltie», he brought home a
few kernels and plunted them. From
thoae few kernels he harvested enough
the first year to plant several square
rods o f ground the second year, the
yield from this planting being at the
rate o f more than 100 bushels per
acre, well-filled heads: the kernels are
large, plump and hard and millers say
it makes good flour.
T o Canvas
H aw s.
When hams are smoked, roll them In
stiff paper, cut your brown muslin to
fit them and sew It on with a large
needle and tw in e: then make a starch
at flour and yellow ochre, and with a
small whitewash brush cover them with
It. Hang them np to dry.
P o u ltry
N o te *.
Clenn the droppings from tinder the
roosts frequently.
Buckwheat Is excellent
young nnd old poultry.
for
both
A laying hen should have constant
access to lim e or gravel.
G rit Is the hen's teeth. Provide he»
with plenty o f It, so that she may db
gest her food.
I f you expect the hen to lay freely,
you must feed her the kind o f stud
that w ill make eggs.
Feed only what the hens will eat np
clean. Any kind o f feed left from on*
day to another is apt to start disease.
W atching the Incubator carefully la
the w ay to get the best hatch. A llttla
carelessness Is sure to produce disaa
trous results.
Charcoal or burned corn occasionally
Is a good conditioner for the fo w ls I t
prevents Indigestion and other disease«
to which they a rt heir.