^
creates bis own banger, as the drunk-
srd creates his thirst, snd neither can
be satisfied, even temporarily, except
at s sacrifice. And the more frequently
the victim seeks this satisfaction, the
greater becomes the sacrifice. Health,
hope, honor, one by oua, are offered on
the altar o f the drug, and. Anally, the
miserable life that Is left goes to com
plete the Ansi sacrlAce. Perhaps, after
all, the sacrlAce o f s wedding ring Is
smell compared with some others fools
make that they may know fo r a little
while, the Joy o f madness.
1
Topics of
the T im e i^
D oubt)«*» * -roe people think besven
ta all rljfht because there Is to be no
marrying there.
Prank Gould speaks of "tl>e curse a t
money.” Vet be doesn’t act as If he
would rtjo ic * ‘t o aee the curse re
moved."
“Tangled W edlock" la the title o f a
new novel. We take It for granted that
the hero and heroine belong to rich
families.
President D ia l o f Mexico delivers
inly one message a year. This circum
stance should not be overlooked In try
ing to explain why Diaz la given so
many term s
As regards the hen, furthermore, she
has one conspicuous advantage over the
oow. It la harrier to counterfeit, adul
terate or otherwise Impair the uaeful-
re * of her output
The man who goes around croaking
that the worst Is yet to come either
has a weak spine or knows o f some
thing thut he wrmld like to get at a
marked-down price.
A MlnnenpoliH man claims that he
owns thirty seven acres o f land on the
Ohk-ago lake front.
C&ptnln George
Wellington Rtreetpr w ill no doubt Ik-
glad to extend sympathy.
Arvordlng to the Buffalo Express,
some one has Invented a scheme to In-
sure umbrellas against th e ft The com
pany tackling any scheme o f that kind
will be kept buay at the paying teller's
window.
Mrs. Howard Gould says no woman
can dress decently on less than $20,000
a year. In that case we fea r there
are a good many women In this coun
try wlro are not decently drented any
at the time.
A New Jersey wornnn has been get
ting Into trouble because she iguinked
her 81-year-old husband.
Before H
Gaseawny Davis extends any sympa
thy he w ill want to know whether she
•aught the rascal flirting or not.
It Is stated that the heart o f a
tartan beata fifty eight rimes a minute,
and that o f a meat-eater seventy-live
times.
Thais tile meat-eating young
naan with a vegetarian sweetheart can
see how dlAlcult It Is at times for “ two
hearts to beat as o n e ”
litharges o f attempts to Influence Con
gress by lm p n per means have lately
been under Investigation In W ashing
ton. Such acmiaattona are frequeutly
made against persona wh<*e Interests
may hs beneficially or injuriously a f
fected by proposed legislation.
F or
tunately. they are sekkan sustained, be
cause they are seldom Justified. There
Is luuob legitim ate and fa r less Im
proper lobbying In Congress and In the
State legislatures. It Is proper for s
legislator to seek Information on any
subject on which he must vote, and It
la proper for a law yer or a layman to
give or even to volunteer the Inform a
tion.
Form er members o f Congress
frequently ojien offices In Washington,
ami offer their aervlces to |>ereons In
te re s t«! In the passage o f law n They
Twelve pay for their aervlces, and when
they apiiear before congreesional com
mittees w ith arguments In behalf o f
their clients, they are as honestly en
gaged as when they appear in the Su
preme Court. But nrany unscrupulous
legislative agents have been dishonest,
and huve attempted bribery, and have
causwl the word "lobbylat” to become
a term o f reproach. In sune States at
ternpta Improperly to Influence legtsla
Hon constitute a felony. punlatiahle by
disfranchisement and disqualification
from bolding public office.
T h e anti-
bribery lawa are directed also against
lobbyist* as well as against corrupt
legislators. In the British Parliament
registered and officially recognized leg
Islatlve agenta perform those functions
which reputable American lawyers un
dertake by supplying the needed in for
mation concerning private bills. In ad
dition they are required to stand as
sponsor for hills affecting private In
terests ; but they roust not attempt p ri
vately to InAuence the votes o f mem
bers, being bound by the same ‘honora
ble restrictions which forbid tampering
with a Jury or bringing private pres
sure to bear upon a Judge who must
decide the rase. The scandals o f the
old system which this admirable cue-
tom has displaced In England were
greater than any that havs disgraced
tbs American Oongress.
We welcome the story o f the enor
mous meteor that fell Into the Atlantic
“ Young men o f to-day are purely
ocean a few days ago. narrowly mean
ing a ship In Its dns.ent. It Is a pleas selAsh,” complained a weary and dis
“ I know many, and
ing variation from the conventional sea gusted hostess
serpent story that usually appears with a very few exceptions they accept
my hospitality and then decline to con
about this time! o f year.
tribute to the gayety o f my entertain
ments.”
H er companion, a man o f
“ Always ready for sea duty, but
years and experience, smiled quietly.
afraid a t social festivities," Is the way
"T h at's an old grievance,” he s a id ;
the w ife o f Admiral Evans recently
“ I remember hearing my mother sny
characterized her distinguished hue
the same thing Afty years ago. I re
hand. Medical science would probably
member. too. with what relish she used
agree that the admiral has discovered to tell the story o f a spirited woman of
which Is the greeter danger o f tl>e two. her acquaintance who administered Jus
tice, as she saw It, on a certain occa
In the early days o f San Francisco, sion.
trading vessel* were often deserted by
‘“The woman bad married an English
the eirtlre crew, who went hunting gold. man who had been an officer o f a crack
There wag nothing for ilie captain to regiment, but who sold out when he
do but at wind on ship and Join the rush. married.
(Julte naturally, therefore
The deserted khlps left on the bssch hla old comrades ware often at their
were gradually filled round with aand, house, and to the disgust o f his wife,
and were turned Into “ hotels."
Re they answered your description o f the
cent excavations for the foundation! young men o f to-day.
orf the new Nlantlc block disclosed the
One evening, when there were several
keel and ribs of Che ship
Nlantlc, o f her countrywomen am o^t her guosta,
which sailed from Maine sixty years my mother's friend vainly tried to
ago. It was beached at San Franetaco, make the dashing troopers come to
hauled up on land, and used as a lodg time. But when she suggested cards It
ing house.
Wlmre It had stood was was ‘The Tenth doesn't plsy card s'
erected the first Nlantlc block, which
“ A suggestion o f music was met with
was destroyed In the great Are two T h e Tenth doesn’t slug.'
years ago.
“ A t last one o f the American girls
said something about dancing, and my
Ueranla of averted disasters do not mother's friend tried to make up a set.
get the attention that la given to dis Then came th* haughty declaration.
asters uuaverted, hut they make more The Tenth don’t dance.'
dheerful reading and lift one's faith In
“ ‘ W ell,’ said the exasperated host-
human nature. The other day a Long era, ‘s t any rate, the Tenth inarches!'
Island Sound strainer caught Are, and
“ And march It did,” concluded the
there might have been another horror man, “ In defiance o f the English hus
Itks the burning of the General Slocum. band's wishes.”
But there was no I ons o f life, no panic.
The pilots kept the steamer steady, the
W r it e r s - C ram p .
captain fought the Are In orderly man
W riters' cramp Is a serious m atter
ner, summoned hell», and transferred to people whose work requires that
d * hundred passengers to
another they use a pen very much, while for
steamer. At a children's entertainment the unaccustomed w riter who takes nn
In a New York dhuroh gauzy draperies afternoon off now and then to catch up
took Are, Aatnes shot to the celling, with her correspondence It Is, to say
and burning bits fell mi the children. the Ienst, very discouraging. The trou
The audience sprang up, but the little ble Is more than muscular In this kind
king o f the play Justified hla regal part, o f cramp. Very often a low, nervous
lie cried, “ What are you all scared
condition will cause It.
Then one
afssit? It's Jui* s little Are." Mesn-
should take It as a warning that the
wlblle a boy at the organ was playing
system Is ran down and needs general
"Onwer.t, Christian Soldicra." Ikurtrg
toning up. Very often, however, th#
the Aurry he did not miss a note. Tw o
trouble la all In the way you hold your
men stamped the Are out.
Others
Pen-
opened the doors and started to mar
Children now In school are not like
shnl tti« women and children.
Most
ly to be troubled with writers' cramp,
o f the people kept tlhelr places, and
because they are taughf to hold the
there was no panic.
pen ligh tly and make all the move
ments from the arm Inatead o f tho
There are few things, certainly no
hand.
The
old fashioned
method
article of Jewelry, that a bride prizes
which most o f us learned o f holding
more than her wedding ring. But s
the pen between the thumb and fore
married woman cannot always remain
finger Is also very likely to encourage
a bride, not even In Chicago, where
a cramp. The muscles become tense
some o f them try It by getting married
snd hard, until Anally they contract an
frequently. And the views o f a mar
much that all control over them la
ried woman later In life are apt to be
loat The pen should be held between
different from the roseate vislona of
th# Arst two Angers, well up toward
the bride. Pevha|>a even the wedding
th# Joint. T h e trouble may often be
ring Uses Its glamor, snd becomes
relieved by putting the hand and wrist
merely to many dollars' worth o f pre
Into the hottest water one ran stand —
cious money. That this Is true In cer
Boston Herald.
tain cases was shown In a Chicago
court recently, when a man was on
R ev ise s .
trial for selling cocaine. A number o f
Little drops o f water.
wadding rings were shown In the evi
Little grains of rand.
Make the milkmen happy
dence; wedding rings that wives who
And the grocers Mend.
had cessed to be brides had bartered
fo r the drag. No more startling evi —The Bohemian.
dence o f the power o f the drug habit
ran well he conceived than th is T o
barter one’s birthright for pottage were
not to bed. Hanger Is nstnral sgough,
and most he satisfied, tf possible, at SI
M M * s a y Mcrtdea. But the drug
Most perenta In
rs ld n g
don't know tbs
difference
training and the lack o f R.
W atch s rot
want a Mta.
The Firm of !
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' Girdlestone !
A. C O N A N DOYLE
C H A P T E R X IX .— <Continued.)
She went down the avenue and had a
few words with the sentry there. She
felt no bitterness against him now— on
the contrary, she could afford to laugh
at his peculiarities. He was in a very
bad humor on account of domestic diffi
culties. His wife had been abusing him,
and had ended by assaulting him. “ She
used to argey first and then fetch the
poker,’* he said ruefully, “ but now it’s
the poker first and there ain’t no argey-
rnent at all.”
Kate looked at his savage face and
burly figure, and thought what a very
°ourageous woman his wife must be.
“ It ’s all ’cause the fisher lasses won’t
lemme alone.” he explained with a leer.
“ She don’t like it, knock me sideways if
she d o ! It ain’t my fault, though, I al-
lers had a kind o’ a fetch in’ way w i’
women.”
“ Did you post my note?” asked Kafe.
“ Y e s ; in course I did.” he answered.
“ It’ ll be in Lunnon now, most like.” His
one eye moved about in such a very shifty
way as he spoke that she was convinced
that he was telling a lie. She could not
be sufficiently thankful that she had some
thing else to rely upon besides the old
scoundrel's assurances.
There was nothing to be seen down the
lane except a single cart with a loutish
young man walkiug at the horse's head.
&he had a horror of the country folk since
her encounter with the two bumpkins
upon the Sunday. She therefore slipped
away from the gate and went through
the wood to the shed, which she mounted.
On the other side of the wall there was
standing a little boy in buttons, so rigid
and motionless that he might be one of
Madame Tussaud’s figures, were it not for
his eyes, which were rolling about in ev
ery direction, and which finally fixed
themselves on Kate's face.
“ Uood-mornin’, miss,” said this appari
tion.
“ Good-morning,”
she answered. ” 1
think I saw you with Mrs. Scully yester
day V
“ Yes, miss. Missus, she told me to wait
here and never to move until 1 seed you.
She said as you would be sure to come.
I ’ ve been waitin' here for nigh on an
hour.”
“ Your mistress is an angel,” Kate said
enthusiastically, "and you are a very good
little boy.”
“ Indeed, you’ ve hit it about the mis
sus,” said the youth, in a hoarse whisper,
nodding his head to emphasize his re
marks.
“ She’s got a heart as is big
enough for three.”
Kate could not help smiling at the en
thusiasm with which the little
fellow
spoke.
“ You seem fond of her,” she said.
“ I ’d be a bad ’un if I wasn’t. She took
me out of the work’us without character
or nothing, and she’s a-educatin’ of me.
She sent me 'ere with a message.”
“ What was it?”
“ She said as how she had written in
stead o’ electro-telegraphing, ’cause she
had so much to say she couldn’t fit it all
on a telegraph.”
“ I thought that would be so,” Kate
id.
“ She wrote to Major— Major— him as
is a-follerin’ of her. She said as she had
no doubt as he’d be down to-day, and you
was to keep up your sperrits and let her
know by me if any one was a-wexiu'
you.”
'No, no. Not at all,” Kate answered,
smiling again. “ You can tell her that my
guardian has been much kinder to-day.
I am full of hope now. Give her my
warmest thanks for her kindness.”
‘A ll right, miss. Say, that chap at the
gate hasn't been giving you no cheek, has
he— him with the game eye?”
“ No, no, John.”
John looked at her suspiciously. “ I f he
hasn’t it’s all right,” he said, “ but I
think as you’re one o f them as don’t com
plain if you can ’elp it.” He opened his
hand and showed a great jagged flint
which he carried. “ I ’d ha’ knocked his
other peeper out with this,” he said,
blowed if I wouldn’t.”
“ Don’t do anything of the sort, John,
but run home like a good little boy.”
“ All right, miss. Good-by to y e !”
Kate watched him stroll down the lane,
lie paused at the bottom as if irresolute,
and then she was relieved to see him throw
the stone over into a turnip field, and
walk rapidly off in the opposite direction
U> the Priory gates.
CH APTER XX.
Late In the afternoon Ezra arrived at
the Priory.
From one o f the passage
windows Kate saw him driving up the
avenue in a high dogcart. Thera wns a
broad-shouldered, red-bearded man sitting
beside him, and the ostler from the Flying
Hull wns perched behind. Kate had rush
ed to the window on hearing the sound
of wheels, with some dim expectation that
her friends had come sooner than she
anticipated. A glance, however, showed
her that the hope was vain. From behind
a curtain she watched them alight and
come into the house, while the trap wheel
ed round and rattled off for Bedaworth
again.
She went slowly hack to her room, won
dering what friend this could be whom
Ezra had brought with him. She had no-
deed that he was roughly clad, presenting
a contrast to the .voung merchant, who
was vulgarly spruce in his attire. Evi
dently he intended to pass the night at
the Priory, since ‘.key had let the trap
go hack to the village. She was glad that
he had come, for his presence would act
as a restraint uj>on the Ginllentonen.
As the long afternoon stole away ahe
became more and more impatient stud ex
pectant.
She had been sewing in her
room, but she found that she could no
longer keep her attention on the stitches.
Bhe paced nervously up and {lown the lit
tle apartment. In the roam beneath ahe
could hear the dull, muffled pound of men’s
voices in a long continuoua monotone,
broken only by the Interposition now and
again of one voice which was so deep
and loud that it reminded her o f the growl
of a beast of prey. This must belong to
the red-beard«^ stranger. Kate wondered
what it could he that they were talking
cMlftpsn
over so earnestly. City affairs, no doabt,
or other business matters of Importance.
Bhe remembered having once heard It re
marked that many of the richeet men on
'Change were eccentric and alovenly In
thoir drees, so tks newcomer might hi O
more Important person than he aeemed.
She had determined to remain in her
room all the afternoon to avoid Ezra, but
her restlessness was so great that she felt
feverish and hot.
The fresh air, she
thought, would have a reviving effect up
on her. She slipped down the staircase,
treading as lightly as possible not to dis
turb the geotlemen in the refectory. They
appeared to hear her, however, for the
hum o f conversation died away, and there
\gh* a dead silence until after she had
I> a h s * h J.
.She went oat on to the little lawn
whihe lay In front of the old house. There
were some flower beds scattered about
on It, but they were overgrown with weeds
and in the last stage of neglect. She
amused herself by attempting to improve
the condition of one of them, and kneel
ing down beside it she pulled up a num
ber of the weeds which covered it. There
was a withered rose bush in the center,
so she pulled up that also, and succeeded
iu imparting some degree of order among
the few plants which remained.
She
worked with unnatural euergy. pausing
every now and again, to glance down the
dark avenue, or to listen intently to any
chance sound which might catch her ear.
In the course of her work she chanced
to look at the Priory. The refectory
faced the lawn, ami at the window of it
there stood the three men looking out at
her. The Girdlestones were nodding their
h<ad8, as though they were pointing her
out to the third man. who stood between
them. He was looking at her with an
expression of interest. Kate thought ns
she returned his gaze that she had never
seen a more savage and brutal face. He
was flushed and laughing, while Ezra be
side hip) appeared to be pale and anxious.
They all, when they saw that she noticed
them, stepped precipitately back frbm the
window.
She had only a momentary
glance at them, and yet the three faces,
the strange, tierce red one, and the two
hard familiar pale ones which flanked it,
remained vividly impressed upon her mem
ory.
Girdlestone had been so pleased at the
early appearance of his two allies, and the
prospect of settling the matter once for
all, that he received them with a cordial
ity which was foreign to his nature.
“ Always punctual, my dear son, and
always to be relied upon,” he said. “ You
are a model to our young business men.
As to you, Mr. Burt,” he continued; “ I
am delighted to see you at the Priory,
much as I regret the sad necessity which
has brought you doum.”
“ Talk it over afterwards,” said Ezra,
shortly. “ Burt and I have had no lunch
eon yet.”
“ I am near starved,” the other growl
ed, throwing himself into a chair. Ezra
had been careful to keep him from drink
on the way down, and he was now sober,
or as nearly sober as a brain saturuted
with liquor could ever be.
Girdlestone called for Mrs. Jorrocks,
who laid the cloth.
Ezra appeared to
have a poor appetite, but Burt ate vora
ciously.
When the meal was finished
Ezra drew a chair up to the fire, and his
father did the same, after ordering the old
woman out o f the room, and carefully
closing the door behind her.
“ You have spoken to our friend here
about the business?” Girdlestone asked,
nodding his head in the direction of Burt.
“ Yes. I have made it all clear.”
“ Five hundred pounds down, and a free
passage to Africa,” said Burt.
“ An energetic man like you can do a
great deal in the colonies with five bun
dled pounds,” Girdlestone remarked.
“ What I do with it is nothing to you.
gov’nor,” Burt remarked surlily. “ I does
the job, you pays the money, and there’s
an end as far as you are concerned.”
“ Quite so,” the merchant said in a con
ciliatory voice. “ You are free to do what
you like with the money.”
“ Without axin’ your leave,” growled
Burt. He was a man of such a turbulent
and quarrelsome disposition that he was
always ready to go out of his way to make
himself disagreeable.
“ The question is how it is to be done,”
interposed Ezra. “ You’ ve got some plan
in your head, I suppose,” he said to his
father. “ I t ’s high time the thing was
carried through, or we shall have to put
up the shutters in Fenchurch street.”
His-father shivered at the very thought.
“ Anything rather than that.” he said.
“ It will precious soon come to tha*”
“ What’s the matter with your lip? It
seems to be swollen.”
“ I had a turn with that fellow Dims-
dale,” Ezra answered, putting his hand
up to his mouth to hide the disfigurement.
“ He followed us to the station and we
had to beat him off, but 1 think I left
my marks upon him.”
“ He played some hokey-pokey busines«
on me,” said Burt. “ He tripped me in
some new-fangled way, and nigh knocked
the breath out of me. I don’ t fall as
light as I used.”
“ He did not succeed In tracing you?”
Girdlestone asked uneasily. “ There is no
chance o f his turning up here, and spoiling
the whole business?”
“ Not in the least,” said Ezra confident
ly. “ He was in the hands of a policeman
when I saw him last.”
“ That is well. Now I should like, be
fore we go further, to say a few words
to Mr. Burt as to what has led up to
this. I wish you to understand,” he said,
“ that this is no sudden determination of
ours, but that events have led up to it in
such a way that it was impossible to avoid
it. Our commercial honor and integrity
are more precious to us than anything
else, and we have both agreed that we
are ready to sacrifice anything rather
than lose It. Unfortunately, onr affairs
have become somewhat Involved, and it
was absolutely necessary that the firm
should have a sum of money promptly
in order to extricate itself from its diffi
culties. This sum we endeavored to get
through a daring speculation in diamonds,
which was. though I say it, ingeniously
planned and cleverly carried, and which
would have succeeded admirably had It
not been for an unfortunate chance.”
I remember,” said Burt.
O f course. Yon were there at the
time. We were able to struggle along for
some time after this on money which we
borrowed and on the profits of our A f
rican trade. The time' came, however,
when the borrowed money was to be re
paid. and once again the firm was in dan
ger. It was then that we first thought of
the fortune of my ward. It was enough
to turn the scale in our favor, could we
lay our hands upon it. It w is securely
tied up, however, in such a way that there
were only two means by which we could
touch a penny of it. One was by marry
ing her to my son; the other was by the
young lady's death. Do yon follow me?”
Burt nodded his shsggy head.
‘T h is being to. we did all that ws could
to arrange a marriage. Without flattery
I may say that no girl was ever approach
ed in a more delicate and honorable way
than she waa by m j *>n. Ezra. I, for my
part, brought all my influence to bear
upon her in order to Induce her to meet
his advance« In a proper spirit. In spite
of our efforts, she rejected him in the
moat decided way. and gave us to under
stand that It waa bopeleas to attempt to
make her change her o»nd.’’
•Someone else, maybe," suggested Burt.
“The man who put you oa your bach
at tks sution,” Mid Eva.
“ Tla! I ’ll pay him for that,” the navvy
growled viciously.
“ A human life, Mr. Burt,” continued
Girdlestone, “ is a sacred thing, but a hu
man life, when weighed against the exist
ence of a great firm from which hundreds
derive their means of livelihood, is a small
ccnsideration indeed. When the fate of
Miss Hurston is put against the fate of
the great commercial house of Girdle-
ptone, it is evident which must go to the
wall.
Our house has for nearly forty
years been a bright spot in the darkness.
I f it should fall now it would be a stum
bling block and a scandal. You see, there
fore, that greater interests are at stake
than the mere dross of this world. Hav
ing seen that this sad necessity might
arise, I had made every arrangement some
time before. This building is, as you
may have observed in your drive, situated
in a lonely and secluded part of the coun
try. It is walled round, too. in such a
manner that any one residing here is
practically a prisoner.
1 removed the
ludy so suddenly that no one can possibly
know where she has gone to, and I have
spread such reports as to her condition
that no one down here would be surprised
to hear of her decease.”
“ But there is bound to be an Inquiry.
IIow about a medical certificate?” asked
Ezra.
“ I shall insist upon a coroner’» in
quest,” his father answered.
“ An inquest! Are you mad?”
“ When you have heard me I think that
you will come to just the opposite conclu
sion. I think that 1 have hit upon a
scheme which is really neat— neat iu its
simplicity.” He rubbed his hands togeth
er. and »bowed his Tong yellow fangs in
his enjoyment of his own astuteness.
Burt and Ezra leaned forward to listen,
while the old man sank his voice to a
whisper.
“ They thiuk that she is insane,” he
said.
“ Yes.”
“ There’s a small door in the boundary
wall which leads out to the railway liue.”
“ Well, what of that?”
“ Suppose that door to be left open,
would it be an impossible thing for a
ciazy woman to slip out through it. and
to be run over by the ten o’clock ex
press ?”
“ I f she would only get in the way
of it.”
“ Yon don’ t quite catch my idea yet.
Suppose that this express ran over the
dead body o f a woman, would there be
anything to prove afterwards that she
was dead, and not alive at the time of
the accident? Do you think that it would
ever occur to any one’s mind that the ex
press had run over a dead body?”
“ I »ee your meaning,” said his son
thoughtfully. “ You would settle her snd
then put her there.”
(T o be continued.)
T H E W O R L D 'S P E R F U M E .
An
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W h ic h
m
ln t c r c a lc d .
K s tlra
Few people— In Am erica at least—
know that the town which might be
said to supply the world with It» per
fume la Grasse on the Ilivlera, about
12 miles by train from that center of
gayety, Cannes. It holds a population
o f Home 15,000 persons, the great ma
jo rity o f whom are employed in the
perfume Industry which yields an lu-
eome to the town o f a million and a
h alf a year.
The little perfume city 1« set on the
aide o f the mountain Rocavignon and
iu the valley around it more thun 00,-
000 acres o f flower beds prod m e the
petals from which are drawn the little
drops o f sweet Incense that are sent
out to nil quarters of the globe.
E very available bit o f ground, say*
Jane R. W hite, In The W orld To-day,
has been walled In and the cassia or
n »ebush bus to pay Its yearly tribute
o f fragrance In return for the eare lav
ished upon it.
H ere and there the
flowers run riot, but usually tluy Irri-
tyiting ditches separate the neat even
rows o f violets, jouquiis, jasmine, tu
beroses, heliotropes, roses and laven
der. One breathes a new atmosphere
h ere; It Is as though the invigorating
mountain air had been sprayed with
ean de cologne.
When one goes Into the factories of
the town the process o f manufacture
one notes I* much the same for all per
fumes except those made from the rose
or orange petals.
Glass sheets, held by frames a few
Inches apart, are smeared thickly with
lard, and between these sheets the
freshly picked blossoms are scattered,
touching the frames, but not pressed
hy them. In one day the oil o f the
flowers exudes and the lard absorbs
the precious drops. Before the grease
is fu lly saturated- the flowers are
changed many times, the number de
l u d i n g upon the amount o f oil the
flowers contain.
I f the flow er* are
plentiful they may be changed as often
ns every six hours and In the case of
the jonquils 30 time*, but Jasmine is
usually changed 80 times before the
layers o f lard are entirely saturated.
A tta r o f roses and neroli, the base
o f eau de cologne, are made by a d if
ferent method. The [>erfume may be
extracted by an ordinnry process of
distillation If a very even heat Is main
tained, but the usual method is the
“ bain marie." A large kettle o f lard
is Immersed In a tub o f water at the
trolling point until the grease reaches
a uniform temperature and la entirely
melted.
Into this warm lard the petals of
orange blossoms or o f roses are thrown.
The petals remain a day or less In this
bath and then the wilted flowers are
withdrawn and fresh one* added until
the m ixture reaches the required
strength.
Women beat the
m ixture
Into a cream and the "bain m arie"
rooms look like cake bakeries.
T o make one pound o f attar o f rooes.
which Is worth $200. 20.000 pounds o f
rose petals are required. A thousand
pounds o f petals are needed to make a
pound of neroli. which averages In
value $20 a pound.
A
ip «r ls l
B ran d .
Brown— I want to thank you «train
fo r that cigar you gave me yesterday.
I enjoyed It Immensely.
Green— I'm glad you liked I t
By
the way, I have another o f the same
brand If you car# to smoke.
Brown— No, thank you.
I didn't
smoke the other one. I have a grudge
against Jones, oo I gave It to him.
i
New
F aro ,
L abo r.
On* o f the greatest problems cos-
fronting agriculture la competent farm
help that can he secured ut a compen
sation proportionate to th* net earn
ings fo r the fanner.
Manufactures,
mining and railroads furnish employ
ment to a vast number o f workers who
are under trained foremen and tbelr
wages are graduated according to the
amount o f product they can turn o u t
Manufacturers aud transportation cor
porations are capitalized and the in
vestment Is required to earn a flzed
dividend for the stockholders.
The
earnings are expected to exceed the
dividends, operating expenses and fixed
charges to create a surplus fund to
conduct affairs In emergencies and dur
ing panics without stopping dividends.
The farm er Is compelled to comjiete
'n the open market for help to conduct
hi* agricultural operations. W hile the
farm er is delighted If his Investment
returns a reasonable profit, he has no
r. course If the season'* results are con
ducted nt a loss. The manufacturer in
timer o f flnanclal stringency to protect
stockholders discharges s part o f his
force, reduce* their wages or runs his
plant on shorter hours. The farmer
can only protect himself from exorbl
tant wages hy the purchase of costly
labor-saving machinery.
The world moves forward and the
higher cost o f living, the Increase In
value o f fsrui lands and the higher
|>rl :es a t agricultural products w ill not
soon revert to old low standards. The
farm er w ill not find cheap labor o f
fered In the market except by Ineffi
cient employes.
Agriculture is annually
becoming
more o f n business proposition and the
standard o f labor advanced on
the
farm. The fa-m Inborer must under
stand modem agricultural machinery
and how to operate It to obtain employ
Dent. Machinery Is too expensive to
be trusted with Inexperienced opera
tors, snd the man who can skillfully
Imiidle modern farm Implements Is In
demand on the farm at a wag* scale
that w ill compare favorably with the
employes In Industrial enterprises.
Farm er* are now practical business
men and the m ajority o f them keep
books on farm operations and know the
amount o f their profit snd loss annual
ly. Farm ing as a profession Is becom
ing more attractive and diversified snd
labor needs to be more skilled to meet
new conditions of agriculture. The In
ducements are potential for young men
to qu alify as farm laborers and the
Held offers as brilliant prospects as
any other profession. The farm er Is
not so much In quest o f cheap labor . s
efficient help and I* w illing to psy a
wage scale proportionate to the ability
and proficiency of the laborer as an up-
to-date farm hand.— Goodall's Furmer.
C a r r y ln z a T ra n k
In R - I | r r .
H* who ran movs his cars ran
or
and.
P reS sete.
Im p ro v e d C h ic k e n C oop .
The diagram shows a convenient way
to make a coop for the poultry yard,
o f which the special feature Is its door.
Procure a box o f tihe right dimension*
and saw a hole, d. In one end. Then
strengthen the box with narrow strip*
o f wood, b c, on each side o f the hole.
H I N 0 ELX6 S DOOB FOB ▲ COOP.
b c. T h is met* as a groove for tha
door, a, to slide in. Tl»us you have a
sliding door, which opens and shuts
with tha greatest ease. The front o f
the coop Is Inclosed with lath, or nar
row strip«, placed 2% to 8 inuhes
apart. The top should be covered with
a good grade of roofing paper to mako
it waterproof.
A coop o f this sort
should be 2 to 2 ^ feet long, lfl inches
deep and not less than 20 inches high,
while 2 feet would be better.— Richard
Moncure, in Farm ami Home.
The
Jndgp
and
|l
W h eat.
Maud Miller, in the summer’s heat,
Raked the meadow tbjck with wheat.
The judge rode slowly down the lane.
Smoothing his horse’s chestnut mane.
T o carry a trunk or any bulky ar “ With wheat at a dollar per,” said he,
ticle In a small buggy, make s frame “This maid is about the size for me.”
mit a t tw o pieces o f one and one-ho If
by two-inch scantlings eight feet long. Then he smiled at her and she blushed at
him.
Nall a board across the ends as shown
And over the meadow fence he clim.
“ W ill you marry me, sweet maid?” hs
said,
.\nd she told him “ Yes,” and they wers
wed.
Alas for maiden, alas for judge.
For old designer and wheat-field dmdga
Lord pity them both and pity us all.
For Maud didn’t own the wheat at all.
And the judge remarked when he learned
the cheat:
“ Don’t talk to me about dollar wheat!”
— San Francisco Argonaut.
H ow
H O W TO CABBY T H E T B C S K .
In A o f tile accompanying Illustration.
Place the free ends beneath the seat
and under tlie foot rest In front, letting
the fram e extend behind the buggy. The
trunk or box. explains l ’ralrle Farmer,
ean then he placed on the end o f the
frame behind the seat, o f the buggy. It
should be tied on.
E ss*
V a r io u s ly
The
Isavon It
A n im a ls
D o c t o r T h e m s e lv e s .
Man might often take from the lower
animals a lesson as to the cure o f him
self when 111. A ll sorts o f animals suf
fering from fever eat little. He quiet in
dark, airy places aqd drink quantities
o f water. When a dog loses his appe
tite he knows where to find chlendent
— dog gras*— which acts a* a purgative
and emetic. Sheep and cows, when ill,
seek certain herbs. Any animal suffer
ing from chronic rheumatism keeps as
fa r as possible in the sun. I f a chim
panzee be wounded lie has b«“on seen
to stop the bleeding by a plaster of
chewed up leaves and grass.
P re srrrrd .
Eggs are preserved In many other
ways Iroaldes cold storage. Often the
preservative Is effected by excluding
the Hlr by contthg. covering or Immers
ing the eggs, some material or solu
tion being used which may or may not
be a germicide. An old domestic meth
od Is to pack the eggs In oats, bran or
sa lt; another consists in covering the
egg* with lluie water, which may or
may not contain salt.
In Germany
sterilization is effected by placing In
boiling water from tw elve to fifteen sec
onds. Sometimes they are treated to a
solution o f alnm or salicylic acid. Oth
er methods consist In varnishing with
a solution o f pennangnnate o f potash,
varnishing with collodion or shellac;
packing In peat dust, preserving In
wood ashes, treating with a solution o f
boric acid and water glass, varnishing
with vaseline, preserving In lime w a
ter. preserving in s solution o f water
glnsa.
The Inst three methods have
proved most successful. In fertile eggs
w ill keep much better than fertile eggs
by sny manner o f preservation.
C o R $ « * e r '$
E rro r.
The consumer Is often to be blamed
for th# milk souring quickly.
First-
class milk .left st his bonse In a clean
bottle and at a low temperature may
be sonr or o ff flavor tw elve hours later
because it was left standing In a warm
kitchen fo r a few minutes or was
poured Into a pan that had been
When you know a successful man, washed In the dlshpan and wiped on a
you also know o f some little weakness towel that bad done service for an
that keep* hits from succeeding a kinds o f dishes for several days. Also
Ilk should not he loft standing In the
great deal bettor.
•an a minute after tbs milkman
lg Maks Ms hair stand
F aro .
A lfa lfa was an uukuowu crop a few
yenrg ago. Now it la one o f the most
reliable and profitable o f Texas crops.
It has not been long lin e* the onion
waa produced only In a few short rows
for fam ily use. Now th* ouloo crop la
on* o f Texas’ liest advertisements. T h *
effort to raise for the market me
dicinal plants began with one enter
prising citizen o f Grayson County only
a few years ago. Now this line is be
ing taken np snd will be carried on for
all It la worth. The list la growing
longer, and the prices o f cotton and
other farm products are better than
they used to lie, and the man with tha
hoe is growing more independent. Tha
sugar beet la now being tested. Colo
rado holds first place In the production
o f beet sugar in the United States,
with 422.732.330 pounds o f sugar from
138,3(]fl,30<l acres, while Michigan and
California are closely matched for sec
ond plm-c, producing UI5.0on.iHK) uml
ltH,000,000 isninds, respectively. The
sugar hoot crop In this country last
year brought $4,500,000.
The preseut year w ill be an impon
tuut season for ex|H-rlmcnts with the
sugar beet In Texas. Let the tests he
made under as g<s>d conditions as pos
sible. There Is really no doubt as to
the rtSmlts In localities where the soli
Is o f the right density and quality.
I^amls that produce fine cropa o f beets
o f the ordinary variety or the “ biggest
turnips In the w orld" are quite sure to
break n few records In sugar beets if
given a fa ir test.— Galveston N ew s
F arm
H in t«.
The horse Is man's heat friend, there
fore he Is deserving o f a friend's treat
ment.
Don’t forget that the barnyard ma
nure Is tlie best all-round fertilizer you
can obtain.
Pasture makes the rhea pest hog feed
on the farm snd clover makes the brer
bog pasture.
Don't let money act as a padlnek on
your heart and shut In all the kindness
and happiness
The animal that has a full, bright
eye la apt to be healthy. And a moist
nose Is another Indication o f health.
The men who keeps bis trembles to
himself Is better thought o f than h*
who burdens his neighbors with them
The neighbors have their own troubles
to think about
L ittle things on the farm amount to
as nrnch In the end as they do In any
other business, yet the farm er as a m is
does not pay as much attention to de
tails a* does the city business man.
T alk over with the good housewife
all the undertakings a t the farm. She
w ill have some good advice to offer.
The burning o f straw and stalks, eg.
cept In special rases. Is s wasteful prac
tice snd has no place in Judicious form .
»
Every farm should have a p air ot
rale*.
It Is th* only w sy for th *
farmer to know exactly
where
he
stands In hla buying and selling.
Farm machinery pot In repair before
the busy seesnn opens mesne money In
the pocket When it Is pat sway tn
th* fall Is s better tim e for re p a irin g,