o f them have been brought up on farm«
In Europe, and would be useful on
American farms. Moreover, the lesson
of the crowded city should be driven
home to the boy who thinks there Is
no chance on the farm or In the small
town. The large city is the worst
place In the world to be poor In, to fall
In; and even to succeed in It, ns one
man In a thousand does succeed. Is by
no means the highest aim of wholesome
American ambition.
the men showed great deference to the
German, and the major began to perceive
that his friend was a very exalted indi
Topics of
vidual in socialistic circle«. He liked the
look
of the two foreigners, aud congrat
the Times ♦
ulated himself upon having their co-op-
eiaton in the matter on hand.
Ill luck was in «tore for the expedition,
► however. On inquiry at the ticket office
▲ freat deal of advice about married
they found that there was no train for
life cornea from people who have never
upwards of two hours, and then it waa a
tried it.
alow one, which would not land them un
til eight o’clock at Bedaworth. At this
Judge Gray sa.va he is out of politic«.
piece of information Tom Dimadale fairly
broke down, and stamped about the sta
Aeverul jther meu who are out of poli
The Imagination la strongly affect a
tion, raving and beseeching the officials
tic« have not discovered it y e t
by the recent Governors' conference at
to run a special, be the cost what it
the White House, which suggested tho
might. This, however, could by no means
It the ice trust 1« at all sensitive It power and greatness of the country and
A. CONAN DOYLI
C be done, owing to the press of Saturday
must be deeply pained to hear the uu- has a spectacular and dramatic inter-
traffic. There was nothing for it but to
klnd things they are saying about It in
it. But It was hard logic that brought
wait. The three foreigner« went off In
fW
New York.
the conference about. The condition of
search of something to eat, and having
found a convenient cook shop they dis
the natural resources of the United
The fly, say« Dr. Adolph Gehrmunu, States la such that some general move
appeared therein and feasted royally at
1« as dangerous as the wolf. And we ment for their protection may be re
Von Baumaer’a expense. Major Tobias
CHAPTER X X II.— fCootlnaed.)
cannot make mink muffs out of Us garded as absolutely necessary, and un
Another moment and the door was Clutterbuck remained with the young
man, who resolutely refused to leave the
hide, either.
der no circumstances could It be post stealthily opened. Once again the broad platform. The major knew of a snug lit
golden bar shot out across the lawn al
poned
many
years.
The
logic
appears
It is estimated that In every $100,OCX)
most to the spot where the confederates tle corner not far off where he could have
in circulation only $1 50 is counterfeit. In the facts that are recited by Gif were crouching. In the center of the zoue put in the time very comfortably, but he
Of course Mr. Easy Mark la bound to ford Plnchot, chief o f the forest service, of light there stood a figure— the figure could not bring himself to desert hia com
1“ »
° ut rwentl>' b* the of ¿ h V V l ^ r 'E ^ a t “ ttat“ 'iiU n 'c .T h v panion even for a minute.
get more than his share.
Indeed, it waa well that «lay that young
Agricultural Department to which w e . M ld distinguish the pearl-grey mantle
Dimadale had good friends at hi« back.
The next time the government takes shall now refer. Thla country had at ■ which she usually wore ami the close St Hia appearance was so strange and wild
a census we suggest that an effort be one time a million square miles of tlm- | ting bonnet. She bad wrapped a shawl that the passers-by turned back to have
made to find out what the [»essiuiist lier land, the most magnificent forests round the lower part of her face to pro another look at him. His eyes were open
of the globe. Its people thought the ; tect her from the boisterous wind. For a and staring, giving a fear-inspiring char
population o f the country Is.
forests Inexhaustible amt treated them ! ” >lnu,e or morf slle ‘ too<i peering out into acter to his expression. He could not
as though they were, “ but we have now , »he d.rkness of the night, as though un- sit still for an inslant, but paced up and
When we finally establish com muni
. ” .
. . .
a
..
- 1 certain whether to proceed or to go back,
with ft quk.k Budden ge8ture , h# clown and backwards and forwards under
ration with Mars we probably shall And reached the point where the growth o f
that the newspapers there are devoted our forest« 1» but oiie-thiril o f the an- { closed the door behind her. The light was the influence of the fierce energy which
«‘ensumed him, while the major plodded
exclusively to the chronicle of high life. nual cut, while we have lu store -lm- j no longer there, but they knew that she along manfully at his side, suggesting ev
her enough for ouly twenty or thirty j was outside the house, and that the ap-
ery consideration which might cheer him
There Is in New York a man who has years at our present Tate o f use.’’ This pointraent would be kept,
up, and narrating many tales, true and
gone Insane because he made money is a bad story, but It Is only the be- | " hat an age it seemed before they apocryphal, most of which fell upon heed
rapidly. Usually this kind of insanity ginning. The older oil fields are ex- j |"‘ard ller footsteps. She came very alow- less cars.
already, natural gas has been ¡ *
M ° n ‘ he
Ezra Girdlestone had four hours’ start
develops In the sons of the men who do halisted
. .
7T
,w
, ,1« ,
othee, as if afraid of falling over some-
wasted until the supply has failed In thing jn the darknesB 0nce or twice Bhe of them. That was the thought which
the money-making.
many places. It is said that our an- stopped altogether, looking round, no rankled in Tom’s heart and outweighed
He knew
Somehow It doe« us good to read of thracite coal fields are in danger o f be- doubt, to make sure of her whereabouts, every other consideration.
Kate’s nature so well that he was con
that man who traveled more than one lng exhausted in fifty years, the bltu- j At the instant the moon shone out from vinced that she would never have express
"Our ' behind a cloud, and they saw her dark
hundred thousand miles looking for u ruinous In a hundred years.
ed such fears to Mrs. Scully unless she
wife. It goes to show that a wife Is ranges in the West, from which we first ' figure a short distance off. The light en- had very assured reasons for them. In
drove the buffalo to cover them again | * ble<l ber to “ • tbe withered oak, for fact, apart from her own words, what
«till worth having.
with cattle and sheep, are capable of |*be
rapidly toward. it A . she ap- could this secrecy and seclusion mean ex
. . .
. 1#
l * proached she satisfied herself apparently
The French republic is going to spend supporting but about one-half what that Bhe w u the flrBt on the groundi for cept foul play? After what he had learn
$8,1 XX) for the purpose of transferring they could under intelligent manage- : , hr B)acktBed her pace ouce more and ed about the insurance of the ships and
the remains of Zola to the Pantheon. ment, and the price of beef is raised J walked in the listless way that people as- the manner in which the elder Girdlestone
had induced him to cease corresponding
There L b nothing like death to cause a accordingly.” We are really suffering §ume when they are waiting. The clouds
with Kate, he could believe anything of
man to be appreciated by the French now from the carelessness of the past, ‘ were overtaking the moon again, and the his employers. He knew, also, that in
light
was
getting
dimmer.
and
so
are
beginning
to
realize
that
pro
republic.
*
"I can see her still,” said Ezra in a case of Kate’s death the money reverted
tection Is necessary. We see, too, that
to her guardian. There was not a single
A« to the devotion of a wife to a It Is desirable to consider all the nat whisper, grasping bis father’s wrist in his link missing In the chain of evidence
husband who beats her, one philosopher ural resources at the same time and to excitement.
which showed that a crime was in contem
..
, The old man said nothing, but he peer-
hus observed that the average woman prepare for united efforts to save them.
^ through tha darkness with eager, plation. Then, who was that butcher-like
man whom Ezra was taking down with
would rather take a sound thrashing This Is what the forester calls the new ‘ straining eyes.
than be knocked speechless by unan point of view.
"There she is, standing out a little him?
The major haa put it on record that
swerable logic.
from the oak,” the young merchant said,
those two hours appeared to him the long
pointing with a quivering finger. "She’s
THB MAP IN POLITICS.
est that ever he passed in his life, and
V>t near enough for him to reach her.”
A barbed-wire fence Is soon to mark
Tom, no doubt, would indorse the senti
"H e’s coming out fro mthe shadow
the boundury line between the United P r e s id e n t a n d V i c e P r e s id e n t S e l
ment. Everything must have an end,
now," the other said huskily. "Don’t you
d o m fro m X e s v S ta te «.
States and Canada. Gentlemen who
however, and the station clock, the hands
Candidates for President and Vice we him crawling along the ground?”
■tart for Canada, taking their affinities
of which aeemed aevernl times to have
"I see him,” returned the other in ths
stopped altogether, began at last to ap
with them, may in future years find It President on a party ticket nearly al
same subdued, awestruck voice. "Now he
necessary to provide themselves with ways come frofn widely separated has stopped ; now he goes on again ! He proach the hour at which the Portsmouth
States, says the Brooklyn Eagle. John
train waa timed to depart. Baomser and
wire clippers.
is close behind her! She is looking the
hia two frlcpds had come back, all three
C. Fremont of California was united «ther way.”
smoking cigarettes, and looking the better
with William L. Dayton o f New Jer
A thin ray of light shot down between
Some one has discovered that our
sey, Abraham Lincoln o f Illinois was ths clouds. In its silvery radiance two for their visit to the cookshop. The five
quarter is a “ hoodoo’' coin. It has
first conjoined with Hannibal Hamlin figures stood out hard and black, that of got Into a first-class railway carriage and
thirteen stars, thirteen bars, thirteen
waited. Would they never have done ex
of Maine, and then unhappily with An the unconscious girl and of the man who amining tickets and stamping luggage and
arrowheads, and so on. Yet no one
crouched like a beast of prey behind her.
drew Johnson o f Tennessee.
going through all sort« of tedious formali
seems to object to hoarding thirteen
When Grant of Illinois was first He made a step forward, which brought ties? At last comes the shrill whistle of
of them when they come In bunches
nominated his mate was Schuyler Col him within a yard of her. She may have the guard, the answering snort from the
uor adding the thirteenth to the pile.
heard the heavy footfall above the ghriek
engine, and they are fairly started upon
fax o f Indiana. Those States were ad
of the storm, for she turned suddenly and
joining, but that was the only modern faced him. At the same instant she was their mission of rescue.
In an attempt to fast forty days, a instance In which adjoining States
There was much to be arranged as to
struck down with a crashing blow. There
man succeeded In starving himself to have been drawn on for such a fuir-
their plan of action. Tom, Von Baumscr
was no time for a prayer, no time for a
and the major talked it 'over in a low
death in thirty-one days. Ills purpose pose.
scream. One moment had seen her a mag
voice, while the ttoo socialists chatted to
was to prove that the mind controls
Democratic nominations in the same nificent woman in all the pride of her gether in German and consumed eternal
the body. All great religious teachers period followed the rule of widely sepa- j youthful beauty* the next left her a poor
cigarettes.
Tom was for marching
and phllosopners have already proved rated States. In 1864 McClellan o f New battered senseless wreck. The navvy had
straight up to the Priory, and demanding
this, and a sound knowledge of their Jersey rail with Pendleton of Ohio. In earned his blood money.
that Girdlestone should deliver his ward
At the sound of the blow and the sight
noble demonstrations should forbid 18158 Seymour of New York ran with
up to them. To the major and the Ger
sf
the
fall
both
the
old
man
and
the
such Iguoble experiments.
Blair o f M issouri; in 1872 Greeley of young ran out from their place of conceal man this seemed an unwise proce»din.r. It
New York ran with B. Gratz Brown of ment. Burt was standing over the body, was to put themselves hopelessly wrong
from a legal point of view. Girdlestone
Dentil duties on great estates are ex Missouri. That was the year In which his bludgeon in his hand.
had only xto say, as he assuredly would,
tremely heavy lit Urent Britain. The Grant, renominated, ran with Henry
"Not even a groan,” he said. "What that the old story was a ridiculous mare’s
d’ye think of that?”
beneficiaries under the will of an Eng Wilson of Massachusetts.
nest, and then what proof could they ad
lishwoman who died recently had to
Girdlestone wrung his hand and con- duce, or what excuse give for their inter
Iu 1876 the Democratic ticket com
giatulated
him
warmly.
"Shall
I
light
pay to the government two million sev- prised Tilden of New York and Hen
ference? However plausible their suspi
eu hundred and fifty thousand dollars dricks of Indiana, and Republican the lantern?” he asked.
cions might be. they were, after all. only
"Don’t
!”
Ezra
said
earnestly.
suspicions, which other people migkir not
In taxes on an estate worth about ticket Hayes of Ohio and Wheeler of
"I had no idea that you were so faint view in as grave a light as they did.
eighteen million dollars. Snell a tax Is New York.
hearted, my son,” the merchant remark
"What would you advise, then?" Tom
urged iu America by influential public
The recapitulation could be furthei ed. "However, I know the way to the
asked, passing his hand over hia heated
men.
pursued to show that Garfield and Ar gate well enough to go there blindfold. forehead.
thur. Hancock and English, Cleveland What a comfort It is to know that there
" I ’ ll tell you now,” the old soldier an
We are not Informed as to the
and Hendricks, Blaine and Logan, is no blood about! That’s the advantage swered, "and I think me friend Von
amount o f Sunday work required of
of
a
stick
over
a
knife.”
Cleveland and Thurman, Harrison and
Baumaer will agree with me. 1 under
government employes In the depart Morton, Cleveland and Stevenson, and
"You’re correct there, guv’nor,” Burt stand that thia place ie eurrounded by a
ments at Washington, but there can be
*aid,
approvingly.
wall
to which there la only one gate. Sure
Harrison and Held represented widely
no question of the desirability of re different States In the national elec*
"W ill you kindly carry one end and I'll wc shall wait outside this wall, and one
ducing it as far as possible, In accord
take the other. I’ll go first, if you don’t of ua can go in as a skirmisher and find
tlons.
mind, because I know the way beat. The out how the land lies. Let him ascertain
ance with the petition of the citizens
In 1808 Mr. McKinley o f Ohio ana train will pass in less than half an hour, from the young lady herself if she re
of the capital who recently waited upon
Mr. Hobart of New Jersey ran together so we have not long to wait. Within that quires immediate help, and what she
the President. Popular sympathy, too, against Mr. Bryan of Nebraska and Mr.
would wish done. If he can’t make his
will be with the movement, Inaugurated Sewall o f Maine. In 1900 Mr. McKin time every chance of detection will have way to her, let him hang about the house,
gone.”
by the same petitioners, to prevent gov
Girdlestone raised up the head of the and see and hear all that he can. We
ley o f Ohio and Mr. Roosevelt of New
ernment contractors from compelling York were named by the Republicans murdered girl, and Burt took her feet. shall then have something solid to work
their employes to work on Sunday. against Mr. By ran of Nebraska and Mr. Esra walked behind aa though he were in on. I have a whistle here on me watch
Whether we believe In the Puritan or Stevenson o f Illinois. In 1904 Judge acme dreadful dream. He had fully rec chain. Our skirmisher could take that
the continental Sunday, or, as most of Parker of New York and Mr. Davis of ognised the necessity for the murder, but with him, and if he wants immediate help
us do, occupy middle ground, we must West Virginia as Democrat* were de he had never before realized how ghastly one blow of it would be enough to bring
admit that employes' rights are Invaded feated by Messrs. Roosevelt of New the details would he. Already he had be the four of us over to him. Though how
gun to repent that he had ever acqui the devil I am to git over a wall,” con
by the operation o f any system that York and Fairbanks of Indiana.
esced In It. Then cam** thoughts ef the cluded the major ruefully, looking down
encourages work on Sunday, whether
splendid possibilities of the African busi at hia own proportions, “ is more than I
It specifically exacts such labor or not.
T h s Itr a v e a i M a n .
ness. which could only be saved from de can tell.”
It la to be hoped—and expected—that
James Creelruan, the well-known war struction by this woman’s death. How
"I hope, my vrienda,” said Von Baum-
President Roosevelt’s sympathy with correspondent, who Is on record over could he, with his luxurious tastes, bear ser, “ dat you vill allow me the honor of
labor and the decent observance of the his own signature as having provoked the squalor and poverty whish would be going first.”
Sabbath will bring about a reform In the war between the United States anti his lot were the firm to fail. Better a
“ That ia my place,” «aid Tom with de
thla direction, and there need be no pol Spain, gives this description o f the rope and a long drop than such a life as cision.
that!
All
these
considerations
thronged
itics In It.
It waa nearly eight o’clock by the time
bravest man he ever saw:
into his mind as he plodded along the
“ It was during the siege of Port Ar slippery footpath which led through the they reached their destination. The sta
No nation baa a finer opportunity thur," says Mr. Creel man. "On the •orest to the wooden gate.
tion maater directed them to the Flying
Bull, where they secu>ed the very vehicle
than thla to learn the lessons of right edge o f one o f the parapets, his feet
iu which Kate and her guardian had been
living and to apply them, for In our hanging over the edge, sat a man mak
CHAPTER X X III.
originally driven up. By the time that
country every sort of condition Is rep
When Tom and the major arrived at
ing a sketch o f the scene. From the
resented somewhere, every stage of de Japanese ships In the offing there came Waterloo station, the latter in a breath the horse waa put in it waa close on to
the half hour.
velopment can be studied In the life;
a continuous stream o f screaming, less condition, they Ituind the German
“ Drive aa hard as you can go to the
young, growing communities can sea death-delivering shells. Bat the man tvaiting for them with his two fellow ex Priory, me man,’’ saidL the major.
iles. The gentleman of Nihilistic procliv
the faults o f the overgrown, and plan
The sulky oetler made no remark, but a
sketched on unmoved. Mauser bullets. ities waa somewhat tall and thin, with
to avoid them. Such an exhibit aa
with their peculiar snakelike hiss, flew , A long frock coat buttoned almost up to look of surprise passed over hia phleg
matic countenance. For years back ao
the “Congestion Show,” recently held
over and beside him. In «11 this noise his throat, which showed signs of giving
In New York City, has Its leaaona for and Imminent death the man continued' at the seams every here and there. His little had been heard of the old monastery
the remotest American village. It waa hi* work, completely absorbed In it. j frizzly hair fell over hi» collar behind. that ita very existence had been almost
forgotten in Bedsworth.
Now. whole
graphically shown that most of the
“ Finally fie-re came from within the *nd *** bad * »hort bristling beard. He troops of Londoners were coming down in
evils of a large city, 111 health, poverty,
,h* f*®"» succeaeion, deinamliag to be driven there.
forti float Ion a R om an officer o f gigan I « " ? ? wl,h OD* h*D't *t,u*
of hia coat and the other upon his hip. aa
crime. Imperfect education, are due to
tic size. He stood long beside the man though rehearsing the position in which He pondered over the strange facts as he
overcrowding, to Improper distribution
who was drawing and watched the pen , his status would l»e some day erected in drove through the darkness., but the only
o f population; that the human being
cil carefully Riling In the graphic lines. the streets of hia native Russia, when the conclusion to which hi« bucolic mind could
needs space to live and grow In, end
The shells from the ships when they people had their own. and despotism waa come was that it was high time to raise
the fare to that particular point.
that a large city la tolerable only when
struck the masonry stirred up s cloud no more. In spite of hia worn attire
It was a miserable night, stormy and
It la laid out with wise foresight. These
of mortar dust, and as they exploded there was something noble and striking wet and bitterly cold. None of the fire
obvious conclusions are Important to
about
the
man.
Ilia
bow.
when
Ranm-
threw chunks c f broken stone In every
men had s thonght to spare for the weath
every email American city; for almost
direction. The officer’s uniform was eer intro*lured him to the major and Tom, er, however. The two foreigners had been
would have graced any court In Europe.
every one haa the blind ambition to be
covered with mortar dost, and his fa Round hia neck he had a coarse string so Infected by the suppressed excitement
bigger. If It la to grow large healthily
tlgue cap had been knocked awry by from which hung a pair of double eye of their companions, or had so identified
and gracefully, the email city muat
a Mauser bullet 1 have never seen a glasses. Tbeoe he fixed upon hie aquiline themselves with their comrade#’ cause,
atudy the hlatory of New York, the
(•rarer man. At laat he aald. In ex none, and took a good look at the gentle that they were aa eager aa the others.
protdema It haa met and failed to meet.
“ Are we near?” the major asked.
cellent Engl lab— for all Russians are men whom he had come to nerve.
"The gate 1« just at the end o’ the lane,
What may not the j Uuil|[ western city
Bulow, of Kiel, waa a «mall, dark-eyed
excellent linguists-—and speaking with
sir."
w hl.ii haa not yet gone wrong learn
an aristocratic drawl, T «ay, Creel- clean shaven fellow, quick and energetic
"Don’t pell up at the gate, but take ns
from a comparison of the factory and man, aren’ t you ever going to finish In hie movements, having more the ap
tenement house areas In New York?
pearance of a Celt than of n Teuton. He a little past It."
that sketch?*"— James 8. Metcalf*, lo
T h e re ain’t no way In except the
eecmed to be full of amiability, and as-
Even the farmer whose nearest neigh Success Magairtne.
sored the major in execrable English bow gate.” the driver remarked.
bor la ten mllee away la concerned with
“ Do what you're ordered,” said the
The three-he 11 merchant never ad very happy he was to be able to do a ser major sternly.
this city problem. Societies In the city
vice to one who had shown ktndnesa to
are trying to send to him some of the vances any thing on ths rewards oi
Once
again the ostler’■ face betrayed
their esteemed colleague and persecuted
people who ana stock In tha city. Many virtu*
patriot. Yes Bsumser. Indeed both of unbounded astonishment Us slewed half
!
The Firm of |
Girdlestone !
A
way round In his seat and took as good a
lock as was possible in the nncert&in light
at the faces of His passengers, it had oc
curred to him that it waa more than like
ly that he would have to swear to them at
eorne future date In a police court. " I ’d
know that thick ’un wi’ the red face," he
muttered to himself, “ and him wi’ the
ycller beard and the stick."
They passed the stone pillars with the
weather-beaten heraldic devices, and drove
along by the high park wall. When they
had gone a hundred yards or ao the major
ordered the driver to pull up, and they
all got down. The Increased fare was
paid without remonstrance, and the oetler
rattled away homewards, with the inten
tion of pulling up at the county police
station and lodging information as to the
suspicious visitors whom he had brought
down.
"It is ioikely that they have a watch
at the gate," said the major. "W e must
keep away from there. Thia wall ia a
great hoight. We’d beat keep on until
we find the aiaiest place to scale it.”
"I could get over it here,” Tom said
eagerly.
"Wait a bit. A few minutes can make,
no difference one way or the other. Ould
Sir Colin used to say that there were
more battles lost by over haste than by
slowness. What’s the high bank running
along on the right here?"
"Dat’a a railway bankment,” said Von
Raumser. "See the posts and the little
red lights over yonder.”
"So it is. The wall seems to be to be
lower here. What’s this dark thing?
Hullo, here’« a door lading into the
ground«.”
"It ia locked, though.”
"Give me a hoist,” Tom said imploring
ly. "Don’t throw a minute away. You
can’t tell what may be going on inside. At
this very moment, for all we know, they
may be plotting her murder.”
"He haa right," said Von Baumser.
"W e shall await here until we hear from
you. Help him, my vriends—shove him
up.”
Tom caught the coping of the wall, al
though the broken glass upon the top cut
deeply into his hands. With a great heave
ho swung himself up, and was soon
astride upon the top.
“ Here’s the whistle,* said the major,
standing on tiptoe to reach a downstretch-
ed hand. "I f you want ua give a good
blow at It. We’ll be with you in a brace
of shakes. If we can’t get over the wall
we’ll have the door down.
Tom was in the act of letting himself
drop into the wood, when suddenly the
watchers below saw him crouch down
upon the wall, and lie motionless aa
though listening intently.
"H ush!” he whispered, leaning over.
"Some one ia coming through the wood.”
The wind had died away and the storm
subaided. Even from the lane they could
hear the sound of feet, and of muffled
voices inside the grounds.
They all
cronched down in the shadow of the wall.
Tom lay flat upon the glass-studded cop
ing, and no one looking from below could
distinguish him from the wall itself.
(To be continued.)
u s s ilif
o f S e e d s.
As the result o f tests o f alfalfa, red
clover and grass seeds secured lu the
open market Chief Galloway of the
bureau of plants lndusry makes a re
port that Is certaiuly o f Interest to
farmers.
Red Clover.—O f the 1,217 samples of
red clover seed secured 406, or one-
third, contained seed of dodder, 424
contained traces o f yellow trefoil seed,
and 136 bore evldenre of having orig
inated in Chile.
Alfalfa.— Of the 399 samples o f al
falfa seed secured 191, or about one-
half, contained seed of dodder, 136
contained a trace of yellow trefoil
seed, 120 contained a trace o f sweet
clover seed, and 16 contained a trace
of bur clover seed.
Bromus Inermis.—O f the 69 samples
of Bromus Inermis seed obtained 15
contained seed of cheat, or chess, 28
contained from 2 to 3 j>er cent o f seed
of the wheat grasses, several con
tained seed o f meadow fescue and one
contained more than 24 per cent of
meadow fescue aud rye grass seed to
gether.
Kentucky Blue Grass.— O f the 429
samples of Kentucky blue grass seed
obtained only 8 were found to be free
from any trace of Canada blue grass.
In most o f these samples the trace of
Canada blue grass found was imma
ture seed, showing that it was harv
ested with the Kentucky blue grass
seed. The seeds of the two plants not
ripening at the same time. It Is Im
probable that mature seed o f Canada
blue grass would be harvested with
Kentucky blue grass seed. In 110
samples, however, Canada blue grass
seed was found in quantities exceed
ing 5 per cent, 32 of these being Can
ada blue grass seed misbranded as
Kentucky blue grass seed.
I f given befora the hogs get past
tha eating and driuking stage, the fol
lowing Is claimed to be an infallible
cure for hog cholera: To a barrel o f
good slop add one pint o f Venetian red
and one pint o f kerosene oil. Mix well.
The first rule for getting a good
profit from poultry is to get the chicks
hatched early, and the next Is to keep
those chicks growing so fast that they
will reach laying maturity before the
commencement o f cold weather.
The garden should contain moat ot
a!! of the common medicinal and flavor
ing herbs. Moat o f these can be grown
with very little trouble, and the herb
plat should Include such useful plants
as S A g e , hoarhound, caraway, saffron,
pennyroyal, tansy and others that will
suggest themselves.
T h ree
H o re e Ilo e b le tr e e .
A doubletree attachment to binder
or sulky plow can be made according
to the plan shown. The dimensions
can be varied «Itghtly to accommodate
bors**s of different sizes.
S eed G e r m i n a t i o n .
It requires from 20 to 30 days fo*
asparagus seed to germinate; beaus,
5 to 10 days; borecole, broc-coll, Brus
sels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower,
5 to 12 days; carrots, 14 to 21 days;
celery. 14 to 20 days; corn salad, 14
da ys; corn, 8 to 14 da ys; cress, curled,
3 to 5 days; cress, water, 12 to 14
d a ys; cucumbers, 5 to 10 days; egg-
plaut, 8 to 20 days; endive, 3 to 7
da ys; lettuce, 3 to 5 d a ys; melons,
cantaloupes, 5 to 10 d a y s ; melons,
water, 8 to 15 days; mustard, 3 to 8
d a ys; onions, 7 to 14 days; parsley, 20
to 30 d a y s ; parnlps, 8 to 14 days; peas,
5 to 10 days; pepper, 8 to 20 days.
W ood
A .b o .
Ashes made from bard wood are
more valuable than those made from
soft wood. It Is claimed that some
ashes from soft wood have not enough
value to make It worth while to bother
with them. It has also been discovered
that the value Is largely governed by
T h e P o ta t o H o g .
The potato bug, or Colorado potato the part of the tree from which tha
It Is declared by
beetle, passes the winter In the ma- ashes are made.
FARM-BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.
THE TW ENTIETH CENTURY JEW .
H ia D « « l r « « a n d A m b i t i o n s A r e N ot
o f H is R a c e N o r o f H is C r e e d .
Ezra Brudno, the widely known He
brew novelist and essayist. In Llppln-
cotts writes most Interestingly o f the
life of the 20th century Jew. Despite
the happiness which the Jewish Immi
grant feels when he first sets foot on
our shore, the newcomer has a lurking
longing In his breast for home. Says
Mr. Brudno:
"Not that he likes that ‘home’— he
speaks off it with a creeping sense of
horror; but he Is helpless against the
enchanting echo o f old memories. The
warm, Ill-smelling synagogue o f his
native town, as contrasted with the
airy American house o f worship, calls
him back with the magic charm of
childhood ; the communal atmosphere of
the Pale lures him with the sweetness
of a fandly fireside; somehow, at a
safe distance, the very yoke from which
he sought to free himself seems to him
now pregnant with poetic sentiment.
Does not the beggar grown rich some
times yearn for his discarded tatters?
American customs nnd atmosphere are
to him what a flood o f sunshine It to
the blind; he may feel its warmth, but
the brilliant beams are not for him.
It la only after a sojourn o f a few
years that his viewpoint begins to
broaden. Then he begins to realize that
in the whole history o f his people the
■lew never had a period of tranquility
parallel to tbp present In the United
States. Gradually he even becomes
proud o f his adopted fatherland. And
while in his heart o f hearts he never
ceaseR to hanker after ‘the fish, which
we did eat in Egypt,’ he knows that
this country Is his Canaan, tho Prom
ised Land."
With the growth o f “Jakle”
and
Rachel, or perhaps more often Jim and
Catherine, the real tragl-comedy be
gins.
“ Often Jim and Catherine usher In a
tragedy— the tragedy o f the race. And
the trngedy Is not always one-sided.
The tierce struggle arises from misun
derstanding. Jim nnd Catherine de
mand Independence, and they win the'r
fight for It. But not Infrequently lnde-
l>endence Is another name for tyranny.
Jim cannot understand why *the old
man’ Is so fond of the synagogue; he
falls to see what chains 'daddle' to
those musty habits he brought over
from the old country. Catherine frowns
at the sound of the ’old lady's’ Yiddish;
her mother's old-fashioned manners an
noy her. At first the ‘old folks’ make
a bitter fight, but If old age has pa
tience. youth has vigor. Little by little
the erderly people weaken; they soon
begin to yield, but yield as they might,
they never bend enongh to please Jim
and Catherine. Alas I Alas! how often
they break because they cannot bend!
“ While the Jew o f the past regarded
everything as subordinate to his faith,
and it was with the eyes o f his faith
that bs looked upon the world, the 20th
century Jew views life as a man first,
and as • Jew last. His desires, am
bitions and hope« a rt o f tha nation o f
whlcA ha la a part, not o f his raca. not
of hia creed. It la the natural pride
o f bis blood that sometimes makes him
strtva for recognition as a member of
bis race, but only aa a means o f re
moving the world's prejudice, not with
the hope of retaining hia Jewish Iden
tity."
The above diagram shows a cross section of a piggery building thirty-four
feet wide, which may be of any desired length. The foundation is of stone,
but may be built of concrete to be in keeping with the floor and the piers,
which are concrete. The floor is in two layers, the lower three Inches being
comprised of coarse gravel seven parts und cement one part, the upiwr inch
being mixed three parts sharp sand to one o f cement. The alley running
throughout the center of the building is six feet wide, with a crowned floor
one-half inch higher in the center, to insure its being kept perfectly dry.
The floors of the pens are given a fall o f two Inches from the alley to the
outer doors.
The partitions are constructed of one nnd a quarter-inch honrds cut into
three-foot lengths. These are placed in an upright position, the bottom ends
resting on a two-by-four and the tops capped with similar material. The loft
above Is about eight feet high nt top posts and furnishes an abundance of
room for storage of strew, crates, crate materials, etc. No meal feed should
be stored here, ns It Is likely to become contaminated.
The Illustration shows the ropes and pulleys by which the doors and
ventilators are opened and closed from the feeding alleys. On the right side
the door and ventilator are open ; on the left side closed.
ture form. As soon as the potatoes
are up these bugs begin feeding and
laying eggs on the young leaves. The
young that hatch from these eggs, as
well as the next brood, are the ones
that do the damage. Therefore, It is
necessary that treatment should be be
gun as soon as the young beetles ap
pear on the vines. Dust the plants
while the dew Is on. with a mixture
made of 1 pound Paris green to 10
pounds of slaked lime or cheap flour.'
Another good method Is to spray the
plants with a composition o f 2 ounces
of Paris green In 50 gallons o f Bor
deaux mixture, spraying the vines two
or three times. F or' this purpose the
Bordeaux mixture should be made out
of 3 pounds o f Milestone aud 5 pounds
of lime to 50 gallons o f water. This
mixture will not only kill the beetle,
but also prevent the early blight from
destroying the leaves and stems o f the
vines.
a
R a is in g R h u b a rb .
Rhubarb requires a deep and very
fertile soil. The great secret of suc
cess In raising It is high manuring. It
Is a gross feeder, and requires a lib
eral application o f manure every year.
A grower whose small patch produces
rhubarb of enormous size explains his
success from his practice o f throwing
soapsuds over the ground on washing
days, lie had sold $30 worth from a
patch o f two and one-half rods in •
single senson.
C r c a m fr le a
und
F a c to r ie s .
There are now in Minnesota 825
creameries and seventy-six cheese fac
tories In actual operation, nearly all o f
them being operated and owned by the
farmers, using the same system of
bookkeeping that Is given In the short
F t r n N o te »,
course In the dairy school, and every
When the wheels get so dry that creamery In the state is using the Bab
they rattle, have the tires properly s e t; cock milk test and is making first class
do not try to chink up the spokes.
butter.— President Northrup of Minne
With all classes o f stock the value of sota University.
the feed Is the same, whether It Is sup
plied to the scrawnles or the best of
Q u r d e u G le u n lu s r a .
To make the garden soli warm dralb
thoroughbreds.
Teams that have been partially Idle off all the surface water possible. Uss
for some time should come Into work underdrains and overdrslns.
again gradually and their shoulders
The best way to secure very early
plants la to start them in the seed box
bathed with salt water.
The cutworm Is the larvae of s or hotbed, then transplant to two-inch
m oth; the worm Is o f a brown color, flower pots as soon as the seedlings are
fat and sluggish, about an Inch long, large enough.
and feeds only during the n ig h t.
Don't work the garden and truck
For bumble-foot In poultry i aint the patch while the ground is wet In tha
corn liberally with tincture o f Iodine haste of starting an early crop. Notn-
dally for a week. If this is done in lng Is gained, but mneb is lost, lu work
the early stages the corn can be spread. ing wet soils.
To easily remove the handle from an
axe, place the blade on top o f a heated
stove and leave It there till the I roe
around what is known as the “eye” be
comes quite h ot
Heat expands the
iron, making It sn easy matter to drive
the handle from the blade.
A horee will never run Into any other
burning building besides bis own. or
even pass a bonfire If he can help it
O at w it» It.
but when once he scents danger he
-D o yon believe love la Mind. tries to get to his stall— his homo— and
George?"
when once he reaches there can only
“O f roerse it Is."
bs driven sway by fright or shock su-
‘T h aa what good la thla gaslight Ir osrlor to hia drsf * •€
oar
chemists that the ashes o f young twigs
are of more value than the ash of
the trunk o f the tree, while the ash
of the leaves la still more valuable.
Are the garden and truck patches
well drained?
T bs garden should have two gates—
one small on# and one large one. The
small gate shonld be convenient to the
bouse and the large one convenient to
the barn for hauling manors and en
tering with team and tools.
I f the garden fence Is defective either
mend the old or build a new one. Fix
It sn poultry and other animals cannot
disturb. It Is • waste of tiros end
vexation o f spirit to have tbs chick
ens and ducks forever destroying thS
gardes.