midnight train that awoke her. She did C H A P T E R V I.— (Continued.! There was no striking of So far then from an ocular inspection not know. being an essential in a love affair, the clocks, and there was not sufficient light very opposite is probably true. Along from the wide open south gable window with the full confession of this fuct to to enable her to see the hands of her herself, came something like a feeling watch, and so she could not make out o f resentment ut the whole conduct of that it was the reverberating roar o f the train from the distant city that broke her this man Mason. That he had foolishly permitted him­ rest into unequal segments. H er bed was drawn out in front o f the self to fall in love with her was so very plain a case that everybody had seen it open window so that the cool soft night long ago! It was certainly not her fault! breeze coming out o f the woods nnd No, indeed, nobody could say that of across the broad river could lave her hot her! Not even the long-tongued gossips face in its refreshing eddies and ripples. W hatever had nwakened her, she lay o f Sandtown!' True, too, that he had displayed some there looking out into the shady street a magnificent qualities of strong, calm little bit dimmed with a summer night's manhood in the face o f that awful peril fog. She was sure then that she was o f the storm. She could not deny that. fully awake, and that she saw in the She had no desire to subtract from his road, not sixty feet away, Mr. W ill M a­ real disserts in the least. Hut then, was son walking slowly toward the river, and not this, like his new and wide philoso­ having his face turned over his right phy of humanity, a reflection from his shoulder nnd his head thrown back just far enough to allow him to fix his eyes superior officer? upon that window, that ho knew was H e had told her that his strange new philosophy was also entertained by Prof. the window o f her bedroom. H e passed on; nnd she was so anxious Huntley. And this had contributed much to know more of this lonely walk of his, to give it a standing in her estimation. because his very presence seemed to as­ Hut had he told her the whole truth? sure the re-establishment o f a sort of No, she knew he had not. I f he had been frunk nnd honest, he would have communication with the hero of her dreams—-Huntley— that she arose nnd said that he had imbibed these opinions from Prof. Huntley. And if so, was not glided to the side o f the window farthest that splendid display of practical knowl­ from the pedestrian. She had to cross in front of the open edge, skill nnd courage the result of window, and she thought there was some P rof. Huntley’s training? danger that he might see the glimmer of Undoubtedly she had been badly used by Mr. Mason. H e had stood persist­ her long, white nightdress against the ently between her and the perfect man black background o f the dark room. Sinking down upon her knees and that she had learned to love so quickly. H e had misrepresented her to him either doubling back till she sat upon her small, directly or by a culpable silence that bare feet, nnd forward till an elbow rest­ through a base jealousy refused to put ed upon the low sill of the window, site looked out and saw him standing with his her before him in her proper light. H er H e was a mean fellow— that Mason. face turned directly toward her. And although her obligation to him must heart leaped ham against the soft, pliant compel her to a formal recognition of walls o f her little chest, and she drew him when they should meet again on back into the darkness. In an instant she peeped out to be Mondny, yet she was resolved to throw so much coldness into her manner that horrified at the spectacle o f a gigantic he could n»t fail to see that she was black figure, half enveloped in the thick­ through with him, and that he was a er fog toward the river, and seeming to undulate threateningly, and to elongate very thin article, too! And when Monday came and went in an upward direction, as some o f the without him, and without rumor o f Hunt- make-believe giants of the circus and ley, she grew even more bitter. I f this the farce are seen to do. Then, while she lay there in a frozen fellow continued to keep Prof. Huntley away, she shouldn’t even speak to him. horror o f fascinated, wide-eyed gazing, She would bring matters to a crisis by the huge specter dimmed and vanished. refusing to acknowledge his first saluta­ H ow she got back to bed, and what brought her mother running to her room, tion upon his return. Then when he should demand .in ex­ she only knew from her. Mrs. W ickly lay down, taking her planation. as she knew he wouK demand it— she would boldly charge him with his frightened daughter in her arms, ns she perfidious conduct in keeping Mr. Hunt- was in the habit of doing yet at times, ley away, upon whatever ground he nnd endeavored to reassure her by tell­ ing her that it was simply the climax of should choose to put it. Her father com­ Prom Lizzy herself, the condemnation some hideous dream. o f Mason seemed to spread everywhere ing in, more deliberately sat by the win­ — to her great surprise— and to grow dow nnd told her that this was simply a steadily and in an arithmetical*ratio all phenomenon of the fog — an unusual one, to be sure, in all its details, but clearly through the week. Day after day inquiry revealed little explicable upon maxims of physical sci­ things that looked bad for Mason. The ence. first flutter of anxiety ns to his fate had For instance, the undulatory motion resolved itself on the ascertainment of and the elongation o f the specter in a the fnct that he had taken the train for vertical direction, were visual phenom­ the city on that very Saturday evening ena. The mist concealing the feet of after the storm. the man concealed all the ground about That anxiety was not at all an evi­ him, and thus left no object within the dence of any good quality in Mr. Mason. range of vision for comparative measure­ H e himself had said to her. in one of ments, such as the eye makes automat­ hit philosophic moods, that this vast hu­ ically every Instant. man interest in a human life was an in­ The undulating movement upward was stinct common to all observed animal life the pulsating or wavelike advance of the — even cattle rnn about wildly and paw­ fog bank toward her. thus putting the ed the earth at the smell of the spilt gradually disappearing body and head at blood of one of the herd. farther and farther distances, as more And that, too, although the slain beast and more o f the foreground was en­ might if alive, lie set upon and gored croached upon by the advancing fog by each separate beast o f the herd, with bank. That might nil lie good physical the acquiescence, or the perfect indiffer­ science, but she had seen something that ence o f all the others. frightened her horribly. And she felt The insatiable desire to penetrate the that some dreadful misfortune was com­ mysteries of all the violent deaths, was ing upon her, she couldn’t imagine what. the answer to the universal animal in­ The bright sunlight o f the uext day stinct of fair play— most strongly de­ did more to explain away the specter veloped in the Saxon Hoosier people. than all the physical science that all They were known to have taken sudden Sandtown possessed. and terrible vengeance upon the mur­ A ll Sandtown, however, got hint o f the derer of a man confessedly o f very little story in some unaccountable way, and account to anybody. told it with much multifarious, ingenious But he had had n life! And this it nnd original additions, amendments and was that had nrouseil the whole popu­ substitutions, so that it got out that a lace to demand who had taken it? So “ hant” was a walkun the “ Overcoat that whin the safety o f Mr. Mason had Road” — as the strictly ex-urban portion been settled by the train <|ispatcher at of the continuation of Main street had the little station a mile from the vil­ ticen called from a time so remote that lage. the defense of Mr. Mason withdrew it was lost in legendary incertitude. and joined the prosecutiou. C H A P T E R V II. As day after day. and even week af ter week went by without tidings from Mr. Mason he went down to the very lowest plane in the estimation of all Sandtown. “ I tell yuh, Squnr, blame if I ever liked that feller Mason, nohow, purtick- ler,” said “ Coon” Redden, ns “ Coonrod” Redden, the wealthiest land owner of Field county, was familiarly or more for­ mally railed. The whole Redden family were visiting at “ Squire” W ickly’s on that Saturday evening two or three weeks after the storm and the disappearance. “ H e tried his level best to argy me down at the Hoard uv Trade wnir nuthun but the «m erriest kine a gamblnn. Hlamefe didn’ t! That was that same Sat'dy evenun, I.ixzy, at you un him got cotch in the hur-knn, up en the big woods, you reeklehs-k?" turning to look straight at Miss W lckly, who was now greatly Interested in the loud flow o f the old Hoosier's “ hnir-rnngue," as he him­ self termed It. "B y gum! he nuvver stopped to say good-by ur how-dy-do, but he ups un he goo* aflyun down to the Hank. Un thurrorkly he comes aflyuu out. un away he went to the tell-graft offus, a walkun so fast yuh could a play­ ed si-lfum-up s o n his coat-tails, Squnr! Uu the next I h yum uv ’ ini. he taken the train fur Chicago ’thont atoppun to settle a lot a little bills roun about h’yur at I know uv m yself." There was a great deal more o f the same roaring fire of shrewd, half-humor­ ous comments and observations upon Mr. Mason. Lizzy, fully aware that she vio­ la toil no rule o f Sandtown etiquette, sen t up stairs to lied in her own little hot room, when she tired of the' "hatr- rangne.” and was soon blissfully uncon­ scious of the weight that began to drag at her hitherto buoyant and merry heart. It might have been the whistle o f the the bank company at haint plum busted, nuther! You see we was all a delun en wheat to-g-yuther, un all at once the bottom drapt plum outun ut! Un that left urse all flntter'n un flitter. But that haint the wuat uv ut, nuther. I see Hilly Hiler this mornun. un he tells me at all the bank’s klatter'l is hilt by one a tham blame railroad companies. Un thur scheme is to sell uvertheng right slap dad when they haint a dollar at we kin git a holt uv, to buy in nuthun with, by gum!” And now came Billy Biler, M. C., a fresh, rosy-cheeked young gentleman, A n l.v e rln a tin tc l*o»t, with a great show o f laundered linen in j A correspondent in a farm exchange the way o f big stiff cuffs, “ dog collar,” white tie, und all ornamented with mas gives the follo w in g method o f m aking Hive gold sleeve buttons, gold studs and an everlastin g post: A is a cubic pit Jiamond pin, ami ull other appointments 4x4x4 fe et tilled w ith cobble stones on a corresponding scale o f magnificence. and Portland cement, about 8 inches The whole Sandtown district gloried o f the top being strong as used for in Billy Biler’s fine raiment, as if it were walks. Post B is 3 inches gas pipe, the individual property o f each and ev­ w ell galvanized, w ith screw’ cap ou top ery voter that “ worked’’ for Billy all day at L>, and short piece o f 9» rod C at the polls on the occasion of each suc­ through hole in low er end, and top ceeding congressional election. “ Hello, B illy! H ar yuh, Billy! W hen’t end also has 94-inch hole to receive top yuh git in. B illy? Purty warm, haiu’ t ut, end o f %-lnch brace rod E, which ha9 Billy? Makes you swept, don’t ut. B illy! short double bend at top as shown, so Out hot under the collar haint ut. B illy?” as to hold firm ly when in position These nnd hundreds o f other formulas shown. F or gate post, I use of salutation, together with a disjoint­ rod brace drawn at top so end w ill ing hand shaking, jvait upon the popu­ lar Billy Biler, and he is at once in the center o f the crowd o f people who are blocking up the Overcoat Hoad immedi­ ately between the Sandtown Farmers’ Bank building and the court house, to that extent that teams still coming through the cloud o f dust along that pop­ ular thoroughfare, as well as teams com­ ing up the river road, were obliged to turn out of the way, which they did very cheerfully, when it was known that Billy Biler was back from Washington on pur­ pose to help his friends in this extrem­ ity. “ Now, boys,” said Billy in a loud, jolly, good-natured voice, and taking off his shiny silk hat to permit the thorough mopping o f his rosy, smooth, fat face, “ I ’m a go-un down with Coonrod, h-yur, E VEKLASUNG POST. fur dinner, un when we git back we’ll go un see whut these railroad fellers is try- enter the %-invh pole, and place the mi to steal from yuh. Un if it’s too big fur un to pack off in a hurry, we’ll make brace on other side o f post, form in g brace Instead o f tension brace in the them sweat awhile instead o f us.” I ’ossibly a sm aller cube This speech was followed by a gleeful other style. roar o f applauding laughter from the o f cement m ight hold, but I wished to whole crowd, which, with much niter- make sure, so used 4 feet cube. I change of knowing comments on Billy have four o f these posts, which have Biler’s shrewdness and ability to cope been In use nearly four years and they with the very smartest o f the railroad show no Indication ' o f m oving or o f rascals, and their own shrewd foresight deterioration. T h e m aterials cost me in electing such a Congressman as Billy Biler— broke up in little groups to dis­ about $5 each, which some may con­ sider expensive, but fo r roadw ay or cuss the situation. “ B illy,” said Coonrod Redden, as the other places w h ere a post w ill alw ays two drove past Squire W ick ly’s house be needed, they are not expensive. on their way to the big white frame man­ wben durability is considered, fo r they sion of the old farmer— “ right there is may well be called everlasting. the man un the g'yurl at's bout the wust hurt over this hank business nv awry one Su gar and Tobacco. uv urse fellers. W eekly’s mighty nigh The proposal being made to secure plum, slap, dab rnvun crazy. Un I low the reduction o f the duty on Philippine the g-yurl haint much better. Smartest sugar and tobacco promises to bring and purti-est g-yurl roun h-yur, too! on another fight sim ilar to the sugar Blame pity fur uni.” "H o w much do they lose?” asked Billy w ar over Cuban reciprocity. I t is pro­ Biler. as he prepared to light a cigar, posed now to low er the tariff on sugar without showing any interest in the men­ and tobaeeo com ing from the P h ilip ­ tal condition o f the patients. pines '.’3 per cent, although it is un­ “ O nut much— fur’s the ’mount’s gut derstood that Secretary T a ft proposes anytlieng to do with ut. But hits all—- to continue a fight from session to ses­ and a little more, meb-by. They was sion o f Congress until free Philippine two nioggijis yuh see, uu the g'yurl ml In gut miff saved to pay um off. Un when sugar nnd tobacco are secured. she went, she foun three uv um still a this connection It Is Interesting to two! The Squire's tryun to git that fr.r- know the great and varied develop- tmie 'at he lows he’s heired, and he'd nient which is goin g on in beet sugar thode in a third moggiji right plum slap, affairs. In fact, a strong argum ent dab on top a the vuther tw o! I n you which the beet sugar people advance see that kivered the Inn up so deep at w h y Philippine sugar production omher eouhl tech bottom by gum The sllouI(, be unduly stim ll!a:eil is Ian haint wuth moron half uv ut. 1 d * l# ^ . _ a bought It in myself, e f hit ml a hen that l f ihe Ueet * Ufrar ind,,s"*y 18 *»v- anywhnrs nigh worth ut. Hut sh.»h!" en a « » » o iu t b le period, say o f ten and Coonrod Redden looked down nnd -v eilrs- the industry w ill be upon such kicked the toe o f his boot hopelessly a basis w here It can stand alone. No against the arm o f the dashboard. less an authority than Secretary W il- "W h a t did W ickly do with the money? son him self Is credited w ith this be­ l le must a gut a thouaan ur so. didn't |ie f anj tlle statem ent that it ill be he?” asked Billy Biler, chewing the end posible to produce beet sugar In this of the lighted cigar, nnd watching Coon- rod Redden out o f the corners o f his country at 2 cents a pound. ml large whitish eyes. "O , you can't nuvver tell whut feller does with money, thataway. Thode ut away, lak ns nut. H-yander he goes into the house with both weernun follerin 'im ! Shouldn't wonder e f they'd be trou- ble there, B illy! lie 's m ighty nigh plum slap dub crazy, by gum!” (T o be eontinued.l C s e fn l l*o tu to C o v e re r. W hen w e plant potatoes we fu rrow w ith a plow drawn by tw o horses. W hen the fu rrow s are made there are ridges la h a lf o f the spaces and the other h a lf are level (F ig . 7). W hen coverin g w e use what w e call a scrap­ er. ( See F ig 2). It is made o f a plank, tongue, handles and several M O S l F A M O U S OF PÊARLS. braces and bolts. T h e length o f the plank should be about tw ice the dis­ N a m e d th e T a v e n ie r an d in Possc-s- tance between the rows. T h e plank * io n o f the M iuh o f Persia. T h e most fam ous pearl in all tho should have a strap o f iron at the w orld Is ow ned by the shah o f Persia bottom in fron t fo r 8 f i t t i n g edge and and called the T aven ier. It w as nam­ ed fo r the celebrated tra v e ler o f that name and w as sold to the shah's an­ cestors by him fo r $300,000. To-day it is probably w orth more than $l53ot- 000 A n oth er eastern king, the isrnun o f Muscat, has in his collection u pearl w orth $103,000, w eigh in g tw e lv e and a h a lf carats. T h e d ayligh t can be seen through it. Princess YousoupofTs finest gem is w onderfully beautiful. to prevent wear, says a correspondent It was first heard o f in 1620, when o f Ohio Farm er. T h e tongue should Ueorglbus Calais sold it to P h ilip o f be fastened to the plank at right an­ .Spain for $1SU,(>00. T h e pope's pearl gles, and securely braced. Th e han­ is worth $S0,0U). It has descended in dles. which may be taken from an old a regular course to the incumbent o f plow or w alk in g cultivator, should the throne from one o f the earliest also be fastened and braced to the popes, w ho became possessed o f it in plank. W e let each horse w alk In a a manner which has not been told. furrow , but It Is better to use a long llie s e doubletree and neckyoke or shafts and pearls. But there an* rem arkable but one horse, so the potatoes do not pearl necklaces which have an enor­ get m oved and tramped. Th e scraper mous value. T hey are usually made carries some ground ahead o f It, which up, pearl a fte r pearl being added to It pulverizes. It m ay be used to the set, and leading je w e le rs are con­ scrape the barnyard I f the ground Is stantly on the watch to secure more smooth. to add to the chain. T h e B it t in g H en . Plrik pearls are not as valuable as E gg s Intended fo r early sittin g either the black or the white. lju*vn C H A P T E R V III. Right ill the middle o f the red-hot month o f July the light, loam-mixed sand of the Overcoat Road was in the shim­ mering air all day long, whitening the dark coats of the sweating horses that drew all sorts of vehicles along it at all hours of the day and night, and hid­ ing the glossy green of wild hemp and jimson leaves under a dull veil of gray. The whilom school boy of Sandtown was baking his back of a lurid brown as far down on his shoulders as the cool, clear waters o f the Wabash would permit. All at once a vast buza of wonder changed Into wrath throughout all Sand­ town, far up and down the mellow dis­ tances o f the river, and out upon all the lanes and "wagon tracks" that were trib­ utary to the Overcoat Road. T o those who had not heard the news by reason o f temporary absence, rushed everybody, to be the first to communicate the stunning intelligence that the Sand­ town Farmers’ Hank had closed its doors. There was no esca|iade of a cashier. Nobody had gone to Canada with th- funds of the bank in his satchel. I f any­ body had gone to Canada, it is safe to say that Field county, from Sandtown to Redfoot Pond, and from the Wabash to the end 01 the Overcoat Road, would Victoria bad a necklace o f pink pearls have taken its “ weapons," and have which Is w orth $.v>,mm ami the dowa- gone into the IViminion after the culprit, ger empress o f (¡ern m n y had one o f with no other writ of extradition than a thirty tw o pearls which would easily rope. No! no! Mister Cashier! Yon may go sell for $123.t**V T h e wom en o f the from the effete “ East” to Canada with Hotbschlld fam ily have gents o f this poor people's money in your pocket, with sort which far exceed in value those safety. Hut by all the Coonrod Reddens owned by royalty. Baroness (in s ta te of the Wabash country it won't be I>e Rothschild possesses one made up healthy for yon to run away from Hoo- o f five row s o f pearls w hich is val­ sienlom with that sort o f luggage in your ued at $ 200 . 1 * 10 . hand. “ I wouldn’t k-yur a blame fur what I Demand in China for Japanese can­ lost myself, fellers, but atop and thenk nv the people at haint got nothnn a-tall vas shoes, fans, china and antimony left! Nut the wrappnns uv thnr little | Is Increasing since the present Far , finger, by gum! Un they haint one • j East w ar began. . plenty o f straw, filling w ith chaff to make a smoother surface, and see that the curve toward the tmttoiu is smooth, so that the eggs roll easily and cannot work Into corners. Good I n c o m e from Hen«. In a prize article In a 1’ hiladelphlu paper, U. F. Lake, o f W est Virginia, tells how he makes »1,000 a year from ■loo hens. T h e houses are simple, the clim ate not being severe. They are 10x40 feet, facing the south, divided into four compartments, tw o roosting rooms and tw o scratching rooms, after the usual plan, each house being used fo r fifty to sixty-tl e fowls. Each house Is expected to pay a profit above cost o f food o f $100. The food is wheat, oats, bran, cut clover and drv blood or beef meal, w ith plenty o f sharp grit, plenty o f water, and the lice kept In check. The stock Is kept up by Incubators and setting hens are also used, lu short, the success o f this establishment seems to be the re- I suit o f adopting the thoroughgoing One Hundred Years Ago. Northern methods in an especially fa ­ Snow nml Ice made all roads be­ vorable climate. tween Sw itzerland and Ita ly impassa­ H i l l , f o r A p p le O rc h a rd *. ble. W here there are bibs and a elay soli F iv e thousand negro soldiers w ere the conditions are suitable fo r the enlisted to serve in the L eew a rd isl­ raising o f apples. In the southern 1 ands. part o f Illinois and Indiana the land j W ith the closing o f the Eighth Con­ Is adm irably adapted to the raising of gress the political life o f A aron Burr apples, and as yet is but little used ceased. for that purpose. The app!e tree j Thom as Jefferson was Inaugurated seems to w an t a ir drainage. The fo r the second time President o f the drainage in the soil is better on the United States. hills than in the valleyg. and this Is Minnesota, east o f the Mississippi, an advantage that the apple tree ap-1 w as made a part o f M ichigan territory. preeiates. T here Is a difference In T h e month o f the Cuyahoga river, trees as to the amount o f air that ! « h e r e the city of Cleveland now must come to their roots to permit stands, w as made a port o f entry ou them to grow, as is evident in the fact Lake Erie. that some trees w ill die i f their roots N ine French gunboats, attem pting to are in water, while others grow best get Into Brest, « e r e captured by B rit­ In swam ps w here the w ater covers ish frigates. their roots at all times. The apple tree Is never a swam p lovin g tree. It : Seventy-five Years Ago. prefers the dry land, where its roots Bread riots occurred in Liverpool. can get air as w ell as w ater.— St. T h e French Cham ber o f Peers and I.ouis Republic. Deputies met at Paris. T h e “ Book o f Mormon,” w ritten by W h o le s o m e M ilk . In a bulletin o f the Connecticut Solomon Spaulding, was published In Storrs station W. A. Stocking. J r . re­ N ew York. ports the results o f com parative stud­ W illiam Cram p established his fatu­ ies o f the sanitary ous shipyards at Philadelphia. condition o f milk ' T h e Indiana State road from L ak e draw n in open and i.\ M ichigan to Madison, on the Ohio, w as covered pails. T w o ! .l begun. palls w ere used in Abraham Lincoln's fath er m oved these experiments. «•1th his fam ily from Indiana to Macon One was a regular conntv. 111. open pall; the oth­ T lie first regular n e «'s boat to inter­ er was a pail with cept packet ships for foreign Intelli­ a cover o f special gence w as put in commission in N ew design. A n Illus­ York. tration o f the lat- f o v e r e d m il k p a i l ter is here given. It is an ordinary Fifty Years Ago. milk pail w ith a closely fitting cover, F ire destroyed the quarantine station which has an opening near one side. Into which Is soldered a funnel four at Staten Island. T h e governm ent hospital fo r the in­ Inches in diam eter having a w ire gauze o f fine mesh soldered across the sane o f the arm y and navy at Union- bottom. Th is funnel extends slightly tow n w as opened. T h e la w excluding from the C alifo r­ above and below the cover and slopes som ewhat tow ard the side o f the pall. nia courts negro and Indian evidence Another funnel, w hich Is loose, fits In­ w as amended by adding Chinese. President P ieree vetoed the French side o f the first one. W hen the pail Is to be used a fe w layers o f eleau spoliation hill, and it failed In the cheesecloth are placed across the open­ House o f the requisite vote to pass ing o f the low er funnel and the loose o v e r the veto. T h e House o f Representatives receiv­ funnel Is pushed in to hold the cheese­ cloth in position. T h e whole appar­ ed President Pierce's veto o f the ocean atus Is simple in structure and can be steam er bill and attem pted to pass it easily cleaned. By the use o f the cov­ over the veto, but failed. Ratifications o f the treaty o f alli­ ered pail an avera ge o f 29 per cent o f the total number o f bacteria ami 41 ance between Sardinia and the western Sardinia per cent o f the acid producing bacteria pow ers w ere exchanged. transm itted to other governm ents the w ere excluded from the fresh milk. declaration o f w a r against Russia. G ood P r ic e s f o r P ro d u ce . T h e first, steam tire engine built fo r From prices quoted at Panam a there j the city o f Boston was exhibited In is a chance fo r truck grow ers within j Baltim ore. reach o f the line o f the proposed ea-1 nal. Apples are selling fo r 15 cents ' each, lettuce 23 cents a head and cab -1 Forty Years Ago. bages $1.50 apiece. Chickens and eggs | Ahraham Lincoln was Inaugurated are selling at high prices and board | President for the second time. costs from $3 to $5 a day in the better Col. B. M. Anderson, one o f the al­ class hotels. leged conspirators from Chicago, on G a rd e n H in t*. Study the seed catalogues. tria l before court m artial at Cincin­ nati, com mitted suicide. Sow peas as soon as the ground can be worked. T h e Treasury Department reported that seventeen national b.lnks. w ith a N ow w ill you be good and test your capital o f $8,523,000, w ere authorized during the week. seeds? • C onfederate deserters to the Union Cherries and plums should be lines at Hichmoml brought report o f am ong the trees gra fted e a rlies t A n "earliest green eatin g onion’ Is the capture o f .W aynesboro by Sheri­ dan. one o f the new things o f 1905. Gov. Oglesby o f Illinois issued a "T rim m in g tim e "— the m ilder days proclamation urging the citizens to re­ o f late w in ter and early spring. spond in filling a deficiency o f 14.000 "P ru n e when the k n ife Is sharp,’ but in the State's quota o f troops. never « h e n the wood is frozen. Reports from W ashington. II. C.. Lettuce and radish seed can go into stated that 2.<**i deserters from the the ground as soon as the surface cun C onfederate lines had reported and be scratched. taken the oath o f allegiance within a P low in g the garden when the month. F orty o f these « e r e officers. ground is w e t makes bad work. B et­ ter a good Job a fe w days delayed. Thirty Years Ago. F a r m N o te *. Spring trim m ed most suckers. trees produce the W a stefu l feed in g may mean too much or too little. F arm in g Is poor business when the farm in g Is poor. One w ay to increase the profits In farm in g Is to reduce the cost o f pro­ duction. T h e early killed Is the easy killed weed and the w eed that fobs the crop the least. But few plants w ill th rive In a wet should be gathered at least tw ic e a soil. A good drain Is sometimes better an