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<F kept w h ere there «111 be no
than mannte.
d anger o f chilling.
H ens th at want
It Is the v igo r and not the size o f
early In the apring are apt to
ra,h* r unreliable and ahould be al- the seed potato that determ ines the
low ed to become thoroughly started size o f the product and the amount o f
the crop.
o y e r • ne9t o t chlna e * K* bpfor,‘ t,e“
W ith the m ajority o f fru its the aim
Intrusted w ith a valuable sitting.
W hen a hen really means bus.ness, should be fo r a fe w fine, large, smooth
her skin feels hot and feverish, and sod plump specimens rather than for
many small ones.
she usually sheds a fe w feathers from
Plants to be kept In pots or tuba
the breast. E arly sittings should not
be m ore than the hen can very easily and needing m ore sun. should be given
cover, eleven or tw e lv e being better a larger size Jnst a i the fresh grow th
than a larger nnmber fo r bens
o f ; la about to be made, generally early la
a v e ra ge size. Build up the nest with [ the spring.
F ift y lives w ere lost by the burning
o f a factory In Gottenburg. Sweden.
T h e Forty-third Congress adjourned
a fte r putting a dam per on the fo re*
bill.
O f an original population o f 52.000
in one district In Asia Minor, 20.000
had died o f tile fam ine then p revailin g.
T h e German governm ent issued a de
cree prohibiting the Importation
of
Am erican potatoes.
A bill to adm it Colorado as a State
was approved, and a similar measure
concerning N ew M exico was defeated
In Congress.
A snow storm with a precipitation
ranging from tw o to eight Inches oc
curred along the Ohio river.
T h e P op * ordered tlie Austrian bish
ops to com ply with the civil law re
quiring re| orts to lie made to the s ta te
o f the roster o f priesthood.
It w a ,
taken as an unusually
conciliatory
m ore.
Tweety Year, Ago.
President Cleveland signed the order
placing Gen. Grant on (lie retired list
w ith pay.