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T h e T r a il of the "Dead: TH E STRANGE E X P E R IE N C E OF DR. R OBERT HARLAND By B. FLETCHMt ROBINSON and J. ♦ 1 « MALCOLM ERASER (Copyright. I90S. by Joaeph H Bowles) C H A P T E R V III. I was Dot favorably impressed with ilia breeder of pigs. He was an elderly an, full bodied, with white hair, that tuck out stiffly from under his fur cap, red, bulbous nnsa, and shifty, suspl- [lous eyes. He saluted us with a touch t his cap in military fashion. “ And what is your business, gentle- oeu?" he asked. 'It is less business than gratitude,” aid (Iraden courteously. "W e have | nade this little pilgrimage to thank the “ producer of the Lemsdorf hams.” r You are not dealers, then)” m “ No. but i “ Then take yourself off!” “ Herr IirobinI” “ Go! clear out! Do I not make myself lain?” he cried, his flusued face nod- p fV M lin g in time to his violent gesticulations. |T will have no spies about the place!” * . 1 (iraden sprang out of the sleigh and itrode up to the angry farmer. For a noment I thought there would be a icnuimage; but the huge bulk of his an- agonist was not without its effect upon H I the German. I have often noticed that “ I great stature has a curiously soothing in- IBuence on the bad temper of an oppo nent. I "W h y did you call me a spy?” demand- led my cousin. "The people about here gossip of some ret 1 hold,” he answered sulkily, erhaps they speak true; perhaps false. |Who can say) A t least, 1 am no longer fool; my eyes have been opened. ‘Y'ou _______ ave a good thing here, Herr 1 (robin. U llilB T h e re is a great future before you. if nly you keep your knowledge to your- *lf,' said the Englishman to me. ‘ If (rangers come asking questions, they ^ ^ w l l i be spies; send them away.’ It was ^ ^ H B n e advice !>>• gave me; anyone ^ ^ ^ th a t. So be off with you!” I am an Englishman myself, Herr )robin. May 1 ask my compatriot's a m if' , " I do not remember." “ What, then, was he like?” ,1 ' “ I cannot describe him.” le (flO i “ You are discreet, lie rr Drobin. Pome, H n o w , let us strike a bargain. 1 will i|finake a guess at your secret; if I am B r ig h t, you will tell me what you know I H ° f *his Englishman. « I 1! The German Ue started back, staring at t, "kSflGraden with v little, bloodshot eyes, in J jJ ffw h ic h sur surprise and fury were oddly mln- 'V jilg le d . Tin Then, side by side, they stepped ilnto the shadow of the pines, whispering P together. “ They are all liars, these Germans,” Lsaid our driver coutidentially, turning to ** ■ 8 1 1 a" ' ‘ "®'or myself, 1 am a role." I’ ou heard what was said. I>o you anything of this English visitor to '“ D l l " ” Drobin?” H U H "M ost certainly, mine Herr. lie was f is-j'n ■ r * if*®f (he name of Wakefield. He has stay i e d several nights at the ‘Golden Adler.' n ik h l A K o r the rest, he has been the guest of him who lived out there,” and lie made Itl, » gesture down the road that we had let , coine. o rl, t r ’ f A nameless fear took me by the throat m I M — a fear o f unknown pogaibilities. I cC V. |H would haTe questioned the man more, lint i n f f l i f i Bt (h*t moment (Iraden and the farmer fi"* 1 emerged from the shadow of the pines. y The latter had abandoned his truculent *JS I,™ itself to him— and the nationality of an Englishman, for, as we know, he spoke the language to perfection. H e adminis tered madder in some form until Mecher- sky grew ill; after which, in his poaition of medical attendant, the rest was easy. He tied when he knew that the end of the tragedy was at hand, that every bone of nis victim was fragile aa thin glass. Probably he caught a momentary glimpse of ns in the ‘Ooldner Adler'; and bis midnight visit was to assure himself of your identity. You were in great peril that night. Cousin Itobert; I shudder to think how great. “ H e has probably escaped to-day: there is a fast train to the west at 12 o’clock he could catch. But I vow be fore heaven. I vow before you as my witness, that I will pursue this fiend un til I have run him down. Heaven knows I have no hatred towards him. I feel to him as a man might feel towards a mad dog which is a danger to the peaceful men, women and children of his village. It is the duty of the citizen to risk hia life In its capture.” “ Where do we go now?” I asked. “ T o the railway. W e must gather what news we can.” The winter night was falling drear and cold when our tired horses staggered up to the station door. I scrambled out. hungry, cramped, exhausted in body and mind, and followed my cousin within. The station was empty at the moment save for a distant corner where a man sat huddled on a traveling valise. W e advanced at once upon him. When we were a dozen feet away, he started up and faced us. It was Mossel, the lieutenant of the Heidelberg police. “ Any luck, mein Herr?” said he to Gradeu. “ What In the world are you doing here?” was the astouished answer. “ W ell, mein Herr, 1 thought you knew something, and followed you. When 1 arrived this morning. I said to myself: ‘The great white English ferret will be at work to-day searching for the rat. I will wait at the station like a net into which Mr. Ferret may turn the rat.’ Gradeu skipped up to him and shook him warmly hy the hand. "Capital. Mossel, capital! And you— had tlie net any luck?” “ The net was sitting upon the rat's luggage when you arrived this moment. The net has been here for five hours, and is cold and hungry. The net is of opin ion that the rat must have seen him aud abandoned his luggage. H e has not left by train.” "B lit he can escape In no other way. W e have him, Mossel, we have him.” “ So it would seem,” said the lieul‘.uant calmly. a compatriot. I f he is still in ths house, perhaps he will join us at our meal.” “ H err Wakefield! No, mem llc ir , he has not yet returned.” “ •o , he has gone out?” T h e inukeeper hesitated, glaneing un easily at his questioner. He was evi dently in some uncertainty of mind. “ H e is a strange man, the Herr W ake field; though, perhaps« for an English man------” "H e is not more mad than usual, eb Mr. Landlord?” laughed Graden. "M ein Herr, it was not my intention to speak thus of your great people,” apol ogized the man. “ I f be has surprised us, it is doubtless because we, being ignorant countryfolk, do not understand hia cus tom».” “ Why, what haa he been about?” “ W ell, mein Herr, it is this way. After you had started for your drive to the house of the Prof. Mechersky, Herr Wakefield came running down from his room with many questions concerning you. H e seemed sorry that you had gone without seeing him. He then paid his bill with the liberality of the English who are indeed a great and generous ua tion, and commanded that his luggage should be carried to the station for the midday train. A t 11 he himself set out for tlie station upon foot. W e were sorry to lose so good a guest. W hat then, mein Herr, was our surprise when a little after 12 he reappeared, having ridden back upon the sleigh that had taken hia baggage to the station! The man who drove it told me that Herr Wakefield had left his baggage upon the platform unregistered, aud that he had seen a stranger standing by it as if in charge.” Graden glanced at Mossel, who grin ned luminously, “ Proceed, Mr. Landlord,” he said. “ H e had only peeped into the station and left at once, the man aaid. tie demanded of me a sleigh gnu good horses, but the best I had were with you, and it was necessary to send for others from a neighbor. He was very inpatient of delay, using angry words. A t last lie drove away, aud he has uot returned.” “ Who went with him?” “ Iran, my eldest son.” “ Did he say where he was going?’ “ No. mein Herr; only I heard him cry to Ivan to follow the eastern road which is towards the Russian frontier.” "A n d while he waited for the horses, what did he do: "A s I have said, at first he abused me roundly for the delay. Indeed, mein Herr, I was surprised at his knowledge of German, for before he had spoken it very badly. For the rest, he sat by himself, reading, in the best room.” “ Plense to show us there.” W e tramped iu single file after the landlord through the ill-lit passages to the “ best room.” a parlor set aside for important guests. It seemed a peculiarly inartistic apartment, with green wall paper and angular chairs covered with purple antimacassars. On the central table stood a lamp, and beside it lay a number of those dingy books that seem common to inns of all nations. Grnilen made for them at once, and as he sorted through the pile of time tables, cata logues, and trade papers, we stood watch ing him in surprise. Suddenly he stopped in his search with a little grunt of satis faction, aud drawing n chair to the table, snt down. I looked over his shoulder. H e was actually reading a German Baedeker! "Doubtless you are planning a picnic party?” I suggested, with as much sar casm as I could put into the question. “ I know you are tired and hungry, my good Robert,” he answered; "but please keep quiet.” He had reached “ Lemsdorf” — I could see the name at the top of the page— and now was turning the leaves very slowly. Suddenly he held up the Uue deker to me. "D o you see that?” he asked sharply. A jagged line of paper ran uluug the inner crease of the guide book. The map of the district had been torn away! Mosael thrust me gently aside and, bending over, examined the under page thug left exposed. He took the book from Grnden's hands and, carrying it to the lamp, continued his scrutiny. “ You are quite right, Mossel,” said my cousin. ” llis pencil had a sharp point.” "Y ou have a keen eye. Herr Graden grinned the policeman. "In our busi ness you would have made some reputa tion.” "This is a new edition. How long have you had it?” s- “ But a few days, mein Herr.” “ And have you been Tiaited by any tourists ill that time?” "N o. mein Herr.” “ Then this should make it a certainty, for l have a Baedeker of m,v own up stairs. One moment, while I fetch it.” (T o oe continued.) ffit WEEKLY M l! w (I % ( 'o a t C om fort fo r Hen nod Chicks. It is a cruel plan which shuts off the air almost entirely from the hen with a brood of chicks hy placing a board in front of the coop at night; nor is sue a plan necessary if one w ill take t le trouble to build a coop or coops after the following plnn. Build the coop after the usual plan, sloping tlie roof to tlie rear and covering the front with slats except at one lower corner, where u door should he arranged, so that the her. can lie easily let out when desired. T o solve tlie problem of plenty o f fresh r.ir and at the same time feredom from prowling small animals, construct a screen; make tlie frame large enough completely to cover tlie front of the coop and cover It with wire netting . at either side fasten a strap with a hole in the end, and on the sides o f the coop 3 À --------? COOP FOB THE CHICKS. place a screw, over which the straps are placed to hold the screen In place. T o make the screen still more secure when placed have the side pieces large enough so that a long wire null may lie driven In them about one-quarter the length of the nail, at the end; then sink In the ground at either end of tite coop two pieces o f wood, each having a hole in the end. Into which the nail In the end pieces o f the screen w ill fit when the latter Is in position. In this way It w ill be itnisisslhle for the screen to get loose. Iu the illustration. H. at dotted line, shows where the screen will come when in position; A. the side piece of the screen, with the long wire nail In position: 3, 3, tlie stakes in tlie ground to receive the nails; It, the screen com plete; ( 1 , tlie swinging lath by which the door for the use of the lien Is kept iu place, and 2, the manner of attach ing the small strap to the side of the screen.— IndianaiMilis News. rf Itn tatn u ; a (s U . A good deal of discussion has often been provoked us to tlie cost o f bring ing up a heifer calf. Mr. Clark, o f the Alubuma experiment station, has re corded data. Tlie record covered the lierlod from birth to m aturity— approx imately two years. One of the calves, which weighed at birth flfty-slx jioiimls, consumed during the first year o f her life 139 pounds o f home milk, 273 pounds o f skim milk, tit! pounds o f brail, 22-1 pounds o f hay and was pastured for 101 days. When she was 1 year old she bad cost $12.80 and she weighed 433 pounds. During the second year tier rations were made up o f sorghum liny, silage, 1457— Book of Psalms, first book printed- oat straw, corn stover and a little cot by Faust ami Schuffer. ' ton seed anil brim. The pasturage pe 1310— Sir Richard Empson and Edmund riod covered 224 days. The cost o f the Dudley executed on Tower Mill. feed was $9.09 for tlie second year and 1521— Mexico surrendered to Cortez. she weighed at the end 003 pounds. 7534— Order of Jesuits founded at Paris Thus the total cost of feed up to the by Ignatius Loyola. time of maturity was $21.95. 1387— Virginia Dare, first white child j America, born. No A Il-H o u m l P o u ltry Food. A correspondent asks fo r some poul try food which w ill answer fo r general purposes— that is, a food which w ill make hens lay, which is also good for little chicks and which may be URed for fattening later if desired. Novices In poultry raising nre quite likely to lie more or less disturbed by the amount o f detail required to carry on the work successfully and are generally seeking for some short cut, especially in the line o f feeding. The same food which will make liens lay without fattening them w ill not do to fatten them on. O f course, corn is usually n part o f the va riety fed hens and w ill o f itself fatten them, hut It Is not used by itself aa a regular diet for laying liens. It would lie as absurd to fetal liens cracked corn entirely as It would lie to feed little chicks the whole kernel. II o i c ( a t e l i e r . Chasing hogs is exceedingly amusing when the chaser Is bent on pleasure only. When It becomes an everyday duty the funny feature disappears, and Instead the air Is generally laden with expletives not suitable to jiolite society. The hog is an elusive beast. Being round and fat— and also slippery— the chaser Is not afforded any point o f vautage to obtain a firm hold. Tills Is true with but one exception, and that Is his tall. But here again tlie chaser is handicap ped. Hogs’ tails are so little and at the R.ame time so frail that not Infre quently the hog emerges from the chase minus his tall. A more sensible method 1042— Gates of Coventry shut ageing King Charles of England. 7736— Forts Ontario and Oswego de stroyed by Montcalm. 1759— Eugene Aram hanged at Tyburn. 1709— Napoleon Bonaparte born, pied May 4, 1821. 7770— Fight in Hudson river between American fire-ships nad British men- of-war. 1780— Engagement at Fishing Creek, S. C ....B a t t le of Camden, S. C. he Kalb killed. 1890— First stone laid for the Arc de Tri- o in pile, celebrating the success of the Grand Army of Ansterlitz. 1812— Detroit surrendered to the Brit ish. 1S13— British sloop Pelican captured I'nited States sloop Argus in English channel. 1831— Steamer Rothsay Castle lost; 100 persons perished. 1842— President proclaimed Florida war at an end. 1847— B a t t le o f Churubusco, Mexico. 1848— Oregon territory formed by act of Congress. 18o0— Denmark ceded possessions on west coast of Africa to Great Britain. 1831— I.opez captured aud garroted at Havana. 1832— Steamer Atlanta lost on Lake E rie ; 230 perished. 1855-— Russians defeated at battle of Techernaya, Crimea. 1839— Tuscany declared in favor of unit ed kingdom of Italy under Victor Em- mnnuel. 18t’>2— First issue of postal currency. 1863— Kagoshima. Japan, destroyed by the British fleet.. . . Mississippi river declared open for trade. 18t!3— Final proclamation of cessation of hostilities in the Civil War. 1807— Dexter made the fastest time on record, 2:17V4. at Buffalo. 1871— Steamship Lodona lost off th* Florida coast, with 21 lives. 1880— Cathedral at Cologne completed; 032 years building. 1883— Kimball house, Atlanta, Ga» burned. 1883— The Caroline islands seized by Germany. . . .German corvette Au gusta lost in the Red Sea with 28o officers and men. 1880— Eight Chicago anarchist« sen tenced to death. 1888— Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York, destroyed by fire. 1890— Davis Dalton swam across tb* English Channel on his bock. 1891— Earthquake in Martinique; MO persona killed. 1892— Queen Victoria's carriage stopped by an insane man, who threatened to kill her. 1893— Receivers appointed for the North ern Pacific railroad. 1894— Steamship Campania established new record between Queenstown and New York ; time, 5 days 9 bourn and 27 minutes. 1903— Jeffries defeated Corbett in fifht for the pugilistic championship. 1904— -Naval battle off Vladivostok. C H A P T E R IX. I I I . — T H E C H A S E IN T H E SNOW . 1 have endeavored to give the facts of luy strange story without omission or ex W h a t M a k e s q u u l l l r In K x x > . aggeration. I f I have failed, it is not The grocer soon learns that lie must from forget fulness; for I do not think send good eggs to his customers or he there is a single detail that is not per will not have them long, and the farm manently fixed in my memory. Even now I have but to shut my eyes to see the er who is progressive w ill soon learn face of Maniac peer into my old rooms that he must do the same. The word at Heidelberg, to stand once more trem "fresh,” when applied to eggs, may bling with terror in the desolate court mean a great deal, or It may not. The manner. Indeed, lie .......... I ,„|d!y sn)> yard of Castle Oster, to drive through the egg grower who wishes to create a reg H f servient. As (iraden stepped into the blinding snow' to where the body----- ular demand for his eggs at high — t ^ I ■ sleigh, the man bowed low a curtsy, But enough. 1 do not forget. prices must market his stock promptly, 1 have already told you of the murder 1 H ■ which my cousin answered with a curt for there is nothing that so disgusts of Prof, von Stocktuar by his rival. Prof. •J nod of dismissal. H “ Drive on!" lie cried, and once more Maniac of Heidelberg, and o f tne dis the experienced handler o f eggs as to we were ploughing our way buck to the covery of the crime by my cousin, Sir find that the eggs that he bought for Henry Gradeu. the well-known scientist l.cmsdorf road. fresh had been held In the country for “ Did you ever study the properties ,d and explorer, who was then my guest at two or three weeks. Storage eggs, that 1 have described the the root called madder, commonly known that university. are put Into the refrigerator Immedl- steps that led to our following the mur aa u dye?” asked my cousin suddenly. tely after they nre laid, come out iiet- derer to l.cmsdorf. in German Poland, “ No." SUBDUES THE HOG. ter. after four or five months have “ Then I must explain from the begin and the means hy which he compassed elapsed, than the eggs that are allowed is tlie use o f the implement illustrated nlng. It Is right that you should hear." the death of the unfortunate Mecbersky. 11s pulled the Haps ,<i his deerstalker I have, moreover, laid before you the evi to remain In the farm er’s pantry for a herewith. The inventor, an Iowa man. cap over his ears— Indeed, It was bitter dence that led my cousin to believe that month after they are laid before they claims that no difficulty Is experienced cold— and settled himself amongst the Maruac was suffering from delusions, In getting the noose In position. When are marketed. ruga. I caught the outline of his face— aud that his extraordinary crimes were once It Is securely damped on the hog’s a* jaws set, the cheeks drawn, the eye in revenge for certain harsh criticisms l*l H nt l u j n r y f r o m S p r a y i n g . nose it Is an easy matter to lead the hard and keen, tlis whole purposeful and o f a book on which lie had spent many As many still complain about the in animal to any place desired. remorseless. years of labor. In my last statement 1 jury done to the leaves o f trees, rasp “ When 1 was slicing the bam to-day,” traced the pursuit down to the station berry bushes, etc., by spraying, it may W a t e r B e fo r e F eedln ic. he continued, “ an odd thing happened of Lemsdori, where the murderer, flying be repeated that there should be M y knife struck the bone aud passed from the scene of his revenge upon the This question o f watering before or through It as if it hail been putty. At Russian professor, hud been turned back enough alkali, whether lime or soda, after feeding has never been settled. n second glance 1 noticed that the intc from the railway by Mossel, the lieuten used to neutralize the acid o f the cop A leading English authority states that rior of the section so divided was of a ant of the Heidelberg police, who had per sulphate, says F. Grenier, who is horses should never he watered until brownish red. It set me thinking. 1 followed ns to render assistance. Mossel N o w W a l k i n g o n I he H a l e r . an accomplished gardener. The for after feeding, but always before, es|>e- - T « m > M u c h D a r k n e s s . began to remember certain facts. The indeed, had waited by Maniac's luggage Tw o inventors are claiming attention of mula for soda Bordeaux calls for six clally i f the feed Is grain. I f a horse The advance agent rolled up to the talk of the oiil servant concerning a for six hours, but the man himself hud pounds o f copper sulphate to seven and is very thirsty give him water and the scientific world just now in connec* Secret held by the owner of the pig farm failed to appear. village hall in his red automobile. tion with a kind of aquatic shoes. Jo** The winter’s sun. chilled to a dusky at Gran concentrated my suspicions, the "Good morning,” he greeted briskly, one-half pounds o f soda, and even then then wait a short time before feeding. Antonio, a Mexican student in the depart proximity of the dye-works confirmed hall, was dipping behind the suow-clad ns lie step!>ed out with a log roll o f It might be safer to add a pound of I f possible, horses should always have ment of mechanical engineering at Coe* them. I was almost certain of Herr ridges to the eastward when we scram For the ordinary (lim e ) Bor access to water. They will drink less IMistera under his arm. “ I want to lime. noil, gave a successful test of hia deric* Drobin's secret before he charged me hied hack into the sleigh. As our tired deaux mixture I would use at least and there Is much less danger o f Indi hy walking a mile and a half on the anr* horses stumbled through the outskirts of Imng up announcement» that- our big with coming to steal it. as much lime as copper sulphate, pound gestion or cholera. I f a horse is ex- face of Cayuga lake. The shoes, which “ Let me explain. Madder is a dye. the straggling wooden town, the shadows show Is coming to town.” “ W hat's it called?" drawled the man fo r pound, unless I rely (as I usually bausted from overexerclse, the supply closely resemble small boats, are con as you know. But sdtuiuistered to man rushed serosa the sky as if flying the pur I f structed of tin, f> feet 3 inches long, ljj* or besst. It has the curious effect of suit of the gale that ahrieked amongst ager o f the hall, ns he nibbed the y el do) on the ferro-cyanide o f potassium of oold water should be limited. test. As long as the mixture has an water is tepid, u much larger amount inches wide and 0*% inches deep. Ew coloring and pulping the hones to a gris the houses. Night had fallen. low' freckles on his wrist. contains four separate air chambers, be Surely we had him in our hands. tle. It Is used eparingly on a few South "W h y , ‘ Knights o f Old.’ Greatest acid reaction, danger o f Injury to the may be allowed. sides the compartment for the foot. Tb# He had not fled hy rail. Somewhere German pig farms, that the hams may foliage, and possibly to the fruit, such production o f the year.” shoes are equipped with collapsible appear attractive when carved. Herr in the town he must .e lurking, this as apples, pears, etc., exists. l.ate Weeds. “ I'm afraid it won’t tnke in this which close as the wearer steps forward | Drobin introduced it into German Po grey-haired figure with the heart of a The late weeds In the garden— those and then open to prevent the shoes fro* land. H e obtained the root as he requir hunted wolf. The thought of it drove town, m ister." T o n e t It I a a t R o t a . that come In August and September— slipping backward. "W h y not?" ed It by arrangement with the dye work« away the aches and cramps of exhaus Dissolve five pounds copperas In ten are the ones that produce seed before Perhaps their presence suggested the tion. and I sat holt upright in ray seat A somewhat similar footgear for "W a ll, first we had the ‘Arabian gallons o f water and add enough fresh staring into the gloom ahead, half ex Nights’ hv a bunch o f amateurs, who _ the fact is noticed, and thus stock the walking is described in the Technic* Ides to him. moderately “ Whsther or no Maniac knew of the pecting to see him more across the snow rehearsed fo r a year over a livery sta •lacked lime to make a ground with weeds the next vear.~ T h # ! Wor,d Magamlne for August, and rrHWJ uses of madder before he came to I.ema before us like a slinking beast of prey. ble; then we had ‘The T w elfth Night’ thick whitewash. Apply to all places garden Is often neglected late In tl 1 to Arthur T. Sadler of the l nite W e had decided to drive straight to our where the rats congregate and they will dorf, I cannot tell. From my talk with summer, but It should be kent # ^ «te s volunteer life-saving cr* w hy a troupe o f hungry barnstormers Drobin It would seem that his visit to his own inn. the "Goldner Adler.” where. I desert the place at once. I’ m some o f until *o a t. and t b i T L n , r . m r ^ r i ^ n k . S* d' " S l ' Z Z * £ farm was more or less o f an accident. as we hud discovered. Marnac. under the I who lived on prunes and crackers and | the wash Into and around their holes lx* a great . « v i n . , , U t ’ON , made a two-mile trip on hit «hoe* then C arrie Nation came around in name of Wakefield, an English traveler | Hut. either wey. the visit gave him the . * 0 f a ,° r ln ,h* grow- ! aava he got hia idea from watebia* th» and along their runways wherever pos in„ n, ‘ weapon hy which he ‘ might make a toad’ had also passed the previous evening. T e n Nights In a Barroom’ and al sible to do so. They w ill change to moat f VPRPt*t>l">. aa way a duck uae. ita feet. II.« «!>"- Little had we thought that the being we o f hia enemy. That bitter criticism, you most caused the town to go dry at the moat of the work required la due to the * feet 3 inrhea long. 9 inchea wide iwl other places, but you must follow them pursued, fresh from the murder of the may be eure. was for ever running in next election. Yeou’ll have to bring and grass which spring up at all inches deep, being the smallest his diseased brain. The practical details man we had come to save, was sharing around some ’day’ plays If yeou want up with the wash, and eventually they would carry his weight, 13i> pounds. the same roof-tree. Perhaps there might w ill leave y o u r place altogether and he learned at the farm would help him In to make a h it ” — what ha bad undertaken. His advice l>e news of him at ths "Goldner Adler." w ill not return while the wash remains. « r o w ln * r ««| | flnW9p t m e r l o n I . n b o r r r B e tte r o «. Resai. the tall, handsome Pole, who had to that old German was a sound more, The bureau of labor haa iaauefl •(* Cauliflower, will not thrive except V t«lh er H ard . about him more of the feudal knight than designed to cover his visits to ths farm T k * T r u c k G a rd e n In vert. under the very heat condition». They tira for 1905, and eatimatea that tw "T o n havp come back after another and the auspicioua they might afterwards a country inn keeper, met ns in the Insects Infesting truck gardens very porch, bowing a stately welcome. are grown ln fhe aame manner aa cab- horin* man is better off aa to wage« piece o f pie?" Interrogated the stern hsva excited. often affect field crops as well, but It “ You have had a bad drive, gentle woman In the wayside cottage. hag... only the aoil muat be exceedingly l hours of labor. In 1905 the Pnrr*< “ Hia method o f getting Into touch with should be borne In mind that pest ex- power o f wages was I per re®* , . "T h e wind hat been his victim was simple. l i e Introduced man." said he. rich. Many growers hare found it nec- "Yes. mum," replied the tall tramp. ; than in 1904 and the retail pri«* « ™ himself a t an Englishman by a letter tierce, and ths snow. I fear. Was heavy. “ I wouldn't have come, but, you see, I termlntlng methods that are o f no use esaary to occaalonally w ater this cron were slightly higher. This a lv»®***» tn large areas sre often the best |n a which he himself wrote in his capacity Supper w ill be ready in half an hoor.” which la a hindrance to field culture! more than offset, however, by the “ I believe a M r George Wakefield have been offered a Job down do road." small patch where there Is more Inten o f Hoidelberg professor, well knowing " A Job? What kind o f a Job la It? " sive cultivation, and where tbs price although the prlcea uaually obtained re! in the purchasing power of In* that the police had not made public tucir slept here last Bight.” aaid Graden. dust "W h y. spllttln’ rails, an' I want the the output brings w ill warrant more pay the care. I f the leave« are drawn The average wage, per hour in I » » £ suspicions of him. Ha assumed the name I ing ths clinging flskss from his outer together over the heads blanching will 18.9 per cent higher than th» * • f Wakefield— the fin : that suggested 1 w raps " I t ia always pleasant to meet place o f pie as a wedge." outlay. period from 1895 to 1890. and » » » b* greatly facilitated her ot employes were 36 per c*®1 trm