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™ Courtship °£ Hies Stan Plunged It Into his heart, and, reeling backward, the savage Fell with his face to the sky, and a fiendlike fierceness upon It. Straight there arose from the forest the awful sound of the war-whoop. And, like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind of December, Swift and sudden and keen came a flight of feathery arrows. Then came a cloud of smoke, and out of the cloud came the lightning, Out of the lightning, thunder; and death unseen ran before it. * Frightened the savages fled for shelter in swamp and In thicket, Hotly pursued and beset; but their sachem, the brave Wattawamat, Fled not; he was dead. Unswerving and swift had a bullet their knives In scabbards of wam Passed through his brain, and he fell with both hands clutching the pum, greensward Two-edged, trenchant knives, with Seeming In death to hold back from points as sharp as a needle. hla foe the land of his fathers. Other arms had they none, for they were cunning and crafty. There on the flowers of the meadow "Welcome, English!” they said,— * the warriors lay. and above them, these words they had learned Silent, with folded arms, stood Hobo from the traders mok, friend of the white man. Touching at times on the coast, to Smiling, at length he exclaimed to the barter and chaffer for peltries. stalwart Captain of Plymouth: Then In their native tongue they be "Pecksuot bragged very loud, of his gan to parley with Standish. courage, his strength and his Through his guide and Interpreter, stature,— Hobomok, friend of the white Mocied the great Captain, and called man, him a little man; but I see now Begging for blankets and knives, but Big enough have you been to lay him mostly for muskets and powder, speechless before you!” Kept by the white man. they said, Thus the first battle was fought concealed, with the plague, In his and won by the stalwart Miles cellars, Standish. Ready to be let loose, and destroy his When the tidings thereof were brother, the red man! brought to the village of Ply But when Standish refused, and said mouth, he would give them the Bible, W ith Illustrations by H ow ard Chandler Christy e M arch o f M iles Standish Meanwhile the stalwart Miles Stand ish was marching steadily north- JiSrard, Winking through forest and swamp, i*«n d along the trend of the sea- H p h ore, All Bay long, with hardly a halt, the BHrt* of his anger Burning and crackling within, and the pulphurous odor of powder SdjMlng more sweet to his nostrils HShan all the scents of the forest lileot and moody he went, and much • ko revolved his discomfort; le who was used to success, and to jgS§Bsy victories always, "hue to be flouted, rejected, and 8J|kughed to scorn by a maiden, hus to be mocked and betrayed by th-- friend whom most he had ® tru ste d ! h! ’twas too much to be borne, and he fretted and chafed in his ■tn or! I alone am to blame,” he muttered, “fcr mine was the folly, atjffhas a rough old soldier, grown gflm and gray In the harness, H H ° the camp and Its ways, to do v*Ith the wooing of maidens? 'AtJ', but a dream.—let it pass,—let % vanish like so many others! at I thought was a flower, is only a w eed , and is worthless; of my heart will I pluck It, and throw it away, and henceforward but n fighter of battles, a lover and wigoer of dangers!" • ! $ - revolved in his mind his sorry defeat and discomfort, le he was marching by day or ly ing [at night in the forest, :lna up at the trees, and the con- itnllntions beyond them. ter a three days' march he came :o An Indian encampment led jon the edge of a meadow, bo wed the sea and the forest; len pt work by the tents, and the viBrlors, horrid with war-paint, -d About a fire, and smoking and alktng together; Wkl'n they saw from afar the ■H en approach of the white the flash of the sun on breast- Wknd saber and musket, Plunged It Into His Heart. Suddenly changing their tone, they began to boast and to bluster. Then Wattawamat advanced .with a stride in front of the other, And, with a lofty demeanor, thus vauntlngly spake to the Captain: "Now Wattawamat can see, by the fiery eyes of the Captain, Angry Is he in his heart; but the heart of the brave Wattawamat Is not afraid at the sight He was not born of a woman. But on a mountain, at night, from an oak-tree riven by lightning. Forth he sprang at a bound, with all And as a trophy of war the- head of the brave Wattawamat Scowled from the roof of the fort, which at once was a church and a fortress, All who beheld It rejoiced, and praised the Lord, and took cour age. Only Priscilla averted her face from this specter of terror, Thanking God in her heart that she had not married Miles Standish; Shrinking, fearing almost, lest, com ing home from his battles. He should lay claim to her hand, as the prize and reward of his valor. DIFFICULT TO EXTERMINATE 1 INJURIOUS PLUM CURCUUO M e th o d s. J a r r in g a n d S p r a y i n g , H a v a Been F o u n d F a i r l y S a t i s f a c t o r y — C o m m e r c ia l G r o w e r M u s t F ig h t T h is E n e m y I f H e E x p e c ts to R a is e P r o fit a b le C r o p s E a c h Y e a r . In reply to the following _ query: "1 have green gage plum trees that are full of bloom at present, but every year when they get about half size the plums get wormy and fall off. I would like to know If there Is any way of preventing this," the Wallace's Far mer makes the following reply: A little black beetle, which at pres ent Is feeding on the leaves and blos soms Is the cause of wormy plums which drop off. When the blossoms fall this little beetle takes round bites out of the green plums. It Is these lit tle round bites that causes the lop sided and gnarly plums If the beetle is a female. It will, In addition, make crescent shaped cuts In the green plums and insert eggs in these cuts. These eggs hatch out into the dirty- white little worm with which all who eat plums, cherries or peaches are fa miliar. The only way to prevent wormy plums is to in some way kill the beetles before they have laid their eggs. This is dlfllcult to do, but two methods have been found which are fall, and repeated three or four times at Intervals of eight to ten days. Possibly this treatment sounds like it Is more bother than It Is worth. Per haps It Is for the farmer who has but a few plums, cherries or peaches, but the commercial grower must-fight this enemy If he Is to have profitable crops each year. Of course In heavy bear ing years there Is enough fruit foi both the curcullo and the grower. In such years the curcullo may even do good by thinning out the fruit. DISCOVER NEW LEGUME EFFECTS E x p e r im e n ts M ad e W i t h T im o th y a n d O u t s In C o n n e c tio n W it h L egu m e C rop s t C o r n e ll. It Is well known that a leguminous crop, when vigorous and abundant, ex ercises a beneficial influence on the soil and on succeeding crops. That a legume may benefit a nonlegume grow ing with it, by causing the nonlegume to contain a large quantity of nitrogen or protein, seems never to have been ascertained. Experiments have, therefore, been conducted with timothy growing with alfalfa, timothy growing with red clover and oats growing with peas by Profs. T. L. Lyon and O. A. Bitsell, of Cornell experiment station at Ithaca, N. Y., to determine what effects were produced. These show that the tim othy and the oats contain more pro tein when grown with the legume than when grown alone. The increased protein contents of the hay crop thus produced is a matter of considerable practical Importance. It indicates, moreover, that the nonlegume receives during the growth of the legume a Plum Curcullo. larger supply of available nitrogen than if grown alone. Other conclu fairly satisfactory. These are jarring sions drawn from the experiments ars and spraying. reported in bulletin No. 294, which de- The jarring method of beetle de tails the work done. struction is based on the fact that the beetles "play possum" when there is Norway Spruce In Maine. any disturbance near them. Jarring is Great Importance Is attached to th< commenced just as the blossoms are experiment of planting Norway sprue« falling, and Is repeated every day for In Maine. This Is the first attempt ol four or five weeks, or until no more the kind in New England, but expert beetles are secured. The method Is menters believe that the future aup to place a sheet or some other con ply of the denuded states may be re tainer under a plum tree, and then to placed In this way. strike the tree a quick, hard blow with a padded stick or mallet. The beetles Trees In Cities. fall to the sheet and may then be col Kansas City last year set out In th< lected and destroyed. In large plum •public streets 4,042 hard maples and orchards time is saved by rigging up white elms and In addition to thos« a sheet arrangement on a sort of a were a large number planted by th« wheelbarrow, or by stretching sheets park board along the public boul» on wooden frames. In a large orchard vards and In the parks. In Georgia where peach and plum trees were jarred sixteen times in the spring Desiccated Eggs. over 100,000 curcullo beetles were Pennsylvania food experts declar* caught In this way. It is estimated that the destruction of these beetles that certain forms of concentrated oi prevented the growth of over 13,000,- desiccated eggs are decomposed and 000 worms In the fruit. At any rate unfit for human consumption and In only about four per cent, of the crop some cases produce ptomaine poison ing. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Shouting, 'Who is there here to fight with the brave Wattawamat?’ " Then he unsheathed his knife, and, BIGGEST CITIES OF WORLD Buying Stock. whetting the blade on his left Before you buy foundation stock hand, London Still Far In Lead, but New make a close study of the breeds and Held It aloft and displayed a woman’s York Is Growing Faster Than their adaptability and buy the kind face on the handle. Any Other. that are adapted to your needs. Do Saying, with bitter expression and not buy anything that is a sheep, look of sinister meaning: London, the largest city in the simply because It is a sheep. "I have another at home, with the world, has a population, as now offi face of a man on the handle; cially announced, of 7,252.963, as Trellis for Tomatoes. By and by they shall marry; and against 6,581,402 in 1901—an Increase Chicken wire makes a good trellis there will be plenty of children!” in ten years of 671,561, or only 10.2 for tomatoes. A single stake will do, per cent. The population of New York or a barrel hoop supported about two Is 4,766.883. and with a gain In the feet from the ground by three stakes ten years of 38.7 per cent., is growing is good. faster than any other great city In the world. At the rate at which the two largest cities are growing it will take a long time for New York to catch up with London; but It would be a great misfortune if It ever did catch up— there Is too much congestion In New York already. The third city In sise is Paris, whose population is prob ably 3,000,000. The fourth city Is per haps Berlin, which had a little over 2.000,000 five years ago. Tokyo and Meanwhile Standish had noted the Chicago fall a little under the 2,500,- faces and figures of Indians 000 mark, and 3t. Petersburg, Vienna. Peeping and creeping about from Canton. Peking. Moscow and Philadel bush to tree In the forest. phia are below 2,000,000.—Rochester Felfcntng to look for game, with ar- Post-Express * rows set on their bow-strings. Drawing about him still closer and Grcat Saving of Time. closer the net of their ambush. The manager of one of the electric But undaunted he stood, and dlssem- light companies of the western part of the country has greatly facilitated the business of making the monthly readings of meters by baring these instruments placed on the rear porches of bouses Instead of In the cellars. About ha..’ of the meters of this company are now located In some convenient and protected place In the rear of the house, where It Is always accessible without regard to the pres ence or absence of the Inmates of the Couch or quack grass is a most In- and destroyed houas. The result la that the average Rape, buckwheat os time formerly consumed by the In . • out weeY in all kinds of soil. Root millet are good cleaning crops fur late stocks must be brought to the surface • wing. spector baa been cut about Is halt ERADICATE INJURIOUS WEED e Sprang at a Bound. leaped to their feet, and n among them advancing, .rley with Standish, and I furs as a present; ifm In their looks, but In I n i there was hatred, le tribe were these, and [gigantic In stature, lath of Gath, or the ter- I king of Basban; Icksuot named, and toe ■ called Wattawamat I necks were suspended