™ 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