r'VZrZr 5? -3?
lN Of IrjtcrQSt to
GREAT TOMATO TERRITORY.
One of the I'lnnrialilnic InJantrles ol
"K.KM'I," In Moulhrrn llllnola.
Culro, III. ''Kfl-pt" now Ho tomato
seed In liotlxMl in Febrnury und from'
tlint time on until nettled wentlier tho
toniuto grower waits with tinted
breutli (t st- hilly If nil hl are In
tills one frail liiiNket) iiioii tlie clinneeit
a ml i'haiiK'H of front ami huh and wind
that may wean plenty of money In
IiIm pocket later or u woeful cinptiiifHS
Of tilt' HII llll'.
.Soutlii'iii IIIIikiIh Ih 11k- Kden of tlie.
tomato in tln north an 1 tin; t'rj'Htul
Springs (MIhm.) region In tin- Honth.
It Ih cMliiiated that over l.tWO cur
IoikIh of 1,'khi half lninln'1 cruteM each
went out from I'ulon county liiMt
kiwi Mil n In H.lle of tin- fait that front
cut down many of the llrnt plant net
In the IIi'IiIm. 'J'Ih'mw llcliU were com
puted at over 1,"imi hitch, and it In be
lieved Unit Hid iicrciiuu thlM hi'iihoii will
li even urealcr.
Thin IndiiHlry of Hiintlicrn llllnola be
gun ninny .year np near ('olnlen,
whUh l now n gri'iit KlilppliiK point.
I.Ike ni'iirly every other nirrli'iiltiirul
Kpit'lalty It ri'iiilri'H a "hustler" behind
It. (I'rowini; tlio pl.-mtM from need In
hotlii'dH, pnili clliik' Hii' lcdn with
Htraw or ciiiiviih on mid ulirlitn, nncov-
erintf to five h Ix'iii'lit of I nun In
the day mid providing ventilation
whenever possible, all t It Ih ciiIIh for
eternal vIkIIi , ipileU and food Judg
ment uml unliliilted cM-rtlnn.
Mailt lire, iih a rule, net out through
the Ill's! two week or more of May.
They are placed three to four feet
apart, and a little eommorelal fertilizer
or ciiHtor lii'iui pomace Ih Hpiinkled
around each. One four foot Make U
driven for each plant, to which the
plant Ih kept tied. Thin facilitate
tioth the ripening and the pilhcrlnK of
the fruit.
Shipping the touialocH may bt'nln
with the early varletieN by June '.'O
ami continue, accorillni; to the neason,
IIiwiikIi Anuiist. Much of the ship
ping hiiHlnesH Ih carried on through
iiiiupiinli'H composed of growers and
tiUHlnexH men of varloiiH towns In the
tomato district.
Colon ty Ih the I Ilntf portion
if the tomato territory, which IncludcH
also .laikson, .lolmson and Pulaski
count Ich.
! UNIVERSAL LOG RULE.
A Urn l-orniiilit llralitnt'il tu Mfle
Kill !: ii llnnilfil Julli'i'.
IturliliKlon, Vt.- It Ih Hald that there
lire over twoscore of ho called "Ion
rules," nore or less used In varioiin re
gions, for deti nnlnlni: In advance of
tlie hiiwIiik t lie actual number of hoard
feet In u Ion. 'onccrniiiK thin vital
matter Ir. A. 1.. IiiiiIch, professor of
inathemalli'H In the I'lilverslty of Ver
mont, llilnJts that the farmer and In
certain cases the Ion buyer have fared
hardly In their atlemplH In solve the
ipicHtlou, "How many board feel in a
IokV" and he lias worked out n formu
la that appeai'H to be In Home ivny a
distinct advance over lit predecessor!!.
It Ih at any rate worthy the addition
of anybody who drain hi Iocs.
In bulletin lit'.' of the Ntali) expert
incut station In-. liauicM stale that In
taking up the Hlmly of the measure
lueiit of Iokh It soon became evident to
lilm that not one of the rule In a lint
of forty or more In uho In thin country
and Canada wiih based on au adequate
knowledge of mathematics and that not
Olio of thciil u Honied reasonable or
iMultable result. Some rule are tin
Just to the buyer on small Ions and mi
Just to the seller on III rue In;, while
other run the contrary way. lie en
deavored to llnd the true mathematical
rule, one that should mote out even
lm tided Justice to both parties, and he
Ih-Hcvch he ha found It. I'r. lianiel
make Id argument for what he ha
named "the universal lo rule" mid
give explanation of Interest a to tin
mathematical reasoning mi which he
found It. According to I be bulletin,
tho unlvcrsiil rule can becally express
ed In laiiKuaKo fur all practical pur
Ixmvil. It read, "Take live cIkIiIIi of
tho diameter In Inche. subtiint two
and multiply by the diameter." The
error 1 only about one part In 1'ihi.
Whr Not l lnUli thr liiioil W ork f
Why piiHteuri.c the milk or cream
and then wiinIi the butter with dirty,
Kcrin laden water? The Iowa expert
Incut Hint ion took Home ripened cream,
divided It Into two equal lot, churned
one of the lot mid washed (he butter
with ordinary well water, churned the
other lot under the Name condition
und washed the butter with the same
well water, but not until after the wu
ter had been pasteurized and cooled.
Thrco experiments were made In the
name way, and the result all showed
that tiie butter washed In (lie pasteur
ised water kept normal very much
longer than the name butter washed
lu the unpiiHtcut lcd water. Here I
pretty good evidence on an important
point.
Rws nnl Note.
lnrTtlon of the large display of
Machinery wim one of the Interesting
feature of the corn canners and pack
rrn' recent convention nt le el.md.
A pure for hog cholera I reported as
the ri'Miilt of ihreo year of evperlincnt
hy I r. liriihain, former hacterloloulHt
of the I Diversity of MishoiiiI. It U In
oriilntlon with n crum.
WIhcoiihIii cpertnicnt have nhoirtl
that cheese cured In cold storage lost
Ich In weight than cheese cured at lUl
decree, an. I wa superior In flavor,
lextilii' and ' eeping oualltv.
In nii-ii! tomato evperlincnt potash
had R Inaiked result o Inereaslng the
yield of the toniati'. TomatocH fer
tllUiil with potash were more oolid.
yet A little more acid
Iloblii ItedhronHt 1 Htill nfe In New
Jersey, the niPiinre to take Mm off th
llt of proti-cted bird having leeu to
fen toil In the Btate legislature.
A TrmiMirnry HiiIrIiih.
TIic riancee -The Idea of hi thlnU
lnr that he I unworthy of me! The
Confidante - Ye, but 3-011 needn't nr
g the mutter with Mm. He'll dl
Cover Lin error lu time.- Urooklj n IJf.
.
Tb Farmer.
FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
Yours, IJrowluif und liiflaenllnl,
The Track mn All Imiiorlaiil Art.
Ily IS. iJENJAMIN, JIt.
'ahlnmou, V. C Tlio luiportance
and extent of the farmers' Institute
movement In Uila toiintryj-ecelved rec
ognition by tu piverumeTit lat year
and were broiiKht more prominently to
Bcnerul notice than ever before by II"'
eHtabllhbuiei.t of u uf w olllce lu the
olllce of experiment Hlation that won
llevoted to tin duly of asslHtlng the
farmerH' iiiHtltute worketfof the I'nlt
ed State. To the charge of third olllce
Hon. John Hamilton wa appointed
under the tltU of "farmer' hmlltuto
HpeclallHt." ThTe are probably many
people, however, even among the farm
em who Htill know little or nothing of
furmer' IiiHtltute wink and the object
It neck to accomplish. A to w hat the
farmer' Institute ought to be and
what It ought to titrlve to do SpecialiHt
Hamilton ha nld;
"There wim a time when the Insti
tute meeting wa nclccted a an ap
propriate place for home agricultural
peHslmlst to preach a fu 'al Heruion.
That day I past. The new gospel of
agriculture I one of good new -of
deliverance from Ignorance, HllpelHtl
tlon and inedlii val way and the true
inlnlHler In thin hit-. Ice Ih a hopeful,
helpful and enthusiastic man. The ob
ject I. In abort, to educate not only
the farmer, but the n , In the fun
damental principle that underlie the
all Important art of producing animal
and cropr.. It I the agoncy 'or di
xeminatlng Information In agriculture
that the platform I in molding public
sentiment lu political campalgiiH. It 1
the complement of the educational
force now organized for uplifting ag
riculture In the I'lllted State."
Knlhnnlnaiii In Michigan.
Michigan ivport a total attendance
nt Institute for the year l'.Mi'ju.'t of
loo,!), of whom liiu km aUended two
day' meeting. The amount of money
expended wa the Htate fund of $7,.r00.
Ten thousand tuple of an Institute re
port of 1.10 page were published. The
number of Htate speakers on the Iii
Htltute force wa loo. For Hcveral
yearn the largent attendance at one day
IiiHtltute lm been seeyeil lu small
village 111 the center of 11 thickly net
tled fanning community, and the great
(llllleulty ha been found lu securing 11
hall or a church Hiilllcicntly large to ac
commodate the crowd. While thin 1
most common with the one day IiiHtl
tute, which are held for the most part
In village, a similar dilllculty ha been
found during the year at 11 number of
the two day Institutes. In only one
Htate, Kansas, do government statis
tic for UKil'-o.'l give a larger average
attendance than in Michigan, the llg
tirc being: Kansas, -I'.i'.i; M ichigan, -io7.
Wtlllten'M lllMtllllli'H.
Thl 1 1111 age of organizations, and
In Canada a feature I being made of
women' IiiHtltute, because, though the
men and women of farm have many
Interest In common, there are time
When the subjects discussed are not
equally Interesting.
The department of agriculture give
each women' Institute $10 a year, and
each also receive $10 from either (he
farmerH' Institute or the county council,
III Home case from both, thil giving It
Hometlilng to start with.
Another nource of revenue Ih the year
ly excursion to the agricultural college.
Kach farmer' institute ha an excur
sion during the month of June. The
women' Institute receive some propor
tion of the fund provided. Kach mem
ber pay a membership fee of '-'.' cent
a year. Thl Ih within the reach of
every one and give all Home Interest
ill the IiiHtltute. They belong to It.
Niiccmsrul Inallliilr Work.
One of the nee re Is ol' success in In
stitute work ha been lu the practical
character of the work done, 1 11 the
great majority of cane Hie teacher it
fanner' Institute llms far have been
practical men and women, who have
put their heart and soul Into it simply
for the gissl of (he cause. I'resldent
Saltil of (he American Association of
Fanner' IiiHtltute Worker character
ize the work a "young, growing and
lutltleiitlal."
Knrm I nilrr llir Hull Wrrtll Art.
Columbia, S. C. The llrst of the
thirty experimental farms that are lo
be established lu the south a a part
of the government work under the boll
Weevil act 1 to be located three mile
from thl place, which I about the
central point of the state, 011 the farm
of President Hyatt of the State liood
ltoad association. Mr. Spillman,
agroHtologlHt of the department of
agriculture, will hate charge of the
work. When this 11 ml presumably the
other faruiH are well under way, e
curylou will We run by the railroad
that a many farmer a possible may
visit these demonstration farms, and
on thene occasion explanatory lec
ture and addresses will be given on
the work.
One TlilitK mill Inulhi-r,
That "the center of gravity of agrl
cultural wealth In Canada Is cry soon
to be transferred from Ontario to the
province of Manitoba and the north
went" I the view of Hon. Ii. W. Kos.
the premier of Ontario.
"Iowa oat are all right," nay an e
change, basing the statement on opln
Ion cxpross.il by W. II Olln of the
Iowa State college inucernlng report
nil oat that the seed will not germinate
well.
A prize winner lu corn I Chester
Hubert of liougl.'i county. 111. Tlir.v
prize nt IVorta. first prlr.e nt IV
Molne and necoud at A me I hi reiv
ord.
The Kane county (III.) furmer' In
xtltute I giving the bo) cash prlre
for corn.
Straw berrlea Imve bivn well protect
ed by snow thl winter, mid n good
jrop In reiMirted In pro4cvt In WIhoob
til. f rogrfMion,
Iter nm. nn simply Mirv Clin
I'littl her fnlli.r trmk h mliiix
A n,l then lo lit Din futility tr..
fclm h. alt, r,t to M.irlii.
V4 l r
tone HenjiSfnan
From Indiana
$Zt Cepyrljhl. 1999. ky Vaukltday
! Copyright. 1902,
P.y Kiecial rctoieHt
with the serial stoiy,
we will continue
"The (ientleman
from Indiana." In order torenume the
tbreud of tho etory, the ;lirt few chap
ter will be reprinted.
CIIAI'TKIt I.
II KN the runty hnntl of th
olllce clock marked half pant
4, the editor In chief of the
Carlow County Herald took
w
'D'-Z-
hi hand out of hi hair, wiped hit) peu
on hi last notice from the White Cap,
put on Ida coat, "wept out the clone
little entry and left the aunctuui fur
the bright June afterniHiu.
lie cIiohc the way to tlio went, Htroll
lug thoughtfully out of town by the
white, hot, deserted Main ntreet ami
thence onward by the country road Into
which It proud half mile of old brick
Htore buildings, tumbledown frame
NhopM mid thinly painted cottage do
cot crated. The nun wn In Ida fnca
wh.'re the road ran between the auia
incr tlcliw, lying wavele, low, gra-
cloii lu promise; but, coming to 1
wood of hickory and beech und wal
nut that Htood beyond, lie might turn
hi down Is-nt bat brim up and hold
hi bend erect. Here the shade fell
deep nnil cool oil the grei'u tangle of
rag and Iron weetl and long grass In
tJie corner of the Hnake fence, al
though the nun beat upon the road no
close beside. There wa no movement
of the crlnp young leave overhead,
High In the bough there wn a quick
tllrt of crimson where two robin hop-
pod nnleloHly, The late afternoon,
when the air 1 quite ntlll, had come
yet there rented Homewhere on the
quiet day a faint, pleasant, woody
mncll. It ciiiiio to tht editor of the
Herald tin lie climbed to the top rail
of the fence for 11 neat, and he drew
11 long breath to get the elunlve odor
I no iv luxuriously, and then It wa gone
III together.
"A habit of dellcnclea," lie Bald aloud,
addressing the wide alienee iplaln
Ingly. "(Hie tante and they quit," he
lliiished, gazing nolemnly upon the
uhlnlng little town down the road.
It wa 11 place of which It Inhabit
mil Hometlme remarked easily thai
their city had 11 population of from
,Vooo to (1.000 souls, but It should be
cany to forgive them for Hilch Htate-
inentH. Civic pride 1 it virtue. The
town lay In the heart of that fertile
ntreteh of (hit land In Indiana where
eastern traveler, glancing from car
window, Hhudder and return their eyci
to Interior upholslery, preferring even
the swaying caparison of 11 I'ullimin lo
the monotony without. The landscape
run on lniermlnably level llne-bleak
In wlutei, a desolate plain of mud and
miow; hot and dusty In Hiiinmer, mile
on mile of Hat lonesomeness, with Hot
one cool hill slope away from the nun
The persistent tourist who Heck for
Hlgn of man In thl natl expanse per
ceive a I'ccklcn amount of rail fence,
at Interval a large barn, and here and
there man himself, Incuiiou, patient,
slow, looking up from t lie Held apa
thetically a the limited (lie by. Now
and then the train panne 11 village
built seal terlngly about a courthouse,
with a mill or two humming near the
track. Thl I a county neat, and the
Inhabitant and (he local paper refer
to It coiitldently a "our city."
Such 11 county Meat w a I'latlvllle,
rapilal of Carlow county. The social
und busmen energy of the town con
centrated on the square, mid here In
summer lime the gen!leni"ii were wont
to lounge from ntore to ntore in their
Hhlrt sleeves, mid ill the center of
the square stood (he old red brick
courthouse, loosely 'fenced lu a shady
grove of maple and elm-"nllpp'ry
t-l 1 11 111" called (be "courthouse yard."
When the huh grew loo hot for (he dry
good box whit tiers in front of the
Htore around (he square and the occu
pant of the chair in front of the Pal
ace hotel on the corner they would go
ncroK and drape thcmnelvcH over the
fence ami carve their Initial on the
top board. From the ixmiilon of the
nun the editor of (he Herald Judged
that these operation were now In
progress, and he w a not deeply elated
by the knowledge that whatever desul
tory conversation might pan from man
to man on (he fence would probably be
Inspired by hi own conviction ex
pressed editorially lu the Herald.
He drew 11 faded tobacco bag and a
brier pipe from hi pocket and, after
lilliug and lighting the pipe, twirled the
pouch mechanically about hi linger,
llieii, suddenly regarding It, patted It
caressingly. It had been 11 giddy little
bag long ago, gay with embroidery in
the color of the editor unUerity,
mid, although now It was frayed to the
verge of tatters. It ntlll bore an air of
pristine Jauntines, mi air of which It
owner in nowise partook. He looked
from it toward the village in the clear
distance and Highcd softly a he put
the pouch back lu hi pocket and, rest
lug hi arm on hi knee and hi chin on
hi hand, Hal blowing cloud of moke
cut of the Hhade Into the sunshine, ab
nontly w atching the ghostly shallow on
the white dust of the road.
A little garter snake crept muter ttie
fence beneath 1 1 1 tit mid illnappcarctl In
the underbrush; 11 rabbit, progressing
on It travel by crle of brilliant
dashc and terror smitten halts, came
vlt'.eit n few yard of bltn, ant up with
quivering none and eje alight with
fearful imagining and vanished. n ilasli
of fluffy brown and while. Shadow
grew longer; 11 cricket chirped and heard
atuwer: there wa n wmnliand tir of
hreiTi, and the pair of robin left the
brniiclie oveihcnd lu eager (light, a
cnttiig Ivfot (lie arrival of a flock of
blackbirds hastening (hither ere the
eventide should Is' upon them. The
blackbird came, chattered, gossiped,
quarreled mid Nat each other with
I heir wing alsne tile mucker lttln
011 the lop fence rail.
I'm be bad rcmc ml' red. A thounnd
mile lo the east It w aa tviuuieiitt iih nt
? .
Xy XOOTH T;HKIStCTOSi
ted McClarw Cm. JJt
iy McClun. TbilUn 3l C. JJf
day, neven year to a day from bla
own cummeneeineiit.
Five yeur ago, on another June aft
eruoon, a young man from the eut bad
alighted on the platform of the station
north of I'lattville and. entering tlii
rickety omnibus that 'Inhered there
pecking whom It might rattle to deuf
lies, demanded to be driven to tho
Herald building. It did not strike the
driver that the uewcomer was pre.
clsely a gay young man when be climb
ed Into the omnibus, but an hour luter,
as be stoiid In the doorway of the edt
tlce be bad Indicated as bis definition,
depression seemed to have settled Into
the marrow of bis bones.
1'lattvllle was lnntantly alert to the
stranger's presence, and interesting con
jectures were husearded all day long at
the back door of Murtln'a Dry Good
F.mporluui (this was the club during
the day), and at supper the new ar
rival and bis probable urioMcs wers
diHcilHHed over every table lu the town
I' pon Inquiry be bad Informed Judd
Itennett, the driver of the omnibus,
that he bad come to stuy. Nnturullj
such a declaration cuuued a sensation,
uh people did not come to I'lattville to
live except through the Inadvertency of
being boru there. In addition the young
man's appearance und attire were re
ported to be extraordinary. Many of
the curloVH, among thum most of the
marrlageble females of the place, took
occasion to pa und repass tho sign of
(lie Carlow County Herald during th
evening.
Meanwhile the stranger was seated
In the dingy olllce upstairs with his
bead bowed low on bis arms. Twilight
stole through the dirty window panes
and faded Into dark ties. Night iK'ed
the room. He did not move. The yo'mg
man from the cant had bought the Her
ald from au agent had bought it with
out ever having been within a hundred
miles of I'lattville. The Herald was
au alleged weekly which had some
time appeared within live days of Its
declared date of publication und some
time missed tire altogether. It wus a
thorn lu the side of every patriot of
Carlow county, und Carlow people, oft
er HUDbortlng the paiior loyally and
long, had at last given It up and nub
scribed for the (iiuette, published In
the nclghlMiring couuty of Amu. The
former proprietor of the Herald, a
surreptitious gentleman with n goatee,
bad taken the precaution of leaving
rinltvllle forever on the afternoon pre
ceding hi successor's arrival. The
young man from the east had vastly
overpaid for his purchase. Moreover,
the price bp bud paid for It was nil the
uioncy he had In the world.
The next morning he went bitterly to
work. He hired a compositor from
Itonen, a young man named I'arker,
w ho net typo all night long and helped
him pursue ndvertlnemenls nil day.
The citizen nhiMik their head pessl
lulsticnlly. They had nlniut given up
the Idea that the Herald could ever
amount lo anything, and they betrayed
nil Innocent but caustic doubt of nbll-
Ity in any stranger.
One tiny the new editor left a note on
hi door: "Will return In fifteen mln-
Utl'H."
Mr. Hodney McCune, n politician f roll
the neighboring county of dallies. Imj
ponlng to be lu I'lattville on an errand
lo hi henchmen, found the note anil
wrote beneath the message the scath
ing Inquiry, "Why?"
When he discovered thl addendum.
the editor mulled for the tirnt time since
hli advent und reported the Incident In
his next lHHiie, using the rubric "Why
Has the Herald Ueturned to Life?" as
a text for a rousing editorial on hon
esty In politics, n subject of which he
already knew something. The political
district to widt h Carlow belonged wua
governed by n limited number of gen
tlemen whose wealth was ever on the
lucre-use, and honesty In politic was
a startling conception to the minds of
the missive and resigned voters, who
talked the editorial over on the street
coruers and lu the attires. The next
week there wu manner editorial, per
soiial and local In II application, nnd
thereby It becutne evident that the new
proprietor of the Herald was a theorist
who believed In general that a politi
cian's honor should not be merely of
that middling liealthy species known
n "honor among politicians," nnd in
particular that Itodney McCune should
not receive the nomination of hi party
for congress. Now, Mr. McCune wa
the undoubted dictator of the district,
and hi followers lauihed at the stran
ger' fantastic onset; but the editor was
not content with the word of print. He
hired n horse nnd rtde about the coun
try and (to hi own surprise) proved to
be nn adaptable young man who en
joyed exercise with a pitchfork to the
fanner's profit while tho farmer tnlk
ed. He tulked little himself, but nfter
listening nil hour or so be would drop
word from the saddle as he left, and
then, by some surprising wlEnrdry, th
farmer, thinking over the Interview.
dii'lditl there was some sense In what
thnt young fellow sa MuTiil "grew curf-
cu to hiv what the young fellow bad
further to say In the Herald.
foil tic Is the one subject thnt goes
to the vltnl of every rural American,
nnd n I loonier will talk politics after
he I dead.
Fverybmly read the cninpnlgn edi
torial and found them Interesting, al
though there was no one who did not
perceive the utter absurdity of a young
stranger dropping Into Carlow and
Inxolvlug himself In a party fight
against the bos of (he district. It wn
entirely 11 pnrtjr fight, for by priu-e of
the last gcrry niandi t the nomination
cnrrled with it Ihe certainty of elec
tion. week l'fert the convention there
came a provincial enrtiiiiunke. 1 tie
news passed from man to mail In awe
struck whlspcrs-Mct'iine ImJ with
drawn bis name, making the shallow
est of excuse to bis cohorts. Nothing
was known of the real reusou for bis
tflHorfiered" retreat beyond the fact that
bo had been In I'lattville on the morn
ing before hi withdrawal and bad uv
aued from a vhrit to the Herald oiQce In
a Htate of palsy. Mr. I'arker, the
Itouen printer, had been present at the
clone of the Interview, but be held but
peace at the command of bin employer.
He had been en lied Into the auuctuio
and bad found McCune, white and
ahuklug, leaning' on the desk.
Tarker," auld the editor, exhibiting
a bundle of papers he held In big band,
"I want you to witness a verbal con-
Mr. Itudncu McCune Jouml the note.
tract between. Mr. McCune and myself.
These papers ure un atlldavlt and
copies of some record of a. street car
company which ehtulned a charter
While Mr. McCune was In the legisla
ture. They were sent to me by a man
1 do not know, un unouyuiou friend of
Mr. McCune in fact, a friend he
seem (o have lost. On consideration
of our not printing these papers Mr.
McCune agree to retire from politics
for good. You understand, If be ever
lift his hend again politically we pub
lish them, und the courts will do the
rest. Now, In case anything should
happen to me"
"Something will happen to you all
right!" broke out McCune. "You can
bank on that, you black"
"Come," the editor Interrupted not
unpleasantly. "Why should there be
anything personal lu all this? I don't
recognize you 11 my private enemy
not at nil nnd I think you are getting
off rntlier ennlly, aren't j'ou? You keep
out of politics nnd everything will be
comfortable. You ought never to hnve
been In It, you see. It's n mistake not
to go squnre, been use In the long run
somebody I sure to give you away,
like the fellow who sent mo these.
You promise to bold to a strictly pri
vate life?"
"Y'ou're n trnltor to the party," groan
ed tho other; "but 3'ou only wait"
Tho editor smiled sadly. "Walt uotb
lug! lmn't threaten, man. Go home to
your wife, I'll give you three to one
she'll be glad you are out of It."
"I'll give you three to one," said Mc
Cune, "that the White Cups will get
you If you Htay In Carlow. You want
to look out for yourself, I tell you, my
smart bo v."
"liood day, Mr. McCuue," was the
answer. "I,et 1110 have your note of
withdrawal before you leave town Uils
afternoon." The young man paused a
moment, then extended his bund as he
said: "Shnke hands, won't you? I I
hnven't meant to be too hard on you.
I hope things will seem easier and gay
er to you before long, and If If any
thing should turn up that I can do fur
you lu n private way I'll be very glad,
you know. (Joodby."
The sound of the Herald's victory
went over the state. The paper came
out regularly. The townsfolk bought
It, nnd the farmers drove In for It. Old
subscribers came buck. Old ndvertis-
ers renewed. The Herald began to sell
ill Amo, and Unities county people sub
scribed. Carlow folk held up their
head when Journalism was mentioned.
Presently the Herald announced a news
connection with Itouen, and with that
nnd the aid of "patent lnsides" began
nn era of three Issues a week, nppeur
Ing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days. The Plattvllle brass baud sere
naded the editor.
I luring the second month of the new
regime of the Herald the working force
of the paper received an addition. One
night the editor found some barroom
loafers tori.ieidlug n patriarchal old
man who hnd a mngtiluccnt bend and a
grand white beard. He hnd been
thrown out of u saloon, nnd be was
drunk with the drunkenness of three
weebs' stendy jiourlng. He propped
himself against n wall and reproved
bis tormentors In I-nttn. Tin walking
your way, Mr. Flsbee," remarked the
Journalist, hooking bis arm Into the old
man's. "Suppose we leave our friends
here and go 1101110."
Mr. Flsbee was the one Inhabitant of
the town possessing nn unknown past,
ind a glamour of romnnce was throw
about him by fhe gossips, who agreed
that there wus a dark, portotitous se-
fret lu hi life, au opinion not too well
confirmed by the old man's appearance.
Hi fine eyes had a habit of wandering
to the horizon, nnd bis expression wus
mild, vague and sad, lost In dreams.
At the first glance one guessed that
his dreams would never be practicable
In their application, and some such Im
pression of him wn probably what
caused the editor of the Herald to nick
name him, lu his own mind, "the White
Knight."
Mr. Flsbee, coming to I'lattville from
nobody knew where, bud taught lu the
llieii si hool for ten years, but he proved
quite unable to refrain from lecturing
to the dumfouudetl pupils ou archie
ology, neglecting more and more the
ordinary courses of Instruction, grow
ing year by year more forgetful nnd
absent, lost in bl few Ismks and bis
ow n relic, t ion, until nt last be bud
been dim barged fur Incompetency. The
daz.l old man had 110 money and no
way to iiiake any. One day he dropped
hi at the hotel bar. where Wllkerson,
the proi'cssioiial drunkard, favored him
w ith his society. The old man under
stood. He knew It wus tlie hcgtnntng
of the end. He sold his books In order
to continue bis credit at the 1'uluce
bur. and once or twice, unable to pro
ceed to h's own dwelling, spent the
night In a lumber yard, piloted thither
by the hurdler veternu Wllkerson.
The morning after the editor took
him home Fts!c appeared at the Her
aid olllce In a new bat and a decent
suit of blnck. He had received his sal
ary In advance, bis books had been re
purchased and be bad become the re
portorlal stuff of the Carlow County
Herald; also be was to write various
treatises for the paper. For the first
few evenings when be started borne
from the office bis chief walked with
him, chatting cheerfully, until they
bad passed the I'uluee bar. Cut ITs
bee's redemption was complete.
The editor of the Herald kept stead
lly at bis work, and as time went on
tlie blttPrness bU predecessor's swindle
had left In 1dm passed nway. Hut his
loneliness and a sense of defeat grew
and deepened. When the vistas of the
world bad opened to bis first youth he
hud not thought to spend his life In
such a place us I'lattville, but be found
bimself doing It, und It was 110 greut
happiness to him that the Hon. Kedge
Hullowny of Amo, whom the Herald's I
opposition to McCune hud sent to
Washington, came to depend on his In
fluence for reuomlnatlon, nor did the
realization that the editor of tho Car
low County Herald bad come to be
McCune's successor ns political dicta
tor produce a perceptibly enlivening ef
fect upon the young man. The years
drifted very slowly, and to him It seem
ed that they went by while he stood fnr
aside and could not even see them
move. He did not consider the life he
led an exciting one, but the other citi
zens of Curlow did when he undertook
a war against the. White Caps, tleul
sens of Six Crossroads., seven milei
west of Plattvllle. The natives were
much more afraid of the White Caps
than he was. They knew biore ubout
them und understood them better than
he did.
There was no thought of the people
of the Crossroads lu bis mind ns he sat
ou the suuke fence staring at the little
smoky shadow dunce on the white road
In the June sunshine. On the contrary,
he wus occupied with the realization
that there hud been a man In his class
at college whose ambition needed no
restraint, his promise was so great lu
the strong belief of the university, n be
lief he could not help knowing- and
thut seven years to u duy from bis coin
mencemeiit this man was sitting on a
fence rail In Indiana.
iJown the pike a buggy came creak
ing toward him, gray with dust, old
and frayed like the fut, shaggy gray
mare thut drew It, her unchecked, de
spondent head lowering before her,
while her Incongruous tall waved In
cesHuntly, like the banner of a storming
party. The editor did not hear the
flop of the mare's hoofs nor the sound
of the wheels, so deep wus Ids rev
erie, till the vehicle wa nearly oppo
site him. The red faced nnd perspir
ing driver drew rein, and tlie Journal
ist looked up nnd waved a long white
hand to him In greeting.
(To b continued )
" ODD BATTLE PLACES.
Hen Have Made 'n on lee and l'u
dcr the Earth Kurfui'e.
Dattle have been fought In many cu
rious place, ranging from mountain
peak to sewei'H, from Ice Held to des
ert Hand.
At the battle of Monterey, In the
Mexl.'iui war, the American wore nblo
to command the street of the city with
their urtllleiy, but they had ditllcalty
In dlsliMlglug the Mexican from the
hcuncs; ho, the city being built of stone
or adobe lu solid block of houses, the
Yankee broke through the wall from
one house to another, fighting and driv
ing out the enemy, so that the buttle
of Monterey was largely fought In
doors. In one of the battles of the wars of
William the Silent for the Independence
ef the Netherlands the Spanish ships
Were frozen In on the Zuj;der Zee. The
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sriicle that eiiteri Into lm mmpiuiltlon l aelecleil with view to excellence; the rom
pniindinK In pfraoiially mirpetvioeit liy Mr. N. A. linker, who hii ((Wen year ol utility to
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MAIN ST. NILLSBORO.
Imtch came ont on horseback over tlie
fee unit attacked them: . TUls 1 proba
bly the only battle In wliiiti -irf
wus ever used directly against ships, '
reverul olbor combats were fought 1
tween trools on the ice In these wars,
and on one occasion the Infantry la
said to have worn skate.
The buttle of Aunterllta was partly
fought on u frozen lake, and when the
ullles were retreating acron it the nho'
from the French artillery, plunging In
to the Ice and breaking It UP, cuused
the dctith of thousands of Husstun und
Austrian.
Of the many underground battles
which have taken place lu history the
fiercest was probably that of the siege
of Haarlem In tho Hutch war. The
Spnnlartls mined and the lnitch coun
termined with equal Industry, und be
low the ground a fierce couillct raged.
When the Versailles troop took Par
Is ufter the columnar', they clmaed some
of the communist troops to the greut
sewer of the French capital, where
Rome deHperute struggles took pluoe.
Washington Post.
A Vain Regret.
"It must be terrible to die rich."
"Yes, Indeed, your dying hours would
be so embittered thinking of the time
you might have bad blowing tho mon
ey." EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given thut the under
signed bus la-en bv the County Court of
Washington County, Oregon, only up-pcint'.-d
executrix 'of the last will and
teHtuiuent ol Jaii.es 1'. Lilly, deceased,
and has duly quulitied us such executrix.
All peisuns having claims uguiust said es
tate ure hereby lequired 10 present the
same, with proper vouchers, to me at my
evidence ut Hales Creek, Wui-hinglou
county, Oregon, within six mouths Irom
the dute hereof.
Iated at Uillsboro, Oregoli, this Murth
2-rth, l'.HH.
1IAKKKTT J. MI.LY,
Executrix of the hist w ill und testument
of James I' billy Deceased.
M. OA ILK Y 11 1! ill', Attorney for estate.
Notice is hereby given, Hint by virtue ot
un order made by the County Court, Mar
ch, 7, 1!XM; I will sell lor ca-h in hand, at
Forest drove, Oregon, at private sale, I'uoiit
und ui'lea, Saturday, A, ril !t, llll 4. nil the
reult'hlate belonging to the estate of Ash
Williams derenned, to-wit: The South
wesfj of Section ', Twp. 8 North, llange
4 West, Willamette Mejidiuu, coi tabling
llMi iicits, all in Washington County, Ore
uted ut Foret (irove, Oregon, this 10th
dny of Murch, UK 1. PAl'All K. CbOW
Administratrix of the entitle ol Asa Will
iams, deceased,
Hull man und Welch, attorneys for Ad
m nitrutm.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
m
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed hus tiled, 111 the County Court of
Washington County, Oregon, his final ac
count and report us itiliiiinistrutor, wi h
the will annexed, of the estate of Hamuel
C. 8nider deceased, and that said court ha
set the same for tiiial hearing helore said
court 011 Monday. A mil lit, l'.M, ut the,
hour of 1(1 o'clock A. M.
Dated this 1st li d ay of March, ltltH.
J. C. COUKY.
Adnfinistrutor of the Kstutu ot Pannifl C.
8utder deceased, with the Will of said
deceased unnexe I.
1IKNT0N HOW MAN,
Attorney f r Admr.
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