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his heart’s Desire
" ■ IB M 1
B j SIR WALTER BBSANT
be a beautiful day o f reckoning, uncle.
C H A P T E R X X I,
“ Quick, David, quick!” cried the old Th e sale o f your coupons Is nothing to
man, eagerly. “ Let us get to work. Oh, It.”
“ You ware going to make a proposal,
yon waate half the morning; let ua get
on. A t thie rate," he aighed, “ we shall David r
“ Buy me off, old man.”
take months before I get back the prop-
“ A lw ays buy— always buy!”
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— my.”
*.
“ T o be sure. You’ve got to .buy your
“ There will be no trade this morning,
ancle," David replied, standing in the own property back because I ’ve come
doorway. It was a week after I had told home. You’ve got to buy me out on the
him the truth. H e had been turning it chance o f the money coming to me.
1*1 ease yourself. W hat do you aay to
over In hta mind in the interval.
“ W hy n ot! David, if you Vera near­ boy Ing me out at a thousand?”
ly aeventy you would be anxious to get
“ O thousand pounds?”
on; you would not shilly-shally over a
“ Yes, Uncle Daniel, “ a thousand
And a very moderate figure,
single bit o f paper. Let us get on, Da­ pounds.
vid. Oh, you've got all the power now, too. Consider, if they were to get mar­
and I am In your hands. I. won’ t grum­ ried. you’ll make five thousand, by the
ble, David.
No, take your own time, bargain, not to speak of the interest.
my boy; take your own time.”
I f thay don’ t you’ ll have the satisfaction
Th e poor old man was atrangely al­ of giving your nephew a few thousand
tered in four or five weeks, that he pounds back out of the property you’ve
ahould thus humble himself before his robbed him of.”
nephew. But David had all the power ao
“ A thousand pounds! v I ’ ll think It
long as he had any o f those coupons left. over.”
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“ You little thought when I came here
C H A P T E R X X II.
that I was going to give you ao much
M ary went to plead with David for
trouble, did you. Uncle Daniel? You
thought you had the whip hand over me her uncle. H e was in the deserted farm­
always, didn't you? But you see, first yard o f Berry, with its tumble-down
the fall from your pony, then the loss o f buildings. H e leaned against the gate,
your papers, then the stroke, then my thinking always o f the fields he had lost,
coming home and finding those papers— and the way in which they had been
O f course his first
all part o f the judgment!— and now taken from him.
thought was to get out of her way.
there's more to follow.”
“ Don’ t run away, David,” aha said;
“ W hat more? Oh, David, what more?"
“ 1 cam? to talk with you.”
the helpless old man only groaned.
“ Well, come through the gate then,
“ To-day, uncle, I have come to talk
about my aunt's will. W ill Nethercote Mary. W ill you talk in the cottage, or
told me. You did not. You thought thst will you talk here?”
“ Let ua stay outside— here in the
as soon as our little business was finish­
ed I should go away and never come shade, David. When will you cease to
back any more. You thought you would worry your uncle?”
“ Did he tell you that I worry him?
keep the money, did you? Not so, uncle;
Has ha been complaining?”
not so!”
*_
“ No. H e even denies that you hare
“ I thought you would never find, it
out, D avid," Mr. Leighan confessed, with any share in the new trouble that seems
. somewhat surprising candor.
“ I soon to have fallen upon him. But I know
found that you knew nothing about It. that It la caused by you. A ftor every
and that you never go about and talk; one o f your morning visits he is miser­
and I was pretty certain that you would able. Every day he grows more nervous
never find out. W ell, now you know, and more irritable. H e sheds tears when;
what difference does It make? You are he la alone. I am quite sure that you are
the cause o f his trouble.”
no nearer the money.”
“ W ell, Mary, perhaps you are right.
“ W e shall see. My aunt might just
Perhaps I
as well have left it to me aa to you. I may be the cause of i t
T o be sure, I never thought she had half may be the cause o f a good deal more
so much. She began with a thousand. trouble than I have done.”
She must have pinched and saved. She
“ Oh! David, think— he is an old man;
left it to Mary, on the condition o f her he la afflicted with paralyyis; you are
marrying with your consent; and, If not, hastening bis end. W hat good will it
• the money was to go to me. And i f i do to you If you worry him into his
was dead, the will said nothing. So you grave? . W ill that restore the past? W ill
thought you could stick to the money. that make you what you used to be?”
Uncle, you’re a foxy one! You ought to
“ Nay, that it will not do. But when
be in the States, and thirty years young­ I see him at my mercy, crying for pity,
er. There you would find yourself at I think o f the day when I came to ask
home, with plenty o f opportunity. W ell. him to lead me a poor fifty pounds, with
I am wiser now than I w a r And see which to try my luck In Canada, and be
now, uncle, I don’t mean to go away laughed me in the face.”
until this question is aettled. W hat are
“ W ell, then. David, does it do yon
you going to do?"
any good to remember that day? Let
the past be dead, David, and live for the
“ W hy should I tell you?”
“ Keep it to yourself, then. I will tell future.”
“ You don’ t know what you are saying.
you what you thought you were going to
do.: I ’ ve worked it all o u t First, i f you Mary. W hat should you know abeut it?
let George and M ary get married before You are only a girl” — he spoke roughly
the law lets you take Sidcote you will and rudely, but not unkindly— “ what do
lose Sidcote.”
H e began, in his slow you know? Let the past be dead. Why,
way, to tick off his points upon bis fin­ all the world is crying because the past
gers.
“ Th at's the first thing.
A fter won't die. I only wish the past would
you have got Sidcote, you will be still die." Here, it seems to me, David tah
loath to let the money go, and you will upon a profound truth; for very nearly
keep M ary waiting on. You think that I all the world— not quite— it would be,
shall soon go. Then you will keep the unhappily, fa r better if the past would
money as long as you live. Bnt suppose die. “ I f the past should die, Mary, I
they were to marry without your consent, should forget that J was once a substan­
all the money comes to me— comes to me. tial man, who aat respected at the mar­
T h at sticks, doesn't it?
You can let ket ordinary, rode my own horse, and
them marry now— and you will lose Sid­ farmed my own land. I should forget
cote; you can let them marry after you that I had to go away from my native
have got Sidcote; and you will have to place and take ship with the lowest emi­
I
should forget-— Mary,” he
pay up; if you keep on refusing your con­ grants.
sent, you can keep the money as long as ..whispered, “ I can trust yon— I hare told
you like— unless they marry without. no one else— I should forget that I had
Then you’ve got to give it to me. You’ ve been in prison— yes, in prison------”
"D a vid !”
She shrank from him, but
had a taste of me already.”
/ H e waited a little.
His uncle said recovered, and laid her hand softly upon
nothing, but watched him from under his.*
“ Yes; in prison. And now I am no
his long, white eyebrows— not contempt­
uously. as on the first interview after his longer fit to sit and talk with George
return, but with the respect due to the and you. But I am fit to talk with my
uncle, because, bad as 1 am, he is worse.
strength o f the situation.
“ But if he is, David, forgive him."
“ Very well, then; you would rather
“ I will worry him,” said David, “ as
give that money to M ary than to me.
But you would like to get Sidcote; yon long as I can. I will never spare him.
hate the thought o f giving it to me, you I ’ve got another------ But never mind.
Intended to keep it yourself. Yet there Oh! when you are gone, Mary, he shall
Is no way out o f it if you want Sidcote. have a life that he little dreams o f now!'
“ David! It is terrible. Can nothing
Perhaps you think y<& would give it to
Mary, after you hare got Sidcote. But move yon?”
“ Nothing, M ary; not even you. And
suppose she marries before?
Then you
mind yon, don’t try to put yourself be­
would be obliged to give it all to me.”
“ Go on, David; perhaps you are going tween him and me, because he won't
stand it. It isn’t me that won’t stand it,
to propose something."
“ I hare been thinking things over, un­ because I don’ t greatly care who knows;
cle. You are getting old, you may die but it's him. H e likes me to come; he
any day; then Mary would be free. It watches for me and waits for me.
Is true that she might marry to-morrow. though he knows that when I am gone
In which case I should be entitled to ev­ he will turn and wriggle in his chair,
erything. But I don’ t think she would and cry and curse. Yet he wants uio
be such a fool. I f I wars Mary, I should back. Say no more about it, Mary.”
It was Indeed useless to try further
w a it You are aerenty now, and you’ ve
M ary was silent.
H er
loot the use of your legs. You can’t last persuasions.
very long.
I should wait. If I were cousin, worked np by -his wrath, stood
Mary. Yes; It might be a year or two; before her with purple cheeks and flam­
ing eyes.
it couldn’t be longer."
“ I must go aw ay soon,” she said. “ I
H is uncle heard without any emotion
this argument in favor o f his approach-, cannot let George go out Into the world
Ing dem ise-country people use plainness without any one. And then I must leave
of speech about such matters— but he him— alone.”
“ Yes; but he will hare me,” said Da­
felt himself very far from dying, as mas­
terful men always do up to the very end. vid. grimly.
“ Well, I have said what I came to say.
“ Wall, David, supposing that what you
say is common sense, what next? I f David, and I hare done no good. I f yon
Mary marries at once she is a fool, and would only forget.”
“ I cannot forget.
Stay, M ary; one
then I have you to reckon with. There
is a good bit outstanding on the old ac­ thing I must any.' Itemeinher afterward
count. and I don't suppose there wouhl that I said it in time. Then, perhaps,
be much coming to you when compound you’ ll think that if it hadn’ t been for
interest and all comes to be reckoned him I might hare been a different maq."
“ W hat is It, David r
' up.”
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” T. Is H U .”
H I* f l e e softened ffi*
“ As for yonr outtsanding accounts, we
shall see when the time comes. And as moment be ceased to think upon his
for compound interest. It will be for wrongs. It was but the wreck o f a face
you to pay that on my aunt's six thou which had once been handsome and full
o f hope; but it was better and healthier
sand pounds."
"T h e interest went for the keep of to look upon than the face black with
revenge.
“ W ill tells me that you are
M ary.”
“ I haven't heard that there’s a word going to marry George without your un­
' about that in the will.
You've bad her cle’s consent T ’
“ Yes."
rervlces aa housekeeper for five years,
“ You know th a t he must then give me
and yon've pocketed the interest. Wny.
I take it that yon made 5 per cent. the whole of my aunt’s money?”
“ Yea.”
‘ Th at’ s three hundred a year. There will
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"V ery well, Mary. I am fooling him.
Never mind ho^r. But you shall not be
wronged. Yon shall have all your for­
tune. Marry George without any fear.
Remember— you ahall not be wrongod!
I am aa bad as you like, but I will not
rob you, M ary; I will not rob you !"
C H A P T E R X X III.
It was heard in the olflee of the paper
which had secured my services that there
was to be held a special meeting, ou an
evening early in October, of the Royal
Geographical Society, in order to hear a
paper read by a German traveler recent­
ly arrived In Europe, after a lengthened
•tay in the South Sea Islands.
A t the hour o f eight the chairman en­
tered with hie captive traveler.
The
latter, certainly one of the tallest and
finest men I have ever beheld, took his
place la front of hla maps, and began,
after the usual Introduction, to read hla
paper.
A fter this paper was read, the usual
irrepressible persons got up and began
to discuss. A t this point 1 retired to add
a few things to my article and hand it
in. I then repaired to the Savage Club,
which at 11 o’clock legina to be a cheer­
ful place. Here I found, in fact, an ani­
mated circle, and among them my friend
of the R. G. 8., the Baron Sergios von
Holstein, who had been brought by one
o f the members.
— .
It is always interesting to meet with
men who have been on desert islands, or
lived among cannibals. It is enough for
some people only to gase upon suoh a
man. F or our part, at the Savage, ws
found the baron not only an Intereating
person, bqt also a singularly amosiug
companion, and brimful of anecdotea and
stories o f all kinds.
W e talked till late. A t about three in
the morning, when we /had gone half
round the world with him, he told ua a
very singular and surprising story.
He had not been the only European
on a certain island all the time, he aaid.
For six months or so he tiad a companion
in the shape of a poor fellow— an Eng­
lishman— who had been washed ashore
upon a piece of timber. Th e natives
were going to spear this human Jetsam,
when he interfered and saved him, and
continued to protect him nntil he was
able to get him off the island in a vessel
which came a blackbirding. “ This fel­
low,” said the baron, “ was the mosC in­
tolerable creature in existence. Earlier
in his existence he had committed a
murder, and during the whole of his stay
on the island he wae suffering agonies
o f remorse; ail day long he wept and
groaned, and waa afraid to leave me for
fear o f being speared. A t night he would
not sleep at a distance of more than a
foot .or so from me for fear. And he
was always visited every night by the
ghost of (be respectable uncle whom he
had slain.”
"D id you see the ghost?”
“ No, nor did I hear its voice.
Yet
it spent the best part of the night in
abusing the poor man, and he in an­
swering it with prayers and protesta­
tions. As for revenge, I suppose no-oth­
er murdered man ever took so much out
o f his murderer. W ell, it was tedious.
A t length my Englishman declared that
he desired nothing so much as to get
away from the island, and give himself
np to justice. I f he could only make his
way to Australia and then get a passage
to England, he would give himself up
and confess the whole truth.”
“ A lively companion.”
“ Yee. But to look at him you wonlJ
think him a dull, heavy fellow, who
seemed to have no spirit for such a des­
perate deed. W ell, I got him away at
length, and was left happy at last and
alone. Before he went, however, I wrote
down, at his request, a statement of the
murder; a confession, in fact, which be
and I witnessed. I warned him that I
should make any use of it that I thought
fit. A s yet I have done nothing with it;
and as I dare say he is dead by this time,
I do not see why I should not tear it up.
Here It is. however, written in my old
note book.”
fTo be continued.!
T h is D o g R a r e l y R e a s o n e d .
“ I see,” said Hie 8t. Louis man, “ that
the question o f whether animal* think
or not is now being much discussed In
bhe papers.”
"A n d which side dp you take?’’ waa
asked.
“ I know they think. When I was a
boy I w ent a fter harvest apples once
and the fan ner's dog drove me up a
tree and kept me there for five hours.”
“ But that doesn’t prove that he had
though ta?"
"H o ld on. Th e farm er was away
from home and didn’t return until sun­
down, and then he took me down out
o f the tree and ga ve me the walloping
o f my life. In the first place, the dog
knew that hla master was gone; in the
second, he knew that he wouldn't be
back until sundown; thirdly, he know
that i f he came back and found me
I ’d get a hiding; lastly. If It wasn’t all
reasoned out, w hy didn't he lenve me
at the end o f four hours to bite a
tramp w ho w as stealing turnips fnrthe*
down the road? I still have one more
reo son.”
"A n d that Is?”
“ T h a t three months later, when I
met that dog on the steps o f the meet­
in g house o f a Sunday, he bolted for
home like a streak o f greased llght-j
nlng. W ould he have done that If he
hadn't thought I had a brickbat tinder
my Jacket?”
A G a y D e c e iv e r .
“ George,” said the bride o f a week,
didn’ t you promise me that you would
g iv e up sm oking the day l married
you ?”
"T h a t’s what I did,” replied George.
“ And now ," she continued, “ I find
you puffing a cigar. Just as though I
w ere not In existence. W hat explana­
tion have-you to offer?”
“ W ell, I kept my promise all right,”
answered the husband..
“ I didn’t
smoko a single cigar on our wedding
day.”
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TV I re 1 c m M essage*.
T h ey w ere flat dwellers.
“ W h y,” asked the alleged boss o f
the domestic ranch, “ do you alw ays
sit by the w indow In the air shaft
when sew ing?
You can’t half s<
there.”
“ Tru e,” replied his better half, “ but
I can hear beau tifu lly."
Conquest
Great
American Desert
T aka each e g g separately,
placa it
fg a ln s t one end o f the “ teeter” and
place tha other and o f tha “ teeter”
close to your aye, and look through
tow ard the lig h t or, batter still allow
tha raya o f tha sun to fa ll directly on
the egg.
Be carefu l not to let the
flngera Intercept the light. Th e fertile
egga which b a r * begun to incubate
w ill show a dark spot, w ith veins ra­
diating from i t
T h is dark spot be­
comes la rger and dark er aa the d evel­
opment o f the chick progresses. Tha
P o ets f o r W ir e F en ce«.
Th ere is probably a greater m ileage appearance o f the In fertile la p erfectly
clear (eam e aa fresh eggs) until they
o f w ire fence in Texaa than any o th e f
have bean aat about tw o weeks, a fter
three States, and Texaa people ought,
which tim e they begin to decay.
therefore, to be the beat Judges o f bow
to make them perm anent
About
I a c r s a i i a g th e C o ra C rop.
“ strain posts” a Texa s stockman In
P. G. Holden, P rofessor o f A gricu l­
Farm and Ranch aays:
ture at the Illin ois A gricultural Col­
Numerous plans have been given fo r
lege at Champlain, la a man whose
m aking secure corner posts for w ire
name and m em ory should be much re­
fences. I have tried many plans, and
spected, not only by farmers, but by
have found every plan to make a
all w ho are consumers o f American-
corner poet bear the strain o f a long
grow n corn. W hen a college student
fence to be a .failure. Th e strain con­
he waa teaching school In Michigan.
tinues w ithout intermission, and final­
H e asked hla students to each bring
ly the corner post gives w ay. W ith
him an ear o f corn from the crib at
short fences the difficulty is not so
home. T h ey d id 's o , and he showed
great
I have built some hundreds
them the differen t grades, from very
o f miles o f w ire fencing.
M y plan
good to very poor. Then he asked
now is to use w h at I call a strain
each one to plant three seeds from the
p o s t instead o f putting- the strain on
beet ear In a box, and w a ter It. Th e
result waa an excellent crop o f large,
corner po s t
S T R A IN POST
well-filled ears. T h e parents became
interested, and eoon began to plant
only the best corn fo r seed, much to
the; advantage o f their crop. A ft e r he
w en t to Illinois; be began to talk the
benefits o f selected corn fo r seed to
V f
the farmers, and soon not only w ere
most o f them converted to hla Ideas,
POSTS POB WIRB FENCES
but the farm ers o f ‘Io w a and Missouri
the corner post. I put down s good w ere looking fo r better seed. La ter
corner post; and at least tw enty on he becam e director o f a farm near
they
usually
fee t from this put dow n another good Bloomington, w here
post, large and deep Into the ground. planted tw en ty thousand acres o f
yield up to
A t the ground, I run w ires to the corn, w ith an average
top o f the strain post, and stretch that tim e o f fo rty to fifty bushels per
these w ires t ig h t T h is puts most o f acre. T h e first ye a r he Increased the
the strain on the strain p o st and all yield by ten thousand bushel* above
On soma
the strain placed on the corner post tha beat previous season.
scree
he
brought
the
products
up to
comes a t its bottom. Again, the
strain post is not put Into the ground seventy bushels per acre. Th is year
stra ig h t but leans to the corner. Th e he had a special train from which to
effect o f this la that the strain tends talk about corn to the farm ers o f
to force It deeper into the ground, in­ Iow a, and I f w e have this year the
stead o f d raw in g It o u t
It w ill be largest crop o f corn ever grow n In
found easier to put in a good corner the U nited States, Professor Holden
post and tw o strain posts than to put la entitled to the credit o f having add­
In one com er post In the w a y often ed milliona o f those bushels to the
directed. 1 show the plan In sketch crop by bis advocacy o f tha doctrine
sent herewith.
It w ill be best first o f using only tha beat seed.
to stretch the w ires around the strain
poet, making them secure to It, and
then to com plete the fence by building
a abort fence at the com er. O f course,
snch care Is not needed fa r short lines
o f fencing.
H o o ts -M o d s C o ra C u tter.
W are a ll o f arid A m erica fit fo r tha
living, It could t>e occupied by a third
o f the entire population o f the United
Btataa.
Go into tha foythllla
ol
Colorado and Nevada. T h ere tha sage­
brush springs from the sand aa It does
on tha sunbaked mesas o f Arisons
and N e w M exico a w a y to the south.
Th a statistician estim ates that even In
Kansas, Nebraska and tha Dakotas
fu lly M van ty-five million acres w ill
produce only a. scanty herbage— Just
enough to keep range cattle a liv e 'a
fe w w eeks during the graslng seasoh,
y e t these States are not considered a
part o f tha desert.
A lrea d y a modern m iracle has been
w ro u g h t Tha one w ho has not v is ­
ited the oaala created b y
irrigation
m ay scout this assertion, but ahould
he chance into the vaUey through
which the R io Pacos flowe, or In Colo­
rado along tha Poudra R iver, the land­
scape o f field, ore bald and garden
which nature has created In a literal
w ilderness w ill convince him beyond
the ahadow o f a d o u b t In the South­
w est fruits and grains both o f tha
tropic and tem perate r.ones are to*" be
seen grow in g in luxuriance w here yes­
terday only greaaewood, sagebrush and
cactua existed. Y e t the soil is un­
changed, save fo r the application o f
w ater. It la that o f tbe desert— w ith­
out moisture, alm ost Incapable o f sup­
porting life. W hen moistened, how ­
ever, these particles o f sand, even al­
kali rock, contain properties so fertile
that from them springs
vegetation
m ore abundant and luxuriant than tha
crops that are gathered from the fifth
black loam o f Indiana and Illinois and
tha fertile valleys o f N e w Y ork Itself.
Althou gh less than 10 per cent o f
the a vailable area fo r irrigation haa
thus fa r been reached. In Colorado i t ­
s elf no leas then 75 per cent o f ttte
lands available fo r cultivation depends
upon the artificial w atei supply. These
farm s aggregate 750,000 acres. T h e
South P la tte Valley, the moat exten­
sively Irrigated region In the United
States, including portions o f Colorado,
W yom in g and Nebraska, has 2,000,000
Seres which are artificially watered.
Farm s In Utah thus supplied aggre­
gate 800,000 acres, Arizona contains
100,000 acres, N e w M exico 150,000
acres, Nebraska 100,000, w hile soma
o f the most productive valleys o f Cali­
fornia which send their fruit and rage-
tables by the car load to all parta o f
tbe U nited States as w ell as tae prin­
cipal d tlea o f Europe, are nurtured en­
tirely by wella and ranals.
Y e t the
average size o f an Irrigated farm Is
not over fo rty acres, which gives an
Idea o f the millions o f people, who to ­
day depend upon these great w a ter­
w orks fo r their livelihood.— O uting
M agazine.
.
This Idea o f a corn cutter comae
from Au stralia w h ere the machine la
used In harvesting sugar cane and
sorghum, as w ell aa corn. Th e im ple­
ment has been tried by a number o f
TREES ANO LIGHTNING.
M a k i n g the P i g G r o w .
- farm ers In this country and pro­
G iv e the yoan g pigs a good start. It nounced a success.
I t Is made by Open F ie ld t h e S a fest P la c e —K im s an d
*
O aks M ost O ften H it.
w ill be to your Interest to do so. A bolting the blade o f a strong heavy
About the most dangerous place to
young pig that has once been stunted scythe to a sledge or sled, ns shown
w ill never w holly outgrow it, no m at­ In the Illustration. A rod o f w rought seek shelter in a thunder storm ¡la
ter how good the subsequent care may Iron about one inch In diam eter Is under an oak or elm tree, as w as
proved again by tha experience o f a
be. A n y animal being grow n fo r meat
dozen persona In Prospect Park,
should have feed enough to make a
Brooklyn, only a short tim e ago. T h is
good gain every day from birth
to
fa ct has long been known to scientists,
slaughter.
I f there Is ever a tim e
but many persons are killed every
In that anim al’s life when no gain Is
year by lightning because o f tbe lack
being made in w eigh t all feed con­
or disregard o f this knowledge.
sumed during that tim e Is practically
Th e total annual loss o f life
by
lost, fo r the profit all comes from the
lightning Is not known, fo r com plete
feed that makes the gain above the
statistics on tbe subject have nfever
amount required to maintain the ani­
been kept. A fe w years ago the Uni­
m al's needs. In other words, a cer­
HOME-MADE COHN CUTTER.
ted States w eather bureau attem pted
tain amount o f feed necessary to keep
bent to form er follow er, ns shown. something o f tbe kind in a ten tative
the animal a live and the profit must
One o f these machines Is expected to way. Its experts figured out the a v­
all come from the little extra feed
cut about 2 V4 acres per day. A fte r erage number o f persons killed
by
that makes the gain in flesh. A young
cutting, the crop is less easily bandied lightning yearly In the United States
anim al w ill gain more on a given quan­
than when cut by band, but the tots! aa 812. But this was not complete.
tity o f feed than an older animal on
saving in labor la considerable.
From several States in the Union the
the same feed. I think w e m ight safe­
w eather bureau received no reports.
ly aay the younger the animal
the
W ir e C h ick en -C a tch er.
Th e reports received did show that
greater the gain fo r the feed consumed.
A chicken-catcher Is needed on
T h a t la w h y It pays better to feed many farm s which can be made from o f all that lightning killed only a fe w
w ere struck in the open field. M ost
young stock.— Sw ine Advocate.
No. 8 wire.
F iv e feet o f w ire will
of the killed and Injured, It waa found,
be long enough. Bend a loop at oue
had sought shelter from thunderstorms
d ra g o n f o r F r n lt B a rrels.
end fo r a handle, with a shepherd’ s
under trees. In doorw ays o f barns o f
Professor
W augh, o f Massachu­
crook at the other end, bending tbe
setts, says In a report: In handling crook small enough, o f course, to hook near chimneys.
W h ile no record o f the kinds o f trees
the fru it In the orchard, between the
around tbe leg o f a chicken w hile It is
most often struck by lightning has
trees and th » storage-room, or later
eating. I f the hook Is made the least
between the storage and the shipping bit flaring, but closed up about a half ever been kept in the United States,
the lightning-rod conference held In
inch. It w ill hold the chicken securely
England in 1881 reported that In the
by the foot. This is the l*est w ay to
United K in gdom the trees most o fte n
catch a chicken when wnnted on short
struck w ere the elm, oak. ash and pop­
notice. Many farm ers train s dog to
lar. It is also said that tbe beech, btreb
catch chickens, but this causes a com­
motion among tbe fow ls and is one and maple w ere seldom touched by
w a y to make them w ild.
Uneasy, lightning. It w as an elm that 'w a s
frightened
fo
w
ls
are
not
th
rifty,
like struck In Prospect Park July 8.
WAQON rOB HANDLING FRUIT.
F or a period o f eleven years In the
quiet, contented birds.
principality o f Llppe-Detm old exhaus­
station, some suitable wagon ought to
P n l v e r i x l n * t h e R o il.
tive records w ere kept o f all
trees
be provided. A atone 'b o a t la some­
Considering the pulverizing o f the struck by lightning.
These showed
tim es used and la not the w orst thing
that could be found, especially for clods that turn up In the most heavy that trees standing near w ater seemed
short hauls and small loads.
It la land a fte r plowing, prevention is the to be the most likely to be hit, and
I f the field
is
w ell gnve thla table o f com parative danger:
better, how ever, to h are one o f. The best method.
low-down wagons made especially for drained and not plowed when wet, Oaks, 100; elms, 77; pines, 83; firs, 10;
handling fruit. In the illustration one there m ay be no clods. It w ill, how­ fir trees In general, 27; beeches, by fa r
is shown as It was actually made np ever, takh tw o or three sensons to thor­ the safest o f all forest trees, 2.— N e w
at home. Some sills w ere hung by oughly fine the soil that has been In­ Y ork Sun.
strap Irons from the fron t and rear jured by prevlpus m ism anagem ent
H ea rd It to r Y e a rs.
axles o f a common wagon fram e, and F a ll or w in ter plowing, turning the
H er— "W h y did you laugh when I
ou th®«® some boards w ere laid, mak­ Infid in ridges and leaving It as rough
ing a flarr fo r carryin g the barrels. as possible, so as to expose the moist tdld you that joke waa original w ith
Handling barrels o f apples In and out surface to the fr o s t w ill do the work, me?”
H im — “ Because I caught you in fc
o f the common high wagon la hard but unless there are underdrains to
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and expensive labor, and It la apt to carry off the w a ter tha plow ing may m isstatem ent”
H er— “ Oh! you doubt m y word?”
do aa much harm as good.
dam age the fru it
H im — “ No, but you told me last
T h s D a ir y B arn .
A G ood B g g -T o e ts r.
night you w ere only 23. I f you com­
Th e dairy barn, aa built In the near posed that Joke you are at least 60.
T a k e thla paper, says a w riter In
American Pou ltry Journal, and roll It future, may not have ao much loft T h at’ s a ll."— Cleveland Leader.
up so as to leave the open apace a room, but instead a n um m r o f struc­
G ive a girl a dollar and. It w ill go
trifle leas In diam eter than tha length tures in tha form o f silos, but not air
o f an egg. T ie a string around tha tigh t or ao solid. Into these several either fo r a complexion beautlfler,
center, ao tha paper cannot unroll, months’ or the entire w inter's supply chocolate caramels, or to a fortuue
may be c u t— Inland teller In exchange fo r a peep Into the
and you r e g g tester la ready fo r us«, o f roughage
futura.
and equal to any that can ha bou gh t Farm ed