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sfietween Two fires« By ANTHONY HOPE " A w ise man w ill make more opportunities than he finds. ” — F ran cis'B aoon . •o li o C H A P T E R X V .— (Continued.) Thus far the Signorina. 1 must beg to call special attention to the cloalng lines of hei narrative. But before I relate the very startling occurrence to which she refers, we must return to the bar racks, where, it will be remembered, mat ters «e re in a rather critical condition. When the officers saw their mesa room suddenly filled with armed men. and heard the alarming order issued by the Colonel, their attention was effectually divertej from me. They crowded togeth er on one side of the table, facing the Colonel and his men on the other. As sisted by the two men sent to my aid, I seised the opportunity to push my way through them and range myself by the side of my leader. After a moment’s pause the Colonel began : “The last thing we should desire, gen tlemen,* he said, “is to resort to force. But the time for explanation is short. The people of Aureataland have at last i¡sen against the tyranny they have so long eidured. General Whittinghain has prov'd a traitor to the cause of freedom ; he woa his position in the name of lib erty; he'has used it to destroy liberty. T h i voice of the people has declared him to hate forfeited his high office. The - • people have placed in my hand the sword of vengeance. Armed with this mighty sancth n, I have appealed to the army. The army has proved true to its tradi tion s— true to its character of the pro tector. not the oppressor, of the people. Gentlemen, will you who lead the army take your propter place?” There was no reply to this moving ap peal, He advanced closer to them, and went on : “There is no middle way. You are pat riots or traitors— friends of liberty or friends of tyranny. I stand here to offer you either a traitor’s death, or. if you will, life, honor and the satisfaction of dll your just claims. Do you mistrust the people? I, as their representative, here offer yon every just due the people owe you—-debts which had long been paid but for the greed of that great traitor.” As he said this he took" from his men koine bags of money, and threw them an the table with a loud chink. Major DeChair glanced at the bags, and glanced at his comrades, and said: “ In the cause of liberty, heaven forbid we should-be behind! Down with the tyrant 1” And aU the pack yelped in chorus! “Then, gentlemen, to the head of your men." said the Colonel, and going to the window, hi cried to the throng: "Men, your noble officers are with us.” A cheer answered him. I wiped my forehead, and said to myself, “That’s well over.” C H A P T E R X V I. I will not weary the reader with our further proceedings. Suffice to gay we marshaled our host and marched down to the Piazza. The news had spread by now, and In the dimly breaking morning light we saw the Square full of people— men. women and children. As we march ed, in there was a cheer, not very hearty — a cheer propitiatory, for they did not know what we meant to do. The Colonel made them a brief speech, promising peace, security, liberty, plenty and all the goods of heaven. In a few stern words he cautioned them against “ treach ery.” and announced that any rebellion pgainst the Provisional government would ’meet with swift punishment. Then he posted his army in companies, to keep watch till all was quiet. And at last he said : “ Now. Martin, come back to the Golden House, and let's put that fellow in a safe place.” “Yea.” said I, ‘and have a look for the money.” For really in the excitement it seemed as if there was a danger of the most important thing of all being for gotten. The dawn was now far advanced, and s s we left the Piazza, we could see the Golden House at the other end of the nvenae. Ail looked quiet, and the sen tries were pacing to and fro. Drawing nearer, we saw two or three of the Presi dent’s servants busied about their ordi nary tasks. One woman was already re moving Johnny C arr’s life-blood with a mop and a pail of w ater; and a carpenter w as at work repairing the front door. Standing by it was a doctor’s brougham. “Come to see Carr, I suppose,” said I. Leaving our horses to the care of the men who were with us, we entered the house. Just inside we met the doctor him self. He was a shrewd little fellow, nam ed Anderson, generally popular, and, al- though a personal friend of the Presi dent’s. not openly identified with either political party. “ I have a request to make to you. sir” he said to McGregor, ’about Mr. Carr.” “ Well, is he dead?” said the Colonel. “ I f he is, he’s got himself to thank for it,” The doctor wisely declined to discuss this question, and confined himself to stating that he was not dead. On the contrary he was going on nicely. “ But” be went on, “qui^t is essential., snd I want to take him ts my house, our o f the racket. N o doubt it is pretty quiet here now, but— ” The Colonel interrupted: “ W ill he give his parole not to es cape?” “ Ify dear sir,” said the doctor, “the man couldn’t move to save his life— and he’s asleep now.” “You must wake him up to move him, I •appose,” said the Colonel. “But you may take him. Let me know when he’s well enough to see me. Meanwhile, I hold jo u responsible for his good behavior.” “Certainly,” said the doctor. “ I am content to be responsible for Mr. Carr.” “All right; take him and get out. New fo r Whittingham !” “ Hadn’t we better get the money first?” •aid I. “I must have a bit of food. Pvt tasted d o thing for twelve hours.” One of fbe servants, hearing him, said: “Breakfast can be served In a moment, mtm ' Ami ho aahersd os into the toage ___________ __ dining room, where we soon had an ex cellent meal. When we had got through moat of it, I broke the silence by asking: , “ What are you going to do with him?” “ I should like to shoot him,” said the Colonel. “On what charge?” “Treachery,” he replied. “That would hardly do, would it?” “ Well, then, embezzlement of public funds.” W e had a little talk about the Presi dent's destiny, abd I tried to persuade the Colonel to milder measures. In fact, I was determined to prevent such a mur der if I could without ruin to myself. “ Well, we'il consider it when we’ve seen him,” said the Colonel, rising. “W e ’ve wasted an hour breakfasting— it’s seven o’clock.” I followed him along the path, and we entered the little room where we had left the President. The sentries were still there, each seated in an armchair. They were not asleep, but looked a little drowsy. “All right?” said the Colonel. “Yes, excellency,” said one of them. “He ia there in bed.” He went into the inner room and began to undo the shutters, letting in the early sun. W e passed through the half-opened door and saw a peaceful figure lying in the bed. whence proceeded a gentle snore. “Good nerve, hasn’t he?” said the Colo nel. “Y e s ; but what a queer nightcap,” I said, for the President's head was swath ed in white linen. The Colonel strode quickly up to the bed. “Done !” he cried. “ It’s Johnny Carr !” It was true; there lay Johnny. His excellency was nowhere to be seen. The Colonel shook Johnny roughly i by the arm. The latter opened his eyes and said, sleepily : “ Steady there 1 Kindly remember I ’m a trifle fragile.” “ W h at’s this plot? Where’s Whitting- bam?” “Ah, It’s McGregor.” said Johnny with a bland smile, “and Martin. How are you. old fellow? Some beast’s bit me on the head.” "W here’s Whittingham?” reiterated the Colonel savagely shaking Johnny's arm. “Gently!” said I ; “after ail,'he’s a sick man.” The Colonel dropped the arm, and Johnny said sweetly; “Quits, isn’t it, Colonel?” The Colonel turned from him, and said to his men sternly : “ Have you had any hand in this?” They protested vehemently that they were as astonished as we w ere; and so they were, unless they acted consunimate- iy. They denied that anyone had entered the outer room or that any sound had proceeded from the inner. They had kept vigilant watch, and must have seen any intruder. Both tSe men inside were thp Colonel's personal sprvnnts, and he believ ed in their honesty, but what of their \lgilance? Carr heard him sternly ques tioning them, and said; “Those chaps aren’t to blame, Colopel. I didn’t come in that way. If you’ll take a look behind the bed you’ll see another door. They brought me in there. I was rather queer and only half knew what was up.” W e looked and saw a door where he said. Pushing the bed aside, we opened it, and found ourselves on the back stair case of the premises. Clearly the Presi dent had noiselessly opened this door and go1- out. But how had Carr got in with out noise? The sentry came up. saying: “Every five minutes, sir, 1 looked and saw him on the bed. He lay for the first hour in .his_ clothes. The next look, he was undressed. It struck me he’d been pretty quick and quiet about it, but I thought no more.” “Depend on it, the dressed man was the President, the undressed man Carr 1 When was that?” “About half-past two, sir; just after the doctor came.” “The doctor 1” we cried. “Yes, s ir ; Dr. Anderson.” “You never told me he had been here.” “ He never went into the President's— into General Whittinghain's room, sir; but he came in here for five minutes, to get some water, and stood talking with us for a time. H alf an hour after he came in for some more.” W e began to see how it was done. That wretched little doctor was in the plot. Somehow or other he hid communicated .with the President; probably he knew of the door. Then, I fancied, they must have worked something in this way. The doctor comes in to distract the sentries, while his excellency moves the bed. Find ing that they took a look every five min utes, he told the President. Then he went and got Johnny Carr ready. Re turning, he takes the President's place on the bad, and in that character under goes an Inspection. The moment this is over he leaps up and goes out. Between them they bring in Carr, put him into bed, and slip out through the narrow space of open door behind the bedstead. When all was done, the doctor had come back ..to see if aqy suspicion bad been aroused. “ I have It now !” cried the Colonel. “That doctor’s done us both. He couldn’t get Whittingham out of the house with out leave, so he’s taken him as C a rr! Swindled me into giving my leave. Ah, look out if we meet, Mr. Doctor!” W e rushed out of the house an’d found this conjecture was true. The man who purported to be Carr had been carried out; enveloped in blankets, jnst as we sat down to breakfast; the doctor had put him into the carriage, followed hlmaelf, and driven rapidly away. “ Which way did they go7* “Toward the harbor, air,” the sentry re plied. The haitoor could be reached In twenty minutes’ fast driving. Without a word the Colonel sprangton hi« horse; I imi tated him, and we galloped as hard as we could, everyone making way before our furious charge. A las! we mgre too late. As we drew rein on the quay we saw, half « mils out to sea, and sailing bafiww a stiff bteese, Johnny Carr’s little yacht,' with the Aureataland flag floatiug defi antly at her mast-head. W e gaaed at it blankly, with never a word to say, and turned our horses’ heads. Our attention was attracted by a amall group of men standing round the storm- signal post. As we rode up, they hastily scattered, and w* saw pinned to the post a sheet of note paper. Thereon was writ ten in a well-known hand: " I , Marcus W . Whittingham, Presi dent of the Republic of Aureataland, hereby offer a reward of fire thousand dol lars and a free pardon to any person or C ora R oot L ease. persons assisting in the capture, dead or Tim e spent In killing insect pests alive, of George McGregor (late Colonel ir the Aureataland army) and John Mar must usually be set down as so much tin, bank manager, and I do further pro- time lost from the constructive w o r t claim tbs said George McGregor and John of improving the tilth o f the soil, and Martin to be traitors and rebels against i atteudlng to the other needs o f the the Republic, and do pronounce their lives Occasionally however an lm- forfelted. Which sentence let every loyal occasionally. nowever, an lm proved system o f cultivation gets rid citiaen observe at his peril. of our Insect enemies at the same time. “M A R C U S W . W H IT T IN G H A M , “ President.” This is conspicuously the case In the method recently proposed by Prof. Truly his was pleasant ! Forbes, o f Illinois, for destroying the C H A P T E R X V II, corn root louse. Tba habit of reading having penetrat The pest works havoc to both sweet ed, aa we are told, to ail -classes of the and field corn. The small brown ant community, I am not without hope that attendg the ,OU9e ftnd , re8pon8,ble some who peruse this chronicle will be . , . _ for carrying It about the field. P ro able, from personal experience, to under fessor Forbes found that by using a stand the feelings of a man when he first finds a reward offered for his apprehen disk harrow one to three time« early sion. It is true that our police are not In t^e spring, before the corn Is plant- in the habit of imitating the President’s ed, from 80 to 05 per cent o f the ants naked brutality by expressly" adding and eorn root nce nre de8tr0yed. and “ alive or dead,” but I am informed that no further treatment is required dur- the law, in case of need, leave, the alter- , the The „ , native open to the servants of justice. I . , .. . . A.* . am not ashamed to confess that my spirits ° 18 rt ,net-v nre that it Is simple, were rather dashed by his excellency's ' e a,1(^ Rood for the corn, since Parthian shot, and I could see that the Colonel himself was no less pcrturbeil. The escape of Fleance seemed to Mne- beth to render his whole position unsafe, and no one who knew General Whitting ham will doubt that he was a more dan gerous opponent than Fleance. W e both felt, in fact, as soon as we saw the whit« sail of The Songstress bearing our enemy out of our reach, that the revolution could not yet be regarded as safely accom plished. But the uncertainty of our ten ure of power did not paralyze our ener gies; on the contrary, we determined tc make hay while the sun shone, and, i: Aureataland was doomed to succumb one« more to the tyranny, I, for one, was very clear that her temporary emancipatior might be turned to good account. Accordingly, on arriving again at the Golden House, we lost no time in insti luting a thorough inquiry into the stati of the public finances. W e ransacked th< house from top to bottom and found noth ing! W as it possible that the President had carried off with him all the treas ure that had inspired our patriotic ef forts? The thought was too horrible. The drawers of his escritoire and the safe that stood in his library revealed nothing to our eager eyes. A foraging party, dis patched to the ministry of finance (where, by the way, they did not find Don Anto nio or his fair daughter), returned with the discouraging news that nothing was visible but ledgers and bills. In deep dejection I threw myself into his excel lency's chair with the doleful reflection that this pleasure seemed all 1 was likely to get out of the business. The Colonel stood moodily with his back to tho^fire- place, looking at me as if I were respon sible for the state of things. At this point in came the Signorina. W e greeted her gloomily, and she was as startled as ourselves at the news of the President’s escape; at the same time I thought I detected an undercurrent of re lief. When, however, we went on to break to her the nakedness of the land, she stopped us at once. “Oh, you stupid men, you haven’t look ed in tile right place. 1 suppose you ex pected to find it laid out for you on the dining room table. Come with me.” W e followed her into the room where Carr lay. He was awake, and the Sig norina went and asked him how he was. Then she continued : “ W e shall have to disturb you for a few minutes, Mr. Carr.” (T o be continued.) R evem ed. “So you are the gentleman who runs ‘Hints to the Home Gardener'?” said the fa ir caller in the newspaiter office. “Do you obtain your material from ex(>ertmeut8 in your own garden?” “Oh, I haven’t any garden,” replied the sallow young man with the pen be hind his ear. “ I live in a flat/t-,__ “You don’t say. W ell, perhaps the gentleman tvbo writes ‘Hints on Rent ing Flats’ could give me some good ad vice from his experience in apartment houses ?” “Oh, he doesn’t live in an apartment house. H e lives in the country.” the soil Is thereby put in a better state of cultivation. S a fe C h ic k e n C oo p . It has been proven by statistics that the raising of chickens Is the greatest Industry In the United States. Of course this includes those who are in this business on a large scale for prof it, and also those who probably keep a half dozen fow l in the back yard. Nevertheless, wheth er for business or pleasure, c h i c k e n raising is an inter esting pastime that C H IC K E N COOP. appeals to every body. It is claimed, that chickens should have as much eftre as a human being to Insure the best results, and modern methods certainly tend in that direction. The chicken coop shown here Is a good example. It is simple, effi cient and durable. A s shown here it is rectangular in form, being made of sheet metaL The top and sides are bent to shape, with flanges at the bot tom which connect with the flooring. At each side are supports which hold the coop slightly ubove the ground, tending to keep the coop moisture- proof and preventing rain or other water from entering. At each end are perforated doors, which are very easi ly held in position. A t the bottom of each door is an extension, through which passes a rod, the lntter extend ing through the top o f the coop and also into the ground, preventing the coop from being displaced. In this way the fowl are rendered safe against the attacks of auimals. S h eep th e M a r k e t D e m a n d * . Pays a Western writer on sheep; The market calls for ffieep with a dari: face and legs, and a close fleece is a l advantage. There never has been a time when a fair- preflt could not te obtained from the keeping of shoe)). Tuerc are In the world to-day 90,000,000 few er sheep than twelve years ago, and the consumption o f mutton and wool Is rapidly Increasing, hence it is safe to conclude that sheep to the farm er is a safe proposition. Do not start on a large scale; begin low and work up. The Western farm er does not like to do this, and you are no exception. You have never planted the apple because yon did not expect to stay to eat the fruit. You must rush on and do big things. Do you not know that in the animal as well as the vegetable world rapid growth means rapid decay? IMant tills live stock business and then give it time to strike Its roots deep down, and after It is fairly rooted allow the top to grow. R s r « T re at. “ Some great physician tells us,” said P a r k i n s A p p le * . the woman in the green waist, “ that In packing apples for market first as eating heef puts a person in a bad hn- sort them, so that they w ill run uni mor. Does it put your husband in a form in size and quality. Pack in sound, bad humor?” clean barrels— barrels with flat hoops “ I should say cotj” sighed the little preferred. T urn the upper head down, woman with the typewriter Ink on her take out the lower head and place a fingers. “ My husband Is a poet and large sheet of white paper next the lie is so tickled when we can afford head, then pack the first layer o f apples real beef thHt he is in a good humor with the stem ends upon the head, for a whole week.” pack the second tier, but reverse the apples; then fill the apples without T h e King E n d . Shake down thor “ A t last the time came,” said the bruising the fr u it oughly and fill so full that the head Arctic explorer, “ when our sole sup ply o f food consisted ot a few canned must be pressed in with a lever or bar rel press; then fasten the head, turn ox tails and pickled pigs’ feet.” •Then,” said his hearer, “you were the barrel over and mark plainly the indeed reduced to extremities.”— Bos name o f the variety contained. E xtra care and labor In packing enhances the ton Transcript. valbe when selling. N ow They D on’t Spenk. C lara— Don’t be surprised If W illie Saplelgh proposes to you to-night Maude— G racious! Do you tblDk he will? C lara— Sure I do. When I refused him last night he said he didn’t core what became o f him.— Chicago Newst T w o o f n K in «. “G e o rg e !” “ Yes, darling.” “Don’t you think that the liest fruits o f romance are the wedding date and the bridal pair?”— Baltimore American. N o M o th e r-In -L a w . • Singleton— So you don’t believe in • monarchical form o f government, eh t W edderly— I should say notl T h e f t why I m arried an orphan. G row P ec« on t k * F arm . T h e Massachusetts State crop report contains an article by Prof. F. S. Cooley on “ Some Causes Affecting the Profits o f Dairying.” On the subject o f feed ing dairy cattle the professor nrges that feeds be produced on the farm as fa r as possible. U sually the best prac tice is to purchase only feeds rich In protein and raise the coarse fodders on the farm. Cows fed on starvation rations yield no profit, snd those over fed with expensive feeds are also kept at a loss. The point o f highest profit In feed must be determined by experi ment and calculation, and varies with the locality and circumstances o f tbs fsodar. D ry P s r a ls s . T h e Campbell system o f dry farm ing, which w as first tried In the aernl- arld portions of North Dakota and about which much has appeared In newspapers and magazines within the past year or two, is doing great things fo r many portions of the Western States, where with a rain fall o f but ten or twelve Inches per annum bumper crops o f corn, wheat, beets and other crops can be grown. This system of crop culture Is based on the conserva tion o f practically all of the moisture lu the soli through a dust or surface mulch, and under It as high as forty bushels o f corn to the acre have been grown In North Dakota, fifty bushels o f wheat per acre hi western Nebraska, while better than twenty tons o f beets have been produced In Colorado. W hile this method of crop culture has little value In those portions of the country where there Is an abundant rain fall, It does have a tremendous Import In all territory where there Is fertility in the soil, but an annual rain fall o f less than twenty Inches. W i n d f a ll A p p le * . W h at to do with the w indfall apples Is a problem that gives the owner of every large orchard considerable con cern as the time for picking apples ap proaches. W here one ts provided with aa evaporator or Is so fixed that he can convert this defective fruit Into vinegar, the problem Is comparatively simple. But where neither method of disposing of this product of the orchard is itossible it is a question w hat is the best thing to do. An effective method of disposing of such apples and one which gives a certain retusn is to turn droves of hogs or sheep Into the or chard periodically and allow them to clean them up. This not only disposes of the apples, but the worms ns well, as Buch apples nre usually wormy. In any case It is best to remove the wind falls from beneath the trees, and If they cannot be disposed of in any o f the methods suggested It Is best to put them on the plow land with the manure and turn them under. F arm er* and P o u lt r y F a n c ie r * . The farm er has a real grievance against the poultry fancier, in that he has done all of his crossing and in breeding o f fathers, daughters, uncles and aunts without a n y regard to prac tical utility, says Farm ing, whether the liens from which he has been breeding were producing sixty eggs a year or SiOO m ade no difference. H is whole nlm has been to breed out a foul flight feather or two, or to create a better comb, or eyes o f a better tint at a sacrifice o f everything else. The result is that when a farm er goes Into the market to buy thoroughbreds with *ils money In bis pocket ready and w illing to pay for the best stock, he not only often pays for qualities he doe« not need, but actually pays a premium for something that has been obtained at a sacrifice of the very qualities which he does need. There are a few men, however, raising thoroughbred stock that Is “ bred to lay,” or to meet certain market demands, and those are the men that should be patronized. Says the Madison (M o .) T l m e e . R . J. Pendleton has a cat that la an ex pert fisherman. N ear Mr. Pendleton's home Is a large pond stocked with fish and on a number o f occasions this sum mer the cat has come from the pond to the bouse carrying a catfish in her mouth. The fish had evidently Just been taken from the water, as they w ere perfectly fresh, and Mr. Pendle ton Is convinced that the cat had caught them w hile they weer swim ming near the edge of the water. The fish In each Instance were between three and four Inches long.” In 1898 the astronomical w orld w as deeply interested by the discovery o f an asteroid, Eros, whose mean distance from the sun is less than that of the planet Mars. Now comes the no less Interesting and remarkable new t that an asteroid has been found whose mean distance Is greater than that of the planet Jupiter. This body w as discov ered at the observatory o f Heidelberg last February, and since then the cal culation o f Its orbit has revealed the fact that when at aphepllon the little planet is about 4,000,000 miles outside tho orbit of Jupiter. The provisional designation o f Othe new asteroid ts “ 1900 T. G .’ This discovery Increases the probability that the minute satel lites recently discovered circling round Jupiter are captnred asteroids. M ore and more the attention o f the military authorities o f the great na tions Is concentrated on the means of adapting the automobile to the trans portation of field artillery. A French w riter points out that the Idea o f a self-moving carriage for field-guns was suggested by the engineer Cugnot as early as 1709. At present, efforts nre directed to the perfection o f a form of automobile suitable to take the place of horses in draw ing the artillery w a g ons. Many different forms o f iron-dad automobiles, carrying light guns, have already been Invented and tested, with more or less success; but the main problem is to adapt tae automobile to the transportation o f guns mounted, ns at present, on their own carriages. In other words. It concerns the aboli tion o f artillery horses. A ustralia's emus are being destroy ed wholesale by the wire fences which have been erected to prevent the rnv- ngs of that country’s rabbit pest. E v ery year the emu makes a migration from east to West, the return Journey being made at the beginning of the dry senson. The march of death begins In the westward Journey, when the birds, striking the fences, find further prog ress barred and die in hundreds from th irst A boundary rider In a Joumay o f six miles found no fewer than fifty dead bird s; while In a stretch of about sixty miles it w as estimated that no few er than 300 had perished. But In other districts matters appear to tw* even worse, boundary riders reporting that when riding along these fences they are hardly ever free from the stench of putrefying bodies. A com C u r* o f O rc k a rd * P a y *. plete trsck Is fonnd on the east side pf F ru it growers about Saugatnck, these fences, worn by the maddened Mich., have been busy trimming their birds in attempting to find a pnssnge apple trees, soys Country Gentleman. to the coveted water. Only a very Ten years ago they were thinking of few appear to have the courage to cutting them down and setting out charge the harrier and these, once over, peach trees. To-day every half-dead make off w estw ard at top speed. tree is trimmed, and if there Is not enough manure, fertilizer is bought for MRS. ARTHUR PAQET. these half-dead trees. Six years ago one of Snugatuck’s young farm ers m ar A n A m e rle t u i W o m n n o f th e B r it is h A m u r« Set, ried a Chicago girl who used to spend W e hear n great deal In one w ay or her vacation there. She loved country life, and w as a subscriber to agricul another about the pitiful failures and tural magazines. Ile r husband’s or mistakes of American girls wlio marry chard was Just like the rest, untrlmmed foreigners. But there Is another side and had never been sprayed. She made to the story. These failures are the ex him buy manure, trim the trees, plow ceptions rather than the rule, and If and spray. Tw o years ago he began one were to enumerate nil the successes to hire bis neighbor's orchards. Last he would need much space for the lis t year he was the only one who had ap Some of the foreign marriages are Ideal and the glow of a beautiful domesticity ples to sell, and cleared $2,000. is ever present In their lives. Such a one Is the case o f the daughter o f the R o u t in e C r a b G ra a a w it h C lo v e r . C rab grass is like the dog in the late Paran Stevens, a distinguished and manger, it kills out every other stem o f green grass and then turns brown itself. It makes a coarse and ugly cover in the lawn and the Individual who attempts to eradicate it by dig ging and cultivation nmy be entirely without a lawn for two or three years. I f anything can get the best o f crab grass in a fa ir contest, it is whits clover. In a number of lawns in W ash ington and elsewhere white clover has furnished the means for n final vic tory over crab grass. The white clov er gradually invades the area of crab grass, replacing the latter with a close, dark-green carpet E * * 7 W a r to G et H id o f S tu m p *. A method of getting rid o f stumps which has been highly recommended and which, to be effective, should be done now, is as follow s: Bore a bole one or two Inches In diameter and about eighteen Inches deep into tbs center of the stnmp. Then pyt Into this hole one or two ounces o f salt peter. F ill the hole with w ater and plug It qp. In the spring take out the plug, pour in about one-half gal lon o f kerosene oil and light I t The stnmp w ill smolder aw ay to the vary extremities of the roots, leaving noth ing but the ashes.— Farming. M Ss. ART HUB PAGET. wealthy N ew Yorkar. She married A r thur Paget, son of a well-to-do British fam ily associated with the nobility and considered leaders in the smart se t H er m arried life has been very happy. She has a number o f children, one o f whom married a daughter o f tba lata W illiam C. Whitney o f N ew York. I m p r o T ln i t h * H *r« . Select as fa r as possible females which conform to tba standard of ex cellence o f the breed. I f this Is accome pllshed It will Insure s uniformity in type that Is highly desirable. I f in ad dition to this It Is possible to «sleet cows and heifers that are sim ilarly bred they w ill be more likely to pro duce uniformity In their offspring. I b th e T m r 1030. “W h a t Is that old book yon a r t study ing, Elisabeth?" “1 don’t know, p a p a ; I haven’t yet made out whether It Is a copy o f Chau cer In the original old English or W eb ster's unabridged dictionary « ( the first part o f the century.”— Baltimore Am er ican.
