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By ANTHONY HOPE
" A w ise man w ill make more opportunities
than he finds. ”
— F ran cis'B aoon .
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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
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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
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,
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.