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C H A P T E R V.— ( Continued.)
to lend the mone^, end as grandpa was
Conducting him through the wide, mar too timid to urge his needs, the result
ried hall, ahe ushered him into the draw
was that when at last the wheel was re
Jnc room, where for a time he stood per placed, and Sorrel again trotting on to
fectly bewildered. It «ms his first intro ward Devonshire, he drew after him
duction to rosewood, velvet, and broca
sad, heavy heart.
telle, and it seemed to him as if he had
Maddy's diaappolntment was keener
suddenly been transported to fairyland
than his own, and so after the sorrowful
He saw the silk chairs, slyly touching one words, “ and I failed, too,” he bent him
'to see if it did feel like the gored, peach
self to comfort the poor child, who, lean
'blossom dress worn by his wife forty-two ing her throbbing head against his shoul
years ago that very spring. Then he der, sobbed bitterly, as In the soft spring
tried one of them, examined the rare or twilight they drove back to the low red
naments, and came near bowing to the cottage where grandma waited for them.
portrait of the first Mrs. Remington, so
natural and lifelike it looked standing out
C H A P T E R V I.
from the canvas.
It was Farmer Green’s new buggy and
“ This will last Maddy a week. I thank Fanner Green’s bay colk which, three
you, ma’am. You have added some con days later than this, stopped before Dr.
siderable to the happiness o f a young Holbrook’s office. NoUthe square-boxed
girl, who wouldn’t disgrace even each a wagon, with old Sorftl attached; the
room as this,” he said, as he passed into former was standing quietly in the chip-
the hall.
yard behind the low red house, while the
Mrs. Noah received his thanks gracious latter, with his nose over the barnyard
ly, and led him to the yard, where Sorrel fence, neighed occasionally, as if he miss
stood waiting for him.
ed the little hands which had d illy red
Driving at a brisk trot through the him the oatmeal he liked so much, and
grounds. Sorrel was soon out upon the which now lay hot and parched and help
highway; and with spirits exhilarated by less upon the white counterpane Grand
thoughts of going home, he kept up the ma Markham had spun and woven her
trot until, turning a sudden corner, his self. Maddy might have been just as
master saw the carriage from Aikenside sick as she was if the examination had
approaching at a rapid rate. The driver. never occurred, but it was natural for
Paul, aaw him, too, bat scorning to give those who loved her to impute it all to
half the road to sock as Sorrel and the the effects o f excitement and cruel disap
square-boxed wagon, he kept steadily on, pointment, so there was something like in
while Grandpa Markham, determined to dignation mingling with the sorrow gnaw
speak with Guy, reined his horse a little ing at the hearts of the old couple as
nearer, raising his haftd in taken that they watched by tbelr fever-stricken darl
the negro should stop.
As a natural ing. Farmer Green, too, ahared the feel
Sansequenc*. the wheels o f the two vehi ing, and*numerous at first were his men
cles became interlocked, and as the pow tal animadversions against that “ prig of
erful grays were more than a match for a Holbrook.” But when Maddy grew so
Sorrel, the front wheel of Grandpa Mark bad as not to know him or his wife, he
ham's wagon was wrenched off. and the laid aside his prejudices and suggested to
old man precipitated to the ground, which, Grandpa Markham that Dr. Holbrook be
fortunately for him, vlhs in that locality sent for.
covered with sand banks, so that he was
He's great on fevers,” he said, “ and is
only stunned for an instant, and thus good on curin’ sick folks," so, though he
failed to hear the insolent negro's re would have preferred someone else should
mark : “ Served you right, old cove; might have been called, confidence in the young
o f turned out for gentlemen.”
Neither doctor's skill won the day, and grandpa
did he see the sudden flashing of Guy consented.
Remington’s eye. as, leaping from his
This, then, was the errand of Farmer
carriage, be seised the astonished African Green, and with his usual bluntnees he
by the collar, and, burling him from the said te the recreant doctor, who chanced
box demanded what he meant by serving to be at home:
an old man so shameful a trick and then
Wall, you nigh about killed our little
insulting him.
Madge t’other day, when you refused the
A ll apology and regret the cringing stiffrut, and now we want you to cure
driver tried to make some excuse but Guy
r.”
stopped him short telling him to see how
The doctor looked up In surprise, but
much the wagon was damaged while he
Farmer Green soon explained his mea:
ran to the old man who had recovered
ing, making out a moat aggravated case,
from the first shock and was trying to
and representing Maddy as wild with de
extricate himself from the folds of his
lirium.
camlet cloak. Nearby was a blacksmith’s
Maddy's case lost nothing by Mr.
shop and thither Guy ordered his driver
to take the broken-down wagon with .a Green’s account, and by the time the doc
tor’s horse was ready, and he on his way
▼lew to getting it repaired.
{ “ Tall him I want it done at once,” he to the cottage, he had arrived at the coo-
said, authoritatively, as if he well knew cluaion that of all the villainous men out
his name carried weight with it ; then, side the walls o f the State’s prison, he
turning to grandpa, he asked again i f he was the most villainous, and Guy Rem
ington next.
were hurt.
What a cosy little chamber it wt
“ ’ No, not specially— jolted my old
bones, some. You are very kind, sir,” where Maddy lay, juat such a room as a
grandpa replied, brushing the dust from girl like her might be supposed to occu
his pantaloons and then involuntarily py, and the bachelor doctor felt like
grasping Guy’s arm for support, as his treading upon forbidden ground as he en
weak knees began to tremble from the tered the room so rife with girlish hab
its, from the fairy slippers hung on
affects of excitement and fright.
' “ That darky ahall rue this job,” Guy peg,' to the fanciful little work box macle
said, savagely, as he gased pityingly upon of cones and acorns. Maddy was asleep,
the shaky old creature beside him. “ I ’ll and sitting down beside her he asked that
the shawl which had been pinned across
discharge him to-morrow.”
“ No, young man. Don’t be rash. He’ll the window might be removed so that be
never do’t again; and sprigs like him could see her, and thus judge better of
think they've a right to make fun o f old her condition. .
“ Feel her pulse, doctor; they áre fast
codgers like me,” was grandpa’s meek
expostulation. “ I was just up to Aiken er ‘most than you can count.” Grandma
Markham whispered; and thus entreated,
side to see Squire Guy, and------”
“ What did you say? You have been the doctor took the soft hand in his own,
its touch sending through his frame
do Aikenside to see me?”
“ Yea, and I was sorry to miss you. I thrill such as the touch of no other hand
— I — it makes me feel awkward to tell had ever sent.
Somehow the act reassured him. A ll
you, but I wanted to borrow some money,
and I didn't know nobody as likely to fear of Maddy vanished, leaving behind
have It as you. That woman up to your only an intense desire to help. If possi
house said she knowed you wouldn't let ble, the young girl whose fingers seemed
me have it, ’cause you hadn’t It to spare. to cling around his own as he felt for
Mebby you haven’t,” and grandpa waited and found the rapid pulse.
“ I f she would awaken,” he said, laying
anxioualy for Guy’s reply.
Now, Mrs. Noah had a singular Influ the hand softly down and placing his
ence over her young master, who was in other upon her forehead, where the great
the habit of consulting her with regard.to Sweat-drope lay. “ Guy was a fool and
his affairs, and nothing could have been I was a brute.” the doctor muttered, as
more unpropitious to the success of he folded up the bits o f paper whose con
grandpa’s suit than the knowing she dis tents' be hoped might do much toward
approved. Beside this, Guy had only the saving Maddy’s life.
When next morning the doctor came,
previous week lost a small amount loaned
under similar circumstances.
Standing there was a look of deep anxiety upon
silent for a moment, while be buried and his face as he watched the alarming
reburied his shining patent leather boots symptoms of his delirious patient, who
talked incessantly, not of the examination
In the hills of sand, he said at la st:
“ Candidly, sir, I don't believe I can ac now, but of the mortgage and the fore
commodate you. I am about to make closure, begging fhe doctor to see that the
(«pairs at Aikenside, and have partially house was not sold, to tell them she was
promised to loan money on good security earning thirty-six dollars by teaching
to a Mr. Silas Slocum, who, ‘if things school, that Beauty would be sold to save
work right,’ as he expressed it, intends théir dear old home. A ll this was strange
building a mill on some property which at first to the doctor, but the rather vol
has come, or is coming, into his hands.” uble Mrs. Green, who had come to Grand
“ That’s mine— that's mine, my home ma Markham’s relief, enlightened him,
stead,” gasped grandpa, turning white al dwelling with a kind of malicious pleas-
most as his hair blowing in the April hre upon the' fact that Maddy’s earnings
wind. “ There's a stream of water on it, had she been permitted to get a “ stiffl-
and be says if be forecloses and gejg it cut,” were to be appropriated toward pay
he ahall balld a mill, and tear our old ing the debt.
I f the doctor had hated himself the pre
house down.”
Guy was In a dilemma. He had not vious day when he rode from the red cot
naked how much Mr. Markham wanted, tage gate, he hated himself doubly now
ano as the latter had not told him, be as he went dashing down the road, de
naturally concluded it a much larger termined to resign his offtee of school in
sum than it really was, and did not care spector that very day. And he did.
gammoning around him those who had
just then to lend it.
“ I ’ll tell you what I ’ll do,” be said, been most active in electing him, he r
after a little. “ I ’ll drop Slocum a note fused to officiate again, assuring them
to-night saying I ’ve changed my mind, that If any more candidates came he
and shall not let him have the money. should either turn them from his door or
Perhaps then he won’t be so anxious to give them a certificate without asking a
foreclose, and will give you time to look question.
“ Put anybody you like In my place,”
among your friends.”
Guy laid a little emphasis on that last be said; "anybody but Guy Remington.”
There was no probability of this, as
word, and looking up quickly, grandpa
was about to sa y: “ I ’m not so much a Guy lived In another town, and could
stranger as you think. I knew your fath not have officiated had he wished. Bnt
er well,” but be checked himself with the the doctor was too much excited to rea
drought: “ No, that will be too much like son upon anything save Madeline Clyde’s
bagging pay for a deed of mercy done ease. That be perfectly understood; and
years age,” So Gay never suspected that d firing the, next few weeks his other pa
the old man before him had once laid tients waited many times In vain for his
his sirs andar a debt e f gratitude. The r e m it , while he sat by Mad4r*s all
assn ha refloated the lane Inclined ha was
worse or better. Even Agnes Reming
ton was totally neglected; aud so one
day she sent Gujddown to Devonshire to
say that as Jessie seemed more than uau
ally delicate, she wished the doctor to
take her under his charge aud visit her
least once a week,' The doctor Was
4ot at home, but Tom said he qxpected
him every moment. So seating himaelf
in the armchair, Guy waited until he
came
“ Well, Hal,” he began, jocoaely, but
the joking words be would have uttered
next died on hia lipe as he noticed the
strange look of excitement and anxiety
on the doctor's face. “ What is it?” he
H m m d y H o n « - M « 4 * T o o l.
asked. “ Are all your patienta dead?*’
A ll grow er« o f blackberries and rasp
“ Guy,” and the doctor came cloeeiy to berries know that one o f the moat dis
him, whispering huskily, “ you and I are agreeable Job« o f the aeastfh 1« the cut
murderers in the Bret degree. Yes; and
ting out o f the old canes on the plants
both deaerve to be hung. Do you n
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f these fields. Tbe easiest way o f do
ber that Madeline Clyde whom you in
sulted with your logic and Latin verbs? ing this work is to use a sharp tool o f
She’d set her heart on that certificate. some kind so arranged that the operat
She wanted the money, not for new gowns or may stand upright and work. T b e
and fooleries, mind, but to help her old tool Illustrated may be readily made by
grandfather pay bis debts. His place is any handy man, and w ill do the work
mortgaged. I don’t understand it ; but required quite as effectually as n more
he asked some old hunka to lend him the expensive tool.
money, and the miserly rascal, whoever
Take tbe handle from a worn-out
be was, refused. 1 wish I had it. I ’d
shovel or fork and have the black
give it to him out and out. But that’*
nothing to do with the girl— Maddy, they smith attach to It tbe end o f an old
call her. The disappointment killed her, scythe blade or, If one hae no blade of.>
, tbe blacksmith can fashion
and she is dying— and keeps talking of this kind1
that confounded examination. I tell you, one from old scrape that he may have
Gny, my inward parts get terribly mixed at amall expense. H ave this blade fas-
up when I bear her talk, and my heart
thqmpe like a trip-hammer. That’s the
reason I have not been up to Aikenside.
I wouldn’t leave Maddy so long as there
was hope. I did not tell them this morn
ing. I couldn’t make that poor couple
feel wofae than they are feeling; but
when I looked at ber tossing from aide
to aide and picking at the bedclothes, I
knew it would soon be over— that when I
saw her again the poor little arms would
be still enough and the bright eyes shut
forever. Guy, I couldn’ t see her die—
I don’t like to see anybody die, but ber,
Maddy, of all others— and so I
came
away. I f you stay long enough, you'll
hear the bell toll, I reckon. Thorn la
none at Honedale church, which they at
tend. They are Episcopalians, you see,
TOOL r o a BERRY GROWER.
and so they’ll come up here maybe. I
hope I shall be deafer than an adder.”
Here the doctor stopped, wholly out of tened to tbe handle In the manner
breath, while Guy for a moment sat with shown in the cut, and when w orking
out speaking a single word. Jeesie, in among the canes o f tbe berry bushes
bis hearing, had told her mother what use It In the way illustrated.
the sick girl in the doctor’s office had
This tool w ill be found extrem ely
id about being poor and wanting-the handy fo r ’this sort o f pruning any
money for grandpa, while Mrs. Noah had where on the farm.. I t w ill work quite
given him a rather exaggerated account well fo r cutting out suckers In tbe or
of Mr. Markham's v is it; but ha had not
chard aa In the berry row. I f the canes
associated the two together until now,
are quite tall a straight handle may be
when be saw the whole, and almost as
much as the doctor himself regretted the attached to tbe blade so that one may
part he had had in Maddy’s Ulneas and have It o f any desired length. Such a
tool costa but little, and If one has a
her grandfather's distress.
“ Doc,” he said, laying his hand on the considerable area In berry plants It
doctor's arm, “ I am that old bunks, the ▼111 pay to have several tools made.
miserly rascal who refused the money.
T ---- T
I met the old man going home that day,
and he asked me for help. You say the
“ Beans” is the title o f a recent farm
place must be sold. It never ahall, never. ers’ bulletin, by Professor Corbett,' the
I ’ll see to that, and you must aava the well-known horticulturist o f ths United
girl.”
States Department o f
Agriculture.
“ I can’t, Guy. I ’ ve done all I can.
Beans belong to one o f the most Impor
and now, if ahe lives, it will bo wholly
tant fam ilies o f economic plants with
owing to the prayers of that old saint of
a grandfather says for ber.
I never which man -has to deal— that o f le
thought much o f these things until I gumes. Th e bean fam ishes food fo r
heard him pray; hot that she should live both man and and beast, and at the
anyway, but that, i f i j were right, Maddy same time increases tbe fe rtility o f
I t is, therefore, an impor
might not die. Gay, there'« something the soli.
in such a prayer as that. It’ s more pow tant crop, both in farm rotation and
erful than all my medicine swallowed at In market garden work. Tbe new bul
one grand gulp.”
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letin treats fa irly o f Its cultivation,
Guy didn’t know very much »bout
care and use.
praying then, and so he did not respond,
Professor Wlaneko, o f Purdue Expe
but he thought of Lucy Atherstone, wboaa
life waa one hymn of prayer and praisa, riment Station, has Just Issued an In
and be wished she could know of Maddy, teresting bulletin on soy beans, cow
and join her petitions with those of ths peas and other forage crops. T b e cul
grandfather. Starting suddenly from hia ture o f cow peas and soy beans Is be
chair, he exclaimed, ,“ I am gong down coming Important w ith many farmers,
there. It will look queerly, too, to go aa they make good forage crops and at
alone. Ah, I have it 1 I'll drive beck to tbe same time add fe rtility to the soil.
Aikenside for Jessie, who has talked SO They belong to tbe legumes, and the
much o f the girl that her lady mother; coat o f producing la about the same aa
forgetting th it she was once a teacher, la
fo r com, w hile their food value com
disgusted.”
pares very favorably with corn. Sev
(T o be continued.)
eral other classes o f forage plants are
described In the bulletin.
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One o f the weather bureau experts
in Washington, Professor A lfre d J.
Henry, has given a black eye to the
w idely prevalent belief that evapora
tion from tbe Saltou sea accounts fo r
the remarkably heavy rainfall In A ri
zona during tt)e greater part o f the last
tw o years, says the N ew York T rib
une. He calls attention to the fact that
tbe downpour really began about three
months before there was any serious
Inundation o f southern California from
the Cblorado and then says that tb e
excess above the normal precipitation
throughout the territory In 1005 repre
sents a volume o f w ater tw elve time*
as great as that which accumulated In
the Salton basin.
C le v e r
le k e a e .
“ My new play Is sure to make a hit»“ 1
said the popular actress. “ It gives me
an opportunity to display twenty new
g o w n »”
" M y ! ” exclaimed her friend. “ HoW
many acta?”
“ Only four, bnt In one o f them tbe
scene la at tbe dressmaker’s.” — Catholle
Standard and Times.
T a Faataartsa M ilk .
Pasteurizing milk Is s very simple
process, tbe operator to be careful o f
the temperature, however,
which la
very Im portant When milk la boiled
the natural flavor Is destroyed, and
some persons object to i t Milk is also
Injured to a certain extent by boiling.
To
Pastuerlze milk, procure long-
necked bottle, which must be scrupu
lously clea n ; pour In the milk and ping
tbe tops w ith cotton wool, which ex
cludes all germs. Place the bottles In
a deep pan or other vessel and heat to
a temperature o f 158 degrees, using a
thermometer. I f the temperature reach
es 160 degrees the milk w ill have the
odor o f being boiled. Keep the milk
heated fo r half an hour. Tbe cot
ton stoppers need not
reihoved nn-
til the milk Is desired fo r use.* Th e
bottles containing the milk may be
placed In a refrigerator or some cool
receptacle. Milk so prepared can be
kept fo r tw o or three days. To sterilize
m ilk It must be boiled, hence Pasteu
risation is a different process.
P o a ltr y .
A careful observer o f poaltry needs
W h a t H e PeareA.
no better sign o f its condition than to
“ Miss Paasay asked Charlie Dunno I f watch ths comb. A bright red comb
I had any engagement Thursday n igh t shows that the ben o r male la healthy
And Charlie, without thinking, said be and vigorous, and i f a hen, ahe w ill
was sore I hadn't any.”
probably be a good layer. A fte r tbe
"W h a t do you fear?”
egg stipfty baa failed tbe comb w ill
” 1 feel almost certain ahe means te generally lose It* color. In cold weath
Invite me to one o f those card partis« er fow ls w ith large combs mate bare
where they play alleged bridge.” - - extra warm quarters, as they are very
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
easily frozen. It la frozen combs more
often than anything else that makea
HaA T o lfl th e T r u t h .’
Leghorn » and Minorca« poor w inter
“ I thought you said Hargous hod a layers. A s their names imply, they are
Mg fam ily?”
natives o f warm climates, as. Indeed,
" H e has.”
most fow ls era. They very rarely get
“ Why, he told me that bs had only Into as warm quarters In w inter as
one child— a daughter.”
,
they coaid find anywhere in ths coun
“ Yes. She weighs about 228 pounds, tries where they had their original
and bis w ife could fill a Job as fa t lady Horn*.
In almost any museum.” — Chicago Reo
■ m K M fU f.
ord Herald.
A cellar is a good piece to keep been
Now Y ork C ity has 8,118 acres off (m t I f sheltered from the winds and
fgnd } q cwDitef l i i enoogh to b v j exposed to the ten, a strong colony (Tin
fls w e ll out «< d o o r » *
the dead off tha city for 180 yearn
S h r .d d r d
S te v e * .
F or w inter feeding o f stock animats
this makes one o f tbs finest feeds on
the farm. The modern husking and
shredding machinery does excellent
work, aud tta man-eating proclivities
have been largely eliminated. An or
dinary threshing machine can be made
to do good shredding, but tbe grain Is
not left In the best condition. Ths
greatest drawback in tbe use o f both
busker and thresher Is that they re
quire a large force o f men and teams,
hence tbe work la quite expensive.
Perhape the cheapest corn burtdng is
done with tbe little old busking peg.
But (t is almost impossible to feed long
stover without considerable waste, and
tbs refuse ataiks are a nuisance when
it cornea to handling tbe manure. These
difficulties may be overcome by running
the handhuaked stover through a com
mon cutter and shredder. This work
can usually be done without employing
much. I f any outside help. In case «
erything la hired, tbe cost.of tbs work,
added to that o f hand-hurting and put
ting o f ths corn and stover In crib and
mow o r stack may equal or seen exceed
the expense o f machine hurtling and
•hredding. This la a point fo r each to
decide from his own standpoint— A gri
cultural Epltom tat
\A /W /N /W V ^^W ‘
"H ia eyes seemed glued to my every
movement.” “ Yes? Th at’s a sign that
he’s stuck on you.”
"A re you married?”
“ Yep.” . “ A re
you happy?” “ Didn’t I Just tell you I
was m arried?"— Houston P o s t
“ Papa, Is a fro g fish or an animal?”
" Y e a ! Now ran out and play and g iv e
me a chance to reed my paper."
" I waa one o f those saved in that
terrlbls wreck.”
“ H ow did yon es
cape?" " I changed my mind at tbe
last minute and took another train.”
"Y e a ; It was hard lack. He fe ll in
lore with her at first sig h t bought a
fifty-trip ticket and was refused on hia
second v la lt ’’—-Browning's Magazine.
L ittle W illie — W hat is joy. pa? P a
— Joy, my son, la the peculiar feeling
experienced by tbe man who counts his
money and finds more than he expect
ed.— Chicago News.
M other— W hat’s tbs matter. Joseph
ine? Josephine— Lolo hurt me. Mother
— H ow ? Josephine— I went to hit him
on the head and he dodged me and I
C a a a e e a lt t e a • « C r o p s .
A bulletin o f tbe Minnesota Experi banged my hand against the wall.
ment Station discusses tbs composition
“ D id yon get home before the storm
an d characteristics o f the more common broke last night?” asked this first club
farm crops, as a lfa lfa , clover, peas, man. “ O f course," replied the other.
rape, corn fodder, timothy, millet, etc. “ Th e storm never breaks at my bouse
In connection with the composition until I get home.” — Philadelphia Press.
o f some o f the crops the protein con
Dicky— Your dad always goes to
tent o f the seed is considered. In the sleep in church. Georgey— My dad has
case o f clover, a lfa lfa , peas, beans and a right to go to sleep in church, i f he
rape two distinct types o f seed are wants to. H e gives more to the preach
shown to recur, one o f high and the er than any other man in tbe congre
Other o f low protein content, and the
gation.
relationship o f tbe physical character
Exam iner (to medical
student)—
istics o f the seeds to the chemical com
N ow let ns take appendicitis. On w hat
position is noted. Th e larger protein
grounds should yon decide that an im
content o f tbe seed la considered aa a
mediate operation was necessary. Med
possible factor In tbe production o f fo r
ical Student— On the financial condi
age crops o f high nutritive value. Tbe
tion o f tbs patien t
quality o f tbe forage In live-stock feed
Towns— I understood you to call
ing is o f great importance,, because by
Mrs.
Rownder a widow, but (jer hus
the use o f more concentrated nitroge
nous forage rations can be prepared band la Ifvlng. Browns— Oh. y e s ; she’s
requiring smaller amounts o f grains what you might call a “ dub w id o w ;"
and milled products. Tbe result is a she’s a woman who has a late hus
band.— Philadelphia P r e s » '
m aterial financial saving o f stock.
H a w to Sava Itapa.
In spite o f the extensive development
and nse o f com harvesting machinery
the fact remains that much corn is
still cut by hand. Th erefore the ac
companying sketch recently sent to the
N ew England Homested by a reader
w ill prove o f Interest
H e has figured out that If the plan
outlined Is follow ed a sixty-four hill
shock, or «took, o f corn can be cut at
a minimum number o f steps. T b e cir
cles In the center represent tbe four
hills tied together or between which
the shock la b u ilt A fte r tbe founda
tion fo r tbe shock is reedy the « « n
goes to No. 1 and cuts in tbe direction
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o f tbe numbers until be reaches No. &
A fte r placing his arm fnl In tbe shock
he begins at No. 9 and cuts to No. 16
again depositing his load and contlnn-
Ing the operation In ths w ay the hills
are numbered until the shock la com
pleted. It w ill be noted that In addi
tion to saving steps this plan grin go
the cutter near the shock with his heav
iest load, or when his arm Is full o f
corn.
B rs lt
fro m
lo o k .
I t Is donbtfnl If there is any kind ot
fruit that w ill come strictly true to va
riety when grown from seed, aa there
la f tendency to deviate from the orig
inal. One may secure something supe
rior or tbe fru it may revert back to
some undesirable kind. I t , la a alow
and uncertain process. Chestnuts may
be grafted when 1 year old. The nuts
are usually placed In the ground In
rows, 6 Inches deep, early In the spring
or late In the full, billing over them If
In tbe
fa ll, and uncovering in the
spring. They are very unreliable In
germinating and prefer a sandy loam.
The Euro^eln varieties are larger than
tbe native! Th e native chestnuts vary
greatly, no two trees producing nuts
exactly alike In size, flavor, e ta Tbe
foreign varieties are grafted on the
American sto ck »
Trees grown from
American nuts can not bs depended
upon fo r quality o f product
A P aaeafal Baa.
Beehives on every front porch, giv
ing each fam ily a supply o f delicious
honey dose at hand, w hile at the same
time tbs bees w ill Inculcate their 1 « »
son o f Industry, a n a possibility, fo r
tbe Department o f Agriculture has suc
ceeded In Importing from abroad what
may be termed a peaceful bee, which
finds our fickle cllmats to Its liking.
Th e newcomer Is known as tbs Cau
casian bee. T b s name Is derived from
Its native locality, and is emphaslasd
by habits o f Ufa which rank It distinct
ly aa ths w hite m aifs bee. I t Is civil
ised, dignified and hlgb-tonsd. I t
rushes with- reluctance Into anything
that smacks off w arfare, having. In
place o f the belligerent Instincts o f
others o f Its doss, a prA lsposltloa Is
arbitration.
f
Inquisitive Acquaintance— H ave yon
er thought what you would do I f
your gas bag should collapse w hile yon
w ere h alf a mile or more up in tbe
air?
J>arlng
Aeronaut— Often, I
should start at once fo r terra firms by
the shortest possible route.
“ From the grammatical standpoin t"
aald the fa ir maid w ith tbe lo fty fore
head, “ which do yon consider co rrect
1 had rather go borne’ or ’ I would
rather go hom er ” “ Neither,” prompt
ly responded the young man. “ I ’d much
rather stay here.’’— A n s w e r»
So yon qnlt smoking because she
asked yon to?” aald tbe yonth with tbe
clamshell cap.
“ Y e » ” answered the
lad w ith tbe turned np trousers.” “ And
then?” “Then she went walking w ith
a man who smoked a pipe, because she
said It kept aw ay m osqultoe»” — Wash
ington Star.
A prominent society women told her
butler to tell all visitors that she waa
not at borne. A t night, when enumer
ating the persona who had called d a r
ing the day, t)e mentioned tbe lady's
sister, when his mistress exclaim ed:
“ I told you, man, that I was always at
home for my sister! You ought to have
shown her In.”
N ext day tbe lady
went out to make a few calls and
during her absence her sister came to
the house. “ Is your mistress at home?”
she asked the butler. ” Y e » madam,"
* waa the reply. Th e lady looked every
where for her sister. She said to the
bu tler: “ My sister must have gone out,
fo r I cannot find her.” “ Yes. madam,
she has gone out, but she told me last
night that she was always at home to
you.” — Philadelphia Record.
B ro a s k t ta Term s.
In the Drayton household It Is said
that the father o f the fam ily baa a
w ay o f presenting alternatives to his
children that never falls to bring them
Into line.
I wish yon would speak to Bobby,”
said M r » Drayton one n igh t “ I ’ve told
him to take his medicine and then jum p
into bed. and he won't do It. He just
hops round, and says be doesn't want to
take the medicine and be doesn’t want
to go to bed !”•
Mr. Drayton stepped to the door o f
Bobby’s room, and stood there, tall,
grace and Impressive.
Bobby,” be said, firmly, " I f you
don’t take yonr medicine at once and
then Jump Into bed, you w ill be put
to bed, do yon bear me, put to bed,
without having your medicine at all I”
Upon which Bobby, alarmed and con
fused, swallowed hia alloted portion and
meekly retired for the n igh t
W k y S afety Matckea S trik e mm Class,
There are two reasons why ordinary
safety matches can be struck on
smooth glaan Th e head o f tbe safety
match is composed o f a mixture o f
sulphide o f antimony, chlorate o f pot
assium and powdered glasn
A com
paratively small Increase o f tempera
ture w ill cause this to ignite.
Now,
ya a s Is a bad conductor o f b e a t and
the rapid passage o f tbe substance
over it raises the temperature o f that
substance sufficiently fo r that purpose.
When the glass Is rough the friction
crumbles away ths loosely combined
m ixture before the temperature rises
to the point o f Ignition; hence, given
tha composition o f ths match head, the
two circumstances which answer tbe
question are the comparative smooth
ness o f tbe glass and Its imperfect con
ductivity o f h eat
B o b s mss would rather taka a whip-
ping than tak* a d a r »