gave a stari; and bar face grew a trifle
paler.
*>
\
■jO’ X
“ Isn ’t that Mr. Dimettale down there?*
ahe asVed of her «empentan.
“ W here?” asked Kara, craning hia neck
“ Oh, yea, there ha la in the second row o f
the stalls.’’
“ D o you know who tha young lady is
that he is talking to?” K ate asked.
“ I don’t know," said Esra. “ I have
seen him about with h «r a good deal late
ly.”
The latter waa e deliberete false
hood, but E tra saw hia chanca o f preju
dicing his rival and took prompt adran
tage o f it. “ She is vary good looking,*
■ho added preaentiy, keeping hia eyes upon
hie companion.
“ Ob, indeed.” said Kata, and turned
A. C O N A N OOYLE
with some commonplace remark to Mrs.
Wilkinson. H er heart waa sore neverthe
less, and she derived little pleasure from
the remainder o f the performance,
to Esra, In spite o f hia great love for
music, he dosed peacefully in a corner o f
the box during the whole o f the last act.
C H A P T E R A t.
None o f them were sorry when Faust waa
T h is episode bad occurred about a fort
duly consigned to the nether regions and
night before Kara's return from A frica,
M arguerite was apotheosed upon a couple
and waa duly retailed to him toy his fath
o f wooden clouds. Esra narrated the in
er.
cident o f the recognition in the stalls to
"Y o u need not be discouraged by that,'
hia father on his return, and tha old gen
he said. " I can always keep them apart,
tleman rubbed his hands over it.
and if be is absent and you are present—
“ Moat fortunate !” he exclaimed glee
especially as she has ne idea o f the cause
fully. “ B y working on that idea w e might
o i his absence- she w ill end by feeling
produce great effects. W ho was the girl,
alighted and preferring you.”
“ I cannot understand how you ever do you know?"
“ Borne poor relation, I believe, whom he
came to let the matter go so far,” his non
trots
out at times.”
answered sullenly. “ TTie girl belongs to
“ W e w ill find out her name and all
us
She was given to you to look after,
and a nice Job you seem to have made about her. Capital ! capital !” cried John
Uirdleetone, and the tw o worthies depart
of i t ”
“ N ever mind, my boy,” replied the mer ed to their rooms much pleased at this
chant.
“ PH answer fo r keeping them new card which chance had put into their
apart if you w ill only push the matter hands.
During the weary weeks while Tom
on your own account.”
“ I ’ ve said that 1 would do so. and I Dimsdale, in accordance with his premias,
w ill,” Kara returned, and events soon avoided Eccleston square and everything
showed that he was as good aa his word. which could remind K a te o f ' his exist
Before his A frican excursion the rela ence, Esra continued to leave no stone un
tions between young Girdlestone and his turned In his endeavors to steal hia way
father's ward had never been cordial. into her affections. Poor Tom ’s sole com
K a te ’s nature, however, eras so sweet and fort was the recollection o f that last pas
fo rgivin g that it waa impossible fo r her sionate letter which he had written in the
to harbor any animosity, and she greeted Blackwa!) public house, and which had, as
Bsra kindly on his return from his trav he imaginad, enlightened her aa to the
els. W ithin a few days she became con reasons o f hia absence, and had prevented
scious that a remarkable change had come her from feeling any uneasiness or Sur
over him— a change, as it seemed to her, prise. Had he known the fate that had
eery much for the better.
In the past befallen that epistle he would hardly have
weeks had frequently elapsed without hia been able to continue his office duties so
addressing her, but now he went out of patiently, or to w ait with so much resig
hia way to make himself agreeable. Some nation fo r Mr. Glrdlestone’s sanction to
times he would sit for a whole evening hia engagement.
Aa the days passed and still brought no
describing to her ail that ha had seen in
A frica , and really in tares ting her by hia news. Kata's face grow paler and her
account o f men and things. She, poor heart more weary and desponding.’ T h a t
lass, hailed this new departure with de the young man was well waa beyond dis
light, and did all in her power to encour pute, since she had seen him with her
age his better nature, and to show that own eyes at the 'opera. W hat explana
she appreciated the alteration in his bear tion could there be, then, fo r hia con
ing. A t the same time, she was rather duct? W as it possible that he had told
tussled in her mind, for an occasional Mr. Girdlestone o f their engagement, and
flash o f coarseness, or ferpeity showed her that her guardian had found some means
that the real nature o f the man was un o f dissuading him from continuing his
altered. and that he was putting an un suit— found some appeal to his interest,
perhaps, which was too strong fo r hia
natural restraint upon himself.
A s the days went on and no word or love? A ll that she knew o f Tom ’s na
a
supposition.
•ign came from Tom , a great fear and ture contradicted such
-perplexity arose within the girl’s mind. Again, if Girdlestone had learned any
their
engagement, surely he
She had heard nothing o f the interview thing o f
a t Fenchurch street nor had she any clue would have reproached her with it. H is
a t all which could explain the mystery. manner o f late had been kinder rather
Gould it be that Tom had informed her than harsher. On the other hand, could It
guardian o f their engagement, and had re have chanced that Tom had met this lady
ceived such a rebuff that he hdtt aban- o f the opera, and that her charms had
ber in despair? T h a t' waa surely proved too much for hia constancy? When
lible; yet why was it that be had she thought o f the boneat grey eyes which
ceased to walk through the square? She bad looked down into hers at that last
knew that he was not ill. because she meeting in the garden she found it hard
heard her tw o companions talking o f him to imagine the possibility o f sube things,
In connection with business. W hat could and yet there was a fact which had to be
ba the matter then? H er little heart was explained. The more she thought o f it
torn by a thousand vonflicting doubts and the more incomprehensible it grew, bat
still the pale face grew paler and the
fears.
In the meantime Esra gave fresh man sad heart more heavy.
8 oon, however, her doubts and fears
ifestations o f the improvement which
travel had wrought upon him. She had began to resolve themselves into some
remarked one day that she waa fond o f thing more substantial than vague conjec
The conversation o f the Girdle-
n o n roses. On coming down to breakfast ture.
next morning she found a beautiful moss stenes - used to turn upon their busini
rose upon her plate, and every morning colleague, and always in the same strain.
afterw ards a fresh flower appeared in the There were stray remarks about his do
au se place. T h is pretty little piece o f ings; hints from the father and laughter
courtesy, which abe knew could only come ffom the son. “ N ot much work to be
from Esra, surprised and pleased her, for got oat o f him now ," the old man would
delicacy was the last quality which she say. “ When a man's in love he’s not over
fond o f a ledger.”
would have given him credit for.
“ A nice looking girl, too.” said Esra
On another occasion she bad expressed
a desire to read Thackeray’s works, the in answer to some such remark,
books in the library being for the most thought something would come o f it. W e
part somewhat ancient. On entering her saw th«*n together at the opera, didn’t
room that same evening ahe found, to her we, K ate?”
So they would gossip together, and
astonishment, a handsomely bound edition
8 he
o f the novels in qoestion standing on the ery word a stab fo the poor girl.
center o f her table. F o r a moment a wild, strove to conceal her feelings! and, . in
unreasoning hope awoke in her that per deed, her anger and her pride were strong
haps this was T om ’s doing— that he had er even than her grief, for ahe felt that
taken this means o f showing that ahe was ahe had been cruelly used. One day she
still dear to him. She soon saw, however, fonnd Girdlestone alone and unbosomed
that the books could oaly have come from herself to him.
" I s it really true,” she asked with a
the same source as the flowers, and ahe
reied more than ever at this fresh quick pant and a catch o f her breath,
o f the good w ill o f her companion. “ that Mr. D i nudale is engaged to be mar
One day her guardian took the girl ried?”
“ 1 believe so, ray dear,” her guardian
aside. “ Your life moat toe rather dull,”
bo said. “ I have taken a box fo r you to- answered. “ It is ’ commonly reported so.
bt at the opera. 1 do not care about When a young lady and gentleman corre
spectacles myself, but I have made spond it is usually a sign o f something o f
arrangements for your escort. A change the sort.”
“ Ohe they correspond?"
w ill do you good."
,
“ Yea. they certainly correspond. H er
Poor K a te was too sad at heart to be
I
laclined for amusement. She endeavored, letters are sent to him at the office.
don’t know that I altogether like that
however, to look pleased and grateful.
“ M y good friend, Mrs. Wilkinson, is arrangement. It looks as i f he were de
A ll this was an
earning fo r you,” the merchant said, “ and ceiving his parents.”
Ears is going, too. H e has a great liking unmitigated lie, but Girdlestone had gone
too fa r now to stick at triflea.
(o r music.”
“ W ho is the lady?” asked Kate, with a
K a te could not help smiling at this last
remark, as ahe thought how very success calm set face, but a quivering lip.
“ A cousin o f his. Miss Ossary is her
fu lly the young man bad concealed hia
taste during the years that ahe had known name, I believe. I am not sorry, fo r 'it
may be a sign that he has sown all hia
Do you know at one time,
She waa ready, however, at the ap wild .osta.
pointed hour, and Mrs. Wilkinson, a prim Kate, I feared that be might take a fancy
old gentlewoman, who had chaperoned to you. H e has a specious way with him,
K a te on the rare occasions when she went and I felt my responsibility in tbs mut
e
out, having arrived, the three drove off ter.”
“ You need not be afraid on that scora,”
together.
r
T V - opera happened to be ‘ 'Faust,” and K ate said bitterly. “ I think I can gauge
tbs magnificent scenery and dresses aston M i. Dimsdaie’s specious manner at ijs
W ith this valiant speech
ished Kate, who had hardly ever before proper value.”
been within the wails o f a theater. 8 be she marched off, head in air, to her room,
set as if entranced, with a bright tinge and there wept as though her very heart
o f Color upon her cheeks, which, with her would break.
Girdlestone
M IM M I
apaibling eyes, made her look surpassingly
beautiful.
80 thought Ears Girdlestone
an he sat In the receaees o f the box and
watrhed the varied expressions which Aito
tod across her mobile features. “ 8 be is
w ell worth having, money or no,” he mut
tered to himself, sad redoubled his atten-
Clone to her dering the evening.
A a Incident occurred between the acts
that night which would have pleased the
old merchant had be witnessed it. K ate
bad been looking down from the box,
which wee vpoa the third tier, a t the eee
bustle, too, in tne broad, b row *
with its never-ending panorama, o f
eels Of every sise and shape which
and flow in the great artery o f national
life.
A il day Tom stood at the hatchway at
the Black Eagle, checking the cargo as it
was hoisted out of her, while McPheraon
and hia motley assistants, dock laborers,
teamen and Black Kroomen from tiw
coast, worked and toiled la the depths be
low. T h e engine rattled and snorted, and
the great chain clanked aa it was lowered
into the hold. A t one o’clock there was
a break o f an hour fo r dinner, and than
the work went on until six, whan all
hands struck and went off to their homes
or to the public house, according to in-
clination. Tom and the mate, both fa irly
tired by their day’s work, prepared to
accept the captain', invitation and to
beat him up in hia quarters. The mate
dived down into h i, cabin, and soon re-
appeared with his face ahlning and h i.
long hair combed into some sort o f order.
“ I ’ve been performing my ablutions,”
he said, rolling ont the last word with
great emphasis and pomposity, for, like
many Scotchmen, he had the greatest pos
sible reverence fo r a sonorous polysyllable.
“ The captain,” he continu'd, “ has been
fa r from salubrious thia voyage.
H e's
ay* complainin’ o ' hia bodily infirmities.”
The two bad threaded their way
through the Intricate lanes which lead np
from the water side to the outskirts o f
Stepney. I t waa quite dark by the time
that they reached a long thoroughfare^
lined by numerous shops, with great gas
flares outside them. M any o f thesq be
longed to dealers in marine stores, and tha
numerous suits o f oilskin, hung up for
exhibition, swung to and fro in the uncer
tain light, like rows o f attenuated pirates.
A t every corner was a great public house
with glittering windows, and a crowd o f
slatternly women and jersey-clad men el
bowing each other at tha door. A t tha
largest and moat imposing o f then, the
mate and Dimsdale now pulled np.
Captgin Migga in?” asked McPherson
o f a rubicund, white-aproned personage.
“ Yea, sir. Ha's in hia room, air, and
expectin’ yon. Thera's a gent with him,
bat he told me to send yon up. This
way, air,” and they were soon ushered
into the captain’s room.
T h at worthy waa leaning back In a
rocking chair with hia feet perched upon
the mantelpiece. Opposite him, in a sim
ilar chair, waa no leas an individual than
oar old acquaintance, Von Baumaer. As
a mercantile clerg in the London office o f
t Hamburg firm the German waa thrown
into contact with the shippers o f the A f
rican fleet, and had contracted a special
alliance with Migga.
Gome in, my hearties, come In !” he
cried, huskily. “ Take a atat, M r. Dims
dale. And yon, Sandy, can't you bring
yourself to your berth without being ask
ed? Yon should know your moorings by
this time. This is my friend, Mr. Von
Baumser from Eckermann’s office.”
“ And this, I think, ia Mr. Dimsdale,"
.id the German, shaking hands with
Tom . “ I have heard my very goot vriend.
M ajor Clutterbnck, speak o f your name,
s ir ”
“ Ah. the old major,” Tom answered
O f course, I remember him well.”
.
“ Me is not so very old, either,” said
Von Baumaer, In a somewhat surly voice.
“ H e has been took by a very charming
and entirely pleasant woman, and they
are about to be married before three
months, the one to the ether. L e t m e’ tell
you, sir, I, who have lived with him so
long, that 1 have met no man for whom
I have greater respect than for the ma
jor.”
“ A couple o f days ago we hardly hoped
ever to be yarning here.” said Migga. “ A
nasty sea on, Mr. Dimsdale. sir, and the
old ship so full o’ wstber that she could
not rise to it. They were makin’ a clean
breach over us, and we lost nigh every
thing we could lose.”
“ I suppose you'll have tier thoroughly
repaired now?” Tom remarked.
Both the skipper and the mate laughed
heartily
at
the observation.
“ That
wouldn’t do, Sandy,
would
it?” said
Miggs. shaking bis head. “ W e couldn’t
afford to have onr salary cut down like
that.”
(T o he continued.)
was first recognised In the Old
World.
This baa probably been doe to the
fact that the farmers o f America,
thrifty and far-aeelng, recognising the
economy and reliability of the email
oil engine, failed to perceive how any
saving could be effected by generating
electric current and distributing to Its
„motors In outlying positions.
When, however, the rtialns from some
large electric power company pass with
in reach o f a farm or estate the coudl
tidns are much more favorable, and
this state o f things must already exist
In a measure which will be largely ex
tended in the future. Current German
newspapers contain an Interesting ac
count of the application of electricity to
a group o f farms in Saxony. The elec
tric current is brought from an adja
cent town-by overhead wires carried
on wooden poles. Tw o receiving eta
tions are arranged, from which the elec
tricity la distributed to the farm build
ings and to convenient positions ‘ji the
fields for the purpose o f driving thresh
'ng and other machinery.
Sixteen fixed electric motors are in
stalled for chaff and root cutting, oat
crushing, pumping and for operating
machinery used in the manufacture of
potato *> lrlt In addition to thia pow
er equipment, six portable motors are
provided, which may be used for driv
ing pomps, circular raws, threshing m i
oblnery, and so forth, at any point
where their services are required. The
bouses and buildings on the farms are
all lit by electricity, 0 a rt lamps and
about 1,000 glow Itmps being used for
'he purpose.
It must be pointed out, however, that
this example could only be followed In
the United States on a very large etr-tte
or a group o f adlucent farms, and it ia
doubtful whether such a scheme could
be made a commercial success for the
operation of farm in' machinery pure
and simple. It would appear that wood
sawing, pumping and other operations
requiring power must be in.-lnded if
the reeulta are to compare favorably
with those at present obtained by the
use of oil or steam engines. But the
Saxon experiment la full o f interest
and displays a curiously progressive
spirit in a country where 'arm fences
are almost unknown, and shepherds and
cowherds are still living amid pictur
esque realities.
Caapantlv* Pood Velees.
An English Journal, The Lancet, In
discussing the comparative food valne
o f Toast beef and turkey, says that it
may be said that, weight for weight,
the flesh of the turkey is more nourish
ing than that o f b eef; but the latter is,
generally speaking, cheaper than the
former. The moisture in beef, how
ever, exceeds the amount present in
the flesh o f the turkey, and the latter
contains a better percentage of proteld
or flesh-forming substance. In either
case the percentage o f moisture is sel
dom less than 70 per cent.
T h e S e e r«».
In lean beef the amount of fat is
We are astonished at the familiarity
much the same as in a not too well-fed
o f our friend with the different makes
turkey, but it must be pointed out that
o f automobiles. As we walk down the
the .flesh o f poultry differs from that
boulevard be notes each machine that
o f beef and mutton in not having Its
whirls by ns and without the slightest
muscular fibers permeated Dy fat. and.
hesitation gives the name of Its make.
moreover, the fibers in the flesh of the
“ Here comes a Steerocar,” he says,
fowl are short and rarely yield to the
“ the next is a Pot hard-Plump, that one
disintegrating action of the digestive
turning the corner is a Paddalwhack,
processes. A large amount of fat in
the one coming now is s Pokermotlve,”
either case is apt to interfere with the
and so on. In no single Instance does
digestibility o f the meat. The fat of
he fall to name the machine.
beef Is more digestible than the fat at
While we know him for a man of
the turkey. The fat o f birds. In fact.
keen observation and quickness of in-1
Is harder, and owing to its tendency to
tellect, we are astonished at his cath
become rancid. Is unsuitable for the
olic knowledge of automobiles.
dyspeptic patient.
We beg him to tell us how he gained
The Lancet believes that the most
so much Information.
important difference from a dietetic
He demurs for a time, but upon be
point of view between beef and turkey
coming insistent be laughs at us and
is that, whereas beef contains a high
confesses:
percentage o f extractive matters, tur
“ Old man, I don’t know one from the
key contain# hardly any at all. The ex
otber. You were so blamed anxious to
tractive matters In beef account largely
know what kind they were that I Just
for Its peculiar and marked flavor, and
named them offhand for you as they owing to their absence In poultry gen
happened along. And you would have
erally, and in the pheasant and l>art-
been Just as well satisfied. If you hadn't rtdge, the flavor o f these meats Is deli
forced me to give my scheme away.”—
cate. But there la no doubt that the
Success Magazine.
extractives o f beef, as well aa mutton,
are valuable, for not only are they
H e W aa It .
"R eally; don't y'know," said Cholly flavoring agents, but they also act as
Branellss, “ she's such an odd girl. perhaps the most powerful stimulant
When I was Introduced to her sh« to gastric digestion.
burst out laughing.”
“ Yes,” said Miss Peppry, "she’s b y »
terlcsl.”
“ Aw, wenlly?”
“ Yes; she frequently laughs at noth
ing.” — Philadelphia Press.
A
C H A P T E R X II.
Tom Dimsdale’a duties were fa r from
light. N ot only was he expected to super
vise the clerk’s accounts and to treat with
the wholesale dealers, but he was also
supposed to spend a great part o f his time
in Lb# docks, overlooking the loading of
the outgoing ships and checking the cargo
o f the incoming ones. This latter portion
o f hia work was welcome as taking him
some hours a day from the dose counting
bouse, and allowing him to got a sniff of
s pi taring life
‘
K le e tr te r s r a l a g ,
^ A lth o u g h
agricu ltu ral
m achinery
dgfclnated iu the U n ited S tates and the
Am erican fa rm er used patent m owers,
reapers and threshing m achines long
before th eir European contem poraries
ln the
fleld o f ,abor had ut
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t h* P ° “ lb ‘ 1,t*
o f In trodu cin g electric p ow er In fa rm
R e e l n ir a a ln i.
"Blessings," remarked Mrs. Peck,
"usually come to us in disguise.”
“ That being the case, my dear,” re
plied her husbsnd. “ it's up to you to
remove your mask.
P r e v is t a « te r «he P e ta re .
Mike — O i’m goln' t' get m e lo lf In
sured. P a t
Pat— Pfwat’a thot for?
Mike— So 01*11 have somethin’ t* Uv»
oa either Ol’m dead, b’ go try I
U a rtri
Sr « e r *
H
So long as the home market
not
fully supplied there !• no gain In ship
ping sway.
Aa a rule the «((spring o f Immature
and pampered animals are predisposed
to disease.
A proper rotation and wise tillage
will do much to keep the soil supplied
with available fertility,
Better methods, better stock and bet
tor tools have douo'ed the ’productions
o f more than one farm.
Oats contalft largely the mineral
properties requisite to form and grow
booo aud tha protein that makes m u»
cto sad other
(
Maid* law regulating
Ig the Ml# o f
Utural seeds requtaaa that grass
ihsll he sold tinder g guarantee aa
to purity.’ Bulletin 188 o f the Maine
agricultural experiment station, which,
doubtless, many o f your reader« have
received, gives analysis of the seeds
which were collected by the Inspector
and tbosa sent to the experiment sta
tion by correspondence in 1908.
The
dealers are very generally conforming
to the law and the purity o f most sseda
ia now guaranteed. The question nat
urally arises in the mind o f a fanner,
should a seed be strictly pure, and. If
not, how nearly pure should It bo?
The purity of seeds varies greatly
with their kind, it is possible to grow
timothy aeed so clean that it shall car
ry practically no foreign weed seeds.
It la not as easy to grow any of the
otber grasses or clovers so clean. There
la no need for the sower to ever buy
timothy seed that Is much leas than
96.5 per cent pure. Samples have been
examined by the station the present
year which contained not a single for
eign harmful seed.
The beet red clover aeed w ill fre
quently carry as much as 1 per cent
of foreign matter, although these Im
purities are
usually
comparatively
harmless. It la, however, poor policy
for the sower to buy a red-clover seed
that is leas than 98 per cent pure. The
beat grades o f alalke clover w ill run
about 98,5 per cent pure on the average.
It la doubtful If the purchaser should
buy an alalke whose purity la leas than
97.5 per cent •
Red top la the most difficult aeed of
a ll It will, of course, contain more
or leas chaff. It la difficult to grow red-
top free from timothy, and the seed
cleaners And It difficult to separate tlm-
othy aeed from redtop after It has once
been Introduced.
Samples of redtop
carrying aa high aa 12 or even 15 per
cent o f timothy are not unusual. I f
one could be sure that tha Impurities
were harmless like chaff and timothy
It might be safe to buy a redtop even
aa low as 85 per cent pure. Unless ona
is assured o f the character o f the Im
purities, It Is unwise to buy a redtop
leas than 95 per cent pure.
D s s k to -M e ««
sew .
T o make one saw take the place of
two, and at the same time preserve its
durability, la the recent Invention of
an Indiana man.
E v a r y carpenter
Includes two saws
In his kit— one for
cross-cut and one
for cutting with
the grain. Ha cag
now dispense with
one saw, as it la
1619— T w o sisters burnt at Lincoln, Eng
land, fo r the alleged crime o f witch
c r a ft
1624— England declared w a r on Spain.
1629— T h ird parliament o f Charles I. die-
v
solved.
(680— F irst Assembly o f New Hampshire
met at Portsmouth.
1686— Habeas corpus act suspended for
the first time in E n g la n d .. . .J a m «
I I . landed in Ireland.
1702— The D aily Con rant, the first B rit
ish daily newspaper, iaeued in Loo-
don.
1776— English soldiers plundered Boston
....A m e ric a n a bombarded the B rit
ish in Boston.
1784— Blanchard, tbs aeronaut mads hia
first ascent from Paris in a hydro
gen balloon.
1786—John McLean, associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court,
who dissented from
the
m ajority
opinion in the Dred Scot decision,
born in N ew Jersey.
1790— W illiam
Lyon
McKensie,
first
M ayor o f Toronto and an ardent ad
vocate o f Canadian independence,
born ia Dundee, Scotland.
1796— Napoleon Bonaparte married to
Josephine
Beauharnais........ British
Parliam ent passed Irish inourractiea
act.
1797— Albany became the capital o f the
State o f N ew York.
1796— Napoleon laid unsuccessful siege to
Acre.
i
1806— Jacob Crowninshield o f
chusetts became Secretary
United States navy.
Massa
o f the
(811— The “ Luddite riots,” resulting from
a depression in the hosiery trade,
began in Nottinghamshire, England
and continued for several years.
1816— Kingdom o f the Netherlands can-
stltuted. and W illiam o f Orange pro
claimed King.
poaaibl# to put the
two Wades having . I8 ^ P *a tu rin g cow* 00 “ «•*»■
different teeth on I ^ ««fo rb id d e n .
the one saw, aa
shown in the Illustration.
The smooth top edge always seen on
saws Is changed to a cutting edge, «m l-
lar to the regular cutting edge, the
saw thus having teeth on the two longi
tudinal opposite edges. The handle la
hinged to the blade instead of being
rigid and can be reversed aa it becomes
necessary to use either blade. This
ta also an economical saw, aa It
saves the expense of purchasing two
saw*.
^
«ra s a
B a tte r t h e e
D r « « a .
A fainona veterinary surgeon de
clares that grass heuta all drugs lu
creation aa a cure for nick horses and
mules. Horses should have a few
quarts of cut grasa dally, from spring
until fall. The prevalent notion that
It ia harmful is without foundation.
Graas is to horses-what fresh vegeta
bles and fruit are to the human family
H ew s a e * F e re s R otes.
The profitable line of production Is to
maintain good health with early ma
turity.
More than half a million emigrants
from Russia have passed Into Siberia
the past year to engage in wheal rais
ing.
,
A farmer near McEwan. Tenn., Is dis
playing an ear o f corn twelve inches
long, weighing three pounds and con
taining 1,386 gratae
A grata farm at Murray, Iowa, ship
ped twenty-seven carloads o f timothy
seed last fall, for which the farmers
received frqfa 81.50 to $1.75 a bushel.
A Kansas man claims to have Invent
ed a fence-weaving machine, run by a
two-horse power gasoline engine, which
¿111 weave and set a mile of fence a
day. ,
The United 8tates produced 14,000,-
000 bushels o f rice last year on a half
million acres The culture of rice is
gradually creeping north and some very
good grain ia reported In Arkansas
Holland has set engineers to work fo
pump the water ont o f the famous
Zuyder Zee and turn it Into dry land.
When this work is accomplished there
will rise where 4,000 fishermen now
sink their nets farms and homes for
80,000 Hollanders.
A Washington dispatch says a genius
has Invented a dope which when used
as paint for farm machinery will pre
vent rust and decay. This might hs
good news for those farmers who nse
the fence corners as storehouses for
tbelr farm machinery, but the proba
bility Is they are too lasy to apply the
dope.
R. W. Crouse, a graduate of Iowa
agricultural college, has been appointed
State lecturer on animal husbandry for
Virginia. Another Iowa boy has gone
to the Massachusetts agricultural col
lege aa aaalstant I d animal husbandry.
The demand for college graduates in
the high class agricultural lin e» at sal
aries ranging from 11,000 /to 82,000 •
tea r ia larger than the supply.
1855— President Jackaon signed the tariff
sad force bills.
11836— Texas proclaimed her independence
o f Mexico.
1848— Louis
Philippe- escaped
France to England.
1856— Nicaragua declared w ar
Costa Hicty
frees
against
1863— Albert Edward. Prince o f Wales,
married to Princess Alexandra ot
Denmark.
1804— Ulyseee S. Grant appointed lien-
tenant general.
1805—
Parliament at Quebec adopted the
confederation scheme.
1887— M exico evacuated by the French
....A tte m p te d assassination o f K in g
Victor Emanuel at M ila n ... .P resi
dent Johnson vetoed the tenure o f
,
office and military
district
Mila,
which Congress passed over his veto.
1870— First woman Jury in America a »
setnbled in Wyoming.
1875— Moody and Sankey opened their
great revival meetings in London.
1877— W illiam M. E rarts appointed Sec
retary o f State.
*886— Anti-Chinese
California.
convention
held
ta
1861—
England and France connected by
telephone.
1862— Business suspended in the north
west by a / blizzard.
1808—Opening o f the Great
railway o f England.
Central
1603— osar issued a decree granting re
ligious freedom in Rnssia.
1607— An explosion on the French
tleship Jena killed 117 persons.
KUBBXK8 OF F A R M NEWS.
Farm ing in N ew Mexico has been g iv e »
a great impetus during ths past few
years by the work o f the farmers’ Insti
tutes and many unproductive values have
been turned into rich gra in ' and fru it
fields.
Frank Donnelly o f the town o f Oak
Grove, Barron county, Wis., was bittea
four weeks ago by a vicious boar, and
blood poisoning set in. from the effects ot
which be died after three weeks o f suf
fering.
F orty young Indians have been received
at the government Indian agricultural
school at Wabpeton, N. p . Moat o f the
young students are from Fort Berthold.
but a few o f them are from the Sisseton
reservation.
A movement has been started for the
organisation of the various farmer ele
vator companies in 8 outh Dakota.
A
meeting has been held in Sioux Falls and
about 90 per cent o f the managers hava
expressed themselves as favorable to the
olan.
P rof. Shepperd recently shipped to Rus
sia samples o f North Dakota corn fo r
the purpose o f aiding corn growing ia
that country. The Russian experiment
stations are doing the same thing as onr
own. endeavoring to push the corn limits
northward.
•
Because o f the heavy demand fo r pris
on twine the warden o f the Minnesota
State prison baa been authorised to work
the prisoners overtime fo r three hours
each day, allowing each man who works
25 cents fo r the three hours. The supply
o f twine now on hand has already b e « «