C H A P T E R X I II.B (Continued.)
“ I am sorry to be late, mother,” the lad
said, kissing the old lady. “ I have been
down at the docks all day, and have been
busy and worried."
Mr*. Dimsdale waa sitting In her chair
beside the fire knitting when her son came
In At- the sound o f his voice she glanced
anxiously up at his face, with all her
motherly instincts on the alert.
“ What is It. my boy?” she said. “ You
don't look yourself. Something has gone
wrong with you. Surely you’ re not keep
ing anything secret from your old moth-
“ Don’t be so foolish as that, my boy,”
said the doctor earnestly. “ I f you have
anything on your mind, out with it.
There’s nothing so far wrong but that it
can be set right, I'U be bound.”
Thus pressed, their son told them all
that had happened, the rumor which he
had heard from Von Banmser at the Cock
and Cowslip, and the subsequent visit to
Ecclteton square. " I can hardly realise
It all yet," he said in conclusion. “ My
head seems to be ia a whirl, and I can’t
reason about it."
The old couple listened very attentively
to his narrative, and were silent some lit
tle time after he had finished. His mother
A n t broke the silence. “ I w u always
sure,” aka-said, ‘That we were wrong to
atop oar correspondence at the request o f
Mr. Girdleetone.”
“ It'a easy enough to m y that now,"
■aid Tam ruefully. “ A t the time it seem
ed u if ws had no alternative.”
“ There’s no use crying over spilt milk,”
remarked the old physician, who had been
very grave during hie eon’s narrative.
“ We must set to work and get things
right again. There h one thing very cer
tain, Tom, aad that is that Kate Harston
is a girl who never did or could do a
dishonorable thing. I f she mid that she
would wait for you, my hoy, yon may feel
perfectly safe; aad K yon doubt her for
one moment yon ought to be deuced well
uktiB fd of yourself.”
“ Well said, governor !** cried Tom, with
beaming face. “ Now that is exactly my
owa feeling, bat there Is so much to be
explained. Why-have they left London,
and where have they gone to?”
“ No doubt that old ecoundrel Girdle-
stone thought that your patience would
soon come to an end, ao he got tbw start
o f you by carrying the girt off into the
country.”
“ And if he has done this, what can I
dor
“ Nothing.
It is entirely within his
right to do it.”
“ And have her stowed away in some
little cottage in the country, with that
brute Esra Girdleetone hanging round her
all the time. It is the thought o f that
that driven me wild.”
“ You trust in her, my boy," mid the
•Id doctor. “ W e’ll try our best in the
•meantime to find out where she has gone
to. I f she ia unhappy or needs a friend
you may be sure that she will write to
“ Y«a, there is always that hope,” ex
claimed Tots, in s more cheerful voice.
“ To-morrow I may learn something at the
office.”
“ Don’t make the mistake of quarreling
with the Girdlestone«. After all they are
within their rights ia doing what they
appear to have done.”
“ They may be within their legal rights.”
Tom cried indignantly, “ but the old man
made a deliberate compact with me, which
V has broken."
“ Never mind. Don’t give them an ad
vantage by losing your temper.” The doc
tor chatted away over the matter for
aome time, and his words, together with
t|Bse o f hie mother, cheered the young
fellow's heart. Nevertheless, after they
had retired to their rooms. Dr. Dimsdale
continued to be very thoughtful and very
grave. “ I don’t like it,” be said, more
than once. “ I don’t like the idea o f the
poor girl being left entirely in the hands
o f that pair of beauties.”
C H A P T E R X IV .
John Girdlestone and his ward were at
Waterloo station. lie gave orders to the
guard that the luggage should be stamped,
but took care that she should not hear
the name o f their destination. Hurrying
her rapidly down the platform amid the
confused heaps o f luggage and currents
o f eager passenger» be pushed her Into a
first-class carriage, and sprang after her
Just aa the bell rang and the wheels be
gan to revolvs.
They were slone. Kate crouched np
Into the corner among the cushions and
wrapped her rag round her, for it was
bitterly cold. The merchant palled a note
book from Ida pocket, and proceeded by
tb<- light o f the lamp above him to add
np columns o f figure» He eat very up
right in his sent, and appeared to he as
absorbed in bis work ss though he were
among his papers in Fenchurch street. He
neither glanced at hie companion nor
made any inquiry aa to her comfort.
As she sst opposite to him she could
not keep her eyes from bis hard, angular
face, every rugged feature o f which was
exaggerated by the flickering yellow light
above him. Those deep-set eyes and sunk
en cheeks had been familiar to her for
yearn. Ile w was it that they now, for
the first time, struck her as being terri
ble? Was it that new expression which
had appeared upon them, that hard, inex
orable set shout the mouth, which gave
e more sinister character to his whole
face? As she gased at him an ineffable
loathing aad dread rose in her soul, and
she could bsvs shrieked out of purr ter
ror. 8he pat her hand np to her throat
with a gasp to keep down the sudden In
cline tton to*cry out. As she did os her
guardian glanrod over the top of the unto
book with his piercing light grey ey e»
“ Don't get hysterica) 1” he cried. “ Too
have given us trouble enough • without
tlflrt."
“ Oh, why are yon so harsh ?” she cried,
throwing out her arms towards him in
eloquent entreaty, while the tears coursed
down her cheeks. “ What have 1 done
that is ao dreadful? 1 could not love
your son. and I do love another. I am so
grieved to have offended you. Tou used
to be kind and like a father to me.“
“ Aad a nice return you have made ms.
I have to blame myself to some extent for
having allowed you to go on that moat
pernicious trip to Scotland, where yon
were thrown into the company o f this
young adventurer by his scheming old
futheh"
/
“ You may say what you like o f nto,”
she said bitterly. “ 1 suppose that ia one
o f your privileges as my guardian. You
have no right, however, to speak evil of
my friends.'*
“ You are becoming impertinent," he
answered, and resumed his calculations
in his note book. Kate cowertd back into
her corner again, while the train thun
dered and screeched and rattled through
the darkness. Looking through the steamy
window nothing eras to be seen save the
twinkle bare and there of the lights of
the scattered country cottages. Occasion
ally a red signal lamp would glare down
upon her like the bloodshot eye of some
demon who presided over this kingdom of
iron and steam. Far behind n lurid trail
of smoke marked the way that they had
come. Tq Kate’s mind it was all as weird
and gloomy and cheerless even as the
thoughts within her.
And they were gloomy enough. Where
was she going? How fong was she going
for? What was she to do when there?
On ail these points she was absolutely
.ignorant. What waa the object o f this
sudden flight from London? Her guardian
could have separated her from the Dime-
dales in many lees elaborate ways than
this. Couid it be that he intended some
system of pressure and terrorism by which
she should be forced to accept Esra as a
suitor? She clenched her little white
teeth as she thought of it, and registered
a vow that nothing in this world would
each o f which m u surmounted by some
weatherbeaten heraldic device. Passing
through thej turned up a winding avenue,
with linea o f treea on either aide, which
shot their branches ao thickly above them
that they might have been driving through
some aombey tunnel. This avenue termin
ated In an open space, in the midst of
which towered a great irregular white
washed building, which was the old P ri
ory
A ll below it was swathed in dark
ness, but the upper windows caught the
glint of the moon, and emitted a pallid
and sickly glimmer. The whole effect was
so weird and gloomy that Kate felt her
heart sink within her.
The wagonette
pulled up In front of the door, and Qlr-
dlcetone assisted her to alight.
There had been no lights or any Symp
toms o f welcome, but as they pulled down
the trunks the door opened and a ’ little
old woman appeared with a candle in hat
band, which she carefully shaded from the
wind while she peered out into the dark-
“ Is that Mr. Girdleetone?” she cried.
“ O f course it la,” the merchant said Im
patiently. “ Did I not telegraph and tell
you that I was coming?”
“ Yea, yea," she answered, hobbling fo r
ward with the light. “ And this is tbs
young lady? Come In, my dear; come in.
We have not got things very smart yet,
but they will soon come right.”
She led the way through a lofty hall
into a large sitting room, which, no doubt;
had been the monkish refectory in bygone
days. It looked very bleak and cold now,
although a small fire sputtered and spar
kled in the corner o f the great iron grate.
There waa a pan upon the fire, and the
deal table in the center o f the room was
laid out roughly as for a meal. The can
dle, which the old woman had carried in,
was the only light, though the dickering
fire cast strange fantastic shadows in the
further corners and among the great oak
en rafters which forae*. the ceiling.
“ Come up to the fire, my dear,” «aid the
old woman. “ Take off your cloak and
warm yourself.” She held her owp shriv
eled arms towards the blase, as though
her short exposure to the night air had
chilled her. Glancing at her, Kate saw
that he? face was aharp-featnied and con-
ning, with a loose lower lip which exposed
O ew a m e
In large amounts. I f fed In only me
dium amounts, the butter fats are nor
mal. It Is a valuable mllk-stlmulating
food and can be need to prevent the
formation o f excessively hard fata in
winter. Th e only disadvantage to the
general use Is the price. H a lf or three-
quarters o f a pound o f linseed or oil
meal In a ration per day w ill w ftrt a
very favorable influence upon the quail-
;ty o f the butter.
|. Corn meal, when fed In large
tendency to produce s firm
butter.
When mixed with other grains, fc bet
ter quality o f butter la produced than
If the corn were fed alone.
Gluten
meal, a by-product obtained la
the
manufacture o f corn starch and glu
cose, produces a softer butter than corn
meal. Th e gluten. It la to be observed,
contains more * o f the vital nntrlent.
protein.— Professor H a rry Snyder, Uni
versity o f Minnesota.
Odds Is W o o tk sr F o ro e s s tts *.
People have learned by experience to
make allowance fo r error in the pre
dictions o f the W eather Bureau, but
Prof. Scbnster thinks that the allow
ances should be officially stated. As
tronomers, it appears, are in the habit
o f givin g the value o f the “ probable
erro r" when publishing their observa
tions. But, although meteorology lends
Itself more readily than any other
science to the evolution o f deviations
from the mean result, the weather fore
casters have not adopted the custom
o f stating the probable error. Prof.
Schuster looks
forw ard to the time
when weather forecasts w ill be accom
panied by a statement o f the odds that
the prediction w ill be fulfilled. Then,
perhaps, we shall read In the weather
column not simply, “ rain to-morrow,"
but “ 8 to 1" o r “ 9 to 1 fo r rain to-mor
row ."
A Good W h itew a sh .
H ers la a well recommended white
wash : F or 10 gallons use 25 pounds of
common lime slaked with boiling w ater;
5 pounds o f dean
wood ashes; 10
pounds o f melted
beef tallow ; 2
pounds o f common salt and one-half
pound o f glue, dissolved. Add any dry
mineral paint to color, such as burnt
umber, yellow ochre or mineral red.
K o t f l s s n Gate fro m » ■ * * » ■ « .
Most farm gates are heavy, and a f M ix all w hile \bot and appply while
ter u little time they sag. When they warm, keeping it well stirred. ’
get this w ay It takes a strong man
T h e ( I m s Fen.
to open and slint one.
Here
is a
As a rale there la very little mol»-
remedy. Get a wheel, either big or
little, from an old piece o f machinery, ture In the sheep pen from the ani
and bolt it to the front rod o f the gat# mals them aelve» Sheepmen any that
hy heavy bedding, particularly at the
beginning o f the season, the straw w ill
absorb all the urine from the aheep
without there being any aoftneaa or
rotting o f the straw, and the pena are
often not cleaned more than once In t
seaaon without Injury to the stock.
There was only one bright spot in her
outlook. When she reached her destina
tion she would at once write to Mrs.
Dimed ale, tel) her where she waa, and
ask her frankly for an explanation of
their sudden silence. How much wiser if
she had done so before. Only a foolish
pride had withheld her from it.
The train had already stopped at one
large Junction. Looking oat through the
window she mw by the lamps that it
was Guildford. After another intermin
able interval of clattering and tossing and
plunging through the darkness, they came
In such a way that the gate w ill be
to a second station o f importance, Petere-
M d . “ W e are nearing our destination,"
held level. Now the smallest child can
Girdle*tone remarked, shotting up his
open the gate fpr you. T r y It, fo r It
book.
Is a saver— eaves your patience, your
This proved to bo a small wayaide sta
back, and the gate.— N. W . 8., la Farm
tion, illuminated by a single lamp, which
and Home.
gave no information is to the name. They
RoMaa KlUoO for rood la tk* loath.
were the only passengers who alighted,
A million robins w ere killed In Louis
and the train rolled on for Portsmouth,
iana daring the w inter o f 1907-8, the
leaving them with their trunks upon the
dark and narrow platform. It waa a dark
offenders being men and boys who shot
night with a bitter wind which carried
them fo r food. W hile they are pro
with it a suspicion of dampneae, which
tected as song birds In Northern States,
might have been rain, or might have been
7k Is « common Southern practice to
the drift o f the neighboring ocean. Kate
s^oot them fo r the table, and In some
waa numb with the cold, and even her
States the banters kill them In great
gaunt companion stamped hia feet and
numbers
at their roosting places. A
shivered as he looked about him.
government expert suggests that the
“ I telegraphed for a trap,“ said he to
eastward movement o f the boll weevil
the guard. “ Is there not one waiting?”
has been facilitated by the killing o f
“ Y e * sir, i f you he Mister Girdlestone.
Here, Carker, here’s your gentleman.”
the robins. I f that Is shown to be so,
At this summons a rough-looking ostler
the cotton growers w ill not receive
emerged into the circle o f light thrown
much sympathy from the members o f
by the single lamp, and touching hia hat,
the Audubon societies.— Leslie’s Week-
announced in a surly voice that he was
the individual in question. The guard
T rs a s p ls s tls g Trees.
and he then proceeded to drag the trunka
In Revue Unlverselle, according to
to the vehicle. It was a small wagonette,
with a high seat for the driver in front
another foreign contemporary, there Is
“ Where to, air?” asked the driver, when
a practical article o f general Interest
the travelers had taken their seats. \
on transplanting plants In full foliage
“ T o Hampton Priory. Do you know
at n igh t Th e results o f some experi
where that is?”
ments by Ronanlt would make unneces
“ Better’n two mile from here, and dose
sary the customary transplanting o f de
to the railway line;” said the man. “ There
ciduous trees in the fa ll or winter. He
hain’t been no one livin’ there for two
has found that trees may be trans
year at the least."
planted In fo il foliage In M ay or Jane,
“ We are expected and all will be ready
A fH eo C a lc u la t io n .
w ith little or no Injury, providing the
for us," mid Girdlestone. “ Go as fast
as you can, for we are cold.” The driver
A Flemish gentleman conceived the process Is carried on at n igh t This
cracked hia whip, and the horse started Idea that he would only live a certain has been demonstrated to the entire
at a brisk trot down the dark country time, so be made a nice calculation o f satisfaction o f some o f the most prom
road.
hia fortune, which he ao apportioned inent horticulturists o f France.
Lbokhif round her Kate m w that they as to last Just the same period as he
were passing through a large country vil guessed hia life
would extend to.
lage. consisting of a broad main street,
Dried brewers’ grains rank close to
Strangely enough,
his calculations
with a few insignificant offshoots branch
bran In feeding value, containing a
came
correct
to
the
letter,
fo
r
he
died
ing away on either side. A* church stood
little more protein and f a t bnt not
on one side, and on the other the village punctually at the time he had previ quite so much carbohydrate»
It Is
ously
reckoned.
H
e
had
ao
fa
r
ex
inn. The door was Open and the light
claimed
that
In
100
pounds
o
f
this
feed
shining through the red curtains of the hausted his estate that a fter his debts
bar parlor looked warm and cosy. The had been discharged a so litary pair o f there are 15.7 pounds o f protein, 36.8
murmur of cheerful voices sounded from slippers represented the entire proper pounds o f carbohydrates and 5.1 pounds
within. Kate aa she looked across felt ty he l e f t Hia relatives buried him, o f f a t M alt sprouts and dried brew
doubly cheerless and lonely by the con and a representation o f the slippers ers’ grains are valgable cow feeds, es
pecially the latter. Sprouts are rich
trast. Girdlestone looked, too, but with
was carved on the tomb. ToM ay in a
different emotion»
est In protein, but not much relished
churchyard
at
Amsterdam
his
grave
The road was lined oh either side by
by cows and should be fed only in lim
high hedges, which threw a dense shadow may tm seen, the only Inscription on ited quantities
W et brewers’ grains
over everything. The feeble lamps of the the s to le being tw o riem lah words,
are apt to lnjnre the quality o f the
wagonette bored two little yellow tunnels “ Effen N yt” (1. e., "E x a c tly” ).
milk.
of light on either side. The man let the
reins lie loom upon the horse's back, and
A s I t S eem ed t o H ite .
P e p n te tlo a and Food.
the animal picked out the roadway for
Th e statistician In the Department
"Some people.” remarked the demor
itself. As they swung round from the
alizer, “ never seem to be around when e f Agriculture o f the United States es
narrow lane on to a -broader road Kate
timates that In 1081 the population o f
wanted.”
broke out into a little cry o f pleasure.
“ W ell,” rejoined the morallzer, "It H e country w ill be 180,000,000. T o sup
“ There’s the sea.” she exclaimed Joy
fully. The moon had broken from behind Is better to be absent when wanted ply the requirements o f this nnmber o f
the clouds, and glittered on the vast sil than to be present when yon are not people w ill necessitate the production
very expanse.
o f 700,000,000 bnshela o f wheat, 1,250,-
wanted.”
‘‘ Yea, that’s the sea,” the driver said,
000,000 bushels o f oats, 8.460/100,000
“ and them lights down yonder Is at Lea
bushels o f corn, 700/100,000 toqs o f hay ;
r a p i d ’* P a tie n t.
Claxton, where the fisher folk live; and
“ Dear m e !" exclaimed the young and cotton, tobacco, fratta and vegeta
over there," pointing with hia whip to a
lady In the big furniture store. “ W hat bles ’ In proportion. This w ill necessi
long dark shadow on the waters, “ is the
a qneer looking s o fa ! Why, It has such tate bringing under cultivation an addi
“ Oilywolte."
tional 150,000,000 acres o f land, and It
short
legs!”
“ The w b a t r
“ Yea, miss,” replied the polite sales la estimated that we bave only 108,000,-
“ The Isle' of Wight, be means,” mid
man, “ that Is a courtship sofa. Little 060 acres available fo r cultivation.
Girdlestone.
The driver looked at him reproachfully. brothers can’t squeeze under I t ”
,
I n s e c t w i t h S p r ta n fc o o r d Ifo a e .
“ O f course," mid he, “ if yon Luanon
folks knows more about It than we who
i ^ . , Reach.
Among the carlona Insects o f the
are born and bred in the place. It’s no
Gunner— Many o f our ringers go over M alay Peninsula Is one called the lan-
matter o* use our tryln’ to teach you.”
, Europe to reach the high CTs.
| tern fly, which Is remarkable fo r Its
With this sarcastic comment he withdrew
Guyer— W ell, what do the European »ndden leaps, mad# without the aid o f
into himself, and refused to utter an
ngers come over here fo r?
j its wing*. It was only after the first
other word until the end o f theft Jour
Gunner— Oh. they come over here to «pndmens o f this queer Insect were
ney.
>ach the X ’» and V ’»
carried to London fo r examination, that
It was not long before this was attain
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it waa discovered that a carious projec-
ed. Passing down m deeply rutted lane
they came to a high stone wall which ex
W U flri* to Elope.
th*
° f * * b” d’ *
tended for a couple of hundred yards. It
Raid She— I f We appear together so j * no" * w th
^
***•
had a crumbling, decaying appearance, as
neh people will talk shout u »
, W n g o r g a n - W h a n b a n t b jek u m ter
R iU Ho— Wall, aimuaa wo Alaan. “ IS * 1 X 1 omen ana «U
el
PaH»
H m
Aassally
Been G r o w ls * I s Im p o r t s * « « .
Paris w ill soon be the greeteet port
' in France. W ork which waa begun thir
ty-seven years ago ia now nearing com
pletion and when this ia done {b e gay
capital w ill bave many miles o f
wharves capable o f landing thousands
o f feona o f merchandise dally. Although
the port is mostly concerned with in
ternal traffic, the Seine at Parla la also
deep enough to receive «hips coming
direct from London. H er commerce o f
this nature baa annually been grow ing
in Importance.
| Shortly a fter the w ar o f 1870 the
Parly Municipal Council decided to es
tablish wharves along the river banks
so that boat traffic could be more rap
idly developed. A vast plan o f im
provement was then laid o u t Th e river
waa dredged. Locks w ere established
both above and below the city, ao as
to maintain the river at a nearly con
Of decks
stant level. Then a serii
: was established, tome off which were
large enough to take Channel steamers
o f moderate tonnage. Such steamera
are now a fam iliar tigh t at the P ort 8 t
Nichols, Just opposite the Louvre.
The chief feature o f the shipping
which has Parle aa Its home rfprt la
atone, plaster and other building ma
terial. Huge quantities o f cereals and
wine are also handled. Among the
things which Parla ships to the prov
inces by way o f the Seine la refuse de
rived from old buildings which have
been torn down, and such unattractive
material aa chemical manures so d so
forth.
During the year 1806 almost 18,000,-
000 tons w ere shipped from Paris. Last
year’s record surpassed this by another
h alf million.
When the present Im
provements are completed it Is believed
that the annual tonnage w ill be almost
doubled, Practically all the ground re
moved In excavating fo r the clty'a new
underground railroad w u carried aw ay
by Seine boats. A ll the material used
In Its construction came by the same
route.
Th e only port which at present sur
passes Parla In annual tonnage is Mar
seilles, and within the next few months
even Marseilles w ill have to ,ta k e sec
ond place, \
A ll fruit trees Abould be sprayed
w hile dormant, with lima, sulphur and
salt, aa a preventive o f 8an Joee ecale.
to destroy the fungi. It la also clalm-
Other tender-hearted women bave a t
cd that this'preparation la a good fe r
tiliser, and wilPhoJp to keep the trees tempted to lighten the burden off
healthy. Quite a mftnber o f Insects at draught horses with varying degram off
tack only dead or ddpaylng treea, and oooceaa, but It has, remained fo r Mrs.
these form n breeding place for many Theodore Thomas, w ife o f the groat
orchestra lender, to bit on a practical
other varieties o f Insect peat»
remedy fo r the evil. She Is taking
steps to submit to the city council o f
D l*o o t«d F e rtilis e r*.
Manure Is simply materials that have Chicago a mammoth petition fo r an o r
been softened and decomposed (digest dinance regulating the tonnage a horse
e d ) within the body o f a s animal. T o m ay be required to draw. I t Is her
apply such raw materials as bras a Ad hope that the fu ll legal penalty may be
linseed meal directly to the soil would attached to the measure, and that It
8be reallsea that,
be o f no advantage, notwithstanding w ill be enforced.
that they are excellent fertilisers, their w hile a good many owners o f horses
vaine being Increased by feeding ts m ight be influenced by argnm rots
baaed on sentiment, there are hundreds
stock.
who can be reached only through their
pockets. Iff she can make It expensive
An Iron weight with a strap attached fo r an ow n er to overload a wagon, she
to It should always be carried In the thinks she w ill be able to nave the
farm wagon. Th e moment the horse four-footed animals many a w eary
le stopped end the driver la to leave
the team, the weight should be dropped
Mrs. Thomas does not content herself
to the ground and the strap fastened to w ith having Her petition signed by
the horse. This w ill make It safer leading citizens. She goes every day
than to allow the team to stand un among the teamsters themselves and.
hitched.
by simple reasoning, Induces them to
add their names to the plea. H er a r
Annually 75,000 barrels, or 7,500,000 gument Is that It Is to the teamster’s
pounds, o f horse-radish are
shipped Interest to see that bis horse la not
from S t Louis to the A tlantic const overtasked, because he then w ill be
to the Pacific coast to the lakes am) able to do bis own work much more
quickly and ao. In time, command high
to the gulf.
er wages. Many hundreds o f teamsters
Form N ew s and It «to o .
have given their signatures to the
U nde 8am received $11,500.000 last earnest woman, and she expects to
year fo r public lands o f all kin d*
have the names o f a fa ir proportion o f
A gardener at Tacoma, Wash., last the owners on the sheet before M m
season marketed $750 worth o f celery takes It to the council.
from one acre off ground.
The explosion o f a cream separatoi
nearly killed Earl Adams and his moth
er, livin g near Trempelean, Minn.
Emperor W illiam o f Germany sent
fifteen coach and cavalry horses to the
International show. They w ere among
the most beantlful animals ever seen
In this country.
W yom ing Is sending a large number
o f her tough little bronchos to Alaska,
aa It has been found that they stard
the rigorous climate up there better
than any other breed.
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Night riders In Tennessee who were
arrested fo r burning tobacco aheds and
shooting at farmers wera set free be
cause a Jury could not be found In
the county to try them.
Th e government reports that 2,600.-
000 cattle died In the United States
last year, over h alf o f these succumb
ing from exposure. Th e total losses
from all causes la Estimated at $24,000,-
000.
Farm ing In New Mexico baa been
given a great Impetus during tbs past
few years by the work o f the farm ers’
A PI Maare Foro*a n o.
Institutes and many unproductive val
“ H ave you studied political econ o
leys have been turned Into rich grain
my?”
and fru it fie ld »
“ No, sir," answered Senator
Sor
One o f the sights at the internation g bum. “ I'd like to, but I ’m afraid my
al Stock Show was a pure white Gallo constituents would think I was amus
way, aired hy Scottish Standard, a ing m yself reading books Instead o f hus
thoroughbred Galloway hull oat o f s tling fo r pensions and appropriations."
pare bred white Galloway cow. Th is la — Washington Star.
a freak, bnt may produce a new type
H e lp fa l H in t.
,
off Galloway.
“ W hat would be a good motto fo r a
fleM -Ppes « rv a tlo a .
young author?” asked the youth with
“ T h e man who .can be coerced Into
dreams.
paying hosh money is either a coward
"F irst, be sure you typewrite and
or a criminal.”
then'go ahead,” replied the reader from
“ I don’t dans m yself with either and Punkton’s publishing house.— Kansas
I pay bush money."
C ity T im e »
“ W hat for?”
“ I f I didn’t my w lfo would td fr 48
One thing may be said to the credit
me from one pay day t ill the n e x t " * « off the pa rrot: H e never makes anjft
Houston Post.
thing w o n t In repeating I t