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C H A P T E R X I . — (Continued.)
Throwing a desperate glance around,
the chauffeur withdrew hastily into the
deepest shadow of the beeoh tree, and
there awaited the diplomat’s uncertain
advance, his mind working with pretur-
natural swiftness. “ It was just possible
that in this friendly darkness he might
pass unrecognised— if he could only keep
silent.
How fortunate that the count
was such a talk er!
The rapid thoughts chased each other
through his brain while Souravieff was
shaking him warmly by the hand.
” 1 can hardly see you in this infernal
darkness,” he lamented. "R od erigo Mon
th ou ! What good luck ! C oxe, let us
sit down,” suiting the action to the word,
“ and talk.
I'm all impatience to Wear
everything
about
y o u r s e lf— which he
proved by launching forth immediately
into a personal narrative o f his own, just
as the other had shrewdly suspected that
he would— Boris Souravieff, like all ego­
tists, being only too delighted to talk
about himself indefinitely, granted a list­
ener, and in this instance a listener was
most inevitably proivded.
As I was saying, my dear fellow ” —
having detailed his history up to date,
the count crossed his legs sociably and,
thrusting a cigar into his mouth, prepar­
ed for a prolonged monologue— “ when we
last met at Monte Carlo, I was having a
most interesting experience.” Striking a
match at this point, be held it daintily
between finger and thumb and turned
his twinkling glance on the face which
the next instant was sw iftly averted.
F or a long moment there was silence
while the tiny flame burnt down to the
count's fingers, and the man beside him
sat staring fixedly in the opposite direc­
tion and cursing himself for his insane
carelessness and lack o f foresight.
And
yet, in the darkness, he had not even
detected the count's cigar !
That brief sudden
illumination
had
taken him completely by surprise. Had
Souravieff discovered him?
Listening with
anxious
impatience,
Sarto heard the other fumbling again in
his pockets.
A h ! there was no doubt
about It.
The count bad seen enough
to suspect; now he was going to make
sure! There was a small metallic click!
But the second watch was never light­
ed.
H ow often, when her victim is at his
last gasp. Fortune changes her fickle
mind and gives him another chancel
Just as the diplomat's hurried, nervous
fingers opened the little silver box in his
hands, the sound o f footsteps approached
in the darkness, crunching over grass and
tw igs.
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I'ount Souravieff !*’ come In command­
ing tones. “ A moment, if you please.”
I t waa the voice o f the Russian ambas­
sador.
W ith a smothered exclamation, his at­
tache sprang to his feet and pushed aside
the intervening beech branches. “ A t once,
. Tou r E xcellency!’’ he said, and then,
turning, "P r a y do not m ove!” he u rged;
“ I w ill be Iwtrk directly. Just wait an
instant. Del Pino.”
It ia perhaps hardly necessary to men­
tion that Del Pino did not w a it ! The
diplomats were barely out o f sight when,
with a couple of strides, he was standing
by Mrs. W aring's chair, interrupting her
tete-a-tete with scant ceremony.
“ Can you come now?” be asked, speak­
ing in low, decided tones that only reach­
ed. her ear. “ I feel as if I had been w ait­
ing fo r a very long time.”
So did Gussie—-to tell the truth. “ Yes,
I will have to be going now.” she agreed,
rising without hesitation. Then, to her
h o st: “ W on't you let us slip aw ay?” she
asked in a w hisper; “ I don’t w a n t to
break up the party.”
And. leaving the Senator with a slight
nod. Mrs. W aring and her chauffeur dis­
appeared into the darkness.
l i v e minutes later two attaches, stand­
ing on the little bridge that leads from
Chevy Chase Cub House to the main
road, saw an automobile glide out o f the
motor shed at the back. As it shot past
with a muffled chug-chug. “ There he i s !”
said one of the men excitedly.
“ I>ook.
S ou ravieff! Did you see his face in the
ught r
But the count had turned on his heel
and was making down the steps as fast
as his legs could carry him.
"Com e o n !” he cried. “ H elp roe get
np steam ! My motor's faster than his.
I am going to give him a chase!”
C H A P T E R X II.
“ A ren’t we going faster than the law
allows?” .Mrs. W aring asked pantingly.
Khe was sitting upright, clasping the
seat with tiotb hands and straining her
eyes throngh a dim, encircling sw irl of
wind and dust.
“ The la w !” ejaculated her companion
shortly.
He gianced over his shoulder,
and then, in parenthesis, half-aloud. ’’ N e­
cessity is the only law I acknowledge.”
Seizing the emergency brake at this
moment, he jammed it down, bringing the
hissing motor to a stand still just as a
jew elly worm flashed by In the darkness,
turning miraculously into a crowded trol­
ly car, loaded with tourists, who looked
out curiously.
“ A close shave!” ejaculated the chauf­
feur under his breath, as he let his ma­
chine out recklessly on the long road,
strung with twinkling lights which alter­
nated with inky black stretches. T o r some
minutes nothing dould be heard but the
pants o f the-m otor keeping time to the
screaming wind.
A t last, turning her
head, Gussie looked into a pair o f red
•yea peering at her furtively around the
curve o f the distant road.
"T h ere comes another motor,” she said
idly. “ I wonder where it's going at such
a tremendous rat«.”
The man beside her looked back.
“ Perhaps,” he said, “ they are trying
To cat** up with us. My faith ! They
are certainly gaining a little ;” and, mut
taring something under bis bre^jh, be
opened the throttle.
,
In the blinding spurt that followed
Mrs. W aring clung spasmodically to her
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“ Th is isn’t a race,” she cried, above
(he din, a note o f exasperation In her
strained voice.
“ W hy this— this awful
speed. Prince?”
A curious laugh responded. “ A re you
really afraid?” he saked.
In the glare o f the motor lamps, Gus-
sie met the reckless eyes smiling at her,
with a sw ift answering excitement which
she did not attempt to analyse.
“ O f course I am not afraid,” she said,
hardly knowing what she meant, “ with
y o u !”
There was a pause, and then, “ Th at is
what I hoped you would say,” he told
her thickly.
'
As the speed quickened again, Gussie
closed her eyes, not caring for the mo­
ment what happened or where they were
going. An irresponsible mood was upon
her, the echo o f her companion's.
Once before he had roused the spirit
o f romance and adventure dormant in her
for a few brief minutes, long enough to
make her forget his chauffeur's leather
coat.
The Prince del Pino had awakened an­
other feeling.
W hile she sat struggling, yielding to it.
the man who had inspired it sat grasping
the steering wheel, every fiber o f his mind
bent on reaching Washington before his
pursuers.
It was the deciding race o f his life !
A desperate trial pf skill, with the pro­
fessional chauffeur and hia 300-yard start
pitted against 'SouraviefTs superior mo­
tor run. by an amateur.
The machine versus the mechanician!
A contest between matter, with its per­
fected possibilities, and the infinite re­
sources o f a man’s mind, guided by that
fifth sense that necessity lends!
A t the start the odds seemed equal, but
with every minute the issue was more cer­
tain.
A t Cleveland Park the pursuing motor
was not two hundred yards behind.
As Sarto whirled past the Zoo station
SouravielTs lights glared at him across
twice that distance.
And as he turned into the comparative
dusk o f the Adams M ills road they had
entirely disappeared.
A t last, through her half conscious­
ness, Gussie felt that the fierce sweep
o f the motor had dwindled to a mild
gliding motion.
Opening her eyes, “ Dupont Circle al­
ready?” she cried in astonishment, look­
ing around. “ W here’s the other automo­
bile?”
H er companion shrugged his shoulders.
“ A mile and a half out o f town, I should
imagine,” he speculated easily, “ left be­
hind long ago.
You see, we won the
race.”
His hat was off, and in the white
blink o f the electric tights the handsome
face shone out positively brilliant with
triumph and daring.
Gussie looked up at him with genuine
admiration. Success in every phase ap­
pealed to her irresistibly— had
always
done so.
“ I knew y o j would win that race !"
she said, in a voice that trembled a little.
“ You naturally come out ahead!”
Then, startled by the glint in his eyes,
she dropped her own to the deft hands
managing the levers.
For a moment neither sjioke. Sarto be­
ing— to tell the truth— ahsorlied in his
own situation, doubtful enough, in spite
o f his momentary advantage.
Distanced as he had been, Souravieff
would reach the G rafton sooner or later,
and Sarto must he there and gone before
he arrived.
Every
minute
counted.
Changing speeds, he pulled himself to­
gether determinedly at the sound o f Ous-
sie’s voice.
“ Speaking o f race«,” she was saying
demurely, “ suggests chauffeurs! Do you
know, I have another grievrttce against
that man o f yours?” She raised her eye­
brows
in
delicate, humorous protest.
“ W hat will you say when I tell you that,
to cap his other misdemeanors. Sarto had
the audacity to fall in love with me?"
T iltin g her shoulders, she glanced side-
wise at the man beside her.
H e was staring blankly ahead o f him.
with a fierce intensity that saw, instead
o f the long tree arcade through which
they were passing, its linden roof shingled
with stars, a French highway bounding a
swamp, a woman sitting by the roadside,
and a dim. motionless figure watching her.
As he did not speak, Gussie went on,
with a faint, half-mocking laugh, “ Fancy
my own chauffeur doing me the honor to
profess his undying passion for me. Im­
agine such a th in g !”
“ Im agin e!” ejaculated a queer hoars**
voice. “ M ache! I can imagine nothing
e ls e !”
Gussies cheeks flushed slowly.
“ The
— effrontery of his daring------ "
“ D a rin g !” echoed the same unnatural
tones. "D a rin g to be human! Cospetto!
W hat could you expect? As well blame a
peasant on the Cainpagne for catching
the malaria !”
A loud, jangling laugh!
Gussie rouse*! herself with a determined
effort. "Y o u do not realize the impro­
priety,” she protested fa in tly ; “ a man
o f his class !”
She beard him grating his teeth.
“ Yes, that is it.
It is the livery of
your victims that makes all the difference
with you. The chauffeur had no chance!”
He was moodily silent a moment and
then, turning on her with a swiftness that
made Gussie start, "W h a t o f Roderigo
del I ’ in o ? " he demanded harshly, search­
ing her face. “ W hat chance has he7”
Surely, never was there a
stormier,
more fantastic wooing. Gussie shivered
with sheer excitement o f the thing, her
throbbing pulses keeping pace with his.
A t last, moving her lips with difficulty,
“ Don't you-know?” she managed to artic­
ulate,
“ A h !” ejaculated Sarto.
Involuntarily he found himself consid­
ering her curiously. Gussie wss not look­
ing at him. but her very beautiful eyes
had an excited gleam in them, her breath
came and went. Did ahe covet that petty
coronet so much, then? Mrs. W aring had
had other, better chance«.
W aa there
something in her, a fter all, beyond heart-
lees ambition? Another Gussie?’
Feeling himself weakening, he tarneu
hia eyes away and set bit lips, thinking
quickly, with added venom.
She had accepted h im !
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W e ll! 'N ow be would have her do more
— stoop lo w e r!
H e epoke again.
“ You say I know.
W hat do I know, except thaj It is once
more the livery that appeal^to you? Per­
haps, in this instance, my coat o f arms
(certainly it ia old enough). As for the
njan— a mere detail. W iaR do you care
about the wounded human
being
be­
neath?”
T o Gussie W arin g’s ears, the rough,
bitter tones came from the very extremity
of passion, appealing to her jaded senses
as no polished flattery had ever done.
“ You do not understand.” sha mur­
mured. “ Perhapa it is the man under­
neath fo r whom I do c a re!”
T h e chauffeur bent nearer;
hia lips
were tw isting feverishly, hia eye# burning
with a very fierce, malignant light. The
moment o f triumph was near and he must
have it all— everything.
“ Say It again.”
H e could hardly pro­
nounce the words. “ I want to hear it
from your own lips that it is myself you
care for— myself.”
He hesitated tensely.
“ T h e man, not the Prince del Pino.”
Gussie gated about her.
The motor was going silently, as it
were on tiptoe, down the dim avenue. No
one was in sight for the moment; nothing
to be heard but the smothered movements
o f the trees as the wind shook their tops,
scattering linden bloesoms, a heavy in­
cense from his vast censer, powdering the
air.
T h e forces o f the night were working
for Sarto, intensifying
hia
magnetic
spell. N o wonder that she mistook it for
another feeling.
A t last, as i f the words were being
forced out o f her, “ I love you,” ahe said
distinctly ; “ never the prince— only you—
you— y o u !”
A little sentence, but terribly full of
meaning. In it an old debt waa discharg­
ed— a rapacious creditor satisfied.
The chauffeur had paid himself back
already In large measure, but in Guasie's
broken confession the double score wns
settled in f u ll!
(T o be continued.)
The story of the daughters of au
old-time New England clergyman la
given by Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins In
“A Book of Joys.” The marriage in
those days of a minister’s daughter was
leeked upon as a social event requiring
due observance.
When the domlne’s eldest daughtet
went to Boston to buy her household
treasures before her nlarrlage to the
young doctor, the whole town turned
out to see her go; and for a time It
seemed doubtful if the second daugh­
ter could marry at all, for she was
loved by a mere deacon's son, whose
humble social position made It diffi­
cult for him to address her.
She, however, having made a shrewd
guess as to the state of his feelings,
took the reins in her own hands.
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»•’ » » » » » P u t B x p e n a * .
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To M ake
P o o r P aras
R ic h .
“The progressive farmer rotates his
crops. ' He tile-drains his laud.
He
keeps dairy cows or mutton sheep or
both. He breeds draft horses and does
farm work with brood mares and grow­
ing colts. He improves the power of
the soli by growing legumes.”
James Wilson, secretary of agricul­
ture, In the above words sums up the
vital principles of good farming. He
declares that the people of the United
States have wasted their inheritance of
laud and wood, and the productiveness
of the soil near the great centers of
population has steadily decreased. We
have been a nation of soil robbers, but
there is at last au awakening— slow but
sure.
Farmers of all sections are wanting
to know how to stop the leaks and In­
crease the deposits of their business and
the government Is helping them In mauy
ways.
There are over 0,000 persons
employed in the Department of Agri­
culture and 2,000 of these are scientists,
all working Intelligently toward help­
ing the farmer
solve the problems
which confronts him. There are sixty-
five land grant colleges with 10,000 stu­
dents In agriculture. These boys are
learning that rotation of crops Is neces­
sary, that live stock must be raised to
make manure, of which there Is never
“nough.
They are finding out that young
grasses and legumes are nature’s per­
fect ration for domestic animals. Milk
and meat and work are had more
cheaply from the pasture than from
other sources. l*asture land Increases
as farm help becomes scarce. Mutton
sheep are suggested when labor Is dear.
Cultivated crops reduce organic matter
In the soli and render It unfit for profit­
able growing.
Pasturing replaces or­
ganic matter. When good crops of
grain or roots are wanted the pasture.
Plowed and reduced In season, U the
best place to get them. Western farm­
ers In the corn belt get their heavy
crops from pasture land.
With’ the help of Improved machinery
the progressive individual farmer Is
producing much more than the average
farmer did a generation ago and men of
:hls class are keeping up the productive
lualttes of their farms.
The neglected lands of the eastern
and middle states can be brought back
to their primitive fruitfulness through
the aid of scientific farming.
Secre­
tary Wilson says they are the cheapest
land In the country and people wanting
homes who have saved a little capital
from their earnings or young men of
means and tastes for the Independent
life of the country will find rich oppor­
tunities In these lands for profit and
usefulness.
G
At a party, from which she made
exemplary departure at nine o’clock,
John’s devotion was apparent, yet he
did not dare offer to see her home.
R e m o v i n g S a p lin g s a n d S ta m p s .
So she stepped to the middle of the
In uprooting young trees a team of
room, her black eyes dancing with horses or even a single horse with a
mischief, and said, in a clear voice. “If chain can do effective work. Best re­
no one here has any objection, l should sults can be obtained where the growth
!ike to have John wait upon me home; consists of saplings two to rour Inches
and If any oue has. let him speak now In diameter and where the root system
or forever hold his pence.”
Is lateral. The plan is to fnsten one
It is needless to add that the delight­ end of the chain to the trunk ns high
ed John settled the matter on the walk above the ground ns the flexibility of
home that night, and they were mar­
ried soon afterward.
Mrs. John developed many fearless
characteristics. She wore her clothes
twenty years old out of fashion, and
never parted with a bonnet. The ladies
of the church got tired of seeing the
same one appear year after year, and
expressed themselves about ft at a his­
torical meeting of the sewing society,
from which she was absent. The vil­
lage doctor happened In for a moment
on an errand when the ladles were at
the most animated point, and ns he
dearly loved a joke, he repeated the
whole thing to his sister-in-law within
the hour, and together the two miscre­
ants planned a bombshell for the so­
ciety. While the ladles were at their
tea the doctor appeared once more,'
and announced to the meeting that Mrs.
John sent word that. If the ladles would
decide what sort of a bonnet she ought
to wear, she would try to meet their
views, but pending such Instruction She
would contlnne to wear her old one,
which was still In good condition. And
wear it ahe did until a new one became
a necessity.
The new one wns ordered, and one
of her sons was dispatched to bring
it home. He went on horseback, and
as Bhe feared for the safety of the box
by this means of transportation, she
commanded him to wear the bonnet
home on his head.
Disobedience wns a thing unthought
of in that family, and the town beheld
a wretched boy riding through the
main street o f f the village with Mrs.
John's new bonnet displayed niton hi»
head.
H at H at
Geraldine*—Pupa, I want you to hear
some of Reggy’s funny stories; he's
full of humor.
Pnpn— I heard one of them the other
night; he asked me to be his father-
in-law.
A
Run
S u b je c t.
“How much did that cnpltol cost?'’
Inquired the sightseer In Harrisburg
"S ir," replied the guide severely, "w s
are here to Improve our minds; not to
talk scandal.”
. ; An annual fence post bill of mors
than $1,250,000 Is one Item in the ex-
l>euse account of the farmers of a sin­
gle agricultural State. It is eatimated
that the farmers of Iowa use posts hav­
ing a value exceeding this enormous
sum each year to maintain the fence«
od tlie 20,000,000 acres of Improved land
In the State.
In muklng theae estimates, II. P.
Baker, professor of forestry In Iowa
State Agricultural College, figured that
the farms of Iowa required 78,000,000
posts for fences, or 2,000 to the square
mile. Placing the valup of the posts at
15 cents each, the cost of renewal^ ev­
ery eight or nlue years, which le the
life of the post, Is $11,718,000, nuking
an annual bill for renewals of $1,405,-
000.
Like many other farming States,
Iowa has a lack of fence post material,
but there Is little excuse for this con­
dition, according to the foresters who
have made studies In the State. A prop­
erly mnnaged forest plantation will
produce, when the trees have reached
post size, 3,500 poets three to five Inches
In diameter per acre; thus. It would
take 22,350 acres about every ten years
to grow the necessary posts to supply
the State. Iowa la said to have 200,-
000 acres of planted timber, and yet the
fence post supply Is Insufficient. If
properly cared for, many of these plan­
tations can be made to produce mofc
timber, and thus Insure the future post
supply.
These 200,000 acres are not at present
furnishing the posts which It Is esti­
mated can actually be grown on 22.350
acre* of properly handled forest land
■ R a e ts o f
D e liv e r y ,
C a ttle H a v e
R a b ie s .
Following the attack of a mad dog
on bis stock. Louis Klein, a farmer
near Pralrletown, hits had to kill three
bend of cattle and four bogs which had
become Infected with rabies. The mem­
bers of the family noticed that the dog
acted peculiarly, but did not suspect
that It whs mad until too late. After
the dog had bitten the stock It wns
killed by Klein, who feared that It
would attack the members of his fam-
ily.— S t Louis Globe-Democrat
F la h tln a
th e
P o ta to
S a ab .
Potato scab is a fungus growth. It
may be in the soli or It may be in the
seed. Plant seed that Is free from scab
on soil where no scabby potatoes have
been grown for years. A preventive Is
to souk the seed in a solution of corro­
s i v e sublimate and water, two ounces
of the corros!ve°subl!mnte to fifty gal­
lons of water. Soak the seed one and
one-hnif hours. Do not leave scabby
potatoes lying on the ground or put
them in the cellar.
S a lt
STUMP WITH LATERAL ROOTS.
R n ral
There Is a veritable network of rural
routes out of nearly all of the towns In
this section of the State, and seldom
does one find a farmer who la not
placed In a position to take advantage
of one. With present conditions exist­
ing, the man on the farm haa the op­
portunity to take bla dally paper aa the
one In town, and gets hia mall some­
times earlier than many of the resi­
dents of the cities. There are rural
mall carriers and rural mall carriers—
each one has bla striking characteris­
tic. The majority are favorites in
their particular field, and aa a rule
the patrons of his route would not
trade him for any other man on six’
other.
The carrier and the farmer
learn to know each other, and the coun­
try visitor on hearing them greet each
other would say they were both “good
fellows.” The man that carries the
mall should have a whole lot o f_credit
He Is obliged to make the trip In all
kinds of weather and the beat of pro­
tections will not make the job an en­
joyable one. Some time when he is not
busy, let the reader talk a few min­
utes to a rural mall carrier and he
will find that he Is In touch with ev­
eryone on the route. — Bloomington
(111.) Pantagraph.
P a r lflc a t lo a .
Salt Is purified by melting in the new
and rapid English process. The crude
rock salt is fed automatically to a table
contained in a large furnace, Is then
fused and runs Into troughs, from
which It Is drawn at one side of the
furnace Into large caldrons.
Air is
forced Into the molten mass and lime
Is added. The Impurities sink to the
bottom, and the upper portion Is ground
and screened while the lower part 1»
used for chemical manure.
THE WEEKLY 1
RIAN
1388— E arl o f Douglas killed and “ H o t­
spur” taken prisoner at battle o f
Otterburn.
1521— Cortez retook the C ity o f Mexico. t
1588— The Spanish armada becalmed be*
fore Dunkirk,
1687— Prince Charles o f Lorraine de­
feated the Turka at Mohacz, Low er
Hungary.
1758— T h e N ew London Summary waa
published at N ew London, Coon.
1778— F ort Boonesborough inverted by
Canadians and Indiana. . . .French
fleet dispersed in a gale off Rhode
Island.
1782— British evacuated Savannah.
1787— First bishop appointed In N o vi
Scotia.
1704— Poles defeated the Prussians at
battle o f W lln a .. . .B a ttle o f Belle-
garde, between the French and Span*
ish.
1803—
A gra taken by the British.
1806— Miranda abandoned his conquests
on rite Spanish Main and sailed te
Aruba.
1807— T ria l trip o f Fulton's steamboat
“ Clermont” waa made.
1811— T h e British took possession o f B a­
tavia and a part o f Java.
1812— The United States troops under
Gen. H u ll evacuated Canada and en­
tered D e t r o i t . U n i t e d States frig ­
ate Eeaez captured the Alert, the first
vessel taken from the British In tb«
W a r o f 1 8 1 2 ....Gen. Brock arrived
at Amberatbnrg to oppose the Inva­
sion o f Gen. Hull.
1814— F irst meeting o f the British and
the
American
commissioners
at
Ghent, to treat for peace.
1820— Eliaa Bonaparte, sister o f N apo­
leon, died.
1822— An earthquake devastated a larga
part o f Syria.
1828— T h e Centennial o f Baltim ore cele­
brated. . . . Ilo ya l 1st a came Into power
In France.
1831— Rarbadoee swept by a violent hur­
ricane.
1846— T h e
Smithsonian
Institution
founded at Washington, D. C.
1851— Litchfield. t Conn., celebrated
its
200th anniversary.
1800— The Prince o f W ales visited Char­
lottetown, P. E. I.
1861— Gen. Lyon killed at the battle o f
W ilson’s Creek. Mo.
1804— T w elve persona killed by an ex­
plosion on the steamer “ Racine” in
Lake E r i e . . . . F o r t Gaines at Mobile
bay. surrendered to Farragut and
Granger.
1868— Body o f Thaddeus Stevens lay to
state in the capitol at Washington.
1870— Marsha) Bazaine appointed com-
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mander-in-chief o f the French army
in the war with Prussia.
1887— H aw aii adopted a new constitu­
tion.
1888— W illiam C. Van Horne succeeded
Sir George Stephens as president o f
the Canadian Pacific railway.
1803— Chsrlcs F. Crisp o f Georgia elected
Speaker o f the House o f Representa­
tives.
1804— Congress passed the Brice-Gorman
tariff bill.
1807— Hon. W ilfrid Laurler, Canadian
premier, received the order o f the .
Legion o f Honor from the President
o f France.
1808— Spanish surrendered Manila to the
Am erican a.. . .Protocol signed ending
hostilities between the United State«
and Spain.
1800— Second court martial o f MaJ. D rey­
fus begun at Rennes.
1007— Opening o f the International Es­
peranto Congress at Cambridge, Eng­
land. . . . Several persona killed by an
explosion o f nitro-giycerine in the
town o f Essex Center, Ontario.
C o m m o d it y
G r in d t h e C o r n f o e t h e H o n e * .
Corn und oats should be ground to­
gether for horses. Many good horse­
men never feed whole corn.
Somo
the tree will permit While the horses horses cannot digest it properly, but
are pulling at the tree a man should when it is ground with oats the mix­
sever the roots at the base. Stumps ture makes one of the best rations for
of moderate size may also be pulled a work team, especially when doing
with chains and horses. One end of the heavy work. Nearly all the large trans­
chain should be fastened around a large portation companies in the cltle# never
root as shown In the Illustration. By feed whole corn.
placing the chain across the top of the
A S e p a r a t o r f o r Blarht w i n .
stump a leverage can be secured to
A correspondent naked if It would
take full advantage of the strength of
pay to buy a separator for a herd of
the horses.
eight cows.
B e l i e v e s l a M la e d F a r m i n g .
Yea, by all means. It will not only
I firmly believe In mixed farming, but pay for Itself every year In the amount
even then we must specialise on some of cream wived, but the milk is better
certain line of stock feeding and rota­ when fed warm from the sepnrator to
tion of crops If we make a decided suc­ the young animals. The man who does
cess of the business. Call It general not use a cream sepnrator Is suffering
farming, but let’s not call it mixed a large loss every month.
farming. As grandfather used to say,
M n r d e r O v e r a L ia o P en or.
‘‘Be something» If you cannot be a long-
In a quarrel over a line fence neai
tailed rat, be a mouse.” Have some
hobby, some kind of a crop or some Broken Bow, Neb., Stewart Lanterman
his son
kind of live stock and specialize on that killed II. F. Hoffman and
and make your other farming subservi­ George, by cracking their skulls with n
ent to that one special crop or kind of neckyoke. It Is possible that more mur­
live stock feeding. W e have too many ders have been committed over line
common mixed farmers.— John
a fence disputes than over any other thou,
bla that arisen between farmers
Barnes, Indiana.
UPROOTIItO A SAPLItVO.
P r ic e s S t ill H ig h .
The Bureau o f Labor of the Depart­
ment o f Commerce and la b o r hns Issued
a report covering the price movements
for the past two decades, or from 1800
to 1907. From this it appears that, in
spite o f the financial depression o f the
last six months, pricea were higher in
most lines at the close o f the year than
at the beginning. The average price for
all commodities decreased only a little
over one point for the period. The whole­
sale price average reached a higher point
in 1007 than at any time during the pe­
riod. The increase in the farm group o f
products was the greatest— namely, 10.0
per cent. It was 4.6 per cent increase fo r
food. 5.6 for clothing, 2.4 for fuel, 6.1
for metals, 4.0 for building material, 8.3
for drugs, 6.8 for honse-furnlahlng goods
and 5 for the miscellaneous group.
A
P o w d e r le s s . O n a
fo r
W a r.
The latest sensation in the realm o f
mechanical Invention ia a working model
of a powderless gun with a possible dis­
charge o f 50,000 shots a minute. Th is
gun, wl-.ich ia also noiseless, la the In­
vention o f W illiam Fatten o f New York.
It ie fired by centrifugal force. A il there
li to it le a big wheel with a crank to
It, the inventor getting hie idea from see­
ing a big fly wheel burst. The bullets
are poured Into the gun and then aa the *
wheel attains a certain velocity they be­
gin to pour out in a solid stream of lead