The Great
Tontine
k,
H AW LEY SM ART
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C H A P T E R X I.
Mr. Hemmingby. upon hi* return to
town, duly apprised Ixjrd lakington that
h.> had executed his commission. Forty-
* eight hours after he received the man
a g er'i note came a no (tier from Mr. Peg-
ram. requesting to know when it would
be convenient for him to wait upon his
lordship upon a matter o f business: to
whicfc the Viscount replied, he should be
at home the next day at twelve.
Punctual to the moment came Mr. Peg-
ram's knock at the door, and in another
moment he was ushered into the Vis­
count’s snuggery. Ix>rd Lakington looked
his visitor sharply over as he motioned
him to a chair. A little wiaraed old man,
with spiky hair o f iron grey, and small,
keen, restless eyes. “ A more uncompro­
mising person to
do
business with,”
thought his lordship, “ I think I hare sel­
dom come across.”
“ I have ventured to request you to see
me on « matter o f business. Lord la k -
Ington. in consequence o f some conversa­
tion I had with our mutual friend, Mr.
Hemmingby, last week. W e are both, it
seems, concerned in the Impending decis­
ion o f this great lottery. In all human
probability, the eight thousand per an­
num it represents must fall to >ither you
or I in the course o f the next year or
two. It is a very big property, my lord,
and would bear dividing.* Many people,
fo r instance, would think it more judi­
cious to make a certainty o f half than,
by seeing their luck out, lose all. I do
not know whether I am right, but I rath­
er understood Mr. Hemmingby that you
w ere somewhat o f this way o f thinking.’*
“ 1 have gambled, Mr. Pegram, as high
as most men o f my time, but I have done
w ith all that now, and I honestly own I
should be quite content to make a cer­
tainty o f four thousand a year.”
“ And yet it seems a pity not to leave
such a fine property intact. I am a great
advocate for the law o f primogeniture. I
have always beep thankful that I have
but one child myself— a son, my lord.”
“ You know best, perhaps, Mr. P e g ^ m .”
replied Lord Lakington, with a languid
sm ile; “ but do you really think that your
fam ily affairs have any bearing upon the
matter in hand?”
“ I think they have.” replied the law ­
yer dryly. “ Suppose I could d iow you a
scheme by which this four thousand a
year should be insured to you for life,
while the other h alf o f the Tontine*
would at once become the income o f your
daughter, the whole eight thousand per
annum becoming her property at your
death. 1 told you, my lord, that I had
imk sop; you, I understand, have also an
« n ly daughter.
I f you w ill consent to
th eir making a match o f it, I w ill settle
my half o f the T o n tin e ’ am your daugh­
t e r at her marriage. Y ou r half would,
• f course, remain as it is, with the sole
condition that it went to your daughter
a t your death.”
Lord la k in gto n rose slowly from his
d ia ir with a set look upon his face that
even the oM law yer could see boded dan­
ger. “ Do you know, air,” said the Vis­
count, in low, measured tones, “ that if
you were a few years younger I should
probably throw you out o f the window?**
“ I beg pardon, my lord,” said the law ­
yer in the most deprecatory tones, “ but
It is so obviously the w ay to keep the
property together. O f course I know Bob
is no match for the Honorable Miss Phil-
limore, but I thought that, under the cir­
cumstances. I might venttire to suggest
it to your lordship; and again, I had not
tim e to mention it before, but I shall
have something pretty comfortable to
leave behind me when my time comes, anji
«h er o f course would go to my son.”
T tell you ooee fo r a ll.-M r. Pegram,
th at your proposition is ridiculous, I may
say Impertinent.
I was in hopes you
had some reasonable compromise to offer
me. When you have, I shall be happy to
ase you again. In the meanwhile I have
tbs honor to wish you good morning,”
and as he finished. Lord Lakington laid
his hand on tbs bell.
“ Good morning, my lord, good morning.
I f you could only be brought to see it in
u business point o f view, it is tbs most
perfect arrangement that could possibly
be made. Bob w ill be sorely disappointed
be hears your lordship w ill not
and declares he w ill see you before the
wedding day.”
‘T h a t he shall never do,” replied the
g i r l ; and even as she spoke tbe door of
the drawing room quietly opened, sad
her cousin stood before her.
1»
Jack Phillim ore owed bis noiseless ap­
pearance to a little bit o f romance on
the part o f a woman. I have before said
that the sympathies o f the domestics o f
the bouse were all in Jack Philllm ore’a
favor, and they were aa indignant in their
way aa Mrs. Lym e W regis at Beatrice’s
breath o f faith. Bo sympathetic was the
lady's maid that* she volunteered to let
Jack Phillim ore out, and having dona ao
stood at tbe open door watching him as
he walked slowly away, when putting
his hands in his pockets for( his gloves,
Phillim ore discovered that they were miss­
ing.
H e was quite sure he had then)
when he called, so it was evident he must
have left them in Mrs. Lym e W regis'
drawing room. H e turned and went beck
for them, and as the girl was still stand­
ing at the open door, there was o f course
no necessity for knocking, so his re-en­
trance was noiseless.
“ B eatrice!” he exclaimed.
H er eyes flashed, and an angry flush
crossed her face as she exclaim ed:
“ I f this is a little* comedy o f yours and
grandmamma's, allow me to observe that
I consider i f in very bad taste. T o per­
sist on seeing me against my w ill is un­
generous. unmanly.”
Jack Phillim ore was. in the main, by
no means a hot-tempered fellow, but this
was rather more 'than he could stand. H e
conceived, as I think most men in his
situation would have done, that an ex
planwtion, under the circumstances, was
moat certainly due to him, and that he
certainly did" not merit being overwhelm­
ed with reproaches for what was the
veriest accident.
“ I have simply come back for this pair
o f gloves on the table,” he rejoined in
a hard, constrained voice, “ aud had no
intention o f forcing an interview upon
you. I most certainly hold that you owe
me some explanation o f the sudden change
in your feelings. When you throw over
the man that you were virtually engaged
to three months ago, I think you should,
a t all events, explain to him why you do
it.
T h e most heartless flirts let their
adorers down easier than you. W e are
not a fam ily noted for any great virtues,
but a Phillim ore’a word has been gener­
ally thought to be relied on.”
“ I never pledged myself to you,” rite
C H A PTE R X IL
Jack' Philliroore, speeding homeward, replied faintly.
“ N ot actually In words, I grant you ;
has ample leisure to reflect upon the
heavy clouds that have gathered over his but you know very well that we both
love affair. Naturally one o f the gayest looked upon ourselves as betrothed. There
and lightest hearted officers in H er M a­ are promises o f implication just as bind­
jesty's fleet, two or three acquaintances ing as promises o f words.”
“ Spare me. Jack, spare me,” she mur­
he had on board could not at all under-,
mured
fa in tly ; “ indeed, I can not help
stand him in his present somber mood.
Bnt Jack was terribly earnest in his love myself.”
“ I w ill relieve yon o f my presence, and
for bis cousin. Th at Beatrice had thrown
with
congratulations upon yonr approach­
him over for mere wealth he could not
and would not believe, and Mrs. Lyme ing marriage, bid yon good-by.”
T h e softer mood was all out o f her
W regis’s letter supported him in his in­
now,
her eyes flashed through her tears,
credulity. However, one thing was quite
and her cheeks flamed with, anger, aa she
clear— the first thing he had to do on es­
made tw o or three rapid steps towards
tablishing himself in London was to go
him.
straight to the Victoria road.
“ C o w a rd !” she hissed between
her
“ Lord Lakington is not at home, but
teeth. “ H ow dare you insult me thus?”
the ladiea are in the drawing room,” aaid
and she swept from the room in right
the man servant in response to bis knock.
“ Glad to see you back, Mr. Philliroore,” regal fashion.
(T o be continued.)
continued Jackson, as he preceded the
visitor up the stairs, for the young naval
L O N G C O A C H IN G T R I P .
officer waa very poimlar with all the do­
mestics.
cartes I bad not the wherewithal to a wo­
ols te with them. Nobody expected din­
ners from the ruined Lord lakington,
but they did expect that he should *•*
decently gloved, and wear a hat that
cast no shame upon those to wnom it
! w m lifted. I have known, Beatrice, what
it was to scheme fo r my gloves, to re­
ft ert that trinkets were not a necessity,
and might he profitably converted into
boots or umbrellas; to walk, because I
could not afford cabs, and was ashamed
to be eeen getting in or out of an omni­
bus
I declare I would sooner die than
go through that grinding poverty a g a in ;
and It rests with you to save me.”
,
“ W ith me, papa 1” faltered the girl, and
her cheeks blanched aa the words fell
from bee lips.
,
“ Yes, T rixie.
Yon and your grand­
mother think my Improved circumstances
o f late are owing to my estates having
what is termed come round; to mort­
gages haring been paid o f f ; to creditors
having been appeased, etc. I t is n ot so.
I am as hopelessly ruined as I was when
Thormanhy won the derby seventeen years
ago and your grandfather failed fo r over
a million. W hat has kept me going has
been simply the large interest I now de­
rive from a lottery culled the ‘Great
Tontine.’ M y dividend in that amounts
at present to something like three thou­
sand a year;** sod hereupon the Viscount
proceeded to explain to his daughter the
history o f that quaint coquetry with for­
tune in which he had embarked in 1800.
It took Beatrice some time before she un-
d< rstood the whole th in g; but, as it grad­
ually became clear to her, she positively
sick pried on recognising how her father’s
future income depended upon her saying
“ Yes” to Robert Pegram’» suit. And Me
too was seeking her hand, not because
he loved and admired her, but aa a
mere matter o f
expediency;
because
he would be, like her father, made cer­
tain o f a moiety o f this income during
the Viscount’s life, and would come into
the whole o f the property at his death.
“ L et me think, papa, let me th in k !”
¡die exclaimed, as she pushed back the
dusky masses of hair from her temples.
“ I must o f course be a true daughter to
you— anything rather than you should go
through such humiliations again aa you
have told me of. M y cheeka tingle even
now at the bare recital o f them ; bnt oh,
father dearest. I had dreamed o f some­
thing so very different if ever I left you.”
Mrs. Lym e W regls was ensconced In
her favorite seat in the window.
She
had seen the arrival o f the mail steamer
in the morning papers, and had been ex­
pecting Jack for the last hour. She wel­
comed him cordially, o f coarse said noth­
ing about Beatrice's abrupt disappear­
ance, and. upon secood thoughts, came
to the conclusion that perhaps it was for
the best. I t would give her a few min­
utes in which to tell her story, while the
girl might well require a little time to
prepare herself for a meeting with her
old lover.
Jack Phillim ore was soon in possession
o f all that Mrs. Lym e W regis had to tell
him, which, after all, was very little
more than she had already marde him
acquainted with by letter. H e certainly
learned that not only was the marriage
most definitely settled, but that tbe very
day fo r It waa fixed. H e was further in­
formed that bis successful rival was a
Mr. Robert Pegram, tii^ son o f a gentle­
man o f considerable property in W a le s ;
that the young couple were to commence
life upon an income o f four thousand a
y e a r; that Lord Lakington and Beatrice
were both most lavish regarding the
trousseau; and lastly, that, she, Mrs.
Lym e W regis, felt perfectly sure— and in
spite o f what her granddaughter might
say to the contrary— that Beatrice was
going to the altar under some sort o f com­
pulsion, and that her feeling for her be­
trothed was rather that o f repugnance
than mere indifference.
H avin g told her story which, as Jack
Phillim ore remarked, contained not tbe
slightest
allusion
to
the
Viscount’s
Lord Lakington paced up and down his wealthy prospects. Jack came to the con­
little room in a perfect storm o f indig- clusion that as yet he was a very long
natioo fo r a good h alf hour a fter Mr. way from unraveling the tangled skein of
Pegram left him, but gradually he found his love.
“ But where is T rix ie ? Barely she w ill
him self reverting to the old lawyer's idea.
W h a t a confounded pity, be thought, the see me? She must feel bound to ; if it
fellow is not a gentleman ! E very point is only,” he concluded, with a somewhat
Chat the old lawyer had so artfu lly In­ bittsr smile, “ to receive my congratula­
stilled into his mind recalled Itself.
A t tions on her wedding.”
“ O f course she w ill see you,” replied
the end o f the week a note reached M r.
Pegram to the effect that, considering the old lady. “ R in g the bell, and I will
Jackson,” continued the
what a large sum o f money was involved. send fo r her.
L o rd Lakington thought it would be ad­ old lady, aa that servant made his appear­
visable to eee M r. Pegram again, to dis­ ance In answer to the summons, “ tell one
cuss if the compromise o f the 'T o n tin e ” o f the maids to let Miss Beatrice know
that M r. Phillim ore is here, and anxious
w as possible between them.
to see her.”
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A few minutes* delay, and then a smart
gome four o r five days had elapsed
since Robert Pegram had made bis first lady's maid entered the room.
“ Miss Beatrice’s love, sir, and she is
appearance in Victoria road, and still
L ord Is lin g to n , had not broken the in­ very glad that you are back again ; bnt
tention o f his being there to his daughter. she Is so much engaged just now that
I t was not that the Viscount faltered it is impossible for her to come down.”
“ I t Is useless, you see,” said Jack Phll-
the least in his purpose. H e had reason­
ed himself quite comfortably into the IImore, as tbe girl left the room ; “ she
Idea that be was promoting his daughter's won’t even see roe.”
H e had hardly got down the stairs, tbe
happiness by furthering this marriage.
H id still more clearly did he see that such sound o f his feet had scarce died away
a a arrangement would ensure hie own in the hall, when tbe drawing room door
com fort fo r hie lifetim e; but yet, with was dashed open, and In rushed Beatrice,
a ll this, he felt a lurking suspicion that flushed and almost breathless with ex­
eh la marriage would bo highly distasteful citement.
“ W h a t did he say, grandmamma? ~ H e
to Beatrice.
“ Beatrice.” said the Vleoount one day, must look upon ms as the meanest and
**tt has become neeeesery that I should moot despicable girl he not only ever
make sou d ea rly understand the ver s met, hut ever heard of. I t was unkind o f
painful situation ia which I am placed. yon, grandmamma, to bring him home t i l l ,
F ifteen , o r even tea, years ago I was all was over. But what did ho say?”
“ L ik e other people, ho wants s a s t ­
H o w M . E . H o w le t t E x p e c t , to C ro ss
t k « C o n t in e n t l a N in e t y D a y s .
M orris E. Howlett, the professional
four-ln-hand
whip, it w as said the
other day. w ill about the middle of
June probably make the attempt to
drive the road coach Magnet from San
Francisco to N ew York, a hitherto un­
attempted feat in road coach driving.
The present intention Is to start from
the Palace Hotel, In Snn Francisco,
and finish at the Hollan^ House, Fifth
avenue and Thirtieth street, New York
City.
The
Magnet will be sent to Ban
Francisco by rail. Mr. Howlett’s plan
is to follow the old overland route
used by the forty-niners between the
Pacific Coast and the Missouri River
and then proceed through Iow a and
Illinois Into Chicago and from Chicago
follow the lines of the N ew York Cen­
tral and I-ake Shore Railroads Into A l­
bany, from which city an attempt will
be made to drive to the Holland House,
In New York, in one day.
The distance by road w ill be nearly
4,000 miles, which Is about 700 miles
greater than the shortest railroad dis­
tance between N ew York and San Fran­
cisco. From Ban Francisco to Albany
only green horses hired en route will
be used, and tbe calculation la that
about 1,500 animals will be required.
Mr. Howlett will drive his own horses
T r a n s p l a n t in g .
P a r F l l l l n « S a a k s.
In filling sacks with grain, flour, cw-
nent, etc., it has been found Impossible
for one man to do the work. A second
laborer la required to hold open the
mouth o f the bag while the other doee
the filling.
The neceesity of the ex­
tra laborer la eliminated in tbe sack
filling apparatus shown here, the In­
vention o f a Washington man.
This
apparatus waa designed prim arily to
provide a device by which bags could
be quickly and economically filled hy
one man.
A hopper is provided, to
which a pulley is attached at one end.
At the front are the frames for sup­
porting the bags after the later have
been fastened In position. The grain
or other article to be placed in tbe
Aa the time approaches fo r removing
young plants from the flats In the
houae or from the hotbed outside, ah
extra amount o f airing must be given
to harden them.
Plants which have
started Indoors or under
glass
are
more or leas tender and will not be
able to thrive under the rigor of early
spring
planting
without
treatment.
They must become hardened, or accll
mated, to tbe new conditions.
At leaat a week before transplanting
remove tbe sash entirely from tbe bot-
bed during the day and allow abund­
ance o f ventilation at night, except
when heavy frost threatens. This w ill
glvs the plants practically an ontsldo
temperature for the greater part o f the
day and they w ill grow stronger and
harder thereby. A t this time also lees
watering should be given to check 1900— H enry Hudson sailed from H olland
In search o f the Northwest paasags.
growth and make the plants more re­
sistant to the cold. A ll plants can en­ 1774— T h e bill fo r dosing tha port at
Boston received the royal assent
dure a lower degree o f temperature un­
1776— N ew York Colonial
Leglslatuth
der dry than under molat conditions.
held its last session.
Most seedlings are transplanted di­
rect from the Oat or hotbed to the open 1769— The N ew York Legislature passed
a law for, the gradual abolition o f
garden when they have attained a
slavery in that State.
height o f from four to alx Inches or
more. W hen facilities are at hand a 1804— A French cruiser blockaded the
port o f Charleston, 8. C ____A ll the
better w ay Is to first transplant them
territory ceded to the U fllted States
to a cold frame, which Is the seme as
by the State o f Georgia, north of the
a hotbed without the h eat In the cold
Mississippi territory and south o f
fram es they become accustomed to low­
Tennessee, annexed to Mississippi by
er temperature end are still protected
act o f Congress.
from frost o f nights end on cold days. 1812— Congress passed an embargo law
A still better w ay Is to transplant tbe
fo r ninety days. . . . Badajoe, an im­
young plants at the
appearance
of
portant barrier fortress in south­
their second or third set o f true leave«
western Spain, surrendered to the
to two Inch flower pots.
French under Marshal Soult. •
D is k in g
HOLDS BAOS OPEN
jags Is shoveled Into' the hopper, from
*• filch It drops by gravity Into the bags.
4s the grain descends the bags are
ibaken at regular Intervals by an ar­
rangement attached to the pulley. The
>ags are In this way
automatically
if ted off the ground a trifle at each
mm of the pulley, allowing the grain
o settle, filling the bags to their, ut-
nost capacity. This does aw ay with
he ordinary laborious method formerly
»mployed by hand. It la. claimed that
the bags can be filled In one-fourth tbe
time heretofore required and by one
nan.
,
Causes a f R o a p .
When fow ls crow at night, which la
the fact when tbe number quartered Is
greater than the capacity of the house,
they sweat. This sweating causes the
feathers to rot at the base, giving them
the very appearance of molting. This
explains
why so many
flocks look
ragged In early summer.
It la a noted fact that the majority
of cases where roup has become epi­
demic among fow ls the latter
were
crowded in tlghtly-bullt houses when
the weather Is very cold and allowing
the houses to remain closed all the next
day.
This creates a moisture which
generates dampness,
and the whole
house feels very much like a v a u lt At
ulgbt the bouse ie more or lessu filled
with dampness emanating
from the
fowls’ breath, but If, on the following
morning, the windows are opened wide,
this dampness will be dispelled. This
Is a great point In favor of the scratch-
>ng shed plan of house.
A lfa lfa .
1829— A U rge section o f Apgusta, Ga.,
destroyed by fire.
•
The w ork o f disking a lfa lfa requires 1830— Survey made lot laying out the
city o f Chita go.
a little bit of skill. The disk must be
1841—
The foundations o f the Mormon
set Just so It will cat the ground suf­
temple were laid at Nauvoo, 111.
ficiently and do as little damage as
possible.
A little experience w ill en­ I860— More than 400 persons perished In
the wreck o f the steamer Royal Ade­
able any Intelligent man to do the very
laide off Margate, EngUnd.
.
beet work in the field. There are times
1862— Trem ont Temple, Boston, destroy­
and conditions when the spring tooth
ed by fire.
harrow may do all right, but gener­
1864— First treaty between the United
ally nothing but a good sharp disk with
States and Jhpan s ig n e d ....A coro-
enough big horses In front and a com­
, blned force o f Americans and nin-
petent man on the seat can do the
gllsh attacked and routed a Chinese
work. I use only the smoothing har­
imperial army o f 10,000 at Shanghai.
row In the early spring, but after each 1853— Rronse equestrian statue o f vren.
mowing I use a disk or spring tooth,
Andrew Jackson unveiled in N ew
whichever I think best, alw ays finish­
O rlea n s.. . .(fo re expedition left St.
Lon is to explore the headwaters o f
ing with a spike tooth, so as to leave
tbe Powder R iver in M o n ta n a ....
tbe field In tho very best possible con­
The State prison at Nashville, T e n n ,
dition for tbe growing crop.
It Is a
destroyed ,by f ir e . . . . T h e
electric
real pleasure to see tbe alfa lfa start
telegraph between London and Bal­
o u t'a n e w and grow about one Inch a
aclava completed.
day on an average.— Denver Field and
1801—
South Carolina convention ratified
Farm.
the Confederate constitution.
P o a a ie r tS
H o rs e s .
A. 8. Alexander, veternary surgeon,
explodes the old Idea that a horse can
become “chest-foundered.”
He says
that sucti cases are those
suffering
from
chronic
founder
(la m io ltls),
which affects the feet and not the chest
In old-standing cases of foot lameness
the chest muscles may waste aw ay In
sympathy, and that fact has led to
the “chest founder” Idea. Such a horse
should be shod with wlde-webbed, fiat
bar shoes, put on over dressing of tar
and oakum, and a thick leather sole.
Then clip off the hair and blister the
hoof heads (coronets) o f forefeet with
a mixture o f one dram of blniodlde of
mercury and two ounces of cerate of
cantharides rubbed In for fifteen min­
utes.
W ash blister off In forty-eight
hours, then apply lard dally. Blister
every three or four weeks.
A Coor Y a r d Go to w a x .
______ IN
1804— Houae o f Representatives adopted
resolutions declaring
that
France
would not be allowed to form a mon­
archy in Mexico.
1808— Michigan voted against negro suf­
frage.
,
1870— A bill re-admitting Texas to rep­
resentation in Congress
was
ap­
proved.
1872— Earthquake at Antioch, resulting
In the loss o f 1,000 lives.
1873— Nearly 600 lives lost in the wreck
o f tbe steamship Atlantic off the
const o f Nova Scotia.
1875— Riots o f striking cost miners ia
Pennsylvania.
1881— Decennial census’ o f the Dominion
o f Canada showed tbe popuUtion to
be 4,324,810.
1882— Steamer Golden Gate burned near
Memphis, with loss o f twenty lives
. . . .Jesse James, noted desperado,
killed by the Ford brothers, at St.
Joseph, Mo.
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1883— Ship o f war H awk burned at P o rt
Discovery, Washington.
1884— House o f Representatives passed a
bill for the redemption o f the silver
trade d o lU r .. . .R ioters attacked and
burned tbe court house in Cincin­
nati.
1888— Four thousand persons killed by
earthquake at Yunnan, China.
1802— Mormon temple at Salt Lake C ity
completed.
Hoar C holera.
The Kansas experiment station has
1804— President Cleveland vetoed the
carried out an extensive series o f ex­
Bland silver bill.
periments along the line o f hog chol­
1806— The Iow a Supreme Court sustain­
• i
ìfh
era and Ms prevention.
The method
ed tbe construction o f tbe mulct law
o f rendering bogs Jmmune to the dis­
o f 1804.
1000— Queen Victoria
visited
Ireland,
ease w as by vaccination. A virus w as
landing at Queenstown.. . .T h e Ken­
Introduced into the system which re­
A handy entrance Into the cow yard
tucky court o f appeals declared Beck-
acted upon possible contagion,
thus la made by cutting the wires between
barn Governor.
protecting the animal against the dis­ posts and putting In two tall poets.
1006—
Statue^ to W illiam E. Gladstone
ease fo r a period o f several months. W ire them together at top, pnt on
erected in Westminster Abbey.
The experiment showed that through fence wires and you can get through,
1004— Chicago voted for municipal own­
this process the successfully vaccinated but the cows cannot.
ership o f street railways.
hog Is Immunized and can be kept with
1906— The C tar dissolved tbe
Finnls^
no
risk
of
Infection
for
a
period
long
from Albany.
diet for expressed sympathy with the
B la e tra -C h e m le a l F e r t ilis e r s .
Ninety days Is the time limit
in enough to fatten and prepare for m ar­
T e rro ris ts .. . .Th e F ifth Avenue H o ­
By the aid of electro-chemical pn>
_________
which Mr. Howlett hoi>es to make the k e t
tel o f N ew York closed its d o o r s ....
Auction of manures containing atmos­
Journey.
It w ill be by nearly 2.000
General
suspension o f bituminous
pheric nitrogen. Germany expects soon
P o p u la r B read o f P o u ltr y .
miles the longest coach trip ever made,
coal mining occurred pending settle­
Leghorns If compelled to roost In to largely decrease Its Importations of
ment o f new scale.
the longest smaller American Journey
.*old bouses and pick a living from saltpetre from OMIi.
being from the Missouri River to San
tbe Blush o f a barnyard will not lay.
P R A I R I E DOGS TO B E P O IS O N E D .
Francisco.
__________
But when warm ly
H e lp fu l llla t s .
boused
and prop­ • Oil up the work harness.
E a s y f o r S h erlo elt.
C oat«4 W h e a t la to Be F ed to E n e m y
o f F a rm e rs In th e W e s t.
erly fed
they are
The modern Sherlock climbed through
The neglected colt or calf will prove
Poisoned wheat is to be used as bait to
the beet of winter profitless.
the kitchen window.
kill off tbe prairie dogs, the stockmen’s
layers.
The
best
“A h !” exclaimed Sherlock, surveying
Cattle will never do well in tbe same enemy, that now infest Arizona and N ew
bred leghorns are
the surroundings. “ I find that his wife
pasture as sheep.
Mexico and have become a menace to the
practically non-sit­
la away.”
W ood charcoal should always
be forest ranges there. On raneh lands prai­
ters
and
should
“And how long has she been away?”
rie dogs have been destructive to wheat,
kept In tbe hog pen.
not be counted on
asked his assistant.
grain, potatoes and sugar beets; w hile
n o w are the farm Implement*? Any on graxing lands they destroy so much
to r p a r t h e i r
“Thirty days, exactly.”
T H E LEGHORN.
o f them need repairs?
grass that the grazing capacity o f the
youag. For t h o s e
“ H ow In the world can you tell?”
Last
To Improve live stock, requires in­ land la reduce«) to 75 per cent.
“B y the unwashed dishes and sau­ who are so situated that they can batch
spring a successful campaign was waged
cers. There are ninety of each In all. and rear their pullets artificially or telligence and thought.
against the prairie dog pnd this year it
which shows that he has used three with bens o f other breeds, and who
It is a good plan to have the horses
w ill be conducted on a larger scale., The
five
their
hens
suitable
care
In
winter,
each day for thirty days and left them
and cows clean up ttielr mangers after poison la prepared by coating the wheat
for her to wash when she comes home. tbe leghorn will prove a very profitable each feed.
with a preparation o f strychnine, cyanide
I guess I know something about mar­ •»reed for fhe farm.
There Is such a thing aa overfeeding. o f potassium, aalse oil and mol*
ried men keeping ‘bachelor’s ball.’ ”
Feed stock all the food they w ill ae-
W ash E f t i fo r M arket.
slmllate, but not m ore
T c a a y W a s Cute.
B ir t h s la A m e r ic a D e cr e a s in g .
It would In a sense be better to
“Tommy,” asked the visitor, “what
Don’t have a lot o f manure lying
According to figures compiled by the
wash eggs sent to market than to send
are yon going to be when you grow
In the yards all summer. 1J will lose Census Bureau, the birth rate in this
them la a dirty condition. Bnt washrid
up to be a man?”
just about half of Its value by fall.
country has fallen off, decidedly. In 1790
eggs have no keeping qualities. The
“ I ’m going to be an arctic explorer,”
the average fam ily in this country con­
It
la
better
to
feed
the
cows
fodder
w ater appears to dissolve tbe gela­
sisted o f 6.8 persona and In 1000 It was
responded the bright little boy, “and
tinous substance which seals the pores and hay after milking, aa It keeps
only 4.0 persona. The ratio o f children
now will you give me a quarter?”
o f tbe ehell, and air la tbns admitted the duet down. Feed the grain before to women since 1790 ha* been cut In
“Gracious, Tommy.
W h a t do you
and soon starts decomposition.
The milking.
half, the number being In 1900 one child
w ant with s quarter?”
Don't plant poor, weak seed corn to each women over 16 years old, the
better w ay to treat dirty eggs la to
“I want to get five icecream aodae
It la time and money earn« as the ratio In Great Britain a t
take a woolen rag only slightly mois­ next spring.
and find out bow much cold I can
tened with water and gently rub off thrown sw ay. There la plant/ o f good, that time. In France It wee .8, and 1 »
Germany 1.1.
* to be
tbe d ir t
«tir
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