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C H APTER X X II
Th*rs w u mock to do, and John Sax-
M o had been back aad forth twice
t w o # tho ranch hooaa and tbo will
bsfon* tha ton had crept ht*h into tha
Tha libala riling* had haan alow
•• grasp the fact of tha tragedy at Ita
which had already carried Its noi
• H r. There wee much to do aad yet It
e*M so pitifully little after all I W orry
Randan waa dead, and eager men were
adsuring the country for his murderer;
' Hat John Saxton sat In the room where
* W orry had died. It seemed to John that
the and had come of all the world. Ha
dharpened his grief with self-reproach
that be had been a party to aa exploit oc
foolhardy : they should newer ham at
tempted a midnight descant upon an un
known foe? and yet it waa Raridauls own
Saxton had ministered to tha boy Grant
with characteristic kindness. Grant knew
• e w of Worry's death, and this, with his
•era sharp experiences, had unnerwed him.
He dang to Saxton« and John soothed
Mm until ho slept, in one of the upper
- sgambare.
Wheaton stood suddenly la the
% aad beckoned
beckon« to Saxton, who went oat to
him. They
They had
(hat moment whan the old biahop’a prayer
had stilled tha room where W orry Rari-
m i died. Through the events of tbs
msrnlng hoots, Wheaton had been merely
a spectator of what was dona— Saxton
had hardly noticed him, and glancing at
Wheaton sow, he was shocked at tho look
qfUpsat ago that had corns upon him.
*1 want to speak to you a minute—
pan and Bishop DelsSeld,” said Wheaton.
1 1 s bishop was pacing np and down in
tk » outer hall, which had been quietly
deans dand put In order by men from the
village. Wheaton led the way to t^e room
once used as the ranch office.
"W ill you ait down, gentlemen?** He
•poke with so much calmness that Ihe
others looked at him curiously. The blah-
op and Saxton remained standing, and
Wheaton repeated, sharply, “ W ill you sit
down?* The two men mt down side by
aide oa the leather-cowered beach that
ana around the room, aad Wheaton stood
ap before ¿been.
**I haws something to my to you, be
fore you— before we go," he said. Their
eUeaea seemed to confuse him for a mo
a n * . bat be regained hie compose rw. He
looked from Saxton to the bishop, who
nodded, aad he went o a :
“ The man who killed W orry Raridan
he said, aad waited,
started slightly; his nsmbed
quickened under Wheaton’s words,
la a flash he sew the explanation of
" H e was aiy brother,” Wheaton went
an quietly. “ H e had wanted money from
me. I had refused to help him. He ear-
lied away Grant Porter thinking to in
jure see la that way. It was that, I think,
as much ss the hope of getting a large
asm for the boy’s return."
A great quiet lay upon the boom; the
tw o men remained sitting, and Wheaton
'stood before them with hie arms crow d ,
the bishop and Saxton »watching him, and
Wheaton looking from one to the other
o f hie companions. Contempt and anger
were rising In John Saxton’s hsart; but
the old bishop waited calmly; this was
not the first time that a troubled soul
^ad opened its door to him.
“ Go on," he mid, kindly.
“ M y brother and I .ran it way from fbe
little Ohio town where we were born.
Our father waa a harness maker. I hated
the place. *1 think I hated my father
aad mother.”
He paused, as we do
•ometimes when we have suddenly spoken
a thought which we have long carried in
our heart but have newer uttered. The
word# had elements of surprise for James
Wheaton, and he waited, weighing his
words and wishing to deal justly with
himself. “ My brother was s bad boy:
he bad newer gone to school, as I had;
ha had several time« been guilty o f petty
stealing. I joined him once in a theft;
ws were arrested, but he took the blame
and was punished, and I want free. I
am not sure that I was any better, or
that I am now any better than he is.
But that is the only time I ewer stole."
Saxton remembered that W arry bad
ones mid o f James Wheaton that Ue
would not steal.
“ I wanted to be honest; I tried my
best to do right I never expected to de
as well as I haws— I mean la business
And things Ilka that Than after'all the
years in which I had not seen anything
o f my brother he came into the bank one
day as a tramp, begging, and recognised
me. A t first 1 helped him. I sent him
b a n ; you will remember the man Sayder
yon found hers whan you earns," turning
to Saxton. “ I knew you would not keep
him.
There was nothing else that !
could do for him. I had new ambitions,"
his wdles fell aad broke, "there were—
there were other things that meant a
great deal to me— I could not have him
about. It was he who assaulted me one
night at Mr. Porter’s hones two year*
"cams up aad drove him away. A fter
Chat I gave him mousy to leave the coun
try aad he promised to stay a «ray; bat
ha began blackmailing ate again, and I
I had done enough for
to help him any more,
disappeared I kn«w
a t east «h a t had hsppsasd
Ha had
r wrong with mar
last w o i * broke
•
«7 .
him like
staggered suddenly and
If flhxton had not
e a rf* him. H e reeewrrsd
something wrong with me,”
aaid Whsstou, huskily, without hsaling,
aad Saxton draw back from Um. * I waa
S wain, cowardly fo ol But I did thh bast
I could,” ha passed, his hand o w his
face, sad his lingers erupt nervously - t o
his collar, “ bat It wasn't nay um! It
wasn’t nay use!”
He turned again to
the bishop. “ I heard you preach a ser
mon ones. It waa about our opportuni
ties. Ton mid ws must live In the open.
I had newer thought of that before.” aad
he looked, ht the bishop with a foolish
grin ‘on bis face. H e stood up suddenly
aad extended his a n a s . “ Now I want
you to tall m* what to do. I want Ip be
punished! This man’s blood Is on my
hands. I «rant to be punished!” And he
sank to Ms floor In a heap, re-pea dag,
as If to himself, - “ I treat to be pa stok
ed!“
There are two great erlees In the life
of a man. One la that moment of *Ms-
eioeure whan for the first time he rec
ognises some vital weakness in his own
character. Tbs other comae when, under
strees, ha submits Mis defect to the ejrrt
of another. James Wheaton hardly knew
whan be had realised tha first, but he
was conscious now that he had passed
the second. It had earriod him Ilka a
high tide to a point of rest; hut H wrs
a point of helplessness, too.
“ It isn't for us to punish you,” the
bishop began, “ and I do not ass that you
haws transgressed any law.’
“ That la H i that la It l It would be
e e s te r m o a n e d Wheaton. John turned
away. Jaipaa Wheaton’s face waa not
good to sea.
“ Tea, it would bo easier,” the bishop
continued. “ I can sea that in going
to Clarkson many things will be hard
for you------”
“ I can’t !
Oh, I can't!”
H e. still
etooebad on the floor, with his arms ex
tended along tho bench.
"B ut that Is the manly thing for yon
I f you haws acted a cowardly part, now
is tha time for yoa to change, and you
most change on the field o f battle. I can
Imagine the discomfort o f facing your
old friends; that you will suffer keen hu
■dilation; that you may have 'to begin
again; but you maat do it, my frisnd, if
you wish to rim above yd-reelf, and you
may depend upon my help.”
The old man had spoken with empha
sis. but with great gentleness. H e turned
to Saxton, wishing him to speak.
‘T h e bishop is right Too uiust go
bark with as, Wheaton.” But he did not
any that he would help him. John Sax
ton neither forgot nor forgave easily. Ha
did not aee la this dark hour what he
had to do with James Wheaton’s affairs.
But tha Bishop o f Clarkson wont over
to James Wheaton and lifted him np t It
«res as though he would make the physi
cal act carry a spiritual aid with I t
“ Wa can talk of this to bettor purpose
when we pet boms,” he said. "You are
"broken now and aee your future darkly;
but I say to you that yon can be re
stored; there’s light and hope ahead for
you. I f there is any meaning in my
ministry k Is that with the help of God
a man may cod* out o f darkness Into
the light again.”
There was a moment’s silanes. Whea
ton m t bent forward on the bench, with
Ms elbows on his knees aad his face In
bis
'“ They are waiting for os,” said Bar
ton.
A special train waa sent to Great R iv
er, aad M s little party waited for It oa
tha station platform,
surrounded
by
eared villagers, who stood silent in the
isintri o f death and a mystery which
May but dimly comprehended. Officers
of tbs law from Clarkson came with the
train and surrounded Bishop Dsiafleld,
Wheaton and Saxton aa they stood with
Grant Porter by the rude bier of W arty
Raridan. The men answered many ques
tions and the sheriff o f the county took
the detectives away with him Margrave
had mat his private car, aad the return
ing party were huddled in one and of it,
save John 8axton, who m t alone with
the body of W arry Raridan. The train
waa to go back Immediately, but it wait
ed for the west-bound express which fol
ded :t and passed the special here.
There was s moment’s confusion as the
special with its dark burden was switch
ed into a siding to allow the regular
train to pass. Then the special returned
to the main track and began its home
ward journey.
John m t with hie arms folded, sunk
Into his great-cost, sad watched the gray
landscape through the snow that was fall
ing fast. The events of the night seemed
lyike a hideous dream. I t waa an incon
ceivable thing that within a few hours so
dire s calamity could have fallen. The
very nearness o f the city to which they
were bound added to tbe unreality of all
that bad happened. But there the dark
burden la y ; and tbe snow fell upon tbe
pray earth and whkened it, as if to
cleanse and remake it and blot out its
color and dread. The others left Saxton
alone; he was nearer than they; but late
in tbe afternoon, as they approached the
city, Captain Wheelock cams in and
touched him on the shoulder; Bishop
Deiafield wished to eee him. John roee,
giving Wheelock his place, and went
back to where the old man mt staring
ont at the snow. He beckoned Saxton to
sit down by him.
“ Where's Wheaton?” the blebop asked.
John looked at him aad at tbe other
men who eat in silence about the car.
He went to one o f them and repeated the
btsbop’s question, but waa told that
Wheaton was not on the train. Hs had
been at the station aad had coma aboard
tbe ear with the rest; but be must have
returned to tbe station pud bean left.
John remembered the passing of the
west-bound express, and want back and
told tbs bishop that Whaatoa had not
come with them. U m old man shook his
head sad turned again la the window
and the flying panorama of tha snowy
landscape. John sat by him, and neither
at a crossing on tha outskirts of Clark
son. Than suddenly, hot at heart and
with tears o f sorrow sad rags hi his eyes,
Saxton said, so that only tha bishop
•paid hear:
*
¿y*
“ He’s a c o w a rd r , ' i f
Tha Bishop o f Clarkson stared steadily
ont upon the snow with troubled eyes.
C H A PTE R X X I IL
Porter Insisted that Margrave should
not have the fraction Company strung
Transcontinental was p w aist a at In his
r t t a ^ f l s M a i g n v * did n e t t a r » to deal
S jM
end
cult. Ho called Saxton a
bruts” to Saxton's face; bat
continue him la a rssponathl
with the oompany If he wouU
with the purchase. He still
control the company for political
bat there was also tho foot o f his
invested tbs money of
friends in the Transcontinental director
ate, prior to the last annual meeting
Them gentlemen had begun to Inquire
in a respectful w a y .v r h « Margrave was
going to effect the coup which, he had
»'•en assuring them, he had planned.
They had, they were aware, no righto Us
against the bondholders: sad as Mar-
grace understood this perfectly w ell« he
was very anxious to buy la tbe property
at receiver's mis fo r an amount that
would satisfy Porter and bis alliaq, and
give him a chance to “ square himself,” as
he put I t This required additional mon
ey, but he was able to command it from
his “ people,” for tbs receiver had dem
onstrated Uat the property could be
made to pay. While these negotiations
were pending, Saxton and Fenton wore
able to satisfy their curiosity as to the
relations which had existed between
Wheaton aad Margrave. Margrave had
no Shams la confessing Just what had
passed between them: be viewed It all aa
a Joke, and explained, without compunc
tion, exactly the manner In which hs had
coens by the shares *u icb had belonged to
Evelyn Porter and James Wheaton.
,
When Saxton came back from Colo
rado, Porter waa 111 again, and Fenton
was seriously disposed to-accept a price
which Margrave’s syndicate had offered.
Margrave's position had grown
forteble; hs had to gat himself sad “ his
people" out of u scrape at any cost. His
plight pleased Fenton, who tried to make
Porter see the Irony of i t ; and this view
o f It, ss much as the high offer, finally
prevailed upon him. He saw at late the
futility of securing and managing
property for himself; his health had be
come a matter of concern, and Fenton
Insisted that a street railway
would prove no easier to manage than a
Portar «ras, ss John had said, ” a pe
culiar brick,” aad after the final onderà
o f the court had been mades and Saxton's
fees allowed. Porter sent him a check for
five thousand dollars, without comment
Fenton mads him keep It ; Porter had
done well la Traction and be t owed 3 m
each
to John; but John protested that he 1
ferred being thanked to being tipped! but
tbe lawyer persuaded him at last that tha
Idiosyncrasies of the rich ought to be
respected.
Porter felt Ms burdens slipping from
him with unexpected satisfaction. He
grew jaunty la his old way aa ha chid
his contemporaries and friends for hold
ing on; as for himself, he told them, he
Intended “ to die rested,” and he adjusted
his affairs so that they would give him
little trouble in the future. The cottage
which hs had bought on the North Shore
waa a place they had all admired the
previous summer. Porter had liked it be
cause there was enough ground to afford
lawn and flower beds which be cultivated
with so much satisfaction at homo. The
place was called “ Red Gables," sad Por
ter had bought It with its furniture, so
that there wea little la do in taking pos
session but to move in. The Whipples
wars their first guests, going to them in
mid-July, when they were fully
The elder-Bostonlans whom Porter had
mst tha previous summer promptly
ad their acquaintance with Mm. Hs had
attained, 1a their eyes, a new dignity hi
becoming a cottager. The previous own
er o f "Red Gables” hud lately failed in
business and they found in the advent o f
the Porters a sign o f the replenishing
of tbs East from the West, which Inter
ested them philosophically. Porter lack
ed their own repose, but they liked to
hear Mm talk. He was amusing and in
teresting, aad they had already found his
prophecies concerning the markets trust
worthy. Tha ladies of their families
heard with horror his views on the In
dian question, wMch ware not romantic;
nor touched with the spirit o f Boston
philanthropy; but his daughter was loss-'
ly, they said, and her accent was wholly
inoffensive.
So the Porters wars well received, and
Evelyn was glad to find her father ac
cepting his new leisure so complacently.
8he and Mrs. Whipple agreed that be and
the general were as handsome and Inter
esting as any of the elderly Bostonians
among their neighbors; and they un
doubtedly were so.
fJ*
(T o be continued.)
Repartee.
-Ju les, w e have been m ar
ried six months, and you no longer
love me.
Monsieur— M y dear I I ----- -
Madam— Oh, It’s no use attempting
to deny I t Tou should have married
a stupldler woman than I to m
such a denial convincing.
Monsieur (a little h u ffy )— W ell. Hffl
not m y fa u lt I couldn’t find one.-—
La Rire.____________________
She’ d M in d H iss.
H ope waa three years older than bar
baby brother, and felt herself equal to
assuming the responsibilities o f M g
sisterhood. When, therefore, her moth
e r asked her to "keep an ey e" on the
baby and see that he didn’t fall ont
o f bad, Hope answered:
"Tea, mamma, I ’ll mind him ; an* I f
he falls. 111 call you the minute be
hits the floor."— Harper’s Magazine.
Th e poet sat staring at the blank
sheet o f paper on the table beford
aim.
"W h a t Is tbs matter, dear?" asked
his sympathetic better half, as sha
passed her cool hand over his troubled
“ W hat la on your mind?"
“ Nothing.“ answered the poet, gloom
i ly ; “ nothing, I assure yon. That’s
the trouble.”
■ e Ow* H u y ,
H im — W hat would happen I f I w gre
to attem pt to Mss you?
' H er— I t would acaro m e awfully.
Him— And would yoa scream?
H er—Oh. no.
F righ t always raw
what produces that tifa i
tra thinking about tho I
lOXXTBDNt FOB EVERYBODY
A dental college h u recently b eta
added to the U niversity o f Madrid.
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W w e e s *V*d P o u ltr y .
There Is no field open to women to
day that la leas crowded than the
poultry field; none that offers as good
returns for one’s labor;
none that
affords so much freedom when taken
as a vocation, and none that makes
one so nearly Independent o f others.
Some o f our best planned poultry
tanas, aa well aa our beat-paying onea,
are tbe outgrowth o f woman’s skill
and Ingenuity In planning, and bar
financial ability In conducting tha i
terprisa. Moat woman show a Quali
fication for nsatness about poultry o f
which men are occasionally void, and
aa cleanliness Is an Important faotor,
she often outstrips oar ‘lo r d * o f crea
tion " in results obtained. The cars
o f poultry la .productive o f good health
to women engaged therein, givin g
them sufficient exercise In the open
air, and Just enough care and respon
sib ility to make their work Interest
ing and to make thqm feel th eir im
portance.
Th e field fo r women la
almost unlimited, and It pays her bat-
tar profits than she can reasonably ex
pect from mdst other business ven
tures.— Commercial Poultry.
D e e t is ris g W a t e r H y a c in th .
Spraying is the method follow ed at
the present tim e by the governm ent
In destroying the w ater
hyacinth,
which has proved a serious Imped!
m eat to navigation on many o f tha
Southern rivers o f this country. A
great number o f suggestions have
been triad, and tha fins spraying pro-
oaas has been found to be the most
effectual and economical. T w o gov
ernment hosts are engaged
in the
work. Each is equipped with tanka
for the boiling o f a m ixture o f white
arsenic, aal soda and water. T h is la
sprayed on the plants, and as the lat
ter are about 98 per cent w ater there
Is very little residue after they w ilt
down under the action o f the poison
ous solution. T h at the solution kills
the plants absolutely has been proved
la every case where the conditions
were such as to prevent the Introduc
tion o f new plants w ithin the
sprayed.
H arrow
T o o th
F u tn e r.
John A. Johnson, o f
L a center,
Wash.; has patented a harrow tooth
fasterner, the object o f which Is to
fasten harrow-teeth la U bar harrows
without din use o f damps, bolts or
nuts, and consista o f a square or
diamond-shaped hole pressed through
the U bar o f the harrow for the re
ception o f the teeth, and a W-shaped
fhstener pressed out o f sheet metal In
serted between the teeth and tha back
o f tha bar, w ith
a
corresponding
round notch In the tooth to receive
the fastener.
Thun, one fastener
holds all the teeth In the bar.
C s K I r s t e th e O rrharU .
The young orchard should be culti
vated, but not with grain or grass
crops. Corn, potatoes, beans or other
vegetable*, w ell cultivated, are Ideal
for a young orchard. The ground
should be stirred every two or three
weeks until the m iddle o f A u gu st In
going through the orchard with the
harrow, care should be taken not to
Injure, bruise o r “ bark” the trees. T o
avoid this, the horses ought to be
muzzled and the outside portions o f
traces and whlfflatrees padded.
In goin g through some young or
chards early In the season for the pur
pose o f dem onstrating pruning. Prof.
Surface found many cases o f trees
which had been seriously damaged
through being grazed by whiffle tress,
or struck or bltteu by the horses. In
goin g through the orchard, rub off all
unnecessary sprouts.— Rural W orld.
W alter Broad belt, o f WUUetoa, Pa..
claims to have a hen that last year
laid 147 eggs, o f whiofa ten were dew*
ble-yolked.
N eith er boiling w ater nor cold 290
degrees below aero kills tbe sproist la
»=
some seeda Professor Beoqnerel found
W e ig h t a n d F eed .
,
Whe>b one comes to figure oa a three seeds eighty-seven ye a r« eld that
/
difference In w eight fo r the same age sprouted.
and toad of 800 to 400 pounds, and
W ork la goin g on steadily to deep
a difference In price o f several oents, en and widen the Sues canal, and ere
he can see aa plainly as he can see long the biggest
merchant
vessels
anything that there Is more money In with a depth o f tw elve meters w ill be
Improved stock. 8uppos# a 8-year-old able te use It.
scrub steer weighs 900 pounds and
F. 8. Welnhold. o f Brookslds, Pa..
sells for 4 cents a pound, while a last season raised on twenty-five acres
2-year-old pure bred weighs 1,200
about th r u thousand bushels o f ear
aad sails for 614 cents, there «rill be
corn. Many o f the ears w ere o ver six
188 for one and 978 for tha other,
teen Inches la length.
la there any man In hla right senses
F o r a number o f years W ashington
who oan think it w ill not pay to keep
well-bred stock whan ha compares h u been fa r and aw ay the largest
these figures?
Th ey are not imag lumber producing State In the Union,
in ary at all, but represent the quota and It still Is ahead; bat last y e a r
tions In the market reports during the Louisiana nearly caught up w ith I t
last few months. Th e real question
then Is, how to get better cattle.
Balls are cheap just now, and In fact
have been selling lower than cows and
heifers.— Denver Field and Farm.
A s t i D e s tr o y
Prof. Harlan o f California has dis
covered that tha ordinary black ant
w ill rem ove the scale from fru it trees
w ithout in ju rin g the tree or leaves In
the le a s t H s says their w ork is mors
complete than that accomplished by
spraying or by any o f ths Imported
insects. The ants are captured by
placing a plate o f sugar near aa ant
hill, and when covered w ith ants the
plate !a put in the forks o f the In fec t
ed tree. Th e a n ti leave the sugar and
go to w ork on the scale. A s noon aa
they all leave the sugar tha plats Is
placed at tha foot o f the tree, and aa
tha ants come down after
having
cleaned the tree o f scale, they again
assemble on the sugar and are thus
easily removed to another tree,
S u p p ly o f N itr a te .
I t Is olatmed that at the present rate
o f nse the known snpply q f nitrate of
soda w ill be exhausted In less than
fifty years, w hile aa a m atter o f fact
the consumption is increasing steadily
and rapidly. It la therefore safe to
say that before twenty-five years have
passed the supply w ill be Tow, unless
new fields are discovered, and that the
price w ill be high. Over a m illion and
a h alf tons w ere used Uat year. This
U not encouraging fo r the young gen
eration o f farmers, except fo r the fact
that w e «rill alw ays have onr clovers,
our alfalfa, our cowpeas— tha great le
gume fa m ily — and properly rou ted
these w ill supply the soil w ith nitro
gen from the Inexhaustible supply la
tha air.
Dr. James Crltehton Browne, who la
tha real authority behind most wlao-
acres and oracles on “ fending," says:
“ The meat ration o f the Jape In Man
churia w u the largest ever served ttl
any army.”
Of the revenue accruing from the
national forests In Colorado 26 per
cent, or 960,000, Is yearly turned o ver
to the State by th e federal authorities
for use on the public roads aad
schools.— Outing.
Helen, aged 8, w u tellin g Mary, age
7, o f her plane fo r the future. " I ’m
going to be m arried,” she announced,
“ and have eighteen children." "O h,"
gasped Mary, her eyes w ide w ith
amassment, “ yen mercenary wretch I ”
Th e population o f Germany, apart
from Im migration and em igration, in
creased by 888,824 last year. la En
gland, tha births exceeded tha deaths
by 893,821; in Italy, by 867,17$; la
Belgium, by. 71,716; In Holland, b y
88,166; In Franca, by 41,411.
In old Holland, when a couple ap
plied fo r divorce, they w ere locked
up In a one-room,
trylng-ont-eabln.
with one dish and one spoon. If, a fter
a month, they had not come to lim er
ick they got the w rit which w u . sel
dom u k e d fo r after this bundling.
Ths sign read “ Children Under F iv e
Tears o f A ge Free.”
Th e conductor
looked at It mournfully. “ Tou may
not bollevo it,” u ld he, “ but a wom
an w ith five children, a ll hers, got oa
tho car the other day and convinced»
me that none o f them w u old enough
to pay. Somehow, I can’t believe it
y e t ” — New York Son.
A news Ram stating that Gautemala
la considering putting her monetary
system on a gold b u lo recalls a poker
story about four players w ith 91,000,-
008 (Guatem alan) la tha pot, which
A B u tte r F r a i l .
tho winner exchanged fo r 9400 (A m eri
A n ingenious fraud In tha but tar can g o ld ), but it took him four days
lina was brought to light recently in to do it, u 9100 gold w u
all tho
England. In that country the amount money changer would part w ith at a
o f moisture In butter is lim ited by
law to 18 par cant Australian and
Lord Lister, discoverer o f antlaepala,
Naw Zealand butters, on tha other u w in 1987, new; a hospital, an old
hand, usually contain only 8 par cant cholera pR which em itted a horrid
o f water. Taking advantage o f this stench u it w u standing opaa fo r tho
fa c t several firms Imported largo paxt corpses. Walla w ere form ed on
quantities o f these colonial butters, three sides o f coffins piled one upon
to which 8 per cent o f water was than
another, and this w u right under tho
added, thns bringing them down to
hospital window. There wore five thou
tbe British standard. As the added
sand cholera corpses In eighty pits in
w ater naturally cost nothing and the
the hospital yard.
product was sold at the current price
Tbe fleet o f the Graham 8- Morton
a substantial profit was made.’
Company, operating on the southern
pert ot Lake Michigan, is being equip
I t a s t h t c r o t Roblaa.
V irginia, North Carolina and Ten- ped w ith wireless telegraph Instru
have the undesirable distinc ments. There w ill be an operator oa
tion o f being the only states In the each boat and also one at each o f the
Union where the slaughter o f robins stations to bo established at Chicago.
Is permitted by law. Recent investi Holland and Benton Harbor. Th is ser
gations show that not le u than 9,000,- vice Is available fo r passengers and
000 robins ere killed in these three also for emergency.
states during the winter months. It
One o f the greatest works performed
Is a fact that every robin u r n s 91 in by Americana In Korea w u the mak
the destruction o f Insects injurious to ing o f the Korean-Bngllsh dictionary.
crops every year. The hunters sell This w u dona by Dr. J. R. Gale, a
them at 5 cents apiece. This Is a Presbyterian missionary. H e began It
waste o f m illions o f dollars and ought in 1892, after a four years' residence
to appeal to the hard, common tense In the country, and completed It with
o f every farmer.
It ought to be in five years. P rio r to that there w u
stopped In evegy state.
no means o f Intercommunication bo-
tween the foreigners and the natives
P lo w s A b r a s i .
except through tho Chlnsoe language.
Am erican plows and cnltlvators are
Th ere Is a rumor that H artford,
turning up the soil In more than sev
Conn., Intends to make a bid fo r fame
enty
countries and colonies o f the
by establishing an asylum fo r tho
world. In Japan, in 1908, there were
tru tm en t o f automobiles that hava
122.000 w orth; in Asiatic Turkey, 914,-
been worn ont in tho service, and ti»at
000; in New Zealand, 980.000; in B rit
A T h m U a g R e e e rt.
a society fo r tho prevention o f cruelty
George W . M cK nlght o f H owell, Ky., ish South A frica, 9282,000; In Portu to automobllM is also under considera
in a run o f tw elve and one-half days, guese A frica, 921,000; in Cuba, 985,- tion. A spaed antitoxin aad a method
threshed 18,000 bushels o f wheat, 000; w h ile Argentina took in 1908 o f injecting oommon m o m Into chauf
moved every day, sometimes as fa r aa 9780.000 w orth; Canada. 9474,000; Rus feurs m ight lessen the labors o f tho
three miles, and nevar broke a bait sia In Europe, 9269,000, and Asiatic proposed Institutions.— New
Y o rk
o r touched the cylinder.
Mr. Me- Russia, 975(1900 worth.
T rib u n e
K n lgh t reports that tha beat yield ha
Dr. Doc he (Fren ch a rm y) -says that
found waa twenty-three acres for
spasming Is rehlly tha causa o f some
In
Denmark
ths
farm
ers
are
com
Georgs Wood, that averaged twenty-
oyster poison la summer. Spawning
six bushels.
Of his own crop fifty. pelled by law to deatroy all weeds on
oysters a n sometimes called “ m ilk y."
their
premises,
and
in
France
a
farm
res averaged twenty-two bushels,
T h eir Juice looks something lik e m ilk.
and the whole crop o f 100 acres rver- er may prosecute big neighbor for
Doch# says thin m ilky Juice holds poi
damages
If
the^hOlghfimr
allow
s
woods
aged tw enty bushels. Alt o f the crops
sons which ths oyster throws off la
to
go
to
seed.
I
t
would
save
m
illions
he threshed made from fifteen to twen
spawning. Ha tells o f tho violen t poi
of
dollars
In
this
country
If
law
s
pro-
ty bushels aa sera.
railed which prevented farm ers from soning o f a number o f soldiers from
grow
in g weeds te seed on their own sating "m ilk y“ o ysters Dread o f sum
T a in * eg B u tterm ilk .
mer oysters Is practically universal,
B utterm ilk
la a n utritious
aad as «rail aa others’ farms.
and tha ” R months" Is a sals saying.
wholesom e food, or drink, aad it la
T w slvs years ago Prince Buelow w u
rslisbsd by a great m any people.
I h s t i t o r a M ilk Cross.
T h ere la a good sa ls fa r It In a ll towns
Experiments In developing a B ilk a poor man. Ho retires from ths ef-
and cities o f any alas. Tha quality o f ing strain o f shorthorn cattle have floe o f German shancellor w ith a largo
butterm ilk. Ilk a a ll other foods, la ds- been begun by the d airy dlvisioa o f private fortune and tha rank o f count
term lned by tha w ay It la prepared. tha United States bepartm ent o f aad prioss. On the day tha kaiser
T o secare the most wholesom e prod Agrieu ltu re In co-operation with the gava him tha latter title Buelow w u
uct, keep the m ilk aa pure and elaan Minnesota Experim ent Station aad notified that hla share o f the aetata o f
mas tbs moat pore w ater w ith a la s Minnesota breeders, thg lat Hodd Oodfrsy, the w ealthy sugar m tr
ehaat o f Hamburg, amounted to 91.-
obtainable aad practice absolutely clean ter having agreed to allow their
«9,098. H err Oedfrey had never met
la churning. I t m ost be held to be used aad te managi
a t a le w temperature m order to
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eordlng te the laetrnctioae o f the de-
•ried la hla pmblio earner aad M l him
It freak to r any great laagth of