Main
Chance
C H A P TE R X X III.— (Continued.)
John Barton sat In the office of the
Traction Company on a hot night in
July. Fenton bid just left him. .The
transfer to the Margrave syndicate had
been effected and John would no more
sign himself "John Saxton, Receiver.”
His work in Clarkson was at an end.
The Neponoet Trust Company had called
him to Boston for a conference, which
meant, he knew, a termination of his ser
vice with them. He had lately sold tha
Poindexter ranch, and so little property
remained on the Neponaet’e books that it
could be cared for from the home office.
He had not opened the afternoon mail.
He picked up a letter from toe top of
the pile, dated from Baa Fransisco, and
"M y Dear S ir;
“ 1 hesitate about writing you, but
there are some things which 1 should
like yon to understand before I go away.
I had fully expected to remain with you
and Bishop Delafield and to return to
Clarkson that lasl morning at Poindex
ter’s I cannot defend myself for having
run away; it mast have seemed a strange
thing to yon that I did so. I had folly
inteadsd acting on the bishop’s advice,
which I knew then, and know yow, was
good. Bat whan the west-bound train
«sms. my courage left me; I could not
back— It'« too
•«Id, wearily.
“ I * 0 » hew K must be— this teat ffsar
and Warry ! - It w eevil so terrible—for
all or us." She was locking away.
John looked; at her. It waa natural
that ahe should include herSMf with him
In a common grief for the tnlfe who had
been his friend and whom the Mad Wnred.
She had always been kind to hirh< her
kindneaa atung him now, for h« knew
that It was because of \Farry; awl a re
solve woke In him suddaaly. He would
not enffer her kindneee under a fa ll* pre
tense; he could at least be honest with
her.
“ I can’t go back, because ha la hot
there; and because—becaoat yon are hot
there! You don’t know— yon should nev
er know, bat I waa disloyal to W arn
from the first. I let him talk to me from
day to day of yon; I let him tell me ifcst
he loved you; I never let him know-- I
never meant hoy on« to know— ” fie
ceased speaking; she was very still and
did not lqok at him. “ It was bcae of
me.” he went on. *’L would gladly have
died for him If he had lived; but now
that he is dead I can betray hi ft. P la te
myself worse than you can hate me. I
know how I must wound and able- you
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But he went on; he would spare him
self nothing..
*Tt la hideou*—It waa cowardly of me
to come here.” His hands were denebed
d his face twitched with pain. “Oh,
he had lived!”
She rose now and looked at him with
an infinite pity.
“ I f he had lived.” she said, very atftl.v,
looking away through the sun-dappled
aisles of the orchard, “ if he bad lived—
it would have been the same, John.”
But he did not understand. His name
as she spoke It rang in hie ease. She
walked away through the orchard path,
which suddenly became to him a path of
gold that etretebed Into paradise; and be
sprang after her with a great fear In his
heart lest some barrier might descend
and shut her out forever.
"Evelyn 1 EviTyu F
It was not s voice that' called her; It
waa a spirit, long held in thrall, that had
shaken fro« and become a name.
(The end.)
J
after what had happened. 1 told you
tha truth then In tha ranch house that
night; every word o f it was true. May
be 1 did not make it clear enough how
weak I am. Things came too easy for
me, I guess; at any rate I was never
worthy o f the good fortune that befell
a a It seemed - te m l that for two years
everything I did was a mistake. I sup
pose if I had been a real criminal, and
not merely a coward, I should not have
entangled myself as I did and brought
calamity upon other people.
When I reached here I found employ
ment with a shipping house. I have told
my story to one of the firm, who has been
kind to me. He seems to understand my
case, and is giving me a good chance to
begin over again. I suppose the wont
possible things have bean said about me,
and I do not core, except that 1 hope
the people in Clarkson will not think 1
waa guilty of any Wrong-doing at the
bank. I read in to « aewspapers that I
had stolen the beak’s money, sad I hope
that was corrected. Tbs books most have
proved what I say. I understand now
that what I did was worse than stealing,
bat 1 should libs you and Mr. Porter to
know that I not only did not take other
people’s money, bat that la my foolish,
relations with Margrave I did not re
ceive a cent for the shares of stock which
ho took from mo— neither for my 00m
nor for those of Mias Porter. 1 don’t
blame Margrave; if I had not been s
coward he could not hove played with
on as ho did.
"Tbs company Is sending me to oao of
Its South American houses. I go by
steamer to-morrow, and yon will not bear
from me again. I should like you to
know that I have neither seen nor heard
anything at my brother since that night.
W ith best wishes for your own happiness
aad prosperity, yours sincerely,
• “ JAM ES W H E ATO N .”
Oft bis way home to the club Saxton
stopped at Bishop D el« fie Id’s rooms, and
‘ • w h o
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H o a r t-R o n C la ® i M t i f l M f w
^ M k - L o r U « W om an.
th e
Colla Frainley had dropped lo to
have a chat— a "next, to the lout
word," aha always called It—w ith h «r
friend, Marcia Leslie. A t last, having
talked with a ll her uiual eager vivaci
ty, ahe «at leisurely back, atrrtng her
M *n>*s l a s r s a r i S « * »
■U ® ht o f P o ta to ««.
Early blight la a potato diaaase
which causes more or less damage to
the crop every year. The trouble le
most marked hi unusually dry sea
sons and la cauelfi by a fungus which
grows and spreads rapidly. The spores
of this fungus jphen seen through s
microscope have the appearance of
clubs They enter the vines and the
first thing one notices Is that the
leaves are turning yellow. The disease
is likely to come during the first or
second week In July. It may be easily
prevented by spraying with Bordeaux
mixture before the disease gets a hold
on the crop. A fter It has a start It la
of no use to spray, because the spores
are already Inside the vines
In order to kill the potato beetle at
at the same time, one-fourth of a
pound o f Paris green may be added to
V n tn e.
A table has been compiled from the
statiatics of tha Census Bureau and
the Department of Agriculture, which
shows that the rise In the market
value of horeee has been out of all
proportion In the last fifteen years to
the Increase in their number in the
United States. From 1893 to 1908 the
horse population so to speak, in
creased 8,786.000, or 88 per cent In
the same period the gain in the num
ber of human Inhabitants was 81,979,-
000. or 33 per cent But the Increase
In the value of the horaes In this coun
try was no less than 1875,300.000. or
88 per cent
These facts w ill astonish many per
sons who have supposed thgt the
growth of the automobile interest has
been very adverse to the horse breed
ers and to the market demand for
horses On the contrary, the prices
obtained for good horses especially
for heavy draft animals of blood and
stamina, have risen far beyond the
hopes of horse dealers a tow years
ago. Horses are worth about 59 per
cent more In proportion to their num
ber than they were in 1893.
ficult and todious talk, and unless
some method of restraining thorn
.from kicking is adopted more loss
than profit may result through split
milk.
Tbs person milking also runs
considerable risk of Injury In some
form or other.
When the cause of kicking can bo
assigned to vice or an acquired bad
habit, the following Ilttlo arrangement
will bo found useful, and, at the same
time, simple, harmless, effective. Inex
pensive and easily applied. A strap
about one luck wide should be buckled
around each bind leg a little above the
hock sufficiently tight to compress the
hamstring.
The animal cannot kick, and If files
are troublesome and cause her to
switch her tall, the best plan la to
either strap It to her leg or secure It
to one o f the straps with a piece of
cord. Use the straps every time the
animal Is milked, and after three
weeks or so omit, to ascertain wheth
er a cure has been effected or not.—
Irish Farming World.
the barrel of Bordeaux mixture. The
spraying can be done quite cheaply.
The cost of four sprayings Is estimated
at 11.85 per acre.' This Includes the
cost of labor also. In Vermont a trial
was conducted by one hundred farm
ers to test the value o f this spray. The
period covered five years, and tbs re
sult was the Increase of 70 per cent
in yield. The high value of Bordeaux
mixture as a preventive of early blight
M o le « D o a tvo y O o * B i o o l n ,
has been proved many times, and
A distinguished naturalist carefully
should not be overlooked by anyone
examined the stomqehs of fifteen
who expects to raise a good crop of
moles caught la different localities,
potatoes.
'
but failed to discover therein the
slightest vestige of plants or roots.
O o « « aa a P o w ltr y P o o « .
On the contrary, they were filled with
Oats make an excellent food for the
the remains of earth worms. Not sat
poultry, providing they are of the right
isfied by this fact, he shut off several
kind. The long, slim oat, with plenty
molss In a hex containing sods of
of husk or hull is poor feed for any
earth, on which fresh grays was grow
thing, bat the plump, meaty oat Is a
ing. and a small cage of grabs and
good feed for all stock. Including poul
earth worms. In nine days two moles
try.
devoured 349 white worms, 193 earth
Hulled oats for young chickens after
worms, 85 caterpillars and a mouse
they are three or four weeks old will
(skin aad bones) which bad been alive
help them to make bone and muscle
in the box. He next gave them noth
faster than any other one feed, and
ing hut vegetables.
in twenty-four
this is the most desirable element at
hours two moles died from starvation.
this.period of growth.
Another naturalist calculates that two
For grown or feeding fowls we have molss destroyed 20,000 white worms or
at most seasons of the year fed one
grubs In a single year. I f this la cor
feed of oats dally with most satisfac rect, It Is a strong argument In favor
tory results. W e have fed some oats
of multiplying rather than destroying
after boiling them for fall and winter the moles.
feeding, but they were of poor quality,
and the boiling was to soften the hulls
A s s l o S t o p «® « H o « « « .
rather than because the boiling added
This apple storage house is built In
any other value to the oats feed itself. a hillside. The roof Is covered with
Boiling is not necessary with good brush and earth. A ventilator is ar-
oats except by way of variety In feed
Ing. The best way is to feed them in
tbe litter, scattered well and deeply so
the fowls w ill have to do considerable
scratch ing.— Agricultural Epitomise
in the country.
*
W e e d ! « ® O n « V o p r o S to b lo C o w .
Mrs. Brown— Do you bellevs that
marriage Is a lottery?
Mrs. Green— No. I consider It more
of a faith curs.
Mrs. Brown— Why, how’s that?
Mrs. Green— Well, I had Implicit
faith in my husband when we were
first married— and now I haven’t
orvE T H H u m o u r.
.
Dairy farms are continually advanc
ing In value, which should be regard
ed as the part of the profits. Grain
farming is bard on the land.
Many
hard run grain farms have. veen
brought back to a good state of fertili
ty by changing to cows.
With the case In test It w ill be pos
sible to weed out the poor cheese cows
on tbs same principle that we -have
used tbe Babcock butter test to weed
out the poor butter cows. Instead of
keeping cows for cheese which aver
age 70 pounds of casein per 100
pounds of Cat, we may breed cows that
w ill produce milk containing dose to
10 pounds of casein for 100 pounds of
fa t W e need to specialise In cheese
just as Intelllgtotly and oarqfuUy aa
In batter production.
T e T oo a H IS«. .
Take the hide green and salt well.
Let It stand fo r thirty-six hoars; then
take hair off with lime In the usual
way. A fter taking off hair let hide
D o o e lr la te rs o to O .
Bald She— Oh, I ’m Just awfully tte •oak for seven or eight days la clear
forested In baseball. I have a court* running water; then scrape and clean
off. For a hide of ordinary slae dis
who belongs to a college bunch.
Bald He— Indeed! And What P « + solve three pounds of alum and five of
■alt In enough warm (not hot) water
tlon does be play?
Bald She—Well, I forget Just near to cover t t Put In hide and leave five
whether he’s a knocker or a stopper. days, stirring every day. A t the end
of that time take out end pot la vessel
with enough clear water le oover;
then add five pounds o f dean bruised
red oak bark. Let this stand till de
sired color le get ; then take out, wash
“ I ’ll have another lump. Marcia,”
ahe «aid, ufltfc mock reproach. "Y o u '!*
always forgetting tin t I haven't Juat
one sweat tooth, but a whole set qf
them. Now tell me, what have you
been doing?"
" A very useful thing, thy deaf*“ an-
I ’ve been
fcwered her friend, slowly.
Interesting myself In Myrtle's read
ing."
Mlsa Fram ley gave a little ahrlek of
amusement
"What, T h e Duchess’
and 'Laura Jean Libbey?’ ’Oh, what
a falling off la there!’ ” she quoted."
with genial sarcasm, for Immediately
her mind mada a vivid picture of*Myr-
tle, a half-pretty, wholly pathetic little
figure, who plodded patiently througlf
her cleaning caret, apparently unfitted
tor any others.
But Marcia had already broken out
In ardent defense of her protege.
"No, not trash at all, and you’ll nev
er believe me, but It’s poetry,” she
said. “ I threw away an old Brown
ing text Bob had in college, and Myr
tle found It and asked me tf she might
have I t
I gave It to her—and I
laughed; and I hate myself whenever
I think of I t Do yon know, she's read
It all, with such Intelligent apprecia
tion!
“ Why, the other night ahe looked gt
the w eat and said, ‘Mias Marcia, I
suppose that’s what Browning means
when he says "Where the quiet col
ored end of evening sm iles” ’ And
tor her birthday, last week, I gave her
Palgrave’s ‘Golden Treasury' ’ — haters
this I've always given her ellly bows
and collars—and she’s read It all aloud
to her mother, and they loved It. Poor
little tiling! She has eo few books!”
A ll through Marcia’s speech Celts
had put In little fluttering “ Ahe!” and
"Ohs!” of excitement and Interest, and
when her friend stopped speaking, she
was sitting quite on the edge at her
chair.
^ "T *7' 'T . -v * •
“ I ’m a beast, and a stupid on«, too,
to misjudge Myrtle sa l” ahe declared,
warmly, for she loved and admired
with eager intelligence all good litera
ture. “ And as a penance I'm going to
give her some o f my treasures.”
But In the common light of the next
day her generous Impulse was harder
to carry ou t She stood before her
bookcase, fingering the volumes, void
wondering how ahe could ever bear
parting with them. A country doctor's
daughter, books were her luxury. The
Thackeray she had eeraed by endless
copying o f manuscripts for her father;
the beeutlfhl edition or Tennyson
meant that she had worn shabby
gloves for a winter; the set o f Jane
Austen a willingly renounced party
frock.
Her beloved books! Now, half-neert-
edly, toe built her sacrificial pile.
T h a i a sudden thought made her
throat tighten and ache a little. Books
had always seemed very read to her.
“That settles I t ! " she said, aloud.
"Celia, you’re a selfish pig! Tbe best
way to love the masters Is to share
their glory Vlth some one elsA” She
caught up a generous armful and ran,
hatless. Impetuous, to Marcia’s door.
“ Give these books to Myrtle— and I
want her to keep them — with my
love!" she panted, and she thrust put
the pile. Then ahe turned and walked
quickly away, sbe had given herself
with her alms.— Youth’s Companion.
B lo ® ro sh jr o f fee w o r d M « e D « w o U
1 « t m 1« M o s t ««* « C a o a tle H o n o r .
ranged In the top and a tile drain at
ths lower side to carry off water an|
admit cool air.
‘ „
F o o l B ro o d In Boos.
The worst enemies of the vbee are
the foul brood and black brood. One
or the other of these diesasse are 1 b
some parts of ths State, and black
brood have been very bad- In New
York Stmts These diseases of. bees
have been carefully studied by thè de
partment In Washington, and we bava
some pretty definite Information on tha
mattar. Tha treatment for both Is
that" o f removing all the oombe and
starting ths boss fresh without any
contaminated honey In a new hive, and
the use of the old combe for wax.
F # d d lii| W k d l t npgipi
Bulletin No. 848 of the Michigan Ex
periment Station, often some exact
data upon the subject of feeding whole
grain to cows, heifers end calved
When whole grain was fed to cows, IB
In a biography of Edward MacDow-
ell by Lawrence -Gilman, the writer
quotes some of the famous musician’s
witticisms.
On one occasion he had
been told of a performance of hla
composition, "To a Wild Roes,” played
by a high-school girl on a hlgh-school
piano at a hlgh-school graduation fes
tivity. “ Well,” Mac Do well remarked,
"I* suppose she pulled It up by the
roots!"
Some one tent him, about this time,
relates Mr. Humlston, a program o f
aa organ recital at which this same
"W ild Rose” was to be played.
“ He waa not pleased with the idea,
thinking doubtless of a style 6f per
formance which plays Schumann’s
Traum erel’ On Ohs great organ dia
pason® He remarked simply that It
reminded him of a hippopotamus wqar-
lag a clover leaf In his mouth.”
A member of one of hie classes at
Columbia, finding more unoccupied
■pace on the-page aif his book, after
finishing the exercise, filled up the va-
caney with
w h«n hi. book wen
returned the page woe covered with
corrections—all except these bars, of
reste, which were inclosed In a red
Une and marked;
‘T h is Is the only correct passage In
the i o « r risi." — Youth's Companion.