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OLAAIDE
BY WILLIAM BLACK
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CHAPTER XII.-Contlnucd.)
"Well," said ho. uaoaslly, "possibly
four father Imagined that Archie Loalle
might llilnk that ho hail boon unfairly
treated If ho were not told and then, I
vaa lila friend, don't you o, and they
mentioned the nutter to mo and and
being an outsider, I wa reluctant to
Interfere at first but then, when they
poke of tolling you, I aald to myself
that I know, or I fancied I know, what
h girl Ilka Yoland Wlnterbourne would
b aura to do In such circumstances
nd io I thought I would venture the
suggestion to tbom, and and If It turn-
tl out to be o, then I tnlgtU he of some
ttla help to you."
That waa cleverly done; he had not
told tier It waa the Master of Lynn who
had Insisted on that disclosure. And now
ha waa fathering her courage to her;
though Ktlll she malntnlned a curious
aort of constrained roserre, aa though
he were keeping a tight hold of her feel
ing. "I suppose," she until, slowly, "It U
your Idea I ahould go there alone?"
"If you are not afraid, Yolande, If
you aro not afraid!" be aald, anxiously.
"I am going to-morrow," she said, "If
Mrs. Dell will he so kind as to come and
take my place."
"Don't be so precipitate, Yolande," he
aid, with mime anxiety. "I hare put
all this before you for your considera
tion; and I should feel I waa burdened
with a terrible responsibility If you were
to do anythlug you might afterward re
arret Wilt you consult Mr. ShortlaudsT
Will you take a wvvk to think orer It?"
"No; whyT aha aald. simply. "Did
X not consider when yon were telling me
the atory of this Imaginary girt? Had
t any doubt? No. I knew what she
would decide. I know what I hare de
cided. What ut la there In delay? Ah.
If there la to I the good come out of It
that you hare Imagined for me, should I
not haste? When one Is perishing, you
do not think twice If yoa can hold out
your hand. Do you think that I regret
that I am sorry to hare a little comfort
behind that I am afraid to take a little
trouble? Surely you do not think that of
rue. Why I am anxious to go now Is to
ee at once what can be done; to know
the wornt or the bent; to try. And now
I shall not be speaking to my papa
bout it; that would only bItb pain
Trill you tell me what I ahould do. In
11 the small particular? I am not like
ly to forget."
That he could do easily; for be bad
thought enough orer the matter. Ha
gare her the moat minute Instructions;
guarding against thia or that pomlblllty;
nd ah listened mutely and attentively,
with scarcely the Interruption of a ques
tion. Then, at length, he rose to say
good-by; and she roae too. He did not
notice that aa she did so her lips quiv
ered for the briefest second.
"If you are going to-morrow, Yo
lande," said he, "I will see yoa aa you
fiasa. I will look out for 'you, I should
ike to aay good-by to you; It may be
for a long time."
"It may be for always," she said, with
her eye cast down; "perhaps I shall
caver be back here again."
"And I am sending you away Into all
thla trouble and grief. How can I help
knowing that It Is I who am doing It?
And perhaps, day after day, and night
after night, I shall be trying to Justify
myself when I am thinking orer It, and
wondering where you are; and pvrbap I
ball not succved rery well."
"But It Is I who Justify you that la
enough," she said In a low voice. "Did
I not decide for myself? And I know
that In your heart you think I am doing
right; and if you are afraid for me
well, that Ls only kindness such aa that
you hare always shown to me "
Here she atopped; and hu did not see
that her bauds were clenched firm, as
he stood there opposite him, with ber
yes cast down.
"And whaterer happens, Yolande you
may be in pain and grief and perhaps
nil you may endure may ouly end In
bitter disappointment well, I hope you
will not Imagine that I came to you with
rny proposal unthinkingly. I have
thought over It night and day. I did
wot come to you off-band "
"Ah, then," aha aald, quickly, "and
you think It I necessary to Justify your
elf you, to me, as If I did not know
you aa well as I know myself! Do you
think I do not know you and do not un
derstand you because I nm only a girl?"
Her forced composure was breaking
down altogether; she was tremblltig some
what; and now there were tears running
down ber cheeks, despite hewelf; though
he regarded him bravely, as If she
would not ackuowledgo that. "And now,
Just aa you and I are about to say good
by, perhaps forever, you think It neces
ary for you to Justify yourself to me
you, my best friend my more than
friend "
And then ah, who can tell how auch
things happen, or which Is to bear the
blame? his arms wore round her trem
bling figure, and she was sobbing vio
lently on his breast. And what was this
wild thing she aald In the bewilderment
of her grief. "Oh, why, why waa my
life given away before I ever saw youV"
"Yolande," aald be, with his face very
pale, "I am going to say something; for
this Is our last meeting. What can a
few words matter, my darling, If we are
never to see each other again? I love
you. I shall love you while I have life.
Why ahould I not say It for this once?
I blinded myself; I tried to think It
friendship friendship, and the world
was Just tilled with light whenever I saw
you! It ls our last meeting; you will let
me say this for once how can It harm
you?"
She shrank out of his embrace; she
sank down on the couoh there; and turn
ed away her head and hid her faoe In ber
bands.
"Go, go I" she murmured. "What have
I done? For pity' sake, go, and forget!
Vorgetl"
Ho knelt down by the side of the
touch; and he was paler than ever now.
"Yolande, It U for you to forget and
forgive I have been a traitor to my
friend; I hare been a traitor to you. You
shall never eoo me again. God bless
you! and good-by."
He kLssed her hair, and rose, and got
himself out of the houe. As he went
down thnt wide strath, his eye fixed on
nothing, like one demented; and his mind
whirling this way and that amid clouds
of remorse and reproach and immeasur
able pity, It scorned to him thnt he felt
on his brow the weight of the brand of
Gain.
CHAPTER XIII.
And as for ber; she was stunned al
most Into unconscloUAiieM by this shock
of self-abasement and distress. She lay
on the sofa, hor face covered with her
hands; she could not face the light.
What was she, then? she who hitherto
had been so fearlcs and so proud. A
flirt, a Jilt, a llght-o'-lore that wn how
aho saw herself; and then there was a
kind of despair orer the misery she had
wrought, and a yearning to hare him
back to Implore his pity and his forglro
ness; and then sudden reaolres to free
herself In another direction, at any coat
of penitence and humiliation. She began
to compos hurried brief messages, though
the throbbing brain and the shatne-atrlck-
en soul could scarce decide between the
fitness of them. The were some of
them:
"Dear Papa I have gone away. Tell
Archie not to thtnk any more about me.
"YOLANDE."
And then again:
"Dear Archie I send yon back the
engagement ring; I am not worthy to tie
your wife. I am sorry If I have caused
you any disappointment, but you have
less to regret than I hare."
And then again to one not named
at all:
"To-day I go away. Never think of
me again, or of what has happened. For
give me; that Is all."
And then she began to think If this
wild torture of suggestions could be call
ed thinking of the undertaking that lay
before her, and the thought of It was
something of a relief. There would be
an occupation, urgent, continuous, de
manding all her attention; In time, and In
a measure, she might school herself to
forget. Perhaps, It this duty turned out
to be n rery md and painful one. It
might be taken by those whom she had
wronged as a sort of penance. She was
prepared to suffer. She thought she de
served to suffer. Had she not proved a
traitor to the man whom she had prom
ised to marry? Had she not brought
misery to this best and dearest of all
her friends, to this fine and noble nature
that she had learned to know, and that
by her Idleness and carelessness the
carelessneM of a vain coquette, heedless
of consequences? What would he think
of her? She could only vaguely recall
the reproaches he had heaped upon him
self; but she know that be was In din
tress, and that she waa the cause of It.
And perhaps If there were trials In
store for her. If there was suffering In
store for her, perhaps he would never
know that she rather welcomed that,
and was content to receive her punish
ment? Perhaps he would never know
how grieved she was. It was orer and
done, and past recall. And she knew
that henceforth her life would be quite
different to her.
Mr. Wlnterbourne and John Short
land were on then- way back from the
hill.
"I scarcely know what has happened
to-day," Mr. Wlnterbourne was saying.
"All the time I hare been thinking of
our going back. And I know what I
shall find when I go back the wreck
of the happiness that I hare so carefully
nursed all through these years. It ls like
hedging round a garden, and growing
flowers there, and all at once, some
morning, you find the place tram pie. I
down and a wilderness. I hope I am not
unjust, Shortlands, but I think be might
haTe spared her."
"Who?"
"Young Leslie. I think he might hare
spared her. It was not much. Don't
jou think out of consideration"
"Nousensc, man. hat loung Les
lie ha done seems to me on reflection,
perfectly Just, and right, and reasona
ble," said John Shortlands, telling a lie
In the calmest manner possible. "The
young couple ought not to be hampered
In starting life. A little trouble now
what l that? And it will be better for
you too, Wlnterbourne. You would have
kept on worrying yourself. You would
have been always opprehenslre about
something. You would have reproached
yourself for nut telling him."
When they reached the lodge, Yolande.
was not, as usual, standing in the porch
to welcome them home from the hill.
"Please, sir," said tho maid, "MI
Wlnterbourne has a headache, and say
would you excuse her coming down to
dinner."
Ho stood Irresolute for a second or
two, obviously greatly disturbed, then he
slowly and thoughtfully went up the
stairs, and gently knocked at the door
of her room.
"May I come In, Yolande?"
She had Just time to untie the wet
towel from her head, to smooth her hair,
and sit up In !ed,
"Yea, papa."
He entered, went over and drew a
chair near to her, and sat down.
"I am sorry for you, Yolande," he
iiald, in a low voice, and his eye were
nervously bent on the ground.
"Why, papa?"
She spoke In quite a cheerful way; and
as he had not suffered his eyes to meet
here, he was unaware how that cheerful
ness waa belled by the strange expres
sion In them. She was forcing herself
to make light of this matter; she would
not have him troubled. And perhaps, In
deed, to her this was In truth a light
matter, as compared with that tragio dis
closure and Ita consequences, which
seemed to hare cut away from her at
ono and forever the shining and rose
colored years of her youth.
"If I erred, Yolande," aald U, "la
I keeping nil this back from you, I did It
for tho beat."
j "Do you need to nay thnt to me,
papa?" aho answered, with aotne touch of
repronch,
"lou are going, Yolande?" he snld,
with a sinking of tho heart.
"That, again, It U unnecfwsnry for
you to ask mo," tho girl said, simply,
"Hut not at once, Yiilnnde?" aald he.
glancing at an open trunk. "Not at
once?"
"To-morrow morning, nana." aho an-
, Rwercd. "Oh, but 1 assure you, you will
be put to no trouble no trouble at all,
Mra. Hell Is coming from (Irons to see
everything right. And I barn uiado out
lists for her, It Is all arranged, you will
uot know any difference -"
"Listen now, lotniide. I don't ills
approve of your going.
everything, and failed; If thorn Is a
chance of your succeeding well, per
haps one might any It Is your duty to go.
lmr child, I would rnther have you
know nothing about It; but that Is all
orer now. Well, you 'see. Yolande, If
you go, there must bo no unnecessary
risk ivr trouble about your going. I hnre
been thinking that perhaps Mr. Molrllle
mny be a little too luiiigiiiitliio. ilo sees
thing strongly. And In Insisting that
you should go alone, why, there may be
danger that ho has been carried away
by a by a well, I don't know how to
put It, except thnt he may 1 so anx
ious to hare this striking appeal made
to your poor mother as to be Indifferent
to ordinary precaution. Why should
you go friendless and alone? Why
(should I remain amusing myself hero?"
"Hecauso you would tie of no use to
me, papa," said she, calmly. "I know
what I hare to do."
"Yolande, you cannot be left In Lon
don with absolutely no one to whom
you can appeal. The least you must do
Is to take a letter to Irfiwrenco & Lang.
They will do anything you want; they
will let you hare what you want; If
there la any hiring of lodgings or any
thing of that kind, they will send one of
their clerks. You cannot bo stranded
In London without the chance of assist
ance. You must go to Ijiwrvnce A
Lang."
"I may hare to go to them that also
la arranged. Hut they must not Inter
fere; they must not come with me; that
was not Mr. Melrlile' Idea." she said;
though the pale face turned still paler aa
she forced herself to titter the nnme.
"Mr. Melrlile!" he said, angrily. "You
seem to think the whole wisdom of the
wdrld Is centered In Mr. Melrlile! I
don't at all know that he has right In
coming to put all this trouble on you.
Perhaps he would not hare been so
quick If It hnd been his own sister or
his own daughter "
Then a strange thing occurred. She
had flung herelf down on the pillow
again, her face burled, her whole frame
shaken by the sudden violence of her
crying.
"Don't don't don't!" she nobbed, pit
eously. "Don't speak like that, papa!
there Is enough trouble there Is
enough."
"What 1 It. Yolande?" said he. "Well,
no wonder your nerves haTe been upiet.
i wonder you nave taken It so brarrlr,
I will leare you now, Yolande; but you
must try ami come down to dinner.
Dinner was put on the table; but she
did not make her appearance. A mea
sage was sent up to her; the answer was
that she merely wished to hare a cup of
tea oy anil tiy. Jan on being question
ed, said that ererythlng had been got
ready for their departure the following
morning, eren to the ordering of the dog
cart for a particular hour.
(To be continued.)
Tunic for llldiiu Hlieep,
Thrro aro several pinna for making
ii tnnk in which to dip sheep, mid If
ono has : Hock of considerable size It
la wio to obtain some of tho plan
We have tried ,,,mt r offered by manufacturers. If,
minever, wiu HOCK in not largo, n nouio
iiuule nfTiilr Is cattily built ami ut com
paratively Hiunll coat. A tnnk of IliU
kind In nmiln nn follown: A convenient
size la ton foot long, four feet wide
and two nnd one-half feet deep. U
ahould bo inado ao thnt tho tnnk con
taining tho dip In reached by a slat
tod walkway leading down to It, nnd
nuother slatted walk lending up to tho
landing from which they go. down Into
tlio tank.
There ahould Ik? atilltclont of the dip
mUtutv placed In the tank to cover
tho back of the niilmnl, which should
b Immersed for nhoiit one minute,
then allowed to como up on tho land-
prizes to the fnrmor'a wlfo lirlngtuir
tlin niont ckki otc.i mill recently tlm
lilnn witn Introduced of kIvIiiu ii lulr.o
to tho fnrmor who brotiKlit tlio moat
women to town, When' llio women
como In business plcha up nt nil tho'
atoren. Tho plan worked, ono fnrmor
putting cushion on a liny nick mid
bringing ovor n hiimlroil In tho eoiiraa
of n ilny. Denver Klold nnd Kami.
Conquest Great
American Desert
IN. tfiifTf' -
1 1 rrtfe'rl
noiiK-UADK niiTi.ta tank.
tug', whero the dip Is unicexcd out of
the wool nnd tho ntiluml allowed fo
stnnd to drain. The Illustration shown
how thla tank la built. II Indicate
the slatted walkway and A shown the
exact nhnpo of tho sldo portion of the
box; tho llttlo drawing above the tank
shown a walk down from the end of
tho drainage Imx which will prevent
tho nheep from Injuring their legn.
which they would tm likely to do In
Jumping,
87,000 FOR A KEY.
A Connoisseur I'uld This Price for
Historic Itellc.
It mny not be generally known thnt
tbero are ninny key collectors In thi
big world of curio hunter. Home of
the keya of bygono nsea nre rerltnbln
triumph of tho locksmith' art. In
Home the bridegroom presentation of
n bunch of keya to the bride an alio
crossed hi threshold, to Invest her
with the authority of tho mntron, wnn
ono of the most solemn rites of the
wedding ceremony. Moreover, theso
nymbollc keya had to be returned by
the wife, who, when proving heraelf
unworthy of the tnmt, waa expelled
forever from the homo nhe had dla
graced. On tho other Imnd, tho Trench
widow of the inlddlo ngen, If left de
tltute, hnd the right to tear nwny the
sacred key of tho house from her
girdle and throw them lu tho grave
of her deceased husband. y thla ac
tion, commonly known ns "throwing
the keya In the pit," nhe publicly re
nounced nil further tie and disclaimed
the debt of tho limn who had left her
unprovided for. From thnt moment
he wn left unmoloated, for In those
niiperHtltlotis daya no ouo would lmvo
dared to Interfere with a woman who
had tlm freed heraelf from nny mar
riage rexpoiiMlbllity.
Wo cniiuot but admire the work of
the old locksmiths, who iiiiiiilpulnteil
ut will brim, Iron nnd ateel, no na to
delineate tho dellcnto tracerlei nnd
fretwork of guliniro nnd church win
down. Till metal craft had evidently
a great fnclnntion, Hlnce it can boost
not only of several mnntern of renown,
notably the celebrated Heuveniito Col
llnl and Antolnu Jncqunrt, but also of
a royal nmatour, Louis XVI. himself,
renowned for III mechanical bobby,
nnd who linn loft to posterity aovernl
keys peculiar for their double L'n sur
mounted with a crown, In grent de
mand among collector. Their reputa
tion, greatly due, no doubt, to the po
sition of the worker, palea before that
Of tho master who executed the her
uldlc chef d'oeuvre, bearing tho arm
of the Strozzl family, recently bought
for a wealthy connoUseiir nt tho hugo
price of 7,000. Nowark Now.
A KIkIiIIiiu Cow.
No fewer than nix person aro at
present suffering from lujurlen Inflict
ed by a cw, evidently of Texan light
ing stock, which broke, loose in the
streets of an Kugllnh town, a few daya
ago, creating extraordinary scoii.m.
Tho animal wan being led by n hnlter.
but when near the slaughter house It
suddenly rushed nt tho mnn under
wboso chnrge It was, nnd tossed him
high In the air. Kxtrnnrdlnnry excite
ment at once arose, an the animal bolt
ed from street to street, attacking or
frightening all It saw. A little girl,
aged soven, wan wounded In the thigh
with It horn, and a man knocked
down. Leaving the town tho nnlnial
directed It course toward the village,
whence It had been brought. A farm
er who attempted to capture It wan
gored In the thigh, and finally the
"en a unity list" ivn brought to a closo
by n man lu Borden yard, which It had
left two hour previously, having one
of hk hands run through by a born.
New Hugland Homestead.
InvestluMtlliu tlm Hulls.
For the anko of supplying delliilto
and absolutely lellablo liiforiratlon lu
regard to every niiiaii mile of laud
In the .M,(f."J,i:i:i which eompoNii tho
area of the United Htntc of Amerlcn,
Uncle Ham, through tho Hiirenti of
Solln of the Department of Agricul
ture, will spend eighteen year and
at lonnt lil.OOO.OOO. Whim the work
of the Hureati of dolls linn been com
pleted, It will be possible for n mnn
Intending to purchase a farm to write
to the Department of Agriculture, and
secure from that department a detail
ed limp of the section lu which hi
farm In located, together with a de
scription of the section. Then by look
ing up his Intended purchase on the
map nnd consulting the descriptive
liooklet, he can determine to a ulivty
It value. The map will show by diff
erent color the untiire of the noil,
while the descriptive booklet will tell
Ita value which has been determined
by examination of the soil, study of the
railroad facilities, nnd the examina
tion of the market mid other 'nullify
ing conditions. The aoll limps and
booklet will enable many farmer,
who hnre been ouly pnrtlnlly nticces
ful, to learn wherein they have fulled
by trying to raise crops iinndnpteil to
the nature of their lauds, and will lu
struct them a To whnt crop nre best
suited to their farm. It wilt Instruct
them also n to the best method of
cultivating soils of different kind
While thn rxamlnntlou of soil ha
been carried on for perhaps n hundred
yenrn by laboratory method, the pres
ent investigation Is along entirely dif
ferent and far more practicable Hue.
The soil division wn established as
a separate bureau of tho Department
of Agriculture on July 1, 1IM. nnd
since that time It forco ha been In
creased more than twelvefold. Up to
December .11, 11XI. thn bureau ha
mapped RH.JVW square mile, lu mall
pateho scattered over the whole Unit
ed .Slates, nnd It I estimated that
eighteen yearn more will bo required
to complete the work.
'.f-VL'grra
Hlinde for Poultry.
It la easy to give the poultry tho
needed nhade when the range I fairly
well covered with tree or even nmnll
brush, but whore It I entirely open
poultry suffer ao much from tho heat
of the sun that the freedom does them
little good; Indeed, It would bo bet
ter .for them to be confined lu largo
yard, whero they might have shade
MIIADKCOOl1 t'OII J'OLI.TilV.
WIIIIiik to I'ronilkn.
"If I tell you Bomothlng," anld
Dobba, mysteriously, "will you prom
ise not to repeat It?"
"Sure tiling, old man," replied Hobb.
"I've never heard you aay anything
worth repeating." Detroit Tribune.
In massaging ordinary salad or
ollvo oil may be used in place of cold
cream.
during tho day mid a run on tho
grn after the sun goon down. How
ever, It I not an expensive plan to ar
range n number of teuta on the oxn
range by erecting n frnmo of light
strip of wood and covering till frame
with unbleached muslin. Ily sharpen
ing tho end of tlm poxta tho frame
mny be aectired to the ground, yet
easily lifted and removed to another
portion of tho range when desired.
The plan In worth tho attention of all
poultrymen.
Itlch Milk Oijvn Lower Cost Ilutter.
The results obtained with U2 dairy
herd lu Denmark, aggregating il,7i
cows, were recently studied. The cowh
were arranged In eight classes accord
ing to the average per cent of fut lu
their milk, each class having about the
same number of cowh. In tho case of
Class 1 (richest milk), 70.8 food uiiltn
were required for tho production of
one hundred pound of milk, against
05.0 units In the case of CIiihs H (poor-
cat milk), Ono pound of butter re
quired KI.R'l food unit In Class I, nnd
10.r2 lu Class 8. Tho skliiunllk ob
tained per pound of butter wus 2'J.tt
and 28.4 pounds respectively for tho
two classes. At ordinary prices of
feeds nnd products It was found that n
pound of butter was produced '.'.8 cents
cheaper by the cows producing rich
milk than by those yielding milk low
In butter fnt. Amerlciiu Ciilttvntor,
Klavur of HiitUr.
To a very Inrgo extent tho flavor
of butter depend on tho kind of bac
teria working lu the cream. It I
desired to have all of these of tho
specie that produce tactic acid fer
ment, for then the flavor will be both
clean and pleasant. Hut In too many
cases the bacteria belong to the putre
factive order and not up putrefaction
lu the casein. There Is generally a
little casein left lu the butter, lu spite
of the work of the best buttermaker,
and till casein form a base fur the
work of the putrefactive bacteria.
There nre other bacteria that cause de
composltlon of the fat Itself, and If
these nre present the work of develop
ing hnd flavor goe on rapidly. Pas
teurization can do tittle to remedy this,
If the undesirable bncterta have been
at work for a few hour. The prob
lem I to keep them nut altogether.
Ittfit tr tho Million.
The western purl of Virginia ban
been known for year a n great sec
tion for raising poultry, And the lu
diistry I Increasing nt a rapid rate
The shipment of Thanksgiving turkey
and chicken for all season bring lu
a considerable revenue. In Hocking
ham county last year, .IO.ixxi crate
were shipped to market, a total of II),
M ,) egg rold from one county In
n single year. Thl doe not Include
many thousand consumed on the
farm where they were laid. Tho low
est price of he year wa 14 to in cent
n dozen, and lu December .T- cents wn
paid. The average for the lust ye-ir
was '."J cents. The profit from egg
alone to Hockliiglmui county farmers
wus nearly f'.lXMXJO.
. Prize for Trade.
Merchants lu some towns aro try
lug tho prlzo systom to Induce trade
Pure Air In Hlnlile.
Is tho air lu the stable pure and free
from dust during mllldiig? Would he
be willing and glad Io eat n plate of
soup while ho Is milking a cow? If
uot, why not? Isn't milk a biimiiu
food and Isn't the milk pull that I
tinder the cow being filled with food
for hi table? Prnlrle Farmer.
The OrowliiK PJv.
The growing pigs may be helped
along In two ways; ouo Is by feeding
sown liberally on those feed that lend
to produce milk; the other Is by giv
ing the pigs clean food of the right
kind, such o clover and alfalfa.
DrrssliiK for Tomiilocs.
A tomato fertilizer very popular on
tho Pacific const Is made as follows;
Nitrate of sodn, ouo part; dried blood,
two pnrtn; superphosplmto of Iwnn
meal, four part; knlnlt, three parts, nil
by weight.
llariluml I'usture,
Put tho Idle mare on the pasture.
Wide tires snve much horso power.
A sandy or muddy road doubles the
work.
Axle grease pays 1,000 per cent
profit.
The best drivers talk much to their
animals.
Aluminum horseshoes havo been
thoroughly tested by thu Hussion
army. They havo proved quite satis
factory, saving thu horses' feet moro
than Iron shoes do.
(iood ventilation, clean bedding and
plenty of light and comfortable stall
aro also necessary lu tho cow stablo,
Dusty bedding and any feed that Is
dusty will seed It with millions of
germs mid theso will develop taint
lln Nnrndn nlwnys been mi nrld and
desert region? Its geological records,
ns Indelibly enrved lu antiilsloue mid
granite, showing the shore Hues of
nucleut lakes, proclaim that It has uot,
but that at one time n vast body of
water, us great lu area as Lake Uric,
covered n portion of the Stale, To
day, hownvrr, the aridity of the coun
try I unquestioned mid the ftflO.OOO
ncres, to part of which Uncle Ham I
to apply water, will practically doiibln
It well Irrigated urea mid It agricul
tural population.
Nevada's ancient Inland sea 1
known as Lake La lloutau; It wn
one of several great prehistoric lake
distributed over the (Irent I In sin of
the arid region, among them Lake
Houuevllle, of which the (treat Halt
Lake was the deepest portion. It area
wn nine time greater tlirtn the (Irent
Halt, or almost a large a Lake Mich
Igan, and much deeper.
The contracted remains of Lake Ln
nontan lu Nevada are found lu Pyra
mid Lake and a number of other small
enclosed lake which were the deepest
portions of thn ancient lake. Hluco
these large prehistoric Inkes were
land locked and did not overflow, It
follow that the rainfall which fed
them wa much heavier than It I
to day.
Should conditions revert, many of
the Important point situated lu thn
Great Hasln would be hopelessly
flooded, such, for Instnnce, as the Mor
mon Temple, which would stnnd lu fif
ty feet of water, while 700 mile of
railroad would be submerged.
Thes prehistoric lake are said to
li of very recent originthat I, recent
by the geologist' count--perhaps no,.
Ooo or 40,(x)0 yenrs old, Fossil havo
been found showing the presence of
primitive man along their nuclent
shores nnd embniikmont. which In
many Instances are as perfect In con
tour and n distinct n If the water
had receded only a few year since.
Theso Inkes Included such arid and
fear-Inspiring localities of tiMlny a
the Hlnck Hock Desert. Skull Valley,
Death alley, and n score of other
places whom thn tilenched Ikhic of
mnn and nnlnial attest to an awful
lack of water.
When the Ntate wn admitted to
the Union. In place of receiving tho
usual donntlon of alternate school sec
tions 10 and 112 In each township
he secured n flnt grant from the gnr
eminent of two million ncre of public
Innd to tm located wherorer her law
maker snw fit. The State Legisla
ture passed much a desired of thl
great nnd raluablo resource Into pri
vate ownership of stockmen, st a low
figure a 23 cent an ncre, The
laud hare been located up nnd down
tho (Idea of every river nnd stream
nd around every spring nnd wnler
hole In tho fitnte, so Hint whllo Nevada
ha to-day some iV),O0O,(XX) acre of
public land, there I not n qunrter sec
tion of It upon which n homeslrnder
could make n living. The Innd grant
ed to the State for achool purposes
disposed of by the Htntn for a mess
of pottage control the innd of tho
State.
The government's Irrigation, when
worked out, will Immcdlntcly double
Nevnda'a population; It will provide n
now llfehlood of settlement and cltl
zeushlp tor a region of unsurpassed
agriculture.
laud aro making It pay. They give and defects that aro not desirable. I
Irrigation In tlm Knsi.
That Irrigation may be employed nt
usefully In tho humid portion of lh
United Htate as lu the arid section I
announced by the Department of Agri
culture. A bulletin tin been Issued,
showing the result of many expert-114-nts
In thl Held, In which n steady
water source wn drawn on a nn
auxiliary to nn Irregular rain supply.
.Nenr Pouglikeepsle. N. y , whero
rnln 1 ordinarily bountiful for the
crops, a grower of strawberrlo Un
found thnt the iiddlllon of a plant for
Irrigation enable him In Insure a per
fect stand and rapid growth of new
plants. Spraying, nnd Irrigation be
tween the row, put In Hue condition
for marketing a crop of berries which
for lack of rain at the crltlenl moment
hnd colored nnd hnrdened without
sweetening.
Mnrket gardeners In ninny other
parts of the (Cast nre having similar
results, The expert at Washington
believe Hint ns thu country become
moro compactly settled nnd more In
tense gnrdenlng Is required It will
be found necenry to depend mom
nnd more upon Irrigation ns nn Insur
ance ngnlnst drought nnd consequent
crop failure,
Ily Lnaarri Cabin.
Tho nnarchlst had Just hurled tho
bomb.
Simultaneously the democratic bend
of President Loubet nnd thn royal pato
of Alfonso XIII. ducked to avoid tho
flying fragments.
"M. lb President," muttered the boy
king, "which one of un do you think
that fellow wan after?" -
With trim Gallic politeness, Loubc't
disclaimed the honor,
"After you, my dear Alfonso," ho
murmured, bowing deeply. Cleveland
Lender.
Ho Npokn TlioiiKlilloily,
"Ho snld ho'd never marry ji wo
man for her money,"
"That was before ho knuw what It
was to need It." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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