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6'J6:1 CRASHA1
ems W. A. I&AMCHYUNT.
"1'd rather you'd not 'speak," begun
boa, when the old man cut her short:
"Do bear me to the end, girl. I've
all bot done, and you know how 11 tires
pa to talk. You'll ftud everything fu
teat black Ips addressed to you to rave
'noble. Dou't waste your 1jttle money
an.oy fuuerai finals for u%1. 1 ahoald
pt do it tau yoar-uad 1 don't want 'em.
G.1 awes a quickly as you oan, but
poet the letter two drys before you
out, ouly two days, le a Dot to give
any one a chance of replying. It's just
to say I've told you to go straight Mow
people in Eugland, and as they don't
love me overmuch they may want to
pot off m7 child. Dun't give 'em the
cbauoe, but you go. and when you're
Mere I'll trust you to do the rest
That's the best 1 clan do fru you. Lola
you've bad ■ rough time between an
e(d nomogram like me and a young
villain like Pierre, and you've been a
stanch, brave girl. Now let me lie down
to bleep."
Lola keened him again, and this time,
sofkued by his atm wards, be kissed her
band iu return.
"You're a good girl white you like,
Lola," be said. 'I believe you'd do
anything on earth for the man you
loved -rad alylbiue to the man you
didn't," be added dryly.
The girl watched him till be dropped
asleep And then she at tbinklug over
all he had said. Abe was really sad at
the thought of his death. fax be wa the
o>el, wing the bad emit loved in beg
lite.
But be was right when be solid b.
was dying. In lea than a fortnight be
lea in his grave, and she had darted
for the new life in England, and de-
spite ber regret for the old man's death
the lea filled with an intense girder's
that the old diegrednfal thraldom was
over, as well as glib eery !•S1aip'
tion of what the future Mild fur ber.
CHAPTER I.
MAD TOM Teat LOVE Or U1.
"It's no nee. I've 'come back, you
see. 1 gemmed you'd be alone now."
Ami Sir Jaffrey Waloons laughed aa he
the.w1 dow-d the
o tel o text
end'int Aeon
on a low basket chair, which creaked
ander the weight of his 411. powerful
frame.
Lola Crawsbay, who was sitting
alcue at the end o1 the veranda, looked
op from her book and first greeted him
with a glance and a smile, which made
his pulses beat faster, and then Omitted
and said in a tole which implied re-
buke:
'You said you would go with the
°then , ,
"I know, and I meant it right
enough. I always do when-wheu yeti
making her plans. She meant to marry.
Bbe bad beard nothing of the man who
bed torted her to many him, and .he
believed him dead. if be was still Uv -
fug, 1t wit 8101088 impossible for bim
to find ber, abe thought. Anyway she
would take the risk.
The homage which the meu all round
the neighborhood were eager to pay her the bur .1 to her chi•, Ia and made ber
wherever rhe weut aunt couvweed ber bootie sire aud ta11 w lovelae•at ooufu
that she oould marry almost whom abe tion was due to the feelings which be
pleased, and, es she hied long convinced had roused iu ber.
herself that she had tau love to give led After a luug prose be moved slowly
no reason to fear any yielding to 8
weakness of the kind, she carried 8 very
000l head indeed behiud ber very glow-
ing and fire raising beauty. ed her bead and flashed a rapid glance
Her fuel deoiuon se to the man she right into bis eyes aud theu as quick•
would marry Dame as much by aocideut ly turned away, the but blood surging
a design on ber part over hur face in a deep blush.
Among ber distant oo01eotions was a
bright, shrewd, goesipiug little woman,
Mrs. De Witt, wbu.e married life was
in Lola'. views • curiosity. The bus -
band and wife bad missies 11 Comrutn,
except that they were both lnteusely
fond of the condone which money can
give. They went nowhere together. If
they met in public, it was generally •o-
na6ent11, and 11 they staid at the same
place it wits owing to quite indepeud-
eat causes. llaacb bed a separate circle
of friends, male and female, for uncon-
ventional purposes, though both moved
in the same social sat for coaventiouel
wits burned lite drecl grams in the tierce,
but firma of his paseioo.
Thus he looked at her with the hot
eyes of desperate louglug as she sat
with ber face resting against ber band
and hi -r eyes brut down, aud it was like
,1 tweet -delirium to believe, as he dui,
that the emotion which had brought
tearer to her and nerved himself to
As he eat down clua8 to her she turn -
"I want to end this suspense," he
said iu a tone little louder thou a whis-
per. "I can't bear 11 any louger. it's
not fair to either of us I came back on
purpose." There was • pause of embar-
rassment between each sentence.
Lola made no reply, but she was
thinking fast what war the beat course
for her to take.
Sir Jaffray gathered himself for an
effort and a resolute look came into his
faoe, knitting his brows and Pantie hie
lips fpr a moment before he spoke
again. Then, forcing himself to be calm,
he weut right to the point
"1 love you, Lula and I want you for
my wife."
There win no mistaking the ring- of
intense sincerity or of concentrated feel
tug, i1 the calm, strong tone. and the
girl felt, a flush of triumph ams 8he reoug-
tneed it It promised ber a certain vic-
tory. But the knew that it Was not to
ir•was yet, and slot -played het pail
with consummate ekitl. • -
.Lt Brat *he turned toward bim with
• look of infinite sweetnes. ou her face
and with the light of love beaming in
ber eyes, but she checked herself as
suddenly. drew back and theu rose.
"That is an insult, Sir Jaffrey, 1d
a wrong which you at least mighthath
spared one," the cried.
The words struck him like a step in
the faoe.
"An insult? A wrong? To ask you to
be my wife?" His tome was still calm
mouth, b1# it rang with the note of
angered pride.
Tw ice she turned to him impetuously,
Ss if to speak, looking her fingers tight -
!y together as if Aghtiug with her feel -
bags apd alak .*0 Atter the 11.
which rose to ber lips. Then shifs
clutched the rail of the veranda tightly
with both hands, and, leaning back, se
though at bay, she appeared to compel
Imese1f to break the Mimic., which once
Imeiteu wa followed by ',flood of words
poured out with rapid, vehement rushes.
She was like one wrung by the deepest
pseaion.
purpanes.
The "little woman," as most of her
friends called ber, beard of L.ola's beau-
ty and went down to Moseoombe, the
village new Wahines where Mrs Vill-
yers lived, to see for herself what the
girl was like and to judge whether abs
could do herself any credit and serve
ber ono purpose by taking her up and
brloging her out In London. She was
more than satisfied by her lerotiIy,
and u Lola was careful to .how s some-
what different side of ber character to
her from that known to Mrs. Villyere
-though not at all more natural -Mrs.
De Witt carried ber off there apd J
to London, protesting that such a girl
must not be shut up in • country box,
Qatet res ber fortune and ber bur
band Lon on.
At that juncture, however, Lola
proved ber clever shrewdness After
'keying with Mea De Witt for a few
days she relinquished what wit in fact
inexpressibly del lgb tfu l to ber, the pleas -
urea of the Loudon season, in order to
return to Mosroombs and Mrs. Villers.
'By that one eel she immured famovea'ttle'
affections of the widow, who would
after that go anywhere to plea.. her,
while .be did not leave London until
Mrs. De Witt had seen bow much use
the girl could be in making the boom
attractive to men.
She paid several visits to the lively
little women's house, and it was in one
of these that she met Sir Jeffrey Wal -
cote for the first time. He bad been
abroad o1 • tour halt round the world
bunting and .booting at the time of Lee
la's arrival in England, and she had
thou only bard of him by repute. Sha
knew, moreover, that he was to marry
his cousin, • distant relation of her
own, Beryl Leyoester, whose people
lived leer Walcots. •
Mn. De Witt bad spoken mach about
bim, describing him always as oma of
her chief intimates rad suggesting more
>n
ber manner than in ber words that
tbere was an understanding between
them of the diose and most oonfiden-
N46e barelet's ger
fell on Lola, however, he seemed to
yield to the influence which abe exer-
cised over men, and be never had either
strength or Inclination to attempt to
resist it
Perceiving this and knowing intui-
tively that any encouragement on her
part would tend to estrange Mrs. Ila
Witt from ber led being quite unwill-
ing to have .o agreeable a hates eland
against tier, Lola bold herself in the
glsanges soave against him mad when
pack me off. I got nearly as far a the
town, and upon my word I meant to
go right on and find the little woman
and my cousin and atop with 'bent,
just as 1 said, bot -well, I thought d
this cosy veranda, and that -that you"
-he glanced at her, checked himself
end ,'hanged the finish of the aentenoe,
adding -"that o1 ouch an evening Doe
, gets such flee Hews of the sounsrye you
bow, and all that, amd g0 helm I am.
--4a/'ei1." And
baud. .me fano to ber.
"Yaw had no right to come heck,"
✓ id Lola gravely and almost coldly,
and ape closed ber book and gathered
up the fancy work which abe had been
dein{;. Then she rote from her chair
and stood jest where the son shone
S pot. her, bathing ber in golden light
and making ber magnificent beauty seem
almost supernatural in its dangling re-
dfauce.
trier companion gazed almost like one
bewitched by the gierioos picture she
made.
"Will you let me pear, Sir Jaffray?'
She asked, perpcaely avoiding big eyes.
He jumped to his feet and reddened.
yon mean yogi are going in?
Have I offended you? Ikm't go."
The lad was a whispered appeal, and
he looked down at her and seemed to
search for her cyte with his. After .
long palm abe lifted ber face and turned
upon him a gaffe which thrilled him till
be almost trembled with the passion
which raged in bim.
Theo abe made se it to speak, but said
nothing, and her eyes fell again, a
though beaten down by the ardent look
be beat on ber, and instead of speaking
she sighed deeply sad tesmuloualy.
She moved on es 'if to p'ss him e:it^-
est speaking, bet he barred bet pr.:.',
Ind as thou!) onwittindy the bre:lee'
against bim, then .topped, drew 1.. '!;
and stnrted and mirk down again i::;o
her chair, Miming her eon on the vs
A TROUBL§60ME INSECT.
Tho Russ Hal Dlatlsetively a Grape Feet,
bot Will !dt Any 0n.e Thing.
With the blooming of the grape, an
awkward, long legged, light bootee Wee
tie about oue-third of au inch in leugth
frequently appears iu ennrluoas swarms,
at first devouring the blossoms, then the
laves, reducing them frequently to
mere akelelous, and later attacking the
young fruit By the end of July these
an welcome •ignore disappear as sudden-
ly as they Dome
Though now distinctively a grape
ped, it was And known as an enemy of
the rose, whence its name, "rose bug,"
or rose chafer. 11 attacks also the Dios
soma of all other fruit trees and of many
ornamental trees and shrubs, and, in
taut, in periods of grist •bundauoe inept
at nothiug-garden vegetables, Krause'',
cereals or any green thing. At such
times plants appear a living mass of
sprawling beetles clustering ou every
leaf, bloeaoln or fruit
From • bulletin by C. L. Marlatt of
the department of agriculture it is
•
rands and her hog en her hand and s'1 -
ling quite still, like the etntln of eni
barrasled and sEfatfemat Jnvelineslt
Sir Jaffrey legged • against the rail of
the veranda mod made no effort to sae t' e k
for awhile„ content to feast his ryes
upon her Instronw twenty and to yield
himself up to the fnll e•ijnyment of the
emotion ahe bad roused.
He was toed far the lme of her, and
the knew it well enough mud me+nt to
be his wife.
But she knew also that there were
tffllcnitles to be mormj nnnt-d first and
that the moat act warily sud oantiously,
if she Wes to souse.
it wemem_ then .19 Soenthg nee
that scene on the thoSinemetotfed she
had already made excellent nee of her
time in England. She had found Mrs.
Villyer., the widow towhom her,father
had soot her, ready at first to give her
only • very cold sad Comet welcome,
willing to do for • relattvi,wbat the
demands nl duty, aympathetieally inter-
preted, might require, but unwilling,
on account d the ill odor of Lola'a La-
ther with him family, to take ber Into
the home on the footing of as intimate
and loving friend.
Bot Lola Had amply jellified 14.c
shrewd old father's judgment, and the
winning tact, the clever lsefnlnees, the
seppl43 adaptability and the patient
temper which the girl never failed to
stow won the old lady's heart, until the
was almomt loath to let her out of her
sight.
A. the old man bed predicted, m0ve-
evr, Mrs. Villyere' intrndnetira 'open-
ed the done of every desirable bowie tit
the 000nty, mord L* la's beauty and
ohm -sedans Ehl the test. She was the
beautiful Mils -Crawehay, and nobody
ever tried to remember that her fabler
bad eljnyed mad deserved a repetition
tee 05011 111 eomd*et la had made his
ChM. pionori him off no ro ndltine
that he alter set tail in his native
L#a elm SM Tenn take mfeen'er, 8.
other t t ...........01848 an excuse an
ret hoed to Moss.cmbe.
The batouet soon Iullovt•ed her, Mew
ever, and, Rotor to 'falcate motor.
mnrh to the tielif:tt of his mother. c: be
quite intoned( reload the rc:.:C3 ct bit
return. began to stalk Lo:: with ire
much p r'c erring peiirroo as Lo had
been wool to. show with some titer.
game.
At that ti re she wee- en very frteed=
17 terms tyit::^.-1 L.eyrester, and her
snick Wmuau's wit bad Clown her bow
strongly Beryl. who hid iter -f ie nR*he-
hied a mask of re.orve. loved the man
whom. by the common desire of both
t11i'tr families, she wee to marry- Noe
at the time bad Lola the levet intention
gr desire to come between them.
How that design was Lea formed e_ e
nevergotteeleatlyknew. The berouet'a
persistency was ere great cause, while
her determination bad been greatly
helped by an incident in which hie
mother, who had never liked her, had
plighted her and ln.ohWd the memory
of ber father and stirred the fires of that
temper whh:h she knew so well bot', to
control. Bot wheu coos the purpnee
wee formal nothing could stay it and
she eat herself to weave eueh a web of
witchery over the man as he could not
hope to break.
She knew that the climax was fast
approeehing, when. hearing that Mrs.
De Witt and Beryl Leycester were going
to stay at Torquay and that 81r Jaffray
we in be there at the same time, she
persuaded Mrs Villyers to go there ba-
stion them mid thus made it appear that
the baronet had followed ber.
To he continued.
HEADED
OFF.
what is known u the separator plan.
There are many kinds of mm04601'in'
tended to determine the amount of bat-
ter fat in milk, and these have beau in
•me, but it tattle to he believed by patrons
and state official' that there was little
docuracy or equity by *neon of the
mamma to which they were used, and
that, fnrtherwore, the benefit of all
doubta were leo lamely in favor of the
pruprietor, iu whose hands and under
whole directiene the teats were nude.
This led to the peerage of a law requir
tug that the machine for tenting milk,
std by the use of which the price to be
paid fur the same we to he Axed,
should be rent by the proprietor of ouch
orollawry lo the experiment statioo at
Amer, there to be thoroughly examfued,
led if found .ccurate'and correct in its
workings the °Ricers of the experiment
statiuu would Mate a certificate to that
effect. No machine should be so used
in sty creamery that had not been ex•
stunted and approved by there tinkers.
The new law also requires that cream-
ery men secure from the office of the
state deity commissions one 'Mandan!
milk measure and one standard test but
tie to be used in connection with the
particular machine that, has been ap-
proved by the officers at Ames.
This milk measure hails graduated or
tabulated rule along oue side much after
the style of the judicator on a therm, nu
eter. flues the operator has thoroughly
stirred the wllk, so that • fair setup'.
osu be secured, he draves into this milk
measure • certain amount of the fluid.
.ba silk ii then tufted into s telt hot'
tie, together with a certain amount of
snlphnrit} acid, and the bottle is thea
plated in the machine that has beet
Sli ixf-,.'Yy. •81.4=2
TOLEDO CATHEDRAL.
ILI:mini:Lilythe statin at Amu,• where
dyts•kept after; ogt pttn Wirth Of time at
a given tipeed.on'L. part of the lea
ohiue. All the work of testing is done
1 by rule. There is no gueaew'rk. Asa SW. and lmproselveness the Imbedresult, there :e equity not only as be eathwiral churches of France.
twerp the proprietor of the °reAmery About the high altar are grouped, a0•
and the patron, but beCwe8D the 1atr.)8 eotding toe high a, she ataantorer e , o-
themeelvea es the price that 0•119 er0afu• of the old kings and the new kings, and
cry can pus for milk depends upon the the heads of pulsvue houses of which we
quality of all the milk purchased.have never heard, and 'nighty warriors
Thew, milk measures and test bottles whose deeds have escaped the recognition
Ire sold by the state at 25 and 50 Dents, of hlstury. Here they sleep In the n we courts
reepecivel be their actual vest of pesos whteh-mos.rang
er
The
7. i% of their trailing sword,. Here they carne
whole aim Of the state is to e pertl with Mel; groat tanners; hero Our Indy
such i carne of ps wilh g on the part bleed 1Mm with the blessing of her
of creamery men a will give W the pe amfle: and hen they brought back upon
Iron that which is his due. The office of thea shields thoso who fell doing her
tier renecreiziry oommtrwktner 4s stasis, , , . . ahem forever near her shrine,
ing.$1sOlthehtef•' tefine •h r these. ped,pillail tl)o sweet, of her pitying ryes.
measures and bottles. , Every measure The cathedral 11 it tmre fi6'Ptilballs'towtT
and bottle is numbered and the number the We.tullneter of Sptln. Hero all her
is entered in the books of the dairy nom glories are recorded, and her each gen
•
eratlon, as H has passed from the stage,
tnlmsioneu'so that he can tell instantlyato,.e,i Ile noblest dead
COMPLETED IN THE YEAR OF THE
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Hate" r1. First Carhedr.l we e1. aft
Dotes Doak. to the arab C.ulur). moat
1t Was • Plato of Fraysr /attunes
Hofore.
Stephen Hensel, late of the American
Legation in Spain, contribute to the
century an arttole on "Toledo. the Im-
perial l'ly of Spain," with Illuetrattons
by Joseph Pennell. Mr. Bonsai says-
To the right, beyond and beneath us
✓ iser the great basilica, the l Median
. brio. built upon the touu,.auuus of
many 8 strange temple, and upon corner
* tours that were couw'vra tad to hi11
forgotten .reds. It rows tut of the I.,,t'
lying swamp Land, and 'tears Its lofty
spire far above the citadel that crown.
the rock-bound height. But It is incou1
p1e1e, and far front perfect. Atte, all the
WnWItlel that have p1 -wet over 1t. an,.
all the generations of earn who have lit
their little day !.bused 4pon It, we must
accept it as a true picture of hu t1:111
aspinsttoa and endemeeer. alway* .cruelty
and .trugeling, and never ettalning.
first cathedral chit r,'h of tit. glary erect. 1.
hero of which a mord has ruched u -
Was oonscrat.d toward the coo -e of the
sixteenth century; but even the candy,.
and superflelal 8118)8tiolls which have
boom made heueath the cathedral in recent
years dl.cloie the fact that here there
was a place of prayer long before the
Christian era dawned...-__,- _.....-
1'hu present educe las eempleted 18
tits -ye x of the dlemveter ef-Amem'te -,
first view of the bend 01101114* of she
mighty pile is unfortunately tmp1tred and
Interrupted by tthe,.urruu)o.l,og bnikiina*
But If we patch together lalx)rleusly 1014.
vro
'shhaallltl+r.laNes that. unlike any other Spanish"
shrine, the Toledo cathedral equals, If -It
doss not surpeaa, In majesty of construe
Kidney Trouble
FOR YEARS.
Nothing did Mr. R. E. Pitt
any good until he got
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Throughout the County of Leeds red
the Town of Brockville there is no medi-
cine spoken so highly of for all lentis. of
Kidney Diseases as Dosn'. Niw..y Pills•
As Canada's pioneer kidney pill, int rOduced
by Mr. James Doan, of Kingsville, Onto
in 'M , they stand to -day far superior
to all the imitations and substitutes that
have been offered the public in their stead.
Mr. R. E. Pitt; the well-known con-
tractor and budder, voices thew senti-
ments when he says, " I have had kidney
trouble for Years. I had tried numerous
remedies without much relief, and had
given up my back Ali gone for good, but
since using Doan's Kidney Pills theresult
has hcen marvellous! '1-1 e pain is e1)
gone. I fee like a new man, and can
highly testify to the virtues of Doan's
Kidney Pills.''
Dean's Kidney Pills are sold by all
dealers or sent by mail on rece.ppxt of
price, So cents a box or 3 boxes for 818.25.
The Doan Kidney Pill Co., Toronto. Out.
rIJC1gD LLT, w1T1 atatLta.
lfieed that the beetleiii- e.Wilibif
therms from Cen8da soutbwaird 1o'Vit-
ginia and Teunesaee and westward to
Colorado, but is particularly de.truotive
in the eastern and central portions of its
range, notably in New Jersey, Dela-
ware, and to • ler extent in New Eng I He also imams • certificate to every
Eng-
land and the central state..
As remedies the arsenicals are smite creamery man who pnr'haree these sup
able ouly when the beetles are not very plies-Olnaha 134)'.
1sm0rom. (Kberwise their ranks are
constantly rrla'mited by newcomers, and
under these ctrcaln.tabaei all insecti-
cide., however effective ordinarily, are
unavailable When this im the case, the
ih what creamery the .acne is in tree.. I remember with mixed feelings the
two days 1 spent there, esoorted by the
seven canons, each with his chain of
clanging keys, who opened to mr the
most secret treasures of the shrine. This
favor I owe to the oonrteous conddern
Hon of the cardinal. But I remember with
still grater pleasure the days that fol
lowed, when, isle front the courtesy of
mr olcemne, In the disguise of cepa and
straw sandal., I wander, undisturbed
and ugenllahtened, through the wterert
precincts. One evening, as I sat and 118
toned to the vesper song an open door In
a stone pier which 1 bad never sen be
fore caught my eye. I entered, and,
1 1 of done
naves shard Keeping Quality.
The keeping quality of butter should
be considered in making op a scale of
points for judging it. Few people desire
only hope is in collecting the beetles ori to buy better every day, and if the hat.
nee Leta... Ia Which the idttor's AIL in covering and protecting plants with i erday's purebase cannot keep good,
vie. was Aosopl.d With Frost. netting or later in bagging grape. Ad- when properly cared for, until the next
It le not often that persons with a liter- vantage may be taken of their great Saturday it is a serious fault.
ary fever who are bent on writing can be fondness tor the bloom of spires, and And ore n believeevthat
method his doesnohandling4.
turned from their purpose, no matter how rows of these 8owertn; shrubs may be peed pn
hopreler the outlook mIy be for them. A planted about the viney.,rrt to lure them Dram nr making the butter any more
Boston satins, buwevlr, records •cats of and facilitate their collo tion. j thea upon the character of the food anti
an ambitious aspirant for literary honors They may be gathered from these top water given or upon the healthy condi
who was induced to see the error better
his plants. or the grapes thetaselves in large ,, tion of the animal. We know that care
way and engage 1n al gift.. le bK.ta
adapted to his natural gifts. Ifs sent an .head beating opts, or by jarring into I less handling may spoil the batter from
gMoetaeale poor awry to the editor mid said I latrge fennel shaped collectors on the abe hest mills in the. world, but we dr,
In the letter accompanying It: plan of an inverter! umbrella. The latter ant Mom lingstirere Maley W*Y 40• eine
"I desire to inmate In litaratoor If you apparatus should have a vessel contain- Acute gond batter from poor milk tainted
think I have tallent enough to make it lag kerosene and water at the bottom to with the feeding of mussy fodder, dam
pay. Int me know your candid opinion, led and kill the beetles aged grain, decaying vegetables or each
titfor I ain't got no time to fool away, an 1t a have an unpleasant flavor. And im•
so I can r ain't fortaI want to know 11 pure water is worse than toad food, and
Seo I can Iitor In what V." we are not sure but impure sae tobreaths
The editor wrote frankly to the not hisuld 1. worse than either.
be anchor that e fly advised
was i - po 1f that most important point in the
"fort" and earnestly advised him to ''in- will i abort
gage" in 'something else. erred mooring of batter, the Amery, is due to
Three months later tttl1 reply came le r � bacteria, we will say that we once knew
the editor: a neighbor to get the bacteria of • noioti
I 11 know I'd Itoo you a led toe t into his batter by allowing a cartloed
lee you know that I toot your I ha and !x 1 of onions to stand le tee baro Boor over-
lK edleoor go w thunder. me I have aa- night about six feet nem toe cow's'
gaged 1■ the money t blzThers mod ani Pn i i betide The milk d the cows was just
gloryMaking k*1, 11et It There ain't M
gory Is It, bat I reckon the ntnrn. taw a strongly flavored with the onion a
giddier and bigger than they are in liter- was the air in the barn. That proved
stow. so I am much obliged to you far two things at lasts -that the onions
heeding me off the way you did, and K should not have been pot in thee, and
r d lee ni ever 111 out this the beop that the barn was a rot well ventilated.
sad ser me and treat you the bat 1 o He should have known these thing* be -
know is pr fore, but be was young and more access•
This M probably the whos instance y • to growltig vegetables than ke
"beaded off" writer cheerfully or v� to the !Orfs d c tea,<, it d miring for sank oonera-Amezio.o Cul-
tivibie.
Wes*Iphlde or Carta For er.l.. Ursa.
One dram of bisulphide of carbon
evaporated to one cubic toot d space
1 kill everymelon louse o an
boar. A dram may be roughly mean
a nful, and it should be evap-
orated in a shallow receptacle
*poo the surface of the groomd, bat
should not be poured upon t soil.
The vapor of the bisulphide is heavy
and finks. First of alt, then, t . im-
portant that whatever cover input upon
the bill should be forced a little into
the soil to prevent the vaporfowing oat
underneath totem ie fills tlse space. A
lam shell makes an excellent evaporat-
ing dish and has the advaalageof being
abs. e
o nes
grstetully al well a wisely aocept.d the not roach matter; ties may be tgtiere,
decldon of an r..s and profited by is.- oblong or dome shaped, though the last
Damn Free Press. is preferable. Paper hay caps are very
satisfactory, or the psperware tube that
are sometimes seen It is pn.sible to
make an equally effective cap nut of
heavy paper or docko4oth. Melon vines
exclaimed.
11e close to the surface of the ground,
and it is dif8oalt, ewes with an under -
spray norsle. to reach all "parte. The
vapor of the biaolphide penetrates ev-
ery where and reaches emery Plaut loose,
no neater bow well protected. -J. B.
Smith, New Jersey Agrionitorel Col-
MECHANICS' IN81ITUTE.
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GOIBAYNtl�eYr.
LRRP APING �our.
of :ret strost ted latest@ (n1.1a1Nt
Open front I to a 1..1., sad tr,.'s T to la en.
AMOUT -VtiL•It
..IN. LIBRA1T.
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DEssifirstisulr Tlt'KBT GNLV 01.011e
Granting tree use.1 Library and 15,'aims ,
Appllcad.*a for peluhrrshlp r, )' tired bp
Librarian . lit .",' M. M.
--<•iiwtlrirYtaYiii.�ara
Ood.ncb. March 18 Im'&
- rivet ?shamble rewss1as.
"Them are burglars trying to pet Into
the 'shirt!" she exclaimed. In an In.t.nt
he had leaped Into his clothes and started
down .tai re.
"My diamonds""
"Shall I hide them?"
"You might hide them if you want
as,- he answerer', pausing at the dn, e.
"Hut I don 8' think diamonds would ase
much lndunement to them. 41y 1148.ry
1. that they've somehow found out about
that toll of anthracite coal we bought
yesterday."-Waehing(on Star.
she
When he found Lola was staying in
the place, he did not attempt to conceal
hie plcasare, and he wnold have been
with her from morning till night 11 the
would have allowed 1t; hot, knowing
the diength of ber hold over him, the
gent Min away enutinoally to be with
the others, while the herself would
.void him netentationoly.
This treatment only fed the fever of
his paasiou, however, and, ehtorbed in
his love for her and desire to have her
Inc his wife, he was perplexed by the
thousand Inver's fear. and nnerteintiem
Which the onquetry tit her manner to-
ward him created.
A hundred time, in 8)143 Bret few days
Of thia visit ha had res11vPd to ask her
te merry bim, and he sought to, melte
as 0008.105. het always they seerh.d to
be tsMreipS/ jail when he had began
to frame the gesntion, and his wits
were ton Amsted by his Inv. to see that
little herself contrived many of the in-
tereepticW.
But on the day when he found hot
alone on the veranda he had retorted
determhted that he world wait so ten -
ger. He wit hungering for the ktllewl-
idge that the breadths. Wham she tom
omit be mill think et seining sags.
Aft mother's °Ova . M tis giarels s.
Ids stye then 714 aarioo
+ey agar
ism11-�f
l h.• Ir. t n,r.
"Dear me! How little I know sheet
plants and things," mid Mr. l'hym.tn.
There's a wall neer where 1 live shat M
novered with ivy. Beery spring 1 wateh
It grow arson, the silent web of vine
stalks disappearing gradually until Its
ally It 1s (evered all over with a sheet of
green leaves that tremble and were In
the slightest breeze.
" kvery. year 1 had noticed, when the
vine began to get green, that there rains
flrat not • very strongly marked Met yet
rlrarly defined hand of calor extending
from top M bottom along bite side of the
end of this wall, anti until, the wall wee
wholly covered this land retained Its
prominence. And this year 1 discovered
tho apse of the gee *for forwaadneas of
this .trip of vine, It was doe to the
earmt* s e1Nmn.y .that ran op
through the wall at that point, extend
Ing nn up above the roof
" 'Why, 18'e the chimney (hat Inakev
that *trip-er>aeere etre4v7.,'-4 said a
Mrs. (:ttyman on the day 1 made the
great dlsrtevery. -
Why, rer'Mlnly,' she 4114.
"She had known it always." -New
York Oen.
lege. •
---
Wooly Wag ea A'sa.dar.
Maly bug in not easily evercome
when once established. Fur • badly in
tested plant '11)4 floral New Yorker rec-
ommends a hard syringing or hosing
with alar water to dielotge as many
of the insects as possible, and then soh
off all the remainder with a we. sponge.
A decoction of pyrethrum in .400hol
(elite part, by weight of powder to
three parts of aloobnit, allowed to .tanto
for • week end then filtered, may be
stead with an atomi'se'r with good re-
sults It in hard to injure the maly
bug, b'oane• it wears .a waterproof ;
when it has been effectually ie robed.
the insect turns brown and mud be rub-
bed oft if it "till adheres to the plant.
Dipping the plant in a whale nil asap
gelatine. dilute fir tree oil or lemon ail
nee other retneillet for obit crSilbte.
taverl"blr the craw.
Here fs aha testimony a Carroll D.
Wright. United `(tales Commiselon*r of
Lancer, whn can hardly be relied f.natle
on the tempetnnee question "I have
hmked Into a theneand home of the
working people of lenrope: f don't know
how many In this country. i have wed
to find the hest and the wont. Ana
walls, se I say. I am aware that the
*M1lst exl.M, and a bad a under Aere
env
.ystem or 84 bed as In any age,
never had to look beyond the Inmates to
end the mous; and 1ti *1011 WNW. 51 tar
,s my not ebsseva8W0 goes,
drunken -
toss lea. et she battsgs of the misery.
rad" Ant Me MM}lI eptNnm of tilt
lige stl'fef ':gl,nd4100.4 +8arroending IbI
IM/ gid their latrines
Dalry Heti Creamery. --
Don't 1 1 the timothy or clover get
ton ripe before you cot it fon the cowl.
Cut bets*' the seed is filly formed, be
'Mane this fonnatlon of the framed take's
away rapidly from the nutrition of the
stalk. There is net much inn or enured'
mend r a cow in chewing woody fiber
Hay for cows mettle to be cat g'reeener
and tenderer than that for homes.
aernmer Flowers For Catling.
• iris, in variety, .se ebrenwar-Rladtsli
in variety. l.iliam anratnnr, L sp•rhn-
ram album and 10hrotn. asters, .n•,ea
pat, merigold8. dahlias, helieuthds
(several) and allit-pods. The !Jet :nay
bra prolonged y4t by the more, but the
Ibove will furnish long stemmed good
keeping fl"w.rs.-Amerian (;ard.ning.
A
ILTOR
THESEA?�ISHAR1ADA.
BATTERED AND BEATEN BY THE.
LITTLE 'ENGLISH FLEE:.
Th. nig Galles*, niddied With %hot sed
Soot ' Hrtrtwg Tw+meds the *hosts--
Heggl..g !Adonis to.arrrndrr.
"The Spanish Armada" is the .abject
of an article In the Century, written by
Vi'fltlam Frederic '111ton. with an intro-
ru1.
dos,,111fapi. v1 of the .defert_ot the "fin
vinotble'AYa1Da:" _.
In Spain the proems* and feature of
the Armada had uaburally been the dile
all•absorbing theme of boasting 08 000)eo-
-ttlre; In palace and monastery, to street
and shop. From every attar of the land
fervent prayers for Its .neeer were rt..
Ing. The King hl,n.elf passed hours of
every day epee his knees Beier ,tbu sacra-
ment; Ind those In waiting on hint de-
clared that he often rose in the night,
sighing to heaven for vlceory.
And now ams Ston lo.a'agOed news.
Yet the King, feverish as was hie longing
for ouee.00, was too old ■ player to pus
.beeinte trust In his autbeinsador'• toa-
tu.vd report; for the sanguine, magnllo-
quent.Mendota had n reputation for "de-
oelvtng himself." So l'hlllp, In an agony
of conflicting doubt and hope. shut bins
amending • spirt stairway self up in the Escorial, and would give
aomsl which the cobwebs were drawn as no one audience until he sbuuld t.OSlve
more certain tidings.
While Mendoza's rtdlonlous rumors
were clreujatlog through the courts of
the Continent, the Armada was in reality
dying, stippled and . miserable, into Ibe
fogs and rites ditto dartos° (k:ean. For
YbiLLp'1�avi.n18atoongnered.
had been terriJtbly rliot itteted1uL17j 184 t0Dr. "-
sant. deadly tiro of the Kngllgh gunners
In the great tight off Or•velMee. tabes
the Spanish admiral, the Duke of Nadine
Sldonlu, counted over hie shim after the
battle, several were missing, among them
those of the two heroes of the day on the
Spanish std., the dashing, trresl,tibl•
soldier -sailors Toledo and Pimento'. wbe,
having fought tlll,ln the words of a Spaniels
ottioer present, their crack galleons were
"knocked in pieces. and the crews nearly
all dead or wounded," drifted in the Meet
night, helpless, a rather unbelped, away
from their consorts toward the Low
Country coast.
Yet the Armada had not oaten utterly
routed, and Klteabe•th's captains knew,
this fell well. In tho evening'. !net atter
the fighting had ee,teed. Howard wrote
home that he had "d!.tres.ud them
much," and, thwlgn hedoubt.d not. "by
God's geed a..totanrt', to npprems them,"
yet he would not "write onto her Maj.. -
t7 '6111 more be done " And even jubilant
Drake, *nee with the Insight et tote gte tmoat ;
sa-capt•In, bed at one, amino. Its full extent the .ticcea8 aafeved
letine1'One repeated to "wrestle *
pull" vetch thet3pani.ru, iod leu keep•
log a sawn' old upon them night and
thick and 'trees as cords, tams out o
the darkness at Isar into the light of a
little chapel, all anther and alab8ater.
I touched with reverence the heat of
the votaress*. worn by the Image which
stool over HUI deserted otter, -and on the
mnmeol ft"-I''flm
Octoher lease.. 1 never kn.atf„to w:^it
taint the chapel wet dedicated. or why
the cult tune leen withdrawn; and though
1 sought It often. 1 never found my way
again 1Tth1' forgotten chapel.
Wheu Due of It crow's teats seems to
be ahri venue up and falling away seal
er than the nett, massage it softly 1114(1
frequently with an ointment df half
sweet oil and half aleohol. Use only
the [test quality of alcohol. Continue
treatment till impnuvetneut sets in.
lflgoer tenet to luck in any part of the
dairy humiliate, from feeding and clean-
ing the oow to making 1111terand charm.
One hundred pounds of iMIl that
yields 4 per crit butter fat would make
considerably more hatter than 900
pounds of 9 per tent milk would do.
Why? lin-rune 200 pounds of milk will
lose 111111 of the fat in separating and
churning that the 4 per exalt would
UNIFORM MILK TEST.
Sews negatat8• et ab.dar'd Wepteed
P»ws eop.ratuwm and Toot 8,.tt1.s.
A new law for the reegnlatirm oat
nrvamerlen and uniformity in milk ted
Ing throughout the state is being put in
operation by the state dairy nnmmiesion
sr, sedated by the dairy department of
the experiment iW.itm at the nnllege s
Ams. Considerable trouble hos bene ex
P1114io".4 to the post In arriving at the
soars -Gantt value d *milk mit to
a
miliiiiertms as ears Dpi seal upon
Con.lrt. s. Wood
Th. anomalous %oscinele of a large
gang of penitentiary convicts working
In the open air iw presented everyday
near Yuma, A. T. They are camped on
the Colorado river. a short dietetics, 'shove
Yuma, and they are engagepl 1n cutting
wood for the territorial government
None of thein escape, and none try to
escape. Why do they stay" Heranse each
man guards the others. Each man Is e
"abort termer." none of them h:avina
more than ■ year to serve All ere
allowed a rebate for the work they d...
When a cons let has cut two cards of
wood he has earned a day's rebates on
his t,'1311; Int shied 1 unr of the gang
eseaf,e then every ratan In the gang Imes
all rebate. Thus each man becomes ►1s
brother's keeper.
Wow HI■ attunes staled.
"Mamma I've learned to talk Span-
" Have
pan-"Have you, Johnny? How much have
you leermed?"
I can say 'caratnb* 1' "
" What dodll that mean?" ,
"It mtttio---!,•
Whereapon""."7ohidbtj get tote gymnast
spanking of his who career and his
etndies in the Spanish language came
to s sudden clowao.-"Chicago Tribune.
atretegy fa Cuba.
Captain Killem, U. K. N. (at Cienfn-
gta)'--What's become of all thane blood-
thirsty Spaniards who were to attack ns
hen?
Lieutenant Slick, It B. N. -I sent
three barrels of grnb ashore, and the
starving devils dashed off with 11 to the
tnteriox.-New York Weekly.
$1l 1.1.1. rmar 1heeder.
Crawfish, swabs and lobsters Bre
peculiarly sensitive to loud noises. and it
e a fact that 11 loud and sudden clap of
thunder will eau.o therm to amputate or
drop their Targe claws and "pincers
The impulse which seism thele when
.uddenly alarmed 14 to throw off their
hea claws. so that they mly the
quicker *31117 off to • Own of .safety.
(Cabs and lobsters can In ten days ora
fortnight grow new claws ns largo as the
old Inc.. 1'nr several week., howt•ver,
the patient who I. growing on a new set
of fighting weapons does not '.3)3)8x•
among the armed members of his fa illy,
because, his claws lacing soft. he vont,'
not "take his own part," and would let
eaten be hi. canniest brethren. -Gulden
Days.
An We Ceeld gay.
The Jn.lg.--And for the betty with
which yon have eondneted yourself tier-
ing your trial I shall give you an addi-
tional fine of $I0. How dorm that salt
yogi?
The VlllalneoTbat is what I would
mill tetra tuna -I diseapxllia Sonnei.
laodere Arr1ru,rnrsa 11raining.
F,00atlon In all brenohees of farming
will In •he,f11ture be nnlvtirsal. 'Europe
has'dairy 'whole', and short onnr.tm in
agriculture are being given at nearly all
Of the experiment stations • In this o tun•
try. The Rhode Leland nation now has a
poultry department, In which pmpll8 are
taught the inerlta and cheraeterl*tire elf
the breed., fowl anatomy. dl0aset,
artificial Inentevion and the brooding of
chick., chemistry as applied to the f M
of fowls, ennstruetlon of prntl•ry tinder's,
growing green Mode for poultry, etc.
Mow to Keep 0hb8*. Healthy.
Charcoal, ermined and ground oyster
shell cad -.Musa 4184 aboald, it_kapt 10
small shallow boxes where the ehleks an
help themselves. Feed often, lint Only
what the chicks will eat up clad" to say
five rnlnewe. wad beep tbe,lsad-Ltalt-,*84-.
drinking fo,nt.ln as clean as soap and
hot water (omissionn11v) an make thein.
The practice of dumping a lot of fond
down on the ground nr on a dirty bawd
M poor economy. It will ave time, but it
will not save the nhfeks.
I11.
4n spite of their exhaustion, the Spani-
ards had raise inset) their eyes during
the night after oiravellnes, fearing every
moment to hear their ships,trlkd. on the
treacherous banks which skirt. the Low -
Country cast. Soon after JAC-bre-hetheir
fears were all but realised The Hahn, bad
gradually edged to the horthw•t111. and
was now blowing hard imm the nortb•
West. Thi' moot have been a fair enough
wind for Cabbie; but Silenta had no
stomach for another light, and. owing to
their crippled *tete, hie ships, bad sailers
at best, were now falling off to" leeward
toward the new Ione of .halo. With ter-
ror the ;ipanlante saw in front of them
the great waves breaking Into gray foam
on the 'smooth sand., awl .lose behind
them the pursuing t:oglish feet N1dnnla
was lagging, with his stont hearted lieut-
enants, Heralds and Leyte. The pilote
declared that tbesIhee't was doomed unless
the wind shifted, and that speedily.
Chlckeo heirt.d oOlean legged Sldonla b
strike his rotor., snd at iteme-eave thine'
end liver; but the admiral confessed him -
.431. and raaolvat to die, if die he marl„
like • sane knight of the cross 'the rag
Ilah, hnwever, *lid not *twit. believing,
as the Swollenls afterwards' concluded,
that the A.111a•18 *a. drifting of itself t1
sure destntctlon. Soddenly. bye mlracla
as the Npsnlanh pintiely thmnght, the
wind veered to the etttthward. The Ai -
nude, rntrued from the shoals only'b
'guf1T8V t,nu't' Th-rfl , fkteyawl iie5g
end .*nisi out Int.' aha dre,g Nurtb Ste„
closely followed by the Knells)).
Shaken by tier terrible ettealn of eh. Isd
1411 -Rnaa, Slat- - nm► ulter41 • w*n.....i- M -
►he nerrewee'0 et 11,1* tact eueapa Mets
the very jaws of depth, Shionla was 1n a
panic of donht ami despair. .So, hastily
aomlmning a council of war, he .•ked
Whether he ought to sail hark Into the
Channel. 1t we. voted to do so If the
Wind name fair, otherwise to "obey the
weather," and o.tl north abnut to Spain;
for, it was urged, hulls wen laking at e
thousand shot holes, the rigging wet ter-
ribly cut up. and the .mmnnttfnn wap.
nearly all eon tented. Promising to turn
Met If the wind shifted, Sidnnta healed
his ragged fleet for the 1(18007.; yet It
may ire inferred th.t he had no wish b
tea again .he devilish beetles of those
heretto pirates.
Lesi Wath .f Mee.
The bey had enlisted In the anny-had
sipped away from home and "fined the
element," and the old couple worried
over it until the tnot.her derided that the
old man must Vatter him and bring him
home. •
Aft.? vreary journeys (*sold man reach•
ed the camp mind ale his boy on dress pa
rade and heard the band play "nixie" as
of old, and he got enthneed and "hur-
rahed" louder than any one else and patted
hie boy on the smnlder and Ml.gnphed
home:
Manu -The dere thine leeks s, emelt lite
old limos that 1 think 1.13 uta her myself.
bead we fy old rel. as seafesm by sap ase
Menearf teen.
A Cere t• sememelt .
"My wife know' mon abort the gong•
esphy of the war than 1 de "
"Ih,ean't that annoy your"
"No. When the gets to 111owing off. I
eorrse4 hie_ prnnuneletiM d tipli
vrwis."-Obletlgo RerntlW