The Signal, 1898-10-20, Page 7LOLORkVSjIkY
"Sir Jaffray and Lola have gone out
;wag. Sir Jaffrey bad • redden rano
aoas to a meeting of county folks about
I pee political business or other, and
Lola has ridden off with. him. They're
hie a couple of ridiculous lovers lis
ty,;r lint calf love, those two. isn't it
absurd? They mien elways be together."
"Tone will cbauee 111 that," said the
Lhi'cbwa n. "It is tact the sort of tolls
d which yes would be guilty, WS -
dere,"
"Do 7a mean that nastily?"
"No, indeed. But you kuow so well
bow to keep at • cool distance from
your admirers, even from your boa -
baud." And be bowed. He felt viciooa
at Lola's abaenoe, and Mrs De Witt's
pertness irritated Mw.
'•Mau are like mites under the micro -
gore, requiring to be kept at • focus
distance." ,
"Possibly, but be careful. The miero-
swpe may serve as the burning glans of
passi..n and warm them Into life," be
answered insolently, looking at her
with an expression in his eyes which
made ber flush. "Come," be said, pass-
ive
astins his arm through ben and leading
her away to the mann hall; "let me
rug to you."
"Anything to kill the time till to-
night," was his thought.
"Whap.aball I ring to you?" be asked,
pauiag ber aloes to him by the piano.
su doss that he could stop and touch
her band when be }deemed, He ran his
fingers over the keys with the touch of
a trader and broke into • long Italian
love song, running through all the
Oases of emotional love and ringing
the wettest, sweetest words in his won-
derful voice that rose and fell 1n the
redcoats of the air, now wild, now rol-
licking, Dow joyous and again soft like
the plaint of a dove, and eroding with •
strain that meds even Mrs. De Witt ber-
.elf forgetful and emotional and all but
brought the tear' to her eyes.
"You see what you oan do with me,"
be said 1n a gentle, caressing tone, lay-
ing a hand on herr, which she did not
t •.,ke off. while he looked right into
b.r eyes.
-"she made a movement then as It to
take Iter hand from his, and quickly he
turned to the plena.
"You are cruel," he maid withont
locking at ber, and then be burst again
into a gong in which his whole heart
and soul seemed to be caught in a
strong, irresistible swirl of emotion.
H. was like one beside himself till the
end came soddenly and quickly, and
then, as if obeying an irresistible im-
pute., he turned to ber swiftly, and,
retelling ber in his quick, lithe embrace,
he held ber closeto him while be killed
Mr three time passionately right fall
on the lips.
She ball screamed and struggled
back, frightened at what She had
deemed his sodden passion for ber and
yet not wholly displeased ■t having
bred the man. Then she found her
voice and cried:
• flow dare you?' And in• tumult of
mingled emotion the fied out of the
room.
When the door closed behind her, be
laughed and shook hie bead and cried
to himself in a tone of glee: •
Serve you right, my lady, fgr_tgy-
ing to play with tire." And, terniggeo
the piano, be rattled out a gay Fgtneh
chanson in • tans of sheer devfltndy
rare humor. •
At the end of It be jumped up im-
petuously from the piano, and with •
frown on his tate swore volubly in
French as be crossed the room to one
el the windows which opened o0 to the
terrane io front of the house.
"What • day[ How I bete this in-
fernal aaspe»sel I wish the night wonld
COMP and get the thing over."
Bet be forced beck lila light, laugh-
ing, devil may care winner for the red
of the day and evening. Lida and her
husband did Dot route back until close
to the dinner time, and thus he Saw
nothing 01 her.
liraDe Witt be met with an ind.-
s.tibable air of repentance mingled
with pleasure that be had been led o0
to soch • pitch of audacity, and she
was tooled by his manner till she for-
gave him.
"If yor do not forgive m!!,,,� I shall
have the manor tomorrow at6rniDg,"
•
"1Thnt shall f sing to your' Pie asked
he stud. "And yet why Should 1 ark
forgiveness? Wan it not the fault Of
your man bunt'? Who wenld blame
me ins leafing myt.tlf in the mase of
nor eyes?,'
"I will not forgive you it you do not
dire me .,your Solemn word of honor
lever to renal your offense and never
to dream of Affendfng again."
"1 ate net an Waked' he murmured.
"I" ',1st an offense? Say, 1 am sorry.
1 Main yon," be cried, with a Sadden
impel.", "On my boner I will near
*gain forget what i wish I need neva
remember." And he spoke with mi h ap-
parent earn e.tnest and feeling that Mrs.
Ike Witt forgave him without another
nerd
With Beryl ho was
sedulity 'Self.
p • Pnid i1*r marked attention in a tar -
rattly deferential manner, but in a w.y
Mitch those present weld not tail to
satires.
',There if a irate1111 landrtow at 19
e'
nnk " he said WISE as sorra ag they
rest. "1 held you ee your word. Till
thin Wage are se obey hap been
*4 7" I tour part with the re."
„1 Ida, st
have oto part to play," she an -
"mood eerily.
I'ttronn ate. you ase •."lona for the
7. O[ °f tis /sally." The Obese aka
i' da a�at kwendllthreeptlida 1keep you $ MSI -
rah
'� ie1
keep mins, and you can fords an open
e•cla•dre. As you will."
Aud Beryl, turned in this way, was
compelled to auburn to tbe little atteu-
tioes which of deliberate purpose be
paid ber. •
It was 'part of sir plan thal'al1 tkt'die
mayor rbuuld fur that night wethat the tea, aid waited. •
two were ou excellent terms, and in bite had not long to wait
that he was so completely successful Almost am soou as elm bed finished
that Sir Jaffray mentioned it bots to ! her preparatiolas she heard the top of
him and to Iola the ladder buwpiug softly against the
the Freuchtuan's almost reckless w'•Il am Pierre Tooled tante ap it again-
gnyety land all through the evening, As be reached the top and his bead
and Lola could nut fail to actio. it. It ' showed between the window and the
disturbed her. She l,new the wau, and sky the moon shone out and lighted up
kuew well enough that it was th. cloak the window and the Bgtue 01 the man
for a state of nervous restlessness, the and carne flooding into the room almost
result of great agitatiou of some kind. to the feet of the girl.
ribs watched bim closely, endeavoring She saw biro peer eagerly into the
to get sewn clew that would give ber mum, while it was thea tlinmieatcd,
the key to the problem of bid iutentions ' add the codld taucy his eyes gleatu ig
and feelings, but she could detect with atisfaction at Hutting all quiet
notbiug.I within mud geeing what looked like rue
Beryl was struck by it also and sur- form of the sleeper still and motiveless
prised by it and was angered at the on the bed.
fallsposition in which the man by his to another second the moonlight bad
audacity placed her, but she set it down done, and all was dark again, aud be -
merely to his desire to brawn dot iris fore Beryl's eyed had recovered midi -
villainy before ber and to Show that, ciently from the change [rum moonlight
though be wag afraid not to aoeept the to dark to let her see what be was do -
terms she bad imposed, yet he was re- 1ng she beard the click of the window
solved to accept thea' id hu own way. bolt as it flew beck before tbe thin knite
home of the etfecte, too..11e pat down blade which Pierre Turriae had passed
to wine. 8he observed that he drank between the **ghee.
heavily at dinner, mad this increased Tbe next instant the lower sash was
the disgust hag felt toward him. ! raised cautiously, slowly and almost
Butnoterglirbp•eof tilt terrible tenth noiselessly, sure that the draft caused
dawned upon her, not • thought that by the rush of air from the window to
ever in ills moldgt of ba 'stigmas aamaeri—tiesopen doer sat tha curtain root
big loudest laughs, bis tenderest sods", ! while Beryl felt the night air strike
his thoughts were all set in deadly con. ' 8old aud chill upon that part of her faoe
oeetrattou upon bis ply to snks ber pig 'hlal wail uncovered so that she might
that night 1 SSS what was being done.
She retired early, going to sit with I As goon as the window was railed
old Lady Wakote in ber rooms, and high enough the man sapped in so rot*.
there was not a thought of personal }y and quietly that Beryl could scarcely
dnuger in her mind. She was relieved
With *welt, (tit wutrweul she so
suede up the bed that it looked as tlsot gb, Pes
some one were .leepiug iu it, stud then FRU,
she upeued the dour, which was cheered r
by a curtatu, and wuftiing her bead in
• dark "bawl she stood 1u the doepway
sufficiently concealed by th. doorsur
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ENEMIES OF THE GRAPE.
Larva of the Nowa Mata and 0.$worma
aitldaetuq Rem.dI.e.
Til lanie of upward of 60 tootle
feed ou the foliage of the grape. Many
of these aro rare, yet many other's art
occasionally destructive. The large,
green or hmwuisb, nsua!ly horned.
aphingid larvae and certain cutworms
are ofteneet the cense of important dam-
age. The larva, of some ten specie, td
hawk moths or sphingids occur its tip
grape, awl nearly all are widely dietrib
utteL The two most freq reit ly met will
is the Atchrwon spite: ePhilanapela
achemou) herowith figured to illmutnta
the c-haracteristios of the group. Tht
sphiux larva, .titp a branchats, nt»
completely 'and are theretbre ,etiiil�
noted. They are not often Very abut;
hear him, and then -be closed the win -
to think that the man bad spent his dow behind him.
last evening at the manor, and that At that instant • thought occurred to
from then the atmosphere of the place the girl What if the Frenchman wen
would be the clearer for bio absence, not coming in search of ber, but were
and Om was glad to reflect also that merely payaeg • surreptitious visit to
etre part of the complicated problem this wing of the boom and had chosen
would by the morrow be in a fair way
of settlement.
When the man himself was gone, it
would be much easier to deal with the
question as it affected Lula, and this
was the thought which she had when,
after soros two or three hours, she went
to her own room, which was next to
that d Lady Waleote's, to go to bed.
Fortunately for her, she could not
sleep. The interview with Pierre Ter-
rien had opened op • vein of human
nature which was so novel to ber—
naked, unblushing, unashamed villainy
—and she had been so profoundly moved
by all that she had beard and by the
mystery and misery which hong over
the boise that she lay awake hour after
boor, taming from aide to aide, trying
to see some way out of the tangle.
For a tong time she burned • light,
reading now and again in the attempt
to break the thread of ber painful
by chance her room to pass through? I
that cane she stood right in hie path.
But his actions almost immediately
removed the doubt.
The moon bad not shone out again
from behind the clouds, and the room
was too dark for Pierre Tertian to see
with any clearness, bot Beryl's eyes bad
grown so ecenettrmeti Yo the gloom that
as he stood between ber and the window
she could watch every action of his.
He stood quite still for almost half a
minute, looking toward the bed, as it
seemed, and the dilluem was so acute
that Beryl could even hear bim breathe.
After a pause betook something from
his pocket which rhe thought was a
handkerchief and shook it out lighti;,
and, folding it carelessly, held it in but
left hand. Then he stood dill, with his
bead bent forward toward the bed ss
though littering intently for the breath-
ing of the sleeper be thought was lying
thoughts; bot, ending this vain, the pat ' there at 011 mercy -
ant the light and lay in the darkness Beryl clinched ber teeth as she noticed
The night was not, however, • very this,
dark one. There was a moon, though Next, and with only a slight pause,
be took something from another pocket.
What it was the could not see, but
when she saw him pot it to his mouth
and heard a slight creaking sound, as
of • cork being drawn, she knew that it
was a bottle, and *he was prepared to
see him pour the contents on to the
handkerchief. Tbia done, be thrust the
bottle hastily into ■ ride pocket and
moved @lowly and very stealthily to-
ward the bead of the bed.
A Lint smell of drugs spread itself
Sort the room, and Beryl recognised it
instantly as chloroform.
It was now quite clear to her what
be meant to do.
He was going to drug ber fir'[ and
probably suffocate her and then march
for the paper which she had told him
that morning wee the only incriminat-
ing piece of evidence in ber possession.
He meant to murder her.
Ibis thought, which might well have
ouuerved ber, had ■ quite opposite
effect It stimulated ber courage, and
from the security of her hiding place,
and with the .reurance that she had
only to nee out in the corridor and call
loudly for help to be quite safe, she
watched his every movement with in-
finite interest.
He bad passed now out of the line of
the window, and his movements in the
deeper gloom were more difficult to fol-
low, but ebe meld still make out what
he did.
Belore be reached the head of the
bed it wal obvionn that he was puzzled
by something unusual, probably, she
thought, by bearing no sound of breath-
ing from the bed. He bent forward and
listened again intently, and as be was
in the act of doing Chia the clouds part-
ed again from before the moon." face,
and the silver light came ones more
streaming brilliantly into the room.
Before it vanished Beryl heard him
"latter an oath in French into his mus-
tache while be stood not knowing what
to du.
Then be moved forward again to the
bead of the bed and steop..i low down,
keeping the chloroformed h.ndkerchief
in evident readiness to hnid over the
fare of the sleeRert
('Po be e0•tlnoed.)
1ta light was shrouded by the heavy
drifts of clouds which • somewhat fit-
ful wind was driving across the sky.
Her blind was drawn up, according to
her custom, to catch the earliest morn-
ing light, and now and again when her
eyes, had grown accustomed to the dark -
Dews she eoald watch the flying clouds
as she lay with her face turned toward
the window.
It was while she was thus occu-
pied, having made another vain effort
to get to sleep, that she fancied she
could hear s noise, though whether it
was in ber room or oat in the corridor
or in the nett room or outside she
mold not ay. Thinking that it might
be Lsdy Walcote moving, she listened
very intently.
What she beard next made ber bead
beat quickly. She was a brave girl,
full of resource and daring at need. but
the noise she heard might have made •
man nervOua
11 cases !ram onside in the night,
an it seemed that thieves were break-
ing into tbe manor hoose. What she
beard was the sound of a lfdder being
placed close to her window. 8be heard
the end as it struck the wall and again
as it was moved into • different posi-
tion.
She could think rapidly o0 onessics
and act as well Now she jumped out
of bed, slipped co some clothes and a
dark droning gown and turned to alarm
the house.
Bot with her band ea the door she
paused, and, moving swiftly back acmes
the room to the window, ebe looked out
cautiously, keeping herself well dot of
vierw.
Jost as she reached the window the
bead of • man who was creeping stealth-
ily op the ladder reached the level of
the lowed pane of glass, and, patting
his face to the glass and shading it with
his hand, be peered into the room.
Beryl saw the man and shrank back
shuddering and cold as she recognised
the handsome, cruel thee of Pierre Tor -
rine.
Then In an instant the meaning of 11
all flashed upon her.
He had begged for the delay in order
that Ire might destroy the evidence of
bis villainy and murder her, the only
Skeeter who knew of it.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ATTEMPT ON RERYL'S tiara.
The ivatent that Beryl Law who it
was that was threatening to bunk into
her room and' reseed the reason of the
visit she shrank back as closely as pos-
1hle to the wall and waited in breath -
tees suspense while Pierre Tendon com-
pleted hie scrutiny of the room.
By ramming her head forward very'
slightly she was able to witch him and
naw that hawse bendia.g sideways from
the ladder while .eemingiy holding on
tq It with one hand.
'8o long u be continned to stare into
Hee room the did not move • muscle
and almost held her breath lent he
should bear ber and being disturbed
soaks aft
!on her rapid, shrewd brain had re-
solved that the would if possible let
him carry out hie erotoition of getting
into the room, 1a order that hor might
the maw olearlyreveal hisobject, while
the took ample Iteeas to provide for her
own irately.
Mar nimble wits devised an say
ssethod of trtnking him it only he
would give her ea opprtaroity of •
ample of siastse' preparation, and
this, to het int.'s relief, be did.
Illstattliel he bed not pieced the
Iadderr.m . ly elms to the window
Ib ba a'i1/ Wipe pe it, the Das drooted-
•d ft ales la/ Rdd Sealy. jest le h• bed
.1tsWN tt, wit listTt. slr•*Heg *they
Mmes of fir time It nM nem to Iter s. begglUthego •ewe.
e'e•kl„g H••, ,• ane H.rnr..
Seat horns In earn, water ttll pith no
rnre can he remove -1: this also softens
1.n is, m,kln¢ them more easily worked.
Smooth by rutting, .eraping and sand-
papering. using Ana emery paper 1•.t
To polhh, rib with cloth mol.tened
with tinned oil dipped in tripoli, Annlly
robbing with the hand. TM horns may
he more asily handled by tnw'rting •
a• ak fast o•4-wt1Y•.a*wow itwoor0)'
horn and bend Ip a vise. Hooka may M
polished In the same way, making nal
match .tee.—Country tientletnan.
Teuton aim rte Tenth.
"I think Willie Is learning to smoke,”
said his mother. "1 wish you to speak to
him about it."
"What *ball I any to bim[" asked his
father.
•'Wbo, tall hti the tenth, of comm."
And m Willie was etuly milled up, Sad
his father put nn a astern look and sold:
•'milli., I understand you ars laarntng
to smoke. Now, t•of ire It gore any further
I west to tall you weud des result may he.
You may die In • year. and then again
yea may 11vit in be lea yuan nM."
"Why, Jebel" sxpostula$ed the boy's
mother,
"You told ms to WO him the truth," re-
lented the rather, "and then'* hardly s
weak gun by that 1 don1 hear of amine nee
clam le the o.ntar7 mark who bas arnnknd
ever mince he ws 14 rare nM. while peo-
ple who netts
�smoked et all Mein Wearyw It kr .—i4 oris ifr,oh to gat a Idea
tahe MO* le twit at the Satkiset flan
the MOO great et e--(7htap FIM
aAwi flora, LARVA. NYC
dant, and the injury isnot usually great,
exoopt in the tatlltof young vices which
may be entirely stripped and killed by
a single larva. • Hand picking is ordinari
ly the safest and most satisfactory rem-
edy. The cut shows the moth, egg,
young larva mature larva, pupa am;
parasitized larva.
Climbing cutworms have at times
proved very destructive to the buds and
tnitherti.uf. vines, and in northern New
York and in the raisin district of Fres
no, O.l., as much damage has been don.
by them as by any other inmost enemy
Of the several species which in differew
localities have been troublesome th,
worst record may be aatignod to the
dark sided cutworm (Agrotis meesoria
and the variegated cutworm (A. sancta)
Cutworms remain conoaled in th•
groundAntherthe day and climb to
and strip the vines at night. They may
easily be destroyed by the use of a poi
mooed bait of bran, arrenio (or pare-
green)
arigreen) and water, preferably sweeteoeo
with a little sugar. It should be din
triboted about the base of each vine to
the form of a mash, a handful or so ha
• place, according to C. L. Marlatt of
the United Sates department of seri
cultnre, trout whose report on insect
enemies of the grape the foregoing i.
learned.
Overfoedlag Rhos.
Many persons complain that tbougl
their indoor roses have a thrifty grassy
and dark green foliage they fail to pro
duoe blossoms A oorreepmdent of
American (iardcniug says: Niery otter
the trouble is froth overfeeding wit'
uitmgenons manures --in fact, thin is the
moat common cause. It is well knows'
that the nese ie a gross feeder and thse
it responds quickly to application of
fertilizer, but it is believed that it is
owing to an overestimate of this tarot
that most persons apply too mach fer-
tilizer to their rosea At all times the
greatest cam should be exercised in the
application of liquid manures. A goo
rule in the application of nitrogenote
fertilizers, nitrate of soda in particular
is to oto not more than • pound to 6e
gallons of water and to apply thie not
oftener than ems in three weeks Older
plants growing in the benches and in
the name soil for more than two year
may toward spring be given a slightly
stronger dose or what amounts to abou,
the same thing, an application of th.
above formula, m7 once in two weeks
But it is advisable to apply sparingly
even to these, to make the mixture halt
as strong as turns! and to apply lees fre
gaently, bet to give the bid a thorough
drenching. The rood then being very
dilute out be utilized at once by the
planta, which will roepond very quickly
Caatterbury 5.115,
Canterhnry bells make arch a bell
tient display at this season that some
preparation should now be made with
view to having a *apply of plants' nes,
year. These plants are biennials, aerie
ties of Campanula election, end the
seeds shoald be sown in July, wintering
the plants in a cold frame where th•
climate is rigorous. The cup and lancet
forms are perhaps the matt showy, ant.
the Dowers come white, pink, purple
bine and striped, with the white enr
pink ex the moat effective. A plantation
of the canon, enters in mixture is do
ciderily attractive. The plant. bloon
but once. and provision should therefor,
be made to replace them, especially a.
they are not in any sense decorative
when they tmaio to bloom.—Gardening
Pr.`yagat Ina et Owooaberrl...
Gooeeherricv are propagated to mom,
extent by cutting,• but generally h•
layers The earth is heaped in a moon(
around the bushes and the ydnng Npront.
wIt+-' Srlle..r'tlit..__They thread fit
Putted in rows 4 by 4, on a rich
heavy soil, well cultivated and heavil.
pruned. The fruit grows (m buds forme.:
on ,fkgearmettkweod another apace as o
bads of older growth. Pruning shook
be directed to cutting tack the new
growth and oocasionally cutting out su
perfiuoes shoots. Some onitivet'e in low
tree form• hut the shrub form is du
more nurture' way of growing, gays tisk
i)enver Field and !'arm.
A Pos•flatlty of the Peach.
The Denver Field and Farm point+
out a pneuiilarlty in the ripening o:
peached Early peaches ripen from th,
pit toward the mirfaom, while the 1ue
varieties ripen (mut the saffron tower
the (enter; this mark d distinction be
Ing snfleient to mabe the difTer,tme be
[ween the shipping and keeping gush
tieo of early and late pemoh.s 8aftenint
or ripening near the pit Het makes th,
early peach a poor crawler eat! • Ono
Meter, .04 rttie ie am mason Why the:
fall down so gainkly atter ra,ohim
M
SEEDING GRASS LAND.
fife•..•. Por sod Ag.la.t Sowing Oram
Walkout . Durso Crag`
The praetios of .owlug grass and clo
the seed with Drops of grain L a very
oommou one, and unuouhledly bas
mauy advantages iu riob awl In
a favorable .eawu, the moat Merkel of
which is the choking out of weeds by
the vigorous - growth of the grain. 1u
many canes, however, this method tails.
A bulletin of the department of agri-
culture porutr out the fact that this 1s
.specially true in dry resume wbeu the
supply of moisture is fregiently insuf-
fiuieut for both the grain crop and the
grass. 1e tits uiau the grain odes' of
acting es a uurru crop actually rubs the
:Doug grata plants of moisture, mud
thus becomes iujurions instead of ad-
vantageous.
The claim that grass and clover
Pints need protection from fire run is
prouounced by the same authority to be
entirely without foundation. As the
Wisconsin 'nation has shown, "there ie
absolutely no necessity, under ordinary
conditions, for rowing oats, barley or
any other grain with grasses forthe
purpose of yielding allude aud protec-
tion. Young gra"' and clover plants are
pot injured by direct sunlight and sue
beat buy more than other plana of dor
fielde,"
Experiments by the Wisconsin sta-
tion during a number of years have
shown that "grasses and clover sown
by themselves on properly preperbitteH-
spring lap at once and -make rapid
growth, bearing seed bead, the saute
year. If all conditions as to fertility of
evil, moisture, to., are favorable, a
very excellent crop of hay tau be se-
cured the same 19110on." One objection
to this method of seeding grimes is the
presence of weeds, but theme can usual-
ly be checked by rnnniug a mower over
the fields when the weeds are six or
more iuches high, setting the cotter bar
so that the tops of the weeds are re-
moved while the grass plana are not
touched.
In order that this method of culture
may be successful the soil must be quite
free from weed seeds and of fair fertil-
ity. It should be carefully prepared be-
fore needing, and from two to three
times the usual amount of grass seed
should be 'own. It is probably beet,
although not fully demonstrated, to
sow seed very early in the spring.
Finally i1, is of the greatest inlporance
to check the growth of weeds, which
may be done by the method noted above.
"The system here under considera-
tion is out pat forth as suited to every
farm and ell farmers, but eminently
adapted to meeting the wants of those
who desire to secure with the least pore
sibility of failure a fine stand of grass
and clover. To such we can recommend
the system as having been sufficiently
tried to prove setidactory when proper-
ly followed out."
The results obtained by the Wiscon-
sin station have in general been borne
out by those of similar experiments at
the New Jersey station. The experi-
ments by this station, however, differed
from those coudncted by the Wisconsin
station in the fact that at the former
the seed wean sown in the fall instead
of in the spring.
A Bled Cora Cutter.
Here 1■ a homemade implement
which, according to a correspondent of
Farm, Field and Fireside, wee used
last year with great suttees and mach
saving of time by an Illinois farmer
He says: This corn cutter is made by
taking two old raw blades—crams oat
sew blades are better, as the blades are
longer, but any old steel blades will
do. Grind the backs of them to a razor
edge and fix them at a pretty sharp an-
gle to the front of a bob sled, or a sled
such as we used to haul milk on to the
obeeee factory in Kansas. Set the blades'
at the proper distunoe apart to cover
two rows of corn at once, as shown in
the illustration. Build • stanchion in
the middle of the sled for two men to
lean against. Hitch the best horse on
the place to the sled, one that will start
and stop at • word.
The men sand on each aide of the
sled and gather in the biIlg'of corn as
the sled advances, and the knives out
A H01.16MADI OORD H1RVmtTmlt.
them off square and Olean. When each
man has an armful, the horse is @top-
ped. The men step off and lay their
armfuls in a pile, step on again and
start np, all of which does not take
much longer than it does to write it,
when you have a good horse. Another
man follows after and shocks the corn.
It will be seen how essential it is to
have • good horse, as it saves much
time in darting and stopping, and also
in case of accidents, for woe betide the
lege which get in front of the knives
when in motion!
Agrleeltural Rewritten..
Ashes and lime are the Long Island
gardeners' remedy for insect' in the
onion field.
The Carman grape, a namesake of
Mr. E. 8. Carman of The Rural New
Yorker, has been awarded a gold medal
as the best grape on exhibition at the
recent meeting of the Texan State Hor-
ticultural society. `I: ie a Texas grape
produced by Professor T. V. Munson.
Cranberry pelting was formerly done
by hand, but ■ scoop invented for the
purpose of hastening the Whetblade
otoasiderable strides in favor last fall.
Oats, potatoes and buckwheat have
been fonud to thrive (tetter than wheat
os elver cm eeeeatly reefaimed Mega
Best New Yorker says it seams
n soeasary to keep saying that there is
never any nitrogen in wood maims
They oontain potash, phosphoric, acid
and lime, but nitrogen in some form
most be added to make a complete fer-
tiliser. Grnond bone does this well.
e•leea It n ire..
Daughter—Manama, the ohimn.y
"weep on the roof has hint kissed his
hand to ms.
Mother--iiow shocking, Ron at one'
Into the brdronm and wish your face.
—Der Bohai k.�
rm0000f le Ide*L
Irate Old Gentleman -•Hero, I my,
year hem ort a deg has kitten a piece
set of Play ley.
Dore Ows.r—Ob, bathsrt And 1
wanted to Wag his up a erepthulan.
—Para.
Y11111t LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE VOL/ ANY !OSA OF WHAT IT HAS
DONE FOP VI
Sad, uta to 7rfat You a It De In
Ratan. Hare Yoe Over Wye. TIa1
♦• Pa*elag T eaktf—A■ Rdltor'.
ratereatlaa R.veow of the Ieblaet.
The paper has done 60 things for you
and i., only anxious to do 50 more.
Ii told your friend* whets year par•
sots were Marriott.
It auuouucxd to the world when you
were koro.
It recorded the great events of your
,hildboud, whoa yon were lost as •
wauderiug baby, when you had the
measles and *o.rletfever, wbeu you tell
into the washtub and nearly drowned,
when you tell from the cherry tree and
broke your collar bone, wbeu you first
started to school and when you earned
your first prize.
Later on it told bow you had corn•
pleted the studies of the district school
and bow,oiluquently you recited your
graduating oration.
It told of your entering high school or
academy. 1t told of your contests lu
baseball and tennis. It told of your de-
parture for college or your first venture
in bestows
It told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhood, and it a1
nays wished you weft in your greatest
uutiertakluga
It hinted modestly about the first
time you weut a conrttarg and gave
timely warbiag to "Mt folks" that tbu
neighbors kuew that matters were grow-
ing intereetiug over their way.
It announced the time of your expect-
ed wielding, and it published the notice
of the marriage lioeuse and gave you a
nice puff ouueeruing the wedding cere-
mony.
It told of your extended honeymoon
tour and of your untrue down to house
keepiug• t
When you were sick, the bomo parer
week by week informed your more -dis-
tant neighbor* of your lapses and im-
provements. '
It told about your lost cow and led
to her recovery. It told how your horse
had beeu stolen and hal to tho erred[ of
the thief.
When yea were getting dull •p4,l
through the i.rouotony of your lain r,
the paper urged that tho- people get up
• celebration, and you Were named a
nue ed a suitable committee on arrange
moats. And when it was all over, is
gave you just/waists for the success of
the undertaking.
Iu numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the peo-
ple. And you would never have had
your lucrative office or your honorabl.-
recognition froin thecontmnnity but for
the kind aid of the -local printer.
If you are a member of a Sunday
school or society of any sort, that ane
paper pnblisbes your announcements
and the various proceedings of your
meetings.
It tells the people mach which you
would like to have known; -hut Wbkti
modesty or necessity prevents yon from
telling.
If you and all your folks have been
proeperou,and fortunate inyour atfaire.
the paper has boated yon all the way
If you have had misfortune, the paper
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. If
you are a good and enterprising citizen,
the papa will always be your friend
and will back you iu your euterprieca
and will help to find your business
friends.
It tells you whore to buy and where
to sell. It tells of rogues to be avoided
It tells you of current prices and pre
vena yonrf'rom being chested cud "win
died la 100 ways.
Filially, whoa you die, the paper will
publish your obituary and will cover
over your taults and will recite tit.
story of yonr good deeds.
All these things the local editor will
canoe his paper to do, but no one elo
in the world will do them or can d.
them for you even for love or money
The ontside paper ir a stranger to year
little world and is not at all intereetet,
in its improvement. Yet your local pe
per does all this free of cont to yon, it
you are willing to receive it that way
However, for your sake, we hope yon.
are too generous to accept .o tinny nn
reignited favors and that you are willing
to reciprocate the same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, and he
will prove his friendship to yon.
8nb.cribe for him paper and pay for
it regularly in advance and get you:
n eighbor" to do the game.
Fend him the news or oceaeioually c
watermelon or a peck of peaches.
Invito bim to your picnic,' and tam
ily dinners, so that he can eat a square
meal ooc•uionaIly.
Don't call the ticket you give hien tt
the church concert ■ deadhead. Il
can't buy tickets from evcryboty t
everything, but he will nay kind word
of your performances and them lead oth
ere to buy your tickets
If you have anything to boy or .ell
hit the paper mein[ you to Hud custom
era- Advortiriug that really pay. th'
printer benefits both advertlitprs ane
readers
If you have any job printing to do
don't take it to au outside office, 1,
give yonr newspaper the first chance.
Give the editors printer ea•easionall'
or write him .eumible'Mort article' all,
dou't get mad if he fails to am every
thing yont way. When be does my ;
good ZW0g, .hihoaY.- •-
In short, remember the golden rel
end don't forget the editor of your loco
pap's.—Riehinond (Ind.) Enterer's.•
The Only Reamba,
Ae—IsewaeycliSt today who actual
ly didn't talk bicycle.
She—He Was a wonder.
He—No; diet and dame.—Philadel
phis Prom
Commerelalts artpres.od.
"That man seems to lake a groat deal
of Interest to his work," remarked the
junior partner, "althongh he hasn't am•
compliahed mirth ."
"Yes," answer.d the entity oapital-
Int, "he's a positive render lie nen get
more Internet out of loos actual capital
than anybody else I ever aw,"—Wagb-
ington Sar.
A anthem men naye that the differ
,nee between yellow fever nod dengtae
fever fs that when 0110 has the former
he is afraid he will die and when Nr
letter &taoke him he is tearful that to
will sot.
SCROFULR.
"Hy little boy, aged year. Sad
swathe, otbe, pas a victim o Scrofula cm
the face, which all the doctors *aid wan
lasurable. To tell the truth be was we
bad :kat i could nut bear to look at him.
At last I tried a bottle of Burdock Blood
Bitters, and before it was half used be
was gaining, and by the time be had
three bottles used he was completely
cured. I cannot say too muck is recom-
mendation of. B. B.B. to all who suffer ea
he did," JOSFPH P. LABELLE, MaOi-
wake P -O , ('aue.
There can be no question .boa*
it. - Burdock Blood Bitters has lea
equal for the clue of Sores and
Ulcers of the mot chronic and
malignant nature. Through its
powerful blood purifying proper-
ties, it gets at the source of dis-
ease and completely
eradicates it from
the system.
BURDOCK
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UNNATURAL HISTORY.
Being a Littre About rte Load of rte
- 'Dhrs .5...
Egypt is as full of sand as are sol-
diers. It it famous for camels, which
can hump theluselvea across the desert
and arrive, after days n0 the burning
plain, iu as good form as when they
started, which is not saying much.
The cartel is a most marvelous animal,
for it ratego nine days without taking
I dxi.pk.. is kOi tijIfarRtcuw us, thank
goodness.
Rameses Totibe ruled over Egypt and
invented a great game, which he played
today, milled, after him, Pharaoh, or
faro. The early Egyptians' were French,
as is proved by the fact that they wars
haters of the children of Israel.
One of the chief works of this epoch
was the construction of the pyramids.
which were erected to make learned
men ask questions- The pyramids were
weather bureaus, and the Egyptians
oonld tell the weather for five years in
Weems. I have studied their methods.
and as 'swirly as L can tell without a
pyramid at baud the weather in London
for the next five years will be tog, rain
and wind, alti'rnatcly separate and
mixed, with cracks of sunshine in the
souther months, but riot enough to
bother us,in our oalcniaticns.
The cause of the decline from power
of tile Egyptians was their language,
which some of them really understood,
but the toil of acquiring it was too
mach and destroyed their strength in
the course of a few thousand years.
The chief river in Egypt is the Nile.
Ignorant Russians believe that all the
inhabitants of Egypt are nihilists,
which is the reason Rosie wishes to
disarm.
The Egyptians had some carious
funeral oust When a person died,
he was bound over to keep the pieces.
The last adjuration to the defunct wag:
"Mom's the word!"
This is the origin of the word mum-
' my. (See Petrie, volume 6, page 849,
note q.) I forgot to mention, in speak-
ing of the burning plain (see snpra),
that naughty devils are sent from the
pit of fin totbe deurt for their punish-
ment. Tutt poor fiends sit on the egad
and cry for the sweet coolness of home.
I shall refrain from calling attention
anew to the fact that the Kitchener is
within range of the enemy and about
to cook the khalifs'■ goose. A000rding •
to Grimm's law, dervish is the native
word corresponding to our word devil.
The modern sphinx, symbol of ; Egypt.
1 is a Hors•.—Judy.
High L1g51..
The credulous being may be silly, baa
he Dever gets bitter.
If you want • thing done quickly, tell
a tonsil boy not to do it.
The long winded man is the bot box
of agreeable conversation.
Where a new heti. nonemrned all wo-
men believe in loveiat first eight.
We learn more frotd our own failure'
than from the whole world's socoesaee.
Occupation is nature's physician, and
she pays wages instead of eeuding in •
bill. '
It is a brave man who names Koine
wearing a new fall hat before his wife
gots one.
Women always pnt garden sed away
PO carefully that they have to buy new
seed every year.
No show on earth is considered a gno-
mes nelesa it gives man three time. the
worth of hie money.—Chicago Reoord.
• -
De.ae.tle Selectee.
"What do you nnderstnnd by the de.
pertinent of domestic aetene?"
"It's where they tearh women how
to keep their bo"n"0da away from the
swam,.:. �rs...-...,. .. .. ... -..... +• .
Of course the .newer was wrong, but
they all felt that she ought to go to the
head of the clean juts the ams.—Chi-
cago Post. -
As tato as 1689 'quirts or syringes
wenn used for exttngniahtng fire in Eng
land, and their length did not exerted
two or three feet. with pipes of leather.
Water tight mammies. hose was first mads
on Bethnal Green in 1790.
Mr not ft.
Weary ,Willie—i4ey, Dusty, you
•wante to strike dat bonth from yer wir
BO list.
Dusty Rhoden—Why?
Weary Willie—On. I axed ter hot
waste, en day tricked de dog on me.—
PhilaMlelphia Press.
Proof Positive.
"So Mies &,ream world hardly be -
lien you when yar told her I wast not
at boos. What diel yon ay?"
"Sure, then, I towld her not to h.laiva
Ins; if she wanted, I'd b•vs 'arson
come right down and prove 1t to her. "—
Brooklyn Lite.
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