The Signal, 1898-11-17, Page 7r -
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tt be spoke and broke the spell
pmetimea think, ee I have told
that there be something• „ Aud the
to which ire "puke drove back the
Ilse and wade ber .ileut. tlh.
ed to read ill it an unwillingness
/love, a ettrnuWN that lithe knew
le his character, and it chilled the
even as :Ley rose to her lips.
is. moment pawed, aud nothing
raid Mate that she turned the gees-
eith an evasive.
am fearing uomething," She old,
if only I could guess what it was
what shape it would take and what
Add do I should be better again.
is you must not scold me, but love
Jaffray, always love me, always.
Lear with me when 1 am like this,
tlweys think of me with love."
i,u she was ■ilent, and after •
whiu be had soothed her and
el her, she fell asleep in his arms,
last thought of him being that
1, it kiss suggested. He held ler
r she slept -It was not long -and
I;ht of all she bad said and won -
1 whether it bad any hidden mean -
and, if so, what.
id be looked at ber as she slept and
pleased when senile flickered over
'ace, and be kilned it before it was
and kissing her be woke her, and
smiled still more broadly and
thy.
That is tbe Sweetest sleep I have
bad in my life, Jaffray," ale said
n your strong, safe arms, kissed to
together (May toward yea, 1 am Mt altogeth-
er tenuoeat. I would termer ham died !tum
have duae tiara 1t w ould have been se easy
Met to die to your arae. tett 1 ,'ould not take
wy diel,.@ away wltb we, and I think I have
done slut atone caa 5'0r0 row0 pert of the
evil that 1 have wrought. 1 cannot tell you
what 1t is. 1 pray you a .y Dever know. Tb
dry whoa 1 is, In your eraats 1 Dearly told you
all, nearly opened the flood rate@ o1 all the
sorrow and the pela and the distracting trou-
ble. and last let it all utane out, but soma
thing happened, a word you rid or a tune 1
tbvugbt I heard, and 1 stopped, and all was
blackness and gloom again. Thera 1. no way
but thin and no end for we but death. though
that may sot be yet. One thing I ask -try
sot to think ill of we. Nevar believe 1 bars
act lured you with my whirls heart. Neva
doubt that in any wok. merles which way
ever result you a i.l.er ss to the past or the twit
torr. If 1 amu driven to what may look like
evil and wrong and or Ice, resutmlwr it is only
for your make and because there le no other
way. And now ,o,dby, soodby! 1 ran hard-
ly write tor ate tears which weld my eyes.
Ab, me! The Let surd 1 shell ever say to
you! Think, Jahr). the butt word! My heart
as taokea ae wy lite. but 1 must may it,.
goodby ! LoLA.
The welting of the lei few lines of
the letter was Giestred and blotted and
irregular *here LDia`bad not been able
to keep ber tease tram running on to
the paper or to bold her band steady as
abe had penned the words.
Sir Jatray'a eyes were dim enough
an he read the letter and tried to find
some reason for what bad been done.
What could it menu?
The letter with the piniut of • broken
heart, and every word and syllable of it
spoke to the love with which Lola loved
him.
And yet she bad left him.
He sat sieve battling with tbe prob-
lem for • time and trylug to think what
was best to do, and when be could see
so gleam of light be went out to go to
his mother's tom, carrying the letter
1n his baud.
As be was crossing the hall at oc-
curred to him that he must give SOpus
mon to ebe leervewts ter Loin's •buiU N
ands ringing for ber maid, he said that
she had been detaiued at Leyoerter Court
and would not to home.
Then Mra. De Witt, bearing him,
tame out of the drawiug room.
"Dolou know I'm all alone, Magog?"
S he said in a bantering voice, and then,
cbangiug her tope at sight of his face.
she aekO: "What L the matter? What
has happened?'
"Nothing is the matter in which you
can help, thank you," be answered de-
liberately. "I am sorry you are alone,
but bola be been kept at.Leyoester
Court and will not be haute tonight. I
out probably going over there myself.
Arm wiMettofelemortiseenttame
drawiug room and I will see you pres-
ently?"
There was something in bit manner
w)iit h l•hook all the frivolity out cf hire.
De Witt, and without a word she went
back into the room, feeling grave and
troubled.
Then Sir Jaffray
mother's root.
"Mother, there is trouble. Help in.
what to thiuk and what to do. Lola
seems to have been driven by some cause
which I eaunot in the lent understand
to take the desperate sup of leaving five
manor. Lison to this." And he read
the letter.
bhe sat and listened in the deepest
pain and not without some twingeo of
melt reproach se she read between the
*words of the letter the evidence of •
Wort battling with an overwhelming
sotrow aud driven in upon itself for
lack of the helping counsel of womanly
sympathy.
The reading of the letter left her
completely baffled and bewildeired.
"What can it mean, Jaffray? What
can the poor girl mean? Have you no
sort of clew, nothing of any kind to
guide you? What does she mean? -
'Would to lbod that I could still pot
e "husband!"' Yon don't -you've no
mase to doubt her?"
"Noue," answered Sir Jaffrey stern-
ly. "1 would answer for her against
the world. She has been driven to this
last draperate vomit 11 teething -heaven
knows what -from wbich I could not
shield ber. Why did she not tell me?"
"What could there be to tell?"
"How can I even guess, mother?"
"Can we look to the past for a clew,
do you think? Has she ever told you
the history of the years with ber
father?"
"Never a egllable that would throw
a gleam of light on loch a mystery as
this. Of course not. I tell yon it is in-
explicable, absolutely a mystery. But
new there ie no time for mere talk. I
matt act. I most be doing something,
or I !hail go mad."
Lady W n leote pawed a moment and
watched Sir Jaffray as be walked rap-
idly trop one end of the robin to the
other, grasping the letter in one band,
his stero, gloomy face bent forward.
"There are two people who may
know 'something that may belp you -
Mrs. Villyers and (bat Frenchman, M.
Tnrrian. Yon bad better tee them
both," Raid Ludy Waleote deliberately.
"If yon can get a glimpse of her reason
for leaving here, it may help you to
geese where the would be likely to go,
and mo to trace her, Yon mean to look
'hen did tM. arms sad how?" he asked
shortly.
-p and kissed to wakening. It makes
ate ng for whatever may come."
hid) (bat she roar, and, with a langb
la last kiss (bat ha recollection of
might be all of love and bright -
es she sent him down stain happy
1 loving.
lu al1 the time of stress and pain
.t tolleiwed that last lock of bar
toast his memory always, ■nd be
trued to blame himself sorely for hair-
; tern so dull and bhud as not to
:.• seen before him the etormelond of
snd trouble and suffering that was
.• to buret.
was be thought chiefly of ber
:or him and only speculated in a
gut mud general way as to the dame
t1,e moodiness in which be bad found
r.
At dinner time Lola did not appear,
1t • message came from her that she
id felt unea.y about Beryl and bad
etermined to go over and we ber.
"Bow odd Lola or exclaimed Jain.
k Witt whits she heard this. "Why,
Ill afternoon she got me to go over to
eryl, and then when I got leek I
onldn't find ber anywhere to give
teryl's message."
"lber is anxious about Beryl; that's
11," mid Sir Jaffrey, and no tbe rob-
ot . panned. but the dinner without
els was very constrained, and Sir
'affray was more disturbed then be
seed to show.
Am roost an it was finished and he was
lone he told the butler to find eot what
hue the carriage was ordered W bring
,cls back. The reply was that the car-
'iage bad been !teat black without any
orders, and that Lola was to return to
me of tbe Leyceeter j,rpurt carriages.
▪ This eurprissd him very much, sod
re ordered out • saddle borne and rode
O Leyeester Const, saying nothing to
117 one of hie intention.
'When be came back, his fad was
very stern and pale.
Has Lady Waleote retornedr' be
Asked instantly, and the servant told
him she had not and handed hips a let-
ter. Glancing at it, he recognised Lola's
handwriting, and be caught his breath
u 1f in pain.
"When did this come and how?" be
aaho,l shortly.
"A messenger brought it :boat an
hour ago, Bir Jaffray," emiwired the
meso. "He said he bad been paid to
bring it over on borseback."
"From where? Do you know the
hen?"
„fie did not say where be cane from.
sir, and he's • stranger to tet."
"You should have irked him," re-
plied the baronet •ugrily.
Be held the letter in hits weep, and ti
seemexd to burn his hand.
Hording himself in restraint, be went
quietly to the library, and, having Ant
the deer carefully behind him, tore Well
the ruveiope with fingers that shook.
The first words were rough.
Ae went to the door hurriedly and
'locked it to pteveut any one surprising
,bite in his boor of agony and humilia
.tion arid disgrace.
Lola's letter told him in plain words
that she bad fled from home, nater tO
return.
went on to
his
aEeotutiou, as tboagh the cousciousuess
that he was to tootle bed frighteutd
her into being mooted.
" t'uu are to feel trouble, I cnu faits. I!
I can help you, soy re. You cep trust
me, and • NOman'S Wit is sometimes
worth bavieg."
"1 will toil )ori tomorrow, he said.
"Me nuwhile"-
"Thete iw itoiteid *0 put off the news.
Lola hue gone 1May. 1 can w't•, (bet -
slid you are blind. Where is that Tur-
rian?"
He. :nested at her words and looked
earuestiy at Ler for a wcmeut.
"1 will tell you tomorrow, be re-
peat. d. "Mcunwl.ile yon must .10515
me for this evening, stud tomorrow -I
nut Nary, but ituuat ask you to bring
your visit to a close. My wife will not
be well enough, 1 fear, to get back, and
I myself shall he away."
''Why don't you trust me?' abe asked
a little warmly and with a suggestion
of reproach and defiance in her looks.
"1t is nota case of trust or distrust,
but tonight there is uctbiug to tell."
"As you will,.'. the retorted, shrug-
ging her shoulders. "Still yon can have
my advice eveuj you won't give me
your oumddenee. Fiud the Frenebman. '
He made no answer, but turned and
Sett the loom and went to the library.
Taking an old London directory, be
searched among the private inquiry
ageuta until be found a name which be
remembered --Gifford of Southampton
row, Loudon. He wrote out it telegram
asking him to come down at once on
an argent matter, and this he sent by •
mounted messenger to be dispatched
from a town ten miles away where the
office was open all night.
Then be bad a saddle horst brought
Mira, and be rode off fast through the
night to Mrs. Villyers' Louie to try to
gather from Woo., clew to Lola's
- moven. el•.
As he went be took up tbe train of
thought which his mother's words bad
suggested and Mra. De Witt bad en-
forced. Was there any cooncetion be-
tween that scene of the morning and
Lola's flight? Had that villniuous cow-
ard anything to do with forcing them
apart? By heaven, if be had -and nu
der his breatb Sir Jaffray swore a deep,
strong oath -he should pay dearly for
it.
.But how could it possibly be so?
11 the signs of a true and -deep love
were ever shown for a man, Lola had
'abewn them for him that day both by
word and act. Not fora moment would
be dtierseisheeeeworantAfoRILOMMAILii
were against ber to swear away ber
frith and troth and love for him.
11O would find her 'mud (ring ber
back. That he vowed to himself, and
the thought that be could do it com-
forted and cheered bite and lifted him
Iu a measure above the choking flood of
• misery and regret. Ire would Loll to
FOR HARVESTING APPLES.
:ood CMtea-•akIlda leer Qalelslr Cu -
heading a Wailes%
Acorres1iandeut describes in the Ohio
Warmer a couveuient outfit for harvest -
toe apples. From his account of the
1 .titles comprising it the following is
',produced:
We use crates which bold 1 SS bushels
-twp equal • barrel. It Pt a poor ex -
caro of a fellow that cauupt bundle
them eouveiticutly, and it mekes agreat
difference ill taking care of at crop.
The test material for crates is poplar
for end boards Dud basswood for :lata
Dimensions: Euds 19 I:y itiyj inches.
surfaced on lsub sides to erreu-eigbtbt
of an inch thick; slate 21 Ls. Alichei
long, 8 incbei broad, niue-eixteeutbs of
man inch thick ; four slats on the bottom
•nth tbree on mull side at equal dis-
taocesapart. Useeleuderatore box nails
2Se to 8 inches long. two at each end
of data This makes the beat crate for
iihe,coet that 1 have seen, and by a lite
tle shaking in filling, holds. level full,
14 bushels, good, strong, country Meas-
ure. My name is stamped on the end of
each crate, and we both sell and boy by
them in our local market, but do not
permit the grocery men to use them for
any fruit but ours, the reason for which
is obvious.
One more item of the outfit, which 1
know Ague more bard work and time
in storing an apple or potato crop each
CHAPTER XVIII.
A CLEW.
The letter which Lola bad sent bank
,to her husband to explain ler flight
woe to him quite unintelligible, and
Ile mote he read it the l.could be
I .. tnderstamd her motives 1a writing it:
xv DS.atrr-weal@ to Gee lba$ I nada
ever and
1 setatmt. h.�.nd I" eat,
wg1a� you
tow�e IU you tidal, wlssa yea read ads and
'kale that IPS care mover mire tea awes on this
forth/ As i wdee Tea bar. !test left taw
tear taws w eta be ral■s at to nos. seer
*re woman kr dos LL Mar% Tom' ten e
,,"veer es Imo tied hair. Tim"
t
km•►IAna He 'view( r ! M r1•ht 715,
year words.* Nee ilsolisttIn atT Mese. IOM
rat was der MY Belga New rem lam M
Nay Ma atemere, aid VIM eet et atm
ei oaresew maedi sew* acs
t pray yee Owe/
oak as. tistw.a
. tea them aM tar elat seer
4 oaf trareqra down, sod, throb I re nM gl'
that resolve -to that and to his un-
dimmed love for her.
When he reached Mrs. Villyers'
bowie, all was in darkness. It was late.
and the hones -bold bud gone to bed.
Till tbut moinrnt' he had bad a.L.int,
flickering hope that be should fled Lola
there.
But the darkened bonne gneoched the
hope. It she had bee u there, there
would have been some 'ague of an un-
ceaal stir in the place instead of the
unpromising darkuese,
lie round the hocsehold, and Nhen
the servants came sbivetiug and irrita-
ble to know who 1t wan and N hat was
wanted he learned that Mrs. \'iliyers
was from home and bad been away for
two or three weeks. Asked where she
caa, they gave bins an addreee in North
Divouthire, ood that wu all the in-
formation be gained by the long night
ride.
Then he turned bis bu'se's bead
homeward, choosing the road which
would take him past Leycester (court on
his way. He was half minded to go and
rouse Beryl and find out whether Lola
had, after all, gone there or whether
she could help him in deciding in what
din ellen to begiu his search.
When be reached the Court, however,
he found the place, in derkm es as com-
plete as that at Mrs. Villyers', save
only for a light from the windows of
the sick man's room, and, feeling that
be could do no good by rousing Beryl'
merely to pit a question to her and to
receive an answer which be knew only
too well would be that Lela bad not
been near the place, Sir Jaffray earned
his borne's head again and rode straight
for the manor.
As he neared home an incident oc-
curred which excited him almost be-
yond oontroL
wa
ORATE AND SKID&
year than many times its cost, is an idea
of my awn -two troller Aida. one 14
feet and one 10 feet long. The aide
Maty tis made of any light timber
is nttr ttkety o'spr$r�f, t-llllblii�
thick and 5 inches broad.
for her, of course?"
"I will never rest till I find her and
bring ber back," he cried paaaiouately,
"if 1 spend the rest of my lite in the
it arch! But I •m abeelutely at • 1om
eat !@ to gnus where she would be like-
ly to go, and it drives nue mad."
"There are people whn.e business it
is to tuake Poch a search."
"ars, 1 shall have down the beat
man I ran hear of, hut 1 want to be
doing something myself."
"Then yon bad better see Mn. Voll -
yen and M. Torriau."
"I bad a row with the Frenchman
today and kicked him oat of tete place.
1 can't go to hint "
'Yon did what?' cried his mother,
turning quickly to him in her astonish-
meet.
stoniimeet. "What was ft about? Lola?"
„Yee," •orwered Sh Jaffray after a
mirment's hesitation. "i found the beg-
gar •ettally trying to hurt Lola. I be.
hove he meant mischief. too, and 1
horsewhipped him and tubed him out."
"Yon frighten me, Jefrby," ex-
claimed bit mother, turning pale and
grasping the arms of her chair. "Can
there be any oonn"ction betweaa that
and flier'
"I never thought of that," be an -
mewed fa a votes low and anxious.
"I'll lad him and drag out of him
every syllable be knews."
"Be cautious, Jaffrey. He maybe a
langerow mal,"
"Ha hes mere need Mho afraid of ma
than I of hint," be .ntrwered, and conn
after be left his mother and went sway
to make his Meparationa
Rememherttg that Mea 1). Witt was
to the drawir.g rnnm alone, and that he
had promised to go heck to her, be turned
in a he peed (be dont. '
She was sitting by the brews, got up
as be entered. Pee looked very ..riotss
sod detrained anal spoke without .5y
(1u GC,„01110•.11.
WOMAN'S WIT.
think my fruit good enough to pat into
oold storage, and the practical question
with mel was whether I abould gather
the fruit while the weather still reulaiu•
ed bot, latter part of October, or wail
until November. The fruit seamed very
ripe, the seeds were black, some speci-
mens were sbowiug a diepoettiou to rot
en" the trees, and a good deer was fall -
*pg. I read up the llteratnto on the
subject, and everywhere found the rec-
ommendation to gather early, as early,
to foot. am the fird blackening of the
seeds and before the full rlpenlug aud
ooloriug, in order to enbauoS the keep-
ing qualities of the trail
1 followed the iustrgcti0ns so far as
this -that 1 had my apple* and pears
picked while it was still het weather.
A few barrels, both of tbeapples, most-
ly lieu Davis, and of the Kieffer pears,
were left ungatbert•d until near the
middle of November for a comparative
test. Those gathered in Qt toter did not
keep uerrlyso well as those gathered in
November. Take out the loss by fall of
apples from the trees and from ull other
cadres, and yet I feel sure that I would
have had •t least 25 per cent more ap-
pleaand rears t••tlteod ootalition fur the
markets -if I had left my entire crop un-
til near the middle of November. 'lie
losses to the pears were even greater
than to the apples. This was partly
owing, however, to other causes in the
orchard which I cannot take apace to
diecuse in this article.
Now I have been investigating the
reasons for the foregoing facts, and my
researches satisfy me that the common
horticultural teachings about the triter
keeping qualities of apples and pears
when early gathered are altogether
wrong when it leads to gathering the
winter varieties in bot weather. It is
better to wait in every iustanoe, in my
opinion, until the bet spell is over.
The foregoing food for practical
thought on the importaut subject of
gathering fruit in bot weather is fur•
aished by The Now England Homestead.
HAIL FUN WITH UTT.
OUT THE VICTIM FAILED TO APPRE•
CIATE THE JOKE!
Irregular Guarantees of
Notwithstanding the fact that the
fertilizer law requires the minimum
aud only the minimum percentage of
the various valuable ingredients of fer-
. Wizens to be sturaped on the bags and
prescribes a penalty of $100 fine for the
violation of this provision it seems re.
markable that there still continues to
be so mauy violations. Although the
majority of the users of fertilizers cm,
guarantee of 1 per cent, it is probsible
And When It Dowsed rima riles Thai
Obit tiers Had sees Olvlaa Mlas •
Dose of HI. Oliva Iaedlelae Me Wed
More Than Weary.
The rollers may be made of any hard that a few are misled by the array of
wood turned I% incites in diameter, big but meaningless figures used, and
the ends shouldered down to tbree-quar-
tere of an inch, and the boles in side
pieces seven -eighths of an inch and eight
inches apart. Bore the boles • little be-
low the unter line, which will make a
flange of a couple of incties on the up-
per aide of the skids. Sink crosspieces
on the undervide, with 'screws to hold
the skids together. The width es the
inside must be about an inch beader
tban the w4dth of crates. Now, halve
the side pieces at one end of each Mild
about three inches batk on reverse sides,
as shown in the cot, so they will lap to-
gether and have a etraight line. A good
book and staple on the outside make
the ccnnection, and yon have a little
railway 90 feet long if wanted. If full
ltength 1. used. block up under the con -
There two skids omit me 18 many
years ago. In moat eases one is all that
would be needed, and their mode of use
must be apparent. • It takes but a few
minutem ;Aare them to reach auy
point where apples or potatoes are to be
stored. For instance, our largeet cellar
in reached by two doors and a -turn at
• right imgle. In this case the skids are
run through one of the cellar windows;
a barrel ie placed bottom up for tbe end
of the skid to rest on; the window sill
rupports the center. and a couple of
stakes are driven in the ground, with a
ororepiece nailed on, to support the skid
at the proper height to lay the crates on
from the wagon. It is astonishing bow
little time it takes to unload in tine
Wee. Barley Was line* sad need Wee
Wisdom WelL
"Frank. dear." mid Mrs. Darley, " ?lea.
Fosdick was talking about you the other
dsy, and abe said she thought you didn't
look well. Do you know, I'm getting so
be quite anxious about you?"
"Whet am yon sexines abont, Ilk*
to km*? Don't I eat aril glee!, well?"
"Well, yee shier fairly well, and your
appetite Is not so bird, but''-
" Hut what? /URI beet and stoop shoul-
dered and leld, or what is It y.ol meant"
spells to get your lira Insured. Von know
iss Lave very little saved up, and If ynu
wens tu go off ins die it would leave me
In •ery poor circumstances financially If,
for luetailee, you wont into a rapid dr
' Mary Jame, what au esrth are you
ton Ind about, To listen to you one might
family and T vow In the last stages of a
gell,ping consumption, with my death
warrant written all over my fans% and that
you were getting ready to be an Interest-
ing widow and go off and have • good
time on Om return@ from my life Insur-
ance policy. I'm not going to take out a
mike,. and I ant bealthy and strong es
I ever was in my life, and I don't want
you to intimate that ther• is any sort al
bard work which I cannot dol"
"Ob. I'm so glad te hear that, ?rooky*
'And Yrs. flatly gave a HUH (sop of
kry and threw her arena around her hus-
band's net*. ' I'm so glad to hear yoe
my you are well and strong. became the
lawn THAI mowing so badly, and I was
dreadfnlly afraid that rots were too to
run the lawa mower "
el'imreupnn Mr. Darkly went out and
'hewed the gram In front el the house.-
Cp tee lista
which are probably need with the in-
tention of misleading the buyer. The
same may be said in regard to stating
the amongt of .potash as sulphate of
potash, a figure nearly twice ae large as
that representing the actual potaeh.
Ammonia is sometimes given .sa
phate of ammonia, which is foot. timer,
the actual ammonia, and instead of
phosphoric acid its equivalent in "bone
phosphate" appears., the latter being
2 1.5 limes the former.
Stiff more reprehensible is the trick
occasionally resorted to of guaranteeiug
"Alkaline Salta Equal to AMMONIA."
After tbe bags are dragged once or twiee
across 'a dirty floor the entail letters are
opiterated, leaving the word "am -
Monts" followed by a guarantee of 10
to 15 per cent. Not quite tso bad as the
latter is the printing of a long analysie,
including all of the unimportant ma-
terial and traith in the 1eitilizer. This
is never reported tesureepe when the
valuable ingredients' are very ecarce.-
American Fertilises.
Secretary Utt of the CotameMial olut
will always believe that Vint! Hovey
and Edgar Allen played it low down on
bite. Mr. Utt enjoys a joke as well so
anybody -when be plays it -but wbcu
it comes to trifling with bis tender feel
lugs and impugning hie mental Aqui
poise be is averse to being it in such
jokes.
A few days ago Edgar Allen, of- the
firm of Allen Bros. went down to Forest
City, Mo., to look after his canuins
factory and tomato farms. John Uta
went along because Utt is another ole;
resident of the Platte purohate and de-
lights in ruuetiug his old p•paav
friends. The traiu arrived in Forest
City at noon, and lir. Allen and Mr.
Ute repaired to the hotel for. dinuer.
After dinner Mr. Allen engaged r rig
to drive around his tomato farms and
invited Mr. Utt to go with biro.
"Nitl” exclaimed Utt. "1'm not in
the tomato business."
"Come along anyhow," entreated
Allen.
"No; I'm going over to Oregon,
where everybody knows me and where
I know everybody," said Utt.
Jut then Vine Bovey Dame along
and staked:
"Going to look at Ed's tomatoes?"
"No; vim; to Oregon," said Utt.
Hovey then said be would drive
around with Allen, and Utt said he
would wait for the Oregon hack. Allen
and Hovey drove around to the hack
barn, and liovey said to Seal Foster:
"There's a heavy, smooth faced, dark
complexioned man standing down on
the corner by the hotel. He escaped
from the asylum at Glenwood last
night, and we are trying to hold him
here till No. 21 comes. Some asylum
officers will be on that train. The man
says he wants W go toOregon, but don't
take bite." -----
" Well, no man that's a boghonhl can
ride in my back," said Footer.
When Foster drove down by the
hotel, Utt hailed hien.
"I ain't goin to Oregon," said Footer
as be whipped up his horses and scut
Better Than Spraying.
"Wormy apples may be prevented by
placibg barrels half filled with water in
the orchard just as the trees aro about
to open their Museums. The moths
which fly between sunset and 10 p.
can be captured. easily by sussendiug
over the water in the barrel a lighted
lantern. They are then attracted hy the
light and eventually find Meouselves
the water. Ten lanterns to 40 trees+ ix
way. am0e. I tried this plan allti succeeded
beyond question. Last PflIPOU I omitted
Troubles of the Pearls. to do it and got caught with the wenn
again. My contention is that the moth
is captured before she has depoeited her
egge in the expanded blooma," says an
American Gardening correspondent.'
The crown gall of the peach, especial-
ly upon nursery stock, has reoently
come into marked prominence. This
disease has the uenal characteristics of
a paraotio trouble and takee rank with
yellows in its menace to the peach in-
dustry. According to good authority,
no cure has been found. Destruction of
all affected trees 1. Wrongly urged
whether these be in the hands of the
nurseryman or the orchardist.
Among fungous trembles of the mach
are the fruit rot, leaf curl, scab and
modular spot. To prevent the rot, the
destruction of the old rotted peaches is
the first essential. Leaf earl may be
greatly reduced and its damages con-
trelled by spraying with bordeanx mix -
tare, and the same applies to the scab
end to the pustular spot.
"And whet ohmmeter anroma do rel
think my play haat" impilred titti anxieme
',ming dramatist elf the rmeran manager
The entreats manager halanewl the man
"Wanness" he '' you don't Want
see to fleeter yon "
"No -o o," replied the dramatint.
" *II then,- mid the •eterrin WHO
mneti gravity, "I think your play has
ebent the same elletece for 111)(10114111 that re
form has ta Cbleal"-Cleveland Plato
A Valuable Early Black Grape.
While oonsidering it rather too soon
to judge rrositively of the value of Camp-
bell's' Early black grape. The Rural
New Yorker says, that it given promise
of being the moet valuable early black
grape at present known It has not yet
developed a failing. The •ine is per-
fectly hardy, the leaves without mil-
dew. It is appeoeutly even rebre pro-
ductive than the Clonoord, while the
bunches and berries are ' larger. Tbis
than those c Moore's Early and ripened
at almoirt exactly the same time-vio
about Sept :I
The Cerkaesteb Is Est Dry Weather.
Tbe cocioromb is usually treated as
a pot plant. It does not mem to be gen-
erally known that it thrives in oar gar-
den& During the hot end dry grimmer
weether there are few things that will
continue to give en notch matidaotion aa
this flower. Insiteleilffelloteer net defer
it is tbe more it seems to flourish.
Many brilliant effente to ornamental
hardening can be made by the judiniola
employment a this flower in massing.
-IWabsn's Monthly
APPLES AND PEARS.
Agrilealteral Brevities.
Rural New Yorker's beet advice in
regard to cowpeas on light or sandy toil
is to let the vines die down to cover tne
ground through winter. Do not plow
them tinder this fall unions yon need
the ground for some fall crop. like iye
or wheat.
It is said that Hubbard sqnashes are
beat noted in a dry room with a tern•
pernture a about 50 degrees.
Eig fowls are good enough as eariosi-
tier, but the market does; not demand
extreme eize. The average cousumer
wants a plump, medium sized fowl of
smooth and pleasing appearance, re-
marke The Farm Journal.
The Pennsylvania experiment etation
reports that fur 1898 Davreou's Golden
Chaff, a smooth, amber wheat, produced
41.42 bushels per acre, the largest yield
of any variety tested. Following this
variety in the order of their production
are: Gold Coin, 87.97; Ferty Fold,
37.57; Fulcaeter, 87.15, and Jones'
Winter Life, 80.17 bushels.
One of tbe email test profitable in-
dustries of central New York IP the
trevving of Waken willows
Lad fall Twos in doubt se to Om bed
thne pink toy apples end pears, and I
now feel thre that I made • mistake
and did the work too early, thereby
'offering considerable logo ail I had
droasght, with a very hot sun, until the
IMMO port rif Comfit*. Pans of the ',p-
ylori* the 'tenth tidal et tree* had spots
tar Mine a half dollar, actually scalded
and eltenoletwl. They were more knotti
aural imperfect then metal. I eited not
A Set et tlersteidreeska.
Coughs
That
Stick.
YOu don't seem tO be able W
throw them off. All the ordinary
remedies you've tried don't touch
them. The cough remedy for you ie
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup.
It loosens the phlegm, allays the
irritation, heals and soothes the ine
flamed lung tissue.
MR. WM. FERRY, Blenheim, Ont.
says: "I can recommend Dr. Wixel's
Norway Pine S)rim as the very beet
medicine for coughs and colds, sore
throst and weak lungs.
Dr. Wood's
Norway Pine
Never fails to Com
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Goderieh. Basch it 1.106.
NEW LUGG_AGE FOR MEN.
A Het c.o. Holding Your Hata sell
Castes for shoes ea, Tress.
The newest thing in nien's traveling
hat bola' is oee made to carry four hue.
box with tinting sides, made ea carry •
silk hat. has long Lean familiar, as dm
aim become what may be described eit
the tiro -storey bat imx, made to carry a
derby as well as a silkitat by adding a
narrow, stralght-sided section riding
above the flaring part of tee box. Tirana
ts •Iso • bat hot made tor silk hats thas
is equate -oribe-seepel.
'114 four -hat non, ruede 10 eart7 • silk
and fitted with two bowls, ar the hat
holders•are called, one to hold the
movable. so that on occitaion this awe
may be used for fhe purpose of • Gut*
case or to carry shirts In.
Men's trunks have long been mad•
with suitable comportments for shoes,
•nd there are made also sole blather cues
for traveling use designed espeetelly for
-She carrying of the traveler's boots sod
shoee only. There are• no* made sole
latther cases fitted to carry shoes on trees.
•re made in Iwo sizes, • four pair
wive end an eight pair came. long sines
,(pemularly eetablished in um for the pur-
poses of a traveling bag as well as fur
that which its name Implies, was early
Missy up as a traveling hag by women
'also. 'there are now made deem; MIS
cases of lighter weight, having a lighter
frame and made of lighter leather, thee
are especially dertgeed for women.
In "Manitoha Memories" Rev. George
tonne relates au experience of hie boy-
hood which, he @eye, formed the turning
point In his career and Ind him eventu-
ally to choose the life of • missionary in
the north land.
"Early one stormy morning when I
feeding the cattle In the basement of a
the bulldit.g and cru4hed like an egg -
Abell. Hearing the cravh of the faillne
and breaking thither's, I fell on my knees
In terror an I began to pray
"la a moment, ae it seemed, the storm
pavzed and stillness prevailed. I was 001111-
pkt,ly encompaterti by the broken tim-
ber. and. the mowe of hay and grans
whirl* had been stored In the upper pare
of the barn. was In atter darknem, too,
and at first COMpleteli Ilaz•d. Finding
my senses and began so dig into the bay
to escape.
"Alter a long struggle I worked my-
self free. from the hey and stood fa the
midst ot ttio wreck,
"it was afterwatds ascertained how
narrowly I had erteaped being crashed th
(Leith by the telling timbers. Had I hews
standing at this moment 1 must have
herrn tailed 'The epees whsrein I had
knelt woe about • yard aquae° and the
only place where I could have escape&
inetant death.
"Much wan made of my remarkable
eo-are. which I have alwnys regarded all
• direct Inteapogition of Providence. and
in coneequerairl have devoted my life M
A•tsses and Wlater rubrics.
Corduroy is a leading clam of fash-
ionable stuff for autumn and winter
gowns. Some have narrow striper in
two or three colorings, but the larger
n umber are plain end ribbed, and there
Wei plenty apeekled in different toner.
The shot whipeorda are good looking
▪ There are the zibeline stripes often
thrown on a check gmend black and
(aloe, and there are many zibeline
ehecks-oreen on blne. brown en green,
violet on green. black on blue and black
on brevrn.
Masa Privets Per routtrr.
Good priors aro prevailing for all
poultry products. Eggs are creeping
higher steadily, anti !bedtime:id fa brink
for good chickens at prices which mnst
yield' a good profit to the grower. At
the same time the eggs mnst be abet)
penninee hair erects be sio with petite
taete.-Maine Farmer
. Tire nre nf coal tor boom beating is
-rot newel m general in Enrage SI in elle
-Chicego Record.
A Belie.
"You didn't bring nie home a single
fella," pouted the sweet thing.
"My dear," replied her soldier lover,
"I brought you envied. There is noth•
Mg left of me but a relio."-Philadel•
phis North American.
Mo Further Chanee For Argument.
"Holston iv the bean city, I believe,"
said Philadelphia man to a Bostonian.
"And Philadelphia te the bee been
city," replied the Boston man plow
"But bow can you have the heart to
deprive the poor heathen allfifir land?"
"They would never learn the dignity
of labor if we didn't."-Indisnapolis
"Po," said the chimney "weep, "I'm
not proud -though I was owe stuck op
in a chimnes."-Cineinnati Enquirer.
O'er Useless Preiediews.
These minerable prejudices, then, are
to be lopped off. and there is our whole
strength to be atiplied. Poi. whet are
weeping and greening? Prejudice. What
Limit/fortune? Prejudice. What are sedi
Mon, dimes& complaint, sermation,
Impiety, levity? All them are prejudices.
end nothing more, and projectiles* eon
awning things' nnoontrollable by will,
aa if they, meld be good or sertl. Let
any one tranafer theme m12,1(4108' te
thinga centre/liable by will. and I will
engage that he will preserve his con
Mayor, whatever be Mor Mate of thing.
Wool hint.-Epictotua.
maks an intereettng experiment, and Ona
that is likely, if it meets with success.
to haws an appreeiative effect upon awl -
culture In England. Lady Warwick's idea
le that it Would be useful to form mettle -
country for tbe eultivatIon of the land,
and thus enable them to add to the*
innornee by 'the male of fruit, flowers,
• getables, pmItey. ogre, honey, etc., she
tt#odues of their itartens and poultry
runs. There is little dnubt that a moder-
ate means bt livelihood oan be obtaltial
itt this way, but In tbe present state OS
keen eempention succeee falls chiefly, It
not entirely, to the trained "capacity"
and organized worker. '1'hom women,
therefore, who propose to embark seri-
nutty in each an leirerpria• must ltnie
qualify themselves for the work. Tim
hoetel which Lady Warwick hope* M
open. la Oetober In oonneetlon with
Heading College will he an insiltutiou
where snob qualification.' may be oh -
Mined. It will be fenntn I for the definite
purposs of enabling women over the awe
of le to Abtain ttbrongh training
rtheoretleal and practical), in the lighter
branches nf agriculture. •Is: Flower and
fruit growing and pricking for market.
rooms, moo.. bee and poultry keening,
and dairy work. The commit of Rearitteg
College have nonsented in provide the
nemesery mores of InetruotIon, and Oa
recognise The Countess of Warwiek's
boatel as • plane of towline.. far women
students -London Times.
A Creoles,.
Cholly-lsoe one whole week during's,
summer vacation I was the only rage
among 95 women. ,
Mermen, the dear girls told you that. -
Philadelphia North American.
Tim °sly War.
"Bridget, you've breiken se murk Mule
Ole month a• your wages amonnt ea.
Now, how eats we prevent thi.oceneringt
"1 &eel Meow, mass, Mika MIA.
wapas."-Wipd to Est