Exeter Advocate, 1899-4-13, Page 6BETWEEN TWO LOVES.
(Continued.)
9 am 'weary, waiting for the May."
Datsy though emelt of this Intl,* eiri-
*ode: to ber it had no meaning. What
ceaeld May man ntore than Jure
July? Yet there: wee erideatly `411111P -
tiling In her 11nel-weans mind ehoet
tefter :hie perlateey meetium tee
word; size talewl et 'were in elev. 41 -
rale -T111.! 211 ••;%.‘ stt 1.!1,i7
wienee freta ti3. went as te. .-
hurt him
elle nes he.1 we. erne teenee.
?day." thought lateete "lee ; nett , •
er &Tele :t Ft. •lei tear -e
g:e; am ottly --as' let az a ete.
Di.1 be et re here let ny v a ea.; t
to %/low. Was be n •••':t teat
husbands? Ile was teeter tee ewe
he bad uevet beet/ etweei Ite bee. iw
tied wever terettea lee- eed
her a witite it... !tee alweis ea eel.
ith tilled:tees tied :weir -iv. 1.1! w
th„t a sure s.141 l•xv.k.? h
• oftee end weett rite dr wee!:
e ine had enteweiami ttbeet nee oat
leefont Ewe neneriatte; b ei ex- eteted
to her the it tete etwv in the
clews. te she telost brew, .4 ewe the
meet neteteed tied degteded. tbat teen..
was ett h ttleg et. it eteleetneg • r
wereonal nuttudnent. So that hei cote
tetty to her ntigntrtt tittneon eve.
Sbe WOUld llaVe given ail ehe had 10
find Qin whether he 4141 love Ler et' not.
She was alwava tasthing exetwee now to
ge out.n ortler thut sae Marin %vetch
the behavior of other married Peeldo.
Outwardly, tnie did not eve mr1 differ -
"eye; bet 011 feces of ether men she del
telt read inditterenve, rest/ant-awe—that
vaa.ue sorter'? whleh sbe saw on her
husbueds's faee; neither did she see
wives anxious ned wistfin as berself.
Dny found that. aistong most of the
ku.sbands 'lad wive,' she MK. there wits
a rneetty, Lewin. anderstauditute—th
had hut ene ietereet, eite way la life.
It Mee:unmet, emote other places. that
Sir ininten eena her owe ta see a tuu.
true old cemetery ttear the ettnny eve—
s, eenatery heteiefal ite env:tem:I-
Woe ri M lasele that peeple Ittotetht
ta1017 1-.710C3 11..4* sear to be he
tesnel
Sie tit:eau [weer fe?get thew day.
wets LC', .4:10`4 7,",:v"; lutpreseed him
—*lee OH 41 er. I: twee an Italian day,
the eau !::',.011, the deep -blue
pity itI.,,ri C reir; the tar vale
elleo rtwa pereente ;nem the vines and
one e; tteeteeni fr.Or liOsrers W1,10 in
slte Waal -nee singlet; in the
arena /tett tile wevet '....7401 %IIthG
erewsi tilt; eente-
teey et Ilterie Parre WOW.? bE'llt1,1.
mony t.iw:a 4. ,Ok. F10.1 with feet.or.s
▪ 7:1110 lincee an round
them. tea tet F:1,,Tat:y.
Knots retitle enti thew /eau a sad' story;
Ie was the.. grave ef a girl oely
tighteen; reteng molter who died
"Well her bebe in le r area.; of the fath-
er wIto lay there,. Itetriug sw many little
*ZeS to lenient latat there were the tit-
tle strave Ley iunotent chilOren
so pleasing to God.
"It does nc,t seem like dying." mid
Inaiee, "to ie tere :anent; these flowers,
the ehadows of tite vale leavee lying eo
lightly, the sun f:7;li so evertely„ the
birds Ging:ng FO ieveetty—lt is not like
dying to Ile
t Then the guide showed them a Iteenti-
tul grirre; it was eeverel with festoons
of vine leave.t; tali white leaves grew
titer 'it, tieh red reset „new near it.
°Whet it; the Pr Wee': garte ln the
eemetetw," 19 aid Dewy, lltonelittetly.
wend it has tIte teenlett etery," said
the guide. "1117.- leattl and et to elect)
there. They eame enve,.enon after
their marriage, to see tint eone•tery,
and I never sere aeything lile them.
It was inie lotaliet et a picture or read -
e. peera t Ireton tbern."
"Why?" err. d Deiete haetily.
"Reettuse he level ter sa." wits the
welly; "this ellwoe tee) twinned %Trappe..?
lee ia ber. I only taw there that tree,
but never foegot niem. Ten months
afterward she Wits LrengIit here to be
bursed, and they teal no tams bewitiful
&lie Molted in her tedfin, holiling her
dend little bribe in her tirms.
melade" eentinued the grade,
or be spol:e exelusiveis to Daley, think -
the subject would please her—
"then, after she was buried, the young
busband came here every day, no mat-
e= what the weather—sunshiee, rain,
ar
snow—the came; and he would sit by
her grave for home. Once some of his
Itriende followed him, and remonstrated
with him.
You will kill yourself,' they said.
: "'My !heart is dead,' he replied; tit ie
buried here; what matter how soon my
body follows? I would rather lie dead
my wife's grave than. Ilviog else-
witeret
"Dow by day we watched him grow-
, ling thinaer, paler, more worn and hag-
gard; day by day he stayed longer near
her grave, and seemed more unwilline
to leave it; and one evening, when the
getee of the cemetery were about to.
: be closed, remembering that he was
• still here, I came in search of hint
sueladit He lay dead, with his arms
toyer her grave, am] face buried in the
goitre:1-s. Meladi, they say men never
lie for love; this man did."
; Daisy looked up at hire with a won-
,tering expression on her face.
"Died of, love," she sald. "Ile loved
Ibils wife so dearly that he could not.
.6ve without her, em he died."
n "Did you her that story, Caro?"
n "Yes," replied Sir Clinton; "I heard
trt-ery word of it."
"A_nd do you beneve it—dc, you be-
; !Neve that a man ever &eel front love?"
tle looked far away over the hills and
I Eke blue sew he; whom love had dtriven
I kneel, looked dreamily, sadly out on the
kale, blight world.
''Yes, I believe 'it, Daisy," he Bead;
/love Is not the playtheng and pastime
that some people would make it It is
bi.eesing or a curse, it is 'happiness in.
neepale."
Thee elle looked at him with a tweet,
evtistfui ewpression in her eyes.
"Co.ro," she said, gently, "could you
overr die for love of me?"
He looked down at her; great ,teara
ereee slat:eine in her eyes; her Ups trent
-
Wed, What could he , say? In the
.linmdat of his heart he knew well tihat
ate had Ito such love for hex..
eety Sear Daisy," he said, tryieg to
Oa% "this pretty cemetery gives you
gloomy ideas; is it not better to. nye ter
love thau to die for it?".
"He. .evades lineation." thought
Daisy; "he :always dee e we it is
about love.'
She was ellentfor few minutes,
then she said:
-"Caro, will you. make
ealee?'"
"Yes," he replied hriefiy,
"Promise that when 1 die you will
bring me here—yoe Will bury me here;
and Caro, I sbould like to be near this
betreelfal etrave, near the grave of tb.e,
. who died for love, You will net
will not even listen; awl Daisy,
you shall not stay in tbis, melanehoil
p!oce eny longer."
. .
Me <Me Wet
• Lie took her away at once, but they
either of them forgot the cemetery of
St, Marie Pierre.
CHAPTER XXIII. ,
Ta,T.
• Three years bare passed since Sr
Clinton Adair took his young wife t
the laed of the olive awl the vine.
Daisy bad grown into an elegaut e-
mu;•ner fair face retained the imam-
enee of childhood, and had gained the
loveliness of womanhood; it was a
beautiful face, pure and fair, -with sad
sweet eyes aud sad sweet lips,
Daisy ban learned the truth at ladt
She knew now that love or her did not
fill her husband's life, she was, as it
were outside his life; she had no share
M its inmost depth. He had thong:es,
fancies, memories, dreams in wIlielt -he
had no share, Slowly, sorrowfully, mi-
le, Daisy bad etwalteetel to the Itenwe
tette of the truth. Only by clove w;
her own great love bad franker:ea her
instinet. She judged him by hews nf;
and how far he was wowing; No; he
did het love her. Sb e noticed little
things; his two never brightetted
ber. It she entered a room where he
was, he looked 'nosed; he had, alevaire
a kindly smile for ber; but that be:glee
Mee which tinny comes font the heart's
love never overspread his Mee for Item
tier it he heerd a strain of sweet musiet
he read the words of a song, dal lale
tetanus ever waseler to her. The per.
me of fiewere elm gleam1.1"...f the dare,
the terntur of the waves, tlid not melte
hoe Vain!: of her. Netinitet ever weente I
bring them newer together, no sweet
melte ever drew hira to her;
was 110 to5-ord tetween theirit Wet ifere
Wf14, all tin hie and teem telt hie,
Daisy dill net judine quienly or rash-
; nt..34erased nine before :he tante
to tine consinedin. Tafel thing
login/ to puvale heretif he Ord not tore
her, wins bad he inernael itert D. ;Ay
eed not fl,,vontlt for that. The enty
iara 4,e !ewe ramfort she b.td Fay
in Ler utter irialoliry tr Oiseover ane
Mar2i:MQ except hem It
.n't be for lee beenty—he who
tieweled far and wide must. smelt:
have etna weeme far mere bettetifni
an the; it tattle not be for any w.th1-
ly so•litg that she watt poor,
howl:1e and unitamen.
'rhea a little hope would come to
Daley, and she wenlit say to mself.
"He must have lovell me a Intim" for
that he had overheard her eonvereation
wall her mother, and bed married her
from ehter pity, Intiey never dreamed.
She
was not jealons as yet, for she thd
itot thiuk be bad ever loved any one else
he never mentiotted any other wo-
ntan's name. Then would Daisy shell
fairely, and think to herself whet
pv. Vern life ewe—what a grand puzzle
th's love whieli occupied all her
thwagles„
The next scene lat the tragedy ewe
that Sir Clirton Adlir began to weary
of the inonefoutt of his life. rntil pew
it had "memo,' to hint the blow whitli
hod strnek him dcwri was so greet ill tt
there eould be no reimend. III. NO
led:weed that there remeined rotting
for him but to reumin a few yeers in
mite, then die.
Now lie was sterner:and the strength
of his reettheot. the force of his chat -
al -ter, the nobility of mind and soal,
is gon to rebto. agninst the tweets lite
A certain longing for the stefe. a de.
sire to be onee nem! in the battle -field
of Ilfe came over 1.1m. Was he to (Ye
without having dome one single great *it'
-owl deed? Was a woman's hand to
shy him so entirely that even the
telents and Dm gifts which Heaven had
given him were uveless? Ile had suf-
fered his pinta and now he longed to
be back in the arena. There was an-
other thing which made him feel that
the wisest thing he could do was to go
back to the world and work. He had
sought that retirement in order that in
solitude he might learn to forget his
fatal love, but solitude inweased its in-
teneity. He had nethine but leisure,
and leisure was not g00% for hint. If
he looked dreamily to the shining sides,
he saw there the face of Lady May; the
luscious perfume of the flowers, the
music of the birds, the soft, whispering
wind, all brought ber back to hint. She
haunted les solitude—perhaps in the
busy turmoil of the world there would
be less room for her.
He meant to do right before God and
man; no thoughts of sin or wrong -doing
entered his mind. He was cursed with
a haunting sorrow and a haunting me-
mory; but he meant no wrong. He in-
tended to he a kind, faithful husband
to Daisy, to live with ber in peace and
harmony; be had no dream of evil.
But he must go away; he must thed
week to do; be must run in the strife
of the world, take hie place in its ranks.
He said to himself that be wonld go
back to England—uot to Eastwold, the
home he had brightened for Lady May:
but he would go to London; he would
see whet was going- OD in the world;
he world resume some of his long-
tieglected duties He said to himself
that he would be very careful—that he
would never voluntarily look upon the
face of Lady May, "Duchess of Bose
-
earn by this time," he thonght
"No, I will not voluntarily meet her;
1 will not theow myself into the way
of teinptaton 1 /ALLY not love Daisy,
but I will be trne to her
He resolved upon going, and all that
weraained was for hint to tell Daten.
.Ide had kept his real name, Ms title,
and fortune a Secret from her, partly
because he liked to think she 1.oved him
for himself, and paetly because he
wanted no one word to remind hint of
the past. He pictured himself Daisy's
wonderment, Daisy's eurprise.
"It will be a etme of Lord Burleigh
over again," he said to himself. "t
'shall take her in the time to Come to
Eastwold, and tell tkOr ithe is 'Etade'
Adair."
She would well become the position
• and title. He had called. her a field
de i.sy, but she was not a field-tlewer
now; there WAS AO truer lady itt all the
• land than Daisy Adair,
epaisine said Sir Clinton, ng they
wnlited one evening by the sea-shore—
emeey, are you not growing tired et
this life?'
'Tired?' elm replied; "no. Wbat lift
could be more beautiful?"
•4934 we see no one, eve hear nein
ing, we know nothing of what Is going
on In the wold—we are buried alive."
"I thought that was what you liked
• beet, and wished for most," said Daisy.
"Why, Caro, you would never content
to see or knew •any one."
• "I feel better now," be said, "strong-
er, end the nuirb41 dislike I had to my
kind is dying away. I want to go itit4
the
wall again, Daisy; there le noth-
lug to do here, nothing te give an in-
terest in Wed'
He did not see the mute reproach of
the sweet end eyes raised to Ill&
• N0 interest in lite, when sbe was
unlit hine—uothing to iive for when he
ael
her Daisy grew sick end taint, a
feenag of despair mune over her. She
was less than nothing to him—why had
be married her?
.41 temeghti" be said, "of going bawl:
England and remaining there for
some time; I shall see then what there
Is to do. After all, twee efforts at vet
tupation that I mane are wretelted
enough. Boelts and fattgaattes are not
ongh to fill a man's life and
toughts."
**You have me," said. Daise, faintly;
but he did not even hear her,
She tented from Mut with e sigh of
detpairi
• "StaY, Mist'," he Feld; "I Writ to
disettee law plans with you. What
u say to returniug to Engle/ad nee
leen ?"
"I say anything you like," was the
gentle renly, "Year pleasure is always
relue."
Polon teak courage. $he raised he
face to lliF.
"Teti me, Caro," she said, "bow it
• is that we are ee olifferent? You sly
pet hew. no interest in life here; I say
lett you fill :me lf so exeluelvety 1,
lare room for nothing• else, What
runes the illinewente"
Ile tweld hate told her in one mn
re et the eine:mete. lay between teve
a'rt1 want of it, He Igeghtel caret any,
• s etly Wert seal ia the twee -
tion sinatt of it—not loving, ber u ell
rwiesh to intentreemel what eremite.'
it.
"I do net tee w, Diller you shodel
tient met tete:nee if eut 111 gime/tete Int
ten, y4. it -they are tante beyoud me.
Weet wain titnil we travel by? I ara
ante et itmeleg, to entre"
Hew Intie Iro ettre.1.—deter Iletren,
11 4w little Ite heed loin lifer face ban
arena pale evea te the lips; be did rot
teei 'e it. Iler te tee were limey with
ntite.1 tears; lie atl net tee them. The
gni-wife tutmell awn; with the hitt r-
iteee, death in her hear t; he saw note
• leg of it. Ile weet on talking to he,
able a nesperate resolve formed Reif
in her mind
He did not love her, Lift with her
was so monotonous for him he emit] not
eedure it; she was bat a burden to hint.
Why he had martied her Heaven only
Me:we-she AIM not; she •could nit
fathom the motive. She was a bend
to him, entering on this new life, this
fresh phase of his exteterwe. She mond
• :tot intrude bersel on him; he shothl
go to England without her, At fret
the idea every:Teemed her; then she
thought to herstlf it would be a • fair
test of his love. If he refused to allow
h -r to reuutin, then she should lame
Cart, in spite of all •appearentat, he
hived her. If, on de contrary, he was
willing to go witheut her, then :he
anow he dal not care for by,
There ens n niebtitegal singing in
the dathened wood there was a sweet,
'mete= wind breathing over the flow-
ers that evening when Dnisy tried law
test.
"Caro," she sail, "I have cornett:net
to say to Yon."
"I AM listening, Daisy," 1 repliel.
"I do not want to go back to Erwitted
with you just yet: I would rather stay
here for a short time."
Her henet was beating so quickly and
so loudly, it seemen to her that he moet
hear it; her pulse throbbed—it seemed
that her very eoul was listening for the
answer that was to be so much or so
little to her. He did not seem much elm -
wised, and there was no stnrt of dis-
may, no exelaraation of wonder; he did
not even turn around to see if she were
jesting or not.
"You do not want to go to Eng -Tiled.
Why, Daisy, are yen in love with this
Med of the olive and the vine?"
• "Should you mind going without
me?" Daisy asked, falteringly.
"Mind! No, not at all. I only mind
one thing, Daisy, as you phrase it --that
is, that you should • in every respect
please yourself."
"I wish I had no self to please," wad
Daisy. "And, Caro, you are quite
sure--"
"Yes; I am gime. I am equally plees-
ed whether you remain here or go with
Something like an excess of despair
came over her; she said to herself that
it would be better if she could know
the truth, the whole tlf it, at once.
"You will not naiss me, Caro?" she
said.
The wistful look of the tender eyes,
the vrietful sound of her low voice, were
all unheeded by him. He felt some
night wonder, if the real truth be told,
some slight pique, that Daisy could do
to well without him—Daisy, who had
always seemed wrapped up in him, who
had professed herself dull and unhap-
py if he were only half an hour away.
He felt, something like surprise; it was
so new foe Daisy to be indifferent to
him. It WEa a lady's whim, he sip
posed, and, ass such, he ought not to
"'Sball I miss you, Daisy?" he re-
peated. "The matter is so entirely one
of your own choosing, 1 cannot say. I
gall be very much occupied on my
return to England. You can remain
here for the summer, if you like, and
I will come for •you • at the end of
autumn."
• "Very well," said Daisy, faintly. "He
seemed glad that I should remain; he
seemed pleased to be without are he
cares nothing about it"
• we— [TO BE CON'fl2iMED.1
'
-INGEM-OHS LOVER.
"
Kg. WAS. NOT ONLY HARDWORKING/
BUT CLEVER, Flerkz7e,Atialtote;
Autl by Introducing, aw nnexpeoted •
pleurae* of noeinuee /*to His Mat, BPRINQ
'ter et Fact tovernaning He Speed..
aly Woo Ike Lady Fair.
"Squire Sloeum had an awful tinte
gettin that daughter Polly .Ann of his
married to the right man, said Mrs.
Lucas as she ouce anore sat down after
her third start to go, "though I do say
now and always will say that if he'd
kept out of it in the first place he'd 'a'
bad 110 trouble at all. It's just like a
man to always be meddlin into things.
"You see. Ben Siler and Henry Dun..
ker were both sparkin Polly Ann at
once. but they was by no 'means the
Fame sort of fellers Not by a long
chalk! 13en was a mighty good carpen-
ter. steady and hardworkiu. smart as
steel trap. and had a host 0 friends,
while Fleury Dunker Was about as
worthless as they make 'em. It's my
idea. Mrs. Neweeme. that Polly Ann
liked Ben the best in the OM place, and
only kept Henry Dunker hangin on to
tease him., but at any rate Squire Slo-
cum got mad one day and forbid tleury
Ihmker the house. and told Polly Ann
•she bad to marry Ben. Naturally Polly
Ann wonldn't have notbin to say to
Ben after that. and got to meetin lien-
ry out plaves wherever she got a chance
Den was mighty long beetled, and one
day be goes to the squire and base long
lit with him. and the next day at din-
ner the squire says kind ef offhaud
like
" 'I'm glad you shook that Ben SUM
Polly Tbey say lae's turniu out a bit
wild
'Pelle' just !coked up surprised and
en got thoughtful right away When
the sqnire went down town, he met
Deng Dunker and shook banns with
hint
" 'We haven't even yont up to the
Donee rem qnite a spell. Henry.° he says.
'Conte up tenight • Awl then he walk-
ed away. leavin Henry Maker Oran.
deretrucktilt happy
"tie went np to the house that vighti
and told Polly AIM the goad news of
the writhe's change of Wow. She acted
welded for awlolte ent she get sober
belort. the (Tetilli was over. and shook .
him Weide of a week Then she took up
with Lien. and it wasn't but a couple
umre weeks till they made it up to
elope Polly Ann couldn't keep it to
herein?. and wheu the uight came there
was sm goon as tit) hid around in the
neighiewhood to see it come off.
nThere earce pretty near bein a
hitch even then. for the moire, ben
absentmindul a little, had locked up
the ladder in the wood shed, after prom-
isin Ben to leave it out, and there wasn't
another one in the neighborbood any-
where. Ben wanted her to emne down
through the front door, but she wouldn't
do it; so Ben lind to sneak around the
back way to the old folks' bedroom win-
dow and borrow the old naan's wood
shed key to get the ladder. and then
the ladder broke clown with 'exit. But
the squire never pretended to hear"—
Cincinnati Eequirer
Just What Tie Wanted.
"Here's an item to the effect that
the only thing a man can do in New
York without money is to ran into
debt."
"Great macherell If a fellow can do
that, I'm goiug to New York. They
must be easier there than they are in
Chicago."
Overheard In n quiet senare.
"Do you know Italian?'
"Yes."
"Will you translate this for me?
"Oh. the ouly Itaulan / know is an
organ grinder who plays ontside our
house every Tuesday afternoon"—
"Oh, get ontl"—Pick Me Up.
The First Night.
Anthor—Do you really think my play
will von?
Critic—I do. indeed. .As it does not
contain a sound argument or a situa-
tion that will hold water, I think it
cannot help running.—Ally Sloper.
Very Trying.
• Tender Hearted One --Ah, my good
man, yours is indeed a sad case! But
adversity tries us all, you knowand
reveals many of our good qualities.
Rueful Robert—Ohbut it worn't
adversity wot tried me, rantnt Twere
a city magistrate and he didn't put bus
self to no inconwenience about me good
qualities, you bet. mum. —Fun.
Absolutely Pull.
First Manager—They tell me you
played to standing room only out in
Wayback?
Second Manager—Yes, there wasn't
a seat sold in the house. --Yonkers
Statesman
Not Very Comforting.'
Stityleight---Tommy, do you think
your Sister is fond of me?
Tommy—I don't know. She gave me
a quarter to set the clock half an hour
fast. --Jewiah Comment
Killing •Oat Stent—'neeteti elethotee
and a roNvexqui Germicide,
One of the first crops to be planted is
oats. It is estimated that •nearly 10 per
cent of it is destroyed by smut. Pre-
ventive measures should be generally
used It has been shown by careful ex-
periments that the Jensen method. or
the treatmeut of the seed with hot wa-
ter, gives entire immunity from •=at.
The treatment consists in keeping the
seed oats for ten minutes in water at a
temperature of 113 degrees. This re-
quires means for heating water, a bar-
rel, a thermometer and a sack to bold a
bushel or two of oats. It is essential
that the water be kept up to the proper
temperature and tbat the immersion
should not be coutiuned much under or
beyond the time named After being
removed the seed should be spread on a
floor and stirred until cool and dried.
Tilts method requires me eitemicais
and little eepense, but does involve
eoneiderable lal tor. Complete prevention
has been secured with less labor. but at
an expense of about 4 colts per btu-hel,
by the use of a 1 per cent solution of for-
malin, or, as it is chemically termed,
formaldehyde. The seed, being Knead
on a finer. is spriukled with this soln-
tion aud turned over until every grain
ie P.:widened. If the solution he applied
with a sprayer leaving a very fine noz-
zle. less at it will be required a/ad the
cost will be len Forrctalin is a power-
ful germicide. and it will do its work
if only enough bo used to cover the seed.
This sabstanee ie eat a 1101$031 in the
sense that cotro‘ive sublimate and paris
green are poisons. :N.* harm can come
from its use as reeoramended in this
article. If any ono prefirs to soak the
Feed for ene bout' in formalin selution,
this eon let neue at iets expenee and
will be equally effective In this case
the Folutleu elinehl be made but mow
ffth ila t4T(Allg. 411' one part Of forwalin
ta hOn :eats of wilier. As in the hot
water unlined. it is best to put the oats
In tetelmfer convenience in lifting tlwre
in and oat of the et:nation—Farm Jour -
cheap ns4 hiurniite Sites.
The effort at the present time is to
build a cheap and durable eilo ezirly
all the eilos whith have been built in
the past have been too expeneive, and
many of them rotten out qnickly. Those
at were built of brick or done have
tot been as eatisittetory as the wooden
siloe. It appears to the writer that
the cheapest duralde silo and • the ono
that is most eatiefectory ia constructed
out of beveled staves six inches wide
and of the length desired. It is circular
in form and should have a cement bot-
tom. The staves are usually kept in
place by menne of galvanized iron
hoops placed about Ott feet apart. They
come in sections of 10 to 12 feet, with
suitable appliances for tightening
Ilour or more posts may be set in a
square to support a roof and girts and
boarding, and if the silo is in a cold
country the coruers of the building may
be filled with straw to prevent freezing.
A roof is erected over the silo, with
both gable ends left open, or, if it is
desired, a flat roof aita,y bo need. About
three doors sbould be cut in the staves
at suitable distances. These doors are
mat beveling, ruid tbe pieces which are
cut out are fastened together by means
of battens and light carriage bolts.
They ehould always be cut on a bevel
at the ends, so that the door may be
placea in petition from the inside. The
foregoing expees.sion of opinion is from
The Gauntry Gentleman, which further
says: We have examined most care-
fully the circular silos and are led to
say emphatically that under most con-
ditions the circular is preferable to any
other form of silo. It dries out enough
to prevent any decay, and when it is
desired to fill it again the hoops are
tightened, making the silo airtight
rire oz. Hot A.ir wed.
In some parts of southern New Jersey
what is known as a fire bed or hot air
bed is used, in which fire takes the
place of fermenting manure. This has
a fire pit at one end of the frame, with
a hot air fine, which is also the smoke
fine, gradually sloping up to the other
end, where it passes into the chimney.
A bed of this sort is described as 12 feet
wide and 60 feet long, having the fur-
nace about four feet below the surface,
2 feet high and 18 inches wide. with an
8 inch terra cotta fine. The seed bed is
supported by rafters four feet apart, on
which boards are laid. The bed is a
foot deep over the fire and six inches
deep at the opposite end. The bed is
covered with two rows of sash. Some-
times muslin or plant bed cloth is used
in place of glass. This style of bed ap-
pears to be used quite largely for start-
ing sweet potatoes, says The Rural New
Yorker
Sugaring Notes From The Form
Journal.
•The maple sugar season opens in
March. Are sap things ready? Is there
a plentiful supply of dry wood in the
sugar house?
Storage tubs should be given a coat
of paint as often as once in two years.
long enougla before using to get thor-
oughly dry.
Better not invest much money in an
gar beet industry and neglect the maple
erchard on your own farm.
Properly managed, tnaple sugar or
sirup manufacture is more profitable
than dairying
Best quality of tnaple sweet can only
be obtained by careful painstaking in
every detail and getting the sap from
the tree to the sirup can as quickly ae
possible
In tapping do not bore too deep, am
you may strike old. decaying wood,.
Most of tha sap Cows near the bark.
MAKING A HOTBED.
now to Ferment the Manure awl
Build Bp the fled.
Moat farmers aucl small gerdeuere
depend ahnoet eutirely in heating hot-
beds upon the beat developed by a pile
of fermenting manure beneath the beds.
Liman the proper preparation of this the
success of the whole enterprise will
largely depend. and lack of attention
to details will in:wire failnre at the out-
set For this reason instructions orig..
Wally given in a popular way by the
Kansas station may well be repeated
here
Good horse stable manure, with not
too much straw or litter, is the hest
material. It should not be fire fanged
or burned ont, or it develops only a
very mild heat.
About the last of Febrnary or 1st of
March for northern Zaiasas or earlier,
eccording, to locality, a pile ef manure
sufficient in quantity to make a bed 18
inches deep ander the sash to be used
•should be hauled to the place needed,,
forked over evenly. any dry portions be-
ing wetted well, and built up into a
compact mound. After a week or ten
days the steaming of this pile will in -
(Heat° that fermentation is well under
way. when it should be thoroughly
forked over IMO another pile, pitching
the outer portions of the drat toward
the center of the second, again wetting
An portions that are dry and making
all of as even a cousistency as possible.
By another week it will again be in a
atroug fermentation and ready to build
to the final bed.
$01110 prefer to dig a pit of the area
of the frames to be need, into witich
the numnre is packed. This is more
protected from the old, toad if the beds
can be left in the Fame place year after
year it is a good plan. Others prefer to
build the bed an the surface of the
ground, in witich ease it should be a
foot beyond the area the frame an
all sidea Oa the care and kill with
which this Opal building up of the =e-
ntire bed is date Innen of the success
the undertaking depends. The material
eliwild be carefully shaken over, made
of even texture throughout well nuns-
teued and thoweignly and evenly tramp-
ed down, Evenness of settling and
eventmee of Meet leith depend upon the
itTe with whielt these badman/us are
followed.
Tiro frames aro next put on, about
five inches of 11310, rich garden Warn
filled in end the reel/ put in place. Tho
frames eitoubl II Weil bltilkyd zrointl
with strawy immure to keep ant the
cold. A thermometer in the soil should
be watehrd. and the heat iu a few (bye
will often be weie, n to bays von up to
100 deerete Net entil it drops to 80
clegreve btinh1 teetle be sown. or the
young, plants will surely be Maned out
Of the scope of work that may be
done with these hotbeds only a few
things ulna be Ineutioned here. Radish
and lettuce for early use will be among
the first things sown, seeds of early
cabbage and cauliflower and later of
tomatoes and eggplant. Early Frame or
Early White ;Title cucumbers may be
started in small flats or berry boxes, to
be transplanted into cooler frames later.
One who is provided with unlimber of
sash need not eeart all of them as hot-
beds, eke mem as cabbage and cauliflow-
er are large enough they should be
transplanted into cold franies, which
aro simply the SZ13110 frames tilled with
eoil without heat below. and managed
as cool as possible. so •as to get bard.
firm plants to set in the open ground.
Tbese are only a kw hints as to what
may be done with a lot of Bath.
A Prornixing Gate.
A Michigan correspondent sends The
Farm Journal a drawing of something
novel in the way
of a gate. e Inch
he .nees and likes
and wants other
folks to try. The
cut shows how'-' iiewe
the gate is made.
oL
Its tameit consists nLna
itt the way it is hung. The hanger is a
clevis, holdine''a roller on which the
top bar runs. T.1.1e elevis is pivoted, and
the pivot bolt passes up through a cross-
piece fastened to two posts, the bolt ba-
ing held by a nut on top.
The roller is three inches in diamen
ter, having a flange half an inch high
on each end, and may be made of wood
or iron. The posts where the gate
swings must not be set opposite. but
one about three inches in advance of
the other. To open gate roll it back
until nearly balanced and then swing it
around. It will swing in only one di-
rection.
The Superior Minds of Lettuce.
Plants of the more highly developed
kinds of lettuce, represented by black
seeded Tennis Ball. Iceberg, Prize Head,
etc., when started under glass in March
and set out in the field when freezing
weather is mainly over in the spring
mature earlier and yield a better prod-
uct than plants that are started in the
fall and wintered out of doors, says
Professor L. F. Kinney of Rhode Island.
Nevem sand Notes.
Too many fanners do not realize how
the intelligent use of a few hotbed sash
can be turned to profit financially and
in the better table supply of vegetable'
for home use.
• The use of stable manure, unless it
has been thoroughly heated and rotted.
to kill weed seed is not advisable on a
lawn. Concentrated fertilizer rich in
phosphoric acid is to be preferred
If yoar onions are frozen do not ate
tempt to handle or to market them ant
til they have thawed out just where
they are, says The Farm Journal. Keep
hands off. Do not attempt to hasten the ,
thawing by admitting the sun or using
artificial heat
A Chicago man is reported to have
devised a process by which fax is retted
chemically in an heur's time, and it i1,.
proposed to erect a factory, probably is
Wisconsin, for weaving fine linen trout,'
American grown tiax