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REGINA FAIRFIELD;
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CHAP'1'i:It II.
I do not know what was the pow-
er that attracted me so strongly, so
inevitably, so fatally, to Wolfgang
Wallraven; whether it was ntgnet-
istn, sorcery, or destiny, or whe-
ther
ho-ther It was the gloom and mystery
of his manner and appearance. Cer-
tain it is that there was a glamour
in his dark and locked -up counten-
ance and in the smoldering fierceness
of his hollow eyes that irresistibly
drew mo on to my fate. He did
not seek sty acquaintance—he sought
the society of no one. On the con-
trary, he withdrew himself into soli-
tude—iilto surliness. This was un-
usual in a schoolboy, and it made
him very unpopular. 'Co Ine, how-
ever. his sullen reserve and surly
manner had more interest, more
fascination, than the openest and
blacdest demonstrations of social
afTectiop from any of the other boys
could have. There was evidently
something behind and under it. He
was not all outside. Perhaps ho
piqued my curiosity, or interested
some feeling more profound than
mere curiosity. I inquired about
int.
"Who is he? Where did ho come
from?"
"We call hila the Prince of Dark-
ness! Oh! he Is a haughty fellow.
The eldest son and heir of an im-
utensely wealthy Virginian. You
ctlre't make anything of hien; let.him
alone," was tho answer. •
I turned my eyes on hint. ere was
sitting at his distant desk—a single,
solitary desk in the farthest corner
of the schoolroom—his elbow leaned
upon his desk, his brow supported
pots his left palm, his eyes bent
ori the the book lying open before
his dark. rich locks hanging
his fingers.
by does the professor give him
distant. single desk, apart
nil the other boys? Seems to
that would make him unsocial."
Why? It is his choice. The young
Ince is an aristocrat, and does
nt choose to sit upon a form and
iix with other boys. I say, you
ad better let him alone. You can
.o nothing with him."
i looked at hint again and more
ttentively. There was more suffer -
than scorn revealed in the
ruling curves of his mouth—a
th that would have been per -
beautiful, had not the lips
too closely compressed and the
ers too sadly declined. I gazed
int under the influence of a sort.
fascination. Yes, there was more
rrow than hauteur darkly written
poll that young regal brow. My
Bart warmed, glowed toward him
ith a mysterious and irresistible
mpathy that compelled me to
outer toward him. ('Phis was in
0 recess between, the morning and
erieem sessions, a period which,
th the exception of a few minutes
thedinner table he always s s ent
-his solitary studying desk.) I
tltercd toward hint slowly, for I
W some degree liko an intruder,
d In opposite and contradic-
thoughts and feelings. My in-
lect was seeking to explain the
esters of his solitude and reserve,
d to excuse my own intrusion, by
i' Is ressonitg.
'Ile is the eldest seen and heir of
immensely wealthy Virginia
anter. Ile is Of an old, haughty
wily. and has been nccustohted to
vereign sway and innsterdotnall
life. lie is now, however, in a
nine republican school—and he
11 Onset( in a mixed company of
whose fathers peddled needles
thread about tho town. and
u mothers sold apples under the
nnd made fortunes at it; and,
itis senseless and anti-republt-
Virginian hauteur, ho thinks
If above these, and withdraws
elf from them. Ah! 1 know
pseud. aristncratic Virginians
1. My haughty uncle wits 0 Vir-
nian, and emigrated to 1MU18ana.
pun the part of Itis schoolmates,
ome are' proud ns himself, .and Wi11
not make unwelcome advances; while
some are only vain 0nd conceited,
ashamed of the newness of 1h6ir
wealth, sore upon that point. secret-
ly hnnorinp• old respectability, and.
fearful of being suspected of court-
ing it. will not seek tho acquaint -
alive of this young aristocrat. lest
they be misunderstood. With 'no,
however. it is different. Myself de-
t:c••ndwl from Lard iI , Governor
( f Colonial Virginia. the possessor
of a handsome patrimonial estate in
Mamma when i shall become of
age. and the heir-nppar•ttt of an
immense 5x181' plantation and set --
colt hundred resident ne'grues. I need
not fear to approach this young
gentleman upon at toast an equal
footing."
So T reasoned. as i said, to ac-
count for his re:.erve. and 10 excuse
my own intrusion. But nny feelings
nt t'•rly revolted ar•ahnst my
thunmies. My head aright think
w•hnt it pl. nsev1. but my heart felt
c.•rtnhl that pride of place had no-
thing to (lo with the surliness of
the strange, lonely hot'. As I drew
near hire T felt a rising embarrass-
in:rnt—a diI ktilty in addr"sial him
to whom T hnd never vet spoken one
word. Suddenly n brieht idea was
lret:ir"d. f hnd by chance lav
'Thucydidl•S" 11) nny hnnd T no -
tinselled his lonely desk, opener! Inv
ick, and 'mid.
"•fir W'allrave•n. 1 nave r rev..r to
of you. 1 ate In a difficulty
about a (:reek particle. if you
assist Ino I shall feel under a very
great obligation."
Neter shall I forget the effect of
his picturesque attitude and expres-
sion of countenance as I stood by
hire. His form was turned from
ine. and toward the corner window
against which his desk sat. He was
leaning. as 1 said before, with his
elbow on the desk, his head on his
hand, the fingers of which were lost
aurid dark, glossy locks which
drooped over his temples and side
face, concealing his face at first
from me; but, as I spoke, ho quick-
ly, as a startled raven, turned his
head. and heave me a quick, piercing
glance front his iight-gray, intensely
bright cye—a glance dilating as It
gazed, until it blazed liko broad
sheet -lightning upon ere. 1 had
always thought his eyes dark until
now. His skin was sallow, his hair,
his; oyebrows, his sweeping eyelashes.
such a jetty, resplendent black that
dark eyes were taken for granted.
When now, however, he raised tho
deep veils of those long, black,
sweeping lashes, light -gray Saxon
eves, of that insufferable white fire,
that vivid lightning, at once so
fierce and so intense that none but
Saxon eyes possess, flashed broadly
forth upon me. He did not reply
to me at first. I repeated my re-
quest. ITo silently took the book,
examined the indicated passage, pre-
sently solved the difficulty. and re-
turned the volume to my hand. As
I received it and thanked hilts I said:
"Mi. Wallraven, we stand in the
same class every day. I trust. we
shall become better acquainted."
Ile 10014181 at ate inquiringly.
"You know my name. I ant the
son of the late Governor Fairfield, of
Alabama, formerly of Fairfax Coun-
ty, Virginia. You, being of that
State, probably know something of
that family, or of the IS s, who
are connections."
"Yes. I have heard of the Fair -
fields of Fairfax. and I know the
B s by reputation."
"Very well! Now you know who
I ani, I shall bo glad to cultivate
your acquaintance, hoping that we
may bo ft iends," said I, thinking
surely that I had made a favorable
impression upon the queer, difficult
boy.
I was undeceived, however, when,
with a dry "Thank you," he dropped
the light of his beaming eyes again
upon his book. I almost fancied I
saw two bright spots on the page.
like roflcotions cast from a sun -Weiss.
There was nothing further for me
to do than to turn and leave him.
The school bell ,also summoned us
at that moment to our afternoon
stnulfes.
My attraction to, my affection for,
that strange boy was rising almost
to the height of a passion. Never
did a lover desire tho affections of
his sweetheart
more than c I did the
friendship and confidence of my
queer, outlandish classmate. Never
did a lover scheme interviews with
his mistress more adroitly than I
plun0151 opportunities of cemversingt
with Wolfgang, without seeming to
obtrude thyself upon him.
I felt as if, notwithstanding his
extreme youth, his lan'.c, and his
pride, he was by some circumstance
an object of compassion—but re-
spectful compassion—as if, notwith-
standing his handsome person and
fine intellect, ho was in reality suf-
fering in heart and brain; and i felt
as if. notwithstanding his proud re -
servo with Inc. I was his necessary
medicine. T felt upon the whole
not disappointed with his r'ception
of Inc. At last, the Ice of nen-in-
tercourse was broken, and 1 might
at any timo go to him with a
Greek exercise and ask his assist-
ance, which was certain to be lent.,
and at each interview some little
progress was sure to he grade. It
was true that I really never did
nerd his assistance—my classic at -
I tainnients being as good as his own
—as he blight have known, had he
taken the trouble to think about me
at all; but that appeal to his beno-
vul:•nce was the only manner in
which it was possible successfully to
approach n haughty, reserved• but
noble and generous nature, such as
i felt his to Ix'—one, ton, so deter-
minedly bent upon solitude. !flat
slow progress T made! (lore! hea-
vens! At the cert .it six the our
ncepnn}ntnnce had scarcely progressed
1beyond o(casinnnl conversations,
commencing with a (.reek root. This
was. however. much more ground
then nny other boy held in his good
graces.
At the end of the winter session a
very handsome traveling carriage.
with the Wallraven yams painted on
its minds, drawn by a pair of
splendid black horses, a well-r!t..•-+1•tl
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sound of suffocating sobs reached
nt., and, throwing open the door. I
went in and found Wolfgang sitting
at his writing -table. his arms ex-
tended upon it, his head down upon
them, abandont<1 to the utmost
agony of sorrow.
1 never shed a tear in my life. I
saw my beloved mother, my adore!
father, die, and I sutfer[d the ex-
tremity of bereavement and grief,
but never wept, or felt disposed to
weep; therefore, it was dreadful to
sere a tear in the boy's eye, and here
was Wolfgang lost, convulsed with
anguish; and sobs and sighs, such
sobs and sighs as rive the heart in
their passage, bursting from his
bosom; and copious tears, such
tears as scald like molten lead wher-
ever they drop, fulling from his
burning eyes. I saw, yet scarcely
saw, an open letter ou the floor.
My heart sank within me to see hint
so violently shaken with agony. I
went to him, scarcely knowing why
ther, in his uncertain mood, ho
would throw himself into my arms,
or knock me down. I wont to hi►n,
and. stooping and speaking low,
said:
'Wolfgang, my dearest Wolfgang,
what is this? ('an I 1n any way
comfort or assist you?"
"I confess that I was surprised
when he turned and full weeping t:p-
on my bosom, in the very collapse
of mortal weakness, murmuring:
"Yes—yes; comfort tae, if you can.
I ant weak—steak as a child—weak
as an infant. Oh! hold me—comfort
ine—love me! Love ate, if you can."
1 sit{myself to soothe him. I spent
some time seeking to console and
sustain him, merely by reiterated as-
surances of sympathy and constant,
unfailing friendship. At last I
asked:
"Is there anything I can do for
you?"
"No, nothing! nothing! Only give
ate your sympathy, or I die! I die
without that support."
"You have my sympathy, dearest
Wolfgang. my adopted brother; but
will you not relieve your bosom of
its burden of grief; will you not
lay it on my breast. that I may
help you to bear it?"
"Not nowt l.ot now! I cannot."
I•could only try to strengthen and
soothe him by assurances of affec-
tion and esteem. until again observ-
ing the letter, I said:
"I see you have a letter, Wolf-
gang. Is it front home? Are your
family alt well?"
His eyes flew wildly around and
fell upon the letter. Ho sprang
from. me. stung to a sudden strength
and, seizing it, tore it to atoms and
flung it from the window, exclaim-
ing. furiously, while his gray eyes
blared with intolerable light:
"By Heaven, if it were me! if It
were mei that which T deserved and
had a right to, I would seize and
make my own, though Satan him-
self and all his legions stood be-
tween!"
"Is this. then. a matter of pro-
perty, Wolfgang?"
"Property! Property!" he echoed.
with bitter scorn. "Do you sup-
pose that all the money, all the
'property' in the world is worth ono
such tear of blood as the millions
my heart has dropped tojnight?
No," ho added, With contemptuous
coolness, "it is not. 'property.' "
(To be Continued.)
colored coathinan, and a smart out-
rider, arrived to convey Wolfgang
lVallravon away. I thought—nay, I
ant sure—that ho betrayed some emo-
tion at parting with etc. Ile went,
and I also made hasty preparations
to return by stage and steamboat to
my distant home in Alabama, where
I longed to meet again my lovely
and beloved young sister, Regina.
Tho end of tho Ia►ster holidays
brought us back to school. 'There,
shortly after my arrival, came Wolf-
gang Wallraven. He was more
gloomy, surly, and solitary than
ever to all the other boys; of ate,
however, he was more tolerant. In-
deed, in the course of a month or
so, our acquaintance began to take
the form of intimacy; and as his
character began to develop itself to
my view, never, I think, did I meet,
In life or fn books, so strung.. a be-
ing. if 1 had before been inclined
to favor the philosophy of the dual
mind, I should then have been in
danger of being a convert to that
theory. Two natures net, but did
not unixor lendhim; two na-
tures
blend in n o to
IIr'es s o ► os'
t a opposite nto and antngunisiic•nl
as were his fierce, light -gray Saxon
oyes and the sweeping, jet-black
lashes, brows and hair. If any one
trait of character stood distinctly
out one day, it was certain that its
very opposite, in all its strength,
and even excess of strength, would
reveal itself tho next.
As his heart gradually, very gra-
dually, ulfolde(1 itself to me—or ra-
ther to my sympathy—he would Oc-
casion Inc a succession of surprises,
and even shocks—pleasing, painful,
ecstatic, agonizing, according to
the nature and power of new, op-
posite, and unexpected trails.
He possessed the highest. order of
talent, lett exhibited a very erratic
application. lf, for ono week, he
appliesd himself concentratively to
his studies, the next week he would
be sure to throw away his books,
and p885 into the ino:•t distrait
ennuye� and despairing mood con-
ceivable, from;which no rennon-
strauce, no reroof, of the master
professor would arouse hint.
As time went on, I still made slow
but certain progress in his affec-
tions; but little and very precarious
1
gr sung 1 held in his confidence;
(though still in his manner to me, as
in everything cls,', he was inconsis-
tent, contradictory, incomprehen-
lsible 011(1 often astounding. • 1f,
upon ono occasion, he would treat
ti,' with unusual nnrnnth and kind-
ness, upon the next ho would be
(sure to freeze up in tho most frigid
reserve.
He was, indeed, it combination of
the most discordant elements. As
1 became intimate with hint. T wit -
!legged the 1110st stupendous nreta-
tnorphoses of character. A sover-
eign, overmastering haughtiness
would alternate with n slavish. al-
most spaniel -like humility; a fierce
nnd wolfish tr.oroeellese of temper
!give place to nn almost womanish
tenderness. T confidently. logically
expected the time when this frozen
ire of his reserve wool.1 thaw, and
drown me will) his confidence; on
one particular occasion i felt sure
it was coming
1 went to his room nfter school,
In n!tlutinlmetnt. i snvv the boy Who
'Molted, or rat h. terrier! arntsnd
1.•ttors through the house, com-
ing toren the stairs as T was going
un, nnd, nnusine only long enntlgh
to tnkc the letter fir mvself from
Pial. 1 h'trri •d on. intending then to
excuse niyo •If to W'olfft;vtg. end re-
tire to my roeon to read my letter.
which 1 snw was fr.+m nn' si:1er.
Ilut as 1 approached Ids room, the
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LESSON ON FAR3f ?IETHODS.
While Iessotls in line with tho suP-
ject of this article aro constantly
occurring, it is, perhaps, seldom that
they spring up side by side, and
thus give most striking emphasis to
the point.
Harvey and Julius Jones were the
only suns of Eliakint Jones, a West-
ern farmer of many striking chara,:-
teristics. Ho was a just man, bet
opinionated almost to doggedness. •.
man who did not readily assimila'c
new ideas, but who clung teuacieusl+
to the old.
Harvey was a later edition of Ilia
father, who believed. as had his
father, that whatever was good
enough for his direct paternal ances-
tor, and tho preceding uncestol s,
was certainly good enough for hiut-
selfrf.
om boyhood Julies had chafed
at t ho old -tint.' methods, and rho oil
fogy notions that bad rulwl tole
ection of the crops, rho planting and
tho cultivating, the harvesting, and
then the storing or selling of the
farm primitive Yet recognizing the
fact that the farm was his father's,
the 8011 had only suggested and urged
changes; then had carried out t
time -worts mcthnds.
But in time changes cone to every
life, and so lelinkim was laid awes
111 the same nlanner as had Leen h,.
fathers. His will left the fnrtn equal-
ly to the two 81)1)5, to I e worker) to
Bother, or divided, if thee saw lit
With the tenderness to remaining
members of a family inct•cueed, :1s
the passing over of ono member al-
most invariably docs increase it, the
brothers decided to carry on the
farm between thein. having jointcon-
trol with their joint ownership, and
sharing jointly in all expenses and
revenues. But it was duly a cone
parntively short Brno before the loll,+
of this arrangement became obs 110.s
to both. In the first place. Ilarv-e•:
was the older. and cla:nn. If moms
degree of superiority by reason ni
this; so to all desires of ,Julirs's
urging any ilnprovem.'nt s cr shale
fr the old -bale method when th •
reit ernt"e1 81 at anent th,t "(nth r
used" to do so or so, faile:l to be
of weight, the fact thatns the elder
all points of difference 1 f ())talo 1
most be decided by himself, ref
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thriving town of several thousan 1
population, which included a more
than fair proportion of wealthy re-
sidents, who were willing to pee
liberally for fresh farm produce of
various kinds, lod Julius to belies()
that truck farming, properly niaua,(-
ed, would pay much better than d:tl
tho sowing of ao many acres entice--
1y
nticesly to
TI1} HEAVIER CROPS.
Ho believed in tho theory of inten-
sive farming—that it pays better to
thoroughly cultivate one acro by the
latest method than it does to cul'i-
vate ton in the old way. lie believ-
ed in the rotation of crops, and, in
fact, in modern farthing. But this
was only in theory, for the men
never had been given an opportunity
to put this modern method to the
test, and he soon came to the opin-
ion that with Harvey to the ford Pe
never would be given ono. 'Chen, ton
ho had seen a young woman whom
ho believed, were tho old farm on'y
paying properly, he should like to
see established thereon as his wife.
Tho culmination came ono evening,
after Julius hud been to town and
learned from two or three sources
that people were looking for special-
ly good milk, and in one or two in-
stances that it was wanted from one
cow, for infants. That evening, an
article he became interested in while
reading his paper proved very con-
clusively, to hien, that a smell dairy
farm, or a few cows of the best
breed, could bo made to pay in the
high prices that could be got f,.r
their milk right in the nearby town.
So ho broached the subject to h'a
brother, only to find that all his '►r •
guments were cast aside in the same
old wathey.
7Te n asked for a division of the
farm. Ilut again. "Fattier had al-
ways kept it as it was." Finally.
however, tho younger brother gained
his point in this particular. by con-
vincing the elder that he was deter-
mined upon a division, and if it
could not bo made within the wee
without trouble, or ill feeling, he
should certainly invite the latter by
instituting a lawsuit. The far.n
was of such shape and so situate 1
that it seemed the fairest divisum
could be grade by running a lane
right through its centre, which would
bring it also through the centre of
the house. Tho farmhouse had ori-
ginally been a small two-story struc-
ture, with an entrance door in the
middle, two rooms on each side
downstairs, with a long, uarrcw kit-
chen running across their width in
the back. A wing of equal dimen-
5io11s had been added on each sides.
There were six rooms In all and a
largo attic upstairs. It was decide!
that llarvey should take for his own
use the west half of the house. 'I'hty
would leave Julius the east, and for
tho present they would shore house-
hold expenses, using the kitchen in
common. andcontinuing
t0 hire
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"Aunt Iletty" ae general housekteper
and cook, as had done their father.
MUCH (1001) 31I':.\DOW-LAND
fell to the share of Julius, and in-
stead of leaving all this for hay, as
had ,been .done in the post, ho detar-
minerl to at once carry into exe''l-
tion his now scheme of a small daisy.
')'Ito pasturnge was so excellent, that
while looking at and thinking over
the project he vecame so enthusinst'.c
as to almost see the herd of beauti-
ful kine and hear the sound of the
rich milk as it streamed into Inc.
pails. Common stuck, what Julius
now called "scrubs" and of t.h,vo
only aioitgh for family use, hail
hitherto been kept. Itwas necessary
to build additional stables, for with
slight alterations and repairs, his
' sharp of those on the place would bo
ample.
As soon as everything wesi ready,
registered stock was pnrchuse 1, a
milk wagon, attractively lettered,
was bought, and .Julius started cue
to secure customers. He found a suf-
ficient number ready and glad to
take milk of hint, he guaranteeing
the quality and freshness, ut ten
cents a (mart, while other milkmen
were getting but eight. Everything
In thu lino of food was high just at.
that time. He promised that no
brewer's grain ::hound be used. that
his cows should be "kept up" an.I
that wholesome grain and meal its
well as grass and hay should be fed.
Then ho bought liberally of fertili-
zers. As ho thought it best not to
branch out too largely in the now
departure, at first, ho placed it fiver
acre lot that had "lain out" the
'melons year. tender intense cullit a-
non. II. was twice plowed, harrowed
and cultivated, until 11. was as
smooth as a floor, and all the stir -
face soil had been thoroughly pulvc'r•
ized. Then begnn the fertilisation or
enrichment of the soil. Well -rotted
manure was plowed in, a heavy top -
dressing added, and arrangements
were ;mole for forcing the vegetatrl. s
. ns well as for laving one crop ready
to set 1.etwec1I the rows of another
before the first had been cleared n11
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tho loud. The acres 1 hat were plant -
/el to pewees. the yi,:iiger 8011
determined should be highly enrich-
ed. The field that "father has al-
ways" • planted .with corn ahem) he
che.nged to potatoes, and where eye
had been grown, a crop i hat K [►n!'1
take different cl(ments from the soil.
sl 1'1 ho planted!. And trotter;
tnachinery should largely take I!.e
lila(, of the old hnudeork.
Hervey, it is nesdlieso t o 5 ta' c,
i wast much distressed et this litter •l''
and (.IsturLcel:ce of tae ul..-rim; 1.1s
thods. He shook his hetid and pulled
at his long whiskers; fur while Julius
was clean-shaven, Harvey wore a
beard, "just as father" had. Ifo
spent more than the usual amount
of time at the store, telling the!
neighboring farmers that Julius hal I
ruined tho old plate, or his half of !
it, and he would be bankrupt, for
ha guessed "father had known how
to run that farm, as many years .►s
he had owned and worked it.."
Julius, too, stayed on tho farm
less than usual. th u I Ho plumply refuses!
ORNAMENTS FRO14 COAL
JAI'S d><
MAKE THE"
CRUDEST MACHINERY.
'"ho Very Hardest of High Gtt►de
Coals Ara Selected For p
This Work.
The queerest jewetery 1 over saw is
in .Japan, which country 1 had ec-
elision to visit last year. writes a
correspondent. of tho Jewelers' Cir-
cular -Weekly. Ono day I was of-
fered a chance to purchase a cane of
hard wood, neatly polished ctnd fin-
ished, n ith rho top putt set off
with some block glistening gents. 1
examined the glossy black specimens
and discovered them to bo coal. Ilut
the tinis11111g e,Tect and • the general
design presented a beautiful appear-
anc•r, and I bought the cane.
After that I looked about for some
of, the shopv to Nagasaki winer-e rho
thrifty Jupaneso jewelers product or-
:laments from the coal heaps of tho
wharves. It appears that it is a
practise of the ,Japanese coal work-
ers to save out ea'rt8in samples of
e
the coal which aro suitable to dis-
pose of to tho metal workers. In the
course of the duty two or three Mesitaof hard, brittle, glossy black coal
aro selected.
to work from daylight until dark, The agent of the Jeweler appears
and thea find himself too weary to on the scene on his regular trip, and
do anything but eat a hearty supper
for a few pennies buys up the chosen
and go to bed. The improved mach -
portions. These piece's of coal are
il:ery that he had introduced where bun(1led together in a sack and tat: -
ever it could be practically uso'l on to rho shops of the
lightened the labor were „much an I
shortened tho necessary hours. ale
reasoned that brains as well as
brawn were needed on a farm, and
that even a farmer, if he did not
want to become a clod, little better
than the soil, and perhaps not oven
as useful, must give himself
TIME FOR READING,
for thinking and for mingling with
other people in a social way.
What Julius was doing on his farm
soon became a kind of neighborhood
topic of conversation. Tho improve-
ments ho instituted weft; sufficiently
striking to induce people from town
to drive out and see thein. When
those people saw how tempting the
people saw how tempting the vege-
tables looked growing out of the
"BLACK DIAMOND" WORKE1tS,
so called. This is th•: term applied
by the tourist to the busy little Ja-
panese workers in metals and coats.
Of course the Jewelry thus inade is
exceedingly inexpensive.
The Japanese metal worker docs
notexpect to make more than halt
a dollar n day. He usually makes
cane heads, umbrella heads, artis-
tic corkscrews, neck g[ytus, rings,
and trunkets in general f[lr the pub-
lic. Often these arc made at his
home in his little shop. 'Then,
again, I found several of the work-
men engaged together, with a boss
to direct them. It is customary for
ono or more members of the work-
in; party to solicit custom fro-
rich, dark, soil, unsolicited orders quently. In fact, some one is out
for them began to conte in, and not'; all the time with samples.
content with these. Julius made it in I The process of attaching the coal
his way to solicit others. Everyone; bits to the article is not difficult ns
spoke a good word for his .Jersey; practised by the Japanese. There is
milk, and soon ho was asked for a base matte by grinding and goug-
cream as well, and latents for pot- ing, and this base (s furnished with
cheese. High prices wore obtainedia surfacing of cement stuff t►er.ring
for all. Gradually new cows werol the properties of the elasticity of
added. A desirable strip of adjoin -'''rubber. Into this rubber -cement
ing meadow a neighor had for sale.; composition the particles of coal
was purchased, and in five -cars, are pressed and the composition is
time tho brothers' farms were paying., allowed to harden. When hard, a
in tho proportion of about six to perfect grip is obtained on the coal,
one, Hnry even with the'olid the pieces will not work loose.
object -lesson off his brother's success- One workman devoted his spare
tel farming before him, would not time for weeks in modeling about,
change from "father's" honored me
thods. On the same number of acres ten inches of links. A tourist pur-
chased it for $2. Tho links were
made on the plan that the ingenious
boy makes the links of a chain from
a solid stick of wood. These black
links were given a good polish by
being dipped in some native polish-
ing solution for a coating, causing
the chain to shine brilliantly.
The natives do a great deal of
grinding and rubbing when finishing
the coal jewels. The more friction
all his market produce into four applied.
sizes. The smallest ho kept for his TIHE RICHER IS ')'Ili: GLASS.
stock to eat, laying aside a liberal
supply for this purpose, and getting
fancy prices for tho two larger sizes,
while the smallest size he sold com-
manded
om-
uan t
1o regular
Isar market t prices.
small ll fruits
'u planted t ni
.1 had .►u
1 s }
u1 a p
quite largely and these were now
paying u good profit. Tie used judg-
ment in sorting these also, and this,
iu connection with the fact that he
had planted only tho finest kinds,
had cultivnted extensively, and sel-
ettcd careful pickers, resulted in
fancy prices for about two-thirds of
them.
Julius himself had tomo to be con-
sidered it man of parts, not only
among his farmer neighbors, but al-
so in the nearby gown. !lis judg-
ment was appealed to, his ideas de -
trawled, and ho was appointed on
comnnittee9 and elected to certain
town offices. Altogether, he had be-
come 0 "lending citizen."
Modern improvements had been
placed in .Julitis's halt of the old
home, %Odell had been refurnished nnd
tens »Ow presided over by the young
woman whole ho had believed it in
his power to win if he could only
make the old bunt pay, but was de-
termined not to ask her tet it he had.
A foolish idea, however, particularly
for so sensible a noun, for the right
kind of a young woman, ant she be-
longed to this class, tcould have
Icv1'el hien for himself alone.
Which way would you, or do you
farm?
Docs not this little story point the
right way?
of ground that llarvey raised about
800 bushels of potatoes from his own
seed, Julius, by his system of rota-
tion of crops, through heavy fertili-
zation, and the buying each year of
seed potatoes, instead of planting rho
little ones ho had himself raised,
which were too small for cooking
purposes, dug a little over 2,000
bushels, Harvey's potatoes were
sold without. sorting. Julius sorted
+
ITE WAS AN OLD S'I'OIIY.
When Louise was a baby her mo-
ther died, and for severed veers she
and her father lived very quietly.
ilut ellen Louise was six yenrs old
her fnth•r marries' (wain. end then
wondcrlhl chn11r's Rema. 11e moved
into a larger house, Height horses.
employed a corps of servants, cud
!again took up his 'o• int duties.
I One day Louise fast o formt?u•
neighbor, the mother of one of her
pinymstes. ''ell. Louise. how are
you getting 'lung?" she w:ts asked.
' "oh, Is'nutiiully," replied Louise.
"You must come ever and nee sus.
Everything's new but paps!"
i
I FI HST (-1111'AT i'Ll'HEMSTON,
"What. may 1 Fink, tins the keen.
est discti'pointment of your career?"
asked tFo enxi'n•s interviewer.
The great livaucier :eared ' . coldly
nt the ink bottle."it was when 1
v.,•: 1 '.1.1r8 1.111. T tl•iuk ,. Le drawl-
s•'. •t 1 , el • 1c1' one morning1•14.i t , •e..' i'r .'•tl 1> .Ilseet shrnn' o:n
/„ 'nCs) sift/ of the Cay
Ono may find several patterns of
eatery tvltes's, buffing wheels and
other types of wheels in use. Tho
workmen of this country are not
nearly as up-to-date iu
-(1ate wi
sh their ir me-
chanical
devices as aro the soldiers
at the front with their modern
equipments of wnr.
1 found many jewelers and other
artisans employed with the crude
apparatus used generations ago. The
artisan calculates to have a boy or
two about the place to turn tho
cranks for grinding and polishing
wheels. Now and then I saw foot
power used. Occasionally I discov-
ered that an engine or electric motor
had been installed and power secured
front these sources. but the great
hulk of this kind of work is done
by manual exertion.
No (doubt after the tvnr there will
be innovations in the mechanical
work in the shops of the artisans.
and those of tl'o coal workers will
be supplied with up-to-date cuntrl-
vaneps, but at present they aro very
crude.
1n speaking tfith one of the pro-
prietors of a black diamond shop I
was told that the vary htarshst of
high grade coals should be s:.lectell
for this ornamental work. The
pieces should be ground down to the
proper form and should be liberally
polisl-.ed. 'Then comes the setting of
the cents nr piece of coal in posi-
tion on the article, •fuliowod by a
final glossing by the 1150 of oils end
o soft cloth. This final polish is
usually done by hand. 'Then the
jewels aro ready for the market.
AN INCIDENT M' 'rile: ROAD.
An automobilist who was touring
through the country saw, walking
ahead of hint. a man followed by '
deg. As the machine drew near them
the dog started sudeenly to cross tho
read; he was hit by the car end kill-
ed immediately. The motorist stop-
ped his machine and approached the
owner. "I'm very soreY , my man.
thet thio hes happened," ho (aid.
"Will $r fix (VP'
"Oh, yes," said the tnnn; 85 will
fix it, I guess."
Pocketing the money ns the err dis-
nppeared In the distance, he loo` od
down at the dead animal.
"T wonder whose dog it was?" he
said.
Tromp—"Reg pardon, 'lr, f.na
you help a poor scan? I've lost my
veice, nnd now I'm net of work."
Old (1cetlenlan: "Out of work., be-
cause you lost sour voice! Are poll
a singer?" Tramp; "No sir; 1 sone
fish."
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