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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-05-30, Page 6040+0110N040+0Ni01iO4-c +au♦o♦ 4e A Lovcicss Marriagc; A !'LATTER OF EXCHANGE. 04-0+0+0-10104-0 + 0+04 04 0+0 +0+.:4)2+0+4 +0+44+0+ 4 C11:11'1(:li xxxii. "1 seed hint. Twos a fine stroke. I've scene to finish his job for tiro," said Black Sandy, with a sinter glance at that port of the walk down which St. Joan hod gone. Vereker said nothing. It was strange -the strangest thing possible, but he found that he couldn't stir. Fear, that cruel Thing that lie had so often instilled Into others, had now taken possession of hint. His eyes opened wider, aid glared at Block Sandy, and his face grew greyer than the darkening Ilea - tens above titin. Not a word passed his lips. The horrible numbness that had attacked his lower limbs had seized upon his tongue also. Black Sandy stooped lower. and thrust his hand into his breast. There was a mad glean} as of dawning satis- faction in ?lis eyes. Slowly he drew out Ids hand again, and the cold bright glit- ter of steel shone through the fading light. It seemed to fascinate Vereker. He removed his fixed stare (rem the man's knife. It WAS long; It was sharp; it was as bright as silver. It seemed lo hold him as by some subtle charm, but at last he tore himself from ttie contemplation of 11, and lifted his gaze blankly to the savage face above hint, that every moment seemed to oome near- er and nearer. All at once the full, awful knowledge et what was surely coming. grew plain to his bewildered niind, and a horrible scream broke from his lips. Black Sandy killed it at its birth. Ile lakl his hand with a strong, strangling pressure upon Verekers throat. ( "Your lime_ 1.s come, my Ind," snid he. '"flunk now on my Bess, think, thliik, think!" Ile lifted his hand, the knife flashed brightly in the growing dusk. and then The hand descended. Willi the glaring open eyes of the doomed man fixed up - en it, \\•iter all the awful horror of per- fect consciousness In them, the knife sank deep into the quivering flesh. Once, twice, thrice, it rose and Ml! There was an abominable craelling. forcing noise, a wild convulsion of the hrips and legs. a sickening contortion of the features, an unearthly groan. and then- an eternal silence! It %sae over!! Black Sandy rose to his feet with a firce, revengeful ehuvkle' ted direct to that part ui the -1 iubber- ""fhou'lt be the ruin o' 110 more w('nch , searched for and secured the Joao. "Moult my man," said he. He stopped and ;e. .where the lours(, gree' The bluer( (sets newnlnlresf dr} tip- es, into the ghostly dead face be- low hint as if to make sure of his work. beets. Dorothy, run for brandy, tor any- ltung. Ile can t be de ad, 1 tell you(" "Mics. Vereker, go Lidu ors with Duro- thy, 1 int},lore you," said Farquhar. "Ile, solemnly, "he Is surely dead." As he said this he uncovered his head. "What do you know about 11, sir?" cried she in a piercing tone. "Send for a doctor. I tell you he must be brought beck to Life. II was an accideenl---1 mean--1--Dorothy, why do you stand Isere idly? Seed for a doctor, 1 tell you." "I'll send at once," soid Farquhar. "I'll do all That Is necessary• if you will eerily go away." Ile ems terribly dis- tr .s d. "I'll see also Lhat the police nee a.emnninicated with al :.ace." "Tite (solke! What for? Oh! no, no, no." Iler voice grew into a scream. Inc," said she. "Doesn't that thought "Ile is not dead. Oh! get help, do some - make you quake? Doesn't your heurt thing. Dear. dear Derollly, help nie fail you! Consider what a lito 1 must n( w1'. Oh! why did 1 leave. why did 1 have ted her. m g t away?' She caught. Farquhar's 111111.. "I can only think of the life 1 a"Put your hand totem les heart again," kti Ing to lead you," returned he prompt- she said, "you may have Leon n ts- h. "\\iter° ,shall 1 lead you first Vi- Liken." cnna? You said once you thought \'t- Farquhar shook his hend. Ile could enna would be interesting." not spank. Something in the shucked "I have seen so little, that everything expre-s.' n of his face convinced her \\ould be in'eresting. You know it all, that all was indeed over. She turned you shall take me Just wherever you with a gashing sigh to Iktrothy, and like. 'That will save me the tremble of fell fainting into her arras. t'tc.diiig, and besides— What's that?" She pointed to something that lay t•alI hidden in a bunch of thistles, on her right #,and; she could hardly see what it was, but it shone a little as the tale rays of the young noon fell on it. and attracted her attention. Farquhar did not at first see where her gaze Was directed, and she went rep: to the thistles, and drew out from ;t a knife; a moment later she dropped 11. and a sheep cry broke from her. "Oh! Arthur, look. kook! 'There, is blood on its Oh! look at my hand! Ohl what shall 1 do?" She Ml on her knees and tried in a little frenzied fash- icn to rub off the stain upon her pink palm in the short dewy grass. Farquhar bent. over the knife and ex- amined it closely. "It Ls strange. It certainly is hk,od," he said slowly. "\\'hat could have brought the knife here?•' "it wont conte off," cried Dorothy, in terrible distress. Sh. was gazing with e shuddering distaste at her hand. "Get me some water. Where are you. Arthur; what fire you doing? Don't belch that awful knife." with a vehem- ence that startled hien. "Don't! Let it lie there. t tell you there is some dreadful story connected with it." "Nonsense, darling! I daresay it Ls only—" "It is What i say -the instrument f seine terrible crime. I'm certain there l: ton -Ilan blood on it!" Here she be- gan to cry, and glanced fearfully around her, and clung to Farquhar vent nn honest grip that spoke of un and men. vel a terrible melancholy fell affected terror. "OH, how dark it is. en all.. and those who spoke addressed e: eh &her in hate,( whispers. with pale faces, find lips thnt trembled. d. Fermat -ie. taking two of the men with Farquhar lifted her, and curried her as quickly ahs he could towards the house. "Who would have thought she would have taken it like nee?" :aid he. "Such a brute--er--er--us that poor fellow was. 1f she had adored Will she could not have felt it worse. Dorothy, my pesir girl, this is nn awful ordeal for you. Will You be able to slay with her?-' "1 don't understand her." soid Doro- thy. "Stay? Of course 1 shall silly. Do you think 1 would leave her now?" She spike very bravely, though her face was rl,s while ns a sheet, and she was trembling in every Binh. "What did she mean Mout an acct- dent?" said he. •$ "1 don't know. 1 don't think the knew \vhat she was saying." Then suddenly she broke out. "That knife! Arthur! That knife!" He gave her n startled ginner. but at !foie instant scene el the wo!ren wihr had seen Ihern from the tipper window: c fine running nut. anxious to know what was the matter wvith their nes- twee. To there he rose:toed his uneense!nus burden, find they and !••rothy passed into the h(nise. By this time the n!arrn hnd spread. and Hien from the slnble\•ard and some of the irukrr risen caner It irryieg to him. Messenger: were sent. pest -haste for doctors end for the police. ‘whilst others lifted the demi tvuly of their master and enrrird him indoors. 'There hnd been ns love lost between ,nnst.•r conte up to the house \vitt ole, and let us Ml Crc;l." She started at full speed for the IV use, and Farquhar. lurking his arm }him ns witnes-P . went drown to the ipso hers. ran with her. Slie stopped field that he and T)• r..thy had sotrite- lygot to crossed. undrraining of , vi!. and there 1i was steep, and she was n little out ton 11, but vel it (vas not w ithomt s of breath from her run and her excite- shudder that Farquhar tnurhed 11. As 1'lou'It tell no titles miter," he said. neer(, so that she walked slowly up• he and one of the footmen were exam - Be gave the still waren corpse a kick or and at the top �pnusc'd for a while. As Ming it, a young lad, n stable troy. Iwo, dragged the butcher's knife out e ( she stood There some strange. unnc' lately bleed from the village. spoke 5ud- tlse gaping wound and thing it far from critntnhiidn the i go on, t take an- other stepin the direction ' the shrub- t d him into the distant field. Then, with- (.miss. Neuf( p(>ssecsiotl of het•. nut a backward glance, he sprang y.et its go hoots." she said, turning through the laurels. and wns soon a n pale face to Farquhar. "I d•on't feel mile away from that tragic spot. as if 1 could go on," • "•Then el.in'I, darling. Whs. should Slowly the evening was growing to you? You look quite unnerved. \1'e night, lheough still da) light claimed a need not go back by -that field; we can slight allegiance. The Tong of the hr round by Rarretl'.; fnnn: it won't birds wns growing fainter. more inter- be half n mile out of our way." mitlent. 'There In the shrubberies, "Yes. I know. But it seeing coward - where many of therm dept, the quiet Iw• doesn't i19 And yon said wort heard teas almost perfect. Once a little robin flew to the greenlet end perched upon the breast of the Murdered elan, with a daring, a ce►lnin- ty of safety. that might. have surpris- ed eine looking from a distnnce on what seemed a skseping forth. .A last Ryton •,f praise buret from the tiny crentures threat; soon site mule seek her rest: she wiped her bank to and fro on the edge of the grey coat. twittered and preened herself a bit. then shook her wings and disappear((. She diel not linow that tier little elnw�• were hien ae red a. the crimson leathers of her breast. Still. no one came. The short October day- was almost done -a teach ot sol- Min,tv grew upon the sir. The sun tad dewed finally Ionenth the dlstent bills. and ti t' roar from the sleepless ocean sounded louder as the silence r f earth became deeper. 11 Was as yet a wary pallid moon; lfkoietiy and Fatquhnr• stepping lightly ever the sr loping -stones of the small stream leelo v there at the end of the ynwld w. paused nedw,ee up al 11, "A bsby of n room." snid .he. admlr- $ngiw "Hew .toes it deli" fn a tie S trong old day? I'm afraid. h•m ewer. 1t is rather tiler them we thought it." "It would be fatly If 11 ova f old he. "Pei lino( ( )•mu had better not Play very long. I'll wait fen yeti lit the end of the !hruhberie's. Now that your aunt -sew aunt.'. %vitt n tender squeeze el the 811n. "i= in a gond temper. l••t ✓ ' try end keep her 'hero." "I shan't be roar' than a quarter elf an ichor: will that do Fancy, \ant )anima theme it so beautifully. \Velt. you know I warned yell she wvoul.l either the you or kill you." "she diel neither, hewrw••r. She was most forbearing:.'h' was. in fart. en agreeable that she rather put 111.1 aut." Dorothy laughed. 'See hew glad ,lie is to gel ries 't ) denly: "1 seen just such nnot ter, said he. "yearrelay--1 were dawn yonder,". pointing in the direction of the village. "Yes?" said Farquhar. looking at him. ".\lid with (sham?" "Habits. the butcher. sir. Ifinl as supplies the house here." "Like this:'" said Farquhar. regarding the lad with keen eyes. "And where did Ilabbs get his, cdt?" "1 darn, sir. \lost like at \Ir. Cum - Cecil wens not well. Perhaps. if 1 wait mins'" opposite itis stall. Mr. Cummins a little 1 shall be able to overcome phis h.' del deal in knives and pots and pans, silly---" and suet) Like." Speech failed her. A wild. n piercing shriek rent the air. it sounded quite near. It come, Indeed, from the shrub- beries --that part of them Istat was not r hundred yards distant from where they stood. "(treat Heaven! what has happened?" she cried. She drew herself from Far- quhar° grasp and Mond erect. All ter fear seemed to have vanished. "That ova. ('.evil's voice." elle said. "Crime!-- r(me quickly! She wwenfs me!" (:111P1'ER XXX111. Mrs. Vereeer was slancling, as rigid sa though snsitk'n into stone. in the centre of tlse entail grnvelled walk that ian between the (hues(,. On the grant before her. almost nl her feet lay the de ud body of her husband. 'there could be no doubt that the scream they had heard had come from lit i lips. yet it was difficult to realize ;1 as one giz'"t on her marble fretum-•. Iter ryes were riveted upon Mot ;te til figure lying so dose to her: her lilt \.ere tightly dosed• end to Forquher it seemed a; though she diel not breathe. Dorothy ran to her and tied to pull leer aside, but Mts. Vereker resided an- i•rdy. "it Is Fi au i e flit, said. -nut wlie diet it: eVie .'' She drew the nail. of her lingers info her palms. and looked at Dorothy with an awful fear in her eyes. "That will 11e dis»eivertd later on. Genie away now. x'01114." cried tk)I0thy vehemently. "Iii) net slay here looking n'--11. Conte with rue. (eerie, 1 desire "Ile can't lot' dead! There oust be life in him still;' 'aiel airs. Vercicrr, psnteig and shivering. she fell on her Imo, !week. relegate -1i. who was exam- ii,ing the temps,. "phis !tear! ---pry if it The effect of malaria lasts a long time. You catch cold easily or become run- down because of the after effects of malaria. Strengthen yourself with Scott'., Etmtul rlon. it builds new blood and tones up your nervous systeos. ALL DRUGGISTS; duo. AND 61.00. "1:unlmiies," repealed Farquhar slow- ly. Ile had (olded the knife in his hand- kerchief. and now went silently back le the house, his companion renewing. The police had arrived by this (line, and Farquhar was only too glad to sur- render the knife to them. Ile told them what the stable -boy had seed shout itis fat-slmite in liable' possession, and menti oned+ also that em --,the boy- -be- l!(Yed it hnd been bought at Cummins'. The sergennt• who eeemM an intelli- gent man. took the knife and gazed el it somewhat abstractedly. "And you have no idea. lir. as to who - Ilii•re is no clue, you eay Have you newer thought --hasn't it occurred 14you- lie paused as if su rely e111ar1'asse'4. "If I haven't thought, you have" said 1-brquhui "\\'hat es your suspicion? Yoir think. perhaps - " a sudden gamy, of (onsprehensiebn brightened his fore. "Is it Black Sandy!" he said. "That was my thought. sir. surely. ,tnd this knife -nut of course it is mere slormis'. nevertheless - tion courageously and ask frankly : "Ant "\\ tier.' is Sandy nowe• asked Fnrqu- 1 as Intelligent on this dairy question as bar eagerly. 1 ought to be? Have 1 not been doing "Aar! ihnl Is just what 1 shall find ray work ww ith wrong ideas, wrong cut,' said the sergeant. He nese as he Judgment? Would 1 have suet poverly- gpoke. "1 have already neer( two of my Woken results as 1 ain gelling if 1 men to his house; if not there they will know what to do. It is hard to speak sometime-: but yell know, sir, there were reasons why "yes. yes, 1 know." snid Farquhar. Of c..uree the news hnd spread like wildfire. Rarely- half-an-theur niter the disrolery of \'e•releees dead body. the Intelligence of his death wns crehwtyeI in Lady Ressy Gillen!. and by her to Sl John. "('koed Heavens! what nn ending!' snid tp-,r, "Who 0.1111(1 11111 a (torte ite f►f co,sirse he les on the worst possible terms will] his tenants --but then he se, so early in the day -but what a de liweranee for her. Poor thing! It is a Uric property, teo, and by the settle- ments she inherits everything. 1t is not entailed In any part, I think. What a hideous catastrophe! And glee was the one to find hon. The unfortunate! Cer- tainly misfortune seems to follow sumo people. Now why could it not have been anybody else but her? It ,renis such a piling up of agony, and so un- necessary. Dew curious she should have been there Just then -that she should have gone there, 1 uresn. So late in the evening, tool And a very tutfreriuented part of the grounds, I ant told.' SI. John's face Riad turned even grey+ er. ".she was In the habit of walking Mere," he said. Ile said it detiborately; and saying it, he knew that he lied. "Weil, it was most unhappy. 1 won- der if they have found out anything yet. The murderer. whoever it ons, can hardly hope bo escape." "How you dwell upon il," cried he, sr suddenly, with such !,harp anger, that she looked at hien a moment in as- tonishment. "How should 1 not dwell upon 11? Is It such au every -day eccurrtnce? I tell you my flesh crept when they first told rte; as it Ls I am quite unnerved. And minimal people -servants, how they g'oat over the minor, -the nasty details. I! appear; that poor Cecil's white {own was quite tstnined with his blood." "Not anther word. Do you hear? 1 can't bear it," exclaimed he, in a choked voice. Ile begun to porn up and down the rtc,m. as though quiet was no longer passible to him. Lally Messy lay back to her chair and gazed at hunt compas- sionately. "Poor dear fellowl How he feels fel her. Ah! a lover in a iheusnnd! Well. things could hardly have fallen out better. Now 1 shell keep hits at home: end the property is everything tient is desirable." All this ran through her mind. "1 suppose 1 had better gn up there." said St. Jelin. at Irish, stepping oppo- site to her. His voice sounded hoarse and unnatural. "Olt! 1 Minh not. Not so seen. To- !Berr,nv morning. now. Forgive me. dearest Hilary. if 1 soy I Think you ought to he specially rarebit just. now. You ser your attentions there have -always born so marked. and- and ono should nlwwaes think of the future, and above. at' things he rarrfnl to give no handle fee. idle talk 1(1------" Site stopped abruptly. hie had Tensed !.i r•anid Wnlic up and down the rest;nne and forme! his eves on her With such 11 depth of anguish in them, that fright- ened. pureled. nnxions. she had !niind 1 impossible to go An. When she re- covered herself he had left the room. (To be Conlimied.) 1.11.0./-04.114.4.414.1144401P44.11 he 'i•li'ie11. THE 'lAN AND THE COW. Two things on the dairy fnrrns of This country :seriously need improvement. First, the plan of the farm ; second, the cows of the farm. A large proportion of the fnrniers do not believe that they need any improvement. They do not believe That they bare wrong ideas of cow and farm management. They are satisfied with themselves and their way of doing things. Of course, as long as they are in that state of niind no im- provement ran corse to them, or their cows, or their soil, or their profits. No man does any hotter as long as he thinks he is doing his best. Unless he knows what better work Ls he will never try to reach it. Unless he wants to know he never will know. There Ls n great host of ?nen who ore keeping cows today who do not know that they are "way behind the light house" In their ideas of cows and dairy farming. The oowa they have, the returns they get from them, prove that. The tremendous difference to the profits of one roan ower another. right in the same neigh- borhood, patrons of the sane creamery, proves it. Now, how ,hal; Mese torn improve themselves in their business. plow shell they improve their cows, make them more profitable, get remove profit out of the blueness. First, they retest come out from that cover of wrong notions, wrong con- ceits, they have been hiding behind. They ought to see That s.,netling is wrong somewhere,. 'They are not making the money out of cows that intelligent men are making. 'Then face the twos - was en the worst pnssthlc terrres \with evel'bely-. so that doesn't remit. 1 (..11141 name a gond round (14 oil of pee pk- this moment." snaking n pretence ret remitting on her pretty tepee fingers. "who would, lit any moment. have been delighted to murder hint if they could haw" deme 11 with safety. OIL! poor wretch! w\-ent a miserable stop to all wen wee... She had leen talking incessantly, end had therefore hardly nn!iee'd St. John's twtranrdtnnry silence. Ile hnd not. in- deed. tinea opened his lips since 'hr Wiest!) story was told to ben. ile hit gown extremely pale. and there ens 8 suppressed ka k shout hien. as tls(nigh 1 e were keeping guard over himself. "What a vandal!" went on i ndy Bie-y. "Ansi It seems bridal to hay were as 11 ell tnfornitd a man In dairy- ing as 1 ought to he?" Nov. right here is the reason why this greet lest of dairy farmer.: do not Int- prm•e. 'they never nsk themselves such questions? The., ,,}ckels tell a plain story There le no lying there. But they will not look That way. Yet there L. where all the trouble lies. And until dairy farmers cnnlmenre asking them - seises 111415e wary questions, until they are willing to refuel and see that they have Leen following wrong ideas about theniselee, their rows and the celnluct of their farms, they cannot improve? A else roan. a brainy mart, will al - \ways question himself severely? Ile will .odnnt that he Ls halite to be ignor- ant. and so \will seek knee:ledge. But what can Ise snid of lite fnraner who keeps peer. unprelltable cows year after year and don't knew it and will not try to know It? tam he improve? Can he make more rn(oney 1n dairying? 1 E FAI1\t NEEDS elle :1'. Sheep are rftimes spoken of 85 a nuisance by 5110( people. but wise land (,•,w mer= give them credit as teeing great relies aloe; of run-down or worn soil fertile. and rw'n call them fertility nen- eerwers, They- ere the kilter nrid rie.t•r• 1(n. The life and teal see tel sheep stake the, not If You'll Do The Painting Yourself get Ramsay's Paints. If you intend to have it done— insist that the painter uses Ramsay's Paints. They go farther—last longer—bold their freshness and beauty longer—and cost less in the end—than any other good paint you can buy. write fel Post Cud Striae " showing how some Rarer ass geisha& A. RAYSAY & SON I., ((tail (lige ,tree �NiIIZAL • J RTTSSBZ --1907 MODELS Stand for Excellence and Perfection of Product. The eat Russel turned out over three rears alto had the engine in front under the beearli sliding gear transmission, and ,batt drive to live rear axle*. The bunt today ',tetras the MIMI features of coustruotlon. We were in the lead thou ; gradually the trend of uniformity turned ft mkt direction, and now this design is the most approved and up-to-date. Through thews ?ears el noir• tion towards this construction w• went on perfecting detail and adding Improvemea 110...• why the Russel owner gets more for his money than anyone esp. Tits Design Is proved. The Materials are tiro Mat. ?ha Workmanship the Most tikiNtuL And the factory close at hand and disposed to use you right. tSf H Metal -to -metal Disc Clutch. Selective Sliding Gear Transmission. Nickel Steel in all gears and shafts. rho most powerful braking system known -positive in action, nary to release -two independent sets attached to large drums on the rear wheels. MODELS FOR 1607 MODS!, D-2 cylinder, 18 H.P., 90 Inch wheelbase, 80 inch s 9` Inch tires St.600.00 11ODKL E-4 cylinder 23 H.P.• 104 Inch wheelbase, 92 inch z 4 fnch they $3,5oo.00 MODEL F-4 cylinder, 40 H. P., 113 inch Mheelbase, double ignition, magneto and accumulator, 84 Inch s 4 Inch tire; In front oaod 41 In rear, p)werful, roomy and handsome oer, capacity to carry neveu'passengers $3.739.00 WRIbZ•X :'OR CO IsCOG'V8. Canada Cycle and Motor Co., Limited, TORONTO JUNCTION, CANADA. BRANCHRS--Ottawa„ Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Melbourne, Australia. only conservers of fertility, but distrihu- lees of it where needed, if given an op- portunity. Though sheep are averse to water and always seek an elevation for their resting place, they; do like the suc- culent growths, even though it he weeds, found in a lowland of a field or pasture which has been enriched by the wash- ings from the higher surrounding land. These two peculiarities of sheep once ratite under my observation. i turned seine sheep into a clover field and they at once sought out the spots where the clover did not catch and eagerly de- veured any weeds or pigeon gross that had taken possession of the spaces. They then sought ti►e weeds and succu- lent grnss in the low places rind run in the fields, leaving the clover on the high land, where most needed to enrich the soil, untouched, only touching this grass when practically everything else had been eaten. More than this, when night come the sheep sought the higher portion of the field for their resting places. and their droppings there deposited the fertility. gathered during the day from the lower lands thus conveying Through the pro- cess of nature and cultivation. A faun upon which sheep are kept ought to be not only fertile, but also evenly fertile, which is a much desired condition. Farms are very few which cannot with profit keep sheep. LIVE STfu:K NOTES. if o colt's ankles begin to Fwell and the ligaments begin to thicken, go slow and give him less work, or (here will be permanent injury. If your horse begins to hang his ton- gue out of his mouth when driving have t1 ' teeth examined. The trouble is usually caused by short teeth. Attend to tl or it luny become a habil. Harsh bits ell! also rause tuts habil. in \lay hens get insccis, gravel stones, al sorts of seel,l, pure air and water. Corn or dough will fatten a flock of hens, but if you want them to Iny you must give them something else. A bit of fresh treat now and then, some sernps, ground t.om' , nshes and sand to roll in, and a (carne, dry house where the stns comes, are as good as anything to make hens lay. Cottonseed and cottonseed meal in neeiernte amounts are relished by cows, and when an fed do not in any way in- jure the health of cattle. nor to any seri- extent cause detrimental results in the butter or milk. These feeds have n tendency to prY).luce butler billow -like in color and texture. Such butter is hard and nutty and will not pelt as readily as butler made from 501114' other feeds. The first point should not. how- ever count (igninst the feed, as lite de- sired color of huller can lee obtained by artificial coloring. which is meceesary e sth ell Muter proderNl login dry teed if a good uniform June rotor is wonted. The fact that these feed: produce a hard 1 utter is really much in their favor. FAIN NnTES. Split up the Mocks of wood before they get dried end 5(eS013ed. They will split a gnat deal erSler now. Again we pie the proper method of treating seed prtnteee for scab. Soak then} for ieo hours in a solution row laming rine-hnlf pint of formalin to fif- teen gallons of wilco Whoa planting, avoid ground which has recently pro- duced a srabby crop of tutors. 'timber grows into money \vhile the farmer sleeps. if you have a piece of land That is rough. so that you can not cultivate It very' well, cut off the brash and plow it if you can ; or harrow it and set it out to trees that aro adapted to your locality. They will soon furnish you a lot of wood, and some one will get lumber from it at a time when it will bo greatly needed. We know hundreds of fanners who are so keen after dollars and cents that they not only push their help twelve to sixteen hours a day, but themselves even longer. Such farming does not pay. 1( one has to drudge every hour of daylight to make a profit it Is high time he changed his methods or quit. Farming pays very well for the capital invested if 1l is carried on intelligently, and it is not drudgery. The innn who is staking a slave of himself is not farming right, end the sooner tie changes lies methods the better. 1f every farmer would try to improve his ways of doing his work in every way possible, and every far- mers wife would do the same, there would be a mighty change for the bet- ter all over thLs land, and that quickly. FRANCE IS A QtEER NATION. Anomalous C,onditlons Surrouodq Death Penalty. Tho nnomabous conditions in France surrounding the question of the (tenth penalty, which is no more Inflicted, nt- though the statute atilt provides capital punishment, causes more er less con- tinual discussion. M. Deshler, who does not need the salary as en executioner slnce he has a oompetence, still declares emphatically that capile! punishment should not he abolished. Crimes. he says, were never so numerous as since its discontinuance. and never have the courts pronounced so many death sen. fences, Twenty-nine condemnations to death were pronounced last year, a number never before known in any such perind. M. Deibler nays that hnd he been re- quired to execute Itscnl. he asks himself how he could have accomplished it. They would average one every dozen days, or nearly three a month. where is ((innerly (hero were fewyears in which there were atrno Inn condemnations, while in his 20 years ns executioner he ghnllolin(d all fold only 112. Further- more, during the last eight )cares he hnd e'ecuted only 21 111 France mid Corsica rind only one in Par As to his harsh fuis,nctions, \1. fleeiblcr says : "There Is little need for remorse ellen I consider the young radon{, that ! Myr had buslne`e with. It is a -'r1Ire ?lint 1 bin se rendered to there and the Slate in suppressing therm. (11 the 112 1 executed only one wns aloes., 4(r; the others were all from 1e to ee, wee knows what they would 11111P done ani what crime, they wouki have committed had they lived a longer lime?" Asked as to his e1nette a at an (xeru• lion, feibler said his duty was practi- cally a surgical operation. and he hal n0 more right to feel emotion than n surgeon did in cutting up a living per- son. The nest time he found himself a tittle unootnfsslable. AItem' an1F. 11 Was a habit. EDISONS LATEST IDEA BUILDING COM:BET:a 11Ot$I IPI TEN HOURS. Dow Ile Proposes 10 do 51 -The. a houses• Iran Easily te Cnilt for Ifei00. A few clays ago the writer was visit- ing Mr. Edison at his laboratory In Orange, N. J., when his attention \was culled to a somewhat sanious -booking window -frame standing in the litrary. It was trade, apparently, of stone, but mem clover examination Ilse lac( was ?•ew'caled that tite material employed was concrete, the frame huvjga been mounded like a pet or erre of r.. piece of earthenware. Mr. Edlawln regarded it With u quiet senile, and then explained that it had b.?.en made from the con- crete which he himself rnanufnctures, and the frurne was the result of a little experiment made to test the posstbulity to "casting" entire Houses. '"The idea has len with toe," he said, "ever since 1 laid down my (lest Port- land cement plant, and 1 see no reason v.l.y an entire hottest should not be treat- ed in exactly the sante way as that in which we have treated this window - frame. If it can, and i am sure it is W ssibte, then we shall be able 10 make hedges for the working classes for t i- diculously small sums, and they will be, moreover, far stronger and more en- durable than those mode in the ordinary way. 'If San Francisco had been built of hcuses made entirely of such a materi- el! then 1 do not think any of thein v.ould have been destroyed. 'IIIEY mIci r IIAVE TOPPLED OVER, el course, but f do not believe they would have broken. And as to being burnt -why that would be almost ::n impossibility. You cannot burn : p concrete any more than you can burn iron. '\Ve shall be able to turn out a first- cass ten -roosted dwelling in something under four days. Put it at four days and that will be well within the mark. Such a house would be complete in .!v- ery detail and ready for furnishing. But the actual building of the house would take only a sew hours --say ten et most, the rest of the time being nec- essary for the concrete io dry. "Now let me tell you how we pro - peso to build these concrete houses. First of all an nrchitect will be neces- sary, the some as in ordinary house- building. Ile will be cnlled upon to le - sign n dozen, or fifty. or a hundred dwelling -houses, all pretty much the shite in size ---that Ls, about ten rooms - but of different patterns. "When these designs ere made --and• they will be pleasing to the eye, as well as substantial--wc shall hnve metal' moulds built to correspond to them. Of course. the moulds will not ter in one piece, hilt in detachable pests. These parts will he sere wool together and built up until the entire framework c1 the house is formed. Throb, \LIEN THE NA ORK 1S FINISHED, - Uel we shall have to do will be 10 pump the concrete into this big mould rind -take a rest or go on with another. \Ve shall leave the concrete In tete mould for four days in order that it roay be thoroughly dried, and then the parts will be unscrewed. and there :te- f.,re you will stand a house which would have withs'ood the bombardment of Alexandria. I "What will such a house cost? Well, to make the metal mould with all its different parts will probably run away with $25,000, but. of course, there Is no limit to the number of houses that can be made with a single mould. 1 think it would pay excellently if $500- were 506were charged for each house, and this price would make it possible for the working man to buy his dwelling out- right on the instalment plan, perhaps, er any other good and easy payment plan which might be suggested. These oencrcle houses will be cool in summer and in winter ll'ey can be heated as rosily as any other modern dwellings. "I believe the time has come when 1t Is absolutely necessary to And some ether material than brick and wood' with which to build houses. In fifty years the yellow pine forests of the United States will have vanished, while the white pines are also thinning fast. THE PRICE OF Ltl\1CWER has advanced considerably during the east few years. and the signs are that as time goes on the cost x1111 be atilt greater. In these concrete dwellings which 1 Mope soon to see erected ibe d,,nger from fire will be almost entirely eliminated. The consequence will be that insurance companies will grant pc.licies at nominal figures. which will be another saving for the householder. "Ito not run may with the Ilea that these houses will be ugly to look al - they will he far more decorntive and hands(rne than the present cheap dwel- lings. for the cost of ornarnentalien will be trivial. 1 am having many con- erete buildings put up here In Orange -The works for the new storage bat- tery are, rcncrete, and so will be the ad - (Leonel tnrddings whish we are erect• Ing for the making of phonographs and records" _ els "(SET TIIF.RF." TIT'S. Don't be the first to dare or yet the last to try. 11e willing to receive censure. It is as necessary as praise. Be sincere in your work hnd your work will befriend you. ile rarebit to brand your work with the trade -melee of originnlily. lir• sparing with eapinnalions. Your weerk Ls the fairest judge. Its score, that your work is as valu- able as you imagine it to be. Be ready to resent an Ingle. Be rqu- ally willing to forgive an injury. lie always nn dee'k; you eon never tell 'when your Services will be needed. Be sire if yon have nbilily it will be Lend out. Ability Is Iilways market - Do net be afraid to neso'inte with y lir telkuw-worker n. Wert( has no cast(. Be the first to confess your faults. 11 ks only the fool who never rioters a mit- lake. Be proud of Thr nchirvements of others. Their Surcrsi es conking _ystt7 wrirk wro,rth woveI i'e.