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A TALE OF SOUTIVRN
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CHAPTER XXXL4(Continuedi.
Avis had not uttered one word. •
Larry glanced up at his cousin as soon
• eis the light appeared up on the scene.
He was battled in his desire to see her
face, since she had protected herself in
eh genie Way with the folds of the gar-
ment she wore, wlach was a way Chi, -
'nese women had of screening eheir
• lases against impertinent glances.
Larry would have given something
could he have known what the thoughts
of his cousin were.
Did she eeally suspect the truth, and
that they had hopes the prisoner of the
palace might prove to be Dr. Jack.?
Not by a sign dideshe betray the fact.
Still, this was only what he would
have expected of Avis, whose extra-
ordinary resolution he had on more
. than one occasion found, cause to fer-
vently admire.
Brave heart he thought, which would
carryher through in spite of all obsta-
cles. Surely, if ever woman deserved
,to be rewarded for constancy and de-
votion, Avis was the one,
They were advancing now.
How confidently tlie Chinese drego-
Man led the way. No Egyptian courier
could, by assumption, clothe himself in
tbe solemn grandeur that was Kai
Wang's by reason of heritage.
Even Lord Racitett's eyes kindled
whenever they fell upon the idol -maker.
He seemed to have assumed a kingly
'demeanor since passing under the
arched doorway of the imperial palace.
Vague suspicions went groping
through Plympten's brain, very Much
as a tangled skeiu whicn he had neither
the time floe the inclination to straight,
-
en out. •
He had a dim idea that perhaps Kai
Wang really came of a royal family.
This would account forehis close en -
flection with the .great viceroy, the Lulig
of China, es Li Hung Chang has been
called.
It might ats' o, in a measure, explain
how he came to take such a decided in-
terest in the palace of the emperors. .
Out of these elmotic fancies Lord
Beckett might have woven quite a. little
drametic and romantic story had he
been given time, since all the required
elements seemed on hand. ,
Ile ayes not the man given to such
speculation, however, being rather pro-
' saie and looking after the ordinary
things in We, quite • content to leave
such imagination to poets and ,novele
1sts bent on winning thelaurel wreath
eif fame or the useful shekels of corn-
. !fleece:
Plain'? then Lord Beckett was .quite
pleased to know they were making
substantial' progress, land that no im-
provement could be kedinthe way a
their guide .led the expedition along.
Another thought, however, ietruded
itself, and this was more likely to be t
the truth—perhaps Kai Wang assumed f
this royal carriage so that he might 1m -
press., any guard upon whom they, d
chanced.
Since deposed emperors and new a
,fiedgling , sovereigns were floating t
around so plentifelly, perhaps The *be-
wildered Soldiers would he nadir to fall
-in with any scheme to hoodwink them,
especially if the eandidate for honoras
appeared to , possess , all the necessary t
requirements. , f
Well whatever scheme Kai Wang t
was floating he was well adapted to
car& it out, and, for one, Lori:h.-Rack- f
-set tramped in his rear, content to play
second fiddle in Chinese ,diplomacy.
the ,proper thieg for bim to he seen
performing suck a• menial office; slaves
and henchmen are toecheap in, the
dominion to allow a ruler, however
petty, to soil his hands with such la-
bor. e
A murmur of voices had also increased
in volume, .proving that the Imperial -
palace was somewhat in the line of a
disturbed beehive just at present,
armed retainers occupying the halts,
poeeibly with a view to having an in-
fluende over the next meeting of the
cabinet, when the succession of a- new
prince must be placed upon the carpet.
Larry felt Avis tremble a littlwas she
pressed against barn—at least he fancied
,such was the case, and hastened to re-
assure her. •
"Courage,. dear cousin. Trust all to
him, and we will win," he said In har
ear.
"I fear nothing under Heaven," came
the steady reply that thrilled him, so
bravely was it spoken.
At least, there was no need of any,
further encouragement in that quarter.
The scerte was now opened before
them.
It was well worthy of an extended
observation, ad had the conditions
been Deere favorable, Lord Beckett, for
one, would have been glad to -have eat-
isfied his Curiosity at full length.
•
d.
s,
As it was, he had to be content wit
e. sweeping view of the panorama, int
the midst of which his little party wa
directly bound.
, The .rich vestments of ministers an
mandarins could be seen as they min
gled together, shrginghto and fro. in
pelted by the electric excitement tha
permeated the air, -
A coup in Chinese politics does n�
mean the same as it might in soni
Western nation. When Napoleon th,
Third entered Paris and cfra.maticalez
seized the reins of government, seating
himself upon the throne, it was neces
sary that his course should be strewn
with the bodies of those who blocked
his, ambition • or .were unfortunate
enough. to get in ,the way ,of his firing
legions.
Not so in China; still behind the age.
There, the wretched emperor, hedged
about by the responsibilities of his roya
office and with the enormous burden
his ancestors' glories upon his devoted
shoulders, is a Mere puppet, ready to
dance or retire when some strong hand
pulls the string. •
Now, it is the Dowager Empress, anon
t was Li Mang Chang who did, the
tring act.
Every dog has his day, even in China.
Any indescision on Kai Wang's part
t this critical juncture would certainly
have been fatal te their hopes. -
Once among the mandarins and their
roaps of retainers, not to speak of the
mperial guard clustered in many guar -
erg, discovery must mean immediate
eath.
When one walks over a powder mag -
zine and realizes that- an iron nail in
he heel of a shoe may flash a spark
hat Will hurl all around into 'eternity,
he sensation can hardly be called a
Pleasant one. ,
Yee .that fully described the feeling
hat assailed our friends when they
ound therneelves 'knecking elhows with
he crowd of exalted personages In the
great central palaver chamber of the
mperial palace.
Many eyes were turned on Kal Wang,
Mandarins . of high degree` stopped
alking to look keenly at this new ar-
a
CHAPTER* XXXII.
WA who seemed to ,move upon his
way with superb Indifference, as though
o the purple born. • ,
They knew not what to make of It,
he Air was So surcharged with daz-
ling, rumors of astounding events, that,
hese pawns upon the chessboard, even
lie 'eights and reeks, were hardly eure
f the ground they stood upon.
ne master mind of a keen -witted.
wontan swayed them at will. '
Pew were in her counsels, few knew
What the next move might be, yet ono
id all believed the old state Of affairs
tie at an end, and a new regime about
o he, launched. ,
treiace, what, at another' time, might
ave seemed" a trivial affair of small im-
pileup% noW asetimed a magnitude 01
heir eyes.
Even the advent of thee stranger -ram-
mer' was' enough' to arouse a sudden
tisPiCious interest, since who, eOuld sae
at he might not be a new prime
aVOrite with their royal mistress. and
"tined to occupy' some high, niche of
wer in the coming dynasty, perhaps
thes throne itself ?
Had there been a secret way of reach- t
ing the dungeons of the palace fuel' the
rear, their task would have ebeen ren- T
• deresl far .less 'difficult, and the danger- e
ous element in it would have also t
shrunk considerably.
Unfortunately; this could. not be done, 0
the building being so arranged that the
passages, from four skies, teeing the
cardinal points of the compass, came
together in the centre..
That was where danger lay. a
Under ordinary conditions the palace w
might have been fairly quiet at this t
hour, and a few melting figures Mere
or less would not have attracted Much h
attention, since mandarins, and princes, a
with their suites, had the privilege of [
passing to and fro; and, beside, some
ef the coureselors were apt, to come at
'early fort the usual meeting at dawn, he 3
conformity with the usages of .Chinese th
rlaw. •
Yes, a dozen things might aave hap-
pened, each ono of which Would have en
lbeen of considerable profit, to them.; bet ;Yee
-
it was irnposeibie to have 'Matters al -
way,; regulated to bring.,eabout the best e
eremites, ,and the 'wiseeniiin is he" who a
suits his .ealls to the prevailing breeze. c
, That, Kai Wang meantto do. tt
.The eritical moment Arew near.
. They- were approaching the eentral c
eone, where more or less confasion 0
might be expected:
Kai Wang knew "just when a ehange T
wee required in their plans; and none a
of them were at all eurprisSe
ed"to 'e ee
hint deliberately biow but the light 'that a
had thus far bon a faithful guide to
keep theie feet from eturebling, °
It was not needed hest now.
He headed the entediluviart lantern w
to Larry, who accepted it without a a
murmur of reproach, being quite willing to
to eerve in the capacity of lisekboy or n
any other department that would ad -
Vence the eimee for ,which they "ATP ))
01111Sted.
nesklets, terry, being quiet wilted. h
wets able to roe% coach:Mous at * a
bound.
la
If Kat Wang ietie 10 play tho pert 01 11
ernandartra to whom they served as his ai
following, or atifites at WOUld be
-
It ;suited Kai Wang to have this inas
ression gain ground ; such a fence was
pt to prove the Alrongest, bulwark they
mad met against the discovery of their
.ue value..
01106 Or twiee Ito wae adareesed by
Main officials of the palace in the
',Wintry routine of their business.
Then appeared the value of apeech.
he old maxim could not apply in such
case, for it waa the string of valiant
.ords whieb Kai Wang let fall that
onAituted a teolden shower. '
On Path oecasioa he seemed to Meet
ith abundant suceees. eince the deep
canine of the obaequioue officials,
hose Made were evidently not any too
ecurely fantened upon their bediee, ae.
kened satisfaction and learribiei recage
Ilion of authority.
Little Larry woe dumfounded by the
rilliant eiteceee of hie leader.
It may ei renterniared that 'Larry hed
t
lira if a eertain antotint of experienee
s 1 . mandarin weariful the yellovis
eke ; but, gteett ea had been the
tory attethed to Ida tide ihreugh the
pole of old Canton in a jineiekehaw;
Mat not hold a (audio to tbe &eh
11
RQI V.:QZ4g L1Q0 fa the halal e apiD MLEDQ
IceeleIlenvo oriel ieeeeaina
1i3U3 hdreteation EOL'Ale, geedue of th
worelealiel feierad of Ihre 3aeh Vow
epee°. it Reel:rad- treava,ed in hounde,
and, with Ws eisuall fatale imagination,
Larry couica feso Kai 'Wang, Iatiae nee/.
future—when the old empreee Peal iest
bee grip to sergaeious Li ilhaeg Cherie --
Seated uetea the throne, eater of the
IN0,13111.
\Veen second be thought got in it
worls, ,however, 1'02nenalte,red ttrat
thert6- was inariy a slip 'twig the clap
,and the lip, and just, at Preesent hie
friend's tenure - of life hung upon a
.pretty rnaU thread.
itia case a particularly bold deed is
under advisementthere is 'nothing eo
goed as knowing the ropes ttiorooghly',
and Larey, could sea that their wide-
awake courier .hati accomplished' this to
the Queen's taste;
He had not- paid numerous secret
visite to, the prieonee Emperer in the
palace without great advantage to him-
self, believing that the time was bound
lo come, sooner or later, when this ie-
foimation might proveof almost price-
less value.
That hour was at hand.
Lord hackett played his part as well
as the conditions allowed, although he
was . sopiewhateamstouss, leat ',eves
woederful paint which had been used
to disguise his florid complexion failed
to entirely conceal the sarne,
But those who looked at all, gazed
upon the striking form of the leader.
It mattered not what manner of riff-
raff Made upe his following, for in Pe-
king are to be seen some of the rawest
remarkable specheens of Tartars arui
Mongolians on the face of the earth—
people who seem a cross sbetween the
lower class of Chinese and the Russian
serfs of the far-off Siberian, steppe.
Any old thing goes in thig cosmopolitan
capital of the North, where the nations
of the earth seem to gather for the great
football game that Is to presently take
place, poor China being the pigskin in.
question over which the desperate tussle
must occur.
Yet when Lord Beckett came to think
over the matter later on, he was amazed
at the very audacity of Kai Wang in
thus leading such a heterogeneousapro-
cession of nondescript followers
threw& the collectest,hosts.
Perhaps it was this veey element that
went far .toward winning tae reund,
Ther'e is nothing so succeseful as sue
cess, and this is best influenced by con-
fidence and boldness.
. Many an operator on • 'Change has
guided his crafte.through the worst of
tempestuous finteepial billows, jest as
the trained hand and eye of the old
Indian guide takes his freight of Pas-
sengers throieglia the boiling Sault $te.
Marie Rapids, by heeding boldly for
what appears. to be the worst eddies.
And, Strange to say, Kai Wang won,
with a leng% to snare. _ He preased
through the central palaver hall an
entered a merble passage beyond, leav-
ing a flutter behind. •• .
And Larry, who had beenaholding,his
breath, fearing discovery at any in
-
stint, Wolenanly muttered : •
"That crisis is pasta thank' Gest 1"
(To be continued).
o leaver Gwahheel Serceihearre Hair
Save Her and It ffleene Off.
A WOOD=SANVING-4Y,
Has a Tenon -Saw :Similar to That Used
By Cabinet -Makers.
It is marvellous how many of the tiny
creatures in the insect world conceal
and preserve their -eggs. Some will
deposit them in extraordinary places,
others will insert them in the skins, of
living animals. . Others, again,. deposit
their eggs where the young grub, after
earning from the egg, finds food °loge
at hand.
Among these last mentioned are -in-
seas wha bestow great labor in the
cradle' of their avoeneg. The _place -they
select is a hard part of a leaf or the
'Woody branch of a tree. In this they
saw out a hole large enough to con,
tain their eggs, whence their name,'
saw -flies. For this purpose they are
provided with an ovipositor of peculiar
eonstruction, 11 consists of two long
pieees closing like a sheath over a third.
In the tenthrede, this third piece cote.'
tains two little saws, each of which has.,
been compared to the tenon -saw used
pee the cabinet-rnaleers. The tenon -saw
le single, but, that el the tenthredo is
double, consisting of two distinct saws.
'the insect in using them throws out
one ' saw, and while it is returning
pushes out the other, te •
This alternate moticin is continued
until the cut is made, when the two
saws, receding from each other, con-
duct the 'egg between them into its
place. Not only is the edge of the saw
notched into teeth, but on every tooth
a. number of smaller teeth appear,
W HAIN IN A 'DREAM?
Two Instances Which Show That -They
, •
Came True.
Is it possible foe a dream to foretell
an. event? Mr, Geo. A. Sims tells a
couple of stories which would justify
him, at least, in "believing In dreams."
•"One morning," he says, "my house-
-keeper brought me a cup of tea, and
airreke with a start as she entered my
room, `011, Mrs, Bully,' I said, Tye
just had, such a nasty dream 1 I
dreamt my sister had come ta tell me
someone was dead.' •
"'fbree-quartere of art hour later Illy
sister actually did arrive, although it
was only a quarter to nine—a, most uta
usual hour for bee to be out visiting --
and 6110 brought nee news, sure enough.
of the death of a brother-in-law,
"Again 1 wai in Switzetland with my
wife, When, early one morning, she
woke up in sortie agitation wed told itie
she hal dreamt that we had got to
Chamonix, where a black -bordered
ter from my steter awaited nee. The let-
ter-eonittined wave of a death,
"We arrived In Chamonix the sante
eey. Before we had been there many
Winne a telegram was handed to Inc. it
1,V,I5 from the Melee of whom ray wife
had dreamt that morning—lite same
eister Nvito had figured in my own,fate.
elatetne on, a previteue ee si 0 h mina
The Aester, that picturesque stretch
of water which separatethe reefden-
teal from the busineee quarters of the
city of Hamburg, WQ,9 11P-0 scene recent-
ly, kay tbe qemnart imepeee, of a rude
awaaening arena love's young dream.
A weladeeesed young couple had hired
a roveaeat at the Gurlittstraese landing
stage for a little spin, and who knows
What pretty eecrets would have been
whispered into Angelia's or if she, had
not lost her balanceand tumbled into
the water? The, young man pluchily div-
ed in after her and eucceeded h tera6p-
Ing her hair, which, oh horrorl came
off in his aaads. Eventually, the girie
was, saved by a boatman and the youth
got out unassisted, but from all ap-
pearance his feelings towards the fair
lady had undergone a complete change,
of which her involuntary immersion
was not the only .cause.
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HELPING 11401'11Ele.
The morning after Uncle John's ar-
,,risaat..et, tee elk feria mliere *ewe. lima
as a boye he Went early downstairs, to
find his pretty niece Eva arranging a
great bowl of flowers. -
"I tell you it seems good to be here,"
he said, standing in the doorway to
Sniff the Morning air, Pend it caws me
geed to think, there aie five of you
girls to help your mother, instead of
her having to slave the wI y our mother
U11, with a family of b ys. Where's
Jennie?"
"She Is in e—she's in the garden,
picking somearoses," said Eva, the pink
in her cheeks deepening.. '
"M -m. Where's Doris?" asked Uncle
,
John. ,
"Doris has --Doris has gone out into
the simmer -house to write a letter she
Wants to have go off early," said Eva.
"Mary?" inquired Uncle John.
"Mary—Mary has gone for a little
drive down to the- station with ono of
our neighbors," said Eva. "She loves
The air early la the morning. It makes'
her feel bright endefresh, and ready for
her practicing on the piano."
"I 'should think likely," said Uncle
John. "How about Katherine'?"
"Katherine hasn'te-ashe hasn't got out
of bed yet," admitted Eva reluctantly.
"She says that the little extra sleep •in
the morning makes so much difference
in her day; she got so tired in:school
last year."
"M -m," said Uncle John. "Then I sup-
pose your mother is—er—"
"Mother, is in the kitchen just now,"
said lava. looking uncomfortable.
"Same old place," said Nncle John.
--Curious, isn't it?"
SENTENCE .SEIRMONS..
Little sins open the -doors to large
Ones. • •
The currenck of kindness is cash in
any. Country: ,
Saepitiore is the substitute of the sloth-
ful "for vigilance. -
An optimist is a man who never stope
to open a sandwich.
Itae eceuee calling people to happiness
-in .a sepulchral tone. ,
. Only a destitute' age mints" befit rich
as the greatest virtue.
The sunshiny man drives all the
moonshine ofit of his religion.
There is no virtue in the innocence
that only fears the wrong.
It's not always the saving man who
has most chance of salvation. •
It takes' more than the ability to say
"dear sister" to make a real saint'.
The practice' of righteousness will cure
Your 'prosperity to regulate others.
Preaehing on the dangers of money
often ma's its first effect on the collec-
ti ne—---
You always will find the.lioorest play -
ea wears the most professional clOthes.
There is no virtue in- the Sunday that
makes ehildren say, "I wish it Was
Monday."'
Half the problem of keeping ire the
right road is solved if You will keep
your revenues. a
The bible Le a good time cards, but
a man- makes a mistake when he tries
To use it for tt. ticket.
• •
WHITE MAN'S PERIL.
Whispers of 'wholesale native risings
In various parts of .the British Empire
are rather unnerving when one re-
members that the white population a
the Empire is only 54,000;000 as against
344,000,000 of the coloreerrades. In other
words, the whites are .outnumbered by
more than six to one. India is the por-
tion of the Empire which contains the
biggest ,proportion of native-born peo-
ple, namely, 0e.6 . per cent., Very few
of them being of English parentage.
Hon -Kong is at the other extreme, hav-
ing only 1,7 per eerie. of native-born re-
sidents. In Western Australia 30.6 per
cent. of the Population are native4born;
in the Orange River Colony 65,e per
Cent., In Nev Zeeland is the highest
proportion of natives of the United King-
dom, 252 per cent. ‘of the whole popu-
lation; Australia has 17.7 per cent. dr
tea population from the United Kingdom;
Canada, 7.3 per cella; Orange River Col-
ony, 4.6 per eetta
GETTING A DECISION.
"I haven't seen your wife out lately:,
Mr"0,(isc)hde likceettifst:art ham these (lays."
"Is she ailing?"'
"No. The feet of the matter is; a week
ago I took home two of the handsomest
bonneta1 could find in town, and told
her ehe might have her choice between
ahem. She has been busy day and.rtight
ever since trying 10 Make up her mind
which of the bennete to keep, and was
as undecided as ever when I 'dame away
Ibis morning, One moment slue likes
one, and the 'next elle prefers the
other,"
"You ought to help het' diit of. her
'dilemma."
.alloW eetn I?"
"Why, quite a simple operation, Take
ne of thOlft ami etirry it hack tie the
hop. That. will be the one Sh011
Veretrit,"
II informed tite iltes steldett death, by
&0I/1110M of a yoting neplieve of mine."
1
AS HEALTHFUL
AS IT IS 0000
cEYL„,ON 'GREEN TEA
Is not, adulterated' In any shape or form. and •
because pure Is healthful.
Lead plows 400,, 500 stroi 600 per ID. ,At *0 Crocior&
MOREST AWARD ST. LOUIS, 1904,
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4- .
I About the Farm,'
t. 1
' Producers can do this most feasibly
niost successful way et handling 'fruit,
task, whether they are harvested as should devote himself assidiously to the
soiling food,
Harvesting cowpeas is not an easy , yet devised. -The manager of the union
then becomes their selling agent, and
as beer, as silage, or feel. study of the markets, and possess the
the' grain. The difficulty ,arises from ability to deal advantageously with -
the hick of suitable implements, then. commissiomen and other buyers. le
difficulty in curing them without tele is true many fruit unions have failed.
groat a loss in leaves when dryirig, anh dismally through petty jealousies, un-
othfetadelinireuvlitnYoullis naturehndlingreasonable suspicion, and management,
aeo found the strongest reasons for using' such; yet when really successful they
a. 1nthemti1e shoe otaauc nor is the country without examples Of
st, es
the producer and the consurner. The
commission rnen are undoubtedly right,
and they seem indispensable under pree
'sent conditions; but if intermediary
specialists in selling fruit are necessary,
there is no reason why the producers
should not employ one at a salary and,
thus unite to some extent at least these
divergent interests.
HARVESTING COWPEAS.
tat: ebae banding letainefeleeeeeiattet 4-1m101:1 ;%t)Vp
them toethe greatestfoxtent possible in
the form of pasture or as a fertilieee,
writes Prof. Thomas Shaw.
are almost ideal and welhworth' attempt,. .
ing and re -attempting in any apple
growing community. •
The best implement, in my judgment, The solution of the marketing probs
beyond all comparison, would be the tem lies mainly, in the direction of _or -
pea harvester. It has guards wheal ganization. Once a .union fairly
raise up the vines, It has a dividar launched with a hoard' of honest and -
which sepaeates them from the uncut influential directors representing . all
portion. Two men would be required parts of the community, and an efficient
to follow in cutting ripe peas; to hit manager, conditions surely not inapos-
them aside in bunches, so that the
horses or mules used in vetting would
not tread on them.
Some practical growers • claim that
cutting should begin as- soon as any get a fIrst-class man for a second
considerable number of the pods. are salary. '
formed; others when the first filled pods
begin to turn yellow, and yet others
when the crop Le -nearly matured. Tee
time aSsigned tor harvesting the late
sible, success is only a question of a fit-
tle sweet reasonableness and patience.
Leave the selection of the manager .16
the board, but do not expect them te
!JIVE STOCK NOTES. t-
--a__
• There is such a thing as overfeeding.
It is dangerous to feed the hoa full
and shy bearing varieties is wbea the rse
leaves begin to turn yellow. Climete ration on idle days. Feed the pigs too
should 'influence the decision es to the much and they get off their feet, and
time of cutting for hay. The more naoist iint woirldletra.ke some time to get them back ,
and cool the weather, the less advanced
should be the stage at whieh the crop In the ordinary course of horse labor
is cut. Of course, the more advanced
the maturity, the easier on the farm, there is no work too severe
each yearShould lebe
CURING
is the crop cut.
GoAtF0pRossfiesfiAled% of , high. 1
co idered wise or , neces.sary to rest
As the leaves
raising a • foal ., i
ore censtant to be performed by rneres
th m at any time, some of the young
,
est feeding value, the aim should be to
RI
si ck can take their places. With oi.
save these to the highest. extent Peach- dit'arily goods care, there is no reason
cable, To accomplish this, the crop, why 4
mare ltould not do her year s
MUSt net be left- lying toe' long in the farm work and raise a colt, If a
'a
Sun before being raked, nor shoidd it farmer is to produce horses at a profit,
be handled any more than can be 1vt441- these are the lines he muet• go on. ' a
ed in the curing, process. The time coil- There' are ' several ways .01, feeding eer
ed for in curing varies from four to farm animals. One of these is to pro
five toten or twelve days, even when vide a ,mahatenance ration. This keeps
the weather is fairthe body alive and repairs' the waste -
The plan most coinrnonly adopted is , that is made each day by ah.e workings
to mow only when the vines are dret of thebodylike an engine that must
to ted once or oftener, to rake after one use a certain amount of power to .run
or twa slays', exposure, to allow to lie in
the windrows for some time fair wea
thee and to complete the curing in cocks
made rather small, narrow and high,
Others put into cocks at an earlier period
and Open these out semeWhat daily, but
this method of curing involves mucn
labor.
When cowpeas are cured, they may
be stored by putting them into a mow,
ca stack, or under ,a hay, shed. 'nee
are considered ready 161- stofing a hen
no moisture exudes from the twisted
st Ike, - They Anaylbeestored -earths!' if
the peas are put away in alternate lay-
ers with straw.
.,Some growers secuee poles fro:n to
ae feet long and plant them in the
ground. at suitable distances in the pea
&Id.' When the peas leave wiih, 1, but
not .enotigh. •to shed their leaves, they
are stacked around these poles to the
width of 4 to 6 eet.across the staek, ac-
cordiag.to the degree of the succalence
of the peas. Strong, stripe are firmly
nailed to the poles at suitable inteervals.
Theare natiedan in pairs and at right
angles. They serve to prevent -the hay
from settling too firmly. Some other
material as crab grass is put on the top
of these miniature stacks to shed the ram
The most eernmon method of securiag
seed is to pick by hand and then to run
the rode through a' pea huller or to beat
(ho peas oat with, a flail. Theerop. is
usually gone 'over two or three time;
as the peasaripen unevenly. This is ofie
reason why hand-picking is praetieed.
But even in the south, where labor is
cheap, the cOst of securing seed Is half
as much aa It is worth.
• It would seem to be a bettet way to
let the crop stand until the bulk of the
peas are ripe, and then to cut it .with
the pea harvester, The -then who' lot,
low could put the peas in small buttehea
and from these they could be &awn
and threshed within a day �r two a the
season of cutting. As with Canade field
peas, the concayes and cylinder teeth
would have to be so, tedjustedas not to'
break the peas.
MARKETING FRUIT.
Reelecting fruit is a business by 'Itself
and if properly • done requires the tut -
divided ettention of those who engage
la 0. Thus say the commission ,nten
when put on the defeneive by insinua-
tions that they are only obetaclee of
free and natural intercourse between
Pairostiora.
SCOTra reitILSION. /Alyce es II
Wile 60 carry the retaliate! and
,shwas4 sysiernIaleng testa it ea* fled
firm seppert In etelinary heed
Stott tor tree movie,
jSCOrtClienralAtt
to ' dekflt/44
lake $1,00; all desettaa
its own machinery before any real work
Li accomplished. No profit comes from
such a ration, as can very readily be
seen. It is only from what We feed be-
yond the maintenance ration that a
profit can be expected.
CARE IN HANDLING BUTTER.
Farmers who run dairies should be
pareticularly careful -to market their but
ter in an attractive form, *Pack it ire
jars, butter cases, or make prints, al-
ways striving to furnish the packages
most eatisfactory to your customers: The
oldhabit of marketing la rolls is out of
date and results in much poor butter
reaching the. consumer.
ENGLISII'lL;ANGUACR..
Is Full of Perplexing, Difficulties as
' Nathat Words !exactly Meat*.
That "policy" which a,„ man gets from
an insurance company is no relative to
that other word "policy" which the Pre-
'sideht of the United States, for instance,
may use in dealing with (he .beef quos
tion They afford a curious instance,
of the .ability of two entirely distinct
English'. words. to look like one. The
latter is a, lineal descendant, along with
"polity" and "police," of the Greek "po-
lis," a city. But the former is the late
Latin "pOliticurti," "poleticurn" be "pa-
leaticum," a register whereindues were
enrolled, which is believed to be really
the Greek "potyptyehuntea a document
folded into many leaves. If so, the de-
velopment ef the word may be parallel-
ed by that of "diploma," the parent. of
"diplomatist," which meant simply a
document folded double.
"Spanking" did not suggest chastise-
ment originally. -e It was unknown to •
Johnson in this sense; to him a "spank-
er" meant "a person who takes long
steps with agililyee Rapid motion seems
to be the root idea of the word "spank,"
which Is not merely Eepresentative of
the sound of the act, as "slap" and
"enlace are. The low German "spank -
kern 1' "spenkern," to run and epring
about quickly, is close to the original
meaning. Hence a "spanking pito, ' a
"spanking breeze," and a "spanker,"
the sense lot an active and sturdy .pere
son. •
Strictly 'speaking,,,a "journal" should
be a daily publiration, although the
word no longer has that limited use.
The case of "journey' is exactly com-
parable. Even to Chaucer it stil meant(
a day's progress, end in the fourteenth.
century it was poseible to speak of one;
eountry as being "fifty-two. jorneyee"
twenty milee',
distant from another—a "Journey" beingi
I'So you made him peomiee to g ea op
emoking 2" said one girl. "Yee," an.•
worrid llo olhor . "Itiet I nover knew
you es-wee:Ay obieeted to emoking ?"
al den't. Bat I lead to make hint dc.
sontelltitta te ;-, low his' affection."