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LOT'S
1 STRATEGY
1 By SUSAN
BROWN ROBBINS
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Copyright,, i,y the
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"I don't know what it is," said L
• Despairingly,
"Imagination," returned his slat
shortly,
Lot turned on her. "Look here, M
ria Bemis," he said almost fiercel
"You pride yourself on your facult
for seeing things. You've been her
three days, and haven't you see
that there was something come b
tween us since you were here befor
and that she has stopped caring an
thing about me?" His voice broke a
the last words, and he turned awa
from her.
Maria looked at his back, and ther
iwas an expression on her face of mi
gled pity, contempt and amusement.
I "I've been here three days, Lot," sh
said quietly, "and I';ye seen that yo
are a pair of foolish children. But b
fore I go on I want to ask you if yo
bave got over caring for her."
Lot looked at her with ludignatto
too strong for words.
"I didn't think you had," said hi
•sister in a tone of relief. "If you had
it would be a serious state of affairs
but, as you haven't, I don't see an
difficulties."
"You must admit that she isn't hap
py," he said at length.
"Yes."
"But, don't you see, it must be me
because she doesn't see anybody els
hardly."
She settled herself more comfoi•tabl
on the grabs chest and began to spea
deliberately. "Don't you know tha
when two people, I don't Care who the
are, live on a lonely farm and don'
sec anybody but each other for week
at a time—don't you know that the
Pre bound to get isorbid and ims,gin
all sorts of things about themselve
and each other? That is why so man
.farmers' wives go insane."
"But what eau I do?" Lot asked,
look of terror in his face. "I've trie
• to get her to go to places with me, bu
If can't."
"I'll tell you," said Maria decisively
"The first nice day take her out ove
•the farm and spend the day. I'll se
to things while you are gone, and I'1
put up 11 lunch for you. Show her al
you are doing and pian to do. Talc
cher to the pretty places and, most a
,all, make love to her as though you
We depended on it."
"I don't believe she'd go. I cou]dn'
persuade her. You've no idea how se
she is."
Marla looked at her brother scorn
fully. "Perhaps you never heard o
:such a thing as strategy."
She turned away and walked out o
the barn.
For a long time he stood Iooking a
his Grandfather Stetson's old covered
wagon. It had been considered an ele
.gant affair In its day, but now it wa
seldom taken out except when some o
.the children came home at Thanksgiv
ing or for short visits,
He took out his jackknife and opened
tt, felt of the edge, then got into th
wagon and knelt down on the peat
;Very carefully, and following the
thread in the cloth, he cut a slit two
Inches long in the back of the seat. He
picked at the cotton batting stuffing
/with the point of his knife. Then he
let the flap go back in place, the cot
ton batting showing n little all along
'the cut. "That looks very natural," he
muttered.
The next morning Lot spoke to his
sister when Eunice was in another
room. "Just as soon as the dew gets
off some," he said, and she nodded
after breakfast she carried to the barn
a large covered basket, a demijohn of
with a look of cot(iprehension, Soon
.cold ten, a shawl and her sister-in-law's
sunbonnet. These Lot helped her stow
awayunder the back seat.
At 9 o'clock Lot came into the house.
"I'm going to start off with the old cov-
ered wagon in a little while," he said,
"and I find there's a tear or a cut in
the back Of the seat. Do you suppose
you could Mend it?"
Euniee went to get her workbasket.
She found a piece of green cloth and
pulled some ravelings from it; then she
latent but and got into the covered
/wagon and set quietly and patiently to
{work.
Lot watched her furtively from the
barn. When he thought she was nearly
half through he began harnessing with
feverish haste. What if she should get
'through too soon? She looked around
as he backed the horst} into the shafts.
"I'm not quite through yet, Lot," she
said mildly.
"Don't hurry," he answered. He
,Waited with the reins ih his hand until
she had taken the last stitch: then he
jumped in, sat down beside her and
spoke to the horse. Eunice half started
tO her feet, but he laid his band gently
on ber arm, and she sank back: again.
"We "
en
Y re going to
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rideover the farm
he Said quietly.
He drove on, talking rapidly about
Sits plans, recalling incidents of the
haymaking And speaking of the get-
tih{ in of the ensilage. .
Eunice Was silent, aitd in spite of his
lively chatter Lot Wats ltix£otts.
In the middle of the pasture Lot
toped the horse and glanced about.
Sopte of the cows were feeding near.
end- they lifted their beech to Iook
With big, inquiring eyes. '
"Pretty good looking cattle, 1 call
them," he said proudly. He paused.
EIS face Wes quiet, white and agi-
tated, 1
, and he did not H
At took dare hill
a
,wife.
"1 alt+vays thought an alvful lot at
atutterenp," *aid Eunice in her ttltt*et,
gentle voice, "1 liked her looks sohwell
that I learned her to drink and took
all the cure of her myself."
"Yes," he said, "I remember, and it
was It goad thing that you (lid take
charge of her. She's mode a .One cow."
His voice grew curiously husky, .and
be spoke almost sharply to the horse,
"Get up, Nell."
As they y ~vont slowly through the
pasture the cows one by one dropped
their noses to their feeding again.
EuI
{ e
gazeded about her
eagerly, ne
g Y, awS
light in her face. "011," she sighed
contentedly, "it is a lovely day,"
The cart path was very rough, and
the wagon bounced and pitched along,
the overhanging bushes and young
trees brushing against its top and
sides. Eunice laughed like a child and
now and then gave an involuntary lit-
tle scream.
Lot laughed too. "I guess I'll have
to put my arm around you," he said.
And he drew her close, driving with
his free hand.
"Isn't this fun?" she laughed. "And
it won't hurt the wagon, either. How
did you happen to think of such a nice
idea?"
"Wily didn't I think of it years ago?"
he returned evasively, "I ought to
have, with the poor little wife kept at
home with n weak ankle."
"I have wanted to see the farm awful-
ly;" she said, nestling up to him as his
arm went around her again, "but I
didn't see how I could, and I never ex-
pected to."
Suddenly she impulsively threw her
arms about his neck and burled her
face on his shoulder with a little sob.
"It's awful silly," she murmured,
"for folks as old as we are to act so
spoony, but I—thought—I'd got a notion
that you'd got all over caring anything
about me, and I'm so glad to find it
isn't so."
As for Lot, he held his wife close, and
in his heart was a great joy,
Obstinacy.
"One of the most remarkable cases
in my experience," said a country doc-
tor, "was au old woman in a fisher-
man's hut on the Carolina shore. It
was a long, dreary drive of ten miles,
and when I reached the place I found
that the only occupant besides the sick
woman was a skit of a girl, who was
utterly worn out by weeks of care and
nursing. I examined the patient and
found every sign of early dissolution.
Her pulse was growing feebler, and it
was only a question of a few hours, in
shy mild, before the end would come.
The idea of the girl being left alone in
that but touched me, and I decided to
remain with her, even though the un-
expected happened and the old lady
lived through the night. The men of
the but were fishermen, and they
would probably be felt& the next day.
So I sat with' the girl in the corner of
the room and told her want I Intended
to do.
"'Tr'on't she get well?' asked 111e girl
after I had explained ns mercifully as
I could.
"'No,' I replied, 'she will not get
well She will tike tonight.'
"Just then there was a feeble move-
ment on the bed, and a thin, angry -
voice drawled out: 'It ain't so. I won't
die. [ expect to eat the goose that
eats the grass off of your grave.'
"Oh, yes. She's quite well now, and
she does not hesitate to tell ale bow
much she likes goose."—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Dickens And His Work.
Light is thrown upon the unfinished
condition of Dickens' "Mystery of Ed-
win Drood" by the following story,
told by a surviving friend:
"I ventured to ask him what method
he pursued in the composition of work~
and if they were all completed before
going to press. 'By no means,' Ste re-
plied. 'They are not written beyond
the part that is to be published at a
given time. But the plot, the motive
of the book, 1sT always perfected in my
brain for a long time before I take up
my pen. 1 add a great deal to the
original idea as I work on, but as I
always know the end of the beginning
I can safely commit my work hi parts
to the press.' "
"'But suppose,' I stammered, with
just a little awe and wonderment in
my voice (only the temerity of youth
could have induced me to say such a
thing), 'suppose you died before all
your work was written?' "
"'A -h!' he said, and paused, then
added, 'That has occurred to me at
tines,' and again the long, future
piercing look seemed to be penetrating
the golden haze. Then he turned
kindly glance on me and said cheerful.
ly, 'One can only work on, yeu know—
work white it Is day.' "
•
They Agreed.
To his valet no man is a bero. Eve*
his caddie is apt to bold the highest in
very low estimation. The Latter discov-
ery was made the other day by a ter-
tain legal lutnihary who already had
quite a modest opinion of his own abil-
hies, though be has been for many
years an ornament of the bench and Is
himself the son of a judge. During I11s
off days he usually divides his energies
betweenolt and dairyfanning. 'On
g g
the occasion in question it happened to
be golf, and not being in his usual form
he 1n de a very bad foozle.
Ile gneed incredulously at the ground,
looked inquiringly at his club and bay -
lug apparently solved the difficult prob-
lenf faced his caddie atld elcciaimed
With enlpbhbls, "Well, I am an nest"
"The caddie, ptat'tied out Of a dream of
boss, was too well treined to contra-
dict his employer, do he seletnnly re-
plied( "Yes, sir!" The than of law bad
everlOokod the other's exlstence, but
this candid opinion redalled him to
earth, He looked at the caddie and the
Caddie looked tit him for A brief set-
end.Then bothburs1 Into a sh
out of
laughter. The htimor of the eituatiola
bad struck theta tlinttiltaileousiy,—Lo*.
don Tatler.4.4.1se1
MALABAR
By F'ratzk H. S leek
Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. McClure
Company
"Do you thinki'Ialabar will run?"
The girl did not reply, but her lips
began to tremble. The face of the man
bending toward her grew dark, but It
was the darkness of, despair, net of
purpose.
"Perhaps if he knew what you bays
told me." He hesitated. "Malabar Is
brave and strong and noble. He would
not stoop to a small deed."
"I promised him with the new year
that he should run for me at the green
corn dance. 1-1 did not know then,"
looking piteously into the gloomy, deli-
cate face above her. "Malabar would
not stoop to a small deed -no. But
this Is not small. He has let it be
known that ho will run for me. He
'would not turn from his purpose a
hair's breadth—Trot if he saw some•
thing in front that would crush him,
And—and it is right for g great war-
rior, Ankona, but it is hard."
"We will fly, White Egret, into the
deepest fastnesses of the Everglades!"
he cried hoarsely. "There are places
where even Malabar's relentless arms
would be powerless."
But White Egret only looked at bins
with sorrowful eyes.
"We are Seminoles, Ankona," she re-
buked gently. "You know our laws.
You would be the last one to break
them."
His arm fell back Impotent. Yes; he
would be the last one to break them.
"Perhaps Malabar will not be proof
against the black drink this time," he
suggested. "He has killed, and it will
be made strong. Others bave died.
But, no, no! Malabar is a great chief
and a better man for the tribe than I.
He has tasted the black drink before
and will not die."
"You say well, Ankona," broke in a
stern, powerful voice, and a figure,
dark, towering and implacable, stepped
twin the gathering shadows. "I shall
not fail before the black draft. It
would not be a fit ending for a ,war-
rior."
White Egret threw back her head
and regarded him steadily. Ankona
bowed his head.
"You heard all?" be questioned in a
strained voice.
"ATI," calmly. "It was childish prat-
tle. I shall run for the White Egret,
for have I not Bald it, and has 'she not
made her promise? It is only when
we forget our promises that we become
weak and childish. Ankona Is young
yet and should be humored. I will let
him run the race with me and will give
him one-third the distance start as due
to his weakness. Now go!"
They went, with a single despairing
glance toward each other. Ankona'e
face was bloodless and set—bloodlesa
with pride crushed, set with foreknowl-
edge of utter inability to cope with this
man of iron will and strength. Better
be crushed than allowed to exist by
sufferance.
Other forms were appearing from the
forest—warriors in full headdress and
leggings, carrying the .guns they had
purchased from white traders; squaws
with camp equipage, medicine meta
stalking solemnly and mysteriously,
with eyes bent upon the ground; chit
dren and dogs, Same from the camp on
White River bay, some from Okeecho-
bee, some from the shifting camp
among the keys—all coming for the
great annual green cern dance, where
tribal laws were to be made, marriages
celebrated and criminals punished.
These criminals were now moving
unwetched, unnoticed, in many cases
unknown even, among the others. What-
ever crime they -had committed during
.the year had gone unpunished at the
time, .but, now tribal honor brought
theist here to expiate their misdeeds.
On the morrow they Wonld be placed in
closely shut tents and almost suffo•
cated with steam made by pouring wa-
ter upon hot stones. After that they
would drink of the black draft. It
they died, they were guilty. On the
other hand, if they were strong enough
to survive, their innocence would be
clearly` established, Later the racing
for wives would take place.
Malabar was known to every one—
revered, feared, honored. A1! knew
that he'was to race for a wife and that
before the race he was to drink the
dreaded black draft. Ordinarily they
would have scoffed at such absurdity.
If 8 man drank and lived, it would be
a notable proof of strength, but to
drink and live and then rate for e wife;
As to his crime, it was only what any
of them would have done if brave
enough. He had killed a rmanI True,
but be bad been provoked. Ile mist be
punished, for that was the lass, but
they did not wish him harm.
And they all knew Ankona, the gen.
t)e one, the dreamer and story maker,
end, though none of them revered es
feared him, they nll had a tender place
for him in their hearth. If he could
race with White Egret and Will hes,
they would be glad. But Malabar came
9rst, for White Egret herself bad made
it an.
Malabar was the first who presented
himself for punishment. While be wail
in the closed teitt•'the tribe stood about
ellent, with eyes furtively watching
the point whence the condemned would
walk forth innocent or be brought forth
guilty.
At length the tent flap Wee raised,
endhe staggered out. For a 'eminent
he stood there in the sunlight, Itis bend.
to hie head, swaying Mildly'. Tberb
they saw him throw hi* Shouiderk
bee
frith k roilgbty effort, a R hoseki
Wee strongenough
te Ci e,�
far
Mr.110bt 4 el1,t04e. 1K eel. ja. insists
away from them and strode Int. tt
forest to be by himself. That, too, was
Sfalabar's way.
Not until the maidens were brought
forth did Malabar reappear,
"I will race for my squaw at once,"
he called In a voice that all could Clear;
"before the White Egret grows weak
through waiting, and I shall give her
one-half the distance start because she
is a woman, Ankona will also enter
the race with me, and 1 will give him;
one-third rd the dist
n ce because he is
but
half a man. Let them be placed."
The c'pectators stared and gasped.
Ankona, his rival, to enter the race and
to he given one-third the distance, and
White Egret, the fleet footed, to be
given one-half: No one could win a
race thus handicapped. And yet was
it not Malabar?
IIe swept them, with his glance.
"I shall win," be said cgnfdontly,
"because I will have it so."
Ankona had been watehing him with
baleful eyes.. For an instant be drew
'back as though to spurn the concession.
Then, ns he saw White Egret being led
fors
va1:•d to her place, he hurried to his
own position,
And for a brief space after the signal
Ivas given and they were speeding on'
with straining muscles he had a wild,
inteme belief that lie would win.
Ilut only for a brief space. Then
carne that steady, accelerating, int.
placable rush behind, drawing nearer
and nearer, then opposite, then pass,.
leg. When three-fourths of the dis.
tanee had been covered, Malabar waft
four march paces ahead. Suddenly he
turned. White Egret was almost with•
in his reach. '
"Stop, Ankona!" Malabar called.
"Have I not won?"
Ankona did not answer.
"IIave I not won?" sternly.
"Yes, Malabar, you have won," An-,
konn answered, and his voice was full
of a great despair.
"It is web. Now you may go on and
catch the girl. Malabar will have no
squaw who does not come to him
willingly."
And he turned proudly from the race
and strode back into the forest.
Some Remarkable Gnns.
At the siege of Rhodes the Turks
constructed mortars by hollowing owl
cavities in the solid rock at the proper
angle, and in the arsenal at Malta is a
trophy of the long and glorious defense
of Valetta, in a Turkish gun, about a
six pounder, composed of a copper tube
coiled over with strong rope and "jack-
eted" with rawhide. In the same col-
lection are some'antique "quick firers,"
breechloaders, with small bores and
immensely long, barrels, like punt guns.
The Malay pirates put great trust in
the long brass swivel guns called
"tele," and In Borneo these lelas were
used as a kind of currency, large sums
being estimated in guns.
The Chinese cast excellent bronze
guns (there is a One specimen of them
In Devonport dockyard), but so little
did they understand gunnery that in
the so called "opium war" the forts of
the Bocce. Tigris, defending the Cantos
river, had the guns built immovably,
into the walls. The Sikh gunners op-
posed to us in the two Punjab wars,
though they loaded with amazing reck-
lessness, shoveling in the powder trona
open boxes, stuck' to their guns to the
last. The blood of the first man killed
was smeared on the gun, and the whole
detachment died beside it sooner than
retreat—Chambers' Journal. rt
His Pet Superstition.
"Superstition seems to be connected
in the minds of most people with wo-
men, Iadders, rabbits' feet and horse-
shoes," said the young girt at the piano.
"As a matter of fact, however, I know
that men are fully as superstitious as
the women of my acquaintance, and
sometimes more so. One young man o1
my acquaintance, for instance, who
has literary yearnings And who feels
sure he could astonish the public with
his brilliant stories if be could only, get
some editor to accept them, spends hie
summers in the country gathering in-
spiration, local color and—four leaf
clovers, When winter comes he returns
to his ballroom In the city, writes sto-
ries by the wholesale and dispatches
with each consignment to the editors a
four leaf clover. Sometimes the arti-
cles are accepted, and then the writer
ascribes his success to the talisman.
More often, however, they are re-
turned, with the mascot in a more or
less crumpled condition, and he spends
what leisure hours he bas in trying to
figure out why It is those elovers don't
work every time, Never for n moment
does be ascribe failure to any faults In
his manuscripts. Isn't that the limit in
the way of superstition?"—Philadel-
phia Ledger.
A Datoh of Anecdote..
Some interesting anecdotes and gos-
sip,
oo-sip, new and old, of the law courts are
given in the English illustrated Maga-
zine. The writer of the article, Mr, A.
.1. Hughes, was once present In court
when a juror who opened the ball by
Saying, "This case, my lord, really lies
in a nutshell," received the reply, "You
crack it then."
There have been tinies When clever
witnesses have got the better of coun-
sel In a skirmish 0f horde. Wben the
farrier Was asked where he got his
knowledge of the mare's age from, be
said, "From the mare's own mouth,
sir."
Irish lawyers ere generally endowed
by Dame Nature 'with quick wits.
Among thein All, perhaps, t ,rran held
the palm for lightness and vivacity.
When some one told him tint n0 stu-
dent should be Called to the bar who
did not possess ti landed estate Of hie
own, he retorted, "flow many nate
Wilke h n°isefiere?"
But It lovas a icdtsulatl. appropriately"
enough Lord liroughntn, who, seeing
It d•
is h 19estC it fright. t ! 1 fi •']t
t, ,. eHed to the
eoaChmaur "t)rlvi into something
rheagl"
FOUR SYSTEMS
OF HAIRY FARMING,
The amount of milk and butter fat
rod c
P i; ed per acre is, ganerally speak-
ing, the find] test of profitable dairying
Where all feed is raised on the farm.
Tbon i
fl aresultant d 1 s
only
en not n
1
d1
Y
on efficient cows, but naso on raising
crops that contain a maximum amount
of digestible nutrients and especially
protein, which is so essential for dairy
cows, This circular explains and com-
pares four different spstems of crop-
ping for dairy farms. The first will
make 091 pounds, the second 1,475
pounds, the third 2,021 pounds and the
fourth 3,150 pounds of milk per acre.
The Poorest system of cropping re-
turns $115.20 per acre in milk, and the
best system returns i148.30 per acre.
The first system will give•an annual
return of .$2,032 from a 100 acre farm
and Cha last $8,.,0
63, or more than three
times the first.
But this is not all. The fertility of
the farm is diminished by the first
system, as there Is an annual loss of
1,000 pounds of nitrogen. The second
system shows 110 pounds, the third
2,280 pounds and the fourth 5,830
pounds increase of nitrogen in the soil.
These differences are due entirely to
the kind of crops raised and their
adaptability to the feeding of dairy
cows.
The crops raised and the rotations
practiced under each system are as fol -
Of the various breeds of dairy
cattle none has become more prom-
inent in recent years than the Hol-
stein -Friesians. Their size and milk
giving propensities recommend them
highly to the farmer who has plen-
ty of roughage and many pigs to
feed the slcimmilk to. Last year
the most sensational bull, both at
the national dairy show and the
Iowa dairy congress, was Sir Beets
Cornucopia Paul, herewith shown,
He is owned by W. S. Mosul') of
North St. Paul, Minn. He is uni-
versally considered an ideal type of
tho Holsteln-Friesian breed.
lows: System No. S --Corn, oats, corn
oats, timothy, pasture, pasture, pas
ture. System No, 2—Corn, corn, corn
oats, clover, clover and timothy, pas
ture, pasture. System No. 3—Corn
corn, corn, oats, clover, alfalfa, pasture
pasture. System No. 4—Corn, corn,
corn, corn, corn, nlfalfa, alfalfa, aifal
fa.
In order to put the systems of farm-
ing on the same basis, it is necessary
to take a definite yield for each of the
crops raised. This has been fixed ns
nearly as possible at the average pro-
duction per acre for the different crops
on the better class of farms in Illinois.
'1110 results show that the total digest-
ible nutrients increase 77,177, 50,177
and 238,004 pounds respectively from
systejn to system and that system No.
4 produces 50,237 pounds digestible
protein, or over three times that of sys-
tem No, 1.
The marvelous differences in the
profits derived from these four Sys
tetns of cropping are best shown by a
comparison of the profits left by each
system. System No. 1 returns $2.43,
system No. 2 returns $780, or 321 times
the protlt of No. 1; system No. 3 $1,-
947, or 801 times that of No. 1, and
system No. 4, $3,028, or 1,010 times the
protlt of system No. 1, besides adding
5,830 pounds of nitrogen to the soil of
the farm.—Illinois Circular 151.
Frozen Beets Poisonous.
Stockmen Pre being warned ns to the
possibility of poisoning stock from
feeding frozen beets by Dr, F. 13. Had-
ley of the veterinary department of
the College of .\gricnitnre of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. Last year a c,ah-
sidernble loss was sustained by Wis-
consin stockmen from this cause. The
greatest honit:e resulted from beets
that were frozen and afh'rwartl thaw-
ed Wore hemi: fed. in cue ae'rietie
case the frozen beets were boiled kith
grain to nate tt slop. After this 1111x•
tire wits felt the hogs die,! 10 n short
/Imes chit' to perahsi-1 of the lie.trt.
Recent inrc'',igatl0nv choly that the
eheulleal Chan/;es whirl) take place in
the Ilroeossev of fr*l'zitig and ihawil.:,
produce
t poisonous tillby .uu' 1 ,
h
eances rather sudden death when o.1.
ell. Rents that lithe not 11000 fie7"fl
n111.e excellent teed for mote:.
Dangers of Crossbreo(:419
Inbreeding find line breeding 11.1)0
done more to fix the type than any-
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New Subscriptions Received at this
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NEN THE LIVER
IS INACTIVE
CONSTIPATION SOON FOLLOWS
The duty of the liver is to prepare and
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Healthy bile in sufficient quantity is
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IVE long years of
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