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Even at that late season of the oniX.di"thr erirli45 tho ocean to bom-
.year-olt was December tho gh ot flnjpol Par° 01 FrisPan-
, u n
advanced beyond a few days—the
"Is it possible 9" cried Maddalena,
gaoler: at Caldera ems rich to color while Don Amoistin, inertial afresh
Lead profuse in greet:Pry, Aud the
%MS o fair %V L0 there
out of Ms precision eahn, stared at
weather sand ,
Mr, Smith with hundred eyes and
ooro seal balmy breaths Mora the
seo end soft airS froiit the bale, sodaa 00S it 80 801. m01'141110 Of Suhi
nsne aa'
and such 'aos le aot ulaKe your ProsPeets
auk. brighter, madame ?"
mellow afteruoons, that the
'lt oill certainly lower Hispanio-
household of the Queen apont but
short incloore. The Queen berself la's Prestige!'
"Moro than that, mu(1ants:, more
loved thd open after the tedious
years of mephitic Bloomsbury (where than Clot," And again Mr, Smith
as Tedium says, "there is more pitused with that twinkle.
'bury' than lelieolni it); she loved to "Tell me, tell ino," cried Nadal -
gaze at the rugged outline of the eaa•
bills, to watch tho tides of tinted; "Wen, as for as their knowledge
sha
the commanders of the Free dow thot flowed over'them as the aoeS,
sas States fleet regard Palmetto as Ma-
son. swung up and then down;
lovel to drink in the mere sense of paniolan tereLtory. On their way
freedom that lives in a wide pros- to blockade, bombard, Pulverize
Sarralona, 'Perez, Almeduna, Pena
pact, ad to feel the cool, pure
breath of her own land. parivos, they will naturally call at
Palm City and demand its surren-
Near the loot of tho garden was
der "
arliour of Gloria de Dijon roses, '
Don Augustin's face clouded, Ho
and there aroddalene, passed most
saw the fiar 'island sllp from Mad -
of bee waking hours, the fairest rose
trandetentes hands Into those of task-
-of her pleasaunce. At a tiny to.ble
!nesters as harsh as 'Hispaniola.
.slie sacted much State business
withSome such thought flashed into the
Don Augustin; received Ines-
eind, too, but her eyes
:stagers with lists of dead and ameen's m
wounded, er of the ritege of Palm
City; geve a, ready eao to this or
that petitioner who believed that
the Queen could set all things right;
were on the Orange King's face, and
she saw nothing there but uncon-
cern anti amusement.
"Palm City," went on Mr. Snalth
will surrender. It cannot resist
.or maned documents signifying t
Doattack by tivelve battleships anDotiA, that her Majesty desired to gunboats and torpedo destroyers."
.clo such and such, to Senor B. that
P"But if wo could take it first,"
eaed nravo
IS be had been bid on aain of MaJesty commanded him to do 1108 "'"
elispleasure, "It would be at too great. expense
oly friend," said Mr. Smith drily.
To every ono that saw thus thron- "There is a much cheaper way thou
ad among the roses the 800.10thaai,
thoug•ht canto—that the Queen was "And that is ?"
vory beautiful; that she was young,
m
that she was indeed a Qu"I ahere this morning to lay
Queen, but
.alas 1 my plan before your Majesty. May
that she looked so sad. Not
tI explain it in' my own way ?"
hat she did not saint, on her wide, "Surely, sir, surely,"
for she was happy in seeing them;
"The moment my agent at Rio
but over the smile flitted a shadow
cabled to mo that the fleet had set
of sorrow indefinable that made the out, / started for Palmetto. I cal -
voice
.smile stiangely sweeter, and in her culato that the ships will bo •off
was a. subtle tone that found
Palm City on the morning of the
in every heart a responsive chord,
•
day after to -morrow, or perhaps in
and made the hearor %vender if it
was in snail wise the angels sang
when Paradise was lost. "Ah 1"
said they, "sho will bo no longer sad
when the Hispaniolan Is driven out
•of Palmetto -a11110 will sing and dance
with the best of Us then." Only
Don Augustin knew that whatever
-good hop came to the Isle ea Palms
this silver thread of sorrow would
string Matidalena's Jewels for ever.
Tho change in her did not escape
the observant eye of the Orange
ath aa_ yam explain your position. Ask for
Wing ns he came down the P
•corted by Iton Augustin, radiant h's eo-oPeration, and promise pay-
ment for his assistance --rather the
with' delight. To Bravo the return
•of Thomas Smith seemed an augury
that the happy end was neer.
Maddalena rose with outstretched
"Mr. Smith I You have taken us
by surprise I"
"Better 1 than S tempo, your ara-
testy," ho laughed. "The fact is I
,couldn't stay away' any longer. I
want to see for myself if my orange
monopoly is to bold good."
"Ah 1 you put it in that way. Well
—you shall see, you shall see. But
acme a X ean Just going to breakfast
undor the roses. You must join
me."
"I have already breakfasted, mo-
at -alma'
"At eight o'clock ?"
"Off bacon: and oggs
"Yee," .
"What a Briton I" she laughed.
-''33ut if you have come from Espole-
to—biteie you ?"
• "From Espoleto, madame."
"Thea you SVC ready for hinchcon.
Comm sit down, sir. You will join
us, Don Augastin,"
"You are cut oft from the world
here, madame, so X daresay r 4111
the (lest tb bring you a certain piece
.of nowe—good news. The Free State
have thrashed Hispaniola,"
:Tahoe; is indoecl g;ooci news. When?
w ?"
'When? TU,elve days ego. And
? By blowing them oet of tho
or, but there is better nowe to
0," A. Merry twinkle lurked in
corner of the Orange Itiog's eye,
be paused 11.11C1 11013)0C.1 iliMSOlf to
s. "What It, emu' think mad-
-
the evening. Perhaps they will
come ia at night with lights out,
arta make my friend Stampa rub 1118
eyes 'whoa he wakes in the morales.
Anyway, and whatever the inten-
tions of the Free States admiral, I
want you to allow Inc to intnrcept
him before be sights Palmetto."
"Yes, yes," cried Maddalena, alf
impatience.
"I want you, madame, to enteust
me with a letter for him, in which
assietance of his goverements. Good.
Ho will accept or he will relect. Xf
bo rejects, he will win—temporarily:
for Europe will not allow the Free
States of South America to depart. 1
from their acihereuce to the Monroe ri
doctrine, and if the worst comes to
tho worst Palmetto is still 1-11span-
io1a's, and tho struggle goes on from.
where It now stands. If ho accepts,
you will have to pay a million, Per- e
haps two. And you can leave that
to me."
Maddalena rose to her feet, carried
out ' of herself by the suggested h
speedy end of the flght, her face 1
flushed and her hands pressed to- 1
gather.
"0 1 if it might only be if it a
might only be I" a
"It may well bo, maeame, if you 1
writo the letter I spoke of—and—" d
Ito paused and laughed --"make it a 1
nice one."
She turned Swiftly and looked at
111181, .13revo aghast end a little more
than half inclined to pose mightily
on dignity. But the good humor
and good faith 'so clenoly marked on
the Orange Nittife Moe disarmed her
ancl made her forget tem cool auda-
city of the propeeal, . —
"Sir "'ale; seat "I will do it. You c
aro a Clotts ex machine."
"ary Latin is rusty, niadame," ho 11
laughed, '.but—den. In flores emits to t
meet the case." it
"Yoe ere a courtier as wall as a P
genital, she"
"If the admiral agrees to your
proposal, madame, in four deys
there won't be a ITispaniolan sold-
ier 01,1 151S11d,"
"There are oight thoutiancl here
now," grumbled Bravo. "How do
yoo propose to get rid of theea
Damp thorn In tho sea, ?"
"Send them book to Ifispardola,"
said Smith /Manly.
"In ballot/lie ? There are no
611'1'1'V/2'0"rawill bo thips when they are
lMotea," came the =mime, Mall
More shortly.
"X see you have your plan, Mr.
Smith," Bald Illetadalena, with re,
frown at Don Augustin. "You will
tell me ?"
Smali waved a hood 01 resigneo
tion to the inevitable.
"ea Plan ? very little one.
Liae tho Free States, 1 Mao have a
fleet. tPwolvo steamer6 of lane are
now three days north of Palmetto.
They are ostensibly bound for the
West Coast of Africa for cargo. They
W580 under -coaled at Liverpool. They
put into Palm City for supplies,
len no man of business 11 they reach
tho West (Mast this trip. I rather
think they will touch at Hispaniolan
ports and land more valuable cargo
than rubber, ITIspemiole, will pay—
and I'll see that I get ray monoY,
too. A.nd now, madame, you will
want a little time to write your let-
ter. Do you permit me to IeaVO
Von ? 1 should like to see Grant,
if Doo. Augustin will direct me where
to find him."
• As he uttered trector's namo.
Thomas Smith gave ono swift side
glance at Maddalena, mid satisfied
his suspicion.
"X should like to help you, Arr.
Smith. 1 do not know tvht to
Sist, "
"Madame,1 caunot hap you i
this. Write as your heart dictate
I should realm it too businesslike
and the admiral tVould scont—diplori
neer. Write as yOlir heart dictates
madame : sincerity and candor wi
win. No, no, I cannot help—I hay
no heart."
(0, Mr, Smith 1 0, Arr. Thom
Smith ! Rank, flat, i)1edeetive, Osten
teethe us lying.)
"1 will lay my best, sir," sal
Maddalena simply, and she bowe
his leave to the Orenge. King.
He turned away, and then be turn
ed back.
"A moment, madame. I must be
your pardon, as I must beg hers
Just befoee I left Liverpool, a Mien
of yours called at my office and d
mended—there 18 /to other word to
it—demandod a passage to Palmetto
She would not be denied. She wool
see you. She is waiting now 1
your reception room."
"She 1 I know no she. Who 1
it ?"
"Miss Judith Frere— Adios, ma
dame.
"Don Augustin 1 Accompany Mr
Smith. _and see that Miss Free
is sent to me, at once."
Judith Frere ! Poor Judith From
Whet nutdcap freak is this that ha
entered your head ? What ha
driven you to Palmetto, to sit in
her Arajesty s reception -room twining
your flogercOand g;olug over aad oval
again sad little set speeches, while
your heart boats in your shrunken
breast such a piteoes rhythm, and
your breath comes and goes with
such a. painful, dry crackle, and with
Araddolelio pleeee together the lefti
MI whole, end semi how this wont
OM'S indePondance, "a poor posses -
elm but her all," went down be-
fore the corablaed forces of poverty
mid temptation. There Is ono emo-
tion only staring in her breest—not
anger or Taproot% or contempt, but
pity, the pity that understands
weakneee and gives strength and
comfort. TI, shines from her ey013
and her face and her whole being,
and Haying nothing ((or 'words ore
poor things after all) she says
More to tho tortured woman than a
thousand epeoches could,
But tbo silence must be broken.
0110 cannot always hold fevered
hands and pat them and emoote
thorn coesolingly.
"Pool. Miss Frero 1"
"0 I madame. 0 1 your Majesty."
"You are very” weak after yout
long long Journey.
'But you torgive me ? Say that
you forgive me.'
"Now, now, there is nothing to
forgive, And I don't understand a
word you say. Long ago in Lon-
don I made you promise to visit me
In 3 alrnetto. You have come; you
are iny very welcome guest."
"0, I cannot stay—T cannot stay."
"0, but you shall stay. Boman-
lier that I am the Queen here, and
my word is law. You aro iny guest
unless you prefer to ee my prisoner,
and I ant going to take care of you
until you aro quite well again. It
will be time enough then to speak of
going. Como now, take my arra."
"But, madarne---"
"My word is law here—talce my
tom 1"
n in a little while Maddalena re-
s. tUrned to hor arbor, and sat down
, with pen and paper to write her bot -
1.51' to the Admiral of the Froo
, States fleet. For an hour or more
11 She labored, tearing up draft after
O draft, and stopping every now and
then to lean bee chin on her hand
as ! and gather her thoughts afresh. She
- had promised Mr. Smith that sbe
j would try, and she was trying: but
d somehow the words would not e01810
d right. And although she knew the
importance of getting it clone, she
-I could not bind her thoughts down;
I in spite of her will they wandered
k. from the garden, from law people,
, from this task, to a tent in the
d lams before Palm City, to Hector.
aa And as thought gave place to vision
r' sorrow lifted from her face, and in
, every feature hei• soul lived and
d moved in sunshine. The fear and
/I; dread of to -morrow and to -morrow
and all the to-morrowis was thrust
s' away, and tho almost insupportable,
I thronging joys of to -day remained
-a to whisper the impossible and make
It true •for one moment into which
eternities wore crushed. 'There is
o something of mother -love in wom-
an's purest passion. Perhaps it
was this side that was uppermost in
• Aladclaiona as 11110 saw Lector with
s his arm in a sling, and that prompt-
ed her, in her ecstasy of vision., to
stretch out her hand and open her
• lips in inaudible speech,
: She let her head fall on the
table. Tho vision was gone ; real-
ity remained—real ty, gem t and
powerful and halal, but not too hard
for tho spirit tbat moved Maddn.1
such accusing iteration there sounds
In your ears the cry you have heard
nothing else beside these many days
—the cry of "You sold her, you sold
ier ?" What has driven you here—
ay, what has &own you?
You remember that day in 'Aber -
leen when Hector Grant told you of
he bapless young Queen. You re-
member that evening When he took
mu into her presence, and you feast-
cl your starved eyes On her young
beauty, and you drank the new wino
of her hopeful heart, and you saw in
er tho sell your dreams of long ago
tad made of you. You remember
low first you loved her, and then
loW you envied her. And •then,
las you remomber—and it brings
hot flush to your wasted cheeks—
low poverty pinched and the devil
rove, and you attempted to sell
tor secret -attic secret of her who in
11 innocence, and a little perhaps
out of her uuconsciously growing
love afor Hector, received you anti
confided her dear hopes to you.
Yes, you tried to sell her, and you
failed. You tmedeto betray, and you
were betrayed. If your bargain had
been sliccessfully carried out, would
you be in Palmetto ti
ember Morning, desirous of ono
hing—aonfession : confession with -
g oleo ence8-
O see her and tell her all—yes, that
iteelf will be forgiveness enough,
unishment enough; for to gaze in -
her truthful ;
/mooch look out at you—that will
bo forgiveness. Only you shall 1100-
01 see reproach in Maddalena's eyes.
You think you ellen, but you shall
not, That Is because you do not
know all the :fineness and tendeia
hpartedness and the rate womanly
understanclieg of tho Queen. Slue
will not even offer you forgiveness ;
for to offer forgiveness imples that
there has been a, fault—and knowing
by instinct how eani bum suffered,
she wil1 not seek to break the bruis-
el read. Yot be strong, Judith
Prete, ter bee very kilidness will cut
deeper than a thousand reptoaches.
"Her Majesty desires Miss Judith
Frore's presence.",
Like a ghost in a theam she fol-
lows the tall SOI'Vant. Like a ghost
in a dream she wale down the gala
den path and seos the Queen stahd
under tho arch of roses. A. mist
cloude ltee sight : sho stumblee and
talle. Tho servant stoope to assist
her, but Maddalena. runs lightly
olotig the pah, and has the poor
\venter: in her arms, and is lifting
her gently, before the men is Well
into the middle of hie ammo.
"You may go. will atteod to
00 lady myself."
He hears, but lingoes.
"You may go."
Her lieek is sufficient otele:•.
Judith Flute is get delve. in a, low
chair, and a glase of tvi»lt 18 held
10 her lips. Sim 10 elow of reecila
eta, bat at inst 'elle opens bor eyes.
And then the sad little sot speeches
aro 011.51 to the ,Windp, all forgotten,
nod from the heart Of hetl remorse
there wells Op an tomeemedItated
bobble of centession, a:attrition,
abesement, that Madclalone, is pow-
erless to stop,' arid that Is ten theles
elMiltent basalt:a of 1ts very
ineobetence, its uttee abandonaleitt,
From a word here and a Word tliore
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book atIthor aro car May beat,
' She seized her pen and wrote fur-
iously and with a full heart.. Words
she did not consider or choose : it
was her very thought sho sot down.
; And with sot:netting higher than
I mere pride, something stronger than
' mere power, she signed her name—
; "Maddalena, the Queen."
I When the Orange ICing returned,
and tho missive was put ihto his
hand, he made no excuse for reading
It. Ho did not smilo as 110 finish d
but, with something of reverence in
his air, he folded the paper coo he
placed it in his Jetta - case, and turn-
ed to her with a look which told
Don Augustin that the Orange King
had found a teacher in Maddalena.
But he laughed when be spoke,
amo, ite that Palmetto is yours."
„T/tflylen_mo:opo/y is as sure, Mad-
"This"—he tapped his pocket—
"carrieS the day. All the rest is
detail. fix my trust In instinct."
That evening Mr. Thomns Smith
put out from Espoleto in the Gayer- 1
nor of Lagos and °actin 11 t
een end of Pahnotto struck Solith to a
intercept 'the admiral of tho Free t
States. Elaborate calculations had o
.1 mac o o sot le the fleet s 1
course, paid Arr, Smith reckoned cen
• falling in with tho vanguard cruiser n
about anicl-aftemooit of the IleXt S
But when night fell there rose n
out of the eouthern waters, Met on s
the horizon, four new stare, and 33
len out mole and Mtn more one
four inOre, until from the bridge of t
tho Governor of Lagos the (Moog°
Kiag counted close on sevettLy white t
mast -head lights, big and little, t
with ono great solitary red light a
about tho middle of the column, For t
this red star, with all his own lamps
carefully darkened, tho Oenage Efog o
eteered. To avoid tho vanguard ho
made Tirst a sweep ontWard and
westward, and thee lay still in the e
trough of the Atlantic 101t11 the rod le
light was judged to be distant but a 11
mile or so. 'non it was full speed
ahead Into tho darkness of the n
night,
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'TiE MAN Ifi'oLp RIM
01-1M AtiTrratlear )31r
—
O Leg'eaal la 0Mulue Wad Bealus
11111110-5. Men wolf, who spoke no
latiguage bia grunts, $narls, aad
o howls, who walked on hands and feet
t and who was ourturod as a child by
1s1
a '110er111; are wolaraared eleadreu "fit
iLl'iyd4c1:v1r141''ell'elethhtt'veAlbt:1115coulTilfieLteldUsttow°50-1.-
I 'talatea the Tact, 00 long denied AS
s unworthy of creclence, that Mutton
r babies have been carried offi end nor -
a Lured by iwolvee. This hue lung been
a tradition—a tradition that bas 11801
„. ever 11110e the story of Romalue and.
Taunus. Although tho belief 1111)3 been
• scuffed at, there remains the fact that
; iLtblise dgeleynerally, believed in indla to
I • •
) The jungle folk of India live in
forest villages In lower Bengal. They
belong to the Dravidiane, laronhs,
Kashineres, Persia and Tehasis tribes.
_ Many of the people of the Dravidian
tr11,003 and eaktiteS acipth•e a knowledge
of will animals which is astounding.
waguldt
the wolf.
NOTURED SIM WOLF.
The man wolf of Tuella Is usually
supposed to have teem dragged by a
she wolf from his home while a baby
and carried into the jungle. Tho
strange, wad foster mother, moved
by pity, woulrl outer° its helpless
captive. 'When the child grew older
It kneve no other home thon the jun-
gle Tho boy learned to /Intl his own
food. Ile knew no language except
trlat Of the tepee. Ile learned to
live with the ariimals. Ire knew the
ways of the tiger and the elephant
as well as of the fox and the serpent.
As he grate to manhood lie was a
wild, naked creature, fearing man
as an animal.
Officers of the Indian geographical
survey have evidence of the discovery
and ceptuto of a real man wolf. 130
o -as found io the jungle of lower Ben-
gal and sent in to the military exist,
at first wild and uetamod, afterwards
'becoming docile. but susnicious.
ACUTR e
5115,
MIS man wolf—so far as kuown tho
only one over* captured—could sea in
the dark. His ear could detect sounds
unnoticed by Whit XXXII, Often, While
sitting in a group around a campfire
the man wolf would rase its head, its
nostrils dilating and sniffing the aim
Teton it would stealthily teeep into une
jungle. Officers and soldiers follow-
ing would always find a. tiger or a
buffalo. And yet up to the time tho
man wolf had scented, the intruder
and heard the rustling In the grass of
its footsteps Its presence was unsus-
Plalgtheueriagneu4of animals hi captivity. Ile
wolf seemed to know the
101111 tell front the way a vulture
hovered ia the air when a tiger wee
sticking its prey, and he could ten,
also, by the mOvetnentS of the vulture
whether the tiger had finished its
meal or was still tearing at tho car-
cargain, the man wolf in walking
thrOugh the fOreSts With the British
officera, seemed to be able to converse
with the monkeys that swung and
chattered by hundreds in the trees. At
one time a large baboon swung from
a brroich of a huge tree, and, as the
man wolf approarhed 'the baboon,
Showing no fear, grunted and chat-
tered in a state of high excitement.
Instantly the man wolf turned, and,
pointing toward the jungle, made the
English officers 'understand that a
tiger was following close upou them,
welting. for an opnortunity to attack.
Tho officers sprang into the Jungle
and found and sliot a huge strMecl
beset, one of the largest they had
ever seem And tee only warning
they had had of its presence was that
the baboon had told the man ceo/f.
The rnan wolf could see every Mea-
nt:Ira i the grase, If 1 113,0
wriggled its way throttgh the jungle
he could trace its petit over tho grass
and even tell by signs how *Meg a
snake it was. If a tiger's paw bad
displaced a pebble in the pathway the
loan wolf would detect it -instantly.
REFUSES MAN'S FOOD,
When first captured the man wolf
would not oat the food given lam by
the officers, When. °Dared
food he tvotad smell of it, turn it
over mul over in his hande, arid re-
ject it. The English never knew how
11e got his meals for he sought them
in the foreet alone. In time, howevee
he learned to oat the white man's
food, but even then he would not eat
at a table. Living in a corner et ri,
roOM given Up to him, his bedding
Of- rags and strew, for Ile woulcl have
to other, ho would carry his food to
his pile end hide it, sometimee for
days. Then he woOld drag It out
and eat it, as a dog or a wolf
Of course, this man wolf could not
talc. understood whirl eVer Watt
aid to 111111, /IS a dog might
intleretand ite master. • Ire eiame
node frietuls with the English 0/130318,
limos leering et them and looking
moo them nskent, end if they spoke
larshly to itim erateling',1tWay to his
018T1rrnlwaya slept, in his straw bed,
uelea up ail twaidy like a dor or a.
Volt' us posidble, Ilia Imees always
vie% drawn lip to his clam and hie
met bent as he ,slept, 110 wore
Mars wheo given 1118111, but soon roe
wee them to rags.
Nativva of the village teal the 1015..
ah oftleors tacit the Pateens of the
tan wolf lent him when he wan et
aby end that ho was carried off by
wolf. They seal be awave lived 111
„ .
10 j111111,10 With the 1111a1141.0, MO that
O would came into WO 0111ago 01'.
010)1331131., and then only for a. ehort
ay, Tho netives persisted in theie
OH that • tho nom tvolf could talk
.41, the nolo:ale.
'But tot ivoye of eitillzatioe proved
his death, are lost Us: vigor of tut
outdoor life 01111 eoon fell victim to
caraommtion, his ateee tetteaetime it ido
attention'to scateeletae etre:Ice, ludia,
this settS0n. Put them in as Soo
as ;you llaVO used them. It wit
save enough to pay thci tared. ma
during the busy season. We aro ue
Mg a binder which has done ser
vice sixteen years and Bove for soul
worn plaees smote nearly as goad a
new and does tbe best of work
Why? becauso it bas neve
stood out a night or in a showel
without a canvas covering and wa
always returned to the shed th
very day the last ileld was Cut
Others have worn, or rather rusted
out three binders itt the same tim
and done no more work, Why -i
Carelessness, neglect ! Three hundred
dpoolelsarist psattsvped on binders alone I
Don't think the labor expended in
beantlaviug the home grounds is
lost. It Will all double lis cost
to the tnOney value" of the place and
you will take petite in its improved
appearance. Peek tip the rubbish
and Mare or put It out of sight,
rake the yard'as soon AS the weata
er permits and plant some trees,
bushes and vines, keep the grass
down by mowing or pasturing and
you will soon hear passersby re-
mark, "Jones has taken a brace."
Don't let the family walk in the
mud when the ground is thawing
nad unsettled. Lay boards along
the most fregueoted walks and save
the dirt in the house and extra
labor for the housewife.
Don't forget to clean out the cel-
lar this spring. It may savo doc-
tor's bills. Carry out the rotted
apples, sprout the potatoes nod feed
tho small ones to the pigs or cook
them foe the hens; carry out dirty
and musty boards to the rain and
sunlight and give the walls and floor
sweeping and in some cases a coat
of whitewash..
Don't go to the brern or to the
neigbbors and spend your timo when
housecletuting is on. Make yourself
useful at such times, You cart
learn to ho handy at this work and
can at least do the heavy wort
such as taking up, beating end put: -
ting down carpets, moving furnitur
and carrying water.
Don't beginI t -
et. to spend all your evenings away
from home. Your family desire
your company, and y-ou can better
spend them at home reading good
magazines and farm books and pap-
. ak 1
uso it as a home, not a hotel, if
you would keep the boys an the
e
Don't leave the manure in tbe
,vard too long. Haul it before the
plowing season is oh, as Met as it
thaws out, and thus save the joices.
While engaged, don't forget the
sheep shod—sheep manure will burn
if left till fall—include the pig pen;
the summer atmosphoze will be the
purer for it, and remember the hen
bouse and tho ash dump—these lat-
ter furoish the most voluable of fer-
tilizers.
Dou't forget to cover the aspara-
gus and rhubarb beds with a good
&cooing of fine, rich manure, if it
wasn't done it fall,
Don't neglect to trim the grape
vines and fruit trees, especially the
?Ming ones. They, as. well as your
boys, need .to be trained up in the
way they should go.
Don't put off getting your garden
seeds and fruit trees until it is too
ate. Look OVer the seeds, tr.ces
.
nl (105
nd determite what is really needocl,
hen, send to some reliable seedsman
r nurseryman for them. Don't m-
y on your congressman, the stores
r tho stranger, who represents a
ursory. The government, may
light yoll this ;yam the grace/y-
am now be "out" or have inforlot
oeci, and tho agent may not bo re -
able,
Don't leave a pile of green wood
o split next summer when it is
verin and the Wood is dry and
ough. Split it may when the %ma-
tter is cool, the Operation easier
tut time worth less, and pile it in
ho shed or in neat piles °inside.
Don't forget the ainety-wite little
dd jobs you can do with a few
oaf!. If you have a little ability
1. that direction you can sem many
arponter bills; 11 not. you can at
est hang the door that is oft its
tutees, putty in the broken glass,
epair the back steps, as: the fences
'rid pot the gat ee in good Working
'der. "A stitch in time saves
n favorable temperature.
1 An effort was made to determio
n the different species of haeterla 1)233
- gain access to milk, but in the pro
- sent state of development of 13)
o BOINICO of bacteriolog this is difli
5 cult to do satisfactorily, For th
practical dairyman it la sufficient tec
✓ say that a majority of the forms
found grow readily in milk. %lam
s of the species produce visible ehang
o es In milk, such as curdling or pep
. tot -ming, while others affect the
, flavor.
It should be borne in mind that it
great majority of the species of bac-
teria that gain access to milk do
not possess the power to precinct!
disease, and are not injurious to
healthy adults, although many of
them are likely to produce disorders
of digestion in infants and invalids.
By far the greatest source of con-
tamination in milk is the cow her-
self, and the greater part of 1 his
contamination comes from the udder
unless that is washed before milking,
This emphasizes not only the great
Importanee of washing the oddern
before milking, but also of heving
the dairy rooms and all surroundings
as clean and the air as free from
dust as possible wbereter dairy pro -
&teeth are handled.
(To be Coatintled).
"He 81111 he'd die if I didn't mar-
ry him." "And still you refused?"
"Yes. I wished to Bad out before
amavielea; whether he really loved
nio 08 1110011 as that or not, Olt,
Harriet, I'm P -p -perfectly miserable1
Do seems to bo wretchedly healthy,
and I 1 -lo love him so manuchl"
Ire :—"Wo must economise, Sup-
pose, darling, that you try your
hand at making your own elothes?"
She :--"Oh, George 'dear, X never
emild do that. Suppecte / begin by
trytog to make yours ?"
"Maud's lateat pliotograpli 18 just
lovely." "Xs it ?" "Yes, X had
to milt who it WaS.'. .
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To prove, te ;on flute Dr,
fi1 4 arta 0,84011.110 eine for etteh
S CIIRAS'S (315)10133111 18 ti dortS IS
SSII 8141r33 ('01241 Ot it011.h*
, bleedineana areal:dem piton, -1
Ibis 81011)11401111101'3 11410 Siltilli li teed it. 'SW tem a i
1 meadela in tho dallit urinal and halt your nelali. a
etre what thee' thitik ot it You tem 220813 me) so
get ate Molloy natk 11 0012 eared. Me a bag. at re I
011 doalora or E2134AM4011,11A055 Al CoeTerento, 6,
t)e. Chaao's Ogrekrnerot p.
CONTAMINA'C'ION OE MILK.
'After a sories or oxportr000ts con-
ducted by Wilber J. PraSer, hs, de-
clares "that extreme elenedieess is
abSolutoly essential to the tiolit tow,
cessful dairying." Ihvestigatiorts of
recent years, ho says, have shown
thot an the troobloeorno abangos
that take place ib 01110 and maize it
such a difficult procluct to handle
ProPerlea are caused by booteria. In
Met, suctessful dairyieg depende
largely upon the ability to }Mat the
number of bacteria °Mebane' octess
to milk'and to control these that
eannot bo kept out,
efinc becornm ciontaminated in 51)
many wayS ill the Preeeas Of 111.111(1815.
that it is extremely M111001_1: to se -
mire it free from omens, bill ibis hos
110011 dOSO in tioe experimental way a
eullicient manlier of times to provo
that iMik AS formed in the mak
eacle of n. heathy CONV 10 1401111 11.00
VICO bacteria. Maude the matey te
ree extent, eve op :Ore,
llt AS drawn from tho odder is trot
tirely free hoot germs; thlti is 00- t
°Jelly true of the arca 11111112 tiraWn. 111
STRAWBELMY
The strawberry needs no cultiva-
tion thespring that it fruits. The
all importaixt thing is to keep it
clear of weeds. lf the weeds are
very thick a light, scraping with a
hoo will be necessary. If there are
not too many pull Om out by
hand. A nelel or bed it much given
to weeds will, even after being
scraped out, need more or less hand
weeding
If too thick they should be thinned
to stand not less than 0 inches
apart. A garden trowel can be used
to thin a small bed, Where it has
to be done 011 a large scale a hoe
will have to be called ht. And the
man who has to do much 'of it will
repent of not having avoided it all
by not keeping the runners chopped
last summer,
I Wood ashes and stable manure
I make a perfect fertilizer for straw-
borrios. No kind of fertilioer should
be sown on plants when wet with
ram, frost or dew, or after growth
starts. If it has been neglected
000. around and between plants.
Some kind of mulch should be ap-
. plied to keep tlm berries clean. When
it Is to be had, pine straw is an
Ileal mulch. If pine straw is not
to be had any other kind of grass
or straw can be used.
ORIGIN OF HAIL.
Why It 'Usually Occurs in the Sum-
mer Time.
Soft hail consists of minute snow-
balls, and tree hail, or hard pellets
of ice, of alternate concentric Myers
of ice and snow, varying ia size from
peas to dangerous stones of several
pounds' weight.
Ferrol's theory is generale! accept-
ed. Hail, ha says, is aware to the
presence of 0 tornado, which need ,
not actually reach the earth. 'Pao
lower part of the aolating column is
a region of cloud and rain, the -upper
part is snow. Raindrops, suspended
for a. timo .111 1110 snowy region, are
frozen, and if thrown beyond the in-
thience of the In-eUrrent they fall to
the oround is soft hail. Should they
bo carried into the vortex they ascend
through the rainy region, are coated
0.11 1)11 onoisttlrc, ll1011lite colder
region Where. iCe 13 Mewed, and Dual-
ly fall to tho earth.
This theory satisfactorily accounts
for hailstorms occurring chieflv in
summer, as it is only in. hot weather
that these powerful osceuding cur-
iants exist. ,
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IYLEXICO'S PRESIDENT.
Boasts no Has Given His Coun-
try Freedom.
President Diaz bas reigned OVer
Alexia° almost contimmusly since 1.
1E377, and has built tlp the wealth
ancl well-being of the cbuntry in a
W4)' utaivalled in the life of nations,
giving now life to commerce, education
and all the Means atal methods of ,
ciailized life. Aod so far from seerfe:s
lag for himself despotic power, Ile it
boasts, and justly boasts, that be has
given to Mexieo all the inetruments a
noel safe-guarde of froeciorm—froo edta
cation, free ballot, 1.1 free press, Eitel
so on. In thc: routine of his daily 'e
life the President tolerated On deper-
tore front clemocrotic 311s
carriage, thotigh first-class of its kind,
Is perfectly plain—the driver Without 1.
livery, anti the horties simply equipIt
-
Pod, In this the President drive!! e
*111.0011(31005. the 1001'1(1'9 faShioliable 31
botilevatels, ceowded with eguipeges
Me:11101v more imposleg than his own. It
'And ottea he profera tlie humble tram- n
tar eveh toads own carriage, 11
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NOT IN TRH WITCTIEN% h
"TIM T in.:floret:Ina yo13 to 31.3, ihnt c1
you dichtlelutve any 'company In the 1111
kathen while a wee out, Math 7" 'h
"Yiq noon thrall olat? 31earl "
"'But T anon the tolateco from a
pp 11. t 11 (mg 1 to louse,"
"Yie, 1011111, the policeman 1.1)18 in
or belt au 'hour, num, but we Were
the drawing-rotnet",
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