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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-10-14, Page 2MEE rom grim ovz vsyr, JVLeS CLARa1t5 - - "Alta," Dr. Erwin went cm frigidly, "If we had found absolutel,y nothnie we would at least have kept sileut aboue AA unsuccessful research, it is useless to say. Think, theu, 'ay deer maeten the exterior obeects muse have imprinzed themselves on tee retina, did they rtot, reduced in size, according to the sie of the place wherein they were refleeted? They appeared there; they certainly ap- peared there. There is—I be your part dm for referring to it, but it is to these ethers (and Dr. Erwiu designated 3f. Oinerse his registrier, and Beroardet) there is in the retiva a substance a a red, celor, tee pourpre retittien,vey seusitive to the lignt. Upon the deep red et' this merahrane oheects ore eeee white, aud oue eau tx the image. Mt, Edelen(' Perrier, nrofesser en the Mneet cm Natumt Hietery, reperts (yen kuow it better than I, nay de.ar raaeter). he a evert,- co entmal anatomy mut toiney witich our Saldents are all fa- teitlier with, thee he made an exeere =eat. After removiag rablit's eye, - living rat nit'e eye --eyes, Ecienee is (mitt he plaeeil it in 3 dark reameo the be could °Inaba "awn the rethea the be: age of eame object, A tor atance, end pluaged it ituaneliately iute eelution of alum and peeveuted the decomposon a the pourpre retinieu, end the 'window +multi pleiulY be seen, fixed en the eye. In that black amebae' whiele we have wrier our eyebrows„ the orbit, is A en:free:nue,3.storeheuee a images whicli are retail/ea, like the !maga whieb the old Dane's eye held of the wolf's weee and teeth. and—evno loaowse—perhape it is peseiele to esh of elead ma's eye the tecret el what ie saw when This wee pee Su more Svientide tertue by the ;Pang Dtaish doeter, the sur- etallee c‘f wiret rernareet Velieved pee- eible. The te meg man had Iietenee with the attreetive enzeleelee whivit is :037o d wheel au:shire, nevel is espial" - ed. Rigid mreo the marble eiale the vi stint d In wait fin, the reealt cf the die:we-inn, *leaf te all the coldest e ereaels .but bine his eye tixolUITfl. the inenitee zee n the nolmowaltle twnicit lie new neeve. It wee, however. tbie insensible boey wbieli had eau-eil the dee tenion what was an enigma to Savants. 'What was the secret of his end. the lase word of his agony? Who made that wound •ethich had ended his life? And, like statue lyiug on its stone coueh, TIP" $23TIPICTeil man eeeined to wait. What they knew not be tmew. What tee y wiihd TO la ew be gill knew perbane This daubt tame, rooted deep in M. Oinury's m ul, was enough to urge Ube to have Tin, PNperinient trite:, and ex - eosins.' bin,- Of for his infatuation ht begged M. Merin to greet pee -imitate -I to try the experiment, villa ecune f•f the doctors had thought 'would be bile- eaessful. "We than be relieved eren V we de not eucceed, and we can bet add or defeat to tbe others." M. hiorin's face still bore its skeptic, - el mile. But, after all, the examining romigietrate WEIS master of the situation. end since roung Dr. Erwin, brought tin reeult of the Deumeek experiment—e. contribution uew ia these researches— to add weight to the naatter the pro - teenier recpiestee that he should not he /*Eked to lend himself to an experiment which he declared in advance would be a, perfectly useless one. 'nhere was a photograpbic apparatus at the morgtze, as at the prefecture, 12sed for anthropometry. Bernardet, rnoriover, had his kodak in bis band. One could photograph the retina as soon as the membrane was separated from the eye by the autopsy and when, like the wing of a butterfly, it had been fastened to a piece of cork. And, while Bernardet was accustomed to all the horrors of crime, yet he feIt his heart beat almost to suffocation during this operation. He noticed that M. Ginory became 'very pale and that he bit bis lips, cast- ing occasional pitying glances toward the dead man. On the contrary, the 'mug men bent over the body and studied it with the admiration aucl joy of treaeare seekers digging in a mino Each human fiber seemed to reveal to them some new truth. They were like eewelers before a casket full of gems, and what they studied, weighed, °sme- ll:led, was a human corpse and those eyes, living, terrible, accusing, when they were removed, leaving behind them two empty orbits, The professor sudden- ly spoke with marvelous eloquence, flowing and picturesque, as if he were epeaking of works of art. And it was, in truth, a work of art, this wonderful eaechanism which he explained to his students, who listened eagerly to each word. It was a work of art, this eye,' with its sclerotic, its transparent cornea, its aqueous and vitreous humor, its anystalline lens and the retina, like a photographic plate in that black cham- ber in which the luminous rays reflect, reversed, the objects seen. And M. Morin, holding between his fmgers the object -which he was demonstrating, epoke of the membrane formed of fibers and of the terminal elements of the optic nerve as a professor of painting •or of sculpture speaks of a gem abased by a Benvenuto. "The human body is a marvel," cried M. Morin, "a 3narvel, messieurs!" And he held forth for several minutes upon the wonderful construction of this mar- vel. His enthusiasni was shared, more- over, by the game men and Dr. Erwin, who listened intently. Bernardet, ig- • ateratit and respectful, felt trouble in • the presence of this renowned physiolo- /gist and goegrabulated himself that, it 'Was he who bad insisted OR this experi- ment mid caused a member oe the insti- tute to hold forte thus. As for a Gi- 11017, he left the room a moment, feel- ing the need of air. The operation which the surgeons prolonged with joy, made him ill, and he felt very faint. He quickly recovered, howe-ver, and re- turned to the dissectiug roora so as not to lose any of the explauation which M. Morin was giving en he stood with the eye in his hand. And in, that eye an image remaiaed perhaps. Re was 8.13X - Was to seareh for it, to end et, "I will take it 'awn myself," Dinner- det said. ca.APTEtt VBI The police ()Meer did not follow the autopsical operations closely. Be Wan eager to keow; heves impatient for the moment when, having teleen the Pio- tare, he mighe develop the negative'e mid study them to see if lee could die - toyer anything, %mold decipher any image. Ile had used photography in the ervice of anthropometry; he had taken he pictures at the morgue with his ko- dale, and now, at home ii bis little room, whiclehe Wee able to darken com- pletely, lie was developiug his plates. Mme. Beruardeb and the ehild= were much struck with the expression of his face. le Was net tronbled, but pre- eccupied and as if he were complete:, Absorbed. He was very quiet, eatipe ery little, and Seemed thoughtful. gie wife asked him, "Art 'thou ill?" Ile re- uded, "No, I think net." And his le girle said to eath other in low es, "Pare is on a trail," was in• truth. The hunting dog lied the eeent, The pictures which ad taken et the retitle and had de - d sbowed a esult eufileiently er Beraardet to feel confidene enough to fell bis chief that he dis- tinetly SAW vieage, the fece of a an, coufused, no doubt, but clear %lough to recoguize not ouly a type, hat a dietinet type. As from the depths ef a cloud, la eort of white bele, a human face up- tigation on. this plau. He was anxious to first show the peoofs to those who would be apt to recognize in them a person whom they might have once seen in the flesh. "To Moniche first and theu to his wife," said. Bernardet- "Who is Mollie/2er" "The coucierge in The $oulevard de Clichy." Ordered to come to the court, M. and Mtne. etioniche were OVerjOyed. They were summoned to appear before the jtedges. They had become important personages. Pethaps their pictures would be published in the papers, Thee - dressed themselves as for a fete. Mine Noniche in her Suuday best strove to do honor to M. Revere. She said teMoniche in all sincerity, "Our daty iS to aveage While sitting on a 'bench in one of the long, cold corridors the perter and his wife saw pass before tbem prisoners led by their jailers, Soeae looked meta aging, while othere had a cringing air and Seemed to try to eseape notice. These two persons felt that they were playing roles as important ae those in a melodrama at the Arebige. The time seemed long to them, and M. Ginory elidnot call then as SoOli aS they wished that he would They thouglit ef their bone, which while they Were detained there 'would be invaded by the curioun the gossips an reporters. "How slow thesis judges are" growled Ateuiche. When he waa eondocted into the, presence, et (Amery au d his registrar and seated upon ebair isa was much centheed awl less bitter. Re felt a vague terro; of all the paraphernalia of justice which, surroeuded Wm, Re felt that be WAS zuntiiug $01330 great denger, awl to the judge'e qeeetimes isaxeplied with extreme prudenee. Tbaults to him and hie wife X. ainory found out a great deal about IttlVtge'S private life, Re penetrated lute that apparently hidden existenee; he eearthed to see if be could elie,cover Among the polite who hail visited the ex ex-ceusei the 0/30 among all others who might have committed the deed. "Ton never saw the wornan W110 vis- ited Rovere?" "Yes; the veiled lady, the WOM033 biaek, but I do not know her, No One, kuaw her." The story teld by the portress about tbo time When kink surprieed the strain er and Revere with the papers in his id iu front of the open safe made vitro an impression on the examthing agistrare. "Do you know the name of the visit- or?" "No, monsieur," the peeress replied, "But if you should Pe him again would, ,yea recognize him?" "Certatuly. I see Ms face thee° be- fore ue." She made haste to return to ber home So that she might relateher impressions to her fellow gossips, The worthy con - pie left the eourt puffed up with self esteem because of the role -which they bad been celled upou to play, The ob- sequies were to be held tho next day, and the prospect of a dramatio day in M. and :lime. 14Ioniche 'would still play tithe importaut Tole created in them an agony wbiele was almost joy- ous, The crowd around theliouse of the crime was always large. Some few pass- ersby stopped—stopped before the stone facade behind whith a murder had been committed. The reporters retuned again end again for news, and the cou- ple, greedy tor glory, oculd not open a paper without seeing their names print- ed in large letters. One journal had that morning even published an espe- dal article, "Interviews With M. and Mme, Moniohe," The crowd buzzed about the ledge like a swarm of flies. M. Revere's body had been brought backfrom the morgue. The obsequies would naturally attract an enormous crowd, all the =areas the mystery was still as deep an ever. Among his papers had been found a re- ceipt for a tomb in the cemetery at Montmartre, bought by him about a year before. In another paper, not dated, were found directions as to how his funeral was to he conducted. M. Revere after having passed a wander- ing life, wished to rest in his native country. But no other indications of his wishes nothing about his relatives, had been iound. It seemed as if he was a man without a family, without any place in society or any claim on any one to bury him. And this distressing isolation added to the morbid curiosity which was attached to the house, noW all draped in black, with the letter "R" standing out in white against its silver escutcheon. Who would be chief mourner? M. Revere had appointed no one. He bed asked in that paper that a short notne should be inserted in the paper giving the hour and date of the services and giving him the simple title ex -consul. "I hope," went on the writer, "to be taken to tbe cemetery quietly and fol- lowed. by intimate friends, if any re- main." Intimate friends were scarce in that crowd, without doubt, but the dead man's wish could hardly be carried out. Those obsequies which he had wished to be quiet became a sort of fete, funa, real and noisy, where the thousands of people crowding the boulevard crushed each other in their desire to see, and pressed almost upon the draped funeral car which the neighbors had covered with flowers. Everything is a spectacle for Pari- sians. The guardians of the.peace strove to keep back the crowds; Some gamins climbed into the branches of the trees. The bier had been placed at the foot of the staircase in the narrow corridor opening upon the street. Mme. Moniche had placed upon a table in the lodge some loose leaves, where Revere's un- known friends could write their names. Bernardet, alert, with his eyes wide open, studying the faces, searching the eyes, mingled with the crowd, looked at the file of people, scrutinized, one by one, , the signatures; Bernardet, in mourning, wearing black gloves, seem- ed more like an undertaker's assistant than a Deice sine' Once he found him- Xt true—tlarre is an image theme* ce- Oaf rasa M. Gluon,. peered whose features could 'be distinct- ly seen with a magnifying glass—the face of a man with a pointed black beard, the forehead a little bald, and blaokisli spots which indicated the eyes. It was only a phantom evidently, and the photographer at tbe prefecture seemed more moved than Bernardet by the proofs obtained. Clearer than in spirit photograph, which so many cred- ulous people believe in, the image showed plainly,and in studying it one could distinctlyfollow the contours. A specter, perhaps, but the specter of a man who was still young and resem- bled, with his pointed beard, sorao trooper of the sixteenth century, a phan- tont of some Seigneur Clouet. "For example," said the official phot tographer, "if one could discover a mur- derer by photographing a dead man's eyes, this would be miraculous. It is incredible!" "Not more incredible," Bernardet replied, "than what the papers publish. Edison is experimenting on making the blind see by using the Roentgen rays. There is a miracle." Then Bernardet took his proofs to M. Ginory. The police officer felt that the magistrate, the sovereign power in criminal researches, ought, above every- thing, to collaborate -with him, to con- sent to these experiments which so many others bad declared useless and absurd. The taste for researches, whice was with M. Ginory a matter of tem- perament as well as a duty to his pro- fession, was fortunately keen on this meet Criminals call in their argot the judges "the priers." Curiosity in this man was combined with a knowledge of profound researches. When Bernardet spread out on M. Ginory's desk the four photographs 'which he had brought with him, the first remark which the examining mag- istrate made was, "But I see nothing— a aloud, a mist and then after?" Ber- nardet drew a 'magnifying glass from his pocket and pointed out, as he would have explained an enigmatical design, the lineaments, moving his finger over the centaur of the face which his nail outlined, that human face which he had seen and studied in his little room in the passage of the Elysee des Beaux Arts. He made him see—after some mo- ments of minute examination—he made him see that face. "It is true—there is an image there," exclaimed M. Ginory. He added: "Is it plain enough for me to see it so that I can from it imagine a living being? I see the form, divined it at first, save it clearly defined after- ward. At first it seemed very vague, but I find it sufficiently 'well defined so that I can see each feature, but witho-at any special character. Oh," continued M. Ginory excitedly, rubbing his plump little hands, "if it was only passible, if it was only possible! What a mar- vel!" "It is possible, M. le rage. Have faith," Bernardet replied. "I swear to you that it is possible." This enthusi- asm gained over the examining magis- trate. Bernardet bad found a fellow sympathizer in his fantastic ideas. M. Ginory Was now—if only to try the ex- perbnent—resolved to direct the heves- self clii'eetly inTfroat of the open door of the lodge .and the table where the leaves lay covered with siguatures. Wheal in the half light of the.corridor draped with black, where the, beer ley, he saw a mats of about 50, pale and very sad looking. He had arrived in his turn in the line at the table, where he eigued isis mune. Mme. Moniche, loth - in 131nek, with a white handkerchief in her hand, although She -was not weep - tug, found herself- ado, by side with Bernardet; in fact, their elbows touched. When the man reacbecl, the table, coming Irene the semidarkness of the passage, and stepped into the light Whieti fell on him from the window, the portress involuntarily exclaimed, "Alti" Shewas evidently much exeited and caught the pelice Oleo by tien leend and said tfl.am afraid.' be spoke in suoli a low tone that Bernerdet divieedrather than beard What the Meant in that stifled cry, ae looked at bee 'from the corner a his eye, He saw that the was ghastle, and again the epoke in ft IOW f04/0, "Re, be whom I saw with AL Rovere before the OPell safe," Beruardet gave the man one sweeping glance .of the eye. Ile fairly pierced him through with his sharp look The un- known, half bent over the table where - PA lay the papers, showed a wide fore- heak slightly bald, and a pointed beard, a little gray, which elmose touched .the whits paper as Ile wrote hie neme, teann comerneel . . . RACE TRACK RUFFIANISh An Neil Worm) In 'el:104nd. Than America, Americans may congratulate tbeinselves thee in some respects the accessories ot rating in this eountry are of higher than aster time. lu Eughind. A London ems - wiper deelares that at Alexandra park in cue day 14 brutal Assaults were =emitted, on tho course, One geutleman standing et a refreelunent bar was bit on the bases of the bead with a bludgeon, felled by A blow bat en the oyes and then had his peekets 4114 wbile Ise lay bele ermined. This is a tyriCal Me, TAliell OUT Of ROMS eimileas No arrests were made. In the betting lin at the same nieetiug two men went to elaint their wienings STOIA a welcher. The firet was promptly leid ont by the sharpers gang, and the other pre- ferred TO pit$e. On NVII110011, asking for hie due. 'lisle, too, is no istilated CAW, lion- dreds of the same sort could be told every Season. Tbese tvelehers are perfectly well known, but no attempt seems to be 31111(10 TO Levy them out of the betting rings and lut closures. At the lase Goodwin meeting a notorious welcher was seen standing close to n substantial bookmaker, occasionally Peeketleg an ilITOSTIllt.ilt Meant for the latter and giving a bogus thetet In ae- knowledgentene of tho deposit. The book- maker knew, but preferred to hold his peace. Why, tho following extract front a bookmaker's letter to tho press will ex- plain: ''Some of your oorrespondents have not hesitated to necuse the bookmakers of be- ing in lengue with then roughs, but my experience is that one and nil of us would be only too glad to be rid of these ob- noxious persons. I personally bet in tbe small or silver rings and know most of these boys by sight, and should they have a bad day—thee is, the favorites go down —they resort to any means to 'get a bite There is not a week passes but what some of them come and deinand money front me, which I am 'compelled to give to in- sure nre safety in getting to tied from the meetings, If 'Milo give, a crack on the bead with a etiek and the 'rule run over me' would be my reward, and I dare not say a word or give information, for my life would not be safe." GUIDELESS WONDERS. illell:NO THE KJ -11„,. ------- . D ..s 41‘,OreaTiog tisatirctlAt aRreags= tO OTOATIDir . , Ilt CORNOR113 AND QRANARY. CoAveuienTIT Arranged Bins and a Self Discharging Orib, A plan for a combined corncrib and granary, which is 30 feet long and 24 teet wide and 14 feet bigh from stone foundation to the eaves of the roof, is presented in the Ohio Partner. It bIte driveway through, the middle 10 feet Story of The First Pacer That Raced With- out a Driver. "Do you know bow the tuideless won- ders' origiented2" said a western horse- man. "Well, I eau tell you. There was a roan in a littIe country town out in Iowa who owned a rattle headed pacer a few years ago. This pacer was fast, but he could never win a race on account of hia poor acting, so the owner gave it up and turned him out on the infield of his half mile track. When the other horses were being trained and driven on the track, the pacer in the infield would some- times square away on the path he had worn next the rail and weuld try to beat the horses in harness down the straight side of the course. One day it occurred to the owner to take him out on the track and see if he would do the triok there, so etn Nuvriva rzoa41. cody ams-, 14 4 11-ASs Ton Coltninn AND (AWN BM, wide and double doors at each end bung on rollers to slide beer eaen way, by welch Ample ventilation may be eecured in warm weather. The bins, 33, II, etc. 6 by 6 feet in size and five in eurab4, are upon me eide, As shown at Vig. 1. The made of constructing the bins is shewn in Fig. 2. The posts have grooves int() which the boards are slipped as the bins are nlled. They eau be remov- ed wbea not needed, The boards sbould be numbered that they may be alwaye properly placed. Portable steps are very couveztieut when the bine are deep. The second cut is a cross section of a self discharging eerucrib on the other aide of the granary. A corucrib from which corn eau be taken 'edam wanted without opening any part of the upper portion or without the use of a ladder or steps "may be made as shown. The floor elopes from one eide to the other, and its lower margin projeete beyond the side a the crib sufficiently to per- mit a box in which a scoop or ehowl can be used. The projecting part of the floor is made the bottom of the box that is built upon it and which is opened on the side next to the crib so that the corn will elide Welt A. cover is hinged to the box so that it rimy be turned up When corn is to be taken out. To facili- OPR BOY. they rigged bins out in hopples and put an overdraw theck on him and tried the experiraent. It succeeded beyond their ex- pectations, for the pacer got excited and went two miles as hard as he could before they stopped him. A few days afterward they tried it again. By this time every- body in the village had beard about the horse that would raoe without a driver, and half the population turned out to eee the second trial. Of course they were scattered out around the track more or less, and they helped to make him go by shouting as he passed." Within a fow weeks after the original •driverless pacer put in an appearance an• one bobbed up, and the rivalry be - same just about as spirited aniong Marion Mills, Happy Jack, Earthquake Pilot, • Pacing Johnny, Our Boy and the rest of the "guideless wonders" as it was among the legitimate performers Star Pointer, John &Gentry, Joe Patchen and Robert J Easily Explained. "Spain hasn't much of a literature, said the studious young woman. "Of course it hasn't," answered tbe young man who was doing bis best to keep up with the convereational oade. "Those people have such a queei way of talking, you know, I •don't 515 how how they nould get up much of any- thing except dialect stories." A large number of experiments eat - ducted at the Rhode Island statiou and upou farms in various portions of the state are reported as giving every indi- cation that large tracts of land in this state cannot be made to grow clover successfully by the use of ordinary com- mereial fertilizers -until slacked lisne, wood ashes or some form of linie other trate laud plaster (gypeum) has been applied. Even large quautities of stable manure, nuless applied annuellr, do not on certain soils insure Ail even stand and a large crop of lover, though such applications do increase it to a arked extent. As learned from bulletio Q. 47, by Professor H. J. Wheeler, these experi- meuts in different parts of the" state have sliowe ie a strikiug degree that want is true of clover is also true of titnotby. Fanners who have been, seeding their laud with timothy, redtop and clever and who after one or two years And it almost wholly occupied by Rhode Island bent and redtop have usually attrihnted his fat to the quality of the timothy seed which was employed or to some agair uultuown condition. It seems that timothy canna be grown successfully on laud which is slay sour mid which 111 eeneeou nee leeks cerbenate of lime. Whut. lime has been applied, time - thy has been found to bold ire owls for nvoeh longet intervals of time, mid it e snider spell couditieue tO be capa- ble et overeemiug the redtop and Inale Maud bent in the natural Strug- 0 for existeuce. Tide explains satie- factorily why so meny Rhode Islewl Soils are SO free from timothy end limy her grasses and are .50 well erOcked with Rhode Island bent, since the lat- er grass, like redtop, will succeed on an acid soil and is not particularly bett- ed by limiug. Rhode Island would probably never have acquired its tope - teflon as A producer of Rhode Islaed bent seed had the soil of the state been wefl sapplied with Hui% English farmers as a rule and many iu Rhode Island and elsewhere in ti*e United States outsider roltep ia- famior to timothy. The sante is also true 01 Rhode Island bent, .wilen the hay is designed for the feeding of horeee. Doubtless there are flame men who a,ro neli ardent advocates of Rhode Ielaud bent that they would even claim it to be superior as a horse hay to timothy, but the city markets demand the latter. Experiments have also shown that Kentucky blue grass caunot be made to mimed on very acid soils until liming is resorted to. This explains the failure will& many farmers have met with who IMO attempted unsuccessfully tO grow this grass, One of the most striking object les- sons NOW] is to be seen is the wonder- ful effect of lime upou the growth of asparagus and lase the superiority of nitrate of soda as compared with tell- pbate of ammonia as a source of nitrogeu for this crop. The idea should not be gathered from what has been said that all pleas are benefited by lime. Watermelons and muskmelons show exactly opposite re quirements in this particular, musk- melons being helped by it and ‚water- melons injured. About 150 varieties of pints have already been tested at the etation to ascertain their requirements in this particular. CROSS SECTION OF CORNCRIB. tate the use of the shovel the opening in- to the crib is closed for a space of two feet either in the iniddle or at the ends. At these closed places there will be no Dorn upon the floor of the box, so that It will be easy to shovel out the corn. Stairs three feet wide lead to the up- per floor from driveway, where damp grain may be stored beneath the roof to dry. Protecting Stable Manure. On the subject of keeping manure a correspondent of The Now England Homestead says: I have a shed in one corner of the barn so situated that the manure from the stalls can be pitched directly into it. To make a considerable quantity of raanure it is necessary to have plenty of beddiug. For this pur- pose I use straw and forest leaves. It costs but little to gather the leaves in the fall and store thew in a convenient place in the barn. My method is to make a good bedding of leaves or straw. Add a little each morning, with sprinkling of road dust or plaster. The stalls are cleaned once a week. To th. heap are added the weekly cleanings of the henhouse and the refuse of the premises. As it is kept dry there is no danger of heating, and it is left to ac- cumulate until ready to spread in the spring. The dry road dust and plaster absorb the moisture and retain the am- monia,which would otherwise be large- ly lost.• Exhihitions and State Fairs. American institute, New York.,Sept. 26-0et. 8 Massachusetts, horticultural, Boston...Oct. 4-5 Pennsylvania, horticultural, Philadel- phia No. 8-12 Washington, Spokane, fruit Oct. 4-15 Colorado, Pueblo Illinois, Springfield Kansas, Wichita Maryland, Timonium Michigan, Grand Rapids Missouri, St. Louis New Jersey, interstate, Trenton. North Dakota, Mandan ' North Carolina, Raleigh South Carolina, Columbia South Dakota, Yankton Texas, Dallas Wis.consin, Milwaukee - Sept. 28-30 Sept. 26-0ct. 1 Sept. 19-24 Sept. 13-17 Sept. g6-80 Oct. 3-8 ...Sept. 26-30 Sept. 24-30 Oct. 24-29 Nov, 7-11 Sept. 26-30 Oct. 1-16 Sept. 10-23 Digging randy Potatoes. Because the potato vines have died down while the weather is still hot it does not follow that it is best to dig the potatoes until they lie in the soil long enough to toughen the skin, so that it 'will not peal when handled. If dug while the skin is dill green and wet. warm weather follows, we have known large heaps of potatoes to be rotted down in two or three days. The tops of pota- toes should never be used in oovering heaps. Use straw and cover only very thinly while bot weather lasts. It is neoessary that air ehould get to the po- tatoes to dry them out quickly. But there must be enough covering t0. ex- clude sunlight, else the tubers will sun- burn. The difficulty of avoiding one or the other of these dangers is the chief reason for postponiug the harvesting of the great bulk of the potato crop until cool weather late in September or even into the following month.—.American Cultivator. Budding Cherries. The cherry can be either grafted or budded, but the latter is preferable, for the cherry and all other stone fruit trees are successfully grafted with more diffi- culty than other orchard fruits. Bud- ding is done chiefly in the late summer and early fall by the shield method. The shield method of budding is the one mostly used: It would be well to go to some practical budder and have the matter explained. The cultivated cher- ries do not succeed on wild cherry stooks, says a writer in Rural. New Yorker. Agricultural Brevities. The Rhode Island agricultural experi- ment station presents in bulletin No. 48 analyses of licensed fertilizers sarapled by the chemist of the state board of ag- riculture. Professor M. V. Slingerland of Cor- nell, -whose excellent work in acquaint- ing farmers with the best methods of combating insect foes has met with keen appreciation, has been appointed state entomologist of New York. The director of the Ohio station is credited with the statement that pure corncob ash is worth as much as a fer- tilizer, pound for pound, as muriate of potash. • The indications seem to be for a short potato crop in the east. • Seeding lawns is now in order. It has been noted by competent ob- Of geveral varieties of tomatoes grown servers that the point of decadence in this season a New York vegetable the agriculture of a country is marked grower says in Gardening that Sutton's by the deoreasing acreage devnted to Peach Blow is the most prolific. the growth of forage plants.