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AT SEA.
Oh, We'GQ (.10WU tt.) SE:a. in ships,
But Mope remains behind,
4nd Tote., with laughter on his lip,
And Peace, of passive Mind,
While OUt aCrrg$ the deeps Oi
With lifted sails of payer,
'to.lige air hi quest of, light
Nor find it anywhere,
0 thou who wrouglatest earth und Eltittp
Yet keepest from our eyes
The shores of no eternity
In calms of pi..tradisc.,
Blow back upon our foolish, queSt
With all the driving rain
Of blimling te.irs and wild unrest
And waft o home again.
--James Whitcomb Itiley in licnne Folks.
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Gem morning in my bachelor apart-
ments in London 1 read the following
advertiseruent in my newspaper:
"The undersigned desires the services
of a competent civil eugineer for sev-
eral days in a rather strange enterprise
and promises a most liberal reward.
He must hove, man who can keep a
secret. Address ---."
I was a competent civil engineer and
just then out of employment. I was a
man who coulcrkeep a secret. I was
therefore naturally interested In the
advertisement. It might possibly be
some job which would get mo into
trouble with the law, but if so I had
only to decalue to take hold of it after
an interview. I was, inclined to be-
lieve that some laud or mine owner
wanted a private and secret survey
made for his own satisfaction, as is
often the case. It is sometimes the
case that where two neighbors quarrel
one of them builds a. house or barn on
what he believes to be his line, but
which is Lound to trespass by a few
incites. I could see a dozen good rea-
sons wby the person should advertise
as he did, and I hastened to answer
him and post the letter. He gave his
ense
FIE ATTACKED ?,LE AND TrfaEtv ME To THE
r1,0011.
address as the office of the newspaper,
but after four or five days I received a
call fromhim in person. He gave me
Lis name as James Bennett and bis
address as London and left me to infer
(-hat be was a man of leisure.
I was not exactly pleased with Mr.
Bennett's personal appearance. He
was a tall, dark faeed man of troubled
2ountenance. His eyes bad, a furtive
/oak, and be was nervous and ill at
ease. Had I met him while travelieg I
should have been inclined to look upon
him with suspicion. He told a straight
enough story, however, thougb a rattier
queer one. Being left an orphan at the
ago of 12 years, be had been brought
up by an uncle living in Hertford coun-
ty. He had always been given to un-
derstand that he would be his uncle's
heir, and be was sure that a will had
been made to that effect, but three
years previous to his call on me the
uncle had passed away, no will had
been found, and the property had gone
to the next of kin. While the uncle
was rich, he was also an eccentric. Be-
ing a single man and living almost
alone, he had been almost a hermit.
The house be had occupied tvas a ram-
bling old structure at best and new
that it had been untenanted for several
years was hi a bacl state. What Mr.
Bennett had come to believe was that
the will was concealed in tbe old house.,
He bad searched and searched without
avail, and he wanted my assistance for
a new search. There might be secret
closets he had passed over. If I would
give bina my faithful services for three
days. he would pay Lyle £25. If the
will was found, be would present me
with £200 more. I was to say nothing
of my quest, make nay appearance at
the old house on a certain date, a.nd he
would assist in the search.
I didn't like Bennett's personal ap-
pearance and actions, as I have said,
but there was nothing out of the way
with his story, and I was gled to ac-
cept his offer. It would be combining
romance with business to come upon
the hidden 'will and restore the ousted
heir to his own., His caution to nae to
make roy way alone from the nearest
station without asking or answering
questions migbt ba,;'e seemed queer but
for tie feet that we would both he tres-
passers while 'Making the. search. I
had not a single etspicion. I was to
arrive by a tratn which would enable
roe after a want of three wiliest to ar-
rive at the old house at dark, and he
would have provisions at band and fix
up the best lodgings he could. 1 was
especiallY warned not to betray tny
destination to any one I happened to
meet en route, and I wee to bring no
baggage.
All these things seemed ell right te
me at the time. I reached the station
by -the train named, but found the
elletance to the house to be live miles
tastena of three, 'This brought abot t
my arrival (lull° a epell after darb,
and Benuett was waiting' foe me a
quiet:ter of a mile up the road. The
fleet cgtestion be asked Wt1$ it any one
had spoken to me, wed when, I assured
him that even the people at the station
did not kuow where I was bound for
Pc was somewbat detect. I found he
had provisions for a cold lunch, but
nothing very appetizing', while, we
must sleep ou the bare boatels of the
family sitting room. It was while eat-
ing supper tbat I noticed a wild,
Strange look in the man's face and be-
gan to doubt him. 1,Ie was restless
and distvait aud watched me in a'
furtive way, and it waen't long before
I felt that he had some sinieter de -
Signs in luring me to old
house. 1 put a bold face on the mat-
ter aud demanded au explanation, and
at that he attacked me and threw me
to the floor. From his savage meaner
I believed he was going to murder ale
outright, but after growling in his
throat like a welf he lifted me tip and
shoved me into a closet and bolted the
stout door on me. Of course.' protest-
ed, argued and struggled, but without
avail. I heard him laughing to him-
self after he had locked we in, but I
dal not hear him leave the house. Fifty
times during the night I kicked on the
door and collect out, but I got no an-
swer.' Next morning, still failing to
arouse him, I began to cut at the door
with my pocketkuite. It was of oak
and my task was a bard one. It was
almost 'night when I reached up and
slid beck the bolt, and as soon as out
I found the house deserted andlost no
tittle in getting away myeelf.
I Went straight to the police with
my story, and wbo do you thiuk the
man proved to be? No more or less
than a lunatic who had escaped from
an asylum three months before. He
was under another name, lived far
from the address he bad given me, and
his mania was the fear of starvation.
L'efoSe going to the asylum he had
locked up two different people in ten-
antless houses to see hoe' long they
could live without food or drink, and
my capture was a third experiment in
that line. I bore him no ill will, of
eourse, but iusisted that he be returned
to the asylum, ancl T believe beds living
today._ In that old house, far from
help and a place never visited, he
would have wrought my death by
inches but for nay pocketknife, and
months or years alight have passed
before my corpse was ever "found.
"Where 1.-"loquenea Is Wasted.
It miglit have been supposed that
Addison, the most polished writer of
our Augustan age; that Burke, with
his versatile intellect and exuberant
eloeuence; that Mackintosh, with his
almost encyclopedic learning, or that
Jekyll, who had set a hundred dinner
tables in a 'roar, would one and all
Parc achieved conspienous success In
the house of conamons.
But, as Macaulay has pointed out,
exactly the reeeese NVUS the case. Their
speeches produced, no effect. 'They
wearied feud bewildered their audience.
and their risiog, to speak was too often
the signal for a general exodus; in fact,
as was said of Burke, they acted as a
dinner bell., Even Macaulay himself,
though on two occasions his speeches
chenged the fate of a division, was in
no sense of tbe word an orator or even
a great debater. His voice was too
:shrill and monotonous, and he poured
out a torrent of words with such head-
long fluency as to confuse his hearers
as well as to baffle the quickest of par-
liamentary reporters. Bulwer Lytton,
again, could recite an admirable essay,
Put his delivery was bad, and the see-
saw gestures • which accompanied his
speech were as "grotesque as those of
au old fashioned postboy."
In our own generation no two men
probably have had more highly culti-
eated minds (ban John Stuart Mill and
Mee John Morley, but as far as their
parliamentary utterances -go their
names are "writ 'in water."'
Tit For Tat.
The diners at a popular New York
restaurant are said to have had the
praailege of witnessing an amusing lit-
tle incident one evening not long -ago.
An Anglicized young man seated
hintself at a table at which there was'
only one other person, a writer well
known througbout the country, but
evidently a stranger to the newcomer.
The writer is a man whose dress is
always fastidiously netit, but by no
It -mans fashionable in cut or expensive
in innterial. Na'lien the young man tools
his seat, the writer glanced up at him
and, seeing that it was no one whom
Pc kne\v, returned to bls study of the
bill of fare.
The young man languidly placed his
monocle in his eye, and, screwing up
his face to keep the glass in position,
treated the other guest at the table to
a prolonged s.tare.
The stare ended abruptly, however,
for suddenly the writer looked up.
Quiets as thought he seized an empty
tumbler and, applying it to his right
eye, stared gravely through its bottom
at his vis-a-vis.
The monocle was droplaell in a very
few seeonds, ancl then the fueolaler was
replaced on the table. But the young
Anglonianiac's face was crimson,
while that of the writer remained
grave and tmmotecl, and through the
dining room rustled the sound of sotne-
thing that suggested repressed merri-
Adjustable Anth.ors.
Tbe most cheerful autber-eSamitel
Smiles.
The noisiest—Ilowells.
The tallest—Longfellow.
r-Iihe most flowery• --Hawthorne.
The holiest—Pope.
eThe happleet—G ay. •
The racist amusing—Thothas
The mest fiery—Bairns.
ONION SMUT.
SoectlingOUoias G Deal -thy
Soli Are Exe!apt.
Onion smut peevalent to a coils -ides -
able extent, is one of the mosreeestruc-
tive of the smut fungi.
This 'onion smut, unlike the oth-
er smuts, propagates itself abnost In-
definitely in the soli when (hie once
becomes infested. IVIlehever a new
crop of onions is geown frona seed in
this infested soil the smut attacks the
young seedling onions in whole' irt
part, and a very considerable lose ee-
sults therefrom. 12, howe'Ver, onion
sets are put in such soil or seedling on-
ions that have been started under
SMUTTED AND SOUND ONION SEEDLI1'95,
glass in healthy soil ase transplanted
to smut infected soil, the smut fungus
cannot -attack them. The explanation
seems to be that the smut threads are
only able to penetrate the leaves of the
young, tender seedlings.
Onion smut has been troublesome in
some places to the growers of sets,
transplanting being, of course, out of
the question for this work. Flowers
of sulphur have been used to sow with
the seed in infested soil, and -this rem-
edy has given Vood results., FOrty per
eent formaldehyde, known commercial-
ly also as formalin, has, in, some in-
stances, done even better, according to
the Ohio station; which presents the
-
cut of smutted and sou_nd onions./ Of
course, the first remedy is to plant
-
some other crop in the infested grceand.
A RHUBARB BED:
A Good Site--Preparittg the Soil.
Dent Boots and How to Set Then:.
Select if possible a site with a south
exposure and slope enough to give
good natural drainage. Fork or plow
the ground deep, and thoroughly level
and pulverize. Lay off furrows five
feet apart and plan to set plants three
to four feet apart in rows. If the soil
lacks humus, mix with well rotted
compost half and half and use the
mixture to fill in about the roots. Se-
cure divided roots from a reliable
grower. Seedling plants bare a strong
tendency to degenerate, and the great-
er percentage of seedlings will bring
disappointment.
Plants with one, two or three buds to
the clump of roots are the best. Place
the soots perpendicular, with the crown
one or two inches below the level of
the surface. Fill in about the roots
with the compost and soil. Never put
fresh Stable manure next to the roots.
Firm the soil thoroughly, so as to
leave no air spaces. If the soil lacks in
general fertility, give a good dressing
of fresh stable manure, either from the
horse Or cow stable. Spread over the
entire surface and at once cultivate it
into the soil.
Moisture in liberal supply is demand-
ed in the growth of rhubarb. The
small toothed cultivator, properly and
reetilarly used at intervals of six to
eight days, is the best possible cons
server of soil water. Continue its use
up to the first or middle of August, ad-
vises ate American Agriculturist cor-
respondent.
Early rianting- For thegar Beets.
Onion growers are united in the prac-
tice of Sowing the seed early to avoid
the packing and baking of the soil
which comes later. Sugar beet grow-
ers have apparently met the same dif-
ficulty experienced and largely over-
come in the growing of onions from
seed. The simple remedy of the onion"
grower seems worth trial by sugar
beet grower
s. It would seem that sug-
ar beet "seed should be 'planted in
March or cerly April. This early plant-
ileg requires that ground be plowed in
fall or winter. The seed may then be
sown at the proper time in the BOil
which has been leosened and disinteg-
rated by winter freezing.
Another advantage has been sug-
gested for early planting—namely, that
in the early season the growth of
weeds is slow compared with their
growith in late April, Itiay and June.
'Ibis would afford tile young beet
plants a better chance in their conflict
itsilelreWdeebdys. t laTe beexlid ae care ef reo fall fill: gi'airs-
deners and beet growers generally.
a'he beet is rather a hardy plant and
withstands frost better than onions do.
The most talkative—Chatterton. I sown cropsfor Seed purposee ao when
'fIce most distressed—Aketash.lea•sehl• 'anted later for other itst-; says Ca"-
• eago Thnes-Lterald. delithg-
Tio Pea Loose and IIttrly Sown Crops
Pea growers nee inclined to believe
that the ravages of the pea louse ale
110? 80 much to be Peered on early
eaweeeee,s
THE FARM SEPARATOR, POVERTY.
Its Adviantsuge Unquestioned When
'softer is eigete at 'Home.
At every dairy convoution the farm
s&rleait'lli1
atie°lies,ri;s0tne°t
gsays'
B. C, Beucuett in
Americnn Ageleulturist. This is Aeon
the creamery men's stencipolut, and the
dividing line is strictly \\Mettler th
butter from cream hauled to the fac-
tory is of, as fine a Haver tie that wheee
the whole milk is token to the faelurY
alai the separating and all the other
work clone by the factory expert. On
this question there is a division of
thought, but where tae milk is made
into butter at home there is but One
side to the question. The farm set:ie..
rater stands unquestioned. But in some
localities the separator is not well
enough known to enable the farmers
to judge whether it will pay them to
invest. There come up the questions of
how many cows will warrant the in-
yeetment, how much thne, ,is required
to operate it, what degree of skill is
necessary to make it a success and
finally- whether for the average farmer
it is not wise to do the best he can in
the old way.
Just as good butter can be macici from
• - • • • • „-
me .
the deep setting Cooley can as from
separator cream, but it is not so easy
to do it at all tame, for the weather
Pas greater chance to harm the cream
by these old ways than when a separa-
tor is used. It is burdensome to chura
every day on the farm, and twice a
week is the rule.
Thin cream --that Is, cream contain-
ing a great deal of milk --will sour
quicker and go off in flavor sooner than
that which has more butter fat and
less milk and casein in it. Always
there is a little impurity in milk, espe-
cially winter milk, and the more milk
there Is in tbe cream the more impurity
there is. This causes an undesirable
fermentationma But if the cream is
thick it can be held little changed for
three or four days, then thinned with
warm sweet milk or with sour skim -
milk from tbe previous day's separa-
tion. The whole can be set to ripen;"
and the fermentation will be dominat-
ed by the freshly added milk and give
a delicately flavored butter. I do this
way all the year around and get the
highest creamery quotations or higher,
and this is 3 or 4 cents above the high-
est quotations fee dairy butter.
Not only can you make butter, as a
rule, and make it easier, but you make
more of it from the same milk. , This is
because the separator gets out the but-
ter fat more completely than can be
done by setting the milk for the creain
to rise. Another advantage is in the
increased value of the skinaruilk. The
separator can be started nearly as soon
as you commence milking, and by the
time this is finished the separating will
be practically corapleted and the warn],
fresh, sweet milk fed to tbe calves and
tbe pigs. This millis better for stock
than stale ,skinamills. It is what the
scientist calls nascent foce--1,1.1e older
milk gets the less of lite it has, the
nearer it is to, decomposition and the
less is its value to the calf. You can
set the separator to skim as thin or as
thick as you wish, and when you sell
cream or use it in the family this is an
advantage. ,
Now, as to the nunaber of cows which
warrants the purchase, a safe estimate
is that you get as much from five cows
by using the separator as from six
withant it—that is, it adds one cow to
each five of the herd and does not eaa
anything. I think the farmer with five
or more cows should buy one, and then
with the profits he can increase his
berd and still more increase his profits.
Queen Alexandra's Dairy.
The dairy of Queen Alexandra, for-
merly Princess of Wales, at Sandring-
-ham park, is the most exquisitely dain-
ty and charming place in the world,
TIIE QUEEN'S Delay, sANDEINGRAni.
and the verandas were the favor te
spo,ts of tbe princess berse f in which
to serve afternoon tea to royal gentry.
The king and queep, are devoted to
Sandringham, and it Is thought proba-
ble that they will retain that place as
one of their country residences.
Tbe interest of blue blooded English
ladies in dairP farming is probably re-
sponsible for the growth of the butter
ball fad in this country, and many of
the ladies of wealth have played dairy-
maid at their superb country places
and can, it may be imagined, make a
marketable sell of sweet butter, im-
printed with the family crest, as deftly
and successfully as the mistresseof
Sandringham dairy herself.
Best Size For stioa.
It seems that one may roalse a stave
silo too large to insure strength of the
structure, says The National Stockmen
and Farmer. Probably 18 or 20 felt is
the limit ill diameter. One dalryinan,
having so large a hetet that he eouhl
easily rise off the surface of a elle 25
feet in diameter, built two silos of that
size, but the curve of the sides was so,
.slight that' a storm drove One side ha
despite the tight beeping. g'be greater
the curve the greater the power of rc-
,Sistirig pressure when the silo is empty.
Smitten Ca‘eimame.,
_ ,
.e.tiy sudden cliatig,e, in feeding or
bandline may cause loss in -cs-eiglit, or
ishriniage in yield of milk at.itter,
If four blaulf wollo be mine, and every eine
That goes c.t.teening through the tasts of sky
Makes free vith my shrunk casement, and. 10
ncarth
'Shows but a Noble Mune, And the rough floor
INS but the dust for carpet, 'urn 1 poor?
Tito', I am very Grtt‘sus, that, and morel
For no swart Mode can fol.) ine of the dreams
,WherCW;iLli I heee a ra121 'Madonna there,
A 110 110111 lo painted, drape rielrfolds
Of gold shot damask round you oriel
And heap about me rugs of velvet pile
Deft winuctIlt upon 111,0 looms of IIiermanshahl
POOH It 110 I) 00 r NV110 has God's gift of dreams?
--Clinton Scollata in New Lippincott.
SeCtiti011
4.'.1 Mrs
I was on a visit to my friend Dave
at his mountain home and was stand-
ing one day in the courtyard at Lexby,
the county town, discussing the possi-
bilities of lais re-election to the posi-
tion of commonwealth's attorney when
down the street came at a long gallop
an old fellow mounted ou a ttain, ewe
necked sorrel colt whose long rusty
tail whipped between his legs at every
Julnia o tice eon]. y, '
clattered and, dismounting, filing the
rein over the post in utter disregard
of the large printed notice posted on
it that no horses were to lea hitched
there. Through the turnstile and up
the walk he came swinging.
"I believe that's old Dullet from
Jacksborougb," said .Dave. "He's a
man of influence up there and clead
against mo -'--always is. I wonder what
lie wants?"
1 -le had not long to Wait, for the old
fellow strode up to a group and said,
"Whar's the commonwealth's attor-
ney?"
"I am the man," Sala Dave. "What
can I do for you, Mr. Dullet?"
"I wants you to put my wife in the
penitentiary," ha said.
"What!" exclaimed Dave; then re-
covered bimeelf. "What do you want
that for?"
She s forged my name, and she's
got to go to the penitentiary," said be.
"Well, tell ine about it," said Dave,
seeing the gravity of the situation, and,
turning, he led the way into his office
and offered chairs.
"Well, it's this way: My oldest gal
Sairy is been a-wantln to marry a fel-
ler named Torm Hackle for gwine on
two years, and I wouldn't let ben"
"Why?" said Dave in a professional
tone, drawing a pen and paper toward
him.
"'Cause Torna's ou tiother side,"
said Dullet.
"Oh!" said Dave, writing clown some-
thing. "Go on."
"Well, I wouldn't let Torm come over
, on our side. I sent him word et he
411,1 fo lbeik cnit. "And 'Sittry she got
kind of sick and peaked, and my old
woman she wanted me to do it then,
, and I wouldn't, 'cause I had to sign
; the cloclsiment. Then she got kinder
; worser, and my wife she wanted me to
1
go for the doctor. So day before yis-
tidcly I went down for the doctor, and
, he said he'd come today, and I staid
at Jim Mig,e;insi store all night and
yistiddy a-waitin for him' and when I
got home last uight my wife she said,
ilYhar's the doctor?' And I said: 'He's
a-corain. How's Sairy?' And she said:
'She's clone got well. She's got all the
1
doctor she wanted. She's done married
'Iiorm Hackle.' 'Blow did she done it,'
sys I 'and I ain't signed the license?'
says I. 'I signed your name 'for it,'
says she. And I said, 'You has done
COMillit a penitentiary offense, and I
kin put you in the pen'tentiary for it,'
says L Aud she bet me a dollar she
hadn't and I couldn't. And 1 says, 'I
bet you 82 I ,kin, and I will,' says I.
And now I are gwine to do it. I kin
do it,"bantt I?"
Dave reflected, while the old moun-
taineer sat still, perfectly passive.
"Well," he said slowly, "there are not
a great many precedents." The old fel-
low's face hardened. "But, of course,"
Pc added, "forgery is a very serious
thing, and, ah!" The old fellow's eye
was upon him. "How long have you
been married?" he asked.
"Twenty year come next month."
DaVO wrote it down.
"Wife always been good wife to
you?"
"Ain't got no fault to find wicl her
till now, when she forged my' name
an"—
"Ever have any trouble with her?"
"Never at all, 'cept, of course, fights
like all married folks has."
Dave wrote it down.
"Industrious?"
"Got no fault to find wid her about
clat."
"Help you save what you got?"
"Ain't a bard woriciner, sayiner
iooman on the mountain."
"How many children slie got?"
"Nine—eight livin. 'I don't count that
one."
"I-Iow many dead?"
"Four."
Dave wrote laboriously.
"41112e go -lid to 'cm?"
",7es' as good as could be. Nursed
"Sit u \with 'ern when they NV Ole
S3Ne‘
1, c
; 1'0" us
CNVl; eeonfr.,
t:,o 1)ed at all; never took
h
"Go hard with her?"
"Went mighty hard, specially when
Johnny died. He was named after
inc."
Dave wrote silently,
"Go hard with 'You?"
"flight ebrt of hard."
et lonesome after that?"
"Mighty lonesome."
'How e01(1your young,est one not
"fetvete, on 3t alone Billy.,"
e`Potet .of his 001 hot'?''
"Cetat beat,fier but of his s'ight,!'.
.,Tono ofyeur`
"Sort of-erigla smart,"
'Sae' Satre' tvae your oldee
"'Thought right bin:lit Of IlOP W11011
you just nt
'lJDat1111(111:elI'C1:11Cg111):111;?t‘':e'a'lldriYorle°:lelite'lll'S:t
bete"
""Wilie dill, arlylio\v?"
"Yes; ttiNt ztyS feel 'bout her. Oldest-,
sec *i"
"She was young awl fresh tben?"
''Yes; lilsoliest yeoman on tete neoun-
slie l NtivPa st her,Uetglotirotg htuov see eg otioeidr
summer eyenings, walking througli the
wo`odes?"
`Ys,siii; did that."
"She thought more of first baby that
San. She had more trouble with hei
than you—when she evas a baby, I
mean?"
"O
nu:‘:C'Saei r; guesshts
her round
eur tilleshewasdih ewul serarms
siclc
ad,
made her little frocks for her?"
"As sho did Johnny's?"
"Yes."
"And does little Billy's?"
"Yes. She's niftcle Billy a little palf
of breeches."
"I"Vith pockets in them?"
"Yes; two."
Dave laid clown his pen, opened the'
code and read a little tolinnself. Well,
I can put her in the penitentiary for
San," he said. "'Not less than one
nor more than ten years,' he read.
Dullet sat forward a little.
"How ohl is your wife?"
"'Bout 50 year."
"I'll draw the 'Indictment. Let ale
SCO, the grand jury will meet when?
Then the jury?" He was talk.ing to
himself, eyilla his eyes turned up to
the ceiling. "There might be some of
those Hackles on the jury. Umh, that
would be bad." Dullet twisted around
in his chair. "They'd send her on for
the full time, though—ten years. That
would be good."
Dullet leaned 'forward. "Are them
I -Tackles obleeged to be on that jury?"
Pc asked. ,
"No," said Dave; "not at all. Only,
they may be on there, that's all." ,,,,Hcf
lifted his eyes again to tbe ceiling.
"That might be all the better. They'd
of course be pretty rough onher. Ten
years. She'd' be about 00 when she
came out. iamb! They'd have work-
ed her pretty hard. Let me see. r
suppose they'd put her with the
thieves, dress ber in stripes and maybe,
whip her." Dullet started to give an
exclamation, but stopped to listen. "I•
suppose little Billy would be sorry at
night at first, but he'd get used to 11,1
or he might go down to see her once a'
year or so for a few minutes in his'
breeches if she lived. He'd miss, her;
some. It she died, she'd go tolohnny.1
\Vele lhc Hackles wouldn't be sorry.;
Yes, I can do it. I think," he snide
bringing his eyes down on Dullet's face'
and speaking positively. "
Dullet rose with a junap. "Look
a -here, Mr.—Mr.—What's ydur name?"
Pc said. "I'll just be duelled ef any of
thena Hackles kin put my wife in the
penitentiary, and et anybody thinks
they kin let 'em try it!"
Dave looked at him calmly. "I agree
with you," he said, "and I'll help you.",
There was a pause, in which leulleti
was seftectiug. Then he asked, "What!
would you advise rne to do'?"
"I don't advise you to do anything",
said Dave, "but I know what I'd do if,
I was in your place."
"What'?"
"I'd go home and send for Sairy to
come over to dinner next Sunday and
tell her to bring that fellow \vitt' her—,
Ile's more Dullet now than he is Hac-
kle, and every time my wife got uppish
I'd tell her l'could have put her in the '
penitentiary fon ten years, but I was
too good to her to do it." 1
Dullet reflected and then said: "I'll
do it. What does I owe to you?" 1
"A. good deal," said Dave, "but I
want you to present it to Mrs. Dullet
for me."
"Well"--- He walked to the door,
paused and then said slowly, "Th' vex'
time you runs for anything, Jacksbor-
'ough is a-gwthe to yote'for you." He
went out.
Dave was re-elected.
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Basque Funeral Cnstomm.
Among the Basques funeral festivi
ties were kept up not only after the
funeral, but also for eight days more, „IN
and on New Year's clay, \viten they
were repeated. In their case this was
a purely religious ceremonial observ-
ance, even if it origin:tied in pagan
days. For _religion has entered into
and still pervades the funeral rites of
the Besques to a degree now hardly
conceivable, The deceased who was the
head of the family, probalaly belonging
to the third religious order, was usual-
ly buried in the appropriate dress of
the order. The funeral was presided
over be the serore, 'who was a sort of
nun. ilans probably, as O'Shea says,,
came down from the time \\awn, wom-
en Mgt) ecclesiastical positions
among the Basques. . -
The very fensts were relics' of dnys
when -an offering of meat, bread and
wine \vas wont to be taken into the
church or churchyard not enly at the
funeral, but every day fop two 5e111e4
afthe deceased, but really for that of the
clei:::nrd, for the.supposed benefit of
Up to 1760 in alliPlIZeOil On the 00,
casion of n funeral an Ox WaS taketi
to the church door ;Ind then .killed and,
stiosequently eaten, a survival, of
course, of pagan sacrifices in pritnitive
times. In whatever wily the habit of
to king the deceased to the church on net
open bier arose, there "can be no clues-,
tion that the fire lighted at the nearest;
crossroads and the obligatory pater ill;
'Intention du defunt are of deeply l'c-
Iigiocip
oriein end 136th In (feed and In
truth appeal te each neighbor to pray'
foe the soulofzcilnea.partet1 brothet.-7-•
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