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A House of »yStCry
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CHAPTER 111.-(C. nlinimd, straight as an arrow. For fully a quar-
t at last fouled the enl'anee to •the ter of an hour I walked on without
•at(jolnferg roan, but the door was meeting a emit. The only noise that
closed. f tried the handle. 11 wits 1.1'01{0 the quiet was are dismal howl
k.c•in•d, c'f a clog, and now and then the distant
Thio sudden check to my invesiiga-
hons caused nen to pause. Thnl a W0
mart had bon first struck clown by a
et/validly blow apponreel evident., but
of her tdently I had no knowledge.
The lend agonized sbrtek \vhiell had
immolated from that inner room was,
1 felt convinced, that of the Lender,
sweet -voiced woman who had admin-
• istered to my wants. It seemed, now
that 1 recollected, as though she had
been s''aleil rut the piano when the fatal
blew was struck. The scream and the
cessnlien of the mush, had occurred
sunuuaroeusly.
Yet so confused had Min the soune',s
01 the 1 exlt'anrdinn ry tragedy Ilur1 1
•strn ci perplexed, utterly at a loss how
to are.
The theory impressed itself upon me
that 4 woman was rrsponslhle for both
•criaas. 'There was no disguising the
fact that It was a %/onion who had
stood pentng none me, who had noise-
kssly tested me to ascertain whether
Yes I ;mull distinguish ol,jec(s about me,
and who had afterwards lett the house.
Al?,c.
>blin-1 wss had, no doubt, saved my
y f
'�; Before leaving .she heel for some un -
e known reason kicked the col nunicat
F tog door rind lateen the key, Mit upon
the air, after she had gone, there ling- •cr.i l the suhlle fragrance of peau d'
t?spagne, the )same perfume used he
the women w'hos'e cool palm Ind smile my brow. Nevertheless, 11 seemed
impossible stat. a woman could illus
(-minaa double crime so swiftly and
with such. force as to drive a knife to
the heart ofa man and fling him back
l:pon me—ail in silence, tvilhou't the
utterance of one single word.
11 seemed ,nb.olutely Incredible.. With
niy eyes only a void of blackness, this
mystery was bewildering, end renth
s " ered the more tantalizing by •nty inabil-
ity to gaze about me. I had been prt-
sent at the enactment of -a terrible
(tame, but had not witnessed It, and
could not, (hoverer°, recognize either
culprit or victims.
Again 1 leached Lhe great handsome
. room, in order to rivet all its details
upon my memory. 1 had three long
windows opening down to the floor.
which showed That it was situated in
the back of the house, otherwise they
must have opened upon the street. In
one corner was a redestal, whereon
stood a marble bust 01 a dancing we-
e man, Ince those I had seen in Ilse sculp-
Ier's 'at Pisa before the days of my
darkness. There were tables, Leo, with
glass tops wherein, I supposed, 'were
curies and bric-a-brae, and before the
great fireplace was stretched a tiger -
skin, with the putts preserved.
While groping there, however, my
hand tame into contact with something
which I found was a narrow, these-
cdgecl knife, so shn.rp that I cut my
•finger while feeling U. It had a cross.
tilt, and the blade vas thin and tri-
angular, tapering to a point. The shape
y f knew to bo Italian, one of Ruse Floe -
/I enllne stilettos used long ego in the
Middle Ages, n wound from w111.011 w'as
. • almost certain to be fatal. The Italians
have long ergo brought the use of the
knife to a fine art, and even to -day;
reorders by slabbing are the most 18101
ioccuerenees reported in their newspa-
pers. The blade of this antique wee..
leen. was about nine inches long, and
Lite handle velvet -covered and bound
with wire, probably either gold or sil-
ver. Trio point was sharp as a needle.
My first Impulse was to lake posses-
n:on et it; but, 011 relleciten, I saw that
it I did se grave suspicion might pos-
sibly full upon ane. 1 might even be
ctia'g-d with the murder,especially es
I had already In ney pocket the. demi
man's stud and pencil -case. Thls
thought caused ma le threw down the
eliletto, and, continuing my search, i
et length found the door tvhlch gates
egress to the place.
I opened it end stood in the hall le
listen. There was no sound, The still-
ness of the night remained quite un-
broken, and I believed myself alone
will the dead. 13y coughing, the echo
e of my voice showed that the hall and
' staircase were wide and spactous. Then
-ft struck ane that 1 had no stick, with-
cut
ithcut which I fena'erl to walk; but, grop-
ing abnnt, i (bund an umbrella stand,
arn:d hook therefrom a stout 111000, the
Annelle of wltich seemed smooth -worn
by long usage..
1 What was 3113' best course? Should
4r Y go fortis secretly, return home ,and
await the discovery of elle terrible of
fair, welch would no doubt be fully re -
,ported . In those evening newspapers
' which revel in crime? 0r should II g'0,
sout and Inform lite first Constable I
met, The later, I saw, was my duty,
t4se and even though i had no desire to mix
thyself up in such a mysterious and
isensational altair, I resolved to go at
(once and state all that 1 hoard.
'Whethert street i
11 e s c t door ryas Situated
to right or lett I know not, but trying
y the right, first, 1 found that the door
was at that end of the hall. Opening
11. I passed out, and having closed it
again nolselcssly event down the five
1 wide stops tato the deserted street,
Thera were iron railings in Mont of
the house, and before tete door was it
o big 'stone petite°. My hands told be
Loth these details,
I hutted to the lett and atter Welk• t
rt
e
n ,.'o little
! g sat:* t distance crossed' a road
and kept
v a
p tong 0bad WIt1Cli,
ellhough it Mil not appear t0 he a
Mein tlloriellgltfard, seemed to run
starlet) and lore near of Trains. Sudcten-
l;e 1 found myself 1n quite a labyrinth
of crooked streets, and after. several
turns emerged int) what I presumed to
hW ens. of the great arteries of London,
1 stood listening. 'Tire air was fresh,
and it secure to me that dawn was
eereoding, Aterrr 1 could hear the mea-
sured, heavy tread of a pollee conelable,
,end hurried in his direction, As .1 did
O' I put out my stick and it slrucic some
iron railings. A few minutes later, In
hot haste, I overhok the man of heavy
tread, one addressing him, said:—
"Tell lee, pease, are you a canslebier'
"Well, 1 believe 1 syn," answered a
rough voice, pleasantly withal, "But
tun's you Hee?"
"No, unfortunately I can't," I replied.
"Whom am I?"
"Ones"do the ifusermi."
"Tho British Museum?" I inquired In
surprise.
"No. The South Kensington. Where
do you want to go?"
"I want you Le 001110 with ale," I
scud,
"With you. What's up?"
"I'r'e been roesent at a terrible trag-
edy," i blurted Solite;' "Two people
,have been murdered.'
"Two people?" excln'imed the voice,
rpalelely interested. 'Where?'
"In—in a crouse,' 1 faltered, for nal
unl'il that Instant did the appalling
Muth occur to ate. 1 had wandered
away from the place, and lead no idea
of its outward appearance, or in what
road it was situatedl
"Well, double murders don't often
lake place In the street, sonny. But—"
and the vo'oe hesitated, ."Why, there's
bleed on your clotting, i seen Tell me
all about it. Where's the house?"
"I confess That I've been foolishly
stupid, for I've left it, and I could,never
find my way back again. I'm blind,
you see, and I've no idea of Its exterior
0 p pets ranee•"
At any rale you've Steen near enough
to the affair to get yourself in a pretty
mess," the lough voice saki, somewhat
suspiciously. "Surely you have some
idea of where the affair took place?"
The situation was certainly the most
.0001010 in which any 011411 could be
placed, for with only one thought In
Iny mind, namely to rats) the alm'm,
I lead gond forth from the house of
mystery and failed to mark it. This
negligence of mine might, I reflected,
result in the :affair being hushed up
for ever, London is big place in which
W search for the scene of a murder
mem which my oyes had never gazed,
and the details of which I only knew
ty my sense Of touch, Flow ]Many
'thousands of houses there ere in the
West and, each with 11s snholet black-
ened pertco end little piece of aa'Ga
ra(ung.
"No," i responded to the omcer's in.
quiry. "I was so lent upon giving in-
formation that I forgot 10 place any
mark upon the house by which to know
It again."
"well, I've 'card a goad nanny funny
stories while I've been on night -duty
in these eighteen years, but your yarn
is shout the rummest of the sol," In
said bluntly.
"I only know Ihn$ the house is a large
ono, very well flrrnihhcd, end has a
port:0o and railings 1n IIronl—R double
Masse, with 11a11 In the centre, end
rooms on either side."
"That don't '011) Cts very much, son-
ny," the role° observed. "What's the
gond o' running after me with a yarn
eke leis if you e'mi't hike me to the
spot? To judge from the state of emu.
clothes, 'though, you've been to sense
serape oe nnothet', If your Coat wnS
n01 covered with bleed es 1t 1s, 1'i be
inclined (o put yeti down as a chap
with a icrnw loos,"
"Pro not demented, (.lel) yeti," i erre)]
warmly. "There's a terrible crone been
committed, and I have sought your as-
sistance."
"And I'd go and have a leek rat the
premises with you, If you could only
telt me where `they are. But as ,you
can't—well, what are 100 to de, soapy?"
CHAPTER IV.
"Peke me :at once to the police-st4t-
tion," i said finely. "I must mance a
Stattenenl to your Inspector on duty.'
"Net much ,good is. et, if yeti can't
tell us where the affairlook placer'
queried 1110 oral, impertinently.
It th my duty to nota the report,
00(11 elle duty of the pollee act invests•
gate it," 1 answered, annoyed, for it
seemed as though be doubted me.
"That's a laity out onyour hand,"
he remarked, "Hoty did you get it?
"1 cut myself by accident with the
knife."
"What knife?"
"Tho knife, With which the =Werewore tenon if Led."
"And what wore you doing with it?"
inquired 110'ecnstable, utterly regard-
less of the strict police regulation which
forbids an officer to put any such 11105'
(ions,
"1 Pound it," I ;Meltod,
"Whore?"
"On the floor of the 0'1411, while 1
teas searehieg about."
The man grunted dubiously.
1 was well aware et the susltflien
Which meet tall upon me, for I knew
here wets blood upon my Melees and
10 response, I told hlnh 11'aw, in ero00-
hag a read, 1 had been k11oc•lsod down
rind rendered Insensible by a cab, and
how, an regaining conscluu'sness, 1 had
found myself under the care ot some
nom)a unknown.
Ise gave vent let a short harsh laugh,
0.0 though discrediting my siatemenis,
"You don't 1.elievc 111e," i blurted forth
hsetity. "Take 010 Let your inspector.
Wo muse nese 0 Ilia","
"Well, yeti 1ni'w,' ,bservr'd the man,
"your story, you'll admit, 1s a very ex-
traordinary one, You isny that a ter-
rible effete ]las happened In It hone°
somewhere about here, yet veer eun't
direct us to (t. The whole story 1s so
curious that 11n afrrrld you'll have a
dimcully In persuading anybody to be-
hove you."
"If you dont, somebody else. will," I
snapped, "come, lake me 10 the police•
sig lie n,"
Thus ordered, the neral rather mime
natty thole my arm, and crossing the
wide motet -road, we (re0ersed t1 min-
ter of short crroked thoroughfares •
"You don't teem m very gaud walker,
miter," the oansteble observed, plies.
onlly, "I see a cab In tiro distance.
Wetted you like to lake it?''
"Yes. Coll it," 1 said, for 1 fell very
weal) and int after my terrible nlghts
adventure.
A few minutes Eater we .Were sitting
tegelher in the transom, drirn•ing. to-
wards the r.tldress he had given, namely,
College glare Pekes Station.
On the way 1 explained to hien the
\vltoie, oI the tacks as tar as 1 could
recollect then. Ile letenocl attentive,y
to my curious narrative until I had
concluded, Ilton sa!d:—
"NVell, sir, it's certainly a most my-
sterious affair, and the only fear f have
is that everybody will look upon it
with disbelief. I know what i should
.lo if I were a gentleman in your place.'
"What weal you doe'
"Well, I should keep my knowledge
to myself, say ,nothing about it, anti
leave the revelation of the volute to
chance."
"I am compelled le make .a report 0f
it, because I w'as present re the trag-
edy," said. ' hal,'
y, I s d. "11is my duly', , In the
interests of justice.'
"Of course, that's all very well. I
quite agree that your duty as a citizen
1,0 to make a statement to ,111y inspec-
tor, but if 1 may be permitted to say
s 1 private opinion is I al t7 , rc-
o. my Ph p
sorve a discreet silence is better than
making a font of one's self."
"You re certainly Octet -spoken," I
said, smiling.
"Olt, well, you'll excuse enc, sir," the
man said, halt apologetically. "I mean
no offence, you know. 1 only tell yeti
how I myself would act. Now, if you
email give amy real-inIormntion of v:,lue
to the detectives, there would be some
reason for making the statement, bol
as you can't, well ycull only give your-
0eif no end .of bother for nothing.'
"But surely, nam, you don't think
that with the knowledge of this terrible
affair in my mind Ien going le .preserve
silence and allow the assassin to es-
cape, do you?"
"Well, It seom's Mat the asslrssin has
escaped already, In any ease," the man
laughed, "You take it from neo that
they were a cute bol ie that hoose, who-
ever they were. The Neondte Is That
they didn't kill you,"
An exactly similar thought had cross -
e'1 my mind. The drive seemed a long
one, but at length the 'deb stopped, and
we alighted.
I heard the conveyance here and go
off, as together we ascended the steps
of the station. One thing struck be es
curious, namely, that the air wee filled
with a strong odor of turpentine.
"The station is a long way from your
bent," I remarked.
"Yes. A fairish way, brit we're used
to it, and cion', notice the distance."
"And this is College PI:ace—Is 11?"
"Yes," he responded, conducting me
down a long ,passage, The length of
the cora•ldor surprised me, 'and i hu-
morously remarked:—
"You're not going to put me In the
Delis, I hope?"
"Scarcely," he laughed. ".Bet 11 we
did the darkness wouldn't trouble you
very much, I fear, Blindness must be
an awful affliction."
Ile had scarcely uttered these words
ere we ascended a couple of steps 'and
entered what seemed to be a spacious
place,
the charge -mom of the .police
station.
There was the sound of heavy tramp-
ing over bare boards, and. suddenly
a leather gruff vele() Inquired:—
Well, four-slx-eight? \Vhat is 11."
"Gentleman, si.r—w'anls to report a
tragedy. (eels blind, sir."
"Bring him a cent," said the inspec-
tor's voice, authoritatively.
(To be continued,).
THE GAMII.
ltltss Gushleglon—And so you were
born in the country? How you must
have enjoyed the game of hiding in
the ban when you /mare a boy.
Mr. Phsrmersem—\Veil, no, I cannot
say I enjoyed it very much. You see,
my father eel the hiding, and all 1 diel
w'as to jump and yell.
E3IG CONTRACT,
"11 Smithers undertakes to pull my
enes,'i..said a fellow at a street corner,
"he'll have his hands full."
The crowd 100100(1 .at the man's oars
and smiled.
Some people can evert see the silver'
lintng to a cloud of adversity—if it is
hovering over others:
"Did Yo
u hear about snao?
n
\
Y,
vot happened to hint?" "lie had his
appendix taken away last Saturday."
"Vet a fool; vy didn't he have it in his
Wife's name?"
Something That Should he Illibbed
i 1. --Whenever pain 10 felt in the limbs
or back, lake Df. Thomas' Eelectrfc
Cut; pour a lithe in the hand, and ap-
plying 11, to lir, surface beneath which
he men lies, rub briskly, If the fleet
pp010011on sloes not effort °aper, which
s not usually the case, keep etibbin.g,
the 011 WIlLgeedually penetrate to the
a fleeted part and relief pili come,
(hat any story possessed a district air a
of Improbability, 1
"Who injured vette head like trat7'r T
ho oohed,
IN THE FURTHEST NORTH
IMPRESSIONS OI A Me SPENT
AMONG LSUIYMAUIC.
Book by ifnud flasmussen, Mike is
Unique as the Stay of a
Primitive Repute,
Kant Rrlhmrlssen, whose 101111r ryas
eu 1.6qu40a11 w eine of Denisie 00:cm-
land, whose father was a Dam) and
Who 'has lived must of his 27 years in
his native land, has written a Mole on
his Cif: fee a year La the lusts of the
Suu'h Sound natives, the moat north-
ern people of the wurlrl, The 1) ole has
t'e'en translated from Danish int) Get-
man and is atlraoling much Mt neon
because it has great 11- rury merle, and
as the story of a primitive people: it )s
unique.
Ile had rare nevanlages for writing
such a narrative. be''ause'he is all Mu -
rated nien. trained as net rttnologist
end partly of the sane bleed as 'the
tribe that opened their dors and hearts
to ]rim, Ito went among them ai a
brother, they awakened his sympeltiy
nntl effe-li•in. and their idiom (titters
set little from les own that ee was 0010
et them from the day they first saw
hem:
They told iter everything, rind when
he left them tor Denmark )1.b w'r le 111
first book that has over NMI devoletl
Wholly to these natives. 'Th. (1111011
Mitten is mitit:e,l "Nene Mensohell' and
it has boon 1'.tlblisl:c.l in Bern, Switzer-
land,
Tim purpose herr• is simply to give rt
few incidents of Ilaanmasen;s life among
Mom people and s"neo of hie inlpece-
sions of them, He was ih-ir connate
in the merrymakiugs with whk•Ii they
brighten
THE SUNLESS WINTER,
and 11e 50111011 thein in the hunts fat'
Mar, walrus, reindeer and se'a's, and
ht
the spring killing of the birds. which
they reek away fn' winter use
Tlicy liked him and wished him 10
lira with them always. 'Th:y would Le
]sappy, if only he would 0101,0y one of
Um native girls and setae down. So
one winter evening when the but was
crowded with people old Srcrkrark arose
impressively and /node a little speech:
"Are not our maidens good enough
roc you?' he said. "See, there are le.
igaiteo r'k and Anlinik. lstgaitso-k has
the longer hair if That will please you,
and she has a brand new fox skin.
"Now, we must let you that 11 does
not do for a young, unmarried man
to be travelling around our country.
You will ruin our good opinion of you
and make yourself a laughing stock,
Thera is only one young ibachelor
among' us and he Is a babbling idiot.
(1115 is a fact. Ile has been mentioned
by explorers.)
"Among all tongs a mon should pos-
sess, the chief is a. wife. The first thing
he' gets is a woman, and next come
his dogs and then 0 canoe, and last,
and most difficult to get, is a gun.
"You have all these things except a
wife. \Vho will keep your things in
order and your but warm and go along
le help you when you (ravel? The wife
always goes with her men on his jour-
neys If Iiasaibie, and It not, be borrows
somebody else's wife."
Bnsnnrssen does not inform us whet
'aspen° he made to this eppeal. Old
Smitten* is known as the greatest bear
hunter among his people, but he did not
shine on this occasion as
A MATI1I\IONIAL AGENT.
The people said he must tell Rasmussen
the story of some of his big stunting
exploits, but ho long refused.
"When I go out with my dogs after
a bear," he said, "11 is not long before
Itis meat is in the 0coking port This
is all 1 have to say.'
One day, however, he yielded t\ per -
session and Rasmussen heard the [hist
and last story he would te)1.
"Il was on a winter night and very
cold," lie Bald, "and i knew that bears
would he watching x00111111 the holes
Lt the ice where the seals coma up to
breathe, I went out with my clogs and
soon ;I dimly sate a bear through tee
twilight.
"I gev° chase end my d-ngs were over-
hauling him when the disappeared with -
In a cave In the ice. When 1 came up
I sent the leader of my dog team Into
the nee, for a bear in this way may
ellen be driven out Iron his retreat
without. Injury to he dog. But in a
moment 1 heard a cry and my dog
elaggel'ett out and died al my toot.
"I said to myself that 1 was going
to get that mar. 1 could not us0 hey
s)star in the small envie and. s) 1 put
my knife between my teeth and event
in 00 my hands and knees. It was
very dark and Imould see nothing, but
I could horst' the breathing of tite bear.
I hugged the ground and matte no noise
as, 1 crept forward, incl. by inch.
"At last I felt the animal's warm
Meath 10 my face. sty bade was long
and I drew back and made a mighty
lunge. At the sane time a terrible blew
P11 on my body end F lost my senses.
"i do not know bow long I lay there
tr
the cave, but +teflon I came to rely
self my dist thought was of my dead
dog. Then 1 felt around, thinking I
had killed the hea',, but he was not
Jn i:he cavo,
I ryas very .sore,
but managed to
crawl outside, and a few rods away 1,
saw my Lear sitting on the too and
heard his moans and knew he was !n
trotthlo,
1 GRASPED AMY SPEAR
and erep't toward him and onto near
enough to see that his breast rues cov-
ered with blood end that 1 had driven
my knife straight through its snout
lend it tens still in the wound,
"My right nem Ives not hurt, and I
get up on my feet end drove'11y spear
ihrxough Otis h0nrt,
• !tis 1110 custom in Danis11 Wast Gime-
hind,
. llasnwssen lyes' ret , for
where leo
the young natlee women to gethee
aro111(1 a newcomer and he1p 11hn oft
with his overtelolhing. IIe forgot that
dour d miatiye i
Me Seriph , i s might not be
aeglize teed with this act of eout'ooy and
hospitality gad when Ile lust molted
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teem On his sledge he Pe"1 out hie feet
1.1 a young, w01n111 esf•eatng time she
w0uel pull off its I ar,ls. Ste t (110pped
e,• , blushed, her eyes. end b1l h,, 1, .tut m u1.1 no
11a0:3 to pert,rel the expound sirriee.
"What Is your lime?" Ile asked the
girl.
"The p:e0ple there will tell you ply
nano' she answered, and her gaze
wander;d off over the ace while all the
nien and women laughed.
A woman came to the girl end toll
her Ln do what Ilse stranger asked leer
and then s10 pulled off his boots. HIe
says he tuns impressed with her mod-
e=ty. The woman said to him:
"'Phis is my daughter. Don't you
think she is beautiful?"
Rasmussen says that these. Polar Es-
gninlnttx erre always waging se hard
a fight with nature 11101 they think very
111110 of anything except the eract(08I
side of life. They carelessly live their
lives ss long as meat is plentiful. They
do net count the days nor reckon time.
But the boys from the time they can
talk play at hunting and the ambition
cf their lives is lel 1-ocome good hunters.
A'. the iborght of the men is the hunt,
the collection Of pleat. Their mental
horizon doe; not embrace much be-
yond their emission as food providers.
"What are you thinking of?" he ask.
ed an lssquhnaus who seemed to be
buried in thought.
THE MAN LAUGHED AT THE IDEEA.
"11 is only white men,' he said, "who
trouble themselves n'ruch with think-
ing. We think only about sour food sup-
ply rind whether it will ln.st through
1110 winter. If we have meat enougu,
then thinking is unnecessary."
One day Rasmussen said to an un-
usually intelligent native who ]tad been
cut on the scan ice with Peary: "What
did you think was the purpose of all
your hard work out on the ice floe?
What slid you think when all the land
Indrd from view and you saw nothing
around you excepting the grinding sea
ice?"
"Think?' replied the man, "I didn't
neon to plink. It was tete part of Peary
to Ito the thinking."
Rasmussen tells the story of the im-
migration of a number of the more
western Esquimaux about haif a century
ago to the Greenland coast, where some
cf them spent the rest of lltetr lives
with the new found friends. They
'brought blessings also to the Smlih
Soiled natives, for they laughs (hent
to make snow flues with a long covered
epee ia-1 and at entrmlce from helot',
slaking them mach warmer; also to
sheet with the ,bow and arrow, to spear
fish and t0 make kaiaks or canoes, so
Hint. their hunting was eo longer con-
fined to tine land or Ilse edge of the Ice,
He got lire story from the last survivor
1 the hnnl'gralnts.
Rut the time cants, one spring morn-
ing, when Um young man, with his
dogs and sledge, was to start south on
Ms journey of hundreds of miles to h's
old home.. An old woman. in whose
shut ire had eaten often during lite dark
winter came to him,
"You arc going home, Are you glad
to leave us?"
""Oh no; but I think I had ibetar have
o chan.'
Vaavge, listen lo the last words to you
t'1 an old woman. You ere like the
king duck. \Vhen the bright spring
/merles the land he comer to 115,45 you
11e comes from a lend that is far
away, a land we do not 11100', You
came to rise like the king duck In rho
spring, and now you are going bade
to your land and your family, hark!
Your dogs are howling. Do 110E wait any
longer for I know you are eager to be
011:'
TEST YOUR SEED.
If you buy seed of the seed lean, de-
mand a guarunlen from him of its qua
lily; then test the seed yourself, and
find out it ho is telling you the truth
Reliable seedsmen will guarantee their
sends, and If they do net do s0, don'
lily. Also don't grumble et the price
of guaranteed seed.
Ono of the simplest and hest methods
of testing the germinating power of
seed, Js as follows: S00111,0 a piece of
blotting paper, or flannel cloth, mots•
len and fold together, atter placing a
counted number, say 1011, of the seed
between the folds. Prat the blotter or
cloth on a plate, and cover with an-
other inverted plate, and place) la e
warm 100111. From 10 l0 28 or 30 days
should be alikwod for the test, depend.
Mg upon the kind of seed. The gerntin-
rled seed should be counted and re.
reeved from day to day and at tete end
of the lest the percentage of good seed
may easily be em puled. Seed may be
tested h1 sea, but the germinalions aro
likely to be from 10 to 15 per cent. low-
elow-
erthan by the foregoing plan. The
Meth or blotter plan is simple, and
can be carried on during the Cold wea-
ther, anandbefnre the busy season opens.
As to the germinating peewee of good
scud, it should net be lower than 75 or
bur [NT[NTcent., for the leading grain moos.
i'Le United Slates Department. of Agri -
merino places the standard of germin-
ali,n for clean seed, harvested and pre-
served under favol',Lle c•an,litiOns, and
not over ono year old, for a number
of vegetables and gralns, as follows:
Means, OD per cent.; Lee's, 1i2 plants
from 100 seed balls; cabbage. 00 per
carrels, 80; caubifloovcr, 80; eel -
'my, 60; corn, (Gull and eirgar) 87; cu. -
curried, 87; lettuce 85; music notion, 57;
onion, 80; parsley, ,t; rnrst lip, 70; peas,
03; pumpkin, 87; radish, Leo;' spinech,
-,
50; squos'87; tomatoes, 85; turnips,
:10, and water melons, 87 per cent. These
figures are based upon results secured
in a sun testing apparatus, where the
cend111cns of moisture and temperature
colliecolliebe controlled. Under ordinary
methods the percentage obtained night
1101 run as high, but would run suffi-
ciently near it to give a good idea of
the vitality of the seers.
Testing your sped is advisable, whe-
ther you buy your seed or grow it your -
.self. Unless the germinating power of
the seed Ls knotvn, 11 is Impossible to
tell how much seed to sow to the acre.
It one Is compelled, because of a bad
crop, to tall back upon seed that is
over a year old, the testing process is
necessary.
Sente recent French tests have shown
that two year roll carrot seed gives less
leafy plants, and more highly colored
roots than fresh seed. With pumpkins,
squashes, melons and gherkins, seed
two and three years old. proved most
.satisfactory: In a general way-, there-
fore, 11 may be staled prat while fresh
seed gives the best results, there are
some exceptions, more particularly in
the case et vegetables. Generally speak-
ing, it may be staled that fresh seed
should be used, when it is desired to
produce a plant with a strong leaf
growthcidseed., while for plants which it is
desired sln0uid stead 0r fruit well, lite
eahbage, melon, cucumber, etc., it Is
preferable to use two or three years
•
TREATMENT FOR SMUT.
The only way that smut can be era-
dicated, or lessened, in the grain crop,
is to treat the seed before sowing. The
two treatments most generally in use
for this purpose are the formalin and
bluestone methods, The Termer is gra-
dually replacing the latter method.
For smut in oats put four ounces of
formalin into 12 gallons of water. Put
the oath to a pile and sprinkle the liquid
over them, turning the grain so that
all am well wetted; let the oats Ito for
a short time, and then spread out to
dry. This quantity oI fluid should be
sufficient for treating £6 bushels ot seed.
This treatment is simple and very effec-
tive. Care should be taken to sec that
ell the grain is thoroughly moistened
by the solution, and that the seed is
wall dried afterwards.
Some recent tests made by Prot Shutt,
of the Central Experimental Farm,
would Indicate that the formalin -or.
f emaldehyde solution,. should not ba
prepared until just before it is to be
used. If the solution is made and ex-
posed to the ale for several days the
Water in the solution evaporates nnueh
more quickly than the formaldehyde,
thus leaving it stronger than intended,
and mere liable to injure the grain.
Another treatment, lewd° the hive -
stone, is the hot water treatment, But
this is more difficult to manage, en-
tails more labor, and is hardly as of-
teetifa as the others. The farmalln
treatment is now consiee_red the simp-
lest, 1
and Host reliable, end. can be.
handled by any fainter with little diffi-
culty. Where smut i,,s bad, no seed
3110u1d be sown without being treated,
and, to be en the safe side, all seeds
should be so treated.
ALAS1
Ito event t0 the doctor,
To down a cough, but
(Excuse the poor rhyme)
Ile was trade to cough up,
Co A New Orleans woman was thin. a�
ego
• nourishment from her food,
41'410 She took Seotz",s' Emuta on:1,
Result:
She gained a pouiid a d1st tri wei�lh
'..:`i�4�1, "" far.•. .,:
ell, bltt3CotaTSr bee, ANb 51.00
0t '"a
Because she did not extract sufficient
cmaoo-ao4biztootmeo90,0.04
YOi1Ndl
FOLKS
ocsoceaeetecogeoceseeo
A MAGIC GARDEN.
Gertrude and Fannia played- On ono
side of the fence, and Jessie and Attest
on tiro other side. It was a picket fence,
and so tiley,couid.(0o1 through 1t and
talk to emit h other 1)elw'ee0 the pickets.
Jessie and Alice badi set of
paper dolls that cams from the otty.
They P01'e beautiful dolls, with dresses
and. flats which could be taken off and
put Ort. One dress made the doll loop
like au .English girt holding a flag, and
another eke an Irish girl, and the
Irish girl had the cunningest fat ,pig
under her arra, Then there was a
dress tied turned the same doll into
an Indian, and still another which
made her a Dutch girl with tvoojlen
shoes, end a basket on' her arm, Ger-
trude and Fanttie's dolls were Cut from
magazines, and their dresses term nems
the girls had nude from Issue -paper,
and gold Mee which the grocer had
When off a raisin -box and given them.
Gertrude and Fume) lilted their dolts
very much, and they had lots of fun
malting clothes for them, but they
thought they never had seep any quite
Se nice as Jessie and Alice's, They
nil played happily together, but Ger-
trude and Fannie longest for something
that should be as wonderful tis the
dolls.
"they alwaye dare nicer things than
We do," mild (extrude Ono day.
"Yes," answered Fannie. "And they
have such a smart kitten! Jesse said
that this morning, when they would
not let it In, It climbed up on the out:
side of the screen deer and opened the
lep with its paw, and squeezed liar -,ugh,
end then climbed down on the insides
That was pretty :more I think, but our
Puff can sit up on her hind legs end
Leg, and there are not many cats that
wilt do that."
"Ne, indeed!" answ'r-red Gertrude.
"But i wish,' she added, 'treat eo'could
have something that would just make
thorn open their eyes," and site made
Mr own :e big us she said it that Fan-
nie was almost started.
"I justwish we could astonish them."
They were not jealous or cross over
the matter, but they did love to surprise
people.
It was not long after this that Ger-
trude and Fannie received a tetter from
n cousin tvho lived several miles away.
"I have been having such fun," sho
wnotel, "surprising people with magic
flowers."
Gertiudc and Fannie put their heads
very close together at this, t0 read what
followed, and then they clapped their
Pearls,
"Just the thing!" exclaimed Gertrude.
"Now we will have something' to show
Jessie and Alice, and won't they wen. -
der about its"
So they set out to gather a buncli
cf the valets which were to he found
growing in abundance in a marehy,
ileld which they knew well,
About an hour later they ran out to
the picket fence and called to JessIe
and eelice:
" Woutdn I you tike a bunch of vio-
lets?" asked Gertrude, handing a few
through the. Fence.
"Why, yes," answered Jessie, in a
somewhat surprised lone; and then she
stopped in greater surprise, for the
blossoms which Gertrude handed her
were a beautiful shade of green.
"Why,' she exclaimed, "I never saw
green violets before! Where dud you
get them?"
"011, out in the field," answered Fan-
nie,
annie, quite as if green violets were a
matter of remise.
"Why! whys" ejaculated Jessie, with
her . eyes opened wide enough to suit
even Gertrude; and that Was all she
seemed able to say.
"They are magic violets," Gertrude
answered, in a superlur sort of tone;
and before Jessie and Alice could asst
any more questions they had turned
and rim back to the house, In the af-
ternoon they appeared at the fence.
again and called, and this time Fannie
gave ,lessee and Alice each a cluster
or lilac blossoms, and each cluster
was shaded from the usual purple near
the stem to a delicate green at the ftp,
while Gertrude gave them each a spray,
of yellow Inks -of -the -valley.
"We have started a magic garden,'
mild Fannie, in answer' to the questions
and exclamations of wonder.
"Please do tell es about 111" coaxed
Alice. But Gertrude only answered,
"Oh, that is a secrete'
The girls sh0w'ed their msgle blossoms
in the house, too, and their Aunt Edith
thought the lilacs so beautiful and so
wonderful that she asked for a hunch'
to wear. "Islet it nice," sake Gertrude.
with an emphatic shake of her head..
"to have something teat Jessio and Alteo'
wonder about."
On the other side of the fence Jessie
and Alexi .\vera lancing .earnestly. And
then they called to Gertrude and Fan-
nie.
"W'e'll let ;you keep aur paper dolls
all day if yearn tell us about. your lnagle
garden," they said.
Gertrude and Fannie lOolcod at eaei.
I/ther:> eyes a 11)01/1111, and Ellen' they;
turned, and answered, "All right.
The Paper dolts wore b(ougltl, and
as they were handed lblaugti the fence,
Gertrude said, We last dip rte tilos•
soros ten ammonia. You men see the
color change, Our cousin wrote alSout
it, and Ivo thought it wonthe such
fun.,
Da almost bolero they 131 t t0 th i.
d fln,h
h ed
Jessie std Alice were runs dreg to\varil
the hotso, to start a magic garden of
their own Youth's Companlon,
UdICtP1S011,ED,
"Marla," said Mr, Ouiglcy, entering.
his horn° in 501116 0x011.em4nt, "1 want
you 14 promise mo not .to look at the
poets for the next lire nienlhsl"
Wtrit tar? wonderingly asked Airs,
ui le
� 1I Y
ave st .en. nominated f
t t1 Ju h .,n 0 or,ft
public office," Imo tattered "and 1 don't
want you do 1lnel out what khltl of al
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