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Show r Charlie, the better to see and be ont of the anticipated jam, had mounted convenient carriage-ston- e standing in front of a dwelling house half a block from the hotel. Great as was the excitement around him, it seemed to be doubly intensified further along the line of march, especially in front of the hotel. He saw the procession break at this point melt away as it were. Men ran toward the hotel in squads, waving their arms wildly. Was it an opportunity to quench the thirst that frequently burns Irish throats on this glorious holiday? Charlie knew of yore all about the battle of the Boyne, and how an orange fiag arouses the hatred of a St. Patrick's day parader even as the red flag stirs the maddened bull to frenzy. Had some bold and incautious soul dared to invite immolation by thus flaunting in their faces the color they despised? He supposed this must be the case. To his surprise, however, the excitement spread the crowd pressed madly forward, mounted officers came galloping back, shouting out something that at first he could not catch. Never .to his dying day would Charlie Stuart forget the intense anxiety of that moment when he seemed to feel as though the fate of empires was at stake and then he heard distinctly above the roar the stentorian voice of a leathern-lungeofficer: "Turn out! The avenue is impassable! The Windsor hotel is on fire! Turn out! Doubtless that stentorian shout sent a shuddering chill to many a heart when those who heard it glanced up at the massive pile and comprehended the hundreds of precious lives that were endangered. To none could it appeal with more irresistible force than to Charlie A WARRIOR BOLD. By ST. QEORGE EATBTIORNE, Author of Littlt Mut Million!," Tin Bpidtri Wit," "Dr. Jack! B idow'," Mut Caprict," tta CesjrUkv 1901, Street end Smith. New Yorh, - CHAPTER XII.- (Con tinned.) We must have another deal, that's all. Perhaps a better and more generous lover will appear the next time one who will appreciate little favors at their true value. You can consider with a wave of yourself dismissed, the hand that should have struck dumb terror Into the heart of the other, but which, on the contrary, only excited his secret mirth. Thanks, but I shall take my discharge only from the proper authority, and in this case that does not happen to be ahem! Capt. Brand. Very good. Remember, I am her father, and the rightful custodian of our family honor. Perhaps I may resort to other and more drastic measures should you continue to force your unwelcome attentions upon my daughter. You would find me ready and will- ing to give you back as good as you send, sir. Why, you young scamp, I could break every bone in your body. If I chose, almost frothing at the mouth with rage. Better not try It, captain. In New York state they electrocute for murder, and its a worse fate than hanging, which you know has terrors enough never to be forgotten. Charlie, acting upon the spur of the moment, could not help giving him d this little thrust It was a keen one. The others jaw dropped, his eyes momentarily rolled in a spasm of agony, and the sweat seemed to break out upon his brow. Charlie saw and was satisfied. He had given the conscienceless in return for his wretch a body-blovile threats. Capt Brands spasm lasted but a brief space of time, and then he re- Stuart. All his hopes and ambitions on earth were centered there the girl he loved with heart and soul was far up in the doomed structure, perhaps asleep, under the influence of an opiate, after a wakeful night with an aching brow. 'At first his blood seemed congealed into ice. covered his Then it leaped through his veins Ther9 was a peculiarity about the like boiling lava, fresh from the marked seemed very captain that throat of Vesuvius. when in a rage his eyes became quite Charlie did not waste time in rebloodshot, and glowed like the orbs of flection. a hyena upon the deserts of which he Time was worth more than money loved to talk. now, worth all the world to him. And Just now they were fiery, He had leaped to the pavement like a deerhound, and dashed toward The look he gave Stuart had mur the hotel in great bounds. der in it, though Charlie showed no Some men would have lost their sign of alarm. wits, but it seemed that the greater Here, in this public place, the the emergency the keener became his man would never dare assault him. mind. Besides, Charlie possessed the idea Even a3 he ran and elbowed his that he could bold his own at any way through the excited crowd with time against the fellow. True, he irresistible force, he was mapping out was smaller than the captain, but a a plan of campaign. life devoted to occasional dissipation Really there seems no limit to the must have sapped some of the aston- human mind its capacity is astonishishing powers which a generous na- ing it rises to meet the emergency ture had originally bestowed upoq the regardless of what is needed. worthy man of many faces. Now, even when thus fighting his But Capt. Brand restrained himself way through the crowd, Charlie saw reason had not quite deserted him. the hopelessness of attempting to He smiled grimly, and there was reach the main entrance on the avea world of meaning in his sardonic nue. look. The space for half a block was "Very good, my hearty! You have densely packed with a whooping mass chosen to throw down the glove, and of humanity, partly Imbued with the jfrom this hour its war to the knife eager curiosity that always distinbetween us. You may live to rue the guishes crowds the world over, and at day you made an enemy out of one the same time a chivalrous desire to who held out the olive branch. De- be of use somehow. t fend upon It, Arllne Brand is not for If he desired to reach that door .you. A fond parent must guard the he must perforce walk over the heads interests of his sweet child. Go your of the packed crowd. way, young sir; and when next me A better plan suggested Itself. meet it will be as foes to the death. He remembered a side entrance !l wash my hands of you. which would admit him much more easily. Now he was at the corner. CHAPTER XIII. He took one look up and around. The Fateful Hour. ; The picture was impressed upon Charlie looked after the retreating figure of Capt. Brand, and was in the tablets of his memory forever. No longer were handkerchiefs and doubt whether to take him seriously or consider his threat a huge joke. He green ribbons waving from the soon resolved to dismiss from his numerous windows of the hotel inimlnd Capt. Brand and all he typified, stead, girls threw out their arms appealingly and shrieked (and seek repose. He gained the sanctity of his room, in terror. The wand of an evil magician had land, lighting the gas, sat down to (have a last deliberation ere retiring. touched the scene, and transformed It in a twinkling. All seemed capable of running In Smoke already oozed from several smooth groove, but "the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft openings, proving to Charlie that his Agley," Bobby Burns tells us, and who hopes of the fire being trifling were ibas not found it true in his own groundless. It was most serious. The holocaust of the Parisian Charlie retired. Whether he slept soundly or not concerns us little, but Charite Bazar was about to be repeat'under the .circumstances it is hardly ed in New York; and that St Patjprobable that his slumber was very ricks day would be marked as the most grewsome Gotham had ever rrefreshing. There was too great a load on his known. Charlie now had a better chance to mind. He felt very much as a man might push ahead. stands upon the brink of a Already he feared he had delayed Cho too long. ' Success or failure his whole There were many people and much excitement in the side street hut it depended upon one little word-wabalanced in the hollow of a girls was of course not to be Compared with the avenue where the crowds band. Charlies previous bitter experience had gathered to witness the parade. Charlie bad caused him to feel more or less Straight to the door dashed. Icaution, with a shade of distrust A man stood there endeavoring to the gentle sex, and against this keep out those who had no business jhe had to fight Could he have known what lay Inside, for it is well known that darof him, under what fearful condl ing thieves will take advantage ttlons he was fated to win his sweet-heart- , such occasions to ply their nefarious even his bold warrior spirit trade, even if they do not at times even create the opportunity. jmight have quailed a little. Ten men could not have kept our It la just as well perhaps, that these things are mercifully hidden from our Charlie from pushing in. He shouted that he was a guest, view Just as well that we need only grapple with each difficulty as it ap- and then rushed inside; nor did the pears in view, instead of crossing man, after one look at his haggard face, attempt to say him cay. bridges before we come to them.. The day dawned. Charlie avoided the office, where There was more or less of a bustle men swarmed, and orders were shouted that could never be obeyed. In the air. His business was aloft New Yor contains more sons of She was there exposed to a frightErin than probably any Irish city out-idful death, and he felt that he lived of Dublin. And these patriotic exiles never but to save her! So up he bounded, three steps at a neglect to fittingly celebrate St. what the time. day, no matter One thing he must remember the weather may be. Charlie felt he must have something Windsor was famous as a caravanto distract his attention. Artemus sary where a stranger might easily was not in; sight, the daily paper had lose himself in the many passages. Ibsen exhausted, and hs a last resort To do so now would be indeed fatal be sauntered out to watch the crowds, to all his hopes. Never once did be wander far from He found smoke everywhere, and tthe hotel, which fact, later on, he was even fancied he could hear the crackInclined to believe was a special dis- ling of flames, though the whole place was in such a turmoil that one could pensation of Providence. The magnet was there that held not be sure of this. He also met numerous persons, flyhim. He smoked and walked, and ing this way and that, maddened with the time dragged by until the hour of fear. fate arrived. Some hardly knew whither they panic-stricke- n . e e Pat-Tick- s ' went, and appealed frantically to this man beseeching him, for heavens sake, to tell them where the stairs could be found. Nor did he fail to direct them, every one, even while he pushed on to the next flight. Up, up, he went, still finding smoke circling along the halls, through which women staggered, shrieking their appalling distress. It was a terrifying picture. There were comical elements injected into it, of course, but no one had the heart to laugh. Charlie knew in his heart a dreadful calamity was impending nothing short of a miracle could save the great structure now, and the days of miracles appear to be past scores of human lives Perhaps would be sacrificed to the demon of fire mostly helpless women, employes or guests, who had been viewing the parade from the upper windows. The mere fact that such a draught passed through the halls from these open windows would hasten the total demolition of the whole structure and make it more certain. Had Charlie no sacred duty of his own to perform, he would have gladly devoted all of his time toward effecting the rescue of these terrified girls. As it was, he could only think of Arline. Her lovely face was before his eyes and seemed to plead with him to make haste. The smoke was growing even more dense, and he bad to push close to the doors to distinguish the numbers, in order to make sure that he was on the right floor. At last this knowledge came to him. The opportunity was in his grasp. Here the same conditions seemed to abound there was smoke in plenty, frenzied maids and flying figures darting through it all like spectres. Charlie was somewhat out of breath a result of his steady climb, but otherwise in good physical condition. He had the number of Arlines rooms well in his mind the house had been crowded, and these were the best at her sendee, though the clerk had promised her a suite near the McKinleys after that day. What if he could have made a mistake In any way? The wretched consequences almost paralyzed him to even think of it Eagerly he had scanned each flying or crouching female figure he met, in the hope that he might thus discover the one he sought But as yet he had not found her. atmos--. Even in that smoke-ladephere he knew he could not mistake her figure, while one note from her voice must have thrilled him through and through. (To be continued.) d n The Talk of Children. It has been said that children speak the best English in the world in that their idea is expressed in the fewest words and to the point. Mr. Andrew Simonds, of Charleston, of is convinced that their powers vernacular are superior to his talent for intelligible description. He was one day trying to Interest his little girl, nearly 3 years old, by telling her Btories of the circus. She loved horses and was particularly impressed by the feats of the bare-bac- k riders. he said, taking a chair by way of illustration, this is a horse. A man comes in on him and rides him all round the ring standing up without any saddle or bridle. Then directly another horse comes in bare-bac- k (putting another chair by the first), and the man rides him, too, just in the same way, until at last there are four horses, and he rides them all round the ring at the same time. And a row of four chairs represent the four horses. Now, wasnt that fine? The little one looked up, very grave, her eyes full of the doubt and credulity that so often puzzle us Yes he had many legs that Now, man. And I had to go all over that story again, said Mr. Simonds. Human Pack Horses In Mexico, A striking feature of these roads Is the number of human beasts of burden" you meet. The roads are so bad that there is very considerable risk in conveying goods of any kind risk both to the goods and the pack mule that carries them; consequently large numbers of Indians make a living by carrying. The Mexican Indian carries his load on his back, slung by a broad leather belt across the forehead. Thus all his limbs are perfectly free, and he carries a long, light stick, like an alpenstock, to steady himself in going down steep places or in crossing streams. These men will, in good weather, carry a load from 100 to 150 pounds over the worst of roads, for a distance of twenty to twenty-fiv- e miles a day. They wear no clothing except a pair of cotton breeches rolled half way up the thighs, and a pair of leather sandals on the feet; and each man carries a blanket to roll himself up in at night They eat no meat their only food being posol (boiled maize ground and mixed with sugar, then rolled into a ball and carried moist). This they break into a bowl of water, mix up well to the consistency of thin gruel, and drink, and their only food consists of this posol and tortillas. The power of endurance displayed by these carriers is wonderful. Ancient Iberian Temple. Dr. Sieglln, professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin, has discovered during his recent tour in. southern Spain what is probably the oldest temple of the ancient Iberians, at the confluence of the rlVfers Odial and Rio TInto, near Huelva. The temple was dedicated to the Goddess of the Lower World, and is connected with two caves, which are filled with debris. agriculture r High Protein and High Starch Corn. From the Farmers Review: Now that the farmers of Illinois are turning their attention to growing high protein corn for the purpose of getting a better balanced ration for stock feeding, it will be well to consider some of the probable results. To grow a large crop of high protein corn will require a soil rich in nitrogen. The trouble with most Illinois farms, where a proper rotation of corn and clover or other leguminous plants have not been followed, is that these lands are already deficient in nitrogen, and to attempt to grow a high protein corn upon them in their present condition, will likely result in disappointing yields. It seems probable that the yield from such lands will decrease as the protein content It Is now of the corn is increased. an established fact that the corn plant cannot obtain nitrogen from the air, but is dependent entirely upon that which is available in the soil. There is, therefore, but one course for the grower of high protein corn to follow, and that is to increase the nitrogen in the soil by growing more clover, cow peas, soy beans and other legumes, all of which have the po.wer of obtaining nitrogen from the air through the agency of bacteria in their root tubercles. While it is essential that these leguminous crops should be grown by every corn grower. I wish to emphasize the point that the grower of high protein corn will exhaust available nitrogen in the soil more rapidly than the grower of high starch corn and must, therefore, have soil rich in that element to obtain the best results. As feeders we want the high protein corn for our live stock, but it seems probable that a high starch corn would be less exhausting upon the soil and give a larger yield on light and thin soils. We do not know this to be true. But since all plants get their carbon from the air it would seem that the variety of corn the most carbonaceous containing matter and least protein would produce the largest yield in bushels on thin soils. This is a point of much interest to the giain seller who cares more for yield than for feeding value. We would like to hear from Prof. Hopkins on this point Clayton C. Pervler, Bureau County, Illinois. The Home Market for Meat George F. Thompson says: Although it is always impossible to know the extent of the home market for live stock and their products, all agree to the proposition that the home market is the best market. Certain features of the live Btock trade may be shown very easily, but to give figures concerning the markets as a whole is not Such a statement would possible. necessitate, not only an annual enumeration of live stock, but a record of animals slaughtered on the farm and in the village, town, and city. The itensus reports of 1900 are helpful to Home extent, in that they give the value of the animals sold (less the number purchased) and the value of those slaughtered; but there is nothing to show how much of these values represented cattle, or how much represented sheep, hogs, and horses. It is interesting nevertheless, to know that the farmer of the United States disposed of live stock in 1899 to the This reprevalue of 5732,913,114. sents the net sales, as the value of any animals purchased were deducted from the value of those sold. During the same year there were slaughtered upon farms animals having a total value In other words, evof 5183,873,310. ery person engaged in agricultural pursuits who was ten years of age or older, consumed meat worth 518.20 during the year 1899. At this rate of of live consumption, the producer stock should have received from the people of the United States, who were ten years of age and older, Including themselves, the enormous sum of The records, however, show that the combined value of the live stock slaughtered on the farm and that sold off was but 5912,786,424, or 5148,033,576 less than the above amount, showing that the producer consumes much more meat than the .people engaged in other vocations and is therefore his own best customer. Increase of Meat Pricee In Germany. United States Consul John E. Kehl reports that butchers associations in Germany have, within the past two months, held many meetings to devise means of stopping the continual decrease in the supply of live stock available. This exists scarcity throughout the whole empire, naturally increasing the price of meat In Berlin for the month of June, 1902, there was a deficit of 1,964 head of cattle (slaughtered), as compared with the same month in 1901. For the last half of August (from the 16th to the 30th) there was a general decrease of 22,566 head of slaughtered stock, as compared with the same period of 1901. These figures are taken from the Allgemeine Flelsch The decrease of available erzeitung. stock in the Dresden market for the first seven months of this year, as compared with the same period of last year, was: Beef, 2,014 head; swine, 23,760 head; calves, 1,955 head; sheep, 1,236 head. In Posen, pork is selling for 1 mark (23.8 cents) per pound. In Cosisnz, a general advance of pfennings (2.4 cents) was made last month on all kinds of meats and sausages. It Is safe to say that almost very city of more than 60,000 In habitants has, since the 1st of January of this year, experienced an increase in the price of meats. From True Greatness. June, 1900, to June, 1902, the price of True greatness, first of all, k a live hogs has risen 25.8 per cent In is all of It alive the heart wfth laboring circles the use of thing meat due robust and generous sympathies. It is to la diminishing, which high prices, neither behind its age nor too far be- accounts for the gain of 51,223,716 in fore it It is up with its age, and the Import of fresh and smoked fish ahead of it only Just so far as to be and herring, as compared with 1900. able to lead its march. It cannot a is of for slumber, necessity activity Nursery trees are greatly benefited Its existence. It is no reservoir, but W transplanting them once or twice D. Hitchcook. fountain. Roswell before the final planting out The Asparagus Bed. In most of the Northern states, spring is the best time to start an asparagus bed. The work should be' begun as soon as the soil is dry' enough. The advantage of beginning early is to get the asparagus roots-intthe soil in time to receive the benefit of the spring rains. The bed may Indeed be put in late, say June or July, but in that case the roots will be trying to send up shoots at a time of year when there is the least supply of moisture. Artificial watering is often resorted to in such cases, but such application of water is often neglected or made too scantily, and the supply that nature gives is thus much to be preferred. Moreover, in the case of a large bed on sandy soil, the application of water would-bfound to entail an immense amount of labor. For asparagus tne ground should be thoroughly worked. If the land has a decided slope, run the asparagus rows in accordance with it, so that the soil may to some extent have a natural drainage. It is best to give the plants room enough, and if they are from four to five feet apart, it will be better for them and make it easier to cultivate with a horse, it the bed be of sufficient size to require it Asparagus roots spread rapidly and soon cover a large area. They will produce larger shoots aud will continue to produce longer than will be the case if the roots are planted close together, as used to be done. In too close plantings, the beds in a tow years become a mass of roots, and the stalks become smaller and tougher from to year. When a large field is to be planted to asparagus it is Interesting to know how many plants will be required. If they are set three feet apart each way an acre will require 4,840; three by four feet, 3,640; four by four feet, 2,722 plants; four by five feet, 2,178 plants per acre; five by five feet, 1,692; five by six feet, 1,452; six by si feet, 1,210. The roots of asparagus will sometimes be found In the soil ten feet from the parent stem, so it is readily seen that they can use all the room given them. Asparagus is not a plant and does not require to be planted in deep trenches, as some seem to think. In Its wild state it grows on the edges of marshes and has to send its roots down only a few inches to reach water. The roots cannot liVe in water and hence run far over thei ground near the surface. Wfeei thi are planted in deep treiiches On hea1 soil the roots lie in water for weeks at a time and the plants die. The writer knpwa of sucl) a bedfeing made in the spring of 1902. It wad on heavy, wet soil. The old man that dug the trench followed the old notion and put It down good and deep, which meant over two feet. He filled the bottom with tomato cans and the like rubbish, piled a lot of manure on top of that, then put in the asparagus roots and the dirt A good rain came on and filled the trench. Not an asparagus shoot appeared durThe proper ing the entire season. depth to plant asparagus is from four to ten inches, depending on conditions of soil, moisture supply and variety of plant ;-- ar deep-roote- d 8mall Things About ths Orchard. In a talk to fruit growers R. Morrill said: If I were to have an orchard to lay out in an ideal manner I would have it laid out with a view of being able to do all the work in that orchard economically, to be able to gather the fruit economically. I will mention one thing to call your attention to what I mean. If there is no other reason, no climatic reason, why a tree should have a long body, I would give it a short body, because by and by you have got to prune that tree, and every foot you raise that tree in the air you have expended energy from the beginning of tbs pruning of the tree to the end of its existence in going up and down ladders; every foot means that percentage of extra labor for every man that goes up and down that ladder thousands and thousands of times during the life of that tree. That means a difference of 10 per cent on your expense; it might make 20 per cent difference on your expenses. Those are little things, but those are among the little things that count so much. So I say, unless there some other excellent is reason why you should not do it, would advocate short bodies. Another reason is there is not the same leverage from the wind on the short body that there is on a long body. By the same rule I would shorten my limbs and keep my tree compact and open for the same purpose; it is economical. I say open here, but if I were clear down in southern Illinois probably I would not say open, because the question of protection from the hot and scalding sun makes a difference. That is why I wish to modify my statement, and what I say may be open to criticism if taken in a different locality. Wheat and Its Products as Feed. In an address to stock raisers and feeders. Prof. H. R. Smith of the Nebraska experiment station said: Corn is our king of food stuffs and will contiuue to be. It can be produced in abundance here at little expense. The kernels are of such size and brittleness as to make them easily masticated. No food is better relished by farm animals and no food will give more satisfactory results when properly fed. As a single food it is deficient in protein and mineral matter, and should therefore be reinforced by something rich In these materials. As previously stated, wheat Is ordinarily too expensive to feed. The of wheat, however, bran and shorts, are available at reasonable prices. They are not only but furnish to the animal just what com lacks. While the three coatings of the kernel constitute but 6 per cent, the gluten layer 3 per cent and 4 per cent, and the germ 6 per cent of the entire kernel, from 26 per cent to 40 per cent of the kernel is removed in For fattening milling as animals, shorts is too rich in protein, while corn is too deficient to give the best returns. The two together, however, make a strong combination. The results of a single experiment conducted by Professor Henry of Wisconsin several years ago will substantiate this statement In feeding three lots of pigs, one on corn meal, another on middlings, and a third on equal parts of each, one hundred pounds of gain was produced from 537 pounds of corn by the hogs of lot 1, 622 pounds of middlings by lot 2, and but 439 pounds of the mixture of both com and middlings. A given weight of the mixture therefore produced near 20 per cent more gain than the same weight of either alone. Bran is the food par excellence for sheep and cattle, not 'only because it supplies protein and mineral matter, but also because when mixed with corn meal it so lightens the heavy grain ration as to make it more readily acted upon by the digestive juices and more easily moved forward through the stomachs and intestines. It acts as a mild laxative and thus keeps a heavy grain fed animal ia a thrifty condition. Every boy on the farm knows the value of a hot bran mash for the sick cow or horse. If these of wheat were mixed with com in fair proportion, it would hardly seem necessary to purchase condlmental stock foods at high prices. Famous Mormon Hill Is Sold. Mormon Hill, neat Newark, N. Y., on which Joseph Smjtl asserted he found the golden plate of the Book of Mormon, and th Urim and Thummlm, has recently bees sold, as part of a farm, to Walter J Hunt. James Wilson was the formal owner. The elders of the Mormos church in Utah have made several at tempts to secure possession of ths hill. Smith had his manuscript pub lished in 1830 at Palmyra, and ht averred that the golden plates disap The famous d Breeding Animals Needed. s of More and more the the United States are becoming convinced that they must have only mature animals for breeders if the stamina of their flocks and herds Is to be kept up. At the Wisconsin Experiment station it was found that rams were not as prolific as two and three year old rams. With ewes also it was demonstrated that the ewes below three years of age gave a smaller percentage of increase than the ewes that had reached three years. We have been trying to intensify the quality of early maturity by breeding from immature parents, till it has become evident that the stamina of the breeds is being weakened. Now our stations are pointing out the necessity for using more mature animals, and they are finding the lesson difficult to teach. d stock-breeder- Mormon Hill. peared mysteriously soon afterward. The original manuscript is now in a bank vault at Richmond, Mo. i Testing the Will Power. There is a wonderful little instru-- , ment which is called the myergeathe-siometeinvented by Prof. Elmer Gates, to test a persons will power. The individual takes hold of the handle and repeatedly pulls the cord, which unwinds from a pulley, and owing to the nature of the mechanism, the pull requires a uniform amount of energy thr,ughout the whole length of the motion. Gradually, however, and unknown to the individual, the lnatru ment is made to move, for example harder, and so on, until tho e between the original and more difficult motion is perceptible to the person. The more practice a person has with Buch an instrument the greater becomes the mind's capacity to will its attention to the feelings of muscular energy. Briefly, the object is to make the intellectual functions respond quicker than they on dinarily do by a process of training, ! r, h energy-differenc- - . A Weighty Club. A society of Some weight . .j, ' ,yy ! has just been established in Marseilles under the title of the de MarThe main condition of memseille. bership is that no one shall be eligible whose weight is less than 100 kilos (about 18st.). The officers, it need scarcely be added, have been elected by weight also. The president turns the scale at 145 kilos, the secretary at 138. With a weight of 136 kilos It would appear no easy task for the treasurer to decamp in a hurry with any of the society's funds. 80 far tho roll of membership runs to about thirty . London Answers. ft Cent-Kilo- s i Thought It Was the Devil. The beadle of a parish church near A New Buttering Color. St Beauzely, Aveyron, France, wan The makers of butterine have been nearly frightened out of his wits the looking far and near for some ingreother morning. While he was slowly dient that will color oleomargarine opening the door of the sacred buildand yet form a very considerable pro- ing an enormous beast rushed out and n portion of the butterine made. The knocked him over. The Internal revenue officers have hitherbeadle for a moment imagined that to decided against every coloring in- he had encountered Satan, but the ingredient found on the ground that so habitants of the village later recoct small a percentage was used that it nized the cause of his fright as a wild was evident that It was not Intended boar which the night before, while as a substantial part of the compound, being chared by a pack of hounds, had "but was added for its coloring effects suddenly and sought disappeared, Had the coloring matter comonly. sanctuary in the church and passed posed say 10 per cent of the bulk of the night to ere. the oleomargarine and possessed food value the internal revenue officers Odd Vehicle. might have ruled that it was a legitiThe Inventor of this vehicle says It mate part of the compound. Now, will carry four people, without count however, a Chicago savant thinks hs lng the driver. It is strong, easy to has found a solution of the coloring draw, and can turn in a horse's length. problem in eggs. He has therefore taken out a patent on what hs considers the key to the oleomargarine situation. In his application for papers patent he claims his butterine is to consist of 30 per cent fresh eggs, 20 per cent tallow, and 50 per cent lard. The tallow and the lard ars to he melted and thus mixed. The eggs axe to be beaten for fifteen minutes and then mixed with the other ingredients, after which the mixture is to be boiled from 15 minutes to half an hour, when it is cooled off and worked. How the eggs will suit the consumers of oleo is yet to be found out terror-stricke- Seed Corn. From Farmers Review: Farmers are getting ready for spring work. The frost is nearly out of the ground. The bulk of our corn last fall was not fully ripe and the wise farmer will carefully test his seed early. A have to a It pays good dairy barn. way is to take one kernel from Money is well invested in sueh an good doubtful ear and put them beeach improvement. We have known farmtween two pieces of cloth In a dish ers that were and yet all of kept wet when the temperatheir lives never owned a decent barn tureearth, is not too low, and if good it will for the housing of their dairy cows. sprout in four or five days. Do not Barns dark in summer and cold in use too old seed. I had some three are not places in which the winter ago that was fine, having been years cows can be comfortable or their 'kept perfectly dry and looked bright keepers happy while they are work- and good, and not having seed enough ing around them. used some to finish up planting with. It was three or four days longer in s It pays to make butter, and was sickly and poor but it is also necessary that the maker coming up all summer, and I had not more than s should know bow to get balf a crop. G. W. Buffum, Steele prices for it. The man that takes his butter to the corner grocery and sells County, Minn. it at the same price his neighbors are It is evident that silage is to be a getting for poor butter has not yet great factor in the future feeding of learned how to get the most out of his cattle in Illinois and neighboring product. states. The digestions of cattle are worn out by too high feeding of conTwo black oak chairs, said to have centrated stuffs. Besides, the waste belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, and In undigested material is great Silage to have been rescued when Hawleys comes in as a kind of feed that helps fire set to pal-i out the others Dragoons Linlithgow and saves the digestive were in sold London ace, recently for apparatus of the animals. 5220 each. well-to-d- o first-clas- first-clas- . The driver completely controls the animal, and no dust is thrown up to inconvenience the sitters, for by tha time it rises the car is well in ad vance of it It is cheap; the harness is simple and safe. The hone la sheltered from heat, and rain, and flies. Remarkable Sea Monster, sea monster was A remarkable caugbt In Port Fairy Bay, Melbourne Australia, recently by some fishermen. It measures nine feet six Inches la " length, has a tall like that of a serein tail shaft, no teeth, a nose like a rhi- -. noceros, a head like an elephant, twoj dorsal fins, four side fins, and two steering fins. The skin is black and very soft say-The most experienced fishermen the specimen is altogether new to them. They cannot hazard a guess Mi to the species. The fish will he sent to the Melbourne Museum.- London, - Mall. i , |