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Show By JOHN R. MUSICK, Th4 AatlMr ol Mjnur'gu Mr. Howard, Charlla Allaadalaa Dark Stranffor,' Donbla," Etc. Cvntight, 1897, bj Roam Bovaii'a Son. SI) rtsbta raaarrad. CHAPTER VIII. (Continued.) cried Captain Fairweather "You? sharply. "Yea. If she sails for Juneau from Seattle in the 'President, I will sail from San Francisco in the Occident. "Would not your presence awaken her suspicion? "Why should it? Everybody is going to the Kloudyke now, and why not as well? "Thats so, with a craning swallow which ended in a bow. "Seems all right. Plan is a good one, but it will he very uncomfortable to you. I am willing to undergo all the discomforts when it is a matter of such importance, said Lackland. "I want two more faithful, trusty men. Men who will go wherever I send them, obey every order I give, and keep still tongues in their heads. Money is no object." "Well, well!" said the captain, winking and rubbing his hands gleefully; "that's talking to the mark; that is talking just as I like to hear a gentleman What is your price? asked Lack-land- , his pale, white face almost quivering in bis intensity. "Well, they come high. "I expect to pay high for them. moss-covere- d super-huma- How much do you want for finding two such men for me in the next twelve hours? With a wink and another craning peck and swallowing bow, he gasped: "One thousand dollars. "I take you up; go bring them at once. "Meet em at my boat at midnight "I will do it and the money Is yours as soon as they are secured. CHAPTER IX. From Metlakahtla. Paul Miller's discovery that the white man prospecting on the island was one of the men who had captured the hermit and beyond doubt one of the four who had robbed him. for a moment deprived him of speech. He had his own reasons for not wishing to be recognized by the man who had robbed him aud attempted his life. He Pauls Departure also had strong reasons for wishing to have him held a prisoner. He believed the man could unfold the whole story of the robbery and mystery of the hermit and determined to make him do so before leaving the island. After a lew moments the babel of voices without ceased, and the crowd gathered near the house began to disperse. The thought then occurred to his mind that the prisoner, having been arrested for trespassing, might be released on his solemn promise never to return. With this new danger in his mind he started toward the door, when he was met by Father Duncan. What have they done with the prisoner? he asked anxiously. He has been sent to the prison to be detained for a while until certain mysteries with which he is connected are cleared up," said the old man. "Father Duncan, do you think the fellow Is secure? Do you think there is no danger of his escape? None whatever. My Indians are very watchful and careful. They will obey me to the letter. Then let us sit here and compare notes for a few moments. He seated himself by the old missionary and told him of his rescue by the mysterious old man of the mountains whom he had called the hermit. Then he told of the capture of the hermit, and concluded with; Tils man was one of the three who seised the good old man and took him away from the cavern." The lntorest of good Father Duncan Increased, and he shook his head, saying: "This is certainly very, very strange." There is a mystery in it all which 1 am unable to solve. 1 cannot comprehend who this strange hermit can be, unless he is the captain to whom yon refer. "It looks very much as if the unfortunate man was the beloved captain whose mysterious disappearance has occasioned so much distress." Paul remembered the story which Glum Ralston, had told the him of his captain, and also recalled to his recollection the mysterious walrus hide. His anxiety to escape from the island and return to the Klondyke, where his friends were, was more than by a desire to learn something of the motives of the trespasser. Mr. Duncan,' will your friends see that he does not escape?" There is little danger of his doing so," Father Duncan answered. My friends are kind and Christian men, yet they have by no means lost their native watchfulness." Paul had ample proof, in time, of the danger of The third night after his visit to the jail he was awakened by a loud noise in the direction of the little wharf. There came the report of a gun, something rarely heard at Metlakahtla, and he leaped from his bed hurriedly dressed and ran out upon the street At last he met Father Dun-cawhom he found as calm and firm as usual. "What has happened, Father Duncan?" he asked. "Alas! my son, you were all too The prisoner has good a prophet escaped. The wicked are ever cunning and watchful, and Satan sleeps r. d a, not Paul gave utterance to a groan, sank upon a large stone at the side of the road and bowed his head in his hands. One more hope, and, in fact aoout the last hope he had, was gone. Paul remained' two weeks longer with the MeUakahtlas, and then decided to leave his dusky friends and start for the Klondyke. Father Duncan selected ..four stout him. young Indians to accompany The Indians were well supplied with 4 provisions suitable for crossing the mountains, and he and his escort were provided with dried meat and compressed bread and hardtack. The four Indians selected for Pauls party were stout young fellowrs. inured to hardship and danger. They were strong, ;brave and faithful. The instructions given them by the old missionary were carefully listened to and they promised to carry them out to the letter. There is always something - enchanting in a great, deep forest, with its tall trees clothed in moss and solemn depths which seem to speak of divinity. At night in the forest adds to the gloom, the solemnity and awfuluess of the scene. A camp fire in the great northern woods, with its rocks and cliffs, its trees, has something grand in it Gathered about a camp fire built at the base of the mountain range were five persons Paul .Miller and his four Christian Indians. It had been a long, hard day's travel, and the poor fellows were almost exhausted. It was only Paul's indomitable will driving him on to more than energies that kept him on his feet. He had abandoned all hope of finding the men who had robbed him, and now he longed to get back to the Klondyke, take another fortune from the frozen earth, and return to Laura and his mother. The faces which ever seemed to smile &t hint from the smoke and darkness gave him courage and hope. It has been a long time since I wrote to tnem, he though.. They have no doubt given me up for dead How sad to cause them grief, and all through a mischievous yet truthful message v itten in a fit of deliriumt He was suddenly roused from his painful reverie by the falling and rolling of a great stone down upon and across the camp fire, scattering the burning brands in every direction. The great, round bowlder passed within a few inches of where Paul sat and betweeu two of the Indians, but fortunately did not touch The stone . was heavy any one. enough to crush out life or break bones had it struck one. Paul leaped to his feet and the Indians started up with exclamations of fear. From whence came that stone? cried an Indian. Paul's first suspicion that some convulsion of the earth had shaken the stone loose from the mountain side and sent it thundering down the cliff upon them, but there had been no perceptible quaking. While he was still trying to discover the cause, there came another object rolling down the steep descent mingled with dirt, fine stones and snow. It semed a great dark ball, from which there Issued a human cry. It rolled to Pauls feet and stopped. He seized one of the burning brands and held it so the flame threw the light upon the face of the stunhed and half insensible man, who sat stupidly gazing about him. The sudadvent of this den and unexpected stranger was enough to startle the campers and disturb their wits. The Indians, starting to their feet, stared Paul at him in amazement. was first to recover his speech. He cried: Throw the wood on the fire! They obeyed, and the light flashed up, throwing out a broad red glare on the scene which Illumined the face of the man who had tumbled down toe cliff. Paul, starting back, saia: It is the escaped prisoner, the abductor the robber and perhaps murderer. He seized one of the Indians muskets and raised It to brain s the scoundrel, but two stout seized him and, said: shalt not Nay, brother, Thou kill! The man who had so suddenly fallen into their midst was rapidly regaining his faculties and by this time able to speak. He, growled an oath and rubbed the side' of his head. Where did you come from? asked Paul. From alott on the cliff, he answered. What were you doing up there?" Tryin to cross. Was any harm In n it to dry their bedraggled garments and warm their shivering bodies. They had just made a supper on dried salmon, moose meat and bard-- . tack, when they were startled to see an old man with long white hair and beard standing on a slight elevation not far away, gazing at them. He wore a seal-skicap, which shaded his face, but not too much for him to he recognized by all the camp. The captain! cried the MeUakahtlas. The hermit! exclaimed Paul. The prisoner gave utterance to a curse and was bounding away when a blow from the hermit's staff sent him staggering to the earth. Paul Miller started quickly toward the hermit, saying: Where are you from? The old man gave him a piercing look and answered: I am from everywhere, which means nowhere. This is precious fine He clutched company you keep! his stout staff as Paul approached and warned him not to come too I will strike you as I did your close. companion if you come too near me," he added, in a voice made ferocious by long years of suffering and disap pointment. Paul halted and gazed at him in ' amazement. The old man at last said: I have been cheated, deceived, betrayed and lied to until I have about lost faith in all men. Can I trust you now? Do you know those men? asked It Paul, pointirg to the Melakahtlas. you know them, you must know they can be trusted Yes, they are brothers, hut they have been deceived as often as L One of the Indians approached the hermit and addressed him in his native tongue. The old man answered in the same language and grasped his hand. Though Paul could not understand a word of what was said, ke knew from their manner and gestures that it had some relation to the man on' the ground. After a long conversation with the Metlakahtla the hermit approached the fire. His face was very grave, and his brow lowered when he gazed upon tbq .prisoner. The mien of the prisoner had been defiant until he met the glance of the hermit, then his countenance fell, and his eyes were upon the ground. "Ned Padgett, said the hermit, you will some day receive the reward you so much merit; you will die a dogs death yet The ruffian gave a sneering chuckle, but made no answer. Have you lived long In Alaska? asked Paul, trying to draw the old man into conversation. r Yes. How many years? A great many. (To be continued.) FREAK DINNERS A FAD. , Metla-kahtia- that? I recognize you as one of the men Entertainments Where Guests Cook for Themselves. Freak dinners are a fad. An or dinary dinner has lost Its charm foi some people who go out much during the season, and now that Paris has set its seal of approval on the Corlnthias dinner at which everyone is obliged to cook something, New Yorkers and Chicagoans will select this form ol entertainment as a inversion. In a studio a few weeks ago the wife of an artist gave one of these cooking parties to a dozen guests who knew nothing of the fun in store for them when they arrived at the house. The studio was arranged with a long table holding a chafing dish for each person, with some particular viand before it ready to be cooked. Each guest received a chef's cap and apron, and in a short time the dishes were bubDling and simmering In a promising fashion. When the meal was cooked it was served by the men, who acted as the waiters... Strangely enough, the dinner in every particular was a success. But cooking has become such a fad of late that it is considered quits smart to know how to cook some particular dish in a chafer. The bachelor apartment feasts, at which th host acts as cook, have Increased th dl. moot occasions for taMn very enjoyable Founded American Town t Special Correspondence) In the commonwealth of Massachu- copy. It read as follows; Heaven the setts there is a prosperous tow n call- country; Christ the way. Here lies ed Winthrop; in that domain of His the body of Adam Winthrop, Esq., son Majesty King Edward yclept England of Adam 'Winthrop, Esq, who were there Is a suug little town called Gro- Patrons of this Church and of ton. The two are closely related; in the manor of Groton. The above named fact, are mother and son, as are so Adam, the son, married Anna, the and Massachusetts daughter of Henry Browne of Edwart-son- , many English towns but until recently the residents bv whom he had one son and four of Winthrop did not know what a daughters. He departed this life in quaint old mother they had. When the year of our Ixrd 1623 and of his the library trustees of ihe Frost Pub- own age 73. But Anna his wife died lic Library at Winthrop matured a 1628. She also is burled here with scheme for connecting the history of him. Blessed are the peacemakers; their town with that of old England, for they shall be called the sons of from whence came Its early settlers, God. they wrote to the Rev. John W. Way-marector of the church at Groton, Received Groton in 1544. The first Winthrop one Adam Win- requesting photographs of the old church and of other points of interest in connection with the home of Deane who settled at Pullin Winthrop, Poyrte, as Winthrop was then called. They received in the course of time the following reply: I fear you must think I never re; celved your letter of 26th March last; or having received it have forgotten all about It. Such is not precisely the case. My delay in replviug to it has been caused by the inability to get the accompanying photos taken. This is a very out of the way place, and, though photography is common enough; it is only lately that a photographer has taken up his temporar) abode in the neighboring parish of Boxford, and given me the opportunity of having the inclosed done." From such a town,, hardly changed at all In the intervening 255 years, came Deane Winthrop, the sixth son of Gov. John Winthrop, about the year John Winthrop, Jr, Governor of 1649. He settled at "Pullin' Poynte, which in 1739 became Chelsea, a part received the grant of Groton, of North Chelsea In 1846, and was in- throp the lordship of the abbot of formerly as town of the corporated Winthrop Bury, at the dissolution of the monas1852. in The old house in which he teries in 1544. Here the second lived is still standing. died. The third of that name, the father of the Massachusetts gov1847.' Town of Groton ifl ernor, was bora in London August 10,. Robert C. Winthrop thus describes 1548, but, although not the oldest son the town of Groton as it was in 1847: later came into possession of the It was one of a cluster of rural vil- manor of Groton. He was something lages, five In number, which lie be- of a poet. His son, John Winthrop, j tween the large towns of Hadleigb who came to America in 1630 as Govand Sudbury, In the southwest corner ernor of Massachusetts, and who was of that thriving agricultural country. the father of Deane, a as bora at The landscape around them has no near the family seat at Gro-- j peculiar features either of beauty or ton, Jan. 12, 1587. He was very pregrandeur; but clothed as it was, in cocious and was made a justice of the the matchless verdure of an English peace when 18 years old, and was summer, it presented a picture of married when only a little over 17. This wife bore him six children, the quiet loveliness which one would not eldest pf whom became the govenor of willingly have lost. Little Walding-fieland Groton appear to have been Connecticut. He married a second time, and this the least noted .of the surrounding villages, and even the name of the wife died in a little over a year. In latter would seem to have disappeared the year 1618 John Winthrop was of late years from more than one of once more established in domestic the Suffolk county maps, as If the life, his third wife being Margaret place had lost any Importance which Tyndall, daughter of Sir John Tynrall. it ever possessed, and bad become too John Winthrop lived along in this t, 1606-167- Wn-thro- d e P mine! t . An Iron Profitable Cows Only. Hundreds of cows kept for dairy purposes do not yield sufficient to pay for the feed they consume. They consume as much feed ns do the profitable ones and require as much time and care in milking. There was a time when a dairy cow was not expected to give milk for more than six months in the year, hut w 1th the present high prices for labor and feed this condition of affairs can no longer profThe lactation period itably exist. should be at least nine months in length. The amount of milk a cow Should produce to be profitable is variously given at from 6,000 to 6,000 pounds annually, or sufficient to yield from 200 to 240 pounds of butter fat. This would vary of course with the locality, price of labor, feed, etc. Danger in Pasturing Rape. As there are many who have sown would call their attention to the fact that there need be some care In pasturing the crop, especially with sheep. It is even worse than clover In causing bloat in sheep though we have never heard of any trouble with cattle in this. They are not so fond of the crop and do not eat it so greedily when first turned on it as they do clover. Until sheep become accustomed to it. It is not safe to leave them for any length of time on rape, even after the dew has dried off. When first turning them to get a good feed of something else before turning them on the rape, then they will not eat so greedily. A half hour at a time is long enough to leave them on at first. A good way to pasture It after they have become accustomed to it is to have it in connection with a good grass pasture and allow them to run from one to the other at will. The rape is too sue-- ' culent for the best results as an entire pasture plant for sheep. If at any time they are inclined to crop it until it gets a fresh start. It should he borne in mind that no plant will produce as much feed if too closely cropped. The roots become starved for want of the support received from the air normally through the leaves. To insure a maximum amount of pasturage from the rape It is wcl) to withhold the stock from it until it gets twelve jjiches high. With the roots thus established the amount of feed it will Farmers Voice. supply is enormous. Deterioration of Corn Fodder. As our readers all know from experience, corn fodder deteriorates vtery rapidly during the winter season if left standing in the shock, especially if the shocks are small and not properly built or tied, thus exposing a large amount of the fodder to the fall and winter rains. The reason why the cow does not take as kindly to corn fodder in the spring as in the fall Is because It has deteriorated, often very rapidly, in quality. Where our readers shred their fodder, the quicker it is done the better. They do not need to wait until the fodder Is perfectly dry. Just as soon as the corn is fit to crib the fodder should be shredded and stored away. Two tons of fodder shredded as soon as the corn is safe tocrlb is worth three tons at least of fodder shredded in February, provided, of course, it is shredded when free from dew or rain. It is not the remaining sap that deteriorates fodder, because It does not have in it the bacteria that cause ferment and decay. It is the bacteria that come in from rain that do the damage either in clover bay or corn fodder. One of the great advantages ol shredded fodder is that it enables us. when done in time, to prevent this rapid deterioration of corn fodder which always takes place in the shock and 'for which there 1. no other rem: edy. Wallace's Farmer. When Hogs Can't Walk. Men that were raised on New England farms have memories of great fat hogs that for months before slaughter were unable to stand on their hind legs. The writer has seen hogs that weighed almost 600 pounds that before slaughter had to move around on their haunches as on a pivot They ate and slept in the same place, turning one way to eat and the other to sleep. Their owners thought it nothing unusual, they only said: "The hog has become so fat he cant stand up. Old Groton Parish Church. Yet with more light on the situation we know that it was not a case of fatinconsiderable to be the subject of quiet country town, enjoying the life ness only, but a case of the constant of a and respected squire part'cular designation. feeding of corn and slop, out of which But the Groton of Suffolk county and devoting his energies to the rearthe animal could not manufacture any In old England has by no means yet ing of his children. His letters to his weight bone or muscles that would sustaiB lost its .local habitation or its ancient wife and sons show him to have been One Acre Per Cow, his weight. In those days the food landmarks. I wag there on a Sunday a diligent, conscientious worker, deThere are men who can carry a cow of such hogs was corn as largely as it to went the in and church to voted his came then parish And family. . , . .. . , .. into his life something which was to to the acre, but they do it with the is now. Had those animals received a silo and soiling crops. It takes others ration composed of ground oats, skim came America. to The old they grand change its whole course and that of service of prayer and praise, in which his offspring; the New England enter- four or five per cow, yet the cows do milk and such nitrogen supplying more than others do off foods they would have had a not eat they had united so long ago within the prise. He was well along in years the acre any lot. This means that some that would have carried about same sanctuary, had just commenced when he became interested in the Maswhen I entered, and I could almost im- sachusetts company, and when he de- men know how to raise crops and any weight. The same results com do not. from the same causes now, but it It agine, as I joined in the responses, termined to pluck up his stakes in his others The latter class have one continual not so apparent, as the hogs are marthat the venerable walls gave back own land with a view of planting an echo of welcome, as to a not unrecthem again in a remote wilderness he complaint, morning, noon and night, keted at half the weight they were In ' , was strongly advised against the step that dairyiiy; does not pay. They the days mentioned. No man should , ognized voice. But he made up have poor buildings, poor cows, and feed a corn diet exclusively to hit Ever) thing concurred in awaken- by his old friends. no system of farming the land. They hogs. Farmers' Review hid' to mind of after it those who the had memory long and careful do not understand ing their business and of me before the to the question, believing it gone pulpit from study of the comare deprived consequently Corn as Winter Feed. be to his duty do so. which they had listered to preachers hail on which and forts blessings The price of oats is still above the of their own presentation, the font those who have a better understandaverage of other years, so that the at which so many of them had been Hit Last Visit to Groton. farmer is Inclined to sell them and Winthrop returned to Groton for ing. Dairy Farming. baptized, the chancel around which substitute with corn, which is a natthey had knelt to receive the bread of the last time in February, 1620. 'He Best Salt Always Best. ural winter food for all kinds of stock. life. Ther on the crowning pane of went to London and finally embarked A pound of salt will be sufficient for The writer has fed corn years with for America on the 22d of March. He founded another home here, and bis sixteen to twenty pounds of butter. clover hay to the work horses, colts children still others after him. Deane The difference In cost between the and young cattle, with excellent reWinthrop settled in old Chelsea, and very best salt and the very poorest Is sults. The two fed In combination the house, 200 years later, Is still but the merest fraction of a cent per make a well balanced ration for all We pound. How foolish it is to use any- growing stock in cold weather. standing. This group of photographs sent thing hut the best. In buying Balt the believe the average Northwestern farfrom Groton will be hung in the Frost thing to do is to purchase the best mer understands the value of corn that can be had and figure on price as an grain for winter feedLibrary and will complete a series ing, hence, do not sell it to old and New England. The afterward. ' trustees already possess a Farm Notes. . Creamery Items. copy of the Magna Charta, an An animal must be kept In good The only correct way to ascertaji engraving of Westminster abbey, and a group of the kings and queens who the work of a cow or herd Is by the flesh and thriving to make it develop were rulers of Great Britain when use of the scales and the Babcock and prove profitable. There is no use keeping a cow on Pullin Poynte people were British sub- test, which must be continually used the farm unless she is a milker end for one year. A map of 'England showing jects. the location of Groton, a picture of - The very foundation for profit in butter-makeIn applying manure, the farmer the royal charter brought over by dairying is liberal feeding, which is Winthrop, and a collection of pictures often neglected. Indeed the failure to must use his own judgment as to how, of great Englishmen who had some properly feed a dairy cow is so com- when and where he applies Lack of fibrous roots Is one cause part in the affairs of church or state mon that the majority of people who during the colonial and revolutionary keep cows fail to make any money of the failure of so many of our forfrom them. All of the effort to get est trees, dug up in the woods and period completes the collection. people to feed better stock and to transplanted. Governor John Winthrop As time is money it will be found select out th'e poor cows goes for Asphalt in the Caucasus. Immense beds of asphalt have been naught If they will not feed. profitable to arrange the stables so the altar window was the same Sur-su' A dairy cow must have an abund- as to lessen the amount of time In carCords which most have lifted discovered in the district of Sukhum, their hearts in many an hour of trial In the Caucasus. Prof. Mendelyeff has ance of good food. Nor will It do to ing for them. The aim In keeping stock should and trouble. There in the humble examined the deposits and reports make her work too hard to get this food. She must have It while at pas- be to secure the most rapid and largvestry was the old parish register, the that the asphalt la of excellent qualiture without being compelled to travel est growth with the least, cost comsecond entry on whose ty. The discovery Is of great Imleaves gave the date of the death of portance to the development of the all day. It pays to have the pasture patible with the end in view. N. J Dont over- Shepherd, Eldon, Mo, long and not short the family in 1662. briquette Industry In south Russia, as Poor cows are quite frequently There, too. was the tomb In which the great quantity of broken coal ly- stock the pasture unless you feed a the father, the grandfather, and pos- ing unusual In the Donets coal region portion of the ration in the barn. In made by poor feeding and ill treatment winter time the cow must not be com- while It is quite true that they may of the first may now be turned to account sibly the pelled to eat all bulky food, for it be so by nature, yet their care hat emigrant to New England had been makes too much work to digest and much to do with the results, at th Engllsh-lriasuccessively burled. The inscription Dictionary. ' assimilate enough to get the proper pall. was almost Illegible, but enough could An EngilBh-Iricbeen has dictionary nourishment with which to secrete a Moral Use kindness and good teed se dec'phered to verify an ancient hrought out by a Dublin clergyman. maximum flow of milk. vrd note results that follow. one-tent- h . these prove to those used to more formal enter her, they MybeloTed," he said are not mine. No, they, are not For a Hard Milker. experienced dairyman recommends the following for a cow that Is tough to milk: "Make a plug of slippery elm, two inches long and the thickness of a match at the thinnest end. Let the other end have a head on it similar to that on a horseshoe nail. Tie a piece of silk thread around the head, slip the plug on the teat which milkB hard and let it stay until next milking. That teat will give a full, easy stream, but if at any future time it should milk hard then give It another application. The elm plug swells in the teat. The large head at one end is to hinder further entrance into the teat, as it might by accident get out of eight, in which case the silk thread will be handy to take hold of for withdrawal of plug. An Skim Milk in Chicken Fattening. It Is rather difficult to place an exact monetary value on skim milk for fattening chickens, but there can be no doubt that it can be so used with advantage, both a9 to gains in weight and In producing a white, Juicy and tender meat. Two years ago experiments conducted at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, demonstrated beyond any question the high feeding value of this both in the crate and in the pen. By its use, gains were more rapidly made, the cost per pound of increase reduced, and the character of the dressed fowl improved. Used judiciously with meal (as finely ground oats) and, say, of the ration of meat meal, should he well worth thirty cents per hundred- well-to-d- o talning. who robbed me. j Mate, yer off yer course when ye LIFE. HAPPY PAINTERS ONE accuse me o doin that. You are one of the two men who seized your captain a few years since Mind of William Blake Filled With and have made away with him. Lofty Thoughts. tack again, Yer on the wrong William Blake, the poet and paintmate. I haint done nothin o' the er, whose delicate and mystical work, kind, I tell ye. both in words and on canvas, was Where is your captain? quite unlike that of aDy other man, Dont know. had a singularly happy life. It was Paul determined to keep a close full of discouragement and greatly watch on the rascal and conduct him cramped by poverty, but of this he across the mountains to the camp on seemed to take no account His mind the Klondyke, where punishment was always filled with lofty and beauwould be meted out to him according tiful thoughts, and this woild seemed to frontier ideas of justice. to him but the entrance to a nobler Paul bound his arms behind his state of existence. 'back and told him to sit in front of One day, when he was an old man, a the fire. little girl was brought to him. He The night passed guarding the looked at her tenderly, stroked her prisoner by turns, and when the day long curls, and said: dawned he was still among them. "My child, may God make this world Breakfast over and they began to as beautiful to you as it has been to ' , me. prepare to ascend the mountain. a been well for. not He had long considerable snowed during It had the night, but toward morning It time before bis death. When his old changed to a rain and later in the day friend, the artist Flaxman, 'died, Blake said: . a sleet. I thought I should go first J canThe ascent became every moment death as more than going more and more difficult About every not think of one room Into another. one hundred paces they came to out of A little mre than a year after that mountain torrents, fed by the gladied. On the day of his death he he rainrecent ciers, and augmented by uttered songs in praise falls, which they had to wade, the composedso apd sweet that his wife, as she cold water often coming above their of God, .was stood by, enraptured by them. knees. to .. After struggling up a 'steep ascent or thirty feet they were of twenty-fivoften forced from sheer exhaustion to rest for a moment, but when they stopped ever so ahort a time the piercing wind cut them to the marrow, chilled them to the bone and ' they were compelled to continue their course to keep from chilling to death. When evening came they were on the other side of the mountain in a valley wet, shivering and benumbed with cold. They had no tent not shelter, save the lowering heavens from above.'. Some dry pine end scrub oak wood was collected and a fire kindled. They all gatkared sheet A Blow at the Pipette. In making tests for butter-fa- t the pipette has been generally used for the purpose of measuring the sulphuric acid and the milk that was to be tested. Some time ago the legislature of Iowa tried to pass a law that would pi event cheatirg in making the test. At that time it was brought out that many of the pipettes in ime were very far from the correct size. At any rate the law as passed prohibited the further use of the pipette In the The measuring of milk for tests creameries that were buying cream from the farmers Kept on using the pipette, believing that the law referred only to milk and not to cream. But the attorney-genera- l of the state thinks otherwise and has given the dairy and food commissioner an official opinion to the effect that it is even unlawful to use the pipette In the measuring of cream. The commissioner has therefore sent out notice to all the creameries of the state warning them against the further use of the pipette. The penalty for its use is a fine of 1300 or confinement in the comity jail for six months. The law provides that for the purpose of making tests all milk or cream must he weighed In scales or balances Farmers' Review ... lr d d photo-ghaphl- c it 1687-164- Serpent Experiments are being made in Germany with a railway engine of a new form and a train encased in steel plates, so that It resembles an Iron serpent and attains a speed of eighty to ninety miles an hour. The front of the engine Is pointed. Millets House to Come Down. The Paris mansion of Millet, the creator of "The Angelos, fa being torn down to make room for modern flats. It was one of the landmarks of the French capital. time-staine- d great-grandfath- h ' |