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Show '1 THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Time BY AMELIA E. BARR r . -r ta'Sktsss; Copyright. 1901. CHAf-TC- by Dodd, Mead ft Coinpw,. 1. AH she t Around her neck, aithoui pretense of secrecy or apology, the re arj of coral and gold: and admired the tint and shimmer of its beauty on hei white .throat Then she asked Was any stranger with the Ear at dinner. Delia? My lady,' he dined with Fathe Sacy alone. And pray what did they eat for dinnr? righ.s reserved ) 7hn the electuary had been prepared. the girls became silent. They Swaffham and De Wick. were as remarkably contrasted as century were the tenets, religious and During the seventeenth civil, House was Manor one of Swaffham for which they stood. But if mere the most picturesque dwellings in physical ascendency could have .domiIt was so old that it nated Jane Swaffham she Cambridgeshire. was in its had a sort of personality. It was the presence Yet It was not Matilda, but in Swaffham the of family history Jane, who filled the cool, sweet place stone and timber. with a sense of power not to be disbuilt of tower the puted. Her pale hair was full of The central light white stone of the neighborhood was and life; it seemed to shine in (ts. the fortress which Tonbert Swaffham waving order and crown-likcoil. Her erected A. D. 870, to defend his lands eyes had a steady glow in their depths from an invasion of the Danes; and that was invincible; her slight form was proudly poised her whole manfive generations of Tonberfs descendants dwelt in that tower, before Wil- ner resolute and a little cold, as of liam of Normandy took possession of one who was putting down an offense the crown of England. The Swaffham only Matilda was conscious of Jane's of that date became a friend of the Conqueror; and the Manor House had influence, and she called all her own the singular fortune to be identified charms forth to rival it. Putting out with the stirring events of every of account her beautiful face and stately figure as not likely to affect dynasty. Jane, she assumed the manner she In the middle of the seventeenth century it still retained this character. had never known to fail a manner deand wholly affectionate Puritan councils of offense and fense had been held in its great hail, and confidential. She knew that and parliamentary soldiers drilled in Swaffham was always a safe subject, its meadows. For Capt. Israel Swaff- and that a conversation set to that ham was the friend of Gen. Cromwell, key went directly to Jane's heart So and at the time this story opens was turning slowly round to observe evwith Cromwell in Scotland. . erything, she said, How cool and sweet is this A great fighter, he had no parliaplace, mentary talent, and no respect for Jane! It is, Matilda. I often think that He believed Englands parliaments. religious and civil liberties were to be one might receive angels among these saved by the sword, and when the pure scents. "Oh, I vow it is the rosemary! Let proposals had Kings been discussed by the men of Cam- me put my hands through It and she bridgeshire, In Swaffham, he had hastily pulled off bed white embroidered gloves, suit passed her hands, closed the argument with this passionate declaration: shining with gems, through tne deliciThere is no longer disputing with ously fragrant green leaves. I have a passion for such a double mind as the mind of rosemary, It always perfigures Charles Stuart. The very ogth of God she continued. to fortune him. not bind me. Sometimes if I Out, instantly, good would wake in the night I smell it I smell all of you who can! His three sons rose at his words and miles of it and then I know my angel the rest of the council followed, for has been to see me, and that some all felt that the work was but half good thing will tread in her footseps. Then she said with-adone there was to be a Second Civil attempt at War. Then home was again deserted indifference, When did you hear from Swaff-hamAnd the and for Cymlin? battlefield, Capt. pray in what place wife and daughter were once must I remember him now? I know not particularly.' Wherever more left alone in the old Manor the l House. is, there Cymlin . Mrs. Swaffham was the child of a Swaffham is like to be. f Puritan minister, and she had strong Why do you not ask after Stephens r ' fortune were or hours when bad? there but good principles, T did not at the moment think of she had pitied the late King, excused rehis inexcusable treacheries, and Stephen. When Cromwell is in the gretted the pomps ana ceremonies of mind tis Impossible to find him fit company. It is he, and he only.royal state. Yet if ever Stephen de Wick gets Jane Swaffham was of a different spirit. She had a soul of the highest a glimpse of home, it is not home to mettle; and she bad listened to those him until he has, been at Swaffham. Jane made no answer, and they English mystics, who came out of the steel ranks or triumphant Puritanism, walked silently to the door where Mauntil she had caught their spirit and tildas carriage was waiting. Mrs. been filled through and through with Swaffham joined them as Matilda was about to leave, and the girl said,' I their faith. This was the maiden who was sit- had come near to forgetting someting, oae sunny afternoon, at the open thing I wished to tell you. One of window of the household parlor In those men called Quakers was preachSwaffham. She was thinking of her ing his new religion at Squire Oliver father and brothers, of the unhappy Leders last night. There was much condition of England, and of the un- disputing about him What said Lady Heneage of the rest in their own household. For she knew that her mother was worried preacher? asked Mrs. Swaffham. She thought he ought to be put in about many things, and the fret that was bred in the kitchen and the farm the stocks; and her sister Isabel said offices in spite of all her efforts that he was a good man, and had the Insinuated itself into the still order root of the matter in him. I heard of the handsome room in which she that be was to preach again at Deepwas sitting. ing Den. Now, I must make what - At this moment there was the haste I can; my father will be angry faithful till sound of wheels and the tramp of at my delay. Good-bye- ! horses, and Jane said, It Is Matilda we meet again. de Wick. I know the roll of the carShe says faithful, yet knows not Then Jane lifted her sewing, how to be faithful. riage. She is much changed. and the wheel began to hum,' and the It would be strange Indeed if. she door opened swiftly and Matilda de was ndt changed. Before these trouWick entered. I have Just been at Ely, Bhe said, bles she was a girl living at her and if I live ' years mothers knee, petted by her father, longer in this sinful world, I shall not and the idol of her brothers. Two of forget the visit I have been visiting her brothers fell fighting by the side Lady Heneage, and I have heard so of Prince Rupert, her mother wept much of the Cromwells full cup that, herself into the grace for them,. her In faith, I think it has gone to my father is still cursing the wound be head." got at Naseby, and her only brother, I trust Lady Heneage. is well, Stephen, is with Charles Stuart, wherever he may be. If Buch troubles did said Mrs. Swaffham. She had need to be well. Her not change a girl, she would he hewn house is as full as the ark. Mrs. from the very rock of selfishness. On her way borne Matilda sat erect, Elizabeth Hampden is there, and daughter Flambord, and daughter lost in thought, and her eyes had a Clayton, and all their children and look in them full of anxiety and sorretainers. It Is their last gathering row, The sadness of an, immense dis-- . before they go away. Do you wish illusion was qverVber.-- , cXjter.lifiS to know where they are going? To to. ruin,, hut she trusted .that some miracle would restore it, All London, of Course." The And they are going to London? Is her old friends had departed. it really so? asked Jane. grave had some; others had taken difTis not very civil to doubt It. But ferent ways, or battle and exile had that is not all of my news I heard scattered them. By the side of her also that Jane Swaffham was going sick father she stood alone. Oppressed to London a thing I would not be- by Buch considerations, she felt like ' a child that suddenly realizes it has lieve without Janes assurance. It is very uncertain, replied Mrs. lost its way and is left alone in a . , Swaffham. Jane has an invitation wilderness. from Mary Cromwell, and if Doctor Nothing in jber surroundings offered Verity comes here soon, he may find her any help. The road was flat and the time to take her to London with dreary; a wide level intersected with a poor, him. We know not assuredly, as deep drains and "droves ' yet. rough, moist land, whose horizon was Jane must move mountains to go. only broken by the towers of. Ely, vast The Cromwells are now living? in the and gray ih the distaaie Large Irth stately Cockpit. They will hold court gates admitted her to de Wick park. there, and Jane Swaffham will be of The house was a quadrangular build. it ing of various dates, and gray walls d "I am sure of one thing, answered rising from trim gardens with Jane. "Public honors please not Gen. flower plots and laUppfd yew Cromwell. He would thank. God to hedges.;.. An sleepy, airjjone-ljj- i : and gpart arnffult ofrmelanpholy, I escape them. J "I do not say that the Vlsh to See pervaded the place; him honored is universal, continued The door stood open, and she passed Matilda. "Father Sacy thinks there without delay into the wide entrance are a few thousand men still living la. hall, and went leisurely Up the broad Her hat,, with its moist England who have not bowed the knee stairway. to t)3 Baal. . drooping feathers,. was in her hand; ; ' "Children! Children! can you find her hair hung limply about Jber brow nothing more lovely to talk about? and face; she was the Very picture of S beauty that had suffered the touch Matilda, you know that you are balt-inJanes temper only that you may of adverse nature, and the depression see her lose It." of unsympathetic humanity' j : Then Matilda laughed, and stooping But the moment Bhe entered" her to her friend, kissed her and said, own room she had the sense of covert She pflt off her "Come, little Jane, . X will ask. your and refreshment. pardon. Kiss and be friends, Jane. I sense of alienation and unhappiness came to get your receipt for lavender with her damp clothing, 'And A, the conserves, and this Is nothing to It. comfort of renewal qatne to her, outreftls Come, let us go to the wardly, the inner Woman She spoke with an unconscious air of gained her authority'; and the; girl authority, and Jane as unconsciously conscious of this potent personality,in- obeyed it, hut there was a coldness la erected herself in.its Attqngth and her manner which did not disappear dlvlduality.'- - She surveyed her freshuntil the royalist lady had talked with )y clad form in its' gown of blue lute- her for half an hour about the spices string, she tupM righfasd. left to ad- of her hair; and the distilled waters. j mire a fresh grngenfefitf ' ' V . e ; s . ' Captain-Genera- There was a sucking pig roasted with Juniper wood aiid rosemary branches, and a jugged hare, and a pullet, and some dotted cream and a raspberry tart. All very good, my lady; will you please to eat something? Yes. I will have some Jugged pare, and some dotted cream, and a raspberry tart and ft glass of Sapnish wine, Dejia,, and a pitcher of new milk, Have them served as soon as possible." She took one comfortable glance t herself, and in the pleasure of its went downstairs. Her step was now firm - and rapid, yet she paused a moment at the door of the room aha wished to enter, and called up smiles to her face and a sort of cheerful bravado .to her manner ere she lifted the steel hasp that admitted her. In a moment her quick eyes took a survey of its bccupants. They were only two men Eari de Wick, and his1 chaplain, Father Sacy. Both were reading; the Earl, Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia; the chaplain, the evening service in the book of common prayer, Neither of them noticed her entrance, and she went straight to her fathers side, and covering the open page with her hand, said in a merry tone "Here is a noble dwelling in Arcadia, while the great Captain-Genera- l Cromwell The devil! Is. going up and down and to and fro in the land, seeking whom he may devour. I have been at Ely and at Swaffham, gathering what news I can, and I assure you, sir, there is none to onr comfort. What have you heard? Anything about the Scots? Cromwell is in Scotland. What do you expect from that news? That Leslie will be his match. Then you will be disappointed. There is a tide in the affairs of men, and this tide of Cromwell and the Commonwealth is going to sweep all royalty and all nobility into the deep -- 1 . sea-.- Weil, then, I may as well return to my Arcadia and learn how to he rus- tical. We nobles may play at Canute if we like but It is useless, while this mans star If he conflames in the firmament quers the Scotch army, what more can they offer him but the crown? ' (To Be Continued.) -- - . , . box-edge- d f ' . still-roo- g Destroying Canada Thistles. Orchard Subsoils. Whatever will effctually - exclude Prof. E. W. Hilgard, Director of ths the plant from the light and air will California Experiment station, in his destroy it. This may be done by plow- last annual report, says: ing, in some soil, and in others by a Few persons outside of the expericlose grass sod. Plowing, if repeated ment station can have an idea of ths frequently in soils where the root does extent to which the planting of or not descend beyond the reach of the ehards on shallow soils underlaid by plowing, will, in dry seasons, always destroy the thistle, and often in moist ones. In soils which are light, deep, rich, friable, and, of course, permeable to the air, and are in some measure always moist, plowing will always fail. Wherever a dense sod can be formed, the thistle may be destroyed by seeding. The grasses, wherever they are adapted to the purpose, will be found the easiest means of destruction, although not so rapid as plowing, hoeing, salting or burning, where these latter are available. In all uplands, where the soil is of a depth admitting the root to be reached and affected in Us whole extent by the plow, hoe, fire or salt, the thistle may be destroyed by these means, and they will be found the most rapid ones. In all bottom lands where the root descends deep and the soil permits access of air, neither the plow, hoe, fire nor salt will destroy the thistle; here the grasses should be applied, and will be found the best destroyers. Mowing will destroy those parts of the thistle which have thrown up flowering stalks and will not in the least affect those which have not Mowing should take place when the plant is in bloom. Whatever limits the thorough apstruction plication of the means of will proportionally diminish success. Hence it will be found difficult in very stony grounds ever to eradicate the thistle; the plow cannot effectually reach its roots and such ground Is rarely a good grass bearer. Salt and sheep, with the scythe, will be found best for stony grounds. In grounds filled with stumps, where the soil is rich and will grow a dense sod, the grass will be best, and in such the plow should not be used, as it will not effectually reach all the roots. Fences that obstruct the application of the plow or hoe should be removed. If it be desirable to destroy the thistle by the grasses it will be found best to make the land rich by' manure. This will force the grass and enable ft more readily, by vigorous growth, to kill the plant And in the application of all remedies care should be taken to reduce the soil by proper cultivation to a fine tilth, that all the seeds of the thistle in the ground may germinate and not lie dormant The seed Is very hardy, and escapes all the ordinary means of destruction, except fire. Ambrose Stevens. , d hard pan or heavy clays has caused pecuniary loss, often almost ruin, to as well as to newcomers to the state. Every few days there come to us at Berkeley letters transmitting samples of having the and asking about the means of relief. We might usefully stereotype the first letter In reply to such inquiries, briefly to the effect: Examine your subsoil! In mue cases out of ten, it is either hardpan, or an impervious clay substratum, which deflects the roots sideways after the second or third year, and of course prevents a healthy, normal development toward the moist depths of the awaits soil, where abundant plant-foothem In all good orchard lauds. More rarely it is a layer of coarse sand, or gravel, which prevents the rise of moisture from below; sometimes it Is the rise of the bottom water, which causes disease of the deeper roots, and also starves the tree. Almost invariably the question is asked: What fertilizer must I apply to remedy the trouble?" Well, in most cases no fertilizer of any kind will remedy the difficulty; the existence of which should have been ascertained before planting the orchard, or better, before buying the land at all. Even In the East and in Europe, careful farmers scrutinize the subsoil before Investing. In the arid region this is tenfold more needful, because of the critical importance of the subsoil, overshadowing that of the surface soil, as already explained. The irrigator who pays so dearly for bis water is doubly Interested in it, and ought always to know how long it takes water to soak to a certain depth In his land, so as to be sure that it does not run off the surface of natural or artificial hardpan, and flow to the neighbor below, Instead of soaking down. This seems to be such elementary common sense that it is difficult to understand how it is so widely neglected, despite the warnings so emphatically conveyed by experience, and published by the experiment station for twenty years past. No farmer should be without that simple and cheap, though murderous-lookinimplement, the soil prod, which Is so readily used. It is a s to steel rod inch square, well pointed at one end, and provided at the other with a stout like a ring for a wooden common auger. Length from four to five feet, preferably the latter; cost, cents. This Is forced into seventy-fivthe ground with a slight turning motion back and forth, hanging to It at first If one Is of low stature. The farmer will be surprised at the new Information conveyed by this simple process within the two or three minutes it takes to make one sounding; and if any doubt remains at some point, the common posthole auger may be made to supplement the prod. But with a little experience, the prod alone will suffice to tell the farmer, by the change In resistance, even how deep the Irrigation water has penetrated in his land. And In many cases such information will astound him by lta unexpectedness and make him understand why certain trees In his orchard have done so poorly, or so well. However important is the presence of the plant-fooingredients In the soil, the fundamentally needful point is the proper physical condition, without which no amount of fertilization, or natural productiveness, Is of any avail. All understand the need of moisture; but unless care is taken to see that it gets where it will do the most good, and that the roots can perform their functions In the depths of the soil, water, work, and fertilizers . may alike be wasted. die-hac- g h cross-handl- e d ( three-fourth- four-fifth- two-third- one-tent- h . t . - j; No In Imitation of Tiling. effoct can be had in the prettier finishing of bath rooms, fireplaces, etc., than that ot tiling, as even the ancients seem to have discovered in building oaths. Up to the present time, however, tiling has been somewhat of a rich mans luxury, as it is not cheap enough to he used promiscuously in an ordinary dwelling house, whore wainscoting is made to take its place very largely. With the introduction of a new material, however, the wainscoting will he replaced by something which can hardly be told from the tiling now in use in fine residences. This imitation tiling consists of an enameled pulp board made up of a composition which takes an enamel finish of any desired color, and can be stamped and rolled into slabs of any desired size, with the grooves depressed at frequent intervals to imitate tiles of various sizes and shape. In these grooves a filling ot piaster-likmaterial is inserted the enameled surface of the pulp board being perforated in the grooves to en- - t. I. - 5. O. P. Will you kindly publish plans of a small dwelling house containing six rooms and q hall . I shall build tha house my3elf and woo'd like to have the Job completed for about six hundred dollars outlay. Ans. While there are many style ft i high-price- e Ground Plan of House. that might be suggested, the accompanying plans of ground and upper floor are probably as convenient as any that could be suggested. This house Is 24 fe- -t by 25 feet, and 19 feet high to the roof, and It had no cellar. This, of course, could be added, If desired, at a small Increase of cost. It would he well to construct veranda along the front, and this should be not less than five feet wide. The front hall allows ample room for a hat rack, and a clothes closet may be built beneath the stairs. Should a cellar be required the closet could be doneaway with, making room for the cellar stairs. It would be well to have sliding doors between the dining room and sitting room. The kitchen, It will be noticed, is the largest room on the lower floor, and can he used for a dinseason if deing room In the sired. The height o the celling down stairs Is nine feet, and of the upstairs feet eight and The upper story Is divided Into three chambers, each opening into the hair. There Is also' a small front room, which may be used as a sewing room o study as desired. The cost of such a house at la suggested depends much upon the Interior finish. The following MU of material la based on current prices; f house Enameled Pulp Board, able the plaster to penetrate the enamel and adhere to the underlying pulp. The board is not only cheaper to manufacture than the small tiles, but is much more convenient to handle. The enameled finish makes it impervious to water, and It can also be made fireproof by special treatnjont with chemicals which is a necessity when the Imitation tiling is to be used In connection with the fireplace. The pulp board Is origlually built up of a plurality of thm paper boards cemented together, being finally compressed and enameled on one surface, while the back la provided with staples by which the hoards can be fastened in position. The Inventor is William N. Cornell of Starlake, N. Y. New Adjustable Wrench. With a large share of the machinery whloh la used In our manufacturing Industries the builders furnish special wrenches, which will only fit nuts of a certain size and are intended to be used In connection with the one machine. These, ot course, need no adjusting to fit the nut. and, being ready for Instant use, are a great convenience and save time for the machinist But there are many instances In the everyday work of the machinist, and some other classes of labor, also where a wrench which can be rapidly set to any necessary size will prove great advantage to the man who Is handling It The usual form of wrench requires the turning of a thumb-whee- l several revolutions to vary the distance between the jaws even a quarter of an Inch, and there can be no movement of the jaw without turning this screw. Here is a wrench which has the movable Jaw perfectly free to slide from closure to its widest opening, only coming to a stop wherever the cam block Is set. This cam block rests in the certer of the slotted handle, and Is so pivoted that Its edge Is eccentric to the pin on which It revolves. Whether the block ' is close to the tilted to stop tha wi-.t- er one-bal- f .... good-size- , j Cedar posts Dimension lumber, 4.876 ft Inch lumber. 2.600 ft., at 814 Rcpf boards. 1.000 ft. at 812 thousand at 81.75.... Shingles. Flooring, 1 4 inch, 1,325 ft Cornices Chimney Lath and plastering, 465 yds...,. Interior trimmings Clapboards, 2.000 at 822.... 7.00 78 00 85 09 12 00 14 S 83 IS 23 7 38 0ft 2 80 82. 7S 44.5 Upper Floor Plan, BS 8 Doors and windows...' 4 00 Outside Steps 600ft Painting Hardware, nails and building paper 26 6ft Incidentals Total Feed Root , 66.05 1600.0 After Milking. hint to dairymen who feed roots to their cowa, as many do at this sea-so-n and later, Is afforded by a reader of Jersey Bulletin: It ta best not tq, A , Water and Transplanted Trees. The above subject has been discussed at a good many horticultural meetings and always develops a difference of opinion. The old method of putting in water when a dormant and Oil in Com, , Ash Some recent Investigations at the tree was put into the ground is still Illinois station show that there is a quite extensively followed, hut certainsomewhat constant relation between ly has no value except it be to pack the amount of ash in the corn kernel the dirt more tightly about the roots. and the oil. That Is, that while the A dormant tree cannot certainly use proportion of oil In the germ is very water through Its roots for weeks, and lor large the proportion of ash Is also in the case of fall planting, very large. Thus in the hominy glu- months. The water sinks away and ten the proportion of oil and ash are dries up, but not a particle enters the delicate root hairs, which have yet to quite large. Thus in one sample of corn analyzed be developed by the action of gap In elaboration of 11.13 per cent of all the oil was found the trees and the In the horny gluten and 7.96 of all growth material by the leaves that are the ash. In the germ of the same yet to open. A little water may, howsample was found 83.99 per cent of all ever pack the dirt about the roots the oil and 74.87 per cent of all the more closely, and In that case It ash. In another sample 12.29 per cent should be put Into the hole before all of all the oil was in the horny gluten the dirt Is In. If put In after the dirt and 13.49 per cent of all the ash. In has been all put back around the tree, the germ of thj same sample the water running down the root may was 80.46 per cent of all the oil and create an empty place below the roots 69.46 per cent of all the ash. Thus the which Is always dangerous for the germ and the horny gluten contain newly planted tree. In fact It U s of all the oil claimed that such cavities freqnently more than and ash in the corn kernel. The germ cause the death of trees. A tree or s of all plant transplanted In leaf will, of alone contains about s of all the ash, course, need water to keep np the supthe oil and of ply of molstnre being evaporated from though the germ is only the leaves. For the same reason on the whole kernel. a hot day It should have some protecThe Sow to Keep. tion from the sun that evaporation Using a sow once and fattening her from the leaves may not be greater for the pork barrel Is no way to get than the amount of water that can be together a good lot of breeders. It taken in through the mutilated roots. takes several farrowings to prove what is the real ability of a sow In Setting Quail Eggs. this direction. A man that has half .Quail are quite easily raised with a a dozen sows farrow, all with good bantam hen and nothing is prettier litters and keeps only two of them is as than a bantam hen with a brood of likely to keep the poorest as the best. quail by her side.-- I have tried the A sow must be permitted to bear pigs raising of quail for two summers and two or three times before she can my success was phenomenal as comsafely be put down as a good breeder pared to the qnall eggs I had. Every and mother. If a farmer that raises farmer should have at least a half several brood? of pigs 'JJJjrear will dozen bantam bens, then as Is often keep, each promising sow through the case with nearly all farmers the twd or' three - breedings and continually qfiail eggs he finds when cutting his select the best for futureywork grain could be put under a bantam. and weed, out the poqrssf id! . ' , . Wilson. good F Jniff? wiU ln a few years have a X .ones he medicine'-. ' brooil s Sows that wHI Speak In glowing terms fire Insurhim has never yet failed to collection of ance agents. '' f make him mofiej:.do its' work.'-'- I For a Small Family Such a Building la the Most Practicn! That Could Ba ' Devised The Costs In Detail. AGfflCUhTCPE ready-mixe- seven-and-flft- . ,1 e t V., i SIX ROOMS AND A HALL IN THE STRUCTURE. ' Thomas Slag. Bulletin S3 of the Rhode Island Experiment station has this to say in favor of Thomas slag; Basic slag meal (Thomas slag, also known as Thomas phosphate and odorless phosphate) is an Illustration of a phosphate which contains practically no soluble phosphoric acid and yet is essentially as efficient as soluble phosphoric acid, at least upon the granitic soils of Rhode Island. In a trial extending over several years it has given splendid results upon all kinds of crops, both immediately upon its application and in later years. This Is a four-limphosphate. It Is a waste product obtained In the manufacture of steel from Iron phosphate, lin'd is widely employed In Europe with most excellent results. It Is but little known in the United States as yet, and is not found In the commercial fertilizers, owing to the fact that the extra lime which it contains would be likely to liberate some of the ammonia of the usual fertilizers If they were to become moist It can be mixed with nitrate of soda and with muriate or sulfate of potash without fear of loss, thus producing a complete and most efficient manure. It is an ideal source of phosphoric acid for the sandy and acid soils of this state. The basic slag meal contains from 16 to 20 per cent of phoephoric acid. At the present time little of this Blag Is obtainable in the United States. . liUd-gon- HOUSE TO COST $600 fixed head or to allow It to slide freely the whole length of the opening, the cam block engages the rear ot the Jaw In such a manner as to afford strong support for a movable jaw. no rotation ,of adjusting requires screws, but only a simple turn of the block and a sliding movement of the loose jaw to eet the wrench, which probably has quite as much expansion as the majority of light wrenches In common use. Elisha F. Hirst of Richmond, Ind Is the Inventor. ' Remarkable Pipe Line. The new eight-incpipe line, from Bakersfield to Point Richmond, Cal., a distance of 280 miles. Is now discharging oil at tbo refineries on the coast at the rate of 20 000 barrels a day. Owing to the thickness of the oil at ordinary temperatures, causing It to flow at about the same rate of speed that molasses would, it was necessary not only to reheat It at each of the pumping stations, which are located about twenty-sevemiles apart, but also to cover the transmission pipes with asbestos throughout their entire length to retain the heat in the oil until the next station was reached. Even now it may be necessary to erect additional reheating plants should the oil thicken The pipe line itself up In winter. holds about lOO.OOf barrels of oil. The chief use to which this oil is being put on the Pacific coast Is for fuel, and both railroad aid marine engines are rapidly being adapted to Its consumption. h n Undoubtedly. Yes, said the sickly looking party, I came from New York, hoping to Improve my condition, but I havent suc' ceeded as yet Why, my dear sir, rejoined the Chicago man, being here Is a decided , Improvement feed your cows too many beets, mangels, rutabagas and potatoes, as they give the butter a bitter flavor. At this' time of year the garden furnishes a lot of extra roots good for feeding cows, while the farm supplies rejected small potatoes, apples, and sometimes immature cabbage heads and rejected leaves, all of which la excellent cow food. But It must be fed with proper caution, which Is always after feeding the regular ration and the milking finished, and in small lots at a time. While It Is true that a change of feed,' rich of poor, doei not affect thft relative quantity of butter fat in the milk, all strongly flavored foods do add a decided flavor to the milk that no subsequent manipulation of the milk can entirely eradicate. When the above articles are fed in too great abundance, po amount ot cooling, pasteurization or other system of doctoring can hide or remove these flavors except by allowing the butter to become rank enough to smother them. And that ia getting out of the frying' pan Into the fire." - - Cheapest Gas In the World. What is claimed to be the lowest selling price of gas for household ns obtains In the town of Widnes, Eng- land. Recently we gave some statistics of municipal ownership In English cities, showing the practical results attained by proper business management of the plants. Another good . lee-so- n for our city fathers la shown In the gas works of the above mentioned town, where the total annual consumption Is about 250,000,000 cubic feet, and the majority of the consnmers use meters. The sell--, ing prices of gas within the borough are 32 and 23 cents for household use. In lighting and cooking respectively, and 24.3 cents per thousand cubic feet for motive' power purposes. At the same time the low selling price has' not been obtained by reducing the' quality of the gas, cs Its Illuminating power has been maintained at elght-- l een candles, whereas the statutory? Standard is hut fourteen candle , penny-in-the-sl- ( , v a Japans Granary. Korea Is the granary of Japan. , ! r. |