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Show SAVED BY A WIRE. 1 to- I am glad that telephone have oca invented; aud yet I am glad I ,nn.' not sooner invented. I V were an . t,. should like to tell you the reason, r That will take some time, for it is mb a friends birthday, I forgot altogether the package of money that lay at the bottom of rnv dress pocket. Joseph did not get back until after 10 oclock, although it was only three miles to the Junction, and he should have been home long before thut hour. We thought little of that, however. He had been with us several years, a story. ami I learned that he had been reOak-- . We live in the country at cently led into had company, and vrook, and father is treasurer and that father had several times hail of the Oakbrook angry words with him about his 'athai superintendent r is avert' pleasant habits house Our mills. Joseph slept in the house, and for Hut country house it is it is situated on that reason it seemen to mequite unJt0:.a beautiful wooden slope close to necessary that Ilarry Randall should is a quarter of a mile be there also. )n't the river, and 1 hen the clock struck 10 mother That is why a tele-ttmills. the it was time to go to arose, declaring was wiie between the placed graph bed. She went into all the lower rooms a',two. to see that the windows were fastI promised father when it was np ened, then came hack to the library for me. vq'''that I would learn to send messages Rut I did not feel sleepy, and want: Va'ovcr There was no one else in the ll1 quite cak'-fro- i- that could have learned. were away at JK' family Te rnv brothers T-oth 'boarding school, and mother would gis soon have thought of studying Chinese language as telegraphy. p,.. the declared that I would Father p cr learn, (iirls had hutlittle patience Nevert hsuch things, he said. atoi for s eedless, the w ire was put up and L mected with a in the library, battery thuand in just four months time I had mastered the alphabet and technic-thalities of the instrument, because it nhg was necessary to have somebody to ton. gend messages by the wire that ran il oh from the mills to the adjacent city o nev-pa- 3 con-Li- - e mY Calmer. Having explained so much, I think I have said all that is necessa-a- d ry to enable you to understand what occurred on a certain February night about which I am going to tell s H'- doTou- .Vi We were e through supper and sting together father, mother and I lnSvaround the table in the library, '"He a Joseph, oureonchmanand man )ulk k on f all work about the place, brought in the mail as usual, uldb Father eagerly took a letter, which seemed to have been expected, from t!'tithe other letters. 1 noticed a dis-- . 'turbed expression upon his face as "'Tie read it, and I was more anxious than surprised when he arose and went to the hall door ami called to sit-po- ld - .the girl who was in the dining-room- . said he, tell Joseph to Marv, harness Prince at once. I must get to the Junction in time for the 9 o'clock express. He'll have to finish his 6upper when he gets back. Then he turned and said that the contained intelligence that made it necessary that he should go j ook to New York that night, Of course, as the wife and daught-th- e hent ; er of a business man, we knew what )UD(j' he meant, and that there was not a byword of lemonstranee to be said. So mother went to make for him what to preparation wasneedful, and I should have followed her a moment later, jjn tkfj- - but father called him hack. Christie, he said, soberly', I am jn cp going to tell you something that no evsj(' one knows anything about save Harry Randall. I have quite a large dly sum of money over $2,000 in my jier A r. - t Jit? touched his breast nnoya I never keep large a str with his finger. rs a. amounts ot money by me, but in this case it is unavoidable, and I thought I should feel less anxes: ious to have it with me than to allow it to remain in the safe at the office. I cannot, of course, take it sr to New York. I want you to take ?mor of it till morning, lost t, charge ; and then take it to Randall for him to deposit in the hank. letter 1(j lc s n-- g 1- Cl TE 1 tie, y- - Dont say anythingtoyourmother fore. toth; lami- - eon per- - Ae.'i ild, rce a; t c r hoe :exl-- o tt-- ' oi; its oi th. 1 nk t ycli util' affl : cat act' 1 em' to, knows about it. to the hall and came y unexpectedly upon Joseph, for ard him speak somewhat sharply him because he had not gone to stable, and declaring that his jiness was of more importance in Ris supper. I heard Joseph .tter something about taking e to finish his meal. Yen minutes later, as father wna ng down the steps to get into the ringe, he turned back to me, and 'ding his umberella so mother ild not hear, lie whispered: I've been thinking, Christie, that ung Randall had better come and T at the house. I shall feel easier out you. lie is to he there at rk until very' late. 1hen he stepped into the buggy, (I they drove oway into the dark's and rain. did not send a message to Harry, wever. Indeed, I laughed a little I thought of father's anxiety. He 9 almost as timid as mother, af-- Then he went I 1 :ionr to With no slight feeling ot respon- ility I took the leather packet : ich he handed me. and placed it in pocket of my dress, l ather went on: rerhaps you 1 better put it under your pillow; coarse it is fire that I am anxious out. There is no danger of the ney in any other wayr. Not a I fc-- f i 1 -i ely h it about it. She is so timid and nervous that she would not sleep a wink niirht if she knew so large a sum v .s in the house. Do you under-nd- ? ' istn. ipe: to-nig- 1 51 W iek - ii. " ,1.-- ' hJ- ri he- - cle- a rather easy, careless and really had not a parti-o- f fear of having money in my 'T'iug. And as we two sat there in s library for a long time after this, other dozing in the big chair, andl ent upon some fancy work which 'as anxious to finish in time for a 1 ild' f all. was of n, ed very much to go on with my work, so 1 begged her to go upstairs without me, promising to come up in the Perhaps I had better give up the money at once, and so get rid of them. And yet father had confided it to my care, and it did not to him. but to the company. I not, to give it to those men if ought 1 could help it. Oh, why could I not give an alarm in some way? What if I should open my mouth and cry out at any risk? Gouhl I make Joseph hear away out in the wing of the house as he was? Alas! I knew that I could not, even had not this man been sitting there by the door he had taken a chair now eyeing me fiercely, as though he read my thoughts. Ah! Iff had only done ns fntht-- had wished and telegraphed for Ilarry Randall to come up. And then with this last thought another thought came to me. Why could I not summon Harry even now, if, perchance, he was still at the office? 1 arose from my chair, mechanically grasping my work in my hand. My guard got up also, evidently suspicious of my slightest movement. Ill have to ask you to keep quiet, miss. said he, with a harsh, determined voice. turneu upon him indignantly. I suppose I may change my seat it I like. said 1. without waiting for his And, permission, I walked deliberately orer to the desk and sat down on the revolving chair that stood it. At the same time I threw my work down in such a way as to cover the battery, which instrument my companion had not noticed at all. Perhaps he would not have known what it was it he had. I sat there a moment listlessly twisting the chair back and forth, and trying to make up my mind w hat best to do. Just then there was a slight noise on the hall stairs and the man became uneasy, stood up aud looked at thelibrnry door as if he was about to go toward it. Then ho turned again to me, and with a threatening gesture said: You jest set there while I step into the hall a bit. And if you stir or make a noise it will be worst for ye. Do you mind that? He went softly into the hall. Feeling that, now was my opportunity, I put my finger on the knob, and as silently as possible sent my signal over the wire, into the night, down to the mills and Harry Randall. Ilarry, are you there? In another instant I was leaning d back in my chair and moving an on the table to make a noise. How my heart was beating and my ear was strained to catch the sound that if I might in God's goodness hope it might possibly come back r course of an hour. The clock struck 11 almost before I knew the time had passed. 1 laid down my work ami counted the strokes without looking at the clock itself. I was sitting at a little center table near the lamp. At my left, a little off against the wallj was father's desk, with hooks and papers scattered upon it and the battery at one end. Opposite me were two long windows that opened upon the side piazza. Over these were thick curtains, closely drawn, which shut out the pelting storm outside. Directly opposite was the hall door, standing, as usual, wide open. Just then I heard, or fancied I heard, a low sigh or breath in the hall, I turned my head instantly, but did not see any person, and, listening intently, heard no further sound. I felt a little uneasy and smiled to myself at my nervousness, took up my work again. I had not finished what I had set myself to do. I had not taken three stitches when I laid the work down again. There was no use denying it or laughing at myself. For some reason there suddenly came over me a strong feeling of nervousness and dread. It seemed as if I hail realized, as 1 had not done before that evening, the fact that I was sittijig all alone down stairs in the house, at 11 oclock at night, with a large sum of money in my pocket. I glanced at the desk.' Possibly Harry' was still at work at the office. If he was, a single sentence over the wire would call him. I was just getting up to go to the to me! Almost a minute it seemed an desk to signal and see ifhewasat the mill when something occured to age I listened, and my heart sank me that seemed to turn me cold and as no answer signal was heard. Then click! click! click! came the sounds, motionless ns stone in an instant. Behind me, so close that I knew it sweeter to my ears than the sweetest came from the threshold of the hall music, and I knew Ilarry was there. door, a low hoarse voice that I knew These sounds were to some extent without seeing the speaker, must be covered by thedrummingofmythim-hle- , hut to me were as plain ns spothat of a desperate and wicked man, broke the stillness and bade me ken words. Instantly 1 sent back my answer, two excited words, run Good evening. all together: 1 I felt For a moment, as sny, as Robbers! Help! though I had been turned to stone. The total silence that followed asThen the voice, speaking again, sured me, after a minute's anxious seemed at least to restore the life in that Harry had comprewaiting, me and to set my heart to beating hended my message, and that doubtviolently. less he would come at once to the The language that the man used house. Fortune had favored me, for was not even as good English as, in I had heard the man creeping up the I find to reproduce, attempting hall stairs, and thus I had escaped writing. the results of suspicions hem ight Don't be frightened, miss. I beg have had had any he heard the clicking of you not to be frightened. All yeve of the instrument. I did not look at the clock and so got ter do is ter keep still an not a hair of your pretty head shall be cannot say how long I sat there in harmed. silence, it seemed to me that it was Then I turned my head, half hours. wheeling my chair at the same time, Then there was a sound of whisperand saw In the doorway a tall, brut- ing in the ball. The next moment al looking man, altogether as there appeared in the doorway a secand fearful looking a person ond stranger, rougher and more desas I have ever seen. perate, if possible, in appearance Naturally enough, I opened my than the first, and close behind him lips to utter a little cry, hut he stop- to my great surprise and indignaped me by a single threatening mo- tion, was our man Joseph. They tion of a club he carried in his hand. both advanced into the room, the If ye one looking angrv and disappointed, S li, he fiercely hissed. raise a single scream I'll strike ye as and the other with a sheepish air as he caught my eye. senseless as yer mother is upstairs. We ha ve found the key of the safq The last words changed for the moment the nature of my fear, and gave growled the second stranger, but all for nothing. The money wasnt in me strength to speak. What have you done to iny moth- it, and we have looked high and low Do and cant find it. But Joe here sticks er? I demanded, excitedly. to it that it's somewhere in the house, you mean have you killed her? and he thinks, looking, fiercely at He uttered asort of low laugh. No, my dear, she was waking up, me, you know where. Its no use, so we had ter use chloroform. An Miss , we havent any time to you must keep still or youll be served spare and we wont have any nonin the same way. You see, its just sense. You know where the money is and youve got to tell. here lie had advanced while he had been lie drew a step nearer, and seemed speaking, and was now quite near. I disposed to explain matters. What we want is some money arose from my chair, fearing he might which your father brought down lay hands on me. And at that infrom Ialmer yesterday. Maybe yer stant my ears painfully alert to any noise I was certain I caught the dont know he left it in the house My friend sound of a footfall outside of the when he went off is up stairs lookin lor it this minute. window and I gained fresh courage. And why have I got to tell? 1 deAll we want is money. We dont mean to harm nobody. Ye shan't be manded, purposely raising my voice it could be heard outside the house. touched if ye behaye yerself and keep soWhat right have you to break into quiet. Somewhat assured by this, and this house this way The man caught me by the wrist, was speakhaving had time whileI he at the same time a fearful now was able uttering collect myslf, ing to to assume at least an appearance of oath. You make another sound abovea calmness. he cried, in a voice hoarse went and whisper, embroidery took I up my and I'll with work to rage, or pretending on working, Hedid not finish thesentence. There at the pattern I was embroidering came a loud crash at both windows at I think the action helped me, too, ance. and the next moment Harry found myself quite for I presently with two watchmen from calm and with a coolness and reso- Randall, burst into the room. mill, lution that I can huruly believe in theThe rescue was in over complete so far as recall I turning it, now, as lives were concerned. The our do. to saving I mv mind what ought attempted no resistance. What would these two men do when robbers an instant, before a word could thev found, ns they would soon find, heInsaid or a blow struck, the man stairs? not was up that the money his hand and dashed the raised and They would he disappointed of deeds from the table. In the darknesslamp and capable, perhaps, confusion the Joseph intended. burglars, first at not had that they 1 lie-for- ink-stan- my-se- lf to-nig- des-dera- e among them, made their escape. And although every effort was made, both thn" arrest, they never were taken. However, as I said, our lives and the money that had been confided to mv keeping were safe, and we were thankful tor that. And 1 may say again that I am very glad that at that time at least the telegraph hud not leeii superseded by Arlra)tral poultry on a farm is into the setting of a good dispensable table. The poultry yard should be well drained by grading from the centre to the sides. A hen nlwnys begins to wipe her feet when she goes into a A flock of the telephone. The Latest Abontthe Eiffel Tower. Four days ago we saw for the first time the French Hying Irom the highest summit that was ever constructed by human hands, and that flag though it seemed no larger than my handkerchief was thirty feet long. It is indeed a Titanic ei cation in this Eiffel Tower, and not at .ill the ugly thing thut newly-mad- Tribune. irrmernrnta e tlovver-he- tri-col- certain journalists in America, who have not yet seen it, will persist in calling it. A Tower of Babel? Not at all; more like Jacobs ladder minus the angels, though there were some fair ones on their way to the top platform the last time I went the journey. Now as I lopk at things, the completion of his work marks an ever-livinpage in of the iron age, for everything about it is prodigious, and yet the total weight of this mighty mass was calculated almost to the pound before a rivet had been struck by the employes. It is a monument to industry, to force work and iron casting, to honest toil and engineering skill: It is an apotheosis to mental adb manual labor that is without precedent. Two years ago all the French school of artists and architects united in the crusade that was started against Civil Engineer Eiffel, aud quickly distinguished writers joined them in crying out that Notre Dame the Leuvre ami all the grand monuments of 1aris would be spoilt by the barbarous structure which he conhist-histo- g more feed to raise her than to raise a sourb, but she is worth $350 the most. And then there is the mental pleasure nnd growth to lie derived in developing nnd handling so beautiful an animal. L. B. Pieree, inb. Y. FOR THE FARMER. templated building, and that the whole city would be offended by the odious column that menaced it as a public calamity. I smile when I think of it, but the tower of Notre Dame is ns beautiful as ever, and there does not seem to he much change in Paris, except that there is one more curiosity within its walls. If critics quarrel with the colossal height they cannot find fault with its extreme lightness. At a distance you can only see a fine filagree work where the lines intermingle and knot like the threads of a and the impression in rather uncertain and somewhat confusing, but nearer to it the confusion ceases and the details show clearly and plainly. Time and again have I stopped in my afternoon promenade to study this tower, and I am always struck with its size and height, the immense arches at the base, the rafters pointing upwards in such hold curves, the platform suspended in the air, and I have continued my walk firm in the belief that its enormous nnd graceful proportions will act soothingly on even the most phlegmatic imagination of some of my home eonlreres. Henry llaynie in 1icuy-un- o fish-ne- t, Gigantic Hogsheads. Do not allow the water to stand around the small-frui- t plants; see good surface drainage is provided. Wheat gives hone and muscle to fowls. Feed the chicks plenty of cracked wheat. If you cannot buy it cracked grind it in a coffee mill. The conditions for sivding have rarely been more favorable than this spring. Timely rains and warm, hut not sultry, days have promoted a vigorous start oi early sown grain. Fathomless mud in country roads, with stones abounding in adjacent fields, suggests to the mind an evil audits cure permanent cure if the effort Le made in good earnest. Put the finest and best manure in the garden. Use the coarse manure on corn. Endeavor, however, tolmve the whole heap well rotted before us-in- Avoid sod ground for straw lierries, says a fruit grower, as it is often infested with white grubs which have a great fondness for Strawberry roots. One breachy animal among tv lot will not only do considerable damage, but will at the same time teach the others the same habit. Poor fences is one cause for stock becoming breachy. Very green material should not he stored in the silo. Let the seed heads form, and cut the plants when the seeds are about to turn. Corn fodder for ensilage is usually cut just when the ears are glazed. If cut earlier it is not as nutritious, nnd is not so well adapted for keeping. Over 1,000,000,000 forest trees were planted on the prairies of the Northwest last year. Nebraska planted the largest nu ml ier, Kansas second, Dakota third and Minnesota fourth. With this rate of tree planting, the blizzard will soon be a thing of the past, extremes of heat and cold will be modified nnd extensive droughts less frequent. It is said that J. N. Muncey, Iowal lolstein breeder, has been experimenting with a view to finding out the approximate cost of a pound of milk and a pound of butter. The result with twocows (llolsteins) were cents an average food cost of 38 per 100 pounds of milk, nnd a trillo over 8 per pound ol butter. As the farms of the Northwest are improved, and fences enclose fields, .gates should be put in instead of bars, as they cost but little if any more and much time is saved by their use. Time is becoming every year a more important consideration in farm operations, and in busy seasons, a gate that is much used will pay for nwell-know- n 0 0 great tun designed to hold itself. champagne in the Paris Exposition A The and now being dragged along the roads towards its destination by 12 yokes of oxen recalls the history of the tun of Heidelberg. The first was begun in 1343, ami was made to contain 21 pipes. Another, begun !n 1589 nnd, finished in three years, had a diameter of 18 fret anil held 128 English hogsheads, A third was made to hold (500 hogsheads, in 1(5(54, nnd was destroyed by the The one French four years later. which at present is mouldering away and, according to Longfellow, is next to the Alhambra one of the most magnificent ruins of the Middle Ages, was begun in 1751, and was capable of holding 283,000 bottles. For nearly 20 years it was kept steadily replenished. At every vintage the grape growers used to meet and dance on its top. It was 24 feet high and 3(5 feet in its longest diameter. The biggest vats, however, have never figured in history. In one English brewery there is a cask said to be capable of holding twice as much as the tun of Heidelberg. It is 3(J feet in diameter and 40 feet well-know- n ' finely-choppe- d corn-mea- l, mixed with dlings, milk, if milk can be obtained. II milk cannot be had, buy lwvf heads or cracklings of the butcher, boil them nnd use the water for mixing. Meat is always welcomed by fowls. At noon, feed hard grains, such ns a mixture of wheat, corn and oats, nnd, if easily obtainable, buckwheat, nnd at night feed whole corn. Farmer's Poultry Raising Guide. half-and-hal-f, Hon to (let Itid of Fleas, From th Prairie Farmer. Some yeurs ago my stable and lot (a small one) attached thereto, became perfectly alive with these terrible pests. After a visit to thestable it was no uncommon experience to catch from off my clothes a dozen or more of the jumpers, to say nothing of the numerous others which escaped nnd finally took refuge nnd comfort by giving fits to the female members of the family. Finally, in n tit of desperation, and just alter having purchased a five gallon can of coni oil, the idea struck me that it would be advisable to give them a dose ot that, and I immediately acted upon wlmt I now consider a heavenhorn idea. I took a common flower sprinkler holding about a gallon and tilled it full of oil, nml then went over the ground in a rapid manner, but letting the oil come freely. 1 then gave the stable floor, and the sides for about three feet therefrom, a liberal dose. Since that time we have never been troubled, nnd I think tinso fleas who escaped the deluge must not only have taken French leave, but also left word for future generations to steer dear of the entire preiiii"-- s. It Was a Mistake. From (he Washington Critic. n A congressman, who loves a cigar, good or bad, had a box in his library which was had, and his daughter quietly threw them away. That evening a distinguished judge called, nnd the M. C, during the evening asked him to smoke and went for his cigars. They w re gone, of course, nnd the judge made good the loss by getting a couple out of his own pocket, nnd the two friends settled down for a smoke. In the midst of it the daughter came in. Whew! she said, supposing her father had laid in a new stock. well-know- Whew! suggestive illustration of the facility with which butter absorbs smell from unsavory surroundings is given by the American Dairyman, from the experience of a gentleman farmer, who furnished a fashionable district in New York with giltodge product of fancy cows: The demand was in excess ot supply, arid the goose hung high. Suddenly thebut-tr- r was way, way off. What could the matter he? The grass fields near the dairy had been manure 1, and the butter had taken tiie odor straight to the tables of city consumer? Trees For Different Soils, not always that the plantIt er can have his choice of soils, and he can meet with fair ' success by to the as ns far it possible adapting different kind of trees he has to plant. Peach trees do best on sandy soil, lie enn lighten heavy land for them by free use of coni ashes. Cherry trees do best on the dryest gravelly land. An excess of water makes the On dry land trees high. they will need good manuring with plenty of ashes containg potash. The pear thrives best and is freest Flapping of a Flys Wing, from disease on clay soils, perhaps From Sir Jolm Lubbock's New Book. The slow flapping of a huttertlys because these preserve a more equable temperature. wing produces no sound, but when the movements are rapid a noise is JlortM Worth Hiving, produced which increases inshrillness In Akron theotherday, Isaw a with the number of vibrations. Thus Cleveland bay mare, weighthe house-fly- , which produces the sound I, vibrates its wings 21,120 ing probably 1,275 pounds, without times a minute, or 335 times in a blemish or puff, nnd handsome as a second; and the bee, which makes a she sound of A, as many as 2(5,400 times, picture. Strong, active, fleet, or 440 times in a second. On the could be hitched to any of the numercontrary, a tired heehums on E, nnd, ous family rigs used in cities and trot therefore, according to theory, vi- off briskly with four or five passenbrates its wings only 330 times in a gers. The man who raised her sold a sprond. Marcy has succeeded in con- -' gelding of the same parentage two and now has finning these numbers graphically. years ago for lie fixed a fly so that the tip of the two matched closely wing just touched n cylinder, which related valued at $500 or 8300 for was moved by clockwork. Each the pair. It is certain that the sire stroke of the wing caused a mark, of of the horse I saw was not a crooked-iegureold course very slight, but still quite spavined, perceptible, and he thus showed th it screw, or the mothera walleyed, wind broken nini e, only good there were actually 330 strokes in a to raise colts. Perfection never secoud, agreeing almost exactly wit the number marred from the note comes trorn such sources. It took no larger stable, no bigger pasture, no produced. is e. ld s ring-hone- i fur Ocdias Poaltrj. Thoughtsareunnecessary. A long der each board, w ith a small block end is sufficient. Distribute the soft food on this evenly, from one end to the other, nnd as soon ns the fowls have finished feeding, wash off the hoard, and stand it on end out of the way. This ensures cleanliness. Water should he changed several times a day, nnd should he given in a vessel that will exclude the feet ot the low Is. Feed very early in the morning, and late in the afternoon as uossible. In the morning, teed grass, radish tops, mustard, or any other kind of green food at hand, mixed with to which may lie added a proportion of salt, fine bran, and wheat mid- What is it? asked the M. C. Smoking those cabbage loaves again, are you? They're awful, papa, simply awful. By that time the Judge began to wonder wliut he was getting, the M. C. went into a laughing fit, and the girl concluded she had made a mistake and ilew. Later tho M. C. explained to the judge, aud all was forgiven. Bm No More Puzzles for IUm. Eugene Carter, the billiardist, was telling the other night about a fixed fifteen puzzle which they once had in a place down east. It wus during the time when that puzzle wus ns pop ular as the Pigs in Clover puzzle now is. This fixed puzzle wns arranged in such a way that it couhl always he solved, nnd it wns brought out as a sort of a capper when a stranger came in. It was done so easily that the stranger was willing to bet that lie could do it. A bet wns made usually the drinks for the party and the strangers attention was attracted for a moment, when a regular puzzle was substituted for the The stranger would fixed one. work on this for nn hour or so and finally give it up nnd pay the bet. So fascinating did this trick become that the billiard tables would be deserted the moment a new man took hold of it. The billiard trade was ruined by it, and one day the proprietor came in, saw how the lund lay nnd threw nil the puzzles into the fire. Chicago Herald. Taught by the Sea Birds. and Navy Journal n from a naval officer, letter prints who knew the value of oiling troubled waters learned this method from observing the sea birds. All birds, cape pigeons, the and like, eject petrels oil from the mouth when captured, lnthe South Atlantic and South Pacific the writer lias witnessed sea birds floating in spaces of comparatively quiet water when the sea around was rough. The unusual smoothness of the water was evidently due to considerable quantities cf oil deposited by the birds. The Army fish-eatin- |