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H. A. LONDOA, CDITOR AND PROPBTOR. ADVERTISING. - One square, one insertion.. . ... $1.00 One square, two insertion. ... l.$0 rauis of suDsoniPTion, $1.50 PER YEAR St icily in Advcr.se. lOue square, one month.., . .. . 110 VOL. XXII. P1TTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1899. NO, 6. j For Iarg-r a-Uo.-tisoim-uia libera , contracts will bo mad a. fl lllgMsfem ,nce ftcr IP room-' The words f 111 r' iTyra lijrvVt' s"e ottered were these: 8 .55Pf.MI)Tl " 'raying the penalty.' - " CHAPTER XXI-(Continued.) '""Not fo fast, madam. Not so fast. You "will be required t meet graver charges Shan ereii thcae 1 have mentioned." "If a. ha, graver charges!" laughed the "widow contemptuously. 'Tray recite them. Of wlijit .rise am 1 guilty?" "First, of the murder of Audrew Kel fogg, whom you ruthlessly, tlowly, but surely done to death by poison." "Ah!' The single syllable escaped through the madam's set teeth like a de spairing wail. '"Second, Banker Kcllogg's wife, 1 doubt not, yon helped to the grave. Third, you were murdering Mr. Kcllogg's young er daughter through the same agency that you had used in murdering her uncle. I know you, madam: you are a second Lu cretia Borgia. TYithin your trunkNis a scientific treatise on poisons of more than two hundred pages. There, also, is an ebony casket containing deadly poisons of ;a hundred kinds. Your doom is sealed." "This man can scarce live ten minutes," said the doctor. "If you obtain a state ment from him, it must be-at once.":- "I can only say that in all matters per taining to me," said the almost dying man, "Sellars has spoken the truth. I was sat isfied that Tearl had that money. She required me to remove the cashier and the "bankers son. I thought to remove one and let the law remo the other. I do not regret my failure. I am only sorry for the boy. He he is my son. The shot was fatal. I forgive you, boy. Come, come!" All glanced at Earl. He sat shackled in his chair, jabbering like an idiot. "His mind has completely broken rlown," said the physician. "He is a mental wreck." "Perhaps," said the dying man, "it is better so. Good-bye, Pearl. I so wrong ed you, but you have had your revenge, even though you swing from the gallows. JHa, ha! The gallows!" These were the last words of Juan Za yola. A few gasps and he had ceased to breathe. - - "So you all think that for enacting my role in the drama of life and death, I should die cn the gallows? Ha, ha! Little you know Pearl Almegro. I should nev er hare had another name. Mav a thou sand curses rest on the very 'corpse, of that wretch. You told the truth once, Mr. Sellars. My nature-became changed from the moment I ascertained that I had been deceived. Vhy should I say more? Dick Newberry you have not mentioned. He, at least, I did not murder. I left him, nd he blew cut his brains. He was of small loss to the world. What you sur mise in regard to Andrew's death, you may surmise. You know nothing. I took good care that his body should quickly be embalmed. Ha, ha! Embalming fluid is sometimes a great convenience." "Merciful Gedl" exclaimed the bank er. "And I loved this woman would have mado her my wife!' "In regard to the taking off of Thalia Kellogg," continued the widow, paying no attention to the banker's words, "I only gave her more freely of the remedy pre scribed by fcer learned attendant, Dr. Hewit, here. If. 1 must hang for that, hang him, too." "God have mercy:" exclaimed the doc tor. "What troubles yen, doctor? Your knees are Quaking under you. You are not the first physician who has prescrib ed that which led his patient to the grave." "Oh, woman, woman!" ' ' "I know thy name is frailty. Well, now we come to Janette's illness. What you know, you know. Perhaps I had con cluded that there were too many members of my brother-in-law's family. Especially as I was expecting to become his wife. For years I have dreamed of acquiring great wealth." 'Oh, God!" groaned the banker. "And cn the first of September I would have led this woman to the altar." "How soon love fades and withers into nothingness. Oh, but this other matter, Mr. Sellars is correct the money is in the trunk. Zayola did my bidding, but he would not have received one dollar of it. He would have been as he is .now, only a body would have been found in the park a partly filled bottle of wine and death enough in it to hare materially lessened the number of park policemen. I never cared specially for Earl. I thought he Would be a convenience some day, and educated him accordingly. He knew no will but mine, and I think I had more feel ing for him than anyone else. He has committed no crime aside from exchang ing those packages. That I managed. To be sure, he killed his father, but it was in my defense. I think I am sorry for Earl. I trust be will not regain bis reason." "A most remarkable woman," observed the detective. "And one, Mr. Sellars, you may now bring to the gallows, as soon as is con sistent' with your inclination," said, the widow, arising to her feet. There was a quiet movement of her left arm. Sellars sprang forward, but too late. She cast a phial that had contained prus sic acid at his feet, and with the words, "I have escaped you, Mr. Sellars," and a derisive laugh, fell to the floor. She was quickly borne into the adjoin ing room and laid upon the couch. . "There is no hope here!" exclaimed the physician. "Prussic acid! The contents o that phial would have killed .fifty men. Convulsions are seizing her already. The pupils of her eyes are contracting ber teeth set " "O God!" wailed the banker. "That this unfortunate woman should ever have in-uattfA mv house! -Death and destruc tion followed in her wake. Thank God, my daughters are far from this awful "Father! Father!" "Yes, my son my boy! Oh, my boy P "Come to the library,-father!" Unresistingly the banker, accompanied his son. ' r Five minutes later Dr. Hewit appeared at IliA door. ....-...'-' "It is over," he said. "She spoke but CHAPTER XXII. . Leaving the physician with his father, Robert again ascended the stairs, where he found Sellars 'standing with " folded arms, gazing down '.'at the still, dead fea tures of Elinor Kellogg. "Thus ends the career of the most won derful woman in the annals of crime, that in a long and varied experience I have as yet come in contact with," observed the detective as the young man joined him. "The denouement in this case has been tragic indeed." - "Marvelous man!" exclaimed Robert. "Rut for you, other members of my fath er's household would now be slumbering in the grare." - "A 'terrible blow to your father this must have been. You left him" "Conversing with Dr. Hewit. He is greatly agitated and nearly "broken down. lint -..here is Earl?" "Seated where you left him. He alone of this trio may be entitled to some sym pathy. He implicitly obeyed the behests of the woman he believed to be his moth er. Bring him to the bedside, and we can judge if any spark of-reason yet remains." Robert led the teller unresistingly for ward to the bedside. He merely gazed at the dead form be fore him with a vacant stare. - "How did you ascertain, Mr. Sellars. all about these mysteries in connection with with that man and woman?" "Oh, as I stated, through letters, news paper clippings and photographs. Here they are. This one of Zayola I found re verted in the widow's album. It was tak en many years ago in Richmond, as were these two of Elinor Kellogg, then Alme gro. You will noticethat in one case she is dressed in the paraphernalia of the cir cus ring, un, it was an easy matter. "Y'ou hardly brought that package from Richmond?" "No; while sealed at supper at the hotel on the night I left for Richmond, Zayola. entered the dining room. I ascertained that he was stopping there and was regis tered underthe name of Revelle. I as certained the number of his room, and vis ited it immediately on arriving in the city this morning. In his trunk I found that package. From that circumstance, cou pled with others, I drew my deductions. I also found there the false mustache and other means of disguise the suit he wore; when first entering the bank, a drab suit. and others, skeleton keys nearly as good, an outfit as I carry. There were also burglar's implements. Oh, Zayola deserv-. ed bis fate." "He did, indeed." "Now we will inspect the madam's trunk. Bring Earl along lest he wander from the room. 3 "Here are packages of letters from which, undoubtedly, you will be enabled to learn more of the widow's past. This package contains worthless bills wildcat money and from it were procured the bills which made up the package Earl sub stituted for this one, which contains the- money the cashier indorsed and for which the collector receipted. Here is the book. on poisons, and here the ebony casket con taining them. "Marvelous!" "The patrol wagon has arrived. The officers are ascending the stairs." They bore to the morgue the body of Juan Zayola. That evening the two inquests were held, and the following day the two bodies were consigned to the grave. Earl, a few days later, was an inmate of an asylum. When Mr. Sellars. visted the offices of the express company he bore two pack ages, and the banker accomnanied him. The detective laid before the president of the company the packages. "For the apprehension of the party, or parties, who assaulted and robbed your collector of a certain package, and rfeturn of the contents of that package," he aid, you contract to pay a reward of ten. thousand dollars." "Certainly; and we will do so." "Your collector was twice robbed tvith in ten minutes." "Oh, that is utterly impossible!" ex claimed the express official. "He had but one package and was - robbed but once." "In the alley he was robbed of the con tents of this package," said the detective. "Examine it." The official did so. . "Oh, no," he said presently. ."Elsworth is too old a collector and too well posted lo receipt for wildcat money. It cannot be." r "Yet those are the bills he carried from the bank," Sellars said. "The identical bills." "What utter folly. Not only would our collector not receipt for such trash, but Banker Kellogg does not deal in wildcat currency. We could not think " "One moment, please. These are not the bills told over by Mr. Terry, the cash ier of the bank. Nor are they the bills the collector supposed he was receipting for. A package was made up in his pres-ence,- he, with the cashier checking down the banks of issue. It was laid on the ta ble before Elsworth, who was writing his receipt. He . was robbed robbed first, then and there robbed by tbejeller of the bank, who exchanged a similar package made up of this wildcat money, for the one that lay before bis eyes. This pack age contains the twenty thousand dollars made up by the cashier and of which you hare a schedule of the banks of issue. Every dollar is at par." "Of all the strange tales I ever heard," exclaimed the president, "this is most marvelousJ" "Zayola, who assaulted and robbed your collector in the alley, has answered for his crime. He is dead." "What, the desperado shot down in your residence, Mr. Kellogg? The one who was in the act of robbing that unfortu nate woman?" - ', : . ,4'The same," said the banker. "Earl, the teller, is confined at the sta tion," said Sellars. "He is hopelessly in sane and will be so adjudged by a court of inquiry. His future will probably be spent in an insane asylum." T "For heaven's sake, where did you ob tain clews leading to a solution of these mysteries, Mr. Sellars?" :', "By. not. waiting for them to turn up."-. "By Jove! Y'ou have fairly won the reward." "It is a question," Eaid the banker, "if you should pay it, as an official of -my bank secured the original package. He doubtless had been watching and- prepar ing for an opportunity of the kind- for months. I feel tbat'JL shpujd -" "Oh, well, vae conflicts! (pay that re ward vfo will pay I U T hear is true, you are overbdrdened -with misfor tunes. I .sympathize with 1 you, believe me. I also congratulate you. Mr. Sellars, I will hand this p.ckage, to our cashier and have a check made cat on the Great Western Bpt payabe te your order, fory ten thousand dollars." "But " "Do not say a wordj, Mr. Kellogg. As one of our heAviest sfiok owners a fair share of the payment will fall on you, and only for the more important matter that brought Mr. Sellars here f n your in terest, the mystery would never .have been unraveled." "Well, if you look"' at it tin that way, I must submit." Five minutes later tn backer and de tective left the office, SeISari bearing with him the company's check. Arrived at the bank, Mr; Kellogg said to his sort, who was at the fcashier's win dow: -'-.' "Robert, hae you made cJat the check I spoke to you of ?" v" "Yes, father' replied the aeting cash ier. - "Send the book: to my ofice by the por ter. I will sign it. Come, Jklr. Sellars." The two men were seated in the bank er's sanctum when, the porter entered and handed Mr. Kellogg the check book.. A moment later he had igted and torn from the book a check vhich he handed the detective. "I can never repay you. my friend," he said with no little ajtttation, "for all that you have done for mre and mine, t can never forget. But for you the murderess of my brother, my wife, and almost of a loved daughter, wouHl soon have become my wife. God grant that you and yours may have happiness, and that your days may be long in the land. Xhis little check is, I assure yeu, but a slight token of my regard and appreciation for your ser vices." . "Why, Mr. Kellogg." said Sellars, not ing that the check handed him was for five thousand dollars, "I hardly feel that I am entitled to this sum from you. You did not even engage my services." "So inueh the more do I appreciate them." "The fact is," observed the detective, "I feared to acquaint yu with certain movements I desired to make, or even that I entertained suspicions that I did. Y'ou would have believed them without foundation, and I might have had more difficulty in making my investigations. Dr. Strong and I felt that you had best be kept in Ignorance of my presence in Chicago until I had brought the case to a culminating point." "I think you acted wisely. Nothing but the most convincing proof could have caused me to doubt the integrity; bf that woman. Poor Andrew!" That evening the banker end his son accompanied Mr. Sellars to tlpe depot, and he returned to. the sunny Snith, bearing with him their heartfelt gratitude and the fifteen thousand dollars he had so well earned. - On the evening of the first of Septem ber, the banker's residence was aglow with light, apd very happy looked the fair Laura, as, leaning on the arm of Law rence Terryr she advanced to the east end of the parlor, where stood at waiting cler gyman. Lawrence, though yet rather pale, had entirely recovered from! his wound, and happiness beamed from his eyes. Janette, nearly as spxisbtly as ever, ap peared on the left of the bridal couple, and if one could judge from indications, the sprite held captive the heart of Dr. Strong's 6on, Artjiun; who accompanied her. The fair chancer standing by Rob ert's side is Grace, llhe sister of the bride groom, and Julia, tae housemaid, as she stands in the door with Aunt Cindy, is just remarking: "I 'clare to de Lawd, I jes specs dat will be de nex couple what steps off de carpet." ' "Sure nuff, chile," 6ays her mammy. "A blin' man kin see how the win' am drift ing" Amos Keilogg, his wife, daughter and son are present, as, also, are Doctors Strong and Hewit. "I much regret, Amos," the banker says, "that you were unable to bring Mr. Sellars." "He was much disappointed, brother,, .'but he was called to Charleston very sud denly and felt that be must go." The ceremony performed, all followed the newly wedded couple to the wedding feast. After the return of the bride and groom from their wedding trip, Lawrence re sumed bis position in the bank, and to Robert fell the duties formerly performed by Earl. Mr. Kellogg felt more and more, as time passed on, that he could never be come reconciled to pass the remainder of his years where there were constantly so many reminders of the hideous past. The result was that the following April he wound up the affairs of the bank, clos ed its doora and removed to an enterpris ing city on the Pacific slope, where he again engaged in the banking business. -Lawrence Terry, with his bride,. his mother and sister, accompanied him and at the time this record closes the sister has been Mrs. Robert Kellogg foe many years. - Mr. Kellogg is now quite an elderly man, and has retired from active servUp, leaving the management of the second institution of the kind he had founfled to Robert and Lawrence. One of the leading physicians, in the city is Arthur Strong, formerly bf North Carolina, and he apd Janette reside with the banker, whose greatest pleasure con sists in corraling the youngsters of his daughters and darugiter-in-Jaw, semj-ocr casionally, for an afternoon's frolic. There are seTan children in all, and sometimes before the afternoon's session has closed, the gentleanan, whose hair is now much streaked wth gray, almost con cludes that there are forty. .. Langdon Robert's Eldest boy, his father states, is almost too old for a childish frolfc, but his grandfather says:" "No,-no, we could, never get through the day without Latig." Mr. Sellars has servien&l times visited the family, where he is always a welcome guest. He gazes- with prices on the features of his young namesake, on 6uch occasions, and his mind goes back to scenes in his younger days. He recalls the terrible tragedy enacted in the Dearborn street mansion in the years of long ago, and perhaps in fancy hears again the last words of one who wrought much woe: "Paying the penalty." (The end.) i nnTfiTTT miTn i T AItH 1 1 il 1 1 .111 n A I . i liuxuuuuiuiitua & Level Culture Best For Cab bases. Cabbages grown on level land in Arkansas produce forty per cent. greater yields than when grown on ridges four inches high and forty-six per cent, greater than when grown on ridges eight inches high. Level culture was decidedly the best. In the Bame series of experiments cabbage plants set deep so that the bud was just level with the .surface of the soil produce much larger yields than if set the same depth as the plants grew in hotbed. To Start Beea in Section. As an inducement to start tho bees at work in the sections, a few empty combs should be saved at the close of the honey season. Unfinished sections are just the thins for this. The honey can be extracted and the sec tions put out for the bees to clean up, so as to leave no honey in them to granulate. At the beginning of the honey flow they can then be plaoed in the middle of a super as bait. When honey begins to come in the bees will take it up into the bait combs quite readily and when once started in the super they will spread out very rapidly. As the bees begin to cap the sides of the sections, and if the honey flow is promising, lift off the iirst super, bees and all, and place on the brood nest an empty super, putting the full one on top, By this method we can get two, three and sometimes four supers of honey from a single colony. Last year I had a few colonies that filled four supers apiece, twenty-eight one-pound sections to a super. Correspondence in Orange Judd Farmer. Uaylnc a Cement Floor. It is 'important that the cement floor be laid with a true level. It should not bo too smooth on top, but very level. To secure a true level and to make sure that an even thickness of the cement is being laid on, the plan illustrated in the cut may be used to advantage. Lay down a strip of wood of the required thickness xt cement, putting it about twenty inches from XEVEIi FOUNDATION FOE A CEMENT FLOOK the back side. Fill in the cement and with a straight edge smooth all off level with the piece of wood. Then move this back about twenty inches and continue to repeat the filling and smoothing operation. Cement is usually laid on a firmly packed floor of stone or gravel, but it can also be laid upon a board floor if the building is elovated from the ground. For the use of cattle the floor should be in clined a little, either in the cement or by inclining the earth or board floor beneath. New England Homestead. reeding Valne of the Corn Plant. The feeding value of the corn plant at different stages of growth has been the subject of careful investigation, and the results are valuable to the feeder of live etock. The idea is prevalent that the value of the stalk, after the removal of the ear, is insig nificant, and that is why the stalks are left in the field over such exten sive areas of country. No one would consent to permit such waste of a product that he deemed valuable. He could not be induced to thus expose his clover or timothy crop. But the farmer who has learned that he can profitably turn stalks into beef, milk and mutton, and save valuable hay, is not leaving his stalks in the field and exposing his herd to all sorts of weather, while they are trying to sus tain life upon the woody fodder. It is true'that the large outlay of labor in harvesting the stalke, before the corn harvester was introduced, was some excuse for letting them stand; and cutting by hand, too, prevented harvesting a large acreage at just the Tight time. The food value of the fodder depends upon the stage at which it is out. Experiments have shown that when the ear is glazed the stalks contain the largest quantity of available nutrients, and should then be harvested, perhaps waiting until some of the earlier ears are ripe. It is a cause for congratulation that every year more and more corn fodder is fed. This coming winter will be a good time for those who have never fed it to begin, for the clover crop is shoit and in some sections there is a short crop of hay. Just remember that there are experienced feeders who say that good corn fodder is the equal of clover. Last winter I shredded my corn fodder, and was highly pleased with the result. But simply cntting it in lengths of about three inches will do. John H. Hobbs, in the Epitomist. Well-Anchored Fostt. Many plans have been broached for firmly anchoring the corner post that is to receive the pull and tension of a wire fence, but the one here illus trated is one of the best of all. At the back of that post in the bottom of the hole is placed a block of wood, and in front of the post, jast below the surface of the ground, is imbedded e long log, or stick of timbeiv It will be seen at a glance what enor mous resisting power these sticks 3 I ii lift afford the post. The second cut shows how a wire fence may be held taut by carrying the wires from the bottom of the first post up to their several positions on the second post.v Short sections of wire are then put between the first and second posts, ANCHOBAGE BELOW GROUND. 1" in the positions of the dotted lines. This plan causes all the "pull" on the wires to be exerted on the base of the first post a position that does not admit of much yielding. Either of these plans will be found of value TO MAKE A WIKE FENCE TAUT. when building a barbed or smooth wire fence. New York Tribune. The Selection of the Herd. The manager of the herd should be a fine judge of the. class of cattle to be selected, for upon the selection and purchase of the cows will depend the future profit of the business, admit ting that all other departments of the industry are properly managed. Just here comes in another question of taste which must be decided Upon by the dairyman. Oftentimes cows are bought for the dairy with a view not only for the extra flow of milk to be obtained, but also the profit which may be realized from their sale to the butcher after the day of good milking of the animal is passed. Acting upon that idea, cows of good milking breed, having large frames, easily kept in or der, and which will rapidly take on flesh when not milking, are the ones to be selected. Their calves are larger and worth more for veal. In this way the dairying and beef business may to a certain extent be profitably com bined. On the other hand many dairy men prefer cows for dairying purposes alone. There are several pure breeds of this type, and many graded, up by crossing registered stock on common cattle. The latter are more generally used in our section of the country, from the fact that the investment for a start is lets, and the profit on their product, as proportionately satisfac tory. Again, there are breeds of cat tle noted for their superior flow of milk, while others produce a smaller quantity, but richer cream. The lat ter are thejbutter and cheese makers. The dairyman who intends to supply his customers direct with the milk from his dairy, is only interested in that breed of cattle from which he can obtain the largest number of gal lons of milk daily, while the man who is interested in the sale of the cream, butter or cheese as a product from his dairy, must select a breed Bhowing superior merit in that line. Some cows are more active in their habits, doing well on pasturage, while others give better returns from close confinement and high feeding. Some breeds give a large flow of milk for only a short season, others produce an even steady flow of milk during a long period of time. So that we find quite a variety of distinct characteris tics among the various breeds of the animals which go to make up the dairy herd. Atlanta Journal. Farm and Garden Notes. . Look out for sore shoulders on the horses. ' Keep the collars clean. Brome grass under irrigation yields as high as five tons of hay per acre. Antichokes can be successfully grown on the same field for a series of years with the aid of fertilizers. . The old queen always goes with the prime swarm. .bight days after swarming the parent hive will have a virgin queen. Calves like fresh water. Any ar rangement for a hog waterer that will keep olean, fresh water before them all the time is the best way to supply it. Wheat in some Manitoba experi ments produced a better yield and heavier growth on a summer fallow than when grown on spring and fall plowed bind. Disking after burning the wheat stubble, and then drilling in the seed, in a Canadian experiment, gave better results than drilling the seed on burned or unburned stnbble or on disked, unburned stubble. If you keep sheep, plant the pole varieties of beans in the corn rows and cut them early for the silo. Beans are especially valuable for these animals, being rich in nitrogenious substances,' and they accept them ravenously. When bees are hanging out in front of the hive it shows that they are un comfortable in it. Baise the hive and put an inch block under each corner. They need either more air or more room or more shade. Supply their needs" if you can. The Japanese Government ateel j works, which is under course of erec tion, is being -built to demonstrate ( the practicability of manufacturing plates in Jayan- How Farmers May Help the Koad. It is easily possible for farmers to keep country roads in a mnch hatter ebndition than most of them are at present, -writes J. N. Phillips, of Ulorida. . The individual can afford to do road mending on the same princi ple that he repairs fences and build mgs, pays me." And a land owner ought to feel as much shame. 9ven guilt,, before the general public DV$r a mudhole that can be drained, or over a choked-up sluice along his premises as he ought over neglected cattle or a display of filth. It is hot necessarj to wait for tho road-working season to come. The most profitable, common sense work can be put in a little at a time, if at the right time. Drainage is the be ginning and the ending of the whole matter, if roads are to . be roads and not sloughs. Watering-troughs and auiside springs are cemmon causes of Standing water, yet it is a very simple matter to direct the water flowing from them in the way it should go. A stone, a loose board, a chunk of soil washed down against the end of a sluice may choke it up till it is worse than nothing. Five minutes' .work would send the water rushing through its proper channel. It is not un common to see water following the wheel rut for rods, when a man with nau an eye can aiso see that a mere cut through the ridge at the edge of the road would lead the water into the ditch, perhaps down a bank. Dropping into a bad hole or soft place a few superfluous Btones now and then to keep the water out would work a double-headed blessing to all passing that way. Heaving out a few stubborn old stones from the track would work detriment to the black smith and wagon maker perhaps, but a big saving to the farmer. If all such patching were thus well kept up, the yearly toil of public service would count more and more toward the good roads of which all are dreaming and talking. This view of the subject is no more than one feature of practical farming, intelligent economy, a mere looking out for number one, no mat ter how many others are also bene fited. . Keep the Boada CJean. a It's an old and true saying that what is every man's business is no man's buiueS, remarkr J. L. Irwin, Cen- trftlia, Kansas. There is no place where the truth of this is more notice able than in the manner in which the roads are left to grow up to trash and weeds, when a few hours' work would keep them clean. No matter how neat a farmer, may be, or how tidy he makes his farm appear, the effect is spoiled so far as appearance is concerned if the few feet of public highway be tween the roadway and his fenoe is overgrown by unsightly weeds, brush and noxious herbage. A neat fence and well-kept roadside will add many dollars to the value of a farm. Beside the question of neatness there is another, greater reason which every man must recognize, but which is universally ignored, why a farmer should give the road bordering his larm strict attention, it will be a difficult task as most of us have found to our cost, to keep the thistles, burs and weeds in the road from scattering their seeds broadcast over the adjoin ing fields. It is muoh easier to keep the roads clean. As the roads are fields where the seed is liable to be sown at any time, by passing teams, grain or cattle, constant vigilance is necessary. But the end .gained cer tainly recompenses the labor and care. "A wise man will m,ake use of any thing. I will turn disease into a com modity,'.' said Falstaff. A well-to-do neighbor 6f ours uses the weeds and coarse grass he cuts from the road as stack bottoms. Where there is any ripe seed among the cuttings, how ever, this might not be best, but cut ting is usually done too early in tho season for that. The Anli-ltut Agitation. Bad roads constitute the greatesl drawback to rural life, and for the lack of good roads the farmers suffer more than any other class. In every one of the leading States the L. A. W. will introduce good roads bills next winter, and the vari ous divisions are preparing for an ac tive campaign in their support. The best road for the farmer, all things being considered, is a solid, well-built stone road, so narrow as to be only a single track, but having a firm earth road on one or both sides. When the traffic is not very exten sive the purposes of good roads are better sorted by narrow tracks than wide ones, while many of the objec tionable features of wide tracks are removed, the initial cost of construc tion is cut down one-half or'more, and the charges for repair reduced in pro portion. From the number of Connecticut towns that have filed applications for a share in the State good roads appro priation of $175,000, it becomes ovi- dent that there will be not enough money to supply half the demands. The number applying is 115, and their requests exceed the appropriation by $131,000. Silencing a Volable Barb sr. "Your hair is getting thin, sir," 6aid the local barber to a customer. "Yes," "replied the gentleman ad dressed, "I've been treating it with anti-fat. I never liked stout hair." "But you really should put some thing on it," persisted the tonsorial artist, in a most earnest manner. . - "I do every morning," returned the customer. "May I ask what?" inquired the barber. . "ATy hat," said the patron. There after was silence Freeport Journal, HOUSEHOLD MATTERS - r A Way to Blake Eclairs. ' Put into a mall saucepan one-hall Of a cupful of milk and one table spoonful of butter. When it boils add one cupful of flour, stirring very rapidly; This will give a very stiff paste, and it must boil thoroughly; remove the pan from the fire; add one unbeaten egg; beat this well into the paste; then add another egg, beating as before and continue until three eggs are used; piaoe a pastry tube in a pastry bay. Press with the left hand on to a baking sheet or pan eclair mixture three inches long. Put the pan in the " oven and bake fifteen minutes; then remove them-from the oven. ; When cool, with a pair of scis sors cut the eclair on one side and fill with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored or with a vanilla cream. tf" s. , -Vf - !- fV An Appetizing Hot-Weather Dish. To prepare blind hare, take a pound and a half of veal cutlet, or one three- -pound chicken, and a pound and 9 half of roundsteak chopped fine; mix, and add half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, a level teaspoonful of cinna mon, one pint of stale breadcrumbs rubbed fine, a quarter of a teaspoon fubof pepper and two level teaspoon fuls of salt. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly together, and pour over all four well-beaten eggs. Pack into a square breadpau or into a melon mould. When it has taken the shape of the pan or mould turn it carefully out oh a piece of greased paper in the bottom' of a baking-pan, baste with melted butter, and bake in a moderate oven -for three hours. Serve cold. Veal loaf is made after this same re ceipt, using all veal. Ladies' Home Journal. ' How to Cook Kidneys. In cooking kidneys it must be re membered that they should be cooked either a great deal or but little, the "golden mean" in this case being out of the question. Kidneys are like eggs. Cooked beyond a certain point the albumen and fibrine harden, and then long, slow cooking is required to bring them back to digestibility. To prepare a lamb kidney saute in the chafing-dish put two tablespoon fuls of butter it the cutlet pan. When hot add a small onion minced fine, and 000k for a moment or two, taking care that it does not blacken. Then add the kidney, cut in thin slices. Cook five minutes, turning often. When browned add one tablespoonful of mushroom capsup and either a tablespoonful of stock or a dessert spoonful of fluid beef dissolved in 1 little cream, and serve at once on hoi plates. Crnuibs of Bread. Crumbs of bread are always valuable in breading chops and other meats for frying, to spread over scalloped dishes, fried meats, fish and for other pur poses, as well as for puddings and sweet dishes. The secret of preparing these crumbj so they will keep indefinitely without mould is to dry them so that all mois ture is removed from them. Spread ths. bread on a tin in the warming ovei under or above the stove, as it is looaj ted, and after it is perfectly dry roll i out and sift the crumbs. Boll ouj those that will not go through thi sieve, and roll and sift them again unj til there is merely a handful of crumbi in the sieve. These few coarse crumbi are valuable for frying in butter, when used to scatter over maccarohi,. noodle and other pastes prepared to servi with meats.- For puddings drieq crumbs should have boiling mill poured over them, and they should remain soaking in the milk for hall an hour or longer until the milk hai, cooled, when eggs, raisins or fruit i added and seasoning is put in. Such puddings are excellent baked slowlj or boiled in a form. For stuffing the soft crumbs inside a loaf of stale bread aro used instead of dry crumbs. Dried crumbs make sweeter puddingsl Toasts for use. as a garnish to soup or- to serve with game or chicken should be cut up in ornamental shapes in thi quantity while soft, dried thoroughlj and stored away in boxes for us when required; When needed, brusli them over with melted butter and brown them in the oven or fry them 8 delicate brown in hot fat. I Hints For the Housewife. If your gem or muffin batter doesn't fill all the set fill tho empty onei partly full of water before setting ia the oven. . Date vinegar has recently been nui 0 - & j ou the English market, and manj people say 11 is iar superior 10 anj other vinegar. ' - Bread made criso and brown bv be ing sliced and baked in a hot ov'ei makes a valuable breakfast dish foi those. who are inclined to corpulence', No butter should be eaten with thii bread. - Corn bread possesses one advantage ror mnst. lint breads. It is digesti ble asTweil as palatable. Most writeri on food tonics asrree that yeast brdao is not as wholesome as that raised with baking powder. Tf DTpnsft ia smiled uDon the kitohes ' o x , floor do not pour hot water upon it, but cover the spot with a strong solu.. tion of anslacked lime and sal sods dissolved in cold water, and sorub vigorously with a clean scrubbing brusn. A stubborn' attack of hiccoughs will almost invariably yield if a drop ol oil of cassia (cinnamon) on a piece ol tmcar is civen to the sufferer everv ten or fifteen minutes. This has been proved effective when all other reme dies have failed. Bolls from whole wheat flour ar very nice when properly made. They are also very healthful. Fritters alsd" are appetizing. Make the rolls of one . pint of sweet milk, one spoonful ol shortening, oue egg, two heaped tea spoonfuls of baking-powder and flour for a moderately thick batter. V ir v I t 4 6