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i CHAPTER XXIV.
Continued. "
' "So, dear father," replied Kate.
"They fear I may tell her what I over
heard, and that the half crazy old
woman "will attempt to destroy them.
Have you ever tried to bribe Daniel
or Stephen or Fan?"
. "Repeatedly, and -n vain," said Elgin,
'They fear my vengeance should I re
gain my freedom."
A few minutes passed in, affectionate
Conversation, and then Nancy unlocked
the door and came In.
"Catharine Elgin," said she, "you
must now return to your room."
r "Say prison, evil-hearted woman,"
said Elgin. "Farewell, my dear child,
and heaven guard you." ,
"And you, too, my poor,father," said
Kate.
"Corne, come!" said Nancy, stamping
her foot. "We've had enough of that
nonsense."
Father and child separated, and
Henry Elgin was again alone.
He heard Nancy lock the door of the
crimson chamber and then that of the
ante-room.
He waited until he heard the well
known tramp of Daniel sounding in
the hall, and then looking up the chim
ney, called our:
f ,,TWork, my son! I watch for you!"
Greene began his toilsome work once
more. He had first to remove the
strong iron work, and then to pass
through some thirty feet of flue before
he could hope to stand upon the roof.
Leaving him at his dangerous task,
let us follow Nancy Harker.
She conducted Kate to the white and
gold apartment, locked her in, and was
lingering in the hall when Daniel ap
peared. " . . -
"What news, Daniel?"
"Well, we saw the young gentleman
aboard the cars, and his baggage, too,"
replied Daniel. "He seemed very
gloomsqme like, and never spoke a
word after we left Mr. Hammond up
stairs."
"Did you wait until the cars left?"
asked Nancy, eagerly.
"No; we left him wrapped up in his
cloak in a corner seat, and he looked
like he cared 'or nothing and nobody
in the world. .What's up now, Mrs.
Harker?"
"Nothing that I can tell. If old Fan
comes this way, send her off instantly,
Daniel. Where is Stephen?"
"He said he was going to bed; and
blow me, if I don't wish I was,"
growled Daniel.
"You shall have a nap before long,"
said Nancy, as she hurried away.
"If I don't," growled Daniel, as he
began to pace the floor; "if I don't,
blow me! I will go to sleep walking
about." " '
In less than ten minutes he was pac
ing to and fro with his eyes shut, more
than half asleep, and in five minutes
more he leaned against the wall, and
gradually sank down upon the floor,
sound asleep, with his lantern by his
side.
Then a bent and crouching shape
crept along the hall, which was dark,
although day was dawning without,
and stole into the ante-chamber of the
white and gold room.
! It was old Fan, whose half crazed
mind had clung to the only two words
Kate had uttered when they were last
together:
j "Yes, Fan- "
1 Kate had said so much, and the oh!
woman longed to hear more, for her
suspicions were aroused.
Fan tapped at Kate's door with her
skinny knuckles, and whispered
through the key -hole:
I "My lady bird! Miss Elgin!"
There was no reply. Poor Kate,
soothed by the whispers of joyful hope,
slept, and heard not the trembling
whispers of old Fan. Again the
wretched old woman rapped at the
door. "Miss Elgin! Birdie!"
"Come cut of that!" growled Daniel,
who slept like a cat, with his ears
open. "Come out of that, or I'll stir
you up!"
Old Fan cursed him fearfully, and re
treated to her kitchen to twist and
turn those two words that burned in
her brain "Yes, Fan"
Nancy Harker had hurried to the
library, and there she found Hammond
writing.
i "What are you doing?" asked Nancy.
"Writing an explanatory letter to
Charles," said Luke. "And I must
write another to a former friend of
mine to take Charles in hand and make
him less of a saint."
Nancy waited- in silence until Luke
had finished his letter to Charles; but
when she saw him begin one to the
friend of whom he had spoken, she
said:
- "Do not write it!"
"Ah! And why not, Nancy?" said
Luke, with a snap of his teeth.
"If Charles is a saint, let him remain
a saint. The world needs many like
him." - ,
"Come, enough of that," said Luke,
bristling up his hair and glaring at
her. "You have had your way long
enough about Charles, Nancy."
w"He has grown up a man, Luke, and
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never done anything to blush for," said
Nancy.
"Ha!" laughed. Hammond. "Under
your guidance he is still able to blush.
Now, I intend to rectify that mistake,
Mrs. Nancy. I am of the opinion that
my son will never be anything but a
booby so long as he is able to blush, as
you call it. I intend that Charles and
I shall be firm allies hereafter."
"You wish to make your son as bad
as yourself, Luke?" said Nancy.
"I wish to be able to" speak upon any
subject in my son's presence, and not
fear his absurd ideas of right and
wrong, Nancy," said Luke, with a
flourish of his pen.
"You must not do!" said Nancy.
"You will dare to oppose me!" ex
claimed Hammond.
"I will dare!" said Nancy.
"Woman! be careful! You are grow
ing dangerous again," said Luke, knit
ting his heavy brows. "What right
have you to come between me and my
son? Mind your own business, Mrs.
Harker. You will have enough to do
to settle your own affairs with John
Marks when he claims his son. He is
a terrible fellow to trifle with. What
will you tell him when he comes and
says, and proves it, 'Harriet Foss is
dead, and John Marks wants his re
wardMarks wants his son!' Eh?
What?"
Nancy Harker was very pale as she
replied:
"Never fear, Luke. I shall be able
to make my words good."
"Yes, but how?" sneered Luke. "You
will lead John Marksto England; you
will lead him to Highgate in London;
you will then enter Park House, the
Asylum for Idiots; you will lead him
through swarms of idiots until you
pause before a thin, horribly distorted
face the face of a man of eighty on
the body of a youth of twenty-six or
seven years; you will point at the grin
ning, brainless, chattering idiot and
say, 'John Marks, behold your son!'
Ha! will you dare do that, Nancy
Harker? By my blood, I would like to
be there, in some safe place.jto see and
hear you do it!"
Hammond snarled this -terrible pic
ture from his teeth and began to write
again. Nancy gazed--upon him half
sorrowfully, half in triumph.
"Or have you lied to me, Nancy
Harker?" he cried, bristling his hair
again. "Does the son of John Marks
really live?"
"I have not lied, Luke," replied
Nancy. "The son ,of John Marks and
Nancy Dunn that was, of Nancy Har
ker that is, does live. Two years ago
when in London, where' you dare not
go "
"Yes, I have an enemy there, called
the Law," interrupted Luke, sneer-
ingly.
"When I was there," resumed Nancy,
"I went to the Asylum for Idiots at
Highgate. I saw the youth and had
his portrait taken."
"Have you that portrait? You never
told me of this," said Luke. "I would
like to see it."
"I have it, Luke," said Nancjfc "I
had -no particular cause to speak of it,
or perhaps I forgot it. I. will go to my
room and get it."
"Do. I would like to see what the
son of my dear friend John Marks
looks like."
Nancy left the library and soon re
turned, with a large miniature painted
on ivory, which she gave to Hammond,
saying:
"This is the exact' image of the
youth."
Luke gazed at the hideous, distorted
and soulless face for a long time, and
then laughed aloud.
. "By my soul, Nancy, I don't envy
you and John Marks such a son and
heir! The face of a human monkey
what eyes what terrible eyes it has
And the mouth! Augh! take it away,
or I shall dream of it! And that is
Jonn Marks' son my nephew! my
nephew! Pah!"
He laughed gleefully. It really did
him so much good to think that the
son of John Marks was a miserable,
driveling, idiotic wretch; while his was
a magnificent, glorious, handsome man
talL strong and ' intellectual, but
much too virtuous to please . Ham
mond.
Suddenly he exclaimed, as if wild
with delight:
"But, Nancy, I tell you what John
Marks can do. He can make a fortune
by showing the thing around! He
might make a splendid speculation by
exhibiting the boy!" .
Again he laughed loud and long, and
hugged himself to think Marks had
such a son.
Then checking himself as he noticed
the corpse-white and appalled face of
his sister, he said:
"But I am wrong: I forget you were
the mother of it."
Of it! The it was a better thing
with all its awful ugliness and idiotic
horror than vile, demon-hearted Rol
and Dunn, or, as he wrote himself in
'great, broad, black letters Luke Ham
mond, Esq.
Nancy Harker placed the miniature
In her bosom, and her eyes gleamed
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and sparkled as she did so. But the
gleaming and sparkling was not from
the sheen of tears; it was the flashing
of a malice as profound and more ex
ultant than his. . .
"I have finished my letters," said
Hammond, at length, and tossing aside
his pen.
"But not sealed them," said Nancy,
who had secretly folded a blank sheet
of paper into the form of a letter.
"That will be done in a moment,"
said Luke, seeking .'or sealing-wax. "I
swear there was a stick of wax here
this morning," said he and then turned
his back to Nancy to seek for more in
his desk.
As quick as light, and as noiseless,
Nancy exchanged the letter folded In
blank for the one Hammond had writ
ten to his friend in Paris, extracting
the letter from its envelope, and re
placing it with the former.
Hammond turned, sealed the letter,
and placed them in his bosom.
"Now, Nancy," said he, "I must have
some sleep. You had better go He
down. Tell Stephen to wake me'
"Stephen sleeps,"said Nancy.
"Well, tell Daniel to wake me at ten.
I must send Stephen at that time to
my office to say that I am out of town
and to bring me my letters. Curse the
letters! they have been nothing but
duns of late. Good morning, Nancy.
Don't dream no dreams. Dreams
don't trouble me, Nancy. I am too
matter-of-fact to dream" he was put
ting fresh caps on his pistols "entirely
too matter-of-fact for that nonsense,
Mrs. Nancy Harker."
Nancy was leaving the library, when
he exclaimed:
"But it is strange about that idiot.
When I saw him and Charles, let me
think saw them- playing together,
twenty years ago both boys seemed
equally bright more like twin brothers
than cousins, Nancy. My boy was not
so tall and stout as the other, only be
cause my boy was the younger. Young
Marks seemed all right, then."
"Yes," said Nancy; "there was no
sign of idiocy then. But two years
after the unfortunate . boy began to
droop and fail, first in mind and then
in body. So rapidly did his infirmity
increase, that in a year from its first
appearance he was declared a hopeless
idiot, and I placed him in an idiot
asylum. Two years ago I had him re
moved to the Park House Asylum."
"Nancy Harker," said Hammond,
sternly, "never let Charles know that
he has such a cousin. Remember
that."
"I will remember it, Luke," said
Nancy. "You rejoice too much in your
son's perfection of body and mind.
Suppose heaven had smitten your son
and spared mine, Luke."
"Woman!" cried Luke, fiercely,
"away! You terrify me with the very
thought. My son such a thing impos
possible!" And Nancy left him in silence.
He locked his doors, and was soon
asleep in his chair vigilant even in his
sleep.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE DEATH OP OLD TAN.
Ten o'clock, the hour for awakening
Hammond, arrived, and Daniel rapped
at the library door.
Luke awoke with a- start, and on
hearing Daniel's growling voice opened
the door.
Daniel started back in . surprise, for
Hammond was as pale and care-worn
as if he had been sick and confined to
his bed for a year.
"What are you staring at?" de
manded Luke. "What is the news be
low?" "I peeped in at the gentleman," said
Daniel, "and he ordered me to send his
breakfast to him at once."
"Ah! He is growing strong very
fast," said Hammond. "And how is
the lady?"
"Mrs. Harker was there just now,"
replied Daniel. "She said the young
lady was brighter this morning but
still refused to eat."
"That girl's obstinacy and powers of
endurance astonish me," thought Luke.
"By my life, she will make a queenly
wife a regal spouse. But she'll starve
before she will yield. Well, we'll let
her starve until night. Better she
should be weak than strong."
Then aloud to- Daniel:
"Now, go awake Stephen, and tell him
to come to me. Then you may take
five hours of sleep, Daniel. Tell Fan
I shall soon be ready for breakfast."
Daniel departed, and Hammond sat
down to think until Stephen should
appear.
"I have been ..annoyed by the most
horrid and dismal dreams while I
slept," thought he. "Matter-of-fact or
not, I have had a terrible nightmare
crushing the blood out of my heart
until it beats as soft and limp as a
rag."
He sought relief in his decanter, and
thought again. " " 1.
To be continued.
A Lazy Man's Reward.
Necessity is said to be the mother, of
invention, and from the . severe de
mands she makes I sometimes think
she is a stepmother, says a writer in
the Woodworker. One of the laziest
men I had was put at the job of shak
ing sand through a shaking sifter, and
I thought I had him where there was
no dodging. He worked along until
noon, and when he came back from his
dinner he brought a roller skate, cut it
in two parts, and had that sifter on
wheels, doing double the amount of
work with half the labor. He has been
relieved of the-doubtful distinction of
being called "Lazy Joe" to a position
more in keeping with the intelligence
he has made it evident he possesses.
Intercessory prayer, might be defined
as loving our neighbor on our knees.
Charles H. Brent. -
3
With the Funny
Fate's Difference.
Some folks very seldom dine; """"
Some folks live in clover; .
Some folks own the trolley line
" And some folks get run. over.
Washington Star."
Mary Mistake. -
"Mary told me that she was simply
fascinated by that young Fuzziy."
"Yes, she took hini for his rich
cousin." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Doubtful.
"Gracious! Who is that yelling?''
- "It is Myrtilla."
"You don't say! Is she giving her
class yell or getting her teeth fixed?"
Detroit Tribune. '' . ,
That's So.
"There is one worry that Rockefeller
never has."
"And what is that?"
"He never worries for fear his hair
is coming out." Houston Post.
Criticism.
He "I don't see why you admire the
story so much. There is one absolutely
impossible character in it."
She "Which one?" v
He "The woman who never listens
to gossip."
Seemed Long.
"Did you know this was the longest
month in the year?" he said on the oc
casion of his third call in a fortnight.
"Yes," said the girl, with a yawn;
"it seems so, doesn't it?" Yonkers
Statesman. "
Which?
Grayce "Miss McPrim tells me that
she has made arrangements to lecture
for a term of years."
George "Do you mean that she is
going on the lyceum platform, or is she
about to be married?"
Pop Had an Automobile.
Tommy
'Say, po"p, what's a pedes-
trian?"
Pop "He is one of those fellows
who is always kicking against auto
mobiles." New York Press.
No Use For It.
Auctioneer "What am I offered foi
this fine large bath sponge? Going ai
fifty cents going going It's a shame
I can't get more for it. I'd buy it my
self only I've just come back from a
visit at the seashore." Harper's Week
. Cutting It in Practice.
Educated Ernest "Wot d'ye think of
dis scheme to ostracize de tainted
rich?"
Practical Pete "I'm right fer it
Hereafter I'll never ride in de same
patrol waggin wit' no defaultin' bank
president." ,
Hot Usually Affected.
Mrs. Goodley "Gracious! how you
do annoy me sometimes. Do you know
that you snored in church to-day?"
Mi. Goodley "Nonsense! You're
used to my snoring by this time. What
was the matter with you?- Insomnia?"
Philadelphia Press.
'As Olhers See Us.
Green "Do you believe there Is real
ly such a person as the fool-killer?"
Brown "Er by the way, how Old are
you?" ' --
Green "Forty-five."
Brown "Well, if there is, he must
have retired from business." Chicago
Daily News. .
SiB IiOBS. '
Scovill "What are you ma'a about?"
Clarke "The railroad company has
found the trunk I lost,"
Scovill "Do you consider that a
cause for anger?"
Clarke "Well, I should say yes!
Wouldn't you be made if you had to
take a $4 trunk in place of the $50
damages you had been expecting?"
Cleveland Leader. - -" ""-
No Compalsiou.
"You sign this deedof your own rree
will, do you, madam?" asked the law
yer. '
"What do you mean by that?" de
manded the large red-faced woman.
"I mean there has been no compul
sion on the part of your husband, has
there?" - .
"Him?" she ejaculated, turning to
look at the meek little man sitting be
side her. "I'd like to see him try to
compulse me." London -Tit-BItSY-
GOT
m - m
GYMNASTICS.. ,
1 Sound Mind in a SonndBody May B
f Developed. -
The Birmingham Daily Mail reports
l lecture by Dr." Walter Jordan on the
subject of "Fatigue,"-although the real
theme was hostility to gymnastics.
Professor Muirhead, of the Birming
ham University, who acted as chair
man, indorsed the lecturer's strictures
3y declaring that "gymnastics were the
most exhaustive and demoralizing kind
of exercise that could be engaged in,
and that hp had suffered from the ex
ercise himself and knew what it
meant." This was qualified afterward
to mean that gymnastics are a brain
as well as a muscular exercise, and to
indulge in it could not be regarded as
a rest for the student.
The; learnedprof essor did not know
or else ignored it if'he knew, that the
powers of the mind for soundness and
vigor are dependent on thd powers
of the body, ifhd that during the forma
tive period of growth, exercise is an
essential to their best development.
His reasoning, too, was faulty, inas
much as his universal conclusions were
drawn from his, own personal experience.-Many
people find gymnastics
repugnant to them, some from indo
lence, some from physictl unfitness to
engage in them; yet it is self-evident
that to consider the whims and in
firmities of the habitual croakers as a
standard by which to measure what is
good or desirable for all mankind is
the extreme of absurdity.
The great improvement in the phy
sique of men and women since the
general adoption of gymnastics in their
many forms is in itself a material
refutation of the strictures uttered by
the men whose ideals are the passive
and the effeminate.
That gymnastics . may be harmful
when indulged in to excess, or when
there is organic weakness which inca
pacitates one for active exercise, there
is no doubt; but the same may be said
of everything else of value in life.
A sound mind in a sound body is a
precept good in the past, present and
future, and both are to be attained
only by the development which comes
from physical culture, whether derived
from work in the gymnasium, or work
fishing, Towing, shooting, or indeed
sawing wood. Forest and Stream,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Your little child is your only true
democrat. Mrs. Stowe.
He who knows only his own side of
the case knows little of that-J. Stuart
Mill. - -
We are sure to get the better of for
tune if we do but grapple with her.
Seneca. v
Every man, as to character, is the
creature, of the age in which he lives.
Voltaire,
Religion converts despair, which de
stroys, into resignation, which sub
mits. Lady Blessingtou. .
The duty of man is not a wilderness
of turnpike, gates. It is plain and sim
ple, and consists of but two points;
his duty to God, which every man
must feel, and, with respect to his
neighbor, to do as he would be done
by. Thomas Paine.
God gives us always strength enough
and sense enough for what He wants
us to do. If we either tire ourselves
or puzzle ourselves, it is our. own fault.
And we may always be sure, whatevei
we are doing, that we cannot be pleas
ing Him if we are not happy ourselves.
Ruskin.
Talking About Trouble.
De Wolf Hopper, back in New York
and at the Lambs' Club, is authority
for a story which contains rather a fail
amount of philosophy. "Often when I
have been having a run of hard luck."
the comedian declares, "this tale has
made me see the. humorous side of the
proverbial 'last straw.'
"While we were traveling in tho Mid
dle West one day last March my in
tention was attracted, to a sorrowful
looking man with a small boy who sat
across the way from me. Opposite the
pair was a lanky clergyman of the sort
who makes every one's business his
own. The man was berating the boy,
and, judging by appearances, the cler
.gyman didn't like it. Finally, goaded
on by some particularly violent rebuke,
the minister leaned forward and said:
'I can't permit you to talk that way
to your sonf If you persist I'll make
trouble for you.'
"The father glared a moment, but
made no reply. Presently I heard him
scolding the youngster again, and saw
their fellow-traveler go fo the rescue.
'I've admonished you once before,' he
observed. 'The first thing you know
I'll make trouble for you.'
"Evidently this was too much for
pater familias. He broke out violently:
'You'll make trouble for me!' he ex
claimed, with infinite scorn. 'You'll
make trouble for me! My wife fell
off the train at Des Moines, I lost my
hat out Njf the car window twenty
minutes ago, this kid has just sat on
the lunch, and you'll make trouble for
me!' " New York Press.
The Tyranny of Fashion.
"I have just come home, and all the
fashions seem so queer." So remarked
Mrs.- Archibald Little, authoress and
traveler, to the Society of American
the speaker added, "I saw that every
woman's dress opened up behind, it
seemed to me that another worry had
been added to life, even to that of poor
man. Can't we women look beautiful
in dresses that open in front? And
must our hats all require three pins
or more, and must they always tre set
askew?" Mrs. Little appealed to
American women as leaders of fashion
to consider whether current feminine
attire was calculated to impress the
beholder with respect London Tele
graph. -
Wo.
12, 1905. NO. 9.
SOUTHERN ''FARM : fiOTES.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER. STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER
SheepUlalfcing in the South.
I have "wondered why James Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture, has never
given the powerful impulse of his pa
ternalism to sheep raising in the
South and its almost incomputable po
tentialities. Certainly here is the line
of "least resistance" to develop the.
business, which, in turn, would give an
Impetus to cognate or allied industries
that would put the South on a plane of
development almost as great as was
given by cotton manufacture. Here
could be developed the business of
raising lambs- for the early markets,
North and West, an industry kindred
In Its spirit to that of raising early
fruits and vegetables. Here could be
raised wools that would furnish East
ern manufacturers. . '
Here .would be the greatest centre
of manufacturing fine woolen fabrics
on the globe, for, with t.he cheapness
of lands South, the cheapness of labor,
the healthf ulness of. sheep, the fineness"
of their wool, given the same breed, no
one could bring to the-manufacturers
here so fine a' wool at so low a price.
Of course woolen manufacturers would
move South from New England and
elsewhere to weave this wool, as cotton
manufacturers have done in the case
of cotton. I have long regarded wool
raising and the manufacture of woolen
goods in the South as. among its great
est unexplolted resources and poten
tialities. -But
there Is another aspect to this
matter that makes sheep raising in the
South a pressing necessity. Any one
familiar with the inroads tft? sawmills
are making on our yellow pine areas
of the South and the effects on the to
pography this deforestation makes,
must view .almost with dismay . their
future condition. Our heavy precipi
tation, in conjunction with the rolling
and hilly topography, sets the soil to
washing rapidly. The soil being sandy
more or less is soon gullied, and the
sand is washed into the valleys. The
landscape is scarred and marred into
unsightliness, and, in many instances,
the ruin Is irredeemable. This is pro
ceeding at a fearful rate, and some
large and concerted action is necessary.
The railroads, if they could only be
Induced to reflect upon it are most in
terested, for who will want to settle
on these cutover, unsightly areas when
the timber has been removed? At
present they are having a fine business
in the tonnage of the lumber these
great pine areas afford them from the
innumerable mills along their lines,
but after the timber is exhausted what
then?" It is no answer to say thaf
truckers and fruit raisers will occupy
them. They will do so, and have done
so, in a measure, but they can only
sparsely populate the vast areas de
spoiled by the sawmills. And, truth is,
these very sandy lands, with a hilly
topography, ought never to be broken
They ought to be put down in Bermuda
trass, red top or herd's grass and white
clover. These would furnish pasture
for sheep the year round.
Every considerable railroad inthe
South might do an infinite service by
having several experimental farms on
their lines, where the finest wool breed
of sheep could be thus raised. They
would soon be largely imitated.' This
is a needed diversification in Southern
agriculture. Ere long woolen manu
facturers would come in and prosper
ous town would soon spring up," where
else some may be some day irreclaim
able wastes.
As it is, there is room for many
woolen factories in the Gulf States to
absorb the wool that is raised there
and carried at great cost to the great
wool markets of Philadelphia and Bos
ton, paying many tributes to middle
men before it reaches its consumers in
the South as woven material. ' Of these
wools the best are well known as lake
wool, and have been long esteemed and
bring a high price. M. B. Hillyard, in
the Tribune Farmer.
' Sweet Potatoes.
C. R. Smith, of Texas, gives the fol
lowing advice on the planting of sweet
potatoes
In discussing the sweet potato ques
tion, too much cannot be said on its be
half, for there is no animal or fowl on
the farm but what relishes it cooked
or raw, and a more toothsome or whole
some diet is hard to find for man. For
feeding stock, its value is. about three
bushels of potatoes to one of com, but
when we .come to the yield, it is from
four to eight times that of corn per
acre; and no farmer that has a few
acres of sandy land has any excuse for
not having some good feed for all
kinds of stock, and a nice dish of good
food on his table three times a day
for six months in the year. So I will
give you what seems to me the best
method of cultivation. I know it will
not fit all cases and under all circum
stances, but I believe it worthy of any
one man's consideration.
To prepare the sweet potato fced, dig
out the earth three feet wide and six
inches deep, and as long as you need.
Fill three inches with fresh stable
manure, press down smooth, cover
News of the Day.
The story of the transfer of James
H. Hyde's stock in the Eqitable Life
Assurance Society-to Thomas F. Ryan
was told before the investigating com
mittee in New - York.
Twp persons were killed and nearly
50 injured in a wreck near New Cas
tle, Pa. ' .
District Attorney Jerome is serious
ly ill at his home in.New York. .
filje Chatljam Utcorii,
RATES OF ADVERTISING
One square, one insertion $1.00
One square, two insertions 1.50
One square, one month ' 2.60
. For Larger Advertise-. ,
ments Liberal Con
tracts will be made.
with loose soil two inches deep, then!
ay potatoes on that along side of each
other, not one on top of the other. ;
Then cover with rich soil to the deptn!
of three inches; keep bed moist as
long as needed for slips. You can use
vines cut . ten inches long. Be sure to
bury two or three-joints in setting out 1
In preparing the land, be sure you .
have it in good tilth, for there is no
crop that depends as much on well pul- ,
verized soil as the sweet potato. Make
your ridges moderately high, 8x0111'
off with a light board that will cover
three rows at a time. Now you are
ready to set your slips, any time you
have moisture enough- to make thoflf
live. , v . ' '.
In regard to cultivation, as soon as
the plants take hold of the ground
and show that they are going to live,"
it is time to commence cultivation, for
"you will find a first class stand 01
weeds and grass if you have any seed.'
Take off the outside feet of your cul
tivator and put on two twelve or four
teen inch sweeps 011 the inside feet,
(Must have beams of inside feet hung
on springs so as to give them a move
ment in any direction.) You must
necessarily go slow, but you will find
with a little practice you can clean
your drill. Then with a thirty-inch
solid sweep once in the middle you,
will have your potatoes clean. Do this
as often as the grass comes up until
the vines get too jong. Remove all
grass or weeds that might be leftby
the plow with hand or hoe.
Radishes and Peppers Profitable. x
A Louisianian has the following to
say of what he did with early crops of
radishes and peppers: M
In January last I planted Chinese
giant sweet pepper seed in hotbed; a
pepper plants grow very slowly at first
and as it is not advisable to set them
out before all danger of frost , has
passed, I planted them with turnip rad'
Ish seed the last of January. 'Jineso
did very well and most of the crop was
shipped to Kansas City in sugar bar
rels with about fifty pounds Ice In each!
barrel.- The first shipment .was mada
March 9 and the last April 8. They;
netted $86.88. f
Immediately upon clearing the
ground of the radish crop I set out 400
pepper plant, quite large by this time?
The plants were set two and a half
feet asunder in rows three feet apart,'
and occupied about half of the radish!
ground. A stake was driven at each?
plant at once and the plants tied se
curely, After the plants had started!
growing I applied a small quantity of
commercial fertilizer to each." 1
The month of May was very dry and
I was compelled to water the plants
separately with hose attached to a
force pump. Later, when rains came?
growth was fine. At first a Planet JrV
single wheel hoe was used, but whenf
the plants became too large for this I
used an ordinary garden hoe. As the"
plants grew it was necessary to con
tinue tying them up, as they are ver,
tender and easily broken by the wind?;
About the time the plants began t
fruit I applied a small shovelful of
well rotted manure to each. As the"
season advanced the price of peppers
declined, until I received only six cents
a dozen. My last sale, which was made1
November 21, brought total receipts up
to $43.50. -r" . V
Tbe ground Is cleared again and
sowed with mustard, which was off in
time to follow the last of Jlanuary,
1905, with radishes again. ? s
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Destroying Wild Cntoni.
A correspondent asks for a way Of
destroying wild onions. A heavy ap
plication of salt to the ground occupied
by the onions, or water at the boiling
point will kill them. It might be diffi
cult to make this application on any;
large scale, however.
We believe that the best way ofi
dealing with the problem is by putting
the ground so troubled in some crop,
calling for clean culture. No plant is
known to us that can live through this
sort of' treatment and probably, all
things considered,, it is the most eco
nomical way of removing the difficulty,'
By it all undesirable vegetable growths
can be brought to an end. Some plants
are almost certain to be missed by any
of -the other methods employed with!
this obpect in view. Home and Fariny
Killing Borers.
The various borers that Infest frullJ
trees nearly always enter the treo
bodies right at the surface of the
ground, where the bark is soft, and
work upwards inside the wood. A
wire inserted in the hole made by them
will usually destroy them and prevent
further injury, and the work should ha
attended to in good season.
X''
Trees Need Boom
Give trees plenty of room if yott
would have them thrifty and vigorous
and bear large well matured fruit. It
is better to err on the side of giving
more room than is necessary, rather,
than on the other. Southern Fruit
j Grower.
Facts Not Widely Known.
Ether was first used in surgical op
erations in 1SG4.
Iron was discovered in Virginia
(the first metal found in America)
in 1715. -
' A machine is, being perfected in a
Birmingham shop that is to turn out
from 90,000 to 100,D00 finished wire
nails an hour.