Her name was Rachel Peterkin. She standing Clarke left the flat and on his THE TRIUMPH OF CELERY. cost of production and marketing was SOMETHING OF ARTS AND CRAFTS.
Pemorratic Maton was lite and bright and biown, CIt% S way th ihe cai_3s sometifles. happetied, 3a the: ish ce with abe. $5000, Jeavihg o Ret peel ot 400, Be —
short upper lip that, momen ex- Slayde rolling home machine seasons, w are ) or nearly $1,000 per acre. Another farm Duri few years every maga-
—~ariD citement or pain, curled back and showed after a night of it. For once Clarke look- fore Thanksgiving and Christmas, the av- of ten acres brought $13,426.75 from cel- re furnishing
—_— __ | teeth that were tiny and white, like a ed at his old classmate with a shade of erage consumption of celery in Greater ery and $8,000 from lettuce, making $21,» department, has considered it worth-
Bellefonte, Pa., June 30, 1911. child's. And she seemed like a child, so envy. Lord! if he had a bit of what that New York is six carloads per day. 426.75, a yield of over $2,000 per acre. while to devote some of its space to illus.
. r——— little she was, for all that she was twen- chsh was throwing to the winds! trade is of such importance that From six acres at Gary, Florida, one trated articles upon the subject of arts and
ty-five, and for three mortal years had Clarke told himself that he had there are three firms in New York that grower netted $5,000 last year from cel- crafts. The reason that so much space
AFTERWHILE. ed herself. quite pit Yotuthin aot of bie Blu, nd handle but celery, and this is the ery that took just ninety to mature, has been given to this subject is that so
me was secretary to a busy, charitable was thinking only of business. only city that exclusive celery-houses. and from the same piece of land he took many homes throughout the country have
orn back afterwhile.” he said woman, who was so busy with her char- But now and then, as the pass- It is only within the last fifteen years that a crop of lettuce which brought him felt the tidal wave of this movement eith-
As he tucked his head in his cap of gray. ities that she never noticed, in the spring, ed, he glanced at the clock, and won- celery has been a staple and obtainablein about as much as the celery. er directly or indirectly. Each section of
And muffling his throat with a scarf of red how the color had gone out of Peterkin's dered to which hotel he should take Pet- the markets the year around. There is eee the country has not only awakened to an
He lovingly called to his mother to say, cheek and the lightness out of her gait. erkin for lunch. He was sorry now that not a day in New York now when crisp Hustling for Wool. interest in handicrafts, but has demanded
“I'll come back afterwhile.” But Clarke noticed the change and was he had not offered to go with her while celery cannot be served. Twenty years —— to know what was being done in other
. angry. - she did her errands. Perhaps it would ago, like peaches and berries, celery came During the last two or three months places, so to be able to keep in touch with
“I'll come back afterwhile, he said . child is working herself to death,” be better if she did not go into the crowd- in its seasons, which were summer more than a score of big freight-steamers the growth.
To his father who sharpened his skates that he grambled; and he spoke to Peterkin, ed streets alone, He looked again at the fall. In those times it was a scram- [eft New York bound for Australia, load: This movement has stood for a renew-
day scolded her, for they had become clock and saw that it was past twelve. ble to get celery to serve with the Thanks- ed to their fullest capacity with ail sorts ed interest in hand work of various kinds,
At the old grindstone. Then onward he + chums in the months that they had He laughed at himself for an old woman, Vlg and Christmas turkey. Now the of American machinery and merchandise. such as pottery, jewelry, metal and leath-
. z ived under the same roof. and stepped to the window. Six stories California supply is at its height at Christ- From English and European ports other 7 tooling, weaving, wood carving, book-
Shouting, “Thanks, I'll give kisses for pay. Such chums $y west that, when down, in the street below, he saw acrowd mas-time. . scores of these deep-sea tramps set sail binding, etc., which has not only shown a
I'll come back afterwhile. he she made confession to that swarmed like ants, and thecenter of Michigan was the first State to grow algo, every one of them with its hold love of hand work, but on the part of the
pa Sal " Yo wid him. . . 8 black denseness was a halted automo- celery in quantity, but today it is insig- crammed with gocds for the Australian workers a desire to create something not
ra J come uch Serle: bo “I'm not zeally tired, you know. It's bile. , nificant as a producer. Kalamazoo and market. All these are now riding at only beautiful and original, but useful.
‘© his dog sounded a lonesome bay. just that I let things go on my nerves, Clarke was in the elevator before he celery, twenty-five years ago, were almost anchor at Melbourne, Sydney, or Ba "The beginning of this movement in
“Your Som is so sore: you must keep Your | and that frays me out. had explained to himself the impulse that synonymous. Today the general pudlic mantle. This great feet gathers there many places has been very crude, but
vor vol 4 “What things?” he demanded. moved him. . , hears little of Kalamazoo celery except 8s from our side of the earth but once a Where the interest has held out the re-
Tye 061 you £329 29 ome sole . “Silly t » she answered. “I use Because she'll be coming about now,” it is hawked at the depot and in the year, and its arrival is timed to coincide sults, after a few years, have been more
come erwhile. up so much d strength, too—in he thought, "and she won't like being trains passing through that city. The with the harvesting of the great crop of than encouraging. Boston is an interest-
“I'll come back afterwhile.” he said. being afraid, and this spring I'm more caught in a crowd. Get a move on leading celery-producin States cre New the Antipodes—wool. ing example of this fact, for after ten
But O! "tis so long he has been away. afraid of things than ever.” yon, man!” he said to the elevator boy, York, California and Florida. However, In November and December the vast ears of existence, slowly but surely it
Yet oft-times when skies ate with stars o'er. | Then she told him, hesitating, her list and for once he spoke without his drawl. so universal has become the production gheep-ranges af Australia are among the Nas raised the standard of excellence in
spread of fears. i : for, eo she had He went out into the street, where the that nearly every State hassome. Form- pusiest places on earth. Sheep are shear- its work, until last winter witnessed
Out of the silence they hear him say: said she would not be afraid, and had crowd was swarming, and he elbowed erly it was supposed that celery could be ed night and day, and the wool rushed an exhibition of unusual merit.
eh" taken one up in her hand once—she shiv- through them. He saw a policeman, produ.ed only in muck-land, but Florida by cartand train to the seaports. There The great city of New York has been
British Weekly. | €7ed: telling it—she still went sick when. stolid-faced, who held back jabbering and New York have dispelled this fallacy. it is converted into cash and exchanged very far behind the times in banding to-
ever she saw one. And the dark, though people, and he saw Slayde by the car, Every gardener in New York can have his {or the merchandise that is manufactur. gether the arts and crafts workers o: the
mom she made herself go into it, and would pesty-<alored, and sober as he had not own celery by proper cultivation. Many ed in America or Europe. This sort of city, but the past year has marked the
not have a light her bed. And n earlier that morning. Then he saw home-owners in New York and Brooklyn commerce runs into many millions during starting of such a society under the win
THE THROW-BACK. | automobiles, because they Swng ‘round a brown hat with a broken wing that lay plant celery as they do peas and beans. two or three months. Men and their Of the well-known and I
> corners with sudden loud n and in the gutter. : is celery can be kept in the ground families from the lonely sheep-runs of National Arts Club.
When Cla an aate he | they never let you know which way they I skidded, you know! I skidded on until winter and a fresh stalk put on the
mercilessly “jollied” by the other | mean
) 4 he interi i If the Arts and Crafts movement
t to turn. And long, lonely streets the asphalt! I couldn't help it! Oh, my dinner-table daily. When col enough to Se dno oF Seek the scant A throughout the country has come to stay
knew God! my God! I couldn't help it!" freeze it can be placed in dirt in the cel- Then they go back for another year's then this New York society, which is a
come from the doorways. Slayde was babbling. Jar, and it will last until the end of De- gemi-solitude and work. national affair, is bound to live and
because Wentworth had intended to be a | And thunder-storms in the summer, that me one bent over Clarke, as he knelt cember. The great market for all these huge thrive.
novelist. In those days to be a novelist | filled your room at night with sheeted in the street beside the ambulance sur- The most delicious celery is grown in cargoes of wool is London. On the nine- The Craftsman aims to make with his
meant to write swashbuckling tales of | flame. And drunken men! geon, who had said, “I's over!” New York State. In Orange county, and teenth of each month for three successive hands and whatever tools are essential,
what they called the “brave days of yore," | Was he laughing? 1 “She didn't suffer none, mister,” a in the vicinity of Rochester, Arkport and months there is the t of big days but without the use of machinery, the ar-
so Wentworth skimmed divers courses in | No, Clarke was not laughing. Instead, Jranger said. “Isaw it, and yelled to North Lima, the industry is extensive. on the wool exchange. most impor- _ ticle which he has chosen as his craft.
history, in one of which he stumbled on | he found it unbearable that Peterkin her. She didn’t have time to scream only These sections ship annually about 6,000 tant of these wool sales is on February =, The means which the craftsman em-
the of Nathan Clarke. should have to swallow her fears and once when it hit her. carloads of two hundred crates to a car. 19th. The rule is that if a vessel is ploys in the carrying out of his chosen
This Nathan Clarke was a silent young | mask her trembling and go out to face "Once!" Clarke dragged the word from Each crate contains five to ten dozen gighted off the coast of England before craft are in many instances identical with
New- , who married him a wife | the world. the of him. ! staiks. The most desirable is the Golien pine in the morning of the nineteenth of those of the early days when handicrafts
and moved westward into one of the New | After that talk he arranged matters so So she had seen them, the great wheels Heart self-blanching, the seed of which that month her cargo may be entered for flourished, while others have added such
York valleys. Between the lines, a nov- | that he could call for her and fetch her and the flashi head-lamps of her dreams. comes from France. All celery seed is that day's sale. Therefore, there is much improvements or changes as experience
such as young Wentworth might | home through the lonely streets from her : She had seen them coming. imported. jockeying among the ship captains who Ry have suggested.
Tead that he loved the woman. A child | employer's house when that charitable | _ All night long Clarke went up and down | Very excellent celery is produced inOr- for two months have been logging their 0 obtain the title of craftsman and
was born to them, and in that same | woman kept her working late. One night, the little flat, and looked at things and ange county, New York, but the celery. eight knots an hour on the long landless gain admission to the best craftsmen so-
month Clarke marched, with others of his | in Spring, when they came home t touched them, without speaking, from the beds there are not so extensive as in road from the other side of the world, cieties, the work of the applicant must
peghbors, to repel a threatened attack of | in this fashion, a_drunken rowdy reeled | shiny spice-boxes and the cereal jars in western New York. Two ofthe men who Some have private instructions from the Pass a jury, on the excellence of its exe.
Ind led by Frenchmen from Canada. | toward them, and Clarke put a swift arm the kitchen to the little gown on the make celery an exclusive business in New owners of their cargoes to hurry and get cution, as well as the originality and
As so often happened, the Englishmen around the girl to fend her from such hanger in the guest-room closet. The York city live in Orange county, one at the wool on the market at any cost beauty of its design and color.
blundered into a trap. The remnant of | contact. A moment later he realized that | second night Wentworth came and stay- Middletown, and the other at Chester. Handsome bonuses are offered for suc. FOr inspiration and suggestion the mod-
the pand, and Clarke Sinen hess, strog. she pad caught atthe ape] o Jue coat, | Not oN Seo in the mori p20 fe Both grow, as ye as hands, ba then cess, and there is much skill displayed in ein raiteman goes to nature, his watch-
ome, to leasan! ey er eyes had loo! up to him, with | 3 i ' beds su only a sma rtion of what i ; wo ing simplicity and originality.
ot with ruins, in wel lurked a few | trust in them. He real too, now that room where Peterkin had sat at her PP The A po making up time lost by storms or adverse po giasity
¥
] they sell. The Middletown man last year seas. The craftsman as a home maker and
Por a rc ren © |b ad rn abn hr, Uk 2h was SSE be WARY Sn “Caled Theme for paming Seer are 8 1 hag ave hi cts Guy de ee ice of. ue when he
e S , Wi esavag- nota chi a little, woman, | . Y : ' The time for planting celery varies as to ¢ i ) he wo! any article of use which he
es had brained against his door-post. After A and, more, his woman. round the fluffy pink bassinet. R gery haps, to have their cargoes delayed, y 1
! location. In New York it is April; in and t * might fashion with his hands.
a day's march in the woods he found and | She knew it, too, though there were no | On the third day Clarke shaved and ' Florida, September, and in California, Aug- a os. i If he has the planning of the house he
buried what had been his wife. Then he | words between them, all the way home to | dressed himself punctiliously. He spoke ust. lian agents. The result is that by the aims to have each room, first of beautiful
left his mates to rebuild their burned the boarding-house. But she was not a to the le who came—relatives o sj No article of food depends more oncol- time the February 19th wool sale opens proportion in itself. If this considera-
homesteads and to woo new wives, while | bit surprised, nor did she pretend to be, and of Peterkin's. He did everything | or for ready sale than celery. Its white in London the market is likely to take a tion has been left out in its original plan-
he took his musket and walked quietly | when he told her that the wedding ought that was required of him. But when the | stalks are to the trade what the hand- sudden jump upward or have an equal- Ring he uses every means known to him
into the forest. At the end of six months | to be within six months. "| last clod of brown earth had been shovel. | sme red is to the Jonathan, Ben Davis ly sharp decline, dependent on the | in order to produce the desired effect by
he walked quietly out again with eleven | So Clarke and Peterkin were married ed into the grave he shook off Wentworth | and Baldwin apples. The whiteness is as amount of wool that is in sight for im- the readjustment of spaces, color and ar-
scalps at his belt. Ten bore the coarse | in August, and went to live in a tiny flat, and the others and walked away alone. | deceptive, when celery is eaten, as the mediate delivery and the demand from rangement of the furniture.
heir of the wild Hurons, the eleventh the | in the same suburb where Slayde had his He walked for a long time, till the city ' red is to the Ben Davis. The whitest cel- the spinners. As a consequence there If the house is his own and the probiem
powdered locks of the French officer who | glorious mansion. They didn’t begrudge | lights began to twinkle through the mist | ery comes from California, but lacks the are a few hours of frantic trading in iS one simply of decoration, he plans that
d led them. : lit to him. For Clarke had Peterkin, and | that came with evening, and then, at| flavor of the smaller stalks from New which fortunes are won or lost the wood work or trimming of each roor be
It was a raw bite, torn bleeding from | Peterkin not only had Clarke, but she had about the hour when he used to come York or Michigan. As one receiver puts . pt ® of simple design, possibly perfectly plain,
the eighteenth century, but Wentworth, | the flat, and, woman-like—and the more | late from the office and find Peterkin | jt, “Caiifornia celery is made to sell, not An Indian Maiden Will Reign in Okla- OF With simple moulcirg, but in keeping
who had the novelist's instinct even in | woman for her years of homeless living— waiting in the lighted doorway, he turned | to eat.” Prices used to be very high. | > with the size and proportion of the room.
those days, worked it into quite a moving | she loved all the homey things in it, from | into his flat. He walked through the | Twenty-three years ago this winter there oma. The division of the wall space is next
tale. An over-enthusiastic English in- | the bird-box kitchen, with its biue and | empty rcoms, and for a little while he
A ‘ 3 was so little celery to be had in New | —— cl to be considered, great care being taken
structor read the theme in class, and la- | white jars for cereals and its shiny spice- | stood beside the crushed pink bassinet. | York that, when orders were given for a, Among the many Democratic Govern- in the relation of the different Rs to
ter it drifted duly into the college maga boxes, down the narrow hall that Clarke | Then he went quietly to his dressing-case, | supply for important functions, New Or- ors to be inaugurated this month is Lee each other, as the division of the side
at Clarke,
zine. Then some one asked if N called the bicycle path to the little guest- took Sut the revolver, and put it in his | Jeans was the only face from which it Cruse, of Oklahoma, and behind his walls greatly effect the general propor-
of ‘o—were descended from Nathan | chamber, where her best gown hung ona poc | could be obtained. The crop was almost political ambitions there has been woven ' tions of the room. The effect of a wide
Clarke, the quiet slayer of Indians, and | satin-covered hanger. It was not a long walk through the mist | harvested. By dint of wiring, a dealer se- | 3 pretty story by the sentimentalists of frieze being to lower the ceiling, high
Wentworth, eager to show his antiquarian | Peterkin did not need to be afraid any | that now was rain. In less than fifteen | cured six barrels for New York. The | the new State. . wainscoting also reduces the apparent
knowledge, spread abroad what he had | more. There were no spiders in the flat, | minutes he had given his card to Slayde’s | bidding for this began before the celery | Lee Cruse is a widower, his wife having height, while a narrow frieze, or none at
suppressed in his story, namely, that Na- | for Peterkin and the maid kept it all as | butler, and he stood quietly waiting in | oy So sharp did the competition be- | been of Indian birth, and one of the most all, has the opposite effect
than Clarke, in his later years, had be- | trim as a new pin. Nor were there long | Slayde’s ornate smoking-room, which was | come that one caterer bought the six bar- | talented women of Oklahoma, There Craftsmen differ in their ideas as to
come a sober Church pillar in a Massa- | streets to pass alone in the late evening
heavy with some sort of Oriental smell. | rels, each barrel equalling about two | were two of these Indian women, sisters matters of lightirg, while one welcomes
town, where he had married and | hours. Nor were there any fears for bur-
reared up a numerous progeny. From | glars or thieves in the night, for not only
and he heard men laughing distantly at | crates, at $150 per barrel, or $900 for the | —Chickasha and Chickashe—one of them exposure from two cr three directions,
one of his sons Nat Clarke of '9—admit- | was Clarke there, but, to humor her, he
Slayde’s bachelor table. lot. Once in his possession he made the | having married Lee Cruse and the other another warmly advccates lighting from
I Then Slayde came in, and his chest was | other caterers pay an additional premium | married a man who has sexved his coun- but one direction and to avoid conflict
ted his descent, and then the fun began. had got out his old revolver—which she
For two mortal terms Clarke's friends | trembled to touch, though she was proud
Dread . & Conspicuous behind his well- | for what they wanted. | try at Washington. ing lights would place his windows high
accosted him with whoops and perforgied of the scores that he once had made with
war-dances at his coming. en they | it—and he had loaded it, and kept it in
| "When the two Territories were merged | i
“Nat, old man!” Slayde began. "I'm— aries | and at one side.
initiated him into his Fraternity, Bob An- | the top drawer of hisdressing-case.
That is the highest price ever paid in | into the one State there was more or less ~~ W idea is carried i
I i i ore or less .
P'm—You got the flowers I sent? If the New York city for celery. Today such a | pitter feeling between the residents of hen the idea is out the light
was anything—" condition could not exist. Celery is of | what are known as the “west” side and | ing becomes simple, effective and resticl,
i i 1 a d | without conflicts, being especially well
drews sent him to stalk Indians with a| But there were still the automobiles. Clarke did not hear. . sich & nature hy Raidied in Sheprop. | the “east” side of Oklahoma. Indeed, it adapted to such rooms 8s Studio, library
toy gun, through the placid streets of the and Peterkin Seamed io Joa them more aaa) TY ite! Be $d, after it is harvested oor. Call: | is roisted of pn nan a un the or any room where work is to be done.
college town. ce even, in a moment |and more. She said that to her they ow—you should have ; : e ov! jan Te ,the | The Craftsman is convinced that the
of exuberation, “Piker” Slayde nailed a | seemed cruel, and the faces of the men | been more careful. fornia are lined and the majority of them
) r camping-ground of her forefathers, was i calls should -
i gowe velrigerated. Thige Shipments are lost in the less euphonious name of Okla- | treatment of 1b 8 6i0s Wal ee Bo eld
man speaks with a bad sore throat, and, Fequent'y en consumed, | homa, she resolved never to write the | act simply as a background for both ob-
DR Nottie Craoay de. | Dut When properly washod. trimmed, and | name and to this day has lived up to her j d people and should be al
BO Ee Iara ough Te. Borer, leit in ice:water, the stalls are as Crisp | resolution. ee A er their I ortance, but
—By Beulah Marie Dix, in Harper's | ae when dug. The first indication of de-| When the new State was formed the should rather act as a setting for both.
Weekly. terioration is the discoloration of the tops, | descendants of the Indians were particu- For this purpose a plain a is best,
Buteven whan ties are gute Black the larly anxious that Lee Cruse should rep- finished To polish or gloss, a mat
ta i oan reattheStato as jis first Governor, as | finish being most desirable, the effect of
could grow celery which was all heart he a fitting compliment to the memory of | deadness being avoided by an overday of
ery ] his wife and for the glory of his young col
would revolutionize the industry. daughter, now a school miss of tender | OOS. :
The most extensive fields of the world | years It is NR aT of 1 nies ot it The subject of the effect of different
are in Orange county, California, of which | only this sentimen i i colors upon the eye and therefore upon
Smeltzer is the central shipping point. i the use of I TR j the brain has bee) scientifically studied,
About fifteen years ago a commission paign for the nomination as first G i with the result that certain colors are
merchant of Kansas City named Smeltz- | nor of the new State. found to be restful while others are ex-
er went to Los Angeles to investigate the | Cruse, however, was innocent of ma- citing and less desirable to live with. We
extensive muek-lands of Orange county. | chine methods, and regardless of his | pave all had the experience of finding
Mr. Smeltzer was a handler of celery and | nearness to the hearts of the eof certain colors restful while others left us
realized its possibilities. He knew that | the State he was hopelessly lost or crush- | more or less consciously disturbed.
re here in the East were there such | ed by the well-lubricated Haskell machine. Among desirable colors has al-
muck-lands, and that there were thous- | In the late campaign, however, he out. Ways stood the test for restfulness as well
ands of acres in one continuous tract. | distanced all other candidates, and now | as a dull yellow or buff.
With seed imported directly from France, | the daughter of the beautiful maiden will Among what are apt to be the distress-
an acre was planted. The results were | shine as the daughter of the Governor of ing elements of a modern room the
more than had been expected. From this | Oklahoma and the sentiment of | Craftsman warns us
baginjng grew fhe town of Smeltzer, | the Indiansof the d Territory portion | small rugs which are y spots on the
floor an
now has the largest celery fields in | of the State will og, i
the world. This year saw 5,000 acres un- estate have been realized affect the observer as such. He
a whisky medicine. It Strengthens the 3 — | contends for one large rug, complete in
stomach, cleanses the blood, increasing | der cultivation, and the shipments from Bird Migration. | itself, whether it be made of ’ t, or
the ankity and richness of the vital flu. | Orange county alone will be 2,500 car- | the beautiful blended coloring of many
id. It nourishes the nerves and gives a loads. The industry has Spread over ' Why do the birds migrate toward the | Of the antique orientals. The draperies
healthy appetite and sound refreshing California, so that outside locality | tropics in the autumn and toward the at doors and windows he also contends
sleep. there are five hundred more cars pro- | poles of spring? It would be to should be a part of the wall space in col
mmm— | duced for commercial purposes. pose that the autumnal Se eo Pp | or and not be treated as isolated spots.
The Lily-Like Onion. Orange county borders on the Pacific | search of food, were it not for the fact His final observation in the treatment
. m— ocean. The muck is several feet , | that in the spring the birds leave abund. | of. 3 room is, that whereas we desire sim-
The onion, strange as it may seem, | is jet black, and so free from grit that it | ant supplies of in the warm regions, | Plicity and unity, there should be notes
comes of an aristocratic family, from the | is as fine as flour. The fertility is rare- arrive in the colder regions before | Of 2CCent so as to avoid monotony. In
stock of which have sprung many notable | ly equalled anywhere, hence celery- tion is far advanced. the matter of furniture this can be gain-
scions and lovely offshoots. The humble | growers there have no_fertilizer bills to suggestion, that the migration ed by not over crowding or repeating va-
onion is own cousin to the stately lily, pay. The cultivation is done largely by | north is for breeding purposes, has been | FioUS articles ut the room. For
beautiful tress of human hair, which cost | that drove them were cruel. Sometimes
$1.49 at a bargain-counter, on Clarke's | they had laughed to see her dart back,
door. trembling, to the sidewalk that she had
Clarke hurled his trophy into the grate, | just left.
where it smelled vilely, and his words | "It makes my heart go so to see one
were red and wrathful. Frankly, he was coming,” she said. “Because I'vedreamed
ashamed of his newly resurrected ances- how it would feel to slip, and see those er .
tor. For Clarke was, above all things, a | glaring lamps and those great wheels | There is a certain languid, dull feeling
law-abiding chap, steady-going, with a bit | come down on you.” which overtakes an energetic man some
of a drawl in his speech and a slow twin- | That was all bosh, and Clarke told Pet. | times. He wonders what can be the
kle in his blue eyes. He was going in | erkin so, rather less kindly than he had | matter with him. He has no ambition.
for law. He believed in arbitration. He | ever spoken to her. A little later he re- He loses interest even in his business. In
wouldn't even pot a squirrel, though he | pented, to the very soul of him, for one |such a case the man usually stirs up his
Trade a tolerable record with a revolver | night Peterkin laid her arms about his liver with the first pill or potion which
when it came to shooting at a mark. He | neck and whispered to him that it was | comes convenient to his hand. But stir-
even had leanings toward vegetarianism, | really so, though she hadn't dared be- | Ting up is not wha’ .e needs. He needs
though he gave it up, after a week's trial. | lieve it, for all her praying, but now she ng up. Unconsciously he has Bat
Altogether, he was the last fellow in the | was sure, and wouldn't he be patient, | into his work more strength each day
to be pleased with the apparition | even if she was a goose about automo- than could be made up by each day's
of a raw-head-and-bloody-bones of an an- | biles! Because it was for two that she food and each day’s sleep. So that with
cestor, who stalked athwart the gloomy | was afraid. every day there's an increasing overdraft
pages of the past, with those reeking| But after that Peterkin was really inst his account in the Bank of Health.
scalps aswing at his ghastly belt. It was | braver. t overdraft has to be made good be-
no wonder, perhaps, that, after those two “For I don't want him to be a coward,” | fore the man will recover his
terms of martyrdom, Clarke changed his | she said.
signature. From Nathan P. Clarke hebe- | So Peterkin would cross the street
came N. Payson Clarke and so remained | when Clarke bade, even with the lights
to the end of the ghaptes. of an automobile flashing toward her,
In due time “N. Payson Clarke” be- | though her cheeks would whiten and her
came the sign on the ground glass of the | short upper lip tremble. But she persist-
door of a down-town office, where Clarke, | ed, and she even came to laugh at the
still with his drawl and his slow twinkle, | fear that still was on her.
looked up land titles, and drew up wills, Presently, when the days began to
and acted as trustee for a half-dozen es- lengthen, Peterkin took to making hand-
tates. A most peaceable, law-abiding cit- | stitches and wondrous embroidery on lit-
jzen he was, and nobody remembered | tle clothes that Clarke was sure not even
that he had had a blood-and-thunder an- a self-respecting doll could wear. She
cestor. As for the chaps themselves, they | put them into a white hamper, tied with
too were members now, and scattered | absurd bows—pink, of course. By and
their several ways. Wentworth had |by she ordered home what Clarke irrev-
turned from the “brave days of yore” to | erently called a “wicker wash-tub.” and
do ultra-realistic slum studies, and An- | she covered it with silk and muslin and
drew was something prosperous in the in- fluffy, foamy lace. That was a bassinet,
surance line, and Slayde--no longer “Pik- | she told Clarke, and he wasn't to laugh
er,” but Ricl ard Babbage Slayde—was at it.
at law practice in the same great Indeed it was amazing how many things
ing where Clarke had his name on Peterkin required. She spent very last
- one of the thousand-odd doors. But Clarke penny of her allowance, and looked posi-
and Slayde seldom saw each other now, tively shabby in the blue spring weather.
except to exchange a passing nod. The “Yes, I know that I'm a disgrace,” she
habit of exuberance had grown on Slayde | told Clarke one morning after breakfast.
with the expansion of his waist girth. He “That brown hat of mine, with a wing,
always had, as hey say, "a little aboard.” looks like the snow-bank of winter before
m
He spoke thickly and painfully, as a
and energy. The use of is syengh
health. It contains no alcohol. It is not
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whether the arum or the lovely Lenten | Chinese. The growers are organized and disproved migra example there be but one table, if
lily, the hivofhe-valley, or the fair,float- | market through an agency, the sales be- tis re fads iS tory | possible, and that centrally
ing watery, all these being of the great ing made at a price loaded in the cars. | until the second or third year. It has For those who are in spmpathy with
lil us race. This year the price is twenty cents per | besn and argued plausibly that the Craftsman’s t of there are
The onion has other notable connec- | dozen. The yield is unusually good. By | the tion is to be in “the | Many opportunities for k in touch
en Segkeh foe Yahe rota ul oy
; -| Each year Florida has been its | The polar regions are, of course, dark x 5 Feprusen
gantic dragon tree, of Tenerifle which | produce into the New York market gar. | in winter, and the days are short in the | consulting the various modern magazines
trace seem er . This season, Jan- | temperate zones. other hand, the | possi
be, a monstrous Jan latitudes than in | UPON the subject.
the
. 1 This State has done some . | the tropics between spring ADALINE G. WYKES.
It was | for that he had come last. It's only fit for the gutter, us, it is plain, the onion is of illus- | derful work in celery-growing. The in. autumnal equinoxes. 3 TD a the EEN eo y
into his father's money, for he could nev: it, POLY ou to mention it.” de trious origin, though to the Srdivary cb. dustry big! Hogs coast near | feeders, and they most of the day- |
er have li aw practice. t; Clarke p Joon e hand t server there is nothing classical Ti . Ci years t in seeking conditi nder which i
was, he had motor-cars and horses and a had laid upon his hair and kissed it. mantic about it. aiipa Y dor was the | ligh food, being gly So * OE A vo. live
house in a swagger suburb and a bunga- “But I'm going into town this morn-
low at the shore, and he lived like the ing,” said Peterkin. “I want five yards
lilies of the field. of pink ribbon, and some rose-sachet, and
Clarke had neither house nor bunga- —and lots of things, and maybe, if I have
low, nor did he greatly feel the lack of time, I'll look for a new hat. And may-
them. Through the eleven months and be, if I'm duly urged, I'd consider an in-
two weeks that made his working year vitation to lunch.
he had his comfortable rooms and his So it was agreed that Peterkin should
cozy meals in a rather jolly boarding- come to the office and they would lunch
house, in a quiet up-town street. It was together, because their time for "parties"
there that he met Peterkin. was growing short. With that under
centre of the industry. Less than ten petilent upon thelr eves search. | and work have made the American peo-
- EE gears ago the hummock lands around rmation of this theory is {ound | ple a nation of pill users. Naturally many
——"Weil, Tom,” said a blacksmith to ord were tested for celery, and to- | in the fact that birds do notstart on their pills. are put on the market that are simply
his apprentice, you have been with me | day that section ships more celery than | journeys southward or northward impell- | made to meet the requirements of those
now months and have seenall the | all other Florida points combined. Land | ed by a change in the temperature, for to whom any pill is a pill, and one pill as
different branches of our trade. I wish! around Sanford, which ten years they take their flight southward in warm as another. But there is progress
to give you your choice for a while.” went begging at $1 per acre, rh autumns and northward in cold springs | even in pills, and at the front of this pill
you, sir. bought now for less than $250, and some | On practically the same days of the month progress stand Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
“Well, now, what part of the business tracts are held as high as $1,900 per acre. as in other years. The theory is at least lets, a scientific medicine which cures
do you like best?” One farmer last year had seventy-five | interesting. constipation, and cures it permanently.
doe jing up shop and going to sup- acres in celery. The celery from oe y
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