WHEN THE MERCURY RISES, your Excellency, (Signed) “‘Grusgrre,’ Giuseppe! The most noted and bloodthirsty brigand of modern times, about whose crueltics and tor. tures so many harrowing tales were told by travelers, and upon whose head a heavy price had been set long ngo, Lady Methwick piteously besonght her husband to send the money at ouce, “They will kill my darling boy, and you--yvou--will have sent him to death!" Her daughters, The man whose rule it is to take The weather ns it comes, Without a word of fuss, finds life A pudding full of plums. He doesn't care how I'he mercury has got, And even when it's mid-July, He hardly kn ' low or high yw it's hot, Dut he who, Goes up t when the me eight Makes such a fuss that every Regrets that he’ Thus Than he w And feel As if $ alive, makes him the Hoa. Agatha, Ondine and Clovis, added their ago- nized entreaties; indeed so carried away were they by their feelings that they actually offered to go without new hats and dresses for the s the hes tween hl m the ivice, though take a warning fr It's good a And when the hot days really come D 18t Re next the mere n't watch u ury about your dally tasks f the heat, un will find that ever to the ransom money. Bat his Lord- Regardless « once. Doubtless a lesser sum would ' Will grow no were 1n and there was a | chance of the ransom being ultimately HOW TOM RAISED THE WIND | progress rn — be in any danger. So he sent an offer of £2000, The reply to this was a curt refusal, and a postscript added in Robert Spenceley's banawriting was “Father, send : feel they will not take less.” But still Lord Methwick would nov give in without another effort to reduce the amount, and he increased his offer to £2500, The day came when Giuseppe’s re- ply was due, but it did not arrive, and pent-up anxiety eaused his lord- ship two sleepless nights and two mis- erable, irritable days. On the third | morning, among the contents of the with all ost-bag Was a small PRrces § the hand- | writing of the address of which was up, bh ? r | immediately recognized. With trem- Jove, you are looking see iy.” | bling fingers Lord Methwick tore open The Hon. Robert stopped in his | the package, and there lay disclosed purposeless walk, langaidly extended | the bold brigand's staggering reply— his arm, lightly touched the tips of | 8 cardboard box his friend's fingers, and heaved a deep | ear packed in sawdust, and i and bitter lid these words were scrawled : “Are you ill, chappie, or has the YNo less £4000, of peerless, patrician Penelope—" | Excellency is sent free so Tom. ~* UDGING by his haggard looks! and the monoto- | nous way in which he was pac- | ing upand dowo the room, the Hon. Robert| Spenceley was evidently under the influence of | \ a serious mental depression when his particular chum, Tom Langton, favored him morning call. “Halloa! What's BOON gure man's the containing » usd sigh. his he may than “Sit down, | hear your decide which In after vears that mn mained impressed with “Well, know, I've »n | ness on his L y' i mixed uj Lord Temptown | with hi y's contint ainting and his set. fell a |] i ‘ 3 @ clined to go the pace a bit too fast. Hang me it I can say ‘No’ to that they propose, and, the upshot of | ¢ it all is that in two nights I have lost upward of £3000 playing cards at the 3 Junior Aborigines—at least, that’ nental anguish as he remembered that amount they hold my I O U's for.” the future head of 1 “What confoundedly bad | never be able to hear both sides; the must have had!” | horrid possibility of getting the wan- *‘I posted to the fan lerer back for nothing-—a piece at a yesterday, laid the whole affair before | time; and the fear that at that mo- the governor, and vowed that I would | ment further tortures might be in never touch a card again if he would | course of infliction—he often mar- help me out of this serape.” **And has he refused?” “Point blank. He reminded me that on several oceasions he had paid off my legitimate debte—small in com- parison to this one—but he considered playing cards for high st rageously foolish that he uld not help me, debts of hon ost dishonoral been a fool. day always re- “*And how did ¥e as you with Jolly What fits ; YWE, anything | ing emj hat one would have man had bim- self cut his son’ off; his UW1 kis house woul down that reason did not altogether forsake her tottering throne. in the softening shades of twilight, Lady Methwick and her three daagh- wkes so ot ters, dressed in black, went ; 1 art it Was a 10 of making or getti “In ¢ it was break ynciusion, he told me that as most desirable that I shonld I am to travel ar world as I ¢ week." “And what did you say? , , “What could 1 gay | ave inclosin choice in the matter up my mind that I money-lenders, and s walt y their terms, and the othe friend of the family, who happened t orh Oa, £4000, and beg psul in the near neight g a draft for him to put himself in instant t with Giuseppe, and he captive's release, Consul did as he was desired, with instructions who were evi nication these fellows to deem my paper.’ “Look here, old chap. with for a time, and for a walking tour.” ympliance the robber band, dently taking every precaution against trapped, proceeded alone one evening earrying a parcel of 4000 sov- s to an indie t on the out- rest. Here he was met by k-bearded giant, pic- I'll come | yon we'll go in | being “Tom, you are a brick. start this Let K. ereign skirts of a f us wel ated sp Three months had elapsed nee | a sunburnt, black Robert Speunceley’s departure, during | turesquely attired in his native dress, which period frequent communications | who carrie i a rifle, while a couple of —each bearing expressions of regret | revolvers and a poniard adorned his for the past and promises for the fu- Motioning to the Consul to fol- ture—kept Lord Methwick fully ae: | low him, he proceeded but a few paces quainted with his son's doing The | into the forest, then halted and blew a absent one seemed to be thoroughly | long, low, peculiar whistle on his fin- enjoying himself, judging from his | gers. graphic descriptions of the scenery | Approaching footsteps were imme- and incidents of the walking tour. | diately beard, and there emerged from Then the letters ceased altogether. | among the trees the whilom prisoner, Several times lately the doubt had | alone. As he ranged up to the side of arisen in Lord Methwick's mind as to | his deliverer the gold was handed over, whether he had not been too severe, | carefully ec uated, and then, remembering that his son had hitherto | low bow, the robber turned on his borne an irreproachable character, | heel, at once disappeared, without evincing a deep dislike to all the | having uttered a word, and the Consul worser forms of dissipation, and there | and his purchase were free to depart. was no doubt that this unfortunate af- fair at the Junior Aborigines was not the result of inherent or newly-ac- LL} sash. ’s. | on the evening of the heir's retarn to his ancestral home, Methwick Hall was ablaze with light | his | twelve months, in order to contribute | ship did not believe in giving way at | be accepted, and while negotiations | with a | to the gendarmes will be on the son of | the rangom, and, no matter how they plied him with questions, he could tell them nothing of the doings of the | gang, for he said he never saw any of | them exceptthe one who had him in | charge. | A few days after his return, pleading | the necessity of a visit to a West End | tailor, he traveled to London, after re. | ceiving strict injanctions and giving a promise to shun his old haunts and | companions. Arrived in town he at proceeded to Tom Langton's chambers, and his first words to his chum were : { “Isay, Tom, what about that ear, and why wasn't I told of it?” | “Well, I thought you might object, and as it was desirable to bring things to a climax, I got it from the disect- ing room at the hospital through a stu- dent." “It took me quite by surprise when they accused me of having two ears, and told me they had buried one of them. Bat how about the money?” “I have told the fellows that yon have negotiated a loan and empowered me to pay your debts, Here are thel once paid, he did not think his son would | O U's that I have bought up, and the The about £2996, total amount is remaining £1004 “You will please keep for yourself as acraoged, for the double purpose cf paying yon for your trouble and buy- ing your perpetual silence.” “Thanks,” old chap. I will be &i- lent as the grave; but, I say, I had a difficulty in keeping silence when we had Her Majesty's Consul in the for- est. I never wanted to laugh so much before.” —London Tit-Bits, - a i——_——_—- Dog Whips Catamount, There an exciting fight last night between Tige, a brindle buldog, owned by a Portsmouth man, and a eatamonnt, owned by a Bracken Coun- ty (Ky.) farmer. The was in a barn near La tonia Springs and the amount bet was 3100, of the fight irew a 200 people Was scene The announcer Crow i from this ¢ The cata: ity an i and held o1 struggle the cambed and was taken or dead. The dog was b about the head, but Lart The result was not what the neck ntes { LH i velled, not only that he survived it, but | had expected, and considerable money was lost. Many thought the mount would make short work of apta. the And the climax was reached when, | dog, and were disappointed, ag it only . acted on the The do ighed thirty-ts 11 al the atamount twen rinuati Enquirer wi ty a, — - Mustaches Prosceribed, graduates, many have of the great while s« veral have | English bar. Sor 3 tempt was ma le to have the unwiitten regarding mustaches rescin led, but it was found that a greater num ber preferred the old to re main in force than ia favor of its abolition This curious cust said to prevail in some of the large tea houses of the city, while it is well known that some Church of England bishops prefer the curates un ler their charge to be clean shaven. A lady who tried about three years ago to enforce a shaven face oa the groom in her em- ployment, and dismissed him at once because he refused compliance with her order, found that the law gave her no such power, and was mulcted in £5 for wrongful dismissal and the costs of the action by the Judge of the Bedford County Court, —Tit-Bits. — Happy Idea to Banish Tramps, Dolobran, the at one ne ve las IAW custom wi re m 18 AS Daniel contractor | who is building the new publie school The female por- |B quired vicionsness, but rather brought sbout by a false position, in which, surrounded by companions of wealth and repute, he had been led away by | the excitement and his inability to say “No.” Now that no news came from him, bis father's resolution rapidly gave way under the disquieting influence of foreboding and the continuous en- treaties of his mother, until at last his | tion of the family had spent the day | in alternately langbing and erying fo joy, and were now in a state of intense | excitement, anxiously awaiting the re- | turn of the carriage from the station. Presently the sound of wheels was | heard drawing up to the door, and | mother and sisters rushing out, fell | npon Robert, hugged him and kissed | hit and half dragged, half carried him i | | at Flobertstown, Conn., has hit on a happy idea for keeping tramps off his rounds at night. His “Beware of the Dogs” signs have been sufficient ¢ | warning for the daylight hours, bat, not being visible after dark, he has been annoyed by intruders who have slept in his barn and appropriated his poultry. He now has four such signs painted with phosphorescent paint and they gleam their warning so ef feotually that be has not been both- ered since be hung them out. —New Express, i of the seed be ds firms the | up its plant food | to the young corn plant. CULTIVATION TO PROMOTE FERTILITY, The first purpose in cultivation is to make the soil fine, so that seeds may germinate freely in it, and the | roots of plants may run freely through it. But an object scarcely less im- portant to increase soil fertility by mixing surface and under soil to- gether, and thus promoting their fer- mentation. It 1s for this potato ground is harrowed after the seed is planted. On moderately rich soil two such enltivations are equal to the addition of several ure per acre, An incidental ndvan- tage that such harrowing of the surface destroys all weeds as quickly their germinate. — Boston Cultivator. 18 loads of man- 18 seeds ns A HORSE THAT CANNOT DE LED, It is the fault of the training that a horse cannot be led by a halter, This stiould be the first lesson tanght to the colt, It difficult horse, but it may be done by an perienced using a str Lalter, and taking short hold of it, so us to control the head, and thus lead- ing the horse in a small yard, 1 bly the whipped for this fault, an i of ideas Try a little sugar, Poultry should not be kept in a horse r infested by v Lorses 18 to teact an old person by TORK] borse has been y ARsOCIAt) causes his refus stable, as the ¥ Are lice, which then go Hq rses Lave this way without been worri i the Mix a pint stror | ecte | a8 uci having an re It grew, What we WW ALG pre them the best in have to do is thoroughly pl pare the seed bed; do it as well as 1 can be dope. Then put in the seed, be it what it may, snd court and enl- the world t . tivate as best we know how, and when | the harvest and store it wh it can handily fed. Our grain will not onl} farther, but do be ime en ime coins ere ttor Wer its truth, rem od of the pla: rehand, and CATINgZ the sod er If the 1 with the or #ix inches under the We +} $f f f i : land has | mann nse oO after the mil. the sod. With harrow they | every decay rapidly he disk sl Ard us of root rm or =» HF tooth uld be torn to pleces an clod of earth pulverized, There should be four inches of soil ou the ready to surrender up its plant food The tramp- ing of the horses and the preparation earth and grass at the bottom o! the furrow, that soil water from beneath ean rise. The grass readily ferments and gives The corn plact has a chance to do its best, has the heat fermentation gives, has food, has the needed air that in when or- surface, £0 I ASEOR | ganic matter is present in the soil, and | it takes a little more time has moisture from beneath. Of course, to prej Aare | a seed bed in this way, bat with im- | | proved implements the work is done rapidly, and after tillage is saved, Atlanta Journal, KEW PORAGE CROPS, New forage crops have been tested for years at the Massachusetts Station, twenty-seven different crops having been grown last year that are adapted to Ohio and the Middle States. Dr. Goessman advised raising mixed crops, say summer vetch and oats, as they produce larger yields grown singly. Sow together forty to forty-five pounds summer veteh to four that corn | than when | 1 | twelve to thirteen tons of green feed | ar If green feed for the season | per acre. is wanted, begin with vetch and oats, della, nels glaze, green fodder may be ent, While the average one ton per acre, oats and veteh will produce three and a half times much weight, with fifty per cent. mor: food value. —Ameriean Agriculturist, PIG RAISING The chief trouble a8 practise 1 by the pigs are n 18 a matter of the care with pig farmers 1s it t kept growing. This prime rtance, for tion give Many and atter u to them b L€ nd dry an witl 1 RO " ezular intervals, t beconnterbalar next shoul At with the Very AVETraye fit in igs after they reach a weight Is The rk is { ust ronnger Little pr una fowls to heavily. May is not too late to flower seeds Keep the brooder grees as possibie plant sun- as near 100 de- See that the uses are kept 14 Lav LO J ih L irafts and wet. fs irv oO but is fresh constantly John Laing and you will have it The Dayton strawberry is one of the best and most reliable berries for home or market, fruit large, bright, fine-shaped, good flavor and perfect blossom. It will pay you to try it Poultry raisers are eautioned against permitting the fowls to spend the hot summer days exposed to the direct rays of the san. A board or two raised even two feet from the ground will provide a shade. It is useful to know that the natn- ral cnemy of the common green lio of plants is the pretty little ladybug, and to eateh afew of these and set them free on alice<infested plant will quick- ly result in the disappearance of the troublecome pests, The old Turner red raspberry is one of the most reliable, and is noted for its hardiness. We are not thinking of discarding it yet, in spite of the pew kinds offered. It is of delicious flavor-—melting and sweet, nunsur- passed for the home table and market, although too soft for distant shipment. While it prodnces many suckers these | are no disadvantage where proper oul- ture is given. The canes ware strong and thornless, which is indeed a good then green soja beans, and later sera. By August 1, or when the ker- cut of hay is but nF raising EA Dr. Kilmer's Swaxyr- Root cures all Kidney and Bladder tronbles. Pamphlet and Consultation Iree. Laboratory Blaghamton, N, Y. GEXACULOrs J the oil f os Stewart Parnell have B pout rrespons the lato ni Why She mrkling eves ek beating heart, and rosy blus! { pleasure on the cheeks, on the strong man happy when he meety y That's the kind of 4 man h thrills because 1t is full r and vitality mi, Wes Druggists Fmlles Sweetly, 1 Af - it rr Kr f ¢ ur fre Bterling Bemed York or ( Adjust Family Diflerences. Mera fi ere LDR QIRge attributed t perverse Gipos lan s pedometer, | taken by him in a year. finds to be 26,740 per day, or 2.760 000 | How IS Your Blood ? 8 a ood’s ’ Sarsaparilla * HIGHEST AWARD WORLD'S FAIR. ® PERIAY GRONCM vw THE BEST x PREPARED FOOD SOLD EVERYWHERE. JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. w= * * Equivalent to Writing Twenty Books, An energeti iveician in Switzer by mesns of ber of steps The total he has béen counting, Lhe um for the news vesr. To discount this™ ner writer © forward i mes with J nn r of is be has He A Ten-Inch se ————— Yermitorm Appendix, anat sition that 1a of civilization and ir with each generation, ry, that the useless ling out, receives ling irleans Picayune \ ONE E Ys Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the tarte, and nily yet promptly on the Kidneys iver and Bowels, cleanses the # tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitu constipation. Syrup of Figs is th only remedy of ia kind ever pre duced, pleasing @ the taste and mc ceptable to the stomach, prompt its action and truly beneficial in it effects, prepared only from the mot healthy and agreeable substances, it many excellent qualities commend to all and have made it the mc York Mail and | into the house, but it was not until : oa | after they had been for some time as- | sembled in the library that there flashed aoross their minas the remem- his whereabouts, and this was the— | brance of that horror that lay buried thanderbolt : | beside the stream. His mother first “Most Illustrious Signor—The son | made the discovery. of your Excellency is doing us the | ‘Why, Robert, you have two ears!” honor to condescend our humble hos- “Iwo ears, mother? Have I not point in their favor, They shoald be cut low, say three and a half to four : y 'n yrup of Figs is for sale in § feet, and will need no stakes or wires, cent bottles by al leading d ir ————— n , ny reliable dru Eichest Child fu. the world, may not have it on hand will g Lady Mary Hamilton, the young | cure it prompuly for any one t daughter of the late Dake of Hamil: | wishes to Do not accept | ton, will be the richest child in the an bushels oats, and seed early in June. The fodder is highly nutritious, and may be cut green and fed for two or three weeks or cured for hay. Sown | at various times, it will grow through the season. Vetch aud oats, or veteh | and barley, will both ent three and a half to four tons of dry hay per acre. recall was decided upon so soon as the next intimation of his address should arrive, The next letter did disclose —— popular remedy known. A Strange Village, At Tebessa, in Algoria, near the Tu- | nis frontier, a strange megalithic vil- lage has been discovered. At the foot of a shell limestone oliff, half a mile from the phosphate mines, are many inrge boulders, from thirty-live to pitality to partake and has to as your | always had two?” address given so that we may impart| “But we buried one of them.” his well being. He now his departure | The Hon. Robert was evidently in forty feet in circumference, which have fallen from the cliff. These were hol- lowed into rooms about seven feet square, and openings eut in the rock The iutter make an excellent fodder, containing sixteen to seventeen per cent. protein, in digestive value corre- sponds with elover, does not need | world, She is only ten years old and | inherits the bulk of the Duke's es- tates, Her rentals already amount to | $1,000,000 a year, —New York Werld. CALIFORNIA FI16 SYRUP €C desires, but we would that your illus. | the dark, and when they explained he trious Excellency to us sending the | declared (truthfully) that he knew sum of pounds 4000 Englische that | nothingaboutit. Asa word painter we may be solaced for his Joss.” Then | he proved a decided failure, consider- followed an address to which a com- | ing the adventures which they expect munication was to be sent, and the | ed him recount. He had nothing to missive concluded : “Any information | relate, simply monotony waiting for N YN Usd R.A grain, and can be need ne either green A company with a capital of §200,- feed, onsilage or dried hay. Barley is pot as good ns oats. Winter vetoh | 000 for the establishment of agricul ought to come up in April. Rye sown | tural settlements in German South. the provious fall should make a good | west Africa has been formed in Sax. early feed. Serradalla produces | ony. for windows and doors. As mega- lithio tombs, large slabs supported on upright stones, are near by, it is proba- ble that these little rooms were used as dwellings and not as burial places. ~New York Bun,
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