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CHAPTER VI.
The next morning there arrived at
the hou I .* very early a dark-visaged,
heavily-whiskered and somewhat
rough-looking personage, whom Hen
dricks called "the captain." They ate
their breakfast together and then set
out on horseback in a southwesterly
direction. They were armed with re
volvers and carried on their saddles a
luncheon which the servant had pre
pared for them.
The moment they were alone Hen
dricks said:
"Well, you are on time. Have you
succeeded?"
"Yes, sir," said the captain, wlic
spoke in a deep, husky voice and
stopped at intervals to expectorate,
rub his hand across his mouth and
pull down his jet-black whiskers,
which had an inclination to turn up
ruff-like in front
"Yes, sir; the boat is in the bayou,
or will be by the time we get there.
She is loaded with green lumber. I
left New Orleans on the 10th, and the
party Is made up. It is understood thai
we are going tarpon fishing off the
coast ...» Florida."
"What men have you got?"
"There's your own list. I followed
It. There's thirty of 'em; with the
men we pick up at the coast there'll be
fifty in all. It isn't enough."
"Perhaps not," said Hendricks, "but
,it isn't men we need if we get those
guns off all right."
"Well, let me tell yoa 'bout the
guns. It took thirty men and a
lighter two days to lift 'em afloat.
The men understood that I was acting
for the Venezuelan government. 1
took the trouble to get them at Pana
ma."
"But you had a tug."
"Of course I had a tug, but I sent
her back before I got through. She'd
like to have seen what 1 -vas up to.
The d d tub with the guns Is
hauled up in a cove on the little coral
island of St. John. The other stuff is
on tho coast."
"I understood the vessel to be a sea
going schooner. She will have tho
trade wind and she has got to bo in the
exact spot on the 25th by dead reckon
ing," said Hendricks.
"Barrin' accidents and elements,"
replied the captain, "she'll be there."
Oil the morning of tho 25th, the
handsome steamer San Pedro which
had been lying at the leveo in New
Orleans, took aboard a party of gentle
men and went down the river and out
to sea for a week's tarpon fishing. The
moment she was in the gulf, she
headed south by west and on the after
noon of tho 25th encountered a
Bchooficr from which she received the
guns that had been picked up on the
Bahiala bank.
On tho 26tli, she was off a point on
the Georgia coast known as the I'iney
Stretch and sent a boat ashore in the
night. An hour later blio pulled into
a bay in the most deserted spot of that
coast and was loaded with a moderate
amount of munitions of war. On the
morning of the SOth she touched at St.
Augustine guardedly and there Hen
dricks received a message from New
York in cipher. It read thus:
"The Corinthian sails at six a. m. on
the 3d; three millions in gold; men all
taken passage."
What occurred after this can be best
told with the subsequent narrations
and confessions in view.
The English steamer Corinthian,
when three days out, sighted at nine
o'clock of a clear, calm morning a
small steamer laying to with steam up,
two miles off her port bow. Capt.
Jamison, an Englishman ex
perienced sailor, who was on the bridge
at the time, thought the vessel was u
large yacht and imagined from her i
position that she was disabled and
wished to speak him. A moment later
a puff of smoke came from her side
and a shot whistled across his bow.
"What in h is the d d fool try
ing to do?" exclaimed the captain in
amazement. "Does ho know that we
carry her lirittanic majesty'# mails?"
"I'm afraid, sir," said the second of
ficer, who put his glass down and
WHOM HE.VIiIIICKH CALLED "THE CAP
TAEf."
looked a little paler than usual, "that
she knows what our cargo is."
"A pirate!" ejaculated the captain.
"I'll cut her in two," and ho impul»ive
ly pulled one of the engineer's bolls.
In another moment the Corinthian
i aitohyw# to co \tb9 i wM vr.frrfl
TiTTTLER. PA..FRIDAY. MAY 11, 1594.
and was heading for the San Pedro.
Uoth the men were intently regard
ing her through their glasses and the
passengers were crowding upon the
deck.
To their surprise they saw that the
San Pedro was moving in the same di
rection as themselves and throwing a
heavy cloud of smoke.
"Run, you bloody little scoundrel:"
said the captain.
Scarcely had he got the words out ol
his mouth before there was another
puff of smoke—this time from her
stern, and almost immediately there
came a crash and a hundred voices eried
out in alarm and indignation.
The shot had struck the Corinthian
just abaft the bridge; torn away about
ten feet of her upper works and gone
through the stern taffrail. Three men
were knocked down by the splinters.
Capt. Jamison was livid with honest
rage and he stamped his foot and swore
terribly. "By the God of nations," he
said, "are we living in the days of Capt.
Kidd, or in the nineteenth century?"
"I'd come to, if I were you," said his
mate. "That fellow will hull us pres
ently. W« never can catch him."
"Como to?" exclaimed the sturdy
British captain. "I'll break his baek.
Do you think an English steamer goes
down on her marrow bones to every
tramp she meets?"
The vessel was now racing through
the water at an Increased speed and
the action of the engines made an
audible throb.
There was intense excitement among
th' -assongers, many of whom were
calling up to the captain to stop the
vessel.
Ila looked over the brass rail of the
bridge at them with indignant con
tempt. As bo did so, one man pulled
a pistol and shouted: "Look here, wo
don't want to be sent to the bottom on
account of your d d gold. Stop
liore where she is. We can defend our
selves at close quarters, but we don't
wast to be 6unk."
To the captain's utter amazement
twenty other passengers shouted:
"Aye, aye, shut off your steam."
Even then some horrible suspicion of
the truth must have flashed upon the
wretched officer's mind as ho looked
down upon this group. He caught the
rail a moment with both hands, then
Wheeled round and, folding his arms,
said to his companion on the bridge:
"Stop her!"
As if in anticipation of this, the San
Pedro had slackened speed and was
now blowing a white cloud of steam.
For ten minutes everybody on tho
Corinthian watched the vessels ap
proach each other and, when they
were less than a thousand feet apart,
every one could see the line of heads
along the smaller vessel's taffrail.
Tho sea was unusually calm and
glassy, and presently a boat manned
by six men put off from tho San Pedro.
When the young man who repre
sented the pirate had reached the deck
of the Corinthian he found himself
facing a crowd of men and women in
every condition of alarm and anxiety,
lie was dressed in a blue shirt and
common duck trousers and glazed cap;
in his belt he carried a regulation navy
revolver. He saluted tho captain po
litely and said, in a pleasant voice:
"I am instructed, sir, to ask you to
order your people below. We will
come alongside and remove your spe
cie. No harm will be done and no in
dignity offered to your crew or passen
gers."
"Damn your impudence, sir!" re
torted Capt. Jamison. "I've a great
mind to chuck you into the sea myself.
Go baek and tell your buccaneer that
a British captain sinks with his ship
and cargo, lie doesn't hand them over
to the first cowardly rascal he meets."
"As you please, sir," the young man
replied. "Itwould be a cruel necessity
to send this vessel and its people to
the bottom."
lie turned to go to his boat after
making' another salute and one of the
passengers again interfered.
"We object to the arrangement," he
said, "and are not going to be mur
dered on the high seas to save your
gold.'"
Whereupon twenty other passengers
armed with revolvers stepped out and
repeated: "Aye, aye. Take the gold,
but we want to reach our destination."
The upshot was that the captain and
his officers were locked in the cabin,
the passengers ordered below and tho
San Pedro lashed alongside. It took
seventy-live men two hours and a half
to transfer the gold from one vessel to
anothur, and a sharp lookout was kept
for approaching steamships. When
the task was accomplished, the en
gineers were ordered on deck and
three of the Pedro's crew went below
and effectually disabled the ma
chinery of the Corinthian. This took
another hour.
The last thing the pirates saw was
the white hair of Capt. Jamison blow
ing in the wind that had sprung up
from the northeast, as lie shook his
fist at them. And the last words they
heard were: "I'll hang every dog of
you before I die."
CIIAPTEB VII.
No one knew so well as Hendricks,
who sat in the cabin of the San Pedro,
that all this was child's play to
what was to come. He had sixteen
hundred miles to run. He was loaded
heavily with coal and the gold had
weighted his vessel too seriously to
think of getting anything like the
speed out of her that he desired. Sh»
was sehooner-riKffed and there was a
stiff wind blowing from the northeast.
That was in his favor. But he calcu
lated that If one of the westward-bound
ocean greyhounds spoke the Corinthian
and got her story, tho news would
reach New York and set the telegraph
in operation much too soon for his
safety. He had informed himself of
the position of all the government ves
sels and he knew that there was at
last accounts a fast cruiser In Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
ly as he could the chances of the Cor
inthian being intercepted: for, dis
abled as she was, it would be her cap
tain's plan to put her in the route of a
westward-bound steamship.
He betrayed his anxiety to the cap
tain, but that personage filled himself
with Medford rum and insisted that the
worst part of the job was done.
The first thing that nendricks did
was to throw his guns overboard to- |
gether with all his superfluous shot
and ammunition. He then got up steam
and stood off in a southeasterly direc
tion until the Corinthian was hull
down, when he shifted his course and ,
went directly west.
There was another source of anxiety
In his crew, but here Ms matchless
cunning and self-reliance stood him
'jell in hand. He knew what he could
do with them if he got within American
waters, and they were equally- anxious
with himself to get oft the high seas
It blew a stiff gale all the first night
and his vessel labored badly. Finally j
he took his captain's advice, which was
to save his coal till he wanted to show
his heels to something and take it easy
under sail. The consequence was that !
it was nearly six days before he struck
the Gulf stream and he had not seen a
puff of black smoke on the horizon,
lie had provided himself with four i
boats, and managed to land thirty o. j
his men with a thousand dollars of
American gold eagles In each man's j
pocket, at San Augustine in the night- J
They were as anxious as he to part
oompany, and with a thousand dollars i
every man of them felt as rich as his ;
leader. The moment he had reduced j
his crew, he clapped on steam, went i
down the coast and rounded Cape Fear
well to the south. Ho is known to have ;
landed a few more men somewhere on i
the coast of southern Georgia, similarly ,
paid off in gold. He then sailed south j
and laid off and on for six hours, and '
finally met two stoutly built fishing
pirogues into which with his crew he
transferred his plunder and then sank j
the San Pedro, taking pains to arrange j
it that much of her recognizable ma
terial would float.
The specie being carefully concealed
In the holds of these fishing vessels and
covered with sea grass, they set out
north in pleasant weather, and arrived
off the coast of Alabama on or about
the 15th, and proceeded leisurely
in the ordinary manner of fishing
vessels at that season, the crew catch
ing a large quantity of flsh which they
packed in over the cargo. At Bayou
Lafouche Hendricks got rid of twenty
more men who had directions to sep
arate and rendezvous a month later at
a point on the Georgia coast where he
had taken on his ammunition, it being
understood that he was going to make
for Panama with his pirogues and
cargo.
Instead of doing this, he went
straight to New Orleans and hauled
both vessels up at Algiers where his
remaining crew were kept aboard, and
for two days disposed of their fish.
These men were evidently picked and
retained for their reliability and were
thoroughly cognizant of the whole
scheme.
Hendricks managed to arrive in New
Orleans as if by rail, and registered at
the St. Charles as Archibald Hendricks,
of Tennessee. As he was already
known by that name at the hotel and
was known to be interested in some
land improvement scheme, his subse
quent operations attracted no suspi
cion. His captain and all but four of
the men had been sent north in differ
ent directions to meet at the Laran
portal and the two badly smelling
pirogues that had slipped into Al
giers lay among a lot of old craft in an
out of the way place, securely guarded
by the four men.
The moment Hendricks got to the ho
tel, he was able to learn all the facts
of the search. The Corinthian had
been two days and a half at sea under
sail before she spoke a westward bound
steamship, the Anglo-Saxon, and com
municated the news. It was three
days and a half before the Anglo-
Saxon reached New York and the news
of the robbery preceded her from Eng
land by cable Just six hours. Twelve
hours elapsed after the reception of
the news before the navies of England
and America were looking for the San
Pedro. Hendricks smiled as he saw
how narrow a margin he had sailed on.
Before the search was well under way,
he had been in the gulf and the
wreckage of the Sau Pedro, which bo
was sure would come to light was, ho
thought, a fairly good chance of per
plexity and delay on the one hand to
the pursuers and a safe location of the
plunder up to the moment of transfer
on the other. The betrayal of that
transfer depended on the twenty-five
men whom he had still in his service
and upon whom he believed he could
depend.
Hendricks was too shrewd a mau not
to see that his scheme however cun
ning would only hold for a time. He
knew perfectly well that the sailors
whom lie had got rid of, would proceed
immediately to get drunk and in their
recklessness expose the plot up to a
certain point. But he believed their
stories under whatever promise of
pardon or compulsion of punishment
could get no farther than the state
ment that tho San Pedro had sailed for
Panama or Venezuela. The knowledge
of the transfer to the pirogues was
locked up in his own immediate con
federates. This fact he reasoned
would not prevent the ultimate discov
ery of the real truth, but it would de
lay it sufficiently for him to get safely
to his subterranean retreat with Ills
plunder. Common piracy was not an
idea that anybody would entertain.
No steam vessel could keep afloat and
coaled up over a week without run
ning across a cruiser. The special
conspiracy and the abandonment of
the San Pedro were therefore inevit
able deductions. The purchase of the
use of the San Pedro, the shipment of
the men at New Orleans, the landing
of the men on the southern coast must
all sooner or later focus the search at
New Orleans. But by that time he
would be out of sight.
Two facts were of special import:
The officer and boat's crew that had
boarded the Corinthian had been pho
tographed by one of the passengers ov
the steamship, but while this fact had
been communicated to New York, the
photographs had been carried to Eng
land. The other fact was that the
passengers all had the impression that
the vessel and crew were Spanish and
had gone eastward.
Two flays had not elapsed before the
: two pirogues with their masts cut o£f
| were taken In tow by a small side
j wheeler and pulled up the river. They
! were loaded with derricks aud heavy
i timber. Hendricks had inserted an
j advertisement in the papers and it was
known lie was purchasing material for
his improvements somewhere on the
Mississippi.
On the morning that the little side
wheeler went slowly up the river In
plain view of New Orleans, the f'nitod
I States cruiser Dakota picked up and
j identified some of the upper works of
! the San l'edro in the gulf, and a sensa
tional story appeared in a New York
paper which stated that the conspiracy
to rob the English steamship had been
hatched in the United States treasury
department, and that the San Pedro
had transferred her cargo in the bay
<»f Camp-acliy und the treasure was
now hi'iinpat or near the iiuncas di
. Sisal, nir \ ucatan.
I Everything now depeded on the
pirogue-, reaching the Wish bayou be
fore the true clew led to Xew Orleans.
It was a seven-hundred-mile journey,
and the vessels crawled along at a pace
of only eight iniles an hour. Hen
dricks himself went direct to Memphis
by rail, and after several days of intol
erab'e anxiety and constant expecta
tion of meeting with the news that tho
plunder hail been tracked to the river,
he had the satisfaction of see
ing his cargo from the hotel win
dow slowly and laboriously crawling
up the stream undisturbed.
He got aboard the steamboat about
ten miles above Memphis, and, rinding
C'apt. Blinn aboard, he having been
similarly picked up, they congratu
lated each other.
The vessels were run safely Into the
Wash bayou at night unobserved, and
the whole energy of Hendricks anil his
confederates was then directed to the
transportation of the specie to the
western end of the Laran cavo.
In spite of the urgent need of haste,
this was done deliberately and method
ically, and the wild, deserted coun
try favored the task. Mule teams
were provided; the two journeys were
made at night under guard, and in
three days after the landing there were
two million nine hundred thousand
dollars in the Laran cave.
nendricks" plans for the immediate |
use of some of the money are in part i
known. Three mouths before the rob
bery of the steamship, he had, by some j
scheme, managed to borrow six thou- j
sand dollars, which he converted into j
gold and deposited in the First na
tional bank of Memphis to be drnwn i
against. He now went to the Second
national bank of Louisville, Ky.. with
the certificate of deposit and expressed
a desire to change the specie from one ;
bank to the other as a matter of con
venience. It was an ordinary business
transaction and created no suspicion.
He then instead of drawing the six
thousand from Memphis, made a fresh
deposit of six thousand in Louisville.
This gave him a bank capital sufficient
for ordinary and immediate use in cur
rency, and the fac* that he had not
withdrawn the money from one bank
to put it in tho other either escaped
notice at tho time or was not regarded
as of any significance.
His next move was the formation of
a supposititious syndicate to purchase
the land in Tennessee for a national
sanitarium. This j*roject was exploit
ed in the Kentucky papers with great
cunning. A corporation of medical
men had surveyed the land and were
about to purchase it aud erect a mag
nificent hotel, and they had made Mr.
Hendricks a handsome offer for it.
WMlc all this was maturing the wtaan
whom Laport had met as Miss Frank
lin was making purchases in New York,
Boston and Philadelphia, and snipping
goods to Memphis and Frankfort. Her
plan was to make small purchases at
widely separated stores, giving gold in
payment and getting currency in
change. She must have sent to Hen
dricks during a month of operations
several thousand dollars in bills.
CHAPTER VIIL
During that month he remained at
Laran, as he called the place, superin
tending tho improvements that he had
projected. He had purchased the land
and fenced it with an impregnable
steel fence for several acres around
each entrance to the cave.
During his absence, Laport had gone
over the entire plaoo with a subordi
nate who appeared to be familiar with
every part of it. They hail set out with
lanterns, ladders and other appliances
which were loaded upon a couple of
Rocky mountain burros that Laport
found in the place.
Through the alley or corridor that
led from the rugged spaee at the en
trance, Laport noticed that tho coal
measures showed themselves on both
sides. The passage opened into a vast
room almost circular and with a vault
ed roof. Its superficial urea was at
least three acres and Laport could not
resist the impression that it had been
at one time an incandescent bubble
that had cooled without breaking. He
stood in the center and threw the light
into the space above. A few stalactites
gleamed faintly like stars. Noth
ing else in the cave so impressed him
as this magnificent natural rotunda.
Indeed the rest of the subterranean
passages and openings were such as
are seen in all the underground tracts
of Kentucky and Tennessee. Vast ac
cumulations of limostone debris;
choked and narrow alleyways; bottom
less holes; enormous stalactites and
mounds of their fragments where they
had fallen. Here and the.e streams of
water flowed sluggishly across their
path and once they encountered a pond
or lake about a mile in extent and at
one point half a mile in width.
The exploration mainly impressed
Laport with the prodigious expense
and the comparative futility of con
structing a narrow-guage road on the
varying aud stony levels. But he saw
that it could bo built on iron benches
against one of the walls with only two
breaks that needed bridging.
When Hendricks returned and had
closeted himself with Laport in what
he called tho laboratory, he did not
find Ills engineer very enthusiastic.
"It will cost an enormous sum to put a
track down," he said, "and it is for
you to say that the end will warrant
the extraordinary expense."
"I told you before," said Hendricks,
somewhat testily, "that the purpose
and expense were not part of your con
sideration. What will it cost?"
"Well, sir, I suppose a rude but solid
bracket road can be built on one wall
for about six thousand dollars a mile."
"That's very nearly a hundred thou
sand dollars for sixteen miles. Let us
say a hundred and fifty thousand. Can
we put up an electric engine if it is
got in here by piecemeal and make
"I AM INSTRUCTED, Silt, TO ASK VOU TO
ORDER YOUR PEOPLE BELOW."
the trucks and cars if the iron work is
supplied?"
"Unquestionably," replied Laport.
"Then the railroad question is set
tled," said Hendricks. "Now the light
ing system. My idea is to run the fur
nace chimney through the roof where
tho crust Is not over ten feet thick and
carry it up at the end of the house wc
are to build over the entrance. But
you will see what our difficulty is. \\ e
want light to build tho road, aud until
the road is built we cannot get our
dynamo and engine into the cave, for
they must come in at the other end."
"I would suggest a temporary light
ing arrangement," said Laport. "The
difficulty of delivering most of the ma
terial at this end can bo overcome."
"Yes, but the difllculty of transpor-
tation at this end cannot be overcome.
We have to haul our stull from the
J nearest railroad and that Is only a
poorly equipped branch. It is next to
tin possible to pull the material over
the ran until road* are made and we
hare the water almost at our door in
the southwest."
"Nevertheless it is im;>ossible to pet
any heavy material through those pas
sages at present and it is not impossi
ble to wheel here from the nearest
point until your road is completed."
"How long will it take to build the
road?"
Laport laughed. "It is a question
of supply of iron and number of work
men."
"Very well, we have all winter. I
will furnish you with a tf-ang of fifty
wen. If the road is done by next May
I shall be satisfied."
(TO BB OOXTIXVID.)
A USEFUL BUREAU.
IThit Hu B«n Done by the Offle* of
Road Inquiry.
The establishment of an office of
road inquiry by the United States de
partment of agriculture was a move in
the right direction. The work of in
quiring into and Investigating the sys
tem of road management and the j
methods of road making is steadily go
ing on under the supervision of Roy
Stone, the special agent and engineer
in charge of that office A valuable
bulletin comprising the state laws re
lating to the management of roads
was recently compiled and issued by
him. The demand for this pamphlet
was 60 great that the supply was ex
hausted and a reprint has been ordered.
Material for further publications along
this line is being collected. Concern
ing the results sireatty mcM Ej». ,
gineer Stone says: "It appears that,
while many short sections of good
highway are being built in various
parts of the country with a gratifying
cheapness in coat and freedom from
burdensome taxation, in some of the
states a serious setback to the move
ment has occurred through the failure
of legislation intended to advance It
The optional country road laws passed
in 1593 have nowhere proved accept
able to the county boards with the ex
ception of two counties in Michigan.
Yet these boards are in touch with the
people and doubtless voice the popular
verdict on this legislation. It is dear,
therefore, that these laws are either in
advance of public education or at vari
ance with the public judgment in the
states concerned, and that a new de
parture must be taken to insure
any prompt and general advance in
highway construction in those states.
Under these circumstances the depart
ment has asked for Information and
suggestions regarding other lines of
legislation. Fortunately it has been
able to point to the remarkable suc
cess of the state and local option law
of New Jersey, and to commend It with
certain modifications to the considera
tion of other statea That law pro
ceeds upon the theory that while the
country as a whole may be unwilllng'to
embark in road building, those small
er communities which are themselvee
willing to contribute fairly toward the
improvement of their highways may
justly demand county and state aid in
carrying on such improvement. The
law provides for a survey and estimate
of the cost of building a road when a
petition, signed by owners of not less
than one-half of the lands abutting on
the road. Is presented to the county
board of supervisors. It will be the
duty of the board to construot or im
prove the road whenever the petition
ers file with the board a map or de
scription of the lands which they be
lieve will be benefited, together with
the written consent of three-fifths of
the owners that these lands, and the
| personal property in the district, be as
| sessed for the cost."
HAND CULTIVATOR.
Doe* the Work H Wall u H*it of the
ni(h-FrlM4 Machine*.
Take a piece of oak, aab, or some
wood of similar firmness, 2>f feet long,
Inches thick and 4 inches wide; cut
a slot in the front end 2 inohes wide
and 10 Inohes long, and In the back
end a similar slot 8 Inches long. These
slots are for the carrying wheels, which
are In this case made of 1 Inch pine
HAND CULTIVATOR
boards The front one is to be 1 foot
in diameter, and the other 8 inohes in
diameter. The teeth of this cultivator,
as the cut shows, ara made of two old
forks, one a three tlned and the other
a four tined. These forits had each m
tlno broken two inches shorter than
the rest After the tines are shortened
so as to be all of the same length, they
are heated and sharpened, and shank
bent, if necessary, to give it the proper
angle, about 45 degrees; when inserted
in the beam this can be determined by
experiment.
Bore two or three holes in the back
of beam, by which the wheel can be
raised or lowered to regulate the depth
of cultivation. For the handles, 4 inch
pine strips cut down to 2 inches to give
hand holds, can be used, or old plow or
cultivator handles that may be on hand
will do instead, if not too heavy.— fi A.
Ilills, in American Gardening.
Rural Mall Delivery.
An interesting movement has been
projected in the attachment to the
post oftlce appropriation bill of an
amendment setting aside 120,000 for the
purpose of experimenting with rnral
: free delivery. With thlß amendment
; there is another directing the post
! master-general to report to the next
conjfress such measures as may be
deemed practicable for mall delivery in
the rural districts and their probable
cost. The experiments thus forecasted
will be watched with interest, and no
where with greater attention than in
the country districts where rural free
delivery involves such important inter
ests. The marked growth in city popu
lation at the expense of the population
: of the country is in large measure due
to the present isolation of American
farm life and the difficulty of keeping
in touch with the outer world. Rural
mail delivery would no doubt go far to
counteract this tendency.
Cost of Malting Good ltoada.
One of the six hundred delegates to
the lost Indiana Road congress said
that there are in his state about forty
thousand miles of roads. He estimated
that the roads could all be put In good
condition at a cost of SBOO a mile. This
would entail an expense of 1a,800,000 or
S2. fto an acre for the land in the state.
This cost could be distributed over ten
years, and would oost the owners of
the land 25 cents an acre each year.
He thought the expense would not be
burdensome.
A Fa »b lon* Me Parting.
Jim -So your wife Ims left you?
Tim—She has.
Jlm--What were her last worts?
Tim—"Does my dress touch the
ground nt the back?" —Hallo.
A (iood Substitute.
Miss Belle —Have you partake® o#
the ices, Mr. Noodles?
Mr. Noodles—No; but I've been
dawnrlng with a Boston girl, don't ye
know.—Hallo.
Huew IXutv It Felt Hlmnflf.
llojack—Hold on there a minute,
Tomdilc; I have a short story to tell you.
L Tomdik—LKm't to liear it. I'm
•hort myftjlf.—Tgwa Tuples.
2Mo. 20
THE BtST BERRIC&
Experiment* to Deter mice the Most Pre,
durllre and Hardy Varieties.
The results of the recent testa o!
blackberries, dewberries and raspber
ries are given in bulletin No. 68 of tha
Geneva (N Y,) station. The soil wi|
rather a stiff clay loam, well tile*
drained and fertilized with stable
manure. The fruits tested were given
no winter protection.
The rao.jt productive blackberry El
the station in 1593 was found to be the
Dorchester, an old variety much e«<
teemed in some localities for the pro*
ductivcuesa and quality of the fruit.
Ancieut Britton, which ranked second,
g-.j excellent, medium-sized fruit
Early Harvest made a good record,
though apt to be injured by winter.
Agawam proved fourth in productive
ness, and is considered one of the most
valuable varieties tested at the station.
Among dewberries the Lucretia yield
ed the best and largest crop The fruit
is, however, inferior in flavor and quali
ty to that of the blackberry.
The most productive blackcap at tha
station was the Mills Na 7. It would
appear to be as hardy as the Shaffer,
and on account of its very large size,
fine appearance, good quality and pro
ductiveness should prove to be a de
sirable acquisition to the black raap>
berry list Mills No. 15, nilborn and
Sprays Early came next in the order
named in productiveness.
The Columbian, Shaffer aud Cardinal
were found to be the moat productive
of the purple raspberries, while among
the red the Cuthbert proved the most
prolific. The latter holds first rank u
a mTTtrrr wiry nyniimt nit uvwwuien
The Royal Church took second place.
This is a late variety and Is reoom
mended as worthy of trial for the lata
home garden, as is the Pomona tot
ear If fruit The Turner, while not
equal to the Cuthbert. is more hardy,
and consequently valuable for many
localities where the latter does not suo
ceed.
Among the white raspberries the
Vermont and Caroline proved the tnosi
productive, while the Chaniplain ranks
high for flavor and quality.
THE CODLING MOTH.
It* Depredations Can Be Averted by
Careful Spraylun Only.
The illustration represents the worm
of the codling moth as it is found lq
the matured apple. The injury and
loss occasioned by this Insect has been
very keenly felt In almost all fruit
growing regions. The female begins
to lay eggs in the calyx of the blossom
about two weeks after the blossoms
first appear. From the egg hatches ft
THE WORK or TH* CODUWO MOTH.
caterpillar which pierces the skin of
the fruit and eats its way toward the
center. It feeds upon the pulp around
the core until It finishes its caterpillar
growth, at which time it is about
three-fourths of an inch in length.
Then it usually leaves the apple to find
a crevice In the bark where it spins a
i silken cocoon and enters the pupa stage.
' Two weeks later it emerges as a moth
like the one which laid the original
egg. The experience of horticulturists
has been that the injury caused by this
insect can only be averted by careful
spraying.
A PROFITABLE CROP.
When Properly Cultivated Thar* 1* Con
siderable Money In Onions.
One of the most profitable of the
small special farm crops is onions.
They have always been so. Doubtless
the reason is that skill is needed to
grow a good crop, and it is as easy as
falling off a log to make a mess of the
)ob and find the crop to be smothered
n weeds before the little onions are to
be seen. Then the time taken to save
the crop la lost as effectively as if try
ing to bring a dead man to life again.
The crop Is not worth the cost of saving.
The land must be cleaned by previous
cultivation and well manured with old
manure free from seeds of weeds, or by
fertilizers, which is the better way.
The seed must be good. It is no use
trying home-grown seed. This kind of
seed produces more scalllons than any
thing else, for seed growing of any
kind Is a special business that must
have experience and scientific knowl
edge to make it successful.
But some farmers do succeed, and
others may. What one can do another
can if he will. The onion grower must
determine to succeed, and back up his
determination with an invincible will,
and then ho may get 000 to 800 bushel#
of bulbs to the acre. One acre is bet
ter to begin with until one learns how
to keep the weeds down.—Col man's
Rural World.
Tobacco a* an Insactldda.
The old-time remedy of tobacco 1*
rapidly coining Into favor again. For
cheapness it can hardly be equaled, as
only the refuse stems of the poorest
quality need be used. In fact, these
are better than the stems of fine Ha
vana because poor tobacce contains ft
greater quantity of nlootlne, which is
the active poison that kills the insects.
The decoction Is made by steeping a
pound of stems in a gallon of hot water.
After It has cooled the liquid is strained
off nnd applied with an ordinary spray
ing apparatua Spraying with tobaoco
tea is recommended for the flea beetles
on tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage and
radishes, also as a specific for lice, ticks
and other external parasites of ani
mals. This remedy has the recommen
dation that it is not a dangerous poison
to have around where children and in
nocent animals may get at it—Ameri
can Agriculturist
A Joke on Pop.
Small Boy—l've got a good Joke on
pop.
Young Richfelio—What about?
Small Boy—Pop saw Mr. Poorfchapp
in the parlor last night, with his arm
around sister, and pop is so nearsight*
ed he thought it was you, and he.dldn'l
say a word.—Good News.
And Sh* Believed Him.
Angelina—That was a lovely enganei
ment ring you gave me last nlgnt,
dear; but what do those initials, E. (*,
mean on the inside?
Edwin—Why—er—that is—don't yov
know that's the now way of stamping
eighteen carats? —Judge.
The Dear Hambaf*.
•Oh, woman. In our hours of east,"
Tou m»ko u» think you try to pleas*:
You j«(t, and whllo wo iimlle upon it,
Tau kiss, and coax us Tor a bonnet
—N V. World-
They Agreed.
Panne —I proposed at the meeting
that a penny collection be taken up.
Dunne —How was the proposition re
ceived?
Punne —A murmur of a cent rose
from all parts of the house.—Detroit
Free Press.
A Xatural Inference.
He—l have been troubled so much
with neuralgia lately.
Nhe —In your head, I presume,
He—Why, how did you frucsa?
Bha—lt always goes to one'* weakest
spot —N. Y v Wstl4.