VOL XXXI THE PHOENIX. Do you know why the PHOENIX bicycle is the most popular wheel in Pittsburg? Do you know why it won the Butler-Pittsbugh race, and the Wheeling-Pittsburg? Simply because bearing, chain, tire, frame—all the parts —are made of the best material. Because we build the lightest,easiest running wheel that is safe and reliable for the roads. We also make a specialty of an easy running and ligl't lady's wheel, which is equally popular. A guarantee is a good thing in its way. The PHOENIX guarantee cov ers every point, but the best point ot all is the fact that repairs or claims for de fective parts constitute an exceedingly small per centage of our cost of manu facture. For catalogue and other information address, THE STOVER BICYCLE Mfg. Co. FRBEPORT, It.l*. or J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent. BDTIiERi PA. GRAND Clearance Sale. Hot weather la here We hail almost given it up. Pi <t experience migh t haye taught na it would com", had it coun earlier it would uot have found as wi'b bO manv rammer foods on band had it cjtne Boiler i' wonld have found yon prepared for it, bu» here is your chance to prepare at very littl e expense There are mauy long hot da*s ahead Keep cool WE MUST ONLOAD. We offer onr entire stock consisting of MILLINERY, !>K\ GOODSi Ladies' and Childrens' WRAPS, NOTIONS, &c, at costs fir 30 days commencing Saturday, June 30th. Do not purchase anything in this line before examining our goods as w o guarantee to eave you 25 per cent, on all goods purchased from us durin the next 30 days. Respectfully, Jennie E. Z Successor to Ritter k Ralston __ Harness Given Away! There are about 24,000 adults in Butler county, and we want all to know that we are the largest dealers in the State in everything pertaining to a Driving or Team Outfit, and sell cheapest. As an indjeement to have you investigate, we have placed on our show horse a set of Good Harness of our own make, and WILL GIVE THEM TO THE PERSON WHO GUESSES THE] HORSE'S WEIGHT OR NEAREST TO IT. ; Every adult person allowed to guess once. You are not ; ; asked to buy anythi lg. It is free as the air you breathe. : ; All you have to do is to come in, register your name in a : ; book we have prepared for that purpose and make your ; I : ; guess in plain figures. Guessing begins Monday June 4, and closes July 20, 1894. at 12 o'clock, noon, at which time the horse will be weighed anil the harness given to the person guessing his exact weight or nearest to it. Should more than one guess the exact weight or be tied che har l ness will bo given to the one whose name is first on the register, i Th- horse has never been weighed. We do not know his weight, i and will not allow him to be weighed until after the guessing closes. All have an equal chance. No one in our employ allowed a guess. Remember, we do not ask you to buy anything to entitle you to a guess. We just want you to see where we keep Buggies, Wagons, Carts, Harness and all parts of Harness, Wheels, Tops, Cushions and Lazybacks, Neck Yokes. Buggy Poles, Singletrees, Harness Oil, Axle Oil. l ap Dusters, Fly Nets, Horse Collars, Brushes, Curry Combs, and verything belonging to a Driving or Team Outfit. S. B. Martincourt & Co., 128 East Jefferson Street, BUTLER, - PA. S. B. MARTINCOURT, J. M. LIEGHNER. p. S.—No one under 16 years allowed to guess. We wil give them a chance soon as this one closes. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. j|| 1 TT=a ' ei^^ Mr. Oeorge W. Tuley Benjamin, Missouri Good Advice Quickly Followed Cured of Rheumatism by Hood's Sarsaparilla. "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: " I was taken down with rhei;ra*tlsm over ■ year ago. I was sick for over six months. Often I would have such pains that I could hardly endure them. A friend came to me and adTlsed me to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. I took him at his word and (rut a bottle of it, and since have taken eight bottles of It. It Has Cured Me When the doctors could do me no good what ever. After being benefited so much from this medicine I describe Hood'i Sarsaparilla as a wonderful medicine. I also advise every one who Is troubled with rheumatism not to be with- Hood's Cures a ut Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1 am a farmer, and ie medicine has given me much ener;o and •trength to perform my work." GE«IK.K W. IXJLBT, Benjamin, Missouri. Hood's Pills art hand made, and perfect la proportion and appearance. aoc. a boa. A Scientist claims the Root of Diseases to be in the Clothes we Wear. The best Spring remedy for the*blues, etc , is to discard your uncomfortable old duds which irri tate the body:-leave your measure at ALAND'S for a new suit which will fit well, improve the appearance by re lieving vou instant- O « lv of that tired feel i <?, and making vou o 7 o « cheerful and active. r Jlie cost of this sure cure is very moderate TRY IT. C.^„D. A business that keeps grow ing through a season oi de pression, such as the count:/ has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize they save money by trading with us. We know, and always have known, tl'e days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than last year. Our stock is larger to select from than last year. CALL AM) SKI-: US. Colbert & Dale. «£ Perscriptions Jt A Specialty. At Redick's Drug Store. We do not handle anything but pure drng*», next tlmn you ere in need of ni*dii'iue please jjivo UH a call We are headquarters lor pure SODA WATER as we use only pure fruit juices, we also handle Paris tircen, hellebore, insect powder, London purple and other insecticides. Hespectfullv, ■I.G: EEDK K. Main fsL.iU'Xt , tollolid Lowi) BUTLER, HA. JOHN KEMPER, Manufacturer of Harness, Collars, and Strap Work, and Flv Nets, 1/ ' and Dealer in Whips, Dusters, Trunks and Valises. My Goods are all new and strict first-c work guaran teed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbell & Templeton's Furniture Store. 342 S. Main St., - Butler, l'a. t T£ r^eilion. itatesiiim e ' [COPYRIGHT. 1894.1 —IT 1 f J jjf* "VOL* OVERLOOKED OXE FACTOR," HE SAID DELIBERATELY. CHAPTER XXI This information, disappointing as it was, produced a marked change in Calicot. His nervous anxiety gave place to a grim look of concentration and he grew visibly paler every day. The intelligence that he received in three days, through Miss Endicott, amazed and excited him in spite of his self-control. He learned that Hen dricks had captured the gunboat. Ho had to get at the facts of the case from separate information and from Hen dricks' orders, but hu learned enough to convince him that the commander in the boat had been led into negli gence by not finding a human soul in the vicinity, and a force of his men had been surrounded and captured in the wood, and a party sent to their re lief had been overwhelmed. It was a dark night and two large attacking forces from opposite sides of the river had surprised the boat and, after a des perate pght, taken possession of her. Hendricks had then gone aboard; dressed his own men in the uniform of the soldiers, and finding the books and papcrt»of the commanding officer, had got a knowledge of his orders. The captured crew were sent to the Laran and the gunboat had gone up the Mis sissippi with hdr flap flying apparent ly Under government orders. This was on the night of fith of August. On the 7th, the governm nt stores at Leavenworth were seized by an armed force, the troops at that place hav ing been reduced to a sing, company, owing to the withdrawal of the Sixth United States infantry, and Troops A and F, which had been sent to Paducah. The arinj, consisting of six thousand stands of carbines, five twelvo-pounder Suns, three Gatlings and four brass owitzers, with about fifty thousand pounds of ammunition, had been loaded on the vessel at Leavenworth aud Started down the Missouri for St. Louis. Before she reached the Missis sippi, Hendricks, apparently under or ders, was looking for her, and captured her about two miles above Alton. He then started for Memphis with her in tow, having sent a dispatch at Alton, publicly announcing the victory oi the United States gunboat. The con sequence was, he was interfered with on his way down the river, but instead of going to' Memphis, he ran into the bayou and unloaded all his plunder into the Laran. Calicot had this news verified before his eyes, lie had only to go into one of tho little stations in the Laran south east of the rotunda to find evidences of the truth of what lie had heard, lie saw a strong guard at the magozinc and a hundred men busily at work transporting ammu nition to the place. Tho wooden doors if the magazine stood open and hQ could see from across tho rotunda that it was a dark hole stored to the stone ceiling with boxes and kegs, flo watched the work with intense inter est- Tho eleotrlc light in the rotunda threw black shadows here and there aud, hidden by one of them, he scru tinized the place carefully through a pocket-glasA that he had got from Mis 6 Laport, and he noticed for the first time that there were iron tubes run ning down that part of the wall of the magazine tliat was exposed. looked like drain pipes 4t a distance. He usked Laport abput it and was in formed carelessly that they wero ven tilating tubes put in to make a circula tion of air and keep the placo dry. 'There are only two," said Laport, '.'and they opeu into the rotunda about six feet above the railroad track. 1 put them in myself and I ought to gO and see that the men who are working 'there do not disturb them." "I will go with you," said Calicat, The next day Stooking mc{ Calicot and said abruptly in his way: "Sec hero, my old fyiend, It ji idiotic to let coldness spring tip be tween u« at this time becatiso we don't think alike." "We do thii'k I»llks," replied ColiOOt, "and, allowing for differences Of tem perament, we Suffer alike." Tho two men sat down on the bench in front ot their quarters. Nearly everybody was in the rotunda or south of it. Save the men stationed as a guard at the portal and the workman UJ tho machine shop there was lioboaj to be see#. The railway trucks were au at tho other end of the Larnh. Hen dricks and hiq captains had their lianas full at the military headquarters.haM e mile away, "Hav6 you anything to tell me?" asked Stockingjdesoairlngly. "l shajl lose my reason in this place In anothgf Week.' 1 "1 have been waiting for some tiine to tell you agreatdeal,'' replied Calicot, "hut I was afraid of your impetuosity and indiscretion," "They are dying out of me," said Stocking, ruefully. "I feci lllse a man in a this tomb, 1 shall perish m general paralysis.'* "I propose' to get you out," remarked Cullcot, calmly. Stocking smiled somewhat grimly. "I suppose tho same conditions are breaking down your mind also," sam he.'Go On—insanity is at least a diver sion-" , "The havv not disturbed, Jhey have only cooccntr&led my facul ties," replied Calicot, "and fclretun ttances have aided me in ftn almost supernatural manner. I have been pble to penetrate Hendricks' designs beyond this stronghold. You will see that this Is not a diseased fancy when I explain to you. In the first place he has a wire ijpder ground to some other ££n4ezvpus Uuit w In Eftmmunkatka IVITTLEK, PA.JFRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1804. with the world. Mrs. Hendricks and Fenning are at that plaoe, wherever it is. But the important thing is that I have been able to read their dis patches." "Have you, indeed?" remarked Stocking. "Hendricks has taken you into his full confidence, then." "No. But you forget Miss Endicott." "And you depend upon her ravings." "Not at all. Events have corrobo rated her day by day." "What have you learned?" "This: that Hendricks' co-consplra tors have an army scattered through the country ready to be massed at any moment. It is directed from this safe retreat; a campaign of destruction is going on. It is sweeping into its vortex al! the mad elements of our times, and the conceiving brain of it is hidden away safely; the victimized world cannot imagine, much less ac cept as a fact, tho prodigious audacity upon which the whole scheme is built, and will not accept the consummate and incredible machinery of which we are witnesses. Hendricks has captured a United States gunboat off the bayou because tho commander of the boat eould not get it into his head that a sufficient force was organized to drop upon him from both sides of the river. The -overnment arsenal at Leaven wort.. has been robbed because the government would not believe that thev ■ was a force sufficient to take that place. There is at this moment a large body of United States troops concen trating in Tipton count}', but the move has been foreseen and calculated by Hendricks, and it takes place as if he were directing it. These men will be annihilated over our heads and we 6hall not hear a sound." "Yes," said Stocking, with mors bitterness than amazement, "he Is pres cient and invincible—in your mind. *' "On the contrary," replied Calicot, "he is human, fallible and vulnerable. It has cost 'me many sleepless nights to find it out, but I have found it out, and with that knowledge I will free you and Miss Franklin if you will fol low my directions unquestioningly." "I am afraid," said Stocking, who was regarding him with something like pity, "that you have worked your self into a morbid condition of mind. If your scheme were reasonable, why not appeal to my reason instead of my faith?" "Because," replied Calicot, "It is reason which is working all this mis chief, and faith alone can circumvent It. I don't want to argue that with you now. I want your cooperation to demonstrate it, aud, believe me, when it Is demonstrated you will bo the first to acknowledge its truth and efficacy. One other point—this man Fenning In tends, with Hendricks' assistance, to get possession of Miss Franklin. They arc only waiting for u favorable oppor tunity to send her awny. At any mo ment she may disappear forever so far as you and I are concerned. She is breaking down with the apprehension. To save her, at least, I count upon your faith. If it were merely a matter of bravery, I would not have to ask you." Stocking was evidently touched. "You are thinking," he said, "only of Miss Franklin and me. Will you not free yourself?" Calicot hesitated a moment. His face looked white and hard to Stock ing. "Yes," he replied., "I will be free, but it depends on your implicitly following my directions." There was a moment's silence. The two men looked at each other. "I wish," said Stocking, "that you would tell me frankly what is in your mind." But he had placed his hand in that of his friend. All Calicot said was: "I will wpte it all down carefully for you." CHAPTER XXII. One night not long after this Calicot woke Lieut. Stocking up about twelve o'clock rather urgently. "Listen," he said. His friend sat up on his cot and re marked that Calicot looked very white 111 the dim light. The harsh hum of many voices reached him in a confused and disagreeable way, intermingled with occasional shouts of commaud and tho tread of feet and accompanied by tho loud drone of tho machinery. "What Is It?" he asked. "Hendricks is sending up all his forces. 11 has been going on now for two hours, up and dress yourself; the women are frightened. I think a battle Is going on overhead or is Im pending." Stocking then got up and tho two men went into the adjacent quarters, where they found Miss Endicott with a shawl around her head and Miss La port rubbing her hands. Both of tho women were very much alarmed, as In deed they n'ell might be with all that hideous din going on in the arena. Calieot then explained to them as calm ly as he could thut the armed forces Were being sent up as fast as the lift could carry them. "There Is," ho said, "a struggle about to take place. Let us preserve our wits so that we can uso to tho best advantage the only means we have of obtaining information." Miss Endicott, in spite of her trepi dation, appeared to understand the sit uation, and when Calicot asked lier If she could put herself en rapport with Mrs. Hendricks, she answered prompt ly: "Yes. It requires no effort what ever now." She merely closed her eyes a moment as if collecting herself and then said: "She is packing her trunk— sUeJiN attired in a riding habitLtber© arc four men with her; they look as if they had been traveling'; now she (foes to the Instrument; she is reading its message to the men. I cannot hear what she says. Tbey are all listening to her eagerly. They are disputing: the man who was with her before writes something and reads it to them; the woman shakes her head; she does not approve of it. Yes, I can read it. 'We start at three o'clock. Miss Frank lin must come back with Mrs. H.' " Here Miss Laport made an ejacula tion. "I am lost," she said. "They are coming to take mi."< Lient. Stocking' ground his teeth in an impulse of helpless indignation. Calicot held his hand up deprecat ingly; Miss Endicott went on; "She lias gone to the telegraph; the man is waiting for her with a paper and pen cil in his hand."' "The man." Calicot explained to Stocking, "is Penning, lie will write down the dispatch that comes from Hendricks. Listen." "She is speaking." said Miss Endi cott. "He is writing; they are all listening." "Yes, yes," said Calicot, "you must read the writing." "Don't move until you get orders from me. Bloody work here be fore morning." "What does that mean?" asked Stocking. "It is Hendricks' dispatch. He does not want them to start for the Laran until he has driven off the forces that are here. It is plain enough. We at least have gained time by the arrange ment and must profit by it." "How are we to profit by it?" asked Stocking. Calicot held up his hand as a warn ing not to interrupt Miss Endicott. "They are gone," said that young woman; "it is dark." "They have gone," said Calicot, "to the telegraph station." "But, oh dear," exclaimed Miss La port, "how is all this to onr advan tage?" "Yes," said Stocking. "That's what we want you tell us." Calicot addressed himself to Miss Laport. "Hendricks," he said, "will be flushed with victory, self-confidence, and more likely to grant any request you make of him. If your father were to ask him now to let him take you away, pending these dreadful scenes, he would probably consent. I believe he would let the lieutenant go with him if he gave his word to return." "Which I never would do," said Stocking. "Yes, you would," said Calicot, "if Miss Franklin and I insisted upon it, and it were to our advantage. He has an idea that your interest in Miss Frank lin will close your mouth; that you can not betray him without betraying her father —besides. I will remain as a hos tage for you. When we have got the women out, the rest is easy, and I will disclose it to you when you come back. The moment the issue of the fight is decided, you must take tho women out at tho bayou entrance and get them across the Mississippi or to Mem phis. Bear in mind that Hendricks is making ready to abandon this place and take the field openly. He cares less for exposure now that his plans are completed, ami you are encum brances." Neither Stocking or Miss Laport evinced any enthusiasm at this project, but they yielded to Calicot's urgency and, for want of any other plan, final ly agreed to do as he bade them. It was nearly morning before the noise of preparation and departure subsided, but Calicot felt sure that, whatever tho issue overhead, Hen dricks would be at his telegraph wire and that was the only hope of obtain ing definite Information. What is now known as the battle of Laran began just before daybreak. Lieut. Saxton, commanding the two companies of the Sixth regiment, United States infantry, was in camp on the hill, where there were still bloody evidences of Oen. Luscomb's unfortunate bivouac. The four guns of Battery A were on the crest with a hastily-thrown-up abbatls, and the two companies of cavalry, amount ing to a hundred and fifty men, wore in the woods covering a radius of sev eral miles as pickets and scouts. Lieut. Saxton had taken every military pre caution against a surprise ana had planted himself as securely as possible for defense, but it was uot conceivable to him that a force of four hundred men would rise out of the ground In the dark under his very nose, and Hon drlcks succeeded in getting that force through the portal quietly and dispos ing them in solid order under the pro tection of the trees and ruins of the sanitarium before the lieutenant's scouts discovered them. He had also sent out five hundred men at the bayou exit, and they were in the rear of tho intrenched party before dawn. One hundred men had been left in the cave as a reserve to protect the entrances, The force at the portal was divided into two commands of two hundred men each. Hendricks leading one and Oen. Waterson the other. Tho move ment of one of these columns to the right of the hill gave the alarm and the battle began about fifteen min utes earlier than Hendricks had ar ranged it. A simultaneous dash was made by the two divisions upon tho hill and a desperate fight ensued. Oen. Waterson had the protection of the woods in his advance, but Hendricks had to cross an open space and re ceived the murderous fire from the guns on the crest. His men broke twice, but he rallied them with re minders that in ten minutes their brothers would come up in tho rear. He had thirty men killed and disablod before lie got inside the line, and while there engaged in a hand-to-hand light Waterson reached the guns and si lenced them. At tho same time the shouts of the party coming up in the rear were heard, and ten minutes later the battle was virtually decided. Lieut. Saxton, a brave young officer, was killed. Fifty of his men were either killed outright or mortally wounded. The cavalry that was In the woods was not so easily dealt with and continued tho skirmishing until well into the forenoon, by which time Hendricks began the work of moving tho wound ed into the Laran, and later in the day he felt sure that the mounted men had ridden in all directions for suocor and virtually retired, lie then transferred his force with the guns to the Laran, and by nightfall had withdrawn into the cave and once more masked his entrance. The first intcllitfeuce received by Calicot came that night, and Stocking was present when the extraordinary dispatch was read by Miss Endicott. Here it is: "Every detail is planned; X have made no mistakes; thirty-two out; have twenty-four hours' margin; bayou cleared; notify all heads quick anq como on; all consult hero; in the field in three days; signal all; will send force escort; could not save Saxton." "Oood God!" exclaimed Stocking, "I wonder if that is Charley Saxton of tho Twelfth murdered by these out laws?" Calicot begged him to bo cool. "We shall know," ho said, "If Fenning sends back the newspaper accounts." Hut though they waited some time, Miss Endicott communicated nothing further. "They are hurrying away," she said, "on horses." "What do you make out of it?" asked Stocking. "To mo it is unintelli gible." in tin* light of what *i aumuj know." id Calieot, "it is plain enough- Let me interpret it. Hendricks has lost thirty-two men hi the fight, and he has driven off his opponents, lie now has twenty-four hours before a larger force will arrive. In that time he expects to consummate his plans by having all the head conspirators here in the I.aran where they cannot be disturbed. Mrs. Hendricks and the men who were with her are on their way here now. Bayou clear, means that they shall come to that entrance and Hendricks will have a force to meet them. By calling' in Mrs. Hen dricks, it is very evident that he does 1 not need the cottage any longer und is ready to emerge into an open tight. From all that I have been able to de duce. I think he is calculating on a hundred thousand men in the country who have bwn secretly preparing themselves for the signal of outbreak and who will flop to his standard when he takes the field. The men who are to meet here will represent the differ ent wings aDd elements of that revolt." "And yon still think," said Stocking, with a rather pathetic stare, "that this diabolical and crazy anarchist will continue to meet with success?" "1 am afraid that he will up to a cer tain point. He is using elements that can only expend themselves in explo sion. Ho is now calculating with an ingenuity that is both devilish and magnificent how to surprise and de stroy the forces that will be sent here. With every new genius in villainy, so ciety has to take lessons in defeat be fore it can take the perpetrator, simply because society does not concentrate its energies on the study of villainy. But it is not our business now to spec j ulate on reform, but to save ourselves. You promised to do as I bade you, and I I have promised to save you if you | will." (TO ItE CONTINUED.) ONE STREAK OF GOOD LUOK. A Millionaire'* Story of a Pivotal Eip*rl. enoe In Boyhood'* Day*. "What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you?" a Herald man asked of a New York millionaire. "Do you mean sheer, unadulterated luck —something that just happens without any seeking on your part?' re plied the millionaire. "Well, yes; let it go at that." "I am generally accounted a very lucky man by the thousand and one peo ple who know more about me than I ao myself. But, on my honor, what I call a genuine piece of good luck happened to me only once in my life. It didn't amonnt to much, though it meant much to me at the time. It was when I was filling my first job— that of an errand boy at three dollars a week —and I tell you I have never since felt so rich as when I carried home my first three dollars. I had been given a check to cash and a bill to pay. After paying the bill I had thirty-seven dollars of my em ployer's money left. I had just crossed Broadway, when, happen ing to look back, I saw two men fight ing in the street. I was enough of a boy then to take a keen interest in anything like a 'scrap.' I retraced my steps to see what it was all about. To my amazement and surprise I discov ered that the two men were fighting about the thirty-seven dollars and the receipt bill, which in some mysterious fashion had dropped out of my pocket. A policeman happening along at that moment 1 was able to prove that I had a better right to the property in dis pute than either of the two combatants, and recovered it forthwith. They had each grabbed for it at the same time, and each was bound to get all or none — luckily for me. I have often specu lated upon what might have happened if they hadn't quarreled. I should never havo recovered the money, and, in consequence, I should certainlv have lost my situation. That migh\ have changed the whole current of my career, and instead of being a rich man I might to-day have been a poor devil, or I might have been twice as irich as I am. Who knows? Anyway, I regard it as the only piece of down right, simon pure, unmistakable good luck that ever befell me. But any Tom, Dick or llarry that you chance to meet will be able to tell you lots of luckier things that havo happened to me. Home of them things that I had worked at for years." AN ELEVATED CHICKEN FARM. Raining Rrollrri In the Third Story of a City Kulldlns. People passing the Realty block recently have been attracted by a novel sight in the window of one of the vacant storerooms, says the Ana conda (Mont.) Standard. Tn a shallow wooden bo* less than three feet square, their d<Jwny bodies in constant motion and their shrill pipings sounding even through the glass, arc seventy-two •hiekens, apparently as happy as if ihey were in a barnyard under the care of a bustling hen. The box is ft "brooder" and is the only mother that the seventy-two fluffy youngsters have ?ver known, and in it they have Jived or the week that they havo been alive. Prompted by curiosity a re porter sought out Mrs. Childs, tr»o landlady of the building, to learn If possible whether or not she Intends to I)tart a poultry ranch in a three-etory brick blook in the city, and if she {a to learn how she proposes to run it Mrs. Childs demonstrated very easily that she knows what 6he is doing, snd that she can do it successful!v. She has started to raise broilers for the market, and intends to do it la her own block. Mrs. Childs' apartments are on the third story, and in one of her rooms she has two incubators, one containing one hundred eggs and the Other two hundred, Here the ohlok ens are hatohed, and as soon as they get the use of their legs they are transferred to the brooder and taken to the basement, which has been di vided into pens of convenient size, | Here they live In the brooder until they are two weeks old, when they ore placed in the pens and allowed to run about and grow. And how they do grow In tho warm room, and what » bolse they (nake with their Incessant pipping! When they are eight or ninJ weeks old they are ready for market. Ant* Wearing: the Qracu. "f once witnessed an interesting but 1 Secullar spectacle In animal life. buj ne wnloh I have never been able account for/' repnarkod Abraham I, ) Oivens, of Brennam, Tex., according to the St. Louis (Jlobe-Demoorat. '"I j was going home just at nightfall ove# I sandy toad, whpn I noticed directly n front of me what appeared to oe I ong line of fr.een ribbon about one* »alf an incn filoW. 1 stooped to c*- ftmlne it, and to mv astonishment, found that It was a procosslon of ant*. Inarching three ot four abreast. In > very oloSe order, each one parrying a little piece of a gTeen leaf. The eflopt was a continuous line of green with put any break. f went back to find tpO Beginning, but as It issued from ti)e grass at the roadside, I unable to trace it further in that direction. I j (hen followed it for several rods, until j t entered the grass on the otter slafc s>jf the ro/id and was lost to sight, j Whether it was Palm MundaJ o1 St. j Patrick's aay witn tho ants, or tomb political jubilee tney were celebrat ing, has ulways remained a mystery to me." ilrr Fi"*r. Husband—That new bonnet of yours : just makes mo tired. Wife—l feared that it would. You . tbiD^ 8 ' 1 ffc-. :W USEFUL COMBINATIONS. Dctachuhl# !{<>,•• and ll.indle for la the Ujrdrn. Herewith pen sketch of a combina tion detachable hoc and handle for use in the garden, which 1 have used to advantage. The handle is of wood, like the ordinary hoe handle, but the ferule at the business end is square and of steel, tempered hard, with a threaded hole running through the solid end (mine was three inches solid) for a threaded steel screw bolt The hoe blades have a round hole for the inser tion of the screw bolt and a plate of steel with a square hole riveted firmly to the blade. The square end of the ferule on the handle fits snugly into the square hole in the plate, holding the hoe blade In a fixed position and preventing any stress on the screw bolt tending to unscrew it The ad vantage of this hoe Is the saving of storage room, for here you have as many different shaped hoe blades as your fancy or necessity may dictate, and only one handle, though it were better to have two made in case of wishing to use more than one blade at one time. The facility with whloh one can sharpen the hoes Is remarkable, merely taking them off the handle and putting them to the grindstone. The various forms of blades are only such as I had mode myself. The round one I found very handy in stony ground for breaking clods, the square one In any land. All of mv blades were made of old blades, and were light! the long toothed and also smooth-edged blades I found very handy for young weeds. I had also several blades of the shape "D" of various lengths and widths, the longer the blade the heavier the steel and the thicker the riveted plate. —B. W. Drlnkard, In American Gardening. THE BEARING OROHARD. Why It Need* Plentiful Happlles of Pboe ph»t« and Potash. One of the most important requisites for making apple trees bear early is to furnish them plentiful supplies of phos phate and potash. The tree can usual ly find enough potash in fairly fertile soil to make suffloient wood and leaf growth, but it csnnot produce fruit un less It has an excess of potash and some aAdition of phosphate also. These min erals are neoessary to make the most vigorous and healthfnl leaf growth, and are still more essential in produo lng fruit The large number of or chards that have befcn lately planted and have proved unprofitable oWe their failure mainly to the fact that they were originally planted on land whoee mineral fertility had been exhattted by long-continued grain cropping. In paany cases the orchard was planted because the soil would no longer pro duce grain cropa If any manure was applied It was usually stable manure, deficient In just that mineral plant food which the trees most need to enable them to produce fruit No one doubts that plenty of stable manure will make (large and succulent wood growth, ut it will not bo firm and hard as will wood which grows on land manured with mineral fertilizers.—Colman's Ru ral World. Fighting the Codlln Moth. Codlin moth depredations in the ap ple orchard may be quite generally avoided by the use of one pound of lon* don purple or parla green in 100 to 200 gallons of water. The spraying should be done Immediately after the petals fall from the blossoms, and this may be followed by u second application In a week or ten days. On no account should the spraying be done before the petals have fallen, uud it should not be delayed long after they are down, for the reason that it 1s not possible to reach the worms with any application after they have entered the fruit- Farm and Home Habit* or the Apple Curcallo. The apple icurculio resembles th® species that infest the plum, being only about n quarter of an Inch long, Inclusive of its proboscis. It is further distinguished from the plum curculioby having four conspicuous bright red bumps on the posterior part of Its wing covers. Formerly they bred only in the haw and wild crab apples, but of late have become very damaging to our cultivated fruits. It begins to do its damuge from May until September. The lurva grows to about one-half an inch in length and remains in the fruit until it transforms and comes out a per fect insect. I.vak In tbe Plaat Food. To purchase fertilizers and lose the liquid manure is to allow a leak in the I plant food. I'ertilizers will always ; prove beneficial, but the first duty is ' to save all materials that will add to the manure pile. When the liquid is ' lost by not using a sufficiency of ab sorbents, the most valuable portion of the manuro will have gone with it, as the liquids contain a larger proportion of nitrogen than the solids, and they can easily be saved with as little labor as is required to the solids. rirananf FroepeoU. Hotel Porter (to guest)— Hey, get up! Quest —I —! —I IJotel Porter —I want the shsetl Quest (in astonishment) —What fdrt Hotel Porter—There's a partv as \yants breakfast and we need h table cloth.—Hallo. Applied Hcleace. Professor of Chemistry— Gentlemen, I hold In my hand a pnial of soaa. What chemical shall I combine with it to produce a valuable article of com merce? Goodsby (waking up)—Br-r-randy! Tit-Bits. W»i Too Timid. "I have never had the courage to get married.' 1 "Haven't, eh? What's your busi ness?" "Oh, I'm only a lion tamer."—Phila delphia Record. The Poor t'Mt. PeuflelcT-You have no Soul, womanJ Instead or choosing a poet y6u slioula have married a sausage maker- Mrs. Peufleld—ln that case I should, at least, have had enough to eat.— Puck. Urnt FrorreM. Twickenham —Uow is your tor's French tutor getting on with herj Bilter —Very nicely. lie has got so j he can speak English first-rate. Brooklyn Lite, , y No. 27 TESTS IN QRAPTIRS. A TtfetibU Mongrel Called Potoraato bj» Prof. Bcller. Prof. L. H. Bailey, in Bulletin •1. issued by Cornell University ax* periment station, gives a description of tomato-potato grafts. Many itiUj menta have been made through press concerning the ingrafting of to matoes and potatoes, and great are expected, although some of tbflM results will undoubtedly be disappoint ing One correspondent saya that Pro£ Bailey has reached the point of naming his mongrel "potomato," and from It expects to reap compound crops of to matoes and potatoes. This grafting U not a new thing, nor is there anything mysterious about it. In the experi ments referred to tomatoes were graft ed on potatoes and potatoes on tot matoea The tomato on potato graft bore tubers and a crop of tomatoes, but the plant which bore the best crop of toma' > bore no tubers on the potato roots. The vitality of the plant waa apparently concentrated in the tomato top. The potato on tomato plants pro duced no potatoes. They bloomed free ly but produced no balls, not because it was on the tomato but because of the fact that few modern varieties pro duce seeX I'rof. Bailey also describes a new food piant, Stachys florldana, a member of the mint family. In gener al appearance the plant is much like the Chorogi (Stachys Sieboldii) which is soiil as an esculent by most seeds men. It is more slender in appearance and has long-stalked, heart-sbaped leaves. The tubers are produced free ly and are larger than in that species. They are from four to six inches long and have an excellent flavor. As yet the plaut has not been grown out of doors at Ithaca, but Prof. Bailey hops* to m.ke some experiments with it this year. Concerning its prospects he says: ! "I expect that the plant will be able to endure our winters with the protection of a mulch, for tubers which have been frozen grow readily. There is every prospect that this interesting species will add another attractive vegetable to those now in our gardens." ORCHARD AND GARDEN. SPRING plowing does not hurt an old orchard if shallow. CHERRY trees do well in sod. No other fruit trees will. TOUGH sod will do in an orchard if half killed out by a biennial coat of strawy manure. TOMATO plants »et where potatoes were grown last season will have to be watched. The Colorado beetle will be after them. SPRAT first when the leaves are two thirds grown; second, immediately after the blossoms fall; then three times more two weeks apart A FEW choice plants may be protected from cut worms by wrapping the stem with smooth writing paper. Let it ex tend half an inoh or more below tke surface. BY cutting or pinching out the fruit stems of newly-set strawberry plants, the plants arc forced to stool out, and thus a stronger growth is seeured for next season's fruitage. CANTALOUPE seed soaked in water poisoned with arsenic will kill the field mice if put in their runs. I killed them in one of my hotbeds this spring by this means. It might be well tp mix a little of this poisoned seed with the seed sweet corn. The early gardener oatohes the out worm. His best work Is done at night or early In the morning. The only "sure remedy" I know of to extermin ate him is to catch and kill him. Bits of sod poisoned with parls green water and inverted along the row of plants is also a helpful trap HANDY WIRE REEL. Just the Thing for Wiring Up Raspberry and Blackberry Boshes. The accompanying illustration repre sents a tool of fhy own constrnctlqn, which I have had In use for the past two or three years for uncoiling wire for wiring up blackberry and raspberry bushes. By placing a ooil of wire top of the reel it can be unwound with per fect ease, and by driving a pin through the bottom board on the opposite side from which you stretch the wire one man will be able to do more and better work than two by the old method of driving two or three stakes in the ground and uncoiling the wire over them. The top cross pieces are made from 2x4 scantlings, about 8 feet long, and the standard of 4x4 inoh, two feAt long, with a pin In the top for the cross piece to turn on. The bottom platform is about a X or 3 feet square. —E. A. Richardson, in American Gardening. Fertiliser* for the Orchard. Stable manure has a tendency to pro duce a strong growth of wood when ap plied heavily In the orchard. This is more especially true of the young rather than the older orchard. It la generally believed .that nitrogen is a leaf and stem former, while potash produces the fruit Good rich stable manure gener ally contains a high percentage of ni trogen, hence may become detrimental when used out of proportion to the potash and phosphoric acid. These latter two elements are generally more needed, and It Is for this reason that wood aahes and bone meal can be applied to many varieties of fruit to a better advantage than fresh stable manure One of the advan tages in using cither ashes or bonemeal is that they are more readily soluble and sooner available than the average stable manure. Selflihneaa. The children had nothing to eat, For their dad was exceedingly dry, And Instead of a bushel of wheat He purchased a bottle of rye. -Truth. VERY Mt'Cn INTERESTED. Jones—Oh. very charming baby! I have always taken such an In terest in very young children. A —how old is it? Mother (with pride)— Only Just eleven weeks. Jones—Really! A—and Is it your youngest? —Brooklyn Life. _ Looked Like It. "Mr. Winterbottom, you have been coming to see me for a long time. I take it for granted your intentions are Serious?" "Miss Barkerson, nren't you rathe? —hun^— begging the question?"—Chi-
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