VOL XXXI
THE PHOENIX.
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For catalogue and other information
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BDTIiERi PA.
GRAND
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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 : ;
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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
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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
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BUTLER, HA.
JOHN KEMPER,
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1/ '
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"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-