VOX. XXXI
THE PHOENIX.
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lUTTLER, PA..THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 181)4.
"It will be brought out in the court,
this nice little ride and everything." ;
chirped Mrs. Minny. "like the chops
and tomato sauce in Dickens, and
everybody will think me dreadful."
"You are very thoughtless," he said,
coldly.
"Ntfw, please don't be cross," her
pretty motith quivered and her eyes
filled" "just as We were having such a
lovely time. I can't help being jolly
because I don't have to go back to him.
■You know I thought how sorry you'd !
£e when I died of a broken heart and :
his meanness and you'd come to 6ee me ,
in my coffin. The Troublesome little j
la<iy would be troublesome no more, [
but still and quiet as you'd like her to
be. and old and sorrowful, for one day
of my old life with him would take all
the youtigness out of me. Perhaps
your conscience would hurt you a little
because you had driven me back, for I
would not have come but for you. The
thought that your kindness to me
would injure, your good name made mo
miserable. Dr. John wrote how your
political prospects would be ruined—
political prospects is right, is it not?—
tftad you couldn't be governor or any
thing.''
"Minny, say no more," cried Olivej, |
his voice trembling, "my dear little
girl. It breaks my heart. Dr. John
was cruel to write such nonsense; he
was too eager to serve me. 1 don't
want office; and I would face the slan- :
der of the world to spare you a mo
ment's pain."
She trembled so at his words he j
stopped in the midst of a sentence, re
proaching himself for his lack of self
control. They were silent a few n\o
falents; then she said, with her old
smile:
"Now we've made up —haven't we?
—and you are just as nice as you were !
that night, so please may my dog run j
a little on the snow?"
"Of course." he said, and set free the j
small animal, who darted after birds, j
barking joyously. Among- the dis- j
comforts of having an erratic mistress
wore long confinement in cold dark
cart and surreptitious journeyings un
der shawls and in baskets; so in these
latter days of sudden journeys and im
prisonment Skye had grown to prize
his hours of freedom. Perhaps in his
heart, though, he willingly endured
nights in the baggage-car for the joy
of being rid of that red-faced, black
eyed something who slept so much and
tvhom he must never waken with a
happy bark or jump. How many
times on account of that red-faced
thing who cried had his darling's aunt
scouted him out of doors with a broom,
saying: "Scat, you dog! there, you've
tvaked the baby again." Now his dear
j3oi*tress was like her old self, and he,
Skye, though he never would tell, had
seen Miss Hannah and that baby slink
fag away from the house in Maine like
criminals, and he had never noticed
their departure by one small bark, for
fear they might return.
"I am very hungry," said Mrs. Minny
as the carriage turned back to the city,
"and, as my dog is hungry too, it would
be a good idea for you to take us to &
private room in some restaurant, where
we can feed Skye on the carpet when
the waiter is out."
There was nothing to do, of course,
but to accede to this demand: the very
fa<?t that she was hungry appealed to
Oliver's generous heart. lie thought,
however, as they went up the stairs to
a cozy private supper-room, this would
soutid unpleasantly to a jury. lie
could even fancy the attorney for the
prosecution's question: "Did you, Mr.
Oliver, think this proceeding a proper
one? Does society consider it discreet
for an unmarried man to take a young
married lady to such a place in the ab
sence of her husband?" etc. Still, Mrs.
Minny enjoyed everything so much,
Oliver forgot his fears, and was merry
enough in his way. The dog, gorged
with food, showed off his most amus
" 4- 4'
" I THINK HE 18 HKAI.I.Y GETTING FOJTD
OF YOU," SHE SAID, TENDERLY.
Ing tricks, which Mrs. Minny admitted
he never would do before when stran
gers were present.
"I think he is really getting fond of
you," she said, tqnderly.
Oliver, aware of the silliness of it, but
pleased at that trustful glance, said he
hoped so.
He left Mrs. Minny at a hotel, regis
tering her name and ordering a good
room for her, then with almost a sense
of relief walked to another hotel, a
longdistance tuvay. He hoped the spy
might be following; once or twice he
looked behind, but there seemed no
one. At his hotel a telegram awaited
him. It was from a clerk in his office:
"Dr Achorn telegraphed from Pueblo to you
In Denver, 'Henri do Restaur died this morn
ing at the Insane asylum. Funeral la Denver.'
I telegraphed him you were in Chicago."
A second telegram was brought Oli
ver just as he was going to bed; it was
from Dr. John:
"Tell Mrs. de Restaud. They need not come
on—too late for funeral. Was unconscious,
left no message. Glad you are with them.
"JOHN ACHORN."
Death had released the suit for di
vorce; it would never bo brought, and
the vengeance of a crazed brain was
over. With a quick beat of his heart
Oliver realized Mrs. Minny was free at
last; perhaps she could learn to care
for him some day—with a swift repul
sion as he thought of the dead far
across the plains. Yet for once death
had been kind to the living, and who j
was there to mourn Henri de Restaud? j
His mother died in his boyhood, his ,
father drove him from France, his wife
hated and feared him, his child would
never see his face, and his servants
were only kept by lavish payments.
So men may qiakc a mockery of living,
a shame of days, may be blots on this
fair earth, useless in a useful world,
may cause but pain and sadness, and
go into eternity more friendless, more
wretched in their self-inflicted degra- ,
dation, than the outcast dog slinking
through the alleys of a city.
CHAPTER IX.
Mrs. Minny was oddly pale and quiet
when Oliver met her in the hotel par
lor. She looked as if she had not slept:
and at'the pain' he
had caused her. Of course she had
worried about her strange position and
the trouble in Denver on account of it.
He could tell her at least the fear of
the divorce was over. Death had set
tled the case. Yet it was hard to tell
her of that death. He hesitated, and
talked of the weather.
"It is always horrid in Chicago," she
said, mournfully. "I shall hate this
hotel, too: they would not let me have
Skye in my room; they put him in some
cellar, and he was not like himself
when I took him for a little walk be
fore you came."
Oliver had a bunch of roses he had
bought for her on his way, but it
seemed even heartless to offer them to
such an afflicted being. However, he
sat down beside her on the sofa and laid
the flowers on her lap.
"Thank you," she said, mournfully.
"I don't think I ought to wear them.
The chambermaid asked me if I was a
skirt-dancer."
The gloom settled on Oliver now.
"She impudent," he said, cross
ly. "You see how impossible it is for
a young lady to go to hotels alone."
"Well, .you didn't offer to come with
me," she sighed; "you even went to
another hotel. Oh, I know! I looked
for you in the register."
"You were down in the office?"
"I had to go down for my dog and to
tell them how mean they were," Mrs.
Minny said, wearily. "And you don't
know what an awful great ghostly
room they gave mc, full of closets and
SHE LOOKED AT HIM WICKEDLY.
wardrobes and places for people to
hide. I burned the gas all night and
I had drSadful dreams." She bowed
her head over the flowers and sighed
again. "Roses make me think of
funerals; do tljey you?"
"I am sorry I troubled you with
th«fh," Oliver said, stiffly.
''Now you are cross, and you've got
that little wrinkle on 3'our forehead."
She looked at him thoughtfully.
,r When you are smiling I think you are
the kindest friend in the world. I
guesS I am cross myself. Do you know,
I dreamed Henri came into that room
last night. The bathroom had a lit
tle window looking into the room, and
I dreamed he looked through this at
me and made dreadful faces. He used
to frighten me that way once"—she
blushed and hung her head then, and
J - as silent a moment —"when we were
rst married, you know. He'd wake
me up by staring at me —testing the
power of the eye, he called it. I was
afraid, anyway, because my mother
had just died, and I had never seen a
dead person before. I can see her yet
m her coffin, so dreadfully waxen and
strange. Henri swore once over the
Bible that if he died first he would
come back and haunt me. After that
dream I couldn't sleep, but lay shiver
ing with fear until daylight. I must
go away from here to-day. Another
night in that room would frighten me
to death."
She trembled so at the thought, Oli
ver felt his task doubly difficult.
"Don't you think," he asked, gently,
"that those fears are very childish?"
"Of course," she said, briefly,"l know
I am not sensible; you, Aunt Hannah
and Dr. John call me frivolous; yet I
have tried to do right. I came here on
my way to save your good name, and I
get scolded. I tried to go home once, the
time I was so sick; and even Aunt Han
nah said I was brave then. When my
horse ran away in Maine I held on,
and that red-headed young man said I
was game."
She looked at him wickedly out of
the corner of her eye. A little smile
curved her pretty mouth as she saw the
wrinkle on his forehead.
"I wish that you could be serious for
a little while," Oliver muttered. "I
want to talk to you about something
that concerns your future—something
that has happened."
OHver hesitated now; how could he
tell her? She listened with her eyes
on the carpet, a doleful expression on
' her face. He went off on a new tack.
In an easy conversational tone he
asked:
"Would you not like to live in
France?"
"No," she said, promptly; "1 should
hate it."
"Why?"
"Because—because," answered Mrs.
Minny, picking viciously at one of her
roses, scattering the petals on the
floor: 'from Henri's descriptions his
relations must be horrid. Then he or
they think America queer and not
nice: everything is France. I should
be mad a hundred times a lay. The
English up in the park used to say:
'This blarstcd country, you know,' un
til 1 felt like saving: 'Why don't you
go back to England and stay there?'
To the De Itcstauds I should be the un
pleasant foreigner our poor son mar
ried; in my own country I am myself,
an American. I think it is very mean
of you to talk about my going to
France; and if that is the serious thing
you needn't talk any more. I f you are
going to bo horrid I think I shall go
out and take my dog for a walk."
How sweet she was in her willful
ness! Oliver f:.rgot his errand, looking
at the lovely childish face with its
pouting mouth and rebellious eyes.
"I think you are cruel to my poor
rose," he said, softly.
"You are cruel to me."
"Minny," ho drew nearer and took in
his firm warm clasp her little hand, "I
must tell you something—something
that will shock and grieve you. Try
and be brave."
"Not the little baby?" she cried, pit
eously. "He is not dead?"
"No, no; but some one is dead —one
that you feared, almost hated, and now
must forgive and try to think kindly
of—the man whose name you boar—"
She gave a frightened cry and hid
her face against his sleeve. He could
feel her tremble and quiver, but she
made no sound. What must he do?
Would she faint? llow did women act,
anyway? Ho put his arm around the
cowering figure and tried to look into
her face. She was ghastly pale,
in her eyes a curious frightened look.
"My dream, Mr. Oliver!" she cried,
shuddering. "Oh, he will keep his
word; he will haunt me always. ' I
shall ffo mad from fear. Last uijrht
that was him. He looked just as he
used to when he woke me up making
faces. I am all alone. What shall I
do? Oh. if Aunt Hannah were only
here! I could creep up to her in the
night. She is so brave; she said she
wouldn't be afraid of hira, living 1 or
dead."
"Mlnny, you are talking foolishly,"
said Oliver, sternly. "No dead person
comes back. I am ashamed of ybu.
And to be so silly, so heartless, when
that poor soul is lying dead!"
"You don't know anything about the
dead; no one does," she gasped. "My
grandfather was drowned at sea. and
that night he came and knocked at
grandmother's door —his old knock —
three times. Even Aunt Hannah says
that story's true. I can't be sorry—
truly, I can't. I was afraid all the time;
and he was so dreadful. I gave him
all mamma's money, and he took her
jewels, everything of value. lam not
a hypocrite, Mr. Oliver; I can't make
up sorrow just to please you."
"1 don't want you to," he whispered,
close to her ear. They were alone in a
corner of the big room, and no one
could see. "I spoke hastily because I
hated to think of that dream and how
you would make yourself believe he
came back."
She drew away from him Indig
nantly.
"I am not a child, Mr. Oliver, and you
must not treat me as ohe. In some
things, in suffering and worry, I am
older than you are; and few women
could come out unscathed from the
horrors of that ranch. I did. I kept
my reason because I was frivolous and
had mv little dog to love, and a
bright sunshiny day would chase all
my night terrors away. I'd say, 'Min
ny, it's good just to be alive.' But al
ways I have been afraid in the dark;
when I was a child queer faces used to
peer at me, faces circled in yellow
light. As I grew older. I was more
afraid of them, and slept in a lighted
room. At the ranch Henri used to
cfrawl up tbe porch and peer in the
window* with a mask on, until I shot
one night; then it was not so funny.
It amused him to torture me. I won't
tell you any more, because you can't
understand. But I shall not go to Den
ver. It would be a mockery."
"Dr. John telegraphed you need not
—you must not come. Shall I tell you
any more?"
"No." She rose and scattered the
petals of one of her flowers on the car
pet, brushing her dress with a tremb
ling hand. "Nor will I put on black.
I shall go home. What is my home,
Mr. Oliver?" she cried, accusingly.
"Yon have brought me here: I was do
ing your bidding. My-aunt has left
me; she has taken my baby. The man
I married is dead: he has no interest in
me but to haunt me. Everybody is
gone. I who have made all the trouble
am left to bear it alone. If she comes
back she will know of this —my being
here; she will distrust me; even Dr.
John will. I seem to have grown old
and wise, and, oh! so tired of the
world!"
"Come here, Minny," he said, in a
strange tone. She started and looked
Into his face. It had a different ex
pression somehow, yet the gray eyes
were very kind, and there was a tender
smile about his mouth. She hesitated,
then she- returned to the sofa, sitting
gingerly at the extreme end. He
turned so as to face her, but sat no
nearer.
"Minny, we are both culprits—inno
cent ones. We have been punished
long enough. If I thought—but lam
twice your age, you have not been
happy in bondage, and it would be
bondage still, though a loving one. No
red-haired young men in it, no wild
journeys alone, no drawing back when
once entered in. If I dared to dream,
I would hope that you cared for me. I
would say, Minny, I love you; let us go
away from our troubles and have a
long vacation. It is dreadful to talk
this way In tbe shadow of death, but I
cannot let you go back to Maine alone
or to the terrors there in that lonely
house. I do not know where your
aunt Is, or when she will return; and
it people should talk of this time, I
could silence them If you were my
frife."
She was strangely quiet, but he saw
the roses tremble on her breast.
"You talk, CraijJ," she said, sadly,
"as If this were part of your sacrifice
for helping me once, for being a kind
friend."
"How cruel women can be—even the
sweetest of them! How can I be dif
ferent, when I must remember the
dead in Denver? Yet, Minny, I could
talk love to you: other women have
said I did that thing well, and I did
nr care for them; your little finger is
more precious to me than all the wom
en I have ever known."
She sighed and moved a little nearer,
a blush on her fair cheek.
"Even to touch you, to take your
hand, seems dreadful," he cried, hasti
ly. "What a coward custom makes of
us all! If it were a year, now, instead
of a day. Let the worst come." He
took her cold little hand in his and
drew her to- his side. "Shall we go
forth on our holiday, Minny, leaving
no address, forgetting the past, and be
as if the world were new and we but
just created?"
"You talk nicely now," she said,
slowly, holding herself erect and state
ly In spite of his restraining hand,
"but you said, bondage, and that has
frightened me. I have been scolded
so much and driven about; I want to
be loved and made a friend of. If you
would be as sweet as on that ride, if
you—"
He drew her close and pressed his
lips against that soft round cheek,
blushing so prettily now.
"Try me, Minny. I swear to you
those dear eyes shall never shed tears
from-any word or act of mine. I have
loved you since you came out in the
light that dismal night and I thought
you a little girl."
"And I loved you," she whispered,
lifting her tousled head from his arm,
"when you looked so disgustedly
amazed at things in that ranch that I
told you, and all of a sudden smiled on
me as you are smiling now. Craig, I
mean to try and be grown-up and good
always."
"No, no; just be yourself. And, now,
dear, go smooth your hair and get your
things on. We will be married in the
quietest way. I know a couple of fel
lows I can get for witnesses; we can
pick them up on the road."
She jumped up, all rosy and smiling.
At the door she looked back. "May I
take the dog, Craig?" she said, hesitat
ingly-
He smiled. "Of course," he said, re
signedlj'. "You don't have to ask
'may I?' we are comrades, you know.
By the way, tell the chambermaid to
pack your trunk. Pay licr. We will
go away in the early afternoon. I
want to be free from ajl memories."
[TO BE CONTINUED.J
The Perils of Parentage.
Young Wife —Oh, George! there's
smallpox |n town, they say. What In
the world would we do If baby should
catch It?
Young Husband —By Jove! I hadn't
thought of that. Let's go and both be
vaccinated right away.—Life.
The People Stared.
Mrs. Spendcash (Ilie possessor of a
new Worth costume) —Did you notice
how people stared at us last evening?
nusband (meekly)—Y-e-s; I made a
mistake and had mended my old dress
coat with white thread. —N. Y.
Weeklv.
CAUTIOUSNESS OF ELEPHANTS.
The Anliu.l'a Acutcnew la Hid
den D»ugrr*.
One elephant, which the officer com
manding' six-eleven Imttery of the Itoyal
artillery lent to assist in extricating
some camels which were being engulfed
in the quicksands, showed an amount
of sagacity which was positively mar
velous. It was with the utmost diffi
culty, says a foreign exchange, that we
Could get him to go near enough to at
tach a drag rope to one camel I wanted
to rescue. In spite of our Wing about
fifty yards from the bank of the river,
he evinced the greatest anxiety, while,
his movements were made with ex
treme caution.
Despite coaxing, persuasive remon
strance, and, at last, a shower of heavy
blows dealt upon his head by the exas
perated muhout, this elephant stub
bornly refused to go where he was
wanted, but, with his trunk shoved <snt'
in front of him, kept feeling his way
with his ponderous feet, placing them
before him slowly, deliberately and
methodically, treading all tho while
with the velvety softness of a cat and
taking only one step at a time. Then
suddenly he would break out into a,
Suppressed kind of shriek and retreat
backward in great haste.
When the animal had nearly com
pleted a circuit of the groynd with the
Aame caution and deliberation, he ad- 1
vanced to within ten yards of the poor
camel, but not another inch would he
move, though several men were walk
ing between him and the camel with
out any signs of the ground giving way.
THE CAMEL MARKET.
One of the Qae«r Scene* Witnessed tn
T*rt»ry.
I had occasion to visit Tartary some
years ago, said a New Haven man re
cently, and while there nothing Inter
ested me more than watching the na
tives trade in camels. The camel mar;,
ket la a large square in the center of
the town. Here the animals are ar
ranged in long rowi, their front feet
raised on a mud elevation constructed l
for the purpose, the object being td
show off the sire and height of the.
creatures. The uproar and confusion
iof this market is tremendous, with the'
Incessant howling of the buyers and
pellers as they dispute, their chatter
ing after they have agreed and the
horrible shrieking of the animals at
having their noses pulled for the pur l
pose of making them show their agility
in kneeling and rising. In order to
test the strength of the camel and the
burden it is capable of bearing they
make it kneel and then pile one thing
after another upon its back, causing it
to rise under each addition until it est}
rise no longer. Another expedient
used to test the strength of the animal
Is this: While the animal is kneeling
a man gets upon his hind legs ana
holds on by the long hair of its hump.
If a camel can rise then it is consid
ered an animal of superior strength.
An Appropriate Motto.
Upon the Temple clock in London is
a singular inscription, the origin of
which is said so have been a lueky ac
cident. About two hundred years ago
a master workman was employed to
repair and put a new face upon the
clock. When his work was nearly
done he asked the benchers for an ap
propriate motto to carve upon the
base. They promised to think of on 6.
Week after week he came for their de
cision, but was pnt off. One day he
found them at dinner in commons.
"What motto shall I put on the clock,
your lordship?" he asked of a learned
judge. "Oh, go about your business!"
nis honor cried, angrily. "And very
suitable for a lazy, dawdling gang!
the clockmaker is said to have mut
tered as he retreated. It is certain
that he carved: "Go about your busi
ness" on the base.
Russian Marriage Laws.
A newly issued blue-book on mar
riage and divorce abroad, contains one
fact amongst many others not general
ly known in this country. By the laws
of Russia a man or woman must marry
before eighty years of age or not marry
at all, and they are also prohibited
from marrying more than four times.
*The blue-book is naturally full of in
formation as regards the "prohibited"
degrees. The Brazilian law permits the
marriage of uncle and niece, aunt and
nephew, first cousins and of brothers
in-law with sisters-ln-law. In Italy
the uncle and niece alliance is valla,
and In France it is open to the presi
dent to remove the prohibition against
marriages between the deceased wife's
lister and her brother-in-law, and be
tween uncle and niece and aunt and
nephew.
lie Never Came Back.
A London lawyer, now prominent in
his profession, in his yauth was a mid
shipman. In this capacity he was left
in charge of the ship, as she lay off a
Spanish port, all his superiors being on
shore. Some of the sailors begged to
go ashore, and he let them, oh the
bromlse that they would bring him
back some oranges. One of them dis
appeared, and the midshipman suffered
consequently for it. More than twenty
years afterward the ex-midshipman
was looking in a shop window in the
Strand, when he seemed to know the
face of a weather-beaten man, who
was doing the same thing. Suddenly
he remembered, and put his hand on
the other's shoulder. "My man," he
said, "you have been a long time aftpf
those oranges!" The sailor recognized
tim, in turn, grew white and took to
is heels.
She Put It Onto Illm.
A doctor related the following to a
friend after visiting a widowed neigh
bor: "While we were conversing I pnt
toy hand on a cushion and said:
ow, this is the nicest, softest place I
fever had my hand on in .11 my life!
Looking benevolently at me, and at the
same time flushing up a little said, in
melting and winning tones: 'Doctor,
give me your hand, and I'll put it on i
much softer place.' In a moment 0i
rapture, I consented, and taking my
hand, she gently, very gently, Tim.
and quietly, laid It on my head, and
burst into a langh that's ringing In my
ears yet."
Glvln g Tommy the Better Part.
The Teacher—lt is better, far better
to give than receive. Now, Johnny,
you may tell me what you mean to dp
toward following out this beautiful
rule.
Johnny —I'll let brother Tommy do
all the givin' when either of us has
somethln' good.—Chicago Record.
Kindly Consideration.
Miss Verdant —What is the object of
that board fastened over the cote's
head, Mr. Flippe?
Mr. iriippe— That, Miss Verdant, is to
Jiide the poor thing's blushes when the
?.ilkman works the pump handle.—
own Topics.
Encoaraglnsr Progress.
Edith —How is Mr. Briefless getting
on in his profession, Charlie?
Charlie —Pretty well, J fancy. He's
g<jt so he can borrow five dollars at one
time, now.—Town Topics.
Very Likely.
Se —I know what. I'd do if I had a
lion dollars.
She—What?
He—Spend it.—Detroit Free Press.
Witty as Well as Pretty.
May —Next to a man, what's the jol
llest thing you know of?
Ethel—Myself, li" he's nice.—Brook
lyn Life.
Few Indeed.
Few of us need a lantern In order to i
.find fault.—Milwaukee Journal.
IMPROVEMENT.
ROADS IN NEW JERSEt.
Good Work l>one by a Man Who I aOor
>t*nd> ills ItuolncM.
In Morris county, which is in the
hilly part of New Jersey, the road
overseers supervise sections ranging
from one-fourth of a mile to three
miles. They are appointed by the
fown committees, and a portion <M the
road taxes appropriated to each sec
tion. In order to give a good idea of Che
different methods and results, X will
describe the actual way the werk Is
done under several overseers.
An overseer who has been on his
section for several years, adopted the
plan of plowing up the top W the
higher points and hauled the ground,
which is first-class material, being
sandy and soft stone, to the lower
points. The result is first-class Im
provement. The hills are lowered,
the soft, low pljoes become smooth
and solid, and both dust and mud are
done away with. lie allowed one of
the neighbors to haul the accumulation
A GOOD COUNTRY ROAD.
[The mute appeal made by this picture
should be a convincing argument to all ob
'■tnnrtlonists 1
of sod that forms along the side of the
road onto his fields to cover up a
stump, to fill a low place, or to cover
clayey ground.
The poorest of all possible material
for makincr roads is the accumulation
of sod alongside of the road formed
from the dust of former years. But it
is the best material to put in the fieU,
Nevertheless, another overseer adopted
this plan. He plows up the old dust
sod and puts it in the road helter
skelter, more particularly he endeav
ors to make the ridgres or "turn water"
a little higher, and is sure to haul any
sand that may have accummulated at
the foot of some of the hills to the top,
thereby keeping the hill as high as
ever. He works out the taxes.
Other overseers work In various
ways. Some have a machine that is
drawn by four powerful horses to
scrape all the stuff from both sides of
the road and deposit it in the middle,
making either dust or mud, to be con
tinued as long aa this system is con
tinued, as it is generally impossi
ble to make such material pack firm
ly.—J. Flomerfelt, in American Agri
culturist.
PLEA FOR VADE TIRES.
Trjr Th«m First and"* Good Roads Will D 4
Easily Attained.
In those parts of the country where
stone doea not abound and the most
available road material is prairie
mud, the first, best and cheapest sellef
is to use wide tires. Next, jut in un
der drains and keep the road well
shaped up. Such a road properly
looked after Comes very near being
right for sparsely settled prairie coun
try, and during 4 large part of the
year is good enough for anybody, but
it is absolutely necessary to use wide
tires, and, what is more, it is profita
ble to the user in that he can haul
double the corn out of the field that;
he could have hauled with narrow
tires and he can get to town with a
very much larger load, even when he
is the only user of wide tires over that
road, and as soon as the fiat-footed
wagons become general it is not neces
sary to spend one-half the amount in
keeping up even a common dirt road.
With proper drainage and wide tires
a lonp step is taken in the direction of
foing to town in the spring and fell.
ew localities are so low that drainage
is not practical, and even in the lowest
"bottoms" a road properly raised,with
suitable side ditches and cross tiles,
will be in good shape most of the time,
but no tfutfh foad can stand narroif
tires.
Get proper highways as soon as pos
sible, but gqt wide tires IUMC. The
meanest road is made better; a fair
road is much improved; a soft road is
kept smooth; a good road is left so; a
hard road is made harder; a smooth
road is made smoother; a rough road is
leveled; and all roads last longer;
larger loads can be hauled; larger
bank accounts may be maintained; bet*
ter profits for the farmer; better prices
for the consumer; better nature will
prevail, and better citizens are made
by the use of wide tire*.
Therefore get wide tires first and
good roads will be easier of attain
ment.—Good Roads.
Blfgeit Tax Paid by Farmers.
Certain statisticians with ample timo
and patience for figures have found
that it costs one billion dollars each
year to transport the goods that are
carried in wagons. Of this sum it is
estimated that sijc hundred and twen
ty-five million dollars is duo directly
to bad roads. If all the roads in the
country were as smooth and as hard as
a driving park or race track, that vast
sum of money would be saved each
year to those who drive horses—most
ly farmers. The total value of farm
products is estimated at two-and-a
halt billion dollars, so that bad roads
are responsible for the loss of nearly
one-fourth the total home value. No
business on earth can thrive with such
a drain on it. Talk about the farmer' 4
loss from tariff taxes—it isn't a touch
to the bad road tax!— Rural New
Yorker.
Facrtloua.
Professor—What Ore you laughing at?
Student Excuso me, sir, I waa
laughing at your remark.
Professor (angrily)—Bali! who wpuld
laugh at such a foolish thing as that?
—Truth.
A Good Authority,
Jollicus —I sec that a new "Twenty
Years in Congress" is going to be is
sued.
Politicus Who has been twenty
yCftrs Jn Congress?
Milieus—Fariff IHll.—N. Y. World.
80 Fond of £tch Other.
"Just think, Ella, Dr. Knowit pro
posed to me last night."
"Did he? How absent-minded brainy
people generally are." —Truth.
~ A Warning".
With a careless gesture he brushed
the long hair away from his brow, and
gazed abstractedly across the sunlit
ocean.
"What are the wild waves saying,"
he murmured, "sister, the whole day
long?"
The tall girl at his side started vio
lently, ajid darted a quick glance Into
ma face.
"Mr. CVxJliver," she said abruptly, j
after a moment's thought; "have you
£Vsr asked me to be your wife?"
He shook his head.
"That was my impression," she ob
served; "but tlje way you spoke m»de
jyc lafctiflt."—
No. 38
THINNING THE FRUIT.
It I* Mot a Popular Practice, Bat a Very
I'roQtabls One.
Thinning the fruit is not a popular
practice with farmers. But it pays.
As Dr. Fisher, the fruit expert, used to
aay, when speaking of thinning ap
ples: •■The fruit all be picked,
anyway, either in June or October. It
is no more work to pick part of it in
June, then what remains in October
will be worth something'." Dr. Fish
er's large, handsome apples sometimes
sell at three times the price of the com
mon fruit.
One cause of the short life of many
peach orchards is found in the neglect
of the grower to thin out the fruit
The trees are allowed to mature a big
crop, and to become weakened by the
strain. It is more exhausting for a
tree to ripen two small peaches and
two stones than to mature one peach
as large as both together, and one
stone. That is, the worthless stone la
a greater tax on the life of the free'
than is the pulp. After bearing an
exhaustive crop the peach easily win
terkills.
Plum trees are especially liable to be
injured where the fruit is not tinned.
The black knot picks out the trfeea
that are weakened from over bearing.
Resides, the plums are borne in clus
ters, which if not thinned, rapidly de
eay from contact between the fruit.
Pruning the grape vine is really
j thinning the fruit, and the result is to
1 give fewer clusters, but about the aame
: weight of fruit. Comparing a pruned
vine with one which was left un
pruned, it was noticed that many
times as many clusters of fruit as were
necessary were formed on this un
penned vine. In early summer it
looked as though the crop would be
marvelous. On counting the number
of clusters it was found that there
were many times the number found on
the pruned vines of the same age, but
the size of these cluster# was so far in
ferior as to give the actual increase of
weight or fruit in favor of the pruned
fruit Aside from this, tbe market
value of the fruit of the vine thinned
by pruning was far superior to those
on the unthinned vine, which. In fact,
was not marketable at aIL Besides
pruning the vine, many growers cut
out some of the clusters In spring.
The result is fine fruit, and no vinea
killed by over cropping.—Massachu-
setts Ploughman.
GATHERING FRUITS.
One of These Quadruple Stepladders Will
Save Many Steps.
Designs for fruit ladders are legion,
some good, some bad and some indif
ferent. The quadruple stepladder
here illustrated must be classed amon£
the good designs, for obvious reason*.
Placed under low, branching trees Ita
use permits one to move about within
reach of a large portion of the whole
side of a tree, because of ita four sides,
about which one can freely step.
Moreover, when not occupied as "atand
ing ground," the top afforda an excel
lent resting place for the basket tt
will be found exceedingly convenient
QUADRUPLE STKPLADBKB.
for the home orchard, where one may,
desire to pick but a basket or two of
fruit at a time, and wishes to make •
selection of those in the best condition
for picking. It should be made strong
but light, so as to be readily moved
about.—American Agriculturist.
GARDEN AND ORCHARD.
CULTIVATE all fruits often, but shal
low.
GROUND bone is excellent for small
fruits.
PLENTY of manure is the key to suc
cessful gardening.
ASHES and bones furnish the ele
ments most useful to tree*.
PLENTY of well-rotted atable manure
is a good fertilizer for the stfawberrv.
PLANTS that have but a smail area w
grow upon are best treated with liquid
manure.
MANT consider land that has been )a
cultivation two years the bist foi
strawberries.
To ESTABLISH a reputation the grow
er must give the packing oi tne fruit
his personal attention.
Wood ashes can be applied as » tOP
dressing at almost any time, by raid
ing or stirring into tbe su'rfaoe Of thi
soil.
BECAUSE moisture 1b necessary to
root and seed growth, d 6 not fall inw
the error of tlitnkipg tta£ excessive
wetness would be stUl bitter.
ORCHARDS of peaches, plums, dwarj
!pears and quinces should hare cietd
cultivation year after
neoessary to stir deep, but to keep
surface In good tilth. —St LOuls Re
public.
Internal Temperature of Tree*.
Tbe Internal temperature oi trees
bas been observed for some tiihe past
by M- Prinz, of Uocle, in Belgium, who
£nds their mean annual temperature
at the heart of tbe trunk tbe same fw
(hat of the air, but the mean monthly
temperature of tbe trees sometimes
differ from the latter by two or three
degrees centigrade. On certain days
tbe difference in question may be M
much as ten degrees centigrades. In
very cold weather the internal tem
perature falls to a few tenths of a dqj
gree below the freezing point and
then remains stationary. In very hot
weather the temperature of the tree
should be fifteen degrees centigrade or
thereabout A large tree is, therefore,
cooler in hot weather and warmer in
coji weather than the air.
Trustworthy,
Qid Gravely—lf you do not care to be
toy wife, perhaps {he prospects of be-
Jcg a rich young widO'w might tempt
you,
Minnie (eegerlyV—Oh, Mr, Gravely I
W I were only aura I could trust you I
Spare Moments.
Enlightened.
Tommy—Mamma, the little boy nest
door thought that cows gave butter
tnflk.
Mamma —Did you explain it to him?.
Tommy—Yes'm i I told him goats
gave but-termllk, course.—Art in Ad
vertising.
Wanted Information.
Officer —Here is the man wbo nrnt
through your house the other
y hllo youfr family was asleep. Would
you like to question him?
Mr, Outlait —If you pleaae. Prisoner,,
Vhat did you wear oi your feet.-*
Puck. .
Preferable.
Jirsi Messer —Jtfow, T<jmmy, go and,
kisa yout auntie or mamma will whip
rati hard.
Tommy (after a l<?ng look
auntie)— Whip me, ifta.—Chicago B6S*
l.ike Some ftasebaUSWs.
"Well, Johnnie, are you able to keep,
i-our place In the olass?"
Johnnie—Yes, sir; I began at tbf
foot, and there's not a single boy Wffl
to talre it' from "mfc. fi -FoT^t-il&«