THE CI riZEN. THURSDAY. MARCH ao, T902. TAST CHANCE BY GEORGE W. VAS DTK! .... Copyright, 1001, by George W. Van Dyke Old Trinity had Just tolled the hour of 2 when John Paine alighted from a Broadway car at Wall street. Walking slowly down the "hill of millions" to William street, he entered the counting rooms of Charles Palms & Co., bank ers aud brokers, and passed quickly through the main offices to the private room of the senior member of the firm. Paine was private secretary to Charles Palms, the Wall street finan cier aud millionaire. He had been In tbe firm's employ for fifteen years nnd had worked his way from office boy at $3 a week to private secretary at $3,000 per year. Yet as he eat in the luxuriously fitted office he was not the happy hearted, "lucky dog" his associates deemed him, for be was in love —and he told himself hopelessly—with beautiful Margaret Paims, daughter and sole heiress of his employer. It was hardly possible that the millionaire would accept his secre tary as his son-in-law. even If Marga ret— Jack Paine's heart beat faster at the thought—did she love him? He knew the banker's dread that some man would marry his daughter for her money. lie had told him in their confidential relations that no man should ever pay court to Margaret un less he could prove his ability to sup port her unaided in the fashion to which she had been accustomed. The old man had evidently no suspicion of the romance that had been going on under his very eyes. It had all taken place during the last six weeks, while Mr. Palms was con fined to his home on Fifth avenue with a fractured knee. His secretary brought him every noon whatever pa pers demanded his personal attention and received further instructions. During these daily visits Jack found himself fast succumbing to the young girl's charms. The more he struggled the deeper he became engulfed in the all absorbing passion. Margaret, too, had given him to understand, as only a woman can, that she cared for him, yet he dared not speak. To gain the covet ed prize he must first convince her fa ther of his financial capabilities. This seemed Impossible, for all that be possessed In the world beyond hla ■alary were a few acres of nonproduc tive Pennsylvania land, which he had purchased several years befor# during the oil boom. He recalled all this with a sigh. Then bis face flushed with newborn hope as HE SAT SPECULATING. be reread the letter received that morn ing from his uncle, Charles Paine, a South Dakota mine expert: My Dear Nephew—Forgive haste and brevity. The matter is urgent. The representatives of au English syndicate are here to examine the Last Chance with a view to purchasing and operating it on a Urge acale If the experts report favorably. I am convinced from a cursory examination that they will do »o. The mine hai not been operated lately on account of friction among the atock boldera. The stock, I am told, la selling for al most nothing in New York. Now, Jack, my boy, I am in a position to know twenty-four houra ahead of the syndicate Just what the experta will report and will let you know by wire If favor able. I inclose check for $10,400, every penny 1 possess, which you are to invest in Last Chanca stock Immediately on receipt of my wire. At for yourself, my boy, beg, borrow and steal every dollar you can lay your hands on, and buy, buy, buy Last Chance. Your uncle, CHARLES. "Yes," muttered Jack as he settled himself more comfortably In his easy chair. "The first thing in the morning I'll accept Horgan Eby's offer for my land. I hate to part with It pt that figure, but It's my last chance." As he sat speculating dreamily on the hope that the letter had awakened fn his heart a clerk entered and handed him a telegram. Jack took the yellow envelope and, hastily tearing It open, read: Report O. K. Buy «t tny price. Sell at no (rice. CIURLES PADB. "Eureka!" he cried, jumping to his feet. "If any one asks for me, I am gone for the day." Grabbing his hat, he rushed from the office and hurried up the street "There Is yet time," he muttered, glaucing up at Trinity's clock as he en tered the Drexel building, where the offices of Horgan & Eby were located. It was just half past 2. Shortly after 3 o'clock he emerged from the same building richer by $lO,- 000, but no longer the owner of the Pennsylvania land. The Mining Exchange was startled the following morning by the wonder ful activity of Last Chance, a stock long considered a "sleeper." The wild rumors that flew about the street cred ited the rise to old man Palms. The stock bounded from 25 to 50 to 100 and then tt-> 200 per share amid great excitement, which Increased to frenzy when It became known that Palms'* private secretary was actively engaged In the deal. At 1 o'clock Last Chance stood at 300. Bending over the ticker in the private office of Palms & Co. with stern and haggard face stood Jack Paine, nerv ously running the tape through his fingers. It seemed to say to him over and over again, with Its r-r-r-r, ti-tlck, tl-tick, tick: "Last Chance Is up, up, up!" until Last Chance sold at 350. lie stood for a moment as If dazed by the sudden fortune th#t was now his, and then as he thought of Marga ret he flew to the outer office, already crowded with excited brokers. He would close his deals. No; there was only an hour more before the exchange closed. He would wait till morning. His fortune might then be doubled, for the syndicate had undoubtedly acted by this time. He ordered a hansom. Ho must car ry the news to Margaret. While waiting he received the con gratulations of his friends. Already he heard himself called a Napoleon of finance. The hansom arrived. He ran to the Inner office for Ills hat. It-r-r, tl tick, tl-tick, tick. He would take one more look before going. What was that he saw? "Last Chance 270!" No; it could not be. His eyes had de ceived him—r-r-r-r, tl-tick, tl-tick, tick -L. C. 2501 Cold perspiration stood on his fore head. Again that ominous ticking, again and again, and down, down, down went Last Chance until .with scarcely a rally It broke to 75. He stood by tbe ticker fascinated, and as tbe tape ran through his nerve less lingers be felt his fortune slipping through his grasp—tl-tick, ti-tlck, tick. L. C. 50! A deadly faintness seized him. L. C. 20! He gasped for breath. One more point against hlir and be was a ruined man. R-r-r-r, ti-tlck, tick—L. C. 10—and the clock struck 3. '"Margaret, my love," he cried wild ly, "I have lost you!" "Jack," cried a sweet voice In bis ear. "you have been dreaming!" It was Margaret, and the next mo ment he was telling her of his unpleas ant dreams. "I am glad that I was the one to wake you," she whispered. "It ought to be a good omen. Papa wanted some papers from tbe bank, and as I bad some errands In tbe neighborhood I volunteered to get them." At this Inopportune moment a mes senger boy entered. "A telegram, sir." Jack tore It open and read: We ire authorized to offer $300,000 lor jov Pennsylvania property. Wire eniwer. COLDBABK k llOMi*. He forgot the waiting boy as b« caught the girl lu bis arms, crying: "We have struck oil!" Peynlnr Book* Unread. Some light is thrown on tbe position which a public library should take in regard to the fiction of the day by tbe recent statement of a London librarian as recorded In The Library World. Ac cording to his experience, many of the books most conspicuously advertised are in great demand, but are not read. This one huge book, which could hardly be read inside a week, was drawn eleven times in a month, and It is a common thing for one of these books of the moment to be drawn one day and returned the next, the consumer evidently finding the goods not up to the advertisement This shows that an artificial demand can be created for a book just as for any other article of merchandise if sufficient effort and skill are used in advertising it But a public library can well afford to wait a little and see how much real worth there Is in a new novel, and librarians are more nnd more coming to this point of view. The statement that such and such a novel has been "re jected" by a library is usually in error, the truth being simply that the library has not selected it. No library could afford to buy everything, even if it had the funds. Strong Monosyllables. Instructors in the art of literary com position usually condemn a string of monosyllables, but in the well known hymn "Lead. Kindly Light." written by a master of the English language, you may count thirty consecutive words of one syllabi# only. They of fend neither the eye nor the ear. Milton often uses a aeries of mono syllables. In the second book of "Para dise Lost" we have: The flend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough. dense or rare. With head, hands, wings or feet, pursues his way And swims or sinlcs or wades or creeps or flies. Such lines ore not uncommon in the book: Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death. And again: Of neither sea nor shore nor air nor Are. —Notes and Queries. Inconsistent. Brown—lt's cnrlous about people's beliefs. They will give entire credence to the most absurd things ani put no faith whatever in the most obvious truths. Black—Yes. I've noticed It There's Greene, now. He hasn't the least con fidence in hash, but he'll eat all tbe croquettes and mince pie you can set before him. Convincing. "Oh, that'a a very poor painting!" exclaimed Aunt Sue at the art gallery. Eagerly we asked how she knew, for im» on»> believed Aunt Sue to be an art critic. "Tb<» signature of tbe artist Is so small," she replied convinclngiy.- .1 udge. Grandma's Care For Dandraff. "We often scoff at the ancient grand mother remedies," said a physician the other day in conversation with a pa tient, "but our forefathers used to get a power of comfort from them never theless, and cheaply too. Science has progressed wonderfully, of course, and we are much better off on the whole now than were our sires, but we forget a great many of tbe little things. Now, I notice that you are troubled with dandruff, and I'll wager that you have spent many dollars on different alleged cures, and you are worse off now than when you commenced. Let me give you a 'grandmother' prescription that never falls. Go to a drug store and buy 5 cents' worth of salts of tartar. Dissolve half of it in warm water and wash the head thoroughly. Repeat this at intervals of three months for a year, and you won't be annoyed with dandruff any more." The Test of Greatness. When Elliston went from London to his Own theater at Birmingham, he was known to scarcely a member of his own company. On reprimanding one of them sharply the Irate actor threatened to kick him off the stage. He rushed to the stage manager and asked who that man was. "Mr. A said the manager. "A great man, a very great man," said Elliston. "He threatened to kick me, the lessee of Drury Lane. Such a man as that must go to London. He mustn't waste his energies here." And he engaged the actor on the spot for Drury Lane. Too Much Fiction. "I say, is this the novel you advised me to read?" said the cabman to the librarian. "Yes," replied the librarian; "that's the one." "Well," said the cabman, "you can just take It back. There's nine people in the first four chapters who hired cabs, and each one of 'em when he got out 'flung his purse to the driver.' Now, when I want that sort of literature, I'll go to Jules Verne and get It pure." The Water Pump. The most ancient description we have of a water pump is by Hero of Alexan dre. There is no authentic account of the general use of the pump in Ger many previous to the beginning of the sixteenth century. At about that time the endless chain and bucket works Tor raising water from mines began to be replaced by pumps. If Veal Masquerades as Tartle. Cassidy—Why don't ye ate yer din ner? Casey—Shure thi» is Frslday, an' O'lm wonderin'. Cassidy—What are ye wonderin'? Casey—ls turtle soup flsh whin it's made out of veal?— Philadelphia Press. Hl* Great Lore. "But I am not worth a million in my own right!" faltered she sadly, for she had read that manly men abhor the thought of marrying rich women. "I love you for all that," he cried generously.—Town Topics. Rales For Dress. Dress yourself fine where others are fine and plain where others are plain, but take care that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.— Lord Cließterfleld. Hono*o*ono»toi»noi?o«ioi*o«oi*ojl I The Coining I jOf the King f * B$ Clinton Dangerfleld £ £ * O Copyright, 1901, by £ ■ Clinton Dangarfleld "Q tfoi«oVioHo3aol»oiii»o<«ol»oliofcoSici» When Jack Harden at last succeeded In tiling his prison bars aud dropping out of his window into the kindly shadows of the night, his heart was aglow with exultation. lie determined co work his way south and bury him self there from the eyes of the law. In the bygone years when he had termed himself a gentlema i, before the lures of Wall street bad tempted him into the use of otker people's money, he b: d won a wager of a thousand dollars by crossing the whole country with not a cent in his pocket, and it seemed to him now that he could easily do so again. But he soon found that the man who must evade and conceal, v. !.<> still lias 011 the fatal stripes, is far. tYr behind the penniless but lucky individual who I" " THEKK STOOD THE TWO MEN. can look the world boldly in the face. When the third night came, he was sullen from hunger and pitifully w»ary from endless walking and the cruel anxiety of one who hears danger Id every sound. He crawled Into a way side barn and slept exhaustedly. It was late in the morning when he awoke, and he then became aware that a shrill but sweet voice was reading aloud, steailily and surely, on the floor beneath him. Parting the waves of hay. Jack look ed down to see a child of perhaps seven years in a white frock which admirably suited her unusual beau ty. Now and then the long golden locks 011 her shoulders fell on the page, but she tossed them aside and read on with breathless interest. "Aud so King Charles, who was quite worn out with travel and hun ger," read the voice, "came at last to a lar?e barn. He slept all night with nothing to eat. and nobody knows just what won id have become of him if he had not found an egg, which he de voured ea-ger-ly." As Harden listened a whimsical de termination moved him. and, leaning a little farther down, he said gently: "All that is very true, except that I have not found the egg." Ilis musical tones glided so easily into the story that the little reader looked up without even a start. 111 the restless and handsome dark eyes gaz ing down 0:1 hers and in the lines of the face she saw only the countenance of the tired Charles. That the story had come to life was nothing wonder ful. AH stories were alive if one only recognized it properly. She looked up at him seriously, dropping her chin on a srp;>orting hand. "Why have you shaved off your pointed beard';" she asked gravely and with feminine irrelevance. "1 am too young yrt to have it," said King Charles as gravely In return. "That \va.< later on. you know." "The EG;I «I»nldn't IK- there." observ ed the reader thoughtfully. "because we have no hens, but there's a dozen bought from the store. They are In the house, only they are boiled hard, ready Tor the picnie this afternoon." "They will do." returned the king hastily. "Bring all o r them, and mind you don't say a word to any one. on account of the Roundheads, you know!" "1 know." said the reader confident ly. She hurried away, leaving the book of historical tales forgotten on the floor. Had not the king himself step ped out of the leaves? It seemed to the hungry man an age before she re turned. holding up her skirts. In which lay the promised eggs. He began to eat them with starving haste, the reader watching lilin critically. "You de-vour them ea-gor-ly. Just as you should." she observed, "but you ought not to cloke so. Your eyes are almost sticking out." "Get me some water!" gasped the king. "That last egg is sticking half way down my throat and refuses to go any farther." She brought the water hurriedly, re morseful that she had no raw eggs to offer Instead, but the king was not dlf flcult to please. The last one disap peared, and he sighed as though he might have eaten mora. However, he felt greatly refreshed and told the reader so. She looked at him with a new timidity in her air. "I do so want to ask you something." ■he murmured, "but I don't know if I ought to do it." "Ask away," said the monarch cheer fully. "I'll answer." "It's about a long word in his book. I thought you :ouUl explain it." "Bring it ui» here on the hay. You did not tell anybody that I am here?" "Course not," said the reader very reproachfully. " 'Sides, there's no one to tell. They left me lu charge of Susan while they went to town, but Susan had a message to come to her mother's right quick, "cause Sammy— that's her smallest brother—had done scalded hisself—himself, I mean dreadful. So now there's nobody here but just me and Towser." She scrambled up on the hay as she spoke, while the king promptly resolv ed that he would nmmage the house for suitable clothe'. Meanwhile their two heads bent together over the page, and the reader delivered lier words witli a labored air, troubled by their undue length: " 'King Charles might have succeed ed in after life in making a good king, for he had many talents, but he was always of a va-cil-la-ting dis-po-sl-tlon.' Now, what does that mean?" "It means," began the king bitterly, and then a sudden Intuition made him look over the edge of the hay. There stood the two men whose presence on his track he had most dreaded and who met his startled gaze with cynical amusement. "Come down!" said the nearest curtly. "We don't want no nonsense." The reader saw the color die away from the king's face, leaving a dull ashen gray, and she wondered if so many eggs had disagreed with him. She also iteered over the edge. "Who are those people';" she de manded. "Are they royalists?" "Yes." cold the king quietly. He laid dowy the hook and made his way to the floor below, while the reader slid after liim. "You didu't think we'd find you," grinned the second man, "but we are old hands at this game. Put out your wrist. I'll see there ain't no divorce 'twixt you and Jim here." The king held his wrist out silently, while the wondering reader looked on, watching them handcuff him to the man called Jim. "Are those silver bracelets?" she ask ed perplexedly. "And do you like him so much that you let him be fastened to you? Is it because he la so loyal to you? Are you perf'ly sure everything is all right?" "Perfectly sure," returned the king, with great gentleness. "Goodby, little maid. Be certain I will never forget." "Nor me," she answered, a sob catch ing in her throat. "I had you for such a little while, and now you are going away—going into your kingdom." "Yes, Into my kingdom." • "Will all the people meet you? Will they be very glad ?" "They will be glad." She saw the three forms pass out of sight. the king walking between them, as befitted his rank. When they were utterly gone, she thought forlornly of how she must return once more to mere empty pages. A sense of strong desolation smote her, and, climbing up again upon the hay, she cried her self softly to sleep. The Human Now. The human nose Is an apologetic pimple compared with the magnificent organ of the horse or dog. Our sense of smell is, when contrasted with our sight and hearing, singularly undis criminating. We can arrange sounds into series; we know E is between D and F; we appreciate octaves and har monies. Similarly we can put the col ors into order, decide upon the amount of blue iu a purple and get almost to emotion at the sight of a white star In the blue of a summer twilight or of the amber sunlight glinting between the blades of glass. But this serial arrangement, this sorting and selective choice. Is entire ly beyond our rudimentary senses of smell. To us the idea of the scent of the violet being a rich harmony or the suggestion that the frying of onions is a discord or that patchouli and the new mown hay are pleasant things in dif ferent times and keys sounds utter nonsense. Our noses are entirely too dull to effect the analysis necessary before scents can be distinguished as complex and sorted and recombined so as to be made on aesthetic pleasure.— London Globe. Brl.jg; n Good Fellow. The man who has an income of $lO,- 1)00 a year and spends every cent of it on his wife and family and friends is a good fellow and is blessed by every body even after he has died and left not a cent to keep his children in school, to save his wife from going to work for their bread and butter or to pay his bills scattered around the town Ue dies a royal good fellow, with the reputation of living only for his family. The man who takes SI,OOO a year off his wife's back in clothes and SI,OOO a year off his own back and off his drinks and cigars and puts it into in sura net* for them against the time when he is dead and another SI,OOO a year out of oilier things that make a man generous :i nd lovable and puts that into a bold every twelvemonth for them and then dies and leaves them when' his children can stay In school and liis wife go on living In comfort-will, he Is a curmudgeon witli a mind not above sordid things, every time!— New York Press. Economy. Monaheu lYor < lancy! Donegal) Why. man alive, 'tis great luck lie's in! "Phwat! D'ye call It luck to have wan o" y< r legs cut off?" "Av cooi:-e. It'il only cost him half as Ui'.ich now for shoes und pants."— Philadelphia Ileccrd. A PAN AND A LEOPARD. An Aatonlnhrd Woman and a Still More A»tonl*licd Animal. Kula is a district in the Himalayas consisting of a chain of the most lovely valleys conceivable, with this draw back, among others, that each hill path that runs by the inhabitants' huts more often than not contains a lurking leop ard. One day a worthy Kula house wife came out from her cooking and, standing on the edge of rock, emptied a pan of boiling water into the rank herbage growing below. It fell splash en the back of a sleeping leopard, who jumped perpendicularly into the air ua high as the roof of the hut. What might have happened next who can gay? Hut the astonished woman dropped the pan with a clang on the rock, and the leopard took one leap down hill. The pan followed, and the leopard's downward leaps became lon ger and swifter as the pan bounded aft er it from rock to rock. When last seen, that leopard had just achieved a leap of about 350 feet to the very bot tom of the ravJ.ne, thousands of feet below, and the pan whirled about 500 feet over it on to the opposite side. The leoparTi would have eaten the old woman with pleasure, but a pan, the contents of which first scalded half the hide off him and then bounded, clang ing in his wake, from the top of the Himalayas to the plains below was something he could not face. Dividing: n Lcvift Sermon, Dr. Samuel Buell of the last half of the eighteenth century, who used to preach two or three hours, like Isaac Barro.vs, was ingenious in detaining his congregation. On one occasion, aft- or preaching nearly two hours—as long as he could feel secure In the presence of all his hearers—he remarked that he was done preaching to sinners and that they were at liberly to go. The rest of his discourse would be address ed to good people. A gentleman who once went to hear liini stated that when the hourglass was nearly ready to be turned a sec ond time from the commencement 1 f his sermon he said, much to the relief of the person who related it, "Once more." After going 011 some eight or ten minutes longer he said. "To con clude." and after another übout equal interval h» .-aid. "Lastly." The f,eiit;n:.un added that ho expect ed ever;.' 1.1 iue;:t t:> hear Uim say "Ev erlasilp- ' How to S—n SlnßlnK Ttrd. According t> " a Na'.ure, will: any glass tube v.'Uawv; r ii is p. -sibie 10 easily repr:a-"ei the song of a I.int. It suffices to rub (he tube length-vise with a piece of wet cork. In unlet 10 Inii tnte the so.ig f a bird the cork mvst be moved with a varying rapidity, now slowly, now rapidly, and abrupt stop pages must intervene. The experiment can be made more simple by rubbing an ordinary bottle with a piece of cork. A Scotch Cynic. A young Scotchman was once halt ing between two loves, one possessed of beauty and the other of a cow. 1:> despair of arriving at a decision he ap plied Tor advice to a canny compatriot, who delivered himself thus: "Marry the lass that has the coo, for there's no the deeference o' a coo's val ue In any twa weemen in Christen dom."—Pearson's Weekly. Men** Footwear Fignrea. A man who wears size 5 shoes re quires size 9 half hose; he who wears size r.'L. shoes needs hosiery; o'.to 7 calls for I<>: 7'/ a to 8 goes with 10%; B'/£> to 9 harmonizes with 11, and 9Vj to 10 shoes strike a fit with ho slerv. A GOOD NEW SILO. A Populnr I.ocnl Tj"i»e of Round Silo WHli Good Standing Qualities. In the western part of New York, in the neighborhood of Batavia, there is in somewhat general use a type of round silo which is very popular and seems to be growing more so. There | are many persons who are prejudiced against the stave silo because some lit tle attention is required once or twice during the year to keep it in condition. While not believing it any better than a stave silo, a Country Gentleman cor respondent recommends the Batavia type to those who desire a round silo and gives Information about it, which includes the following: The framework is shown in the ac companying illustration. The construction of the circles, which form such an important part in the framework. is . shown also. jS-ZlJ ~ Stakes are driv- |j ~T"' j en firmly into Jg : ■ —1 4 === ■■ =s -t; the ground in a ft =4 ■ 7""' circle, the size = l== .L of which is the S: := _L__ I. —. sa mo as is de- y., = J I sired for the In- ; =.■*■— 1 ; s side diameter of j._ J— !___ the silo, and are lL I. rr.\rcd off at a J:,= >,= -.== a uniform height. i 3. B aids are then [3;,= ' I=='|=b [L Ic'd flat upon fv =■ i=.| these stakes, as U := f = te shown, overlap- = ping each it her S3C7 lUZ] IC K at the end-;, and . y -prs■ are secured in irSL. | Jiff! place by nails, Now a circle is struck mion fkambwobk of bata . i , VIA SILO. these boards, and the boards are sawed on a circle, and this serves as a matrix around which the bands for the silo are built. One-half inch strips should be sawed from the edge of two Inch planks. This may be quickly and cheaply done at a mill where a buzzsaw is available. Strips then are lightly toenailed to the matrix, the one-half inch strips being easily bent to the circular form. The second layer of strips Is nailed to the first with small wire nails, and then as the ring grows heavier nails may be used. This building out process contin ues until there are eight half inch strips nailed together, tliu» making a strong band which is two inches thick, four inches wide and of any desired diameter. In the figure the strips are shown as making joints at certain • definite places, but this is not necessary and not even desirable. The joints may come anywhere. It Is well to leave a space of about an inch between the abutting ends of the strips, so that air space may be thus secured. If wire nails are us'.'d liberally In securing the strips in place, a very rigid band is made, and one need never lie awake at night after the silo is filled and wonder whether the hoops will stand the pressure. The matrix described around which the band is built may even be dispensed with if enough stakes are driven on the circumference of the cir cle so that the strips when bent around will bend on a true circle. After one band is made It should be loosened from the matrix, laid to one side and another band constructed in like man ner and so on until the required num ber have been built. The number need ed will depend upon the height of the silo. The figure is of a silo thirty feet high, and ton bands are used. The distance between the two lower bands is two and a half feet. The distance then increases until they are three and a half feet apart at the top. The lower band is laid 011 the concrete founda tion, is made level, and then 2 by 4 studding, two and a half feet long, are nailed to the band. These studs •erve as the support for the second band, which is placed upon them and spiked to the top of them. Care should be taken that tin? stud ding is kept vertical, and this must be done by stay braces. The comple tion of the framework is then merely a repetition of this process. The frame work once in place, the silo is complet ed by boarding it inside with one inch matched (Poring, miming vertically and nailed to the circular bands. Some shut It up inside with two layers of Rich boards, unmatched, but with COJiSTKUCTIOJi OP CIRCLES. tarred paper between, the boards breaking joints, but good ensilage may be secured by the use of one layer of matcluil flooring. The outside may be finished up according to fancy. Clap boards may be bent around horizontal ly and nailed to the studding, or it may be sheeted up with boards run ning vertically. Ventilation may be secured by leav ing a place through which air may pass both at the bottom and top of the outside covering of the silo. This free ventilation will greatly prolong the life of the silo. OATS AND CLOVER. A I'lit 11 of Growing Oat* nn n Main Cr«x> After Corn. In growing oats ::iv.l clover much de pends upon the sjil conditions, the sea son and ilie quality of seed sown, espe cially of oats, remarks an Ohio Farmer writer in offering the following opin ions 011 these crops. We hear much said in season con cernir g the fertilization of the wheat crop, but little, if anything, of the oat crop, which, after growing it for a suc cession if years, we have learned to con*o'.< r of greater importance in farm crops nul feeding than wheat. By ta bles <• mp.ited from actual chemical analysis it appears; that oats draw from the soil t -nsidcrably me -•» plant fo- d than wheat, and at the same time these elements must be more closely available for the reason that the oats crop grows in a much shorter season and the weight of its demand for these foods is drawn upon a few days pre vious to the ripening of the grain. At this season it is usually very dry, hence causing the young clover to suf fer greatly for want of available plant food.and if drought continues for a few •lays it Is almost sure to succumb un der the hot rays of the sun. In our ter ritory the main crop of oats is grown after corn, chiefly because the crop can be sowed from ten to thirty days ear lier than when the ground is to be broken. Many follow the plan of disk ing the surface, and although laborious upon the team It is quite effective. We have always followed the plan of shal low plowing with the corn cultivator, which will do especially good work In clay or heavy soil, afterward fitting with a thorough harrowing. The main i>oint in following oats up on corn stubble is to guard against weeds, which is easily done by thor , ough cultivation before sowing and by sowing the seed with an evenness of depth in order that they may come on rapidly, with a good strong growth. If the ground be broken in spring, one can hardly do enough rolling and pack- I tug in order to preserve moisture and fit 1:1 the soil so that the crop may not lodge. Lodging of oats is almost sure to fol low tin- tilling of heads where the soil is left k;ose and porous, without the i proper reserve of moisture to dissolve j the required plant food so as to stimu late proper growth of the stalk. We always aim to sow oats quite deep, with a good, sharp hoed drill, and as soon as sown we roll the sur face down, sowing clover seed just ahead of this work. In so doing we get the grains all at an even depth, where they sprout evenly and at the same time root well into the soil. We hear many speak of the oat crop , running out after successive sowings. This need not be so, for we seldom hear of corn or wheat deterioriating, mainly because we do something to keep the seed up to the standard. We are today growing the same variety of corn we grew fifteen years ago. By blowing out all shriveled grains, chaff and weeds and sowing only the nicest, plump grains and continuing to do so from year to year there is no need of deterioration, and much will be gained thereby, for with good, clean seed the oat crop cannot help but yield an increase and net the owner good wages for his few hours' work with the fanning mill. A Homemade Feed Mill. I have used different kinds of feed grinders and have noticed that the feed is mostly left in cubes and different KOLLEB FEEI> MILL. sized pieces with sharp edges, which does not digest as readily and easily as finely pulverized feed, such as old mill stones or the roller mills make. A very cirnpie mill can be made with roll ers that will not cost any more than the common farm grinder and still do practical work. I had one constructed which I used some time ago, writes an American Agriculturist correspondent. The rollers were composed of two inch pipe, and gearing was used from an old mower. These rollers were a little too small, but it did good work. It was run by a four horsepower. The rollers should be six inches in diameter and from eight to twenty inches long, according to the amount of power at hand and the amount of feed to be ground. In the illustration b b are the ' feed rollers, a the hopper, c the main drive wheels, d a device for regulating the flow of grain, e hand wheel for adjusting the feed rollers, f pinion to j connect tumbling rod on power, g belt wheel if steam power is used and h discharge spout for the ground feed. There is a great advantage in a roller grinder, and that is it is geared down instead of geared up, as all other mills, and consequently will run much easier. Agrlcaltnrnl Notes. English walnut is best transplanted in the spring. The root is very soft and tender. Professor Slingerland lias given thf western New York horticulturists the pleasing assurance that the canker worm and forest and tent caterpillars seem to be decreasing. Cleaning up the roadsides costs little and means a good deal. Itnae by Which lie E»cp.ped Arrest nnd Ilud Ills Del>t» Paid. Mary amusing stories are told of Joe Haines, a comedian of the time of Charles 11., sometimes called "Count" Haines. It is said that he was arrested one morning by two bailiffs for a debt of £2O, when he saw a bishop to whom he was related passing along in his coach. With ready resource he imme diately saw a loophole for escape, and, turning to the men, he said, "Let me speak to his lordship, to whom I am well known, and he will pay the debt and your charges into the bargain." The bailiffs thought they might ven- ture this, as they were within two or three yards of the coach, and acceded to the request. Jc*> boldly advanced and took off his hat to the bishop. Ilis lordship ordered the coach to stop, when Joe whispered to the divine that the two men were suffering from such scruples of conscience that he feared they would hang themselves, suggest ing that his lordship should invite them to Ills house and promise to satisfy them. The bishop agreed, and, calling to the bniliffs, he said, "You two men come to me tomorrow morning, and 1 will satisfy you." The men " bowed and went away pleased, and early the next day waltad on his lordship, who, when they were ushered in, said, "Well, my men, what are these scruples of conscience?" "Scruples?" replied one of them. "We have no scruples! We are bailiffs, my lord, who yesterday arrested your cou sin, Joe Haines, for a your lordship kindly promised to satis fy us." The trick was strange, but the result was stranger, for his lordship, either appreciating its cleverness or consider ing himself bouud by the promise he had unintentionally given, there and then settled with the men In full. THE BULGARIAN. ▲ Peculiar Follow, lie I.H Kitlier a Soldier or u Peasant. It is a strange country of contrasts, this Bulgaria that people have so long watched as a danger spot. The peasant Is a heavily built fellow, with a Kal muk nose if he happens to be pure bred from the original Samoyede stock, which is not likely. Ills language has become Slavic, which means a lan guage in which "beefsteak" is "mpiph teld" and "omelet souille" Is "oiulet cuphle." The Bulgarian is a peasant or a sol dier. lie knows no other trade. As a farmer the sheep Is all In all to him, food and clothing and companionship, says a writer in The Era. He lives in a hovel, docs not understand why lie should be taxed and makes his women slave in the field. lie is called close listed, churlish and suspicious and has some of the virtues that often go with those qualities. When Bulgaria been me practically free of the sultan, there were many Turks left iu the country. These are gradually being crowded out, but there Is still a mosque in Christian Sofla, and In the palace of the sobranje, or parlia ment. where the members have better accommodations than the lords of Brit ain on the Thames embankment, some twenty Turkish deputies always sit to gether and exert an influence that they never could do In their own land by voting always with the party In power. Every Saturday the members of the sobranje are paid at the rate of 15 francs a day, ail in silver live franc pieces. These peasant lawmakers knot 't np in handkerchiefs, grin slowly and shake the jingling pieces playfully in one another's face. They are playing at p yet, but fairly well UDOU the whole. of deposits gives the cash security for every dollar due depositors. | DEPOSITS. CAPITAL. SUR- DEPOSITS FOR EACH DOLLAR UNDIVIDED PROFITS. FEBRUARY. 1902 OF DEPOSITS. J__ $6,032 000 -j- $2,362,000 = $2.55 Real Estate .Trust Co., OF PITTSBURGH, - 31*1 FOURTH AVENUE. Incorporated October Ist, 1900. 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