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.
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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
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Whose Strength Equals Their
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Few women if any shrink from the
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How rarely the mother's strength keeps
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Often the baby is laid against a breast
that cannot nourish it, and folded in
arms almost too weak to bear the tiny
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whose abundant vitality enables her to
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• ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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• ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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ATTORNKY-AT-LAW,
No. 257 South Main Street, Butler, Pa.
Fisher Building. First door on South
Main street, next my former office iu
Boyd Building.
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People Telephone 505.
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DR. M. D. KOTTRABA,
Successor to Dr. Johnston.
DENTIST
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T J. DONALDSON*.
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