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Cunniuirli.'ini and Monr e Ms near West Penn Deuot, Binding of Books Is our occupation. We put our entire time to studying the best and latest methods of doinfj our work. Il you ate thinking ol having some work done in this line 1 am sure you will be well pleased if you have it done at Tic Batler tfook Bindery, W. W. A MOM, t'ro[>. Opp Conrt House. fa o Oi.il ;j IIVINCENNES I piM si By MAURICE THOMPSON 0 »>'- *! V <'-4> 'y CC " R :SH<. 1900. ty R IKb EOWEK-KE VSTLI CO MP CHAPTER 111. TII£ EA!'E OK TLTK DEMIJOHN. fib row d v.-n at th • river hoxv twas more uoise than fight, so far as results seemed to indi cate. It was all about a smr.ll dame jeanne of fine brandy which an Indian of the name of Long Ilair h-d Eeizcd and run off with at the height cf the carousal. He must Lave been FO- Krer than Lis pursuers or naturally fleeter, for not one of them could catch him or even keep long in sight of him. Some pistols were emptied while the iace was on, and two cr three of the men swore roundly to Laving seen Long Hair jump sldewise and stagger, as if one of the .'hots Lad taken effect. But, although the moon was shining, he some way disappeared, they could not understand just how, far down beside the river below the fort aud the church. It was not an uncommon thing for an Indian to steal what he wanted, and In most cases light punishment followed conviction, but it was felt to be a cap ital offense for an Indian or anyljody else to rape a demijohn of fine brandy, especially one sent as a present by a friend In New Orleans to Lieutenant Governor Abbott, who had until re cently been the commandant of the post. Every man at the river hou « recognized and resented the enormity of Long Hair's crime, aud each was for the moment ready to be his Judge and his executioner. He had broken at once every rule of frontier etiquette and every bond of sympathy. Nor was Long Ilair Ignorant of the danger in volved in his daring enterprise. lie had beforehand carefully and stolidly weighed the conditions, and true to his Indian nature had concluded that a lit- tie wicker covered bottle of brandy was well worth the risk of his life. So he had put himself in condition for a great race by slipping out and getting rid of his weapons and all surplus weight of clolhes. This incident brought the drinking bout at the river house to a sudden end, but nothing further came of it that uiglit and no record of it would be found in these pages but for the fact that Long Hair afterward became an important character in the stirring historical drama which had old Yin centies for its center of energy. Rene de Ronville probably felt him self in bud luck when he arrived at tho river house Just too late to share in the liquor or to Join in chasing the bold thief. He listened with interest, however, to the story of Long Hair's capture of the confmandant's demijohn and could not refrain from saying that if he had been present there wonld Lave been a quite different result. "I would have shot him before he got to that door," he said, drawing his heavy flintlock pistol and going through the motions of one aiming quickly and firing. Indeed, so vigor ously in earnest was he with the pan tomime that he actually did fire, unin tentionally of course, the ball burying itself in the doorjamb. He was laughed at by those present for being more excited than they who witnessed the whole thing. One of them, a leathery faced and grizzled old sinner, leered at him contemptuously and said in queer French, with a curious accent caught from long use of backwoods English: "Listen how the boy brags! Ye might think to hear Itene talk that he actually amounted to a big pile." This personage was known to every loul in Vincennes as Oncle Jazon, and when Oncle Jazon spoke the whole town felt bound to listen. "An' how well he shoots, too," he lidded, with an intolerable wink. "Aimed at the door and hit the post Certainly Long Ilair would have been In great danger! Oh, yes, he'd 'ave killed Long Hair at the first shot, wouldn't lie though 1" "All right, Oncle Jazon," said Rene. Inughlng and blowing the smoke out if his pistol. " 'Twas you, all the same, who let Long Ilair trot off with the governor's brandy; not I. If you could have hit even a doorpost it might have been better." 1 Oncle Jazon took off Lis cap and looked down Into It In a way Le Lad when about to say something final. "Ventrebleu! I did not shoot at LOIIK Hair at all," he said, speaking slowly, "because the scoundrel was'unarmed. He didn't have on even a knife, and he was havln' enough to do dodgin' the bullets that the rest of 'em were plumpln' at Mm without any compll monts from me to bother 'im more." "Well," Rene replied, turning away with a laugh, "If I'd been scalped by the Indians as you ave I don't think there would be any particular reason why I should wait for an Indian thief to go and arm himself before I ac cepted him as a target." Oncle Jazon lifted a hand Involuntar ily and rubbed his sealplcss crown; then ho chuckled with a grotesque grimace as if the recollection of hav ing his head skinned were the funniest thing Imaginable. "When you've killed as many of 'em as Oncle Jazon has," remarked a by stander to Itene, "you'll not be so hungry for blood, maybe." "Especially after ye've took fifty-nine scalps to pay for yer one," added Oncle Jazon, replacing his cap over the hair less area of his crown. . The men who had been chasing Long Hair presently came straggling back with their stories—each had a distinct one—of how •he fugitive escaped. They were wild looking fellows, most of them somewhat intoxicated, all pro fusely liberal with their stock of pic turesque profanity. They represented the roughest element of the well nigh lawless post.* "I'm positive that he's wounded," baid one. "Jacques and I shot at him together, BO that our pistols sounded Just as if only one had been llrcd— bang! that way—and he leaped side ways for all the world like a bird with a broken leg. I thought he'd fall; but vc! he ran fa*ter'n ever, and all at once he was gone—Just disappeared." "Well, tomorrow we'll get him," said another. "You and I aud Jacques, we'll take up his trail, the thief, and follow him till we find him. lie can't get off so easy." "I don't know so well about "that," Bald another, "It'it Long Ilalr, you must remember, and Long Ilalr Is no com mon buck that Just anybody can find asleep. You Long Ilalr Is. Nobody's ever got even with 'lm yet. That's so, ain't it? Just as# Oncle Jazon, if you don't believe it!" CfUe next morning Long Hair was BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 190 L tracked to tho river's edge. He h:id been wounded, but whether seriously cr i: : ok 2d only be coajcctuivd A sprinkle of Moo '.. Uere a::J thora quite a dash of i:. reddened the grass and clninps cf weeds he had run through, and ended close to the water, into whi;-h it looked as if he had plunged with a view to battling pursuit. In deed pursuit was bafiled. No further true could be found by which to fol low the cunning fugitive. Sotue of the men consoled themselves by saying, without believing, that Long Hair was probably at the bot tom of the river. "I'as iiU tout," observed Oncle Jazon. his short pipe askew far over in the corner of his mouth; "not a bit of it Is that Indian drowned. He's Jes' as live as a fat cat this minute, and as drunk as the devil. He'll get some o" yer scalps yet after he's guzzled ail that brandy and slep' a week." It finally transpired that Oncle Jazon was partly right and partly wrcug. Long Hair was alive, even as a fat cat perhaps, but not drunk, for In try ing to swim with the rotund little dame Jeanne under his arm he lost hold cf it and it went to the bottom of the Wabash, where it may be lying at this moment patiently waiting for some one to fish it out of its bed deep j in the sand and mud and break the | ancient wax from its neck! j Rene de Ronville, after the chase of Long Hair l ad been given over, went I to tell Father Beret what had hap pened, and, finding the priest's hut empty, turned into the path leading to the Roussillon place, which was at the head of a narrow street laid out in n direclion at right angles to the river's course. He passed two or three dlmin Utlve cabins, all as much alike as bee hives. As Rene passed along he spoke with a gay French freedom to the dames and lasses who chanced to be visible. His air would be regarded as violently brigandish in our day. We might even go so far as to think bis whole appearance comical. His Jaunty cap. ' with a tall that wagged as ho walked; his short trousers and leggings of buck skin and Ills loose shirtlike tunic, drawn ; in at the waist with a broad belt, gave his strong figure Just the dash of wild ncss suited to the armament with which It was weighted. A heavy gun lay in the hollow of his shoulder, un der which hung an otter skin bullet pouch with its clear powder horu and white bone charger. In his belt were two huge flintlock pistols and a long case knife. "Bon Jour, Mile. Adrienne," he cheerily called," waving his free hand in greet ing to a small, dark lass standing on the step of a veranda and Indolently swinging a broom. "Comment allez vous au Jourd'hui?" "J'm'porte tres blen, mercl," M'sieu' Rene," was the quick response. "Et *ous?" "Oh, I'm as lively as a cricket." "Going a-hunting?" "No, Just up hero a little way—just on business—up to M'sieu' Rousslilon's for a moment." "Yes," tho girl responded in a tone Indicative of something very like spleen. "Yes, undoubtedly, M'sieu' de RonvlUe. Your business there seems quite pressing of late. I have noticed your industrious application to that business." "Ta-ta, little one," he wheedled, low irlng his voice. "You mustn't go to making bugbears out of nothing." "Bugbears!" she retorted. "You go on about your business, and I'll attend to mine," and she flirted into the house. Rene laughed under his breath, stand ing a moment as if expecting her to come out again, but she did not, and ho resumed his walk singing softly: a !es joues vermeilles, vermeilles, Ma. bell*, ma belle petite." But ten to one he was not thinking of Jllle. Adrieixie Botircier. His mind, however, must have been absorbingly occupied, for in the straight, open way he met Father Beret and did not see him until he came near bumping against the old man, who stepped aside with astonishing agility and said: "Dleu vous benlsse, mon lils, but what Is your great hurry? Where can you be going in such happy haste?" Rene did not stop to parley with the priest. He had In his mind what he was going to say when Alice and he should be alone together. It was a pretty speech, he thought indeed a very thrilling little speech by the way It stirred Ills own nerve centers as he conned it over. Mine. Rousslllon met him at the door In not a wry j-ootr humor. "Is Mile. Alice here?" he ventured to demand. "Alice? No, she's not here; she's never here Just when I want her most. V'la le picbois et la the woodpecker and the robin) eating tho lie lifted hi* head and glared. Cherries, eating every one of them, and that girl running off somewhere instead of staying here and picking them," she railed In answer to the young man's polite Inquiry. "I haven't seen licr these four hours, neither her nor that rascally hunchback, Jean. They're up to some mischief, I'll bo bound!" Mme. Rousslllon puffed audibly be tween phrases, but she suddenly be came very mild when relieved of her tirade. "Mais eutrez," she added in a pleas ant tone, "come In and tell mo tho news," Kenc's disappointment rosbwl into Lis face, but Le mnnagetl to laugh it aside. "Father lierc-t has just been telling me," said Mine. nous.-?il!on. "tbat our friend Hair made some trouble last niglit. llow about it?" Rene toid her what he knew and added that Long Ilair wonld probably never be seen again. "He was shot, no doubt of it." he went on. "and is now being nibbled by fish and turtles. We tracked him by his blood to where he jumped into the Wabash. Tie never came otlt." Strangely enough, it happened that at the very time of this chat between Mme. lioussillon and Rone, Alice was bandaging Long Hair's wounded leg with strips of her apron. It was under some willows which overhung the bank of a narrow and shallow lagoon or slough, which in thoae days extended a mile or two back into the country on the farther side of the river. Alice aad Jean went over in a pirogue to see if the water lilies, haunting a pond there, were yet begiuning to bloom. They landed at a convenient spot some distance tip the little lagoon, made the boat fast by dragging its prow high ashore, and were on the point of setting out across a necU of wet, grassy land to the pond, when a deep grunt, not unlike that of a self saUsiied pig, at tracted them to the willows, where they discovered Long Hair, badly wounded, weltering in some black mud. Ili.s hiding place was cunningly chosen, save that the mire troubled him. letting him down by slow degrees, and threatening to engulf him bodily; and he was now too weak to extricate himself. He lifted his head and glared. His face was grimy, his hair matted with mud. Alice, although brave enough and quite accustomed to start ling experiences, uttered a cry when she saw those snaky eyes glistening so savagely amid the shadows. But Jean was quick to recognize Long Hair. He had often seen him about town, a figure not to be forgotten. "They've been hunting him every where," he said in a half whisper to Alice, cluteLing tLe skirt of her dress. "It's Long Hair, the Indian who stole the brandy. I know him." Alice recoiled a pace or two. "Let's go back and tell 'em," Jean «ddcd, still whispering. "They want to kill Lim; Oncle Jazon said so. Come on!" He gave Lbr dress a jerk, but she did not move any farther back. She was looking at the blood oozing from a wound in the Indian's leg. "He is shot; he is hurt, Jean; arc must help him," she presently said, re covering her self control, yet still pale. "We must get him out of that bad place." Jean caught Alice's merciful spirit with sympathetic readiness and ihowed immediate willingness to aid her. It was a difficult thing to do, but there was a will and of course a way. They had knives with which they cut willows to make a standing place ou the mud. While they were doing this they spoke friendly words to Long Hair, wLo understood Frencli a little, aud at last tLey got Lold of Lis arms, tugged, rested, tugged again and finally managed to Lelp Lim to a dry place, still under the willows, where Le conld lie more at ease. Jean carried water in Lis cap with which they washed the wound aud the etrfild HH »face. Then Alice tore up her cotton apron, in which she had hoped to \>ear home a load of lilies, aud with the strips bound the wound very neatly. It took a long time, during which the Indian remained silent and apparently quite Indifferent. Long Hair was a man of superior physique, tall, straight, witL the mus cles of a Vulcan, and while he lay stretched on the ground, half clad and motionless, he would have been a grand model for a heroic figure in bronze. Yet from every lineament there came a strange repelling Influ ence, like that from a snake. Alice felt almost unbearable disgust while doing her merciful task, but she bravely per severed until it was finished. It was now late in the afternoon and the sun would be setting before they could reach home. "We must hurry back, Jean," Alice said, turning to depart. "It will be all we can do to reach the other side in daylight. I'm thinking that they'll be out hunting for us, too, If we don't move right lively. Come." She gave the Indian another glance wlie# she had taken but a step. He grunted and held up something in his hand—something that shone with a dull yellow light. It was a small, oval, gold locket which she had al ways worn In ber bosom. She sprang and snatched it from his palm. "Thank you," she exclaimed, smiling gratefully. "I am so glad you found It." The chain by which the locket had httng was broken, doubtless by some movement while dragging Long Hair out of the mud, and the lid bad sprung open, exposing a miniature por trait of Alice painted when she was a little child, probably not two years old. It was a sweet baby face, archly bright, almost surrounded with a fluff of golden hair. The neck and upper line of the plump shoulders, with a traco of richly delicate lace and a string of pearls, gave somehow a sug gestion of patrician daintiness. Long Ilair looked keenly Into Alice's eyes when she stooped to take the locket from his hand, but said nothing. She and Jean now hurried away, and, so vigorously did they paddle their pirogue, that the sky was yet red In the west when they reached Lome and duly received tlielr expected scolding from Mme. Rousslllon. Alice sealed Jean's lips as to tLelr adventure, for sLe Lad made up Ler mind to save Long Hair if possible, and she felt sure that the only way to do It would be to trust no one but Father Beret. It turned out that Long Hair's wound was neither a broken bone nor a cut artery. The flesh of his leg, midway between the hip and the knee, was .pierced. The bullet had bored a neat hole clean through. Father Beret took the case in hand and with 110 litUe surgical skill proceeded to set the big Indian upon his feet again. The affair had to be cleverly managed. Food, medicines and clothing were surrepti tiously borne across the river, a bed of grass was kept fresh under Long Hair's back, his wound was regularly dressed and Anally his weapons—a tomahawk, a knife, a strong bow aud a quiver of arrows-vwhlch he had hidden 011 the night of his bold theft, were brought to him. "Now go and sin no more," said good Father Beret, but ho well knew that his words were mere puffs of articulate wind In the ear of the grim aud silent savage, who limped away with an air of stately dignity into the wilderness. A load fell from Alice's mind when Father Beret informed her of Long Hair's recovery and departure. Day and night the dread li st some of the men should find out hia hiding place and kill him had depressed and worried her. 1-ong Hair's Imperturbable calm ness, his stolid. Immobile countenance, the mysterious reptilian gleam o( his shifty black eyes and the soulless cx- ) pression always lurking in thorn kept t a fascinating bold on the girl's meraoifr. They blended curiously with the lin ; pressions left by the romances she had read in M. Rousti lion's mildewed books. Long Haia was not a young man. but it would hare been impossible to guess I near his age. His form and face sim r ply showed long experience and im measurable vigor. Alice remembered with n shudderiug sensation the look he gave her when she took the locket from his hand. It was of but a sec ond's duration, yet it seemed to search every nook of her being with its subtle t power. <R , [TO be cowti.vited.] FROST FAIRIES. The Vondrrtnl Deaiicna That Win dow Paan Picture. When the frost fairies have a mate rial ready for original design they often produce in the hours of darkness most exquisite decorations. The window panes are their drawing paper, and the window frames serve as picture frames on those particular occasions. There are said to no less than a thousand forms of snow crystals, every one of them of the finest finish and of unim peachable symmetry. Some are like the patterns in honiton lace, while oth ers are elaborated with geometrical patterns so complex that It Is difficult to analyze them. But on the window panes the frost pictures are by no means confined to what are "standard patterns" In snowflakes, but show the most various and dainty schemes of ornament. Some are like starry flow ers, set with stars In the center and with starry shoots and comets flying into space around them. Others take the shape of leaves arranged In set form by some human designers. The endive pattern Is among the most beau tiful, the curves and "motive" being often scarcely distinguishable from those in which a goldsmith of the days of Louis XV. modeled the ormolu In which he graced some priceless vase of Jasper or crystal. Scale patterns, like the scales of fishes, with striated lines upon the overlapping disks, wavy pat terns, set with stars, fern patterns, moss patterns and formalized sprays of maidenhair are among the choicest on the list.—London Spectator. Americana on Gnard. There is no record that any such or der as "Put none but Americans on guard" was issued by Washington. Those who quote it do not know when it was supposed to have been issued. But it is a fact that on April 30, 1777, in an order Issued at Morristown, N. J., for reorganizing the Improperly called "Washington's bodyguard" he did sty that he thought that men having an In terest In the country -would bo less likely to prove traitors than foreigners. The order continued, "You will, there fore, send me none bat Americans." Washington directed that this prefer ence for Americans should not be made known, as he feared it might excite the many foreigners in the army.—Ex change. Hon a Miser Selected an Heir. As like afreets like, so It is with mi sers, and gold will go where cold is. This is strikingly illustrated by the act of a celebrated Greek, one Dichmus Dichoems, a descendant of the Byzan tine emperors. This man. by the exer cise or extreme niggardliness, managed to amass the sum of $50,000, an Im mense fortune In those days. Then came the question to whom should he leave it. One day a distant relative sent him a letter written upon a square inch of paper. This was sufficient. In the fitness of things the parsimonious correspondent became the miser's heir. COLLECTIVE NAMES. Old English Term* For (ironpa ot Persons and Animals. In a book on British sports, written In the eighteenth century, Joseph Strutt gives the old English terms for groups of various beasts as follows: "When beasts went together in com panies there was said to be a pride of lions, a lepe of leopards, a herd of harts, of bucks and of all sorts of deer; a bevy of roes, a sloth of boars, a sownder of wild swine, a drift of tame swine, a route of wolves, a lnirras of horses, a rag of colts, a stud of mares, a pace of asses, a baron of mules, a team of oxen, a drove of kiue, a flock of sheep, a tribe of goats, a skulk of foxes, a cete of badgers, a richness of martins, a fesynes of ferrets, a huske or a down of hares, a nest of rabbits, a clowder of cats and a kyndall of young cats, a shrewdness of apes and a labor of moles." Similar terms were applied to gather ings of human beings. Strutt gives them as follows: "A state of princes, a skulk of thieves, an observance of hermits, a lying of pardoners, a sub tlltie of sergeants, an untruth of soinp ncrs, a multiplying of husbands, a safeguard of porters, a stalk of forest ers, a blast of hunters, a draft of but lers, a temperance of cooks, a melody of harpers, a poverty of pipers, a drunkenshlp of cobblers, a disguising of taylors, a wandering of tinkers, a malpertness of pedlars, a fighting of beggars, a rayful—that is. a netful —of knaves, a blush of boys, a bevy of la dies. a nonpatience of wives, a gagle of women, a gagle of geese." In the old days the word "leash" was applied to three greyhounds, while two were "a brace." On the other hand, two spaniels or harriers were called "a couple." A number of boumhs went under the term of "a mute of hounds," while it was correct to speak of "a kennel of raehes, a litter of whelps and a cowardice of curs." The Dally l'reaa. The daily press, as I look at it, is a wonderful detective. It can run down public opinion and report It marvelous ly. In this respect it has an ever wid ening outlook. As a news gatherer its facilities perpetually astonish me. The weapon of publicity it often wields with undoubted power. But when all is said Is it much more than a gigan tic reporter? Does it really instruct and guide? Or does it simply furnish by the myriad page the stuff out of which the peoplo construct their own Independent Judgment? I confess that newspapers seem to me more and more to exemplify Gladstone's defini tion of the orator, they receive from the public as mist what they give back as shower.—Rollo Ogden In Century. Heady For Her I.adyahlp. Lady Constance Mackenzie, the Eng lish traveler and beauty, made a long trip through Texus. At one place a wealthy ranch owner invited her to visit him, and she accepted the invita tion. The owner of the ranch was de termined to give his guest a fitting re ception, so he telegraphed his mana ger, "Lady Mack j*ie coming tomor row; make every preparation to treat her royally." The manager had never heard of Lady Mackenzie, but as tho business of the ranch was raising blooded horses as well as cattle he de elded this must be some fancy race horse. The famous guest arrived the next day, with her party, and found 1 all ready. A clean box stall, with abun dance of fresh hay, awaited her. MEAT ON THE FARM. iadreir BOH of Mlnne»o<a Telia llorr to Dress a Sheep. Much of the sheepy flavor of mut ton, according to Mr. Boss of the Min nesota College of Agriculture, comes from tLe generation of gases In the Stomach after the sheep is killed. For this reason sheep shonld bo dressed as rapidly as possible. A platfcrui six or eight Inches high is a conveu! ?.t thing to work on and aids in keeping tLe blood away from the body, insuring a cleaner carets. A clean, dry place is UAKKEB OF STICKING A SHEEP. necessary for neat work. Water or blood on the wool make 3 It very diffi cult to dress tLe animal nicely. If tLe sLoep Is an old one it may be stunned before bleeding. If a young one the same purpose is served by dis locating the neck after cutting the throat. This is accomplished by put ting one hand on the poll or top of tLc- Lead and tLe otLer Land under the chin, giving a sharp twist upward. Lay tLe sLeep on its side on the plat form, with its head hanging over the end. Grasp the chin In the left hand and stick a knife through the neck Just back of the jaw (see the first cut). The cutting edge of the knife should be turned toward the spinal column and the flesh cut to the bone without cutting the windpipe. Mr. Boss describes the "legging out" of the sheep by splitting the skin 011 the back of tie front leg from dew claws to a little above the knee and on the hind legs to the middle line. The latter are skinned around the bocks and down to the hoofs, and tLe feet are cut off at tLe toe Joints. Next tLe knife Is run between the cords and bone back of (lie shins, and the legs are tied together Just above the pas tern joints. The skin is opened from brisket to chin. The sLeep should be hung up by the htn'd legs before starting to skin above the hock. Start at the brisket to "fist off" the skin by grasping tLe edge of the pelt firmly In one Land, pulling It up tlgLt and working tLe other with fist closed between the pelt and the body. Tbe off" is downward over the fore quarters and upward and backward over the hind quarters. It la unwise to pull down the skin over tbe bind legs, as the membrane cover ing tbe flesh la sure to be ruptured and an unslghUy appearance given to the carcass. The wool should always be held away from the fl»»h for the sake of cleanliness. The skin on the legs should be pulled away from the body rather than toward It in order to pre serve the covering of the meat. When the pelt has been loosened over the sides and back It should be stripped down over the neck and cut off close to the ears. The head may then be removed without being skinned by cut ting through the atlas Joint. The manner of opening the carcass and removing the entrails, heart, lungs and other organs is shown In the sec ond cut. For home use split the breast bone and remove the heart, lungs and diaphragm together. For marketing it is best not to spilt the breast and- to OPENING CARCASS. BEMOVINO INTESTINES leave tLe liver attached to tLe dia phragm. Wipe off the blood from tLe carcass with a cloth wrung nearly dry out of hot water. Double up tLe front legs and slip the little cord found by cutting into the flesLy part of tLe fore arm over tLe ankle Joints. Electric Farming by Day and Klarlit. TLe attempts of the big western farm prs to replace horsepower with mechan ical motors have been many. Steam tractors are now by no means unfamil iar, but with them there Is always dan ger to the crops by fire in very dry weather. Electricity 1b a source of In terest in these schemes. An exchange states that a Dakota fanner is experl men ting, with prospect of success, with j an electrical motor. The power is gen- . erated far away from the field and transmitted in the usual way to a pow er mast set up in the field. A double cable connects this with the motor, which is mounted on a carriage. Gang ' plow, cultivator or harvester is then at tached to tbe motor. The area to be worked is extended by setting up pow er masts at intervals, and the crowning touch to tbe scheme is to mount arc j lights on the masts, so that during wheat planting time tho work may go on by night as well as day. WHEN THE SAP RUNS. tdrondant Sprlne ilrlnna tlie Mnple j Sap Flow In Vermont. It begins to warm up a bit along late in March In Vermont. Tho nights are still frosty, but the sunny days are genial, and there Is a suggestion In the air of the coming of the spring. If at this time the trunk of the sugar maple is tapped by boring into It for a depth of three inches or less and a "sap spout" or spigot is Inserted the sap exudes and falls, drop by drop, quick ly or slowly, according to the weather and tbe time of day. The flow is er raUc and is governed by a multitude of conditions. The sap at first is a water clear and slightly sweet liquid, but as the sea son progresses Uie flow tends to lessen, and the sap Is apt to thicken and to be come cloudy or even somewhat slimy at tlmos. Tbe duration of the sap flow ts dependent upon weather conditions. It may be fairly continuous for some time, but is commonly broken up into distinct periods known as "runs." The swelling of the leaf buds prepar atory to burstlnj marks the end of the No. 15. flow or "season." Moreover, sap flows mostly In the daytime, occasionally at night and to any extent only on what are known as good sap days. A "good tap day" or "a good run of sap" o<v - | curs only after the air temperature has remained below 0 degrees C. (32 de grees F.) for some time. If, following this, the temperature rises materially above that point the sap flows. If the day be too bright, warm and sunny the flow is apt to start up briskly and soon lessen or cease, or if winds be high the flow is soon checked. If the sky be overcast and the air has warm -1 ed up a little a satisfactory run is like-,. ly to ensue. Alternate freezing and thawing, moderately warm days foi | lowed by freezing nights, are the ideal meteorological conditions which pro mote the flow. So long as the nir tem peratures remain constant, whether warm or cold, there is little or no sap ' flow. SPRING ORCHARD WORK. Bearieir Apple Trees Changed From Worthless to Good Varieties. Just ns the leaves are pushing out in the spring is the ideal time for graft ing, for-then the tree wounds heal read ily. The top grafting of old trees is an important operation. By its use the tops of old trees are changed from un satisfactory to desirable varieties, and old orchards may be thus renewed. Every man who owns an orchard shouldbe able to do his own grafting. The scheme in top working nn old tree is to effect in the course of three to live years the removal of the old top and a s ', f ."il I CLEFT GRAFTING. [«. Splitting the stock; 6. scion prepared tor insertion; e. scion inserted.] the growing of a new one in its place, and cleft grafting Is the means em ploy*#. In cleft grafting stock is split down ward, after it has been cut off at the point where the scion is to be Inserted, by using a fine tooth saw. The bark should be cut through first to avoid being torn and so that the sides of the cleft will be smooth. A wedge is in serted to keep the cleft open for the insertion of the scion, which is cut wedge shape, with a long slope, one edge being a little thicker than the other. The object of this is to have the pressure of the cleft greatest upon the outer side where the union Is to be effected. If the stock is large enough, a graft may be Inserted on each side of the cleft, and if both grow one should eventually be cut off. After the scions have been properly Inserted the wedge should be carefully withdrawn, leav ing the scion in place, 8Q that the loner bark of the scion and the stpek shall coincide. If the pressure of the cleft be not sufficient to hold the scion In place, It must be wrapped with cloth or strings before waxing. It is now reqdy for tho grafting wax, which may be applied either in liquid form with a brush or in plastic condi tion after having been worked with - the hands, or sometimes by wrapping with strips of muslin or manlla paper previously spread with wax. Great care should be taken to make every Joint air tight, or the operation will be a failure. Good Malchinv Material. Shingle edgings (shingle hair) are ex cellent for mulching either apple trees or strawberry plants. As in the case of sawdust, it is better to use material that Is not quite fresh or take precau tions so as to keep it from packing closely about the base of the tree. Saw dust is the most satisfactory material ever used at the station as a winter protection and summer mulch for strawberries. It conserves the mois ture effectively and Is free from weeds. The best mulch for gooseberries, as for other small fruits, is a fine dust cover provided by thorough cultiva tion. If for any reason this cannot be given I see no objection to the use • of pine needles or the "shingle hair" referred to above. Professor C. D. Woods, Maine Experiment Station. PROMOTION BY RETORT."" Apt Auiwtri to Onalat QmiMmi Which Pleased lavaroC. I The great Russian soldier, Marshal Suvaroff, was in the habit of asking his men difficult questions, sometimes foolish ones, and bestowing favor* on those who showed presence of mind In answering him. On one occasion a general of division sent him a sergeant with dispatches, at the same time rec ommending the bearer to SuvarofPs notice. The marshal, as usual, proceed ed to test him by a series of whimsical questions. "How far is It to the moon?" was the first query. "Two of your excellency's forced marches," the soldier promptly replied. "If your men began to give way In battle, what would you do?" "I'd tell them that Just behind the enemy's line there was a wagon load of good things to eat." "How many fish are there In the •ea?" "Just as many as have not been caught." \ And so the examination went on till Suvaroff, finding bis new acquaintance armed at all points, at length pnt a final poser: » "What la the difference between your colonel and myself?" "The difference Is this," replied the soldier coolly. "My colonel cannot make me a captain, but your excellency # can." Suvaroff, struck by his shrewdness, kept his eye upon the man and soon afterward gave him the promotion for which he had hinted. llelplnv lilsn Out. Mrs. Hoyt, wife of Charles Iloyt, the playwright, added much to the enjoy ment of a Lambs' club banquet In Chi cago by her sharp and witty tongue, always ready for a home thrust. Mr. Hoyt was second on the list of speakers and was badly frightened. He con cluded that he would plunge quickly into his speech when called upon, and, with this Idea, he arose briskly when announced and started in: "Ladles and gentlemen, I feel honored. I'm sure, by this request of the toastinnster, but it is so unexpected I really had no time to prepare— h— l really had no time to pre parers"— And he stop)>cd. Every one felt sorry for him, but Mrs. Hoyt seem ed in no way disturbed. When she no ticed his predicament she turned to ward him suddenly and called out, "Why, Charley, you did it perfectly thd moralnjrl!'
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